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Firbas, Contreras Camila Fernanda. "Factores in-store en tiendas de maquillaje en relación a la intención de compra en mujeres de 22-35 años de Lima Metropolitana." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652694.
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En la presente investigación se realiza un estudio acerca de los factores in-store en relación a la intención de compra en tiendas de maquillaje en retails, pues no hay estudios realizados en el Perú que comprenda este tema a pesar que el sector está en continuo crecimiento en el mercado y donde el 50% de las compras de cosméticos se realizan en tiendas por departamento.
Para determinar el grado de relación de los factores in-store y la intención de compra, la metodología utilizada fue un estudio de tipo regresión lineal múltiple y con un enfoque mixto. Para el desarrollo del estudio se realizó una investigación cualitativa, contando con dos mini groups y entrevistas al público primario y tres entrevistas a profundidad a expertos del tema. Además, se llevó a cabo una investigación cuantitativa de carácter concluyente, a través de 230 encuestas. A partir de ello, con la información obtenida y procesada permitió obtener data relevante acerca del comportamiento del público objetivo y obtener conclusiones acerca de la relación de las variables y la intención de compra.
Finalmente, se pudo comprobar que los factores de mayor relación con la intención de compra para el público objetivo de acuerdo al modelo estudiado son la ambientación de la tienda, el pricing y la promoción. Y en caso de los factores menos relevantes quedaron la asistencia del personal de ventas y el atractivo de la tienda. Por ello, se recomienda poner mayores esfuerzos en las variables que se encuentran mayor valoradas por el público objetivo primario.<br>In the present investigation, a study is carried out on the in-store factors in relation to the purchase intention in makeup stores in retails, since there are no studies carried out in Peru that understand this topic despite the fact that the sector is in continuous growth in the market and where 50% of cosmetic purchases are made in department stores.
To determine the degree of relations between in-store factors and purchase intention, the methodology used was a multiple linear regression study with a mixed approach. For the development of the study, a qualitative investigation was carried out, with two mini groups and interviews with the primary public and three in-depth interviews with experts on the subject. In addition, a conclusive quantitative investigation was carried out through 230 surveys. From this, with the information obtained and processed, it was possible to obtain relevant data about the behavior of the target audience and to draw conclusions about the relationship of the variables and the purchase intention.
Finally, it was possible to verify that the factors with the highest relation to the purchase intention for the target audience according to the studied model are the store setting, pricing and promotion. And in the case of the least relevant factors, the attendance of sales personnel and the attractiveness of the store remained. Therefore, it is recommended to put greater efforts on the variables that are most valued by the primary target audience.<br>Tesis
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Dahlberg, Rasmus, and Sam Ouda. "Mash it up! Make the Physical Store Great Again : an explorative study on store attractiveness." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-19706.
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Because of the digitalization that takes place today, the retailing field has changed dramatically. Customers buy online, mainly because of its convenience. Consequently, brick-and-mortar stores are facing competition from online companies leading to that some brick-and-mortar stores have to file for bankruptcy. The literature states that brick-and-mortar stores now have to focus on what happens inside the store in order to generate a pleasant experience. In this context, three different concepts are crucial namely, omni-channels, retail customer experience and customer value. A concept that has emerged in order to provide a superior customer experience is Mash-up, which focuses on a mix of offerings in one store. The research question focuses on examining how Mash-up influences retail customer experience and customer value in order to see how Mash-up combined with omni-channels can influence store attractiveness. Data was gathered through semi-structured interviews from customers who visited the retail stores O:Hedd and AB Småland. The results show that Mash-up tends to influence retail customer experience and customer value positively. A series of various integrated activities tend to not only have a positive impact on the retail customer experience, but it also tends to satisfy both hedonic and utilitarian value. It also emerged that omni-channels, in terms of click-and-collect, are highly valued by the customers and it indicates that the digitalization has to be taken into consideration. Thus, Mash-up combined with omni-channels will influence store attractiveness positively. Thereby, by adopting Mash-up and considering omni-channels, brick-and-mortar stores will still stand a chance against online companies.
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Byman, Petra, and Fia Ferngren. "Kosmetikaföretagens jakt efter männen : en fallstudie av The Body Shop och Make Up Store." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Business Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-476.
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Marsh, Timothy Laurence. "How to make white people happy : a short story collection." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/154de7ab-e437-487b-a234-4eeca5506c19.
