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Whang, Ho-Kyung. "Missing Persons." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1769.
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Patterson, Marla. "Who is missing? a study of missing persons in B.C. /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2101.
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Banks, Christopher. "In the galleria of missing persons." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0027/MQ39915.pdf.
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Hill, Ronald Bryant. "Missing in America homelessness during the Reagan revolution /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034548.
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Moosage, Riedwaan. "Missing-ness, history and apartheid-era disappearances: The figuring of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, Tobekile ‘Topsy’ Madaka and Sizwe Kondile as missing dead persons." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6640.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThe argument of this dissertation calls for an abiding by missing-ness as it relates to apartheid-era disappearances. I am concerned with the ways in which the category missing is articulated in histories of apartheid-era disappearances through histories seeking to account for apartheid and how that category is enabled and /or constrained through mediating practices, processes and discourses such as that of forensics and history itself. My deployment of a notion of missing-ness therefore is put to work in underscoring notions of history and its relation to a category of missing persons in South Africa as they emerge and are figured through various discursive strategies constituted by and through apartheid’s violence and iterations thereof. I focus specifically on the enforced disappearances of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, Tobekile ‘Topsy’ Madaka and Sizwe Kondile and the vicarious ways in which they have been produced and (re)figured in a postapartheid present. Mthimkulu and Madaka were abducted, tortured, interrogated, killed and their bodies disposed through burning by apartheid’s security police in 1982. In 2007 South Africa’s Missing Persons Task Team exhumed commingled burnt human fragments at a farm, Post Chalmers. After two years of forensic examinations, those remains were identified as most likely those of Mthimkulu and Madaka. Their commingled remains were reburied in 2009 during an official government sanctioned Provincial re-burial. Kondile was similarly abducted in 1981 and after being imprisoned, tortured, interrogated and killed, his physical remains were burnt. The MPTT has been unsuccessful in locating and thus exhuming his remains for re-burial. Sizwe Kondile remains missing. Missing-ness as I evoke it serves to signal the lack and excess as potentiality and instability of histories accounting for the condition and symptom of being missing. The productivity of deploying missing-ness and an abidance to it in the ways I argue is precisely in not explicitly naming it, but rather by holding onto its elusiveness by marking the contours of discourses on absence-presence, those which it simultaneously touches upon and is constitutive of. Articulating it thus is to affirm missing-ness as a question that I argue, be put to work and abided by.
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Irwin, Keith. "What Spins Away." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2182/.
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What Spins Away is a novel about a man named Caleb who, in the process, of searching for a brother who has been missing for ten years, discovers that his inability to commit to a job or his primary relationships is both the result of his history with that older missing brother, and his own misconceptions about the meaning of that history. On a formal level, the novel explores the ability of traditional narrative structures to carry postmodern themes. The theme, in this case, is the struggle for a stable identity when there is no stable community against which or in relationship to an identity might be defined.
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Danford, Daniel. "Pastoral awareness of persons with disabilities." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Clark, Julie Margaret. "Wanting to hope : the experience of adult siblings of long-term missing people /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19324.pdf.
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Griggs, James Leonard. "Claims making in the case study of missing children: A case study." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/514.
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Messitt, Margaret. "Art(i)fact: An Atlas of My Search." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1510932927475633.
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Eckerd, John. "Collect Your Dead." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2017. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/488.
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Since the bizarre disappearance of his wife, mountaineer Abbot Boone's life has spiraled into a pit of alcoholism and alienation. But then a wealthy and desperate widow hires Boone for an impossible task: to recover her husband's dead body from the peaks of Mount Everest. With nothing to lose and debts mounting, Boone enlists a team of exiles and misfits to attempt the climb. But if Boone is to conquer the mountain, he will first have to survive the pressure cooker of Everest Base Camp, brutal subzero temperatures, and ultimately confront the mystery of his own grief
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Masterton, Malin. "Duties to Past Persons : Moral Standing and Posthumous Interests of Old Human Remains." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Centrum för forsknings- och bioetik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-122508.
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Genetic research has increasing power to analyse old biological remains. Biological traces of well-known historical persons can reveal personal information. The aim of this thesis is to investigate ethical concerns for the dead, within the biological, historical and archaeological sciences. In philosophy there is a long-running discussion on whether or not the dead can be wronged. The good name is proposed as a candidate of a posthumous interest. It is first of all argued that slandering per se can be wrong regardless of posthumous wronging of the dead. Secondly, the concept of change is investigated. It is argued that the property of having a reputation is a relational property. Hence a change in public opinion of a dead person, is also a change in the dead person’s reputation. The third contribution of this thesis is a constructive proposal for how a posthumous identity could be understood using narrative theory. Understanding identity through the life-story opens up the possibility of a gradual loss of identity after death, rather than absolute loss at the moment of death. Fragments of a person‘s narrative identity can persist in other peoples’ narratives, and for some historical persons, their narratives can be found long after their death. Finally, the implications of a remaining narrative identity for the dead are investigated in the area of archaeology and museumology. In the past 30 years, there has been increasing critique about present and past discriminatory handling of old human remains by archaeologists, in museums and in other institutions. Increasing numbers of requests have been made for repatriation or reburial of old human remains. Following an analysis of three current ethical guidelines in handling old human remains, changes to these guidelines are proposed based on a narrative method to a hypothetical claim of reburial.
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Cóndor, Alarcón Nory, and Chávez Nelson E. Pereyra. "Missing persons in the semidarkness of the afternoon: private disputes, memory and armed internal conflict in San Miguel (Ayacucho)." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79954.
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El presente trabajo estudia el caso de Francisco Buendía, un poblador de la microcuenca de San Miguel, en la provincia de La Mar (Ayacucho), desaparecido por Sendero Luminoso en 1984. A partir de la propuesta teórica de Stathis N. Kalyvas, reconstruye las dinámicas locales subyacentes al caso, que se engarzaron con el conflicto armado interno. Para encontrar dichas dinámicas, recurre a los recuerdos y silencios de los familiares y a la información que revelan los documentos notariales y judiciales y que la memoria precisamente intenta esconder. Muestra que las dinámicas locales contienen disputas que tienen que ver con el proceso de reestructuración de la tierra que en la localidad viene desde el siglo XIX. Dichas disputas finalmente devinieron en políticas, ocasionando la desaparición del referido Buendía.This paper studies the case of Francisco Buendía, a man of San Miguel, in the province of La Mar (Ayacucho), who was disappeared by Sendero Luminoso in 1984. From Stathis N. Kalyvas’ theoretical offers, it reconstructs the secret microdynamics of the case, which they connected with the armed internal conflict. To find these local dynamics, one resorts to the remembrances and silences of the Buendía’s relatives and to the information that reveal the notarial and judicial documents that the memory tries to hide. This paper shows that the local dynamics contain disputes that they have to see with the process of restructuring of the land that in the locality comes from the 19th century. The disputes finally developed intopolicies, causing the disappearance of Buendía.
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Chew, Samuel P. "Systems reliability modelling for phased missions with maintenance-free operating periods." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6331.
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In 1996, a concept was proposed by the UK Ministry of Defence with the intention of making the field of reliability more useful to the end user, particularly within the field of military aerospace. This idea was the Maintenance Free Operating Period (MFOP), a duration of time in which the overall system can complete all of its required missions without the need to undergo emergency repairs or maintenance, with a defined probability of success. The system can encounter component or subsystem failures, but these must be carried with no effect to the overall mission, until such time as repair takes place. It is thought that advanced technologies such as redundant systems, prognostics and diagnostics will play a major role in the successful use of MFOP in practical applications. Many types of system operate missions that are made up of several sequential phases. For a mission to be successful, the system must satisfactorily complete each of the objectives in each of the phases. If the system fails or cannot complete its goals in any one phase, the mission has failed. Each phase will require the system to use different items, and so the failure logic changes from phase to phase. Mission unreliability is defined as the probability that the system fails to function successfully during at least one phase of the mission. An important problem is the efficient calculation of the value of mission unreliability. This thesis investigates the creation of a modelling method to consider as many features of systems undergoing both MFOPs and phased missions as possible. This uses Petri nets, a type of digraph allowing storage and transit of tokens which represent system states. A simple model is presented, following which, a more complex model is developed and explained, encompassing those ideas which are believed to be important in delivering a long MFOP with a high degree of confidence. A demonstration of the process by which the modelling method could be used to improve the reliability performance of a large system is then shown. The complex model is employed in the form of a Monte-Carlo simulation program, which is applied to a life-size system such as may be encountered in the real world. Improvements are suggested and results from their implementation analysed.
