Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Listing motive'

Adaptation of personal experiences to a screen is no new concept, in fact it is the driving force to media content creation. All storylines and narratives are related to personal experience whether literally or metaphorically. These experiences are externalized in media by many forms, ranging from the visible and audible. Mainstream media is tied to an entertainment purpose, regardless of themes and topics presented. Therefore, it is important to understand that some of the depictions presented in media are linked to stigma or misrepresentation. This is particularly true for portrayals of mental illness and experiences of trauma. I plan on exploring how media, specifically animation, can communicate subjective experiences of mental illness and trauma. In my exploration I will also speak about the role of abstract and experimental animation in this endeavor. While live action contains an element of reality in contextualizing events or experiences, animation allows one to take full control of the visual representation of a subject and agency over constructing a narrative. Animation is a means of inquiry that exemplifies an art form and a journey of self-discovery. I created a short experimental film reconstructing my subjective experience with childhood sexual trauma. I will embrace visually stimulating abstract animation and stop motion to create an evocative visualization of my personal experience. This means of visual production takes the process of subjective experience a step further and literally becomes a process of laborious and tedious composition, culminating with a personal narrative piece.

SammanfattningSom blivande Studie- och yrkesvägledare har författaren velat undersöka, vaförungdomar väljer omvårdnadsprogrammet (OP). Syftet med studien är att undersökavarför de som går på OP valt att göra det och besvara ovanstående genom frågor ommotiv, påverkan samt förhoppningar inför framtiden? Syftet och forskningsfrågorna harundersökts utifrån ett sociologiskt perspektiv med hjälp av Giddens struktureringsteorioch Webers handlingsteori. Författaren har valt en kvantitativ ansats och som metodvalt att konstruera en enkät om 29 strukturerade frågor samt en öppen fråga.Undersökningsmaterialet bestod av 77 omvårdnadselever på två strategiskt utvaldaskolor med OP i sitt gymnasieprogram, fördelade på tre klasser. Studiens resultatbaseras på 30 enkätfrågor och visar att det som fått eleverna att välja OP är ett intresseav att arbeta med människor i ett vård och omsorgsrelaterat arbete. Av resultatet attdömma önskade eleverna fler samtal med Studie- och yrkesvägledaren trots att de varnöjda med den information de fått. Eleverna var också mycket nöjda med sittgymnasieval, vilket de ansåg vara intressant och spännande. Resultatet visade även attungdomarna ansåg att de själva valt utan påverkan av andra. Eleverna hade ocksåönskemål om att media visade fler positiva sidor av vården. Lönen, var ett argument föratt inte vilja arbeta i vården men hos de som svarat att de kan tänka sig ett arbete där varlönen varken viktig eller oviktig. Angående framtida arbetsplats pekar resultaten iföreliggande studie på att de som gått OP är beredda att stanna i ett vårdrelateratarbetsområde samt att de flesta vill vidareutbilda sig inom sitt område. Ett interssantfynd i denna undersökning är att socialbakgrund inte verkade ha betydelse förprogramvalet vilket annan forskning hävdar.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether listening to music as an out-of-school activity, and English songs in particular, motivated a group of Swedish upper-secondary students to learn extramural English. One aspect that comes into focus is whether the students perceived that there were particular aspects of second language acquisition (SLA) that improved as a result of listening to music. The study focuses on the correlation between the needs of the listeners and the nature of their motivation for learning. This is a qualitative study based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews. The results show that all of the students perceived listening to music as an aid in their extramural English acquisition. A majority of the students had the intrinsic motivation for learning as they exhibited curiosity, emotions and internal needs as the primary factors that empowered them to expand their extramural English. The minority of the interviewees showed signs of extrinsic motivation to learn the vocabulary of the lyrics of the songs they listened to. The learning they experienced was linked to the expectancy in improving their academic performances. They may, however, have had a combination of the extrinsic and intrinsic forms of motivation where the former had a dominant position. In both cases the respondents showed awareness of the correlation between their extramural English acquisition and listening to vocal music. It is suggested that vocabulary acquisition was the primary aspect of language learning that benefited from listening to songs, followed by listening skills. The possibility to make their own choice to listen to music is linked to deep language learning, vocabulary learning in context and mastering listening skills.

