Dissertations / Theses: 'Nature, Healing power of'

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Salamy, Virginia McGrath. "Healing gardens : design guidelines for landscape architects /." Connect to this title online, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1094842637.

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Goldberger, Trina Suzanne, and Diane Marie Waters. "The benefits of wilderness experience for mental health: An exploratory study on nature-based therapies." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1648.

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Peres, Silvia Miguel de Paula. "As vertentes terapêuticas em Ilhabela, SP : transformações socioambientais, processos saude-doença e relações humano-natureza." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281010.

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Orientador: Sonia Regina de Cal Seixas
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Esta tese discute os processos saúde-doença a partir de enfoques diferenciados, ligados às vertentes terapêuticas atuantes no município de Ilhabela, SP. A maneira como cada terapeuta articula o conhecimento adquirido à sua prática de curar, traz a tona a questão da pluralidade cognitiva, reveladora de heterogêneas dimensões do ambiente incorporadas na saúde. Nesse aspecto, as vertentes terapêuticas se movimentam no interior de um amplo campo analógico que emerge das infinitas relações entre o ser-humano e a natureza, buscando soluções e metodologias das mais variadas para se alcançar a eficácia do tratamento, transcendendo a relação de causa e efeito linear. A partir do conceito de corporalidade, que remete à concepção do corpo como um feixe de relações que ultrapassam a cisão natureza/cultura, esta pesquisa se abre para a conexão do corpo com seu hábitat, pelo conceito de saúde ecossistêmica, buscando integrar à compreensão da saúde humana, a esfera socioambiental. Almejando contribuir para o debate aberto pelas discussões atuais em saúde e ambiente, a tese procurou dar conta da elaboração de uma dimensão orgânica - traduzida pelos processos históricos de urbanização e de degradação ambiental em Ilhabela, associados aos padrões saúde-doença mais evidenciados no município - até alcançar a dimensão simbólica - que remete às analogias recuperadas pelas diferentes vertentes terapêuticas - para, dessa maneira, pensar os processos de cura como resultado de uma interação saudável do ser humano com seu meio, abrindo perspectivas para a discussão da sustentabilidade a partir desses pressupostos.
Abstract: This thesis discusses the processes of health and disease from different methodological approaches related to therapeutic aspects in Ilhabela, SP. The way each therapist articulates their knowledge to their practice of healing, brings up the question of cognitive diversity, evidence of heterogeneous dimensions of the environment in health. The therapeutic aspects move within a broad field that emerges from the analog infinite relations between human beings and nature, looking for solutions to a variety of methodologies to achieve the effectiveness of treatment, going beyond the relationship of cause and linear effect. Based on the concept of corporality, which refers to the conception of the body as a series of relationships that go beyond the separation of nature/culture, this research opens the connection to the body with its habitat, the concept of ecosystem health, seeking to integrate the understanding of human health, the socioenvironmental sphere. Willing to contribute to the debate initiated by the current discussions in health and environment, this thesis was focused for the development of an organic imension - translated by historical processes of urbanization and environmental degradation in Ilhabela, associated with health and disease patterns more evident in the city - to reach the symbolic dimension - referring to the analogies recovered by the different therapeutic elements- in this way, think the healing process as a result of a healthy interaction of human beings and their environment, opening up the discussion of sustainability from these assumptions.
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Aspectos Sociais de Sustentabilidade e Conservação
Doutor em Ambiente e Sociedade

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Mahoney, Christy Ann. "Plant therapy: Should it be given the green thumbs up?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1467.

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Newman, Andrea Ardele. "The healing nature of dwelling." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/newman/NewmanA0508.pdf.

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My thesis will discuss the historical pattern of mistreatment and misunderstanding of the chronically mentally ill and the continued struggle the population faces. I believe that architecture holds some of the answers for these issues concerning the "ill" and that environmental factors do play a large part in the effective treatment of this population. It is my intention to design a facility where the chronically mentally ill can live and communicate freely without the stigma that has plagued them for so long. I will use the tools that social theory, philosophers such as Heidegger and the concepts of phenomenology have given me to explore the question: how can architecture help heal the chronically mentally ill.

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Alken, Martha. "The healing power of forgiving." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Turk, Elizabeth Hunter. "Healing by a national nature in 'disorganized' Mongolia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269922.

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This dissertation explores entanglements of body, national identity and nature in contemporary Mongolia. The project is situated within the rising popularity of natural remedies and alternative medicine during a time described as disorganized (zambaraagui) and disorderly. Data was collected from 33 months of fieldwork in Ulaanbaatar and elsewhere, focused on non-biomedical practices and therapeutic landscapes, especially medicinal springs (arshaan) and their sanatoria. This work contributes to studies of post-socialist Mongolia in a few ways. The methodological decision to engage in interview and participant observation of fortunetellers (üzmerch), practitioners of Buddhist and traditional medicine (otoch, ardiin emch), astrologists (zurhaich), energy healers (bio energich), shamans (böö, zairan, udgan), enlightened lamas (huvilgaan) and massage therapists (bariach) was driven by the fluid approach with which patients approach fulfilling the needs of their health and wellbeing. Such fluidity was also echoed in healing practice; as opposed to bounded by strict conceptual distinctions, healers re-purposed personally and culturally-familiar techniques, ranging from biomedical to those of Buddhist medicine (sowa rigpa) to occult practices. Many of the same techniques were practiced by a range of practitioners. The term orthopraxy, commonality of practice across conceptual difference, is used to address this phenomena. Such pairing together of different kinds of therapies – biomedical or otherwise – calls into question a “traditional” vs. modern or neo-spiritual framework within which such practices are often cast. I employ Robbin’s anthropology of discontinuity (2003), suggesting that Soviet influences represented “hard” cultural forms that provided a partial rupture in cultural knowledge between pre-revolutionary society and 1990. Nature (baigal) and natural surroundings (baigal orchin) were concepts often raised when discussing health and wellbeing. “Spiritual” earth and mountain masters (gazariin/uuliin ezed) of estranged homelands (nutag) that cause illness in families relocated to Ulaanbaatar; the water, flora, and mutton from one’s homeland as especially medicinally-suited to the body; shamans empowered to heal by appropriating into their practices the worship of nationally-significant mountains: territorialized national identity represented a prominent trend in healing practices. The revering of a nation through natural landmarks I call national nature, and suggest it be seen both with respect to romantic and utilitarian conceptions of a therapeutic nature that underpinned Soviet medicine, and Soviet indigenization campaigns and the ethnonationalism that was encouraged to flourish in borderland republics. Affective rooting to natural landmarks to maintain or restore wellbeing was also a way to enact Mongol-ness, rendering healing the body at once a practice of national subject-making.