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‘How to Make White People Happy’ is a creative and critical thesis that explores the nature of the journeying condition and the realities of cross-cultural immersion. The creative component is a collection of forty-three autobiographical stories that fuse elements of memoir, travelogue, satire and essay. In it, readers find docujournals about Indonesian slum life, hostile New Mexico cowboys, and star-struck pool boys who dream of fistfighting Chuck Norris. Alone in the city of Paris, a bereaved widow discovers some hard truths about travel and escapism, while on the bleak prairie barrens of Montana a grizzled recluse encounters a different kind of child’s play in an isolated barn. Readers also meet a dying Newfoundlander who dreams of an unusual cut of steak, two young lovers experimenting with the explicit in someone else’s house, and an abandoned Balinese orphan who rises to success in an elitist Anglo society. The exegesis which accompanies the collection focuses on western middle-class travel and discusses the influences and perceptions that drive it, primarily the influence of tourist media and its glorifications of travel life. Drawing from a range of scholars and writers such as Alain de Botton, James Clifford, Mark Twain, Gustave Flaubert and Charles Baudelaire, the commentary emphasizes that any alteration of our human condition occurs foremost through dynamic psychological shifts, rather than geographical ones. Other topics discussed include: belonging and displacement, the relationship between expectation and disillusionment, and aspects of travel narration, specifically humour, satire and point of view.
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Lucky, Jr William D. "What Makes Online Grocers Work? A Case Study Analysis of Factors Contributing to Online Grocery Store Profitability." FIU Digital Commons, 2008. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/194.
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This research examined the factors contributing to the performance of online grocers prior to, and following, the 2000 dot.com collapse. The primary goals were to assess the relationship between a company’s business model(s) and its performance in the online grocery channel and to determine if there were other company and/or market related factors that could account for company performance. To assess the primary goals, a case based theory building process was utilized. A three-way cross-case analysis comprising Peapod, GroceryWorks, and Tesco examined the common profit components, the structural category (e.g., pure-play, partnership, and hybrid) profit components, and the idiosyncratic profit components related to each specific company. Based on the analysis, it was determined that online grocery store business models could be represented at three distinct, but hierarchically, related levels. The first level was termed the core model and represented the basic profit structure that all online grocers needed in order to conduct operations. The next model level was termed the structural model and represented the profit structure associated with the specific business model configuration (i.e., pure-play, partnership, hybrid). The last model level was termed the augmented model and represented the company’s business model when idiosyncratic profit components were included. In relation to the five company related factors, scalability, rate of expansion, and the automation level were potential candidates for helping to explain online grocer performance. In addition, all the market structure related factors were deemed possible candidates for helping to explain online grocer performance. The study concluded by positing an alternative hypothesis concerning the performance of online grocers. Prior to this study, the prevailing wisdom was that the business models were the primary cause of online grocer performance. However, based on the core model analysis, it was hypothesized that the customer relationship activities (i.e., advertising, promotions, and loyalty program tie-ins) were the real drivers of online grocer performance.
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Forsström, Magnus, and Lisa Jansson. "En fallstudie av Make UP Store - Hur man bygger upp ett starkt varumärke på kort tid." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1540.
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<p>I dagens konkurrensutsatta värld, med snabba teknologiska förändringar är inte en överlägsen produkt längre en garanti för ett företag att nå framgång. Dagens företag måste istället bygga upp starka, konkurrenskraftiga och differentierade varumärken för att lyckas på marknaden. </p><p>Detta har resulterat i att varumärket med dess emotionella värden och symboliska mening, har blivit det allra viktigaste konkurrensmedlet för företagen. Varumärket har därigenom under de senaste decennierna gått från att vara en del i marknadsföringsprocessen till att bli den klart viktigaste komponenten för företagen. Vikten av att bygga upp starka varumärken är en utveckling som kommer att fortsätta öka i framtiden. Det ställs därför höga krav på dagens företag som på kort tid vill bygga upp ett starkt och framgångsrikt varumärke. Vårt syfte med studien är att undersöka hur den varumärkesuppbyggande processen egentligen går till vid byggandet av ett starkt varumärke. Detta resonemang mynnar ut i vår problemformulering: Vad krävs för att på kort tid bygga upp ett starkt varumärke inom en etablerad bransch?</p><p>Denna studie är genomförd med en kvalitativ metod, där en deduktiv forskningsansats har använts. Undersökningens upplägg har varit av intensiv karaktär i form av en fallstudie. Det empiriska resultatet grundas på fyra telefonintervjuer med ett företag, verksamt inom kosmetikabranschen. Intervjurespondenternas positioner i företaget var pressansvarig, produktutvecklings och inköpsansvarig, butikschef samt en butiksanställd.</p><p>Studiens resultat visade att det är av stor vikt att företag bygger upp en stadig grund att arbeta utifrån vid byggandet av ett starkt varumärke. Denna grund består av olika delar såsom en stark vision som alla i organisationen kan sträva mot, en välutvecklad handlingsplan, goda kunskaper inom verksamhetsområdet, förmågan att hålla fast vid organisationens kärnvärden, märkesinnehavarens lojalitet till varumärket samt en vilja att hela tiden våga gå sin egen väg. Studien har även påvisat att faktorer som symbolismens roll, det unika i varumärket och förmågan att placera varumärket i kundens medvetande, är viktiga beståndsdelar vid denna process. Studien visade även hur viktigt det är att på ett fördelaktigt sätt förmedla ut varumärkets budskap och existens till konsumenten. Om ett företag lyckas att kombinera dessa faktorer kan det resultera i att man på kort tid kan bygga upp ett starkt varumärke i en etablerad bransch.</p>
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Dedic, Arnela. "The phenomena of Online Purchasing : Why do consumers make the choice of canceling their purchase online?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68302.
