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Keenan, Andrew Eggleston. "IMAGINGS : designing for a world outside of eden." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23787.
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Mercho, Hassan Malak. "Arab World Institute, Washington, D.C. : the Arabic modernism outside of the traditional Arabic city." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845979.
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The actual need for such a building as the Arab World Institute is wellestablished because Arabs are searching for a solid relationship with Westerners. Growth is possible only through education. The Arab World Institute offers the opportunity for education, information, and entertainment, and serves as a hub of activity where all people-Arabs and otherwise-can meet and share cultural distinctions.The Arab World Institute will have at once:A cultural center for the need of the understanding of Arabic civilization,A museum to show the struggle for development in the Arabic world and to illustrate the cultural impact in a symbol of the city's past development,A library to express the architecture's poetic dimension.The Arab World Institute's buildings do not represent a single and imaginary moment in time, but a place of evolution and change. The Arab World Institute's mission will be:To develop a deeper knowledge and better understanding of Arabic culture, language, and civilization,To improve communication and cultural exchange between nations,To further The United States' relationship with the Arab world in order to contribute to developments in the rest of the world.<br>Department of Architecture
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Basil, Pamela. "White on the inside, brown on the outside." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97023.
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This project aims to equip people with a more nuanced understanding of cross-racial adoptive identity. This will be actualised through the telling of my own personal lived experiences, as well as other cross race adoptees’ stories.
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Rowley, Alison. """Bringing the outside world in"": Canadian prisoners' correspondence with Claire Culhane, activist and penal abolitionist, 1976-1996 /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2405.
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Taylor, John Matthew. "Outside Looking In: Stand-Up Comedy, Rebellion, and Jewish Identity in Early Post-World War II America." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2104.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.<br>Title from screen (viewed on February 26, 2010). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Jason M. Kelly, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Monroe H. Little. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-125).
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Spencer, Eliot P. Chasteen John Charles. "Reflecting the outside world in everyday consumption material culture and identity in late nineteenth-century urban Latin America /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1787.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.
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Spencer, Eliot P. "Reflecting the Outside World in Everyday Consumption: Material Culture and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Latin America." Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71605.
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Following the end of the colonial period, Latin America became a thriving market for goods from the industrializing world, particularly the United States, Great Britain, and France. This thesis explores the sociocultural implications of importation into Mexico City and Caracas, Venezuela, situating the flow of commodities within cultural processes. It analyzes how ordinary people in the two cities interacted with goods from abroad. While most studies of this phenomenon focus on elites, this research suggests that they did not comprise the only group to desire, acquire, and display imported commodities. In Mexico City, non-elites could achieve upward mobility by displaying European items. In Caracas, powerful external commercial ties allowed city residents of most classes to obtain foreign commodities and construct their identity by way of them. Thus, people throughout the social strata associated with imported goods, leading to internal and external effects on cultural identity.<br>Tinker Foundation<br>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Daglioglu, Yasar Mehmet. "A review of sediment-hosted gold deposits of the world with special emphasis on recent discoveries outside the U.S.A." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005609.
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Most of the Great Basin sediment-hosted gold deposits are located along well defined, northwest-striking trends. Trends coincide with faults, intrusive rocks and magnetic anomalies. Sedimentary host rocks are siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, argillic, interbedded chert and shales. Silty bedded silty dolomites, limestone and carbonaceous shales are the most favourable hosts. High, and locally, low-angle faults are very important structural features related to the formation of the ore bodies. High-angle faults are conduits of hydrothermal fluids which react, shatter and prepare the favourable host rock. Decalcification, silicification, and argillization are the most common hydrothermal alteration types. Jasperoid (intense silica replacement) is a significant characteristic; not all of these deposits are gold-bearing. Most deposits contain both oxidized and unoxidized ore. Fine grained disseminated pyrite, arsenian pyrite, and carbonaceous material are the most common hosts for gold in many deposits. These deposits are also characterized by high Au/Ag ratios, notable absence of base metal and geochemical associations of Au, As, Sb, Hg, Ba and TI. Recently numerous sediment-hosted gold deposits have been recognized in different regions of the world. They vary in their size, grades, textwe, host rock lithology, degrees of structural control and chemical characteristics. However, they have many common features which are very similar to the general characteristics of sediment-hosted gold deposits in the Great Basin, U.S.A. Besides these similarities, several unusual features are recorded in some newly discovered deposits elsewhere, such as predominant fault controlled paleokarst related mineralization and the lack of two very common trace elements (Hg, TI) in Lobongan/Alason, Indonesia; and Early Proterozoic age metamorphosed host rocks and lack of Sb in Maoling, China. The discovery of the deep ores in the Post-Betze and Rabbit Canyon, Nevada, proposed sediment-hosted Au emplacement at deeper level (4 ± 2 km; Kuehn & Rose, 1995) combined with a lack of field evidence for paleowater table and paleosurface features has ruled out a shallow epithermal origin. Recent discoveries in other parts of the world throw important new light on the ongoing genetic problems. Intrusive rocks are present in nearly all sediment-hosted gold deposits. Numerous intrusion-centred districts worldwide are characterized by tWo or more different mineralization types and consequently by metal zoning. Sediment-hosted gold deposits are proposed as a distal part of intrusion-centred magmatic hydrothermal systems (Sillitoe &Bonham, 1990).
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Moonitz, Allison B. "“An Experience Outside of Culture”: A Taxonomy of 9/11 Adult Fiction." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/247.
