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Björnfors, Martin. "Insurgent Organisation Structure : A Neglected Subject?" Thesis, Écoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1419.
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On 1 November, 1954 an armed insurgency against French rule commenced with a large scale terrorist attack throughout various parts of Algeria. France responded by sending troops from the continent to Algeria and was soon involved in a full out counterinsurgency against the Front Liberé National (FLN), a revolutionary movement organised in a classical communist insurgent pattern. Many of the experiences the French gained conducting counterinsurgency in Algeria have been examined by writers of COIN literature. The conclusions have been incorporated into counterinsurgency doctrines of many countries, and the works of Galula, who experienced the war, is considered basic literature for many counterinsurgency courses. This has been inherited by modern COIN literature. The US FM 3.24 draws from the French experiences and theorists in its main body. This essay examines whether modern counterinsurgency literature derived from French experiences and theories gained, fighting FLN fails to address the question on how the insurgent organisation is structured. It provides a few arguments why we should know this, such as knowing your enemy’s structure will help you understand his vulnerabilities. To archive this and lay a foundation for the argumentation it first compares the Algerian FLN to modern day Taliban to establish if their organisational structures are different or similar.
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MONTEIRO, BERNARDO ELIZEU DE QUEIROZ. "NAUS IN FRAGMENTS: A PORTUGUESE SUBJECT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15291@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>O romance As Naus, de António Lobo Antunes, fala de um país
devidamente fragmentado. Na obra, o autor potencializa tal realidade em um
enredo cuja estruturação não segue quaisquer linhas – inclusive as de ordem
cronológica e narrativa. Este romance, enfim, potencializa o estilhaçamento da
própria identidade de Portugal. Afinal, defendo que o tema principal d’As Naus
representa o exato ponto de ruptura no qual o país peninsular pensou achar-se
para, logo em seguida, ver-se perdido – talvez irremediavelmente.<br>The novel As Naus, by António Lobo Antunes, tells us about a country
properly fragmented. In this book, the author strengthens this fact which a plot
whose structure does not follow any lines - including those of chronological and
narrative order. This novel, therefore, potentiates the splinter of Portugal’s own
identity. After all, I believe the main theme of As Naus represents the exact point
of rupture where the peninsular country thought she could find itself to, just after
that, get lost - perhaps irreparably.
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Jando, Peter. "Animation as a subject in school." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36045.
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Syftet med föreliggande examensarbete är att undersöka vad det finns för åsikter, tankar och reflektioner kring Skolverkets förslag på kursplan för ämnet Animation hos fyra lärare på Medieprogrammet. Syftet är också att försöka ta reda på om förslaget upplevs som realistiskt, dvs. om det är möjligt att bedriva undervisning i ämnet med de resurser som den enskilda skolan har till sitt förfogande i form av kompetens och materiella resurser. För att uppnå mitt syfte har jag använt en kvalitativ metod och genomfört intervjuer med fyra lärare på Medieprogrammet. Resultatet av mitt arbete visar att lärarna är positiva till förslaget men att de också ser en rad problem med att genomföra förslaget. Den slutsats jag kan dra av mitt arbete är att Skolverkets förslag att införa animation som ämne uppfattas som svårt att genomföra i sin helhet. Därför tror jag att det är viktigt för en skola som planerar att inför ämnet att konsultera personer med en yrkeskompetens inom området för att på så sätt kunna avgöra om skolan har de förutsättningar som krävs.Förslag till fortsatt forskning skulle kunna vara att följa upp hur animationsämnet utvecklas i gymnasieskolan och i vilken omfattning det ursprungliga förslaget efterlevs.<br>Syftet med föreliggande examensarbete är att undersöka vad det finns för åsikter, tankar och reflektioner kring Skolverkets förslag på kursplan för ämnet Animation hos fyra lärare på Medieprogrammet. Syftet är också att försöka ta reda på om förslaget upplevs som realistiskt, dvs. om det är möjligt att bedriva undervisning i ämnet med de resurser som den enskilda skolan har till sitt förfogande i form av kompetens och materiella resurser. För att uppnå mitt syfte har jag använt en kvalitativ metod och genomfört intervjuer med fyra lärare på Medieprogrammet. Resultatet av mitt arbete visar att lärarna är positiva till förslaget men att de också ser en rad problem med att genomföra förslaget. Den slutsats jag kan dra av mitt arbete är att Skolverkets förslag att införa animation som ämne uppfattas som svårt att genomföra i sin helhet. Därför tror jag att det är viktigt för en skola som planerar att inför ämnet att konsultera personer med en yrkeskompetens inom området för att på så sätt kunna avgöra om skolan har de förutsättningar som krävs.Förslag till fortsatt forskning skulle kunna vara att följa upp hur animationsämnet utvecklas i gymnasieskolan och i vilken omfattning det ursprungliga förslaget efterlevs.
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FRONDA, GIULIA. "NEUROSCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS TO INVESTIGATE EMOTIONS IN MULTICOMPLEX SYSTEMS: FROM A "SINGLE-SUBJECT PERSPECTIVE" TO A "DOUBLE-SUBJECT PERSPECTIVE"." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/96259.
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Le emozioni sono state largamente indagate da discipline differenti che ne hanno evidenziato il ruolo fondamentale nei processi cognitivi, sociali e comportamentali degli individui.
Alla luce di queste evidenze, la presente tesi di dottorato si è proposta di indagare, attraverso l’utilizzo di un approccio multimetodologico caratterizzato dall’uso di elettroencefalografia (EEG), spettroscopia funzionale nel vicino infrarosso (fNIRS) e biofeedback, il ruolo e l’influenza delle emozioni in differenti contesti di vita sociale, passando da una prospettiva “intra-soggettiva” ad una “inter-soggettiva”. Nello specifico, il primo studio ha indagato i correlati neurofisiologici impliciti ed espliciti delle risposte emotive caratterizzanti la presa di decisione morale nel singolo individuo. Il secondo studio, attraverso l’utilizzo dell’hyperscanning, ha osservato i correlati neurofisiologici e i meccanismi di sintonizzazione cerebrale e periferica associati alle risposte emotive di individui interagenti durante uno scambio prosociale. Infine, il terzo studio ha investigato i correlati neurofisiologici e i meccanismi di sintonizzazione emotiva sottostanti un’interazione comunicativa non-verbale. In conclusione, i tre studi si sono proposti di osservare, adottando un livello crescente di complessità, da una prospettiva sul singolo individuo ad una diadica, come l’utilizzo di un approccio multimetodologico possa informare sui meccanismi impliciti ed espliciti delle risposte emotive durante differenti situazioni sociali.<br>Emotions have been extensively investigated by different disciplines, highlighting their fundamental role in individuals’ cognitive, social and behavioral processes.
In light of this evidence, the present doctoral thesis aims to investigate, through the use of a multimetodological approach characterized by the use of electroencephalography (EEG), functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), and biofeedback, the role and influence of emotions in different contexts of social life, passing from an “intra-subjective” to an “inter-subjective” perspective. Specifically, the first study has investigated the implicit and explicit neurophysiological correlates of emotional responses characterizing moral decision-making in single individuals. The second study, through the use of the hyperscanning paradigm, has observed the neurophysiological correlates and the brain and peripheral tuning mechanisms associated with emotional responses of interacting individuals during a prosocial exchange. Finally, the third study has investigated the neurophysiological correlates and emotional synthonization mechanisms underlying a non-verbal communicative interaction. In conclusion, the three studies set out to observe, adopting an increasing level of complexity, from a single individual to a dyadic perspective, how using a multimetodological approach can inform about the implicit and explicit mechanisms of emotional responses during different social situations.
