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Hochstedler, Robert. "United States counter-narcotics policies towards Burma, and how the illegal myanmar regime is manipulating those policies to commit ethnic genocide." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Jun%5FHochstedler%5FNSA.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Aurel Croissant. "June 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p.123-129) Also available in print.
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Aung-Kyaw-Zaw. "Utilisation and cost of malaria treatment in Shan state, Myanmar, 2000 /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19082.pdf.
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Jalaei-Pour, Hamidreza. "The Iranian revolution mass mobilization and its continuity during 1976-96 /." Thesis, Online version, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.311633.
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Meehan, Patrick. "The political economy of the opium/heroin trade in Shan State, Myanmar, 1988-2012." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2016. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/22807/.
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This thesis examines the relationship between processes of state consolidation and the illicit opium/heroin economy in Shan State since 1988. Over the past twenty-five years, the government of Myanmar (Burma) has established greater authority over large parts of Shan State, neutralizing much of the threat posed by armed groups and strengthening its hold over revenue extraction. During this period Myanmar has retained its position as the world's second largest producer of illicit opium/heroin, the majority of which is produced in Shan State. This thesis seeks to answer the overarching research question: What role has the opium/heroin economy played in fortifying and/or fragmenting processes of state consolidation in Shan State, Myanmar, in the period since 1988? In addressing this question, my study tests the hypothesis that rather than necessarily being a cause of disorder and state breakdown, illegal drug economies can play an important role in processes of state consolidation. In order to test this hypothesis I break down my overarching research question into four sub-questions: First, why have the Shan borderlands with China and Thailand become central to the government's statebuilding aspirations? Second, what strategies has the government deployed in order to extend its power and authority in borderland regions? Third, how have these strategies been imposed, resisted and brokered within the Shan borderlands? Fourth, what is the relationship between contested processes of state consolidation and the drug economy in Shan State in the period since 1988? In addressing these questions I argue that it is increasingly anachronistic to view the drug economy narrowly as part of the insurgent war economy. Alongside the continued role it plays in financing armed opposition to the government, the drug trade has also become deeply embedded within processes of illiberal state consolidation and capitalist development. Through an analysis of the specific spatial dynamics of power relations, material interests and institutional arrangements, this study renders visible the messy and fragmented multiplicity of motivations and actors (including insurgents, ceasefire groups, the military, government-sanctioned militias, national and transnational investors, and local populations) which have shaped changing configurations of power across Shan State. In doing so, it provides new ways to account for the uneven political topography of the Myanmar state, the repertoires of violence enacted across Shan State and the different kinds of 'institutions of extraction' that have emerged around borderland resources.
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Zieger, Jason Peter. "Rise of the "Indian Doctors": Charity Shaw and the Marketing of Indian Medicine." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626568.
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Madueño, Lorvelis Amelia. "Crafting Japanese-ness: An Ethnographic Study of Parents’ Attitudes toward Language Maintenance in a Japanese Community in the United States." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/111.
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This study documents the attitudes and perspectives toward Japanese language education of seven “newly-arrived” Japanese immigrants, jp. Shin-issei, who are raising bilingual or multilingual children in New Orleans, Louisiana. The participants of this study consisted of six mothers and one father who speak Japanese to their children at home and act as teachers of this language at the Japanese Weekend School of New Orleans, jp. Nyū Orinzu Nihongo Hoshūkō, a supplementary language school. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this thesis has two interrelated objectives: One is to analyze parents’ attitudes toward Japanese language maintenance and show that although the home remains the crucial site for language education, the Japanese School of New Orleans represents a relevant site for the maintenance of the Japanese language and the indoctrination of Japanese cultural values. The second is to explore how these parents connect the process of teaching at and attending the school to a sentiment of diasporic nationalism. This study calls for a renewed ethnographic focus on often ignored —or known by few— immigrant communities in Louisiana by recognizing the presence of Japanese immigrants in this area, their constant efforts to maintain ties and connections to their home country, and their motivations to do so.
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McGlinchey, Stephen. "Arming the Shah : U.S. arms policies towards Iran, 1950-1979." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/43441/.