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Serving as an unfortunate benchmark for the twenty-first century, 9/11 has completely altered society’s perceptions of personal safety, security and social identity, along with provoking intense emotional reactions. One outlet for these resulting emotions has been through art and literature. Five years have since passed and contemporary authors are still struggling to accurately represent that tragic day and its consequent impression. This paper provides an analysis of how the events of 9/11 have been incorporated into adult fiction. Variations of themes related to psychology, interpersonal relationships, political and social perspectives, and heroism were found to be used most frequently among authors.
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Sharp, Roger Stephen. "The outside image : a comparative study of external architectural display on Middle Byzantine structures on the Black Sea littoral." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3013/.
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This study is concerned with the manner in which Byzantium manifested itself through the exterior of its buildings. The focus is the Black Sea from the ninth century to the eleventh. Three cities are examined. Each had imperial attention: Amastris for imperial defences; Mesembria, a border city and the meeting place for diplomats: Cherson, a strategic outpost and focal point of Byzantine proselytising. There were two forms of external display; one, surface ornament and surface modelling, the other through the arrangement of masses and forms. A more nuanced division can be discerned linked with issues of purpose and audience. The impulse to display the exterior can be traced to building practice at imperial level in the capital in the early ninth century. Surface ornament continued to be linked with the display of secular authority. Display through structure was developed in Cherson and the north Black Sea region to project the presence of Orthodoxy and was closely associated with conversion activity. By the end of the tenth century, through that external presentation, the form of the church building had itself become symbolic. External display can be seen as a vehicle for the expression of regional forms and evidence for the tenacity of local building “dialects”.
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Sanadjian, Manuchehr. "The articulation of Luri society and economy with the outside world : a growing paradox in a south-western province of Iran." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385637.
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Greening, Daniel John. "Art, landscape and material : subject into media." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/299209.
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A research investigation that illustrates the development of the European landscape tradition as an unbroken interactive and material movement, through discussion of artists from Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) to Richard Long (1945 –). The contribution of each artist within their respective epoch will be used to propose that the subject of landscape has become an actual creative medium, integral to and consistent with the external Plein-Air technique. Thus, presenting a ‘creative narrative’ from the observed into the articulated that will demonstrate how the examination and representation of actual landscapes have become physically used within creative presentations. The study uses key artworks that have been inspired by landscape to show the shift from documentation into interaction with the reality of the natural world. This entails the chronology of the investigation and commences with the concept of Ideal Landscape, established by Carracci, within the late 16th century, through the development of the Plein-Air tradition and culminating with particular emphasis on European landscape artists’ and movements since 1945 that have interacted with actual sites and natural materials: from the ideal to the actual. Furthermore, the European transfer and diffusion of interactive and material based landscape methods, including drawing and painting outside, the collection of organic items and photography, passed and developed from one generation to the next, informs a body of personal creative work. This is a 50/50 co-dependent strand used to illustrate the practical and creative discourses between practitioner and landscape, involving the articulation of actual land materials, found objects and Plein-Air excursions to the drawing locations of previous practitioners’, sketchbooks and journals. The insights provided, by the personal practice and associated theoretical position, aid the evaluation, analysis and description of the evolution of the creative methods inherent in the development of subject into media, but not presently described in historical accounts, therefore, presenting a Material Chronology and thus the original contribution of knowledge for this investigation.
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Dowds, Gillian L. "Window to the outside world : designing a new technology to supplement opportunities for community engagement of older adults in rural NE Scotland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231023.
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Rural areas are particularly affected by demographic ageing. In later life, the likelihood of living with chronic, manageable, physical conditions increases, affecting the ability to get out and about and be involved with the community. New digital technologies offer novel opportunities for overcoming physical barriers associated with engagement with others, which, amongst other benefits, can enhance wellbeing. These technologies may benefit all age groups in all types of community but could be of particular value in rural areas, which are characterised with dispersed settlement structures, accessibility restrictions and out-migration of family members and in-migration of new residents. The aim of this PhD project was to explore the potential benefits of digital technology, specifically designed for largely housebound older adults in rural North East Scotland, to enhance the sense of involvement they have with the local community. In this multi-methods project, sixteen interviews were conducted with largely housebound older adults living across North East Scotland, the majority in remote and accessible rural areas, to investigate how technology could enhance the sense of involvement older adults could have with their local community. These interviews, along with findings from two focus groups carried out with older adults, were used iteratively to inform the overall concept of the technology, followed by the design and development of a technology prototype. The prototype, entitled Window to the Outside World, was then evaluated with ten interviewees to explore whether live-streaming of local events could potentially enhance the sense of involvement one had with their local community, for those who were largely housebound in rural areas. The findings indicated that digital technologies, such as Window to the Outside World, carry much potential to provide supplementary avenues for increasing one's sense of involvement in the community for largely housebound older adults. There is scope to investigate whether use of such a technology could bring both individual and community-wide benefits for wellbeing, through increased opportunities for identity continuity, imaginative mobility as well as those gained from adopting a purely spectator role, and potential therapeutic benefits from the content of the footage. There is potential to develop the technology further to make it fit to their needs even more effectively.
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Pollard, Matthew David. "Rights of prisoners to contact the outside world : enforced disappearance, incommunicado detention and other forms of secrecy and isolation under international law." Thesis, University of Essex, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558984.
