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Kluender, Melanie. "Diary." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2343.
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My work reflects the change, growth, metamorphosis, duality, and balance that exists in my life. I focus on the process of change and necessity for adaptation. I’m interested in finding balance among the chaos of everyday living. I’m an observer, an introvert, and a thinker. I see and experience opposing forces all around me. Some are simple observations, such as good versus evil, chaos versus order, organic versus geometric, while some are more personal, such as anxiety versus depression, conflict between the inner versus outer self, disorganization versus obsessive compulsive. I’m fascinated by the delicate point at which opposing forces meet to create balance. I use a variety of papers, found objects, fiber, paint, drawing, and stitching to represent things that are picked up along my journey. Using a variety of materials and imagery represents the chaos of life. Editing, rearranging, dissecting, and reassembling these materials and imagery with deliberate choice are a way to balance the chaos I see and experience to take back control.
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Tan, Wei Zhong. "Lantern's Diary." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3200.pdf.
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Craig, Mendy J. (Mendy Jeneen). "Moments: a Diary." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279155/.
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In my preface I have tried to show what a diary is, why they might be of interest to others, why I think they are valid and should be considered as such. I have defended my diary as being worthy material for a thesis, or myself as worthy of being called a writer. (Traditionally, writing in a diary doesn't qualify one as being a writer, even though you might write millions of pages and spend your entire lives doing it.) Edited selections of my diary make up the body of the thesis. These selections are divided into four main sections which suggested themselves during editing. To summarize the diary as a whole, I would say it's about human relationships.
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Levytsky, Ina I. "Landscapea, diary of parts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0001/MQ34930.pdf.
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Bustamante, Mirayo Antonio. "Pain Diary : Pain Management Platform." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-177259.
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In the context of current human diseases and conditions, chronic pain is among the most typical reasons for seeking medical attention and is seen in 20 to 50 percent of patients attending primary care (Bajwa Z. H., 2012). With those figures in hand, the medical specialty of pain is of increasing interest to the scientific community and other parties involved in the management of chronic diseases. In the practical sense, chronic pain patients usually have, as of now, regular check-up appointments with their pain specialist, where medication is modified or maintained depending on the frequency and intensity of the patient’s pain episodes. As a matter of fact, between appointments, patients are usually encouraged to write a comprehensive account of their pain episodes and their characteristics in the form of a pain diary. In such diary, they write the intensity of their pain in a relative scale from 1 to 10, the location of the pain in their body, and other relevant comments, namely medication side-effects or the activity they were performing when pain appeared. This set of data is then used by pain specialists to calibrate the patient’s medication and follow their treatment. Pain Diary, the project developed and described in the present document, seeks a more flexible, precise approach for patients to record their pain diaries. The project emphasizes on the interaction between the patient and an electronic pain diary, in the form of an application for the iOS platform. This document discusses the human-computer interaction analysis, usability tests, accessibility tests, and prototypes created to develop a comprehensive user-oriented solution for patients of cancer and other chronic diseases. Finally, the paper will present a functional prototype created for iOS, taking into account UX (user experience) design and interaction, as well as a RESTful back-end to consider in a future large scale implementation of the project.
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Lichty, Kevin C. "A Diary of Jack Spoon." NSUWorks, 2014. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/writing_etd/24.
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Garner, Soma Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "The diary of Saga Moor." Awarded By:University of New South Wales. Art, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44379.
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The Diary of Saga Moor is the textural component accompanying the studio-based research as part of my MFA. It takes the form of a fictionalised diary the daily keeping of which constituted a durational performance from September 2008 to late September 2009. This action ?? the daily keeping of a fictive diary of an invented individual resulted in a text of 33,000 words, which was edited down to the length of a general MFA research paper. I chose the form of a Performative Diary Text as it allowed me to frame my research into the proscenium arch of the studio as a Superfiction, replete with its own characters whose daily activities articulated the principal topics of my research and by extension my painting, which during the course of my MFA I began to understand was performative. The diary parallels my own life, as history imitates fiction and art imitates life. Saga Moor takes us on a journey through her world and as becomes clear she opens up the studio component to an analysis of its core processes; commencing as a Masters of Fine Arts student, zombies, travel adventures??, her close friend Soma Garner and Moor??s own painting practice. Saga??s story looks at ideas of authenticity, personas, masks and facades through her personal investigation of modern art theory, digital imaging, painting and personal recollections. As her life develops, so does her character and the text is best understood as the mapping of that life. It allows for a contextualization of the research as a performative action, with consequences that over time transformed my practice. The ??life imitating art?? premise though is always a prevalent motif underlying the character of Saga Moor. The science fictional idea of Moor??s eventual demise as the 50-metre woman draws attention to the fallibility of fiction and frailty of the flesh, imagined or real.
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Frankenberg, Kelly M. "Diary of a Gay Bride." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1588.
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Rapo, A. (Ari). "Photo diary project:valokuvapäiväkirja reflektion välineenä." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2013. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201311151880.