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This thesis reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.S. administrations developed with the Shah of Iran between 1950 and 1979. This relationship has generally been neglected in the extant literature leading to a series of omissions and distortions in the historical record. By detailing how and why Iran transitioned from a low order military aid recipient in the 1950s to America’s primary military credit customer in the late 1960s and 1970s, this thesis provides a detailed and original contribution to the understanding of a key Cold War episode. By drawing on extensive declassified archival records, the investigation demonstrates the not only the importance of the arms relationship but also how it reflected, and contributed to, the wider evolution of U.S.-‐ Iranian relations from a position of Iranian client state dependency to a situation where the U.S. became heavily leveraged to the Shah for protection of the Gulf and beyond -‐ until the policy met its disastrous end in 1979 as an antithetical regime took power in Iran.
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Phyu, Phyu Lwin. "Land-use changes caused by livelihood transitions and their impact on tropical lower montane forest in Shan State, Myanmar." Kyoto University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/231019.
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Reisinezhad, Arash. "Geopolitical Account of Iran's Ties with Non-State Actors under the Shah: 1958-1979." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3196.
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Late in 2004, King Abdullah of Jordan coined a controversial phrase that still dominates the heart of the geopolitics of the Middle East: The Shia Crescent. “If pro-Iran parties or politicians dominate the new Iraqi government, a new ‘crescent’ of dominant Shia movements or governments stretching from Iran into Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon could emerge to alter the traditional balance of power between the two main Islamic sects and pose new challenges to U.S. interests and allies. What the King of Jordan saw as a threat, Iran saw as the bedrock of its newfound regional power. However, what the King of Jordan and his Arab-Sunni aides downplayed was Iran’s ties with non-Shia groups, ranging from Sunni parties to secular and even non-Muslim groups. More importantly, they neglected Iran’s presence in the Middle East before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In fact, the seeming omnipresence of Iran’s proxies in the Middle East is not a recent, nuanced phenomenon; rather, it dated back to the Shah’s foreign policy in making connections with both the Iraqi Kurds and Shia Lebanese. While much ink has been spilled on Iran’s foreign policy under the Islamic Republic, there has been a void in the analysis of Iran’s ties with Non-State Actors (NSAs) in the pre-1979 Revolution Era.
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From this point of view, the present study is an attempt to set forth a new understanding of the emergence and fluctuation of Iran’s ties with NSAs at the heart of the Middle East during the Shah’s era. I will accomplish this by identifying the Iran-NSA relationships within an examination of the larger historical context of state-NSA relationships in the region. Here, the story of the evolution of Iran’s ties with NSAs can be narrated as the unfolding of constant interaction between states and non-state forces in the Middle East. Analyzed from this perspective, my research examines the actors, processes, and mechanisms that Iran has used to construct ties with NSAs from 1961 until 1979. “What actors and processes at what levels of analysis and through what mechanisms have constructed Iran’s ties with NSAs?” This is the central question that guides the analytical narrative in the present survey. Therefore, the dependent variable for this research is the evolution of Iran’s ties with NSAs, while the intervening variable is a set of actors and processes that have brought about such sub-state ties. In this framework, the proposed work will undertake these main tasks:
A) Tracing the history of the ebbs and flows within Iran’s ties with non-state actors through a geopolitical lens.
B) Explaining how Iran’s ties with non-state actors unfolded and understanding why Iran’s proxies evolved in the way they did.
C) AssessingthebroadcontoursoftheevolutionarytrajectoryofIran’stieswithNSAs and its possible future path(s) for the geopolitics of the Middle East and its regional balance of power.
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Maung, Maung Than Htike Orapin Pitakmahaket. "Effect of family and peer connectedness on tobacco and alcohol consumption among high school adolescents in the Northern Shan State, Myanmar /." Abstract, 2007. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2550/cd404/4938534.pdf.
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Gallup, Courtney Anne. "The impacts of black shank resistance management on the population biology of Phytophthora nicotianae in tobacco." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04282009-154531/.
