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Jozajtis, Krzysztof. "Religion and film in American culture : the birth of a nation." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1501.

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This research addresses an emerging scholarship examining relations between media, religion, and culture in contemporary society. Whilst it acknowledges the value of this growing body of work, the study is based on a recognition that an overwhelming concern with the contemporary scene has resulted in a neglect of the history responsible for the conditions of the present. Given the prominence of America as both a source and an object of this scholarship, moreover, the particular national context in which the institutions and practices of the US media have developed has been taken for granted somewhat. Oriented towards these perceived lacunae, this thesis examines the interaction between religion and film as an influence upon the development of American culture in the twentieth-century. The dissertation is divided into two main parts. The first of these is devoted to an extended discussion of the scholarly background to the research, and argues that the historical dimension of the interrelationship between religion and film in America is worthy of more attention than it has hitherto received. In particular, it stresses the fundamental importance of religion within the discourse of national identity in the United States, and posits the notion of a non-denominational American civil religion as a useful theoretical tool with which to examine Hollywood as a distinctively 'American' form of cinema. Part Two develops this position through a case study of The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, and one of the most famous films of all time. Discussing the picture as a response to a crisis in American Protestantism, the study argues that the race controversy prompted by its Southern viewpoint was, to some extent, a function of Griffith's ambitions to revive the traditional religious bases of U.S. national identity via the medium of film. Furthermore, it suggests that the impact of Birth helped enact a broader transformation of American culture, wherein the cinema became instrumental in sustaining the belief that the United States was a nation uniquely favoured by Providence.
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McKenzie, Beatrice Loftus. "American at birth : U.S. birthright citizenship in nation and empire, 1866-1934 /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1232401251&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214 - 232). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Bidnall, Amanda M. ""The Birth pangs of a new nation": West Indian artists in London, 1945-1965." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104400.

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Thesis advisor: Peter Weiler
This dissertation examines the careers and cultural productions of West Indian artists and entertainers working in London between 1945 and 1965, a period of large-scale West Indian migration to Britain. It argues that these artists espoused a collective cultural politics that was both ethnically aware and actively integrationist. Their work emphasized the historic cultural ties between the "mother country" and the Caribbean colonies, but did so in an effort to challenge prevailing media depictions of New Commonwealth migration as an unwanted foreign deluge. As a result, these migrant artists were among the first to express the potential of Commonwealth multiculturalism in Britain. Unlike many post-war histories of British race relations that emphasize the marginalization of black artists from mainstream culture, this study will show how the first wave of post-war West Indian artists, like Edric and Pearl Connor, Cy Grant, Ronald Moody, and Lloyd and Barry Reckord, sought to reach out to a wider British audience. Although their careers and artistic expressions were shaped - and at times stifled - by British cultural institutions that exercised their own assumptions and priorities, they posed alternatives to racism in a nation painfully coming to terms with its imperial legacy and multicultural future
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
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Lorenz, Walter. "Perspectives on European social work from the birth of the nation state to the impact of globalisation." Opladen Farmington Hills Budrich, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2748725&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Burns-Watson, Roger Allen. "THE BIRTH OF A NATION AND THE DEATH OF A BOARD: RACE, POLITICS AND FILM CENSORSHIP IN OHIO, 1913-1921." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990809766.

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Hearns, Charles Fred. "The Birth of a Nation: The Case for a Tri-Level Analysis of Forms of Racial Vindication." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5366.

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Early American film scholars often critique the relative ineffectiveness of a single literary work, protest movement or silent film to achieve racial vindication following the release of The Birth of a Nation in 1915. Thomas Cripps, for example, examines a relatively ineffective isolated attempt to counter the notions of White supremacy promoted in the film. This study makes the case for applying a non-traditional tri-level analysis when measuring the effectiveness of such attempts. The paper focuses on efforts to redeem the image and the potential of African Americans after 1915 in the Black public sphere in three concurrent vehicles: the written word, the activism of individuals and progressive organizations and the production of silent films. The study defines and distinguishes between racism, anti-racism and racial vindication. Racial vindication is the method used by the men and women that this study focuses on. The paper begins by documenting how notions of White supremacy and Black inferiority were at the root of America's socio-cultural atmosphere during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This set the stage for D. W. Griffith's movie. The study then looks at how contemporary scholars in the 1910s and 1920s -- writers, visual artists, civic and community leaders and film makers -- attempted to counter Griffith's propaganda through various means. I argue that there is considerable merit in analyzing the combined efforts of these outspoken men and women to attempt to rescue the humanity of African Americans from Griffith's clutches in three broad arenas. My argument does agree with many film scholars that no one single act of racial vindication sufficiently challenged the effectiveness of The Birth of a Nation. We use as a case study the silent film The Birth of a Race (1918). When this film is considered in isolation, it does have a minimal affect on stemming the tide of racism in America. This is precisely the point of this thesis. No prominent Griffith scholar has published a comprehensive study that considers how literature, sociopolitical activism and silent film all worked in concert to combat the impact The Birth of a Nation had on America. This paper does so. It contributes to the historiography of early American silent film and the racial vindication movement by calling for a triangular analysis and validation of the cumulative impact varied forms of resistance had on representations of White supremacy in The Birth of a Nation. Chapter III and the study's conclusion comment on the benefits that such an analysis contributes to future studies of racial vindication in response to artistic expressions deemed to be racist.
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Baker, Mark. "Death, disease, and the birth of a nation : representations of the Jewish body in Ha-Magid, a Hebrew newspaper, 1860-1881." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359581.

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恵実子, 三島(原), 三島 恵実子, 原. 恵実子, and Emiko Mishima Hara. "Beyond "white supremacy:" white reactions to The Clansman and The Birth of a nation in New South North Carolina and Georgia." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13100526/?lang=0, 2019. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13100526/?lang=0.

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昨今「白人至上主義」という単語が多用されているが、その定義は不明確なままである。なぜならば、たとえ人々の「白人至上主義」への認識に多少の差異があったとしても、結果がほぼ変わらないという見解が一般的であるからである。しかしながら本研究は、「白人至上主義」とは時代、場所、そして歴史的・社会的背景によって変容するものであると定義付けた。またある特定の「白人至上主義」を強調した演劇『クランズマン』、後の映画『國民の創生』、に対する南部白人の評価を分析することで、その概念を最も享受したであろう彼らが如何にその言葉の意味を定義し、またどのように保持し習慣づけていったのかを解明しようと試みたものである。
This dissertation hypothesizes that white supremacy is a flexible ideology that changes depending on the location, the period, and historical as well as social conditions in which it is promoted. By examining and comparing the differences between the responses of white North Carolinians and white Georgians towards The Clansman in 1905 and The Birth of a Nation in 1915, this dissertation argues that even though we assume that Radical white supremacy seems to have covered the entire South during the Jim Crow era, and images and stories of supposed “black beast rapists” obscured social differences within the white group, there were a range of variable and sometimes competing ideologies among white supremacists.
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Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies
同志社大学
Doshisha University
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Lindgren, Helena. "Hemförlossningar i Sverige 1992-2005. : Förlossningsutfall och kvinnors erfarenheter." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Medicinsk vetenskap, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-4502.