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Turner, Denice H. "Nature Writing and Healing: Recovering the Wild Soul." DigitalCommons@USU, 2003. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7322.

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In this study, I explored how nature writing could be seen as healing text. I described some common problems associated with the construction of trauma and grief narratives and examined how nature writers dealt with them. The study began with my frustration at being unable to write a healing narrative for myself and progressed as I integrated research that informed my own writing. The literature I read included a variety of perspectives, from Jungian and traditional psychotherapy to current writing theory. I used the theory to comment on the nature writing texts as I discovered them. Using the words and stories of nature writers to fuel my own, I explored how their writing was both personally reflective and socially aware. In particular, I examined the importance of the natural world as a significant "other" for the writers and analyzed how their relationship with nature brought meaning and solace to their grieving.

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Turski, Traci L. "The healing power of women's storytelling /." Click for abstract, 1998. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1508.html.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Central Connecticut State University, 1998.
Thesis advisor: Judith Rosenberg. "... in partial fulfillment of the Master of Science in Counselor Education." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-80).

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Langenbrunner, Mary R., and Stacy Larsen. "Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Books." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2001. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3498.

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Lau, Ka-po, and 劉家寶. "The spirit of nature: integrate people to healing landscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47312506.

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Hong Kong is facing an aging population problem in the coming years. This situation is especially appearing in the New Town such as Tseung Kwan O and Sha Tin. Therefore, healthcare facilities or healing landscape is an important design issue in the future. In the thesis, Haven of Hope Hospital is chosen to demonstrate the healing landscape design. It is a good site to provide an example of healing landscape for reference in the future. Haven of Hope Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Tseung Kwan O. It provides several different services in the local community such as Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, Pulmonary Care, Palliative Care and infirmary. These types of the service are very close to the quality of the environment. Therefore, healing landscape plays an important role in this type of hospital. At the same time, Tseung Kwan O is a new town, the main development is planning to provide more residential units now. That’s why, healthcare facilities are one of the important things for development in the future to fulfill the large amount of people. In the study, it shows that healing landscape is a medium for people to integrate the natural environment. It is a process to provide different level of healing effect to people such as stress reduction, relieving the pain and self mediation. In the thesis, relationship among the original hospital landscape, the patient character, and the types of building are found to figure out what healing landscape have to be designed. Some design concepts and theories provide suggestions and guidelines on designing the garden and choosing the plants. Some therapeutic programs can be considered to organize in the healing landscape so as to bring out the healing effect. Truthfully, the main purpose is to create a nice environment to upgrade the quality of life and overall well-being of people.
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Boza, Mery Gissela. "Diospi Suyana Building Hope in the Andes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83817.

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How to design with empathy? "The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture." Alvar Aalto For me architecture has the power to enhance human's lives. Our beautiful world needs a fine and delicate touch to modify their nature and abstract their essences without changing its soul. The focus of this thesis is to empathize with nature and use it as an instrument to heal the mind and provide comfort to the body. The empathy of architecture with the users and the environment is a key to provide healing. For that reason, the architecture tends to create more than a building; it also creates it's own spirit. This project is a Cancer Treatment Center located in the Andes of Peru, which purpose is to response to the emotions and needs of the patients and staff. Cancer is a complex disease, which can make the patient feel lost in the world. The interplay with nature will create a healing environment and a spiritual retreat, which creates relief and connection with the universe. The building provides the users places to breath deeply, think and connect with each individual belief. The design looks for a natural organic plan, which takes advantage of the light and the surroundings. The green design works as a placebo for the patients, which are passing through theses difficult stages. Following the new trends and trying to separate of the idea of a mega hospital, the center is small in scale, but it has a program, which provides care and treatment at the same time. The walls are strong and solid to show the support and protect the inhabitants, but they are also flexible to blend with the high mountains in the horizon. It also has a green oasis, which is the heart of the project that runs from the beginning to end and merged with the natural slope land. The culture plays an important role in the planning of the design. Adjusting to the customs and beliefs, the building respects the vernacular architecture, and gets inspiration of traditional materials and construction methods that the Inca's empire used like adobe and stone.
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Neagu, Mădălin. "Self-healing and secure low-power memory systems." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/460893.

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The main objective of this thesis is to bring new contributions to the self-healing and secure systems domain. In particular, to develop a self-healing technique for memory systems and to increase security of memory systems, techniques which favor low-power consumption. In order to achieve the main objective, three major research objectives were proposed: design of an error detection and correction scheme for errors that occur in memory systems and integrate them in a memory system, design techniques to increase the security and data privacy of memory systems against different types of attacks and to combine the previous two into a single solution, in order to achieve a self-healing and secure low-power memory system. The low-power aspect of the proposed solutions and techniques is evaluated during design stage and afterwards through simulation. Also, the architectures are evaluated from several other points of view, such as error detecting and correcting performance, area and delay overhead, and security efficiency. The first chapter contains a short introduction of the domain and subject of the thesis, current state of the art in this domain, proposed objectives and thesis organization. The second chapter contains a unidirectional error detecting, correcting and localization scheme, which is used for the self-healing technique. The chapter begins with an introduction and motivation about error detecting and correcting codes and their usage in memory systems and continues with a theoretical background. The chapter continues with the design of the proposed codes, which are explained in detail and illustrated through several figures. Then, they are analyzed from the following points of view: coding scheme, error localization, error correction and error escapes. For the latter three, metrics are defined, in order to evaluate the codes. Afterwards, the implementation of the proposed codes is exposed in several figures. Also, the usage of the codes is explained, as well as DRAM repair strategies. In the end of this chapter, the efficiency of the proposed codes is evaluated and exemplified. The evaluation process contains other metrics: speed and delay, area overhead, power consumption and code redundancy. Chapter 3 contains a proposed scheme to increase security in memory systems against cold-boot attacks. The technique uses data scrambling, hence the chapter begins with a short theoretical background and a review of data scrambling methods. It continues with the proposed solution, which is based on using unique scrambling vectors in an interleaved way, and theoretical performance and efficiency. The chapter ends with evaluation and experimental results for the proposed methodology. Evaluations of area overhead, power consumption and access time are performed in the CACTI simulation tool and on a FPGA development board. Chapter 4 approaches specific types of threats that can prevail in memory systems: simple and differential power or electromagnetic analysis attacks (SPEMA and DPEMA). The chapter begins with short introduction and motivation sections, and continues with a theoretical background about possible threats. In the following section, SPEMA and DPEMA are explained and discussed in detail. Afterwards, the proposed solutions for mitigating SPEMA and DPEMA are exhibited, and ends with evaluation and experimental results. An information leakage function is defined and used in evaluating the security efficiency of the solutions. The implementation costs are assessed with the use of the CACTI simulation tool, with respect to area and delay overhead, and power consumption. The final chapter, 5, contains the conclusions of the work, scientific contributions and future research directions.