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a well-established functional imaging method used in nuclear medicine. It allows for retrieving information about biochemical and physiological processes in vivo. The currently possible spatial resolution of PET is about 5 mm for brain acquisitions and about 8 mm for whole-body acquisitions, while recent improvements in image reconstruction point to a resolution of 2 mm in the near future. Typical acquisition times range from minutes to hours due to the low signal-to-noise ratio of the measuring principle, as well as due to the monitoring of the metabolism of the patient over a certain time. Therefore, patient motion increasingly limits the possible spatial resolution of PET. In addition, patient immobilisations are only of limited benefit in this context. Thus, patient motion leads to a relevant resolution degradation and incorrect quantification of metabolic parameters. The present work describes the utilisation of a novel motion compensation method for clinical brain PET acquisitions. By using an external motion tracking system, information about the head motion of a patient is continuously acquired during a PET acquisition. Based on the motion information, a newly developed event-based motion compensation algorithm performs spatial transformations of all registered coincidence events, thus utilising the raw data of a PET system - the so-called `list-mode´ data. For routine acquisition of this raw data, methods have been developed which allow for the first time to acquire list-mode data from an ECAT Exact HR+ PET scanner within an acceptable time frame. Furthermore, methods for acquiring the patient motion in clinical routine and methods for an automatic analysis of the registered motion have been developed. For the clinical integration of the aforementioned motion compensation approach, the development of additional methods (e.g. graphical user interfaces) was also part of this work. After development, optimisation and integration of the event-based motion compensation in clinical use, analyses with example data sets have been performed. Noticeable changes could be demonstrated by analysis of the qualitative and quantitative effects after the motion compensation. From a qualitative point of view, image artefacts have been eliminated, while quantitatively, the results of a tracer kinetics analysis of a FDOPA acquisition showed relevant changes in the R0k3 rates of an irreversible reference tissue two compartment model. Thus, it could be shown that an integration of a motion compensation method which is based on the utilisation of the raw data of a PET scanner, as well as the use of an external motion tracking system, is not only reasonable and possible for clinical use, but also shows relevant qualitative and quantitative improvement in PET imaging<br>Die Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie (PET) ist ein in der Nuklearmedizin etabliertes funktionelles Schnittbildverfahren, das es erlaubt Informationen über biochemische und physiologische Prozesse in vivo zu erhalten. Die derzeit erreichbare räumliche Auflösung des Verfahrens beträgt etwa 5 mm für Hirnaufnahmen und etwa 8 mm für Ganzkörperaufnahmen, wobei erste verbesserte Bildrekonstruktionsverfahren eine Machbarkeit von 2 mm Auflösung in Zukunft möglich erscheinen lassen. Durch das geringe Signal/Rausch-Verhältnis des Messverfahrens, aber auch durch die Tatsache, dass der Stoffwechsel des Patienten über einen längeren Zeitraum betrachtet wird, betragen typische PET-Aufnahmezeiten mehrere Minuten bis Stunden. Dies hat zur Folge, dass Patientenbewegungen zunehmend die erreichbare räumliche Auflösung dieses Schnittbildverfahrens limitieren. Eine Immobilisierung des Patienten zur Reduzierung dieser Effekte ist hierbei nur bedingt hilfreich. Es kommt daher zu einer relevanten Auflösungsverschlechterung sowie zu einer Verfälschung der quantifizierten Stoffwechselparameter. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt die Nutzbarmachung eines neuartigen Bewegungskorrekturverfahrens für klinische PET-Hirnaufnahmen. Mittels eines externen Bewegungsverfolgungssystems wird während einer PET-Untersuchung kontinuierlich die Kopfbewegung des Patienten registriert. Anhand dieser Bewegungsdaten führt ein neu entwickelter event-basierter Bewegungskorrekturalgorithmus eine räumliche Korrektur aller registrierten Koinzidenzereignisse aus und nutzt somit die als &amp;quot;List-Mode&amp;quot; bekannten Rohdaten eines PET Systems. Für die Akquisition dieser Daten wurden eigens Methoden entwickelt, die es erstmals erlauben, diese Rohdaten von einem ECAT Exact HR+ PET Scanner innerhalb eines akzeptablen Zeitraumes zu erhalten. Des Weiteren wurden Methoden für die klinische Akquisition der Bewegungsdaten sowie für die automatische Auswertung dieser Daten entwickelt. Ebenfalls Teil der Arbeit waren die Entwicklung von Methoden zur Integration in die klinische Routine (z.B. graphische Nutzeroberflächen). Nach der Entwicklung, Optimierung und Integration der event-basierten Bewegungskorrektur für die klinische Nutzung wurden Analysen anhand von Beispieldatensätzen vorgenommen. Es zeigten sich bei der Auswertung sowohl der qualitativen als auch der quantitativen Effekte deutliche Änderungen. In qualitativer Hinsicht wurden Bildartefakte eliminiert; bei der quantitativen Auswertung einer FDOPA Messung zeigte sich eine revelante Änderung der R0k3 Einstromraten eines irreversiblen Zweikompartment-Modells mit Referenzgewebe. Es konnte somit gezeigt werden, dass eine Integration einer Bewegungskorrektur unter Zuhilfenahme der Rohdaten eines PET Systems sowie unter Nutzung eines externen Verfolgungssystems nicht nur sinnvoll und in der klinischen Routine machbar ist, sondern auch zu maßgeblichen qualitativen und quantitativen Verbesserungen in der PET-Bildgebung beitragen kann

