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Wrande, Marie. "Growth in Aging Colonies : The Importance of Being Different." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Mikrobiologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-172393.
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The accumulation of rifampicin resistant (RifR) mutants in aging bacterial colonies has previously been attributed to stress-induced mutagenesis. Mutations giving rise to RifR are located in the rpoB gene, coding for the β subunit of RNA polymerase, RpoB. We showed that these mutants accumulate because they grow faster than the wild-type in the aging colonies. We found no evidence of increased mutagenesis in the RifR cells and their distribution, as localized clones in the aging colonies, indicated that they accumulated by selection and growth rather than by an increased rate of mutagenesis. Colony competition experiments with reconstructed strains showed that the RifR mutations were responsible for the growth advantage. We also found that deletion of rpoS, coding for the stationary phase sigma factor (RpoS), also gives a growth advantage on bacterial cells in aging colonies. We suggest that mutants lacking RpoS, having a different transcription pattern than the wild-type, may override the signals to enter stationary phase together with the rest of the population and instead keep growing for as long as possible. We found that the rpoB mutants mimicked the transcription pattern of the rpoS deletion mutant, thereby displaying a similar phenotype in the aging colonies. The pathways used in acetate metabolism (consisting of the enzymes Acs, AckA-Pta, PoxB and AceBAK) were shown to be important for the growth advantage mutants suggesting that acetate is one of the main carbon sources used to support their prolonged growth in the aging colonies. Rifampicin is a first-line drug used to treat M. tuberculosis infections. We used S. enterica as a model system for experimental evolution to ask whether compensatory mutations might be important in RifR mutants. In every lineage evolved compensatory mutations arose without any significant reduction in resistance. These mutations altered genes for the α, β, and β’ subunits of RNA polymerase.
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Cattini-Muller, Stella. "A different way of being supply teaching in special schools /." London : Mandaras Pub, 2004. http://www.mirandanet.dial.pipex.com/ftp/differentwayofbeing.pdf.
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Gravel, Emilie. "On the Benefits of Being Sexually Autonomous and Costs of Being Sexually Pressured: The Contributions of Different Motives for Sex to Experiences of Sexual Well-Being." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36445.
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A growing number of studies suggest that the reasons for which people engage in sexual
activities matter for their sexual well-being. Grounded in self-determination theory (SDT), this thesis research investigated the contributions of autonomous and controlled sexual motivation to sexual well-being. These objectives were achieved through a series of five studies presented in four manuscripts. In Manuscript 1, we validated the Sexual Motivation Scale (SexMS), a measure of self-regulation for sexual activities grounded in SDT (Study 1: N = 1,070, Study 2: N = 575). Collectively, the findings provided strong support for the factorial validity of the SexMS. Additionally, the SexMS captured important individual differences in sexual well-being, specifically with respect to sexual satisfaction, sexual distress, and sexual function. Manuscript 2 explored how autonomous and controlled sexual motivation are integrated with broader psychological functioning by examining their motivational antecedents and well-being consequences (N = 828). The results showed that global and relational motivation explained individual differences in autonomous and controlled sexual motivation. Additionally, autonomous and controlled sexual motivation explained individual differences in sexual, relational, and global well-being. Finally, the results suggested that, for the most part, the associations between the motivational antecedents and the well-being consequences of autonomous and controlled sexual motivation followed a heterarchical structure. Next, in Manuscript 3, the motivational sequence proposed by SDT – in which basic psychological needs satisfaction predicts quality of motivation, and in turn quality of psychological functioning – was validated in the context of within-person variations in sexual well-being (N = 113). The results indicated that on days when people experience more basic psychological needs satisfaction during interactions with their partner, their sexual motivation was more autonomous and this was associated with higher sexual well-being. However, basic needs satisfaction did not significantly predict controlled sexual motivation. Additionally, on days when people reported higher controlled sexual motivation, they experienced lower sexual well-being. Finally, in Manuscript 4, we examined the motivational sequence proposed by SDT from a dyadic perspective to better understand the contribution of sexual motivation to sexual well-being in couples (N = 225 couples). Specifically, we examined whether basic needs satisfaction during sexual activities and autonomous and controlled sexual motivation in one partner influenced the sexual well-being of the other partner. The unique contribution of each basic psychological need (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness) to sexual well-being was also investigated. Taken together, the results supported SDT’s predictions regarding the relevance of the motivational sequence and the unique contribution of each basic psychological need in explaining between-couple differences in sexual well-being. However, different patterns of association emerged for women and men, suggesting that in the context of sexual activities within heterosexual relationships, the motivational processes proposed by SDT may be moderated by gender. In sum, the findings from this thesis extend SDT and sexual motivation research. Overall, SDT may provide novel insights on human sexual behaviour, notably by improving our understanding of the factors that can enhance or impede sexual well-being in committed relationships.
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Huta, Veronika. "Pursuing pleasure versus growth and excellence : links with different aspects of well-being." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85919.
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Throughout history, two conceptions of happiness have been advocated. The hedonic ideal, which often predominates in modern Western societies, advocates enjoyment and avoidance of pain. The eudaimonic view argues that fulfillment comes from personal growth and excellence. This research was among the first empirical comparisons of eudaimonic and hedonic pursuits in terms of their actual relationships with happiness.One study was conducted with a single questionnaire (117 participants) and a second used detailed experience-sampling (100 participants). In the majority of analyses, hedonic activity was linked with greater positive affect and lower negative affect than eudaimonic activity was, while eudaimonic activity was associated with greater meaning in life and higher personal expressiveness (i.e., authenticity, involvement, fulfillment, and feeling alive). These results suggest that positive and negative affect (more emotional and visceral) could be called hedonic well-being, while meaning and personal expressiveness (subtler, require thought, and involve feeling more integrated and right than good) might be called eudaimonic well-being. The findings also underline the limitations of assessing only hedonic happiness, as is usually done---it can lead to inaccurate conclusions about the benefits of eudaimonic pursuits.
The results also suggested a trade-off in time between the benefits of hedonic and eudaimonic activities. The links between hedonic activity and well-being were strongest during the activity but often weakened with time. In contrast, the links between eudaimonic activity and happiness were weakest during the activity but became stronger with repeated eudaimonic efforts. People with frequent eudaimonic interests were also happier during many activities, even hedonic ones, than those with few eudaimonic projects; such increased enjoyment was not experienced by people with frequent hedonic pursuits. These results are consistent with theories that hedonic activities produce immediate satisfaction but that it fades with time, whereas eudaimonic strivings are challenging but increase well-being in the long run. Eudaimonic activities may promote well-being by building personal capital, e.g., coping skills, improved life circumstances, and deeper appreciation of life experiences.
These findings suggest that the modern preoccupation with enjoyment and comfort is an incomplete ideal. People probably need significant eudaimonic pursuits to experience meaningful and lasting fulfillment.
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Kreiter, Michael P. "Opting-in to Diversity: “Being in a group of people who are different is part of not being an a**hole”." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1491571690942078.
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Robinson, Gillian Susan. "Knowing why and daring to be different : becoming and being teachers-as-learners." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5884.
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In Scotland, the interest and investment in the professional development of teachers is currently focused on the ongoing development and implementation of its new curriculum: Curriculum for Excellence. To cope with ever-evolving curricular and pedagogical demands and to be able to effectively identify and meet the needs of the students they teach, teachers need to become, and be, teachers-as-learners. Accordingly, teachers and those with responsibility for defining and supporting teachers’ development are likely to have a vested interest in identifying and understanding what might best facilitate teachers’ learning. Engaging with this agenda, the purpose of this study is to promote and inform dialogue within and between all those in the educational community who have responsibility for teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD), so that some of the complexity involved in becoming and being teachers-as-learners might be recognised and better understood. With the aim to explore what we can learn from teachers’ own accounts of becoming and being teachers-as-learners in Scotland today, this co-operative enquiry was conducted with nine Chartered Teachers (CT), six of whom were fully qualified CTs and three of whom were still en route to achieving full CT status. To meet the Scottish Standard for Chartered Teacher, teachers need to demonstrate that they are teachers-as-learners. Enquiring with these teachers was, therefore, seen as particularly apposite to this study’s chief aim. Attending to the personal, professional and political influences they perceived as significant, these teachers shared their views, when they looked inwards to their own feelings, reactions and dispositions; outwards, to the professional and political environments with which they interact and backwards and forwards, over time. This is the first study to carry out an inquiry with Chartered Teachers in a way that allowed them to explore this complexity, because it sought to explore all four dimensions, i.e. inward, outwards, backwards and forwards (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000:50) of their storied accounts. Storied accounts of the teachers’ learning journeys were co-created during a loosely structured, dyadic, in-depth interview. Integral to this process, was discussion about the artefact(s) that eight, of the nine, participants had created for this study, to represent, reflect upon and record aspects of their journeying. Thematic narrative analysis has illuminated the complexity and particularity of each teacher’s learning journey as well as some important commonalities across them. This thesis further explores the teachers’ accounts of their experiences, in depth, and the key issues these accounts raise. Through examination of individual accounts, we learn, for example, that the teacher’s own disposition to professional learning really matters but, importantly, that it does not necessarily define the outcome. Sometimes supported and sometimes inhibited by the professional and political contexts in which they work, these teachers, motivated by a powerful sense of moral purpose, report that they have made significant and apparently, sustainable changes to their thinking and practice. Postgraduate CT study proved crucial to their journeying because, for the first time since qualifying, they had been encouraged and supported to make sense of why and to what extent, their day-to-day practices would, or would not, meet the needs of their students. It is this understanding why that appears to have made the greatest difference to their practice and to the reconstruction of their professional identities. It emerged as one of the most significant influences to their becoming and being teachers-as-learners. To do so, however, the teachers felt they have had to ‘dare to be different’. Their ability, willingness and commitment to talk about, promote and evaluate learning, in critically informed ways has meant they have often felt isolated. Despite this, the perceived benefits of being a teacher-as-learner were seen to more than compensate for what might be viewed as negative experiences. The findings suggest significant implications for the provision of, and teachers’ participation in, CPD in Scotland. They indicate the need to establish a much clearer and more critically informed focus on developing teachers’ knowledge and understanding of why they do what they do to promote learning and to develop their professional enquiry skills and understandings. If this is to happen, it will necessitate systemic change and support, involving, individual teachers, teachers as collectives within school cultures, CPD facilitators/providers and policy makers at all levels.