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This thesis describes and analyses the rights of prisoners to have contact with the world outside the place where they are held. It reviews international human rights and humanitarian law sources relevant to secrecy of detention and isolation of prisoners from the outside world. The thesis examines the issues of incommunicado detention and secret detention, including through the lenses of the right to liberty, the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, the right to humane treatment and respect for human dignity, and the prohibition of enforced disappearance. It also considers the wider range of human rights to which prisoners remain entitled subject to the inherent limitations of their situation, as possible sources of contact with the outside world: access to legal counsel, non- interference with family life, private life, and correspondence, freedom of religion, expression and association, the right to vote, and the right to health. Historical and theoretical context is provided by describing the purposes, practices and philosophies of imprisonment across history in the criminal justice, armed conflict, and administrative detention settings, with a particular focus on secrecy and isolation. The scope and interplay of the applicable legal frameworks is also discussed, considering the role of territoriality and the relationship between human rights and humanitarian law in relation to each of the issues addressed in the thesis. The thesis proposes a framework for answering legal questions about prisoners' rights of contact with the outside world and their restriction, identifying a series of cross-cutting factors that could inform an integrated approach. It concludes with possible explanations for the seemingly paradoxical trend towards recognition of ever-greater rights of prisoner contact with the outside world, when isolation and separation from society is the very objective for which deprivation of liberty is most often deployed.
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Zhang, Echo Yue. "Through a cultural lens: differences in pedagogic behaviours between chinese and Non-Chinese teachers in and outside English and Science (English-Medium) Classrooms in an IB world school in China." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491013.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate any differences existing in pedagogic behaviours between Chinese teachers (CTs) and non-Chinese teachers (NCTs) in and outside the English and Science (English-medium) classrooms in an International Baccalaureate (IB) context in mainland China. It also explored potential cultural influences, students' perspectives and issues arising from any differences in pedagogic behaviours. It provided an in-depth and systematic interpretation of the reasons that cause the differences with the aim of contribution to an amelioration of the co-constructed pedagogy.
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Carlgren, Gunilla. "Psykoanalytikers upplevelser av att patienten finns med i deras inre värld : utanför terapins tid och rum." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, S:t Lukas utbildningsinstitut, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-7707.
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Inledning: Relationen mellan analytiker och patient i det terapeutiska rummet är av stor betydelse för terapin, men vilken betydelse har samma relation utanför nämnda rum? Frågeställningar: Denna studie syftar till att undersöka psykoanalytikers upplevelser av patientens närvaro i deras inre, utanför terapin, hur analytikern, det terapeutiska samarbetet och processen i terapin påverkas av detta. Metod: Fem analytiker intervjuades genom semistrukturerad kvalitativ intervju. Intervjuerna analyserades med Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Resultat: Analytikerna beskrev erfarenheter av en lugn, kreativ, rörlig och drömsk närvaro av patienten i terapeutens inre, av en betungande närvaro präglad av oro, av en närvaro präglad av både kärleksfulla känslor och oro, av en överföring och motöverföring präglad av stark aggressivitet, där analytikern känner sig ockuperad av patienten samt av patientens närvaro kopplad till rambrott. Diskussion: Samtliga analytiker uppgav att patienterna för dem blivit inre objekt, vilka utgjorde en bestående del av deras inre värld. Detta kunde upplevas både som berikande, i form av känslor av glädje, tillfredställelse och kreativitet, och krävande, i form av känslor av oro, frustration och ilska. I båda fallen upplevdes dock närvaron av patienten i analytikerns inre värld utanför terapin som en tillgång och ett verktyg i den terapeutiska processen.<br>Introduction: The relationship between analyst and patient in the therapeutic setting is of great importance in therapy, but what is the importance of this relationship outside the therapeutic setting? Question: The purpose of this study is to examine psychoanalysts’ experiences of the patient’s presence in their inner world, outside the therapeutic setting, how the analyst, the therapeutic collaboration and the therapeutic process are affected by this. Method: Five analysts were interviewed using semistructured qualitative interview. The interviews were analyzed using IPA. Results: The analysts described experiences of a calm, creative, fluid, dreamlike presence of the patient, of a burdening presence characterized by concern, of a presence characterized by feelings of both affection and concern, of a transference and counter transference characterized by aggression, where the analyst feels occupied by the patient, and of the patient’s presence linked to frame break. Discussion: All analysts stated that the patients had become internal objects, and a permanent part of their inner world. This could be experienced as both enriching, with feelings of joy, satisfaction and creativity, and demanding, with feelings of concern, frustration and anger. In both cases this presence was, however, experienced as an asset and a tool in the therapeutic process.
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Tippner, Jeffrey E. "The Third World evangelical missiology of Orlando E. Costas." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3278.
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This thesis examines the missiological writings of Orlando E. Costas (1943-1987), particularly The Church and Its Mission: A Shattering Critique from the Third World (1974); Theology of the Crossroads in Contemporary Latin America (1976); Christ Outside the Gate (1982); and Liberating News: A Theology of Contextual Evangelization (1989). From the early 1970s until his death in 1987 he wrote over 130 articles and 12 books in both Spanish and English that addressed key missiological concerns. A careful reading of a selection of Costas's texts oriented around a hymn, a gospel song, a psalm, and a poem provides the shape of this thesis. This thesis argues that Costas formulated a Third World evangelical missiology. Chapter one investigates what Costas's autobiographical material expressed about his positions on conversion, Protestant evangelicalism, missiology, and those living on the ‘periphery' of life. Chapter two recognises his commitment to the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in particular and the Third World in general. Chapter three explores Costas's analysis of the Latin American Protestant Church in a revolutionary situation in the continent and chapter four examines his survey and critical appraisal of Latin American liberation theology. Chapter five recognizes the pastoral shape of Costas's missiology. Chapter six explores his critical interaction with two more conservative evangelical missiological positions, the Church Growth Movement and Peter Beyerhaus and the Frankfurt Declaration, and chapter seven surveys the discussion within the international evangelical community regarding the relationship between evangelism and social responsibility. Chapter eight examines Costas's Liberating News as an expression of Third World evangelical missiology. Chapter nine considers the theological issue of penal substitutionary atonement and his missiology. The thesis concludes with an appraisal of the issues and contributions of Costas's Third World evangelical missiology to current missiological discussion.
