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DeNoux, Dana A. "From Beyond." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2310.
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My artworks are informed by my experiences in the landscape at dusk. As the sun sets, the energy of the landscape shifts and a whole new world of the unseen arise. Through my artworks, I seek to encapsulate the emotions that the landscape evokes at this time. I explore my own desires of being immersed in the natural world, as well as my wonder and respect for its mysteries. Through darkness and light, my artworks investigate the unknown, or the idea of the unknown, beyond what the senses perceive.
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Beam, Craig. "Virtue beyond morality, Nietzsche's ethical naturalism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0002/NQ44751.pdf.
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Domènech, Cots Oriol. "Compositeness from Holography and beyond." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/96534.
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La recerca dels components fonamentals de la natura és l’objectiu primordial de la física de partícules. Des del descobriment de l’àtom, estructures més i més fonamentals s’han descobert, les quals componen la matèria. El Model Estàndar de la física de partícules assumeix l’existència d’una sèrie de partícules considerades fonamentals, incloent el bosó de Higgs. No obstant, hi ha fortes motivacions per creure que almenys algunes d’aquestes partícules són compostes i, de fet, la seva naturalesa es podria revelar a l’LHC. El principal problema de les teories que descriuen partícules compostes és el fet de que, en certs regims, els constituents d’aquestes estan fortament acoblats. El tractament de teories fortament acoblades és un dels reptes més importants en la física de partícules actual ja que aquest tipus de teories no poden ésser tractades en el marc de la Teoria Quàntica de Camps, que és l’eina principal en la física teòrica d’altes energies. L’estudi de models en dimensions extra ha aportat una visió més profunda d’aquest problema, ja que aquests models es poden entendre com teories ‘hologràfiques’ que exhibeixen una dinàmica d’acoblament fort. El propòsit d’aquesta tesis és l’estudi de diferents sistemes de partícules compostes. Ens centrem en el desenvolupament de models en dimensions extra que es poden considerar com anàlegs a sistemes fortament acoblats presents a la natura, aquests són la Cromodinàmica Quàntica i els sistemes superconductors. A més també analitzem el cas de la naturalesa composta dels quarks de manera genèrica a través de l’estudi dels efectes de models explícits a energies inferiors a l’escala de nova física.<br>The search for compositeness is a paramount goal in particle physics. Since the
discovery of the atom, more and more fundamental structures have been discovered
in nature from which matter is compound. The Standard Model of particle physics
assumes the existence of a set of fundamental particles, including the Higgs boson,
that possess no structure. Nevertheless there are strong motivations to believe that
at least some of them could be composite and indeed its nature could be unraveled
at the LHC. The main difficulty of theories of composite particles is that, in certain
regimes, their constituents are strongly coupled. Dealing with strongly coupled
theories is a major puzzle in theoretical physics since they can not be understood in
the usual framework of Quantum Field Theories, which is the main tool available
in theoretical high energy physics. Fortunately, the study of extra dimensional
theories has allowed us to gain deeper insights on this issue since these models can
be viewed as ‘holographic’ theories exhibiting strong dynamics. The purpose of this
thesis is the study of different composite systems which exhibit strong dynamics.
We focus on the development and study of extra dimensional models which can be
interpreted as analogs of some strongly interacting systems present in nature, these
are Quantum Chromodynamics and superconducting systems. Moreover we also
analyze the case of quark compositeness in a model independent way by studying
the effects of explicit models at energies below the cut-off scale of New Physics.
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Perrin, Robin Terese. "From Cambridge to communication, McLuhan beyond McLuhanism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ61480.pdf.
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Stanislawski, Bartosz Hieronim. "Black Spots Insecurity from beyond the horizon /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
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Öman, Béatrice. "Euroscepticism – from 1986 to 2020 and beyond." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Statsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35033.
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A semi-systematic literature review of research carried out on the evolution of the concept of Euroscepticism since the term first was reportedly used in 1986 with special focus on articles published around the year before the 2019 European Parliament elections and to this date. The thesis was conducted with a particular interest in gathering more knowledge on using an evidence-based method in political science. The purpose was twofold, therefore: one to see how the concept itself has evolved in research, in terms of definition and salience as well as in terms of measuring and explanatory factors, and the other to see if the method used is appropriate to this purpose. From the data gathered, it can be said that the method is pertinent and relevant when assembling research from a widespread and multifaceted area in terms of geography and content, since it is meant to avoid the pitfalls of ‘picking and choosing’ data. The articles thus uncovered have shown that there is a red thread in research on Euroscepticism, that its context has changed and therefore its content, and that Euroscepticism 2020 is a salient issue.
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GUIMARAENS, DOMINGOS DE LEERS. "IMAGINATIVE PATHS: FROM SYMBOLISM TO MODERNISM AND BEYOND." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15115@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Neste trabalho traço um caminho entre o simbolismo e o modernismo no
Brasil. Um caminho de fusão entre estas duas escolas como contraponto ao
pensamento hegemônico sobre o simbolismo, que o define como movimento
marginalizado dentro do parnasianismo e sem grande repercussão na geração
futura. Para fazer este caminho lanço mão de estudos sobre textos e obras críticas
dos dois movimentos, além da correspondência e documentação, em grande parte
inédita, entre Alphonsus de Guimaraens Filho e algumas das principais figuras do
modernismo brasileiro.<br>In this work I create a path between symbolism and modernism in Brazil.
A path of fusion between those schools on the other hand of an hegemonic
opinion that symbolism was trapped inside parnasianism and did not influenced
the next generation. To follow this path I use texts and critic works of those
schools and also the letters and documents, most of all inedited, between
Alphonsus de Guimaraens Filho and some of the major figures of Brazilian
modernism.
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Kulseth, Marthe. "Beyond the Standard." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för design, inredningsarkitektur och visuell kommunikation (DIV), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7272.
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In order to contribute to equality, we must go beyond the standard. I want to learn from people with disabilities and the spatial border they are faced with, by exploring the responsibility I have been given, through claiming a role that affects our built environments. I have experience with disabilities and handicaps, but these experiences do not automatically make me better in addressing issues concerning other people with disabilities. I am dyslexic and have been through big obstacles, particularly in the educational system, and I have my Aunt, who has an intellectual disability. I am privileged to have these experiences, and with this thesis I have explored them as an interior architect. This is where I start on my way to contribute. This thesis is a critical study of how standards are practiced, examined through housing built for people with intellectual disabilities in Selbu, Norway. In the center of the critique is the institution. Institutionalization and standardization have a long relationship as answers to complex questions. Institutions’ uniformity ultimately belongs to no one. The matter becomes particularly problematic when the environment is supposed to operate someone’s home. Housing for people with intellectual disabilities is often life long and not determined on the intention of the builders. What is obvious to me after reading the standards and exploring the buildings, is that the minimum requirements are always in place, often built as if the minimum was the goal. But a standard also expresses its vision. The vision talks about inclusion and the dangers with mini institutions, but the vision is expressed through soft language and the minimum requirements are expressed through concrete language of measurements. From the process of being a standard to becoming a building the soft language evaporates from the building plans. The standard will never prohibit you to go beyond it!<br><p>Part of the project is in collaboration with Nils Ställborn, graduating Bachelor student with his thesis Material Diversity.</p><p>Please go to <em>poststandardization.info </em>to see our exhibition, an information platform to spread the insight of Poststandardization to enable the world to go beyond the standard.</p>
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Chow, Chin Min Edmund. "Afghan theatres since 9/11 : from and beyond Kabul." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/afghan-theatres-since-911-from-and-beyond-kabul(692923e8-e171-41b4-8fc1-1ea44cb7ce6c).html.