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Farrimond, Hannah Rachel. "'Being a smoker' : investigating smoking identities in different socio-economic groups in England." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444671/.
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Smoking is strongly linked to disadvantage (Jarvis & Wardle, 1999). Psychological approaches to studying the 'poor smoker' have tended to neglect potentially important 'macro-social' factors. This thesis takes a social psychological approach, focused on social identity (Campbell, 1997). It aims to consider the construction of identities and meaning-systems amongst different socio-economic status groups in England. Two studies were undertaken, representing a mixed methodological approach. In the first study, smokers and non-smokers from higher and lower socio-economic groups were given a conceptual map task to capture their spontaneous associations with the topic. This was followed by an in-depth interview. A thematic analysis showed that smokers were identified as 'unhealthy, stressed out and addicted'. They were also identified with 'Other' already stigmatised groups such as the old, the young and working-class groups. Non-smokers emphasised a moral discourse surrounding smoking to draw boundaries between themselves and 'bad' smokers. Higher SES smokers tended to distance themselves from the negative dimensions of smoking identities, whereas lower SES tended to internalise them. The second study was a Q-methodological one, comprising a sample of smokers from different SES groups. A six-factor model of 'smoking identities' was generated. Three identities oriented around a biomedical model of smoking as an addictive health risk. The other three reflected alternative or paradoxical constructions of smoking based on pleasure, freedom and the rights of smokers. It is concluded that taking into account smoking identities and the conceptual understandings underlying them offers the opportunity to locate health promotion where the audience is thinking (Joffe, 2002). This is particularly important when targeting lower SES smokers.
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de, Bell Siân. "Freshwater blue space and well-being : investigating co-benefits at different spatial scales." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19669/.
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There is increasing evidence that the natural environment is beneficial to human health and well-being. An initial scoping review indicated that studies have considered a range of health measures but generally treat the environment homogeneously, concentrating on green space, indicating a lack of integration of an ecological perspective. This thesis has used a mixed method approach to consider the role of the environment in benefiting human health and well-being and the potential to derive co-benefits from this relationship. At a national level, the benefits associated with a single environment type, blue space, were investigated. The majority of people derived psychological and social benefits from visiting blue spaces; nature was important in mediating the psychological benefits of these visits. At a local level, the role of nature, specifically ecological health, was considered, by evaluating the success of an ecological restoration project. An improvement in ecological health was seen as a result of the restoration whilst from a social perspective, users viewed the restoration positively and discussed obtaining psychological benefits from urban natural spaces. The use of qualitative methods allowed identification of issues surrounding place attachment which was disrupted by the restoration. A comparison of the views of local users, providers, and commentators further explored opinions regarding the management of urban natural spaces. Although providers and commentators were generally aware of the needs and preferences of local users, a mismatch was revealed regarding preferences for formal or wild natural spaces, with local users favouring a range of management regimes including wild spaces which providers believed they would find undesirable. The implications of these findings for planning and policy are considered as they indicate that the conservation and management of the natural environment offers opportunities to deliver co-benefits for the environment and health.
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Bedford, Helen Claire. "Learning nursing and being different : a study of pre-registration undergraduate degrees in nursing." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365016.
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DIAS, DANIELA ROMAO BARBUTO. "EXPERIMENTING DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING IN VIRTUAL REALITY: A POSITIVE VIEW OF CONTEMPORARY SUBJECTIVITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9997@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Desde o fim do século XX, um grande número de publicações vem tratando das mudanças políticas, econômicas, tecnológicas e sociais que estão ocorrendo no mundo. Todas essas macro-mudanças têm gerado também transformações no plano micro (ou subjetivo), o que não passou despercebido por vários autores. A maioria destes, todavia, lança sobre o sujeito contemporâneo um olhar bastante crítico e negativo. Discordando desta postura, neste trabalho procuro refletir sobre as transformações subjetivas na atualidade a partir de um olhar positivo. Para alcançar esse objetivo, parti de uma pesquisa qualitativa realizada com 16 usuários de programas interativos da Internet. Nesta pesquisa, procurei indícios de transformações subjetivas a partir do uso que eles faziam desses programas. Os resultados revelaram que havia muitas semelhanças entre as características subjetivas por mim detectadas em meus entrevistados e aquelas do sujeito contemporâneo tal como descritas por Sherry Turkle, principalmente no que diz respeito à experiência de multiplicidade que ela interpretou como a co-existência de múltiplos eus. Um problema, no entanto, se configurava para mim. Turkle havia partido de um modelo patológico - o transtorno de múltipla personalidade - para caracterizar esse sujeito. Por isso mesmo, baseando-me no trabalho de Ian Hacking sobre múltipla personalidade, procurei desconstruir a idéia de Turkle de que é possível despatologizar um modelo patológico e dele fazer uso para descrever uma organização subjetiva sadia. Feito isso, passei à apresentação de alguns conceitos de Donald Winnicott, um autor que conseguiu olhar de modo positivo para características subjetivas resultantes de um contexto indubitavelmente negativo, o da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Inspirando-me em suas idéias, procurei mostrar que a Internet pode servir para o sujeito atual como um espaço potencial, um espaço para o brincar. Munida de todas essas reflexões, retornei à pesquisa e pude mostrar que, dado que nos chats os usuários podem ter muitos nicks e ser anônimos, neles eles têm a chance de brincar e experimentar ser mais de um sem que isso implique a existência de múltiplos eus. Finalmente, argumento que, dessa brincadeira, pode surgir algo bem mais interessante: uma identidade virtual estável.
Since the end of the 20th century, a large number of publications has dealt with the political, economical and technological changes that have been going on. All of theses macro-changes have also generated transformations on the micro (or subjective) level, a fact which has been registered by several authors. Most of these, however, tend to view the contemporary subject from a negative and critical perspective. Disagreeing with the latter position, in the present work I try to analyze the contemporary subjective transformations from a positive viewpoint. In order to reach this objective, I departed from a qualitative investigation conducted with 16 users of interactive programs on the Internet, looking for indications of subjective transformations in the use they made of such programs. Results revealed many similarities between the subjective characteristics I was able to detect in my interviewees and those of the contemporary subject as described by Sherry Turkle. This was true mainly in what concerns the experience of multiplicity, which she has interpreted as the co-existence of multiple selves. Such an interpretation, however, seemed problematic to me. In order to describe the contemporary subject, Turkle had based her reasoning on a pathological model - that of the multiple personality disorder. Resorting to Ian Hacking´s work on multiple personalities, I tried to deconstruct Turkle´s idea that it is possible to use a pathological model in a non- pathological way to describe a healthy subjective organization. Then, I proceeded with the presentation of a few concepts proposed by Donald Winnicott, an author who managed to see in a positive light a number of subjective characteristics that resulted from an undoubtedly negative context, that of World War II. Inspired by his ideas, I tried to show that the Internet may be used by the contemporary subject as a potential space, a space for play. Having in mind all these reflections and discussions, I reexamined the results of the investigation which acted as a point of departure. It was able to show that, because on chats users can have many nicknames and be anonymous, on them they have the opportunity to play and experiment being more than one. Nevertheless, this does not imply the existence of multiple selves. Finally, I argue that, from this kind of play may emerge something much more interesting: a stable virtual identity.
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Churchyard, Jamie Stuart. "Within-person variation in personality and psychological well-being." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/15432.
