Dissertations / Theses: 'Self processus in development'

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Marriss, Dorothy E. L. "Self and identity processes in higher education staff development." Thesis, University of Salford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490216.

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This thesis describes four inter-related studies that, together, explore aspects of self and identity in relation to staff development in higher education (HE). Staff development in higher education is reviewed with particular reference to one of the newest and fastest growing subjects, nursing. Approaches to the exploration, understanding and measurement of self and identity are reviewed, culminating in an exposition of a comprehensive synthesising approach known as Identity Structure Analysis and Its associated measuring tool Identity Exploration.

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Shumack, Kaye, and n/a. "Design and the Conversational Self." University of Canberra. Design, 2009. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20091214.120656.

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This thesis sets out a theoretical premise for design research into the space of the designer, working inside the design system or context. The designer is understood as actor, as active agency looking inwards in a comprehensive way to examine where ideas are located and then, how these new insights or perspective might be meaningfully introduced. In order to develop this research, personal journal writing is employed as to develop an understanding about how the designer/actor can actively engage with being at once participant, and observer, of their own design practice. A series of design case studies are carried out, where the role of the designer as actor is critically examined through forms of personal journal writing. What this entails is the establishment of a form of autopoetic system for writing in several voices of the self, and self-as-other working in, and through as design project case studies. I critically evaluate these journal case studies to inform my understanding about the design of dialogic visual communication, where multiple perspectives of self, and self-as-other may be interwoven into the visual design artifact. As a result of conducting this research, I propose the existence of what I term the 'conversational self' as a means for developing new knowledge and knowing through conversational story-telling as design research. My research introduces the 'conversational self' as a generalisable theory for design research which addresses the ways in which the designer might effectively engage with the workings of personal tools and patterns of practice, thus building greater objectivity through recognition of local contexts, and the role of the designer as actor and as a situated self within the design process. My research findings describe a space for the 'conversational self' as the coming together of three linked knowledge systems for creation and learning. I describe this theory as 'agency-centred' design for research about design and experiential knowledge contexts through research into the development of project case studies where individual styles and approaches to learning and thinking which are recognised and valued as implicit tools of and for design practice. Firstly, the conversational journal writing format which I develop situates the designer/ researcher as both participant and observer within their design decision-making. As a result of the uses of the journal format as a practice-based research methodology through case studies, I observe the effect of producing what I term an 'autopoetic' (Maturana and Varela) self-producing system, which enables me to introduce both rational and intuitive content that works in my journal through a range of thinking styles and journal forms. My research strategy involves the writing of several concurrent and interacting levels of internal conversation across 'I', 'You', 'Me' and 'We' as parallel and interactive experiential voices of self through uses of a journal format where a range of experiences are documented as design project narratives. The conversational contexts which this approach offers provide a means for introducing multiple perspectives from self, and selfas- other (as designer, author, subject, agent, person) to explore topics and social knowledge themes through a range of creative conversational learning contexts (Pask, Glanville). In the course of developing this approach I draw on theories about personal constructs (Kelly, Thomas and Harri-Augustein); the self as forms as agency (Archer); about experiential learning and knowledge creation through learning conversations (Baker, Jensen and Kolb) ; and social knowledge as networks, flows and exchange processes (Boisot). Secondly, as a finding from my usage of this journal format, I propose the workings of what I describe as my 'unity of self' system construct as an enabling and generative system for working with social knowledge and the 'self' as forms of agency through internal conversations. Margaret Archer's theory describes the social self as forms of causal agency active in everyday social and experiential contexts. In my case studies I trace the internal dynamics and interactions of 'voices' of self in the journal text, which I evaluate as the workings of conversational levels and layers which engage with a range of details and perspectives for each project using written and non-verbal forms. The design case study projects each describes a particular context for design practice; including institutional, corporate, experimental, and personal design projects. In using this methodology for journal writing, I show how I am able to explore the social interplays of personal/public and individual/collective frameworks for design practice contexts. Thirdly, through my evaluations of the design project case study journals, I observe the emergence of topics and themes in each project around my understanding of the role of context for defining the social and experiential 'materials' (Schon) of the situation. The topics noted from conversations in design case inform what I term my 'contextual field' as the third learning system in my findings from this research. This 'contextual field' is a kind of topical map which provides signposts for working with social and experiential contexts, to design 'ecological narratives' (Krippendorff) as forms of language which are crafted as intentional and strategic design approaches, as responses to the research process of internal reflection about the materials of the situation (Schon) Through usage with my journal format, and unity of self construct, my contextual field topical map provides a framework for developing topics and themes for internal conversations to inform my design production in both 'service' and 'hand' craft project contexts. What results are rich use case studies documented as forms of conversational story-telling where new knowledge emerges as questions and possibilities around the design of visual artifacts and service contexts.

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Pellizzaro, Maria Louise. "Development of building blocks exhibiting self-sorting molecular recognition properties : towards coded self-assembly processes." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2281/.

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Biology can achieve phenomenal information storage/processing capabilities from just four hydrogen bonding molecules. The orthogonal self-sorting of these four hydrogen bonding motifs is achieved alongside the hydrophobic collapse of the DNA backbone. Orthogonal self-sorting without the aid of a polymer backbone is dicult to achieve, as shown by the minimal examples of self-sorting hydrogen bonding motifs available in the literature. This thesis describes the design, synthesis and binding studies of molecules that are capable of orthogonal self-sorting, without a preorganising backbone and begins to use them in a signalling cascade. In Chapter 2 ureidoimidazole, a conformer independent triple hydrogen-bond array, is introduced. Studies were carried out to investigate what effect, if any, preorganisation using intramolecular hydrogen bonding had on the binding affnity of triply hydrogen bonded complexes. Chapter 3 investigates another factor that can effect the binding affnity of complexes,the remote substituent effect. Two series of complementary molecules were synthesised so that they contained a variety of electron donating/withdrawing groups and the effect that these had on the binding affnity of the complex was measured. Chapter 4 describes a novel quadruple hydrogen-bond array, which was designed to interact strongly with its complementary partner. It was found that a combination of effects (differences in geometry and undesired conformers being favoured) lead to a low binding affnity being observed. Chapter 5 begins to investigate non-linear arrays, however none of those proposed were able to form heterodimers. Therefore a self-sorting system was assembled using a triple and quadruple hydrogen-bonded array. High fidelity interactions were achieved, even though it was possible to form undesired complexes. These undesired molecular interactions were exploited in Chapter 5, where a signalling cascade is described. Careful planning of the order in which to add the molecules can give different routes in which to achieve the self-sorting system, each with it's own fidelity trace. A photolabile tag was introduced to one of the molecules so that a photosensitive system could be achieved.

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Grainger, Richard. "Development of manufacturing processes for solid state self-healing composites." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4889/.

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Huang, Li. "Family processes, low self-control, and deviance a longitudinal test of self-control theory /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Dissertations/HUANG_LI_23.pdf.

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Shakeela, Afeefa. "The purposes and processes of self-review in schools." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2443.

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In 1993, the New Zealand Government mandated the requirement that all schools must have in place an ongoing programme of school self-review (Education Review Office, 2000). This thesis identifies the purposes and processes of self-review used in six primary schools in New Zealand. The study also identifies the roles that leaders play in the self-review process and also highlights the impact of teacher research on the process. The research questions are: 1. What are the processes and purposes of self-review in schools and what roles do leaders play in the process? 2. What aspects of teachers' practice have an impact on the self-review process? This research study adopted a qualitative research methodology with semi-structured interviews as the research tool. The qualitative information gathered from the six schools was analysed and written up as a case study. For the purpose of this thesis, self-review is identified as the process of review of all school practices with the intention of improving student achievement. The findings indicated that the main purposes of conducting school self-review were to enhance student achievement, to review school policies and programmes and also to ensure accountability. This study also indicated that through a well-planned process of self-review schools can achieve their goals and fulfill the aims stated in their school charter. Another aspect which participants revealed was that self-reviews result in change and therefore leaders and school staff should have the necessary skills and competencies to deal with and manage such change. This was also identified as an issue of self-review. Participants believed that effective leadership is essential to conduct self-reviews which result in positive outcomes. This study found that the failure to achieve school improvement through self-review, is in part due to the structure of many current self-review programmes. At present, schools perceive self-review as the need to review everything that takes place. This perception may mean that valuable time and money is spent on something that the school does not deem significant. Rather, the findings of this study suggest that concentrating on particular areas for a certain period of time results in a better performance of the whole school. In conclusion, this thesis found that school development and improvement cannot happen without enhancing and focusing on student achievement. For self-review to be successful, it should be carried out in a collaborative school climate of open and honest communication, mutual support and mutual responsibility. For it to be successful, self-review should also be planned, systematic, and ongoing. Data collection for self-review should be done through illuminative, participatory and responsive inquiry methods. Finally, I recommend that further research is needed in the area of self-review and perhaps an exploration of the possible links between a school's decile level and its self-review process.

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Street, Karin Elisabeth Sørlie. "Students' mathematics self-efficacy : relationship with test achievement and development in the classroom." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3fb3778c-eb8f-4e27-8082-96cc0d53828a.

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Self-efficacy is individuals' judgments regarding their capabilities to carry out future tasks or challenges. These judgments of capability are related to important learning behaviours such as effort and persistence, performance, and choice of career path. In order to support students' continued engagement with and learning of mathematics, it is important to consider how students make sense of their mathematical experiences as well as the relationship between students' mastery experiences and mathematics self-efficacy. In this thesis I address important gaps in the literature in regard to the conceptualisation of the self-efficacy construct, the relationship between self-efficacy and mathematics performance, the stability and change of self-efficacy when learning new topics in mathematics, and self-efficacy development over a series of lessons in mathematics across cycles of self-efficacy and mastery experiences. The thesis included two phases of data collection and analysis. The first phase involved students in grades 5, 8, and 9 (N = 756) and included measures of students' self-efficacy and national test performance. The second phase involved students in grades 6 and 10 (N = 181) and included repeated measures of students' self-efficacy and mastery experiences from a series of lessons in mathematics, when students were introduced to new topics. I analysed the data using different methods, including confirmatory factor analyses to investigate the structural validity of my measures, and structural equation models to investigate stability and change over time, and relationships between constructs. Major findings from the analysis include the following: students considered levels of difficulty when appraising their experiences in mathematics and when forming their self-efficacy; students' test performance predicted their self-efficacy one year later, but not the other way around; the mean-level of students' self-efficacy grew significantly across lessons when students were introduced to new topics, even as the rank-order of their self-efficacy remained highly stable; and there was a reciprocal relationship between students' self-efficacy and their mastery experiences, where substantial effects from both constructs on gains in the other construct remained stable across a sequence of lessons in mathematics. The findings have important implications for how we conceptualise self-efficacy, mastery experiences, and their relationship over time. Furthermore, the findings from my thesis have implications for teacher practice. In order to support adaptive self-efficacy, teachers need to consider the experiences students have with mathematics, not just the skills they learn. If teachers themselves gain knowledge about how individual students make sense of their mathematical experiences, they can support students' appraisals of these experiences, and prevent maladaptive cycles from occurring. In short, students need support not just to develop their mathematical skills, but also to develop adaptive appraisals of their mathematical experiences, in order to form self-efficacy beliefs that are reflective of each student's potential to learn mathematics.

