Dissertations / Theses: 'Method of stylistic and content analysis'

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Sundell, Kimberley. "Comprehensive Musicianship and Beginner Piano Method Books: A Content Analysis." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23570.

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Comprehensive Musicianship (CM) is a philosophy that developed in the 1960s to encourage the study of contemporary music and student creativity. It expanded in the 1970s to describe the interdisciplinary study of music. Its goal was to encourage teachers to go beyond technical and performance aspects of music and start integrating theory, history, composition, improvisation and aural skills instruction to their curriculums. However, while CM has had a strong influence on many music programs, it is not clear whether this trend has influenced the field of private piano instruction, and whether CM elements have been included and integrated in beginner piano method books. To address this question, categories that constitute the core elements of CM were selected to conduct a content analysis of 12 piano method series. Analysis showed that the focus tends to be on aural skills (as teacher duets), and theory, with a noticeable lack of the more creative activities of improvisation and composition.

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Ottosson, Andreas. "An Analysis of a Content of a Method Chunk Repository concerning Interoperability Problems." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-974.

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The increasing complexity of Information Systems (IS) calls for IS development methods to be adapted to the specific situations of the projects at hand. Method engineering is important because it focus on the creation of new methods that can be used in the system development process with the aim of constructing new information systems. The size and complexity of projects for developing information systems are becoming larger and more complicated. Therefore, development methods turn out to be one of the most significant key factors to achieve great success of development projects.

The discipline of Situational Method Engineering (SME) focuses on the creation of new project specific methods. SME is a reuse strategy to assemble reusable method fragments or method chunks originating from different methods. New methods can be constructed from a method repository by selecting the chunks that are the most appropriate to a given situation. Thus, method chunks are the basic building blocks for constructing methods in a modular way.

This dissertation have identified, analyzed and categorized a set of interoperability problems for the content of a method chunk repository. These problems have been represented as a set of patterns. The patterns will facilitate the understanding of specific interoperability problems that belong to a specific method chunk. If we are aware of the different interoperability problems that exist it is more likely that we can use a method chunk successfully within the context of SME.

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Blainey, Joan Brandon. "Monte Carlo simulation of paleofloods information content of paleoflood data in flood-frequency analysis /." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2000. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu_etd_hy0053_m_sip1_w.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Copeland, Matthew Blair. "Learner Modal Preference and Content Delivery Method Predicting Learner Performance and Satisfaction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862858/.

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The purpose of the study was to investigate how the online, computer-based learner's personal learning profile (Preference), the content delivery method supplemented with visual content based on Neil Fleming's VARK (visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic) model (Content), and the interaction of Preference and Content, influenced learner performance (Performance) and/or learner self-reported satisfaction (Satisfaction). Participants were drawn from a population of undergraduates enrolled in a large public southwestern research university during the fall 2015 semester. The 165 student participants (13.79% completion rate) were comprised of 52 (31.5%) females and 113 (68.5%) males age 18-58+ years with 126 (76.4%) age 18-24 years. For race/ethnicity, participants self-identified as 1 (0.66%) American Indian/Alaska Native, 21 (12.7%) Asian/Pacific Islander, 27 (16.4%) Black, non-Hispanic, 28 (17%) Hispanic, 78 (47.3%) White, non-Hispanic, 10 (6.1%) other. Reported socioeconomic status was 22 (13.3%) withheld, 53 (32.1%) did not know, 45 (27.3%) low, 13 (7.9%) moderately low, 16 (9.7%) middle, 8 (4.8%) upper middle, and 8 (4.8%) upper. This causal-comparative and quasi-experimental, mixed-method, longitudinal study used researcher-developed web-based modules to measure Performance and Satisfaction, and used the criterion p < .05 for statistical significance. A two-way, 4 x 3 repeated measures (Time) analysis of variance (RM-ANOVA) using Preference and Content was statistically significant on each Performance measure over Time, and at two measures on Satisfaction over Time. The RM-ANOVA was statistically significant on between-subjects main effect Performance for read/write modality Content compared to aural and kinesthetic Content. There were no statistically significant main effects observed for Satisfaction. A Pearson r correlation analysis showed that participants that were older, married, and of higher socioeconomic status performed better. The correlation analysis also showed that participants who performed better reported greater likelihood to take online courses in the future, higher motivation, sufficient time and support for studies, and sufficient funding for and access to the Internet. The study results suggested that regardless of Preference, using read/write modality Content based on the VARK model while maintaining the verbal language can yield better Performance outcomes. The study results also suggested that while maintaining the verbal language, Preference, and Content based on the VARK model do not distinguish learner Satisfaction outcomes. However, because Satisfaction has been shown to impact Performance, efficacy, and retention, it matters to educational institutions. Future research should consider more granular models and factorial research methods, because models that utilize a single representative construct score can mask effects when analyzing Performance and Satisfaction.

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Good, J. R. P. "Discovering a method for analysis and development of teachers' guides' contribution to lesson content." Thesis, University of Essex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268737.

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Makovoz, Gennadiy. "Latent Semantic Analysis as a Method of Content-Based Image Retrieval in Medical Applications." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/227.

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The research investigated whether a Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)-based approach to image retrieval can map pixel intensity into a smaller concept space with good accuracy and reasonable computational cost. From a large set of computed tomography (CT) images, a retrieval query found all images for a particular patient based on semantic similarity. The effectiveness of the LSA retrieval was evaluated based on precision, recall, and F-score. This work extended the application of LSA to high-resolution CT radiology images. The images were chosen for their unique characteristics and their importance in medicine. Because CT images are intensity-only, they carry less information than color images. They typically have greater noise, higher intensity, greater contrast, and fewer colors than a raw RGB image. The study targeted level of intensity for image features extraction. The focus of this work was a formal evaluation of the LSA method in the context of large number of high-resolution radiology images. The study reported on preprocessing and retrieval time and discussed how reduction of the feature set size affected the results. LSA is an information retrieval technique that is based on the vector-space model. It works by reducing the dimensionality of the vector space, bringing similar terms and documents closer together. Matlab software was used to report on retrieval and preprocessing time. In determining the minimum size of concept space, it was found that the best combination of precision, recall, and F-score was achieved with 250 concepts (k = 250). This research reported precision of 100% on 100% of the queries and recall close to 90% on 100% of the queries with k=250. Selecting a higher number of concepts did not improve recall and resulted in significantly increased computational cost.

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Arifin, Sutjipoto. "A computation method/framework for high level video content analysis and segmentation using affective level information." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/1417.

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VIDEO segmentation facilitates e±cient video indexing and navigation in large digital video archives. It is an important process in a content-based video indexing and retrieval (CBVIR) system. Many automated solutions performed seg- mentation by utilizing information about the \facts" of the video. These \facts" come in the form of labels that describe the objects which are captured by the cam- era. This type of solutions was able to achieve good and consistent results for some video genres such as news programs and informational presentations. The content format of this type of videos is generally quite standard, and automated solutions were designed to follow these format rules. For example in [1], the presence of news anchor persons was used as a cue to determine the start and end of a meaningful news segment. The same cannot be said for video genres such as movies and feature films. This is because makers of this type of videos utilized different filming techniques to design their videos in order to elicit certain affective response from their targeted audience. Humans usually perform manual video segmentation by trying to relate changes in time and locale to discontinuities in meaning [2]. As a result, viewers usually have doubts about the boundary locations of a meaningful video segment due to their different affective responses. This thesis presents an entirely new view to the problem of high level video segmentation. We developed a novel probabilistic method for affective level video content analysis and segmentation. Our method had two stages. In the first stage, a®ective content labels were assigned to video shots by means of a dynamic bayesian 0. Abstract 3 network (DBN). A novel hierarchical-coupled dynamic bayesian network (HCDBN) topology was proposed for this stage. The topology was based on the pleasure- arousal-dominance (P-A-D) model of a®ect representation [3]. In principle, this model can represent a large number of emotions. In the second stage, the visual, audio and a®ective information of the video was used to compute a statistical feature vector to represent the content of each shot. Affective level video segmentation was achieved by applying spectral clustering to the feature vectors. We evaluated the first stage of our proposal by comparing its emotion detec- tion ability with all the existing works which are related to the field of a®ective video content analysis. To evaluate the second stage, we used the time adaptive clustering (TAC) algorithm as our performance benchmark. The TAC algorithm was the best high level video segmentation method [2]. However, it is a very computationally intensive algorithm. To accelerate its computation speed, we developed a modified TAC (modTAC) algorithm which was designed to be mapped easily onto a field programmable gate array (FPGA) device. Both the TAC and modTAC algorithms were used as performance benchmarks for our proposed method. Since affective video content is a perceptual concept, the segmentation per- formance and human agreement rates were used as our evaluation criteria. To obtain our ground truth data and viewer agreement rates, a pilot panel study which was based on the work of Gross et al. [4] was conducted. Experiment results will show the feasibility of our proposed method. For the first stage of our proposal, our experiment results will show that an average improvement of as high as 38% was achieved over previous works. As for the second stage, an improvement of as high as 37% was achieved over the TAC algorithm.

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Jia, Ruoyu. "CDM Leakage Quantification Methods : A content analysis of CDM methodologies linked to 15 sectoral scope." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för tema, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-108879.

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The paper sheds light upon a specific issue: carbon leakage. Leakage can be understood as an unanticipated net carbon loss or gain, attributable to a climate policy, or reduction activities. Benign leakage effects are harmless. Unsettling are the ones that pose a threat to project’s environmental integrity. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is no exception to such risk. In order to investigate leakage and the corresponding leakage calculation methods addressed in the CDM projects, a qualitative content analysis is conducted on 203 methodologies. Methodology documents serve as ideal textual data for examining CDM related leakage because the development of any new project must be based on methodologies. In relation to the research question, the content analysis synthesizes 11 types of leakage sources. Excluding the case where no leakage is considered, 10 type of leakage sources are then broadly classified as Activity Shift, Market Effects and Life Cycle Leakage. Their corresponding leakage calculation methods are described and reviewed in terms of their geographic reach, and leakage characteristics. A percentage pattern is presented in relation to each sector. The findings are that the vast majority of the CDM leakage calculation methods address primary leakage specific to each individual project at a localized scale, among which, methods addressing Life Cycle Leakage are in the predominant majority. Market Effects as secondary sources are acknowledged as a potential threat to the overall benefit, but the CDM methodologies offer no quantitative method.