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Hollywell, Emma. "Genuinely caring : compassion and the healing nature of the therapeutic relationship." Thesis, City University London, 2015. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/14549/.

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Compassion is frequently discussed in relation to nursing. However, to date, research in this area has been largely theoretical, and empirical investigation has been limited. This qualitative study aimed to construct an understanding of the nature of compassion in nursing and what makes it possible, in order to address the paucity of research and lack of consensus in this field. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six nurses and six patients across three hospital departments, with the resulting data systematically analysed and categorised in accordance with principles of constructivist grounded theory. This study has facilitated a broad and multifaceted understanding of the construct of compassion, which emphasised the delicate interpersonal nature of compassionate care that occurs between the nurse and patient. Study findings suggest some factors that inhibit and facilitate compassion which play a powerful role in a nurse’s ability to care compassionately. The findings of the present study challenge the suggestion that feelings-based care practices for patients should be abandoned in favour of etiquette-based approaches; it also contests contemporary wisdom that the best cost-effective measures are achieved through driving for efficiencies. Suggestions are made regarding the role of counselling psychology in supporting the emergence of compassion in healthcare and implications for nursing practice and future research directions are explored.

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Alekseeva, Iuliia. "Alternative healing in Berlin : nature, arts and science for human recharge." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254531.

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Lou, Loretta Ieng Tak. "Healing nature : green living and the politics of hope in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ab6671e4-f656-4729-aae6-51f21485e712.

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In Hong Kong, 'green living' (luksik saangwut) is promoted as a way of living that is kind to the Earth and good to the people. It is a grassroots movement that encourages people to take personal responsibility for the environment and the society at large. While most studies of Asia's environmental movements focus on green groups' lobbying tactics and mobilisation strategies, this thesis pays serious attention to individuals' experience of living a green life. Although Hong Kong's green culture is highly influenced by the global appeal to sustainability and environmental protection, its specificities are shaped by the city's social and political climate in a unique historical conjuncture. By focusing on individual experience and their practices of green living in the everyday, I argue that green living in Hong Kong is best understood as 'technologies of the self' wherein new environmental, social, and political subjectivities are formed among the ordinary people. The perceived reciprocity between the act of healing nature and the healing power of nature is an essential element in the formation of green subjectivity in Hong Kong. Not only does green living help people heal and transform themselves, it has also given rise to an embodied politics (santai likhang) that enables people to reimagine a social and political 'otherwise'. Such embodied politics has come to represent a politics of hope that empowers people to confront with the politics of fear that has been looming over Hong Kong since the former British colony was returned to China in 1997. In light of this background, I argue that what the Hong Kong people want to sustain is not just the natural environment, but also the social norms and the ways of living that are thought to distinguish themselves from their counterparts in mainland China.

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Chander, C. L. "An in vitro investigation into the nature of myofibroblast contractility." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379836.

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Langenbrunner, Mary R., and J. Graham Disque. "The Healing Power of Stories for Children: An Annotated Bibliography." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1998. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2803.

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Fox, Nicholas J. "Surgical healing, power and social structure : an ethnographic and historical study." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1989. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34815/.

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How the everyday activities of surgery mediate and reproduce surgical authority and privilege is studied by ethnographic study and interview material in and around the operating theatres of a large district general hospital, on surgical wards, and in a day surgery unit, using a case study approach. Routinised movements of staff, patients and instruments within the operating theatre suite (0T) order the activities by which patients pass through surgery. These movements are structured, and culturally designated, to ensure the safety of the patient during the dangerous transgression of boundaries in surgery. The history of surgical sterility indicates the symbolic significance of sterile garb, to mask the polluting bodies of the surgical staff and designate them purifiers of corrupting nature. Sterile techniques signify the superiority of cultural definitions over those based in 'nature'. While the surgeon is concerned with a patient's Illness, the anaesthetist is concerned with her/his Fitness. This interaction enables all operations other than those where both Fitness is reduced and Illness is not reduced, to be proclaimed 'successful'. Consequently, patients may be allocated a socially defined status of 'healed', despite no improvement in physiological status. Cross-cultural comparison suggests that surgical healing involves a social status passage from a negative status of victim to a positive one of survivor. Healing is socially reintegrative: it re-creates apparent congruence between the life-scales of the sick person and social structure, which is destroyed by illness. Case studies refine the hypothesis that this social recategorisation legitimates surgical authority and privilege. Both the operation's 'success' and patient discharge are found to be necessary for a full claim to have healed. The potential to generalise the model to all medical intervention, and the implications for surgery and the sociology of health and healing are discussed.

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Brokman, Aleksandra. "The healing power of words : psychotherapy in the USSR, 1956-1985." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2018. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/68352/.

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This thesis examines the growth of psychotherapy as a discipline in the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1985, looking at the types of treatment that existed in this period, the tasks that psychotherapy was to perform according to physicians who promoted it, and their efforts to establish it as a distinct medical speciality and popularise it within the Soviet healthcare system. It looks at how different challenges encountered by the promoters of psychotherapy influenced its practice and the discourse around it, and how it was shaped by a broader political, social and cultural context of the USSR. It demonstrates that psychotherapy after Stalin was not stagnant but developed into a diverse field fuelled by enthusiasm of its practitioners who, while sticking to methods that by mid-twentieth century lost popularity in the West, gave them new theoretical underpinnings, constantly worked to modify and improve them, and supplemented them by new ideas and approaches. The result was a unique form of psychotherapy characterised by a physiological language, a specific view of the human mind and body and an unusually broad understanding of its tasks. This thesis analyses the legitimising strategies employed by psychotherapists to present their discipline as both scientifically substantiated and useful to the Soviet society, showing that it was envisaged not only as a strictly therapeutic method but also as a potentially universal auxiliary treatment and as a means of prophylaxis. It examines various aspects of Soviet psychotherapy such as its goals, links to physiology, emphasis on human self-perfection, embrace of placebo as a legitimate form of therapy and the blurring of the boundary between therapy, prophylaxis and conversation implicit in its theory, seeking to understand what psychotherapy was for its Soviet practitioners and how it came to be conceptualised in this particular way.