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The two most visible representations of Afghanistan are arguably Steve McCurry’s ‘Afghan Girl’ on the cover of National Geographic (June 1985) and Khaled Hosseini’s award-wining novel 'The Kite Runner' (2004). These two products laid the basic premise that images and ideas about Afghanistan have been circulated and commodified worldwide, especially qualities of the exotic, oppressed, and weak. Since print photography and literary works belong to the culture industry, this research seeks to enquire if performing arts, more specifically theatre, projected Afghanistan in similar ways. More precisely, this research asks how Afghan cultures and identities have been represented in the post-9/11 period. Borrowing the circuit of culture model (1997) from Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay, this research then examines ten specific theatre performances within Afghanistan and outside Afghanistan in a spatio-temporal framework illustrating dynamic tensions from, and beyond, Kabul. Case studies from Kabul illustrate that Afghan cultures can be owned and regulated by competing stakeholders, including the Taliban, within its geopolitical boundaries. Case studies from/beyond Kabul show the export of Afghan cultures and performances outside Afghanistan, underscoring tropes of impoverishment and suffering while inviting or inciting international interventions and conciliations. Case studies beyond Kabul tend to imagine ‘Afghanistan’ by offering an ambivalent, and sometimes, contradictory response to the war on terror. This thesis argues that projective closure – the act of filling in absences and gaps to make sense of an Afghan narrative – often circulates and entrenches Afghans in victimhood tropes. Because there are constant fluctuations and contestations at what ‘Afghanistan’ was, is, and should be, Afghanistan as an imagined entity – or a global cultural commodity – becomes more evident. Derek Gregory was right to observe in 'The Colonial Present' (2004) that Afghanistan has been an object of international geopolitical manoeuvrings since the nineteenth century, and, as this thesis will show, even early twenty-first century. But the claw of the “colonial present” does not stem from hostilities enacted by imperial power, but a series of intimate engagements with non-government organisations, government agencies, embassies, foreign theatre directors, and even global audiences who uncritically celebrate narratives of Afghan heroism. This is further complicated by the readiness of local Afghan practitioners to consume and project themselves as victims of war who are in ‘need’ of foreign help. As such, the value that is being demanded and supplied in the global culture industry is still victimhood. Afghan cultures and identities are deeply embedded in contexts – situational, cultural, global – and unless these contexts are collocated and layered upon each other to add nuance to interrogate cultural practices, cultural workers and theatre practitioners continue to run the risks of reproducing conflicts, even if they are beyond the geographical space of Kabul – because the locations of the ‘local’ and ‘global’ are becoming increasingly intertwined.
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Achtenhagen, Leona, and Malin Tillmar. "Studies on women's entrepreneurship from Nordic countries and beyond." Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, ESOL (Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization, Leadership), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-21187.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to direct attention to recent research on women's entrepreneurship, focusing on Nordic countries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper encourages research that investigates how context, at the micro, meso and macro level, is related to women's entrepreneurship, and acknowledges that gender is socially constructed. Findings – This paper finds evidence that recent calls for new directions in women's entrepreneurship research are being followed, specifically with regard to how gender is done and how context is related to women's entrepreneurial activities. Originality/value – This paper assesses trends in research on women's entrepreneurship, mainly from the Nordic countries.
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Shuhmaher, Natalia. "Aspects of cosmology from physics beyond the standard model." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18460.
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The interface of Cosmology and High Energy physics is a forefront area of research which is constantly undergoing development. This thesis makes various contributions to this endeavor. String-inspired cosmology is the subject of the first part of the thesis, where we propose both a new inflationary and a new alternative cosmological model. The second part of the thesis concentrates on the problems of integrating cosmology with particle physics beyond the Standard Model. Inspired by new opportunities due to stringy degrees of freedom, we propose a non-inflationary resolution of the entropy and horizon problems. In this string-inspired scenario, 'our' dimensions expand while the extra dimensions first expand and then contract, before eventually stabilizing. The equation of state of the bulk matter (which consists of branes) is negative. Hence, there is a net gain in the total energy of the universe during the pre-stabilization phase. At the end of this phase, the energy stored in the branes is converted into radiation. The result is a large and dense 3-dimensional universe. Making use of similar ideas, we propose a not-fine-tuned model of brane inflation. In this scenario the brane separation, playing the role of the inflaton, is the same as the overall volume modulus. The bulk matter provides an initial expansion phase which drives the inflaton up its potential, so that the conditions for inflation are realized. The specific choice of the inflationary potential nicely fits the cosmological observations. Another aspect of this research concentrates on the cosmological moduli problem: namely, the existence of weakly coupled particles those decay is late enough to interfere with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. As a solution, we suggest parametric and tachyonic resonances to shorten the decay time. Even heavy moduli are dangerous for cosmology if they cause the overproduction of gravitinos. We find that tachyonic decay channels help to transfer most of the energy of thes<br>L'interface entre la Cosmologie et la Physique des hautes énergies est un sujet de recherche d'avant-plan en constant développement. La cosmologie inspirée par la théorie des cordes est le sujet de la première partie de cette thèse, dans laquelle nous proposons d'une part un nouveau mécanisme pour l'inflation et d'autre part une nouvelle alternative de modèle cosmologique. Dans la seconde partie nous nous concentrons sur les problèmes reliés à l'intégration de la cosmologie dans un modèle de physique des particules au-delà du Modèle Standard. Motivés par les nouvelles possibilités venant des degrés de liberté de la théorie des cordes, nous proposons une résolution non-inflationiste aux problèmes d'entropie et d'horizon. Selon notre scenario fondé sur la théorie des cordes, les trois dimensions spatiales habituelles ainsi que les dimensions supplémentaires s'étendent, mais ces dernières se contractent eventuellement avant de se stabiliser. L'équation d'état de la matière du bulk, qui consiste de branes, est négative. Il y a donc un net gain dans l'énégie totale de l'univers durant la phase de pré-stabilisation. A la fin de cette phase, l'énergie stockée dans les branes est convertie en radiation. Le résultat est un univers tri-dimensionel large et dense. En utilisant des idées similaires, nous proposons un modèle d'inflation qui ne requiert pas d'ajustements fins. Dans ce scénario, la séparation entre les branes, qui joue le rôle de l'inflaton, est la même que le module du volume global. La matière du bulk fournit une phase d'expansion initiale qui pousse l'inflaton vers le haut de son potentiel, réalisant ainsi les conditions pour l'inflation. Le choix spécifique du potentiel de l'inflaton est en accord avec observations cosmologiques. Un autre aspect de ma these adresse le problème cosmologique des champs de module: c'est-à-dire l'existence de particules faiblement couplées dont la désintégration a li
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Paul, Joanna K. "Beyond four walls : lessons from the experiential education movement." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10007443/.