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Kvarnström, Sofia. "“Our readers consider themselves activists” : A Mixed-Method Study of Consumption Discourses and Activism in Teen Vogue." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-159691.

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During the year of 2017 and 2018, the online magazine Teen Vogue saw an immense rise in reader statistic after laying all efforts on digital channels and increasing content about social issues to attract audiences of young people. Teen Vogue is a form of lifestyle journalism. This type of journalism is known for providing popular journalism, infotainment and human-interest stories with close ties to commercial interests. The target audience of Teen Vogue are adolescents or youth, which has for a long time been a group that often shows resistance and calls out for change. But, what happens when a magazine with close connection to commercial interests also aims to attracting a more socially conscious group? This research explores the connection between lifestyle media, consumption and social issues through a mixed method study of the articles in Teen Vogue. The first part of this research consists of a content analysis which identifies the main social issues within the content categories of the magazine and established the close connection between commercial issues and activism in the content. The second part of the study involves a critical discourse analysis which analyzes how language is used and how discourses of consumption interplay in the material. It was found that discourses of consumption as a means to extend one’s identity was intertwined with consumption as ethical or responsible, highlighting that being an activist is mainly a matter of consumption.

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Bobrik, Annette Verfasser], and Hermann [Akademischer Betreuer] [Krallmann. "Content-based Clustering in Social Corpora - A New Method for Knowledge Identification based on Text Mining and Cluster Analysis / Annette Bobrik. Betreuer: Hermann Krallmann." Berlin : Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1031075364/34.

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Bobrik, Annette [Verfasser], and Hermann [Akademischer Betreuer] Krallmann. "Content-based Clustering in Social Corpora - A New Method for Knowledge Identification based on Text Mining and Cluster Analysis / Annette Bobrik. Betreuer: Hermann Krallmann." Berlin : Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus-38461.

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Fuentes, Claudio. "Democracy and incumbency : a mixed method strategy to understand political support from the results of deputies' elections in Chile." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/democracy-and-incumbency-a-mixed-method-strategy-to-understand-political-support-from-the-results-of-deputiesa-elections-in-chile(6ac1fbde-ae05-432f-b384-ff6406aab0e9).html.

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This doctoral dissertation examines whether incumbency affects democracy, and if it does, how re-election impacts on the political system. This thesis links and extends two theoretical traditions that hardly ever have been combined: political support theory and incumbency theory. Political support theory is used as a proxy to examine democracy from a multidimensional perspective. In this theoretical tradition, there has been a considerable concentration of studies on developed nations, and which take a comparative approach. Also, there is persistently inadequate attention given to measuring the form of a government, with a strong predominance of parliamentarian systems. Likewise, most of the research is focused at the individual level, in where the use of statistical techniques is prevailing, and the mixed methods are, nearly, non-existent. On the other hand, there are no studies that explain incumbency effects on democracy directly. Despite there being plenty of inferences which can be taken from incumbency analysis and its extrapolations about democracy and elections, there is a scarcity of studies that associate both political phenomena. In most cases, scholars analyse incumbency as an advantage in popular elections in developed countries, mainly the U.S. The main argument of this thesis proposes that incumbency has effects on democracy and that those impacts will have adverse consequences on the democratic system. Taking Chile as a case-study, a developing country with a presidential system and with similarities to Western party systems, this research seeks to respond three hypotheses. 1) The categories of support identified by Booth and Seligson in 2009 could, to an extent, be modified by including questions that gauge the role of the presidential institution in the Chilean political system. 2) It is expected that incumbency will be shown to have distinct impacts on democratic political legitimacy. 3) The effect of deputies' re-election on political legitimacy dimensions will depend on the composition of legislative pairs at the electoral district level in Chile: two newcomers, one newcomer and one incumbent, or two incumbents. This investigation uses a mixed method strategy. From a qualitative perspective, I characterise all law bills proposed to the NC to limit the re-elections of public authorities in Chile, between 11th March 1990 and 31st December 2016. In line with this doctoral dissertation's aims, a context analysis is used to analyse the content of draft laws related to incumbency. From a quantitative approach, I examine the legislative incumbency effects on political legitimacy dimensions in Chile, from 2008 to 2014. In line with this doctoral dissertation's aim, a series of statistical techniques are used to analyse the effects of incumbency on political support. The findings suggest that: 1) The effects of incumbency are distributed differently according to the component of political legitimacy. 2) The rotation of political elites (seniority and the circulation of elected deputies) is the most substantial incumbency dimension to explain political support in comparison with the competition dimension. 3) The three indicators based on the margin of victory are only related negatively to support for government management. 4) The HDI has effects on political support, but they were inconsistent. 5) The legislative pair composition produces a moderator effect on incumbency indicators. 6) Politics and ideology play a pivotal role in understanding and explaining political support theory. This research concludes that is necessary to keep expanding studies that relate incumbency and democracy by taking other countries with different electoral systems, that arguments hold by politicians should be adjusted considering evidence, and it is imperative to reduce the perception-facts gap in citizens.

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Olsson, Isabelle. "Märkvärdig medicin : En mixed method-studie av debatten i media om miljömärkning av läkemedel." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84509.

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I takt med tilltagen befolkningsmängd och ökad livslängd har läkemedelsanvändningen eskalerat världen över. I flera årtionden har farmaceutiska substanser hittats i miljön där de uppvisat stor skada på människor, djur och natur. En tydlig effekt är ökningen av antibiotikaresistenta patogener och ett nationellt förslag på åtgärd är att införa miljömärkning på läkemedel. Syftet är att genom en mixed method-studie granska debatten om miljömärkta läkemedel i texter hämtade från svenska medier. Genom en kvantitativ och en kvalitativ innehållsanalys redogör resultatet för debattens omfång, geografiska spridning, dess innehåll och medverkande aktörer. Det finns två samhällsaktörer som dominerar i debatten och de använder argument som har tydliga kopplingar till ekologisk modernisering och greenwash. Etiska överväganden, ekonomiska intressen, konsumentmakt och låg tro till livsstilsförändringar utgör också diskussionen. Miljömärkning av läkemedel visar sig inte vara en åtgärd för naturens bästa och kritiker menar att kraven för miljömärkningen är för svaga för att göra någon miljömässig skillnad. Den miljömärkning som i dagsläget är aktuell på läkemedel kan riskera att vilseleda konsumenter i tro om att de köper någonting som är bra för miljön.

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Allain, James D. "Comparison of nutrient data obtained through laboratory analysis with results generated by diet analysis software programs to determine a valid method for evaluating the nutrient content of select menu items at Pizza King, Inc." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1327788.

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The purpose of this research study was to test the validity of three diet analysis programs — Food Processor, Diet Analysis Plus 7.0 Online, and NutritionData.com — by comparing results of each program to the nutrient data from an independent food science lab for menu items served at Pizza King, Inc. restaurants.NutritionData.com had a slightly higher positive correlation, as well as more nutrient values within 10% of the chemical analyses, than ESHAs Food Processor. However, due to several ancillary factors (e.g., limited data base, inability to save laboratory-obtained data into a permanent database, and the minimal cost for the program for a company the size of Pizza King), this researcher has recommended ESHA Food Processor to Pizza King for the current and future analyses of their menu items. Diet Analysis Plus 7.0 Online could not be tested because the program did not generate analyzable results.
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Lee, Patrick. "The Words of War: A Content Analysis of Republican Presidential Speeches from Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, George W. Bush, and Donald J. Trump." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3400.

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In this analysis of public speeches from four American presidents from the Republican party, the ways in which those presidents discuss and position American defense activities and stances are examined, to track the progression from the 1960s to the present. Presidents from one party were chosen, who presided over a period of active armed conflict or cold war. The addresses analyzed comprised public addresses to Congress or the American people. The analysis groups recurring frames--conceptually developed based on framing and agenda setting theories--into thematic categories for each president. Some frames were more salient for certain presidents than for others. Other frames were common and pervaded the presidents’ remarks to Congress and the public. America’s struggle against a faceless enemy, American military might as a guarantor of, and the importance of the United States’ commitments to its international partners were all prevailing frames which emerged in the analysis.

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Ewigleben, Franziska. "Communicating Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism : A Mixed Method Approach to Investigate How Swedish Destination Marketing Organizations Promote Nature Destinations on Instagram." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-178426.

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Around the globe, sensitive nature destinations suffer from media-mediated mass tourism. Especially, the social media network Instagram is often made responsible for these events as its emphasis on visuals is claimed to foster people’s ambition to reproduce photographs of themselves in the epic sceneries they see online. Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) face a particularly big challenge in using Instagram. While they aim at attracting enough tourists to satisfy the local tourism industry’s needs, they need to apply a careful promotion to avoid attracting more tourists than the natural environments can cope with. Focusing on Sweden as case study, this thesis aims at identifying and exploring how Swedish DMOs currently promote vulnerable nature destinations on Instagram and what significance these economically driven communication agencies thereby attribute the protection of the natural resources. Theoretical implications from sustainable destination management and environmental psychology are employed to develop different communication strategies that enhance the destination’s sustainable image as well as attempt to encourage pro-environmental behavior among tourists. A mixed method design is applied which is dominated by an extensive quantitative content analysis and complemented by a more limited qualitative semiotic analysis. The findings reveal that the implementation of sustainable communication strategies is of varying importance for the six Swedish DMOs considered in this study. In general, their effort of using communication tools to enhance sustainable nature-based tourism is still very low. Future research is advised to investigate in the production as well as audience site to gain further insights in how economic interests might hinder a more sustainable branding and to examine how effective the developed communication strategies actually are in influence people’s behavioral intentions.

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Näsström, Lena. "Participation in heart failure home-care : Patients’ and partners’ perspectives." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för omvårdnad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-117095.