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Minäpystyvyyden tuntemukset mahdollistavat yksilön kehittymisen erilaisissa tehtävissä. Olennaista siinä on jatkuva, tietoinen reflektointi. Koska perinteinen kirjoittamiseen perustuva reflektointi vaatii varsin vahvaa orientaatiota kirjoitusprosessiin, verbaalisen reflektion rinnalle tarvitaan muitakin menetelmiä, kuten visuaaliseen ilmaisuun perustuvia keinoja. Valokuva tarjoaa monia etuja, mutta sitä on tutkittu reflektion välineenä verrattain vähän. Tämän tutkimuksen merkitys on vastata haasteeseen miten valokuvaa voidaan hyödyntää reflektiossa, käyttämällä menetelmänä valokuvapäiväkirjaa.
Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin miten valokuvapäiväkirjan rakentaminen ja ylläpitäminen koetaan reflektion välineenä. Siinä tutkittiin millaisia mahdollisia yhteyksiä valokuvapäiväkirjatyöskentelyllä on henkilön minäpystyvyyden uskomuksiin. Valokuvapäiväkirjatyöskentely tässä kontekstissa tarkoittaa säännöllistä ja toistuvaa, sanallista ja kuvallista reflektointia, jossa painopisteenä on pohdiskelu kuvallisen ilmaisun kautta, valokuvaamalla. Minäpystyvyyteen vaikuttavat mm. onnistumisen kokemukset, sosiaaliset mallit ja sosiaalinen kannustus sekä positiivinen ajattelu.
Tutkimuksen menetelminä käytettiin etnografiaa ja laadullisen aineiston sisällönanalyysia. Menetelmällisesti hyödynnettiin myös design-tutkimuksen (DBR) lähestymistapaa. Aineistonkeruu toteutettiin kolmessa vaiheessa: kahtena www-kyselynä (alku- ja loppukyselyt, N=26 ja N=21) sekä blogityöskentelynä (N=22). Osallistujat päivittivät yhteisen blogin kautta valokuvapäiväkirjaa säännöllisesti verkossa vähintään kahden kuukauden ajan.
Tutkimus osoitti, että valokuvapäiväkirja työskentelytapana sai aikaan tässä kontekstissa yhteyksiä erityisesti sellaisiin minäpystyvyyden tuntemuksiin, jotka liittyvät onnistumisen kokemuksiin ja hallinnan tunteeseen (Mastery Experience), sosiaalisiin malleihin (Social Modeling) ja vertaistukeen (Social Persuation). Tutkimuksessa selvisi että valokuvapäiväkirja auttaa prosessoimaan omia tuntemuksia, jäsentämään ja suuntaamaan ajatuksia uusille urille, erityisesti silloin kun päiväkirjaa toteutetaan säännöllisesti tarkoituksellisin, aktiivisin ottein.
Johtopäätöksenä voidaan todeta, että valokuvapäiväkirjamainen pohdinta soveltuu hyvin reflektion välineeksi ja tukemaan perinteistä sanallista reflektointia. Parhaimmillaan se tuo tekijälleen minäpystyvyyden osatekijöitä vahvistavia kokemuksia. Yhteisöllisissä oppimisprosesseissa valokuvapäiväkirja näyttäisi toimivan hyvin tiedonrakentamisessa ja luovassa kollaboraatiossa. Valokuvapäiväkirja soveltuu menetelmänä itsesäätöisyyden tukemiseen esimerkiksi oppimispäiväkirjan tai portfolion osana, työyhteisön kehittämisprojekteissa sekä erilaisissa luovan kollaboraation operaatioissa.
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Hemstreet, Susan Elizabeth. "Sojourner Adjustment : A Diary Study." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4377.
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The focus of the ethnographic diary study is introduced and contextualized in the opening chapter with a site description. The thesis examines the diaries written during a sojourn of over two years in Japan . and proposes to answer the question, "How did the sojourner's initial maladjustment subsequently develop into satisfactory adjustment?"
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Jackson, Anna. "Towards a poetics of the diary." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365675.
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Black, Marguerite. "The Dandelion diary : die perdeblom kalender." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7757.
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Bibliography: leaves 116.<br>In essensie is die manuskrip wat volg 'n versameling van my gedigte in Afrikaans en Engels. Verder word die digterlike stemme van Antjie Krog en Ingrid Jonker verken met die oog daarop om my eie poesie te verstaan. The thesis also focuses on the impact of illness and disability on my own creative processes and is an analysis of the gender constructs projected by my poetry and that of Ingrid Jonker and Anljie Krog . The work of C. G. Jung and secondary interpretations of his theories form the basis of this inquiry. The conflicting pOints of view around the terms anima and animus are explored. While special emphasis is placed on female archetypal structures, such as those coined by psychoanalyst Toni Wolff. Fairy Tale analyses, especially the dialogue between Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Mari-Louise Von Franz, seek to assist in understanding gender issues that are placed in the foreground by the poetry under discussion. In this regard the role of women in an archetypal context is discussed in conjunction with the feminist theories of, amongst others, Julia Kristeva and Simone De Beauvoir. The different strains of thought reflected in the manuscript complement and run parallel to one another, all addressing the common theme of gender.
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McDonald, Ryan James. "You(S) on the Tube: Deconstructing (American) (Cyber) Selves Inscribed in the Diary Blog and Diary Vlog." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539720304.
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Liljeqvist, Hanna. "Royal Subjects : Feminist Perspectives on Diary Writing and the Diary Form in Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries Series." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131228.