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Hemförlossningar i Sverige 1992-2005. Förlossningsutfall och kvinnors erfarenheter.Detta är den första nationella undersökningen av planerade hemförlossningar i Sverige. Istudierna har vi avsett att studera kvinnor som fött eller planerat att föda barn hemma underperioden 1/1 1992 till och med 30/6 2005.Kvinnor som födde barn hemma skiljde sig från kvinnor som födde barn på sjukhus i vissaavseenden (Studie I). Data från det svenska medicinska födelseregistret för perioden 1992 till2001, för 352 kvinnor som fött utanför sjukhus jämfördes med data från 1760 kvinnor som föttpå sjukhus. Kvinnorna som fött utanför sjukhus födde fler barn, hade högre utbildningsnivåmen en lägre sammanlagd familjeinkomst och de yrkesarbetade i mindre omfattning jämförtmed kvinnor som födde barn på sjukhus. Kvinnorna som fött barn utanför sjukhus var oftarefödda i ett annat europeiskt land än Sverige men mer sällan utanför Europa. Förekomsten avhemförlossningar i Sverige baserat på registerkod ”född utanför sjukhus” var 0.38 per tusenfödslar.Genom barnmorskor som bistår hemförlossningar, annonsering och via en intresseförening fördem som vill föda hemma, identifierades 757 kvinnor med sammanlagt 1045 planeradehemförlossningar under perioden 1/1 1992 till 30/6 2005. Av de tillfrågade kvinnorna svarade99 procent att de ville delta i studien. Data insamlades genom frågeformulär. Totalt 100 av detillfrågade kvinnorna med sammanlagt 141 planerade hemförlossningar återfanns inte i detmedicinska födelseregistret. Förekomsten av planerade hemförlossningar baserat på data förkvinnor som identifierats via hemförlossningsbarnmorskor och annonsering, var 0.95 per tusenfödslar. Förekomsten av planerade hemförlossningar baserat på registerdata för dessa kvinnorvar 0.85 per tusen födslar. Överföring till sjukhus under eller direkt efter förlossningen skeddevid 12.5 procent av de planerade hemförlossningarna (studie II). De vanligaste orsakerna tillöverföringen var långsam progress (46%) samt att barnmorskan inte kunde komma närförlossningen hade startat (14%). Var fjärde förstföderska avslutade sin planeradehemförlossning på sjukhus och den vanligaste orsaken för överföring bland förstföderskor varatt en annan barnmorska än den kvinnan besökt för vård under graviditeten kom för att biståförlossningen. Faktorer som påverkade överföring hos omföderskor var att tidigare hagenomgått kejsarsnitt och för både förstföderskor och omföderskor att graviditeten varöverburen.Data från det svenska medicinska födelseregistret jämfördes för 897 förlossningar identifieradegenom datainsamlingen till studie II och 11 341 sjukhusförlossningar (kontrollgrupp). Kriterietför urval av kontrollgruppen var enkelbörd i graviditetsvecka 37 - 42 samt att förlossningenstartat spontant. Kvinnor som planerat att föda hemma födde oftare spontant vaginalt och hademer sällan allvarliga bristningar i underlivet efter förlossningen (studie III). Risker i sambandmed valet av förlossningsplats hade övervägts av tre fjärdedelar av kvinnorna (studie IV).Genom egen förberedelse, samtal främst med sin partner och hemförlossningsbarnmorskan,hanterade kvinnorna tankar om att de själva eller deras barn skulle kunna skadas eller dö vidförlossningen. Kvinnorna undvek att diskutera risker med personal inom den konventionellavården.Konklusioner: I Sverige, under åren 1992 – 2005, planerade omkring 100 kvinnor att föda barni hemmet varje år. En fjärdedel av förstföderskorna avslutade sin planerade hemförlossning påsjukhus och den totala förekomsten av överföringar var 12,5 procent. Kvinnorna hade övervägtrisker med en hemförlossning men undvek att diskutera dem med personal inom sjukvården.Den neonatala mortaliteten bland nyfödda vid planerad hemförlossning var 2,2 per tusen inomfyra veckor efter förlossningen jämfört med 0,6 per tusen i sjukhusgruppen. Kvinnor somplanerade en hemförlossning hade oftare en spontan vaginal förlossning med färre allvarligabristningar i underlivet efter förlossningen jämfört med kvinnor som födde på sjukhus.
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Meiling, Emilie Yung. "Registration as a biopolitical tool : An exploratory case study of stateless Roma." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44028.

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Taking up the persistent phenomena of statelessness across the world, this thesis explores the nexus between stateless Roma and registration practices. The current issue of lack of registration perpetuates statelessness, however, is largely under researched. This fact warrants a thorough examination of registration historically, studying the processes onto which the practice depends today. Using theoretical concepts such as nation-birth link, biopolitics, and inclusive-exclusion this thesis argues when studying the case of stateless Roma, an oscillating pattern of registration is revealed between nonregistration and registration. This is understood as exclusionary and racialised techniques to control, surveil, and regulate the behaviour and movement of the ‘outsider’ – registration is a biopolitical tool of drawing these lines. The study uses an exploratory research design coupled with a genealogy-inspired method which allows us to critically examine and uncover the processes onto which the stateless phenomena depend.
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Kancherla, Vijaya. "Epidemiology of choanal atresia - the National Birth Defects Prevention Study." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/829.

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Choanal atresia is a well-defined congenital malformation; however, little is known about its prevalence and risk factors. Data from the Iowa Registry for Congenital and Inherited Disorders were used to examine prevalence, infant, and maternal characteristics of choanal artesia. Data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS) were used to examine selected risk factors for choanal atresia. Overall prevalence was estimated as number of choanal atresia cases per 10,000 live births with 95% confidence intervals (CI)s. Crude and adjusted odds ratios (OR)s and 95% CIs were estimated to investigate selected risk factors. The overall prevalence of choanal atresia among live born deliveries in Iowa from January, 1998 through December, 2005 was 0.46 (95% CI=0.27, 0.78) per 10,000 live births. Using data from the NBDPS, choanal atresia cases were compared to unaffected control infants for births from October 1997 through December 2005. Overall, case infants compared to control infants were more likely to be female, preterm, and a multiple birth. For all choanal atresia cases combined, odds of high maternal zinc (OR=2.1; 95% CI=1.2, 3.9) and vitamin B-12 (OR=2.4; 95% CI=1.4, 4.3) intake in the year prior to pregnancy, and maternal periconceptional (one month before through three months after conception) exposure to anti-infective urinary tract medications (OR=3.3; 95% CI=1.3, 8.4) were significantly elevated among case compared to control mothers. For isolated choanal atresia cases (those with no additional major malformations), odds of maternal periconceptional exposure to passive cigarette smoke (OR=2.3; 95% CI=1.0, 5.3) as well as maternal intake of 3 or more cups of coffee per day one-year prior to pregnancy were increased (OR=2.9; 95% CI=1.3, 6.4) for case compared to control mothers. The reverse was found for low maternal intake of pantothenic acid (OR=0.4; 95% CI=0.2,0.9) and vitamin A (OR=0.3; 95% CI=0.1, 0.8) one-year prior to pregnancy. The current study provided support for potential associations between maternal health behaviors before and during pregnancy and choanal atresia; however, the findings were based on a modest number of cases. The study needs to be replicated in a larger case sample, also examining the role of genetics in choanal atresia.
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Santiago-Colón, Albeliz. "Association between Maternal Occupational Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Risk of Selected Birth Defects in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1540564606643075.

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Nhlapo, Mosidi Sarah. "Assessment of the potential of hospital birth records to estimate the number of births: A case study of Germiston and Nkomazi Local Municipalities." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7985.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
The advantage of a well-developed health information system is the significant role played by records produced by such a system beyond recording medical history of individuals. They are the foundation for birth registrations which when fully complete is an important tool for acquiring data necessary for planning and monitoring child and maternal health in a country. This study aimed to investigate the potential of hospital birth records to estimate the number of births in the country and supplement birth registrations data. Data was abstracted from public facilities where births occur in two municipalities; Germiston in Gauteng and Nkomazi in Mpumalanga for the period 2014 to 2016. Modified version of the BORN Data Quality Framework (BORN-DQF) of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (2016) was used to assess the contents and quality of hospital birth records.
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Vogt, Hartmut. "Early life factors and the long-term development of asthma." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Pediatrik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-85159.

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Asthma, a huge burden on millions of individuals worldwide, is one of the most important public health issues in many countries. As genetic and   environmental factors interact, asthma may be programmed very early in life, perhaps even in utero. The aim of this thesis was to assess the impact of gestational age, cord blood immunoglobulin E (IgE), a family history of asthma, migration, and pertussis immunization in early life on the development of asthma in child and adult populations. As a proxy for asthma disease, dispensed asthma medication was used as the main outcome variable based on data from the Swedish Prescribed Drug  Register. Data from other national registers were used to control for  confounders. Three of our studies were based on national cohorts, and one on a local birth cohort that was initiated in 1974–75. Gestational age had an inverse dose-response relationship with dispensed asthma medication in 6– to 19-year-olds. Odds ratios for dispensed asthma medication increased with degree of prematurity compared with children born in term. Furthermore, asthma medication was more likely to be dispensed among children and adolescents born early term after 37–38 weeks’ gestation than among those at the same age who were born in term. Elevated cord blood IgE and a family history of asthma in infancy were associated with a two- to threefold increased likelihood of dispensed asthma medication and self-reported allergen-induced respiratory symptoms at the age of 32–34 years, but the predictive power was poor. Age at migration had an inverse dose-response relationship with dispensed asthma medication at the age of 6–25 years in adoptees and foreign-born children with foreign-born parents. International adoptees and children born in Sweden to foreign-born parents had three- to fourfold higher rates of asthma medication compared with foreign-born children who were raised by their foreign-born birth parents. No association was found between pertussis immunization in early infancy and dispensed asthma medication in 15-year-olds. The type of vaccine or vaccine schedule did not affect the outcome. Fetal life is a vulnerable period. This thesis strengthens the evidence that every week of gestation is important for lung maturation. Cord blood IgE, however, did not predict the risk of asthma in adults. Furthermore, the study of migrating populations demonstrated that environmental changes at any age during childhood may affect the risk of asthma. Another, important public health message from this thesis is that vaccination against pertussis in early childhood can be considered safe with respect to the long-term development of asthma.
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Colarusso, Tiffany. "Descriptive Analysis of Ebstein Anomaly in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2007." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/210.