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Akrivou, Kleio. "Differentiation and Integration in Adult Development: The Influence of Self Complexity and Integrative Learning on Self Integration." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1214318290.

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Cavanaugh, Caitlin M. "Beyond Cheerleaders and Checklists: The Effects of the Feedback Environment on Employee Self-Development." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1468076228.

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Nadeau, Marie-France. "Les déterminants de la procrastination académique : un modèle médiationnel du contexte familial et des processus du soi." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65384.pdf.

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Drobney, Kristy Lynn. "Decision-making Processes and Developmental Capacities of High-risk College Students." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1339585548.

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McGaha, Cheryl D. "Development of a research instrument designed to measure self-regulatory processes associated with physical activity among adults /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148819563352168.

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Pateras, Stephen. "Development of a self-reconfiguring and easily testable interconnection network for fault-tolerant VLSI processor arrays." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61721.

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Cabrita, Ana Miriam Meireles Ferreira. "Enhancing physical activity coaching through personalized motivational strategies and self-adaptive goal-setting: development of self-adaptive processes in a monitoring and coaching smartphone application." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10725.

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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica
The rising age of the European population brings increased costs in healthcare mainly related to the management of chronic diseases. Regular physical activity has been shown to help in the prevention and control of disease risk. Mobile phones have provided promising and emergent ways of promoting healthy lifestyles, allowing real-time monitoring and coaching to be delivered at any time and any place. The presented work adds new features to the Activity Coach, an ambulatory feedback system that aims to encourage physical activity. The Integral of the Modulus of Body Acceleration (IMA) is the unit used as an estimate for energy expenditure. Although previous research demonstrated the potential of this system, results also showed that adherence drops after a few weeks. The primary goal of this research was to design, implement, and test adaptive goal-setting and personalized feedback strategies in order to encourage physical activity. Regarding the self-adaptive goal-setting feature, the goal for each day is defined automatically based on the physical activity performed at that day of the week since the beginning of the intervention. Hence, the intention is to help the user to increase or maintain his level of physical activity taking his daily routine as a reference. The second element added to the system regards motivational feedback messages, a key factor in interventions aiming at behavior change. Based on the levels of self-efficacy, stage-of-change, and daily activity, the user is assigned to one of the six pre-defined feedback strategies in the system. The content of the motivational cues depends on the selected feedback strategy. The evaluation of the system focused on providing better understandable and more accurate feedback to the user. To do so, we evaluated the challenge and attainability of the goals provided to the user with (1) data acquired during previous studies, and (2) newly gathered data from a single-subject study. As part of the evaluation, we translated IMA counts into ‘steps’, a commonly understandable measure for physical activity, comparing the data acquired from the Activity Coach sensor with a Fitbit, a commercially available pedometer. Although further tests with more subjects and different activities should be performed, we suggest that the default values set to the system are in agreement with the Goal-Setting Theory providing challenging and attainable goals. The results from this research will be used in future experiments using the Activity Coach and can be adapted to other ambulatory feedback systems regarding promotion of physical activity.

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Bohn, Kristin. "The further development and validation of three new self-report measures of transdiagnostic processes in the anxiety disorders." Thesis, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542437.

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Watson, Charles Edward. "Self-efficacy, the Innovation-Decision Process, and Faculty in Higher Education: Implications for Faculty Development." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26751.

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Situated within the belief that faculty development is a key institutional mechanism through which colleges and universities will be able to meet emerging social, cultural, and technological challenges in the coming years, this study sought to better understand the underlying psychological processes that facilitate the adoption of innovations by teaching faculty and GTAs in higher education. Specifically, three types of self-efficacy (college teaching, teaching with technology, and general) were considered in light of demographic variables and Rogersâ model of the innovation-decision process. Most significant among the findings were that women have significantly higher college teaching self-efficacy and general self-efficacy than men; however, men have higher teaching with technology self-efficacy. Those in their forties, fifties and sixties have higher college teaching self-efficacy than those in their twenties. Full-time instructors have higher college teaching self-efficacy than doctoral GTAs and assistant professors. Those who rate themselves as having higher computer skills also have higher teaching with technology self-efficacy. When considering teaching with technology self-efficacy and instructional technology-based innovation-decision stage, it was found that this type of self-efficacy differs significantly between most stages and consistently increases from the knowledge stage through the confirmation stage.
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Zakrzewski, Jacek. "Design of flow processes for C-H activation-type reactions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277176.

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The last 15 years have seen tremendous advances in using different metal catalysts to functionalize traditionally unreactive C–H bonds. Given the high potential of these seemingly ideal strategic bond forming reactions, the uptake of C–H activation in fine chemical manufacture is slow. Part of the reason for this deficiency is limited mechanistic understanding of these complex reactions. This can preclude industrial applications of either batch or continuous C–H activation processes. Owing to the synthetic utility of C–H activation reactions, it is highly desirable to design intensified processes for this family of transformations, what can possibly facilitate industrialisation of C–H activation reactions. Firstly, an ab initio process design of a novel C(sp3)–H activation reaction giving access to aziridines yielded a predictive mechanistic model that has been used in an in silico optimisation. The identified set of conditions was suitable for a scalable continuous process. A separation technique was developed, and the utility of the process was extended by a subsequent reaction, a nucleophilic ring opening. Secondly, a black-box optimisation of the investigated reaction was performed. The applied algorithm was able to identify a set of conditions fulfilling the set targets within few experimental trails. The second project has set out to design a process for a C–H oxidative carbonylation. A kinetic study has shown that the reaction is CO-starved even at elevated pressures and that there is an optimal CO concentration. The turn-over number was increased from 8 to nearly 500. Two scalable processes were then developed. The first was a batch process, characterised by a very low catalyst loading. The second was, to the best of author’s knowledge, the first continuous process for an oxidative carbonylation reaction. The continuous process was tested on several oxidative carbonylations yielding excellent results with virtually no optimisation performed. Finally, an environmental sustainability assessment was performed using both, simplified metrics and an LCI analysis. The developed mechanistic understanding allowed identification of sources of inherent inefficiencies of C–H activation reactions. Appropriate solutions to these obstacles were suggested. Thus, it is believed that a step towards generic principles of design of intensified, scalable processes for C–H activation-type reactions has been made.

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Cuevas, Maritza, Kara Lynn Dr Boynewicz, and Brandi Dr Eveland-Sayers. "Self-report Participation of Physical Activity Outside School on Rate of Motor Skills Development in Elementary Students." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2019/schedule/53.

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This research investigates the question of why some younger children appear to have better motor skills than older children. The hypothesis that children involved in physical activities after school or in the evenings have better motor skills at younger ages than children who aren't involved in physical activities outside of school is proposed. Young children have very varied levels of motor skills competency that have developed due to living in different environments and having varied opportunity to be physically active. These differences are a result of factors like socioeconomic status, parental influence, climate, and culture.2 Sports and physical activities are usually executed in team settings, allowing children to develop important social skills like teamwork, leadership, sportsmanship, and responsibility among others.1 But what if in addition to these numerous benefits, physical activity throughout childhood also offered an improvement in the rate of development of motor skills? 120 students in grades K-5 at the East Tennessee State University School participated in a large program looking at perception, cognition and motor skills. There were no exclusion criteria for the study and all children were invited to participate.  A total of 95% of the kids participated in the study and the attrition rate was zero. This portion focuses on the part of the larger study that was done prior to the start of the program. Children’s motor skills were evaluated with a standardized measure (BOT-2). The BOT-2 had 3 sections which were implemented, running speed and agility, balance, and upper limb coordination. These scores served as the dependent variable that relied on the time spent in physical activities outside of school and in the evenings as the independent variable. The scores were analyzed along with self-reported surveys on the levels of physical activity of the children. The results showed that there was evidence to support an association between the amount of physical activity outside of school, either after or in the evenings, r = .621, p = .001. There was evidence to support an association between the amount of time spent in physical activity on after school/evenings and running speed/agility, r = 0.295 and 0.269 p=.001. There was some evidence to support an association between the amount of time spent in physical activity after school and upper limb r = 0.253, p = 0.05. There was no evidence to support an association between the amount of time spent in physical activity on nights/after school and balance r = 0.045 and r = 0.059 p = 0.45. This work will be useful in understanding the relationship between children’s participation in physical activity after school and their motor skills development rate. The information gathered from this research can be used to promote and support the increase of physical activity time that is available to students during school. Allowing children to have more experiences and opportunities for physical activity at school can help minimize any disadvantage in the rate of motor skills development that children who are not physically active at home may have.

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Brink, Andrea Johanna Wilhelmine. "Evaluation of a programme to facilitate positive youth development / A.J.W. Brink." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4706.

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The South African context, in particular, is characterized by a definite need for the facilitation of the development of the youth in a more positive trajectory. Family structures are not always robust enough to support the positive development of the youth, owing to the demands made on single–parent families, amongst other reasons. Community structures may also be less supportive of the development of the youth, because of the impact of the changes associated with the transitional phase of the country during the past sixteen years (Meehan, Peirson & Fridjhon, 2007). Furthermore, young people under the age of 15 years comprise almost a third of the total South African population (Statistics South Africa, 2009), and in the future, they will have to be prepared for an adulthood faced with previously unknown challenges (United Nations Population Fund). The importance of the development of the youth, in order to enable them to contribute to their country in future, is acknowledged by the South African Governement (National Youth Commission website). This study was conducted within the parameters of the newly developing positive youth development (PYD) paradigm. The empirical level of this paradigm is well represented in the literature, indicating that the content areas, or the “what” of PYD, have been well elucidated. However, there is a lack of theory, especially with regard to models describing developmental change (Larson et al., 2004), and evaluation of interventions aiming at the facilitation of PYD. In order to contribute to the answering of the questions regarding the “how” of development, this study had the following main aims: a) the compilation of a theoretical model, describing developmental change in the youth; b) the operationalization of this model for intervention purposes; and c) the evaluation of a programme and the model on which it is based. The study is reported on in an article format, and comprises a total of three articles. The first article focuses on the process of the compilation of a theoretical model by means of: a) the construction of a comprehensive meta–theoretical matrix, b) the integration of theory that features in the PYD literature, and c) the expansion of the latter with theory from other compatible sub–disciplines in psychology. The resultant Positive Youth Development Intervention (PYDI) model provides a process–related description of developmental change ? and is one of the first models to do so. The second article describes the operationalization of the PYDI model, by means of an indication of the relevant constructs, phenomena and processes to be facilitated. Although recent research points to a relation between PYD and self–regulation, there has been no model, describing the role of self–regulation in the facilitation of the positive development of the youth. This study adapted a model from an educational context (Heckhausen & Gollwitzer, 1987 (as cited in Boekaerts & Niemivirta, 2005)), in order to describe the regular self–regulatory processes constituting the bi–directional interactions between the youth and their primary life contexts, as proposed by developmental systems theory (Lerner, 1998), the meta–theory to PYD (King et al., 2005). A further specifc contribution is that the presentation aspects of the programme material, aimed at facilitating the integration thereof, are addressed on a theoretical level. The third article describes the evaluation of the PYDI model and programme, with young adolescents in a school in a rural area as participants. A mixed–methods study, which has been shown to render much richer information than a quantitative study alone, was applied. Although the quantitative data did not prove the success of the programme, the qualitative data suggested that some aspects of self–regulation had indeed been facilitated successfully. A second follow–up assessment, conducted seventeen months later, indicated that certain skills had only become internalized by that time, suggesting that the implementation and evaluation of such a programme should be expanded over an extended time–frame. This study has contributed to the level of theory of PYD, by indicating, a) the lacunae, and b) that theory in compatible sub–disciplinary paradigms could be used in order to devise workable models for PYD. Furthermore, the process–related nature of the PYDI model and programme, owing to its adaptability to different needs, may be adapted and extended to be applicable to the needs of the diverse South African population. Recommendations regarding future application and research, especially within the South African context, have also been put forward in the study.
Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

