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Davanzo, Anthony P. "Practical Paradise: Ethics for a Modern Age." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1248.
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This play demonstrates an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy in practice. The main character experiences loss and confusion, however, through this struggle arrives at a discovery of profound truth. If you've ever wondered how to live your life in the best way possible, the main character believes he's found the answer.
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Strunk, Jonathan. "Age related changes in preparation of encoding." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53385.
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A hallmark of aging is a decline in episodic memory. These memory impairments in older adults may be related to a shift away from proactive control strategies. Previous research, with young adults, suggests proactive processes can benefit memory encoding. The dual mechanisms of control model suggests changes in the recruitment of proactive and reactive control strategies will influence behavioral outcomes. The current study used EEG to investigated proactive control in episodic memory in aging. Both young and old adults completed a subsequent memory task with audio and visual items. Each item was preceded by a modality consistent cue. Participants also completed the AX-CPT, which is sensitive to the use of proactive strategies. We found both younger and older adults recruited proactive processes only for audio trials. Both groups exhibited proactive patterns of performance on the AX-CPT. Post-stimulus EEG suggests younger and older adults recruited different strategies for processing audio items. Visual items did not show subsequent memory effects in the pre-stimulus time period, but both groups showed post-stimulus effects. These results suggest younger and older adults are able to flexibly recruit proactive strategies that benefit memory performance.
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Fällström, Åke. "Modern gnosticism och New Age : en jämförande studie." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-505.
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<p>Förhållandet mellan modern gnosticism och New Age har visat sig vara oklar i den aktuella akademiska diskussionen. I denna studie gjordes ett försök att bringa en större ordning i denna aktuella akademiska diskussion. Huvudsyftet var att jämföra modern gnosticism och New Age utifrån några valda verk, och se vilka likheter och skillnader som fanns. Metoden som användes var deskription och komparation. Studien visade att det fanns både likheter och skillnader. Den största likheten kan sägas bestå av att båda fenomenen är individcentrerade. Den främsta auktoriteten finns inom människan. En annan likhet är att båda rörelserna har en oppositionell karaktär. På det andliga planet är man mot den etablerade, institutionaliserade och hierarkiska formen av religion. Den största skillnaden mellan de båda handlar om två närliggande existentiella frågor som verkar vara förbehållet modern gnosticism. Det handlar om människan som en främling inför tillvaron, och hennes utkastade tillstånd i denna världen.</p>
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Dean, Penelope. "Delivery without discipline architecture in the age of design /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1779835461&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Billew, Barrett Slade. "Flow-Acting: Modern Sports Science and the Preparation of Actors." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/775.
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Theatre artists and acting teachers throughout history have sought to find and create presence. By combining modern sports science with an understanding of systems of actor training I have suggested an approach that makes presence a trainable skill. My coach Dr. Scott Sonnon, developer of the Circular Strength Training System, has refined modern sports science to emphasize the development and maintenance of flow-state. This state allows the athlete to respond openly and freely within a constantly changing situation.By combining my life long study of acting with my eight years of work with Coach Sonnon I am developing a system to teach actors the skill of cultivating flow. This work will enhance the actor's presence and ability to handle the stress of performance while developing a strong, supple, and coordinated psychophysical instrument. Video of examples of the exercises can be found in the accompanying materials.This work was created in Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac.
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Ersoy, Gozde. "Trajectories, thresholds, transformations : coming of age in classic modern fantasy fiction." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13606.
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This thesis examines and explores the process of coming of age in successful fantasy fiction series, including J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings novel and its prequel The Hobbit, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. In particular, it is suggested that the huge popularity of fantasy stems from the fact that it provides a representation of human agency significantly at odds with the everyday experience of an increasingly bureaucratized and financially-determined world. Analysis shows how fantasy texts provide a universal model that help younger readers to understand the process of maturity as individuation and entry into the intersubjective social world. The central protagonists of such texts have to learn to master concepts such as seeing oneself in the other through intersubjective dialogues, objectifying one’s self in the world, and coping with their own battles, in the process of finding their way to maturity. This fictional “quest” or “journey” provides a model for readers to assess their own realities and actions, which in turn has the effect of changing their understanding and enabling them to critique their own lives. It is demonstrated how these classic and widely translated works of fantastic literature, which reach a huge crossover readership, may be understood in terms of parallel transformational stages such as confusion, inattentional blindness, fear, courage and various attempts of learning the need for moderation. Overall, this analysis, comprising the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, anthropology, education, behavioural economics, sociology, media, and history, explores the processes of transformation and maturation within fantasy literature. At the same time, the case for fantasy literature’s uniqueness in its capacity to reveal the mechanisms of human agency is substantiated within a theoretical framework.
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McTighe, Geoffrey Neal Cassady Rao Ennio I. "The new light of Europe Giordano Bruno and the modern age /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1443.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Languages Italian." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.
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Moore, Natasha Lee. "The unpoetical age : modern life and the mid-Victorian long poem." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610158.
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Campbell, Kurt (Kurt Denver). "The tensions in technology : influences of technology in the modern age." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16268.
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Thesis (MA(BK))--University of Stellenbosch, 2004.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technology as a formal structure has been given pride of place in many
developing countries because of its association with modernity and social
development. It has been grouped with Science as a force that operates
beyond reproach because of its perceived rational and instrumental nature. By
surveying current theories of technology, philosophy and technology
development modules, I investigate the implications that modern technology
and technological artifacts have beyond merely their instrumental role. I will
question the current conceptions of technology as a rational, objective force
by arguing that technology operates as a force that more often than not
produces a variety of unintended consequences as part of its impact on
society.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In menige ontwikkelende lande geniet tegnologie voorrang as ‘n formele
struktuur weens die verbintenis daarvan met moderniteit en sosiale
ontwikkeling. Tegnologie word saam met wetenskap gegroepeer omdat dit,
weens die waarneembare rasionele en instrumentele aard daarvan,
onberispelik funksioneer. Deur huidige teoriee van tegnologie, filosofie en
tegnologiese ontwikkelingsmodules te bestudeer, ondersoek ek dié
aanduidinge wat moderne tegnologie en tegnologiese artefakte bo en behalwe
hul blote instrumentele rolle besit. Ek sal die huidige opvattings van
tegnologie as ‘n rasionele, objektiewe krag bevraagteken deur te argumenteer
dat tegnologie eerder ‘n verskeidenheid van onopsetlike voortvloeisels as deel
van sy impak op die samelewing tot gevolg het.