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FRONDA, GIULIA. "NEUROSCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS TO INVESTIGATE EMOTIONS IN MULTICOMPLEX SYSTEMS: FROM A "SINGLE-SUBJECT PERSPECTIVE" TO A "DOUBLE-SUBJECT PERSPECTIVE"." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/96259.
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Le emozioni sono state largamente indagate da discipline differenti che ne hanno evidenziato il ruolo fondamentale nei processi cognitivi, sociali e comportamentali degli individui.
Alla luce di queste evidenze, la presente tesi di dottorato si è proposta di indagare, attraverso l’utilizzo di un approccio multimetodologico caratterizzato dall’uso di elettroencefalografia (EEG), spettroscopia funzionale nel vicino infrarosso (fNIRS) e biofeedback, il ruolo e l’influenza delle emozioni in differenti contesti di vita sociale, passando da una prospettiva “intra-soggettiva” ad una “inter-soggettiva”. Nello specifico, il primo studio ha indagato i correlati neurofisiologici impliciti ed espliciti delle risposte emotive caratterizzanti la presa di decisione morale nel singolo individuo. Il secondo studio, attraverso l’utilizzo dell’hyperscanning, ha osservato i correlati neurofisiologici e i meccanismi di sintonizzazione cerebrale e periferica associati alle risposte emotive di individui interagenti durante uno scambio prosociale. Infine, il terzo studio ha investigato i correlati neurofisiologici e i meccanismi di sintonizzazione emotiva sottostanti un’interazione comunicativa non-verbale. In conclusione, i tre studi si sono proposti di osservare, adottando un livello crescente di complessità, da una prospettiva sul singolo individuo ad una diadica, come l’utilizzo di un approccio multimetodologico possa informare sui meccanismi impliciti ed espliciti delle risposte emotive durante differenti situazioni sociali.<br>Emotions have been extensively investigated by different disciplines, highlighting their fundamental role in individuals’ cognitive, social and behavioral processes.
In light of this evidence, the present doctoral thesis aims to investigate, through the use of a multimetodological approach characterized by the use of electroencephalography (EEG), functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), and biofeedback, the role and influence of emotions in different contexts of social life, passing from an “intra-subjective” to an “inter-subjective” perspective. Specifically, the first study has investigated the implicit and explicit neurophysiological correlates of emotional responses characterizing moral decision-making in single individuals. The second study, through the use of the hyperscanning paradigm, has observed the neurophysiological correlates and the brain and peripheral tuning mechanisms associated with emotional responses of interacting individuals during a prosocial exchange. Finally, the third study has investigated the neurophysiological correlates and emotional synthonization mechanisms underlying a non-verbal communicative interaction. In conclusion, the three studies set out to observe, adopting an increasing level of complexity, from a single individual to a dyadic perspective, how using a multimetodological approach can inform about the implicit and explicit mechanisms of emotional responses during different social situations.
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Tennis, Joseph T. "Conceptions of subject analysis : a metatheoretical investigation /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7181.
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Kreider, Kristen Elizabeth. "Toward a Material Poetics : Sign, Subject, Site." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487247.
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The aim of this practice-led PhD thesis is to develop a material poetics, informed theoretically. Cultivating a poetic practice in relation to fine art and spatial practice, I originate a body of artworks including poetry, artist books, installation art, moving image and textual interventions into architectural and urban sites. Six artworks are documented in this thesis, interlocking with five 'critical acts' where I explore elements of poetic practice ('word,' 'line,' 'page,' 'voice' and 'punctuation') in relation to materiality, spatiality and subjectivity by looking specifically at Jenny Holzer's Lustmord, Fiona Templeton's Cells of Release, Emily Dickinson's later manuscripts, Theresa Hak . Kyung Cha's Passages Paysages and Roni Horn's Pair Object III: For Two Rooms. From my creative and critical practice emerges a triadic relation of intersecting concerns between 'sign,' 'subject' and 'site' that I explore in my theoretical writing. Arguing that formalist linguistic theory is capable neither of accounting for the material quality of the sign nor its relation to an object, I cultivate an appreciation of the sign as an indexical symbol, in a material sense, as the basis for the sign in a material poetics. I then demonstrate how the material qualities of sign and site (including the materiality of the page, spatial context and body of the recipient) are integral to the ways in which meanings are generated and received. The indexical symbol, in both a grammatical and material sense, underlies my theory of subjectivity in terms of a discursive and embodied relation between two speaking subjects, as 'I' and 'you,' premised on 'voice' as an act of material spacing. Each artwork and each critical act in this thesis reveals a different configuration of this complex intersubjective dynamic, ultimately offering a reconsideration of the lyric 'I' and 'voice' located at the crossover between contemporary poetry and text-based art practice.
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Bishop, Claire. "The subject of installation art : a typology." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395950.
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Farnell, Gary. "The subject called English : a discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431207.
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Schallier, Wouter. "What a Subject Search Interface Can Do." UDC Consortium The Hague, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105315.
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K.U.Leuven University Library (Belgium) developed an experimental interface for subject search by UDC in the OPAC. The interface combines the search facilities of a classification with those of a word system, since it enables the end user to search by subject terms and to see these terms in the hierarchy of broader, parallel and more specific terms. This project should be seen as an important indication of the libraryâ s growing concern to present its information sources in a content-structured and user-friendly way. At the same time, it has to be situated in a new policy for knowledge organization, which aims to find a balance between the local and overall needs of a library network. Finally, this project comes at a moment when K.U.Leuven University Library is in full conversion to Aleph 500 software.
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Ibarra, Carlos Thiebaut. "The Post-Moden Subject. A Recovery of the Moral Subject after its Abandonmentin the Twentieth Century." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112816.
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How have the conceptions of the subject in Contemporary Philosophy changed? There are four moments in this development: a) The ethical conception of enlightened subjectivity; b) the different suspicious altitudes of such project in the XIX and XX centuries; e) the follow-up of those suspicious altitudes in what is called the philosophies of malaise in the XX century; d) the new conceptual articulation at the end of the century. Why have these changes and processes occurred? A general interpretive hypothesis belonging to the realm of moral philosophy is suggested: n the realm of practical life we are oriented forwards and the subject has aperformative and projective attitude; this dimension becomes opaque when the interpretation of such practica! life is understood as the result or product (and is understood as moving backwards). In light of that hypothesis, the different ways in which the philosophies of suspicion and malaise are blind to the ethical subject are analized and it is claimed that they are. therefore.blind to the ways in which the Twentieth Century has built, against those philosophical interpretations. moral dimensions -as the rejection of damage and the imputation of responsibilities- to which only the last moment of the last century seems to do justice.<br>¿Cómo han ido cambiando las concepciones del sujeto en la filosofía contemporánea? Se presentan cuatro momentos de ese desarrollo: a) la concepción ética de la subjetiVidad ilustrada; b) las distintas sospechas de ese proyecto en el siglo XIX y en el XX; e) la prolongación de estas sospechas en lo que se denominan las filosofías del malestar del siglo XX; d) la nueva articulación conceptual a finales del siglo. ¿Por qué esos cambios y procesos? Se sugiereuna hipótesis general de interpretación que pertenece al ámbito de la filosofía moral: en el ámbito de la Vida práctica estamos orientados hacia un ir delantey el sujeto tiene una actitud perfomativa y proyectiva; esta dimensión se hace opaca cuando la interpretación de esa vida práctica se entiende como resultado o producto (y es Vista como un ir detrás). A la luz de esa hipótesis se analizan las maneras en las que las filosofías de la sospecha y del malestarson ciegas al sujeto ético y se indica que son. por ello. ciegas a las maneras en las que el siglo XX ha construido, frente a esas interpretaciones filosóficas, dimensiones morales -como el rechazo del daño y la imputación de responsabilidades? -a las que sólo el último momento del siglo pasado parece hacer justicia.