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Walker, Louise. "Healing power : the global fund, disrupted multilateralism and mediated country ownership." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51668/.

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This thesis examines the changes in health governance at both global and country levels brought by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), a self-described public/private partnership intended as a financing mechanism to achieve Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6. Since the G8 announced the Global Fund's creation in 2001, it has succeeded in mobilising over US$30 bn in commitments, primarily from donor governments. This thesis is rooted in the 'high politics' of International Relations (IR), and in particular its literature on globalisation, governance and international institutions. Where this literature has failures or gaps, it draws from the Development Studies and International Political Economy (IPE) literatures. It also relies on key informant interviews undertaken in Geneva, Lilongwe and Zomba with executives of international institutions, and those involved in Malawi's HIV/AIDS response including government representatives and staff from the National AIDS Commission, donors, NGOs and those working on the front line. This thesis relies on a descriptive, single case study to create a 'thick' narrative. Rather than deriving generalisations, it provides a basis for further research into the nature and effects of systemic change in how health is governed that the Global Fund signals. This thesis makes three contributions to knowledge: 1) It provides a basis to evolve the IR literature on globalisation, governance and international institutions to consider the nature, significance and effects of the Global Fund as a form of institutional innovation which is disrupting the traditional multilateral order, particularly for international institutions working in health; 2) It challenges the use of the term 'country ownership' to mean 'putting the country in the driver's seat', and instead notes the double deficit in external accountability that arises when global politics and country evidence collide in a Global Fund convened elite, mediated space for country ownership; and 3) It synthesises observations from field work in Malawi on the exercise of the Global Fund's authority and its dislocation from external accountability when failures occur. The IR literature is silent on the rise of the Global Fund's authority. It fails to contend with the notion that country ownership is as much about the burden of responsibility as it is about agenda setting. This highlights the dislocation between the loci for authority and accountability despite the Global Fund's growing authoritative territorial claims.

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Kendall, George Henry. "The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20184.

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Bibliography: pages 124-132.
This study explores the symptoms of alienation witnessed in Indian characters and the healing they achieve through myth in three contemporary American Indian novels. In James Welch's historical novel, Fools Crow, I explore the methods through which Welch tells the story of Fools Crow. I draw comparisons between oppositions such as oral and written language, oral and written history, and history and narrative. I examine the ideas of many theorists, including Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy and Hayden White's inquiry into historiography in Tropics of DiscouT'Se. My conclusions suggest that myth is the foundation of history and that Welch effectively uses myth to rehabilitate Fools Crow. Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony presents its main character, Tayo, as alienated. He operates in a confusing world of dualities whereby the hegemonic culture brutalizes a feminine universe, and the counter-culture embraces a feminine universe. This study of Ceremony necessitates exploring the differences between Indian and Euro-American perceptions of landscape. Greta Gaard's studies on ecofeminism and Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality help to focus the theories v presented in this chapter. In addition, I consider the opposition between European patriarchal and American Indian matriarchal cultures, a difference that may affect the way the two cultures perceive the landscape. Finally I look at the Laguna captivity narrative that heals Tayo and compare the Laguna captivity genre to Euro-American captivity tales. The juxtaposition of cultural captivity narrative types reveals further differences in Laguna and Euro-American perceptions of the land. Annette Kolodny's theories on landscape and feminism prove useful in focusing my conclusions. N. Scott Momaday's The Ancient Child explores the parameters of representation and struggles with the question of how an Indian author can effectively describe the condition of an alienated American Indian to an audience who is, for the most part, Euro-American. This novel ties together many of the themes explored in Fools Crow and Ceremony. Momaday shows myth as originating in oral language and oral language as invented by vision: The story's main character, Set, has to overcome his alienation by understanding the origin of a myth which exists in his 'racial memory.' As an Indian, Set must discover the importance of non-textual spatiality and not the spaces contained within and influenced by written texts such as the very one Momaday creates to depict this character. The term non-textual spatiality refers to the imaginative space created by oral language and myth and the notion of non-textual spatiality opens a path for Set's healing. W.J.T. Mitchell's Picture Theory and Nelson Goodman's Languages of A rt are the main critical studies I use to amplify theories that grow out of The Ancient Child.

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Mathers, Becky N. "The Power of a Profound Experience with Nature." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1587576890837463.

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Okada, Masaaki. "Nature in the healing and farming practices of Okada Mokichi of Sekai Kyūsei Kyō." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.668164.

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Engdahl, Martin. "Långforsen Nature Center." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-222132.

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A project to suggest an alternative to small scale hydro power at the old power plant in Långforsen, Jämtland, Sweden. Using excavation as a tool and raw materials from the site, the aim is to take the visitor into nature by using choreographed movement through the site, close to nature shelters, and a visitor center to tie it all together.

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Pryer, Alison Catherine. "Tales of power, the healing narratives of Judy Chicago and Jo Spence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0018/MQ28643.pdf.

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Koh, YunJu Lee. "Healing Interior: Using Eastern Design Principles in Hotel Design." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1198.

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The main goal of this thesis is to explore how interior spaces in hotel designs can provide a less stressful environment and promote health and harmony by using Feng Shui Principles. It will first discuss the principles of Feng Shui and general hotel design, and then move on to demonstrate how the application of Feng Shui principles can be used to create a hotel environment that encourages health and harmony in its occupants. This project will demonstrate principles that not only can be applied to hotel space, but also can be practiced in any other interior space. This thesis, therefore, demonstrates new possibilities for how "care of the self" is delivered and received through design.

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Gustavsson, Karin. "Natursyn och kärnkraft / View of nature and nuclear power." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23464.