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Van, Zanten Marie-Louise. "Tax collecting practices : a comparison between antiquity and the modern age." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60527.
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South African policymakers are challenged by the limited resources that can be consulted in the field of tax policy proposals that address the needs of the public. Despite the importance of studying tax history as a reference for modern tax systems, decisions regarding current tax collection policies in South Africa have not been informed by effective historical policies. It is imperative that historical tax policies be studied to identify tax policies that produced the desired or intended results, which could then serve as a benchmark for South African tax collection policies.
The purpose of this study was to compare the current South African tax collection policies with efficacious tax collection policies implemented in ancient China, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Both similarities and differences between the ancient policies and current policies were found and possible improvements that could contribute to optimising the effectiveness of South African tax legislation were highlighted.
The research conducted for the purpose of this study confirmed that similarities exist between current tax collection policies implemented in South Africa and those implemented in ancient civilizations. One particular improvement that South Africa could adopt is to revise the policy relating to the progressive tax system to ensure that all South African citizens, irrespective of their ability to pay, contribute, as was the case in Ancient Egypt. Processes could be implemented to hold the government accountable for the responsible and transparent spending of tax revenue according to the tax budget, as applied by the ancient Romans. It was also determined that the policies regarding tax refunds should be applied by SARS in terms of the relevant legislation and in the pursuance of a fair and stable tax system. By adopting any of the efficient tax collection policies of antiquity, South Africa could initiate steps to optimise the effectiveness of the tax system.<br>Mini Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2016.<br>Taxation<br>MCom<br>Unrestricted
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Crowden, Hilary John. "Rutland : the development of a county community within the modern age." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40019.
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This thesis aims to explore aspects of a largely intangible aspect of rural change: that of affiliation and affinity, to Rutland, a small county within the English East Midlands. It aims at an evaluation and possible explanation of the position that Rutland held as an iconic English rural community towards the end of the twentieth century. This thesis’s originality and contribution to knowledge lays in its conceptual framework and its holistic methodology bringing together two themes and various approaches to the study. Conceptually it uses the idea of the 'imagined community', originally used to explain forms of nationalism, along with the notion of a 'county community' developed to explain social cohesion within the provincial structure during the seventeenth century. It brings these two concepts together and translates them through to the modern age in the consideration of Rutland, famous for its tenacity in defending its county identity. Differing aspects of administration, culture and representation are studied using a range of sources to provide evidence to argue that concentrating on the dual elements of affiliation and participation, the county community concept can be extended from the seventeenth century and be a useful tool in studying modern rural society. In a parallel emphasis the roles of different forms of representation are used to give credence to the argument that they were different imagined communities of Rutland dependent upon the point of view of the cultural agent involved as much as the position of the viewer, the consumer of the product. A common factor in the majority of these representations is the consideration of Rutland as part of the rural idyll of the English countryside. Conclusions are drawn as to the veracity of this mythology and its role in sustaining community spirit and reinforcing a perceived distinct county identity in the modern era.
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Farias, Miguel. "A psychological study of New Age practices and beliefs." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eae25fc5-1644-44f6-8f3c-8f25e5707d22.
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This thesis consists of a study of the motivational, cognitive and personality implications of adherence to New Age practices and beliefs. The New Age, unlike traditional Western religion, possesses no church-like structure and is usually characterised as a loose network of self-development practices, with a belief system centred on the spiritual evolution of the individual through successive reincarnations and the idea of a magical interconnectedness between all things. The studies carried out used a series of psychological measures, including self-report scales, analysis of self-concepts, autobiographical episodes and attributions to life events, and experimental visual and semantic tasks. Groups of traditional religious and non-religious individuals were also assessed to serve as contrasts to the New Age group. Following from previous sociological literature on the individualist character of the New Age, the first study dealt with individualist and collectivist motivations. New Age individuals were found to emphasise more individualistic values than Catholics, but still differed from non-religious individuals in that they stressed more self-transcendent universalism values and global-holistic self-concepts. This pattern was labelled as 'holistic individualism' and the second study sought to define it more accurately by focusing on the analysis of agency and communion motivations through the analysis of autobiographical episodes. In this study, the New Age group showed a higher frequency of agency and a lower frequency of communion themes than traditional religious and non-religious participants and, in particular, emphasised life stories of self-empowerment by non-material 'energies' or entities. The last two studies looked more closely at the New Age tendency towards highly abstract cognitions, in particular its sense of connectedness, by focusing on magical thinking and personality traits. New Age individuals were found to attribute events to magical rather than naturalistic causes much more often than the other groups. This cognitive disposition was confirmed in the last study, which found a positive association between the adherence to New Age practices and schizotypal personality traits, emotional hypersensitivity, and cognitive-perceptual looseness. Women were also found to be keener adherents to the New Age than men. Given this set of results, it is suggested that the New Age should be thought of primarily as a magical, rather than a religious, system of practices and beliefs. It is also proposed that an individual may be drawn to the New Age not only because of its modern individualistic appeal, but in virtue of possessing a particular personality and cognitive disposition towards magical ideation and unusual perceptual experiences.
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Black, Sydney. "The fate of the vamp: Weimar Émigré cinema in the Golden Age of Hollywood." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106621.
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Utilizing film and feminist theory, traditional histories of Germany and America as well as primary source material, this paper's interdisciplinary approach exposes traditional misconceptions regarding the exiled nature of the Weimar émigrés filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Through the construct of the New Woman, or the vamp, this paper explores the emigration to America and the ways in which it affected the filmmaking which had characterized Weimar cinema, while illustrating the changing perceptions of women through the 1920s-1940s. 1930s America would prove to be a short lived period wherein the émigré community was able to craft films which departed from the typical Weimar trope of the vamp, featuring prominent and sympathetic female characters.<br>Pendant l'âge or d'Hollywood, il y avait nombreuses cinéastes émigrés du Weimar – réalisateurs, écrivains, acteurs, techniciens – émigrés qui avaient changé leurs méthodes cinématographiques, et, du quelque part, avaient aussi changé des méthodes d'Hollywood. La littérature populaire sur le sujet de cette période est pleine des références de la caractère d'exile de ces cinéastes, mais, même si cette caractèrisation peut s'appliquer sur certaines de ces cinéastes, il est trop simplistique pour la totalité de la communauté des émigrés. L'approche intérdisciplinaire de cette thèse, en utilisant des théories féministes, des théories de filmes, des histoires traditionelles d'Allemagne et des États Unis, ainsi que des matériaux primaires, sert à exposer les histoires fausses des cinéastes émigrés du Weimar en Hollywood. En regardant la caractère de la Femme Nouvelle en cette période, on peut simultanément tracer la trajet de ces émigrés et leurs idées entre Weimar et Hollywood, ainsi qu'utiliser la cinématographie nationale de ces deux pays comme une lentille en analysant les perceptions changeant des femmes. La traitement vindictive des femmes, un élément caractéristique des filmes du Weimar, était abandonné en les États Unis en les années 1930. Cette période avait furni des opportunités pour la communauté des émigrés de s'éloigner de ces tropes, en fabriquant des films avec des caractères feminines qui étaient fortes et sympathiques.