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Meg Cabot’s young adult (YA) novel series The Princess Diaries (2000-2009) is one of many modern-day examples of attempts to redefine what Western society considers the classic princess narrative: the story of a beautiful princess passively waiting for Prince Charming. As critics such as Kay Stone and Sarah Rothschild emphasize, the fictional princess is traditionally linked to notions of ideal femininity which, in turn, makes princess stories interesting texts from a feminist perspective. Rothschild notes a surge in YA princess novels in recent years, with YA writers such as Cabot aiming to challenge the traditional image of the princess as a passive feminine stereotype in their re-workings of the princess story. Previous feminist research on The Princess Diaries series celebrates the main character Mia as a symbol of third wave feminism and as such, a positive role model for Cabot’s predominantly young, female readers. Mia’s characteristic Dr Martens boots are frequently cited as an example of how greatly Mia differs from her princess predecessors. However, these critics ignore important changes in Mia’s personality over the course of the series. By the end of the series, the Dr Martens-wearing heroine introduced in the first book has replaced her combat boots with high heels. In my thesis, I will argue that Mia’s transformation in terms of appearance and preoccupation with mainstream fashion, from quirky outsider to stereotype girly girl, complicates the idea of The Princess Diaries series as feminist texts. Moreover, previous feminist research largely ignores diary writing’s prominent role in the series, and the ways in which the diary format influences the reader-narrator relationship in the novels. In my feminist reading of The Princess Diaries series, I therefore use Mia’s diary writing and the diary format of the series as my starting points. I argue that while Mia’s diary writing is portrayed as empowering, and thereby inspiring, the diary format as a narrative structure creates a rather ambiguous tone and effect; questioning but simultaneously conforming to traditional, restricting notions of femininity.
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Kuok, Chi Man. "Writing as resistance : Petr Ginz's Holocaust diary." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456336.
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Cottam, Rachel. "Secret scratching : the diary and its writing." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307240.
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Storey, Matthew Jason. "The diary of Isaac Archer, 1641-1700." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272763.
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Morrill, Edward Forrest Gil Karen M. "The E-Diary-CS an Internet based daily diary study of stress, physical activity and health in cancer survivors /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,643.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Psychology (Clinical Psychology)." Discipline: Psychology; Department/School: Psychology.
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Sekirin, Peter. "Text unity and cohesion of Dostoevsky's Writer's diary." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ45792.pdf.
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Feudjo, Tepie Maurille Aime. "Modelling daily diary cards in asthma clinical trials." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408447.
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Kattein, J. "The Architecture Chronicle : diary of an architectural practice." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/18941/.
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Most books on architecture start when a building is completed, carefully editing out any evidence of the design and production process. As a result, architecture is often seen as a product rather than a process. The Architecture Chronicle is about architecture as a practice. It has two parts. The book Blur: the Making of Nothing, by Diller and Scofidio, has informed the format of part one. Blur book reports on the design and construction process of Blur building from initial design ideas to the completion of the building. Part one is a diary reporting on the realisation of five stage sets and one urban intervention realised over a period of four years, starting on 16 December 2003. The diary is intercepted by references that are, where appropriate, carefully integrated in the overall design. The book Delirious New York: A retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, by Rem Koolhaas, tells the story of the building of New York with the author taking on the role of a ‘ghost writer’1, putting into perspective the ‘mountains of evidence’2 to discover patterns, methodologies and strategies. Part two is such a ‘retroactive manifesto’3, mining the projects in the diary for strategies that re-appear and fortify throughout The Architecture Chronicle. In his book Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, Adrian Forty observes that the pre-Renaissance architect worked on the building site amongst other tradesmen in an environment of dispersed authorship. It was his ability to draw and to write, acquired during the Italian Renaissance, that allowed the architect to remove himself from the site of construction and to upgrade his status from anonymous craftsman amongst others to artistic creator. New procurement methods have changed the role of the architect in contemporary construction projects. To minimise liability, and as a result of the increased specialisation of building professionals, contemporary buildings are designed by a design team. This threatens the status of the architect as artistic creator. Today, the architect operates once again in an environment of dispersed authorship as a member of the design team working alongside other design professionals. Drawings are more often produced by visualisers, engineers and sub-contractors than by architects while text is more often written by surveyors or specifiers. To maintain his status as artisitc creator, the architect in The Architecture Chronicle takes on three distinct characters. The architect-inventor challenges conventions and questions the social status quo. The architect-activist transgresses the boundary of the profession and enters the construction process. The architect-arbitrator engages the audience to realise the ambitious project. The Architecture Chronicle concludes that the contemporary architect still draws and writes, but that it is often the architect’s ability to engage and direct that asserts his or her status. To assert his or her status in the design team, the architect’s ability to talk and to act is more important than his or her ability to draw and write.
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Bright, Elizabeth Anne. "Developing and evaluating a psychometrically validated urinary diary." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/28826.