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Personality is one of the most broad and complex areas in psychology. This has led to many researchers attempting to reduce this complexity by focusing solely on how habitual personality differs between each individual (inter-individual differences). This is important to study, but it has been focused on so heavily that research into how each individual personality varies within the person (intra-individual differences) has been neglected in comparison. Recent research has started to examine intra-individual variation in personality more thoroughly. One research aim of this programme was to establish the nature of several different types of within person variability including inter-item variation (variation within the test responses for a personality trait), and cross-contextual variation in personality (variation according to context), to see whether these types of variability are associated with psychological outcomes. Three research questions were examined to this end: 1) What is the extent of meaningful variability in personality trait test responding? 2) What are the predictors of intra-individual variability in personality? 3) What is the relative importance of the person and situational factors in personality variability? The first question was developed to try and determine whether the individual can display meaningful inter-item variation in ratings of specific behaviours within personality trait measures. Trait questionnaires are usually only analysed at the between subject level, and within subject variation in inter-item ratings have not been extensively examined in relation to meaningful psychological outcomes. The second and third questions were developed to look into the nature of cross-contextual personality, and establish whether within person personality differences are influenced more strongly by the person or situation. The studies conducted towards answering these questions demonstrated a person-based capacity to display intra-individual variability. A second aim of the research programme was to see whether the capacity to display these types of variability can be utilised in behaviour change. The fourth research question was developed to try and understand how a person can display intra-individual variability, yet still be resistant to changing negative habits: 4) How do the different aspects in personality variability help explain why some people are resistant to change, especially with regard to behaviours that are bad for them? This question was answered by theoretically discussing the findings from the three previous studies which proposed that positive or problematic behaviour could be interpreted with a simple path to understand the process of behavioural action: The individual receives feedback from a behaviour response which either validates or invalidates their action in the situation context (does or does not receive a desired outcome). Reinforcement of the behaviour happens if it is validated by positive feedback. Alternately reconstruction of the situation happens if the behaviour is invalidated. This allows for two types of intra-individual variability. One is flexibility in behaviour responses to different situations under the individual’s control. The other is change according to the situation, where the behaviour is invalidated and an alternative is attempted. A problematic behaviour may have benefit in stopping something invalidating, but if repeated it may become a habit needed for psychological functioning. As part of the second research aim a behaviour change strategy was developed and piloted to try and bring the individual closer to their construct of the ideal self. Instructions were provided for the individual to experiment with that differed from their disposition. The programmes had varied degrees of success depending on the participant. The implications for personality research and behaviour change are discussed.
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Cagatay, Hasan. "An Attempt To Make The Definitions Of Different Concepts Of Existence And Constructing A Foundation For An Axiomatic System Of Ontology." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608373/index.pdf.
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Francisco, Jacquelyn. "Perceived parental psychological control, psychological well being, academic achievement, and delinquency in adolescents of different ethnic groups." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000174.
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Lewis, Eliza Grug. "A mixed methods study of mental health and wellbeing in different UK undergraduate student populations." Thesis, Royal Veterinary College (University of London), 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701656.
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Murphy, Marie Harriet. "The effects of different patterns of brisk walking on aspects of fitness, cardiovascular risk and psychological well-being." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1999. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27067.
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The use of a pattern of accumulated bouts of exercise has become enshrined in recent public health recommendations. Although there is epidemiological evidence to support this, the experimental evidence for such recommendations is limited. The four studies described in this thesis investigated the effects of different patterns of exercise on fitness, cardiovascular risk and selected psychological parameters.
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Snape, Dee. "The differences in being different : a narrative analysis of the nature of epilepsy in adults and its problems." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2013040/.
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Epilepsy is not just a medical condition but a social label; successful clinical treatment is therefore only one aspect of epilepsy management. However, the particular ways in which features of an individual’s background and clinical condition influence the impact that epilepsy has on them is not yet fully understood. The voice of the individual living with epilepsy is at the core of this study. Drawing upon research on illness narratives, this qualitative study is embedded in the perspective that knowledge construction relies upon the socially crafted tool of language which facilitates a broader range of perspectives and promotes greater subjectivity. I draw upon the illness stories of fourteen adults with epilepsy to explore how the condition impacts directly or indirectly on daily living and life trajectories, and to re-present the diverse nature and meaning of having epilepsy, including its stigma potential. I conducted in-depth interviews with seven male and seven female participants attending epilepsy outpatient clinics. Interview transcripts were subjected to paradigmatic and narrative analysis in order to examine thematic similarities and differences. Participant stories were identified using Mishler’s theoretical model of ‘Core Narrative’. Narrative encounters with participants reflected both their recent and more distant experiences of epilepsy. What emerged from the stories was a discourse of disruption and difference, with epilepsy often imposing barriers to daily living and to maintaining a positive sense of self as participants searched for meaning. While the stories told were uniquely individual, collectively a dominant plot was seen to emerge. For the adults with epilepsy in this study the plot takes the individual from a beginning of ‘discovery and diagnosis’, through the process of ‘searching for a cause’, ‘negotiating risk and uncertainty’, and, ‘striving for control’. As individuals communicate what is significant to them, attention to patient stories provides insight into how experience is constructed and evolves over time. Due consideration of such stories by health professionals can offer direction in which intervention(s) can occur to ensure the interests and needs of the individual with epilepsy are holistically considered and met.
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Lesslie, Linnea, and Michelle Kuba. "I feel different when I play : A study of self esteem and well-being in MMO-playing young adults." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167028.
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The current study aimed to investigate if there was a difference in self esteem of Swedish young adults when they were playing MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) compared to when they were not playing. Moreover, the purpose was to explore whether any discrepancy in self esteem was associated with well-being and/or the amount of time spent gaming. The sample (N=75) was 19-30 year olds who regularly played MMO. The study consisted of an online survey including the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale, two versions of the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (one directed towards when playing and one towards when not playing) as well as questions concerning gaming habits. The results showed a significant difference in self esteem with a generally lower self esteem when playing compared to when not playing. The results indicated that MMO-playing functions as a separate context, where self esteem manifests differently from otherwise. The group reporting the lowest well-being showed a significant correlation between well-being and the discrepancy. This indicated that people with low well-being may have an increased sensitivity towards a discrepancy in self esteem where it tends to affect well-being negatively. The group that played the most showed a generally larger discrepancy compared to those who played the least. The patterns observed in the study motivate further research regarding why self esteem manifests differently in the MMO-playing context.Studien ämnade att undersöka om det fanns en skillnad i självkänsla hos svenska unga vuxna då de spelande MMO(Massively Multiplayer Online Games) i relation till när de inte spelade. Vidare var syftet med studien att undersöka om någon diskrepans i självkänsla var associerat med välmående och/eller antal timmar de spelade. Urvalet (N=75) bestod av 19-30 åringar som regelbundet spelade MMO. Studien bestod av en online enkät med en Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale och två versioner av Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (en riktad mot då de spelande och en riktad mot då de inte spelade). Vidare bestod enkäten av frågor gällande spelvanor. Resultatet visade på en signifikant skillnad i självkänsla med en lägre självkänsla då de spelade än då de inte spelade. Resultatet tyder på att MMO-spelande fungerar som ett kontext där självkänsla manifesteras annorlunda. Gruppen som rapporterade lägst välmående visade på en signifikant korrelation mellan välmående och diskrepans. Detta indikerar att människor med lågt välmående kan ha en ökad känslighet för diskrepans i självkänsla, där diskrepansen verkar påverka välmående negativt. Gruppen som spelade mest tenderade vidare att generellt ha en större diskrepans i jämförelse med dom som spelade minst. De mönster som observerats i den aktuella studien motiverar framtida forskning gällande varför självkänsla manifesteras annorlunda i MMO-spelande kontext.
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Kullberg, Agneta. "My Home is my Castle : Residential Well being and Perceived Safety in Different Types of Housing Areas in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Socialmedicin och folkhälsovetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-60160.