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Wang, Qian. "Information freshness-oriented scheduling in modern wireless communication systems." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25537.
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Recent years have witnessed extensive interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) from both academia and industry. Various advantages of wireless IoT networks, such as low cost, easy deployment and maintenance, and support of mobility, have paved the way for the rapid development of IoT applications that have gained ground among modern wireless communication systems. In many of these systems, information freshness is of great importance, where the sender is required to transmit its message to the receiver in a timely manner. The Age of Information (AoI) was born to quantify information freshness from the receiver's perspective. Researchers have shown enormous interest in this new metric, thanks to its capability to characterize the timeliness of data transmission in status update systems. This thesis exploits modern wireless technologies such as cognitive radio (CR) and nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in status update systems, considering their ability to deal with spectrum scarcity and enhance spectrum utilization. The information freshness-oriented scheduling policies in these wireless communication systems are studied.
In the first part of the thesis, we consider a CR-based IoT monitoring system consisting of an IoT device that aims to update its measurements to a destination using CR technique. Specifically, the IoT device as a secondary user (SIoT) seeks and exploits the spectrum opportunities of the licensed band vacated by its primary user (PU) to deliver status updates without causing visible effects to the licensed operation. In this context, the SIoT should carefully make use of the licensed band and schedule when transmitting to maintain the timeliness of the status update. We aim to minimize the long-term average AoI of the SIoT while satisfying the collision constraint imposed by the PU by formulating a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP) problem. We first prove the existence of an optimal stationary policy of the CMDP problem. The optimal stationary policy (termed age-optimal policy) is shown to be a randomized simple policy that randomizes between two deterministic policies with a fixed probability. We prove that the two deterministic policies have a threshold structure, and further derive the closed-form expression of the average AoI and collision probability for the deterministic threshold-structured policy by conducting a Markov Chain analysis. The analytical expression offers an efficient way to calculate the threshold and randomization probability to form the age-optimal policy. For comparison, we also consider a throughput maximization policy (termed throughput-optimal policy) and analyze its average AoI performance. Numerical simulations show the superiority of the derived age-optimal policy over the throughput-optimal policy. We also unveil the impacts of various system parameters on the corresponding optimal policy and the resultant average AoI.
In the second part of the thesis, we consider a wireless network with a base station (BS) conducting timely status updates to multiple clients via NOMA/orthogonal multiple access (OMA). Specifically, the BS is able to adaptively switch between NOMA and OMA for the downlink transmission to optimize the information freshness of the network, characterized by the weighted sum of the average AoI of the network. For the simple two-client case, we formulate a Markov Decision Process (MDP) problem and develop the optimal policy for the BS to decide whether to use NOMA or OMA for each downlink transmission based on the instantaneous AoI of both clients. The optimal policy is shown to have a switching-type property with obvious decision switching boundaries. {A suboptimal policy with lower computation complexity is also devised, which is shown to achieve near-optimal performance via numerical simulations. For the more general multi-client scenario, the optimal solution is computationally intractable due to the large state and action spaces. We develop a feasible suboptimal policy with low computation complexity. Specifically, inspired by the proposed suboptimal policy of the two-client scenario, we formulate a nonlinear optimization problem to determine the optimal power allocated to each client by maximizing the expected AoI drop of the network in each time slot.} The problem is shown to be non-convex, and we manage to solve it by approximating it as a convex optimization problem. Simulation results validate the tightness of the adopted approximation. Specifically, the performance of the adaptive NOMA/OMA scheme by solving the convex optimization is shown to be close to that of the max-weight policy solved by exhaustive search. Besides, the adaptive NOMA/OMA scheme achieves significant performance improvement compared to the OMA scheme, especially when the number of clients in the network is large and the transmission SNR is high.
In the third part of the thesis, wireless networks with adaptive NOMA/OMA are extended to the stochastic arrival model of status generation together with practical long-term and short-term power constraints. We aim to minimize the sum of the long-term average AoI of all clients subject to power constraints. To solve this problem, we convert the long-term optimization problem to slot-by-slot optimization problems by leveraging the Lyapunov optimization framework and prove that the optimal solution of the original problem can be asymptotically achieved by solving the slot-by-slot optimization problem. We also show that the transformed problem is non-convex and we propose a low-complexity dynamic scheduling and power allocation algorithm to solve it. Numerical results validate the asymptotic optimality of the proposed algorithm, and show the superior performance of the proposed dynamic scheduling and power allocation algorithm in terms of AoI performance of the network versus different system parameters compared with the benchmark policies adopting OMA scheme only.
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Botelho, Lynn Ann. "Provisions for the elderly in two early modern Suffolk communities." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273017.
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Kubis, Daniel John. "Fighting for a common culture| Literary theory in the age of Reagan." Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3573260.
