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Carlsson, Niklas. "UTSEENDETS PÅVERKAN PÅ MÄNNISKORS FÖRSTA INTRYCK AV ANDRA PERSONER1." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-15101.
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Syftet med studien var att undersöka om människor tillskriver andra personer egenskaper baserat på deras utseende. Vidare var syftet att undersöka om sådana tendenser eventuellt påverkades av kön och ålder. 90 män och kvinnor i olika åldrar deltog i en enkätstudie som gick ut på att försökspersonen fick se två bilder på en attraktiv respektive en oattraktiv person och sedan svara på frågor om personernas förmodade egenskaper. Resultaten visade att försökspersonerna var mer benägna att tillskriva den attraktiva personen positiva egenskaper. Dessutom pekade resultaten på att kvinnor i högre grad än män tillskriver attraktiva personer mer positiva egenskaper än oattraktiva personer. Resultaten uppvisade små skillnader mellan hur äldre och yngre personer tillskriver andra personer egenskaper utifrån attraktivitet. I vissa fall skiljde sig resultaten från tidigare, liknande studier. Anledningar till detta ansågs kunna vara diverse metodfel och själva det faktum att undersökningen förutom Kön också innehöll faktorn Ålder, vilket ingen tidigare, liknande studie haft. Nyckelord:The purpose with the study was to examine if humans accredits other persons characteristics based on their appearance . Further, the purpose was to examine if such tendencies eventually was influenced by gender an age. 90 men of different ages participated in a questionnaire survey where the researchsubject were shown two pictures presenting one attractive and one unattractive person and then were to answer questions about the persons estimated characteristics. The results showed that the researchsubjects were more inclined to accredit the attractive person positive characteristics. Furthermore the results indicated that women more often than men subscribes attractive persons more positive characteristics than unattractive persons. The results showed small differences between how older and younger subscribes other persons characteristics based on attractiveness. In some cases the results divided from previous, similar studies. The reasons for this was regarded to be various methodological bias and the fact that the examination except for Gender also included the factor Age, which no previous, similar studies had.
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Kim, Su Hyun. "Lookism in the Korean Business World and the Role of Business Management." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/271618.
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Lookism is discrimination based on physical appearance. The word ‘Lookism’ is widely used to express unfairness of the reality that good--‐looking people generally receive higher wages and better evaluations. This paper explores Lookism in South Korean business society. First, reasons for extreme Lookism in the country’s business world are analyzed. After the analysis, negative effects of Lookism in society in the present and in the future are explained. The paper concludes with explanation of the role of business management to eliminate Lookism in Korean business society and the importance of business management to develop the country’s business by reducing Lookism.
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Niu, Yuanlu. "How facial attractiveness of Chinese female applicants affects the decisions regarding a hypothetical employment evaluation." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1562.
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The purpose of this study was to explore how facial attractiveness of female job applicants influences the decision-making regarding a hypothetical employment evaluation in China. The study examined the effects of raters’ gender, job applicants’ facial attractiveness, and job applicants’ professional qualifications (education attainment and the years of work experience) on the interview selection, hiring, and salary decisions in a hypothetical situation. To examine the research hypotheses, a laboratory or “controlled” experiment was conducted in this quantitative study. There were two stages in this study. In Stage I, participants were recruited to rate 20 female facial photos, and based on the rating, the researcher selected two attractive photos and two unattractive photos to use in Stage II. In Stage II, college students of Human Resource Management (HRM) were recruited to evaluate six female job applications for an administrative assistant position in a hypothetical situation. Each application included one resume (high professional qualification or low professional qualification) and a photo indicator (an attractive photo, unattractive photo or no photo). Both Stage I and Stage II were within-subjects designs, also known as “repeated measures” designs. The study concluded that lookism or attractiveness bias existed in the hypothetical employment evaluations for the female applicants. Attaching an attractive photo on the resume was a benefit for the female applicants applying for the administration assistant position. Both male and female raters were more likely to interview, hire, and offer a higher salary to applicants with an attractive photo than the ones with an unattractive photo or without a photo in all of the hypothetical situations. However, male raters were more sensitive to the physical attractiveness of applicants than the female raters. Therefore, the issues of lookism or attractiveness bias in the workplace should be addressed. The author suggested that an application system should be designed and implemented which could prevent lookism at the early stages of the hiring process. Also, clarifying the definition of physical appearance discrimination and establishing legislation specific to physical appearance discrimination would be helpful to reduce the issues of lookism. Diversity training should be provided to employers and employees in the workplace to increase awareness of employment lookism. In future studies, the actual human resource (HR) professionals could be included to explore the effect of facial attractiveness on their employment decisions in the actual workplaces across different occupations and different cultures. In addition, future research could include several potential variables to control for a potentially significant aspect, such as rater’s attractiveness, rater’s age, years of rater in their professional field, or applicant’s gender.
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Jabbour, Rhéa. "La discrimination à raison de l'apparence physique (lookisme) en droit du travail français et américain : approche comparatiste." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010310/document.
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Le culte des apparences est prégnant dans nos sociétés. La question de la discrimination à raison de l'apparence physique (poids, taille, attractivité générale, tenue vestimentaire, coiffure, allure générale, hygiène, piercings ou de tatouages, ...) ou le lookisme, dans l'entreprise répond à un problème à la fois juridique social, éthique et psychologique et de marketing, à l'envergure historico-globale. Les stéréotypes se traduisent indéniablement dans le marché du travail (notamment aux niveaux du recrutement, la rémunération, la promotion et le licenciement). Un chef d'entreprise a-t-il le droit de ne recruter que des personnes grandes et minces, d'interdire les piercings ou les survêtements au travail, ou de licencier une femme parce qu'elle est beaucoup trop séduisante? Le cas échéant, pour quels métiers et dans quels cas spécifiques? Devrait-on rendre prohiber juridiquement le lookisme ? Dans quelle mesure les lois et la jurisprudence peuvent-elles réaliser un équilibre entre les droits et libertés en cause? Cette thèse mettra en exergue (i) les lois contre la discrimination aux niveau international, européen, français et américain (fédéral, étatique et municipal), (ii) les obstacles majeurs à une prohibition juridique anti-lookisme (difficulté de preuve, subjectivité, absence d'une catégorie bien définie, contre-arguments des chefs d'entreprise...), et (iii) la réponse des jurisprudences américaine et française à ce phénomène et (iv) tentera de concevoir une loi idéale, mettant en équilibre les droits et intérêts en jeu. Une question surgit alors : le droit à lui seul est-il suffisant? La société change-t-elle les lois ou les lois changent-elles la société?The obsession with looks is predominant in our societies. The question of looks-based (weight, height, general attractiveness, attire, hair style, hygiene, piercings or tattoos, .. ) discrimination or lookism in the workplace is a multi-disciplinary question in relation to legal, social, ethical psychological, and business-related aspects, having a global and historical impact. Stereotypes are directly reflected in the job market (mainly in recruitment, salaries, promotion and firing). Has an employer the right to only hire tall and thin woman, to prohibit piercing or jogging or even (fire a woman for being too 'attractive'? In which cases and jobs? Should we legally prohibit lookism? How can the law and case law create a balance between the rights and liberties at stake? This thesis will shed the light on (i) the international, European, French and American (federal, sta1 and local) legal framework; (ii) major obstacles to a lookism-prohibition (difficulty of proof subjectivity, absence of a defined legal category; the employers' counter-arguments, ...), (iii) the reactions of American and French case law; and (iv) will conceive an ideal law, in balance between the rights and interests at hand. One question arises : is the law sufficient by itself? Does society changes the laws or is it the other way around?