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The purpose of this case study is to investigate the lessons that mainstream public education can learn from the field of experiential education. This study examines two cases of integrated experiential education with particular reference to the ways that these practices meet the educational needs in mainstream education. A range of literature will be considered from the Education for Sustainability Movement, Future Studies, and Environmental Education. Their suggestions for changes in the mainstream public school system are explored along with their potential to better meet the needs of the high modernity. The adoption of a new pedagogy and value system to be employed by teachers in schools will be suggested in light of these needs. Experiential education is considered as this pedagogy and its practices are investigated at two learning institutions using the case study method. The central research question explores how experiential education is interpreted in these particular cases, and what can mainstream practice learn from them. The case studies were conducted at The Eagle Rock School in Colorado, USA and the Tihoi Venture School in Taupo, New Zealand. Each school has an integrated experiential component to their curriculum and programming and was chosen for its unique display of experiential learning activities in both outdoor and formal classroom settings. This exploration of practice through observations and interviews offers insight to the methods and techniques used in the field of experiential education, as well as the values that guide this practice. Best practices in integrated experiential education programs are illustrated and strategies that can be transferred to the mainstream classroom are extrapolated. A new set of skills for teachers and students are discussed and applications to the future are anticipated. Finally, the study makes recommendations for practices that can transfer to a mainstream public school setting, and suggests methods that will enable mainstream public school teachers to help students meet the challenges of the future in the individual, social and environmental arenas.
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Evans, Benjamin M. "Signifying selfhood, from Descartes to Dawkins and beyond (or: from ego to Lego)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0006/MQ42612.pdf.
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Todorov, I. T., and todorov@inrne bas bg. "Two--Dimensional Conformal Field Theory and Beyond. Lessons from a." ESI preprints, 2001. ftp://ftp.esi.ac.at/pub/Preprints/esi986.ps.
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Osafo-Danso, Ransford. "Beyond Elections| Ghana's Democracy from the Perspective of the Citizenry." Thesis, Walden University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3701831.
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<p>Ghana?s democracy has been hailed by scholars, practitioners, and the international community in recent years as a shining example in the West African subregion as a result of the country?s record of organizing successive elections with minimal or no violence. However, the evaluation of Ghana?s democracy has predominantly focused on the elections and disproportionately captures the views of the political elite; conspicuously missing is the perspective of the ordinary Ghanaian. This presents an incomplete picture of Ghana?s democracy, given the relevance of citizens? participation in democratic societies. To address this gap in knowledge, this qualitative case study explored the practice of democracy in Ghana under the fourth republic from the perspective of the citizenry. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with purposefully sampled ordinary Ghanaian citizens (n = 15), observation, and documents review. The data were then subjected to thematic and content analysis to reveal themes, categories, and patterns. The results revealed that the participating Ghanaians had dichotomous views, opinions, and experiences of democracy. Their experiences and opinions of the electoral system were generally positive, while their experiences and opinions of governance in the intervening years were generally negative. The study?s results should inspire a paradigm shift in the responsiveness of government to citizens and how the government engages with citizens on policy formulation and implementation. This study?s results can encourage positive social change with respect to the manner in which democratic performance is evaluated in Ghana by scholars, practitioners, and the international community.
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Gaesser, Brendan James. "Simulating personal future events: Contributions from episodic memory and beyond." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11244.
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Episodic simulation refers to the construction of imagined, hypothetical events that might occur in one's personal future. Damage to our capacity for episodic simulation can produce grave consequences, impairing our ability to anticipate, plan, and prepare for the future. New theoretical approaches have begun to uncover the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying episodic simulation, but much remains to be examined. The purpose of this dissertation is to further investigate the mechanisms supporting episodic simulation as well as the functions it serves. In the first study of the dissertation I examine age-related deficits in imagining the future, remembering the past, and describing the present (Paper 1). These findings replicate known deficits in older adults in episodic simulation and memory, yet provide evidence of non-episodic processes that also shape their expression. I next examine component cognitive and neural processes that are recruited to generate imagined events (Paper 2). Distinct regions of the hippocampus were active when encoding, tracking novelty, or constructing imagined events, suggesting a multifaceted role of the hippocampus in supporting episodic simulation. Finally, I present evidence that episodic simulation and memory can be used to facilitate empathy, that is, intentions to help a person in need (Paper 3). People are more willing to help a person in need after imagining or remembering helping that individual. Furthermore, the episodic vividness of these imagined or remembered events heightened intentions to help. These findings elucidate a previously unconsidered mechanism for facilitating empathy, and, in doing so, open the possibility for a new functional account of episodic simulation. I close by discussing the promise of this line of work that aims to provide new insights into the relationship between episodic simulation, memory, and empathy.<br>Psychology
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Owens, Kimberly B. "Beyond hate: countering violent extremism from the white power movement." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/38270.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.<br>Counterterrorism efforts are a major focus for the homeland security enterprise. Throughout the world, however, efforts have largely focused on countering violent extremism from Islamist organizations. While Islamist terrorists have been responsible for more deaths in the United States, this research focuses on white power domestic terrorism. It considers successful methods from the United States and the United Kingdom (UK), but applies them to factions of the right-wing movement, rather than Salafi-jihadist groups. This research is a case study comparison of former right-wing leaders, both of whom were associated with planned domestic terror plots. Significantly, the research included participation of individuals formerly active within the politically motivated Ku Klux Klan, and the religiously motivated the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA). It revealed a common anti-government theme between the vastly different groups, as well as the sociological underpinnings for participation in the Klan, within the theoretical framework of Social Identity Theory. While extremism is an unpleasant fact, perhaps violence can be mitigated, and having dialogue with those who once carried the torch of white power rhetoric may hold some answers, or provide a starting point for successful counterterrorism efforts.