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Background: Safety in the housing environment is a basic human need and may be a prerequisite for health but studies from the perspective of the residents are limited in the literature. Although historically public health research has recognized the housing environment as an important determinant of health, there is a need for more research on how housing conditions influence residential well-being. Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to examine factors and conditions associated with residential well-being and perceived safety in different types of housing areas and to compare safety promotion intervention designs based on residents self-expressed safety needs with corresponding designs developed by local government professionals. Materials and methods: A postal survey (response rate 56%, n=2476) and 11 focus groups (57 participants) were conducted among the residents in 3 small-scale housing areas with detached houses and 3 housing areas with blocks of flats in a Swedish municipality. The areas were geographically contiguous as each of the small-scale areas bordered on an area with blocks of flats. The study municipality is a designated member of WHO Safe Community network that have signed up to work in line with the indicators developed by WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion. Narrative data from a postal questionnaire were used to analyze the lay perspective and identify features perceived to be necessary to feel safe by residents in areas with blocks of flats and small-scale housing areas. Quantitative data were used to examine correlates of local safety-related concerns through a factor analysis. Logistic regression analysis examined associations between high-level scores of the safetyrelated dimensions found and area-level crime rate and being a victim of crime, area reputation, gender, age, education, country of birth, household civil status and type of housing. To examine how self-assessed area reputation is associated with social trust and residential well-being, a multilevel logistic regression analysis was performed using quantitative data, controlling for the random effect of neighbourhood- and individual-level socio-demographic factors. Data from focus group interviews were analyzed to identify mechanisms of how neighbourhood reputation was established. The quality function deployment (QFD) technique was used in a case study to integrate residents’ demands into the design of safety promotion interventions in housing areas. The resulting design was then compared with the safety intervention programme designed by professionals at the municipality administrative office. The results from this comparison were then investigated to identify improvements for the indicators for Safe Homes in the Safe Community programme. Results: The residents’ narratives showed that a stable social structure in the housing area was perceived to be the central factor in a safety-supportive residential environment. Whereas maintenance of good and reassuring relations was emphasized in small-scale housing areas, support for management of poor or even fear-provoking neighbour relations was requested from areas with blocks of flats. The crime rates were lower and safety-related concerns were less in small-scale housing areas. Three composite dimensions (CD) of perceived residential safety were identified: structural indicators of social disorder (CD 1); contact with disorderly behaviour (CD 2); and existential insecurity (CD 3). Area-level crime rates and individual-level variables were associated with dimensions (CD 1) and (CD 3), but only individuallevel variables were associated with dimension (CD 2). The level of residential well-being and social trust was higher in small-scale areas. The housing area reputation was found to be strongly associated with safety-related concerns, residential well-being and social trust. The area reputation also seemed to be a determinant of position in the local social structure; residents were found to position themselves in a rank order. The QFD analysis showed that the initiation and maintenance of social integrative processes in housing areas were the most highly prioritized interventions among the residents, but the analysis did not highlight the safety needs of several vulnerable groups. The Safe Community programme designed by professionals did not address the social integrative processes, but did cover the vulnerable groups. Conclusions: Area reputation is an important and probably underestimated dimension in the development of residential well-being and perceived safety. The QFD technique can be added to the methodological toolbox for residential safety promotion. The technique is particular suitable for providing a quality orientation from the lay perspective on safety promotion in local residential areas. The current Safe Homes concept in the Safe Community programme would benefit from being widened to Safe Housing.
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Carrillo, Cindy. "Anxiety in the Workplace: A Study of Different Anxiety Relief Methods for Hotel Employees." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703313/.
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There is a lack of anxiety relief methods used in the hospitality workplace. This study examines the effectiveness of two forms of anxiety relief through four different methods. The data collection took place in classroom environments at the University of North Texas and the University of New Orleans, both of which are located in southern USA. The independent variables are the recovery method, the mediator variables are restorativeness and emotional improvement, and the dependent variables are negative job affects, positive job affects, turnover intention, and job commitment. Professors were asked for some time during their lecture to conduct the experiment in a classroom environment during the students' class time. Eight classes were visited, with each class being exposed to a designated anxiety relief method. The anxiety relief methods consisted of using a virtual reality headset with sound, virtual reality headset without sound, nature pictures with sound, and nature pictures without sound. Results of 206 usable surveys indicated virtual reality recovery method evoked higher levels of restorativeness than picture recovery method. Restorativeness partially mediated the effects of positive job affects and job commitment. lastly, emotional improvement partially mediated the effects of negative job affects, positive job affects, and turnover intention.
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Hagqvist, Emma. "The juggle and struggle of everyday life. Gender, division of work, work-family perceptions and well-being in different policy contexts." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för hälsovetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-27449.
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Background This thesis explores the division of work, work-family perceptions and well-being in different policy contexts. Work (both paid and unpaid) is an arena where gender order is emphasised. Work task specialisation is often based on our ideas of femininity and masculinity. A gender order results in different chances and possibilities in life for men and women, influencing for example access to paid work. Genders are constructed differently across contexts, and countries policies and norms seem to play an important role in for instance the possibilities to combine work and children. Also, gender is important for the understanding and for the experiences of health and well-being. Two main research question are investigated in this thesis. First, how do gendered work division and work-family perceptions relate to well-being? Second, what are the contextual differences (policies and norms) with regard to gendered time use, gender attitude, work-family perceptions and well-being? Methods The thesis is based on data from three sources: the European Social Survey (ESS), the International Social Survey programme (ISSP) and Multinational Time Use Data (MTUS). With these sources, the aim is to capture patterns of behaviours, attitudes and perceptions on both individual level and national level. The methods used are logistic regression (Study I), OLS regression (Study III) and two different types of multilevel analyses (Studies II and IV). Results The results indicate that work-family perceptions are more important for individuals' well-being than actual time spent on paid and unpaid work. Further, the relationship between experiences of imbalance between work and family and low well-being differs by country. In countries where labour markets are more gender-equal the experience of imbalance to a higher degree relate to lower well-being, indicating that those who do experience imbalance in these gender-equal countries report lower levels of well-being than in countries which are less gender-equal. There have been changes in division of work and attitudes towards women's employment over the last few decades. Institutions and policies play a role for the division of work, and to some extent for changes in work task specialisation, as well as attitudes towards women's employment. Conclusion Central findings in this thesis show that it seems as if the experience of balance in life is more important for individuals' well-being than time use. The context in which gender is constructed is important for the relationship between paid work and family life imbalance and well-being and should be taken into consideration in cross-country studies. The fact that individuals in more gender-equal countries report lower well-being when experiencing imbalance could be a result of the multiple burden for both men and women in more gender-equal contexts. Also, the role of context and policies for attitudes and behaviours in relation to work is complex, and although this thesis adds to previous knowledge more research is needed. From a gender perspective the conclusion is that there are dual expectations in relation to work. In more gender-equal countries, women are expected to be equal to men by participating in the labour market. Meanwhile women still have the main responsibility for the home. Thus, it seems as if the equality of work is based on a masculine norm where paid work is highly valued.Vid tidpunkten för disputationen var följande delarbeten opublicerade: delarbete 3 och 4 inskickade
At the time of the doctoral defence the following papers were unpublished: paper 3 and 4 submitted
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Eckstein, Simone [Verfasser], and Ralf [Akademischer Betreuer] Heermann. "Phenotypic heterogeneity - towards the sociobiology of insect pathogenic Photorhabdus luminescens and the decision of being different / Simone Eckstein ; Betreuer: Ralf Heermann." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1223369706/34.
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Jumisko, Eija. "Being forced to live a different everyday life : the experiences of people with traumatic brain injury and those of their close relatives." Licentiate thesis, Luleå, 2005. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1757/2005/52.
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Axford, Nick. "Child well-being from different perspectives : defining, measuring and responding to need, violated rights, poverty, poor quality of life and social exclusion." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288252.
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Morgan, Ann. "Different Ways of Being Educator: A Sociocultural Exploration of Educator Identity and Development in Practice, in a System of Non-Traditional Flexi Schools." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367126.
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Engagement in conventional schooling is untenable for some young Australians due to complex social, emotional and intellectual needs and past experiences of failure and exclusion. An alternative for engaging disenfranchised young people in education is through a system of non-traditional flexible schools. This research explores educator identity and development in practice in five ‘flexi schools’ in Queensland that reengage young people with complex needs. In the exploration of educator identity and development in practice, this study seeks to explore one overarching research issue: how practice in the flexi schools’ context influences educator identity and development. Two questions have been formulated to inform the overarching research issue and relate to two specific domains of practice. The first question asks: How do ways of working in the flexi schools’ context influence educator identity and development in practice? The second research question asks: How do ways of professional learning in the flexi schools’ context influence educator identity and development in practice?
Using a sociocultural theoretical lens and design experiment methodology, educators’ ways of working and professional learning have been explored. This occurred through analysis of questionnaire data incorporating descriptive statistics, and through thematic analysis of questionnaires (N=32), interviews (N=16), and reflective practice group (RPG) data. Reflective practice data included written evaluations from participants (N= 20) and researcher journal entries (N=13) on the experience of co-facilitating RPG sessions across five sites.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Simón, Burgos Claudia. "Building Meaningful Relationships for Refugee Children : Exploring the different practices that professionals in Swedish preschools perform to facilitate refugee children’s development and well-being." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54121.
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In recent years, a large number of refugees have migrated to many different countries. The migrations are due to conflicts, war and poverty: Migrants are leaving their homes in search of more peaceful havens. Sweden has been one of the countries receiving the largest number of refugees in Europe. As a consequence, the arrival of refugees has an impact on the country’s ability to adapt to serve the refugees’ needs. This study focuses on refugee children, who can be highly affected by their past traumatic experiences and different resettlement processes. The research studies the importance of building meaningful relationships for refugee children in the preschool, in order to encourage and facilitate their development. In this research, the term “meaningful relationship” is understood as a healthy relationship with someone that shows care, support and encourages individual growth. The study is based in attachment theory, which describes the children’s natural need to seek adult’s support, security and trust. This theory explains how strong relationships and support, encourages children’s development and well-being. In this research study, the different relationships studied are: the ones between the educators and the refugee children; between educators and refugee children’s parents; between refugee children with the rest of the children in the preschool. This was accomplished through semi-structured interviews with four educators in different Swedish preschools, exploring their practices and experiences with newly arrived refugee children. Findings show educators’ perspectives considering the different aspects of pedagogy to address in order to promote the creation of more meaningful relationships in all three of these diads. These aspects of pedagogy that affect in the creation of more meaningful relationships are: introduction weeks, the preschool environment, the language barriers and addressing refugees’ past experiences. The study provides different methods and strategies shared by the educators that are applicable to preschools’ daily practices, as a means of facilitating refugee children’s childhood and development.