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Purpose: This study aims to identify the most influential aspects that affect the consumer’s behavior regarding purchasing online, also why consumers choose not to complete their purchase or actually do complete it.
Research questions: How do an online retail store companies create a consumer experience resulting in a purchase or cancellation, and how do consumers perceive online experience? Methodology: A qualitative research approach was conducted, utilizing semi-structured interviews with two online retailing stores and five online consumers. Conclusion: The wants and needs in order to fulfill a purchase is the same for the companies and the consumers. However, the companies are clearly lacking on some aspects since they both confirmed that they have plenty of cancellations and items left in the basket. Consumers base their knowledge on previous experience, and companies base their knowledge on their own investigations. The connection is lost sometimes, and then i results in cancellations and left items.
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Whitehead, Sarah. "Make it short : Edith Wharton's modernist practices as a short story writer." Thesis, Kingston University, 2009. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20261/.
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In this thesis I argue for a repositioning of Edith Wharton’s short stories in relation to both the twentieth century and modernism. Whilst Wharton was acclaimed for her novels, I argue that the short story, the genre in which she felt most proficient as a writer, yet is still habitually overlooked by critics, presents Wharton at her most experimental and "renovat(ive)", to use her own words. I consider how the restrictive confines of the short story, both in terms of its brevity and commercial value, particularly in relation to the magazine market, were exploited by Wharton to her own advantage, and how her literary craft flourished in such a contained form. I do not argue for a re-envisioning of Wharton as a modernist writer, rather for recognition of her modernist tendencies both in terms of her narrative technique and her interaction with the literary marketplace. Accordingly this thesis is divided into two parts; the first considers Wharton's poetics: her use of myth, modes of narration, creation of narrative gaps, and her notable use of ellipsis points (closely associated by critics such as Henry with modernist writing). The second part of this thesis explores Wharton's modernist practices outside her texts. Here I investigate Wharton's short story magazine publication history, outlining the uneasy balance between her challenges to editorial policy in both the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and her businesslike attitude toward the profession of writing. Finally, given recent critical reassessments of modernism and its relationship with both the short story and the magazine industry, I argue for the timely recognition of the distinctly modernist nature of Wharton's popular, mass marketed short fiction.
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Bronislawski, Patricia. ""I' ll tell you a story that will make you believe" in narratives." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2015. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/135265.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2015.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-29T04:07:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 2015<br>Recentes estudos propõem que adaptações cinematográficas sejam entendidas como fonte de criação, os quais refletem contextos e interpretações diferentes do texto em que são baseadas. Nessa dissertação, propõe-se uma análise comparativa do romance Life of Pi (2001), de Yann Martel e do filme homônimo dirigido por Ang Lee (2012). A análise tem como objetivo identificar a presença e o modo em que a metaficção é construída no romance e no filme, e quais são alguns significados produzidos por ela em ambos os textos, tanto o literário quanto o fílmico. A concepção de metafição se baseia nas definições de Linda Hutcheon e Patricia Waugh. Por metaficção, entende-se a ficção consciente de si, que expõe o processo de escrita ao leitor e o convida a ter um papel ativo na construção do significado. Após uma análise comparativa dos dois textos, conclui-se que a metaficção está presente em ambos, tanto tematicamente como estruturalmente. As reflexões sobre narrativas apresentadas pelos personagens, o uso de vários níveis narrativos e de intertextualidade revelam diferentes usos da metafição em ambos. A diferença mais importante entre o romance e o filme Life of Pi está no uso dos níveis narrativos. Enquanto o romance possui um ?autor? sem nome que apresenta a história aos leitores, o filme possui um diretor implícito que deixa pistas de qual versão da história de Pi é ?real? no contexto da narrativa. Essa diferença dá ao romance um final aberto, em que o leitor deve escolher qual versão da história ele acredita, enquanto o filme possui uma resolução para essa questão. O filme, então, pode ser entendido como um testemunho, uma narrativa de trauma de um sobrevivente de um naufrágio e da experiência de migração, enquanto o livro não apresenta uma decisão em relação às versões da história, deixando o leitor aberto a qualquer possibilidade.<br><br>Abstract : Recent studies propose that Film Adaptations should be understood as sources of creation, which also reflect a different context and interpretation from the text upon which they were based. In this thesis, I propose a comparative analysis of the novel Life of Pi (2001), by Yann Martel, and the homonymous film directed by Ang Lee (2012). The analysis has the objective of identifying the presence and the way in which metafiction is constructed in the novel and in the film, and what are some of the meanings produced by it in both texts, the filmic and the literary. The concept of metafiction was based on the definitions by Linda Hutcheon and Patricia Waugh. It is understood as the self-conscious fictional text, which exposes the writing process to the readers and invites them to have an active role in the construction of meaning. In the comparative analyses of the two texts, I have proved that metafiction is present in the two texts, both thematically and structurally. The reflections of the characters on narrative itself as well as the use of different narrative levels and intertextual references reveal different uses of metanarrative in both film and novel. The most important difference between the novel and the film Life of Pi is in their uses of different narrative levels. While the novel has an unnamed =author? who presents the story to the readers, the film has an implicit director who leaves =clues? of which version of Pi?s story is ?real? in the context of the narrative. This difference gives to the novel an open end, facein which the readers must choose which version of the story they believe in, while the film presents a resolution to this question. The film, thus, can be understood as a testimony narrative, a narrative of the trauma of a survivor from a shipwreck and from the experience of migration, while the novel does not decide for one of the versions of the story, enabling a more inconclusive reading.