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a well-established functional imaging method used in nuclear medicine. It allows for retrieving information about biochemical and physiological processes in vivo. The currently possible spatial resolution of PET is about 5 mm for brain acquisitions and about 8 mm for whole-body acquisitions, while recent improvements in image reconstruction point to a resolution of 2 mm in the near future. Typical acquisition times range from minutes to hours due to the low signal-to-noise ratio of the measuring principle, as well as due to the monitoring of the metabolism of the patient over a certain time. Therefore, patient motion increasingly limits the possible spatial resolution of PET. In addition, patient immobilisations are only of limited benefit in this context. Thus, patient motion leads to a relevant resolution degradation and incorrect quantification of metabolic parameters. The present work describes the utilisation of a novel motion compensation method for clinical brain PET acquisitions. By using an external motion tracking system, information about the head motion of a patient is continuously acquired during a PET acquisition. Based on the motion information, a newly developed event-based motion compensation algorithm performs spatial transformations of all registered coincidence events, thus utilising the raw data of a PET system - the so-called `list-mode´ data. For routine acquisition of this raw data, methods have been developed which allow for the first time to acquire list-mode data from an ECAT Exact HR+ PET scanner within an acceptable time frame. Furthermore, methods for acquiring the patient motion in clinical routine and methods for an automatic analysis of the registered motion have been developed. For the clinical integration of the aforementioned motion compensation approach, the development of additional methods (e.g. graphical user interfaces) was also part of this work. After development, optimisation and integration of the event-based motion compensation in clinical use, analyses with example data sets have been performed. Noticeable changes could be demonstrated by analysis of the qualitative and quantitative effects after the motion compensation. From a qualitative point of view, image artefacts have been eliminated, while quantitatively, the results of a tracer kinetics analysis of a FDOPA acquisition showed relevant changes in the R0k3 rates of an irreversible reference tissue two compartment model. Thus, it could be shown that an integration of a motion compensation method which is based on the utilisation of the raw data of a PET scanner, as well as the use of an external motion tracking system, is not only reasonable and possible for clinical use, but also shows relevant qualitative and quantitative improvement in PET imaging.<br>Die Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie (PET) ist ein in der Nuklearmedizin etabliertes funktionelles Schnittbildverfahren, das es erlaubt Informationen über biochemische und physiologische Prozesse in vivo zu erhalten. Die derzeit erreichbare räumliche Auflösung des Verfahrens beträgt etwa 5 mm für Hirnaufnahmen und etwa 8 mm für Ganzkörperaufnahmen, wobei erste verbesserte Bildrekonstruktionsverfahren eine Machbarkeit von 2 mm Auflösung in Zukunft möglich erscheinen lassen. Durch das geringe Signal/Rausch-Verhältnis des Messverfahrens, aber auch durch die Tatsache, dass der Stoffwechsel des Patienten über einen längeren Zeitraum betrachtet wird, betragen typische PET-Aufnahmezeiten mehrere Minuten bis Stunden. Dies hat zur Folge, dass Patientenbewegungen zunehmend die erreichbare räumliche Auflösung dieses Schnittbildverfahrens limitieren. Eine Immobilisierung des Patienten zur Reduzierung dieser Effekte ist hierbei nur bedingt hilfreich. Es kommt daher zu einer relevanten Auflösungsverschlechterung sowie zu einer Verfälschung der quantifizierten Stoffwechselparameter. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt die Nutzbarmachung eines neuartigen Bewegungskorrekturverfahrens für klinische PET-Hirnaufnahmen. Mittels eines externen Bewegungsverfolgungssystems wird während einer PET-Untersuchung kontinuierlich die Kopfbewegung des Patienten registriert. Anhand dieser Bewegungsdaten führt ein neu entwickelter event-basierter Bewegungskorrekturalgorithmus eine räumliche Korrektur aller registrierten Koinzidenzereignisse aus und nutzt somit die als &amp;quot;List-Mode&amp;quot; bekannten Rohdaten eines PET Systems. Für die Akquisition dieser Daten wurden eigens Methoden entwickelt, die es erstmals erlauben, diese Rohdaten von einem ECAT Exact HR+ PET Scanner innerhalb eines akzeptablen Zeitraumes zu erhalten. Des Weiteren wurden Methoden für die klinische Akquisition der Bewegungsdaten sowie für die automatische Auswertung dieser Daten entwickelt. Ebenfalls Teil der Arbeit waren die Entwicklung von Methoden zur Integration in die klinische Routine (z.B. graphische Nutzeroberflächen). Nach der Entwicklung, Optimierung und Integration der event-basierten Bewegungskorrektur für die klinische Nutzung wurden Analysen anhand von Beispieldatensätzen vorgenommen. Es zeigten sich bei der Auswertung sowohl der qualitativen als auch der quantitativen Effekte deutliche Änderungen. In qualitativer Hinsicht wurden Bildartefakte eliminiert; bei der quantitativen Auswertung einer FDOPA Messung zeigte sich eine revelante Änderung der R0k3 Einstromraten eines irreversiblen Zweikompartment-Modells mit Referenzgewebe. Es konnte somit gezeigt werden, dass eine Integration einer Bewegungskorrektur unter Zuhilfenahme der Rohdaten eines PET Systems sowie unter Nutzung eines externen Verfolgungssystems nicht nur sinnvoll und in der klinischen Routine machbar ist, sondern auch zu maßgeblichen qualitativen und quantitativen Verbesserungen in der PET-Bildgebung beitragen kann.