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Hermosillo-Romo, David. "Bilingual memory: A subject trait or a task dimension." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289184.
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The current theoretical formulation of bilingual memory (The Process View of Memory) assumes that all bilinguals are the same and thus attributes cross-language memory transfer effects to the processing components of memory tasks alone. However, the present study found that only early, but not late, bilinguals exhibited significant cross-language transfer effects in the implicit memory word fragment completion task under separate encoding conditions that involved perceptual, conceptual, and integrative processing (i.e., reading, imaging, and sentence processing). Results are taken to suggest that early and late bilinguals adopt different information processing strategies at encoding and retrieval, and question the notion of task processing demands as the only or main determinant of bilingual memory transfer. The present findings help explain the pattern of inconsistent bilingual transfer effects that have emerged in research studies conducted under the Process View of Memory and support the move toward the adoption of a bilingual memory paradigm in which cross-language transfer is explained in terms of both subject and task dimensions.
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West, Katie. "A Space for the Contemplation of a Sacred Subject." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5792.
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This paper discusses a Fine Art Master thesis exhibition. The show was on the topic of the Latter-day Saint doctrine of a Mother in Heaven. It contains a project statement detailing the theological meanings and reasons, an overview of the visual elements of the exhibition, and a section contextualizing the exhibition within the art world.
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Fazila, Banu. "Acquisition Of Non-null Subject Parameter Properties In English By Speakers Of A Null Subject Language, Turkish." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609998/index.pdf.
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The aim of this study is to answer to questions of how the null subject parameter properties in Turkish are reorganized by Turkish learners of English and whether there is a relationship between the null subject parameter properties in acquiring them.
Firstly, a pilot study was conducted to detect the possible inadequacy in data collecting methods. Following the pilot study, a main study was conducted in order to answer the research questions.Thirty-four intermediate and thirty-four upper-intermediate students from METU English Preparation Department participated in the study. Along with these two proficiency groups, a control group of native speakers also contributed to the study whose answers were taken as criteria in evaluating students answers. Two types of tests were used: a 30item grammaticality judgment test and a 17item dialogue task. the test results were analyzed using a statistical program.
In the end, it was found that students acquire the properties independently and as their proficiency levels increase, the acquisition of those properties also increases. However, it was also seen that students were not able to acquire these properties which was thought to be a result of parametric difference between Turkish and English. In order to overcome these acquisition problems, some teaching techniques were suggested in the conclusion part.
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Hartwig, Steve G. "Teacher stress : does subject-area play a role? /." Adelaide, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR.PS/09ar.psh3372.pdf.
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Hudson, Nicola Anne. "Food : a suitable subject for Roman verse satire." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8236.
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This thesis looks in particular at a number of satires by the Roman poets Horace and Juvenal in which food is prominent: Horace's Satires 2.2, 2.4 and 2.8 and Juvenal's satires 4, 5, 11 and 15. Where relevant the works of Lucilius and Persius have also been brought into the scope of the study. It begins with a discussion of the reasons why food might be considered a suitable subject for Roman verse satire (considering the nature of food and of eating, and the nature of the genre), and a brief survey of the forms which food takes in the genre. This is followed by an analysis of the gastronomic terminology which the satirists use to achieve a satirical rather than a gastronomic effect. The body of the study is taken up with the specific areas which interest the satirists when they deal with food: the antithesis of town and country diet, gastronomy, the dinner party ('cena'), gluttony and cannibalism. For the most part these are dealt with on a satire by satire, chapter by chapter basis. In the case of the town versus country antithesis, however, Horace's Satire 2.2 is used as a starting point for the discussion of the subject in Persius' and Juvenal's satires. The thesis suggests that the satirists create for the reader's entertainment a number of 'perfect' misinterpretations of the proper role of food: the failure to see food as nutrition, the over-intellectualisation of the subject, and the abuse of conviviality, among others. Roman verse satire does not, therefore, provide a comprehensive or accurate picture of eating habits during the period in which the satirists wore writing. it does, however, offer the satirically attuned reader a sophisticated and literary discussion of diners, 'cooks' and cannibals in the broader moral, social and cultural context.
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Ciarlo, Chiara. "Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/452.
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This study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory of a single grammar. In particular, this study determines which linguistic and extra-linguistic factors influence SCl variation and whether these factors vary among individual speakers, and it applies notions of minimalist theory to account for variable and categorical cases. Three variables in the Ligurian SCl paradigm are examined, where overt variants alternate with a zero form. These are: 3rd singular u, a/Ø, 3rd plural i/e/Ø, and 1st person e/a/Ø. In these variables, the zero form is always affected by adjacent negation and object clitics, by processing factors, and occasionally by following phonological context, though never by age of the speaker. In contrast, factors that influence overt SCl alternation vary: subject-verb agreement in 3rd singular contexts, morpho-phonological factors in 3rd plural contexts, and phonological, syntactic, and extra-linguistic factors in 1st person contexts. Following the general view that SCls in northern Italian dialects express subject agreement features (e.g., Poletto, 2000), I propose that SCl variants are phonological expression of different phi-feature combinations of two categories of Agreement (Number and Person) which include underspecification of features and feature values (Adger, 2006). Overt variants may show underspecification of the number and/or gender features of Number, whereas a null underlying variant always has unvalued number and gender. In variable cases, all variants in the set are formally satisfied and significant factors trigger the choice of the variant. In categorical cases, only one SCl variant in the set has its feature requirements fulfilled. Furthermore, I propose a four-fold interpretation of the zero form, namely, as null underlying variant, as nonpronunced SCl projection due to blocking by syntactic elements, as absence of phi-features, and as phonological deletion of overt variants (inter-speaker variation).
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Rawson, Ariel Janaye. "Earth Jurisprudence: Making Nature A Subject Through Law." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1435219849.
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Washkansky, Dale. "A space between : contemplating the post-Holocaust subject." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11210.
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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119).<br>In 2008 I travelled, with camera in hand, to Germany in order to photograph the two concentration camps to Buchenwald and Ravensbrück. These are two of several camps that Germany established during the late 1930s to house so called undesirables or those believed to be enemies of the Reich. These people were not only extracted from society within Germany, but later from all occupied territories. European Jewry was the primary target of this policy. Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, but they were not the only victims. Approximately one and a half million Gypsies, at least 250 000 physically or mentally disabled people, three million Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Social Democrats, Communists, partisans, trade unionists and Polish intelligentsia were among those that fell victim to the Nazis. The Germany's concentration camps, these prisoners of the Reich were set to work under severe inhumane conditions as slave labour, which was also a means of torture, as efficient production was not the primary endeavour of these camps. It was only when war broke out that policy altered and the labour was utilised by German enterprises and to aid Germany's war effort. These camps formed part of a larger system that later sought to eventually annihilate these "enemies". There were also transit camps to those camps located towards the east, in Poland - the notorious death camps, where mass murder became harrowingly efficient.
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De, Pirro Nicholas Anthony. "Object and subject bureaucracy, a gesture of subversion." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1326998466.
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Blankenship, Lisa. "Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1374430177.
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Fuller, Stephen. "NEW PATRIARCHIES: A TURBULENCE OF SOURCE AND SUBJECT." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3889.
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Experiencing a turbulence of source and subject in the variable inversions and supports of one source to another--the wreck of the U-352, Carpeaux’s Ugolino and his Sons, a movie poster for J.A. Bayona’s The Impossible, and Cassiopeia mythology--these four sources as sons, in sacrifice to and surviving by way of “daddy” documentation, are here refigured to reenact and critique the patriarchally recreational, monumental, cinematic, and mythological infrastructures supporting the sources of this work and thereby serving to critique the newer patriarchies to which these sources and their subjectifications here seek to cross consumptively dead end. Following three public installations, and in service to a final publication, this text hereby functions as the myth of this work.