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Holbert, Diana Brown. "Artspirit the perils and possibilities of starting a mission for artists /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p100-0146.
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Winter, Kristy A. "Preliminary sex and stature estimation of the humerus for a contemporary Australian sub-population." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/134065/1/Kristy_Winter_Thesis.pdf.
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Biological profiles (ancestry, sex, age and stature) of skeletal remains assist with the identification of missing persons. Standards for estimating the sex and/or stature for the humerus of an Australian population are yet to be developed. This research aims to develop sex and stature estimation equations for the humerus specifically for a Queensland population. Samples consisted of humeral PMCT Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) datasets from a contemporary Caucasian Australian adult sub-population, aged between 17-90 years, obtained from the Brisbane Mortuary and QUT's Medical Engineering Research Facility from 2016 – 2018. Threshold based segmentation was conducted to form 3D models of the humeri, which was then measured according to the five standardised measurements of the humeri. This thesis presents the results of the preliminary sex and stature estimation equations developed from this research and their utility to contemporary missing persons casework.
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Drennan, Lisa. "Beyond the milk carton: strategies for creating and allowing a space for engaging with personal narratives from family members about missing persons." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27844.
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The aim of this study is twofold, firstly to explore various media's coverage of missing children to probe whether they currently include the reflections and personal narratives of family members and loved ones and secondly to propose possible strategies for creating space for such content in the media. The much- publicised case of Madeleine McCann going missing in Portugal in 2007, showed how much power the media still yields and how much awareness can be created if the media choose to cast light on a particular case. But this case also stood out for another reason: many interviews conducted with the family after her disappearance didn't merely contain the facts surrounding her disappearance, they were also heartfelt narratives about the pain and horror that the family were going through. The public were not only made aware of their missing daughter but also of the very real and horrific way her disappearance had punctured their suburban life forever. Very few other cases of missing children have garnered the kind of media attention that allows parents of missing children to reflect in such a way. Most newspapers in South Africa at present barely report a child missing; let a lone create a space for parents to reflect on their loss (Drennan, 2012). News is often considered to be centred around the interests of the élite (Herman and Chomsky 1988) and often certain demographics like race, gender and ethnicity can influence how 'newsworthy' certain crimes or stories are considered to be (Pritchard and Hughes 1997, Gruenewald, Pizarro and Chermak 2009). Although social media allows a flow of information that is immediate (So, 2011), the information is still mostly centred around quick mobilisation of the public to find the missing person in the shortest time possible and doesn't allow a space for family members to reflect or share their experiences. Television plays a vital role by entertaining the viewer with facts and events that engage the audience but not much content can be found that allows the family and friends of the missing person to reflect on their sad and often lonely experience of losing a loved one in such a traumatic way. The existing television formats (fiction and non-fiction) are perhaps not ideal for intimate reflection and sharing emotional responses. By using narrative inquiry and action research while producing my own film about a missing person, I was able to test various fiction and non-fiction programming models. Four cycles of action research helped me to understand and determine what form would be best in order to create a space that would allow for intimate reflection from family members of missing persons. Through a process of trial and error, I found that a documentary form that incorporates inspiration from fiction and non-fiction forms was the most fitting platform to create an intimate space for reflection and sharing (Stubbs 2002; Nichols 2001). By combining these various elements I believe that I was able to make a film that is ethical, sensitive and respectful of my subject; to focus renewed attention on a cold case, while creating space for intimate reflection, something no other medium or platform I studied was able to do.
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Hague, Mary Catherine. "The "route to persuasion" gaining/maintaining local support for the hometown Air Force mission /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6677.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 13, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Figaro-Garcia, Claudia. "Uma proposta de prática psicológica para casos de desaparecimento de crianças e adolescentes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47133/tde-26072010-123243/.
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A gravidade do tema do desaparecimento de crianças e de adolescentes exige que o mesmo seja trabalhado de forma multidisciplinar uma vez que o índice anual de ocorrências no Brasil é de 40.000 casos/ano e 9000 casos no Estado de São Paulo. É imprescindível a atenção governamental para políticas públicas, a atenção acadêmica para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas e tecnologia, e, atenção clínica para o desenvolvimento de modelos de atendimento psicológico às famílias e aos desaparecidos quando encontrados. O objetivo geral desse trabalho foi descrever a criação de uma metodologia de prática psicológica oferecida aos familiares de crianças e de adolescentes desaparecidos e aos desaparecidos posteriormente encontrados que é executada em uma delegacia de polícia especializada na investigação de pessoas desaparecidas. Tal prática foi desenvolvida dentro de um projeto multidisciplinar que agrega diferentes metodologias para busca e identificação de desaparecidos menores de 18 anos. Na pesquisa foram descritas as etapas de planejamento desse projeto enfatizando a inserção e os efeitos da psicologia e da psicanálise em seu escopo multidisciplinar. O modelo clínico incluiu pelo menos 04 (quatro) entrevistas (uma semi-aberta e três abertas) e se utilizou o dispositivo analítico para levantar hipóteses sobre as prováveis razões para a ocorrência dos desaparecimentos configurando, portanto, um exemplo de psicanálise aplicada. Nas entrevistas semi-abertas foram utilizados questionários cujas respostas foram armazenadas em Banco de Dados. Os entrevistados assinaram Termo de Consentimento Pós-esclarecido. Os casos foram supervisionados e encaminhados para a rede psicossocial da cidade de São Paulo. A partir do referencial psicanalítico de orientação lacaniana foi realizada uma análise clínico-qualitativa de 16 casos-piloto atendidos pela pesquisadora e alguns casos por ela supervisionados. O mesmo referencial foi utilizado na discussão das questões multidisciplinares e dos efeitos da prática clínica no ambiente da delegacia. Os desaparecimentos analisados foram fugas de casa ocorridas principalmente a partir da entrada da puberdade e de forma repetida. Nas famílias foi observado principalmente, histórico de violência doméstica, de uso de drogas ilícitas, de alcoolismo, de prática de atos infracionais e de infrações penais. Os significantes mais utilizados pelos familiares para representar o desaparecido foram filho incômodo ou filho problema. A fuga de casa foi considerada um sintoma do desaparecido, sinalizando modos de gozo nas repetições. Foi possível observar aspectos da singularidade dos desaparecidos encontrados e entrevistados, pois alguns se identificaram com o lugar simbólico destinado pelo grupo familiar e utilizaram as fugas para manter essa posição. Outros lançaram mão da fuga justamente para ir contra o desejo dos pais e tentar encontrar um caminho pessoal. E, em alguns casos, a fuga de casa configurou uma saída para a sobrevivência psíquica da criança ou do adolescente. A clínica executada em uma delegacia marcou a diferença entre a escuta policial, de cunho investigatório, e a escuta analítica voltada ao particular de cada caso e às suas implicações (ou não) com o desaparecimento, possibilitando a abertura de um novo campo de trabalho ao psicólogoThe seriousness of the issue of missing children and adolescents requires an interdisciplinary approach to intervention. The need for such broad-based action is necessitated by the large number of children that go missing each year, i.e., approximately 40,000 cases per year in Brazil and an annual average of at least 9,000 cases in the state of Sao Paulo. The sheer number of cases makes obvious the need for increased public policy attention as well as careful research by the academic community into the causes and prevention of this phenomenon. More particularly, in depth psychological attention must be given to understanding the complex psychological factors that contribute to the problem. The aim of this study was to describe the creation of a methodology of psychological practice offered to families of missing and found children. The psychological practice described herein operated out of a police station specializing in the investigation of missing persons of all ages. This practice was developed within a multidisciplinary project that combines different methods to search for and identify missing children under the age of 18 years. This practice was developed within a multidisciplinary project that combines different methods to search for and identify missing children and youth. In the research phase of this effort, we described the projects planning stages with emphasis on the integration and the effects of psychology and psychoanalysis in its multidisciplinary scope. The clinical model of intervention included at least four interviews (a half-open and three open) and the analytical device used to raise hypotheses about the probable reasons into the occurrence and reoccurrence of missing and disappeared children. The approach used was that of applied psychoanalysis. Using semi-open questionnaires we sought answers related to questions that made up part of our comprehensive database relating to disappearances. All respondents in the project signed a written Consent Form. The cases were supervised and directed to the psychosocial network in São Paulo. From the psychoanalysis of the Lacanian orientation, a clinical-qualitative analysis of 16 cases treated by the researcher was undertaken. The same reference was used in the discussion of disciplinary issues as well as with respect to the effects of clinical practice in the environment of the police station. Repeated running away from home was the most common factor contributing to the disappearance of pre- and post-pubescent youth. The disappearances, though, also were associated with family histories of domestic violence, use of illicit drugs, alcoholism, the practice of illegal acts, and criminal offenses. The signifier most used by adult caregivers in describing their runaway child or teenager, however, was \"troublesome or problematic. Leaving home was considered a symptom of child disappearance and, often, was associated with considerable pleasure for the child. The analysis also made it possible to observe aspects of the uniqueness of the disappeared and many of these children identified themselves with the symbolic place determined by their family group. Others leaving home wanted simply to go against the wishes of parents and to try to find a personal path. And in some cases, leaving home set up a way out of psychic survival of the child or adolescent, especially in cases of domestic violence. The use of a police station as setting for clinical intervention with children and youth marked the difference between what the policeman can listen to about the cases and what the psychologist can listen to. The latters ability to use analytical listening focused on the particular features of each case and the implications (or not) with the disappearances, allowing the opening of a new field of work psychologist
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McLaughlin, Jeanne M. "An evaluation of Oregon's system of identifying unidentified human remains and using technology to improve the efficiency of law enforcement and the medical examiner in identifying human remains /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1905728431&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Pearce, Maryanne. "An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice System." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26299.