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Kärnkraften har så länge den funnits varit en omdebatterad energikälla. Syftet med dennauppsats är att utreda och få en bild av hur och på vilket sätt natursynen hänger ihop medåsikter om kärnkraft. Jag har redogjort för vad energi är, kärnkraftens historia i Sverige ochsom energikälla samt beskrivit för- och nackdelarna med kärnkraften. För att kunna ge en bildav kärnkraft och natursyn har jag genomfört kvalitativa intervjuer med personer som på olikasätt är insatta i problematiken kring kärnkraften. Min undersökning visar bland annat attnatursyn är ett komplext och stort begrepp som vi bör vara medvetna om hur det fungerar iarbetet för att förbättra miljön.
The nuclear power have, as long as it has been existing, been a discussed source of energy.The purpose with this report is to study and to get a picture if how and in what way the viewof nature cohere with the opinions about nuclear power. I have described what energy is, thehistory of nuclear power in Sweden and as a source of energy. I have also described thepositive and the negative aspects of nuclear power. To be able to present a picture of view ofnature and nuclear power I have done quality interviews with persons who, in different ways,are familiar with the problems of nuclear power. My investigation has shown that view ofnature is a complex and wide concept that we should be aware of in our work towards a moresustainable society.

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Kerslake, Lorraine. "Correcting Cultures's Error: The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Children's Writing." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/110925.

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Sin duda todos los lectores y críticos de Ted Hughes estarían de acuerdo en considerarlo como uno de los poetas más importantes en la literatura inglesa del siglo XX. A pesar de ello, Hughes también fue un autor prolífico de literatura infantil, publicando a lo largo de su vida más de 25 libros para niños en forma de poesía, prosa, teatro y ensayos críticos. De hecho, escribió su primer libro de cuentos, How the Whale Became, en 1956 en lo que entonces era un pequeño pueblo de pescadores llamado Benidorm, durante su luna de miel con Sylvia Plath. Sin embargo, sorprende que la crítica no se haya centrado en el estudio de la literatura infantil de Hughes. En respuesta a la sensibilización en torno a la crisis ambiental que comenzó en el siglo pasado, la obra de Hughes indaga sobre las fracturas que han alejado al ser humano del mundo natural y tiene como objetivo restablecer el nexo de unión entre la humanidad y la naturaleza. Tal y como se explica en este estudio, la concienciación ecológica de Hughes se forjó en su infancia, en sus andanzas por el mundo natural que lo rodeaba. Al igual que en la obra infantil más madura del poeta, los primeros poemas sobre animales ya mostraban una preocupación por la conservación de las especies locales donde el apego hacia el mundo natural y el deseo de volver a conectar con la naturaleza a menudo se expresan a través de una preocupación constante por la educación ambiental. El universo creativo de la obra de Hughes se puede leer como un contexto para cicatrizar la fractura de la sociedad occidental con la naturaleza y un intento de volver a acercar la cultura humana a sus raíces. Es precisamente en ese contexto que Hughes desarrolla su búsqueda chamánica donde el chamán/poeta actúa como narrador, sanador y mediador, articulándose en un lenguaje sagrado en sintonía con el mundo natural. La función terapéutica y sanadora de la naturaleza está estrechamente relacionada con otros conceptos claves que Hughes explora a lo largo de su obra infantil tales como el mito, la imaginación, y la educación. De hecho, son temas integrados en su actitud como escritor y que forman parte de su universo literario. Para Hughes, los niños constituyen un público ideal puesto que todavía no han sido condicionados por la sociedad. Su literatura infantil representó una parte oculta de su ser autobiográfico, estrechamente relacionado con su búsqueda terapéutica de curación. En este sentido la misión sanadora de Hughes es doble. A nivel personal su obra se puede leer como una historia de redención, una alegoría de curar su ser fracturado. Por otra parte, su obra se puede leer también como una búsqueda para recuperar el equilibrio con el fin de curar las heridas que nos han distanciado de la naturaleza, para que la reconciliación entre cultura y naturaleza pueda llevarse a cabo. Teniendo en cuenta todo lo expuesto, surge la pregunta de hipótesis de esta tesis: ¿existe una búsqueda de curación en la literatura infantil de Ted Hughes? Para contestarlo se ha contextualizado la obra de Hughes en relación con los textos principales de la ecocrítica y he llevado a cabo un escrupuloso análisis de su literatura infantil a través de su poesía, prosa y teatro además de sus ensayos críticos y cartas. A través de una lectura ecocrítica de la obra de Hughes se ha planteado preguntas claves cómo las siguientes: ¿Cómo se relaciona su literatura infantil con nuestra crisis ecológica y qué es lo que pone de manifiesto una lectura ecocrítica de su obra? ¿Es su escritura sensible a temas relacionados con el medio ambiente? ¿Qué preguntas relativas a cuestiones medioambientales suscita su obra? ¿Qué sentido de curación y recuperación ecológica aparece en su literatura tanto en el ámbito personal como social? ¿En qué obras se consigue este aspecto redentor y equilibrio y armonía entre la naturaleza y la humanidad y en cuáles no? Tal y como se defiende en esta tesis, a través de la literatura infantil, Hughes esconde un ser autobiográfico oculto estrechamente ligado con su búsqueda catártica de curación. La mayor parte de la obra de Hughes responde o bien a una crisis personal y humana, o a una fractura del ser humano con la naturaleza. A través de la figura de la diosa y el poder del mito fue capaz de explorar las energías primigenias del mundo natural, así como las fuerzas creativas y destructivas del universo. La poesía de Hughes critica estas dualidades señalando el sentido de la absoluta alteridad de la naturaleza y las relaciones entre estas energías y la sociedad occidental quien se ha distanciado de la naturaleza. En su poesía adulta, dada la energía masculina predominante y la carga sexual y violencia que subyace en gran parte de su trabajo, rara vez se logra el equilibrio entre esas energías y fuerzas. Por otro lado, tal y como esta tesis argumenta, es en su literatura infantil – en su prosa, poesía y teatro – donde tiene lugar ese equilibrio de forma más exitosa, siendo terapéuticamente más redentor gracias a su efecto sanador. Con el fin de enmarcar el concepto de curación en su literatura infantil esta tesis doctoral se ha estructurado en dos partes: la Primera Parte, ‘Speaking Through the Voice of Nature’ (Hablando a través de la voz de la naturaleza), consta de tres capítulos y está dedicada a situar al lector dentro del marco teórico y de los aspectos biográficos más importantes de la vida de Hughes, así como su temprana relación con el mundo natural y su desarrollo como escritor y ecologista. La segunda Parte, ‘The Quest for Healing in Ted Hughes’s Children’s Writing’ (La búsqueda de curación en la literatura infantil de Ted Hughes), se centra en el análisis de sus obras literarias a través de los distintos géneros. Finalmente, tras el análisis de sus obras, la conclusión identifica los puntos principales de la investigación y los resultados del análisis.