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Rawls, Medea. "A within-subject comparison of stimulus equivalence training." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4841/.
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Training structures have been defined as the order and arrangement of baseline conditional discriminations within stimulus equivalence training. The three training structures most often used are, linear (trains A:B and B:C discrimination), many-to-one (trains B:A and C:A discriminations) , and one-to-many (trains A:B and A:C discriminations). Each training structure trains a different set of simultaneous and successive discriminations that are then needed in the test for derived relations (symmetry, reflexivity, transitivity, and symmetrical transitivity). The present experiment seeks to extend the research on stimulus equivalence training structures by using a within-subject design and adult human subjects. Three sets of 9 arbitrary stimuli were trained concurrently each with a different training structure. From the beginning, training and testing trials were intermixed. The likelihood of producing stimulus equivalence formation was equal across structures.
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Sanders, Marybeth Corey. "Inter- and Intra-Subject Variability: A Palatometric Study." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1201.
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Electropalatometry (EPM) has proven to be a useful clinical and research tool for measuring tongue-to-palate contact. The goal of this study was to determine whether the development of a database of standardized palatometric articulation files is feasible by examining the variability which exists within and between speakers. Twenty standard American English dialect speakers were fitted with palatometer pseudopalates. Test stimuli were VCV nonsense words using a schwa in the initial position, the 15 palatal consonants, and three corner vowels, /a/, /i/, /u/. From these palatometric recordings a variability index was created to examine intra- and interspeaker variability. Different aspects of articulation (i.e., place, manner, voicing, coarticulation) were considered. Significant findings for variability were found for place of articulation in the /i/ vowel context and for manner of articulation in the /ɑ/ vowel context. Also in the /a/ vowel context, significant findings were found between the commonly misarticulated /l/, /r/, and /s/. Consonants coarticulated with /a/ were found to be significantly less variable than consonants coarticulated with /u/. Also, speakers who were more variable in one vowel context, tended to be more variable in other vowel contexts. These quantitative findings, as well as qualitative observations, are discussed from theoretical and clinical perspectives. Directions for future research are outlined.
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Strasser, Helmut. "Perspectives of Statistics as a Scientific Subject at a Univerisity." Austrian Statistical Society, 2003. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5638/1/462%2D1374%2D1%2DSM.pdf.
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Fahrman, Birgit. "To know a subject - Teachers' views about the subject of technology. : How the subject of technology is described and approached by teachers in the lower secondary school." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Lärande i Stem, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-294564.
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For teaching to be successful, teachers must be well-educated and have knowledge in many different fields. With a combination of solid subject knowledge, good teaching skills and the ability to balance these qualities, teachers can support students’ learning. However, Swedish compulsory school technology teaching does not always meet the requirements for a desired learning environment. This thesis aims to extend our knowledge of how teachers perceive the subject of technology, its content and purpose and our understanding of how the teachers develop this knowledge. Two sets of data have resulted in three separate studies. Study 1 (paper 1) focus on experienced technology teachers’ views of their own teaching. Study 2 and 3 (paper 2 and 3 respectively) concern the views of novice technology teachers. Different theoretical frameworks enable understanding of the analysis. The pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) framework is applied on in-depth interviews. Theories about curriculum emphases together with a conceptual framework for technology concerning the subjects’ content were applied on the short-answer interviews about purpose and content of the subject. Findings show that experienced technology teacher highlight different purposes for technology education (depending on background) but agree upon that teaching must be student-active. They emphasize the design process as important and specific for the subject and that technology teaching requires various support structures for learning to take place. The novice teachers describe the subject as being hard to grasp with a difficult to understand syllabus. They express uncertainty about planning, implementing, and assessing teaching in relation to certain content as well as practical activities. The three studies, separately and together, point to the importance of subject knowledge. Understanding of the technology subject seems to be the first step towards grasping how the subject should be taught. Future training of technology teachers must focus on knowledge of the subject's characteristics and understanding the subject’s purpose and content. A greater effort is also needed for everyone involved to create a common vision concerning the nature, purpose, and place of the technology subject in Swedish schools that contributes to pupils' understanding of the world around them while laying a good foundation for their further studies<br>Undervisning i skolämnet teknik behöver, precis som alla skolämnen, ha välutbildade lärare med såväl breda som djupa kunskaper inom ämnet. Kombinationen goda ämneskunskaper, goda pedagogiska färdigheter och förmågan att balansera dessa tillsammans möjliggör för läraren att stödja elevernas lärande och få till en miljö som möjliggör inlärning. Dock har det visat sig att teknikundervisning i grundskolan inte alltid lever upp till kraven och att teknikundervisning därmed riskera att inte knytas till teknikämnets syfte och innehåll. Denna uppsats syftar till att ge ökad kunskap om hur lärare uppfattar ämnet teknik, dess innehåll och syfte, samt att förstå hur lärarna utvecklar sin kunskap inom skolämnet teknik. Två datainsamlingar har resulterat i tre delstudier. Studie 1 fokuserar på erfarna tekniklärare och deras beskrivningar av sin egen undervisning. Studie 2 och 3 utgår empirin från blivande tekniklärares utsagor. Insamlad data utgår från kortare eller längre intervjuer med deltagande lärare. Olika teoretiska ramar möjliggör förståelse av den insamlade empirin där pedagogiska ämneskunskaper (PCK, pedagogical content knowledge) tillämpas på materialet från de genomförda längre intervjuerna. Teorier som utgår från kunskapsemfaser för de naturvetenskapliga ämnena samt teknik tillsammans med ett konceptuellt ramverk för teknikämnet som rör kunskapsinnehållet tillämpades på de kortare intervjuerna utifrån ämnets syfte och innehåll. Resultaten visar att erfaren tekniklärare lyfter fram olika syften (beroende av bakgrund) för teknikundervisningen men är överens om att undervisningen måste vara elevaktiv. De betonar designprocessen som viktig och specifik för ämnet och att teknikundervisningen kräver olika stödstrukturer för att lärandet ska kunna ske. De blivande lärarna beskriver ämnet som svårt att greppa med en svårförståelig kursplan. De uttrycker osäkerhet om planering, implementering och bedömning av undervisning i relation till visst ämnesinnehåll samt kring praktiska aktiviteter. De tre studierna pekar alla på vikten av goda ämneskunskaper och en förståelse för teknikämnet karaktär. Dessa kunskaper utgör ett första steg mot att förstå hur ämnet kan undervisas. Utbildning av tekniklärare framöver behöver även fokusera på förståelse av ämnets syfte och innehåll för att undervisning i teknik ska kunna bidrar till att utveckla elevernas förståelse för omvärlden och samtidigt lägger en god grund för deras vidare studier. Nyckelord: teknikundervisning, tekniklärare, grundskola
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Eklund, Chica. "The Art Subject in Thailand : A study about the role of the art subject in some schools in Thailand." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Education, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1463.