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Davies, Daniel Jay. "Psychotic experiences beyond psychotic disorders : from measurement to computational mechanisms." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267820.
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Psychotic experiences (PEs) occur in the general population, beyond psychotic disorders. PEs are a risk factor for mental ill health in young people but can occur benignly in selected samples of adults. Environmental factors predispose to PEs but their underlying mechanisms are not well-understood. Progress in understanding PEs may be limited by diverse conceptualisations, imprecise measurement and a lack of explanatory frameworks that can bridge the gaps between aetiological factors, their effects on the brain and their behavioural manifestations. In this thesis, I undertook a comprehensive investigation of the measurement, health implications, aetiology and computational mechanisms of PEs in adolescents and young adults using data from two large cohort samples, supplemented with smaller-scale behavioural studies. I first investigated the measurement of PEs. I assessed and optimised the measurement of PEs in young people by two self-report instruments. I then used latent variable modelling to show that a self-report and interview instrument measured the same underlying psychotic phenomena. Both instruments were able to measure severe PEs, while the self-report questionnaire also measured more mild psychotic phenomena. I then investigated the health implications of PEs. Using cluster analysis in both cohorts, I found replicable patterns of PEs at similar levels of intensity and persistence but with and without depressive symptoms and with varying risk of mental disorder. Paranoid ideation was more associated with depressive symptoms than non-paranoid unusual perceptions and beliefs. Childhood adversity was associated with both PE-prone groups, but later social support from family and friends was far higher in those with PEs and low depressive symptoms than those with PEs and high depressive symptoms. Subsequently, I investigated the role of the social environment in the development of PEs and psychopathology using longitudinal structural equation modelling. I found that asocial dispositions increased or preceded increase in PEs over one year, mediated by detriment to social support. Conversely, PEs did not precede or increase asociality. I then showed that dimensions of PEs and depressive symptoms were promoted by childhood adversity but differentially affected by later social support, with paranoid ideation being more influenced by support than non-paranoid unusual perceptions/beliefs. Finally, I investigated specific mechanisms of PEs in two behavioural studies. In the seventh study, I used computational modelling of reward learning to link PEs to reduced ability to modulate learning by confidence, replicating computational effects of a pharmacological model of psychosis. I also used a novel visual task to show that the manifestation of PEs as anomalous perceptions versus anomalous beliefs might be explained by over-reliance on different types of prior knowledge in perceptual inference. These results suggest that different conceptual approaches to PEs might be synthesised despite issues with their measurement. PEs in young people, while not entirely benign, are heterogeneously associated with psychopathology. Importantly, they characterise a minority of young people who are at very high transdiagnostic risk of mental illness but also occur without distress in young people, often in the context of a supportive social environment. Health outcomes in young people with PEs are predicted and potentially modified by social functioning and social relationships. PEs might arise from atypicalities in how the influences of information sources on perception and belief-updating are modulated according to their reliabilities.
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Schewtschenko, Jascha Alexander. "Cosmological simulations with Dark Matter from beyond the Standard Model." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11575/.
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We study the non-linear structure formation in cosmologies where the collision-less cold dark matter (CDM) is either replaced by interacting dark matter or (partly) replaced by a free-streaming non-cold dark matter component. We focus in the first case on models with a non-vanishing interaction cross-section between dark matter and radiation in the early Universe, i.e. photons (γCDM) and neutrinos (νCDM). We study the properties of the dark matter structures that form in the presence of the collisional damping using N-Body simulations. For their halo shapes, we find similar effects as for standard thermalized fermionic Warm Dark Matter (WDM). However, for the abundance of these structures, the interacting DM models are clearly distinguishable from WDM below the characteristic damping scale. We also have a closer look at dark matter halos that resemble those hosting the two main galaxies in our Local Group, the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31). By using a high-resolution zoom-simulation of Local Group-like environments, we reveal how the DM-radiation interactions help to ease certain CDM ”small scale problems”. Furthermore, the combination of these Local Group simulations with our previous cosmological simulations allows us to constrain the cross-section in our model by comparing the abundance of satellite galaxies in our Milky Way with the predictions for subhaloes. Thanks to the sensitivity of the subhalo abundance to the suppression of the primordial perturbations, even our most conservative constraints are orders of magnitude tighter than those previously obtained from CMB data. In the case of neutrinos or other non-cold dark matter, we study ways to predict numerically the evolution of this free-streaming component correctly. We identify shortcomings in all the previously proposed techniques we encountered in our studies of various models with massive neutrinos and come up with a new, adaptive Eulerian technique to treat the neutrino fluid accurately. In particular, we introduce our implementation called SEPARA. First test results for the code are presented while full cosmological simulations will be performed in the near future.
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Allain, Chapman Justine. "From adversity to altruism and beyond : a pastoral theology of resilience." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2011. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/from-adversity-to-altruism-and-beyond(a423a485-6b13-4344-afaf-f278d2c133c3).html.
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The focus of this research is the experience of being strengthened in adversity, that is, the process of resilience. The context is Christian pastoral care with the research addressing questions of how Christian pastors can help others develop resilience and can be strengthened in pastoral ministry themselves. The multidisciplinary psychosocial science research into resilience is the first dialogue partner. Themes of struggle, the self, and relationships emerge as key components of the process of resilience, which is also characterized by a progression from adversity to altruism. These themes from resilience literature are brought into conversation with the biblical tradition of the desert where the landscape and metaphor of the desert point to three movements of a resilience process: embracing the desert, the encounter with the self and God and altruism expressed in pastoral responsibility. Christian texts emerge from the desert Christians of the fourth and fifth centuries: the Alphabetical Sayings attend to the need to embrace the adversity of the desert while the Institutes and Conferences of John Cassian provide a programme whereby the ascetical struggle involves encountering the self and God and is lived out by altruism and the responsibility of being an elder. The Christian theologian and pastor, Rowan Williams, addresses the themes of struggle, self, and relationships in such a way as to meet the challenges made to Christian theology because of the traditional focus on obedience, humility and self‐denial. By a process of creating space in relationships the mature Christian acts altruistically. The widely used myth and model of the wounded healer reveals how the pastoral relationship itself goes beyond altruism by enabling healing and growth not only for those in adversity, but also for the pastor. By drawing on the research as a whole I propose a more sustainable model for pastoral ministry: the resilient pastor.
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Li, Kelin, and 李科林. "The liberation of sensation from reason: going beyond Kant with Deleuze." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43703835.
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Boegli, Susan K. "Vocal-tract normalisation : the contribution of information from beyond the syllable." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389629.
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Li, Kelin. "The liberation of sensation from reason going beyond Kant with Deleuze /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43703835.
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Küchler, Andreas. "Adaptive processing of structural data: from sequences to trees and beyond." Ulm : Universität Ulm, Fakultät für Informatik, 1999. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB8541389.