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The murders and suspicious disappearances of women across Canada over the past forty years have received considerable national attention in the past decade. The disappearances and murders of scores of women in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba have highlighted the vulnerability of women to extreme violence. Girls and women of Aboriginal ethnicity have been disproportionally affected in all of these cases and have high rates of violent victimization. The current socio-economic situation faced by Aboriginal women contributes to this.
To provide publicly available data of missing and murdered women in Canada, a database was created containing details of 3,329 women, including 824 who are Aboriginal. There are key risk factors that increase the probability of experiencing lethal violence: street prostitution, addiction and insecure housing. The vast majority of sex workers who experience lethal violence are street prostitutes. The dissertation examines the legal status and forms of prostitution in Canada and internationally, as well as the individual and societal impacts of prostitution. A review of current research on violence and prostitution is presented. The thesis provides summaries from 150 serial homicide cases targeting prostitutes in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The trends and questions posed by these cases are identified.
The cases of the missing women of Vancouver and Robert Pickton are detailed. The key findings from the provincial inquiry into the missing women cases and an analysis of the most egregious failings of the investigations (Projects Amelia and Evenhanded) are discussed. Frequently encountered challenges and common errors, as well as investigative opportunities and best practices of police, and other initiatives and recommendations aimed at non-police agencies are evaluated. The three other RCMP-led projects, KARE, DEVOTE and E-PANA, which are large, dedicated units focused on vulnerable women, are assessed.
All Canadian women deserve to live free of violence. For women with vulnerable life histories, violence is a daily threat and a common occurrence. More must be done to prevent violence and to hold offenders responsible when violence has been done. This dissertation is a plea for resources and attention; to turn apathy into pragmatic, concrete action founded on solid evidence-based research.
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Pretto, Karina. "Modelando o efeito da omissão de atributos em um estudo de análise de preferência conjunta." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/45/45133/tde-17062007-165021/.
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A Análise de Preferência Conjunta (APC) é uma metodologia estatística bastante utilizada em estudos de comportamento do consumidor e do mercado em geral. Ela possibilita a realização de estudos sobre julgamentos individuais, tais como a aceita-bilidade e preferência por um determinado produto no momento da sua aquisição (ver Artes, 1991 e Friedmann, 1998). Em um estudo de preferência conjunta, são apresentadas configurações hipotéticas de um mesmo produto, que devem ser avaliadas segundo a preferência do respondente. O julgamento de um estímulo é denominado de valor de preferência que nada mais é do que a quantificação da preferência do indivíduo por um estímulo. Quanto maior o número de atributos e níveis utilizados na caracterização de um produto, mais real será sua descrição. No entanto, a complexidade dos estímulos e o número de configurações possíveis aumenta exponencialmente a cada novo atributo ou nível acrescentado, podendo comprometer a qualidade dos resultados de uma pesquisa. Este problema é contornado através da utilização de estímulos gerados através de planejamentos fracionários combinado na omissão de um ou mais atributos nos diferentes estímulos, conhecidos como perfis incompletos. Neste trabalho, pretende-se testar o efeito da ausência de atributos na classificação de estímulos e diferentes formas de imputação da informação faltante em uma aplicação sobre o efeito de características do emprego na satisfação do funcionário.Conjoint Analysis is a statistic technique used in many behavior studies, product management and marketing researches. The conjoint method involves presenting customers with a test set of hypothetical products profiles and collecting their preferences. It\'s task is to identify some within a set of attributes those ones that are the most important for the research participants. Conjoint Analysis works better when the test set of profiles is small and the number of attributes is not so large. When a large number of attributes are considered in a conjoint study, the final number of possible profiles increase a lot. In this cases, fractional designs and incomplete profiles can be used to solve this problem. In this study will be tested the missing information efect in a conjoint study and will be compared some diferent imputations methods.
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Ortiz, Valdez Miguel Alberto. "Integrating faith into social services for homeless immigrants." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Lengua, Parra Adrián, and Ana Paula Mendoza. "A pending issue that does not disappear: the need to implement a policy of search of missing persons parting from the establishment of a central agency in the Peruvian State." THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/109008.
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As a product of the armed violence and the human rights violations committed in the decades of the eighties and nineties, the Peruvian government initiated a process of transitional justice in order to compensate the victims and reconcile a fragmented and divided society. However, there are still issues pending in that matter. One of these issues is the search of the missing persons.The present article will delve into the importance of a policy of search of missing persons in the light of the international obligations on human rights matters of the Peruvian state, and will analyze the weaknesses of their judicial actions to accomplish this task. The need of a centralized organism in charge of this function will be sustained, and a normative proposal for its implementation in the Peruvian legal system will be presented.Producto de la violencia armada y de las vulneraciones a los derechos humanos cometidas en las décadas de los ochenta y noventa, el Estado peruano inició un proceso de justicia transicional con la finalidad de resarcir a las víctimas y reconciliar a una sociedad fragmentada. A pesar de ello, aún se mantienen pendientes en esta materia, como la búsqueda de las personas desaparecidas.El presente artículo ahondará en la importancia de una política de búsqueda de personas desaparecidas a la luz de las obligaciones internacionales en materia de derechos humanos del Estado peruano, y analizará las falencias de sus acciones de judicialización para cumplir esta tarea. Se sustentará la necesidad de un organismo centralizado que se encargue de esta función, y se presentará una propuesta normativa para su implementación en nuestro ordenamiento.
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Moreno, Betancur Margarita. "Regression modeling with missing outcomes : competing risks and longitudinal data." Thesis, Paris 11, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA11T076/document.