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Cosner, Justin David. "Make-believe: uncertainty, alterity, and faith in nineteenth-century supernatural short stories." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5738.
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This thesis, “Make-Believe: Uncertainty, Alterity, and Faith in Nineteenth-Century Supernatural Short Stories,” illustrates the confluence in nineteenth century America of a philosophical investment in uncertainty and the emergence of a genre suited to its expression. I argue that supernatural short story collections, characterized by stories with explicit fantastical elements or which leave open that possibility, helped voice and explore uncertainty as a critique of prevailing master narratives of both Enlightenment rationalism and religious orthodoxy. My study examines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse (1846), Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales (1856), Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899), and Mary Wilkins Freeman’s The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903), whose fantastic elements question the confident subjectivity shored up by rationalism and the sense of totality it projects. The genre’s insistent uncertainty conditions a reader into an alternative posture of openness to possibilities—an openness which, at its most ethically effective, describes a means to approach alterity without the totalizing certainty which so often reduces the other. The terms of faith are crucial here, as a means to lend numinous or transcendent meaning to the world beyond the reach of, and therefore setting limits on, rational materialism. But faith also functions on an ethical and interpersonal level, in the act of believing the testimony of an other despite the assumptions of the self. As the century progresses, this genre was taken up by authors with identities more vulnerable to society’s master narratives and the power structures they uphold. My final two chapters demonstrate how the supernatural uncertainty in these collections provided not just a theoretical model for approaching otherness but a specific articulation of the oppressions which certainty enables and the openness which the supernatural helps to found.
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Jönsson, Johan, and Anna-Karin Cederlöf. "Effektivisering av korta cirkulationen Pappaersmaskin 2 Stora Enso Hylte Bruk." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-912.
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<p>Stora Enso Hylte Bruk är ett tidningspappersbruk beläget i Hyltebruk.</p><p>De fyra pappersmaskinerna startades 1972(PM1), 1974(PM2), 1976(PM3) och</p><p>1989(PM4).</p><p>Produktionen 2005 från dessa pappersmaskiner var 800 000 ton papper.</p><p>För att tillverka papper åtgår stora mängder energi i form av värme och el, Hylte</p><p>Bruk gjorde 2005 av med 1 % av Sveriges totala elenergibehov.</p><p>Den 1/7 2004 höjdes processrelaterad elskatt från 0 till 0,5 öre/kWh vilket ledde</p><p>fram till den lag som trädde i kraft den 1/1 2005, ”lag om program för</p><p>energieffektivisering” (PFE)1.</p><p>Ändamålet är att främja en effektiv energianvändning och ger energiintensiv</p><p>industri möjlighet att delta i ett 5-årigt program för energieffektivisering. De</p><p>företag som är kvalificerade att ingå i programmet och klarar av de krav som ställs</p><p>befrias från elskatten.</p><p>Som en del av det här programmet ingår att utarbeta en lista med</p><p>elenergieffektiviseringar som ska överlämnas till Statens Energimyndighet.</p><p>Detta examensarbete kan efter beslut av ansvariga på Hylte Bruk ingå som en del</p><p>av denna lista.</p><p>Syftet med examensarbetet var att undersöka effektiviteten hos tolv pumpar på</p><p>PM2 genom mätning av effekt, flöde och tryck. En del av dessa har varit i drift i</p><p>upp till 32 år, under denna tid har slitage skett, vissa pumpar har gått mot delvis</p><p>stängda ventiler samt förutsättningarna i form av produktion har ändrats sedan de</p><p>dimensionerades.</p><p>För alla de berörda pumparna kan en effektivisering göras, den kan bestå av: lägre</p><p>tryckhöjd, mindre flöde, pump med bättre verkningsgrad, eller en kombination av</p><p>ovanstående exempel.</p><p>De förslag som har en återbetalningstid kortare än tre år ger tillsammans en</p><p>energibesparing på 1 375 000 kWh/år, vilket motsvarar mer än ¼ av vad</p><p>pumparna förbrukar idag.</p><p>Om istället alla de förslagen som är framarbetade och genomförbara skulle</p><p>realiseras kan energibesparingen ökas ytterligare till 2 302 000 kWh/år, detta</p><p>skulle dock innebära en större investeringskostnad vilket resulterar i en längre</p><p>återbetalningstid.</p>
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Cornish, Tanya. "The construction of gender, identity and history in Kate Grenville's Lilian's story, Joan Makes History and Dark Places /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arc818.pdf.