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Black shank of tobacco, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora nicotianae, is an important disease of tobacco. Emergence of race 1 has led to loss of major gene resistance and to questions on the genetic diversity in the pathogen in North Carolina. Race 3 is reported for the first time in NC. Race 3 is virulent on plants with the Phl gene and not the Php gene and causes severe disease symptoms on mature plants. Isolates of race 3 were recovered from locations where the Phl gene was deployed and in fields characterized as the wild-type race, race 0, with no history of single-gene resistance. In order to determine whether races 1 and 3 can develop as natural variants from race 0, and to track loss of Php and Phl virulence in races 1 and race 3, soil was infested with one race of P. nicotianae and planted with tobacco varieties with multigenic resistance. Isolates were recovered after five months and screened for race. Additionally, zoospore isolates were derived from progenitor zoospore isolates representing the three races. Zoospore progeny were screened to identify changes in virulence during asexual sporulation. A subset of zoospore progeny was subjected to Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism analysis to investigate genetic diversity generated through clonal sporulation. Results showed a gain and/or loss of virulence within all race progeny in soil and single-zoospore isolates. Race 1 was the most stable phenotype, with 91% in infested soil and 99.7% of the zoospore progeny retaining the virulence phenotype. The race structure in soil infested with races 0 and 3 were similar after five months. Races were recovered in a 2:1 ratio (race 0: race 3) with a small percentage of race 1. Races 0 and 3 zoospore progeny also segregated. Race 0 progeny were 67% race 0 and 33% gained virulence to the Phl gene (race 3). Similarly, 68% of the race 3-derived progeny retained the parental virulent phenotype, 31% lost the virulent phenotype (race 0), and 1% gained virulence to the Php gene (race 1). Estimates of genetic diversity within each group of related zoospores ranged from 0.17013 to 0.44196. Phenotypic and genotypic investigations revealed that asexual sporulation may be a major source of variation in natural populations. A state-wide survey of P. nicotianae populations was conducted in NC tobacco-producing regions. Isolates were obtained from 76 tobacco fields in 23 counties and screened for race and mating type. Race 1 was predominant in most regions, with 59% of fields consisting of 90 to 100% race 1. The occurrence of race 1 within fields was positively correlated with the history of monogenic resistance deployment. Race 3 was identified in low frequency throughout the state, primarily in wild-type populations where no monogenic resistance was deployed. The A1 and A2 mating types were found throughout NC and were recovered concurrently from multiple fields. Pairings of isolates from within fields yielded viable oospores, indicating for the first time, the potential for sexual reproduction by P. nicotianae. A subset of the survey isolates were screened for sensitivity to the fungicide mefenoxam. All isolates were sensitive, with a mean EC50 value of 0.4 μg/ml mefenoxam, indicating fungicide applications are still a reliable method of black shank management. Results reveal a rapid state-wide shift toward race 1, correlating with the deployment of monogenic resistance and indicate that sexual recombination may be important in generating variation within the pathogen population.
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Oppenheim, Joshua J. "Overview of America's Professional Choirs: Considerations for Establishing, Maintaining and Succeeding in the Creation of a Professional or Community Choir in the United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5404/.
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This document chronicles the history, development, process, and impact of three of the United States' first and most successful professional choirs. Representing the impact of these three choirs demonstrates a need for current professional or community choirs today. Four conductors of current professional and community choirs were interviewed and discussed elements for establishing, maintaining and succeeding in creating of a professional or community choir in the United States today. This document impresses the importance and considerations for a successful endeavor when establishing a professional or community choir.
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Vidal, Claire. "Putuoshan, l’île (de) Guanyin : les facettes sociologiques d’un pèlerinage dans la Chine contemporaine." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100032.