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McLeod, Sharynne, Catherine Crowley, A. Lynn Williams, et al. "Beyond Spanish: Competencies for SLPs Working with Children from Diverse Cultures." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2049.
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This session is developed by, and presenters invited by Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations. This session will support SLPs’competencies for working with children with speech-language disorders across different cultural contexts. General principles and resources will be supplemented with examples from New York, Ghana, Bolivia, Brazil, Navajo Nation, China (Hong Kong), Jamaica, and Canada (Québec).
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Finnegan, Amy Colleen. "Beyond Victimhood: Narratives of Social Change from and for Northern Uganda." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104405.
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Thesis advisor: William A. Gamson<br>Thesis advisor: Zine Magubane<br>Alongside a burgeoning popular fascination with Africa, new forms of US activism have emerged that seek to address social problems experienced in Africa. Uncritically performed, this activism can have consequential implications in Africa and in the US where young Americans' understanding of Africa, global social problems, and strategies for social change are being shaped. This dissertation illuminates such phenomena through problematizing the US efforts to address the war in northern Uganda and juxtaposing it with the struggles of indigenous activists based in northern Uganda. Focusing upon US activism for northern Uganda, and the group Invisible Children in particular, I raise critical questions about what social change efforts look like in both the US and northern Uganda and why they take the shapes they do. Building on a long-term relationship with northern Uganda and utilizing the methods of ethnography, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups, I expose both overlaps and mismatches in the two contexts, and most importantly, lay the groundwork for building a dialogic between insider and outsider efforts for social change in northern Uganda, with lessons for those interested in social change throughout Africa. Beyond creating useful academic knowledge, this participatory action research infused project seeks to contribute to consciousness-raising in the US and Uganda and, ultimately, to more synergistic and fruitful efforts for social change. Ultimately, I argue that while grounded in a strong foundation of benevolent intentions alongside savvy and sophisticated mobilization tactics, the American activists have an inflated sense of themselves and their roles in responding to and ending the war in northern Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)-affected areas. Among other concerns, this tone of self-absorption translates into a continuity of patronizing victimhood as well as a lack of consciousness of the existence of indigenous social change agents from the region. Ugandans, on the other hand, are not overly alarmed or concerned with this US activism carried out on their behalf because its impact has been largely peripheral to their lives. While many Ugandans articulate some critiques of the young American activists advocating on their behalf, a thunderous anti-imperialist narrative from Ugandans is unlikely primarily because the Americans' impact is marginal<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Sociology
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Crew, T. "Beyond graduation : trajectories of graduates from higher education in North Wales." Thesis, Bangor University, 2014. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/beyond-graduation-trajectories-of-graduates-from-higher-education-in-north-wales(d6e02189-3c90-405b-8a4b-9b506353221b).html.
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Higher education is in a state of transformation, with the economic recession leading to an even greater emphasis on graduate outcomes. Existing UK-wide research suggests that graduate opportunities are influenced by pre-entry characteristics; institution attended and subject studied, as well as the individual’s store of social capital. The research for this study uses data from a cohort of graduates in North Wales to explore the issues in further detail. The mixed methods design compares secondary data on access, student experience and destinations with original survey and interview data. A critique of the current emphasis on graduate outcomes six months after graduation leads to a focus on longer-term trajectories. The results from graduates from four different types of degree awarding institutions and three specific subjects – chosen for contrast and convenience – reveal both similarities and differences compared with existing studies. Whilst the findings support existing research on pre-entry factors, they also indicate that regional assets e.g. Welsh language skills, access to transport and local networks, influence the patterns of subsequent trajectories. The more biographical and extended longitudinal approach contributes to the literature on graduates by providing an analytical typology of their post-graduation trajectories. It also contributes to Bourdieu-inspired theoretical discussion of inequalities in higher education and beyond. The study has implications for policy and practice in universities, careers services and the Higher Educational Statistics Agency (HESA).
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Williams, Darius Omar. "The Negro Ensemble Company: Beyond Black Fists from 1967 to 1978." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337951143.
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Pronin, Alexey. "Constraints on New Physics from Various Neutrino Experiments." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27017.
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In this thesis we consider a number of past, present, and future neutrino experiments designed to test physics beyond the Standard Model. First, we analyze potential new physics explanations of the NuTeV anomaly and check their compatibility with the most recent experimental data. The models we consider are: gauged Lmu-Ltau, gauged B-3Lmu, and S1, S3, V1, V3 leptoquarks. We find that only the triplet leptoquark models can explain NuTeV and be compatible with the data from other experiments at the same time, and only if the components of the triplet have different masses. Then, we analyze the prospects of discovery of heavy Majorana neutrinos (neutrissimos) suggested by the Okamura model at the LHC. We find that these particles, if produced, will live short enough to decay inside of the detector, while long enough to lead to a narrow peak in the invariant mass spectrum of the decay products. We estimate the typical masses of the neutrissimos to be in the TeV range. However, studies exist that have shown that if their masses are larger than about 150 GeV then the production cross-section is too small to lead to an observable event rate. Thus, we conclude that it will not be possible to detect the neutrissimo at the LHC unless its mass is smaller that about 150 GeV which corresponds to a very small region close to the edge of the parameter space of the Okamura model. Nevertheless, we argue that the signature of the neutrissimo may be detectable in other neutrino experiments which may be carried out in the future. As examples, we consider the NuSOnG experiment, which is a fixed target neutrino scattering experiment proposed at Fermilab, and a hypothetical long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in which the Fermilab NUMI beam is aimed at the Hyper-Kamiokande detector in Japan. In addition to the sensitivity to neutrissimos, we analyze the capabilities of these experiments to constraint the coupling constants and masses of new particles in various models of new physics suggested in the literature. The models we consider are: neutrissimo models, models with generation distinguishing Z's such as topcolor assisted technicolor, models containing various types of leptoquarks, R-parity violating SUSY, and extended Higgs sector models. In several cases, we find that the limits thus obtained could be competitive with those expected from direct searches at the LHC. In the event that any of the particles discussed here are discovered at the LHC, then the observation, or non-observation, of these particles in the NuSOnG and Fermilab-to-Hyper-Kamiokande experiments could help in identifying what type of particle had been observed.<br>Ph. D.
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Mangin, Ch M. (Christian-M. ). "Perspectives on observing CP-violation from beyond the standard model at Hera." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60058.
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The possibility of observing CP (or T) violation from the leptonic sector of the Standard Model in $e sp pm p$ scattering at HERA is investigated. Neglecting fermion masses, an effective-Lagrangian approach is used to compute model-independent predictions of an eventual CP-breaking asymmetry. The asymmetry is defined as the difference between the number of final electrons (for charged-current events), or jets (for neutral-current events), that leave the detector to the left and right of the plane defined by the axis of the incoming electron beam and its direction of polarization. It is found that HERA should be reasonably sensitive to CP-violation in the case of charged-current $e sp- p$ scattering events.