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Reiner, Miriam [Verfasser], and A. [Akademischer Betreuer] Woll. "Being stressed and active!? An analysis of different aspects of the relationship between physical activity, individual perceived stress, and individual health / Miriam Reiner. Betreuer: A. Woll." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1064003184/34.
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Uwingabire, Zafarani. "Evaluating the impacts of pollinators decline on social welfare at different spatial scales : economic and nutritional aspects." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Toulouse 2, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021TOU20103.
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Les pollinisateurs sont en déclin dans de nombreuses régions du monde. Quelles sont donc les conséquences de ce déclin pour la société ? Pourquoi devrions-nous agir ? Cette thèse propose l'évaluation économique afin d’aider à la prise de décision. Elle évalue les impacts du déclin des pollinisateurs sur le bien-être humain à travers des aspects économiques et nutritionnels. Pour les aspects économiques, elle se concentre autant sur les impacts marchands que non marchands et pour les aspects nutritionnels, elle intègre autant les apports quantitatifs que qualitatifs des nutriments. La contribution des pollinisateurs au marché mondial des produits alimentaires, aux territoires et aux paysages locaux dans différents contextes est examinée. Plus précisément, trois études de cas ont été abordées, chacune à une échelle spatiale différente : le commerce international, le territoire du Comminges dans le sud-ouest de la France et le district de Huye dans le sud du Rwanda. Inspirée de l'économie du bien-être, notre analyse est basée sur l'approche de la fonction de production, qui intègre le ratio de dépendance de la production agricole aux pollinisateurs, les nutriments, et l'approche des préférences déclarées. Les méthodes proposées combinent des approches analytiques, des enquêtes de terrain et des simulations. Le chapitre 1 souligne les approches existantes en matière d'évaluation économique des bénéfices des pollinisateurs, la nécessité de prendre en compte les différentes échelles spatiales des causes et des impacts du déclin des pollinisateurs, et les réponses politiques existantes concernant la dégradation des pollinisateurs. Le chapitre 2 analyse les marchés agricoles mondiaux dans leur ensemble et montre les incidences du déclin des pollinisateurs dans le commerce international des produits alimentaires et leurs impacts sur le bien-être social mondial. Le chapitre 3 analyse l'importance que les gens accordent aux pollinisateurs et leurs préoccupations quant à leur déclin en évaluant la volonté du grand public de payer pour les avantages des pollinisateurs. Le chapitre 4 porte sur la contribution de la pollinisation par les insectes sur la production et la consommation de qualité nutritionnelle dans un cas particulier des ménages de petites exploitations où l'agriculture de subsistance reste importante. Les résultats montrent que le déclin des insectes pollinisateurs peut induire une diminution du surplus du consommateur, du profit du producteur et de la valeur commerciale, donc une perte globale du bien-être humain à l'échelle mondiale. Ces résultats attirent l'attention sur une perte de l'apport mondial en nutriments, notamment dans les régions où la pénurie alimentaire est déjà présente. Le grand public du Comminges est prêt à payer environ 516 € par ménage et par an pour éviter les scénarios de déclin des pollinisateurs et ainsi maintenir la diversité de la nourriture, de la flore et de la faune locales. Dans les ménages agricoles du district de Huye, les cultures dépendant des pollinisateurs représentent environ 20 % de la valeur de leur production et ont une part importante pour l'auto-approvisionnement en micronutriments. La thèse défend que tous les pays puissent être affectés par ce déclin soit en tant qu'exportateurs, soit en tant qu'importateurs de cultures dépendant des pollinisateurs. In fine, le déclin des pollinisateurs peut avoir un impact sur la diversité et la sécurité alimentaire des consommateurs de par le monde, sur les moyens de subsistance des ménages agricoles, et sur la biodiversité locale. Ainsi, l’arbitrage entre les décideurs locaux, les organismes nationaux et internationaux, et le grand public est nécessaire pour atténuer le déclin des pollinisateurs. Cette thèse souligne donc la nécessité de combiner les aspects économiques et nutritionnels dans la conception d'évaluation économique et des politiques et initiatives publiques concernant les services écosystémiques et les pollinisateursPollinators are threatened in many parts of the world. This alarming phenomenon; for which Human is mainly responsible, raises the following questions: what are the consequences of this decline for society? Should we take action? This thesis proposes economic valuation as a decision-making tool. It evaluates the impacts of the decline of pollinators on human well-being through economic and nutritional perspectives. The focus is on marketed and non-marketed benefits for the economic aspects and the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of nutrient intake for the nutritional aspects. The contribution of pollinators to a global food market, territories, and local landscapes in different contexts is examined alternately. More specifically, three case studies were treated each on different spatial scales: the international trade, the Comminges territory, in southwestern France, and the Huye District, in southern Rwanda. Inspired by welfare economics, our analysis builds on the production function approach, which integrates the dependence ratio of agricultural production on pollinators, the nutrients contained in crops, and the stated preferences approach. The proposed methods combine analytical approaches, field surveys, and simulations. Chapter 1 reviews the existing economic valuation approaches of the benefits of pollinators, highlights the need to consider various spatial scales of causes and impacts of pollinator decline, and reviews the existing policy responses regarding pollinator degradation. Chapter 2 analyzes global agricultural markets as a whole and shows the implications of pollinators' decline in international food trade and their impacts on global social welfare. Chapter 3 analyzes the importance people place on pollinators and their concerns about their decline by assessing the general public’s willingness to pay for the marketed and non-marketed benefits of pollinators. Chapter 4 values the contribution of insect pollination on the quantity of production and nutritional quality of consumption in the case of smallholder farm households where subsistence agriculture remains dominant. The thesis shows that the decline of insect pollinators could have significant consequences on human well-being at local and global scales. Under defined assumptions, results show that an average world price of crops will be 186% higher if pollinators are extinct on a global scale. They show that the decline of insect pollinators can induce a decrease in consumer surplus, producer profit, and trade balance value, thus an overall loss of human well-being on a global scale. In particular, these results draw attention to a loss of global nutrient intake, especially in regions where food scarcity is already present. The general public in the Comminges is willing to pay about €516 per household per year to avoid pollinator decline scenarios in order to maintain the diversity of local food, flora, and fauna. In smallholder households in the Huye District, pollinator-dependent crops account for about 20% of the total production value and have a significant share in the self-supply of micronutrients. This thesis argues that all countries can be impacted by this decline either as exporters or as importers of pollinator-dependent crops even if the impacts of this decline may be heterogeneous across countries due to differences in initial endowments. In fine, the decline of pollinators threatens the diversity and food security of worldwide consumers, the livelihoods of farm households, and local biodiversity. Therefore, arbitration among local decision-makers, national and international governmental bodies, and the general public is necessary to mitigate the decline of pollinators. In conclusion, this thesis points to the need to combine economic and nutritional aspects in shaping economic valuation literature and public policies and initiatives regarding ecosystem services and pollinators
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VERGERIO, GIULIA. "Data-driven building performance evaluation at different scales. Innovative metrics and methodological insights." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11583/2973092.
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Mack, Tony. "To delight and to profit : are schools in the early childhood area being offered a markedly different theatre experience since December 1991, when the Australia Council Drama Committee changed its funding guidelines? /." Title page, preface and contents only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm153.pdf.
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Wright, Susan Mary, and sue wright@rmit edu au. "Being with difference: Teachers' experience in the primary classroom." RMIT University. Education, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080829.143822.
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The experience of 'being with difference' is becoming an increasingly important worldwide phenomenon. The transnational movements of people across the globe, as well as tensions arising from religious and political differences, are highlighting the urgent need for people to learn to recognize and negotiate their being with difference. In recent years the Australian media has reflected growing interest on issues concerning identity and national values. These issues are invariably translated into the educational system and then into the classroom. In this context there arises the tension between recognizing and responding to individual difference yet, on the other hand, a push for sameness under the rubric of social equality. Diversity as an objective phenomenon has received much attention in the educational literature however the experience of a teacher being with difference in the classroom and what a teacher experiences as 'being different' has been assumed and the meanings they make of their experiences largely ignored. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to reveal and interpret the lived experiences of teachers being with difference, as they construct the phenomenon, in the context of the primary classroom. Data sources predominantly included extended face-to-face multiple interviews with thirteen teachers from primary schools situated in Melbourne, Australia. Personal experiences, as well as perspectives derived from a range of literature, were also employed. The collated texts revealed six dominant themes: [1] Disrupted by difference [2] Stimulated by difference [3] Engineering for difference [4] Labelling for difference [5] Awakened by difference; and [6] Sensitized by difference. Each theme was explicated using a variety of textual approaches to better understand the structures of meanings. Essentially, the phenomenon, as revealed by the participating teachers, suggests that difference in the classroom is constructed through teachers' own cultural and experiential lenses and interpreted according ly. Two particular implications arising from the study are discussed. The first concerns teachers 'growing children to be like me' and the second, the magnetism of difference and its implication for children perceived as 'ordinary'. The implication of these findings suggests that 'being with difference' presents fundamental challenges for teachers who must not only accommodate novel experiences within their own teaching and personal lifeworlds and address those challenges within the procedural expectations of an educational system, but are also in a position to facilitate a literacy of being with difference.