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Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) affect a considerable number of people worldwide, inflicting significant impact on their daily lives. Adequate tools that accurately assess LUTS are therefore vital to aid diagnosis and monitor treatment. Urinary diaries provide an inexpensive, non-invasive method and are frequently used to evaluate LUTS in clinical practice and research trials. Despite their common use, a validated diary does not exist. Diaries appear to have evolved in an ad hoc manner, adapted to reflect different patients or conditions under investigation, resulting in numerous designs. The need for a standardised validated urinary diary was therefore evident. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies were employed to develop the urinary diary. In phase 1, patient and clinician opinion was sought on diary content, format and duration using interviews and questionnaires. Including both opinions guaranteed that the resultant diary would be applicable and understandable to those asked to complete it, whilst ensuring the diary remained clinically relevant. Key themes were identified and incorporated into four draft diaries for further assessment. Applying an iterative process, four rounds of content validation using patient-completed diaries or interviews, and one round of clinician opinion were undertaken before a consensus was achieved. The final draft diary developed in phase 1 was subsequently subjected to further psychometric validation in phase 2. Construct validity, criterion validity and reliability of the diary were proven. Analysis of diary duration demonstrated that a reduction in diary length was feasible without significantly compromising reliability. Pilot analysis of diary responsiveness has shown that the diary is sensitive to change and further analysis will be the focus of future research. Ultimately, a valid and reliable three day diary has been produced and is recommended for the assessment of all patients with LUTS to provide a quantitative, objective measure of lower urinary tract function.
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Jacobs, Emily. "Excerpts From the Eva Crane Field Diary: Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28436/.
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Male or female, young or old, the characters of this collection inhabit a liminal space of trauma and social dislocation in which elements of the real and fabulous coexist in equal measure. The ghosts that populate the stories are as much the ghosts of the living, as they are the ghosts of the dead. They represent individual conscience and an inescapable connection to the past.
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Rayburn-Reeves, Daniel James. "Disambiguating human spoken diary entries using context information." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/rayburn-reevesd/danielrayburn-reeves.pdf.
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Molobe, Absalom Mosabeni. "The diary of Hammanskraal : open space : free - mind." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11272008-154322.
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Graham, Judith S. "Puritan family life : the diary of Samuel Sewall /." Boston (Mass.) : Northeastern University press, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388992682.
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Butler, Mary Anne. "A suite of shorts : diary of an emerging filmmaker /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18983.pdf.
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Shannon, Drew Patrick. "The deep old desk the diary of Virginia Woolf /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1186963596.
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Sauceda, Amanda. "An evaluation of users' views of food diary applications." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1523050.
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<p> The purpose of this study was to assess user preference of three smartphone applications, My Net Diary, My Fitness Pal, and Lose It. Applications across different smartphone platforms were used. Specifically the study evaluated users' view regarding the app's (a) convenience, (b) satisfaction with the nutrient analysis reports, and (c) perceived behavior change.</p><p> Participants (n=50) were obtained from Introductory Nutrition Classes at California State University, Long Beach and assigned an app to use for a duration of2 weeks. After that time an email was sent including a link to the Survey Monkey questionnaire. The results, using ANOVAs, indicated no significant differences between the apps in users' view regarding (a) convenience, (b) satisfaction with the nutrient analysis reports, and (c) perceived behavior change. The insignificant results could be attributed to the fact that these apps are widely popular and cited on top 10 lists. Further study is warranted. </p>
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Millim, Anne-Marie. "Preaching silence : the disciplined self in the Victorian diary." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1532/.
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This thesis examines the representations of the self as a cultural agent, both reacting to and actively shaping codes of social and artistic respectability, as displayed in the diaries of the canonical Victorian writers Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin and Gerard Manley Hopkins. It analyses the impact of wider ideological and social imperatives on the diarists’ subjective experience and reads their tendency to silence the self as a symptom of the cultural pressure to merge their private and public persona. These diaries represented a forum in which the diarists perpetually negotiated their own value within the Victorian ideology of productivity and thus not only reflect their inner world but also the cultural climate of the nineteenth century. Chapter One traces the selected diarists’ reluctance to reveal private information, as well as their tendency to foreground professional productivity, to the social pressure to efface emotions relating to the self and to only cultivate those that nurtured the community. It identifies the similarities between the compulsive self-discipline advocated in the psychological discourse of the period, particularly Alexander Bain’s The Emotions and the Will (1859), and the willingness to both live up to and actively shape the cultural codes of respectability that Elizabeth Eastlake and Henry Crabb Robinson display in their diaries. Chapter Two compares and contrasts the desire for maximal professional productivity as exhibited in George Eliot’s and George Gissing’s diaries. Both worked obstinately in order to increase their own value: whereas Eliot sought to redeem her ‘guilt of the privileged,’ Gissing desperately needed to increase his financial solvency through literary output. Chapter Three discusses the ways in which John Ruskin’s diary helped him block out unrespectable and painful private experiences through transforming his obsessive desire to appropriate and “feel” visual experience into a professional task. Chapter Four shows that Gerard Manley Hopkins—because he was acutely concerned by his cultural otherness caused by his homosexuality—not only sought refuge and validation by joining the Jesuits, but by narrowing his realm of experience to nature, merged the private and the public self into the figure of the professional, asexual, dutiful and disinterested observer.
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Charlton, Gemma Louise. "The welfare implications of grazing high yielding diary cows." Thesis, Harper Adams University College, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542599.