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Introduction: Patient participation is important for improving outcomes and respecting selfdetermination and legal aspects in care. Heart failure is a chronic condition that puts high demands on self-care and patient participation. Patients often need advanced care due to deterioration of their heart failure symptoms, and one option is to provide care as home-care. There is limited knowledge of how patients with heart failure and their partners view participation in home-care. Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to describe different perspectives of participation in structured heart failure home-care among patients with heart failure and their partners. Methods: All patients in this thesis received structured heart failure home-care, according to a model aiming to facilitate care, where safety, participation, and gaining knowledge about the illness and treatment, are in focus. Study I had a prospective pre-post longitudinal design including 100 patients with heart failure receiving home-care. Data was collected by selfadministered questionnaires. Study II had a descriptive design. Nineteen patients receiving home-care were interviewed, and data was analysed using qualitative content analysis. Study III had a descriptive and explorative design. Data was collected by video-recorded observations of 19 home visits and analysed by qualitative content analysis. Study IV had a parallel convergent mixed-method design including 15 partners of patients receiving structured home-care. Data was collected by interviews and self-administered questionnaires. Datasets were first analysed separately and then together. Results: Better self-care behaviour was significantly associated with all measured aspects of participation. Participation by received information increased significantly during the 12-month follow-up (I). Patients’ descriptions of participation included communication between patients and health care professionals, access to care, active involvement in care, a trustful relation with health care professionals, and options for decision-making(II). Observed care encounters revealed that participation was made possible by; (i) interaction, including exchange of care-related information, care-related reasoning, and collaboration, (ii) an enabling approach, including the patient expresses own wishes and shows an active interest, and the nurse is committed and invites to a dialogue (III). Partners scored fairly positive for their participation in care and they performed different levels of caregiving tasks. Descriptions of participation included; adapting to the caring needs and illness trajectory, mastering caregiving demands, interacting with care providers, and gaining knowledge to comprehend the health situation. The mixed-method results showed both convergent results and expanded knowledge (IV). Conclusions: Structured heart failure home-care facilitated participation both for patients and their partners. Patient participation with regard to received information improved significantly after receiving home-care. Aspects of patient participation were consistently associated with better self-care behaviour. Patients’ and partners’ descriptions revealed many aspects of participation, and observed home visits revealed how interaction and an enabling approach underpinned participation.

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Pelto-Piri, Veikko. "Ethical considerations in psychiatric inpatient care : The ethical landscape in everyday practice as described by staff." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskap och medicin, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-43270.

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This thesis focuses mainly on the general ethical considerations of staff and not pre-defined specific ethical problems or dilemmas. The aims of this thesis were: first, to map ethical considerations as described by staff members in their everyday work in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as in adult psychiatry; second, from a normative ethical perspective, examine encounters between staff and patients; and third, to describe staff justification for decisions on coercive care in child and adolescent psychiatry. The material in the three first studies comprised ethical diaries written by staff in 13 inpatient clinics. The fourth study included all the medical records of patients who were admitted to coercive care during one year in child and adolescent psychiatry in Sweden. In a final analysis, combining all the four studies, three staff ideals were identified: being a good carer, respecting the patient’s autonomy and integrity and having good relations with patients and relatives. Staff often felt that the only reasonable way in many situations was to act in a paternalistic way and take responsibility, but they considered it to be problematic. Four main themes were identified as ethical considerations. These were the borders of coercion, the emphasis on order and clarity rather than a more reciprocal relationship with patients, a strong expectation of loyalty within the team, and feelings of powerlessness, mostly in relation to patients. I have identified four challenges for inpatient psychiatry. First, formal and informal coercion in inpatient care raise ethical concerns that also can be emotionally difficult for staff. Second, the professional role and care needs to be redeveloped from providing routinised care to providing more individualised care. Third, staff often worry about how patients manage their life after discharge, indicating that patients need better support. Fourth, staff also need support; they often experience feelings of being alone with their thoughts about ethical difficulties at work. Future research could contribute in the mapping of ethical considerations, in helping to develop, implement and evaluate methods for managing these issues in psychiatric settings, and to develop the normative ethical language so that it is more relevant to the clinic reality.

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Lindström, Niklas. "The Just One Look Method : The Act of Inward Looking and the Self-Directed Attention Exercise." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för psykologi (PSY), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100974.

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The aim of this study was to examine personal experiences of an alternative method for improving mental health and well-being called The Just One Look Method (JOLM). Data were collected and analyzed by qualitative content analysis of eight semi-structured interviews of JOLM users resulting in three main themes: The Act of Inward Looking (AIL), The Self-Directed Attention Exercise (SDA) and Consequences of JOLM. The main results where that AIL may offer an additional aspect and definition of the concept of self, a kind of subjective sense of self with possible implications for the field of consciousness science. And that looking at that sense of self may influence attention with possible positive consequences for mental health and well-being. JOLM was contrasted theoretically with traditional attention-based methods for achieving better mental health with a particular emphasis on Buddhist meditation. Further research was suggested to investigate more causal relationships between AIL and SDA and between JOLM and mental health.

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McMillan, Gregory Neil. "30 years on from Kangan: an analysis of the current policy position of TAFE Queensland." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16569/.

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Within Australia, Vocational Education and Training (VET) encompasses the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) sector, private providers, community education and training, and work-based training. Additionally, some VET activities are embedded within the secondary school and university sectors. As the major provider of Government-funded vocational education and training, TAFE has undergone significant change since its establishment in the 1970's. Historically, TAFE has provided broader education and social opportunities for individuals beyond a narrower focus on the achievement of training outcomes for economic benefits. However, shifts in policy direction in 1980's and 1990's have seen the delineation between broader education and economic outcomes becoming less distinct. While this is perhaps true of all education sectors, it has potentially impacted more on TAFE than any other sector. This thesis investigated these impacts within the context of TAFE's social service and economic utility roles. This was undertaken by analysing seven seminal Commonwealth and Queensland documents and by analysing the findings of interviews with six senior executives within Queensland's Department of Employment and Training and TAFE. The key findings of this thesis indicate that TAFE Queensland continues to perform a number of functions or activities that can be associated with a social service role. However, the findings also indicate that, for TAFE Queensland, there has been a shift towards an economic utility role. Since the Kangan Report (1974), TAFE's role has become more focussed on meeting Queensland's economic and industry needs within a broad view that Australia needs a flexible workforce, qualified to industry standards of competence and able to compete in a globalised world.

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Suros, Carlota. "Constructing sexual danger in the Spanish media: A mixed-method analysis of a high-profile, non-intimate femicide case in El País." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-46211.

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From January 2016 until August 2021, at least 436 women or girls have been deliberately murdered in Spain by men. Non-intimate femicide (and, particularly, murder committed by complete strangers to the victim, to which this study refers as “stranger femicide”) has historically been, and still is, the most covered type of femicide in the media. This is also the case in the Spanish press, and more specifically, El País, the most read media outlet in the country. This thesis examines how El País framed Diana Quer’s case, the most high-profile, intensively covered femicide case in Spain in the past 5 years. It will also examine which ethical problems the reporting presented. From a feminist perspective and through a mixed-method approach of content analysis and frame analysis, this study examines 86 articles corresponding to the two informative peaks of Diana Quer’s case coverage. The periods go from August to October 2016, the first two months of her disappearance, and from December 2017 to January 2018, the 15 days following her killer’s arrest and crime confession. The findings reveal that the coverage in El País constructed a victimization iconography with DQ’s case that engendered cautionary tales and failed to address femicide as a social issue. The reporting also presented a series of critical ethical problems calling for a reformation of femicide reporting guidelines.

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Sandberg, Elin. "DISA-metoden : En undersökning om gruppledarnas bedömningar av genomförandet och av metodens framtidsutsikter." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-971.

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Twice as many women as men suffer from mental ill-health. The negative trend of mental problems among teenagers continues. In certain places in Sweden, 40 per cent of the teenage girls have outspoken symptoms of depression. This is why it is important to observe mental ill-health in a public health perspective.

One effect evaluation of the DISA method (Depression In Swedish Adolescents) drew the conclusion that this universal depression preventive method is well working. The DISA method includes cognitive behavioural techniques that change negative pattern of thinking, give practice of communication, strategies of problem solution plus exercises to strengthen the social network. The purpose, in current investigation, was to let the group leaders’ estimations of the carrying through and of future prospects of the method be the basis of the method development as the method can be more effective. Six persons, who recently had became group leaders of DISA in Västmanland, were selected as interviewees by structured selection. Qualitative interviews were completed. A manifest qualitative content analysis carried through on the transcriptions.

Generally speaking, the interest of the method is great and there are bright prospects, according to the result of investigation. The basic education of DISA could however be experienced as heavy and intensive with a negative focus. The structured method material has an advanced language and a stereotyped gender perspective that influence the group meetings, which takes a lot of work and time. The supervision facilitates for the group leaders, as they through supervision will learn from each other’s experiences. A conclusion is that good anchorage of the method facilitates for the group leaders during implementation where the group meetings are carried through.

Dubbelt så många kvinnor som män lider av psykisk ohälsa. Den negativa trenden av psykiska besvär bland tonåringar fortsätter. På vissa ställen i Sverige har 40 procent av tonårsflickorna uttalade depressionssymptom. Därför är det viktigt att uppmärksamma psykisk ohälsa ur ett folkhälsoperspektiv.

En effektutvärdering av DISA-metoden (Depression In Swedish Adolescents) drog slutsatsen att denna universella depressionsförebyggande metod är välfungerande. DISA-metoden innefattar kognitiva beteendetekniker som förändrar negativa tankemönster, ger kommunikationsträning, problemlösningsstrategier samt övningar till att stärka det sociala nätverket. Syftet, i aktuell undersökning, var att låta gruppledarnas bedömningar av genomförandet och av metodens framtidsutsikter utgöra grund för metodutvecklingen, då metoden kan bli mer verkningsfull. Sex nyblivna DISA-gruppledare i Västmanland valdes ut som intervjupersoner genom strategiskt urval. Kvalitativa intervjuer fullbordades och manifest kvalitativ innehållsanalys genomfördes på transkriberingarna.