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There is relatively little epidemiologic information about Ebstein anomaly (EA) ─ a rare congenital heart defect. Thus, we analyzed characteristics of EA in a geographically and ethnically diverse population. Data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study were used to study infants born from 1997-2007 with EA. Birth prevalence and prevalence ratio (PR) estimates were derived from the number of affected infants per 10,000 live births in the catchment area. Case characteristics were examined, stratified by the presence of other cardiac and extracardiac defects. Predictive modeling using logistic regression was conducted to understand infant mortality risk factors. There were 249 cases with EA, for a birth prevalence of 0.55/10,000 live births. Other cardiac defects were present in 41.0% and extracardiac defects in 10% of cases. Prevalence was higher among multiple births compared to singletons (PR 2.41, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.46-3.92) and preterm compared to term infants (PR 1.84, 95% CI 1.27-2.64). Compared to EA cases without other defects, those with additional defects were more likely to die (crude Odds Ratio (cOR) 4.07, 95% CI 1.71-9.93) or undergo cardiac surgery (cOR 6.06, 95% CI 2.78-13.49). Risk for death during infancy was increased by being small for gestational age (adjusted (a) OR 2.97, 95% CI 1.13-7.76) and having extracardiac defects (aOR 6.31, 95% CI 2.28-17.52). Some findings are consistent with previous work, but further studies of EA could clarify risk factors for occurrence and mortality. Knowing population characteristics could guide development of prevention strategies and may improve clinical care.
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Hwang, Yih-Jye. "The birth of the 'Taiwanese' : a discursive constitution of the 'Taiwanese' as a national identity." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/e6ba5705-e5d0-4692-a378-8454155a9924.

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This thesis provides a genealogical account of ‘Taiwanese’ as a national identity. Genealogy is a way of writing a history of the present that de-familiarises us from what we now take for granted by revealing in detail how things were otherwise. As argued in this thesis, Taiwanese identity, in ontological terms, exists only in discourse. It is a way of talking and doing things relative to what sort of people the Taiwanese are; every word and action contributes to the idea that there is such a thing as ‘Taiwanese-ness’ and helps to substantialise the qualities/features attached to it. This thesis conceptualises Taiwanese identity as having no fixed, essential, or permanent identity; rather, it is formed and transformed continuously in relation to the ways people talk and act. This thesis investigates various social practices/events in post-authoritarian Taiwan that incited people to talk about Taiwanese-ness. Certain things, with different positions, forms and organisations, were said and done, while other alternatives disappeared or were omitted and repressed. With various power relations, different discourses mutually intersected, interacted and competed. The social practices/events selected in this thesis include the production of knowledge, the publication of a comic book, an election campaign, and a political demonstration. It is crucially noted that the social practices/events analysed in this thesis are just a few of the numerous events that occur periodically or repeatedly. This thesis, in sum, is an attempt to understand how various social practices/events enable or disable certain ways through which people make sense of their past and their political lives, thereby coming to terms with their belongings, their allegiances, and their situated-ness. Taiwanese-ness is spoken of, not only literally but also symbolically, and it is this process of being ‘spoken of’ that constitutes the Taiwanese-ness – the birth of the ‘Taiwanese’.
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Stoffle, Richard W., and Rebecca S. Toupal. "From Earth’s Birth to Crystals: Contextualizing Sunset Crater and other Volcanic Events and Products." Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293754.

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A presentation on the cultural interpretation by American Indian ethnic groups connected with Sunset Crater of volcanic events and products of such. The complete report, which can be found in this collections, is titled 'Traditional Resource Use Of The Flagstaff Area Monuments.'
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Borglin, John. "The Birth of Two Nations : En analys av ras och sexualitet i två filmatiseringar från 1915 och 2016." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85685.

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The following study aims, through a narratological and discourse analysis, to discuss and make visable, how two films, both named The Birth of a Nation, directed by G.W. Griffith and Nate Parker respectively depict violence and sexuality in relation to race. The theoretical framework, consists of postcolonialism, race, violence, masculinity and sexuality. However, the different parts of the theoretical framework are intertwined as race, sexuality and violence are interlinked and dependent on each other. These theories were chosen in accordance to the feature films’ narratives as well as their relation to each other. The results of this study were mainly in line with previously conducted research regarding the films. However the analysis of Nate Parker’s production provided a more neuanced perspective regarding the depiction of the interlinked expressions of sexuality and racial hegemony mainly from whites. Both films use similar style figures regarding the depiciton of violence, hegemony and sexuality even though the style figures serve to portray, in Parker’s film – the whites, and in Griffith’s film – the blacks, as perpertrators. Finally, the study raises new questions for research. I claim that a larger study, containing the collected canon of feature films from 1915 until today would make for an enriched and more complete picture of how black slaves are depicted in feature films as well as how these films reflect their contemporary times.
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Mitchell, Marybelle Carleton University Dissertation Sociology. "From talking chiefs to a native corporate elite; the birth of class and nationalism among Canadian Inuit." Ottawa, 1992.

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Colman, I. "Longitudinal and life-course perspectives on common mental disorder and psychotropic medication use in a national birth cohort." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597882.

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Birth cohort studies offer an ideal setting to study disease across the lifespan. This thesis used data from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, a study that has followed 5,362 individuals prospectively since their birth in 1946, and includes five assessments of mental health and four reports of treatment for mental disorder at various ages. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescence was associated with a poor long-term prognosis. A longitudinal model, that used a latent class analysis based on the five measures of mental health and was validated by considering several variables associated with mental health, identified six common patterns of experience of mental health from age 13 to 53. Differences between these six groups were traced back to birth; those who suffered from mental health difficulties were, on average, smaller at birth and reached developmental milestones later. The majority of individuals with mental disorder did not seek or receive treatment, and this did not change over several decades. There were few differences between individuals who sought treatment and those who did not, or those who were prescribed psychotropic medication and those who were not, apart from the severity and history of their symptoms. Despite this, those who did use antidepressants or anxiolytics during an episode of mental disorder had better mental health many years later. The research presented in this thesis contributes toward a life-course model of common mental disorders, and underlines the importance of taking a longitudinal perspective to better understand the aetiology, course, and outcome of mental illness and associated treatment.
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Klausen, Susanne Maria. "The formation of a national birth-control movement and the establishment of contraceptive services in South Africa, 1930-1939." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0002/NQ42950.pdf.

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Kowasic, Tara Nicole. "Race, Power, and White Womanhood: The Obsessions of Tom Watson and Thomas Dixon Jr." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3028.

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Thomas Dixon Jr. (1864 -1946) and Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922), two controversial and radical figures, are often credited with the second coming of the Ku Klux Klan. Dixon, writer of novels and plays such as The Leopard’s Spots (1902) and The Clansman (1905), and Watson, politician, prolific writer, and publisher of Watson’s Magazine and The Jeffersonian, reached the masses and saturated popular culture with their racial agenda. As each of these men had especially long careers, this thesis focuses on particular times and specific issues. With Dixon, the writing of The Clansman (1905) and production of The Birth of a Nation (1915) are key points in his career and exemplary of his feelings about race, gender and power. For Watson, the Leo Frank controversy (1913-1915) demonstrates the same. Moreover, each man’s career was associated by others with the second coming of the Klan in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Thus, this era is significant for analysis of both men’s work. Through their writings, plays, and political stances, Dixon and Watson ensured widespread reception of a racial message aimed at maintaining the Southern social order at the turn of the twentieth century. While desired social order placed white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant men at the top of the social pyramid, a viewing of their work through a gendered lens adds complexity to these motivations. This thesis applies a gendered analysis in a comparative study of these two racist publicists in order to identify and analyze what for them, is the fundamental foundation of that social order. In doing so, not only is an obsession with racial control demonstrated, but also a deep-seated desire to protect and control white womanhood—the most important component of the white, Anglo, Protestant majority. In this analysis, gender emerges as a means to augment race and power while maintaining and bolstering the traditional social order.
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Larsson, Birgitta. "Treatment for childbirth fear with a focus on midwife-led counselling : A national overview, women’s birth preferences and experiences of counselling." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-326007.

