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Xu, Kun. "Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/534502.

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Media & Communication<br>Ph.D.<br>The Computers are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm was proposed more than two decades ago to understand humans’ interaction with computer technologies. Today, as emerging media technologies including social robots and smartphones become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to them socially, what individual factors leverage the relationship, and what constitutes the social influence of these technologies need to be addressed. As an expansion of the CASA paradigm, the Media are Social Actors (MASA) paradigm was applied in the current dissert

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Wang, Wenhuan. "Social Disposition and Anthropomorphism of Smartphones." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19285.

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Smartphones are the most personalized and in the meantime the most anthropomorphized computing and communication technology in our society. Existing studies, especially Computers as Social Actors studies, on anthropomorphism and social interactions focus on how to implement and elicit positive anthropomorphic effects but fail to address the motivations and dispositional factors. Through an online survey that incorporates well-tested social psychological scales, this study provides empirical evidences that smartphone users’ social dispositions including chronic loneliness, attachment style, and

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Waddell, Thomas Franklin. "It's not easy trying to be one of the guys: The effect of avatar attractiveness, avatar gender, and purported user gender on the success of help-seeking requests in an online game." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32777.

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Previous research has found that usersâ interactions with others in online environments are often guided by the same rules and stereotypes we apply in our everyday lives. However, fewer studies have used virtual worlds as an experimental setting for the systematic examination of how avatar appearance and offline identity affect the outcome of usersâ actual interactions. This online field experiment measured the effect of avatar attractiveness, avatar gender, purported user gender, and favor size on the rate at which users received help across 2,300 separate user interactions. In addition,

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Sayago, Barrantes Sergio. "Human-computer interaction with older people." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7560.

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L'envelliment de la població i la importància de les TIC a la societat actual han motivat la necessitat d'integrar més a les persones grans en la interacció persona-ordinador. La investigació actual es centra en factors individuals de l'envelliment i l'aproximació més generalitzada és dissenyar interfícies considerant les persones grans com a conjunt de factors. Aquesta tesi doctoral planteja un paradigma diferent: de factors a persones grans com a actors. En aquest paradigma, prestar atenció als canvis en capacitats funcionals no és l'únic que importa, cal que interacció i ús real estiguin mé

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Murray, Scott. "Consumer responses to online recommendations: The effects of language assertiveness on website and product attitudes." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/198027/2/Scott_Murray_Thesis.pdf.

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This research looks at how people's online shopping attitudes change when retailers use different language to make product recommendations. It shows that certain language can result in the perception of the retailer and product being more positive, depending on how much attachment is felt towards the retailer, how well known the product is and the product's price. The research presents a new way of analysing the effectiveness of online product recommendations.

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Purohit, Hemant. "Mining Behavior of Citizen Sensor Communities to Improve Cooperation with Organizational Actors." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1441036899.

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Chartier, Christopher Rowe. "Focal Social Actors and Tacit Coordination." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1374602182.

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Nelson, Jeffrey Ernest. "Automatic, incremental, on-the-fly garbage collection of actors." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43103.

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Garbage collection is an important topic of research for operating systems, because applications are easier to write and maintain if they are unburdened by the concerns of storage management. The actor computation model is another important topic: it is a powerful, expressive model of concurrent computation. This thesis is motivated by the need for an actor garbage collector for a distributed real-time system under development by the Real-Time Systems Group at Virginia Tech. It is shown that traditional garbage collectorsâ even those that operate on computational objectsâ are not sufficient

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Engdahl, Ingrid. "Toddlers as social actors in the Swedish preschool." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-52643.

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This thesis focuses on interaction among young toddlers during their second year of life in a Swedish preschool. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore interaction, communication and the creation of friendship between the young children during self initiated play activities. In addition, this thesis presents the background of Early Childhood Education in Sweden, which may serve as an extended context for the study. An ethnographic study was carried out in a toddler unit with 15 children. Six one year old girls and boys were in focus during the observations for nine months. Participatory

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Lassi, Monica. "Facilitating collaboration : exploring a socio-technical approach to the design of a collaboratory for Library and Information Science." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-3695.