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L’île du Putuoshan (archipel de Zhoushan, Zhejiang) accueille chaque année des dizaines de milliers de voyageurs venus de toute l’Asie pour rendre un culte au bodhisattva de la compassion Guanyin, dans l’espoir de bénéficier de ses faveurs, d’obtenir des réponses miraculeuses et d’assister à une manifestation divine. Haut-lieu bouddhique depuis le Xe siècle, le Putuoshan est au cœur de projets de développement initiés à la fin de la Révolution Culturelle qui visent à transformer les paysages et les pratiques de pèlerinage. Ces mutations ont reconfiguré le champ religieux local lequel intègre désormais une pluralité d’acteurs, avec chacun leurs objectifs et leurs stratégies ; ainsi les communautés monastiques cherchent à accroître l’influence du site, une ambition partagée par les autorités politiques qui encouragent également les initiatives touristiques des entreprises privées et des administrations en charge de la culture, tout en opérant, comme il est de mise partout en Chine, un contrôle sur les activités des temples. Microcosme insulaire, le Putuoshan est un espace où se croisent nombre de personnes qui projettent sur l’île de Guanyin leurs propres visions du lieu. Elles les façonnent à partir des récits mythologiques et des discours relayés par les media bouddhiques et la littérature touristique, qui font du site, un lieu à la fois dans et hors du monde. Avec leur savoir-faire et leur savoir-être bouddhistes, ils inventent leur pèlerinage et leur relation à Guanyin dont la présence leur est tantôt suggérée, donnée à voir, mise en scène à travers différents dispositifs. Se rendre sur l’île (de) Guanyin, c’est ainsi « faire l’expérience » de Guanyin, un bodhisattva aux multiples facettes, capable de prendre toutes sortes de formes et de faire des miracles. À partir d’enquêtes de terrain et de l’analyse des matériaux édités localement, cette thèse propose d’analyser dans une perspective anthropologique, la combinaison des différents aspects religieux, économiques, politiques et sociaux qui fondent le site et son pèlerinagePutuoshan Island (Zhoushan archipelago, Zhejiang) welcomes every year thousands of travelers coming from all over Asia to worship Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, and to express their wishes to be blessed, to receive miraculous responses and to see divine manifestations. Well known as a major Buddhist site since the tenth century, Putuoshan is by now the focus of many development projects, initiated at the end of the Cultural Revolution, that aim to transform the landscapes and to change the pilgrimage’s practices. These changes have reconfigured the local religious field that includes a plurality of actors each of them having their own goals and strategies. The monastic communities seek to increase the influence of the site; a goal that is shared by the political authorities, that encourage also the touristic initiatives taken by private companies, and by administrations in charge of cultural affairs. Of course, by the while, they mean to control the temples’ activities, as they do everywhere in China. Many different people project their own visions of the place onto Putuoshan, this insular microcosm, the island of Guanyin. They shape them by listening to the mythological narratives and discourses relayed by Buddhist media, as well as by reading the tourist literature that make the site become a place both in and out of the world. With their knowledge of Buddhist practices, they invent their own pilgrimage and their own relationship to Guanyin, whose presence is sometimes suggested, sometimes showed to them, or even staged through various theatrical sets. So that going to the island of Guanyin is properly to ”experience” Guanyin, this multifaceted bodhisattva able to take any existing form and performing miracles and marvels. Based on an ethnographic fieldwork research and on the analysis of local publications, this thesis means to analyze from an anthropological perspective, the various religious, economic, political and social aspects, that shape the site and its pilgrimage
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Alvandi, Roham. "Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah : US-Iran relations and the Cold War, 1969-1976." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:52d2d8e8-f8d1-4632-aee9-9734585ce9e9.
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This thesis examines the nature and dynamics of U.S.-Iran relations during the Cold War under the leadership of U.S. President Richard Nixon, his adviser Henry Kissinger, and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. This revisionist account critically examines the popular view of Mohammad Reza Shah as a mere instrument of American strategies of containment during the Cold War. Relying on recently declassified American documents, British government papers, and the diaries, memoirs and oral histories of Iranian actors, this thesis restores agency to the shah as an autonomous Cold War actor and suggests that Iran evolved from a client to a partner of the United States under the Nixon Doctrine. This partnership was forged during Nixon’s first term in office between 1969 and 1972, as the United States embraced a policy of Iranian primacy in the Persian Gulf region. Thanks to a long-standing friendship with the president, the shah was able to exercise extraordinary influence in the Nixon White House. This partnership reached its peak during Nixon’s second term as the United States supported Iran’s regional primacy against the challenge from Iraq. The shah drew Nixon and Kissinger into Iran’s secret war against Iraq in Kurdistan in 1972, by portraying Iran’s long-standing regional conflict with Iraq as a Cold War confrontation with the Soviet-backed Ba’th regime in Baghdad. When the shah unilaterally decided to abandon the Kurds in a deal with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 1975, Kissinger had little choice but to acquiesce, despite the personal embarrassment and domestic recriminations that followed. The U.S.-Iran partnership declined following Watergate and Nixon’s resignation in 1974. In spite of the best efforts of the shah and Kissinger, between 1974 and 1976 the United States and Iran were unable to reach an agreement on U.S. nuclear exports to Iran. President Gerald Ford tried to impose a discriminatory nuclear agreement on Iran that was rejected by the shah because it violated Iran’s national sovereignty. Under Ford, the United States reverted to treating Iran as a client rather a partner of the United States.