Intresset för metoden är generellt sett stort och framtidsutsikterna är goda, enligt undersökningsresultatet. Grundutbildningen i DISA kan emellertid upplevas som tung och intensiv med negativt fokus. Det strukturerade metodmaterialet har ett avancerat språk och stereotypt genusperspektiv, vilket inverkar på gruppträffarna som kräver mycket arbete och tid. Handledningen underlättar för gruppledarna, då de under handledningen kan lära av varandras erfarenheter. En slutsats är att god förankring av metoden underlättar för DISA-gruppledarna under implementeringen där gruppträffarna genomförs.

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Hwang, Sun Ok. "The Relationships Among Perceived Effectiveness of Network-Building Training Approaches, Extent of Advice Networks, and Perceived Individual Job Performance Among Employees in a Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in Korea." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268891513.

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Passetti, Francesco. "Keeping policy and politics apart: integration policies in Europe and the politics of citizenship in Spain and Italy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/587162.

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This thesis investigates immigrant integration policies paying special attention to the Spanish and Italian citizenship regimes. It hinges upon a multi-method design and its results take the shape of a three-article structure. The first article addresses similarities and differences among European countries’ integration policies and, by means of cluster analysis on MIPEX data, it identifies policy-models characterizing the current European scenario. Two shared-configurations are captured, cutting across the East/West cleavage. The Eastern configuration is more restrictive than the Western one, especially in traditional areas of integration. The second and third articles concentrate on the domain of citizenship and try to account for the puzzling continuity of nationality laws in Spain and in Italy by relying on the explanatory power of ideas. The Spanish case is treated in the second article whereas the third article compares such case to the Italian one. In both countries ideas prove to be crucial in driving the evolution of nationality laws; however according to distinct causal logic.
La presente tesis investiga las políticas de integración de los inmigrantes prestando especial atención a los regímenes de nacionalidad españolo e italiano; sigue un diseño de investigación “multhi-method” y sus resultados se estructuran en tres artículos. El primer artículo aborda similitudes y diferencias entre las políticas de integración de los países europeos y, mediante un cluster análisis con datos MIPEX, identifica los modelos de policy que marcan el escenario europeo actual. Dos macro-configuraciones son identificadas, a través de la división este/oeste. La configuración del este es más restrictiva de la del oeste, especialmente en las tradicionales áreas de integración. Los artículos segundo y tercero se centran en el área de la ciudadanía y tratan de dar cuenta de la enigmática continuidad de las leyes de nacionalidad en España y en Italia, confiando en el poder explicativo de las ideas. El segundo artículo trata el caso español, el tercero compara éste con el caso italiano. En ambos países los factores “ideacionales” se demuestran cruciales en influenciar la evolución de las leyes de nacionalidad; sin embargo, según distintas lógicas causales.

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Seitola, Kimberly. "Banshee : En mytologisk varelse i dagens mediesamhälle." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Religionsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-27398.

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Titel: Banshee - En mytologisk varelse i dagens mediesamhälle Författare: Kimberly Seitola Handledare: Stefan Larsson Ämne: Religionsvetenskap Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur den irländska mytologiska varelsen banshee gestaltas i dagens mediesamhälle. Teori: Den här uppsatsen använder sig av receptionsteorin, vilken riktar sig mot producenten, åskådaren och läsaren. Frågeställningar: Uppsatsen utgår från följande frågeställningar: Hur har gestaltningarna av den mytologiska varelsen banshee förändrats i media i jämförelse med irländsk folktro? Hur uppfattar åskådarna mediernas gestaltning av den mytologiska varelsen banshee? Metod: Metoderna som uppsatsen använder sig av är innehållsanalys samt jämförande metod. Metoderna valdes för att de bland annat kompletterar varandra. Material: Uppsatsens empiri består av allt vetenskapligt publicerat material rörande den mytologiska varelsen banshee, kortfilmen Banshee från 2014, den amerikanska tv-serien Teen Wolf samt internetforum och dess olika kommentarsfält. Resultat: Uppsatsen identifierar att mediernas gestaltning av banshee liknar den irländska folktrons. Forskningen även skillnader mellan folktron och mediernas framställning. Undersökningar av publikens perspektiv visar att den mytologiska varelsen banshee väcker en form av nyfikenhet bland dagens medieanvändare.
Title: Banshee – A mythological creature in today's media society Author: Kimberly Seitola Supervisor: Stefan Larsson Subject: Religious studies Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate how the Irish mythological creature banshee is shaped in today's media society. Theory: This essay uses the reception theory, which targets the producer, the spectator and the reader. Objectives and focus: The essay is based on the following questions: How have the representation of the mythological creature banshee changed in the media in comparison with Irish folklore? How do the perpetrators perceive the media's design of the mythological creature banshee? Method: The methods that the essay uses is content analysis and comparative method. The methods were chosen because they complement each other. Material: The essay's empirical essay consists of all scientifically published material relating to the mythological creature banshee, the short film Banshee from 2014, the American television series Teen Wolf, Internet forums and their various commentary fields. Result: The essay identifies that the form of banshee in the media is similar to the Irish folklore. The research also shows differences between the Irish folklore and media production. Analyzes of the audience's perspective shows that the mythological creature banshee provokes a kind of curiosity among today's media users.

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Enarsson, Per. "Mellan frihet och trygghet : personalgemensamt förhållningssätt i psykiatrisk omvårdnad." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-54573.

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Background: The common staff approach in psychiatric care has not been studied explicitly before. Earlier studies in related areas of social processes in psychiatric care highlight the importance of the interaction between the patient and the carer to understanding communication patterns and attitudes. Other studies on social order and power in psychiatric care shows carers and patients as taking part in a hierarchical system in which patients are subordinate to carers. Aim: The overall aim of this thesis is to study the phenomenon of the common staff approach in psychiatric care, how it emerges, and how it is used and experienced by both carers and patients. Method: In the first study, grounded theory was applied to data from observations and interviews carried out with carers and clients in two psychiatric care group dwellings. In the second and third studies, a phenomenological hermeneutic method was used to analyse narrative interviews conducted with nine careers working on psychiatric wards and nine patients with experience of psychiatric in-care, respectively. In the fourth study, qualitative content analysis was used to analyse data obtained by a vignette method from interviews with 13 carers with experience of working in psychiatric in-care. Results: A common staff approach can be understood as a social process in municipality-level group dwellings and psychiatric in-care, imposed by carers on clients or patients with the aim of restoring a predetermined order desired by the carers. When the order is disturbed the carers try to restore it by adopting a common and consistent approach towards the single patient perceived as the threat to order. Barriers to the success of a common staff approach, from the point of view of the carers, include the likelihood that colleagues will interpret situations differently, the chance that patients might succeed in dividing carers into “good” and “bad” camps, and the knowledge that the patient suffers under a common staff approach. The patients’ experiences partly confirm those of the carers – the dominant picture is that the patient feels persecuted and suffers under a common staff approach. However in some situations, patients can perceived the common approach as supportive and aimed to promote their recovery. Carers’ ethical reasoning about the common staff approach is usually applied on an individual basis; it can change depending upon the patient, the situation, and the proposed approach, as well as upon how the approach might affect other patients, staff members, or the carers themselves. Conclusions: The overall results from the four studies show that the common staff approach may meet carers’ needs, which under the approach take precedence over those of patients, but that the approach is more an exercise in asserting power and maintaining control than it is a therapeutic technique; that it is a difficult choice for the single carer to choose between the interests of the patient and the approval of colleagues; that the patient often suffers when a common staff approach is used; and that carers are seldom aware of the suffering experienced by the patient being managed by such an approach. A common staff approach has no part in a care-strategy; it is not an intentional care-plan; instead it appears to be a way for carers who feel vulnerable and under pressure to maintain order by controlling particular patients.

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Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela. "Social representations of career and career guidance in the changing world of working life." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Livslångt lärande/Encell, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-26292.

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This thesis explores the meaning of career as a phenomenon and its implication for career guidance. In 1996, career as a phenomenon was more or less considered to be an obsolete or even extinct phenomenon. Since then, career guidance has received increased attention along with the increased interest in lifelong learning strategies. This thesis is motivated by the paradoxical message of career as an extinct yet living phenomenon. Career is outlined as a bridging issue that involves several contexts and is characterized by a number of dominating discourses in tension with one another. Two educational fields linked by career are of particular interest: the field of education and training in working life and the educational field of career guidance counselling. This thesis explores the meaning of career among a triad of various interested parties in this time of transition in the world of working life, and it explores the sense in which such understanding(s) of career influence policies and practices of career guidance. The thesis is based upon four separate studies. The first study explores, in order to disclose underlying views on career, how the language of European policy documents on career guidance characterize career and career development. Qualitative content analysis is used as the basic method to approach the subject in the texts, with an inductive development of categories. The analysis then conducts a sender-oriented interpretation, based upon a textual model for analyzing documents. The results revealed that underlying perspective on career in the documents derive from economic perspective, learning perspective and political science perspective, and communicate career as subordinated to market forces. The second study pays attention to the receiving side of the ideational message, disclosed in the first study. The second study extends the analysis of the first study with an exploration of ethical declaration documents for the profession. The exploration focuses on significant key principles, the profession's role and mission, and significant changes between the initial and the revised ethical declaration. Similarities and differences were compared, combined with the first study’s results as an interpretive frame for analyzing what consequences and significance the core meaning of career at structural level will have for career guidance practice. The results revealed an implicit shift of emphasis in the career guidance mission, which creates uncertainty regarding on behalf of whom the guidance counsellor is working. The third study explores common-sense knowledge of career, among a group of people influenced by changing conditions in working life. This study explores what social representations people have about career. The study also explores how people's anchored thoughts reflect scientifically shaped thoughts, and how they relate to thoughts currently dominating on structural level. Results disclose how the group explored has stable social representations of career that are anchored in the past, in previous working life conditions, and that contrasts with perspectives dominating in the structural context. The group also has dynamic representations, which provide space for negotiation of the meaning of career. The fourth study explores guidance counsellors' social representations of their mission and of careertherein. Results generated four social representations expressed in argumentative pairs of opposites. The first pair is concerned with their professional mission and reveal their professional identity. The second is concerned with career. Their view on their mission and their professional identity is in sharp contrast with how they experience others' interpretation of their mission, as being a matching practice on behalf of the business sector. Guidance counsellors reject the general view of career among others' and they regard career in the context of guidance as something other than the common view. At the same time guidance counsellors reveal difficulties in really clarifying the meaning they ascribe to career. The empirical findings of each of the four studies are finally interpreted as a whole in the final section of this thesis. With support from social representations theory, the empirical findings illuminate the sources as bearers of social representations of career, which both meet and clash.