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Les données manquantes sont fréquentes dans les études médicales. Dans les modèles de régression, les réponses manquantes limitent notre capacité à faire des inférences sur les effets des covariables décrivant la distribution de la totalité des réponses prévues sur laquelle porte l'intérêt médical. Outre la perte de précision, toute inférence statistique requière qu'une hypothèse sur le mécanisme de manquement soit vérifiée. Rubin (1976, Biometrika, 63:581-592) a appelé le mécanisme de manquement MAR (pour les sigles en anglais de « manquant au hasard ») si la probabilité qu'une réponse soit manquante ne dépend pas des réponses manquantes conditionnellement aux données observées, et MNAR (pour les sigles en anglais de « manquant non au hasard ») autrement. Cette distinction a des implications importantes pour la modélisation, mais en général il n'est pas possible de déterminer si le mécanisme de manquement est MAR ou MNAR à partir des données disponibles. Par conséquent, il est indispensable d'effectuer des analyses de sensibilité pour évaluer la robustesse des inférences aux hypothèses de manquement.Pour les données multivariées incomplètes, c'est-à-dire, lorsque l'intérêt porte sur un vecteur de réponses dont certaines composantes peuvent être manquantes, plusieurs méthodes de modélisation sous l'hypothèse MAR et, dans une moindre mesure, sous l'hypothèse MNAR ont été proposées. En revanche, le développement de méthodes pour effectuer des analyses de sensibilité est un domaine actif de recherche. Le premier objectif de cette thèse était de développer une méthode d'analyse de sensibilité pour les données longitudinales continues avec des sorties d'étude, c'est-à-dire, pour les réponses continues, ordonnées dans le temps, qui sont complètement observées pour chaque individu jusqu'à la fin de l'étude ou jusqu'à ce qu'il sorte définitivement de l'étude. Dans l'approche proposée, on évalue les inférences obtenues à partir d'une famille de modèles MNAR dits « de mélange de profils », indexés par un paramètre qui quantifie le départ par rapport à l'hypothèse MAR. La méthode a été motivée par un essai clinique étudiant un traitement pour le trouble du maintien du sommeil, durant lequel 22% des individus sont sortis de l'étude avant la fin.Le second objectif était de développer des méthodes pour la modélisation de risques concurrents avec des causes d'évènement manquantes en s'appuyant sur la théorie existante pour les données multivariées incomplètes. Les risques concurrents apparaissent comme une extension du modèle standard de l'analyse de survie où l'on distingue le type d'évènement ou la cause l'ayant entrainé. Les méthodes pour modéliser le risque cause-spécifique et la fonction d'incidence cumulée supposent en général que la cause d'évènement est connue pour tous les individus, ce qui n'est pas toujours le cas. Certains auteurs ont proposé des méthodes de régression gérant les causes manquantes sous l'hypothèse MAR, notamment pour la modélisation semi-paramétrique du risque. Mais d'autres modèles n'ont pas été considérés, de même que la modélisation sous MNAR et les analyses de sensibilité. Nous proposons des estimateurs pondérés et une approche par imputation multiple pour la modélisation semi-paramétrique de l'incidence cumulée sous l'hypothèse MAR. En outre, nous étudions une approche par maximum de vraisemblance pour la modélisation paramétrique du risque et de l'incidence sous MAR. Enfin, nous considérons des modèles de mélange de profils dans le contexte des analyses de sensibilité. Un essai clinique étudiant un traitement pour le cancer du sein de stade II avec 23% des causes de décès manquantes sert à illustrer les méthodes proposéesMissing data are a common occurrence in medical studies. In regression modeling, missing outcomes limit our capability to draw inferences about the covariate effects of medical interest, which are those describing the distribution of the entire set of planned outcomes. In addition to losing precision, the validity of any method used to draw inferences from the observed data will require that some assumption about the mechanism leading to missing outcomes holds. Rubin (1976, Biometrika, 63:581-592) called the missingness mechanism MAR (for “missing at random”) if the probability of an outcome being missing does not depend on missing outcomes when conditioning on the observed data, and MNAR (for “missing not at random”) otherwise. This distinction has important implications regarding the modeling requirements to draw valid inferences from the available data, but generally it is not possible to assess from these data whether the missingness mechanism is MAR or MNAR. Hence, sensitivity analyses should be routinely performed to assess the robustness of inferences to assumptions about the missingness mechanism. In the field of incomplete multivariate data, in which the outcomes are gathered in a vector for which some components may be missing, MAR methods are widely available and increasingly used, and several MNAR modeling strategies have also been proposed. On the other hand, although some sensitivity analysis methodology has been developed, this is still an active area of research. The first aim of this dissertation was to develop a sensitivity analysis approach for continuous longitudinal data with drop-outs, that is, continuous outcomes that are ordered in time and completely observed for each individual up to a certain time-point, at which the individual drops-out so that all the subsequent outcomes are missing. The proposed approach consists in assessing the inferences obtained across a family of MNAR pattern-mixture models indexed by a so-called sensitivity parameter that quantifies the departure from MAR. The approach was prompted by a randomized clinical trial investigating the benefits of a treatment for sleep-maintenance insomnia, from which 22% of the individuals had dropped-out before the study end. The second aim was to build on the existing theory for incomplete multivariate data to develop methods for competing risks data with missing causes of failure. The competing risks model is an extension of the standard survival analysis model in which failures from different causes are distinguished. Strategies for modeling competing risks functionals, such as the cause-specific hazards (CSH) and the cumulative incidence function (CIF), generally assume that the cause of failure is known for all patients, but this is not always the case. Some methods for regression with missing causes under the MAR assumption have already been proposed, especially for semi-parametric modeling of the CSH. But other useful models have received little attention, and MNAR modeling and sensitivity analysis approaches have never been considered in this setting. We propose a general framework for semi-parametric regression modeling of the CIF under MAR using inverse probability weighting and multiple imputation ideas. Also under MAR, we propose a direct likelihood approach for parametric regression modeling of the CSH and the CIF. Furthermore, we consider MNAR pattern-mixture models in the context of sensitivity analyses. In the competing risks literature, a starting point for methodological developments for handling missing causes was a stage II breast cancer randomized clinical trial in which 23% of the deceased women had missing cause of death. We use these data to illustrate the practical value of the proposed approaches
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Pitman, Tobey O. "Developing a strategy for congregationalizing homeless people at the Brantley Baptist Center in New Orleans, Louisiana." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Lemay-Hébert, Nicolas. "State-building from the outside-in : international administrations and the perils of direct governance." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009IEPP0046.
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La gouvernance directe par une administration internationale tend à créer une vague contestation locale au state-building conduit de l'extérieur. Dans ce contexte, nos recherches au Kosovo et au Timor-Leste démontrent que la réponse politique, soit la gouvernance directe des "États effondrés", ne semble pas à même de répondre aux défis sociaux posés par la reconstruction des capacités étatiques dans un contexte post-conflit. En d'autres mots, la gouvernance directe par une administration internationale est difficilement compatible avec l'objectif de créer et d'assurer la légitimité d'un projet de state-building conduit de l'extérieur. Si les aspects propres à la légitimité sont initialement mis de côté lors de la conception de la mission et la conduite du state-building sur le terrain, ils tendent néanmoins à réaffirmer leur présence et leur importance au cours de l'intervention. Que ce soit au Kosovo ou au Timor-Leste, l'ONU s'est rapidement retrouvée conronté à une crise de légitimité quant à sa présence sur le terrain. En effet, la légitimité initiale de l'intervention et de l'intervenant s'est rapidement évanouie avec l'exercise du mandat d'administration directe sur le terrain. La contestation sans précédents des acteurs locaux sur le terrain n'a d'égal que le niveau d'autorité effective exercée par l'administration internationale. Cette étude a démontré notamment que le Kosovo et le Timor-Leste représentent des tentatives sans précédents de state-building international, notamment en ce qui a trait à l'autorité déployée sur le terrain par l'acteur international. Dans ce contexte, certains mécanismes de responsabilisation de l'intervenant s'avèrent nécessairesDirect governance by an international administration tends to create a social backlash in a state-building context. In this regard, the contemporary international administration seems directly related to the mainstream conception of the state, state collapse and state-building. The political response, namely direct governance of “collapsed states,” seems unfit to correctly address the social challenges of postwar state-building. In other words, direct governance of war-torn territories is hardly compatible with the objective of fostering and nurturing legitimacy in an externally-led state-building project. The legitimacy aspects pertaining to state-building, if initially discarded in the setting-up and exercise of the peace mission’s mandate, will find a way to reaffirm themselves throughout the mission. In Kosovo as in Timor-Leste, the UN found itself embroiled in a deep legitimacy crises. Indeed, the missions’ legitimacy quickly withered away with the actual exercise of authority by the mission. The unprecedented contestation and resistance to the UN found in Kosovo and Timor-Leste is correlated with the equally unprecedented level of authority endowed to the peace mission, which translated into direct governance of the territories. This study has demonstrated that both Kosovo and Timor-Leste represent truly unprecedented attempts of state-building, not because of their mandate, but, more importantly, because their mandate has been translated into effective authority on the ground. In this context, accountability mechanisms can be instrumental in assuring a certain degree of trust between the international presence and the local population
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Ramírez, Santos Fernanda Elizabeth. "La responsabilidad social de los medios de comunicación en situaciones de crisis: Análisis del tratamiento deontológico del caso Ayotzinapa (México) en Noticieros Televisa." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672920.