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Kotsou, Ilios. "Emotional plasticity: the impact of the development of emotional competence on well-being. Conditions, effects and change processes." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/246651.

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This thesis focuses on the acquisition of emotional competence (EC) skills in adults and its impact on well being. The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the definition of EC, including a review of EC in order to better understand and operationalize its main dimensions and correlates. We also present a systematic review of EC intervention studies on adult populations in order to assess their outcomes and make recommendations for the development and implementation of future interventions. We then provide a theoretical and practical framework for emotional competence (EC) based interventions. We describe the main components of an EC intervention, underline the important characteristics of the intervention pedagogy and discuss theoretical and practical implications of this framework.In a second part we investigate whether a sustainable improvement in emotional competencies is possible in adults, and what are the conditions and effects of this improvement on well-being (e.g. on mental and physical health and quality of interpersonal relationships). Results of three empirical studies confirm that EC can be significantly increased following an intervention (and compared to a control group) and that this intervention impacts favourably personal and interpersonal well-being as measured by psychological health, quality of relationship and employability.A last part of the thesis explores the mechanisms underlying this improvement of competencies and well-being. We focus on emotional acceptance, self-compassion, self kindness and behavioural flexibility. Because there was no scale measuring self-compassion or self kindness in French, we validate two scales and assess the relationships between these constructs and well-being.We then examined the possible benefits of emotional acceptance and behavioural flexibility in a randomized controlled study, showing how increasing emotional competence can enhance these change processes and how these processes can, in turn, enhance well-being.This research helps to further elucidate the role of active change processes in EC increase related to the promotion of well-being.
Doctorat en Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation
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Hudson, Robert Dearn. "Development of an integrated co-processor based power electronic drive / by Robert D. Hudson." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3723.

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The McTronX research group at the North-West University is currently researching self-sensing techniques for Active Magnetic Bearings (AMB). The research is part of an ongoing effort to expand the knowledge base on AMBs in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering to support industries that make use of the technology. The aim of this project is to develop an integrated co-processor based power electronic drive with the emphasis placed on the ability of the co-processor to execute AMB self-sensing algorithms. The two primary techniques for implementing self-sensing in AMBs are state estimation and modulation. This research focuses on hardware development to facilitate the implementation of the modulation method. Self-sensing algorithms require concurrent processing power and speed that are well suited to an architecture that combines a digital signal processor (DSP) and a field programmable gate array (FPGA). A comprehensive review of various power amplifier topologies shows that the pulse width modulation (PWM) switching amplifier is best suited for controlling the voltage and current required to drive the AMB coils. Combining DSPs and power electronics to form an integrated co-processor based power electronic drive requires detail attention to aspects of PCB design, including signal integrity and grounding. A conceptual design is conducted and forms part of the process of compiling a subsystem development specification for the integrated drive, in conjunction with the McTronX Research Group. Component selection criteria, trade-off studies and various circuit simulations serve as the basis for this essential phase of the project. The conceptual design and development specification determines the architecture, functionality and interfaces of the integrated drive. Conceptual designs for the power amplifier, digital controller, electronic supply and mechanical layout of the integrated drive is provided. A detail design is performed for the power amplifier, digital controller and electronic supply. Issues such as component selection, power supply requirements, thermal design, interfacing of the various circuit elements and PCB design are covered in detail. The output of the detail design is a complete set of circuit diagrams for the integrated controller. The integrated drive is interfaced with existing AMB hardware and facilitates the successful implementation of two self-sensing techniques. The hardware performance of the integrated coprocessor based power electronic drive is evaluated by means of measurements taken from this experimental self-sensing setup. The co-processor performance is evaluated in terms of resource usage and execution time and performs satisfactorily in this regard. The integrated co-processor based power electronic drive provided sufficient resources, processing speed and flexibility to accommodate a variety of self-sensing algorithms thus contributing to the research currently underway in the field of AMBs by the McTronX research group at the North-West University.
Thesis (M.Ing. (Electrical Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

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Lujara, Suzan. "Development of E-learning Content and Delivery for Self Learning Environment : Case of Selected Rural Secondary Schools in Tanzania." Doctoral thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00478.

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The effective use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in devel-oping countries like Tanzania is crucial in order to overcome the challenges that are faced countrywide in many sectors, and to reduce the digital divide and improve the economy. ICT is becoming more and more integrated in societies worldwide, its effects are clearly seen in people’s lives as well as on countries’ economy as it opens doors for new opportunities and change the attitude of people towards learning. Secondary schools in Tanzania are facing many problems which hamper students’ learning. This in turn affects their performance in the National examinations hence reducing the growth of a learned society. This research specifically addresses the prob- lem of lack of learning and teaching materials by using ICT tools for the development and delivery of e-Learning content. The research focused on two secondary schools, namely, the Wali-Ul-Asr Seminary and Kibaha Secondary School as pilot schools in Kibaha district Pwani region. The research used courseware engineering methodology which integrated instructional design and software engineering. The research was also inspired by the concepts of participatory action research, Mode 2 knowledge production and triple helix, which incorporated stakeholders’ participation throughout the research. The main stakeholders are researchers, students, teachers, head teachers, and Ministry of Education and Vocational Training officials. This is an applied type of research addressing a practical problem in society. The out- come is a pilot package of e-Learning material comprised of sample chapters of Mathematics form III at the pilot site. Blended mode of delivery has been considered using Compact Disc/Digital Versatile Disc Read Only Memory, the Tanzania Secondary Schools e-Learning (TanSS-L) System, a customized Moodle platform and by using face to face learning.

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PAPASEIT, CYRIL. "Formation de motifs microtubulaires in vitro et dans l'embryon de drosophile par des processus dissipatifs de type réaction-diffusion." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998GRE10190.

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Les processus physico-chimiques de reaction-diffusion ont ete proposes par turing comme une explication possible de l'auto-organisation et de la morphogenese biologique. La theorie prevoit que des systemes chimiques ou biochimiques loin de l'equilibre thermodynamique peuvent former des structures complexes a partir d'un etat initialement homogene. Les processus impliques sont non-lineaires, irreversibles, et consomment continuellement de l'energie. Dans certaines conditions, des solutions de microtubules in vitro se comportent ainsi. La prediction principale de cette theorie consiste en ce que les motifs doivent etre constitues de differences de concentration en reactifs. Dans cette these nous montrons que les motifs macroscopiques stries formes spontanement par les microtubules in vitro, contiennent des variations periodiques dans la concentration en microtubules. Les techniques employees sont la diffusion des neutrons aux petits angles et la fluorescence. C'est la premiere demonstration experimentale de la formation de structures de turing dans un systeme biologique in vitro. Reprenant l'idee initiale de turing, nous nous sommes demandes si ces processus peuvent se produire in vivo pendant l'embryogenese. Un motif microtubulaire strie, mis en evidence par immunofluorescence, apparait dans l'uf de la mouche drosophile au moment de la gastrulation. Une caracteristique des motifs formes par des processus de reaction-diffusion est leur sensibilite aux dimensions de l'echantillon. Nous avons trouve que le motif microtubulaire forme dans des ufs ligatures varie avec la longueur du fragment de la meme maniere que celui apparaissant in vitro dans des recipients de longueurs differentes. Ces resultats sont egalement en accord avec la theorie et apportent un element de preuve que les processus de reaction-diffusion peuvent se produire pendant l'embryogenese de la drosophile. Enfin, la comparaison du motif microtubulaire avec le motif d'expression d'un gene reconnu jouer un role dans la segmentation, suggere qu'il pourrait exister un lien entre les deux systemes.

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Faull, Kieren. "Health and the Spiritual Self: Development and Application of a Theory and Measure of the Process of Healthy Change." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2651.