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Background: Many women experience childbirth fear to such an extent that it seriously interferes with the woman’s daily life and affects her mental well-being. Aim: The overall aim was to conduct an overview of the midwife-led counselling for childbirth fear in Sweden, to investigate women’s birth preferences and to describe their experiences of treatment on childbirth fear, with focus on midwife-led counselling. Methods: Study I is a cross-sectional study where 43 out of 45 maternity clinics responded to a questionnaire regarding midwife-led counselling. Study II is a longitudinal survey where 889 women participated of whom 70 received counselling. Data were collected by questionnaires in mid-pregnancy, two months and finally, one year after birth. Study III is a randomised controlled study with 258 participating women assessed with childbirth fear. It compares Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) with midwife-led counselling. Data were collected by questionnaires twice during pregnancy and two months after birth. Study IV is a qualitative interview study using thematic analysis, including 27 women who received midwife-led counselling during pregnancy. Results: Overall, midwife-led counselling was perceived as empowering by the women and increased their confidence when facing birth. The preference for a caesarean section decreased during pregnancy and the majority had a normal vaginal birth but an increase in preference for caesarean section appeared after birth. Half of the women who received treatment for childbirth fear experienced a less than positive birth. Women who had a positive birth experience voiced that the contributing factors were the self-confidence received from counselling and the support from the midwife during birth. Decreased or manageable fear was expressed by the women after counselling and birth, which in turn brought a strengthened confidence for a future pregnancy and birth. Furthermore, major differences exist in counselling for childbirth fear throughout the clinics in Sweden. Conclusion: Midwife-led counselling improved women’s confidence toward giving birth and fear was perceived as manageable. Continuous support is crucial to experience birth as positive. Although women’s preferences for caesarean section did not change over time, few women gave birth with a caesarean section without medial reason.
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Aderinwale, Adetayo Seun. "Well-educated middle class women and their preference for traditional rather than skilled birth attendants in Lagos Nigeria a qualitative study." University of the Western Cape, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8442.

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Background:Theoutcomeofpregnanciesinmanyinstancesislargelypredicatedon availabilityofSkilledBirthAttendants(SBAs).Despitethisphenomenon,illiteracyand financialdisadvantagehavebeenvariouslycitedastwinfactorspromotingtheinterest andpatronageofTraditionalBirthAttendants(TBAs)bywomenfolk.Itistherefore expected thatwomenhavingtertiarylevelofeducationandpossessing adequate economic resources would naturally prefer to use the SBAs.However,these http://etd.uwc.ac.za/ 9 observationshavenotsignificantlyreflected therealityin thechoiceofmaternal healthcareprovidersinNigeriaandthecityofLagosinparticular.Yet,accessto maternalservicesoftheSBAshasbeenwidelyacceptedasoneoftheleadingwaysof loweringmaternalmortality.Therefore,inordertoimprovethepatronageofSBAsand correspondinglylowermaternaldeathrates,itbecomesimperativetounderstandthe rationalebehindthepreferencefortheTBAs’usebywomenwhoarenotordinarily expectedtodosobyvirtueoftheirhighlevelofeducationandgoodfinancialcapacity. Aim:Theaim ofthisstudywastoexploreandunderstandtheexperiences,perception and beliefsystems influencing well-educated,middle income women and their reasoningfortheuseofTraditionalBirthAttendantsratherthanSkilledBirthAttendants fordeliveryservicesinLagos,Nigeria. Methodology:ThisisaqualitativestudyconductedinAlimoshoLocalGovernmentArea ofLagosinNigeria.Tenwomenwithtertiarylevelofeducationandbelongingtomiddle incomeeconomiccategorieswereenrolledasparticipants.Inaddition,itinvolved3 FocusGroupDiscussionscomprising7TraditionalBirthAttendantspergroup. Results:Behaviouraland attitudinalshortcomings by the SBAs;misconceptions regardingsurgicaldeliverybywomen;bureaucraticdelaysandbottlenecksexperienced attheSBAs’centres;thebeliefbythewomenthatpregnancyisasacredandspiritual eventwhichonlytheTBAshaveabilitytomanage;women’sconfidenceintheTBAsas havingbettercapacitytomanagecertaincoexistingmedicalconditionsinpregnancy; andmisinformationonmanagementmodalitiesforcertainconditionslikeinfertilityand fibroidallcombinetoinfluencepreferenceforutilizationofTBAsbywell-educated, middleincomewomeninthestudyarea.
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Tole, Kristen. "Beyond Vice and Decay: Canadian Women’s Organizations and the Technologies of Sex, 1930-1955." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41221.

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This thesis utilizes an historical sociology approach to examine women’s organizations in Canada between 1930 and 1955. I consider their responses to changes in women’s lives among three key areas: birth control, sex education and motherhood in the context of macro level events in Canadian society. This research utilizes a moral regulation framework to consider the ways in which the discourses, images and programmes of women’s organizations such as the National Council of Women and the Women’s Institutes created a space for norm-based adaptations to women’s intimate lives during the mid-twentieth century in Canada.
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Minguez-Cunningham, Caroline. "Évolution des droits de l'homme aux États-Unis : étude des notions d'esclavagisme et de traumatisme culturel et du mouvement abolitionniste à travers trois représentations cinématographiques : the Birth of a Nation, de D. W. Griffith, (1915), Amistad, de Steven Spielberg, (1997) et The Help de Tate Taylor,(2011)." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO30014/document.