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Older, C. ""I really dislike taking painkillers; I would rather weather the storm" : using interpretative phenomenological analysis to make sense of patients' use of analgesics following day case surgery." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2008. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/10469/.
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Day case surgery is expanding in the UK and is the favoured approach to elective surgery by the Government and patients alike. However studies have revealed patients' experience unacceptable postoperative pain when they return home after day surgery, leading to a variety of negative consequences, stemming many years, affecting many lives, with emotional and financial cost. It is imperative that pain is adequately controlled following day surgery to reduce these consequences and ensure the potential of day surgery is reached. Previous research has investigated barriers to pain management in this area, one barrier that has received little attention is that posed by the patient, and it has been suggested that patients may not utilising their analgesics appropriately with papers calling for further research in this area. Employing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) this study explored patients' use of analgesics on returning home following day surgery. Using IPA for analysis, interviews with twenty eight patients revealed many to avoid analgesics enduring severe postoperative pain during their recovery, and provided new understanding showing patients' use of analgesics to be as a result of a complex intentional decision making process based on a matrix of beliefs they held surrounding pain, analgesics and day surgery. These beliefs were found to be influenced by past experience, and cultural context, with this research being the first to identify many of these beliefs and make further sense of them by producing an explanatory framework illustrating how they exert their influence upon patients' decisions regarding analgesic use. One implication of these findings is that day surgery is not as straightforward as suggested, and simply providing patients pain management information and effective analgesics underestimates the complexity of the patient's experience when they return home. Further research is now required to identify alternative ways to reduce pain following day case surgery. One recommendation is to overcome erroneous beliefs held by patients. In particular the explanatory framework produced by this research provides a unique insight into the mechanism by which these beliefs may exert their influence upon patients' analgesic use, and may prove a useful tool to achieving this, overcoming pain and its negative consequences, paving the way for day case surgery to reach its full potential.
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Bage, G. "Chaining the beast? : an autobiographical examination by an advisory teacher of whether spoken story telling and prompting can make school history's analytic transmission more educationally principled and powerful." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361267.
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Kampf, Raymond William. "Fauxtopia." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/749.
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To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... with the hope that it will be a source of edutainment for all the world.Ray KampfFauxtopia DedicationApril 1st, 2004
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Shih, I.-Lin, and 施宜琳. "Offline to Online Purchasing Intention for Makeup Stores." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31525913243791642518.
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碩士<br>東吳大學<br>資訊管理學系<br>102<br>The growth of Internet influence change consumption patterns. Consumer behavior gradually shifted to online virtual store. In order to attract more consumers, many offline channel stores opened virtual store, this pattern is called O2O (Online to Offline). In recent years, the stores had only focused on the operation of the virtual channel began to open the physical channel stores, this model is called O2O variation (Offline to Online), for the purpose of solving the virtual channel to consumers unable to needs. This study primarily discusses the factors in setting up brick and mortar store and the impact on the consumer’s willingness to purchase in virtual stores. This includes the impact between brick and mortar store service quality, store front Factors, product features and consumer perceived value, trust.
In this study, according to the definition of consumer decision process model, we categorize the factors of affect consumer’s willingness to purchase. We obtain the perception of respondents from their answers for the online survey. For the valid surveys, we use tools SPSS, Amos and Smart-PLS to gather statistics and verify its validation.
The results for the brick and mortar store service quality, store front factors and product attribute are positively correlated with the consumer perceived value, and brick and mortar store service quality is positively correlated with consumer trust. They have a significant positive impact to affect the purchase intention in the virtual store.
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Jhan, You-Syuan, and 張祐宣. "Make a long story - Displayed by website." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qjbkpe.
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碩士<br>南開科技大學<br>電子工程研究所<br>106<br>This research is based on the childhood drawing creation to today's manga work, through the paper to analyze yourself unfinished long stories, and take this opportunity to plan the timetable for the production of long stories. The research encountered many bottlenecks. From the initial format of the paper to the search for reference materials, I specially turned out the childhood works from the storage box. After reading several epic stories, Thesis began to write, The research project is divided into a long story world. Online library gallery, Long story in production and Analysis of the works show website. Story writing method from text plot, background image and other materials, then try various plot display means, and finally build a story display platform for the simulated e-book with the network station service. After one year of research and writing to complete this paper, and through the research process to complete the first episode of the long story, the future will use the research display website to showcase their own works and stimulate the development of the story.
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Pai, Chen-Yu, and 白晟佑. "Salary Receipt Makes You Lavish? The Role of In-store Slack in Budget Deviation." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67386035443065762884.