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Lindqvist, Robin, and Ebba White. "Hela världens skönlitteraturer? : En diskursanalytisk studie om svensklärares förhållningssätt till icke västerländsk skönlitteratur." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60480.
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This study investigates teaching of fiction from outside of the Western world. The study was conducted via a discourse analysis of five semi structured interviews with upper secondary school teachers in Swedish language and literature. The aim is to describe how the discourse of fiction from outside of the Western world is depicted by the teachers’ dictums about literature in general and their own teaching of literature. This is done by adapting Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s theoretical conception of signs, floating signifier, moment, articulation, chains of equivalence and subject position along with the pedagogical conceptions inclusion, integration and exclusion. The result shows that the signs “cultures” and “knowledges” were central in the discourse. The signs had the character of floating signifiers, due to the difference in the teachers’ statements. The chains of equivalence showed that fiction from outside of the Western world often was associated with negativity while the European and western fiction often where given a more positive approach. A majority of the teachers’ approach was further characterized by exclusion of fiction from outside the Western world, even though an individual teacher’s approach were characterized by inclusion. Based on the results, we also claim that the discourse concerning fiction from outside of the Western world in the Swedish subject is in a state of change, since the discourse in general was characterized by instability.
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Bradford, Linda M. "The Viability of Virtual Worlds in Higher Education: Can Creativity Thrive Outside the Traditional Classroom Environment?" BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3239.
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In spite of the growing popularity of virtual worlds for gaming, recreation, and education, few studies have explored the efficacy of 3D immersive virtual worlds in post-secondary instruction; even fewer discuss the ability of virtual worlds to help young adults develop creative thinking. This study investigated the effect of virtual world education on creative thought for university level students. Over the course of two semesters, a total of 97 university students participated in this study. Forty-six of these participants (experimental group) spent time in a specially designed virtual world environment, the V.I.E.W., while 51 of the participants (control group) met exclusively in a real-world classroom. Creative thought was measured before and after the intervention with the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Verbal Forms A and B. Although the experimental group's ending scores did not reach the level of the control group's scores, results showed overall statistically significant gains for the experimental group at p = .033. The experimental group also achieved greater gains in the subcategories of fluency and flexibility, with significance at p = .036 and p = .043, respectively. At the end of the course, independent raters measured the creativity expressed in student art critiques, using a scale developed for this study. No overall significant differences between groups were found in the art critiques, except in the category of spatial awareness, where the experimental group's scores were significantly higher than the control group's scores at p = .039. For both instruments, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to evaluate statistical data. Results suggest that immersive worlds can be at least as well suited as traditional university classrooms for developing creative thought—particularly in the context of art education. Implications for researchers, students, educators, and administrators are discussed.
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Sowden, Ryann. "An investigation into the perceptions of 'outsider' contributions to sustainable services for people with communication disabilities, in Majority World countries." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/622346/.
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Background: Services for people with communication disability (PWCD) are extremely limited in Majority World countries. Speech and language therapists (SLTs) provide many services for PWCD, but in Majority World countries the number of SLTs is small. Outsider (foreign) SLTs have been involved in providing services for PWCD in Majority World countries. Little is known about insiders' (country nationals) and outsiders' preferences for outsider-involvement; whether outsider involvement in the development of services follows a common trajectory; or what best practice for outsiders in developing sustainable services for PWCD in the Majority World should be. The aim of this study was to investigate the processes and perceptions of collaboration between insiders and outsiders, in developing services for PWCD in Majority World countries, with a particular emphasis on the contribution and roles of outsiders. Methods: A two-phase, exploratory, mixed-method study used ethnographic and survey case study approaches. In phase one, interviews, document analysis, and participant observation were carried out in Uganda. Phase two formed a pilot study using a written survey with participants from five Majority World countries. Data were analysed using content analysis, Thematic Network Analysis and descriptive statistics. Results: Ten thematic networks and three categories were generated from the two phases. Exploration of these resulted in 18 findings, which were integrated and synthesised to produce seven key statements. These key statements related to topics of power, roles, exchange, culture and development approaches. Discussion and Conclusions: This study has added to the knowledge base by revealing insiders' and outsiders' perceptions of challenges of their power, roles and cultural appropriateness; their need for fair exchanges of contributions; and the need for plans, flexibility and overall commitment to ensuring sustainability. The key statements showed insider preferences for outsider contributions and provide valuable guidance for outsider involvement at different stages of collaboration.
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Chu, Han-Yu, and 曲瀚羽. "What We Cannot Know: Essential I and Outside World." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5j28zw.
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In this thesis, I intend to provide a stable foundation and structure for knowing the world around us. I use skepticism as a vehicle for eliminating everything; as the consequence, “Feelings” are definitely what we cannot doubt. Simultaneously, the indubitability of “Feelings” certifies the “I” and the “I” certifies the “others” with “I-other” relation. The existence of feelings is indubitable, but we are left ignorant of their content and of what feelings actually are. We have no other choice but to accept feelings as what they seem to us while being aware of our ability does not allow us to know what we crave for: the answer from outside.
With this awareness, we can know the concept of the unknowable “outside world” and the limits of us are clear and ineliminable. This situation sounds desperate while it is not. These limits of ours are the solid ground for us to build our categories and settings which constructed the world we are living in. Instead of seeking for “what it is like”, we should focus on “what it is like for us”.
By translating feelings to “thoughts” and carefully examine them, we then have “relations” with these feelings and we “care” about feelings in different degrees. “Relations” and “care” helps us setting up categories and building up proper setting. With the awareness of what settings we are in and on what position we put ourselves, we then have the ability to forge the answer we need.