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Adamek, Anna. "Incorporating power and assimilating nature: Electric power generation and distribution in Ottawa, 1882--1905." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26435.

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The history of electric power generation and distribution in Ottawa reflects the city's political, economic, and environmental conditions. The process of electrification of the Canadian capital was shaped by strong personalities, by municipal, provincial and federal politics, and by the city's location on the Ottawa River, an interprovincial border. The idea of electrification was introduced by municipal politicians in 1880s as a way of redefining Ottawa as a 'power capital of the Dominion' rather than as the locus of the federal bureaucracy. Yet the process was soon dominated by three powerful Liberals---Thomas Ahearn, Erskine H. Bronson and Warren Y. Soper---who gained influence among the three social groups who constituted the majority of Ottawa residents, Irish Catholics English Protestants, and Methodists. Their strong political influence in the Canadian capital allowed the three industrialists to form alliances within the provincial and federal government to permit them to build an electric empire. By 1894, the year in which they created the Ottawa Electric Company and the Ottawa Electric Railway Company, Ahearn, Bronson and Soper held a monopoly over the city's power generation and distribution. Yet as the three entrepreneurs shaped the electric market and urban development of the city, their endeavours were influenced by the politics, location, and natural resources of the Ottawa area. The same factors that fashioned a strong monopoly, also obstructed it, leading to establishment of a municipal plant in 1905 and consequently creating an electric duopoly in Ottawa.

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Rossi, Maria Alejandra. "Biophilic Design: Transitional Housing for Homeless Veterans." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78904.

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Biophilia: the close relationship between architecture and nature. In my thesis, I look to embrace that relationship by designing housing for homeless veterans. For veterans, this connection helps the space become a place of healing and reconnection to nature, which is proven to have a positive impact in our health and wellness. The building becomes a container of nature, where the presence of green features and natural elements are present from the moment you come into the building, the choice of materials, the different activities and position of the spaces to welcome the most amount of natural elements into the building. This creates an indoor/outdoor environment where the resident feels secure by the walls but also welcome by nature. The building captures nature through different activities and moments, where both nature and architecture work together to create a space of healing and peace, a place of freedom, but at the same time a place of security and stability. An oasis in the city, which helps homeless veterans start over and create a space they can call home. The building is equipped to offer different activities and purposes not only for the residents, but also for the employees and visitors. The building becomes a welcoming space for the neighbors but also for nature. The building welcomes different species and promotes the creation of different habitats that can serve the growth of the ecosystem.
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How can Architecture and Nature work together to create healing spaces? The purpose of this thesis was to study the relationship between nature and architecture. Today, rapid growth in cities and urbanization has cause these two to be seen as separate or different, creating spaces that do not promote human well-being and healthy spaces. When in fact, when both nature and architecture work together, it creates the best and healthiest spaces for human health, performance and well-being. In this project, I focused on creating healing spaces for homeless veterans; a group that is increasing in number in large cities such as Washington D.C. Veterans are falling into homelessness due to Post-traumatic stress disorder, making it hard for them to adapt back into their normal life. Many of them live in poor conditions on the street, shelters and cars; spaces that are not suitable for people living with this disorder. Instead, I am proposing a transitional housing project where they will be trained, offered job opportunities, and a space where they will in constant presence of nature from the moment they walk into the building until they get to their room. This is because biophilic design has proven to improve the perfomance, quality of life, and health of humans. The residents of this project will have an efficient building with communal spaces, spaces for active and passive recreation, and different connections to nature to improve and expedite their healing.

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Lai, Man-lung Stanley. "Adjunctive effects of a low-power laser on the healing of periodontal tissue." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37651006.

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Lai, Man-lung Stanley, and 賴文龍. "Adjunctive effects of a low-power laser on the healing of periodontal tissue." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37651006.

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Vatanpour, Azadeh. "The Healing Power of Music and Chants amongst The Ahl-E Haqq People." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2014.

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This thesis examines current practices of music and prayers in the context of Jam ritual among the Ahl-e Haqq, a vernacular religion group in Iranian Kurdistan. I examine the construction and sacralization of the sacred instrument of the Ahl-e Haqq, tanbūr. I also explore the sacred prayer, kalām, and the association of prayer and music. Through the ethnographic method, participant observations, and interviewing religious figures and master musicians during the fieldwork in Sahneh, Iran, I investigate the relation of the Ahl-e Haqq prayers and music, and their effect on healing during their sacred ritual performance. Drawing primarily on scholarship from David Hufford and Bonnie Blair O’Connor, I theorize to show the distinction between healing and cure. Also using Leonard Primiano’s concept of vernacular religion, my aim is to show how the Ahl-e Haqq define their vernacular health belief system. This thesis examines the effect of music and prayers on healing in particular contexts and how it influences the daily wellbeing.

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Black, Michelle. ""The trees were our cathedral"?A narrative inquiry into healing from addiction through a relationship with nature." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3743749.

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This qualitative study explored and analyzed the narrative experiences of individuals whose spiritual relationships with nature have supported them in overcoming addiction. This project sought to investigate the sparsely researched intersection of ecopsychology and addiction recovery. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among six participants to shed light on the question: How can ecopsychological values and approaches help addicts to achieve and sustain recovery?

I implemented a thematic analysis of the interview material, using a multiphasic coding process to organize the common themes that surfaced across participants’ narratives, as well as highlight distinct experiences. The results yielded a total of 11 subthemes distributed among the following three master themes: Evolving Relationship with Nature, Levels of Integration with Nature, and Healing Effects of the Relationship.

Key findings from the study include the following: (a) all participants reported feeling an innate connection with nature that began in childhood, which in some cases, became less important as the years passed; (b) in seeking sobriety, each of the participants connected with nature to serve as the higher power they needed in order to apply the 12-step approach in their lives; (c) this relationship with nature has been central in helping participants to be successful in recovery; over time, the relationship transcended the utilitarian purpose of “working the program” and led to significant shifts in participants’ lifestyles and value systems; (d) in sustaining this relationship, participants have woven nature into their lives to varying degrees; many expressed that they generally yearn for more contact with nature than their current lifestyle permits; and (e) participants found that their relationships with nature resulted in deep healing that extended far beyond addiction, and across physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual realms.