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La thématique de l’esclavage aux États-Unis nous a toujours interpellés, interrogés et nous a toujours donné envie d’en savoir plus et de comprendre comment un tel système a pu perdurer pendant plus de deux cents ans, provoquer la division profonde d’une nation et une guerre civile pour finalement laisser des traces et des marques indélébiles sur les États-Unis. Cet intérêt nous a poussés à nous intéresser tout d’abord à la notion du traumatisme culturel de l’esclavage, puis, à sa représentation cinématographique dans le cinéma américain par trois cinéastes américains (D. W. Griffith, né en 1875 dans le Kentucky, Steven Spielberg, né en 1946 dans l’Ohio et Tate Taylor né en 1969 dans le Mississippi), qui traitent de trois périodes historiques différentes à des époques distinctes. Nous nous sommes alors posé la question du lien qu’il existe entre la réalité physique, vécue, d’un événement et sa représentation cinématographique qui est forcément distanciée, temporellement et/ou spatialement. Comment les réalisateurs peuvent-ils représenter fidèlement la réalité historique ? Comment évitent-ils (ou non) d’insérer des « filtres », qu’ils soient personnels ou sociologiques, et, comment ne pas transformer l’histoire, la modeler, en occultant par exemple les éléments qui n’abondent pas dans le sens du message que l’on souhaite véhiculer ? Dans l’hypothèse où le réalisateur est de parti-pris, comment le spectateur peut-il en avoir conscience au moment où il regarde le film ? Ce travail est donc né d’une réflexion sur l’importance culturelle et civilisationnelle de la notion de traumatisme culturel dans la représentation cinématographique de l’esclavage aux États-Unis. Les trois films que nous avons choisis pour notre corpus sont The Birth of a Nation de D.W. Griffith (1915), Amistad de Steven Spielberg (1997) et The Help, de Tate Taylor (2011). Ces films représentent trois époques distinctes de la vie et de la société américaine puisque The Birth of a Nation raconte le déroulement de la Guerre de Sécession en se plaçant dans la vie d’une famille sudiste. Amistad prend pour contexte les années 1839 à 1841 et The Help se déroule à Jackson, dans le Mississippi des années 60.En choisissant des films qui représentent des époques historiques distinctes mais qui ont également été réalisés à des périodes différentes les unes des autres, nous avons souhaité prendre en compte cette question de la réadaptation et de la réinterprétation de l’événement traumatique.Nous avons souhaité montrer, à travers notre travail, comment les cinéastes adaptent un fait réel ou un ouvrage littéraire, en supprimant certains éléments ou en rajoutant, en adaptant la réalité historique pour en faire une fiction qui cherche à montrer une représentation du réel. Nous avons aussi et surtout démontré comment la notion de « traumatisme culturel » influence le travail des cinéastes qui se sont penchés sur l'héritage culturel qu'est l'esclavage. Nous avons souhaité voir dans quelle mesure cette notion de traumatisme culturel influe sur la création artistique filmique, et dans quelle mesure ses caractéristiques pouvaient s’appliquer à notre corpus. Quels en sont les aspects les plus représentés et prégnants ? Nous avons fait l’analyse de notre corpus dans un ordre chronologique de création, en premier lieu nous nous sommes penchés sur The Birth of a Nation de D.W. Griffith, sorti en 1915, puis nous avons analysé Amistad de Spielberg, sorti en 1997, pour finir avec l’étude de The Help, réalisé par Tate Taylor et sorti en salle en 2011.Pour chacun de ces films, nous avons étudié le contexte historique et géopolitique inhérent à l’époque représentée, puis, le passage de la réalité historique à l’œuvre de fiction, le processus d’adaptation cinématographique, (éléments fidèles, ajouts, simplifications et suppressions) pour analyser la globalité de chacun en regard de cette notion de traumatisme culturel
Slavery in the USA has always been an interesting thematic to us. We have always wanted to learn more about it thus understanding how such a system could have been implemented for more than 200 years, have caused the division and a fracture in a nation, have led to the Civil War and have left permanent scars ont the United States of America. This particular interest led us to look into the concept of cultural trauma, and into its representation by three American film directors (D. W. Griffith, born in Kentucky in 1915, Steven Spielberg, born in Ohio in 1946 and Tate Taylor born in Mississippi in 1969), who picture at various distinct periods three different historical eras. We have considered the link existing between the physical reality of an event and its cinematographic representation, which is spatially or temporally distanced from the event. How can film directors faithfully represent historical reality ? How do (or don’t) they avoid to insert in their work personal or sociological filters ? How don’t they transform history, or shape it by not mentionning the elements that do not concur to the message one wants to deliver ? What if the director’s views are biased? How can the viewer be conscious of it and keep it in mind as he or she watches the film?Our work initiated from a reflexion upon the cultural and socialogical importance of the notion of cultural trauma in the cinematographic representation of slavery in the United States. The three movies we have chosen to work on are : The Birth of a Nation, (D.W. Griffith, 1915), Amistad (Steven Spielberg, 1997) and The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011). These films represent three distinct periods in the life of the American society since The Birth of a Nation pictures the progress of the American Civil War inside a Confederate family, Amistad is set between the years 1839 and 1841, and The Help takes place in the sixties, in Jackson, Mississippi.In choosing films that represent various historical periods and that have been directed at different periods of time, we wanted to take into account both the notions of re-adapting and re-interpreting the traumatic event. We have wished to demonstrate, through our work, how film directors adapt a real fact or a book by deleting some elements or adding some others, by adapting historical reality to turn it into a fiction showing a representation of reality. We have also tried to show how « cultural trauma » acts upon the audiovisual work of film directors who choose to picture the cultural heritage of slavery. We have analyzed to what extent cultural trauma has an influence on filmic creation and how its characteristics can be applied to our corpus. What aspects of it are most represented ?We have decided to analyze our corpus in a chronological order. We have started with D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915), we have then analyzed S. Spielberg’s Amistad, (1997), and ended with T. Taylor’s (2011). For each of these films, we have first studied the historic and geopolitic contexts of the historical periods represented, we’ve then dealt with the transition from historical reality to fiction and we’ve analyzed the entirety of each movie compared to to the notion of cultural trauma. How and to what extent can it be found into these artitic works ? As a mass media, cinema has an educational role and we have demonstrated its link with cultural trauma
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Bujko, Biljana. "Identifying cultural complex by examining the myth and rituals about birth and dying in the Macedonian culture and their influence on shaping the ethnic/national identity." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3599339.

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The principal objective of this study was to understand the Macedonian psyche, more specifically the cultural layer of the psyche that makes this group unique, using the insights of depth psychology. The study addressed the question regarding how the myths and rituals about birth and dying have contributed to the formation of cultural, national, and personal identity, and how the complex of the culture is deeply embedded in individual and group psyches. Taking a historical perspective on Macedonian identity, beliefs, and rituals, this study contributes to the discussion about the role of the archetypal, collective, cultural, and symbolic function of the psyche in the creation of identity and culture. Narrative inquiry was utilized in this study. Specifically, through the narratives of 4 participants, the psychic processes involved in the identity formation and change influenced by certain cultural forms, such as traditional beliefs and ritualistic practices, are described. Subsequently, by analyzing the mythical beliefs and investigating the archetypal material that lies in the heart of a culture, a cultural complex was identified and examined.

Seven themes discovered in this study along with the analysis of the myth, which mirrors the Macedonian group psyche, offer a comprehensive depth psychological understanding of the phenomenon of the Macedonian cultural complex of inferiority and smallness, explaining the bipolarity of the complex with its destructive and constructive manifestations in the group and individual behavior. A transgenerational trauma of oppression and continued grieving for the loss of a hero/father figure underlie the complex of inferiority and smallness.

The study concluded with the discussion about healing of the complex, illuminating psychology that strives to understand, experience, and consciously embrace the loss. An area in need of further depth perspective research is a cross-cultural inquiry regarding group complexes and their interaction between nations in volatile parts of the world, such as the Balkans.

Key Words: Cultural Complex, Jung, Myth, Ritual, Macedonia, Psyche, National Identity, Transgenerational Trauma, Depth Psychology.

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Singal, Robert L. "The role of traditional birth attendants in the prevention of mother to child transmission: a case study of the New Community Health Worker National Strategy of Zambia." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12849.

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Thesis (Dr.P.H)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
Background The Ministry of Health in Zambia is implementing a National Community Health Worker Strategy to improve health care access using a new cadre of community health assistants (CHAs). The strategy does not include traditional birth attendants (TBAs), an existing health care resource in the community. This case study examined how TBAs can work with CHAs to provide prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services to pregnant women and infants in rural areas within this new health worker strategy. Methods Using the case study methodology, this study analyzed multiple sources of data including published and unpublished literature, program documents and key informant interviews. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with policy makers and community field workers involved with TBAs and community health workers providing PMTCT services in rural Zambia. Methodological triangulation was used to synthesize information and compare themes across different sources to gather various perspectives and provide additional insights into the topic. Results In the absence of trained facility-based health care workers, TBAs often provide antenatal and delivery services. Acknowledging the limited provision of care for pregnant women in the CHA Strategy, respondents pointed to the potential role of CHAs in assisting with deliveries. Emphasis was placed on the importance of TBAs to reduce barriers between the home and the formal health system. TBAs and CHAs have complementary skills that can be used in partnership to provide PMTCT services. Conclusions With standardized trainings, TBAs can play a supportive role in providing PMTCT services within the new community health structure. TBAs and CHAs can assist with deliveries and provide PMTCT services at the health facility and at home. TBAs can accompany CHAs to navigate family and gender dynamics and provide home-based adherence, breastfeeding education and support, and referrals. A new incentives model for TBAs has the potential to increase facility births and engage the volunteer cadre in playing a supportive role to the CHAs. This task-shifting and sharing model, using TBAs and CHAs, can improve maternal health services by strengthening the link between the community and the facility and integrating, rather than excluding the traditional health care system.
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Hagesfeld, Elise C. "Saving the World by Saving Its Children: The Birth of the Modern Child Welfare Agency and the Children's Homes of the National Benevolent Association of the Disciples of Christ, 1887-1974." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1506620005033965.

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Wyndham, Diana Hardwick. "Striving for National Fitness: Eugenics in Australia 1910s to 1930s." University of Sydney, History, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/402.