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The overall goal of the thesis was to investigate the nature of the healthy human self and the process of achieving health. This was undertaken by reviewing established self-theory and presenting a summary of each theory and its position with regard to self-composition, self-agency and the nature of the healthy self. An inclusive self-theory was then developed, congruent with reviewed literature, which positioned spirituality as the essential core of self. From the foundational Spiritual Theory of Self and the findings of the first study in this thesis, the Health Change Process Theory was developed to explain and predict how people achieve sustainable health. Three subsequent studies resulted in the construction and testing of a quantitative measure which enabled scientific investigation of the nature of the healthy self and the process of achieving health. Method The methodology of the four studies in this thesis was based on the instrumental approach which posits that, while there are procedural differences between qualitative and quantitative methodologies, philosophically speaking, there is no fundamental difference as they are both equally applicable and valuable. Consequently, the methodology judged to be the most appropriate instrument to investigate each study's topic of inquiry was chosen rather than allegiance to either qualitative or quantitative methodology. The first study was qualitative, as it investigated the definition of health and the process by which it was achieved from the perspective of 30 people with chronic musculoskeletal impairments. The findings from this study provided the theoretical basis for the three subsequent questionnaire development and validation studies. The second study used qualitative methodology with 59 participants to identify participant-generated items used in a new quantitative holistic health questionnaire and then employed quantitative methods to perform preliminary tests of the reliability and validity of this measure. The third study used quantitative methods with 233 participants to evaluate more robustly the reliability, content and concurrent validity of the original developmental measure and another, behaviourally-orientated assessment instrument, which used the identical item content but re-framed in the past tense. The fourth study employed qualitative and quantitative methods with 205 participants to evaluate the clinical validity of the scale found to possess reliability and validity in the previous investigation. Results The critical review of self-theory concluded with the development of the Spiritual Theory of Self. The initial study supported this theory as a robust explanation and predictor of the determinants of a healthy self. Furthermore, the findings of this study and a review of relevant literature concluded with the development of a Health Change Process Theory, which was based on the Spiritual Theory of Self. The Health Change Process Theory explains and predicts the process by which a healthy self develops. The subsequent questionnaire development and validation studies sought to provide a quantitative holistic assessment tool, congruent with the Health Change Process Theory, and found the 28-item QE Health Scale (QEHS) to be a reliable and valid measure of holistic health. These results also demonstrated that the Health Change Process Theory and the underpinning Spiritual Theory of Self were robust. With regard to clinical application, the QEHS was found to aid assessment, therapeutic intervention, a client-centred holistic approach to healthcare and evidenced-based practice. The Patient Profile, derived from QEHS responses, provided a tool that enabled theory to be applied to practice by identifying the key indicator personal attributes determining holistic health status. Conclusion The research results demonstrated that the Spiritual Theory of Self and the Health Change Process Theory provide valid explanations of the constructs that enable people with musculoskeletal disorders to remain otherwise healthy with such conditions. Furthermore, the relationship between the findings and established self-theories suggest that the Spiritual Theory of Self and the Health Change Process Theory may advance knowledge of the predictors and interventions that enable all people to undertake a health-enhancing process of change when confronted with adversity. The QEHS and associated Patient Profile were found to be reliable and valid tools that facilitated assessment and enhancement of the holistic health status for people with musculoskeletal impairments. These tools identified barriers to achievement of holistic health, predicted by the Health Change Process Theory; facilitated the therapeutic process through a focus on issues meaningful to those receiving healthcare; aided treatment decision making; and enabled quantitative evidence-based evaluation of the efficacy of interventions. Moreover, the overall results have advanced psychological knowledge with implications for all fields of psychology involved in the study of people. The evidence of the research undertaken provides a basis for promoting knowledge and research of chronic healthcare delivery and a spiritually based conception of self and health. The QEHS and associated theories provide a tool and basis for investigations where people are experiencing traumatic, irreversible crises. However, the initial aims of further research should be to refine the QEHS and the associated Patient Profile to enable the use of theory and the QEHS across a diverse range of research populations and to investigate the applicability of these to facilitate the maintenance or achievement of a healthy self.

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Ahmed, Mustafa, and Victoria Fröst. "Personal Experiences of Somali Women in Uddevalla : A comparative case study on Somali women’s understandings of their experiences in the integration process." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-12743.

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In connection to an existing research project, Micro-migration and Integration with relevance for Uddevalla, this study aims to analyse and compare the subjective understandings of Somali women’s experiences in the integration process in the Swedish society. Integration is a multifaceted and ongoing process in which the self-understandings of this notion is bound to change over time in relation to socio-economic and cultural contexts. In light of this, the thesis employs a comparative case study that is based on data collected through focus group discussions with newly arrived women and women who have stayed in Sweden for a longer time. The analytical framework utilizes acculturation theory to study what traces of integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization can be identified in the selfunderstandings and how they develop over time. Some of the conclusions from the study by the interviewees notify language being crucial. Both groups understand that Swedish constitutes a step in the overall process for establishment and the newly arrived women showed an awareness about it being the ultimate factor that can speed up their own integration process. The findings of the research include that there is a deviation of the understandings between the groups when it comes to housing and identity. The group of newly arrived women with the exception of one participant, indicated a clear separation in regard to both aspects above whereas the women who have lived in Sweden for 9-10 years showed clear traces of integration. Hence, in the beginning of the integration process a person might have a theoretical understanding that indicates separation but experience a discursive shift towards the lens of integration.

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Welch, Brett. "A phenomenological-enactive theory of the minimal self." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6043.

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The purpose of this project is to argue that we possess a minimal self. It will demonstrate that minimal selfhood arrives early in our development and continues to remain and influence us throughout our entire life. There are two areas of research which shape my understanding of the minimal self: phenomenology and enactivism. Phenomenology emphasizes the sense of givenness, ownership, or mineness that accompanies all of our experiences. Enactivism says there is a sensorimotor coupling that occurs between us and the environment in a way which modulates the dynamic patterns of our self development; the laying down of these basic patterns helps make us who we are and gives rise to the phenomenological, experiential mineness. Drawing on these two core ideas, I will be arguing for a Phenomenological-Enactive Minimal Self (abbreviated PEMS). I will be emphasizing the role of the body and the role of affects (moods, feelings, and emotions) as the most important components relevant to understanding minimal selfhood. Put more concretely, the set of conditions which constitute the PEMS view are: (i) The minimal self is the experiential subject; the minimal sense of self is present whenever there is awareness. It is the subjectivity of experience, the sense of mineness, or givenness which our experiences contain. (ii) The phenomenological part of the PEMS view turns on the idea of a bodily and dynamic integration of sensorimotor coupling and affective experience. It is, ontologically speaking, the lived body in enactive engagement with the environment. It is this embodied subject which anchors and forms the foundation for the later ‘narrative' self, which emerges from it and which is continually influenced by it. It is the subject enactively engaged with others, dependent on sensorimotor processes and affects. We have an identity, but it emerges from relational and dynamic processes.

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Roffman, Naomi. "The impact of an explicit, multisensory, phonics intervention programme on the professional development of the English foreign language teacher." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2012. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/273132/.

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The purpose of the research was to assess the impact of the process of professional development of English foreign language teachers in Israel who participated in the Explicit Multisensory Phonics Intervention Programme. Previous research focused on changes in knowledge, practices, student attainment, and beliefs. Changes from negative to positive self efficacy were not examined, and a model for the professional development of the English foreign language teacher did not exist. The conceptual framework is based on an integration of the concept of self efficacy with theories of professional development and literacy acquisition. Literacy acquisition is based on the knowledge and practice components of the process of professional development in this research. The process of professional development is set in motion by a sense of negative self efficacy. The attainment of content knowledge is followed by a change of practices and thereafter improved student attainment, leading to changes in teachers’ beliefs and positive self efficacy. The research questions seek to clarify teachers’ incentives for joining the programme, their standard of content knowledge and perceptions of the impact of the process of professional development. A mixed methods approach was used. The content knowledge of teachers was tested with a pre and post test. A questionnaire about the process of professional development was sent to teachers who had participated in the programme since 1991. Several unstructured interviews were held. Results showed that the teachers’ sense of negative self efficacy and failure in the field initiated their need for professional development. The impact of the process of professional development was: increased knowledge, changed practices and beliefs, claimed student attainment and positive self efficacy. The research contributes to knowledge by empirically supporting a theoretically based model for the impact of the process of professional development of English foreign language teachers. Positive and negative self efficacy are key factors in the process of professional development and knowledge is the basis of this process. These conclusions have practical applications for teacher training.

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Wiese, Anika, and Imke Willer. "A Two-Way Street? : The Mutual Influence between Self-Management as Organizational Structure and Intuition in Decision-Making - A Multiple Case Study." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177970.

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This research investigates the mutual influence between self-management as organizational structure and intuition in decision-making. Self-management as organizational structure has recently developed as a response to current challenges in society and business, thus constitutes an emerging research field. This study is contributing empirically to this under-research field while at the same time building on the well-researched field of decision-making. In particular, this study is building on the positive view of intuition in decision-making that comes along with dual-process theories. The empirical contribution of this study is collected through semi-structured interviews with a multiple-case study research design. This study’s main finding is the confirmation of a mutual influence, even more, a positive mutual influence, between self-management as organizational structure and intuition in decision-making. Furthermore, first findings on how they are influencing each other are brought forward as well as insights into the diversity of decision-making processes when applying self-management as organizational structure.

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Nickley, William A. "Making for One Another: An Exploration of Design-based Making in Positive Youth Development Program Delivery." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594656061637407.

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Bruschi, Giovana Fernanda Justino. "A articulação entre a autoavaliação e os processos de planejamento em instituições de ensino superior no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2015. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/3925.

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Uma gestão consistente que proporcione qualidade e sustentabilidade nas Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) é o que vem provocando debates no segmento educacional. A preocupação com resultados relativos ao SINAES (Sistema Nacional Avaliação da Educação Superior) desenvolvidos pelo Ministério da Educação é um dos pontos importantes deste processo. Uma das obrigações contidas no SINAES é o estabelecimento da CPA (Comissão Própria de Avaliação), a qual tem a finalidade de conduzir as avaliações internas em uma IES. As autoavaliações têm papel fundamental no desenvolvimento e melhorias nas instituições e desta forma, merecem destaque se usadas de forma efetiva como insumos para o planejamento da organização. Desta forma, o presente estudo tem a finalidade de identificar como ocorre a articulação entre os resultados das autoavaliações e os processos de planejamento em IES. Para tanto, foram realizadas entrevistas com gestores e coordenadores responsáveis pela CPA e de Planejamento Estratégico ou PDI – Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional, todos de instituições de Ensino Superior, sendo privadas e públicas no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. As declarações dos entrevistados demostraram que todos estão conscientes da importância em existir articulação entre a autoavaliação e os processos de planejamento estratégico, contudo, não há relatos de uma metodologia, em nenhuma instituição, que determine um padrão de aplicação destas atividades sincronizadas, ou seja, a articulação é feita conforme a necessidade, por meio da entrega de relatórios para a reitoria e aos coordenadores.
A consistent management to provide quality and sustainability in higher education institutions is what has caused debate in the educational segment. The concern with results for the SINAES (National Higher Education Assessment System) developed by the Ministry of Education is one of the important points of this process. One of the obligations contained in SINAES is the establishment of the CPA (Committee for assessment), which aims to conduct internal evaluations in an IES. The self-assessments, under the responsibility of the CPA, play a fundamental role in the development and improvements in institutions and thus deserve attention if used effectively as inputs to the planning of the organization. Thus, this study aims to identify how is the relationship between the results of self-assessments and planning processes in IES. Several interviews were conducted with managers and coordinators responsible for CPA and Strategic Planning or PDI - Institutional Development Plan, all higher education institutions, and private and public in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The statements of the respondents showed that everyone is aware of the importance of coordination exists between self-assessment and strategic planning processes, however, there are no reports of a methodology, in any institution, to determine a pattern of synchronized application of these activities, the joint is made as needed, through the delivery of reports to the rectory and coordinators.

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Westin, Kornblad Birgitta, and Marita Larm. "Pedagogers utsagor och resonemang om mötet med barn som är identifierade med språkstörning." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3328.