Le chevet a été choisi comme outil pour cette étude car il représente, pour nous, l’écriture même de Julien Gracq : l’observation, la remémoration, la transmutation, toutes ces étapes non seulement comportent la notion de chevet, mais elles constituent aussi plénièrement l’écriture gracquienne. D’emblée, nous affirmons qu’il n’est pas question de traquer, même au figuré, l’individu, mais toujours de rechercher comment l’intime s’infiltre dans la langue. Car le chevet, ou plutôt l’image du chevet, symbolise à nos yeux l’intime gracquien. Cette image du chevet va se révéler plurielle, et nous guide à travers nos trois axes d’étude. Tout d’abord, l’écoute intérieure de l’écrivain laisse immédiatement affleurer une mise au chevet du monde qui se perçoit grâce à une grande acuité de perception. Cette écoute intérieure va dévoiler en outre une intense mise au chevet de soi : Gracq s’écoute, Gracq se remémore, Gracq noue finalement un pacte d’étroite intimité avec lui-même. Ce qui a tendance à exclure le lecteur. Mais celui-ci parvient pourtant à entrer en résonance avec cette langue. Enfin la mise à l’écoute de cette langue va révéler une forte permanence de l’imaginaire malgré une évolution certaine de l’écriture<br>The chevet was chosen as a tool for this study because it represents for us the very writing of Gracq : observation, memory retrieval, transmutation, all these steps not only involve the concept of chevet, but they are also fully Gracq’s writing. From the outset, we say it is not to hunt the individual, but always to look how intimacy close seeps into the language. For the chevet or rather the image of the chevet symbolizes the intimate of Gracq. This image is plural and guides us through our three focal areas. First of all, listening inside the writer leaves appear the chevet of the world that is perceived with great clarity of perception. This inner listening will also reveal an intense set at the chevet of the self : Gracq listens to himself, recalls, ties a pact of close intimacy with himself. Which tends to exclude the reader but the reader nonetheless manages to resonate with the language. Finally, if we still listen to the writing, we see a strong permanence of the imaginary in spite of an evolution of writing