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Eugenics movements developed early this century in more than 20 countries, including Australia. However, for many years the vast literature on eugenics focused almost exclusively on the history of eugenics in Britain and America. While some aspects of eugenics in Australia are now being documented, the history of this movement largely remained to be written. Australians experienced both fears and hopes at the time of Federation in 1901. Some feared that the white population was declining and degenerating but they also hoped to create a new utopian society which would outstrip the achievements, and avoid the poverty and industrial unrest, of Britain and America. Some responded to these mixed emotions by combining notions of efficiency and progress with eugenic ideas about maximising the growth of a white population and filling the "empty spaces". It was hoped that by taking these actions Australia would avoid "racial suicide" or Asian invasion and would improve national fitness, thus avoiding "racial decay" and starting to create a "paradise of physical perfection". This thesis considers the impact of eugenics in Australia by examining three related propositions: 1. that from the 1910s to the 1930s, eugenic ideas in Australia were readily accepted because of concerns about declining birth rate; 2. that, while mainly derivative, Australian eugenics had several distinctive Australian qualities; 3. that eugenics has a legacy in many disciplines, particularly family planning and public health. This examination of Australian eugenics is primarily from the perspective of the people, publications and organisations which contributed to this movement in the first half of this century. In addition to a consideration of their achievements, reference is also made to the influence which eugenic ideas had in such diverse fields as education, immigration, law, literature, politics, psychology and science.
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Souster, Gregory John Charles. "Micro-costing analysis of costs to the National Health Service and to the family for a child born with unilateral cleft lip and palate, from immediately after birth to 5 years of age." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738313.

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Kubisiak, Maximilian. "Bigfoot Nation." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2021. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/964.

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An outcast Bigfoot and amateur “expert” in the study of humans, a Ted Kaczynski conspiracy theorist, and a bored Gen Z-er are all unwittingly drawn into a ring of political, corporate, and international conspiracies in a small Rocky Mountain town. The trio bumbles through the absurdities of a classic western conspiracy.
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Konokh, Polina. "Mule Nation." TopSCHOLAR®, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3129.

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This thesis project is a TV pilot and the second episode of the show. There is also a critical essay that serves as an explanation of the creative work. There are multiple problems addressed in the text, such as growing up, living in the modern world, countries not working properly for their citizens and other important issues of our modern life, with a thorough explanation of some of them in the critical essay. The screenplays are formatted according to the current industry standards. The result of this thesis is two first episodes of a potential TV show.
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Lagergren, Robin. "“Whose nation?” : A study of nation-building in Namibia." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-81646.

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Using a critical discourse analysis this study focuses on the Namibian nation-building process. The former colony gained its independence in 1990 from the South African apartheid administration. It was this oppressing social structure that gave the people a common enemy to unite against. It was from this unity that the Namibian identity sprung.                                           This study took place during three month in Namibia where nine people were interviewed. They all had contributed, or still contribute to the nation-building process in different ways. Some for example active in the liberation struggle, active in government or in political youth organizations. To further contextualize the Namibian society three local newspapers was followed during this time. The material is here discussed and analysed along with theories on nations and nationhood, identity and nationality as well as with post-colonialism and globalization.                                                                 The results show that the colonial history has affected many social structures of today. Both on an individual level as well as on an intergroup and a society level. The empirical material show tribalistic tendencies in the sense that tribal heritage sometimes is considered more important than a uniting Namibian identity. To put this in a wider perspective there is a discussion on how this relates to a global capitalist system.
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PERSON, KATHERINE. "Foster Parent Attitudes Toward Birth Parents and Birth Parent Visitation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/801.

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Foster parents are a vital component to the child welfare system and play an important role, one of which is supervising parental visitation (Muniz, 2018; Neil et al., 2003). With visitation as the primary intervention for family reunification (Haight et al., 2003), foster parents and birth parents are more than likely to interact with one another at some point in time. The purpose of this research study was to examine if foster parent attitudes toward birth parents influence foster parent attitudes toward birth parent visitation. Data was collected from 40 participants, 36 females and 4 males, from a foster family agency based in California and Texas. The study used a survey design and questions were distributed in a group setting, a mailed hard-copy, and a web survey link. The study’s findings revealed that that when foster parents had a more positive attitude toward birth parents, they had a more positive attitude toward birth parent visitation. The study concludes with recommendations for public child welfare agencies and foster family agencies to develop trainings for foster parents and for social workers to increase efforts in assisting foster parents and birth parents build cooperative relationships.
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Waage, Fred. "The Birth Spoon." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. http://amzn.com/1939289572.

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This mystery is set in the early 1980s and based on actual events. A high-school student unearths dark and deadly secrets of his Appalachian community. The explosive consequences forever mark his own life, his family's, and his town's.
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Harty, Siobhán. "Disputed state, contested nation : republic and nation in interwar Catalonia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0027/NQ50182.pdf.

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Kinnwall, Adam. "The Differentiation of a Nation : The Swedish Nation Brand Management." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339554.

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This paper aims to highlight how the recent developments in international relations has created a environment with increased competition between countries for attention and assets and how these changes has promoted the increased use of public diplomacy  to reach out to new actors. The study will focus on the public diplomacy sub-discipline of nation branding.  The paper will analyze reputation management in international relations through the lens of corporate branding. This approach will help bridge the gap between marketing and international relations and expand the analytical toolkit for public diplomacy. While many studies have focused on branding campaigns this study will focus on the brand management to see whether it is capable of creating distinction and relevance for a nation brand or national reputation.     The paper aims to give an descriptive analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats the Swedish reputation management faces in order to assess how the management can improve but also provide an analytical framework for researchers interested in studying reputation management. The paper will employ a qualitative method consisting of text analysis and interviews to connect the theoretical models with business practice to then present the results using a SWOT-analysis. The data gathered from the Swedish Institute serves to provide empirical data on the business conduct in relation to brand management and several indexes will be used to assess the Swedish brand. Results show that the Swedish nation brand management have adopted a wide range of methods to strengthen the distinctiveness and relevance for the Swedish brand and that the weaknesses are mostly connected to communication failures. The brand management has also good opportunities to further project a strong image of Sweden and the threats towards it are only marginal. The brand management should continue its current work while developing new methods and solutions to overcome the communication problems towards certain target groups. While the study have made contributions to understand how reputation management could be analyzed through corporate brand management, further research should look into whether a nation brand or reputation has been used as a power asset that is capable of actually acquiring global assets.
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Lewinski, John Scott. "Nation of Cowards." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 1994. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/857.

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Beaudin, Hervé. "L'idée de Nation." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040006.

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L’idée de nation est l’un des sujets les plus sensibles de l’histoire de la philosophie politique. Après avoir distingué, parmi les doctrines politiques et sociales, les doctrines concentriques des doctrines transversales, et ayant classé l’idée de nation parmi les premières, nous étudions les rapports qu’elle entretient avec les secondes. Puis, abordant la place de l’idée de nation dans le champ des seules doctrines concentriques, nous observons que deux écoles traditionnelles se sont opposées en Europe depuis le XVIIIème siècle, l’école « allemande » (ou objective) et l’école « française » (ou subjective). La première s’organise autour des notions de peuple (Herder et Hegel), de territoire ancestral (Barrès et Maurras) et de langue (Fichte). La deuxième participe de la théorie du contrat (Rousseau et Renan), que sont venues compléter les théories de l’ethnicité (Barth et Connor) et les thèses de l’école constructiviste (Gellner, Hobsbawm, Anderson, Smith). Derrière cette opposition structurante, qui recouvre en réalité l’opposition entre déterminisme et électivité, se cache une affinité plus profonde qu’il ne paraît au premier abord, d'une part, parce que plusieurs éléments de la conception objective sont présupposés dans la conception subjective, et, d'autre part, parce qu’elles ont en commun de s’opposer frontalement au couple Fédéralisme/Multiculturalisme. Il nous appartient dès lors, après avoir pris soin d’en analyser les limites intrinsèques et les maladies historiques, d’en discuter les conditions de survie dans un monde qui prétend, en poursuivant les vues cosmopolites d’un Kant, faire vivre la démocratie en transcendant des frontières forgées par mille cinq cents ans d’histoire européenne
The idea of nation is one of the most sensitive subjects of the history of the political philosophy. Having distinguished, among the political and social doctrines, the concentric doctrines from the transverse doctrines, and having classified the idea of nation among the first ones, we study the relationships which it maintains with seconds. Then, approaching the place of the idea of nation on the field of the only concentric doctrines, we observe that two traditional schools opposed in Europe for the 18th century, the “German” (or objective) school and the “French” (or subjective) school. The first one gets organized around the notions of people (Herder and Hegel), around ancestral territory (Barrès and Maurras) and of language (Fichte). The second participates of the theory of the contract (Rousseau and Renan), that came to complete the theories of the ethnicity (Barth and Connor) and the theses of the constructivist school (Gellner, Hobsbawm, Anderson, Smith). Behind this structuring opposition, which recovers in reality the opposition between determinism and electivity, is hiding a deeper affinity than it appears at first sight, on one hand, because several elements of the objective conception are presupposed in the subjective conception, and, on the other hand, because they have in common to oppose frontally to the couple Federalism/Multiculturalism. We have to then, having taken care of analyzing the intrinsic limits and the historic diseases, to discuss the conditions of its survival in a world which claims, by pursuing the cosmopolitan views of Kant, to make live the democracy by transcending borders forged by one thousand five hundred years of European history
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Stefanovic, Svetlana. "Nation und Geschlecht." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-203559.