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Herschman, Andrea. "The politics of oil wealth management lessons from the Caspian and beyond /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997484481&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Rethwisch, Michael D., Manuel M. Luna, D. Michael Ramos, Jessica J. Wellman, and Michael T. Williams. "Pistil and Style Elongations Beyond the Anthers: Results From 2005 Field Experimentation." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/198202.
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A rapid heat increase from the high 80s-low 90s to high temperatures of 110o F on May 21 and 22, 2005, was recorded in the Blythe, CA, area, resulting in abnormal cotton flowers in mid-June, being especially characterized by elongated styles and stigmas being beyond the anthers. Two different cotton variety trials conducted in the Palo Verde Valley allowed data to be collected semi-weekly beginning June 17-20, with 100+ flowers per plot examined in each plot (four replications) of each of the 14 cotton variety entries. Every cotton variety had an average of 90+% of flowers expressing heat stress abnormalities (elongated styles) at the beginning of data collection even though the trials varied by planting date and location. Abnormal flowers were noted for several weeks, with some stigmas 21 mm beyond the anthers. Varieties differed in their responses to heat stress as measured by elongation later in the summer. Limited data were also collected for fruit retention and correlated with length of stigma extension beyond anthers. Retention percentages decreased as distance between anthers/stigmas increased, however boll size increased with less retention, possibly through nutrient partitioning. Various foliar fertilizers containing calcium were also evaluated for their effect on stigma elongations of DPL 449BR cotton. Significant differences existed for stigma elongations, with 2.5 qts./acre of CalMax resulting in statistical reduction of elongation when compared with the untreated check at 3 weeks after application. Statistical differences did not exist at four weeks although statistical differences did exist at this date for the percentage of flowers affected, with the highest percentage (81.7%) noted in untreated cotton.
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Tofan, Daniel. "From the activation of tetraphosphorus to the chemistry of diphosphorus and beyond." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82170.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 2013.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>The niobium-phosphorus triple bond in [P=-Nb(N[Np]Ar)3]- (Np = CH2tBu; Ar = 3,5-Me2C6H3) has produced the first case of P4 activation by a metal-ligand multiple bond. Treatment of P4 with the sodium salt of the niobium phosphide complex in weakly-coordinating solvents led to the formation of the C3-symmetric cyclo-P3 anion, while in THF, it led to the formation of the cyclo-P5 anion [(Ar[Np]N)([eta]4-P5)Nb(N[Np]Ar)2]-. The latter represents a rare example of a substituted pentaphospha-cyclopentadienyl ligand and may be interpreted as the product of trapping an intermediate h5-P5 structure through the migration of one anilide ligand. A search for methods of activating P4 that avoid tedious metal-mediated steps led to the discovery of an incredibly simple procedure involving only commercial reagents. Irradiation of solutions containing P4 and readily available 1,3-dienes produced bicyclic organic diphosphanes in an atom-economical, one-step protocol. Use of 2,3-dimethylbutadiene allowed the isolation of the bicyclic diphosphane P2(C6H10)2 in gram-quantities, but other dienes such as 1,3-butadiene, isoprene, 1,3-pentadiene, and 1,3-cyclohexadiene also provided evidence for incorporation of P2 units via double Diels-Alder reactions. Theoretical investigations provided support for the formation of P2 molecules from photo-excited P4. Investigations into the physical and chemical characteristics of P2(C6H10)2 uncovered an unprecedented stability towards cleavage of the P-P bond relative to other diphosphanes. P2(C6H10)2 exhibits a flexible, yet robust bicyclic framework containing lone pairs disposed at an angle of ca. 45°, and proved to be ideally suited to form multiple bridges between two metal centers. Dinuclear complexes containing tetrahedral, zero-valent group 10 metals bridged by three diphosphane ligands were investigated in detail. These contain D3h-symmetric {M2P6} barrelene cages with metal-metal distances of 4 Å , and exhibited substitution reactions where the cages remain intact. Alternatively, diphosphane P2(C6H10)2 allowed for unprecedented selectivity towards functionalization of a single phosphorus lone pair. Additional functionalization proceeds at a significantly slower rate, thus enabling the selective isolation of various phosphoranes (EP2(C6H10)2 and E2P2(C6H10)2; E = O, S, N-R). Metalation reactions with the bulky diiminodiphosphorane ligand (MesN)2P2(C6H10)2 allowed for multiple metal complexes, showing that such ligands provide an attractive pre-organized binding pocket for transition metals, as well as post-transition metals.<br>by Daniel Tofan.<br>Ph.D.
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Evans, Elizabeth Julie. "Managing the foreign language classroom: reflections from the preservice field and beyond." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2867.
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Each day, foreign language teachers are faced with issues that render the control of the K-12 classroom challenging, at best, and virtually impossible at worst. Even preservice foreign language teachers, those going through a teacher education program towards K-12 licensure, understand that no content can be taught or learned if there is mayhem in the classroom environment. Effective classroom management practices are often what consume these teachers' time and energy, even before the first page of the textbook is turned. However, it would be an error to over-generalize foreign language teachers' challenges with classroom management in an effort to introduce possible solutions without first considering the uniqueness of this particular teaching and learning environment.
It was the researcher's contention that the foreign language classroom is unlike any other, and thus thrusts its teachers, both preservice and in-service, into management situations that are rare or non-existent in the classrooms of other subject areas. The purpose of this longitudinal study, therefore, was to describe five foreign language teachers' experiences with classroom management and to identify the distinct issues they have faced, both during their student teaching semester and currently as in-service teachers. The data gathered from the five subjects' weekly reflective journals and teaching philosophies, their observations of other classrooms, responses to a questionnaire, interviews, and observational field notes were analyzed qualitatively using a case study approach. The study confirmed that these foreign language teachers often contended with issues that were exclusive to their teaching field. Target language usage, the systemic lack of respect for the study of foreign language, and the inclusion of students who were heritage speakers of the language being taught were among the issues most commonly cited by these five teachers, and were shown to have a significant impact on student behavior, motivation, and attitude. Many teacher education programs already offer courses that explicitly present appropriate classroom management strategies. However, data from this study suggest that a further breakdown of how foreign language classroom management may differ from other subject areas may ultimately enable foreign language teacher educators to better prepare and better support both their preservice and in-service teachers.
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Gynn, Catherine Meienberg. "Beyond Objectivity and Relativism: A View of Journalism From a Rhetorical Perspective." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1381157195.
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Coysh, Joanne E. "Beyond human rights education : a critique from the global to the local." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57045/.