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Quelhas, Rodrigo António Marques. "Secure and connect smart-contracts to the outside world." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/98240.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Segurança Informática apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia<br>Smart contracts are an emerging and promising blockchain technology with a vast set of use cases, which is recently getting more and more attraction due to the rise of decentralized markets and applications. A few examples are decentralized finance, electronic voting, real estate titling records, non-fungible tokens, and supply chain.The fact that smart contracts run in decentralized systems makes them a viable solution against single entity abuses, which is crucial to prevent corruption.Unfortunately, a well-known limitation of blockchain systems is the lack of direct access to real-world information (e.g., weather forecasts, stocks, and fiat prices). This constraint makes the technology difficult to use when operations depend on data provisioned by external sources due to the lack of trustfulness with the data providers. Consequently, layer two solutions are necessary to solve the lack of trust and extend the features provided by the bare-metal of blockchain protocols. Layer two is the term used to categorize technologies built on top of the underlying blockchain protocol known as layer one.The principal focus of the internship was to research and implement secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions that allow smart contracts to access and use real-world information within the Tezos blockchain. As pointed above, access to external data sources is not supported natively by blockchains, and advancements in this space are necessary for the technology to become more robust and attractive for the less experienced public.<br>Contratos inteligentes são uma tecnologia blockchain promissora com um vasto conjunto de utilidades, sendo que têm recentemente ganho mais atração devido ao crescimento das aplicações e mercados descentralizados. Alguns exemplos reais para uso da tecnologia são o voto eletrónico, registos prediais para real estate, finanças descentralizadas, criação de testemunhos não fungíveis e registo em cadeias de distribuição.O facto dos contratos inteligentes viverem em sistemas descentralizados faz com que os mesmos sejam uma solução viável no combate a abusos provenientes de entidades singulares, sendo isso crucial na prevenção de corrupção.Infelizmente, um problema bastante conhecido em sistemas blockchain é a impossibilidade de acesso direto a informações externas, tais como, previsões meteorológicas, preços de ações ou até mesmo rácios de câmbio. Esta limitação faz com que a tecnologia seja difícil de usar com segurança quando as operações dependem de informação provinda de fontes externas devido à necessidade de confiança para com os distribuidores da informação.Consequentemente, soluções de segunda camada são necessárias para mitigarem a necessidade de confiança e estender as funcionalidades disponibilizadas pelas blockchains. O termo "segunda camada" é usado para categorizar as tecnologias construídas por cima dos protocolos nativos da blockchain, também categorizados como "primeira camada".O estágio teve como objetivo investigar e implementar soluções seguras, confiáveis e de baixo custo que permitam aos contratos inteligentes acederem e usarem informação disponível no mundo exterior ao sistema blockchain. Como referido acima, o acesso à informação provinda de fontes externas não é suportado nativamente pelas blockchains, por isso, avanços neste espaço são necessários para que a tecnologia se torne mais robusta e atrativa ao público menos experiente.
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Kleinberg, Robert. "The political economy of China's opening to the outside world, 1979-1985." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/22537081.html.
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Jabinal, Ezyl. "Embracing the outside world : the Filipino migration with Australia, South Australia case study." 2007. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unisa:36824.
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This dissertation is divided into six sections. The first section, the introduction and literature review, also covers the aim and objectives of the thesis. The second section discusses the labour migration from the Philippines to the outside world. It then explores the push forces and pull factors for Filipino migration in terms of: (i) economic issues, including unemployment and unchecked population growth, fiscal deficit and public-sector debt, natural disaster and globalisation; (ii) political factors, including a weak and inefficient state, security problems, and laws and policies; and (iii) dynamics of marriage and family migration, personal choice, wage difference and level of skills. The third section discusses the Philippines Government's roles in promoting migration, in implementing policies to protect its Filipino migrants and in providing supports for 'overseas contract workers' (OCWs). The fourth part of the thesis explains the importance of the remittances that overseas Filipinos send back to their home country. A series of case studies is presented on the fifth chapter; these focus on Filipino professional migration to Australia and particularly the state of South Australia. The case studies provide a more in-depth understanding of the Filipino migrants' role and position in a foreign country. The findings and observations made in the study are synthesised in the concluding sixth section.
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陳碧玲. "Continental States and Maritime States: The World Outside China in Traditional Encyclopedias (Lei-su)." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38104196838649731407.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣海洋大學<br>海洋文化研究所<br>100<br>China developed outward development is long-standing, regardless of being in politics, economy or culture, has a close relationship with many nations. However , following the establishment and maintenance with foreign relationship, it’s more important that understand various countries' geography knowledge. In this paper, it wants to know the understanding situation of various countries' geography knowledge since ancient times, especially the foreign geography knowledge in classic Lei-shu. Lei-shu have a quality of reference book, it classifies various knowledge for ministers or scholars when they need, so the content of classic Lei-shu could represent the common sense of ministers and scholars generally at that time.
This paper focus on seven classic Lei-shu that establish special department with outside countries in "Si Ku Quan Shu", because seven classic Lei-shu are from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, their Time, content, character and arrangement make the records of outside countries have difference. At first, it will describe the origin and character in Lei-shu, and take a quantification analysis of outside countries in seven Lei-shu, it will look forward to understand the quantity change of outside countries from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Second, it focuses the time of seven Lei-shu to part four time, and defines the foreign definition clearly, describe the countries simply, explain the understanding for overseas countries, discuss those nations that don’t exist. Finally, it will take a summary to the geography knowledge in seven Lei-shu, hope to understand the knowledge construction for the outside geography knowledge in classic Lei-shu.