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Merckx, Benoit. "Étude et modélisation des transferts hydriques et thermiques au sein des matériaux inorganiques poreux : application aux matériaux du patrimoine bâti ancien, exemple de l'Hypogée des Dunes à Poitiers et de la crypte de l'abbatiale de Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe." Thesis, Poitiers, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013POIT2293/document.

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Dans le cadre de la conservation et de la réhabilitation des bâtis anciens, les matériaux utilisés pour leur construction doivent être caractérisés vis-à-vis de leurs propriétés de transferts thermiques et hydriques. La première étape du travail de recherche a concerné la mise au point d'un capteur de conductivité thermique et de teneur en eau des matériaux inorganiques poreux (pierres, bétons, enduits) constitutifs des monuments. Les méthodes d’investigation doivent rester non intrusives. Dans cet objectif, la voie suivie a été d'adapter la mesure de conductivité thermique par une méthode simplifiée du fil chaud, précédemment développée pour les fluides corrosifs, aux pierres de taille utilisées dans le bâti ancien. Afin de transférer cette technologie des fluides vers les solides, plusieurs étapes ont été effectuées : (1) des mesures avec le fil intégré, (2) des mesures de surface, (3) estimation de l'influence de la rugosité de la surface et (4) utilisation de la méthode pour l'estimation de la teneur en eau des matériaux tests.La seconde étape de la recherche a consisté en deux suivis microclimatiques effectués sur deux sites historiques : l'Hypogée des Dunes et l'abbatiale de Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe. Le travail de thèse a consisté à évaluer l'impact des travaux effectués sur les conditions climatiques dans l'hypogée, et à déterminer l’influence des variations climatiques sur la formation d'un voile biologique dans la crypte de Saint-Savin. Pour ce faire, l'analyse corrélatoire est appliquée au traitement des donnés climatiques
In the framework of preservation and rehabilitation of ancient buildings, materials used for their construction must be characterized with regards to thermal and hydric transfer properties. The first stage of our research work focused on the development of a sensor of thermal conductivity and moisture content of the inorganic porous materials (stone, concrete, render) making up the monuments. The methods of investigation have to remain non-invasive. For this purpose, the path followed was to adapt the measure of thermal conductivity by a simplified transient hot-wire method, previously developed for corrosive fluids, to dressed stones used in built heritage. In order to transfer this technology from fluids to the solids, several stages were carried out : (1) measures with the integrated wire, (2) surface measures, (3) estimation of the influence of surface roughness and (4) use of this method to estimate the moisture content of several test materials.The second stage of the research consisted in the microclimatic monitoring of two historical sites: the Hypogeum of the Dunes in Poitiers and the crypt of the abbey church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe. The thesis work sought to evaluate the impact of construction work performed in the Hypogeum on the internal climatic conditions, and to determine the influence of climatic variations on the formation of a biological veil in the crypt of Saint-Savin. To this aim, correlative analysis is applied to the treatment of climatic data

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Soudek, Pavel. "Teplotně-vlhkostní posouzení prvků krovu s nadkrokevním systémem zateplení." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226670.

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This thesis deals with the temperature-moisture assessment of members in truss with above-rafter thermal insulation. Within this system it focuses on the details of creating a roof overhang because that is where the timber elements are under the greatest amount of moisture stress. Different variations of this detail are presented including the extent to which thermo-technical requirements and requirements surrounding the built-in timber elements are satisfied. Theoretical calculations are then compared with measurements which were performed on a real building. This task of measurement involved developing a new measuring device. The development of this device is also described in this paper.

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Ariss, Laila Diane. "Differentiated Instruction: An Exploratory Study in a Secondary Mathematics Classroom." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1493411297122313.

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順龍, 朴., and Soonyong Park. "韓国におけるロールレタリング技法を活用した受刑者教育プログラムの開発及び効果に関する研究." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13044956/?lang=0, 2017. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13044956/?lang=0.

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本研究は受刑者教育プログラムを開発してその効果を明らかにすることを目的としている．主要教育方法としては視聴覚教育やグループワークを加味した日本のロールレタリング技法を採用し，合計12セッションのプログラムを構成した．2015年の間，Z刑務所受刑者34名を対象に3期にかけてプログラムを行い，教育前後の受刑者の心理的変化を確認した．また，受刑者の課題とFGIの質的内容分析を通じて教育効果を再確認した．
The object of this study is to develop and to evaluate an education program for prison inmates. The main method of this program which consists of 12 sessions is "role lettering" added to group work and audio-visual stimulation. In 2015, 34 prison inmates participated in this program at Z prison in Korea. This program has verified in evaluating the inmates' psychological change. And it has reverified in evaluating the effectiveness of education through qualitative content analysis of focus group interview as well as prison inmates' tasks.
博士(社会福祉学)
Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare
同志社大学
Doshisha University

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Wiklund, Maria. "Close to the edge : discursive, gendered and embodied stress in modern youth." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Epidemiologi och global hälsa, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-37157.

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Background Adolescent subjective health and mental problems have become a public health concern not only in Sweden but worldwide. The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen and widen the understanding of young peoples’ subjective health, psychosomatic and stress-related problems. A special focus is put on experienced stress among adolescent girls and young women. The study setting is one youth health centre, and three upper secondary schools in Umeå, a university town in northern Sweden. The research design combines qualitative and quantitative methods with the main focus on qualitative methods. An interdisciplinary theoretical synthesis is utilised, primarily based on bio-psycho-social, phenomenological, and social constructionist approaches. The three qualitative papers (I-III) are based on the same sample of 40 young women who had sought help at the youth health centre because of their stress-related problems. Paper I explores the stressors experienced by the young women, whereas Paper II explores the lived experiences of stress. Paper III examines the young women’s experiences of living in a violent partner relationship as young teenagers, and how this has affected their lives and health over time. Paper IV investigates perceived stress and subjective health complaints among older adolescents in upper secondary school. Methods Data was derived from: a) a qualitative interview study with 40 adolescent girls and young women, aged between 16–25 years, who had sought help at the youth health centre for stress problems. Qualitative content analysis was used in combination with discourse-orientated analysis (Paper I); a phenomenological approach (Paper II), and narrative method (Paper III); b) a school-based survey with a sample of 16–18-year-old boys and girls (n=1027), in upper secondary school, grades 1 and 2, from different educational programs at three schools. Perceived stress, self-rated health, subjective health complaints, anxiety, and depression, were measured with a questionnaire including a set of instruments. Statistical analyses were descriptive and analytical. Results Paper I identified multiple stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth. Contextual factors, including social constructions and practices of gender, played an important role for the stress experienced by these young women. The results revealed that multiple and intersecting stressors and demands connected to essential life spheres, contributed not only to experiences of distress but also to feelings of constraint. Moreover, the roles of excessive taking of responsibility and failing adult support were revealed. Paper II illuminated multidimensional lived and embodied experiences of distress. ‘Living close to the edge’ emerged as the common theme running through all of the interviews and captured the young women’s sometimes unbearable situations. The theme contains dimensions of physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and existential distress, as well as dimensions of distrust and disempowerment. Paper III examined two Swedish adolescent girls’ experiences of living in a violent relationship as teenagers, and how this has affected their lives and health over time. The analysis revealed violation, stress, trauma, coping, and agency during adolescence and the transition into adulthood. Paper IV showed a high level of perceived stress, and subjective health and stress complaints among boys and girls. High pressure and excessive demands from school were experienced by a majority of boys and girls. Perceived stress was correlated with subjective health and stress complaints and anxiety. There was a clear gender difference: two to three times as many girls than boys reported subjective health complaints, e.g. headaches, tiredness and sleeping difficulties, musculoskeletal pain, sadness and anxiety. Conclusion Several issues of relevance to public health were raised throughout the thesis. According to the interview results, the young women face multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and being young, which correspond to their multidimensional experiences of ‘living close to the edge’. Their experiences of stress are multidimensional, and include physical, emotional, cognitive, social and existential dimensions. Findings from the qualitative study were also mirrored in the findings from the larger group of adolescents in the school survey, where a high proportion of older adolescents, particularly girls, reported perceptions of stress. Moreover, perceived stress correlated to a variety of subjective health complaints and anxiety. The results can be understood and explained from a variety of perspectives. The experience of ‘managing alone’ indicated perceptions of inadequate social support. The overall results indicated a risk of more negative health development, particularly among adolescent girls and young women. Stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth were prominent. The continuation and normalisation of oppression and violence are also discussed as a severe gendered stressor in young women’s lives. This calls for a broad contextualised and gender-sensitive approach to young people’s stress and health problems. In conclusion, the age and gender gap in adolescent health needs to be further explored, and processes of distress, distrust and disempowerment have to be taken more seriously.
Under det senaste decenniet har medier och flertalet nationella forskningsrapporter informerat om ökande psykisk ohälsa och stress bland barn och unga i Sverige. Denna avhandlings syfte är att med hjälp av en utforskande och tvärvetenskaplig ansats fördjupa förståelsen av subjektiva ohälsoproblem och upplevd stress bland unga i Sverige, med speciellt fokus på flickors och unga kvinnors upplevda stressproblem. Avhandlingen har en explorativ och flexibel studiedesign som kombinerar kvalitativa och kvantitativa forskningsmetoder med särskild tyngdpunkt på de kvalitativa metoderna. Datainsamling har genomförts med a) kvalitativa forskningsintervjuer med en grupp flickor och unga kvinnor (16–25 år) som sökt hjälp för stressrelaterade problem på en ungdomshälsomottagning i Umeå, och b) en skolbaserad enkätunder-sökning med totalt 1027 pojkar och flickor, 16–18 år, i åk 1–2 på tre kommunala gymnasieskolor i Umeå. Forskningsintervjuerna har huvudsakligen analyserats med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Innehållsanalysen har i de olika delarbetena sedan kombinerats med diskursorienterad analys (Artikel I), med fenomenologisk ansats (Artikel II) och med narrativ metod (Artikel III). Skolenkäten har analyserats med deskriptiva och analytiska statistiska metoder (Artikel IV). Resultaten från den kvalitativa intervjuundersökningen med unga kvinnor belyser a) multipla stressorer som kan hänföras till flera parallella områden i livet – men även till samhälleliga diskurser: modernitetens stressorer, genusordningarnas stressorer och ungdoms-årens stressorer, b) multidimensionella, levda och förkroppsligade erfarenheter av stress och ”att leva på gränsen” som innefattar fysiska, emotionella, kognitiva, sociala och existentiella dimensioner och c) erfarenheter av våld och kontroll i partnerrelationer samt deras konsekvenser. Resultaten från enkätundersökningen med gymnasielever visar att en stor andel av ungdomarna rapporterar subjektiva hälso- och stressbesvär av olika slag inklusive oro och ångest. Jämfört med pojkarna så är det två till tre gånger fler flickor som rapporterar besvär och denna skillnad är signifikant. En majoritet av ungdomarna håller ett högt tempo och upplever sig också pressade av krav från skolan samt av egna inre krav. Upplevelserna av stress i form av högt tempo och höga krav korrelerar med de subjektiva hälso- och stressbesvären samt med ångest. Sammanfattningsvis visar avhandlingen att ungas stressrelaterade och subjektiva hälsobesvär bör förstås i ett vidare socialt sammanhang som inkluderar ett genusperspektiv. Kontext- och genusspecifika interventionsmodeller behöver utvecklas för att möta dessa hälsoproblem, men stress bland unga behöver också diskuteras och studeras vidare i relation till hur samhällsutvecklingen och dess värdegrunder påverkar unga av idag.