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Wu, Yimin. "Looking for." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1554512235019402.
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Streng, Catherine Ann. "Riding the Wave: How the Media Shapes South Korean Concepts of Beauty." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157645/.
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This thesis features a qualitative analysis of eight Korean media products — both fiction and nonfiction. For many years, South Korea (hereafter also called Korea) has been called the "world's plastic surgery capital" by many publications, such as Business Insider and The New Yorker. Although Business Insider considers the United States the "vainest country in the world," the numbers of cosmetic surgeries, percentage wise, per person in Korea still outnumber those in the United States, with 20 procedures per 1,000 persons. In this thesis, I argue by using the cultivation theory that Korean television, such as K-Dramas, talk shows and films, which celebrate transformations and feature makeovers and thus normalize cosmetic surgery, create a fantastic space for viewers where the viewers are compelled to act on a media-generated desire to undergo cosmetic surgery in the belief that doing so will also transform or better their lives in the same way it does for the characters in these Korean television productions.
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Mahoney, Roger Michael. "Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Bishop's Ministry of Oversight." The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103692.
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Dahms, Derick. "Investigating the relevance of selected aspects of integrated reporting in the banking industry / Derick Dahms." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8661.
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The relevance and reliability of annual financial reports as a basis for making decisions about an organisation came in dispute after a series of corporate collapses. Sustainability reports have similarly suffered weaknesses and stakeholders are unable to form a comprehensive picture of an organisation’s performance and its ability to create and sustain value.
Integrated reporting incorporates concise and material information from financial statements and the sustainability report and other sources to enable stakeholders to evaluate the organisation’s performance and to make an informed assessment about its ability to create and sustain value.
The focus of this study was to investigate the opinion of employees as stakeholders of a South African bank and their perception of the relevance of the elements in an integrated report, if they had to assess the ability of an organisation to sustain value in the future.
A literature study was conducted to address the concept of integrated reporting and the integrated report as well as relevant aspects. Based on the literature study, integrated reporting should enable stakeholders to assess the ability of the organisation to create and sustain value over the short-, medium- and long-term. Special attention has been given to the elements to be included in an integrated report as suggested by the IRC SA’s framework and employees as stakeholders of organisations. The latter has been used as basis of the empirical study that was conducted.
The empirical study focused on the opinion of employees regarding the relevance of the eight elements in an integrated report as stakeholders of a South African bank and it was conducted by means of a self-completion questionnaire. The internal consistency and reliability of the questionnaire was assessed by calculating Cronbach alpha coefficients and it had acceptable reliability.
Frequency distributions, mean values and standard deviations were calculated as well as independent t-tests and Anovas to determine the differences between the means of different groups within the selected demographic variables and the constructs. Furthermore, effect size values (d-values) were used to indicate if there were practical significant differences between any demographical variables regarding the constructs and individual questions.
In the final chapter, conclusions were drawn based on the literature and empirical study. It was evident from the empirical study that most of the respondents found the elements to be either moderately or totally relevant to be included in a report, if the ability of an organisation has to be assessed to sustain value in the future. Recommendations were provided on three elements (business model, remuneration policies and analytical commentary) and the report was concluded by recommending possible future research that could be conducted based on this study.Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013
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Nash, Eve Deloris. "Unlikely looking angels." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0006/MQ46271.pdf.
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Friedrich, Tanja. "Looking for data." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22173.
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Die Informationsverhaltensforschung liefert zahlreiche Erkenntnisse darüber, wie Menschen Informationen suchen, abrufen und nutzen. Wir verfügen über Forschungsergebnisse zu Informationsverhaltensmustern in einem breiten Spektrum von Kontexten und Situationen, aber wir wissen nicht genug über die Informationsbedürfnisse und Ziele von Forschenden hinsichtlich der Nutzung von Forschungsdaten. Die Informationsverhaltensforschung gibt insbesondere Aufschluss über das literaturbezogene Informationsverhalten. Die vorliegende Studie basiert auf der Annahme, dass diese Erkenntnisse nicht ohne weiteres auf datenbezogenes Informationsverhalten übertragen werden können. Um diese Annahme zu untersuchen, wurde eine Studie zum Informationssuchverhalten von Datennutzenden durchgeführt.
Übergeordnetes Ziel der Studie war es, Erkenntnisse über das Informationsverhalten der Nutzenden eines bestimmten Retrievalsystems für sozialwissenschaftliche Daten zu erlangen, um die Entwicklung von Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen zu unterstützen, die das Data Sharing erleichtern sollen. Das empirische Design dieser Studie folgt einem Mixed-Methods-Ansatz. Dieser umfasst eine qualitative Studie in Form von Experteninterviews und – darauf aufbauend – eine quantitative Studie in Form einer Online-Befragung von Sekundärnutzenden von Daten aus Bevölkerungs- und Meinungsumfragen (Umfragedaten).
Im Kern hat die Untersuchung ergeben, dass die Einbindung in die Forschungscommunity bei der Datensuche eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Die Analysen zeigen, dass Communities eine wichtige Determinante für das Informationssuchverhalten sind. Die Einbindung in die Community hat das Potential, Probleme oder Barrieren bei der Datensuche zu reduzieren.
Diese Studie trägt zur Theorieentwicklung in der Informationsverhaltensforschung durch die Modellierung des Datensuchverhaltens bei. In praktischer Hinsicht gibt die Studie Empfehlungen für das Design von Dateninfrastrukturen, basierend auf empirischen Anforderungsanalysen.From information behaviour research we have a rich knowledge of how people are looking for, retrieving, and using information. We have scientific evidence for information behaviour patterns in a wide scope of contexts and situations, but we don’t know enough about researchers’ information needs and goals regarding the usage of research data. Having emerged from library user studies, information behaviour research especially provides insight into literature-related information behaviour. This thesis is based on the assumption that these insights cannot be easily transferred to data-related information behaviour. In order to explore this assumption, a study of secondary data users’ information-seeking behaviour was conducted. The study was designed and evaluated in comparison to existing theories and models of information-seeking behaviour. The overall goal of the study was to create evidence of actual information practices of users of one particular retrieval system for social science data in order to inform the development of research data infrastructures that facilitate data sharing. The empirical design of this study follows a mixed methods approach. This includes a qualitative study in the form of expert interviews and – building on the results found therein – a quantitative web survey of secondary survey data users. The core result of this study is that community involvement plays a pivotal role in survey data seeking. The analyses show that survey data communities are an important determinant in survey data users' information seeking behaviour and that community involvement facilitates data seeking and has the capacity of reducing problems or barriers. Community involvement increases with growing experience, seniority, and data literacy. This study advances information behaviour research by modelling the specifics of data seeking behaviour. In practical respect, the study specifies data-user oriented requirements for systems design.
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Wharton-Ayer, Noelle-Dominique. "Looking at Landscape." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28343.