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Yang, Sung-Chiao, and 楊松樵. "The study of the teacher's teaching demand of teaching outside school of Taipei Sea World." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68690068016028559960.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>運動與休閒管理研究所在職碩士班<br>95<br>The purpose of this research was to discuss the right group's teacher of teaching outside education of Taipei Sea World and carried on the teaching outside education to reach the teaching goal, helped teaching course planning, helped activity person who carried out four respect difference of demand teaching outside school. The research tool was a questionnaire. Using stratified sampling, 425 individuals (the target of this research was the September 1 to December 31, 2006, teaching outside education to Taipei Sea World) had been sampled. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, One-way ANOVA and Scheffe’s Post Hoc Multiple Comparison. The three major findings were listed as following ：
1.Visited the Taipei Sea World outdoor education association teacher by the preschool teacher most, the active way by "the visit" primarily, implementation category "school year outdoor education of activity took class and grade, group " as most, the course content blent together comprehensive nature of activity the study domain to occupy most, the active time "goes and returns take the same day" most, mainly held the post of the role by "the teacher" as most, the participation process took "drafts the action program", "the participation teaching design" as were most.
2. It could reach teacher's demand of teaching outside school in the marine museum, no matter in “reach teaching goal demand”, “ activity plan demand“, ”activity carry out demand” or“ outside school teaching safe demand” reached teacher's demand of outdoor education.
3. The different characteristic outdoor education association teachers had the difference to the sea museum demand: The different active way, the different implementation category were achieving the teaching goal demand to have the difference, differently mainly held the post of the role to carry out the demand in the activity to have the difference, differently participates in the process the active planed demand and the activity carried out the demand to have the difference.
Finally, through researching, the results could offer some suggestions for the correlation sea museum to do for the outdoor education activity place plan and the improvement reference, and the assistance outdoor education association achieved the outdoor education the teaching effect.
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Vaccaro, Jennifer. "The effect of self-efficacy and goal orientation on transfer of training to the world outside the classroom." 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1686181951&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3916&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Kentucky University, 2009.<br>Made available through ProQuest. Publication number: AAT 1462127. ProQuest document ID: 1686181951. Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-27)
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Bowditch, Elizabeth Cluverius. "Opening to the outside world the political economy of trade and foreign investment in the People's Republic of China /." 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40796795.html.
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Huang, Chao Ming, and 黃昭明. "Stakeholders debate on opening private historic sites tourism to the outside world –A case study in the Lin family ancestral home in Wufeng." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u9nw62.
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碩士<br>亞洲大學<br>休閒與遊憩管理學系碩士在職專班<br>103<br>Opening historical monuments to the public is one of the most important items of cultural tourism. It concerns not only huge investment and recurring labor for operationalizing the historical monuments but also the complicated conflicts of interest between government and private owners. Their interaction affects the further development of tourism directly. It is necessary to clarify about the situation.
The study takes “Opening Wufeng Lin’s mansion to the public” for example and adopts the stakeholder’s viewpoint to examine the related conduct about opening the historical monuments to the public. The stake of the practice based on in-depth interview with 13 figures of interest by way of qualitative research and narrative analysis approach on their perspectives.
The study found that it is a complicated situation in inner and outer states while private historical sites open to the public. For instance, the families’ internal disharmony, like and dislike of the locals, and the public’s eager for success; numerous involved stakeholders, including the owner of the property, local residents, tourists, the dealers and their employees, and the government, etc. ; the related interaction of stake during the opening process, including economic, social culture, and environmental impact issues; the needed adaptation of stake, including value integration, adjustmentof management, and the involvement of government and local region. Make a comprehensive survey to the practice of opening Wufeng Lin’s mansion to the public, when the private relics open the door of sightseeing, they will face the complicated argues between private possession rights and public profits. The managers of the relics must have the best balance for their own profits and public welfare. Under the cooperative circumstances between locals and officials, both sides can get a smoother development.
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Lockwood, Andrea M. "Beyond the fences a South African case study exploring the potential for extending biodiversity conservation outside protected area boundaries in the developing world /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ71600.
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Thesis (M.E.S.)--York University, 2002. Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-128). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ71600.
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Chen, Mei-Chu, and 陳美珠. "Intrinsic Virtue Was Full But Had Not Shown to the Outside World— An Interpretation and Analysis of the Textural Structure Of “Zhuangzi‧De Chong Fu”." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17432368952596780311.
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碩士<br>華梵大學<br>哲學系碩士班<br>96<br>Among the inner seven chapters of “Zhuangzi,” “The Seal of Virtue Complete” talked about how an individual should treat himself. At the time of Zhuangzi, people lived is in a world of incessant wars and turmoil, with an overnight life-threatening living. So Zhuangzi had founded a school of philosophy to appease life. In the chapter “The Seal of Virtue Complete,” Zhuangzi’s proposal to men who had lost his feet had singled out the symbolic significance of the men. Its purpose was not to show ugliness itself but to single out an ugly person. Both had been equipped with “whole virtue,” which a sound person had been left out. One could see virtue in their ugliness, their apathy toward life and death, their intrinsic value shown in all creatures, and their superiority compared with the mundane world. They had attracted the attention of people with their advantages in virtue and also with their disregard for their outer appearance. They had won the admiration of Confucius, Tzu Chan, Lord “Ai” of the Kingdom “Lu”, and many Confucian saints and royalties. They had made all of these people inferior in comparison.