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En av skolans viktigaste uppgifter är att lära alla barn att läsa. Syftet med denna studieär att belysa och analysera pedagogers utsagor och resonemang om mötet med barn somhar identifierad språkstörning. Vi vill fånga vad som uppfattas vara av betydelse för attstimulera dessa elevers läsutveckling i årskurs 1-3. För att få svar på frågeställningarnahar vi använt oss av en kvalitativ metod med ostrukturerad intervju. I studien intervjuasfem pedagoger med erfarenhet av att arbeta med elever som har språkstörning.Resultatet visar att respondenternas uppfattning om vad som är av betydelse för attkunna stimulera dessa elevers läsutveckling är relationen till eleven, möta eleven pådess nivå, flexibilitet i organisationen, mängden erfarenhet, extern hjälp och samarbetemed föräldrar. Kartläggning hjälper dessutom pedagogerna att följa elevens individuellaläsutveckling och att organisera verksamheten därefter. Språkstörning påverkar elevensläsutveckling, på så sätt att varje nytt moment upplevs som svårt och svårigheternaföljer eleven under skoltiden. Elevens starka sidor och sinnen måste därför tas tillvara iundervisningen för att elever med språkstörning ska kunna tillgodogöra sig läsningbättre. Anpassad, strukturerad, lustfylld språkstimulans i varierande former och elevensegen motivation är av betydelse vid stimuleringen av språkstörda elevers läsutveckling.Grundläggande förutsättningar som pedagogerna framhåller i utsagorna är pedagogensbehov av information inför mötet med dessa elever, betydelsen av språklig medvetenhetoch föräldrars delaktighet.

One of the most important tasks of school is to teach all children to read. The aim of thisstudy is to elucidate and to analyze the statements and arguments, of the pedagogues,concerning meeting with children with identified language disorder. We want to spotwhat is said to be of significance in order to stimulate these students' readingdevelopment in the first to the third grade. In order to find answers, to the questions ofthe issues, we have used a qualitative method with unstructured interviews. In the studyfive pedagogues were interviewed, all of them with experience of working with studentswith language disorder. The result shows that the opinion of the respondents, aboutwhat is of significance in order to stimulate the reading development of these students isthe relationship to the student, to meet on the level of the student, organizationflexibility, amount experience, external help and parent collaboration. With support ofschedules the student’s individual reading development can be followed and the workaccordingly organized by the pedagogues. The difficulties influence their learningthrough the years and primary their reading development. Therefore, the strength of thestudent and the using of the five senses must be taken to heart in the education, in orderto better incorporate reading. Of great importance for reading development, of studentswith language disorder, is tailored, structured and joyful stimulus of the language, inways of variation and also the student’s motivation. Fundamental, as the pedagoguesstress in the statements, is the need of information before meeting with these students,the importance of linguistic awareness and the part taking of the parents.

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Kaiser, Brigette A. "The Impact of Collaborative Talk During Writing Events In a First Grade Classroom: A Qualitative Case Study." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1404210562.

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Arrospide, Echegaray Daniel. "Utvärdering av Självstyrandes-utvecklarramverket." Thesis, KTH, Data- och elektroteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-188209.

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Inom mjukvaruteknik finns en mångfald processmetoder där var och en har ett specifikt syfte. En processmetod kan enklare beskrivas som en upprepningsbar uppsättning delsteg i syfte att utföra en uppgift och uppnå ett specifikt resultat. Majoriteten av processmetoder som har hittats i denna studie inriktar sig på den mjukvaruprodukt som är att utveckla. Det verkar finnas en brist på processmetoder som kan användas av mjukvaruutvecklare för att utveckla sin personliga utvecklingsprocess. Med personlig utvecklingsprocess menas, hur den enskilda utvecklaren väljer att strukturera det egna arbetet i syfte att uppnå ett visst re- sultat. Självstyrandes-utvecklarramverket (även kallad SGD-ramverket) är i skrivande stund ett nyligen utvecklat processramverk med syfte att bistå den individuella utvecklaren att ut- veckla sin personliga utvecklingsprocess. Kort beskrivet är ramverket tänkt att innehålla alla aktiviteter som kan komma att uppstå i ett utvecklingsprojekt. Problemet är att detta ramverk inte har utvärderats ännu och därför vet man inte om ramverket är relevant för att uppfylla sitt syfte. För att rama in och vägleda studien formulerades ett antal problemfråge- ställningar (1) Är ramverket fullständigt för ett mindre företag med avseende på aktivite- ter?, (2) Hur hög är kostnaden för SGD-ramverket i form av tid? Målet med studien är att bidra till framtida studier för ramverket genom att utföra en akt- ionsstudie där SGD-ramverket utvärderas utefter ett par specifika utvärderingskriterier. En induktiv kvalitativ forskningsmetod användes för att genomföra denna studie. Med in- duktiv metod menas att slutsatser dras utifrån empiriskt insamlad data och utifrån dessa ut- formas generella teorier. Mer specifikt användes metoden aktionsstudie. Data samlades in genom loggning och tidsloggning under aktionsstudiens gång. För att utvärdera ramverket användes utvärderingskriterierna (1) Fullständighet, (2) Semantisk korrekthet (3) Kostnad. En narrativ analys fördes över insamlad data för dessa kriterier med hänsyn till problemfrå- geställningarna. Resultat från utvärdering visade att ramverket inte ansågs fullständigt med hänsyn till dess aktiviteter. Dock näst intill fullständigt då enbart ett fåtal aktiviteter behövdes tilläggas i den utförda aktionsstudien. Totalt 3 extra aktiviteter lades till utöver de 40 som redan finns. Ca tio procent av den totala arbetstiden i aktionsstudien var i tillagda aktiviteter utanför Självstyrandes-Utvecklarramverkets ordinarie aktiviteter. Ramverkets aktiviteter ansågs även vara för granulärt formulerade i sammanhanget av ett mindre företag. Ramverket an- sågs vara högst relevant för att förbättra den individuella utvecklarens egna process. Kost- nad för införsel av Självstyrandes-Utvecklarramverket i denna studie speglar tiden det tog tills tidsanvändningen av Ramverket ansågs stabilt. Denna införelsekostnad uppskattades i form av tid och bestod av ca 3.54% av en åttatimmars arbetsdag, detta uppskattade ske un- der en införselsperiod på 24 dagar. Total tillämpningskostnad för användning av ramverket i den utförda aktionsstudien är i snitt 4,143 SEK/timme alternativt 662,88 SEK/månad. Schablonkostnaden som har använts ligger på 172,625 SEK/timme.
Within software engineering there is a diversity of process methods where each one has its specific purpose. A process method can be described as being a repeatable set of step with the purpose to achieve a task and reach a specific result. The majority of process methods found in this study are focused on the software product being developed. There seems to be a lack of process methods that can be used by software developers for there individual soft- ware process improvement. Individual software process improvement, refers to how the in- dividual software developer chooses to structure their own work with the purpose to obtain a specific result The Self-Governance Developer Framework (also called SGD-framework) whilst writing this is a newly developed process framework with the purpose of aiding the individual soft- ware developer to improve his own individual software process. Briefly explained the framework is intended to contain all the activities that can come up in a software project. The problem is that this tool has not yet been evaluated and therefore it is unknown if it is relevant for its purpose. To frame and guide the study three problem questions has been for- mulated (1) Is the framework complete for a smaller company in regards to it activities? (2) How high is the cost for the SGD-framework in regard of time? The goal of the study is to contribute for future studies for the framework by performing an action study where the Self-Governance Developer Framework is evaluated against a set of chosen evaluation criteria. An inductive qualitative research method was used when conducting the study. An induc- tive method means that conclusions are derived from empirically gathered data and from that data form general theories. Specifically, the action study method was used. Data was gathered by keeping a logbook and also time logging during the action study. To evaluate the framework, some evaluation criteria was used which were (1) Completeness, (2) Se- mantic correctness, (3) Cost. A narrative analysis was conducted over the data that was gathered for the criteria. The analysis took the problem formulations in regard. The results from the evaluation showed that the framework was not complete with the re- gards of the activities. Although next to complete as only a few activities were further needed during the action study. A total of 3 extra activities were added over the regular 40 activities. Around 10% of the time spent in activities were in activities outside of the Self- Governance Developer Framework. The activities were considered to finely comminute for the context of a smaller company. The framework was considered highly relevant for im- proving the individual software developers own process. The introduction cost in this study reflect on the time it took until the usage of the framework was considered consistent. In this study it was approximately 24 working days with a usage about 3.54% of an eight-hour work day. The total application cost of usage of the framework in the performed action study was on average 4.143 SEK/hour or 662,88 SEK/month. The template cost used was on 172.625 SEK/hour.

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Karlsson, Henrik. "The Chance Events that Lead to the Development of the Washington, D.C. Metro: A Path Dependence Theory Analysis of the Genesis of the Metro in D.C." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23399.

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Under 50- och 60-talet i USA växte bilismen och städer byggde väldigt mycket motorvägar. Trots detta började då i Washington, D.C. det förlopp som skulle leda till att de fick en tunnelbana på 70-talet. Denna uppsats studerar hur denna osannolika och oväntade tunnelbana kunde uppstå med hjälp av teorin om stigberoende.Genom att använda teorin om stigberoende som ett analytiskt verktyg, identifierar denna uppsats följande: (1) vilka små händelser, även kallade formativa moment, som startade processen att ge D.C. en tunnelbana, (2) den resulterande kedja av händelser, även kallade reaktiva sekvenser, vilka ledde tunnelbanerörelsen till den punkt där den upplevde självförstärkande processer. (3) Dessa självförstärkande processer, vilka slutligen resulterade i uppkomsten av tunnelbanan i D.C.Uppsatsen identifierar tre relativt små händelser som genom olika kedjor av reaktiva sekvenser leder till att kongressen, år 1965, beviljar tunnelbanan pengar vilket, genom efterföljande självförstärkande processer, säkerställer tunnelbanans uppkomst.
During the 50's and the 60's automobile usage in the United States grew significantly and cities constructed extensive highway networks. In spite of these trends, key events in the 1950's initiated a process that would result in the construction of the Washington, D.C. Metro System – one of the first metro systems built since the 1920's. By applying the Path Dependence Theory and examining narratives of actors and events in Washington, D.C. that influenced the development of the metro during that time, this paper shows how this unlikely and unexpected process occurred.Using the Path Dependence Theory as an analytical tool, this paper identifies the following: (1) certain small events, also known as critical junctures, which started the process of giving DC a metro; (2) the resulting chain of events, also known as reactive sequences, which allowed the metro (movement) to reach the point at which it experienced self-reinforcing processes; (3) these self-reinforcing processes, which finally resulted in the genesis of the metro in DC.The paper concludes that three relatively small events, through different chains of reactive sequences, led to Congress granting the metro funds in 1965 – which then brought about self- reinforcing processes that ensured the metro's genesis.
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Higgins, Paul Anthony. "Reducing uncertainty in new product development." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/20273/.