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Ce mémoire examine l’exploration du paysage et de la perception dans ma pratique artistique. Mon travail concerne principalement les représentations du monde naturel, la manière dont les images sont incorporées dans le quotidien et les façons dont notre perception de ces images façonne notre relation aux paysages réels. Cette étude du paysage et de la vision se manifeste par des explorations du dessin, de l’estampe et du collage numérique; ma pratique est également centrée sur une recherché du paysage dans la culture populaire, notamment au cinéma et à la télévision. Enfin, ce mémoire retrace la structure de ma démarche artistique en logique de la décoration, une logique qui fournit à mes images une certaine organisation et une cohérence visuelle, tout en déplaçant simultanément les objets du paysage commun dans le domaine du spectaculaire et de l’extraordinaire.This dissertation examines the exploration of landscape and vision in my artistic practice. My work is primarily concerned with representations of the natural world, how these images are incorporated into the everyday, and the ways in which our perception of these images shape our relationship to landscape. This investigation of landscape and vision is executed through explorations in drawing, printmaking, and digital collage; my practice is also centred on an investigation of landscape in popular culture, notably film and television. Finally, this dissertation outlines how my artistic process is structured by a logic of the decorative, which provides visual coherency and organization to the images I create while simultaneously displacing objects of the banal landscape into the realm of the spectacular and the extraordinary.
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Lindholm, Kevin R. "Looking For Light." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276670352.
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Lewis, Colin A. "Looking at landscapes." Rhodes University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006731.
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[From text] Landscape, for me, is Geography, for landscape is the focus of the four great traditions of my subject: spatial; area studies; man-land relationships; earth science (Pattison, 1964,1990). Hedd Wyn and Thomas Roberts, each in his own way, was a Geographer, for each was obviously a student of landscape. My own interest in Geography originated in the view from my bedroom window. I was lucky, Dad was a clergyman, and when he came bade from the army he accepted the parish of St. Peter's Glasbury, in the Wye valley of Wales. From my bedroom window I looked out across The Vicarage lawn, beyond the yew hedge and the orchard, to a series of mounds set in parkland. They were orderly, forming the outline of a rectangle, and when a group of archaeologists excavated the site they discovered that the mounds were the remains of the walls of an Iron Age fort (Savoury, 1955). Although I did not know it at the time, the landscape was already talking to me.Inaugural Lecture delivered at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 17 April 1991
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Lyons, Reneé C. "The White House Library: A Twice Told Tale Looking In, Looking Out." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2414.
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Excerpt: Having grown-up in a cabin in upstate New York with only a Bible, hymnal, and almanac as reading material, President Millard Fillmore was the type of person who would give his life for a book – and he almost did.
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Richardson, Karen Work. "Looking at/looking through: Teachers planning for curriculum -based learning with technology." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154152.
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Wagner, Stefan. "Looking inside genetic algorithms /." Linz : Trauner, 2005. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00116856.pdf.
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Commendatore, Pasquale, and Ingrid Kubin. "Looking Ahead: Part I." Springer, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65627-4_5.
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This Chapter summarises the work carried out during the lifetime of the Action by Working Group I whose main task was to build multiregional NEG models. The main results are briefly presented and some of the questions left open are pointed at. Finally, topics for future research are suggested.
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au, S. Tampalini@murdoch edu, and Sergio Tampalini. "Affective space (looking back)." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20071116.144247.
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You cant be a rationalist in an irrational world. It isnt rational Joe Orton 1
It may be argued that a historically accepted model of an academic career begins with having completed a PhD and in so doing identifying a body of theory that will inform and constitute ones practical academic work. While it may be an accepted model it does not necessarily take precedence as the only model. The relationship between theory and practice is symbiotic and as such it is possible, and indeed at times desirable, that practice inform theory. It is not advisable to be solely operating from a position of theory when making creative work; the risk is far too great.
The gravitational force of theory can all too easily disturb the fragile innocence of creativity. Pulled and constrained by the logic of theory the work risks becoming too didactic and its creativity sacrificed for the sake of rationalism
a symptom almost diagnostic of our culture.
I appreciate that the term creative is open to a plethora of readings, each with their own cogent claim to usage. When I employ the term I am referring to a particular type of decision-making process involved in the solution of problems. I will argue that a creative decision differs from other types of decisions [such as, practical or scientific] in the way the resultant solution of the problem remains open to a greater number of potential readings. I will also argue that it is precisely in those heuristic moments of potential impasse, often associated with a problems resolution, where creativity hangs out.
In any creative venture, I have always been guided by the importance and significance of doing2
in the doing is the theory. This is not meant to dismiss theory but simply to see it in much the same way as when we see objects in our peripheral vision. Just as objects in our peripheral vision do not take their place in our visual field3, theory [for me] participates in creative processes by subconsciously serving as an early guiding system that helps monitor the work. In this age of information we are no longer innocent of theory -it is ineluctable. What is crucial is that we have a command of theory in order that we may go through it and regain our creative innocence. If we do not, we only achieve an artificial innocence born of enthusiasm, exuberance and imprecision. Creative innocence is re-found in doing. This assertion conceives of theory as participating as part of a creative subconscious and goes someway towards explaining the sudden epiphany of understanding that is frequently associated with prolonged and intense work, or the immense pleasure at retrospectively recognising the theory that seemed to have informed ones work without being conscious of it -as if the theoretical component had always been there. This phenomenon is of fundamental concern to my thesis, especially when considering the theatre productions that constitute my creative oeuvre. Upon close inspection, my works ultimately reveal that the defining distance between a visceral creative decision [one whose manifestation is immediately felt as apposite] and one that is conceptualised as the illustration of a theory, is not that great
I just happen to begin working outside of the brackets of theoretical narration.
Throughout my thesis I will refer to all visuals as images but I will argue that there are specific types of images, namely signs, symbols and metaphors.
In language the term image can imply more than a verbal description of a purely visual experience; it can also mean the metaphoric, ornamental, rhetorical figurative use of language as opposed to its literal use. 4
For the surrealists image meant more than the representation5 of an external thing in the material world, it also meant the revelation of an internal mental state, a psychological verity occluded from consciousness.
Images [of this kind] were incandescent flashes linking two elements belonging to categories that are so far removed from each other that reason would fail to connect them and that require a momentary suspension of the critical attitude in order for them to be brought together. 6
Having already built a body of practical work [spanning thirty years] the challenge was to see if it was possible to identify a coherent theory that consistently functioned as the catalyst of the work - albeit disparate in its nature. The analytical process proved to be the reverse of that which may be observed in the historically accepted model of academic discourse
where the process is cumulative. In this instance the process was deductive -a forensic assignment akin to tracing the diverse creative elements to their creative source or motivation. The venture proved illuminating in much the same way as when one is asked to crystallise a complex theoretical argument; you have to reinvent the argument in a way that helps to simplify its complexity without attenuating its integrity -a complexity that is well known to you but that eludes the uninitiated reader.
Whenever I try and think about my theatre practice I am vexed -particularly when I filter my own experiences and try and extract the meanings that seem genuinely inherent in them. At first glance it is satisfying because of a sense of coherence or pattern in a whole host of discrete events. However a closer inspection quickly reveals the fractal complexity of the pattern and demands a reappraisal of how we see and decipher it. Any attempt to understand its disparate nature by investigating one part in isolation from the whole proves initially unsatisfying and finally futile, for each part seems to be informed by and refer to other parts, as if participating in a greater organising principle; a principle that resists traditional cartography; one that is best seen as one sees the earth from outer space.7 When the earth is seen from outer space one becomes aware of the greater organising principle [the universe] within which it functions. Similarly it is only when the topology of my work is seen from a distance that its coherence is apparent
the further away one is, the more clearly one recognises its constituent parts.