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<p> This dissertation examines the Possibilities for creating social change through literary criticism by focusing on three American critics: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Frank Lentricchia, and Edward Said. All three wrote Politically minded literary criticism during the 1980's and 1990's, decades that witnessed a broad-ranging attempt to roll back the change and turbulence associated with the 1960's. With regard to criticism, this attempt amounted to a challenge to literary theory, which was a radical way of thinking that crystallized in the 60's and early 70's and often carried revolutionary social hopes with it. As I suggest in the introduction, we are currently living in a moment in which the radical hopes fostered by literary theory co-exist uneasily with the counterrevolutionary movements of the 80's: the hopes and impulses still exist, but they have no adequate social outlets. Looking back to the 80's, I hope, will help clarify our moment, and Possibly Provide some resources for contemporary criticism. </p><p> My goal in each chapter is twofold: first, to understand the critic on his terms, second, to Put the criticism in dialogue with another body of literary or critical work in order to suggest its broader ramifications. With Henry Louis Gates, Jr., I argue that his effort to move African American literature and criticism into the mainstream of American literary study led him to maintain a view of race as an essence. Comparing his critical work with Hortense Spillers' Proves this Point, but also suggests that a more radical view of race remains in Gates' work. Frank Lentricchia tried to base a Political Program on the intimate experience of Pleasure that he felt when reading Poetry. Putting Philip Roth in conversation with Lentricchia reveals the impossibility of Lentricchia's Program, but also a different and more socially Productive Path for Lentricchia's interest in Pleasure. Edward Said tried to create spaces in his criticism where antagonism could be overcome. Reading Bharati Mukherjee's novel <u>Jasmine</u> (1989) next to Said suggests how useful Said's model can be, but also reminds us that Said only suggested, rather than applied, this model in his work.</p>
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Sharma, B. R. "Adorno's 'Philosophy of Modern Music' : music in the age of mechanical reproduction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.661791.
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Theodor Adorno's depiction of Stravinsky and Schoenberg in the <I>Philosophy of Modern Music </I>has been a source of much controversy. Many have criticised the Frankfurt Scholar for his biased portrayals. A common tendency shared among commentators has been to interpret Adorno's text literally. Yet upon closer examination, one sees that Adorno's intention was to write not only a literal text, but also a poetic text. Following in the tradition of Karl Kraus, and Walter Benjamin, Adorno's text is laden with symbols, metaphors, allusions and allegories that encircle socio-cultural and historical issues. Stravinsky and Schoenberg are often caricatures, and their works a means to discuss kitsch and avant-garde art during the rise of fascism in Germany. Even Adorno's portrayal of art in Germany is symbolic; his insights into state capitalist culture during World-War Two are meant to act as an acidic and prophetic analysis of monopoly capitalist culture in the post-World-War II era. Adorno's <I>Philosophy of Modern Music </I>was meant to be a <I>Flaschenpost, </I>a 'message in a bottle', designed to remain rebarbative through time. This thesis suggests that when one applies his insights to late capitalist society, they seem more relevant than ever.
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Timol, Riyaz. "Spiritual wayfarers in a secular age : the Tablighi Jama'at in modern Britain." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/104936/.
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The Tablighi Jama'at (TJ) is widely regarded as the largest movement of grassroots Islamic revival in the world yet remains significantly under-researched. This thesis examines the British branch of the movement based on sustained ethnographic fieldwork conducted over 18 months. Intensive participant observation was combined with 59 semi-structured interviews to present a detailed typology and topography of the movement's organisational structure in Britain. Further, the issue of intergenerational transmission is explored – based on an analysis of the cultural identity markers of language, clothing and food – with clear shifts identified between the first-generation 'Old Guard' and the British-born 'Avant-Garde.' The thesis argues that TJ should best be characterised as a movement in transition located within broader processes of indigenisation operative within British Islam more generally. Theoretically, the thesis augments Berger and Luckmann's sociology of knowledge with insights derived from Bhaskar’s critical realism to propose the twin 'generative mechanisms' of secularity and spirituality from which empirically accessible social phenomena emerge. These are used to anatomise the process of 'intra-religious conversion' which emerges as a key motif of contemporary TJ experience. Turner's concept of liminality and Schutz's phenomenology of consciousness are further deployed to examine ritual and semantic dimensions of conversion that see the neophyte’s attachment to religion transition from a nominal to a passionate state. Generic theories in the sociology of religion are also consulted to explore issues of retention and post-conversion strategies of commitment-maintenance. Finally, utilising insights from Peter Berger’s vast oeuvre, the thesis explores the intersection of 'Islamic Revival' with secularisation theory in Europe. It argues that, in the context of contemporary ‘Eurosecularity,’ the willed and conscious exercise of agency in ways which publicly affirm faith is intrinsically imbued with a disconcerting ‘debunking’ potential for those who have unthinkingly imbibed into interior consciousness the taken-for-granted suppositions of a secular nomos.
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Her, Byooon. "The formation of taste ideologies in the Korean modern age 1920-1935." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494436.
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This study originated from the issue of consumption taste, and has dealt with the ideologies that formed such taste rather than discussing specific individual taste. I tried to examine how the taste ideologies were formed in a place called Korea, and in the time called the modern age, and what characteristics were formed. This study has been advanced on the assumption that the background of current Korean taste can be verified by tracking the taste ideologies that were formed in the modem age. To achieve this I generally looked over most materials concerned with the subject, especially through perusing two magazines, <New Women> published in 1923-26 and in 1930-34 and <Byulkeon- gon> published in 1926-1934, I could embody the frame of culture in the modem age. Non-western modernity is usually condensed in a short period from the culture which had been naturalised in western society for a long time, and is essentially identical with western modernity, sharing the same contradictions of modernity. However, they are never completely the same because the process of transplantation is a kind of translation or appropriation. To understand the process of translation/appropriation, I will interpret the process of language translation in modern age in Chapter 2. The characteristics of translated language can be the framework to view the formation of modern taste ideologies. In Chapter 3, the adoption process of Western modernity was expanded from the linguistic dimension to the dimension of material culture. Above all, the change of general culture was examined. How things from city planning to transportation, consumption, leisure activities, entertainment, print media, and clothing went through the process of adoption, translation and became Korean modern culture, and how they influenced the formation of Korean modernity were examined in detail. The multilayer meanings and contexts that Korean modernity possesses arose from these scenes of the modern age. The meaning and characteristics of modern material culture that were revealed by the sceneries of the Korean modern age, and the characteristics of translation and translated-words, are gathered into one among the modern discourse. The most influential discourse among those that penetrated Korean modernity was that of modernisation=Westernisation. As West-centrism became internalised to Koreans through modernisation discourse, the West became mythified as a subject of adoration and aspiration. The subjects who produced discourse were the elites who had received modern education. The modern class structure of Korea was mainly reconstructed by the academic background rather than by capital or labour. Even though the number of the elite that received more than secondary school education was extremely small, they had the initiative in producing discourse. They accordingly had a big influence in forming social ideologies. Thus, the formation process of the elites became the key point in providing the characteristics of Korean modernity. The modern age provided the basic ideologies that formed the taste of today. Various characteristics of the Korean modem age established by re-translation/transformation/ imitation of the translated modernity of Japan with aspiration for Western modernity became the factors that established the taste ideologies. People in the modem age learned what to desire, even though they did not achieve its materiality. The modern/West existed far away as an ideological ideal, and the Japanese translation of such ideals existed nearer as a model. Most Koreans could not grasp modem material things due to their economic conditions, but because of that, their ungraspable desire became bigger, and their ideologies became simplified.