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La presente investigación ha examinado en qué medida la principal cadena de televisión en México, Televisa, cumplió con los principios de la ética periodística —responsabilidad, verdad y justicia— en el tratamiento del caso de los 43 estudiantes de la escuela normal rural de Ayotzinapa desaparecidos de manera forzada el 26 de septiembre de 2014. El análisis del contenido de 405 piezas informativas, su correlación con los principales códigos deontológicos, la identificación de los frames periodísticos y la realización de diez entrevistas a familiares de las víctimas revelaron que, durante el periodo de estudio, la televisión mexicana ha vulnerado importantes prescripciones éticas. Entre las transgresiones significativas se encuentra la falta de rigor informativo, el desequilibro en la elección de fuentes y la ausencia de contexto. Los resultados obtenidos permiten concluir que Televisa estuvo más ocupada en seguir la agenda marcada por la Administración que en contrastar y corroborar la «verdad histórica» de los hechos, versión oficial que pretendía dar cierre al caso y en la que diversas organizaciones internacionales de derechos humanos aún desvelan numerosas irregularidades. En consecuencia, la investigación demuestra que el medio de comunicación no cumplió con el cometido periodístico de conformar informaciones veraces, rigurosas y éticamente responsables.The investigation has examined to what extent the main Mexican television chain, Televisa, observed the journalistic ethical principles —responsibility, truth, and justice— regarding the case of the 43 escuela normal rural de Ayotzinapa students, which forcibly disappeared on September 26th, 2014. The content analysis of more than 405 informative pieces, their correlation with the main deontological codes, the identification of journalistic frames, along with carrying out ten interviews to families of the victims revealed that, during the study time, the Mexican television overlooked important ethical matters. Among the remarkable transgressions there is the absence of informative accuracy, the imbalance of sources choice and the lack of context. The end results allowed to conclude that Televisa was more engaged on following the agenda provided by the administration than contrasting and validating the facts “historic truth” official version that intended to give closure to the case and out of which several international human rights organizations still unveil numerous irregularities. Therefore, the investigation shows the media did not comply with the journalistic duty of putting together truthful, rigorous, and ethically responsible information.
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Mirman, Yves. "Des engagements à l'épreuve du temps : la cause des disparus au Liban, 2011-2018." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0030.
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Cette thèse décrit des engagements pour la cause de personnes disparues au Liban (enlèvement, meurtre ou emprisonnement) durant la guerre civile (1975 à 1989) et les occupations militaires qui ont suivi. Certains proches – notamment des femmes – se sont publiquement engagés depuis les années 1980 pour les retrouver, désigner des responsabilités, faire entendre leurs propres droits. Alliés à d’autres acteurs, ils et elles ont inscrit leur mobilisation de manière plurielle dans l’espace politique où rares sont les dispositifs de traitement du conflit. S’est ainsi façonnée au fil des ans une cause commune malgré leur fragmentation initiale, les drames intimes et les contraintes politiques rencontrées. Le nombre de plus en plus réduit de militants n’a pas tué la cause, mais, à l’épreuve du temps, a transformé les logiques de l’action collective. Par des dispositifs de sensibilisation, l’usage d’outils juridiques et un travail mémoriel, ces militants s’efforcent de faire entendre leur souffrance, mais également de lutter contre l’oubli du conflit voire à obtenir justice. L’observation de leurs activités et l’analyse de leurs témoignages entre 2011 et 2018 m’ont permis de mesurer les effets de leur action sur la cause comme sur leur engagement. Mettre en récit les crimes passés via la formulation d’un problème d’amnésie généralisée n’a pas permis de désigner de responsabilités claires. La remémoration publique des disparus et les procédures engagées en justice par des cause-lawyers ont suscité des dilemmes tant affectifs que stratégiques. C’est finalement à une sociologie des politiques de l’après-conflit au Liban que se propose de contribuer cette thèseThis thesis describes commitments to the cause of the disappeared in Lebanon, disappearances (kidnapping, murder, detention) occurred during the Lebanese civil war (1975-1989) and the military occupations that followed. Some families of missing persons, mostly women, have been publicly committed since the 1980s to finding them, to designate responsibilities, to have their own rights heard. They allied with various actors, and their mobilizations have been embedded in the political space, where few policies focus on post-conflit resolution. These activists have forged a common cause over the years despite the fragmentation of the cases, their parents’ intimate problems and the political constraints for their struggle. The shrinking number of activists did not kill the cause but the test of time has transformed the logics of collective action. Through legal tools, memorial work and “sensitizing devices”, they sought to raise public awareness on their suffering, but also to fight against forgetfulness about the conflict and to obtain justice. Observing their activities and their testimonies between 2011 and 2018 enabled measurement of the effects of their action on their cause and on their commitment. Their telling the story of past crimes through the formulation of a problem of general amnesia did not always enabled a clear designation of responsible parties. The public remembrance of the disappeared and the legal proceedings brought by their cause-lawyers have both given rise to emotional and strategic dilemmas. In the light of the study of these mobilizations, I eventually intend in this thesis to contribute to a sociology of post-conflict politics in Lebanon
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van, Dongen Laura. "Missing Persons and Social Exclusion." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7678.
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People who go missing are often perceived to have done so voluntarily, and yet, many missing persons in Canada are Aboriginal, visible minorities, homeless, and are fleeing from violence, abuse, and neglect. Integrating the concept of social exclusion and an intersectional perspective with a sample of 724 missing persons cases drawn from one Canadian police service, this dissertation examines the systemic issues underlying peoples’ disappearances. This dissertation also explores the role of social and economic disadvantage in the risk of a long term disappearance. A combination of univariate (descriptions), bivariate (cross-tabulations), and multivariate (logistic regression) analyses identify correlates and causes of going missing and correlates and causes of long term disappearances.
The concept of social exclusion explains how structural processes prevent particular groups and individuals from gaining access to valued social relationships and economic opportunities in a particular society, resulting in considerable hardship and disadvantage. This dissertation argues that people who are marginalized and excluded have few resources to rely on to cope with stress and strain and may resort to going missing if confronted with adversity. Groups who are overrepresented among missing persons compared to the general population are identified by cross-tabulations and chi-square tests. Multivariate analysis (partial tables and logistic regression) is used to control for possible sources of spuriousness, in order to have more confidence in imputing causal relationships between membership in disadvantaged groups and going missing.
Moreover, if disadvantaged groups go missing, they further sever ties with families, the labour market, and other mainstream institutions. As a result of extreme disadvantage, they may find it difficult to (re)connect with conventional social relationships and mainstream society. For example, youth who are escaping violence and abuse at home often end up on the streets and sever ties with schools, families, and other conventional support networks and become engaged in street culture. As a result of extreme disadvantage these young people are at risk of a long term disappearance. In other words, social exclusion is expected to be a risk and causal factor in long term disappearances. Groups who are overrepresented among long term disappearances compared to short term disappearances are identified by cross-tabulations and chi-square tests. Logistic regression analysis is used to draw conclusions about causal factors in long term disappearances.
This research finds that excluded groups such as disadvantaged youth, Aboriginal people, women and other visible minorities, victims of violence, and youth in care are at disproportionate risk of going missing. Consistent with an intersectional perspective, this dissertation shows that certain groups who are multiply marginalized such as Aboriginal women and young women face an especially high risk of going missing. Aboriginal identity, labour force status, and homelessness are also implicated as causal factors in peoples’ disappearances. Moreover, this research finds that social exclusion is a risk and causal factor in long term disappearances as Aboriginal people, homeless people, minorities and other excluded groups face a high risk of a long term disappearance. Linking missing persons with the concept of social exclusion highlights the role of structural issues in peoples’ disappearances and refutes the common misperception that going missing is a choice. In terms of policy, the findings from this research indicate that prevention and intervention depend on targeting poverty, discrimination, gender inequality, violence, and other structural issues associated with social exclusion.
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Banks, Christopher. "In the galleria of missing persons." Thesis, 1996. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/403/1/MQ39915.pdf.
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The title of my thesis is In The Galleria Of Missing Persons. It is a collection of prose narrative, and lyrical poems based on themes of identity and memory. Using memory as the primary lens for exploration, my intent was to focus on how 'identity' is multiplied or made other by major shifts in geographical place and chronological time. The structure of the thesis is divided into three numbered sections. Formally, the poems are organized into free verse stanzas and prose blocks, and employ repetition, alliteration, rhythms of the speaking voice, and narrative in their construction. As the thesis progressed through its three sections, the poems openly engage my personal memories, ranging from early childhood recollections to more painful recent ones, and attempt to establish a link between memory and self-image. Essentially, the thesis is concerned with the fundamental paradox of memory retrieval, where memory is both artifact and artifice and what effect this paradox has on the construction of identity. Most of the poems are autobiographical, in nature, although some fictional narratives and meditations are also included within the work. When I began this project, I viewed my own memories as a clutter of past lives lived by other people. In the Galleria of Missing Persons is my own personal attempt to reclaim some of these abstracted, past lives and so, hopefully, come to a larger understanding of the many conflicting personalities and unresolved voices still thrashing about inside me.
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"The increasing role of forensic anthropology in the investigation of missing persons, unidentified remains, and cold cases." Tulane University, 2019.
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TSAI, SHU NU, and 蔡淑女. "Research on the key factors of finding missing persons." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/v24fvq.