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BARON, LIA CABRAL. "WRITING THE CITY: THE POLITICAL DIARY OF THE PRESENCE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=25445@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>A implementação de ações de fomento à cidadania cultural no município do Rio de Janeiro é narrada nesta tese concebida como um diário. O trabalho mostra um cotidiano laboral que se faz no trânsito entre o ambiente institucional da Prefeitura e os fluxos culturais e políticos mobilizados na cidade. Os editais de Pontos de Cultura, Pontões de Cultura e Ações Locais formaram, entre os anos de 2013 e 2015, uma rede de instituições e agentes cujas atividades culturais e artísticas promovem transformações sensíveis nos territórios e comunidades cariocas, sobretudo nos periféricos. A formação dessa rede tornou-se possível em um momento em que a cidade teve suas feições redesenhadas pela presença de corpos, práticas e discursos políticos, que se atravessaram de maneira concreta nas ruas. A vivência dessas políticas de presença enfatizou a necessidade de invenção e aperfeiçoamento de posturas de escuta, diálogo e permeabilidade entre o Estado e o seu fora pulsante. Além disso, esse singular momento de experimentação política exprimiu a possibilidade de que a cidade seja plasmada por debaixo, ou se coloque em processo coletivo de escrita.<br>The implementation of actions that incentivizes cultural citizenry in the city of Rio de Janeiro is narrated in this thesis in the form of a diary. This work shows the daily labor routine that one would experience from the exchanges between the institutional environment of the City Hall and the cultural and political flows mobilized in the city. The public notices of Pontos de Cultura, Pontões de Cultura and Ações Locais formed, during the years of 2013 to 2015, a network of institutions and agents whose cultural and artistic activities were capable of promoting sensible transformations in the Carioca communities, especially in the peripheral neighborhoods. The formation of this network was made possible when the city had its features redesigned by the presence of bodies, practices and political speeches that crossed through each other in a concrete manner in the streets. The perception of this politics of presence emphasized the necessity of inventing and improving the posture of listening, dialogue and permeability between the State and its pulsing exterior. Furthermore, this singular moment of political experimentation expressed the possibility of establishing the city from the bottom up, or of positioning itself in a collective written process.
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Duncan, Jean V. "Diary of a Krazy Bitch and a Practicing Saint." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2012. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/132.
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Davids, M. Ardiel. "The Imām of Simonstown and his diary (1904-1928)." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12200.
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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>This thesis is a study of Imām Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Saban and his Diary within the context of the Simonstown Muslim community that he served from 1904 until 1928. The thesis presents the Diary, transcribed, edited, and digitised, for the sake of understanding the Imām’s contribution. It examines the Diary as a reflection of one man’s witness, open to study from a number of perspectives. Firstly, it presents a background to the early Muslim presence in Simonstown and its links with the Cape slave community. It then constructs a biography of the Imām, mainly on the evidence culled from the Diary, but supplemented by secondary sources. It then turns to the Diary as the Imām’s testimony. The Diary is compared with those of other diarists, who mostly represented a European dominant-class viewpoint of Simonstown. The thesis argues that the Imām’s Diary provides another perspective on the town and its inhabitants. Finally, the study presents the Diary as an insider testimony of the Imām, his role and authority, in the Cape.
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Adrian, Tracy. "Dear Diary: Wilkie Collins’ Portrayal of Gender Self-Writing." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146764542.
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SHANNON, DREW PATRICK. "THE DEEP OLD DESK: THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186963596.
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Wolf, Erin Irene. "A Thesis is Not a Diary and Other Myths." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1565810728861941.
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Pinto, Susana Isabel Carraça. "Diary of a wimpy kid: uma proposta de tradução." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15454.
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O presente trabalho incide sobre uma proposta de tradução dos dois volumes da colecção de literatura juvenil Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Dog Days e The Ugly Truth de Jeff Kinney, autor norte-americano.
Nele, são discutidas questões de método como: manutenção de equivalentes formais ou a sua substituição por equivalentes textuais; uso de mecanismos de tradução directa e/ou oblíqua; problemas de equivalência no que respeita a expressões idiomáticas, trocadilhos e referências culturais. Tal possibilitou uma reflexão sobre a tradução como processo e produto, e contribuiu para as decisões tomadas sobre algumas questões de tradução.
Enraizada na cultura norte-americana, concluímos que a tradução da obra obrigou ao recurso a estratégias como a paráfrase, a interpolação e a utilização de equivalentes culturais. Não obstante, a cultura da língua de partida, perpassa através da manutenção dos nomes próprios e da narração de situações que são estranhas à cultura da língua de chegada; ABSTRACT:This project work is a proposition of translation of two volumes of the youth lit-erature collection Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Dog Days and The Ugly Truth by the North American author Jeff Kinney.
The discussion of questions of method like the maintenance of formal equiva-lents or its replacement by textual equivalents, the use of direct and/or oblique transla-tion, equivalence problems concerning idioms, puns and cultural references led to a re-flection upon translation as process and product and helped in the options about some questions of translation.
We concluded that the translation of the books, rooted in the North American culture, resorted to strategies like: paraphrase, interpolation and the use of cultural equivalents. Nevertheless, the source language culture discloses itself through the keep-ing of proper nouns and the narration of unknown situations to the target language cul-ture.