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Research and Development engineering is at the corner stone of humanity’s evolution. It is perceived to be a systematic creative process which ultimately improves the living standard of a society through the creation of new applications and products. The commercial paradigm that governs project selection, resource allocation and market penetration prevails when the focus shifts from pure research to applied research. Furthermore, the road to success through commercialisation is difficult for most inventors, especially in a vast and isolated country such as Australia which is located a long way from wealthy and developed economies. While market leading products are considered unique, the actual process to achieve these products is essentially the same; progressing from an idea, through development to an outcome (if successful). Unfortunately, statistics indicate that only 3% of ‘ideas’ are significantly successful, 4% are moderately successful, and the remainder ‘evaporate’ in that form (Michael Quinn, Chairman, Innovation Capital Associates Pty Ltd). This study demonstrates and analyses two techniques developed by the author which reduce uncertainty in the engineering design and development phase of new product development and therefore increase the probability of a successful outcome. This study expands the existing knowledge of the engineering design and development stage in the new product development process and is couched in the identification of practical methods, which have been successfully used to develop new products by Australian Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Excel Technology Group Pty Ltd (ETG). Process theory is the term most commonly used to describe scientific study that identifies occurrences that result from a specified input state to an output state, thus detailing the process used to achieve an outcome. The thesis identifies relevant material and analyses recognised and established engineering processes utilised in developing new products. The literature identified that case studies are a particularly useful method for supporting problem-solving processes in settings where there are no clear answers or where problems are unstructured, as in New Product Development (NPD). This study describes, defines, and demonstrates the process of new product development within the context of historical product development and a ‘live’ case study associated with an Australian Government START grant awarded to Excel Technology Group in 2004 to assist in the development of an image-based vehicle detection product. This study proposes two techniques which reduce uncertainty and thereby improve the probability of a successful outcome. The first technique provides a predicted project development path or forward engineering plan which transforms the initial ‘fuzzy idea’ into a potential and achievable outcome. This process qualifies the ‘fuzzy idea’ as a potential, rationale or tangible outcome which is within the capability of the organisation. Additionally, this process proposes that a tangible or rationale idea can be deconstructed in reverse engineering process in order to create a forward engineering development plan. A detailed structured forward engineering plan reduces the uncertainty associated with new product development unknowns and therefore contributes to a successful outcome. This is described as the RETRO technique. The study recognises however that this claim requires qualification and proposes a second technique. The second technique proposes that a two dimensional spatial representation which has productivity and consumed resources as its axes, provides an effective means to qualify progress and expediently identify variation from the predicted plan. This spatial representation technique allows a quick response which in itself has a prediction attribute associated with directing the project back onto its predicted path. This process involves a coterminous comparison between the predicted development path and the evolving actual project development path. A consequence of this process is verification of progress or the application of informed, timely and quantified corrective action. This process also identifies the degree of success achieved in the engineering design and development phase of new product development where success is defined as achieving a predicted outcome. This spatial representation technique is referred to as NPD Mapping. The study demonstrates that these are useful techniques which aid SMEs in achieving successful new product outcomes because the technique are easily administered, measure and represent relevant development process related elements and functions, and enable expedient quantified responsive action when the evolving path varies from the predicted path. These techniques go beyond time line representations as represented in GANTT charts and PERT analysis, and represent the base variables of consumed resource and productivity/technical achievement in a manner that facilitates higher level interpretation of time, effort, degree of difficulty, and product complexity in order to facilitate informed decision making. This study presents, describes, analyses and demonstrates an SME focused engineering development technique, developed by the author, that produces a successful new product outcome which begins with a ‘fuzzy idea’ in the mind of the inventor and concludes with a successful new product outcome that is delivered on time and within budget. Further research on a wider range of SME organisations undertaking new product development is recommended.

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de, Leon Tiffany. "From Horse Walk to Therapy Talk: Exploring the Effects of Equine Assisted Family Therapy Coursework on Self of the Therapist Development of MFT Student Therapists." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/52.

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The Introduction and Advanced Equine Assisted Family Therapy (EAFT) courses offered at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) provide graduate Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) student therapists the space to learn about collaborating with horses for therapeutic and educational purposes. However, these courses also offer the potential for a unique dimension to self of the therapist development. Through these courses, student therapists are able to learn theory and application of an innovative experiential model for clients, but also utilize the activities to get to know themselves better as emerging therapists. The purpose of this study was to explore if and how the learning that occurs within the EAFT courses transfers into traditional talk therapy sessions. More specifically, the study explored how students utilized the experiential process of learning within the courses to further their understanding of the self of the therapist. The conversations that unfolded from reviewing MFT student therapists’ video recorded talk therapy sessions at the Brief Therapy Institute’s family therapy clinic served as the data. Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) was used to inquire about this process, including specifically how it relates to self of the therapist development.

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Kristoffersson, Sara. "Development of training material for a process analysis tool in the paper industry." Thesis, KTH, Lärande, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279059.

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Paperboard is accessible for everyone, such as packaging for provisions or beauty products. Paperboard consists of several layers of pulp and has different types of qualities depending on the material’s area of use. Within the paperboard production, the process behavior is analyzed to find solutions to decrease the product variations in order to reach the desired product results. Process analyses are continuously made to improve paperboard production and avoid defects in the paperboard product. The company Holmen has recently implemented a new process analysis tool on trial, named Wedge, at the paperboard mill in Workington, UK, which is a software tool that can be used for analyzing the paperboard process. Holmen’s vision was to develop training material for the software tool that could be used by the employees for educational purposes.The purpose of this project degree was to develop training material of the process analysis tool, i.e. the software Wedge, for novice learners. Initially, the purpose was to examine and identify the employees’ learning within the software tool at the mill in Workington. Based on that, training material was developed that could be used for self-directed learning material.The study was conducted through qualitative methods, which included a group interview with development engineers and a one-to-one interview with the training manager at the Workington mill. Additionally, observations of training opportunities and an evaluation questionnaire of the training material were used in this study. Based on these results, a thematic analysis was conducted where identified themes have been interpreted from aspects of cognitive learning and adult learning.The result is based on the qualitative survey and the analysis of the interviews and questionnaire responses indicates that the training material is suitable and pedagogical for novice learners. The development engineers mean, among other things, that computer-based training should contain ‘step-by-step’ examples of work-related situations and the training must be organized such that new information will not be overwhelming and unintelligible. It is also important that new knowledge or information can be acquired both visually and by text-based instructions, to be able to provide the learners with various kinds of teaching aids since there are different approaches to learn new knowledge. Therefore, the training material based on e-learning has been designed as a first lesson of how to use and navigate in the process analysis tool. The developed training material entails four interactive videos with incremental learning of how the process analysis tool can be used in the paper industry.
Materialet kartong är något alla har till hands, som exempelvis förpackningar för proviant eller skönhetsprodukter. Kartong består av flera lager av pappersmassa och har olika typer av kvalitéer beroende på materialets användningsområde. Inom produktionen görs analyser av kartongprocessens beteende för att hitta lösningar som minskar produktvariationerna och på så sätt uppnå önskade slutresultat. Processanalyser görs kontinuerligt för att förbättra kartongproduktion och därmed undvika produktdefekter. Företaget Holmen har implementerat ett nytt processanalysverktyg, så kallat Wedge, på deras kartongbruk i Workington, UK, vilket är en programvara som kan användas för att kunna göra analyser av kartongprocess. Holmen önskade att ett utbildningsmaterial för programvaran skulle utvecklas och kunna användas i utbildningssyfte för produktionsarbetarna.Syftet med detta examensarbete var att utveckla ett utbildningsmaterial för nybörjare av processanalysverktyget Wedge. Grunden till detta låg i att undersöka och identifiera de anställdas lärande utifrån programvarans utbildning på kartongbruket i Workington. Baserat på detta utvecklades ett utbildningsmaterial som kan användas som ett självstuderande lärandemedel.Undersökningen har utförts av kvalitativa metodval som innefattar en gruppintervju med utvecklingsingenjörer och en intervju med utbildningsansvarig på kartongbruket i Workington, samt observationer av utbildningstillfällen och enkäter för utvärdering av utbildningsmaterialet. Baserat på detta har en tematisk analys genomförts där identifierade teman har tolkats utifrån ett kognitivt lärandeperspektiv och vuxnas lärande.Resultatet baseras på den kvalitativa undersökningen och analys av intervjuerna och enkäterna visar på att utbildningsmaterialet är passande och ligger på en bra pedagogisk nivå för nybörjare. Utvecklingsingenjörerna önskar bland annat att en datorbaserad utbildning ska innehålla förberedda ’steg-för-steg’-exempel utifrån verklighetsbaserade problem samt att utbildning måste organiseras sådan att ny information inte blir överväldigande och svårförståelig. Det är även viktigt att ny kunskap och information kan fås både visuellt och textbaserat, och att en blandning mellan olika läromedel finns eftersom personer har olika strategier för att lära sig ny kunskap. Utifrån detta har ett utbildningsmaterial, baserat på e-lärande, utvecklats och skapats med ändamålet att fungera som en första lektion av hur en kan använda och navigera i processanalysverktyget. Det utbildningsmaterial som har utvecklats innefattar fyra interaktiva videos som är uppbyggda för stegvis inlärning om hur processanalysverktyget kan användas i pappersindustrin.

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Tucci, Celso Geraldo. "A presença de processos autogestionários nos empreendimentos de economia solidária pesquisados pelo SIES e a contribuição do campo CTS." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2012. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/1087.