In the chapter “The Seal of Virtue Complete,” Zhuangzi had resorted to fables on six invalids with ugly looks and maimed body to stress his concept of “admiring virtue and ignoring bodily shape and stressing internal virtue and ignoring outer appearance.” These fables were meant to set right wrong thinking of people in the mundane world. Zhuangzi had pointed out that disciples followed and went about with Wang Tai, the man who had lost both his feet, were as numerous as those of Confucius. This was because Wang Tai had no intention of doing so and it had become so and because his disciples came with admiration of his virtue. Shen-tu Jia, a man who lost his feet, mentioned that the virtue, the object of his study was internal, and not an adjunct of the body. Zhuangzi lauded him for being virtuous because of his treating the insurmountable as if it was his destiny. Zhuangzi had written about Shu-shan the Toeless, a cripple, visiting Confucius with the intention of pretending to be one whose conduct had been unchallenged. Zhuangzi had resorted to the sight of piglets suckling dead sow’s milk to explain intrinsic virtue and beauty. Regarding Ai-tai Tuo’s reference to complete powers and realization of powers not being manifested in the person, it had explained that intrinsic virtue was full but had not shown to the outside world. The argument of the person with no lips and another who had a large goiter that virtue was growing but bodily shape was being forgotten had explained that a person should forget about his bodily shape in order to grow virtue. Being equipped with the human shape but without feelings could be interpreted as expelling interference of feelings through a preservation of natural human quality and constantly maintaining serenity and ease. When Zhuangzi referred to a person without passions and desires, he had meant that this man did not by his likings and dislikings do any inward harm to his body - he always pursued his course without effort, and did not (try to) increase his (store of) life
“The Seal of Virtue Complete” was a work of Zhuangzi which expressed his thought that a man’s intrinsic virtue inside would eventually conform to his exterior. In this work Zhuangzi intentionally created handicapped figures to show his deepest protest to the mundane world. But surprisingly he had also depicted them as wise men following the right way in their living. External deformity and preservation of virtue had combined in them, with deceiving discord. The reason why Zhuangzi had treated them was to show the beauty of intrinsic virtue. The whole virtue could overcome deformity in bodily shape, thus making the handicapped equipped with intrinsic virtue inside would eventually conform to his exterior.
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White, Gregory Whayne. "On the outside looking in small world states on the periphery of advanced-industrialized blocs : the political economy of Tunisia's Infitah to the European community, 1969-1987 /." 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/29552515.html.
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Geislinger, Adrian Cornelius. "How Lego rebuilt and became the top toymaker in the world." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/31148.
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Lego is an exemplary case for a classic turnaround that put the company in an even better position in the future. In the past, Lego’s sales increased steadily over the years, however, in the 90s they showed signs of struggle and they reported their first-ever loss in the history of the company. What followed was a turbulent ride for the toymaker. After several attempts that failed, Lego finally managed to change their downward ride drastically and achieve a textbook turnaround.
The case will highlight actions that resulted in the turnaround and long-term competitive advantage. Additionally, it will give information about how a change of leadership, especially during a crisis, but also in the long-term, affect the firm’s performance. The case will demonstrate how theoretical concepts come to life and it aims to give students a better understanding by presenting a compelling real-life example and to contribute to the turnaround studies.<br>A Lego é um caso exemplar de um clássico turnaround que colocou a empresa numa posição ainda melhor no futuro. No passado, as vendas da Lego aumentavam de maneira consistente ao longo dos anos, no entanto, nos anos 90 a Lego mostrou os primeiros sinais de dificuldade e reportou a sua primeira perda na história da empresa. O que se seguiu foi uma viagem atribulada para a fabricante de brinquedos. Depois de várias tentativas que falharam, a Lego finalmente conseguiu sair da sua espiral descendente e alcançar drasticamente uma turnaround perfeita.
O caso vai destacar as ações que levaram à turnaround e a uma vantagem competitiva a longo prazo. Adicionalmente, o caso apresenta informação sobre como a mudança de liderança, especificamente durante uma crise, mas também a longo prazo, afeta o desempenho da empresa. O caso demonstra como conceitos teóricos ganham vida e visa dar aos alunos uma melhor compreensão de turnarounds através da apresentação de um exemplo interessante de uma situação real e contribuir para o estudo de turnarounds.
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Gandell, Jeffrey. "Reflections of reflections : authors, narrators and worlds inside and outside of autobiographical fiction." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7972.
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Chamberlain-Salaun, Jennifer. "Consumers and the social world of health care: outsiders in the expert's world: a grounded theory study." Thesis, 2015. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/45729/1/45729-chamberlain-salaun-2015-thesis.pdf.
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Background
Until the 1970s, the biomedical model was the predominant model of care used in Western health care system. Under this model, the human body and how it is affected by illness are central to treating patients, to the exclusion of peoples' experience of illness (Engel, 1977; Henderson & Henderson, 2010). Within this model, doctors dominate and patients are passive, obedient and admiring (Digby, 1997). The introduction of the biopsychosocial model of health care in the 1970s shifted focus from the human body and illness to consumers' psychological and social contexts being viewed in conjunction with their illness. Although the concept of patient-centred care was introduced in the mid 1950s (Balint, 1969; de Haes, 2006) it was not until the 1990s that it became prominent in Western health care policy and practice. The concept of patient-centred care emphasises care that is "respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values and ensur[es] that patient values guide all clinical decisions" (Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, 2001, p. 6). Under this model, there is an assumption that consumers share power and responsibility for their health and health care with health experts (Mead & Bower, 2000).
The interactional relationship between consumers and health experts is central to the delivery of health care. While 'doctor-patient' relationships still play a key role in health care, these relationships are not as haloed as they once were (Bury, 2004). The "golden age of doctoring" is over (McKinlay & Marceau, 2002, p. 379). Consumers' central health professional may now be a nurse practitioner or a complementary practitioner (McKinlay & Marceau, 2002). Gaining insight into processes of interaction between consumers and health experts across health settings and health conditions enables improvements in both efficiencies and quality of health care, and has the potential to improve consumer health outcomes.
Aim
The aim of this study is to construct a grounded theory that explains the processes of interaction between health consumers and health experts.