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Sharma, Bhesham R. "The 'Philosophy of Modern Music' : music in the age of mechanical reproduction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21524.
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Theodor Adorno's depiction of Stravinsky and Schoenberg in the 'Philosophy of Modern Music' has been a source of much controversy. Many have criticised the Frankfurt Scholar for his biased portrayals. A common tendency shared among commentators has been to interpret Adorno's text literally. Yet upon closer examination, one sees that Adorno's intention was to write not only a literal text, but also a poetic text. Following in the tradition of Karl Kraus, and Walter Benjamin, Adorno's text is laden with symbols, metaphors, allusions and allegories that encircle socio-cultural and historical issues. Stravinsky and Schoenberg are often caricatures, and their works a means to discuss kitsch and avant-garde art during the rise of fascism in Germany. Even Adorno's portrayal of art in Germany is symbolic; his insights into state capitalist culture during World-War Two are meant to act as an acidic and prophetic analysis of monopoly capitalist culture in the post- World-War II era. Adorno's 'Philosophy of Modern Music' was meant to be a Flaschenpost, a 'message in a bottle', designed to remain rebarbative through time. This thesis suggests that when one applies his insights to late capitalist society, they seem more relevant than ever.
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Tembo, Kwasu D. "Superman, power, otherness and violence in the Golden Age of modern comics." Universität Leipzig, 2019. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34899.
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Hofkamp, Anthony Raymond. "Age Determination of Modern and Archaeological Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytcha) Using Vertebrae." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2219.
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Incremental growth rings in X-rays of salmon vertebrae have been used since the 1980s to age Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) remains from archaeological sites in the Pacific Northwest. These age estimates, paired with generalized life history patterns, have been used to determine salmon species, season of capture and in turn season of site occupation. This approach relies on a variety of assumptions, the most fundamental of which is that rings represent true years. Archaeologists using vertebral age determination techniques have failed to adequately test this assumption and present their methodologies. This thesis assesses the validity of using incremental growth structures in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) vertebrae to determine the age at death of fish represented in archaeological sites. This project develops criteria and a protocol for the identification of true annuli and tests these identifications on a collection of modern Chinook salmon of known age. Finally, this protocol is applied to archaeological remains of Chinook from Cathlapotle (45CL1).
Three collections of modern known age fish (N=121) were used to evaluate and test approaches to aging Chinook salmon with vertebrae. These collections contained juvenile and adult Chinook from throughout Washington and Oregon. I evaluated a variety of methods for viewing rings including magnified surface images, X-ray images and thin sections to determine which is the most accurate, reliable and efficient, also considering the extent of specimen destruction. Rings visible in X-rays were found to reflect the internal structure of vertebrae rather than annular growth. The number of these internal walls did not correspond to the known ages of fish and are therefore not true annuli.
Criteria previously described by salmon fisheries biologist were used to isolate annuli (on the centrum surface) on the Hanford reach collection (N=46). In a test for accuracy 39 (85%) were aged correctly. In a test of reliability utilizing five additional readers all but 14 cases showed discrepancies among readers. Results of the test of reliability were not as successful as other researchers in fisheries biology but given the high accuracy rate the method remains valid.
The final goal of this project was to determine the feasibility of applying the surface ring method of age determination to archaeological collections. Archaeological salmon vertebrae from Cathlapotle (45CL1) on the lower Columbia River, Washington state were utilized. One hundred salmon vertebrae were selected and classified to species according to Huber et al. (2011); 89 were identified as Chinook. Of these, 39 had sufficient preservation of the surface to view and interpret incremental rings. Three ages were identified 3, 4 and 5 year olds. This ageing protocol can be applied to archaeological Chinook salmon vertebrae to estimate age of ancient Chinook salmon. Additional work is needed on other salmon species to demonstrate the methods validity across all salmonid species.
This analysis has great potential for modeling salmon paleo-life history by contributing data from salmon populations prior to the major impacts of the 19th and 20th century. This is particularly valuable for salmon conservation because information on size, the timing and duration of freshwater emigration as well as the age of spawning and death is critical to the management of hatchery and wild salmon populations.
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Ignatov, Mikhail Sergeevich. "Body in Motion: Furukawa Hideo, Writer for the Multimedia Age." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144389.
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The purpose of this study is to serve as an introduction of the work of the contemporary Japanese author, Furukawa Hideo (b. 1966), to the Anglophone audience. I consider Furukawa to be a member of the 'post-Murakami' generation, not only in terms of chronology but also in terms of influence. Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) left an identifiable impact on Furukawa's fiction, however it would be erroneous to consider Furukawa a Murakami imitator. In this study, I attempt to highlight the elements that make Furukawa unique as an author; specifically his careful manipulation of the theme-space matrix, and his fast-paced style influenced by Furukawa's performances of his own literary works, and collaboration with musicians, which reflects Furukawa's position in the center of the contemporary cultural trend towards multimedia integration.
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Woolley, Heather Lauren. "Modern acheiropoieta : the Veil of Veronica in the age of the Jacquard loom." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58995.
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The full abstract for this thesis is available in the body of the thesis, and will be available when the embargo expires.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of<br>Graduate
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Singleton, Mark Henry. "The body at the centre : contexts of postural yoga in the modern age." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612523.
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Carney, Jason R. "The Shadow Modernism of Weird Tales: Experimental Pulp Fiction in the Age of Modernist Reflection." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1396650887.
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Till, Theresa L. Riegle Rodney P. "The relationship between management performance and age and educational preparation of nursing students." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3064525.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2002.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed February 16, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Rodney P. Riegle (chair), Kenneth H. Strand, Donna A. Redding, Amelia D. Adkins. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-123) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Popov, Roman. "Neural Preparation For Step Initiation In Unpredictable Conditions With Age And Parkinson's Disease." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/952.