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Chow, Ka-kin Kelvin, and 周家建. "A study of the Chinese Canadians identity and social status in comparison with other minority ethnic groups in the 20th Century = 20 shi ji Jianada Hua ren yu qi ta shao shu zu yi de she hui shen fen yu di wei bi jiao." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/202365.
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In tracing the experience of Chinese Canadians in the 20th Century, we need to look further back into its history. Most people believe that the increasing number of immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China in the 1980s and 1990s played the most important roles in the social and economic changes during the latest decades of the 20th Century. The contribution of the Chinese Canadians settlement throughout the 20th Century should also be considered as it marks the beginning of the rise of their social status and identity in Canada.
Although the Chinese Canadians earned their fame and status since the 1980s, they had been racially discriminated for more than a century. To probe into the situation, the social and political situations in the Chinese Canadian community will be meticulously analyzed and their contribution in difference aspects examined. In addition, other minority ethnic groups, such as the Japanese, Jewish and Indian, will be used as a comparison to demonstrate the change of policies towards the Chinese in Canada. In doing so, both English and Canadian Chinese newspapers will be used to illustrate the cultural difference between the “whites” and “non-whites”.
To illustrate the changes, the 20th Century will be break into three parts. In most of the pre-Second World War period, the Chinese community was isolated from the mainstream community with their activities largely confined to Chinatowns in cities, such as Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto and so on. For the Chinese living in small townships, such as Prince Rupert, Richmond and so on, their daily life will also be examined.
When Canada declared war on Japan on 7th December 1941, Canada became an ally of China during the war. A sentiment of acceptance of the Chinese in the mainstream society began to take shape. Some of the Chinese chose to contribute their efforts to Canada by joining the Canadian Armed Forces and went into battle alongside the White Canadians.
After the Second World War, Canada adopted a new policy towards the minority ethnic groups and Chinese Canadians started to enjoy political equality. In May 1947, the Canadian Government repealed the Chinese Immigration Act. In 1967, after the liberalization of the Canadian immigration policy, the Chinese, once again, were allowed to immigrate freely to Canada as an individual.
With granted full citizenship, the Chinese social and political status began to change. In 1957, Douglas Jung, a Canadian born Chinese, was elected a Member of the Parliament, which can be seen as the beginning of the Chinese involvement in the political arena of the Canadian community. Since then, Chinese Canadians were able to achieve equality in the society.
Based on documentary accounts and oral history research, this thesis re-constructed the history of Canadian Chinese involvement in the 20th Century and the change of their identity and social status thereafter.published_or_final_version
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Willcocks, Michael James. "Agent or client : who instigated the White Revolution of the Shah and the people in Iran, 1963?" Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/agent-or-client-who-instigated-the-white-revolution-of-the-shah-and-the-people-in-iran-1963(f1bdd6c7-ed4c-42cc-bcaf-2a2f0cde5e60).html.