Justification
There is a gap in the literature that presents processes of interaction between consumers and health experts across a variety of health settings and health conditions.
Ethics
Ethical considerations were followed in accordance with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 (The National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, & and the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, 2014). The Far North Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee (FNQ HREC) approved the study (HREC/13/QCH/28–830) and James Cook University Human Ethics Research Committee endorsed the approval (H5173). Further to ethics approval, Site Specific Assessment (SSA) was required to conduct non-participant observation and to recruit study participants at the Cairns Hospital. Approval was granted (SSA/14/QCH/8 - #830).
Methodology
The researcher used Strauss and Corbin (Strauss & Corbin, 1990, 1998) and Corbin and Strauss' (Corbin & Strauss, 2008) evolved version of grounded theory to examine the process of interactions between consumers and experts. This version of grounded theory is explicitly underpinned by symbolic interactionism. Grounded theory provides a systematic approach to conducting research, which aims to generate theory grounded in data. It is also an appropriate way to examine an area of study in which there is little prior knowledge. Symbolic interactionism provides a perspective through which to explore processes of action and interaction.
Methods
Essential grounded theory methods (Birks & Mills, 2011) used in this study include: concurrent data collection/generation and analysis, theoretical sampling, initial and intermediate coding of data, constant comparative analysis of data, theoretical integration of data, selecting a core category and memo writing. Data were collected and generated using the following techniques: demographic information questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, participants' diary entries, fieldnotes, non-participant observation and digital storytelling.
Sampling
The study was conducted in the Australian regional city of Cairns in Far North Queensland. The researcher used purposive and theoretical sampling techniques, which resulted in a total of 32 study participants, comprising 23 health consumers and 9 health experts.
Findings
The resultant product of this study is the grounded theory titled: Outsiders in the experts' world. The theory consists of five categories and their sub-categories, which explain the process experienced by people who unexpectedly enter the social world of health care and become health consumers. Consumers generally move sequentially through the stages of the process, although the stages may overlap or be revisited. The categories and sub-categories of the grounded theory are: 1) Unexpected entrance (Emotional fluctuations; Changing perceptions of self); 2) Learning a new role (Acquiring knowledge; Learning the language of health care; Confronting mortality; and Cultivating support); 3) Establishing a presence (Gaining confidence; Choosing a voice; and Establishing relationships; 4) Confronting the dichotomy of 'us and them'; 5) Tailored care (Listening and acting; and Accessing experts).
Discussion
Findings from this grounded theory study present the processes of what happens when a person enters the social world of health care and how processes of interaction between them and health experts play out. The contingent relationship between what and how provides the basis for the discussion chapter, which addresses questions of why consumers are outsiders in the experts' world. The discussion chapter introduces extant theories to provide explanatory power to the grounded theory and to contextualise it within the broader literature.
Conclusion
Interactions between consumers and health experts are central to the delivery of health care. Findings from this study indicate that regardless of consumers' experience in their role, they remain outsiders in the social world of health care. The findings are significant in the current health care climate, which promotes consumer centred health care. A shared understanding between all stakeholders around the role of consumers will support the development of strategies to continually improve processes of interaction between consumers and health experts and to strengthen the consumer role.
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Burke, Amy Elizabeth. "Language, literacy practices, and identity constructions inside and outside of a fifth grade classroom community." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6057.
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This case study investigated the ways in which its participants drew from available language and literacy practices as they constructed identities in various contexts. Data was gathered using ethnographic methods, including field notes, interviews, artifact collection, and video data. Observations took place within a fifth grade classroom and select focal participants were interviewed and collected video data on their own outside of school. The study was framed through theories of context-dependent identities, built from the semiotic resources available to people based on context and positionality. Findings suggest the participants engaged in multimodal, heteroglossic composing practices outside of school, while inside of school their composing practices were defined by accountability measures imposed on them from outside the classroom. Findings also showed how the classroom community was discursively built and maintained, at times functioning as a homogenizing force even though the discourses defining the community were those of acceptance and diversity. Participants cultivated what they viewed were acceptable identities within the classroom through the language and literacy norms and practices therein. The study suggests implications for educators in how language and literacy practices shape acceptable identities and the spaces for them, and for how the construct of community is understood and intended in classrooms versus how it functions in practice.<br>text
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Su, Po-Hao, and 蘇柏豪. "The Impact of Product Innovation, Service Innovation, Word of Mouth Marketing on Perceived Value and Purchasing Decisions in Outside Food and Beverage Industry - The Interference Effect of Perceived Risk." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4dxkpr.
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碩士<br>遠東科技大學<br>行銷與流通管理系碩士班<br>106<br>The culture of catering is a common mode of banquet in Taiwanese culture, mostly used in weddings and funerals and folk offerings. The changes of culture and economy have also allowed catering be used in relocation, fundraising, and election in the society nowadays. With the consumer awareness rising and hotel and banquet halls springing up, consumers have more choices to choose from. The traditional catering industry has gradually into the phase of eliminating, replaced by other restaurant industry.
The study is to investigate the important factors for consumers to choose the catering industry. The result revealed that: (1) Product innovation has no significant effect on perceived value. (2) Service innovation has significantly positive effect on perceived value and consumers can be satisfied by innovating the ways of service. (3) Word of mouth marketing has significantly positive effect on perceived value, which can be used to improve consumers’ confidence on choosing the catering. (4) Perceived value has significantly positive effect on purchasing decision. By enhancing consumers’ perceived value, purchasing decision can be better. (5) Perceived risk has interference effect between the perceived value and purchasing decision. The raise of the perceived risk would lower the perceived value of consumers when choosing the catering and thus influence its purchasing decision.