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Gomes, José Osmar. "Configurações identitárias de uma autarquia pública no contexto da defesa e inspeção agropecuária na ótica dos gestores." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFES, 2015. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/1685.

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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo compreender como as transformações no contexto da defesa sanitária e inspeção agropecuária entre 1996 e 2014 se relacionam com as configurações identitárias do Idaf manifestadas por gestores nesse contexto. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que descreve os processos identitários da organização por um olhar interpretativista, pelo entendimento das relações simbólicas que permeiam essa organização, observados em discursos dos sujeitos. Para coleta dos dados foram utilizadas pesquisa documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas individuais. As entrevistas foram realizadas com cinco sujeitos da organização nos meses de setembro e outubro de 2014. O método de análise foi a Análise de Conteúdo (KRIPPENDORFF, 1990) que busca investigar dados textuais através de técnicas que permitam compreendê-los com seus significados, referências, valorações e intenções. Pretendeu-se contribuir, com esse estudo, para a compreensão da identidade organizacional, em uma organização pública, no contexto da defesa sanitária e inspeção agropecuária. Os resultados permitiram identificar o Idaf como único e distinto de outras organizações e como essa identificação está relacionada às transformações do contexto agropecuário.
This research aims to understand how changes in the context of health protection and agriculture inspection between 1996 and 2014 relate to the Idaf identity configurations expressed by managers in this context. It is a qualitative research that seek to describe the identity processes of the organization by an interpretive look at understanding the symbolic relations that permeate this organization, observed in speeches of the subjects. For data collection were used desk research and semi-structured individual interviews. Interviews were conducted with five subjects of the organization in the months of September and October 2014. The analysis method was content analysis (KRIPPENDORFF, 1990) that investigates textual data through techniques to understand them with their meanings, references , valuations and intentions. It was intended to contribute to this study, for understanding the organizational identity in a public organization in the context of health protection and agricultural inspection. The results showed the Idaf as unique and distinct from other organizations and how this identification is related to change in agricultural context.

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Mrkvanová, Veronika. "Smrt, vražda, zabití jako mediální téma." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-299924.

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Death, Murder, Manslaughte As a Medial Topic The subject of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the texts which concern violent death. Printed media articles and articles from news portals on the internet are being analysed. The work focuses on the manner death is presented and how the picture of the dead and of the manslayer is created. How the words "murder" and "manslaughter" alternate in various cases, their euphemisms and their relationship to reality is being researched. The method of stylistic and content analysis are being used.

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Ho, Yen-Te, and 何姸德. "A Content Analysis of Colourstrings Cello ABC Method." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30480459362633782407.

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碩士
國立臺南大學
音樂學系碩士班
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This study analyzes the teaching content, teaching curriculum and teaching strategy of the cello textbook: Colourstrings Cello ABC. The author G. Szilvay, a violinist, and C. Szilvay, a cellist, first published teaching method of Colourstrings in Poland during the 1970s. The method was based on Kodaly method. Colourstrings only covered violin teaching at the begging and finally extended the method to cello teaching in 2007. In 2014, the forth volume of cello teaching got published. Therefore, this study analyzes these 4 volumes: A, B, C and D. This study mainly applies qualitative analysis for content analysis, which includes teaching content, teaching curriculum and teaching strategy. This study also applies quantitative analysis to calculate the coverage of teaching contents and music materials by their pages. The research methods were developed after literature review, exploratory analysis, expert interview and discussion with the advisor. In order to increase the credibility of the research, this study applies scorer reliability, expert consulting and triangulation test to achieve the goal. The results show that: 1. The teaching contents of Colourstrings Cello ABC demonstrate a music-teaching method of comprehensiveness and variety. a. “Theory cognition”accounts for 58.19% of the textbook, which is the highest. b. “Technique teaching”accounts for 20.07% within the first two volumes while the rest two volumes focus on strengthening and practicing. c. “Comprehensive application”accounts for 20%, which is higher in volume C and D. d. “Music materials”broadly cover folk rhymes of various countries, which are applied in the theory cognition and technique teaching. 2. Colourstrings Cello ABC is edited with the idea of spiral-curriculum courses, which are arranged according to the degree of difficulty. Step by step, the reader could start with ease and then get deeper and wider ideas later. The spiral-curriculum idea is applied to theory cognition, technique teaching, comprehensive application and materials. 3. The teaching methods of Colourstrings Cello ABC mainly adopt transposition, singing, graphical symbol, harmonics and ensemble.

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Tsai, Chia-Ching, and 蔡佳靜. "The Content Analysis of the Method Books for Group Guitar." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/788z33.

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國立臺南大學
音樂學系碩士班
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This research applies H.O.T. Hands-On Training published by Class Guitar Resource and Learning the Classic Guitar by Mel Bay as the foundation of study. The study aims to analyze the editing ideas, music material, music styles, and playing techniques mentioned in these teaching material, as well as the arrangement and characteristics of the teaching sequence. By means of content analysis of the two series of method books for group guitar education, the researcher identified the priorities for course planning in group guitar education abroad, while at the same time, put forward course planning proposals to method books in Taiwan. This study adopts a qualitative research method. Based on review of the literature and teaching materials, the researcher summarized the analysis topics. The topics cover areas of editing ideas, teaching content, and teaching process. According to these categories, detailed analysis of these two sets of the method books for group guitar education was carried out in order to understand the teaching content of various versions of these teaching materials, and compare the similarities and differences between them. The findings of this study are as follows: 1. The population of guitar learning through group courses in Taiwan are mostly high school student and university student. These students are equipped with certain level of reading comprehension and self-learning skill. Therefore, for teaching material implementation, it can be designed in directions of self-instructional. 2. The selection of teaching materials and compile learning sequence in the method books of group guitar editing should be dependent on the teaching purpose. 3. In the arrangement of teaching order, right hand playing techniques should come before left hand playing techniques. 4. Track localization. 5. Track length within 20 measures is better for beginners to play. 6. The proportion of ensemble should account for at least 40% of all playing music.

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Yen, Chia-Cheng, and 顏嘉徵. "A Content Analysis of Fritz Emonts' The European Piano Method." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81328049368028991880.

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The purpose of this research is to analyze the teaching content, curriculum design, and repertoire layout of Fritz Emonts’ The European Piano Method. The research object is the Taiwan version of Fritz Emonts’ The European Piano Method, published by Jong-Teh Lin Enterprise Company (the name used currently ) in 1994, book 1 to 5. The research method is content analysis: go through all the materials qualitatively; moreover, the teaching content and repertoire genre are calculated through quantitative analyzing method, which indicate the percentage of page used in each section. In according to the results of document review, tentative analysis,experts consulting,and exchanging views with the advisor, researcher therefore develops 10 different research tools. About controlling reliability and validity, scorer reliability, experts validity, and triangulation are used to increase trustworthiness of the research. The Conclusion of the research is: 1.Fritz Emonts’ teaching content conform the distinguishing features of modern piano teaching methods, and the integrated ideas are its foundation which has contents full of diversity and complex. a.“Music Concept” has the highest percentage of 37.80% b.“Technique” comes in second,30.00% c.“Functional Skills” covers only 13.41% 2.Fritz Emonts’ curriculum covers “Music Concept”, “Technique”, and “Functional Skills”. It goes from the easy to the difficult and complicated which matches the music learning theories, and can be easily accepted by children. 3.Fritz Emonts’ repertoire layout is full of comprehensiveness and diversity. It broadens students’ vision by collecting European art music, and blends in the American Jazz music features, also adopts music from various nations. Moreover, it values some Taiwanese music. a.The music styles include “classical music”, “folk music”, and “pop music”. The “classical music” covers 34.88% which has the highest percentage. b.The music types are “for exercise”, and “for performance”, “for exercise” covers 49.04% which has the highest percentage. c.The repertoire layout is designed to close to everyday life and using “folk music” as the beginning material. It goes from the easy to the difficult and complicated. Its repertoire order goes from “folk music”, “classical music” to “pop music”.

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Kuo, Yu-Fan, and 郭妤凡. "A Content Analysis of Piano Functional Skills in Faber’s Piano Adventure Basic Method." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53657610429382507806.