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Reddan, Marion. "Heidegger and the mystery of being." School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Language - Faculty of Arts, 2009. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/825.
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Martin Heidegger has been described as the philosopher of being. His work is a critique of the dualistic thinking of the metaphysical tradition, where being is regarded as a fundamental ground, and indubitable knowledge is prioritised over sensuous experience. Heidegger’s own view is that being is an absence of ground, and a dynamic process in which things emerge into presence from concealment. Whereas the tradition interprets being as a concept, Heidegger focuses on what he describes as “the experience of being.” His inquiry draws upon the medieval mystics’ relationship to God, and the Presocratic philosophers’ experience of wonder at the mystery of existence. In an attempt to understand being itself, Heidegger analyses the being of the human, “Dasein.” He argues that because we find ourselves thrown into the world and having to face the imminent possibility of death, we engage in a process of self-creation by projecting ourselves into possibilities. In his later work, Heidegger presents the idea that being and Dasein belong to each other, and can only be understood on the basis of an originary form of difference that is both a union and a separation. My theory is that the dualities structuring thought and language are a consequence of our existence as embodied, spatio-temporal beings, and that metaphysics is one of the ways in which that duality is expressed. I compare Heidegger’s notion of originary difference with the concepts of chōra in Plato, and the apeiron in Anaximander. The two Greek philosophers describe a dynamic, non-dual state of potential from which everything that exists is generated and sustained. Such a state is reflected in the interpretations of mystical experience, where subjects in various traditions throughout history have reported a sense of oneness in the apparent dissolution of the temporal and the spatial. In contrast to Heidegger’s later view that mysticism is an expression of metaphysics, I propose that mystical experience is a pathway to the experience of being. {Contact author: vkaqm88d@netspace.net.au}
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Ucak, Ozgur. "Plato'." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606808/index.pdf.
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The main concern of this thesis is to show Plato&rsquos solution of the problem of falsehood in his dialogue of the Sophist. In the Sophist, it is argued that false statements are the expressions of something which are not real by Plato. On the other hand, what is not real has been considered as what does not exist, namely, as non-being in the ontological tradition until Plato. Furthermore, non-being can neither be thought nor be stated
since thought must be thought of something which exists. Therefore, to speak of the possibility of false statements is a contradiction because it means to attempt to state nothingness. However, Plato overcomes this difficulty by asserting a different definition of non-being. Plato asserts that non-being is not necessarily opposite of being. According to this, non-being is only &lsquo
different&rsquo
from being and exists as much as being and this is possible by the combination of &lsquo
Kind of Being&rsquo
and &lsquo
Kind of &lsquo
Difference&rsquo
. In this context, this thesis purposes to show firstly how Plato renders an ontological possibility to non-being and secondly how he applies this inference to statements in order to solve the problem in the Sophist. In addition, the results of Plato&rsquo
s assumption that there is a correspondence between language and reality are discussed with respect to the problem of falsehood.
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Wells, Mark. "Value, Well-Being, and the Meaning of Life." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1407960520.
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Bacic, Anita Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Investigations of ??universality plus difference?? as being a ??partial way of seeing??" Publisher:University of New South Wales. Art, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/42279.
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My body of work described in this thesis is a demonstration of my continued fascination as an artist with the cosmopolitanist outlook on life. In particular, the elements within this cosmopolitanist framework of universality and difference and their coexistence, as described by Kwame Anthony Appiah, are used as a means of exploring a partial way of seeing. This is explored by a series of works: OneSixty Characters, Roaming Sweets, Ringe Raja, and the final set of works using the camera obscura technique (Accidental Surveillance, Outside In, and Outside In/Inside Out). Universality is explored through the use of a number of cultural, and, in the case of the initial works, various technological means. Cultural devices used included nursery rhymes/songs, story-telling and archetypal imagery. Technological explorations included use of moving images, mobile phones, Bluetooth hardware and the Internet. Other elements of the universal included the dome??s representation of the world and moving cloud animations as depicted in Ringe Raja and natural light ?? the main feature of the last set of works. The elements of difference presented included linguistic and cultural differences, and ultimately each individual??s own personal experiences. It is this that sets each of us apart from one another, and provides for each of us a partial way of seeing that is unique to ourselves. By exploring works that encourage us to seek answers to the way we look, see, and interpret the world around us, we use that which is familiar to us to try to find the answers. This is particularly relevant to the final work which removed all forms of contemporary technology and used natural light to provide a place for contemplation, where familiar sounds, images and our own archive of experiences was used as a reference base to assist in the interpretation of what was being experienced. The intention of the work was not to provide all the answers to questions that arise among participants, but to encourage contemplation, an interaction with the environment, and with others.
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Davis, Lindsey Ann. "The Meaning of Being an Oncology Nurse: Investing to Make a Difference." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23250.
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The landscape of cancer care is evolving and as a result nursing care continues to develop and respond to the changing needs of oncology patients and their families. There is a paucity of qualitative research examining the experience of being an oncology nurse on an inpatient unit. Therefore, a qualitative study using an interpretive phenomenological approach has been undertaken to discover the lived experience of being an oncology nurse. In-depth tape recorded interviews has been conducted with six oncology nurses who worked on two adult inpatient oncology units. Van Manen’s (1990) interpretive phenomenological approach has been used to analyze the data by subjecting the transcripts to an analysis both line by line and as a whole. The overarching theme of the interviews is: Investing to Make a Difference. The themes that reflect this overarching theme are: Caring for the Whole Person, Being an Advocate, Walking a Fine Line, and Feeling Like You are Part of Something Good. Oncology nurses provide care for their patients through a holistic lens that further enhances how they come to know their patients. Over time, relationships with patients and families develop and these nurses share that balancing the emotional aspects of their work is key in being able to continue to invest in their work and in these relationships. Their investment is further evident as oncology nurses continuously update their knowledge, for example, of treatment regimes, medication protocols, and as they champion their patients wishes and needs. As nurses develop their own identities as oncology nurses, they in turn enhance the team with their emerging skill and knowledge. These research findings serve to acknowledge the meaning of oncology nurses’ work and inform the profession’s understanding of what it means to be an oncology nurse.
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Turner, Dwight. "Being the other : a transpersonal exploration of the meaning of human difference." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2017. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/9734/.
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This research recognized that being other was an experience we all endure at varying times. Rooting itself within post-colonial theories, this research sought to expand the understanding of this experience into the worlds of relational psychotherapy and the transpersonal. With a phenomenological epistemology, this research therefore utilized creative techniques such as visualizations, drawing, and sand tray work, to understand the unconscious experience of being other, and what the other is. It also explored the unconscious impact of othering, and why the other is drawn to the subject. This research also undertook a heuristic study recognizing that a connection to our own sense of otherness was a route towards psychological wholeness.
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Mancini, Tracy Janine. "First-Day Attendance and Student Course Success| Does Being There Make a Difference?" Thesis, Wingate University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10286969.
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Conventional wisdom suggests attending the first day of class matters with regard to student course completion and final course grade. However, relatively little quantitative research exists on the effects of attending or not attending the first day of class (Wilson & Wilson, 2007; Henslee, Burgess, & Buskist, 2006; Iannarelli, Bardsley, & Foote, 2010). Qualitative research on student perceptions of the value and importance of the first day is also limited. Looking at past research and literature on student engagement, social constructivism, late registration, attendance policies, and first-day class design, this study explored the relationship between first-day attendance and student course success for first-time English composition students at a small, rural community college. While first-day attendance alone may not be a strong predictor of course success, results of this study have the potential to help both students and colleges by informing enrollment management policies and procedures, professional development efforts for instructors to promote positive first-day experiences, and incentives for students that promote first-day attendance.
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Greaves, Andrew John. "Differing levels of self-reported dispositional mindfulness in relation to the reported well-being of professionals working within oncology." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/differing-levels-of-selfreported-dispositional-mindfulness-in-relation-to-the-reported-wellbeing-of-professionals-working-within-oncology(5c79ef9a-67e9-41af-82d7-cb8ac6cc053d).html.