It is my hope that this initial study will lead to further research exploring the value of incorporating nature into addiction treatment, as well as seeking effective solutions to humankind’s increasingly addictive and exploitative relationship with the natural world.

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Mitchell, Marika. "The healing power of faith in mood and anxiety disorders : pastoral study / Marika Mitchell." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1720.

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Sander-Regier, Renate. "The Power of a Small Green Place – A Case Study of Ottawa's Fletcher Wildlife Garden." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24219.

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The Power of a Small Green Place is an ethnographic case study among the volunteers and urban wilds of Ottawa’s Fletcher Wildlife Garden (FWG). Through the conceptual lens of the geographical concept of place – with its wide range of physical, relational and deeper meaningful considerations – this urban wildlife habitat project emerged as a place of profound significance. Volunteers working to create and maintain the FWG’s diverse habitats benefit from opportunities to engage in physical outdoor activity, establish social connections, make contact with the natural world, find deep personal satisfaction and meaning, and experience healthier and mutually beneficial relations with nature. This case study fills a knowledge gap in geography regarding the significant relationships that can emerge between people and the land they work with, thereby contributing to geography’s “latest turn earthward” examining practices and relationships of cultivation with the land. The case study also contributes to a growing interdisciplinary dialogue on human-nature relations and their implications in the context of future environmental and societal uncertainties.

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Mann, Zahid Nawaz. "The nature of insurgency in Afghanistan and the regional power politics." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Jun/10Jun%5FMann.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010.
Thesis Advisor(s): Simons, Anna ; Second Reader: Khan, Feroz H. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 15, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Pashtun Nationalism, Pashtunwali, Durand Line, Afghan Jihad, Afghan Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, FATA, South Asian Conflicts, Indian Cold-Start Strategy, Kashmir Dispute, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, U.S. AFPAK Strategy, U.S. Troop Surge, Reconciliation with Taliban, Operation Enduring Freedom, U.S.-Pakistan Relations, Nuclear Weapons of Pakistan, Counterinsurgency Strategy of Pakistan, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Operation Rah-e-Raast, Operation Rah-e-Nejat, Drone Attacks, Central Asian Republics (CARs), Oil and Gas, The New Great Game, Interests of Iran, India, China and Russia in Afghanistan, Gwadar Port. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-115). Also available in print.

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Macnaghten, Philip Martin. "The force of nature : empirical studies in the power of rhetoric." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293047.

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Mosley, Evan Christopher. "The Commodification of Nature: Power/Knowledge and REDD+ in Costa Rica." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83809.

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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is a global carbon trading program intent on mitigating or reversing carbon emissions from forestry in the global south. REDD+ was negotiated at the 2005 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is coordinated by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), administered by the World Bank Group. In this project, I explore REDD+ activity in Costa Rica, drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality. Costa Rica became a participant in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in July of 2008. Since then, indigenous peoples throughout the country have contested the program. This project is a single-case study of the Bribri contestation of REDD+ schemes, one of the larger indigenous communities in Costa Rica. Bribri argue that REDD+ disrespects their worldview and further endangers their local rights to land and forestry. This project argues that REDD+ and Bribri have different perceptions of nature, enabling disagreement on REDD+ goals. Whereas REDD+ perceives nature as commodifiable for the purposes of neoliberal climate policies, Bribri express a spiritual, harmonious relationship with nature. I conclude by noting that REDD+ can pose negative implications for indigenous life and culture. This is not only because REDD+ draws external and domestic actors to land and forestry for incentive-based purposes. But also because REDD+ defines 'rightful behavior' among forestry resources, challenging indigenous conceptions of environmental management. However, the Bribri are resisting REDD+ imposition and, particularly, the program's external governing of indigenous behavior amongst forests.
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Kettenring, Timothy O. "The impact on confidence for personal witnessing through exposure to power evangelism." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Lokash, Jennifer Faith. "In sickness and in health : romantic art therapy and the return to nature." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82920.

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This thesis explores the network of relationships among health and healing, the natural environment, and poetry during the Romantic period in Britain, and thus offers a new perspective on the Romantic relation to Nature. The context for this study is both the long and varied history that links literature to ideas of health and disease, and the intersection of the late 18th- and early 19th-century discourses of holistic science and healing that emphasize the synergy between self and world and recognize that our living environments can be either hostile or congenial to body and spirit. For many Romantic poets, illness was a painful reality that became vital to their thoughts about poetry and creativity in general. Through Wordsworth's partnership with Coleridge, a vocabulary of health and disease emerges in relation to poetic production and reception that has influenced critics of the period. It constructs the "natural" as a source of health, and establishes Wordsworth and his poetic celebrations of the therapeutic potential of nature as the often problematic legacy both for Coleridge and for second generation poets like Byron and Shelley. While composing Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, Byron tests Wordsworth's notion that immersion in the natural world can be spiritually therapeutic from the point of view of poetic production. The intensity of Byron's bodily existence, however, prevents him from fully experiencing the spiritual and metaphysical aspects of Wordsworthian nature. As his attempts to disengage the spirit from the body by meditating on nature actually have the reverse effect of bringing him more in touch with his physical identity, he must reject Wordsworth's methodology as a possible vehicle for healing. In refiguring Wordsworth's ideas about "taste," Shelley conceives of his poetry as healthy food for thought. His frequently used metaphors of "literature as food" have their source in his attitudes towards intake first exp

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Kearl, Annette M. "The Swiss Resonance Monochord Table| Inquiry Into the Healing Complexity and Transformative Power of Sound." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10275704.

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This research investigates the effects of music vibration defined in terms of harmonic sound relationships emitted by way of the Swiss Resonance Monochord Table on health-promoting change in physiological response, anxiety, mood and subjective experience in undergraduate musicians. Physiological measures include electromyography, temperature, skin conductance, heart rate, respiration, and immune system. Anxiety and mood are assessed by the Spielberger State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, & Jacobs, 1983) and the Profile of Mood States (McNair, Lorr, & Doppleman, 1971). Subjective rating scales measure tension-relaxation and enjoyment.