Le totalitarisme nazi, la souffrance, la mort de masse et d’êtres chers constituent des formes d’anéantissement présentes dans les parcours de Vladimir Jankélévitch, Jean Améry, Paul Celan et Jorge Semprun. Rescapés de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ils ont subi, à des degrés divers, et dans des circonstances différentes, les épreuves de l’exil et des camps. Leurs expériences respectives de la Résistance, de la déportation, de la torture, de la tentation du suicide ouvrent à des écrits et des réflexions majeurs. La mémoire et la voix y sont convoquées afin de s’opposer au totalitarisme et à ses conséquences : la souffrance, le risque de la prescription conduisant à celui de l’oubli, et le caractère irréversible de la torture. Tandis que le bourreau a pour objectif de nier l’humanité de chaque supplicié, le rôle de la voix et de l’écoute sont déterminants. L’opéra Tosca illustre cette tension. La douleur confère à l’instant et à l’ipséité de chaque supplicié une expérience strictement individuelle qui peut néanmoins être décrite : l’invivable n’est pas nécessairement indicible.Voix et mémoire s’inscrivent dans l’inachevé. L’ascension, dans le quasi-silence désespérant des années trente, et le triomphe temporaire du nazisme, que la propagande radiophonique assure pour partie, puis sa défaite complète appellent la transformation dans la durée de l’Allemagne. Concomitamment, les évolutions musicales marquent des formes de refus de la répétition pour échapper à l’aliénation.Le cri possède pour fonction d’alerter. Mais de la mémoire de la Shoah au suicide, l’appel insurmontable de l’anéantissement conduit à revivre une violence que le poème et la musique tentent de surmonter<br>Nazi totalitarianism, suffering, mass killing -including loved ones-, are all forms of annihilation that Vladimir Jankélévitch, Jean Améry, Paul Celan and Jorge Semprun went through. World War II survivors, they endured, at varying intensities and through different circumstances, the hardship of exile and of the camps.Their respective experiences of torture, deportation, the Resistance, and their consideration of suicide have brought prominent works and should lead us to major reflections.Remembrance and voice are weapons involved in the fight against totalitarianism and its consequences, of which: suffering, the risk of prescription leading to that of forgetting, and the irreversibility of torture.While the torturer aims to deny even the humanity of its victims, the role of voice and listening are decisive. Tosca Opera gives an accurate representation of this tension. Pain confers to the moment and to the uniqueness of each victim a strictly individual experience, which can nevertheless be described: the unbearable is not unspeakable. Voice and remembrance fall within the ‘unfinished’. Nazism’s ascent —in the practically desperate silence of the thirties—, its temporary triumph —that radio propaganda partly ensures—, and ultimately its complete defeat, call for the profound transformation of Germany overtime. Simultaneously, the contemporaneous cultural developments highlight the rejection of recurrence in music, in an attempt to escape alienation. The purpose of screaming is to alert. But from the Holocaust memory until the very notion of suicide, the devastating call of annihilation amounts to experience once more a violence that poetry and music seek to overcome