Despite our desire to lose ourselves in the living depths of a work, we are constrained to distance ourselves from it in order to speak of it. Why, then not deliberately establish a distance that will reveal to us, in a panoramic perspective, the surroundings with which the work is organically linked? 8
When I am in the middle of a theatre production, I have only the slightest idea of how it will end; I trust in the doing, and at the end I am always surprised by what I have created. Ambiguity and paradox and consequently indeterminacy ultimately emerge as the common features of my work; they appear as sign posts that mark a way of finally mapping it. Each individual piece of work remains coherently intact despite its seemingly obscure coalescence with others, but it is when the works intersect at these points of commonality that one may observe the greater organising matrix.
The phenomenological world is not a pure being, but the sense which is revealed where the paths of my various experiences intersect, and also where my own and other peoples intersect and engage each other like gears. 9
If the most unrelated things share a place, time, or odd similarity, there develop wonderful unities and peculiar relationships and one thing reminds us of everything. Novalis 10
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Tampalini, Sergio. "Affective space (looking back)." Tampalini, Sergio (2006) Affective space (looking back). PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/331/.
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It may be argued that a historically accepted model of an academic career begins with having completed a PhD and in so doing identifying a body of theory that will inform and constitute one's practical academic work. While it may be an accepted model it does not necessarily take precedence as the only model. The relationship between theory and practice is symbiotic and as such it is possible, and indeed at times desirable, that practice inform theory. It is not advisable to be solely operating from a position of theory when making creative work; the risk is far too great.
The gravitational force of theory can all too easily disturb the fragile innocence of creativity. Pulled and constrained by the logic of theory the work risks becoming too didactic and its creativity sacrificed for the sake of rationalism...a symptom almost diagnostic of our culture.
I appreciate that the term creative is open to a plethora of readings, each with their own cogent claim to usage. When I employ the term I am referring to a particular type of decision-making process involved in the solution of problems. I will argue that a creative decision differs from other types of decisions [such as, practical or scientific] in the way the resultant solution of the problem remains open to a greater number of potential readings. I will also argue that it is precisely in those heuristic moments of potential impasse, often associated with a problem's resolution, where creativity hangs out.
In any creative venture, I have always been guided by the importance and significance of doing...in the doing is the theory. This is not meant to dismiss theory but simply to see it in much the same way as when we see objects in our peripheral vision. Just as objects in our peripheral vision do not take their place in our visual field, theory [for me] participates in creative processes by subconsciously serving as an early guiding system that helps monitor the work. In this age of information we are no longer innocent of theory -it is ineluctable. What is crucial is that we have a command of theory in order that we may go through it and regain our creative innocence. If we do not, we only achieve an artificial innocence born of enthusiasm, exuberance and imprecision. Creative innocence is re-found in doing. This assertion conceives of theory as participating as part of a creative subconscious and goes someway towards explaining the sudden epiphany of understanding that is frequently associated with prolonged and intense work, or the immense pleasure at retrospectively recognising the theory that seemed to have informed one's work without being conscious of it -as if the theoretical component had always been there. This phenomenon is of fundamental concern to my thesis, especially when considering the theatre productions that constitute my creative oeuvre. Upon close inspection, my works ultimately reveal that the defining distance between a visceral creative decision [one whose manifestation is immediately felt as apposite] and one that is conceptualised as the illustration of a theory, is not that great...I just happen to begin working outside of the brackets of theoretical narration.
Throughout my thesis I will refer to all visuals as images but I will argue that there are specific types of images, namely signs, symbols and metaphors.
In language the term image can imply more than a verbal description of a purely visual experience; it can also mean the metaphoric, ornamental, rhetorical figurative use of language as opposed to its literal use.
For the surrealists image meant more than the representation of an external thing in the material world, it also meant the revelation of an internal mental state, a psychological verity occluded from consciousness.
Images [of this kind] were incandescent flashes linking two elements belonging to categories that are so far removed from each other that reason would fail to connect them and that require a momentary suspension of the critical attitude in order for them to be brought together.
Having already built a body of practical work [spanning thirty years] the challenge was to see if it was possible to identify a coherent theory that consistently functioned as the catalyst of the work - albeit disparate in its nature. The analytical process proved to be the reverse of that which may be observed in the historically accepted model of academic discourse...where the process is cumulative. In this instance the process was deductive -a forensic assignment akin to tracing the diverse creative elements to their creative source or motivation. The venture proved illuminating in much the same way as when one is asked to crystallise a complex theoretical argument; you have to reinvent the argument in a way that helps to simplify its complexity without attenuating its integrity -a complexity that is well known to you but that eludes the uninitiated reader.
Whenever I try and think about my theatre practice I am vexed -particularly when I filter my own experiences and try and extract the meanings that seem genuinely inherent in them. At first glance it is satisfying because of a sense of coherence or pattern in a whole host of discrete events. However a closer inspection quickly reveals the fractal complexity of the pattern and demands a reappraisal of how we see and decipher it. Any attempt to understand its disparate nature by investigating one part in isolation from the whole proves initially unsatisfying and finally futile, for each part seems to be informed by and refer to other parts, as if participating in a greater organising principle; a principle that resists traditional cartography; one that is best seen as one sees the earth from outer space. When the earth is seen from outer space one becomes aware of the greater organising principle [the universe] within which it functions. Similarly it is only when the topology of my work is seen from a distance that its coherence is apparent...the further away one is, the more clearly one recognises its constituent parts.
Despite our desire to lose ourselves in the living depths of a work, we are constrained to distance ourselves from it in order to speak of it. Why, then not deliberately establish a distance that will reveal to us, in a panoramic perspective, the surroundings with which the work is organically linked?
When I am in the middle of a theatre production, I have only the slightest idea of how it will end; I trust in the doing, and at the end I am always surprised by what I have created. Ambiguity and paradox and consequently indeterminacy ultimately emerge as the common features of my work; they appear as sign posts that mark a way of finally mapping it. Each individual piece of work remains coherently intact despite its seemingly obscure coalescence with others, but it is when the works intersect at these points of commonality that one may observe the greater organising matrix.
The phenomenological world is not a pure being, but the sense which is revealed where the paths of my various experiences intersect, and also where my own and other people's intersect and engage each other like gears.
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Recasens, Adriá (Recasens Continente). "Where are they looking?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106078.
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Thesis: S.M. in Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-55).
Humans have the remarkable ability to follow the gaze of other people to identify what they are looking at. Following eye gaze, or gaze-following, is an important ability that allows us to understand what other people are thinking, the actions they are performing, and even predict what they might do next. Despite the importance of this topic, this problem has only been studied in limited scenarios within the computer vision community. In this thesis, we propose a deep neural network-based approach for gaze-following and a new benchmark dataset, GazeFollow, for thorough evaluation. Given an image and the location of a head, our approach follows the gaze of the person and identifies the object being looked at. Our deep network is able to discover how to extract head pose and gaze orientation, and to select objects in the scene that are in the predicted line of sight and likely to be looked at (such as televisions, balls and food). The quantitative evaluation shows that our approach produces reliable results, even when viewing only the back of the head. While our method outperforms several baseline approaches, we are still far from reaching human performance on this task. Furthermore, we show that gaze information is relevant to the action recognition problem. Overall, we believe that gaze-following is a challenging and important problem that deserves more attention from the community. Our model, code and dataset are available for download at http://gazefollow.csail.mit.edu
by Adriá Recasens.