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<p>Historically the art subject has never had a main role in the school education.</p><p>The main subjects in Sweden have been mathematics, Swedish and English, even if the other</p><p>subjects also have been important. Unfortunately the subject of art has been considered less</p><p>important. For a long time the art subject has been a subject that only teaches the students how to</p><p>paint in different ways, but lately it has been noticed that the art subject has more qualities, for</p><p>example concerning personal expressions. Now we can confirm that the art subject does have an</p><p>important role in the school world, but how big a role?</p><p>With the help from interviews and literature studies, this essay wants to show if this ideology</p><p>and knowledge already has been used in other countries, in this case Thailand. Through my</p><p>interviews and examinations I could confirm that the responders consider the art subject important</p><p>for the students’ creative thoughts and personal development. The question is: is this only an</p><p>opinion or is it something that has already been used? My practise in the Thai schools has therefore</p><p>been useful for me in this essay, since I could closely study the art subject, and see everything with</p><p>my own eyes.</p><p>_____________</p>
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Zizzi, Pasquale. "Sexuality among older adults : a taboo subject in CLSC's? = la sexualité auprès des aînés : un subject tabou en CLSC?" Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81466.
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This qualitative study investigated what factors impact Home-care professionals' ability to effectively discuss and intervene with older adults on the topic of intimacy and sexuality, and to generate a theoretical model for methods in which professionals deal with the subject matter. In depth interviews with nine Home-care professionals (social workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, home-care workers, team coordinators) from a Montreal CLSC who regularly intervene among older adults and utilize the Multiclientele Autonomy Assessment form, documentary evidence, and grounded theory analysis were utilized. Interviews centered on the professionals' conceptions of their roles and experiences as health and social service providers with regards to sexuality in later life. A theoretical model was developed describing (a) Home-care professionals' discomfort in inquiring and/or discussing the topic of sexuality with older adults, (b) phenomena that arose from those causal conditions, (c) strategies for facilitating intervention on the topic with older adults, (d) the consequences of those strategies. Implications for future research and practice are addressed.
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Carpenter, Belinda, and n/a. "Servicing the Subject: a Feminist Re-appraisal of Prostitution." Griffith University. Cultural and Historical Studies, 1994. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20051109.134329.
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This thesis examines theoretical and popular ways of knowing the prostitute and the client. Its purpose is to intervene in contemporary ways of knowing and articulate a more consistent feminist stance on prostitution. Currently, the prostitute is known predominantly through the discourse of psychology whilst the client is known through the discourse of sexology. She is deviant and he is normal. She is a victim and he is an agent. The issue of inconsistency in the feminist stance on prostitution is related to the recognition that these dualisms figure in the way in which all knowledge of the client and the prostitute is organised. Within feminist theory the prostitute is known through the dualism of victim and agent whilst the client is known through the sex/gender distinction. The former perpetuates certain ways of knowing the prostitute that cannot embrace the complexity and ambivalence of prostitution for women. If she is a victim she is only passive and exploited. If she is an agent she is both active and free. Utilising the latter allows the client to escape scrutiny. This thesis will argue that this is for two reasons. Firstly, because feminists have tended to support the idea of the prostitute as agent within the victim/agent dichotomy. Within such a way of knowing, any critique of the client became a critique of the livelihood of the prostitute, and is best avoided. Secondly, because feminists tend to work within the sex/gender distinction and its associated dualisms of mind and body, nature and culture. As such, they tend to perpetuate, rather than challenge, the sexological relationship between the sexual and the social. In both analyses, the sexual urge is ultimately natural, albeit modified by society. Analyses that argue for the social constitution of sexuality (rather than simply its social construction) still perpetuate the sex/gender distinction by claiming the validity of the mind/body dualism for their analyse. This thesis will argue that these dualisms structure an impossible choice for feminists and help to position them within the divisive prostitution debate. In a political climate that perpetuates only two ways of knowing prostitution, to critique prostitution is to be anti-sex, moralising, prudish and conservative. In contrast, to support prostitution is hailed as pro-sex, pro-women and pro-choice. Within this dichotomising of the political issue, feminists gain either conservative or libertarian allies. Within such a political climate, a consistent feminist position is lost. In order to counter this political and theoretical inconsistency, this thesis argues for a connection between the dualisms through the organisation of modern liberal democracies. To know the prostitute through the victim/agent dichotomy and the client through the sex/gender distinction (and associated dualisms of mind and body, nature and culture) is also to call upon the public/private split as their organising feature. The public/private split gives meaning to the dualisms of victim and agent, sex and gender, mind and body, through its role in the perpetuation of associations between victim, body, sex, private and women, and between agent, gender, mind, public and men. This thesis will argue that these dualisms are not useful for explaining the ambivalent and contradictory status of prostitution as both work and sex, public and private, rational and irrational, embodied and disembodied, sexual and social. However, not only does prostitution challenge the explanatory value of these dualisms, but the experience of prostitution for the prostitute and the client both subverts and inverts these dualisms. The usual configuration of the dualisms public/private, worker/consumer, male/female, mind/body, rationality/irrationality, are public, worker, male, mind, rationality, in contrast to private, consumer, female, body, irrationality. The prostitute is positioned in and through modern liberal democracies as embodied, but claims the status of worker through her experience of disembodiment. The client is positioned in and through modern liberal democracies as disembodied, and continues this proprietorial relationship with his body during the prostitution contract. She becomes the embodied worker and he becomes the disembodied sex partner. This further demonstrates the inability of a dualistic conception of prostitution to take into account the ambivalent and contradictory status of the prostitute and the client. Whilst this thesis will suggest that such an ambivalent status is to be found in all relations between men and women in modern liberal democracies, it will also propose the political implications of this theoretical reconfiguration for the feminist position on prostitution.
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au, J. goodie@murdoch edu, and Jo Goodie. "The Invention of the Environment as a Legal Subject." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070815.131651.
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The legal regulation of the environment is exemplary of the formation, practice and challenge of modern legal discourse and governance. The latter part of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of environmentalism and the problematisation of the environment in terms of the management of hazard and risk. The social authority of law has meant that it has been inevitably implicated in the contestation and negotiation of environmental governance. In turn, environmental governance and discourse have required a certain refiguring of legal rationality as legal discourse has been confronted by the immanent critique of environmentalism. This thesis will focus on how the environment emerged as problematic and how it came to be governed and of legal interest. Several examples of legal thinking concerning specific environmental problems are analysed, and the manner in which the environment is constructed within the legal discursive domain is examined.
Much modern knowledge and understanding regarding the environment developed in part from the specialisation of scientific discourse and experiment, which formed certain areas of expertise, including biology, ecology and toxicology. This scientific knowledge significantly contributed to governmental identification and elucidation of the environment. Modern ecology and associated technologies have facilitated the detailed mapping and auditing of physical environments, and have profoundly effected our modern appreciation of the environment as an interdependent, dynamic and potentially fragile web of interdependent physical zones, spaces and activities. Modern environmentalism has emerged through the application of this type of technical scientific knowledge, in combination with certain forms of environmental sensibility which treat the environment, not as a thing, or somehow out there, but as a dynamic process of which humans are a part, which has a history, an economy, and a power to transform and be transformed. The shape of modern environmental governance has been especially influenced by the scientific and ethical critique of environmentalism that connects the origin of ecological risks to technological application and commodity production.
Throughout this thesis, specific aspects of the analytics of government or governmentality approach derived from Foucaults writing on governmentality are taken up. Governmentality theory is largely concerned with the contingent relationship between knowledge and power; thus, with analysing specific discourses and associated spaces within which differing knowledge and forms of thinking interrelate and resist each other. The contestation and negotiation associated with environmental governance has confronted legal discourse and led to a refiguring of legal rationality. Legal governance of the environment has stretched and unsettled legal orthodoxy, as the environment does not readily fit into any of the usual categories pertaining to legal rights and interests. The environment, as a legal subject, is not simply a physical space; it is a contingent and instrumental concept, determined by human activity, social values and legal and non-legal calculation.
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Joseph, Clara A. B. "Nayantara Sahgal's novels, Gandhian ideology and a female subject." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0010/NQ33536.pdf.