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LIU, RUI. "Travel Diary Semantics Enrichment of Trajectoriesbased on Trajectory Similarity Measures." Thesis, KTH, Geoinformatik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-221426.
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Trajectory data is playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives, as well as in commercial applications and scientific research. With the rapid development andpopularity of GPS, people can locate themselves in real time. Therefore, the users’behavior information can be collected by analyzing their GPS trajectory data, so as topredict their new trajectories’ destinations, ways of travelling and even thetransportation mode they use, which forms a complete personal travel diary. The taskin this thesis is to implement travel diary semantics enrichment of user’s trajectoriesbased on the historical labeled data of the user and trajectory similarity measures.Specially, this dissertation studies the following tasks: Firstly, trip segmentationconcerns detecting the trips from trajectory which is an unbounded sequence oftimestamp locations of the user. This means that it is important to detect the stops,moves and trips of the user between two consecutive stops. In this thesis, a heuristicrule is used to identify the stops. Secondly, tripleg segmentation concerns identifyingthe location / time instances between two triplegs where / when a user changesbetween transport modes in the user's trajectory, also called makes transport modetransitions. Finally, mode inference concerns identifying travel mode for each tripleg.Specially, steps 2 and 3 are both based on the same trajectory similarity measure andproject the information from the matched similar trip trajectory onto the unlabeled triptrajectory. The empirical evaluation of these three tasks is based on real word data set(contains 4240 trips and 5451 triplegs with 14 travel modes for 206 users using oneweek study period) and the experiment performance (including trends, coverage andaccuracy) are evaluated and accuracy is around 25% for trip segmentation; accuracyvaries between 50% and 55% for tripleg segmentation; for mode inference, it isbetween 55% and 60%. Moreover, accuracy is higher for longer trips than shortertrips, probably because people have more mode choices in short distance trips (likemoped, bus and car), which makes the measure more confused and the accuracy canbe increased by nearly 10% with the help of reverse trip identifiable, because it makesa trip have more similar historical trips and increases the probability that a newunlabeled trip can be matched based on its historical trips.
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Syed, Amir. "Rethinking the Ben Ali diary : multiple contexts and Muslim slaves." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14720.
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This paper explores the reasons why Bilali Mohammed, a Muslim slave who lived on Sapelo Island produced his Arabic document, known as the Ben Mi diary. Although several scholars have studied the document, they have remained silent on why Bilali was
literate and why he produced this work. Since the Ben Au diary deals with Islamic ritual, this paper argues that in order to understand the text it must be intimately connected to Bilali’s life in West Africa, and, more specifically, to the spread of religious school during a period of Islamic revival in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. One of the central concerns of this paper is to raise questions about Muslim slave identity, resistance and literacy. It seeks to situate the discussion about the Ben Ali diary in the larger context of African American and American history. While the paper explores the literature on Muslim slaves, it also explores why the historical narratives that
scholars produce about America’s past silence Islam. Finally, it investigates issues around power and narrativity, and suggests that Islam has been present in the New World since the onset of European colonialism. Consequently, it argues that present-day discourse about the foreignness and “dangers” of Islam in the West, make little sense, and are only legitimized by a complete disregard of this Muslim past.
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Brindle, Kym Michelle. "Epistolary encounters : diary and letter pastiche in neo-Victorian fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587505.
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This thesis examines the significance of a ubiquitous presence of fictional letters and diaries in neo- Victorian fiction. It investigates how intercalated documents fashion pastiche narrative structures to organise conflicting viewpoints invoked in diaries, letters, and other addressed accounts as epistolary forms. This study concentrates on the strategic ways that writers put fragmented and found material traces in order to emphasise such traces of the past as fragmentary, incomplete, and contradictory. Interpolated documents evoke ideas of privacy, confession, secrecy, sincerity, and seduction only to be exploited and subverted as writers idiosyncratically manipulate epistolary devices to support metacritical agendas. ..iJ~1 Underpinning this thesis is the premise that much literary neo- Victorian fiction is bound in an incestuous relationship with Victorian studies. This can be identified and analysed in works that metafictionally and self-consciously engage the- nineteenth century. My study therefore examines a diverse critical awareness refracted through epistolary strategies, investigating how neo- Victorian writers collaborate with or contest critical ideologies by way of perceptual and interpretative manipulation afforded by both diaries and letters. Diary form particularly refracts reflexive critical commentary on the novel and its processes and this study consequently sustains a greater focus on diaries than letters as strategic narrative devices in neo- Victorian fiction. In five chapters, I examine five novels by writers who share a common characteristic of critical, theoretical, and academic backgrounds. Chapter one investigates how A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance (1990) employs techniques of epistolary seduction to support a critique of fictional academics who construct Victorians to fit their own critical agendas. Chapter two considers the ways in which Sarah Waters's nov el, Affinity (1999), parodically foregrounds the Foucauldian 'gaze' with two diarists and secret letters that engage critical discourses of Victorian sexualities and nineteenth-century spiritualism. Chapter three examines Alias Grace (1996) to consider Margaret Atwood's interrogation of the textual re-construction of past lives by way of a diary-style voice. Chapter four discusses Katie Roiphe's 2001 novel, Still She Haunts Me, which plays to contemporary unease about Charles Dodgson's relationship with Alice Liddell by exploiting archival gaps with invented diary entries that eulogise desire. My final chapter explores Mick Jackson's The Underground Man (1997), which interpolates a diary with 'official accounts' in a form of textual autopsy that defends personal liberty and an eccentric viewpoint against communal testimony. This study demonstrates that neo- Victorian writers use documents creatively to interrogate history and our understanding of it in diverse strategic and intertextual ways. My study is grounded in theories of pastiche and builds on Linda Hutcheon's work on historiographic metafiction. It is also informed by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, whose discussion of heteroglossia coincides with theories of diary form's dialogic double- voicedness outlined by Loma Martens's work, The Diary Novel (1985). My study investigates the intertextual processes of metafiction in neo- Victorianism as an area that has as yet received little critical attention, with no specific investigation of epistolary forms in the genre.