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Diese Dissertation bietet eine Darstellung und Analyse der Handlungsfelder serbischer Frauen. Dabei werden die Frauenbildung, das Engagement von Frauen in sozialkaritativen und patriotischen Frauenvereinen, sowie ihre Teilnahme an den zwischen 1876 und 1918 geführten „Befreiungskriegen“ thematisiert. Das Problemfeld von Nation und Geschlecht ist für Serbien fast völlig unbearbeitet. Die vorliegende Untersuchung geht den folgenden Fragen nach: Wie partizipierten Serbinnen am Prozess der Nations- und Nationalstaatsbildung? Welche Weiblichkeits- und Männlichkeitsbilder wurden im Nationsbildungsprozess verwendet? Auf welche Art und Weise partizipierten sie an den Kriegen und unterstützten das Militär? Wie wirkte sich der „Große Krieg“ auf die Geschlechterordnung in Serbien bzw. Jugoslawien aus? Da die für Frauen zentralen politischen, kulturellen und ökonomischen Wandlungsprozesse im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft der Städte stattgefunden haben, konzentriert sich auch diese Darstellung auf den städtischen Raum und seine Bewohnerinnen. Das bäuerlich-ländliche Frauenleben wird nur kurz angerissen. Die Arbeit nimmt den weiblichen Gruppenbildungsprozess in den Blick, der innerhalb einer schmalen bürgerlichen Schicht stattfand. In den westeuropäischen Ländern entstanden die ersten Frauenvereinigungen am Ende des 18. bzw. zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Serbien, dessen Bevölkerung mehrheitlich lese- und schreibunkundig war und von einer ländlichen Subsistenzwirtschaft lebte, folgte mit einer zeitlichen Verzögerung von mehreren Jahrzehnten. Um 1900 war in allen diesen Ländern ein dichtes Netz unterschiedlichster Frauenvereine anzutreffen. Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts stieg auch in Serbien die Zahl der Frauenvereine, die sich in einem Dachverband zusammenschlossen. Dieser Bund trat den internationalen Frauenorganisationen bei.
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Münzner, Ulrike Tatjana Elisabeth. "From birth to birth A cell cycle control network of S. cerevisiae." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18566.

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Der Zellzyklus organisiert die Zellteilung, und kontrolliert die Replikation der DNA sowie die Weitergabe des Genoms an die nächste Zellgeneration. Er unterliegt einer strengen Kontrolle auf molekularer Ebene. Diese molekularen Kontrollmechanismen sind für das Überleben eines Organismus essentiell, da Fehler Krankheiten begüngstigen können. Vor allem Krebs ist assoziiert mit Abweichungen im Ablauf des Zellzyklus. Die Aufklärung solcher Kontrollmechanismen auf molekularer Ebene ermöglicht einerseits das Verständnis deren grundlegender Funktionsweise, andererseits können solche Erkenntnisse dazu beitragen, Methoden zu entwickeln um den Zellzyklus steuern zu können. Um die molekularen Abläufe des Zellzyklus in ihrer Gesamtheit besser zu verstehen, eignen sich computergestützte Analysen. Beim Zellzyklus handelt es sich um einen Signaltransduktionsweg. Die Eigenschaften dieser Prozesse stellen Rekonstruktion und Übersetzung in digital lesbare Formate vor besondere Herausforderungen in Bezug auf Skalierbarkeit, Simulierbarkeit und Parameterschätzung. Diese Studie präsentiert eine großskalige Netzwerkrekonstruktion des Zellzyklus des Modellorganismus Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Hierfür wurde die reaction-contingency Sprache benutzt, die sowohl eine mechanistisch detaillierte Rekonstruktion auf molekularer Ebene zulässt, als auch deren Übersetzung in ein bipartites Boolesches Modell. Für das Boolesche Modell mit 2506 Knoten konnte ein zyklischer Attraktor bestimmt werden, der das Verhalten einer sich teilenden Hefezelle darstellt. Das Boolesche Modell reproduziert zudem das erwartete phänotypische Verhalten bei Aktivierung von vier Zellzyklusinhibitoren, und in 32 von 37 getesteten Mutanten. Die Rekonstruktion des Zellzyklus der Hefe kann in Folgestudien genutzt werden, um Signaltransduktionswege zu integrieren, die mit dem Zellzyklus interferieren, deren Schnittstellen aufzuzeigen, und dem Ziel, die molekularen Mechanismen einer ganzen Zelle abzubilden, näher zu kommen. Diese Studie zeigt zudem, dass eine auf reaction- contingency Sprache basierte Rekonstruktion geeignet ist, um ein biologisches Netzwerk konsistent mit empirischer Daten darzustellen, und gleichzeitig durch Simulation die Funktionalität des Netzwerkes zu überprüfen.
The survival of a species depends on the correct transmission of an intact genome from one generation to the next. The cell cycle regulates this process and its correct execution is vital for survival of a species. The cell cycle underlies a strict control mechanism ensuring accurate cell cycle progression, as aberrations in cell cycle progression are often linked to serious defects and diseases such as cancer. Understanding this regulatory machinery of the cell cycle offers insights into how life functions on a molecular level and also provides for a better understanding of diseases and possible approaches to control them. Cell cycle control is furthermore a complex mechanism and studying it holistically provides for understanding its collective properties. Computational approaches facilitate holistic cell cycle control studies. However, the properties of the cell cycle control network challenge large-scale in silico studies with respect to scalability, model execution and parameter estimation. This thesis presents a mechanistically detailed and executable large-scale reconstruction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle control network based on reaction- contingency language. The reconstruction accounts for 229 proteins and consists of three individual cycles corresponding to the macroscopic events of DNA replication, spindle pole body duplication, and bud emergence and growth. The reconstruction translated into a bipartite Boolean model has, using an initial state determined with a priori knowledge, a cyclic attractor which reproduces the cyclic behavior of a wildtype yeast cell. The bipartite Boolean model has 2506 nodes and correctly responds to four cell cycle arrest chemicals. Furthermore, the bipartite Boolean model was used in a mutational study where 37 mutants were tested and 32 mutants found to reproduce known phenotypes. The reconstruction of the cell cycle control network of S. cerevisiae demonstrates the power of the reaction-contingency based approach, and paves the way for network extension with regard to the cell cycle machinery itself, and several signal transduction pathways interfering with the cell cycle.
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Williams, Jacqueline. "Metabolizing birth| The impact of labor and birth on the maternal mind." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10140839.

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This study explores the psychological dynamics associated with labor and birth in order to better understand the role these experiences play in women’s psychological development. This research study utilized interpretative phenomenological analysis as a research methodology and sought to address the following questions through the theoretical perspective of psychoanalysis and social constructionism: How does the experience of pregnancy and birth impact the subjectivity of women? How do women make sense of these experiences? What role does the body play in women’s psychological development? Does the experience of childbirth mark a unique developmental phase in the psychological life of women? In this research study, six women were asked to describe their birth narrative in full and respond to a series of open-ended questions. The results of this study indicate that pregnancy and childbirth is a porous developmental period associated with fears about capacity and feelings of omnipotence as well as multiple losses and a new sense of self. One of the more significant findings of this study is that the experience of labor and birth is felt by many women to involve feelings associated with encountering death. This finding may lead to increased understanding of why pregnancy and childbirth results in fragmentation for some women, while it appears to be a catalyst for increased subjectivity and maternal embodiment for other women.

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Kawasaki, Hidenori. "Epidemiology of Birth Defects in Very Low Birth Weight Infants in Japan." Kyoto University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/259711.