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Prouty, James R. "Displaying uncertainty a comparison between submarine subject matter experts." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/07Mar%5FProuty.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Susan G. Hutchins, Susan S. Kirschenbaum. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-120). Also available in print.
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Smith, Merryn Barbara. "Fertile subject : a psycho-social exploration of professional femininities." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2007. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54488/.
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This thesis is about the knowledge, power and discursive production of contemporary western femininities. It is concerned with the politically sedimented power-knowledge relations and socio-historical, discursive, material and embodied processes by which particular versions of femininity are brought into being. The thesis investigates the modes by which femininity is currently constituted and experienced through discursive and material practices that exalt femininity as fluid/flexible in a historical context where subjects are also 'supposed to be sustained by a stable centre, an ego capable of resilience' (Walkerdine, 2003, p. 241). Through a psycho-social analysis of twelve biographical accounts of professional women aged 32-45, the research utilises an inter disciplinary approach to explore the discourses and narratives through which this deep irony is lived for women in the present, examining the place of subjectification and subjectivity. These practices are examined in relation to their constitutive and regulatory power through which women's emotions-desires fantasies and fears of loss and risk are made intelligible 'as personal failures when all there is available to understand these is an individual psychological discourse' (Walkerdine, 2003, p. 243). The research builds on feminist psycho-social, post-structural and governmentality studies tracking the complex and dynamic interrelations 'across variable daily actions, fantasies and narrations', (Driver, 2005, p. 23) where the social, cultural and psychological are strongly entwined with each other. It is the lived experiences of women in their negotiation of this complex process of ongoing transformation that the research explores, asking how are women's subjectivities produced through the social spaces that have opened up for them in specific historical conditions and cultural and social locations.
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Noble, Carol Susan. "'A people to come' : screenwriting the new social subject." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4088.
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In this thesis I am going to investigate they ways in which characters in script texts might be re-written in order to move them away from being narrative objects and towards a sense of them as ‘different social subjects’. By this I mean characters that are capable of multiple telling and that are portrayed as self-aware, self-determining individuals. Why should I want to do this? The 3-Act structure and the associated formula for creating characters, to which most modern films adhere, compels the screenwriter to objectify all of the individuals portrayed. One reason for this is that the formula trades on a confusion between a character's 'identity' and the criteria we use to 'identify' them. Another reason is the 3-Act structure's demand for a seamless, cause-and-effect storyline and its simple interpretation of space and time. To meet these ends, the writer is forced to reduce characters to the status of objects. In order to arrive at a new methodology I will investigate theoreticians and practitioners who have discussed subjectivity. As a result of this I will propose a range of strategies a screenwriter might use to create subjects (rather than objects). And I will propose strategies for recognising the complexity of each character's identity. I will argue also that a film can be intelligible without a seamless cause-and-effect storyline; and where it reflects a subject's actual spatial/temporal experiences. I will then show how I would use these strategies (and others) when writing a film text: Fungus. In my last Chapter, I will try to assess how useful my new method has been, firstly, for my work as a screenwriter and, secondly, in the opinion of other practitioners in the film industry.
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Fu, Qiang. "Optimization of a Composite Wing Subject to Multi Constraints." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2013. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8449.
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In this thesis, an investigation has been carried out into a minimum weight optimization analysis of a composite wing with multi design constraints under both static and dynamic loadings. The study includes the influence of a morphing leading edge on the wing stiffness and gust load reduction by employing a passive gust alleviation device at the wing tip.
The design process started from a generic study of optimal structure against buckling for three typical types of reinforced skin panel structures including stiffener panel, sandwich and grid panel. The optimal design in terms of buckling performance and structural efficiency were compared. The study then focused on the optimal design of stiffened skin panels for a particular wing. Parametric studies on optimal design for isotropic stiffened panels were carried out in which practical design constraints were introduced. The optimal design method was further extended to composite stiffened skin panels. Optimal designs were obtained within a compression distributed load range from 500 N/mm to 5250 N/mm and a symmetric balanced layup with 0˚, 90˚, and ±45˚ plies. Based on the study, the modelling and optimal design method for composite stiffened panels was applied to a composite wing box for its upper surface panel design. The initial composite wing box was designed to achieve a minimum weight. Gradient based optimization method was applied in the analysis with practical design constraints. The results indicate that the effect of leading edge morphing on the overall wing structural stiffness is negligible. It has been shown that the weight of the upper surface of the wing box structure can be reduced by 19.8% from its initial design.
Optimal design of a passive gust alleviation device (PGAD) mounted at the wing tip was then investigated. Based on the dynamic analysis of the 3D wing FE model in different flight and payload cases, a method and program was developed to create a dynamically equivalent beam model. Gust response of the optimized wing model was computed for a wide range of frequencies in accordance with the CS-25. Next, a parametric study of the key design variables of the PGAD was carried out to determine the optimal design parameters for minimum gust loading. The results have shown that the gust response can be reduced by 15% by using a 1m long PGAD for a conventional aircraft wing and yet reduce 50% tip displacement with 37.2% bending moment at wing root for a flying wing concept aircraft wing with 1.6m long PGAD mounted at the wing tip.
The results of the investigation contribute to knowledge in the following aspects. It provides an evaluation of the structural efficiency of three typical types of stiffened panels against buckling prevention. The research also provided an optimal design method for composite stringer stiffened panels by combining theoretical and practical design constraints. It made possible for the first-time a numerical evaluation of the novel PGAD as applied to a large aircraft.
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Hutchinson, Geraldine. "Decline of a subject : the case of home economics." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245074.
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Powell, Jason L. "Foucauldian gerontology : discourse, and subject position : a new approach." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402842.
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Tetler, William G. (William Gore). "A collaborative filtering prediction algorithm for ClassRank subject recommendations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46521.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 51).<br>Undergraduate students at M.I.T. typically utilize three resources when selecting subjects: course specific evaluations, faculty advisors, and peers. While these resources have distinct advantages, they are all limited in scope. The ClassRank web application has been developed to bridge the gap between these resources by providing a simple institute-wide system for undergraduate students to evaluate and rate subjects. The application also provides a solid platform to build new tools utilizing subject evaluation data. To extend the initial core functionality of the ClassRank system, a rating-based subject recommendation algorithm was added to offer students an unbiased perspective on potential subjects of interest. Developed as a Ruby on Rails plugin and then integrated into ClassRank, the recommendation algorithm analyzes subject ratings and provides personalized suggestions to students about subjects that would likely fit their interests and educational goals. The ClassRank web application and recommendation algorithm will provide the M.I.T. undergraduate student body with a unique and invaluable resource for subject selection.<br>by William G. Tetler.<br>M.Eng.
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Guo, Bingchen. "Soft biometric fusion for subject recognition at a distance." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2018. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/423611/.