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The thesis explores the potential of one way of facilitating and stimulating collaboration in Library and Information Science (LIS), through a specific scientific collaboration activity: creating, sharing and reusing data collection instruments, such as interview guides, questionnaires, and observation protocols. The four studies reported in the thesis can be read as a linear narrative, each study building on the previous and contributing to the following ones. Together the four studies describe the process exploring social and contextual aspects of LIS; developing requirements and designing a

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Kirkpatrick, Jane. "Shaping social movements : international actors in Kosovo and Afghanistan." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2017. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/30677/.

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New protectorates, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, East Timor and Kosovo, have experienced a medium to long term international presence, which has sought to ensure security and implement liberal democracy. Given that social movement activity has been linked to democratic development, the presence and development of social movements in new protectorates presents a novel and interesting context in which to study social movements. Using a political opportunity framework as a guide, this research examines the extent to which international actors in new protectorate contexts influence the strategy of so

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Ashraf, Naeem. "Social and strategic dynamics of carbon market actors' behaviors." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1067.

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Les principaux objectifs de la thèse sont : d'explorer les motivations sociales et stratégiques et leurs conséquences, de modéliser et de décortiquer les mécanismes relationnels et instrumentaux des stratégies des organisations sur le marché du carbone. Pour cela, trois études empiriques ont été menées sur le terrain du marché du carbone régit par le Mécanisme de Développement Propre (MDP) élaboré dans le cadre du protocole de Kyoto. La première recherche exploratoire qui se base sur une étude de cas inductive a été réalisée dans un pays en voie de développement. Les résultats suggèrent que le

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Méthot, Mélanie. "Social thinkers, social actors in Winnipeg and Montreal at the turn of the century." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ64877.pdf.

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Barodien, Glynnis Erica. "Field computers for spatially referenced social surveys." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7671.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This study explores the use of a palm computer, linked to a hand held global positioning system receiver, by members of an informal settlement and a rural community to collect socio-economic (SE) data. The theoretical foundation is taken from such disciplines as Semiotics, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Survey Research Methods. This theory was used to develop a methodology, which enabled the researcher to investigate whether it is feasible to use icons to represent SE variables, whether HCI theory is useful for assessing the field observations of t

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Näslund, Rebecka. "Bringing actors together : ICT, disabillity and pupils in special school." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Arbetsvetenskap, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26565.

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is part of everyday life in various ways. This thesis focuses on the connection between disability and ICT among pupils with intellectual disabilities and on ways for researcher to study human and technology. The aim has been to study how ICT, agency and disability become constructed in a collective made up by actors such as humans (pupils with intellectual disabilities) and non-humans (computers, mobile phones, policy-documents).Two studies at two schools (totally the studies included nine classes) in the Norrbotten area in Sweden were conducted

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McWilliams, Susan. "Status and demeanor : overcoming the legitimacy dilemmas of low status actors /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8911.

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FIGUEIREDO, FERNANDA. "AN URBAN INDIAN VILLAGE: A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT SEEN BY DIFFERENT SOCIAL ACTORS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21127@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>Desde o final do século XV, com as grandes navegações, os países europeus expandiram seu domínio para outros continentes, muitas vezes impondo a outros povos e nações o modo de vida ocidental, sua forma de organização social e territorial. Sempre houve, durante a história, diferentes formas de resistência. Desde povos nativos que lutaram contra a dominação imposta com a chegada das nações europeias, aos movimentos de in

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Mmusinyane, Boitumelo Obert. "Africa's environmental protection challenge : social responsibility and liability of non-state actors." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1068.