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Curran, Ashley Rae. "Birth of a mother." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4880.

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Birth of a Mother is a memoir that tells the story of how my unplanned pregnancy helps me to transform from a damaged adolescent into an empowered mother. Using a first person, present tense narrative, I relive the nine months leading up to the unmedicated home birth of my first child, exploring the conflicts I faced over my obesity, over having no job and no place to call home, and over developing a relationship with a man who was not the baby's father. Weaving in past tense vignettes, I attempt to show how I prepared myself for impending motherhood by reflecting on my mother's short, violent life and the abuse I suffered at her hands; the effect of losing my mother at the age of twelve and my quest to find someone to fill her role throughout my adolescence; my experiences with faith, from Christianity, to Buddhism, to Atheism, to Paganism; and by struggling to heal the emotional scars left over from suffering childhood abuse, and multiple rapes as a teenager. As I uncover parallels between my mother's life and my own, I come to a new understanding of the mental illness that seems prevalent in my family, of the causes and triggers of my personal flaws, and of methods that I can use to become for my child the mother I always wanted for myself.
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Yudkin, Patricia L. N. "Consequences of birth asphyxia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d1bc3e23-8a51-4c7b-a0cd-e76f7b5aaa89.

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To investigate the relationship between birth asphyxia and neurological impairment a cohort of 184 infants with a low (≤3) one-minute Apgar score was studied. All were singletons, apparently normally formed, and born at term (≥37 weeks' gestation) in the John Radcliffe Hospital, between January 1984 and September 1985. The 181 cohort survivors were traced at the age of five years; 159 were assessed by a paediatrician on a battery of neurodevelopmental tests, and information about a further eight was obtained from other sources. Three infants in the cohort died neonatally with a diagnosis of birth asphyxia, and three had spastic quadriplegia, profound developmental delay and visual impairment. Examination of the perinatal histories of these six children, including their fetal heart rate patterns in labour and acid-base status at delivery, found convincing evidence of birth asphyxia. Only one other child in the cohort exhibited similar signs of birth asphyxia; he was unimpaired at the age of five. To assess the impact of birth asphyxia on the overall rate of cerebral palsy, all cases of cerebral palsy born to Oxford residents in the study period were identified. Of 30 cases of cerebral palsy, the three identified in the follow-up study were the only ones whose impairment could be attributed to birth asphyxia in a full-term birth. Birth asphyxia therefore accounted for 10% of all cases of cerebral palsy, a fraction that agrees with previous estimates. The frequency of cerebral palsy due to birth asphyxia was estimated as 1 in 3800 full-term livebirths. A detailed analysis of the test scores of the 159 children assessed by the paediatrician failed to show any association between their acid-base values at delivery and test scores, or between their fetal heart rate patterns in labour and test scores. These results conform with the view that birth asphyxia has an "all or nothing" effect, and that it presents as a cluster of abnormal neonatal signs, including persistent cerebral depression, severe acidaemia, neonatal encephalopathy, and multiorgan dysfunction.
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Pattinson, Shaun D. "Influencing traits before birth." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366321.

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Chooi, Weng Tink. "Birth Order and Motivation." Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1244143069.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2009
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Prucpairojkul, Piyada, and Supatana Triamsiriworakul. "Thailand’s Nation Branding : A study of Thai nation-brand equity and capabilities." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-4315.

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Which of Thailand’s four main sectors that nation brands compete including tourism, FDI, export promotion, and talent attraction that should be develop a main focus in developing a stronger Nation Brand for the country comparing to other four countries in South East Asia including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines?

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The purpose of this paper are 1) to study and analyze the current status of Thailand’s nation brand equity and 2) to examine the feasibility in each of Thailand’s four main sectors that nation brands compete including tourism, FDI, export promotion, and talent attraction by comparing to other four countries in ASEAN including Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia in order to generate recommendations for the country in developing a stronger nation branding strategy in the future.

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In order to achieve our purpose, firstly, we chose ‘Asset-based Nation brand equity’ model to collect the information and perform analysis on the contribution of both nation internal and external assets towards nation brand equity. Secondly, ‘Nation brand internal analysis’ model was chosen in order to be a guideline for gathering data and performing analysis on Thailand’s nation brand capability in each of the 4 main sectors comparing to the other four countries. In addition, due to our research topic and limited time frame, we would rely on secondary sources as our main source of information with some guidance from our primary source. After the analysis had been performed, we had reached the conclusion and generated recommendation for our target group

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For the analysis of Nation brand equity, Thailand has equipped relatively strong internal assets both innate and nurtured as the country is rich with beautiful landscape and fascinating culture together with a strong support for the art from both governmental and private sectors. However, as for external assets, both disseminated and vicarious assets of Thailand still weakly contribute to the strength of the nation equity. Due to these reasons, we have recommended Thai governmental units to set up the organizations to improve the quality of disseminated asset and also start cooperation with private sector in order to come up with external portrayal in popular culture that can effective represent and enhance the country’s image.

As for the result of ‘Nation brand internal analysis’, Thailand has shown moderate to high capability in the Export Promotion sector which was the highest among the other 3 sectors. However, based on the data in the analysis part, there are still lots of things needed to be done both by Thai governmental units and private sector in order to boost the country’s nation brand capability to achieve competitive advantage in the international market in the long run. According to this point, we had listed some recommendations for the governmental units to use as a general guideline in obtaining a strong nation brand that could help the country become more competitive in the global market.

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Peristianis, Nicos. "Between nation and state : nation, nationalism, state, and national identity in Cyprus." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2008. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6485/.

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This thesis is a study of the emergence and diachronic development of Greek-Cypriot nationalism, and its relation to nation, state, and national identities. The broad perspective of historical sociology is used, and the more specific neo-Weberian analytic framework of cultural transformation and social closure, as developed by A. Wimmer, to demonstrate how nationalism, as the 'axial principle' along which modem societies structure inclusion and exclusion, did not lead to the development of a Cypriot nation state, but to a bi-ethnic national state instead; this was mainly because closure took place along ethnic and not national lines, for socio-historical reasons which the study examines. The study first explores the hotly debated issue 'when is the nation', of whether there was a Greek nation in antiquity, of which Greek-Cypriots were a part, or whether the nation's roots are traceable in Medieval times. Next, the development of national consciousness and nationalism is considered, under three different types of regime: During Ottoman rule, a religious community was gradually transformed into an ethnic community; toward the end of this period, Ottoman reforms did not manage to forge a common new (Ottomanist) identity, for social closure had already progressed along ethnic lines. In early British colonial years, ethnicity was politicized and ethnic consciousness gradually turned into a nationalist mass movement for enosis; despite the overall unity of the movement, two variants of nationalism developed, a more traditional ethnic version, characterizing the Right, and another version, imbued with territorial/civic elements (derived from the Internationalist outlook of the communist party), characterizing the Left The anti-colonial struggle for enosis was led by the Right, and excluded the Left and the Turkish-Cypriots. The fragile consociational regime established at independence collapsed after a brief period of cohabitation between the Greeks and Turks of the island in the bi-ethnic / bi-communal Republic of Cyprus - the study analyses the causes leading to the breakdown. Between 1964 and 67, the Greek-Cypriots turned to enosis again, but after realizing the difficulties and dangers involved in its pursuance, Makarios sought to strengthen independence instead, while limiting the powers of Turkish-Cypriots - in effect, aiming for a majoritarian regime with minority rights for the latter. The clash between pro-independence and pro-enosis versions of nationalism was to characterize this period, leading to the coup and invasion of 1974. With the death of enosis in 1974, Hellenocentric nationalism would give more emphasis to Greek culture and identity, whereas Cyprocentric nationalism would stress the priority of Cyprus, the state, and of rapprochement with the Turkish-Cypriots. The study utilizes data from two surveys coordinated by the author, to analyze in more depth the attitudes and discourses of Greek-Cypriots as regards their relations to the Greek nation and the Cypriot state. The gradual strengthening of Cypriot identity is seen to be connected with a new social compromise, which seems to have prevailed within the Greek-Cypriot community, stressing the importance of the Greek-Cypriot state, and which seems to be the primary explanation of why the Greek-Cypriots rejected the federal solution suggested by the UN sponsored Annan Plan, in 2004. In the same year, Cyprus became a member of the European Union, and the study considers some of the implications of this development for the future of nationalism in Cyprus.
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