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The White Revolution was a set of six reform measures put to the Iranian people via referendum on 6 Bahman 1341 (26 January 1963), based on a plan for social justice linked with economic development, encased in the concept of a bloodless revolution from the top. This did not happen unexpectedly; it was the culmination of events spanning several years, which accelerated during the John F. Kennedy Presidency. Various plans and reforms paved the way for the White Revolution and certain events as well as political and economic developments encouraged reform. There were similarities between plans and some reforms influenced others, or were shaped to suit different agendas. All played a part in instigating the White Revolution. This included Prime Minister ʻAlī Amīnī’s 15-point plan, the Shah’s Royal Farmān, the Third Development Plan, and the six-points of the White Revolution itself. The question this thesis seeks to answer is to what extent the Kennedy administration was responsible for instigating the White Revolution by influencing the various steps that paved the way for the 6 Bahman referendum?The United States had at its disposal various means by which it might apply pressure and influence development. This included, economic aid, military assistance, numerous advisers, agencies on the ground, plus support for the Shah and other Iranians. Given the Kennedy administration’s association with modernisation and development, the existing historiography has portrayed this period in US-Iranian relations as one of increased pressure on the Shah to reform with the White Revolution being the result of such pressure. This thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge by challenging this portrayal by providing the first detailed, analysis of the period 1961-63, utilising a vast array of newly released documents. This is not the first study to conclude agency on the part of Iran for the White Revolution, but is the first to do so though a detailed, balanced approach, which doesn’t ignore the significance of the US-Iranian relationship. Thus, this thesis is at the forefront of revisionist accounts of US-Iranian relations during the Cold War critiquing the portrayal of the Shah and others as mere tools of the US and reaching the conclusion that contrary to widely held beliefs it was Iranians rather than Americans who instigated the White Revolution by initiating and directing reform.
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He, Man. "Chinese Play-Making: Cosmopolitan Intellectuals, Transnational Stages, and Modern Drama, 1910s-1940s." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429737192.
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羅思偉 and Sze-wai Ben Law. "Investigating the urban underground dimension: Hong Kong in the state of flux." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980405.
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Ouyang, Sutong. "Leng zhan shi dai de shi jie wei ji yu Meiguo de ze ren : dui Laiyinhuoerde Nibuer hou qi zheng zhi shen xue de yan jiu = World crisis in cold war and American responsibility : on Reinhold Niebuhr's later political theology /." click here to view the abstract and table of contents click here to view the fulltext, 2005. http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~libres/cgi-bin/thesisab.pl?pdf=b1884280xa.pdf.
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Vichchurungsi, Theerapon [Verfasser]. "The construction of social and cultural unity and the interaction between the Shan people and the Thai state : a case study of Piang Luang village, Wiang Haeng District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand / Theerapon Vichchurungsi." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), 2014. http://d-nb.info/1130811247/34.
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[Verfasser], Theerapon Vichchurungsi. "The construction of social and cultural unity and the interaction between the Shan people and the Thai state : a case study of Piang Luang village, Wiang Haeng District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand / Theerapon Vichchurungsi." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:089-7911325447.
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Mastrokalou, Effrosyni Efrosini. "Exploring 'optimal' states of consciousness in Michael Chekhov's psychological gesture : towards a new phenomenological paradigm." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29894.
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This thesis examines key concepts from philosophers Nishida Kitaro, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Fredriche Nietzsche and applies them to elements of Michael Chekhov’s practice of acting. The three philosophers, in different ways, suggest an ‘optimal’ state, beyond a dualistic separation of the fictive from the real and the visible from the invisible, that challenges seemingly unbridgeable dualisms between inner and outer, subject and object, being and becoming and experiencer and experienced. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and understand these selected ‘optimal’ modes of consciousness in performance and, therefore, open up new ways of thinking about Michael Chekhov’s acting processes; in particular the ‘Psychological Gesture’. The thesis asks the following questions: 1. How can the application of selected philosophical paradigms to the Psychological Gesture through theory and practice further our understanding of Michael Chekhov’s work? 2. How do selected aspects of the fields of phenomenology, post-phenomenology, cognitive sciences, consciousness studies and philosophy of mind, aid in developing an articulation and understanding of an ‘optimal’ state of consciousness as a necessary aspect of the actor’s performance in Michael Chekhov’s work and theatre practice? 3. How can this project develop the way we are able to talk about Michael Chekhov’s work and wider acting processes?
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Wright, Adam Michael. "Hauntology Man." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157557/.
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Hauntology Man, a 48-minute documentary, follows former UNT Professor, Dr. Shaun Treat, as he leads a walking ghost tour of downtown Denton, Texas. As the expedition moves from storefront to storefront, each stop elicits a new tale. But, as Dr. Treat points out, the uncertainties of history are the real ghosts. That is, rather than simply presenting a "haunted history" of Denton, it's more accurate to say this movie's center resides at the precipice of a "haunting history." Not all ghost stories need spectres. Sometimes not knowing is ghost enough.