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"In Africa non-state actors (NSAs) are causing an alarming concern with the destruction of the environment and indigenous communities in the name of development; such environmental degradation leaves indigenous or economically marginalized groups in an unsatisfactory environment to their health, standard of living and basic necessitites of life and the land for future development. In most instances, the host country does not get good value from the vast amount of resource extraction. In other words, this kind of investment does not benefit the affected people; rather, it transfers a country's

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Kirkham, Jacqueline. "Sexual and reproductive health in Romania and Moldova : contexts, actors, challenges." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2586/.

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Over the past two decades sexuality and reproduction have proved potent and contested subjects. After the unexpected collapse of the state socialist systems, societies facing uncertainty and dislocation have turned both to the allure of ‘the west’ and to pre-socialist traditional values of family and gender. Along with this, aspirations of moving closer to Europe sits alongside a resurgent nationalist sentiment throughout the region, and it is sexuality and reproduction which has become a particularly contested battleground, as the female reproductive body has become a metaphor for the vitalit

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de, Menil Victoria. "Under-cover in Kenya : the contribution of non-state actors to mental health coverage." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1017/.

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Half of health care in sub-Saharan Africa is privately provided, however, for mental health, the literature is all but absent on these services. Kenya provides a useful case-study, as it has a wellorganized non-state sector and data are readily available. My thesis asks what contribution do non-state actors make to coverage for mental disorders in Kenya? Non-state mental health care is conceived along two axes: for-profit vs. not-for-profit and formal vs. informal. Four empirical chapters use mixed-methods to examine: 1) not-forprofit NGO care; 2) for-profit inpatient care; 3) for-profit outpa

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Webb, Melanie Jennifer. "Social interaction and attitudes towards computers in seniors /." Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/wlu/fullcit?pMQ96600.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (l. 52-59). Issued also online via the World Wide Web ; full text files in PDF format available to WLU users. Available in microfiche format.

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Ozbek, Aysegul. "New Actors Of New Poverty: The &quot." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608389/index.pdf.

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This study aims to analyze the socio-economic characteristics, living and working conditions, educational profiles and the future expectations of the child workers, who have been living in tents for many years and working as agricultural workers at Karag&ouml<br>&ccedil<br>er and Kapik&ouml<br>y areas of Tuzla Municipality (KarataS District) of Adana Province since the early 90s after having been forced to vacate their villages in Sirnak. Thesis tries to expose the poverty, deprivation and social exclusion experienced by families and children presently living in tents in Karag&ouml<br>&ccedil<

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Kortesluoma, R. L. (Riitta-Liisa). "Hospitalized children as social actors in the assessment and management of their pain." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2009. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514292880.

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Abstract By acknowledging pain as subjective and only fully perceived by the person in pain, the main aim of this study was to report on the use of qualitative child interviewing and drawings as a research method to elicit hospitalized children’s perceptions and descriptions of their pain experience. Further, the second aim was to contribute to the improvement of pain assessment and management in hospitalized children by approaching the question from the children’s point of view through their words and drawings. Forty-four children in four paediatric units in a university hospital participate

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Staab, Silke. "(En)gendering change and continuity in Chilean social policy : actors, ideas and institutions." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/engendering-change-and-continuity-in-chilean-social-policy-actors-ideas-and-institutions(1e36de13-7d57-4a3a-b07d-705a1c9709ee).html.

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How does change in economic, social and political institutions occur? How aregender and other social inequalities reproduced through and challenged byprocesses of institutional creation, evolution and innovation? And can institutionsbe transformed for greater equity and inclusion? These are big questions forfeminist political scientists to whom a better understanding of real world puzzles isnot only of theoretical but also of practical relevance. By looking at recent socialpolicy reforms and innovations in Chile this thesis contributes to moving thisresearch agenda forward. Drawing on conceptu

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You, Ziying. "Competing Traditions: Village Temple Rivalries, Social Actors, and Contested Narratives in Contemporary China." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1428961222.

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Youren, Carolyn. "Stress, coping, and social support experiences of actors working in New York City." Thesis, Boston University, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32009.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University<br>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.<br>Sport psychologists, seeking to work with a range of performers rather than athletes alone, have stimulated much of the burgeoning interest in performance populations who ply their talent on the public stage.