S.M. in Computer Science and Engineering
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Hagemeier, Nicholas E. "Looking Beyond Red Flags." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1423.
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The presentation will look beyond red flags to inform Rx legitimacy judgments and subsequent prescribing and dispensing decisions. The presenter will describe the outcomes of two research projects that examined prescribers’ and pharmacists’ perceptions of Rx legitimacy and Rx drug abuse communication behaviors. Attendees will gain insight into the process of evaluating Rx legitimacy and learn how subjectivity inherent in these judgments influences prescribing and dispensing behaviors and patient care. The presenter also will identify evidencebased, practice-friendly interventions to engage community pharmacists in community-based prevention of Rx drug abuse and its consequences.
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Kovitz, David Immanuel. "Looking into phrasal verbs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2362.
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The phrasal verb is a unique type of verb phrase that consists of a main verb, usually of only one or two syllables, followed by a particle, that works as a single semantic unit. Such meaning, however, is characteristically expressed in idomatic terms, which poses a formidable problem for students of English as a second language. To be understood, this meaning must be figuratively interpreted as well as literally translated.
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Tampalini, Serge. "Affective space (looking back)." Thesis, Tampalini, Serge (2006) Affective space (looking back). PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/331/.
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It may be argued that a historically accepted model of an academic career begins with having completed a PhD and in so doing identifying a body of theory that will inform and constitute one's practical academic work. While it may be an accepted model it does not necessarily take precedence as the only model. The relationship between theory and practice is symbiotic and as such it is possible, and indeed at times desirable, that practice inform theory. It is not advisable to be solely operating from a position of theory when making creative work; the risk is far too great.
The gravitational force of theory can all too easily disturb the fragile innocence of creativity. Pulled and constrained by the logic of theory the work risks becoming too didactic and its creativity sacrificed for the sake of rationalism...a symptom almost diagnostic of our culture.
I appreciate that the term creative is open to a plethora of readings, each with their own cogent claim to usage. When I employ the term I am referring to a particular type of decision-making process involved in the solution of problems. I will argue that a creative decision differs from other types of decisions [such as, practical or scientific] in the way the resultant solution of the problem remains open to a greater number of potential readings. I will also argue that it is precisely in those heuristic moments of potential impasse, often associated with a problem's resolution, where creativity hangs out.
In any creative venture, I have always been guided by the importance and significance of doing...in the doing is the theory. This is not meant to dismiss theory but simply to see it in much the same way as when we see objects in our peripheral vision. Just as objects in our peripheral vision do not take their place in our visual field, theory [for me] participates in creative processes by subconsciously serving as an early guiding system that helps monitor the work. In this age of information we are no longer innocent of theory -it is ineluctable. What is crucial is that we have a command of theory in order that we may go through it and regain our creative innocence. If we do not, we only achieve an artificial innocence born of enthusiasm, exuberance and imprecision. Creative innocence is re-found in doing. This assertion conceives of theory as participating as part of a creative subconscious and goes someway towards explaining the sudden epiphany of understanding that is frequently associated with prolonged and intense work, or the immense pleasure at retrospectively recognising the theory that seemed to have informed one's work without being conscious of it -as if the theoretical component had always been there. This phenomenon is of fundamental concern to my thesis, especially when considering the theatre productions that constitute my creative oeuvre. Upon close inspection, my works ultimately reveal that the defining distance between a visceral creative decision [one whose manifestation is immediately felt as apposite] and one that is conceptualised as the illustration of a theory, is not that great...I just happen to begin working outside of the brackets of theoretical narration.
Throughout my thesis I will refer to all visuals as images but I will argue that there are specific types of images, namely signs, symbols and metaphors.
In language the term image can imply more than a verbal description of a purely visual experience; it can also mean the metaphoric, ornamental, rhetorical figurative use of language as opposed to its literal use.
For the surrealists image meant more than the representation of an external thing in the material world, it also meant the revelation of an internal mental state, a psychological verity occluded from consciousness.
Images [of this kind] were incandescent flashes linking two elements belonging to categories that are so far removed from each other that reason would fail to connect them and that require a momentary suspension of the critical attitude in order for them to be brought together.
Having already built a body of practical work [spanning thirty years] the challenge was to see if it was possible to identify a coherent theory that consistently functioned as the catalyst of the work - albeit disparate in its nature. The analytical process proved to be the reverse of that which may be observed in the historically accepted model of academic discourse...where the process is cumulative. In this instance the process was deductive -a forensic assignment akin to tracing the diverse creative elements to their creative source or motivation. The venture proved illuminating in much the same way as when one is asked to crystallise a complex theoretical argument; you have to reinvent the argument in a way that helps to simplify its complexity without attenuating its integrity -a complexity that is well known to you but that eludes the uninitiated reader.
Whenever I try and think about my theatre practice I am vexed -particularly when I filter my own experiences and try and extract the meanings that seem genuinely inherent in them. At first glance it is satisfying because of a sense of coherence or pattern in a whole host of discrete events. However a closer inspection quickly reveals the fractal complexity of the pattern and demands a reappraisal of how we see and decipher it. Any attempt to understand its disparate nature by investigating one part in isolation from the whole proves initially unsatisfying and finally futile, for each part seems to be informed by and refer to other parts, as if participating in a greater organising principle; a principle that resists traditional cartography; one that is best seen as one sees the earth from outer space. When the earth is seen from outer space one becomes aware of the greater organising principle [the universe] within which it functions. Similarly it is only when the topology of my work is seen from a distance that its coherence is apparent...the further away one is, the more clearly one recognises its constituent parts.
Despite our desire to lose ourselves in the living depths of a work, we are constrained to distance ourselves from it in order to speak of it. Why, then not deliberately establish a distance that will reveal to us, in a panoramic perspective, the surroundings with which the work is organically linked?
When I am in the middle of a theatre production, I have only the slightest idea of how it will end; I trust in the doing, and at the end I am always surprised by what I have created. Ambiguity and paradox and consequently indeterminacy ultimately emerge as the common features of my work; they appear as sign posts that mark a way of finally mapping it. Each individual piece of work remains coherently intact despite its seemingly obscure coalescence with others, but it is when the works intersect at these points of commonality that one may observe the greater organising matrix.
The phenomenological world is not a pure being, but the sense which is revealed where the paths of my various experiences intersect, and also where my own and other people's intersect and engage each other like gears.
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Tampalini, Serge. "Affective space (looking back) /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20071116.144247.
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Rashid, Anne Marie. "Looking in and looking out for others reading and writing race in American literature /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.
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Khasawneh, Omar Mohammad Ali. "Looking at the present, looking towards the future : sport and physical education in Jordan /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486462067842406.
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Robbins, Patrick. "Looks." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/89/.
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Granados, Juana. "Looking Beyond Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1729.