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Mobility is essential for the independent lifestyle. However, as the US population ages, challenges to mobility start to arise, among them just the aging itself which leads to decreased postural stability, falls and the second most common neurodegenerative disease, that is Parkinson’s disease (PD). We decided to investigate step initiation as it is crucial to mobility: walking is not possible without the first step.
Step initiation is impaired in PD. However, the impact of PD on the neural mechanisms of step initiation when some of the step parameters are unpredictable remains unexplored. Cortical preparation for step initiation can be assessed by beta event-related desynchronization (ERD) derived from electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. We hypothesized that subjects with PD would exhibit less cortical modulation between conditions of forward step initiation with and without prior knowledge of limb choice. Further, we hypothesized that decreased cortical modulation in PD would associate with a higher impairment of motor performance. Results identified that the group with PD exhibited decreased beta ERD amplitudes that were similar regardless of condition, whereas control subjects modulated beta ERD amplitudes between conditions, particularly in early stages of pre-movement processing in areas overlying sensory cortex. Subjects with PD presented with delayed and reduced postural preparation with increased step target error across both conditions and exhibited a greater incidence of multiple anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) in the predictable relative to the unpredictable condition. Delayed postural preparation significantly correlated with lower amplitudes of beta ERD. We concluded that diminished early pre-movement processing over sensory cortex was concomitant with poor pre-selection of the stepping limb in predictable conditions and that a generally diminished amplitude of cortical pre-movement processing relates to delayed step initiation in people with PD.
Furthermore, impaired mobility accompanies healthy aging, but there is a need for deeper understanding of how aging changes central control of motor behavior. Using previous study’s method, we compared cortical preparation for step initiation using beta ERD in young and older healthy subjects performing forward steps with and without prior knowledge of limb choice. Our results show that older subjects exhibited increased beta ERD amplitudes before the step regardless of whether they were informed of limb choice or not. Moreover, older subjects exhibited early increases in beta ERD in the “sensory” cluster of electrodes, but only when full limb-choice information was available. Behaviorally, the older subjects also exhibited shortened and increased anticipatory postural adjustments which led to earlier step initiation and similar swing-foot velocities but was also accompanied by greater target step placement errors and decreased postural stability. For the older group, condition-related increases in beta ERD amplitudes and stability correlated with condition-related prolongation of APA durations. We conclude that older subjects exhibited a spectrum across two strategies: (1) a “fast” strategy associated with decreased neural preparation that trades shortened step preparation and higher swing-foot velocity for target step errors and lowered postural stability; and (2) an “accurate” strategy associated with greater neural preparation, longer step-preparation time, and higher stability during step execution.
In conclusion, this thesis provides more support for beta ERD as a useful tool for studying cortical preparation non-invasively. We have also established the importance of the signals recorded by “sensory” clusters: in subjects with PD the absence of beta ERD similar to the control group was associated with impaired motor behavior even when conditions were predictable. Similarly, a part of the older group seemed to pre-potentiate its cortex lying beneath the cluster of “sensory” electrodes which was associated with more safe and accurate steps. Further investigations should focus on the importance of sensorimotor integration and its’ changes due to PD or healthy aging and beta ERD may be an excellent tool for this task.
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FitzGerald, Charles Michael. "Tooth crown formation and the variation of enamel microstructural growth markers in modern humans." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360038.
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Beji, Nadia. "Possession in the Modern Age : a Jungian analysis of possession within the Anglican faith." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för kultur-, religions- och utbildningsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12011.
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This essay uses interviews to gather information regarding the experience and belief which exists in regards to possession within the Anglican faith. It also uses Jungian psychology to analyse these experiences and beliefs; this is interesting because even in the modern day of science, possession continues to be a phenomenon. It still occurs closer to home than we may think; a modern western country such as England, where Anglicanism is the state religion, have special ministries assigned to deal with this in every diocese. The information was gathered through interviews and literature, to give both a qualitative and a quantitative perspective. This essay presents a possible psychological explanation for the cases of possession as experienced within the Anglican faith, which provides an alternative to the distress these individuals are experiencing rather than assuming it necessarily is of a spiritual nature. It does not, however, seek to prove or disprove the possibility of a spiritual cause behind this phenomenon.
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Bartlette, Deborah Ann. "The malaise of the modern university : authenticity for universities in an age of instrumentalism /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2096.
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Nasution, Khoiruddin. "The concept of ijmāʻ in the modern age, with particular reference to Muḥammad ʻAbduh". Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23234.
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This thesis is an attempt to study 'Abduh's methodological approach in Islamic legal theory, with particular reference to the concept of ijma'. Ijma' according to him, is not a matter of truth or falseness, as it has been viewed by the classical and medieval jurists, but rather it is a mechanism which must demonstrate a dynamic ability in dealing with new problems on the basis of the public interest (maslaha). In order to obtain a proper public interest in any matter, religious considerations alone are not sufficient, rather each matter must be considered from many different angles and disciplines such as sociology, the environment and politics. One should also take into consideration the fact that ijma' is not only an informal decision, as has the case after the Rashidun caliphate period, but that it has become part of the legal system of government and as such demands obedience from everybody. Not surprisingly, 'Abduh believed that ijma' should be carried out and regulated by the elected members of parliament. This thesis not only analyses the thoughts of Muhammad 'Abduh on this matter but also includes the thoughts of classical and medieval jurist, as well as the view of modern scholars such as Muhammad Iqbal, Kemal A. Faruki, Fazlur Rahman, Hasan Turabi.
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Marusyk, U. I. "The modern opportunities for increasing the control of bronchial asthma in school-age children." Thesis, БДМУ, 2021. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/18410.
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Hammargren, Erika. "Tate Modern in the Digital Age : A case study addressing the use of digital technology, audience interaction and participation at Tate Modern." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144108.
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The previous Head of Digital at Tate, John Stack, argues that digital transformation and the audience’s increasing expectation of participation are the two major changes during the last ten years (Mitchell 2014). This thesis addresses Tate Modern’s use of digital technologies with focus on how audience interaction and participation is facilitated through the affordances of digital technology. Additionally, this thesis examines how Tate’s digital policies corresponds with Tate Modern’s actual practices, online and onsite, regarding audience participation and interaction. Discrepancies regarding Tate Modern’s practical approach to audience interaction and participation in relation to its policies were identified. The audience was not genuinely invited to participate through digital technologies during the examined period. Tate Modern, although being a leader in its field, still has some way to go in its digital development and its approach towards the audience before becoming a truly participatory museum.