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This study originated from the use of the "third-party policing" strategy after the case of a Chinese American was reported missing after arriving in Taiwan in March 2018. The property management company of Taipei 101 helped the local police officers go through the possible CCTV image that day to locate the missing person, and the family members of the missing person were relieved seeing the local police officers’ effort. Another reason to conduct this study is that in May 2007, within less than two months, numerous missing persons cases have developed into homicide cases that cause major social concern, so that families with missing persons are very concerned and anxious. Is it necessary for the police to take full responsibility the missing persons? Or should the relevant administrative agencies work together and cooperate with all the property management practitioners? When the case of the missing person occurred, the family members, in addition to reporting to the police, also hoped that the relevant administrative agencies and the public could step in and help. The missing person problems have not been major social issues to for a long time. After the family reported the case to the police, they lacked an effective channel to communicate making the search of the missing person more difficult, you can only rely on nobody but yourself. Therefore, this study will explore the task of searching missing person through the archives built in the missing person-e-reporting system of the Ministry of the Interior, using techniques like traces, carpeting, filters, puzzles, comparison theory, geo-sectioning principles, four Linkage theory and technology tool assistance (M-Police (Face Recognition System) and Vehicle Identification System Dynamic Tracking Enquiry) and "Third Party Policing" strategy to construct key factors in the search for missing persons. Let the people know that after their family went missing, they should establish the concept of "three no principles - no need to wait, no need to run, no money required". If you find that your loved one is missing, you don't have to wait more than 24 hours to report the case; you don't have to go to the nearest police station to report the case; No extra fee was needed to go through DNA checking is an important factor in the search. According to the case sharing method, the research results of the three major facets and fifteen related influencing factors are presented in the research, so are the dilemma of the current implementation, the location and the problems, and how to combine the various administrative agencies and expand the propaganda are also found in the research findings. Hope these findings could help community management practitioners and the public participate in the use of various materials to help the families to find the missing persons sooner, and as a reference, hope the finding could help the government making the search-missing-person policy more effectively. In this study, the literature review method and the modified Delphi Method (MDM) were used to define the three major facet and fifteen assessment indicators for the key factors of missing person, and also using the designed Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) questionnaire. The key factors for the missing person were evaluated in the questionnaire. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to calculate the weights of the three major facets and fifteen points, and the empirical case analysis was used to calculate the missing-person evaluation points. The scores of the key factors of the evaluation are put into the assessment scale, and the classification level is obtained. The first responders could use the relevant system and the database as references. Also the finding could be used as a tool to improve the effectiveness of the search of missing person. And practically, when people filed the missing person report, it can provide as a significant reference. The findings of this study show that among the three facets of the assessment indicators, the structure and content of the report are the most important part of searching of missing person (the weight is 41.3) In the case of fifteen points. The most important part is how long it takes to locate the mobile phone (emergency search cases) (the weight is 40.2). In short, the key factors for finding the missing person are the message of the missing person reportt and the mobile phone location accuracy (emergency search case).
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Sullivan, Martha Nell. "Missing persons: Race and aphanisis in the twentieth-century American novel." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16888.
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Through images of disintegration and disappearance, American narratives reveal the black subject's problematic relationship to the (white) Other's desire and the language of that desire. Jacques Lacan's theories of subjectivity--especially the mirror stage and aphanisis, the subject's disappearance behind the signifier--illuminate the impact of racist signification on black bodies in twentieth-century American novels, where epithets like "nigger" invoke the mutilation and disappearance of African American subjects.
Images of corporal disintegration reveal the reversal of the mirror-stage identification inaugurated by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, lynching, and scientific and literary manifestations of Negrophobia. Post-Plessy novels often feature Jim Crow segregation and the "black" body's destruction by the "white" voice. The Negrophobe rape plot infects James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) after the anonymous narrator is called "nigger." He chooses to "pass" for white after failing to project his disintegration onto his uncanny doubles. In Nella Larsen's Passing (1929), Irene reenacts Lacan's mirror stage by assuming Clare as her idealized image. But "Nig"--the signifier Clare's white husband supplies--invokes Clare's death and undoes Irene, whose final fainting is aphanisis. In William Faulkner's Light in August (1932), Joe Christmas' homicidal violence and suicidal "shattering" represent capitulations to Yoknapatawpha's insistence that he is a "nigger."
Exemplary of the literary responses to racist signification since Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Toni Morrison's progression from The Bluest Eye (1970) to Beloved (1987) charts the restoration of voice and body to historically "missing persons" effaced by cultural institutions designed to "teach" them their place. Schooled in the white standards of worth symbolized by the primer motif, characters in The Bluest Eye cannot resist aphanisis; in Beloved, however, characters combat aphanisis by refusing the masters' prerogative to define them. This triumph over aphanisis also emerges in the reappropriation of the black body-in-pieces inspired by Jet magazine's 1955 photographs of Emmett Till's mutilated corpse. Till symbolizes African American integrity in works by Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Madison Jones and others.
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Toniolo, Giuditta. "Translating South Africa's transition : Ivan Vladislavi*c's Missing persons in French." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1125.
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This short dissertation is based on the comparative analysis of Ivan VladislaviC's short-story collection, Missing Persons (1989) and its French (Belgian) translation, Portes Disparus (1997). The thematic concerns of the source text - produced in South Africa at a time of "increasing socio-political upheaval and transition" (Wood 2001: 21) - add interest to such an investigation, providing insights into how South Africa's transition to democracy has been re-written for a Belgian Francophone audience. In line with recent debates in the field of Translation Studies, the study addresses the central problem of cross-cultural transfer, by embracing two essentially systemic approaches to the study of translated literature: Descriptive Translation Studies (or DTS), and Polysystem Theory. In addition, Lambert and Van Gorp's "Hypothetical Scheme for Describing Translations" is used to investigate and explain the strategies adopted by the translators to transfer concepts that are culturally and historically specific to a transitional South Africa. The initial hypothesis to be tested is that, while Portes Disparus is mainly the product of strategies of 'domestication', it also displays traces of 'foreignisation', which suggest broadly ideological, rather than purely linguistic, motivations on the part of the translators.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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Brown, Natalie. "Missing Homes: Poe, Brontë, Dickens and Displacement." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-h5bv-yp77.
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“Missing Homes” examines three nineteenth-century authors whose experiences of displacement from home, professions and/or class influenced their literary innovations. Displacement is not a new theme to scholars of nineteenth-century literature, who have established it as a defining experience of an era characterized by financial crises, industrial development, migration and empire. However, scholarship on displacement has often focused on how novels train readers to manage the experience of displacement and has depicted the emotions like nostalgia that arise from it as potentially compensatory or reconciliatory to the dynamics of capitalism. “Missing Homes” departs from these narratives to explore authors who found displacement anything but manageable or liberating and whose works illustrate a more unstable spectrum of emotional responses to displacement and its dire long-term consequences. Attention to these authors, I argue, offers a parallel theory of nostalgia in which the unsettled longing for a place to call home registers political discontent with the relationship between the individual and the collective rather than reconciles the individual to displacement.
Departing from critics who have focused primarily on the work performed by metaphors and figures of the domestic, “Missing Homes” engages in biographical readings of the lives, economic circumstances and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens to show how they pursued fantasies of securing homes that could remove them from undesirable personal, economic and political conditions. The failures of these fantasies reveal how conventional narratives describing how individuals might attain security often fail in the face of collective economic conditions in which attaining objects like a home is both economically challenging and often emotionally unfulfilling. Although the variables of their lives were different, I suggest that these authors’ stories of displacement fail to perform therapeutic or intervening work, because the problem of displacement is rooted in material conditions that narrative innovation alone cannot resolve. Instead, readers should derive from these texts and their failures the need for more collective forms of security.
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Hill, Roland Bryant. "Missing in America : homelessness during the Reagan revolution." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/10534.
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Chapelas, Katrina. "Changing "forms" in theory and practice : a case study of contemporary social movement and Vancouver's missing women." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2576.
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Increasingly implied within currents of so-called 'post-structural' or 'post-modern' theory is a particular conception of how to pursue social and political change based on seeking out and encouraging more flexible and heterogeneous epistemological categories and modes of action. This paper develops and explores this conception of change through bringing together theoretical threads, particularly the work of Alberto Melucci on Contemporary Social Movements, with empirical, specifically the political actions taken in response to the disappearances of women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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LIn, Chung Biao, and 林宗標. "Optimal Design of Two-Dimensional Maneuvering Periods for an Anti-Ship Missile." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30591742019061271768.