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The objective of this thesis is to explain how Dmitrii Shostakovich used Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poetry to create the Thirteenth Symphony. This collaboration between two arts, poetry and music, reflects more than just separate ideas. The five movements of the symphony bring to public conscience the political opinions of Shostakovich regarding life in the Soviet Union.
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Guilford, Shane, and Mark C. Kutis. "RFID benefits: looking beyond ROI." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/9979.
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MBA Professional ReportWe explore whether benefits are being realized in RFID initiatives that are not being captured by traditional Return on Investment analysis. Utilizing the Naval Supply System Report, which found RFID technology does not create a positive ROI, we surveyed the participants to find benefits they received that were not addressed. 100% of the participants reported increased customer knowledge and increased timeliness of information. While this finding may not be enough to support the implementation of new technologies, it at least supports the idea that the new technologies do have real benefits. This report is therefore intended as a tool to be used by the Navy in addressing the idea that traditional ROI does not capture these intangible benefits. We acknowledge the fact that further study of this important issue is needed.
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Friedrich, Tanja [Verfasser]. "Looking for data / Tanja Friedrich." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/122251270X/34.
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Ley, Clemens. "Forward looking logics and automata." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d6eb0004-47b9-4e32-b6c9-7796afecabd5.
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This thesis is concerned with extending properties of regular word languages to richer structures. We consider intricate properties like the relationship between one-way and two-way temporal logics, minimization of automata, and the ability to effectively characterize logics. We investigate whether these properties can be extended to tree languages or word languages over an infinite alphabet. It is known that linear temporal logic (LTL) is as expressive as first-order logic over finite words [Kam68, GPSS80]. LTL is a unidirectional logic, that can only navigate forwards in a word, hence it is quite surprising that it can capture all of first-order logic. In fact, one of the main ideas of the proof of [GPSS80] is to show that the expressiveness of LTL is not increased if modalities for navigating backwards are added. It is also known that an extension of bidirectional LTL to ordered trees, called Conditional XPath, is first-order complete [Mar04]. We investigate whether the unidirectional fragment of Conditional XPath is also first-order complete. We show that this is not the case. In fact we show that there is a strict hierarchy of expressiveness consisting of languages that are all weaker than first-order logic. Unidirectional Conditional XPath is contained in the lowest level of this hierarchy. In the second part of the thesis we consider data word languages. That is, word languages over an infinite alphabet. We extend the theorem of Myhill and Nerode to a class of automata for data word languages, called deterministic finite memory automata (DMA). We give a characterization of the languages that are accepted by DMA, and also provide an algorithm for minimizing DMA. Finally we extend theorems of Büchi, Schützenberger, McNaughton, and Papert to data word languages. A theorem of Büchi states that a language is regular iff it can be defined in monadic second-order logic. Schützenberger, McNaughton, and Papert have provided an effective characterization of first-order logic, that is, an algorithm for deciding whether a regular language can be defined in first-order logic. We provide a counterpart of Büchi's theorem for data languages. More precisely we define a new logic and we show that it has the same expressiveness as non-deterministic finite memory automata. We then turn to a smaller class of data languages, those that are recognized by algebraic objects called orbit finite data monoids. We define a second new logic and show that it can define precisely the languages accepted by orbit finite data monoids. We provide an effective characterization of a first-order variant of this second logic, as well as of restrictions of first-order logic, such as its two variable fragment and local variants.
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Recasens, Continente Adriá. "Learning through looking and listening." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128297.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2020
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-163).
In order to read emotions, understand actions or anticipate intentions, humans need efficient ways of gathering information about each other. In particular, gaze and speech are rich sources of information about other peoples' thoughts. This thesis investigates these modes. In the first part of the thesis, we describe our work on predicting human gaze. We introduce a series of methods to follow gaze for different modalities. First, we present GazeFollow, a dataset and model to predict the location people's gaze in an image. We then extend this method to work on video, where the system predicts when and where in the video the attended object appears. Finally, we introduce Gaze360, a large-scale gaze-tracking dataset and method for robust 3D gaze direction estimation in unconstrained scenes.
In order to improve processing efficiency, we also propose a saliency-based sampling layer designed to improve performance in arbitrary tasks by efficiently zooming into the relevant parts of the input image. In the second part of the thesis, we present our work on learning spoken words from raw audio descriptions of images. We describe a multi-modal system capable of learning correspondences between segments of audio - nouns - and specific visual concepts. To investigate how to extend this system beyond learning nouns, we present a novel training procedure to learn abstract visual attributes (i.e., size, material or color) by using a generative model to generate the training images. Building upon recent findings that GAN representations can be manipulated to edit semantic concepts in the generated output, our method uses GAN-generated images to train the model using a triplet loss.
Finally, we present three extensions and applications derived from our work: a dataset to jointly model speech and gaze; a system for gaze-tracking for behavioral research in children; and gaze-following in the classroom. Together, the methods presented in this thesis demonstrate the potential for human understanding through gaze and speech in images and videos.
by Adriá Recasens Continente.
Ph. D.
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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OBERLIN, KEVIN ARTHUR. "THE MOMENT OF LOOKING DOWN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186430895.
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Baczeski, Lillianna Marie. "Dictionary for Looking and Seeing." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460805733.
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Klaas, Larry. "Looking Ahead: Project Agriculture's Future." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/295368.
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Blanchard, Guy B. "Ants through the looking-glass." Thesis, University of Bath, 1996. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336233.
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Oliveira, Luma de. "Inflação e desemprego : ensaios sobre a curva de phillips para a economia brasileira." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/168651.