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Ayers, David Lee. "An architectural expression in the age of video culture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23435.
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Dahlberg, Helena. "Has modern Swedish forestry affected genetic diversity in Norway spruce stands?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108056.
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Norway spruce is one of two dominating species in Swedish forestry and the most economically important tree species in Sweden. In order to preserve the ability to adapt to a changing environment and to keep populations healthy, genetic diversity has to be preserved. When choosing a small number of individuals from a natural stand to establish a seed orchard the population size decrease. With only a small number of genetically different individuals the risk of inbreeding increase. Furthermore if many clones of the same tree are used in one seed orchard there is also an increased risk selfing. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate whether genetic diversity in Norway spruce differs between age groups and if this can be attributed to forestry practices. All sampling was done from a single location in Västerbotten, Sweden and the different age groups were chosen to represent stands not affected by the modern forest industry to recently planted forests. The chosen age groups are young (12-18 years), intermediate (30-45 years), and old (above 85 years). From each age group 150 individuals were sampled. With genomic microsatellite markers each individual was genotyped at eight simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci. Results show an overall high genetic diversity with an average expected heterozygosity (He) at 0.842 and low genetic differentiation with an average fixation index among populations (FST) of 0.003. The genetic diversity of each age group was also high (He 0.832 to 0.843) and the inbreeding coefficient ranged from 0.061 in the old group to 0.078 in the intermediate group. The pairwise FST value was highest between the old group and the young group but the differentiation was only 0.005 (P=0.001). An analysis of molecular variance also showed that only 0.34% of the total genetic variance was explained by differences among age groups. This study found little evidence for a decrease in genetic diversity due to forestry practices and revealed high genetic diversity and low differentiation between the age groups, indicating a healthy population.
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Butler, Christina Baroody. "What next? : post-graduation preparation for college students in the third age of life /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402288260145.
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Xu, Ti. "The rebirth of the shophouse in the modern age with a special reference to Montreal." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ54230.pdf.
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Thörn, Åke. "The emergence and preservation of sick building syndrome : research challenges of a modern age disease /." Stockholm, 1999. http://diss.kib.ki.se/1999/91-628-3555-6/.
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Xu, Ti 1973. "The rebirth of the shophouse in the modern age with a special reference to Montreal /." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29808.
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This thesis examines a typical Montreal housing type---the multiplex, a time-tested model to accommodate commercial activities. The focus of this research is on its physical characteristics, which facilitate small-scale commercial transformations of homes with specific needs for different businesses.<br>Chapter 1 introduces the theoretical background of this thesis, and places it in the context of previous research on the subject of small-scale transformations of dwellings.<br>Chapter 2 reviews the history of shophouses in Montreal from 1642, when the city was founded, through to the Industrial Age.<br>Chapter 3 begins with a general discussion of the multiplex dwelling---its basic forms, types, and architectural character. The second section of this chapter introduces the case studies. These trace the interior transformations of four multiplexes, all of which were built in the first decade of this century.<br>In Chapter 4 and 5, the spatial changes identified and collected in all four cases are closely examined. All existing changes have been photographed. These changes are associated with the specific needs of each shop; the four cases were tested, and proved the building's adaptable nature to different degrees. All changes are further regrouped and analyzed according to four important elements---bearing members, non-bearing members, service, and circulation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Sandis, Elizabeth. "A coming of age : drama at St John's College, Oxford in the early modern period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7e069753-9028-4055-980d-8cf1239eba87.
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In charting the remarkable rise of St John's College, Oxford, from struggling, new-born foundation in 1555 to spectacular host of King Charles and Queen Henrietta in 1636, I demonstrate how the theatrical tradition developed by the community of St John's men negotiated and articulated their college's political and economic transformation. My research has uncovered the centrality of drama to college life and the fundamental significance of collegiate identity and tradition to the university men, showing that if we are to build a synoptic view of 'university drama' in early modern England, we must construct it from an understanding of 'college drama'. Deep into the eighteenth century the culture of Latin writing and speaking at Oxford and Cambridge continued to shape all aspects of life in the academies, and yet it is the comparatively few plays written in English which have received the most attention, leading to a distorted view of the university drama. My approach is to restore the neglected Latin sources to their rightful place at the heart of the investigation and, by providing a combination of close textual analysis and translation, to push forward their integration into the mainstream of English Renaissance theatre criticism. Chapter 1 examines the intercollegiate networks which supported St John's College in the early days of its development as a centre for drama, highlighting Christ Church's role as an older, richer sibling to its up-and-coming rival. Chapter 2 analyses the communal function of the college drama, demonstrating that, although each performance was the creative work of individual writers and performers, it relied upon the investment of the college membership as a whole. In Chapter 3 I highlight the influence which changing practices in student recruitment had on the pedagogical and theatrical culture of the community over time, identifying the particular impact of the 'Mulcaster generation' on St John's at the turn of the seventeenth century. Chapter 4 connects drama, politics, and religion to show how ambitious alumni such as Archbishop-Chancellor William Laud used the college stage to test and groom potential protégés; students proving themselves before peers, patrons, and sometimes even royalty, performed a rite of passage which enhanced their career prospects.
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Phuntsho, Sonam Sirinan Kittisuksathit. "Socio-economic determinants of modern contraceptive use among married women of reproductive age in Bhutan /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd393/4838757.pdf.
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Traylor, Sarah Kay. "Sacred Journeys in a Secular Age: Pilgrimage in Contemporary German Literature." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1562757919972067.
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Greenhalgh, Charlotte Maree. "An age of emotion : expertise and subjectivity in old age in Britain, 1937-1970." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:18c215e1-a9fe-43ac-9879-9a8da8678836.