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Biometric recognition is an advanced technology that employs physical features (such as fingerprint, iris and face capture) and behavioural features (such as gait, signature and voice) to identify people. Biometric features are reliable and valid ways to describe the unique properties of individuals, but there are often rigorous requirements on the position and characteristics of devices used for data acquisition. Since biometric features can be difficult to capture at a distance, soft biometric features, such as height, weight, skin colour and gender, have received much attention. Although the uniqueness of soft biometric features is not as intuitively obvious as traditional biometric features, numerous experiments have demonstrated that the desired recognition accuracy can be achieved by using different soft biometric features. This thesis will propose state-of-the-art multimodal biometric fusion techniques to improve recognition performance of soft biometrics. The first contribution of this thesis is to estimate fusion performance based on three types of soft biometrics - face, body and clothing. Feature level and score level fusion strategies will be employed to measure and analyse the influence of fusion on soft biometric recognition. The second key contribution of this research is that the analysis of the influence of distance on soft biometric traits and an exploration of the potency of recognition using fusion at varying distances have been performed. A new soft biometric database, containing images of the human face, body and clothing taken at three different distances, was created and used to obtain face, body and clothing attributes. First, this new database was constructed to explore the suitability of each modality at a distance: intuitively, the face is suitable for near field identification, and the body becomes optimal when the subject is further away. The new dataset is used to explore the potential of face, body and clothing for human recognition using fusion. In this section, some novel fusion techniques on different levels (feature, score and rank level) are proposed to improve soft biometric recognition performance. A Supervised Generalised Canonical Correlation (SG-CCA) methodology is proposed to fuse the soft biometric features. The proposed SG-CCA is numerically validated to be the best fusion method compared with other multi-modal fusion methods. An SVM-weighted Likelihood Ratio Test (SVM-LRT) method is proposed for score level fusion. The experimental results demonstrate that SVM-LRT-based fusion significantly outperforms the single-mode recognition. A novel joint density distribution-based rank-score fusion is also proposed to combine rank and score information. Analysis using the new soft biometric database demonstrates that recognition performance is significantly improved by using the new methods over single modalities at different distances.
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Kaulicke, Peter. "Paracas y Chavín. Variations about a long-living subject." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113509.
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This paper focuses on matters of interpretation of early culture contact between northern cultures and coeval southern coastalevidence in a historical perspective starting with Tello. Due to problems related to terminology and methodology combined with incomplete presentation of the data recovered from excavation these interpretations are often contradictory and unsatisfying. Recent field work in the Río Grande de Nazca valley serves to discuss problems related to chronology, culture contact and the forming of new interaction spheres.<br>En este trabajo, se presenta y se discute los diferentes enfoques interpretativos relacionados con las tempranas evidencias de cultura material en la costa sur, y sus comparaciones con aquellas del norte desde la formulación original de Tello. Estas propuestas llevaron a hipótesis variadas y, a menudo, poco convincentes, debido a problemas de terminología y de metodología. A ello se suma la escasa e incompleta presentación de contextos respectivos recuperados en excavaciones. Se enfatiza los resultados de trabajos recientes en el Río Grande de Nazca, con el afán de ajustar las cronologías regionales, así como el carácter de transiciones y la formación de esferas de interacción más amplias.
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Garratt, Linda. "Subject choice and student perceptions of A-level courses." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/90259.
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Despite a plethora of proposals and counterproposals, the framework of the A level system has remained largely unchanged for forty years. This study reviews the historical context of sixth form education and provides an insight into students' perceptions of A level courses in the late 1980s. It also examines the reasons behind students' choices of subjects for study at A level and students' subsequent satisfaction with their chosen courses. The variables which most strongly influenced students' choice of subjects for study were the subject's perceived interest value, previous success in the subject and its compatibility with other subjects chosen. Also important, in some subject areas, was the perceived career value of a subject and its necessity for higher education. The students began their A level courses with very positive perceptions. The overwhelming majority view was of students' confidence in their ability to cope and high expectation of their courses. Unfortunately this initial positivism was not sustained. As students progressed through the course an increasing proportion reported that A level work was boring and became more sceptical about the utility of A levels. This growing disillusionment was probably partly responsible for some of the dissatisfaction evident in this study, gauged partly in terms of drop-out rates. It is concluded that A levels in their present form do not seem to be meeting the needs of a proportion of those who are studying them.
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Söderholm, Irina Panicheva. "Writing as a process. Writing in the subject English." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36006.
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Writing as a process, Writing in the subject English is a paper, which researches an activity of writing at upper secondary school. It investigates the challenges of teaching writing experienced by English teacher as well as the ways of how best to assist students in their writing assignments. The primary interest of this study is coherence and its development. The primary aim of this work is to follow the development of coherence in English A texts of students during a certain period of time. The method used for this investigation embraces the following stages. I compare eight compositions written by members of my group on the first test, with eight compositions written by the same individuals at the second test, nearly four weeks later. The first composition shouldn’t be shorter than 100- 150 words and the pupils had one hour to accomplish it. The second composition should be long and the pupils had two hours to accomplish it. All preparatory work on both occasions was done together in a classroom. To achieve best results in the conquering all obstacles in the activity of writing the notion of Writing as a process was introduced, explained and implemented in every writing situation. A chapter devoted to empirical findings contains a thorough analysis of grammatical, textual and linguistic aspects of thirty-two texts written on two occasions.In the sections discussion and conclusion there is an expression of a support for using writing as a process to improve writing skills of the students. At the same time there is also a great desire to encourage writing across curriculum. The reflections around the study situation at English classes for students with other first language than Swedish hold a special place in this work. Writing as a process approach towards writing helped the students to improve the cohesive aspect of their writings immensely but it couldn’t replace all white spots in their English language acquisition.
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Dever, Maryanne 1963. "Subject to authority : a study of M. Barnard Eldershaw." Phd thesis, Department of English, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5989.
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Goodie, Jo. "The invention of the environment as a legal subject." Thesis, Goodie, Jo (2007) The invention of the environment as a legal subject. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/43/.
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The legal regulation of the environment is exemplary of the formation, practice and challenge of modern legal discourse and governance. The latter part of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of environmentalism and the problematisation of the environment in terms of the management of hazard and risk. The social authority of law has meant that it has been inevitably implicated in the contestation and negotiation of environmental governance. In turn, environmental governance and discourse have required a certain refiguring of legal rationality as legal discourse has been confronted by the immanent critique of environmentalism. This thesis will focus on how the environment emerged as problematic and how it came to be governed and of legal interest. Several examples of legal thinking concerning specific environmental problems are analysed, and the manner in which the environment is constructed within the legal discursive domain is examined.
Much modern knowledge and understanding regarding the environment developed in part from the specialisation of scientific discourse and experiment, which formed certain areas of expertise, including biology, ecology and toxicology. This scientific knowledge significantly contributed to governmental identification and elucidation of the environment. Modern ecology and associated technologies have facilitated the detailed mapping and auditing of physical environments, and have profoundly effected our modern appreciation of 'the environment' as an interdependent, dynamic and potentially fragile web of interdependent physical zones, spaces and activities. Modern environmentalism has emerged through the application of this type of technical scientific knowledge, in combination with certain forms of 'environmental sensibility' which treat the environment, not as a thing, or somehow 'out there', but as a dynamic process of which humans are a part, which has a history, an economy, and a power to transform and be transformed. The shape of modern environmental governance has been especially influenced by the scientific and ethical critique of environmentalism that connects the origin of ecological risks to technological application and commodity production.
Throughout this thesis, specific aspects of the 'analytics of government' or governmentality approach derived from Foucault's writing on governmentality are taken up. Governmentality theory is largely concerned with the contingent relationship between knowledge and power; thus, with analysing specific discourses and associated spaces within which differing knowledge and forms of thinking interrelate and resist each other. The contestation and negotiation associated with environmental governance has confronted legal discourse and led to a refiguring of legal rationality. Legal governance of the environment has stretched and unsettled legal orthodoxy, as the environment does not readily fit into any of the usual categories pertaining to legal rights and interests. The environment, as a legal subject, is not simply a physical space; it is a contingent and instrumental concept, determined by human activity, social values and legal and non-legal calculation.
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Goodie, Jo. "The invention of the environment as a legal subject." Goodie, Jo (2007) The invention of the environment as a legal subject. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/43/.