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Eatough, Erin. "Illegitimate Tasks and Employee Well-Being: A Daily Diary Study." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4476.
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This dissertation focuses on an occupational stressor that has been recently introduced to the literature, illegitimate tasks, or tasks that seem unreasonable or unnecessary at work. Previous work has demonstrated the relationship between illegitimate tasks and a narrow set of discrete emotions as well as negative employee performance behaviors. The current research contributes to the literature by expanding the nomological network associated with illegitimate tasks and uses a rigorous daily diary methodology in a full-time working sample. It was expected that illegitimate tasks reduce state levels of self-esteem as well as other employee well-being indicators including anger, depressive mood, fatigue, job satisfaction, and sleep quality. Ninety participants filled out trait level surveys and subsequently completed daily dairy questionnaires three times daily for two workweeks. Daily diaries assessed experiences of illegitimate tasks as well as self-esteem and well-being. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to test primary hypotheses. Results indicate that anger and job satisfaction are consistently, significantly associated with illegitimate task episodes throughout workdays; however, responses dissipate overnight. Depressive mood and fatigue tend to be related to illegitimate tasks as the workday carries on and these responses appear to persist into the following workday. Results are consistent with the notion that illegitimate tasks reduce state self-esteem. However, high trait levels of self-esteem may negate this relationship. No effects on sleep quality were evident. In sum, daily experience of illegitimate task episodes represents a meaningful occupational stressor that predicts reductions in employee self-esteem and employee well-being.
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Kurosawa, Yukie. "Pages from my diary : a series of paintings and prints." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864930.
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The creative project, which focused in painting and print making was the conclusion of my graduate program in studio art. I executed eleven oil paintings and eleven woodblock prints which demonstrated my development as a twodimensional artist.Although oil painting is the primary medium that I worked in for this project, I expanded my visual vocabulary to include woodblock printing. These paintings and prints were exhibited at the University Theater Gallery on Ball State University's campus in April of 1992.Painting is a vehicle to express my ideas to others. It is also a vehicle for my personal discovery' Being Japanese (Eastern) living in America (Western) has created a cultural duality in my life, which is the main focus of this creative project. The emotional content of each piece is expressed through visual metaphors.This project involves the exploration of the female figure as a self-portrait, rendered in an environment that visually represents my emotional state of mind. It is a visual diary which started out with the creation of small black and white woodblock prints. I created the images of the four seasons with a female figure surrounded by decorative patterns. This idea expanded as I worked on the oil paintings, which are larger in format (human scale). My intention was to provide a stimulus for emotional response while gaining a greater understanding of how colors, shapes, and other elements operate expressively. For example, in most of the images I intentionally positioned the figure so that the face is turned away from the viewer and not portrayed. This allowed the viewers to project their own feelings onto the work.Along with the creation of the paintings and the prints, I researched past and contemporary artists who shared my ideas and concerns. These artists include the post impressionists--Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin; the Nabis--Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard; the Fauves--primarily Matisse; German Expressionists; and a contemporary English artist, Howard Hodgkin.<br>Department of Art
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Beden, Nadja. "Femininity and Masculinity in Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13976.
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Fiske, P. J. "The diary of a country banker : James Oakes 1778-1827." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380131.
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Simmons, Mathias J. "The relationship between leadership and flow: a daily diary study." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18822.
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Master of Science<br>Department of Psychological Sciences<br>Clive J. Fullagar<br>The current study examines how leaders craft conditions of the workplace to make it more conducive for flow to occur in their followers and what beneficial effects this has on employee well-being and performance. Data from 43 employees surveyed daily over two work weeks suggested that transformational leaders and leader-member exchange relationships impact several workplace conditions that in turn impact flow. Also, daily flow experiences were related to daily psychological well-being and daily performance.
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Gazica, Michele Wilk. "Bi-directional Work-Family Affective Spillover: A Daily Diary Study." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6241.
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This study drew upon the affective events and mood-congruent cognition theories to help explain how one domain influences the other. Affective events are things that happen to which people react emotionally and state affect is a result of those affective experiences. This study proposed that state affect generated in one domain would spillover and influence mood-congruent experiences in the receiving domain. Through an integration of organizational stressor-strain models (e.g., job-resources demand theory) and positive psychology, this study further proposed that positive events are resource-building and will work to prevent or buffer against strain responses to resource-depleting negative events. Finally, this study explored how individual differences in domain integration and work- and family-role salience moderate the foregoing relationships, particularly because studies investigating these effects have produced mixed results.