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音樂學系碩士班
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This study aims to analyze the teaching content, curriculum planning and teaching strategies of the functional skills of “Faber” piano textbook and takes Chinese version of “Faber” piano textbook issued by Tianyin Publisher in 2005 as subject, with the analysis ranging from elementary grade to the fifth grade. Research method was content analysis; the qualitative analysis was adopted to explore the teaching content, curriculum planning and teaching strategies of the functional skills of this set of piano textbook, while the quantitative analysis was supplemented to calculate the “proportion” of sight-reading, transposition, improvisation and accompaniment in this set of textbook as well as the “times” for which the teaching strategies used. After literature discussion, exploratory data analysis, expert validity and advisor’s careful thought, three major research tools were developed, including “the overall analysis table of the content analysis of Faber piano textbook”, “the category analysis table of the content analysis of Faber piano textbook” and “functional skills analysis table of Faber piano textbook”. However, in terms of reliability and validity control, expert validity, interjudge reliability and triangulation methods were adopted for detection to improve the reliability and validity of the study. The conclusions of this study are obtained as follows based on the results and findings of this study: Firstly, the four aspects of piano functional skills of “Faber piano textbook” all exist, among which “accompaniment” occupies the highest proportion(18.9%) in teaching content, followed by “sight-reading”(7.8%), “transposition”(6.1%) and “improvisation”(5.9%).  The “accompaniment” comprises five sub categories, “block chords”, “broken chords”, “Alberti pattern”, “waltz pattern”, and “others”, and the “block chords” occupies the highest proportion.  There are three sub categories of “sight-reading” including “preparatory exercise”, “simple phrases exercise”, and “others”, and the “others” occupies the highest proportion.  There are two sub categories of “transposition” including “close key”, “distant key”, and the “close key” occupies the highest proportion.  There are three sub categories of “improvisation” including “rhythmic improvisation”, “melodic improvisation”, “synthesis”, and the “melodic improvisation” occupies the highest proportion. Secondly, the curriculum planning of piano functional skills of “Faber piano textbook” depends on the overall course content and is not planned particularly and independently. Since “transposition” and “accompaniment” link on the teaching contents of tonality and harmony, the teaching process is relatively more complete. Thirdly, functional skills of each piano of the “Faber piano textbook” have diverse teaching strategies planned systematically, among which chant accounts for the most but lacks vivid rhythm.  The teaching strategies for “sight-reading” include “chanting”, “identifying intervals and melodic contour”, “writing” and “keyboard position reminding”. The “chanting” is adopted most, while “writing” and “keyboard position reminding” are lest.  The teaching strategies for “transposition” include “melody transposition”, “five finger position reminding”, “reminding the intervals structure”, “transposing the chords”, “chanting the intervals while transposing scales”, and “integrated with rhythmic pattern exercise”. The “melody transposition” is adopted most, and “chanting the intervals while transposing scales” and “integrated with rhythmic pattern exercise” are lest.  The teaching strategies for “improvisation” include “assigning the particular notes”, “assigning a subject”, “assigning rhythmic pattern”, “assigning the dynamic” “assigning particular intervals or chords”, “moving an octave higher of lower”, “assigning to apply scale or arpeggio patterns” and “ assigning a particular tonality”. The “assigning a subject” is adopted most, while “assigning the dynamic” is lest.  The teaching strategies for “accompaniment” include “chanting”, “words illustration”, “writing”, “listening and feeling”, and “questioning”. The “words illustration” is adopted most, while “listening and feeling” is lest. Finally, researchers made recommendations based on the findings in order to provide reference for piano instructors and follow-up studies.

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Alves, Cláudia Sofia Rodrigues. "Method development for analysis of Ray cells content in thermomechanical Pulp of Pruce." Dissertação, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/59098.

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Alves, Cláudia Sofia Rodrigues. "Method development for analysis of Ray cells content in thermomechanical Pulp of Pruce." Master's thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/59098.

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Galpin, Andrew J. "A novel method of assessing human skeletal muscle fiber type specific protein content." 2011. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1652231.

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Little is known about protein profiles in slow-twitch (MHC I) and fast-twitch (MHC IIa and MHC IIx) human skeletal muscle fibers. Therefore we developed a method of assessing fiber type specific protein content across the continuum of human skeletal muscle fiber types. The method presented here combines the advantages of SDS-PAGE for fiber typing with the common Western Blot (WB) technique. Individual vastus lateralis muscle fibers (n = 264) were isolated and clipped into two portions, one for fiber-typing and one for protein identification. Following fiber type determination, WB destined fiber segments were combined into fiber type specific pools (20 fibers/pool) and assessed for GAPDH, actin, Citrate Synthase, and total p38 content. GAPDH expression was 69%, 92%, 159%, and 200% more abundant in MHC I/IIa, MHC IIa, MHC IIa/IIx, and MHC IIx pools when compared to MHC I, respectively. Inversely, Citrate synthase content was 526%, 497%, 316%, and 47% more abundant in MHC I, MHC I/IIa, MHC IIa, and MHC IIa/IIx when compared to MHC IIx, respectively. Similar to GAPDH, total p38 expression was 67% greater in MHC IIa versus MHC I fibers. These data establish a novel application of WB combined with SDS-PAGE for fiber type specific protein analysis in human skeletal muscle. These initial results show content of particular proteins exist in a hierarchal fashion throughout the continuum of human skeletal muscle fiber types. Application of these methods will enhance our understanding of skeletal muscle health profiles among physically active and clinically based populations.
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Williamson, I., D. Leeming, S. Lyttle, and Sally E. Johnson. "Evaluating the audio-diary method in qualitative research." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7145.

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Purpose – Audio-diary methods are under-utilised in contemporary qualitative research. The purpose of this paper is to discuss participants and researchers’ experiences of using audio-diaries alongside semi-structured interviews to explore breastfeeding experiences in a short-term longitudinal study with 22 first-time mothers. Design/methodology/approach – The authors provide a qualitative content analysis of the participants’ feedback about their experiences of the audio-diary method and supplement this with the perspectives of the research team based on fieldwork notes, memos and team discussions. The authors pay particular attention to the ways in which the data attained from diaries compared with those from the interviews. Findings – The diaries produced were highly heterogeneous in terms of data length and quality. Participants’ experiences with the method were varied. Some found the process therapeutic and useful for reflecting upon the development of breastfeeding skills whilst negative aspects related to lack of mobility, self-consciousness and concerns about confidentiality. Researchers were positive about the audio-diary method but raised certain ethical, epistemological and methodological concerns. These include debates around the use of prompts, appropriate support for participants and the potential of the method to influence the behaviour under scrutiny. Interview and diary accounts contrasted and complemented in ways which typically enriched data analysis. Practical implications – The authors conclude that audio-diaries are a flexible and useful tool for qualitative research especially within critical realist and phenomenological paradigms. Originality/value – This appears to be the first paper to evaluate both participants and researchers’ experiences of using audio-diaries in a detailed and systematic fashion.

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NIE, JING-EN, and 聶敬恩. "Comparisons between Weighted Samples Analysis and Standard Method for Ash Content of Municipal Solid Waste." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d96p9f.

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碩士
嘉南藥理大學
環境資源管理系
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The ash content in municipal solid waste (MSW) is a very important parameter in the operation and management of the mass burn incinerator . However, the ash is the residue obtained by the high temperature burning of the waste. The higher the ash ratio, the higher the bottom ash will be, so ash analysis is indispensable in the study of the nature of MSW. In this study, the relative percent difference (RPD) was used to compare the ash analysis difference between the weighted mixed samples and standard method sample. Furthermore, the effect of the particle size in the preparation of the analysis samples on the ash contents were also examined. In addition, the correlations between the physical composition and the ash content were also evaluated by the pearson correlation coefficient analysis. It was found that the RPDs of the ash contents between the weighted mixed samples and standard method were 7.48% and 8.56% for season 1 and season 2, respectively. The RPDs does not exceed the quality control range of sample repeat analysis (RPD10%). In the comparison of dry basis ash content of different particle sizes prepared samples, it was found that the average RPDs between 2mm and 1mm were 16.69 and 17.61% for season 1 and season 2, respectively, and exceeded the quality control range of sample repeat analysis (RPD10%). Additionally, it was found that the physical composition of dry basis kitchen waste was significantly positively correlated with dry basis ash (r=0.406, p<0.01). That is to say, when the proportion of kitchen waste in the physical composition increases, the ash content also increases.

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Kaluvi, Thomas, and Thomas Kaluvi. "Using content analysis method to investigate the applications of artificial intelligence on electronic records management." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u9bw73.

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國立東華大學
資訊管理碩士學位學程
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The aim of this study is to offer suggestions to records managers and archival communities on applications of artificial intelligence on electronic records management due to little adoption and lack of persuasive research/ use cases of artificial intelligence technology. This study conducted a series of content analyses of the publications in the field of records and archival management from 2008 to 2018 on the application of artificial intelligence on electronic records management. A total of 149 publications were reviewed and analyzed in terms of the number of authors, authors by nationality, author type, materials sources, materials types, artificial intelligence initiatives/ projects in 4 countries, artificial intelligence techniques, challenges in electronic records management, records lifecycle tasks, suggestions offered from publication reviewed. It targeted four major English-speaking countries including Australia, Canada, UK and USA. We found that from 2016 to 2018 the trend of testing and applying artificial intelligence on electronic records management is gradually growing in records management and archival communities. The study also found that most used artificial intelligence technique in electronic records management is machine learning and natural language processing. The artificial intelligence techniques can be applied in all three stages of creation, maintenance and use and disposal in records lifecycle, especially repetitive, labor-intensive and error-prone tasks.

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chiao-hui, Chang, and 張喬惠. "A Content Analysis of Alfred's Basic Piano Library and Faber's Piano Adventure Elementary Piano Method Series." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13195062019566026387.