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This is a study of Human Rights Education (HRE) discourse in community-based settings. It is a critique and analysis of the ways that HRE discourse is shaped by power and culture between the global and the local. It aims to fill a gap in the current research in a number of ways, by examining both the theories of human rights and education, as well as the practice of HRE. The aim of the thesis is not only to show how it has and is used, but also whose interests this serves. The research was carried out using mainly qualitative methods, but also some quantitative methods. In order to make connections between the global and local HRE discourse it included twelve months of fieldwork in Tanzania, where data was gathered from NGOs working in HRE explicitly. It also linked stakeholders, such as international organisations, other NGOs and individual community members such as paralegals and participants in HRE processes. The thesis has three parts which each deal with the language and texts, social practice, as well as, socio-political and cultural influence of HRE discourse. The first part outlines the sheer variety of content that inform various conceptions of HRE and shows how HRE is both plural and complex. It examines the historical and sociopolitical construction of HRE. The second part of the thesis examines the local context of HRE using the data gathered from twelve-month’s empirical fieldwork in Tanzania between 2009 and 2010. The third part of the material analyses the way that social relations both construct and are constructed by HRE discourse, the unintended consequences, and suggestions about possible ways forward.
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Haddadi, Said. "Beyond securitisation : Western Mediterranean international relations from a security perspective 1989-2002." Thesis, Aston University, 2003. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/14848/.
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Following the end of the Cold War and the ensuing changes to the international landscape, thinking about security has tended to become more discursive and interpretative in nature. What counts as security has increasingly derived from security discourses (that is, 'securitisation') and uncertainty about the multi-faceted future facing various countries and regions. Within this post-Cold War discourse, the Western Mediterranean has emerged as a region fraught with latent and manifest threats in the economic, political, societal and military sectors. Improved access to EU markets for Maghrebi exports; the security of energy supplies to the EU from Algeria and Libya; lack of democracy and the advance of political Islam; the flow of northward migration and worries about law and order in France, Italy and Spain; the growth in military expenditure and weapons proliferation in the Maghreb; all have been central to the securitisation agenda. However, this agenda has often lacked credibility especially when inter-linkages have purportedly been established between economic underdevelopment and political instability, between the advance of political Islam and the threat to energy supplies, or between immigration and the threat to national identity. Such inter-sectoral linkages distract from the credibility of those 'securitisation instances' which correspond to reality; the former linkages have often been exploited by extremist politicians in south-west European countries as well as by regimes in the Maghreb to advance their respective interests. Thus, securitisation may defeat its main purpose; it may generate responses out of keeping with the aims proclaimed at the outset, aims centred on the countering of real threats and the ensuring of greater stability.
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Bell, R. Greg, Igor Filatotchev, and Abdul A. Rasheed. "Beyond product markets: new insight on liability of foreignness from capital markets." Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3485/1/JIBS_1st_submission_M.pdf.
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We expand the Liability of Foreignness (LOF) construct beyond the product market domain to
include liabilities faced by firms attempting to secure resources in host capital markets. Drawing
from institutional theory and research in finance, we identify institutional distance, information
asymmetry, unfamiliarity, and cultural differences as the main sources of capital market LOF
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through bonding, signaling, organizational isomorphism, and reputational endorsements.
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Singleton, Benedict E. "From the sea to the land beyond : exploring plural perspectives on whaling." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-52869.
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A perennial challenge in efforts to deal with environmental issues is the question of how to simplify. As such, where and when one simplifies is often a source of conflict, but perversely also paramount to finding a solution. This thesis focuses on one long-standing environmental issue, the whaling debate. Specifically, it performs a strategically sited microethnography of Faroese whaling, grindadráp, exploring linkages between actions on local and international scales. This thesis aims to contribute to environmental sociological efforts to analyse and resolve complex socio-environmental problems. The five papers that together constitute this thesis collectively provide a description of grindadráp from the local scale of the bays where pilot whales are killed to the international forums where whaling as a whole remains an issue at the heart of an on-going, deadlocked conflict. Primarily based on three months’ fieldwork in the Faroe Islands, this thesis combines observation, interviews, media and other literature. The theoretical lenses employed are that of the ‘ontological turn’ and the ‘theory of sociocultural viability’ (cultural theory). The former utilised as a tool for ethnographic practice with the latter used to analyse how different perspectives on reality manifest throughout the whaling conflict. This thesis demonstrates that grindadráp has changed through time as a result of the interactions between actors with different views on the matter at hand. However, in contrast to the global whaling debate, this interaction has been mostly constructive, with appropriate changes in practice ensuring grindadráp’s continued popularity within the Faroe Islands. Furthermore, its continuation will likely depend on grindadráp’s continued ability to balance different perspectives. This thesis thus echoes environmental sociological calls for improved dialogue in the framing and resolution of environmental disputes, suggesting that cultural theory provides a tool that balances relativism and pragmatism in dealing with complex environmental problems.
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Kao, Yee. "Constraints on New Physics from Neutrino and Other Particle Experiments." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40435.
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In this thesis we analyze a number of past, current, and future experiments to extract information on physics beyond the Standard Model. We use the Jacobi method to derive a set of simplified expressions for the probabilities of neutrino oscillations in matter. we show the possible constraints that can be placed on various models beyond the Standard Model.
In several cases, we find that the limits thus thus obtained could be competitive with those expected from direct searches at the Large Hadron Collider. We then consider the possible effects of new physics beyond the Standard Model on precision measurements. In particular, we look at recent Bell/Babar results on the B meson branching fraction, and the bounds on Tau-decays from Babar.
As a general framework of analyzing new physics beyond the Standard Model, we discuss what constraints can be placed on R-parity violating SUSY from these experiments.
To complete our analysis, we update the single-coupling bounds on R-parity violating supersymmetry using the most up to date data as of October 2009. In addition to the data listed in the latest Review of Particle Properties, we utilize a new measurement of the weak charge of cesium-133, and preliminary Tau-decay branching fractions from Babar. Analysis of semileptonic D-decay is improved by the inclusion of experimentally measured form-factors into the calculation of the Standard Model predictions.<br>Ph. D.
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McMullen, Maram George. "Irish Women Poets of the Twentieth Century and Beyond| Voices from the Margin." Thesis, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3576677.