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Nazaré, Ana Margarida da Silva. "O perfil dos casos não identificados em Antropologia Forense da Delegação do Sul do INMLCF: Dos finais dos anos 70 ao século XXI." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/92556.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Antropologia Forense apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaA Antropologia Forense, atualmente enquadrada, em Portugal, na Unidade Funcional de Patologia Forense do Serviço de Clínica e Patologia Forenses do INMLCF, I.P., atua principalmente para fins de identificação e para assistir no diagnóstico da causa da morte. Hoje em dia, os casos que chegam até ao Gabinete de Antropologia Forense do INMLCF, I.P. podem ser enviados pelas forças policiais ou pelo Ministério Público, por haver suspeita de que se trate de um caso forense, havendo o pedido de uma correta análise dos restos mortais, a fim de apurar a resposta a determinados quesitos, nomeadamente o “quem”, “onde” e “quando”.Este trabalho teve como propósito a reanálise de 28 casos prescritos de indivíduos não identificados do Gabinete de Antropologia Forense da Delegação do Sul do INMLCF, I.P., os quais deram entrada entre 1979 e 2003, realizando a avaliação do perfil biológico dos mesmos e verificando a presença de fatores individualizantes. Os resultados obtidos foram confrontados com os dados constantes nos relatórios realizados no ano de entrada do respetivo caso no Instituto, a fim de se verificar a concordância e/ou discordância entre as duas observações. Posteriormente foi feita uma confrontação entre os perfis obtidos e os dados recolhidos da base de dados de pessoas desaparecidas da Polícia Judiciária.Tendo em conta a amostra que foi reanalisada, verificou-se que os casos não identificados em Antropologia Forense eram maioritariamente enviados pela Polícia Judiciária e pelo Ministério Público, sem que houvesse uma descrição concreta do local do achado e sem a presença de um Antropólogo Forense no local. Os casos de contexto forense eram maioritariamente constituídos por indivíduos com uma afinidade populacional europeia, mais homens do que mulheres, mas não de forma significativa, e predominantemente pertencentes ao grupo etário dos adultos maduros
Forensic Anthropology, currently included, in Portugal, in the Forensic Pathology Functional Unit of the Forensic Clinic and Pathology Service of INMLCF, I.P., acts mainly for identification purposes and to assist in the diagnosis of the cause of death. Nowadays, the cases that reach the Forensic Anthropology Office of the INMLCF, I.P. may be sent by the Police Organs or by the courts, when there is a suspicion that it is a forensic case, with the request of a correct analysis of the remains, in order to get the answer to certain questions, namely "who", "where" and "when".The purpose of this work is to reanalyze 28 prescribed cases of unidentified individuals from the Forensic Anthropology Office of the Southern Delegation of the INMLCF, I.P., which were received between 1979 and 2003, carrying out their biological profile and checking for the presence of individualizing factors.The results obtained were compared with the data present in the forensic reports made at the time of entry of the respective case into the office, in order to verify the agreement and/or disagreement between the two observations. Subsequently, the profiles obtained were compared with the data collected from the missing persons database of the Criminal Investigations Police.Taking into account the sample that was reanalized, it was found that unidentified cases in Forensic Anthropology were mostly sent by the Criminal Investigations Police and by the Public Prosecution Service, without a concrete description of the location of the finding and without the presence of a Forensic Anthropologist at the site. The forensic context cases were mostly made up of individuals with a European ancestry, more men than women, but not significantly, and predominantly belonging to the age group of mature adults.
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Lowane, Mygirl Pearl. "Strategy for reducing the missing of appointments among on anti-retroviral therapy in Limpopo Province, South Africa." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1442.
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Background: Since the introduction of three-tiered systems appointments, there are a large number of missed appointments among Human immunodeficiency virus-positive clients on Antiretroviral. However, no one knows why these clients missed their scheduled times. Missing of appointments predicts poor adherence and is associated with poor clinical outcomes. Objectives: The proposed study aimed at developing a strategy for reducing the missing of appointments among adults on Antiretroviral Therapy in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The objectives of the study are to determine patients’ behaviour, the socio-environmental and economic factors that contribute to the missing of appointments and develop strategies to enhance compliance with appointments by Human immunodeficiency virus-positive clients on Antiretroviral therapy in the Limpopo Province. Method: A qualitative research design was used to address the study objectives. Non-probability purposive sampling was used to sample health care centres in Limpopo Province, patients, Professional Nurses and Community Health Workers. Individual interview and focus group discussions strengthened the triangulation of data obtained from the participants. Creswell’s model provided details for data analysis and interpretation. Trustworthiness and Ethics: Measures to ensure data quality, such as credibility, dependability, conformability and transferability, were observed. The researcher ensured compliance with ethical standards to protect the rights of the participants. Approval for this study was obtained from the University of Venda Research Ethics Committee and the Limpopo Department of Health Research Ethics. Results: The study revealed various factors that contribute to the missing of appointments by Human immunodeficiency virus positive-clients on Antiretroviral Therapy. Specific socioeconomic, behavioural, environmental and health service-related factors appear to prevent adherence to appointments. These factors include a lack of family support and client engagement, the absence of financial means, and cultural and religious beliefs. Lack of client involvement in planning their care and poor referral of clients to community health workers were ranked high as being the most contributing factors to clients missing their appointments. Strategy development: Phase 2 of this study dealt with the development of the strategy aimed at reducing the missing of appointment by adults on Antiretroviral Therapy based on the findings of the study. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats matrix was triangulated in Political, Environmental, Social, Technological and Legal analysis to develop this approach to reduce the missing of appointments among adults on Antiretroviral therapy. A transtheoretical framework illustrated how to implement the strategy. Validation of the developed strategy ensured that the system is free of errors and checked the applicability of the strategies utilising a quantitative design. A simple random sampling approach was used to select the population to participate in this study using the questionnaire developed by the researcher. Almost all respondents agreed that the strategy would facilitate reduced missing appointments by adults on Antiretroviral therapy. Recommendations: Clients involvement and engagement throughout the process of a treatment plan is essential to identify some of the barriers that might contribute to poor adherence to appointment by clients on Antiretroviral therapy. Community health workers and nurses should be capacitated with knowledge and skills to identify the clients at risk of defaulting treatment and appointments and provide counselling that will facilitate behaviour modifications.
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LIU, YU-CHIEH, and 劉宇捷. "A Preliminary Study of the Aboriginal Mission in Taiwan from Post-Colonial Perspective: With Special Focus on the Dutch and Late-Ching to Early Japanese Periods." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78r4wm.
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The Christian faith came to the island of Taiwan over 150 years ago, and to this day is still viewed as a “Western Religion”. At the same time, in Taiwan, the conflicts between faith and culture can be felt at times even till this day which caused the author to wonder, is it because of these conflicts and views of the faith as a Western Religion that has led to the Christian faith not being able to really assimilate into Taiwanese culture? Moreover, has the Christian faith in the process of being shared brought a sense of colonization that has led to the conflicts between faith and culture? It is for these reasons that this thesis focuses on the early history of evangelism in Taiwan from a post-colonial perspective. In addition, an effort was made to find a suitable policy for post- colonial evangelism. The current research study is separated into two portions, a review of historical research and post- colonial research. The historical research portion of this study focuses on the periods of Dutch occupation in Taiwan, where the main persons of research were Reverend George Candidius and Reverend Robert Junius, and the period of time between the end of the Qing dynasty to the beginning of Japanese occupation in Taiwan through the experiences of missionaries William Campbell and George Leslie Mackay. Regarding post- colonial theory, Edward Wadie Said’s “orientalist” is referenced. Missions work during the Dutch occupation of Taiwan used a evangelistic approach of direct colonization where missionaries were directly involved in the colonization process. Conversely, missions work during the end of the Qing dynasty was packaged as layers. However, missionaries subconsciously still operated on imperialistic thought. Basically, during the period of Dutch occupation, missions work involved strong and forceful attitudes which included the backing of laws and military force. Conversely, during the end of the Qing dynasty, missions work used a softer and friendlier step by step approach. Regarding the attitudes of missions work amongst Taiwan Aborigines, both approaches were utilized. Aborigines were basically seen as poor barbarians that needed to be rescued and cultured. It is clear that missionaries of the time saw themselves as superior. During the Qing dynasty, missionaries used their experiences with the Malay people to justify their use of a firm approach to evangelize and enlighten the Aborigines of Taiwan. Basically, for these missonaries, the way of life for Taiwanese Aborigines could not be considered as civilized, or at the very least was an inferior form of civilization. Through a process of reflecting on past evangelism history, it is a hope that future evangelism can be a type of decolonization evangelism where Christ’s church can leave room and welcome those who are different from them.
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Fics, Kristian Taxiarchis Phikas. "Healing through the Bones: Empowerment and the 'Process of Exhumations' in the Context of Cyprus." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31100.