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A presente tese, a partir de três ensaios, faz uso de diferentes especificações da curva de Phillips, para discutir distintos objetivos embasados em assuntos relevantes como o processo de determinação de preços e seus custos sociais para a economia brasileira. Neste sentido, o primeiro ensaio utiliza de uma equação de transferência para a especificação da curva de Phillips, a partir do método das variáveis instrumentais, para alcançar a taxa de desemprego não aceleradora da inflação (NAIRU). Este método, para dados trimestrais de 2000 a 2013, possibilitou identificar uma mudança no coeficiente de correlação entre a taxa de desemprego e a taxa de inflação, que passou de um trade-off (negativo) para uma relação positiva, além da permanência da taxa NAIRU acima da taxa de desemprego no período em questão. Preocupando-se com este resultado expressivo, o segundo ensaio se comprometeu em analisar se esse adveio de possíveis não linearidades presentes na curva, preocupação que já havia sido retratada pelo trabalho seminal de Phillips (1958), indicando que a relação da taxa de variação dos salários nominais e a taxa de desemprego seria altamente não linear. Nesse contexto, utilizando o modelo de vetores autorregressivos que considera a não-linearidade dos parâmetros (quebras estruturais), variáveis exógenas de controle (para contornar o problema de omissão de variáveis) para o período de 1995 a 2014, estimou-se a Curva de Phillips Novo-Keynesiana Hibrida (CPNKH) para identificar possíveis quebras estruturais para dados da economia brasileira. O modelo estimado foi caracterizado por um MSIH(2)VAR(1) e foi possível confirmar a não linearidade a partir do teste da razão de verossimilhança, com a identificação de dois períodos bem distintos ao longo da amostra. Além disso, foi verificada uma representatividade maior para o termo inercial (Backward Looking) indicando que as expectativas de inflação contribuem menos para a explicação do processo inflacionário recente da economia brasileira. Uma vez que um dos principais objetivos do Regime de Metas de Inflação (RMI) é ancorar a formação de preços a partir das expectativas futuras dos agentes econômicos, além disso, dada a não linearidade encontrada para dados da economia brasileira no segundo ensaio, e dada as diferentes significâncias, importâncias e patamares para os componentes da curva que representam as expectativas (futuras e passadas), o terceiro ensaio se comprometeu em, ao invés de confiar exclusivamente em uma única medida de tendência central, analisar os quantis de toda a distribuição condicional da variável resposta (taxa de inflação). Utilizando do método da regressão quantílica inversa, que utiliza os blocos em movimento bootstrap de Fitzenberger (1997), descrito por Chernozhukov e Hansen (2005), para o período de maio de 2001 a agosto de 2016, foi possível identificar a importância adquirida pelas expectativas futuras ao longo dos períodos analisados. Quando se faz estimações considerando somente a média condicional, o termo inercial é maior e significativo para praticamente todas as especificações e modelos apresentados. Utilizando do modelo da regressão quantílica inversa, por outro lado, é possível verificar que o termo Forward Looking ganha força e domina o Backward Looking nos três períodos analisados, em diferentes níveis de inflação, demonstrando, assim, o comportamento assimétrico (não linear) do processo inflacionário. Desta forma, foi possível mostrar o amadurecimento do objetivo do RMI e averiguar que os componentes expectacionais da CPNKH, para dados da economia brasileira, foram capazes de manter sua importância e significância em toda distribuição condicional no processo de determinação de preços recente.The present dissertation, based on three essays, makes use of different specifications for the Phillips curve, to discuss different objectives based on relevant issues such as the process of price determination and its social costs for the Brazilian economy. In this sense, the first assay uses a transfer equation for the specification of the Phillips curve, using the instrumental variables method, to reach the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU). This method, for quarterly data from 2000 to 2013, enable the identification of a change in the coefficient of correlation between the unemployment rate and the inflation rate, which transitioned from a trade-off to a positive relation, in addition to the permanence of the NAIRU above the unemployment rate in the period in question. Concerning with this expressive result, the second essay undertook to analyze whether this resulted from possible non-linearities present in the curve, a concern that had already been portrayed by the seminal work of Phillips (1958), indicating that the relation of the rate of change of wages and the unemployment rate would be highly non-linear. In this context, using the autoregressive vector model that considers the non-linearity of the parameters (structural breaks), exogenous variables of control (to circumvent the problem of omission of variables) for the period from 1995 to 2014, it was estimated the Phillips New-Keynesian Hybrid (CPNKH) to identify possible structural breaks for Brazilian economy data. The estimated model was characterized by a MSIH (2) VAR (1) and it was possible to confirm the nonlinearity from the likelihood ratio test, with the identification of two distinct periods throughout the sample. In addition, it was verified a greater representativeness for the inertial term (Backward Looking), indicating that the expectations of inflation contributed less to the explanation of the recent inflationary process of the Brazilian economy. Since one of the main objectives of the Inflation Targeting Regime (ITR) is to anchor the formation of prices based on the future expectations of the economic agents, in addition, given the non-linearity found for the data of the Brazilian economy in the second essay, and considering the different significance, importance and thresholds for the components of the curve that represent (future and past) expectations, the third assay committed to, instead of relying solely on a single measure of central tendency, analyze the quantiles of the entire conditional distribution of the response variable (inflation rate). Using the reverse quantum regression method, which uses the Fitzenberger (1997) bootstrap blocks, described by Chernozhukov and Hansen (2005), for the period from May 2001 to August 2016, it was possible to identify the importance acquired by the expectations over the periods analyzed. When estimating only the conditional average, the inertial term is larger and significant for practically all the specifications and models presented. On the other hand, it is possible to verify the Forward Looking term gaining importance and dominating the Backward Looking in the three analyzed periods, at different levels of inflation, thus, demonstrating the asymmetric (non-linear) behavior of the inflationary process. In this way, it was possible to show the maturity of the objective of the ITR as to verify that the expected components of the CPNKH for the Brazilian economy data were able to maintain its importance and significance in all conditional distribution in the recent pricing process.
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Åsberg, Cecilia. "Looking at Science, Looking at You! : The Feminist Re-visions of Nature(Brain and Genes)." Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-66375.
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Vision has often been a central concern of feminist studies of science, medicine and technology. In cultural or social feminist analysis, the male gaze and the ways in which technoscience accommodates, and in effect organizes the watching of women, has been an important part of the feminist interrogation of the gender and power relations that produce the subjects and the objects of science. This attention is due to the intimate, and power-saturated, merge of processes of seeing and processes of knowing. Inherent in the notion of vision, there is always a politics to ways of seeing, ordering and observing, of organising the knowledge of the world. Historically, this can be exemplified by the eighteen-century Swedish “father” of biological classification, Linnaeus. Taking a leap away from Christian assumptions, Linnaeus placed human beings in a taxonomic order of nature together with other animals.ISBN 91-87792-49-4 not valid for this book.
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Lyons, Reneé C. "Education Resource Guide: Part III Annexation and Division – Our White House, Looking In, Looking Out." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2398.
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This education resource guide is designed to augment the content included in Part III of the NCBLA’s anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out. Included on these pages are engaging activities and discussion questions regarding some of the articles and stories in Part III of Our White House.
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Mertens, Kerstin. "Looking at colour : a philosophical exposition." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26774.
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This dissertation consists of two parts. Part I examines three historical attempts at explaining colour on the basis of Goethe's Farbenlehre. Schopenhauer, Hegel and Wittgenstein each give successful explanations of some but not all colour phenomena. As they succeed and fail in the same areas in which more recent subjectivist and objectivist accounts succeed and fail it must be concluded that the nature of colour does not allow for reduction to subjective states of mind or to objective physical processes. Part II examines colour itself: The first three chapters establish internal colour relations. Colour language and colour blindness re-introduce the human subject whose importance is most evident in the contemplation of paintings. As paintings cannot only represent three dimensional objects but can also evoke feelings through mere colour effects, colour is an important medium for the communication of subjectivity and ideality. The conclusion is twofold. First, we have to strictly differentiate between the ontology and epistemology of colour: Colour exists objectively and hence independently of observers, but internal colour relations are nevertheless determined by human thought. Secondly, colour is irreducible: although science can explain most of its aspects the nature of colour itself can only be understood through the irreducible variety of colour effects.
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Paterson, Jeanie. "Looking through the executive learning lens." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0016/MQ49210.pdf.
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Dolbec, Michael R. "Velocity estimation using forward looking sonar." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/07Mar%5FDolbec.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Engineering Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.Thesis Advisor(s): Doug Horner, Mathias Kölsch. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 113). Also available in print.
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Donovan, Anna Gay. "Virginia Woolf : a language of looking." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324071.