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蘇金照 and Kam-chiu Ivan So. "Social workers' and NGOs' attitudes towards using computers in social welfare services." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977467.

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So, Kam-chiu Ivan. "Social workers' and NGOs' attitudes towards using computers in social welfare services." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1374513X.

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Macpherson, Janet Robertson. "Implications of the inclusion of document retrieval systems as actors in a social network." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4913/.

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Traditionally, social network analysis (SNA) techniques enable the examination of relationships and the flow of information within networks of human members or groups of humans. This study extended traditional social network analysis to include a nonhuman group member, specifically a document retrieval system. The importance of document retrieval systems as information sources, the changes in business environments that necessitates the use of information and communication technologies, and the attempts to make computer systems more life-like, provide the reasons for considering the information

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Zhang, Shiming. "Managing in conflict : how actors collaborate in marketing green chemistry." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7167/.

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The purpose of this research is to investigate business relationships, by drawing on conflict theories from organization studies and taking a mid-range research perspective to further develop these into industrial marketing research. IMP researchers have examined conflict as a threat to established business relationships and commercial exchanges, drawing on theories and concepts developed in organization studies. I adopt the behavioural approach from organisation studies, and contracts with particularly the socio-psychological approaches relating to the affective emotions of small groups. I fi

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Richterova, Daniela. "Communist Czechoslovakia, terrorists and revolutionaries : an investigation into state relations with violent non-state actors." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/113870/.

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This thesis provides a revisionist account of Czechoslovakia's relationship with 'terrorists and revolutionaries' during the latter half of the Cold War. It explores the motives and assesses the quality of the relationship communist-era Prague forged with myriad groups officially or semi-officially associated with the Palestinian cause. It interrogates the country's complex security and intelligence liaisons with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and its myriad factions, starting from the mid-1960s and tracing them all the way to the end of the Cold War. Simultaneously, it sheds light on

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Lindgren, John. "Logistikens aktörer - Tankar inför ett ämnesområdes fortsatta utveckling." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Industrial Economics and Management, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1614.

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<p>The purpose of this study is to contribute to thedevelopment of the Logistics Management discipline. A motivefor the study is that I have found actors being very anonymousin the Logistics Management literature. I have found this to bein contrast to my practical experiences where actors are highlyessential. On the basis of an interview study and a literaturestudy I want to give some thoughts and ideas for thedevelopment of the discipline. The interview study wasconducted with 48 actors operating across a supply chain withindifferent business areas of a multinational Swedish company.The actor

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Devon, Terrence J. (Terrence John). "Language, media, and the concept of a machine : toward a unified theory of communication in history." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39778.

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This thesis is focused upon the development of the computer as a communication medium in history. To accomplish this, the computer is understood as constructed by language and technology where these are in turn grounded upon their roles as forms of cultural mediation. As methodology is of paramount importance, the digital medium is heuristically employed to discuss the epistemic and phenomenological significance of communications media. The more general inference therefore concerns the role of socially constructed media in the fabric of cultural development. In addressing this concern, the pap

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Ernstson, Henrik. "In Rhizomia : Actors, Networks and Resilience in Urban Landscapes." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Systemekologiska institutionen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8137.

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With accelerating urbanization it is crucial to understand how urban ecosystems play a part in generating ecosystem services for urban dwellers, such as clean water, spaces for recreation, stress relief and improved air quality. An equally important question relate to who gets to enjoy these benefits, i.e. the distribution of ecosystem services, and how issues of power and equity influence the management of ecosystems. Through case studies from the urban landscape of Stockholm, this doctoral thesis engages with these perspectives through combining ecological theory with social theory, includin

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Bratu, Roxana. "Actors, practices and networks of corruption : the case of Romania's accession to European Union funding." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/891/.