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This thesis heeds W. Andrew Achenbaum’s call for historians of ageing to analyse the inner lives of their subjects. Building on and problematizing existing studies of health and welfare policies for the old, it explores the ways that mid-century public and private life shaped how individuals felt about old age. Both public discussions and private narratives of ageing are used to consider how older people understood and expressed their emotional experiences during a challenging period of the life cycle. I argue that old age in general, and its emotional dimensions in particular, are missing from British historiography. Yet both were vital to social life in the mid-century, when the ageing population was an important political issue and a large number of experts hoped to manage the emotional and psychological aspects of this ‘problem’. This thesis begins by setting out this national context for old age, showing that heightened interest in ageing and emotion were significant influences over the expansion of the welfare state. However, contrary to the expectations of mid-century researchers and policy-makers, my subsequent chapters show that older people frequently maintained their social roles and relationships through informal means. This thesis explores how ageing men and women engaged with work, retirement, ill health, marriage, bereavement, fashion, beauty culture, and autobiography as opportunities to find meaning in late life. Together, these varied perspectives on old age make a series of interventions in its history. I argue that historians could do much more to detail the significance of the life cycle for their subjects, whether they write political, social, or cultural history. As this thesis shows, such studies should approach ageing as a lifelong and personal process, which has been shaped by reminiscence and story-telling. I suggest that historians of emotion are best-equipped to write scholarship that is sensitive to the passing of time and personal biography in this way.
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Sheldon, Dania S. K. "'Unregarded age' : texts and contexts for elderly characters in English Renaissance drama, c.1480-1625." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:20f5d513-2121-4cb6-afcb-de9846ab9a8e.
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This study seeks to provide historical and literary contexts for elderly characters from English play-texts c.1580 to 1625. Its primary aim, from a literary perspective, is to draw attention to the ways that a better understanding of elderly characterisation can enrich the appreciation of much-studied play-texts, and to indicate some interesting features of more obscure ones. Its secondary aim is to suggest the value, for social historians of old age in early modern England, of play-texts as social evidence. I have examined most of the published extant play-texts of the period, and have found approximately 150 of these to be relevant (the most important of these are listed in the Appendix). Because of the problems of handling all aspects of such a large amount of material, I have chosen to consider the plays chiefly as texts to be read, with little reference to their performative aspects. However, I analyse the dramas as literary as well as social documents. Specific plays provide illustrations for observations and support for various hypotheses about dramatic representations of the elderly. In some instances, I address plays which have received little critical attention. The thesis falls into two parts. In the first three chapters, I discuss the socio-historical, cultural and non-dramatic literary contexts for representations of elderly men and women in play-texts. In chapters four through seven, I examine elderly characters in specific role or relationship categories: as sovereigns and magistrates, in sexual and marital relationships, and as parents. In the final chapter, I offer a detailed analysis of The Old Law by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
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Furtwängler, Anja [Verfasser]. "Genomic Insights into Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Populations of Modern-Day Switzerland / Anja Furtwängler." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2020. http://d-nb.info/121990385X/34.
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Gazze', Lavinia. "Disegnare e governare il territorio. L'uso delle carte nella Sicilia d'età moderna." Thesis, Università degli Studi di Catania, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/158.
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Disegnare e governare il territorio. L'uso delle carte nella Sicilia d'eta' moderna.
La ricerca intende ricostruire l'uso di rappresentazioni e disegni di citta' e territori nella Sicilia della prima eta' moderna, con particolare riguardo al rapporto tra rappresentazioni e pratiche dello spazio finalizzate al governo. Utilizzando la documentazione archivistica e l'analisi della cartografia allegata, e' stato ricostruito il contesto e le procedure attraverso le quali, tra XVI e XVII secolo, l'uso delle carte si afferma come strumento duttile ed efficace sia nelle fasi di formazione decisionale sia nelle operazioni di controllo e d'intervento seguendo indirizzi normativi e pratiche di governo applicate in Sicilia e nella vasta compagine dell'imperio de los Austrias.
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Mounk, Yascha B. "The Age of Responsibility: On the Role of Choice, Luck and Personal Responsibility in Contemporary Politics and Philosophy." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14226053.
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The value of “personal responsibility” increasingly stands at the center of contemporary discussions about distributive justice and the welfare state. While deep disagreements about who is responsible for which acts and outcomes persist, a wide range of thinkers accepts the normative premise that an individual’s claim to assistance from the collectivity should depend, in part, on whether or not they have acted “responsibly” in the past.
Drawing on the recent history of moral and political philosophy, the social sciences, and political rhetoric, I argue that the current consensus around what I call the “responsibility framework” is a new phenomenon. In the postwar era, a conception of responsibility-as-duty emphasized each individual’s obligation to contribute to the community. Today, by contrast, the newer conception of responsibility-as-accountability emphasizes each individual’s obligation, insofar as they are capable of doing so, to provide for their own material needs without outside assistance.
This changing conception of responsibility has, in turn, led to a significant—and normatively troubling—transformation of key political institutions. In particular, the welfare state, once conceived as a responsibility-buffering institution that was to provide a social safety net even to those citizens who have made mistakes in their lives, has been transformed into a responsibility-tracking institution, which denies citizens benefits if they are themselves “responsible” for being in a state of need.
Among left-wing politicians and egalitarian philosophers, the most common reaction to these normative shortcomings has been to accept the punitive interpretation of responsibility outlined in the responsibility framework, yet insist that the threshold for ascribing responsibility to most individuals is extremely high—thus making responsibility largely inapplicable to everyday moral and political life. However, this “no-responsibility view” ultimately overstates both the philosophical reasons to apply a high bar to ascriptions of responsibility and the political feasibility of convincing people to abstain from holding their fellow citizens responsible for their actions.
Instead of dismissing the punitive, pre-institutional account of responsibility altogether, I therefore argue that we should construct a positive, institutional account of responsibility. Drawing on T. M. Scanlon’s work about the significance of choice, I give an account of the important self-regarding, other-regarding and societal reasons why we need to give responsibility a real role in our moral and political world. Building on these reasons, I sketch an institutional account of responsibility that helps to empower people to gain mastery over their own lives, and draw out this account’s implications for the design of political institutions, including the welfare state.
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Smentek, Kristel. "Art, commerce, and scholarship in the Age of Enlightenment Pierre-Jean Mariette and the making of art history /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 402 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654490541&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Keramidas, Cathy Galyon. "How Can Struggling, Low-Enrollment Special Education Personnel Preparation Programs Become Viable in the Digital Age?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/518.
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Some preservice special education programs (e.g., low-incidence disabilities, early childhood special education, ect.) are struggling to maintain enrollment, and often these programs are in jeopardy of being cut by their university. This session will be a roundtable discussion of what struggling programs can do to increase enrollemnt and viability.