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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>企業管理學系<br>99<br>This article concerns how consumers’ unplanned purchases influence budget deviation. Recent research has suggested that budget deviation may vary with consumer’s characteristic and trip characteristic. We propose that the temporal distance from last salary receipt and income as consumer’s characteristic, and use trip length as trip characteristic. Using a field study, we collected data from department stores and recorded the consumers’ mental budget and actual shopping behavior. To test our hypotheses, we use OLS regression to estimate equation. The results shows that the salary condition and trip length play a moderator role between in-store slack and budget deviation. The findings suggest managers’ best time to promote products and to do annually cerebration promotion as near salary condition. Beside, managers should give incentive to entice consumers stay in store longer. By examining how the impact of slack on budget deviation varies depending on consumer and trip characteristics, we contribute to the shopper marketing literature as well as to the psychology marketing literature.
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Ma, Tsu-Jui, and 馬祖瑞. "“iPaint”? A Story of How Bignet Information Company Makes Innovation." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10010541728283949681.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>資訊管理系<br>103<br>Want to know how Bignet Information Company “Paint” (the word “paint” sounds like “to fool” in Chinese) the client? Read the following case! We discuss the case by case method and participant-centered learning. The case is mainly separated into two parts that are the main article and teaching direction.
The main article, which includes a story of how Bignet Information Company makes innovation, is divided into business models as the founding of the business, iPaint, and the DailyView. As the period of the founding of the business (from August, 2002 to May, 2005), the Bignet Information Company, established by Chih-Yu Chin and Chih-Cheng Chin brothers set up and managed businesses of interactive website, visual web, and multimedia animation design by B2B business model. The iPaint period (June, 2005 till now), Bignet Information Company, as a brand of B2C business model innovation, entered customerlized gift design market and began using the click-and-mortar strategy since 2007 as well as establishing the 3PG kiosk brand in July, 2009. The DailyView period (April, 2014 till now), Bignet Information Company began to run DailyView website and joined the market of online big data analysis by B2B business model innovation; further innovation is still being developed today.
Teaching direction mainly provides instructors methods of guiding their students when using case method and participant-centered learning on discussing the five items of business model, electronic commerce, innovation, business model innovation, and big data. What is business model? What are B2B, B2C, and the click-and-mortar strategy? What is the difficulty of business model innovation? Is free big data an innovation of business model? We discuss questions alike to analyze the business model, the composing elements, and the category and construction of electronic commerce, as well as conducting case analysis by both vendor and purchaser, click-and-mortar strategy, the contradiction of business model innovation, and models like the free big data.
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Wang, Ju-yen, and 王如雁. "Motherhood Makes A Difference: A Middle-Age DINK Woman's Life Story." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72844518051235515017.
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碩士<br>南華大學<br>生死學研究所<br>96<br>The current study is about: how DINK decide to be childless; what being childless means to DINK; understanding what issues DINK encounter in their marriage, family, work and the society; how they plan their childless lives after middle age.
Through interview and observation, the method of qualitative analysis was applied in the study. A middle age, DINK female client was interviewed and her story is the main source of the study. Her story reveals the suffering and uncertainty of life. She challenged traditional beliefs about childbearing, family and aging, as deciding to be childless.
The conclusions of current study are: being childless does make a difference; mother-daughter relationship do make a difference when making the decision; there are consequences followed by the decision; DINK take care of themselves as they are getting aging.
The current study aims to prove different thoughts and perspectives for whoever is in the process of deciding whether to have child. Also it can serve as valid reference for educational research and government policy makers.
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Chu, Hui-shan, and 朱慧珊. "The Humorous and the Absurd: How Laurence Sterne Makes Tristram Shandy a Cock-and-Bull Story." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87502919878640225327.
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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>外國語文研究所<br>100<br>This thesis presents two main aspects, the humorous and the absurd, which make Tristram Shandy impressive among all the eighteenth-century novels. There are three chapters in this thesis. In the first half of Chapter One, the concept of the humorous—superiority, singularity, exaggeration, digression and sexuality—are explained respectively. The concept of the absurd, such as denials of self-cognition and human existence, the difficulties of communication, the complexity and uncertainty about human life, are expressed as well. In Chapter Two, the concept of the humorous is illustrated by characters in this novel, especially through the interaction between Walter and Mrs. Shandy. Chapter Three focuses on how the concept of the absurd is exemplified when people discuss the meaning of life, identity and death in a sermon.
Tristram Shandy gives pleasure to the reader due to the narrator’s unique way of storytelling—the neglect of time order, the conversation between the narrator and the reader, and the applications of digression and exaggeration. Yet the serious subjects, such as the doubt of human existence, the destruction of self-identity, and a feeling of helplessness when encountering the inevitable misery, are inescapable in life. Except bringing enjoyment and revealing the chasm among people to the readers, this novel also reminds them to think about their own worth.
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Avraamides, Melanie. "A diamond or stone? Using autoethnography to make sense of my industrial psychology internship." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/415.