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In recent years, mindfulness has become popularised due to its perceived effectiveness in different areas of life. Most of the recent literature in regards to mindfulness however, has been after training programmes to cultivate it as a skill, while assessment of its effectiveness in different life domains has been completed using quantitative measures. The purpose of this research was to approach the area of mindfulness from a humanistic stance, and to not teach or do anything to the person but rather research the person for whom they already are, focusing on a dispositional personal strength; mindfulness. Professionals working within oncology were chosen as a population, because even though the experiences of cancer sufferers has been extensively researched, the experience of their carers has been somewhat neglected. I wanted to listen to their perceived well-being, based on their own constructs and experiences, in relation to different perspectives of self-reported mindfulness. Self reported levels of mindfulness were assessed in staff working within a private cancer hospital using the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale. Maximum variation sampling was used to obtain both the higher and lower perspective levels of mindfulness. Due to a relatively low response rate, six individuals were asked to attend an interview - the three highest and three lowest scorers. Using a semi-structured interview in a qualitative methodology, questions were asked to generate experiences of well-being from individuals. Five themes were found after analysing the corpus of data using Thematic Analysis. The main themes that were identified in relation to well-being at work were; 'individual impact of working within oncology', 'patient relationships', 'staff relationships', 'transition from home to work', and 'environmental responses'. In presenting these themes it emerged that there were a wide range of views in regards to well-being. Different participants reported both positive and negative affects at work, particularly in relation to the impact of the deterioration of patients. Potentially, those participants who reported higher levels of perceived mindfulness experienced well-being more positively. Potentially, stronger relationships with both patients and colleagues were also had by those same participants, who interestingly, were less affected by work in their home life. They also potentially showed more resilience at work in being able to cope more effectively within the busy environment that was described. However, all participants described job enjoyment. Conclusions were drawn: Relationships are important with both patients and members of staff. A healthy work-life balance is also important. Mindfulness may aid the experience of well-being when working within oncology. Implications were presented in relation to mindfulness, Oncology and Counselling Psychology, with the potential for this research showing the effectiveness of mindfulness in its un-fabricated form in a naturalistic setting.
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Maloney, Vance E. "Social climate, staffing theory, and satisfaction among members of different size churches." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/558333.
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The purpose of this study was to assess the social climate of different size churches and the relationship between social climate, member satisfaction, and church size. This study has investigated the extent to which (1) church member satisfaction is affected by social climate and church size and (2) the extent to which social climate is affected by church size. The social climate is the unique "personality" of a setting that gives it clarity and coherence (Moos, 1974b). The data were collected at different size churches. The sample consisted of a random sample for each church of those who completed a "church satisfaction questionnaire," which included demographic information, and the Group Environment Scale (Moos, 1986). There were 50 respondents for each church included in the sample. The sample included 114 men and 136 women. One hundred seventy eight were married and 170 reported having children. Two hundred fourteen considered themselves a member of their church.Previous research indicates satisfaction is influenced by both a setting's social climate and its size. Social climate dimensions that seem to influence member satisfaction are "cohesion," "leader support," "task orientation," "autonomy," and "innovation." Staffing theory suggests that size is also related to satisfaction. Small settings are presumed to be "understaffed" and those in understaffed settings are likely to report more feelings of satisfaction.The results of this study indicated that churches characterized by greater perceived "cohesion," "leader support," "task orientation," and "innovation" tended to have members who were more satisfied. The linear composite of these variables was statistically significant (p < .05) and identified 43.89% of the variance of the satisfaction measure. Results suggest that understanding the church social climate is helpful in understanding its members. Implications of these results relevant for church leaders are discussed.Contrary to what was anticipated, size was not a predictor of church satisfaction. The failure of size to predict church satisfaction is discussed in terms of staffing theory (Wicker, 1979a).The fact that certain social climate dimensions are. related to church member satisfaction is encouraging and justifies further research in this area. Ideas warranted for further research are developed.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Aziz, Izaddin Ahmad. "Individual difference predictors of well-being among displaced persons who live under stressful conditions." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40398.
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Background: The common concern surrounding the poor level of displaced life is that it might cause harmful psychological conditions. Another concern of displacement is the impact of conflict and the ability to survive in adverse situations. The reasons for conducting this thesis were developed through the literature review, and noticing a lack of studies that assess psychological issues such as well-being, resilience, prejudice and forgiveness among Syrian refugees and Iraqi displaced persons comprehensively. Research aims: In particular, the studies address three issues that are fundamental to understanding how the thesis is structured. The first issue is essential in examining how war has affected individuals’ well-being in short and long term of life engagement of the refugees. The second issue investigates the impact of the displacement situation on prejudices and the possibility of forgiveness after conflict and violence between groups of people. The final issue involves identifying the factors that might help individuals to survive and face any potentially harmful situation. Methods: The overall research sample includes 1,256 individuals of both genders. For collecting the data, self-report questionnaires and objective measures were used. Results: The results show that the research samples indicated poor levels of quality of life, well-being, forgiveness and resilience. Importantly, these findings reveal the significant role played by positive relation domains of psychological well-being in improving resilience and forgiveness. The research has also has shown that the psychological health domain of quality of life recorded the highest significant associations with resilience and psychological well-being. To Sum up, this thesis illustrates the importance of positive social relations, lower prejudice and greater resilience in predicting mental health states.
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Jarvis, Joy. "Knowing differently, being differently : creating new opportunities for inclusion by using narrative approaches to challenge perspectives on special educational needs." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14252.
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This thesis is the story of one teacher's practice in the field of special educational needs. It examines the purpose and themes of her published work. The purpose of this writing has been to challenge perspectives of children, and of learning and teaching, in the context of inclusion. This has been undertaken by exploring hidden aspects of teacher-learner relationships, developed and demonstrated in classroom interaction. These include attitudes and assumptions that may limit learning, and involve the themes of identity, agency and voice. Research, writing and teaching has been used to challenge perspectives of teachers, and teacher educators, in relation to what we know about learners with special educational needs and how we come to know about them. It argues for an ontological focus in relation to understanding the learner and an epistemology based on imagination and empathy. The contribution to knowledge claimed in this thesis involves the development of a pedagogical approach that enables teachers to identify and challenge underlying assumptions in the field of special educational needs. The process has the potential to empower teachers to change their perspectives and to act in relation to these new understandings in inclusive classrooms.
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Griggs, Andrea. "Being aware of difference, using translation theory to help inform teaching in an ESL setting." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0005/MQ45485.pdf.
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Trujillo, Aurora. "Being green in a non-green world : Theories of difference, ecological values, and everyday life." Thesis, University of Reading, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529946.
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In the following thesis, I apply theories of difference to analyse the social and infrastructural barriers that individuals committed to living green lives confront in three areas of everyday life - mobility, food and diet, and shopping - in contemporary British society. This shows, first, that the difficulties that greens confront can be seen, not only as something necessary to overcome if more people are to follow a sustainable life, but as an injustice to those who are already leading such lives. And, second, it tests the robustness of this broad school of thought. In order to apply theories of difference to greens I re-define the concepts of identity, social group and culture in anti-essentialist terms, argue against the relevance of the choice/chance distinction, and propose a dialogic and moderately contextualised approach to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate 'minority' demands. In this way I hope to strengthen theories of difference so that its useful insights can be applied to problems that go beyond those suffered by the groups they are generally occupied with, as well as making them more appealing to theorists from other traditions. Furthermore, I argue that liberalism could benefit from the tools of theories of difference to deal with the conflicts that diversity and difference create. Ultimately, the two most important arguments of the thesis are: first, that ethical and political beliefs, such as those held by greens, can be seen as a basis for the claim of accommodation or as a category that, alongside others, structures society in a way that burdens some more than others; and second, that green lives are being structurally prevented and that there are uncontroversial - affirmative accommodation - as well a more controversial - transformative accommodation - ways to remedy, to a greater or lesser degree, what I define as an unjust situation.
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Mackay, Fiona. "Getting there, being there, making a difference? : gendered discourses of access and action in local politics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21376.
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This thesis aims to further our understanding of the relationship between gender relations, political structures and political action. There are two broad questions posed by the study of women in political elites. The first asks why there are so few women in politics; and the second asks whether the (increased) presence of women makes a difference in terms of, for instance, political agenda or policy outcome. The thesis examines the ways in which gender is relevant to women's experience as political actors in terms of their access, presence and agency in local decision-making assemblies. Data were collected via in-depth semi-structured interviews with 53 female councillors across political party, in four Scottish local authorities. In addition, a case study was undertaken into a policy initiative common to the four authorities. Section I uses the councillors' narratives to examine the way in which gender relations shape and impede access to political elites; and explores the justifications they offered to promote the increased presence of women. The objective was to place these discourses within the context of contemporary theories and political debates about equality and representation; and recent suggestions with regard to feminist political theories of care. It was found that women had a clear understanding of the gendered barriers to equal participation in politics and perceived them as rooted in the sexual division of labour. Their discussions of gendered realities exposed the limitations of dominant constructions of equal opportunities and 'fairness' which have, to date, failed to deliver significant improvements in levels of women's political representation, particularly at Westminster. Women also forwarded complex reasons and justifications for the increased access of women into decision-making bodies, including the assertion that women make a difference qua women. The case study of Zero Tolerance, an anti-violence public awareness compaign, is explored in Section II. The campaign, which uses a feminist analysis, has attracted considerable interest throughout the UK, Europe and the world.