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This thesis offers new insights into the challenges and opportunities brought by European Union (EU) integration policies by taking as a case study the process of accessing EU funding in Romania and its impact on the performance and reproduction of contemporary entrepreneurial identities. It is based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Romania between June 2007 and September 2008. The thesis argues that EU funding - as an economic process shaped by EU anticorruption practices, policies and assumptions – configures new political and economic subjects through intertwined vocabula

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Bryant, Toba. "The social welfare policy change process, civil society actors and the role of knowledge." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63796.pdf.

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GONÇALVES, FERNANDA CRISTINA NANCI IZIDRO. "SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION AND FOREIGN POLICY: A STUDY ON THE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIAL ACTORS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=18600@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>A presente dissertação objetiva analisar a participação de atores da sociedade civil na prestação da cooperação técnica brasileira para países do Sul. Mais especificamente, busca-se compreender por que e de que forma o Governo brasileiro trabalha em parceria com atores sociais nestas iniciativas e as implicações da participação destes atores para a política exterior brasileira no campo da cooperação. O estudo fundamenta-se sobre dois estudos de caso de atores sociais distintos, porém com presença consolidada na cooperação ofertad

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Hedelund, Simone Staack. "Digital Content Creation in 2018: A Study for Non-Profit Organizations and Social Actors." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23769.

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This study explores the phenomenon of new power as a framework for empowerment for non-profit organizations. The concept is coined by social entrepreneurs Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans in their book New Power (2018), and the aim is to investigate the effects of new media today through analysis of twelve media actors experiences of working in the creative industries. Through a flexible study based on the paradigm of phenomenology, this thesis researched by examining new power as a 'black box’—an object of human perception—to arrive at new understandings of the workings of media environments to

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Yue, Garry, and Luke Sims. "Collision of Three Worlds: Legitimacy of Social Enterprises from the Perspective of Collective Actors." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23343.

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A key aspect in legitimacy from an institutional perspective is the social evaluation of collective actors that create a generalized perception that an organizations action is desirable within some socially constructed system. Based on an empirical case based research, this paper interprets legitimacy highlighting the complex dynamics in a social enterprise in regards to the dualistic institutional logics. By adapting the evaluators perspective on legitimacy, we interpret the collective actors perception on the social enterprise examining the actors from various economic sectors. We further di

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Brandin, Hanna, and Amanda Bylin. "Using Enterprise Social Networks for Internal Communication : A Case Study about Organisational Actors' Experience." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-35794.

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Internal communication is a subject increasing in importance. This subject has, as many other things, been influenced by the Internet-based and connected world that we live in today. As a result, Enterprise Social Networks has appeared as a tool for organisations to use. While the usage of this tool is growing, the existing research on the subject is yet very limited. So is the research on employees‘ needs when it comes to internal communication. In this study, we aim to fill these gaps, by exploring the use of these enterprise social networks from an organisational actor‘s perspective. In ord

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He, Yuqing. "Distribution and Evolution of Actors’ Roles in Knowledge Transfer in Innovation Networks." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39837.

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Collaborative innovation is an important mechanism for firms to exchange and acquire external knowledge. Through collaboration, innovators convene and form networks that, in return, help overcome the boundaries of knowledge transfer. To have a better understanding of actors’ collaborating behaviours in innovation networks, we identify three pairs of roles: 1) do actors make connections or bonds with their partners? 2) do actors exchange their knowledge with internal or external partners? 3) do actors absorb or distribute knowledge? We examine the distribution and evolution of actors’ roles fro

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Borg, James Martin. "The emergence and utility of social behaviour and social learning in artficial evolutionary systems." Thesis, Keele University, 2018. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4533/.

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The questions to be addressed here are all aimed at beginning to assess the emergence and utility of social behaviour and social learning in artificial evolutionary systems. Like any biological adaptation, the adaptation to process and use social information must lead to an overall increase in the long term reproductive capability of any population utilising such an adaptation - this increase in fecundity also being accompanied by increased survivability and therefore adaptability. In nature, social behaviours such as co-operation, teaching and agent aggregation, all seem to provide improved l

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Nip, Lai-ming. "Purchase selection of a major computer system in Hong Kong : considerations and marketing implications /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1988. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12361537.