L'écriture et la lecture sont les deux espaces, visuel le premier et auditif le deuxième, qui représentent les coordonnées sur lesquelles Calvino construit son univers de signes : l'œil et l'oreille. Ce sont les deux fonctions, sensorielles et mentales, qui permettent la transmission d'un savoir, d'un message, même en l'absence de celui qui " parle ". C'est là la raison, pouvons-nous supposer, de l'importance que l'écrivain a accordée à la fonction de l'écoute, outre, évidemment, celle qu'il conférait à la vue. Dans notre analyse de la poétique de l'écoute dans l'œuvre d'Italo Calvino, nous avons essayé de montrer en quoi consiste la particularité de son oreille. Comme pour la vue, Calvino applique pour l'ouïe une méthode personnelle de connaissance : car c'est toujours le sujet, le " moi " avec tous ses organes de perception qui nous permet de nous rapprocher du monde extérieur et de sonder notre esprit. Calvino a dès lors construit un univers de sons très particulier étant donné que cet univers sonore vient de son monde à lui, de sa propre expérience et surtout de sa façon d'entrer en relation avec le monde : or cela n'est jamais définitif, et même toujours problématique. C'est là la manière propre à celui qui refuse les dogmes et les écoles, qui sait bien qu'une seule réponse ou une seule vérité est impossible, mais qui ne peut s'empêcher de continuer à sonder l'univers réel ou fictionnel [celui de la vie comme celui de la page], même si au terme de sa recherche, le résultat est toujours le cercle vide, l'espace blanc de la page. Cela explique aussi les différentes modalités que la fonction de l'écoute a eues dans le parcours personnel et littéraire de Calvino.

碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>財務金融學研究所<br>88<br>This study discusses the motives and price behavior of listing change in Taiwan. The sample includes companies that applied for listing change during 1994 to 2000. The motives of listing change, according to this study, is to enhance liquidity in order to facilitate raising capital. Most of these samples have short listing period in the OTC market. This phenomenon implies that these companies meant to use the OTC market as a shortcut to TSE (Taiwan Stock Exchange). The main reason why TSE could attract these companies was that the authorities prohibited margin transaction during the empirical period of this research. As to the price behavior, results got from this research are as follows: 1. The weekly event of listed auditing rule exists positive abnormal returns. 2. During the first season of listing on TSE, the post-listing drift is also positive, though the scale of drift is no longer bigger than the pre-listing drift. 3. During the first season of listing on TSE, firms of technological industry, or with relatively high foreign institutional ownership, or with relatively higher turnover rate had better stock performance.

碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>經營管理碩士學程(EMBA)<br>96<br>The research discusses three perspectives on the decision of enterprise go listing abroad and takes Taiwan enterprise as an example. Firstly, to study what are the motives of enterprises go listing abroad. Secondly, to research how enterprises choose listing place abroad. Finally, to discuss the benefits of these enterprises after go listing abroad. That is to say, to discuss the practiced issue that enterprise might encounter with the problems in the three different stages which before, in, after they go listing abroad, and analyze by way of pattern match, and the statistics of present status of some listed Taiwan enterprises with multiple cases, hope to research on the subjects has been discussed in the literature in the past. Because similar researches emphasize three stock markets in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China in the past, in order to expand the scope, especially from the top ten area invested by Taiwan enterprise at present, choosing six comparatively important area, including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, U.S.A., Vietnam, Thailand, and study the present situation of the already locally listed Taiwan enterprises, find the most ones from the local listed Taiwan enterprise's affiliated industry, choose the representative company, proceed with case study and comparative analysis. Find from case study, the motives of enterprises go listing abroad are " Contribute to exploit the overseas market " and " It is apt to recruit outstanding talents " the operation motives are more; the choices of enterprises’ overseas listing places, mostly because "Liquidity and scale and p/e ratio of stock market" and " Restriction on funding usage " ; and the benefits after listing abroad as for enterprises are " Improve company's reputation " and " Contribute to the product’s selling " In addition, the research shows shareholder's wealth increased apparently after listed in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Finally, the research suggests enterprises while choosing the listing place abroad in the future, it is considered and evaluated that should be in many aspects, not to determine the overseas listing place of enterprises alone simply rely on some factors, should think carefully in where to go listing is the most favorable to enterprise itself in terms of every interested party.

碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>傳播學院傳播碩士學位學程<br>106<br>It is hard to find one had no experience using social networks in any age ranges. However, most of social network members are lurkers who barely post or comment to express their opinion. On the other hand, little regular posters contribute most content in every virtual society. This study used the concept of opinion congruency in spiral of silence theory to link up multiple lurking motives found by past studies in order to clarify how posters’ texts influence lurking motives and behavior. Besides, for the purpose of comparing pros and cons between social listening and survey, this study adopted both research methods to measure major opinion in discussion threads wherea seprated the two methods into subjective and objective ones. Also, this study would have preliminary discuss about the fact of limited analytical source of social listening. Collected 599 valid surveys and 285 social network discuss thread text, the result found that opinion congruency negatively influenced both lurking motives which positively influenced lurking behavior. The result also found that the subjective and objective research methods in this study were significantly related, and shared same predictive ability on both lurking motives’ mediated effect.

This diploma thesis deals with the use of music and songs in teaching English as foreign language at B1 level. Its aims are the analysis of the song activities presented in various sources, creating the song activities, their pilotage in the classroom and subsequent evaluation. It is divided into five chapters. The theoretical part deals with listening comprehension as a skill, its relation to other skills, its definitions, reasons for teaching listening comprehension, its principles, approaches towards teaching listening comprehension and sources of listening comprehension activities. Furthermore, the development of language skills at intermediate level is presented and the essential parts introduces reasons for using songs in the development of listening comprehension skills, alternative use of music and songs and classification of song activities. The practical part covers the analysis of the song activities presented in three different course books at intermediate level and their comparison with the song activities presented in other sources. The research examines the application of the chosen song activities in practice and students' perception of them. . Key words: Listening comprehension skill, song activities, motivation, listening to songs, lyrics

On the Blacklist: Hollywood Reds and Witch Hunting in the American Motion Picture Industry (1947-1960) Abstract At the beginning of the Cold War, the American motion picture industry was struck with a "witch-hunt" that led to establishment of the so-called blacklist. Due to this controversial policy, three hundred "Reds" (actual or perceived members of the U.S. Communist Party) were shut out from work in Hollywood during 1947-1950. The first explanation of this phenomenon can be seen in the bipolarity of the post-war world where the United States took leadership in a crusade against the Soviet Union. One result of this seemingly international crusade was that it also became domestic-followers of the U.S. Communist Party became actual public enemies. A deeper analysis of whole issue, however, requires that other elements must be seriously taken into account. The microcosm of Hollywood, some principles of American thinking and the activities of the Reds themselves provide crucial insights into comprehensively understanding the complexity of blacklisting. Experience with the Hollywood blacklist included many different aspects. First of all, it was a political battle with the "inquisitors" from the House Committee on Un-American Activities who helped establish the anti-Communist policy in American motion...

Title: Interpersonal communication of Holmes Place company Objectives: The main objective of this work is to observe errors in interpersonal communication at Holmes Place, to find the cause of these errors and propose effective solutions on how to avoid it and improve communication within the company. Methods: At this work I used the method of interview and questionnaire survey. The goal was to determine the sample surveyed, to create questionnaires and overall, to evaluate the results. I used interview method to obtain information about the possibilities and traffic of interpersonal communication within the company. Within respondent sample, I evaluate the level of interpersonal communication at Holmes Place. Results: I have found that interpersonal communication at Holmes Place is on a bad level. Correctly answered questions are on a very low-level - only slightly above the 50%. Regardless of senior management, middle management or subordinates, communication within the company is evaluated as insufficient. An important role in this case plays uneducated and untrained personnel. Keywords: Communication, verbal communication, nonverbal communication, distance communication, meetings, conferences, e-mail.

The present state of listening activities in elementary school music lessons, and didactic suggestions for the integration of these activities in school teaching The thesis looks into the employment of listening activities at contemporary Czech schools. Its primary aim is to boost the motivation of school children to listen to classical music by means of choosing their preferred pieces in music lessons. The thesis consists of two parts, the theoretical part and the practical part. The theoretical part analyses available sources connected with listening activities, such as materials for teachers, and textbooks certified by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports as one of possible tools. It looks into the place of listening activities in the contemporary Czech curriculum, and presents also information about listening from the music therapy point of view. The practical part analyses the present situation in the employment of listening activities at our schools. It detects spontaneous preferences of pupils in listening to classical music, and suggests how to use these spontaneous preferences to enhance the quality of music education at school, and build and encourage positive attitude of school children to classical music. The practical part is based on the interview and experiment methods. The...

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