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The aim of this thesis is to trace a 'language of looking' in some of Virginia Woolfs texts. I have taken Woolfs short story entitled 'The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection' as a point of departure and principle theme. This story provides models for a serious questioning of the ways we look at women and how that looking deten»ines their representation. In turn that representation is shown to structure and inform our ways of looking. Each paragraph of the story is taken as a starting point for a chapter of the thesis. Thus, each of the ten paragraphs of the story becomes, as it were, the epigraph of the chapter that follows. Each chapter moves out from the specific problematics offered by 'The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection' to other works by Woolf, and beyond. My readings of 'The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection' show Woolf to be exploring different ways of getting to 'know' the Lady, to ascertain her 'truth'. The aptness and inadequacy of description, the giving of facts and the detail of imaginings, the insights of perception and the blindness of rhetoric, are all revealed as the story and the thesis unfold. The ways in which a woman can be regarded, spoken of, but never 'truly' represented, is examined. Each chapter focuses upon how, in consecutive paragraphs, Woolf attempts to create a convincing character that can be caught and turned to words. The very difficulties of representation are seen to be written into Woolfs text as the narrative moves from one speculative moment to another. In order to explore the issues raised in the short story I engage with other of Woolfs writings. Using close readings of her work, psychoanalytic concepts, critical writings, Surrealist thought and photographic model, I work to show just how vital are the 'signs' of looking in Woolf's texts.Finally the failures of language are realised as I look at how Woolfs awareness of the complexities and nuances of the visual demonstrates a negative, self-destructive impulse as well as a positive, life-enhancing moment of becoming. Woolfs search for the best words with which to portray the Lady of her story is echoed by my own struggle to find the right words with which to reveal the intricate network of 'looks' that adds yet another dimension to the enigmatic and challenging works of the Lady we know as Virginia Woolf.
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Sturdy, J. C. G. "A LISP through the looking glass." Thesis, University of Bath, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292829.
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Chaplin, Robert Michael. "Robert Rauschenberg - between looking and longing." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389254.
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Zeithammer, Robert 1975. "Forward-looking bidders in sequential auctions." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29645.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-97).
At Internet auction sites like eBay, similar goods are often sold in a sequence of auctions. Buyers can therefore benefit from forward-looking bidding strategies that take into account the available information about future auctions. This dissertation develops a model of such bidding, provides both experimental and econometric evidence of the model's relevance to behavior, and explores the impact of forward-looking bidding on the seller's optimal selling strategy as well as on the overall market equilibrium. Extending prior sequential-auction theories, the proposed model assumes that bidders know their private valuations of objects auctioned in the near future. Rational bidders "bargain-hunt" in that they bid less than they would otherwise, and early bids decrease with the private values of later objects. The model's predictions are tested in two laboratory experiments, both involving a sequence of two auctions. Both experiments show that first-auction bids decrease with the private values of the future object, but the second experiment suggests that the average decrease is smaller than predicted by the theory. An econometric analysis of eBay data finds that buyers seem to look ahead, and on average adjust their bids down as a function of their private preferences for the objects sold in the near future. They also bid less when the same item they are bidding on is available within the next few auctions. To explore the supply-side of a sequential auction marketplace, the dissertation analyzes a model of a long-lived monopolist facing overlapping generations of forward-looking buyers. When the seller learns about the current auction-market demand from past prices, bargain-hunting poses not only the obvious cost of a lower average revenue, but it also provides a benefit to the seller by making prices more informative.
(cont.) In equilibrium, the seller limits the extent of bargain-hunting by threatening to withhold future supply, but the threat is only credible when the profitability of the auction-market is close to the seller's outside option. Therefore, bargain-hunting can coexist with strategic selling, but is shown to be a self-regulating phenomenon that diminishes when the existence of the auction-market is threatened by an outside spot-market.
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Kolsoe, Ágústsdóttir Hallveig Guony. "Looking at sound, listening to image." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7624.
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This thesis discusses my new sound drawing practice and its development throughout the course of my practice-based PhD research at Brunel School of Arts. “Sound drawing” is a general term that I have chosen to use to describe a body of visual artworks that instigated the composition of soundscapes as well as the design of an audiovisual performance instrument. I will start by giving a clear picture of the musical and visual arts background that led up to my current sound drawing practice. Then I will go through the individual works created between 2008 and 2012 that have contributed the most to the development of sound drawing. I will discuss how performance sketches ... (2009) instigated the shift from composing graphic scores to sound drawing when I was confronted with drawing my graphic scores in real time. In 31 (sound) studies on paper (2010-2011), the sound drawing process began to mature through a closer examination of the visual imagery, drawing materials, physical gestures and the overall sound production. As I started to develop solo performance projects based on my sound drawing practice, I looked back to the compositions projection-reaction (2008-2009) and de (re)construction (2009) which suggested how I might return to using the medium of video. My most recent work, drawalineandlistentoit and R=15 (2012), seems to constitute a point where all the different strands in my works of the preceding four years come together to produce an intricate collaboration between sound, image and performer. Working with the sound drawings within a performance context, a registration of the sonic event occurs, a form of score is created – and at the same time sound is mixing and moving into the space through the audio software Plogue Bidule, while a visual projection is constructed in realtimev through the VPT software.
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Lewis-Smith, Christopher. "The dancer and the looking glass." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/65808/.
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This thesis concerns the relationship between the dancer, the camera, and the screen viewer in the making and watching of screendance. It documents a personal journey of exploration that has my own creative practice, located within the wider field of screendance, as a central thread. The research identifies a divide, with respect to control and authorship, which exists between the performer on one side of the lens and filmmakers on the other. It explores, through practice, production methodologies that challenge and narrow this divide. It finds that the small scale, single-take, single mobile camera dancing/filming event can help close the divide between dancer, camera. The research also finds that there are significantly few screendance works that are made as single-take films. As a tangent to this finding, it also finds that screendance works, like in mainstream films, are trending towards increasingly short shot lengths. In addition to the information that I bring together from films, theorists, and interviews, the thesis draws on nineteen short films that I have made as part of this research and concludes with the production of The Glasshouse (2016), a screendance that summarises a number of the core findings of The Dancer and the Looking Glass.
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McMillan, David B. ""You're Looking Good": Compliment or Harassment?" BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4264.
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Whether an individual perceives an appearance compliment in the workplace as sexual harassment may depend on a number of factors such as the gender and/or status of the complimenter. Three hundred eighty-three (130 males, 253 females) participants completed an online survey in which they read and rated six different hypothetical vignettes imagining themselves as the recipient of an appearance compliment from a male superior, subordinate, and peer, as well as a female in each of those three status positions. Participants also filled out the Big Five Inventory (BFI; see John, Naumann, & Soto, 2008) in order to assess how personality may influence harassment perceptions. Females perceived opposite-sex appearance compliments as more harassing than males did (p < .001, d = 1.33), and males perceived same-sex compliments as more harassing than females did (p < .001, d = 0.85). Appearance compliments from those in the three status positions were also perceived differently (p < .001, np2 = .29) with compliments from superiors perceived as more harassing than from peers (p < .001) and subordinates (p < .001), and subordinates perceived as more harassing than peers (p < .001). Three of the Big Five personality factors (Conscientiousness, b = 9.93, p < .001; Neuroticism, b = 9.46, p < .001; and Openness, b = -5.04, p = .04) were predictive of harassment perceptions (R2 = .087, p < .001). Based on these findings, it is recommended that males and those in superior status positions avoid giving appearance compliments in the workplace.
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Darling, Paul Simon. "SAR modelling for ecological applications." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297315.
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