Themes from participant descriptions are extracted borrowing from procedures developed by Moustakas (1994) and Colaizzi (1978) and placed into categories defined by Murphy (1992) that suggest access to one's extraordinary functioning and transformative capacity. A cross-over design is applied where participants serve as their own control, randomly assigned to both vibrational sound and no sound conditions. A mixed-methods embedded design is also employed. Quantitative data is subject to statistical analyses and qualitative data is subject to content analyses. Findings reflect statistically significant positive physiological change to include electromyography, skin conductance, and respiration rate during vibrational sound conditions in comparison to conditions of silence. Anxiety, mood, and subjective ratings also reflect positive change. Thematic comments favor receiving vibrational sound within the physical, emotional, cognitive, auditory perception, visual imagery, mental-consciousness, somatic experience, aesthetic experience, and individuation of self and higher self domains.

This research addresses a gap in scientific knowledge about the links between physiological and psychological constructs to include states of consciousness as affected by vibrational sound. Findings reflect positive change effects across multiple domains within the perspectives of integral health and wellness addressing a call for a paradigm shift from the Western allopathic approach and model of illness to a health, wellness, and integral model. This research addresses the increasing trend in health care as individuals seek to understand and participate in maintaining their health and well-being. This research will interest professionals and researchers in music therapy, sound healing, psychophysiology, nursing, health care, psychoneuroimmunology, integrative medicine, energy medicine, transpersonal psychology, consciousness studies, and transformative inquiry.

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Riley, Tunisia L. "From the academy to the streets : documenting the healing power of black feminist creative expression." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002935.

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Assumpção, Felipe Framil. "Validation of Results of Smart Grid Protection through Self-Healing." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7468.

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This is a verification of the results of “Smart Grid Protection through Self-Healing” from the publication of Chathurika Chandraratne, et al., that proposes a protection solution for the smart grid. The paper used as reference has as the main focus on three different protections; directional overcurrent protection, overcurrent protection, and transformer protection, which are validated through ETAP software simulation of IEEE- 9 bus and 14 bus electrical power systems, the same used by the author. It was validated after repeated simulation, that just as intended, self-healing increases system agility, and it helped prevent false-tripping14 bus electrical power systems.

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Mirzaei, Narek. "Healing By Design: Evidence-Based Approach in Designing Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Center." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491315343286767.

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Peterson, Lee M. "The Cold War and the change in the nature of military power." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2492/.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 was called by many observers of international affairs the end of the Cold War. However, fifteen years earlier, commentators such as Alistair Buchan had also declared the end of the Cold War. Was this just an premature error on Buchan's part or is there a link between the events of the early 1970s, which is referred to as the era of detente and those leading up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It is the intention of this thesis to argue that these periods are integrally related mainly by the fact that they were each periods when one of the two superpowers was forced to reevaluate their foreign policies. The re-evaluations were brought about by changes in the international arena, most importantly a change in the nature of military power. Because the two superpowers were to recognize the change in the nature of military power at different times, it was not until both the United States and the Soviet Union had re-evaluated and altered their foreign policies was the Cold War really over. This thesis will firstly discuss the theoretical approaches to International Relations and the issue of power. It will then identify and define this change in the nature of military power by tracing the evolution of war and conflict in the past century. The thesis then trace the development of both US and Soviet foreign policy from the origin of the Cold War, through its various stages until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Through materials obtained from both US and Soviet archives, as well as interviews, this thesis will argue that this change in the nature of power was a central factor in altering the thinking of American and Soviet leaders at the time they brought drastic change to their foreign policies. Finally, this thesis will briefly look at the future role of military power as the world moves into the twenty-first century.

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Praskach, Ana. "Nature, daylight and sound : a sensible environment for the families, staff and patients of neonatal intensive care units." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003153.

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Fajber, Elizabeth. "The power of medicine : "healing" and "tradition" among Dene women in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23718.

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Dene women are leading and directing efforts toward "healing" themselves, their families, and their communities. Employing a modality of montage and storytelling, this thesis explores this enigmatic concept of "healing" among Dene, and its gendered dimensions, in the community of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. This account challenges the limitations of a resistance-hegemony paradigm often used to describe Aboriginal actions as embedded within colonial relations, and endeavours toward a more nuanced analysis which explores Dene "healing" beyond the colonial space. "Healing" is emerging as a vehicle for the assertion and celebration of Dene identity, Dene tradition and "Dene ways". This thesis further explores how many Dene women in Fort Good Hope are mobilizing the power of tradition, such as -aet'sechi/ (practices associated with "becoming woman"), as a means of "healing" social/health concerns, and influencing gender and power relations in the community.

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Yigit, Eva. "The Healing Power of the Ghost In Toni Morrison’s Beloved : An Analysis Through the Poststructuralist Lens." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32748.

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This paper utilizes poststructuralist theory to investigate the polysemic nature of the eponymous character Beloved in Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved. The ghostly, anachronistic presence of Beloved renders the text open to multiple interpretations and this essay sets out to explore the ways in which meaning is created and communicated. From a poststructuralist perspective, considering that the meaning is in a state of flux, a text weaves its system of meaning around an assumed center in order to provide so-called stability. Peripheral meanings are repressed by the center to secure the meaning system. However, the periphery, which has a constructive function in the organization of the text, also has the deconstructive potential. Hence, the deconstructive dynamics are already inherent in the text. In Beloved, Toni Morrison addresses, among other things, the act of speaking the unspeakable and the process of constructing a new subjectivity out of the ghost of the past. Her text deconstructs the dominant narratives that have marginalized the black motherhood experience, explores the horrors of slavery through horror elements, and eventually exposes the inadequacy of language to depict such horrors. While the textual periphery is enabled to speak louder than the center, the textual subconscious flows freely. The reader is forced to participate actively in meaning-making in order to make sense of the fragmented narrative imbued with deliberate ambiguity. Beloved, as the abject other, defies the phallogocentric symbolic order. A counter-discourse emerges from the maternal, semiotic chora and empowers the otherized heroine Sethe to construct her subjectivity. Delving into the interrelationship between traumatic memory and the act of creating one’s own narrative, the text finds reparative elements in ancestral connection and thereby blends the psychological with the historical and the micro-level with the macro-level of meaning. This paper employs deconstructive key concepts from Jacques Derrida, psychoanalytic key concepts from Julia Kristeva, and seeks to unravel the dynamics in Morrison’s text that enable Beloved to be read polysemically.

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