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Frequent crises characterized capitalism, which are manipulated by him to concentrate more wealth and increase control over the working class, with the permanent threat of unemployment. Even more, it creates a world of consumerism that creates alienation, because work is needed to consume and to continue to have work you need to accept the capitalist rules. The objective of this research is to identify as the National Information System on the Solidarity Economy - SIES, to provide data about economic and supportive projects, obtained through field research, establishes itself as a social technology that contributes to the processes of self-management features of the Solidarity Economy. As preparatory steps for the analysis of data provided by SIES, the study follows a path that seeks to set the historical focus: its economic structure dominant, neoliberal capitalism and globalization, the new concept of territorial development that guides the Solidarity Economy, which if you want to organizing democratic and egalitarian forms of production, consumption, savings and loans as an alternative to the dominant system, and finally, a new line of thought represented by the studies STS (Science, Technology and Society), with a new vision of relations between scientific and technological progress and its impact on the dynamics of development of society. Questions of Solidarity Economy are discussed in detail in a separate chapter, as well as the process of self-managed firms, constitute the essence of solidarity enterprises. To reach that goal, we used the exploratory method, starting from the case studies of projects offered by SIES solidarity, which give an updated scenario of the Solidarity Economy in the five Brazilian regions, from the perspective of the field Science, Technology and Society - STS . The conclusions of the study point to the fact that multidisciplinary interventions contribute to the construction of an alternative to the capitalist mode of production, for which the field STS could contribute. Also point to significant growth, and also qualitatively, the Solidarity Economy movement, possibly from the successive crises of capitalism and also a change of understanding of the ways economic organizations may be beyond the capitalist structures, just as demonstrates the relationship of projects with various social movements, even though, according to data from SIES, the initiatives are still shy when it comes to more specific interventions in the territory surrounding the developments.
Frequentes crises caracterizam o capitalismo, as quais são por ele manipuladas a fim de concentrar mais riqueza e aumentar o controle sobre a classe operária, com a permanente ameaça de desemprego. Ainda mais, cria um mundo consumista que gera a alienação, pois para consumir é necessário trabalho e para continuar a ter trabalho é preciso aceitar as regras capitalistas. O objetivo da pesquisa é identificar como o Sistema Nacional de Informações em Economia Solidária SIES, ao disponibilizar dados a respeito de empreendimentos econômico-solidários, obtidos por meio de pesquisa de campo, estabelece-se como uma tecnologia social que contribui para os processos de autogestão característicos da Economia Solidária. Como etapas preparatórias para a análise dos dados fornecidos pelo SIES, o estudo segue um caminho que procura configurar o momento histórico focalizado: a sua estrutura econômica dominante, o neoliberalismo e o capitalismo globalizante; a nova concepção de desenvolvimento territorial que orienta a Economia Solidária, que se pretende organizadora de formas igualitárias e democráticas de produção, consumo, poupança e crédito, como uma alternativa ao sistema dominante; e, finalmente, uma nova linha de pensamento representada pelos estudos CTS (Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade), com uma nova visão das relações entre progresso científico e tecnológico e seu impacto na dinâmica de desenvolvimento da sociedade. As questões da Economia Solidária são analisadas detalhadamente num capítulo à parte, bem como o processo autogestionário das empresas, por constituir a essência dos empreendimentos solidários. Para atingir o objetivo proposto, foi utilizado o método exploratório, partindo do estudo de casos concretos de empreendimentos solidários oferecidos pelo SIES, que traçam um cenário atualizado da Economia Solidária nas cinco regiões brasileiras, sob a perspectiva do campo Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade - CTS. As conclusões do trabalho apontam para o fato de que intervenções multidisciplinares contribuiriam para a construção de uma alternativa ao modo de produção capitalista, para a qual o campo CTS poderia contribuir. Apontam ainda para um crescimento significativo, e também qualitativo, do movimento da Economia Solidária, possivelmente oriundo das sucessivas crises do capitalismo e também de uma mudança de entendimento das maneiras como as organizações econômicas podem se constituir para além das estruturas capitalistas, do mesmo modo que demonstra o relacionamento dos empreendimentos com diversos movimentos sociais, ainda que, segundo os dados do SIES, ainda são tímidas as iniciativas quando se trata de intervenções mais específicas no território que circunda os empreendimentos.

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MANCA, GAVINA. "Fattori di sviluppo e dinamiche identitarie nel Mediterraneo: il caso dell'arcipelago maltese." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/183.

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I nodi concettuali analizzati nel presente lavoro sono stati fondamentalmente due: 1) le politiche dello sviluppo in area mediterranea; 2) l'importanza che assumono in questo quadro i temi legati all'appartenenza e all'identità. In questo senso il concetto di sviluppo sostenibile è un altro punto chiave di questa parte. Al percorso teorico ha fatto seguito uno studio di caso presso l'arcipelago maltese.
This thesis is focused on two aspects: 1) the politics of development in the Mediterranean area, 2) the crucial role played by identity. The theoretical part is followed by a case study in the Malta archipelago, where we studied the development processes along with the identity dynamics through a multimethod approach.

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St, Johnston Benedict. "From transitive inference to exhaustive search : towards self-regulating models of developmental processes." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21548.

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This thesis is sympathetic to Piaget's view of development as a dynamic interactive process between an autonomous agent and its environment allowing cognitive growth through self-regulation and resulting in an extended behavioural repertoire. This thesis explores developmental issues through computer modelling. Piaget thought transitive inferences relied on logic, which he considered the basis of rationality, and as such marked the end-point of cognitive development. More recently, empirical studies have shown that the ability to make transitive inferences does not rely on logic, and is close to the lower ontological bounds of the system, requiring us to reassess our theories for rationality, ontology, and ontogeny. Using Piagetian principles, it is argued that transitive inference is likely to be primitive, and should be applied as a default assumption for pragmatic reasons but that this assumption must be defeasible. Basic decision-making models are produced, based on Sutton and Barto's self-supervised learning models. They show how easy it is to generate a simple order over a set of binary choices leading to a strong transitive bias. Elaborating the representation in the model with units that learn stimulus-stimulus relationships, the model can also learn a circular relationship and generalise appropriately. Thus, transitivity is captured as a default yet defeasible assumption giving the agent the ability to exploit its environment as much as possible whilst still remaining adaptable. The model also shows similar scope to subjects in that its performance on triadic choices is worse than on binary ones. Unlike some subjects, the model cannot repair its own performance. Seriation is a more transparent ordering skill which develops later. Empirical work determining the basis of seriation skills showed that the important development is a data-reducing strategy, based on picking up redundant information in the task, that reduces seriation to a simple search task.

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Pin-Scarna, Hélène. "Processus addictif : psychopathologie et neurobiologie." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCC015/document.

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Ce travail s'inscrit dans le cadre de la psychopathologie clinique et propose une articulation entre les données des neurosciences et la clinique rencontrée dans un CSAPA.Une première partie s'intéresse à la phénoménologie du processus addictif avec ses phases successives aboutissant à une demande de soins suite à l'aliénation finale produite par la consommation de drogue. Cette demande de soins est, généralement, d'abord le recours à un traitement de substitution qui s'accompagne parfois d'un suivi psychologique.Dans une seconde partie, l'hypothèse sur la genèse de l'addiction concernant la vulnérabilité narcissique repérée chez les patients et ses soubassements neurobiologiques sont abordés. La prise de drogue serait une façon de faire émerger le vrai-self en surmontant le système défensif mis en place pour se protéger des traumatismes induit par l'environnement primaire. Un premier cas clinique est exposé en détail afin d'apporter la preuve d'existence de traumatisme, y compris transgénérationnel, et du déroulement implacable de l'addiction. D'autres cas cliniques suivent, centrés sur une dimension ou un moment particulier du suivi, pour illustrer d'autres aspects du processus addictif. L'impact neurobiologique des traumas est également développé, ce qui permet de l'articuler avec plusieurs concepts, en particuliers winnicottien.Une troisième partie propose plusieurs fonctions à l'addiction (rôles défensif, antidépressif et de régulation affective) avec des exemples cliniques et les bases neuroscientifiques actuellement connues. Bien que l'expérience de la clinique psychanalytique soit à un niveau de complexité bien supérieur à ce qui est aujourd'hui accessible aux neurosciences, la plupart des recherches dans ce domaine vont dans le sens de la compréhension psychologique des processus addictifs.Pour terminer, sont tracés les grands traits d'un modèle hypothétique de l'addiction aux drogues et les points les plus sensibles concernant l'accompagnement thérapeutique
This thesis, fit into the framework of clinical psychopathology, proposes an articulation between data of the neurosciences and the practice met in a CSAPA.The first part is devoted to the phenomenology of the addicting process with its successive phases that end in a request of care as a response to the final alienation produced by drug use. This request of care is, generally, at first, a request for a substitution treatment, which sometimes comes along with a psychological follow-up.In the second part, the hypothesis on the addiction’s genesis regarding the narcissistic vulnerability spotted in patients and their neurobiological bases is examined. Drug use would be a way to make arise the true self, thus overcoming the defensive system set up to protect oneself from traumas induced by the first environment. A first detailed clinical example represents an attempt to establish the existence of trauma, including of transgenerational origin, and the associated unrelenting course of addiction. Other clinical cases are examined, centered on a different aspect or on a specific moment of the support encounters, in order to illustrate other aspects of the addicting process. The neurobiological impact of traumas is also developed, that allows to articulate it with several concepts, particularly those of Winnicott.The third part proposes several functions to the addiction (defensive and anti-depressive roles, emotional regulation) with clinical examples and the neuroscientific bases currently known. Although experience in the psychoanalytical clinic is at a level of complexity much higher than what is currently accessible to the neurosciences, most of the research in this domain stay in line with psychological understanding of the addicting process.Finally, a hypothetical model of addiction in drugs and the most sensitive points concerning the therapeutic support are outlined

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Marks, Lori J., and Tina M. Hudson. "Self-Regulated Strategy Development." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3677.

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Bartholme, Carine. "Self-similarity and exponential functionals of Lévy processes." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209256.

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La présente thèse couvre deux principaux thèmes de recherche qui seront présentés dans deux parties et précédés par un prolegomenon commun. Dans ce dernier nous introduisons les concepts essentiels et nous exploitons aussi le lien entre les deux parties.

Dans la première partie, le principal objet d’intérêt est la soi-disant fonctionnelle exponentielle de processus de Lévy. La loi de cette variable aléatoire joue un rôle primordial dans de nombreux domaines divers tant sur le plan théorique que dans des domaines appliqués. Doney dérive une factorisation de la loi arc-sinus en termes de suprema de processus stables indépendants et de même index. Une factorisation similaire de la loi arc-sinus en termes de derniers temps de passage au niveau 1 de processus de Bessel peut aussi être établie en utilisant un résultat dû à Getoor. Des factorisations semblables d’une variable de Pareto en termes des mêmes objets peut également être obtenue. Le but de cette partie est de donner une preuve unifiée et une généralisation de ces factorisations qui semblent n’avoir aucun lien à première vue. Même s’il semble n’y avoir aucune connexion entre le supremum d’un processus stable et le dernier temps de passage d’un processus de Bessel, il peut être montré que ces variables aleatoires sont liées à des fonctionnelles exponentielles de processus de Lévy spécifiques. Notre contribution principale dans cette partie et aussi au niveau de caractérisations de la loi de la fonctionnelle exponentielle sont des factorisations de la loi arc-sinus et de variables de Pareto généralisées. Notre preuve s’appuie sur une factorisation de Wiener-Hopf récente de Patie et Savov.

Dans la deuxième partie, motivée par le fait que la dérivée fractionnaire de Caputo et d’autres opérateurs fractionnaires classiques coïncident avec le générateur de processus de Markov auto-similaires positifs particuliers, nous introduisons des opérateurs généralisés de Caputo et nous étudions certaines propriétés. Nous nous intéressons particulièrement aux conditions sous lesquelles ces opérateurs coïncident avec les générateurs infinitésimaux de processus de Markov auto-similaires positifs généraux. Dans ce cas, nous étudions les fonctions invariantes de ces opérateurs qui admettent une représentation en termes de séries entières. Nous précisons que cette classe de fonctions contient les fonctions de Bessel modifiées, les fonctions de Mittag-Leffler ainsi que plusieurs fonctions hypergéométriques. Nous proposons une étude unifiant et en profondeur de cette classe de fonctions.
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Jones, Allan M. "An Absence of Being: A Jungian-Based Model for Understanding Situational Management In Public Organizations." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29013.