Full textAbstract:
The legal regulation of the environment is exemplary of the formation, practice and challenge of modern legal discourse and governance. The latter part of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of environmentalism and the problematisation of the environment in terms of the management of hazard and risk. The social authority of law has meant that it has been inevitably implicated in the contestation and negotiation of environmental governance. In turn, environmental governance and discourse have required a certain refiguring of legal rationality as legal discourse has been confronted by the immanent critique of environmentalism. This thesis will focus on how the environment emerged as problematic and how it came to be governed and of legal interest. Several examples of legal thinking concerning specific environmental problems are analysed, and the manner in which the environment is constructed within the legal discursive domain is examined.
Much modern knowledge and understanding regarding the environment developed in part from the specialisation of scientific discourse and experiment, which formed certain areas of expertise, including biology, ecology and toxicology. This scientific knowledge significantly contributed to governmental identification and elucidation of the environment. Modern ecology and associated technologies have facilitated the detailed mapping and auditing of physical environments, and have profoundly effected our modern appreciation of 'the environment' as an interdependent, dynamic and potentially fragile web of interdependent physical zones, spaces and activities. Modern environmentalism has emerged through the application of this type of technical scientific knowledge, in combination with certain forms of 'environmental sensibility' which treat the environment, not as a thing, or somehow 'out there', but as a dynamic process of which humans are a part, which has a history, an economy, and a power to transform and be transformed. The shape of modern environmental governance has been especially influenced by the scientific and ethical critique of environmentalism that connects the origin of ecological risks to technological application and commodity production.
Throughout this thesis, specific aspects of the 'analytics of government' or governmentality approach derived from Foucault's writing on governmentality are taken up. Governmentality theory is largely concerned with the contingent relationship between knowledge and power; thus, with analysing specific discourses and associated spaces within which differing knowledge and forms of thinking interrelate and resist each other. The contestation and negotiation associated with environmental governance has confronted legal discourse and led to a refiguring of legal rationality. Legal governance of the environment has stretched and unsettled legal orthodoxy, as the environment does not readily fit into any of the usual categories pertaining to legal rights and interests. The environment, as a legal subject, is not simply a physical space; it is a contingent and instrumental concept, determined by human activity, social values and legal and non-legal calculation.
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Carpenter, Belinda. "Servicing the Subject: a Feminist Re-appraisal of Prostitution." Thesis, Griffith University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366911.
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This thesis examines theoretical and popular ways of knowing the prostitute and the client. Its purpose is to intervene in contemporary ways of knowing and articulate a more consistent feminist stance on prostitution. Currently, the prostitute is known predominantly through the discourse of psychology whilst the client is known through the discourse of sexology. She is deviant and he is normal. She is a victim and he is an agent. The issue of inconsistency in the feminist stance on prostitution is related to the recognition that these dualisms figure in the way in which all knowledge of the client and the prostitute is organised. Within feminist theory the prostitute is known through the dualism of victim and agent whilst the client is known through the sex/gender distinction. The former perpetuates certain ways of knowing the prostitute that cannot embrace the complexity and ambivalence of prostitution for women. If she is a victim she is only passive and exploited. If she is an agent she is both active and free. Utilising the latter allows the client to escape scrutiny. This thesis will argue that this is for two reasons. Firstly, because feminists have tended to support the idea of the prostitute as agent within the victim/agent dichotomy. Within such a way of knowing, any critique of the client became a critique of the livelihood of the prostitute, and is best avoided. Secondly, because feminists tend to work within the sex/gender distinction and its associated dualisms of mind and body, nature and culture. As such, they tend to perpetuate, rather than challenge, the sexological relationship between the sexual and the social. In both analyses, the sexual urge is ultimately natural, albeit modified by society. Analyses that argue for the social constitution of sexuality (rather than simply its social construction) still perpetuate the sex/gender distinction by claiming the validity of the mind/body dualism for their analyse. This thesis will argue that these dualisms structure an impossible choice for feminists and help to position them within the divisive prostitution debate. In a political climate that perpetuates only two ways of knowing prostitution, to critique prostitution is to be anti-sex, moralising, prudish and conservative. In contrast, to support prostitution is hailed as pro-sex, pro-women and pro-choice. Within this dichotomising of the political issue, feminists gain either conservative or libertarian allies. Within such a political climate, a consistent feminist position is lost. In order to counter this political and theoretical inconsistency, this thesis argues for a connection between the dualisms through the organisation of modern liberal democracies. To know the prostitute through the victim/agent dichotomy and the client through the sex/gender distinction (and associated dualisms of mind and body, nature and culture) is also to call upon the public/private split as their organising feature. The public/private split gives meaning to the dualisms of victim and agent, sex and gender, mind and body, through its role in the perpetuation of associations between victim, body, sex, private and women, and between agent, gender, mind, public and men. This thesis will argue that these dualisms are not useful for explaining the ambivalent and contradictory status of prostitution as both work and sex, public and private, rational and irrational, embodied and disembodied, sexual and social. However, not only does prostitution challenge the explanatory value of these dualisms, but the experience of prostitution for the prostitute and the client both subverts and inverts these dualisms. The usual configuration of the dualisms public/private, worker/consumer, male/female, mind/body, rationality/irrationality, are public, worker, male, mind, rationality, in contrast to private, consumer, female, body, irrationality. The prostitute is positioned in and through modern liberal democracies as embodied, but claims the status of worker through her experience of disembodiment. The client is positioned in and through modern liberal democracies as disembodied, and continues this proprietorial relationship with his body during the prostitution contract. She becomes the embodied worker and he becomes the disembodied sex partner. This further demonstrates the inability of a dualistic conception of prostitution to take into account the ambivalent and contradictory status of the prostitute and the client. Whilst this thesis will suggest that such an ambivalent status is to be found in all relations between men and women in modern liberal democracies, it will also propose the political implications of this theoretical reconfiguration for the feminist position on prostitution.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Cultural and Historical Studies<br>Full Text
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Schallier, Wouter. "Subject retrieval in OPAC's: a study of three interfaces." Departament de Biblioteconomia i Documentació de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105277.
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In this paper we study three OPAC interfaces of K.U.Leuven University Library. All three interfaces have been on-line between 2002 and 2005. The characteristics of these OPACs (search fields, labeling of the fields, search facilities, searching vs. browsing, basic vs. advanced search) are
systematically examined. Special attention is given to subject search and display, and more specifically to Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and Medical Subject
Headings (MeSH). This comparison is particularly interesting because the indexing and classification tools (UDC, Library of Congress Subject Headings, MeSH)
remain the same in all three OPACs. However, the way these tools are presented for subject retrieval in the respective OPACs undergoes an interesting evolution. It is demonstrated that subject search and display in library catalogs can be largely improved by investing in optimal use of existing tools. We also stress the importance
of user-oriented OPAC design.
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Greimel-Fuhrmann, Bettina, Christiane Schopf, and Doris Buchmaier. "Why Combining Interrelated Subjects does not Make a Global Subject - Lessons Learnt from the Latest Curriculum Reform of Austrian Commercial Schools." Elsevier, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.244.
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In order to enhance students' understanding of the interrelationships between business administration, business mathematics and accounting, the recently developed curriculum of Austrian commercial schools comprises one global subject in which the contents of these three subjects have been combined. A second subject called "business practice" has been introduced to provide sufficient time to apply the acquired business knowledge to practice-oriented tasks. The results of a formative evaluation study show that several teachers have considerable difficulties to put the main ideas of these two subjects into practice and that many students find it hard to understand the identity of these two subjects. (authors' abstract)
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Ling, Michael Carleton University Dissertation Anthropology. "Between the tongue and the teeth: conversations with a Cambodian refugee : an examination of ethnography's subject and ethnography as subject." Ottawa, 1990.
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Yeung, Ka-po, and 楊嘉寶. "An evaluation of a supplemental instruction programme in a business statistics subject." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30250870.
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