To address these empirical questions, this study used the daily diary method to examine daily affective spillover effects from work-to-family and from family-to-work in a full-time working sample over the course of two weeks. This method was employed to help bolster confidence about the temporal precedence of work-family affective spillover and employee health and wellbeing outcomes. One-hundred and forty-four participants filled out diary questionnaires three times daily during the work week and one time daily during the weekend. Daily diaries assessed the participants’ exposure to a number of domain-specific affective events, state affect, physical symptoms, and sleep quality. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to test this study’s hypotheses.
Overall, the results of this study support affective spillover as the linking pin between the two domains, which has health and wellbeing implications for employees. Specifically, tests of this study’s hypotheses indicated that exposure to affective events throughout the workday was related to state affect at the end of the workday, which then related to the number of valence-congruent affective events within the family domain. Exposure to those family-related affective events was related to corresponding changes in state affect, which not only persisted to the next morning but impacted employee health and wellbeing in terms of psychosomatic complaints. These findings are in line with both the affective events and mood-congruent theories.
Only one significant moderating effect was observed. There was a positive relationship between negative affect at the end of the workday and the number of negative family affective events endorsed by participants who were lower on domain integration, but not among those who were higher on domain integration. The direction of this effect was surprising and may suggest that setting up strong boundaries between life domains creates unattainable expectations, which may increase negative outcomes for an employee.
In sum, family-related affective experiences are an important variable to consider when investigating the effects of affective spillover on work-related experiences and health and wellbeing. The failure to do so may result in a considerable loss of information and contribute to mixed study results.
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Stapleton, Jerod L., Joel J. Hillhouse, Rob Turrisi, et al. "Erythema and ultraviolet indoor tanning: findings from a diary study." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/62.
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The use of artificial ultraviolet (UV) indoor tanning (IT) beds increases the risk of skin cancer. The IT industry claims IT devices provide users with control over the amount of UV radiation exposure and thus reduces risks of sunburn (i.e., skin erythema) when tanning. This study aims to establish the prevalence and predictors of IT-related erythema using diary data. Six bimonthly diary surveys were administered to 198 female college IT users. Diaries assessed IT use and IT-related erythema. Among participants who used IT, 66 % experienced at least one episode of erythema and nearly one in five IT sessions resulted in skin erythema. Those who reported the most frequent IT use prior to the study were less likely to experience an IT-related erythema on a given IT session compared to the least experienced IT users. Perceived susceptibility to burns from IT use was positively associated with risk of erythema. Erythema was a frequently reported experience among IT users. Implications for policy makers and behavioral medicine practitioners are discussed
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Engström, Jon. "Co-creation in Healthcare Service Development : A Diary-based approach." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kvalitetsteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-78717.
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The patient is the only person who experiences the complete course of a healthcare problem, from first symptom to any contacts with the healthcare system to examination, treatment, follow-up activities and rehabilitation. The aim of this thesis is to explore how caregivers, together with patients, can draw on the knowledge patients acquire from their experiences in healthcare service development. This represents a break with the traditional role of the patient, which has been one of a passive receiver of care, following a supplier-centered view on value creation, which has increasingly been challenged both in the healthcare management discourse and in service research. Instead it is argued that value can only be co-created with customers, or patients in the case of healthcare. This means that the patients’ value-creating processes and contexts need to be emphasized and that patients are seen as a possible resource in their own care but also in the development of services and products. Despite this change in discourse, practical methods and empirical studies concerning patient involvement are scarce. This thesis adds to the field through an empirical exploration of co-creation in the development of healthcare. Through an action research approach, researchers and healthcare personnel have collaborated to develop a model for involving patients in service development, by inviting patients to share ideas and experiences through diaries. A workable, three-phase (preparation, execution and learning) model for patient involvement through diaries has been developed, and applied in three clinics (orthopedic, rehabilitation, gastro). A total of 53 patients from the different care processes have contributed ideas and experiences using paper and pen diaries or blogs, or by calling an answering machine. By doing so for a period of 14 days, the patients have submitted a total of 360 ideas. Three ways are proposed for utilizing the rich data submitted by the patients in service development. First, ideas from diaries can be used as input for service development. Second, a larger sample of diaries can be used to create a report of patient experiences, in which problem areas in the care process can be identified, and combined with other statistics. Third, individual patients’ stories can be highlighted and serve as a basis for discussion in the organization to shift the focus to the patient’s experience, serving as a motivator for change within the caregiving organization. The study shows that patients can share ideas and experiences regarding a range of topics, including clinical, organizational, social, informational, and practical issues and attitudes among healthcare staff. The contexts to which these ideas and experiences applied were caregiver, home, extended caregiver, and work, and often concerned topics and aspects of the patient’s care process that are invisible to the caregiver. Although healthcare organizations should be aware of the limitations to participation an illness may imply among some patients, patient co-creation in service development provides several important benefits. Acquiring knowledge regarding the parts of the patient’s care process that are invisible to the caregiver is key to improving care and supporting patients’ work of healing and managing life. Patients’ insights and creativity are an untapped resource for development of many aspects of the healthcare process.