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‘A diamond or a Stone? Using Autoethnography to Make Sense of My Industrial Psychology Internship’ presents an unconventional qualitative research genre, autoethnography, which is not commonly found in qualitative circles, and is rarely used by South African researchers, or by researchers in the South African social science or industrial psychology spheres. Therefore, due to the unfamiliarity of autoethnography, this thesis is presented in a conventional style, and uses both a realist and confessional tale (Van Maanen, 1988; Sparkes, 2002), which arguably, are the preferred styles amongst local mainstream qualitative researchers. The content of this thesis is presented to the audience of industrial psychologists, industrial psychology interns, industrial psychology internship supervisors, organisations hosting industrial psychology interns, institutions overseeing industrial psychology internship programmes, academics, qualitative researchers, managers, employees, professionals and representatives at the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). The intention of the research findings is to highlight the extreme necessity of ensuring that internship training programmes enhance professional development, rather than being detrimental to it. The autoethnographic account that is presented, portrays the author’s experience of her industrial psychology internship, the fulfilment of which, was required for registration as an industrial psychologist with the HPCSA. The thesis is divided up into four parts, namely: My Acquaintance, My Acceptance, My Acquisition, and My Analysis. In Part One, My Acquaintance, the reader is introduced to the research genre of autoethnography, as well as to contemporary creative methods, such as poetry and allegories, that have potential benefits for use in the workplace. In Part Two, My Acceptance, an autoethnographic account is presented, where scenes from the internship are ‘performed’. Through personal interpretation of these scenes, the readersare, in essence, creating an autoethnography of their perceptions of what the author experienced, and what they experience through the telling of the author’s account. In Part Three, My Acquisition, those aspects that were acquired from conducting the autoethnography are presented as contributions to academia and the industrial psychology sphere. These contribute to the current theoretical knowledge by making information available regarding the inherent experience of an intern, and the need for organisations to effectively host interns. These acquisitions are as follows: the Creative Hospitality and Integration Method (C-HIM), which suggests how an intern can be successfully assimilated to the organisation, and the Workplace Allegories which aim to empower the intern and enable her to grow in self-awareness. These Workplace Allegories are implemented through the Allegorical Implementation Method (AIM), by making use of the Workplace Allegories Bridge Approach (WABA).In terms of contributions to the field of autoethnography, My FOPR Process, My Autoethnographic Contextual Awareness Guideline (My ACAG, pronounced A-Cag), and My 4-A Grid are presented. My FOPR Process serves to guide autoethnographic researchers through the process of writing an autoethnography. My ACAG aims to assist the autoethnographic researchers, in keeping focused on events relevant to the research topic. My 4-A Grid highlights the necessity of focusing on the self (auto), the culture (ethnos) and the research process (graphy) when conducting an autoethnography (Reed-Danahay, 1997; Richards, 2003), and places emphasis on aligning these perspectives to the four tools the author deems necessary for an autoethnographic study: My Acquaintance, My Acceptance, My Acquisition and My Analysis. The entire structure of this thesis is constructed according to My 4-A Grid.In Part Four, My Analysis, three forms of autoethnographic analysis were conceived through the writing of this thesis, My Auto-Analysis (a self-analysis); My Ethno-Analysis (a brief analysis of the organisation hosting the internship); and My Graphy-Analysis (a critical analysis of the manner in which autoethnography was made use of in this thesis).<br>Pro. F.Crous Prof.W.J. Schurink
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LIN, SZ-JIA, and 林思嘉. "Action Research on Com-Phone Story Maker Applied to the Second-grade Speaking Ability of Elementary School." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/628uy2.
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碩士<br>萬能科技大學<br>資訊管理研究所在職專班<br>107<br>This action research aimed to investigate the enhancement of second grade students’ speaking ability through applying Com-Phone Story Maker APP. Also, the researcher’s self-reflection and professional growth was another focus in the research. The participants were second grade students in an elementary school in New Taipei City. The study lasted for 28 periods in total, with 40 minutes per period. During this research, the data were collected through the practicing process between the target students and the research participants. The reflective journals, questionnaire feedback, collaborative teacher’s observation, classroom observation, interviews, and learners’ documents of speaking ability were collected and analyzed to understand the learning
process of the target students, the interaction between the target students and their peers, and the feedback of using Com-Phone Story Maker APP.
The major findings of this study are as follows:
1. The research propose the practicable teaching steps applying Com-Phone Story Maker APP.
2. The applying of Com-Phone Story Maker APP created more learning opportunities and boosted students’ learning attitude.
3. The great classroom climate had positive impact on learning self-efficacy and peer assistance.
4. Its important to arrange helpful partners for lower achievement students when grouping.
5. Most of the learners were affirmative and positive toward the effect of speaking ability through applying Com-Phone Story Maker APP.
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Yung-Hsin, Kao, and 高永信. "The research of the high-story building makes use of the elevator on the evacuation benefit valuation." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92859615236932337312.