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<p> This dissertation study explores the rise of Irish women poets of the twentieth century, in particular Eavan Boland from the southern Republic of Ireland and Medbh McGuckian from Northern Ireland. It investigates the birth of Irish Feminist Literary Theory and Irish Postcolonial Literary Theory and uses these two theories to analyze the poetry found therein. This project shows that, unlike Irish women novelists and playwrights, Irish women poets were excluded from the Irish canon until poets such as Boland and McGuckian destabilized their once rigid national literary tradition and challenged it to include women as both authors and subjects of the Irish poem. In addition to challenging their patriarchal literary tradition, Irish women poets of the twentieth century also drew attention to the lingering effects of British colonial rule in Ireland, demonstrating that Irish women poets were doubly colonized and doubly marginalized. As a result, their poetry features two distinct voices: one which speaks for the women who were silenced in Ireland and one which raises postcolonial issues. By challenging the hegemonic power structures which dominated them, Boland and McGuckian paved the way for the Irish women poets who followed, including Mary O'Malley from the Republic of Ireland and Sinéad Morrissey from Northern Ireland. For the most part, Irish women poets of the twenty-first century have managed to let go of the trauma of colonization—both patriarchal and imperial—and have created a new hybrid national identity, a Third Space, which has liberated their work. This hybridity has broadened the vision of the Irish poem which now features a new global voice.</p>
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Longhini, John M. Scott Steven J. "Digital video transmission from the P-3C to beyond line-of-sight destinations /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA305798.
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Davis, Robert A. "Beyond The Erroneous Assumption Tikkun Nefesh (Healing The Soul) From A Jewish Perspective /." Miami, FL : Florida Center for Theological Studies, 2008. http://www.tren.com.
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Wills, Jules A., and n/a. "Strategic planning in Commonwealth departments: beyond magaerialism: from bounded rationality to bounded uncertainty." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1991. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060426.154713.
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Blakey, Edward William. "A model-independent theory of computational complexity : from patience to precision and beyond." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5db40e2c-4a22-470d-9283-3b59b99793dc.
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The field of computational complexity theory--which chiefly aims to quantify the difficulty encountered when performing calculations--is, in the case of conventional computers, correctly practised and well understood (some important and fundamental open questions notwithstanding); however, such understanding is, we argue, lacking when unconventional paradigms are considered. As an illustration, we present here an analogue computer that performs the task of natural-number factorization using only polynomial time and space; the system's true, exponential complexity, which arises from requirements concerning precision, is overlooked by a traditional, `time-and-space' approach to complexity theory. Hence, we formulate the thesis that unconventional computers warrant unconventional complexity analysis; the crucial omission from traditional analysis, we suggest, is consideration of relevant resources, these being not only time and space, but also precision, energy, etc. In the presence of this multitude of resources, however, the task of comparing computers' efficiency (formerly a case merely of comparing time complexity) becomes difficult. We resolve this by introducing a notion of overall complexity, though this transpires to be incompatible with an unrestricted formulation of resource; accordingly, we define normality of resource, and stipulate that considered resources be normal, so as to rectify certain undesirable complexity behaviour. Our concept of overall complexity induces corresponding complexity classes, and we prove theorems concerning, for example, the inclusions therebetween. Our notions of resource, overall complexity, normality, etc. form a model-independent framework of computational complexity theory, which allows: insightful complexity analysis of unconventional computers; comparison of large, model-heterogeneous sets of computers, and correspondingly improved bounds upon the complexity of problems; assessment of novel, unconventional systems against existing, Turing-machine benchmarks; increased confidence in the difficulty of problems; etc. We apply notions of the framework to existing disputes in the literature, and consider in the context of the framework various fundamental questions concerning the nature of computation.
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Gunes, C. "From Protest to Resistance and Beyond : The Contemporary Kurdish National Movement in Turkey." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520049.
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Curry, Heather. "Beyond Survival: An Exploration of Narrative Healing and Forgiveness in Healing from Rape." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3559.
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This work explores: liberatory possibilities and limitations of narrative in healing from rape; the work and meanings of forgiveness, specifically seeking a complex definition of forgiveness drawing on spiritual, feminist, complexity, and phenomenological philosophies; and the relationships between narrative processes and forgiveness. I use an autoethnographic approach, offering my story of rape and healing in the aftermath. I attend to the physicality of the narrative, and to the way in which memory resides in the body, thus creating an embodied text. I examine current models of rape recovery, and the terms used by organizations, practitioners, and authors of rape narratives to frame the recovery process, contending that current models and the language of recovery fails to recognize the dynamic and non-linear trajectory of healing. I return to my own process of forgiveness, which is illustrative of the unpredictable event of forgiveness, which grows from the dissolution of self and other.
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Longhini, John M., and Steven J. Scott. "Digital video transmission from the P-3C to beyond line-of-sight destinations." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/35163.
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The goal of this thesis is to provide a feasibility analysis concerning the transmission of real time, full motion digital video from a P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft to both line of sight and beyond line of sight destinations. The ability to receive live video on the ground or onboard ship will aid the warfighter in making more timely and correct tactical decisions due to the increased intelligence capabilities. Currently, the capability exists to transmit still frame images over a UHF satellite link to shore installations using specially modified P-3C aircraft. Full motion video can also be transmitted using a hybrid system borrowed from the Pioneer UAV program; however, it is limited to line-of-sight transmission only. Both of these current capabilities utilize an analog format and analog quality resolution. The U.S. Navy has a standing Mission Need Statement for airborne C31. More specifically, there exists a need for improved electro-optical capabilities as well as rapid exchange of command, surveillance, and targeting data with both ships at sea and shore installations. This thesis traces the flow of data from the video source to the ultimate destinations and identifies possible solutions for the design of the transmission link. The fundamental technologies exist now to provide digital full motion video from an aircraft via a high capacity satellite data link. To ensure capability with other DOD communication systems, compliance with Common Data Link (CDL) was incorporated in the proposed system. This thesis proves the proposed video transmission system is technically feasible.
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Williams, Tami Michelle. "Beyond impressions the life and films of Germaine Dulac from aesthetics to politics /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467886421&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Villalonga, Patrick J. "From the Fall to the Flood and Beyond: Navigating Identity in Contemporary Noahidism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3127.
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This thesis investigates artifacts and concepts present in the Noahide world and how they affect Noahide identity. Five factors are analyzed, namely Noahide law, religious pluralism, ritual, sectarianism, and conversion. I consult the Hebrew Scriptures as well as early, medieval, and modern rabbinic sources to set the conceptual background of the Noahide movement before moving into the primary, contemporary sources written by Orthodox Jews, Orthodox rabbis, and Noahides. To supplement my literary analysis, I have conducted a survey of self-identifying Noahide practitioners. This survey collects data concerning religious background, religious behavior, demographics, and free responses. I aim to show first and foremost that Noahidism is a new, exclusive religious tradition which comprises the lay order of Orthodox Judaism. This is born out of a theology which requires belief in the Jewish God and Jewish revelation, a strict ritual system based on Orthodox Jewish prescriptions, and a sectarian typology which mirrors Orthodox Jewish sectarianism. Additionally, my analysis of conversion shows Noahidism is not a gateway to Orthodox conversion, but an end in itself.