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國立臺灣師範大學
音樂學系
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The objective of this research is to analyze the content of eleven different levels of piano lesson books from “Alfred’s Basic Piano Library” and “Faber’s Piano Adventure,” two elementary piano method series, while comparing the structure of the content within these books at the same time. This research employed content analysis only qualitatively. By utilizing uniquely created comparison charts as research tools, thorough analysis and comparison were made on musical knowledge, piano playing techniques, and piece arrangement in these piano lesson books. The main findings of this research are as followed: 1.In terms of musical knowledge, piano method series from both Alfred and Faber exhibit very rich content, and both begin with introduction to various musical notes as well as length of rests, followed by introduction to pitch and staff and many other contents. The two versions differ from one another in that Alfred’s lesson books tend to progress more rapidly than Faber’s. 2.In terms of piano playing techniques, both Alfred and Faber’s start with easy techniques and become progressively harder. However, Alfred’s series emphasize more on finger techniques where as Faber’s series focus more on the posture of various key-touches. 3.In terms of piece arrangement, both piano method series tend to select original pieces or transcriptions covering various styles of music written by the authors. Finally, recommendations were made base on the results of this research for editors of teaching materials, teachers, and also for future research. These results could also serve as a reference for elementary piano pedagog

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Yeh, Chan-Rong, and 葉展榕. "A Novel Content-Based Music Similarity Measuring Method: A Study of Spotify API Audio Analysis Dataset." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kgpq7a.

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國立交通大學
科技管理研究所
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Due to the continued expansion of the music market and the popularity of streaming music services, it's becoming increasingly important to highlight personalized recommendation systems. And the music similarity measures in content-based recommendation systems is often incorporated into the mainstream recommendations system to provide personalized music recommendations. In the context of the world's largest music streaming service provider: Spotify released audio features API, there is no literature to explain the audio features and to propose a similarity measuring method for it. This study collects the audio feature data of users' favorite songs through the Spotify API, proposes novel similarity measure method. We discussed and compared the algorithms to find out the best algorithms for each step of similarity measure method (including Gap Statistic to find the optimal number of clusters, K-means clustering, machine learning algorithm LightGBM to find the feature importance, feature weighting, Euclidean distance to calculate music similarity, etc.). Furthermore, we discussed each audio feature provided by the Spotify API. The results show that the similarity measuring method have a considerable degree of credibility and can be extended to construct the current mainstream recommendation system. In addition, due to the high importance of customer preference structure for personalized recommendation, this study analyzed the novelty and diversity of user preference and divided the users into four groups based on their novelty and diversity. In the results, we combined the similarity measuring method and the preferences of users to give the recommended strategies to each group. In the future research, we will increase the size of the dataset, add more variables (ex. regional variables, personal variables, etc.), apply our method on another kind of audio data such as MFCCs, and extend the similarity measuring method and preference structure to other fields of research (ex. Shopping, Movies, Economic, etc.).

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WU, WAN-CHING, and 吳婉菁. "The Content Analysis of Instruction Design and Method by Using Information Technology in Teaching and Learning." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38114809089240597643.

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博士
國立高雄師範大學
工業科技教育學系
104
Whether the information-technology-attached teaching has positive effects on students’ learning does not achieve consistent recognition or is not considered having clear connection in between, thus creating controversies among people with different viewpoints. Therefore, through objective studies on teaching attached with information technology, the paper summarizes, clarifies and integrally systematizes its connection with the Instruction Design. Using content analysis and focusing on WoS database, the paper investigates the design and methods of “teaching attached with the information technology” shown in the research papers published in English journals and periodicals from 2012 to 2016 since this teaching way appeared to have brought positive effects on learning. The paper found that in the analyzed research papers of different journals and periodicals, over half of them could not clearly specify the teaching goals, and most of them emphasized the cognitive processes of memorization and understanding. Nowadays information technology has been commonly attached to different subjects. Those papers did not have concrete description on assessment of teaching, and lacked convincing narration. According to the assessment results, over 70% of the studies did not have feedbacks or provide corrective suggestions to teaching, thus leading to inconsistent viewpoints on the effects of Information Technology Integrated Instructional on learning. The paper suggests that the design in attaching information technology to teaching should possess appropriate assessment methods and tools, and the assessment results should be reflected to the Instruction Design. As to description and analysis of Instruction Method, the paper found that most of them emphasized the design and planning before teaching activities, without mentioning the use of information during teaching and after teaching; and their teaching strategies were mostly related to social constructivism. The study suggests that before implementation of attaching information technology to teaching, concrete and feasible Instruction Design should be considered.

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HUNG, YING-LING, and 洪盈鈴. "The analysis of heavy metal content such as lead, copper, and cadmium in traditional Chinese medicine with microwave digestion method and ash method." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40732028128334364071.

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碩士
中原大學
化學研究所
96
Abstract The quality control (QC) of traditional Chinese medicine has not yet established a universal standard. Most pharmaceutical factories refer to various foreign stipulations to formulate their own quality control protocols, which have not done much to regulate the heavy metal content in different kinds of traditional Chinese medicine. Pharmaceutical factories use colorimetry to examine lead in Chinese medicine, but these factories are not enforced to inspect other heavy metal content. Though the Taiwanese Herbal Pharmacopoeia has established inspection standards, they are for limited raw material, not for all Chinese medicine. In order to protect general users’ use safety of Chinese medicine and to set universal standards to improve quality control, it is necessary to research and regulate the heavy metals content in Chinese medicine. The research approach to experimental analysis is to purchase traditional Chinese medicine from domestic traders or apothecaries. The traditional Chinese medicine is mainly divided into three categories— Plant, animal, and mineral. The category of plant includes flower, fruit, seed, root, stem, bark, leaf, and grass. In general, since various types of traditional Chinese medicine are solid, they could be processed by different pre-processing methods to compare the differenences. Before the analysis, Dry Ash method and Microwave Digestion methods need to be used to digest testing samples, and then use flame atom absorption spectroscopes made by different instrumental manufacturers to do the chemical examinations. The result of this experiment is obtaining Fructus Jujubae(plant category) that digests 62.3-70.2% sample recovery with the Ash method, the Concha Haliotidis (mineral category) is 5.3 -5.5%, the cicada slough (animal category) rate is 58.5 - 77.8%. The Fructus Jujubae that digests its sample recovery with the microwave digestion method is 103.6 -103.7%, the Concha Haliotidis is 94.5- 101.1%, the cicada slough is 104.6 - 110.7%. By comparing the results from different pre-processing methods, Microwave Digestion method is better. After the completion of lead and cadmium in the minerals like Margarita (1) 、Margarita (2)、 Realgar 、Concha Haliotidis、Gypsum Fibrosum by the microwave digestion method, and then use different flame atom absorption spectroscopes (AA) to do the examination, the data shows that by using method II (PE AA3300 microwave digestion method) digestion and the lead element with 283.3 nm wave length, the result of the examination is respectively 50.632 ppm, 49.584 ppm, 10.968 ppm, 50.405 ppm, 17.237 ppm; by using method IV (Varian AA280 microwave digestion method) digestion and the lead element with 283.3 nm wave length, the result of the examination is respectively 15.452 ppm, 8.325 ppm, 7.625 ppm, 9.446 ppm, 2.589 ppm; by using method II digestion and cadmium element, the result of the examination is respectively 2.912 ppm, 2.814 ppm, 1.415 ppm, 2.129 ppm, 1.038 ppm; by using method IV digestion and cadmium element, the result of the examination is respectively 0.056 ppm, 0.104 pm, 0.209 ppm, 0.102 ppm, 0.047 ppm. According to the result, the differences of the two methods are oversized, so we have to wait until further research confirmation in the future. However, by using lead under 217.0 nm wave length to do the examination, the collected data are very different, and the relatively standard deviation (RDS) of most traditional Chinese medicine is above 100%. Thus, we can make the conclusion that this wave length is not suitable to be used for traditional Chinese medicine detection spectrum.

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Huang, Shiulan, and 黃秀蘭. "The Research of the Common Erroneous Sentences in Second Grade Students Using the Method of Content Analysis." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52380793259226645230.

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國立臺東大學
教育學系(所)
101
The aim of this research was to study the common erroneous sentences in the second grade students in an elementary school, including the comprehension of common erroneous sentences, the sentence difficulty levels, the differences between various variables and common erroneous sentences, and the correlation between common erroneous sentences and their academic achievement. The common erroneous sentences were classified into three types: the usage of phrases, the structure of sentences, and the expression of the meanings. The data collected from 89 second graders in an elementary school were analyzed with a method of content analysis using qualitative analysis, descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, and the Cramer’s V. The findings of this study are summarized as follows：1. The common erroneous sentences in the second-grade students are the structure of sentences, the usage of phrases, and the expression of the meanings. 2. Purposive clauses are more difficult for the second grade students while parallel clauses, the sentence pattern of pronouns and preposition are easier. 3. The factor “GENDER” has been found to cause differences in organizing purposive clauses. Boys are prone to making errors in the structure of sentences than girls. 4. It shows a difference on the factor “LANGUAGE AT HOME” in the purposive clauses. The students using both official language and Min-Nan language at home are prone to making more errors in the usage of phrases than the students only using official language. However, the students using only official language tend to make more errors in the sentence structure. 5. For the second grade students, there is significant correlation shown between their common erroneous sentences and their academic performances in the Chinese and mathematics courses. Finally, suggestions are available to the educators in accordance with the results of the study.

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Nezami, Sona. "Assessment of Flatbed Scanner Method for Quality Assurance Testing of Air Content and Spacing Factor in Concrete." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35658.

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The flatbed scanner method for air void analysis of concrete is investigated through a comparison study with the standard ASTM C457 manual and Rapid Air 457 test methods. Air void parameters including air content and spacing factor are determined by image analysis of a large population of scanned samples through contrast enhancement and threshold determination procedures. It is shown that flatbed scanner method is giving comparable results to manual and Rapid Air 457 methods. Furthermore, a comparison of the air void chord length distributions obtained from the two methods of flatbed scanner and Rapid Air 457 has been implemented in this research. The effect of having different settings in the scanning process of scanner method is also investigated. Moreover, a threshold study has been performed that showed the flatbed scanner method can be employed in combination with manual and Rapid Air 457 methods as a time and cost saving strategy.

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