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Norenius, Simon. "Att Vandra i Intets Närhet : Wittgenstein, Heidegger och Vägen Bortom Filosofins Slut." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Filosofi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31223.
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What does it mean to occupy the other side of what is - to “be” the nothing that lies beyond being? Or, in other words: Where yonder the End of Philosophy? Thus reads the first and final line of inquiry that we, the philosophers of this age, are impelled to pursue. Such is the case, I contend, in light of the fact that our time quite simply is that of the eschatological aftermath, the “postmodern” era where the purportedly “greatest” thinkers of our immediate past, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, have, each in his own way, already declared philosophical moratorium. Yet it seems to me there is curious and vital affinity to the philosophical legacy these thinkers, whose mark on history is, paradoxically, so wide and so deep as to be at once indelible and invisible. Accordingly, this thesis seeks to render Heidegger and Wittgenstein, each a formidable critic of the philosophical tradition, as mutually complementary voices, speaking not of an end-to-be, but on the way beyond the end-that-is-past. In writing on the disjunctive parallelism evident in their famed non-encounter, I hope to clarify the nature and purpose of contemporary philosophical practice. My principal argument is that, in locating philosophy, conceived as a thematic study of the being of what is, within language, Wittgenstein and Heidegger both came to view language itself as the pre-philosophical nothing, which, in its wordless non-identity or self-difference, presents a way beyond the word and world of traditional philosophical thinking. It is my hope that, in outlying the shared strains of their respective critical disclosures of the relation between language and philosophy, I will be able to say not the same, but something yet unsaid, addressing our time, the time after the end, as a period of continued, self-critical thinking and speaking about that which, as the difference between the spoken word and that which is, prepares the way towards an experience of the hitherto “impossible” meaning of non-being.
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Swartwout, Susan White Ray Lewis. "Being human a nonoppositional sex-difference approach to twentieth-century American short fiction by men and women /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9633428.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996.Title from title page screen, viewed May 25, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ray Lewis White (chair), James M. Elledge, Cythnia A. Huff. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-155) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Persson, Anna-Sara. "Making A Difference Without Being Imperialistic : The Complexity of Becoming A Social Worker in A Postcolonial World." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-136689.
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Social work can be perceived as a global profession, built upon a certain foundation of global values and ethical principles - like human rights, social justice, equity and empowerment - that are applicable everywhere regardless of context. In contrast, it can also be perceived as a locally based profession that needs to take local-specific conditions – such as culture and indigenous traditions – into account. Regardless, it is a profession that exists all over the world, due to globalization having spread both social issues and profession itself across national borders. From a postcolonial perspective, contemporary international social work is equivalent to a new form of imperialism, i.e. that what started out as a western profession has now spread its values and methods to non-western contexts where they are not as well suited. This puts the profession in an almost paradoxical situation, as social work’s aim is to help socially vulnerable people improve their living situations and inspire them to self-actualization and empowerment, but by advocating this in the non-western world, western social work imposes ideas and methods onto contexts where they do not occur naturally. This brings a dilemma for social work regarding how to deal with global issues. One option is to acknowledge social workers’ role as ‘helpers’ and strive to help people regardless of context, using existing methods and values. Another option is to acknowledge the West’s historic role as imperialists trying to take over the world, and thus let the third World solve their own issues without further involvement in order to avoid contemporary colonialism. By interviewing Swedish social work students - whom all have completed educational field placements in non-western countries - this study strives to analyse how social work students that have experienced social work in non-western contexts relate to international social work and issues that come with it. This includes theoretical understanding, the role of social work education and their own roles as future professionals. The results show that the students found it frustrating to simultaneously want to help out and not be perceived as imperialistic. The conclusion was that the most important contributions western social workers can make in non-western contexts is to be aware of historical events and the contemporary part they play in global power structures, as well as try to humbly adapt to foreign cultures and accept differences rather than assume your own culture as automatically normative.
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Maia, Rubens Dias. "O conceito de identidade na filosofia e nos atos de linguagem." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2008. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/5661.
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Previous issue date: 2008-02-25Dicionário de Análise do Discurso, of Charaudeau and Maingueneau, at the entry Identidade, affirms that the concept of identity is difficult to define. It is central for most human and social sciences, and it is the object of different definitions, some of which very vague. This encouraged the research about the concept and the word identity. The word is erudite, originated in philosophy, but the idea of identity is permanent and is related to other words of everyday use. This thing, this stuff. Since the time before Socrates there are theories about the concept of being and the principle of identity. It is in the use of language, with the demonstrative adjectives and verb forms that the identification of people occurs, the speaker reveals itself in opposition to the listener: identity and alterity. We intend to demonstrate that the concept of identity has always been linked to the concept of being. Everything has identity if it is a being with internal unity, distinct from others, if it has its own coherence, if it presents its truth and its value. The principle of identity has a negative formulation in the principle of noncontradiction, which guarantees the coherence of both language and communication. Language, however, is not always logical. Sometimes, it seems to contradict the principle of non-contradiction. Language needs the resources for identification: the definition, the metalanguage, the metadiscourse of the speaker, when the speaker can remake his own speech, correct himself, and prevent misunderstandings
O Dicionário de Análise do Discurso, de Charaudeau e Maingueneau, no verbete Identidade afirma que: O conceito de identidade é difícil de definir. Ele é ao mesmo tempo central na maior parte das ciências humanas e sociais, e é objeto de diferentes definições, algumas das quais são muito vagas . Tudo isso motivou a pesquisa sobre o conceito e o termo identidade. O termo é erudito, formado na filosofia, mas a idéia identidade é permanente, e está relacionada com outras palavras de uso comum. Esta coisa, este negócio. Desde a época pré-socrática, encontramos teorias sobre o conceito do ser e o princípio de identidade. É no uso da língua, com os demonstrativos e formas verbais que acontece a identificação das pessoas, revela-se o sujeito em oposição ao interlocutor, identidade e alteridade. Pretendemos mostrar que o conceito de identidade sempre esteve ligado ao conceito de ser. Toda coisa tem identidade na medida em que é ser com unidade interna, distinto de outro, tem coerência própria, apresenta sua verdade e seu valor. O princípio de identidade tem formulação negativa no princípio de nãocontradição, que garante a coerência da linguagem e comunicação. A linguagem, porém, nem sempre é lógica. Parece, às vezes, contrariar o princípio de não-contradição. A língua procura os recursos de identificação: a definição, a metalinguagem, o metadiscurso do locutor, quando o locutor pode refazer sua própria enunciação, corrigir-se, e prevenir malentendidos
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Favreto, Elemar Kleber. "Deleuze e a univocidade do Ser: um novo agenciamento para uma filosofia da diferença." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana, 2007. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/2064.
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The present work has for main objective the Deleuze's question concerning the unique sense of Being. At first, the present research approaches the different agencies done by Deleuze of the principal authors of Platonism, thought that constituted the bases of the representation and transcendence through four roots: identity, similarity, analogy and opposition. Next, the philosophy that, according to Deleuze, can still bring us an interpretation of not-Being as negative, or better, that can still bring us the Nihilism as form of thought is negotiated. In a third moment, the Deleuze's agency reports the main philosophies that constitute what he called "moments of the unique sense", such moments characterize the main theories that oppose the transcendence and the representation as principles, invoking the immanence and the repetition as their principal weapons. Finally, the horizon of the Deleuze's ontology that understands an only sense of Being is accomplished, antecipating a vast field of analysis that leads us to think the sense as an event, the Being as expression and the disjunctive synthesis as the assertion of Being.
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal a questão deleuziana acerca da univocidade do Ser. Em um primeiro momento, a presente pesquisa aborda os diversos agenciamentos feitos por Deleuze dos principais autores do platonismo, pensamento que constituiu as bases da representação e da transcendência através de quatro raízes: identidade, semelhança, analogia e oposição. Seguidamente é agenciada a filosofia que, segundo Deleuze, ainda pode nos trazer uma interpretação do não-Ser como negativo, ou melhor, que ainda pode nos trazer o niilismo como forma de pensamento. Em um terceiro momento, o agenciamento deleuziano percorre as principais filosofias que constituem o que ele chamou de momentos do unívoco . Tais momentos caracterizam as principais teorias que combatem a transcendência e a representação como princípios, invocando a imanência e a repetição como suas principais armas. Finalmente, o horizonte ontológico deleuziano que compreende um sentido único para o Ser é alcançado, vislumbrando um vasto campo de análise, que nos leva a pensar o sentido como acontecimento, o Ser como expressão e a síntese disjuntiva como afirmação do Ser.
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Joseph, Cynthia 1960. "Theorisations of identity and difference : ways of being Malay, Chinese and Indian schoolgirls in a Malaysian secondary school." Monash University, Faculty of Education, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8007.
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