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Inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day. This study explores specifically an effect of violent conflict – Missing Persons – and the ‘process of exhumations,’ which is defined as; the recovery of Missing Persons, identification, and reunification of the Missing with loved ones as a key component of peacebuilding via inter-ethnic reconciliation and restorative justice. This process is important for peacebuilding because it empowers individuals, communities, and nation-states to satisfy basic human psycho-social needs in order to deal with the trauma of past violence, to recognize loss, and to seek closure of uncertainty to prevent the transgenerational transmission of trauma and escalation of violence between and within ethnic societies. By interviewing eight experts on the Cypriot conflict about what the ‘process of exhumations’ does in Cyprus, revealed the challenges and successes that may arise during and after the process for sustainable peace.February 2016
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Ntakirutimana, Ezekiel. "Facing homeless people in the inner City of Tshwane : a missiological conversation with the Wesleyan tradition." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21712.
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This study was conducted within the pressing social conditions of human vulnerability manifested in a worsening situation of homelessness which forces homeless people into a deplorable life in the inner city of Tshwane. The study is not a detailed strategic plan to design support services that could improve the situation. It is rather about imagining alternative ways to journey with homeless people in their struggle to regain their humanity; hence the title: Facing homeless people in the inner city of Tshwane.
Chapter 2 analyses homelessness in the inner city of Tshwane, locating it within the bigger picture of the City of Tshwane. It takes into account the poverty that drives poor people to the margins, resulting in further human degradation. It exposes the adverse conditions that homeless people endure due to the absence of a social support net. The study obtained its information primarily from conversations with homeless people and with practitioners in church based organisations dedicated to addressing homelessness. Out of these conversations, five different causes of homelessness emerged, ranging from economic and political, to health, social and cultural factors.
Chapter 3 describes a number of church-based initiatives in the inner city of Tshwane that address the situation of homeless people, analysing their strengths and weaknesses in responding to the causes of homelessness as identified in Chapter 2.
Chapter 3 describes a number of church-based initiatives in the inner city of Tshwane that address the situation of homeless people, analysing their strengths and weaknesses in responding to the causes of homelessness as identified in Chapter 2.
Chapter 4 develops an urban theological vision in response to this situation, in the light of the notions of holiness and hospitality in the Wesleyan tradition. Contemplating this teaching, a framework was generated for the journey of the inner city church with homeless people in their efforts to regain humanity, by prioritising economic, political, health, social, and educational strategies. This chapter highlights the fact that John Wesley’s Methodist movement campaigned for the abolition of African slavery. It also journeyed with poor and vulnerable people like widows, orphans and prisoners, using Methodist “Societies” and “Classes” to integrate them into society.
Finally, Chapter 5 presents an integrative urban theological vision and a set of contextual strategies for the inner city church to journey with homeless people, following the horizons of human liberation developed in earlier chapters.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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Mildenberger, Juan Carlos. "Memoria y autoficción : la figura del desaparecido en la obra de hijos de militantes políticos en Argentina." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21129.
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Cette thèse considère l'importance de la mémoire et de l'autofiction dans l'œuvre littéraire et cinématographique des enfants de militants politiques en Argentine pendant les années soixante-dix. L'analyse se concentre sur le documentaire Los rubios (2003) d'Albertina Carri, et sur les romans Los topos (2014) de Féliz Bruzzone et La casa de los conejos (2008) de Laura Alcoba. Ces auteurs, mais aussi d’autres auteurs de la même génération et des enfants de militants, abordent le passé de la dernière dictature (1976-1983) en se concentrant sur le personnage du « disparu ». En même temps, ils deviennent protagonistes de leurs propres histoires. La mémoire de membres de leurs familles et de survivants est nécessaire pour que les auteurs de ces œuvres sachent ce qui est arrivé à leurs parents disparus. L'autofiction devient une nécessité pour pouvoir élaborer leurs narrations, dans lesquelles se confondent la fiction, les faits réels et les données biographiques. L'autofiction des auteurs étudiés ici se distingue de l'autofiction canonique par un pacte de lecture différent. L'analyse tourne autour des concepts de mémoire et d'histoire, ce qui permet de voir la spécificité et la singularité avec laquelle les auteurs abordent le passé. L'œuvre culturelle, littéraire ou cinématographique, se constitue dans ces travaux comme un espace dans lequel le trauma est réélaboré. La remise en question de la mémoire du militantisme, les décisions des parents, la recherche de la propre identité, l'apparition de voix antérieurement ignorées ou peu écoutées sont des aspects qui apparaissent dans ces narrations. À travers leurs œuvres, les enfants de militants et/ou de disparus ont ouvert d'autres voies d'interprétation de la période la plus tragique de l'histoire argentine, en représentant d'autres mémoires et en évoquant un passé sur lequel tout n’a pas encore été dit.This thesis considers the importance of memory and autofiction in the literary and audiovisual work produced by the children of the 1970´s Argentinian political activists. Our analysis comprises the documentary Los rubios (2003) by Albertina Carri, the novels Los topos (2014) by Félix Bruzzone, and La casa de los conejos (2008) by Laura Alcoba. These authors, along with others from their generation who also had activist parents, reflect on the events that took place during the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983) by focusing on the figure of the desaparecido (the missing person). At the same time, these authors present themselves as the protagonists of their own stories. The memories of family members and of political survivors become an instrumental tool for the authors to understand the fate of their missing parents. For these authors, autofiction becomes necessary if they are to elaborate their narratives, which merge fiction, biographical experiences and historical events. The autofictional work of the authors we study here proposes a different reading contract from the one usually established by canonical autofiction. Our analysis delves into issues related to memory and history, which reveal the specific and original way in which these works consider the past. Cultural, literary or audiovisual works become a space for the working through of historical trauma. These narratives problematize the past, questioning the memory of 1970s political activism, doubting their parents´ decisions, searching for their own identities, and include voices that had been previously ignored. Through their work, the children of political activists and/or missing persons have opened new ways of considering one of the most tragic periods of Argentinian history, representing other memories and recalling a past about which not all has been told.
Esta tesis considera la importancia de la memoria y de la autoficción en la obra literaria y cinematográfica de hijos de militantes políticos de la Argentina de los años setenta. El análisis se centra en el documental Los rubios (2003) de Albertina Carri, y en las novelas Los topos (2014) y La casa de los conejos (2008) de Féliz Bruzzone y Laura Alcoba, respectivamente. Estos autores, junto a otros de la misma generación y también hijos de militantes, abordan el pasado de la última dictadura (1976-1983) centrándose en la figura del desaparecido. Lo hacen, además, como protagonistas de sus propias historias. La memoria de familiares y sobrevivientes resulta necesaria para que los autores de las obras sepan qué ocurrió con sus padres desaparecidos. La autoficción se torna una necesidad para poder elaborar sus narraciones, en las que convergen ficción, hechos reales y datos biográficos. Las autoficciones de los autores estudiados aquí se distinguen de las autoficciones canónicas por el diferente pacto de lectura que en ellas subyace. El análisis gira en torno a los conceptos de memoria e historia, lo cual permite ver la especifidad y singularidad con la que abordan el pasado. La obra cultural, literaria o cinematográfica, se constituye en estos trabajos como un espacio en que se reelabora el trauma. El cuestionamiento a la memoria de la militancia, a las decisiones de los padres, la búsqueda de la propia identidad, la aparición de voces antes ignoradas o poco escuchadas son aspectos que, en mayor o menos medida, son evidentes en estas narraciones. A través de sus obras, los hijos de militantes y/o desaparecidos han abierto otras vías de interpretación del periodo más trágico de la historia argentina, representando otras memorias y evocando un pasado sobre el que todavía no está todo dicho.
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Skhosana, Thabang Johannes. "A pentecostal response to the challenges of HIV/AIDS in Tumahole." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16052.
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This dissertation is a challenge to the Pentecostal churches, particularly, the Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Tumahole, to take an action in meeting the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS. This disease, HIV/AIDS, is the latest enemy to human life that the nations are faced with. In the newspapers like Sowetan, there is an article almost daily about HIV and AIDS. In this dissertation, I have tried to show shocking figures of how this disease is spreading in Africa. The seriousness of the disease, unlike other diseases, is its in curability. The secular organisations are far ahead of the churches in as far as the relevant programmes on
combating HIV/AIDS are concerned. Despite these massive programmes, the disease is spreading like the wild fire. Deducing from this background, it is no longer the question of whether the Pentecostal churches have any role to play, but what specific role should the
church play in this challenge. In this challenging times, many people look at the church as one of the most important institute that would play a positive role in bringing hope to the hopeless.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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