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碩士<br>中華大學<br>建築與都市計畫學系碩士班<br>94<br>Taiwan in recent years due to economic booming development, and building the technique promotes and the city population is a great deal of concentrated, cause city land presented to turn intensively in using and the height makes use of the phenomenon that turn, the building is gradually to turn toward key figures and large-scale type development that turn. The high-story building is internal to accept to permit the personnel numerous and complicacy, among them also may accept to permit the disabled…in body function etc. seek refuge weak, so make use of the elevator conduct and actions seek refuge weak it refuge equipment solid necessity that have it the study.
In light of domestic key figures the building has year by year the trend that increase, and current domestic fire fight salvage equipment shortage and seek refuge weak it need, through domestic and international elevator is made use of in related cultural heritage, case example and elevators of the refuge usages seek refuge the related theories of the conveyance calculation or the collection of the software result know, it is viable that elevator be used as refuge usage. Immediately after take certain an extremely high-story layer building in home as an example, make use of the United States ELVAC elevator to seek refuge conveyance valuation mode and Ministry of Interior building institutes to publish it" the building fire prevention seeks refuge security function identification method" carry on whole refuge the security the quantity to turn the valuation the analysis, inquire into key figures the building to make use of the elevator conduct and actions to seek refuge usage, the elevator circulate time influence factor(elevator speed, acceleration, floor height, usage the floor counts and the personnel counts) for seek refuge evacuation time benefit to affect analysis and use the related control of the floor top the analysis. Know through the analytical result, the high building makes use of the elevator and carries on the refuge, should adopt the sum and settle the high elevator in speed pattern, compare to the refuge of the high floor effectively benefit of. Making use of the elevator seeks refuge should above 13F(50.9m), for seek refuge and is just what valid benefit. The floor height is more high it makes use of the elevator to carry on the benefit of the refuge then more high, but if join the security consideration, light a fire the floor to be located the high floor, that floor make use of the number of the elevator refuge to should depend on extreme limit number. In usage number and floors that make use of the elevator refuge numbers, should adopt the allotment of the adequacy, for seek refuge compare valid benefit of, if use the floor number more many, it make use of the number to should reduce. Use the floor number more few, make use of the number then can opposite exaltation, and if only limit in the partial high floor usage, it is using the benefit on the number more for obvious.
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Wheaton, Carla J. ""...as modern as some of the fine new departmental stores... can make it" : a social history of the large Water Street stores, St. John's, Newfoundland, 1892-1949 /." 2002.
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Hung, Chu-yin, and 洪菊吟. "Removing the Make-Up,A Story of a Female Teacher and Her Action Research about Unfreezing the Gender Stereotype." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80980423781117036221.
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碩士<br>國立花蓮教育大學<br>輔導碩士班<br>92<br>ABSTRACT
I would like to use my own story to illustrate how I, an elementary school teacher, by using action research methodology, explored into the formation of intervening frames and the understanding of gender education. As an action researcher, I started with impartial ground, trying to unfreeze the gender-stereotype held by students. However, through continuous introspection and self-challenge against my gender convictions, I ended up with finding my own subjectivity and a new “me” from the aspect of gender.
In order for the readers to note my change in different stages, I kept the original tones of my research diary. The first section is called “the mountain is the mountain”, where I mentioned how I came across the opportunity of this research. In this section, I focused on the motive, purpose, and methodology of this article. I also included the episode about how I quitted halfway but finally decided to start all over again. In the second section “the mountain is not the mountain I see”, I proceeded reflection-on-action on the education I received and my gender experience of growing up. Through reflection process and the temporary intervening frames of gender education, I attained to the perception and viewpoints different from the fist stage: Harm produced by gender stereotype not only exists in the words like “male” and “female”, but also in other manners. The third section is called “ I see the mountain as what the mountain is”. Through action research, I saw my internal change and my acceptance of the “five roles”, which ultimately established a new frame toward gender stereotype. With the new frame back to school I initiated formal and informal gender curricula, which, along with my new strategy in class, are both results of the reflection-in-action process. They would be introspected again and finally created my latest frames and viewpoints.
I hope readers of this article see how these ordinary stories shaped a woman’s characters, how the characters turned this woman into a distorted “me”, how I found my “real self” through the action research of unfreezing my gender stereotype, and finally, how I started to influence other people with my newly found “self”.
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SOKOLÍK, Martin. "Fair Trade aktivity a produkty v České republice." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136648.
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The aim of this study work is the analysis of Fair Trade Products and activities in the Czech Republic. The analysis focuses on projects "Fair Trade Schools" and "Fair Trade Towns". The analysis includes an overview of other activities to support Fair Trade. The product analysis is directed to online stores and changes in the segment of chain stores.
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Bravo, Carolina Segadães. "National geographic partners: identify the next big business opportunity for the national geographic brand and develop a full-fledged business plan & go-to-market strategy to make it real in Iberia: location, pricing, story design and display." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/23340.
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