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Traditional management-leadership and organizational literature depicts the individual as conflated with their role and instructs them to handle their employees and the situations that arise daily and over the course of business cycles instrumentally and for the purposes of control and productivity. This more traditional and mainstream literature does not adequately address, if at all, the unconscious factors influencing people or the management situations in which they find themselves. Using a model based upon the theory of the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung and the relationship of consciousness to the unconscious, this dissertation looks at situational management cases and reveals the existence of the unconscious in the midst of our strongest claims to rationality. Present and active, the cases show the unconscious to be a significant factor in creating subjective meaning and ordering our world even in the most "rational" moments of our lives in public administration. They further describe how it is that the individual in the manager-leader role is implicated in and caused by the very situations they are attempting to manage and the way in which acknowledging and relating to the unconscious provides an additional resource for public managers.
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Coney, Sonia Lorraine. "The Development of the Self-Injury Self-Report Measure." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2116.

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Despite the amount of research that has been conducted on self-injury there is a lack of empirically validated instruments with which to measure self-injurious behavior. The present study developed a measure to examine self-injury and the associated features. Undergraduate students (n = 184) were administered a set of surveys to assess demographics, self-injurious behavior, suicidal ideation, Axis I and Axis II disorders, and impulsivity. Results indicated that a reliable measure, able to assess the extent of self-injury as well as associated features, was developed. Such a measure will enable clinicians to better assess self-injury and enable researchers to more fully examine self-injury and its relationship to other disorders.

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Han, Koogin. "Design leadership and communication : characteristics and abilities of design leaders communicating design to non-designers during the fuzzy front end of new product development." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9759.

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This research investigates the key characteristics of design leaders in the context of New Product Development (NPD) at the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) or early stage of this process. It particularly focuses on how design leaders communicate design to non-designers. It is often observed that designers struggle to communicate design to non-designers. Previous research has identified design leaders as competent design communicators. However, the definition and key characteristics of design leaders remain unclear. By reviewing the literature on leadership studies, design leadership and project leadership, it is evident that no single universal definition of leadership exists. The most common definition is that leaders apply their knowledge and skills to conduct activities and use their traits to influence other people’s actions. Leadership requires different characteristics for different tasks. To understand the characteristics of design leaders, triangulated research was employed at a real-life NPD project involving young designers and non-designers at early stages of NPD as part of the first study. All participants (N=32) were directly observed, interviewed in semi-structured interviews and administered with assistive questionnaires to compare design and non-design participants’ leadership and communication styles. The second study was in-depth, focusing on UK design leaders (N=11) through semi-structured interviews and based on deficiencies in leadership and communicating design, identified from the first study and the literature review. Comparative studies indicate that designers and design leaders vary their attitudes towards non-designers, motivation and communication style. This study highlights the key characteristics of design leaders: an epiphany by experiencing the entire NPD process, interest in the benefits of NPD stakeholders, a good understanding of design competency, reflectively flexible working attitude and strong, active listening. Thus, a conceptual model was formulated and evaluated, able to guide designers who wish to become design leaders and help to enhance design communication and relationships with non-designers.

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Nguyen, Thi-Hien. "Etude de l'asymptotique du phénomène d'augmentation de diffusivité dans des flots à grande vitesse." Thesis, Brest, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BRES0072/document.

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En application, on souhaite générer des nombres aléatoires avec une loi précise (méthode de Monte Carlo par chaines de Markov - MCMC (Markov Chaine Monte Carlo)). La méthode consiste à trouver une diffusion qui a la loi invariante souhaitée et à montrer la convergence de cette diffusion vers son équilibre avec une vitesse exponentielle. L’exposant de cette convergence est le trou spectral du générateur. Il a été montré par Chii-Ruey Hwang, Shu-Yin Hwang-Ma, et Shuenn-Jyi Sheu qu’on peut agrandir le trou spectral, en rajoutant un terme non-symétrique au générateur auto-adjoint (souvent utilisé en MCMC). Ceci correspond à passer d’une diffusion réversible (en detailed balance) à une diffusion non réversible. Un moyen de construire une diffusion non-réversible avec la même mesure invariante est de rajouter un flot incompressible à la dynamique de la diffusion réversible.Dans cette thèse, nous étudions le comportement de la diffusion lorsqu’on accélère le flot sous-jacent en multipliant le champ des vecteurs qui le décrit par une grande constante. P. Constantin, A.Kisekev, L.Ryzhik et A.Zlatoš (2008) ont montré que si le flot était faiblement mélangeant alors l’accélération du flot suffisait pour faire converger la diffusion vers son équilibre en un temps fini. Dans ce travail, on explicite la vitesse de ce phénomène sous une condition de corrélation du flot. L’article de B. Franke, C.-R.Hwang, H.-M. Pai et S.-J. Sheu (2010) donne l’expression asymptotique du trou spectral lorsque le flot sous-jacent est accéléré vers l’infini. Ici aussi, on s’intéresse à la vitesse avec laquelle le phénomène se manifeste. Dans un premier temps, nous étudions le cas particulier d’une diffusion du type Ornstein-Uhlenbeck qui est perturbée par un flot préservant la mesure gaussienne. Dans ce cas, grâce à un résultat de G. Metafune, D. Pallara et E. Priola (2002), nous pouvons réduire l’étude du spectre du générateur à des valeurs propres d’une famille de matrices. Nous étudions ce problème avec des méthodes de développement limité des valeurs propres. Ce problème est résolu explicitement dans cette thèse et nous donnons aussi une borne pour le rayon de convergence du développement. Nous généralisons ensuite cette méthode dans le cas d’une diffusion générale de façon formelle. Ces résultats peuvent être utiles pour avoir une première idée sur les vitesses de convergence du trou spectral décrites dans l’article de Franke et al. (2010)
In application, we would like to generate random numbers with a precise law MCMC (Markov Chaine Monte Carlo). The method consists in finding a diffusion which has the desired invariant law and in showing the convergence of this diffusion towards its equilibrium with an exponential rate. The exponent of this convergence is the spectral gap of the generator. It was shown by C.-R. Hwang, S.-Y. Hwang-Ma and S.-J. Sheu that the spectral gap can grow up by adding a non-symmetric term to the self-adjoint generator.This corresponds to passing from a reversible diffusion to a non-reversible diffusion. A means of constructing a non-reversible diffusion with the same invariant measure is to add an incompressible flow to the dynamics of the reversible diffusion.In this thesis, we study the behavior of diffusion when the flow is accelerated by multiplying the field of the vectors which describes it by a large constant. In 2008, P. Constantin, A. Kisekev, L. Ryzhik and A. Zlatoˇs have shown that if the flow was weakly mixing then the acceleration of the flow was sufficient to converge the diffusion towards its equilibrium after finite time. In this work, the speed of this phenomenon is explained under a condition of correlation of the flow. The article by B. Franke, C.-R.Hwang, H.-M. Pai and S.-J.Sheu (2010) gives the asymptotic expression of the spectral gap when the large constant goes to infinity. Here we are also interested in the speed with which the phenomenon manifests itself. First, we study the special case of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck diffusion which is perturbed by a flow preserving the Gaussian measure. In this case, thanks to a result of G. Metafune, D. Pallara and E. Priola (2002), we can reduce the study of the generator spectrum to eigenvalues of a family of matrices. We study this problem with methods of limited development of eigenvalues. This problem is solved explicitly in this thesis and we also give a boundary for the convergence radius of the development. We then generalize this method in the case of a general diffusion in a formal way. These results may be useful to have a first idea on the speeds of convergence of the spectral gap described in the article by Franke et al. (2010)

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Burton, Sarah. "The development of self-knowledge." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272553.

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Svermova, Lucie. "Development of self-compacting SIFCON." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398324.

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Slurry Infiltrated Fibre Concrete (SIFCON) is produced by a process in which fibres are put into an empty mould, after which the fibres are infiltrated by a cement slurry. Generally, the infiltration of the slurry into the layer of fibres is carried out under intensive vibration. This research has investigated the development of cement slurries which do not require to be vibrated when SIFCON is produced. A new test was developed to assess the effect of materials and admixtures on the infiltration properties of cement based slurries. Two slurries with different strengths were developed and applied for production of SIFCON elements with fibre contents of up to 11 percent. Samples of self-compacting SIFCON were produced and tested for compressive and flexural strength. The effect of strength of slurry used was compared and as expected the high strength of SIFCON was obtained by samples produced from 'high' strength slurry. A significant anisotropy of SIFCON was underlined by samples with different orientation of fibres. An 'edge effect' was investigated on 'cut' and 'cast' samples and a decrease in flexural strength of 'cut' samples was found. A new behaviour was observed on SIFCON in compression in large deformations. In these deformations SIFCON increased its strength. This behaviour is usually typical for a metal. Full scale frames were successfully produced using self-compacting concrete and selfcompacting SIFCON for comer parts of the frames. The results highlighted problems relating to the anisotropy of SIFCON. The addition of SIFCON parts in frames did not show any significant improvement of strength of the frames. Moreover, unsuitable placement of fibres caused a significant decrease in strength in a structure. The focus of this project was to improve knowledge about self-compacting SIFCON and so increase acceptance of SIFCON for application in structures.

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Dumaz, Laure. "Processus auto-interagissants et grandes déviations." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00772274.

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Cette thèse porte sur divers aspects de lois et de processus non-gaussiens qui partagent des propriétés de changement d'échelle où intervient l'exposant 2/3. Les deux principaux objets probabilistes que nous allons présenter sont : 1) La loi de Tracy-Widom : C'est la loi limite de la plus grande valeur propre de matrices aléatoires appartenant aux beta-ensembles lorsque leur dimension tend vers l'infini. Dans un travail en commun avec Balint Virag, nous avons établi le comportement asymptotique de la queue droite de cette loi pour tout beta strictement positif, en utilisant des outils d'analyse de diffusions du type Girsanov. 2) Le ''vrai'' processus auto-répulsif (''true self repelling motion'') TSRM : C'est un processus auto-interagissant qui a été introduit par Balint Toth et Wendelin Werner. Nous nous sommes intéressés à des propriétés de cet objet liées à ses trajectoires (grandes déviations, lois du logarithme itéré) et à des calculs explicites de lois marginales (travail en collaboration avec Balint Toth). Cette étude nous a aussi amenés à aborder des questions liées à la théorie des jeux.

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