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Cornford, Anthony. "Social information systems : a study of computers, government and society." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336262.

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Nilsson, Andreas, and Camilla Gustafson. "Opinions on the use of computers in preschool." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34701.

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Det står i läroplanen för förskolan att verksamheten skall lägga grund för ett livslångt lärande. På sikt skall barnen även kunna tillägna sig den kunskap som utgör den gemensamma referensramen som alla i samhället behöver (Utbildningsdepartementet, 1998). Kan datorer kanske vara ett verktyg som kan hjälpa dem att få tillgång till kunskap? I denna uppsats är syftet att undersöka pedagogers och föräldrars syn på datorer i förskolan och hur barnen faktiskt använder datorn i vardagen. De vuxnas åsikter framställs genom intervjuer och enkäter. Barnens användning av datorer synliggörs genom löpande

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El, Gemayel Joseph. "Modèles de la rationalité des acteurs sociaux." Phd thesis, Université des Sciences Sociales - Toulouse I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00984782.

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Le travail présenté dans ce mémoire s'inscrit dans le cadre du projet SocLab, qui propose une formalisation de la sociologie de l'action organisée de Crozier et Friedberg. Cette formalisation repose sur un méta-modèle de la structure des organisations sociales, à partir duquel il est possible de décrire la structure d'une organisation particulière, de développer une étude analytique de ses propriétés et surtout de calculer, par simulation, les comportements que les acteurs de cette organisation sont susceptibles d'adopter les uns vis-à-vis des autres. Selon cette approche, une organisation est

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Costa, Eleonora. "Peacebuilding Actors And Gender Equality: a Positive Relationship? : Analysing the role of peacebuilding actors in challenging power structures and defeating gender inequality in Liberia and Rwanda." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353137.

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The inclusion of gender equality in the guiding principles of peacebuilding operations led by the United Nations raises questions of effectivity. Indeed, while the commitment of the international community to gender equality is well defined and the importance of gender equality for durable peace has been widely demonstrated, there is no consistent research on the effects of the interventions of peacebuilding actors on dimensions of gender equality. The question leading this paper is “what is the effect of peacebuilding actors’ interventions on gender equality?” and this paper particularly seek

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Majlessi, Mohammad. "A balancing act: a framework for participation of non-state actors in the World Trade Organization." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40726.

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This thesis focuses on the interaction of two categories of non-state actors, private sector corporate actors and non-governmental organizations, with states in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO) through a lens of public international law. It builds on the premise that the notion of states as the only subjects of international law is not adequate for a modern system of global governance, as it does not reflect the realities of fast-paced globalization and increased co-operation in a world where the boundaries of the private and public are increasingly blurred. It does not necess

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Taylor, Carolyn Patricia. "Trafficking in facts : talk, text and identity in professional practice." Thesis, University of Salford, 2007. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26936/.

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In this thesis by published work nine works are presented, prefaced by a Critical Summary and Review which discusses the genesis of the work and its theoretical presuppositions, and evaluates their contribution to knowledge. The work includes both sole-authored and collaborative writing. This published work adopts a social constructionist approach to knowledge in health and welfare. The first work explores critical approaches to child development and their relevance to professional practice. Subsequent work adopts a post-Wittgensteinian approach to language as practical activity, exploring how

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Smith, Bethany Virginia. "Use of Online Educational Social Networking in a School Environment." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03252009-104050/.

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The purpose of this mixed-methods research study was to investigate the use of a closed social network, utilizing Ning, in an online educational environment. The research question driving this study was, does a student-centered online tool, such as Ning, foster knowledge construction through discussion boards more than a class-focused online tool, such as a traditional CMS? The participants were students enrolled in one of two online graduate education courses, one in a traditional Course Management System (CMS), and another class that utilized Ning for their discussions. Discussion Board post

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