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Håkansson, Erik. "SPOT-bombing i Falklandskriget?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9151.
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This study aims to test the strength of Shaun Clarkes air theory SPOT-bombing for small nations, to see if the theory could be of good use for all the small states around the world which are not able to master the capacity needed for large nation air theories. The British use of airpower during the Falkland war serves as case which is compared to the SPOT-bombing theory. The British task force, although much smaller than the Argentine military force, succeeded to win the war through extensive use of airpower. The studies analytic results reveal that the indicators taken from the air theory are not found to any greater extent in the British use of airpower during the war. Therefore this study is not able to strengthen or falsify Clarkes air theory as a whole, but reaches the conclusion that using unconventional methods are useful for a smaller state to get effect on strategic level against a larger opponent. Still, after this study there is more work to be done to test the relevance of the SPOT-bombing for small nations air theory, to be able to state if it is worth for small states to base their airpower doctrines upon it.
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Moody, Joanna C. (Joanna Charlotte). "Development of a predictive coalition building analysis for stakeholders of sociotechnical systems: case studies of high-speed rail development in the Northeast Corridor of the United States and the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori, Japan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104155.
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Thesis: S.M. in Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198).
This thesis lays out the intellectual underpinnings and the motivation for a visual, transparent, and user-friendly predictive stakeholder analysis tool for planners and project managers to better understand future uncertainties in institutional structures and cooperative relationships surrounding large, complex, multi-stakeholder infrastructure and transportation projects. We present the development of Predictive Coalition Building Analysis (PCBA). The three-phase methodological framework assigns likelihoods to possible future coalitions of stakeholders by 1) identifying and discussing stakeholders and their interests in various objectives for system development, 2) clustering stakeholders based on their similar interests, and 3) attributing salience to each stakeholder and cluster to discuss incentives and barriers to collective action. We apply PCBA to two case studies of complex, multi-stakeholder high-speed rail (HSR) systems: 1) the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the United States, and 2) the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori, Japan. In the NEC case, we test PCBA for its sensitivity and robustness to perturbations, demonstrating that the tool responds to small changes in the institutional context in meaningful ways. This highlights the usefulness of PCBA as a tool for exploring different future scenarios and understanding the uncertainty of stakeholder relationships and coalitions surrounding the system or project of study. In the case of the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension, we are able to directly verify the predictive validity of the coalition likelihood results obtained from PCBA by comparing them with what actually happened through the planning, construction, and start of revenue service (1994-2012). This thesis lays the foundation for future research and application into PCBA. As a tool developed for professional application, the strength of this tool lies in its usability, transparency, and communicability. We have demonstrated that PCBA can provide real, predictive insight at a macro-scale to help explore uncertainties in stakeholder relationships, making it valuable for policy-makers who want to easily understand and visualize the broad institutional context of the system. While the case studies in this thesis explore high-speed rail development, the author asserts that this tool could be useful for exploring other sociotechnical systems within and beyond the transportation domain, even more so as the tool continues to develop.
by Joanna C. Moody.
S.M. in Transportation
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Rajkumar, Ravichandran [Verfasser], Irene Akademischer Betreuer] Neuner, and N. Jon [Akademischer Betreuer] [Shah. "Simultaneous trimodal MR/PET/EEG imaging : a study of the attenuation effect of EEG caps on PET images and a comparison of EEG microstates with resting state fMRI and FDG-PET measures / Ravichandran Rajkumar ; Irene Neuner, Nadim Joni Shah." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1225401666/34.
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Rajkumar, Ravichandran Verfasser], Irene [Akademischer Betreuer] Neuner, and N. Jon [Akademischer Betreuer] [Shah. "Simultaneous trimodal MR/PET/EEG imaging : a study of the attenuation effect of EEG caps on PET images and a comparison of EEG microstates with resting state fMRI and FDG-PET measures / Ravichandran Rajkumar ; Irene Neuner, Nadim Joni Shah." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1225401666/34.
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Chhiv, Laetitia. "La légende comme instrument d'édification : le personnage de Yi Yin dans les manuscrits chinois du 4ème siècle avant notre ère." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UPSLP029.
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Figure exemplaire de la tradition chinoise, Yi Yin seconda le prince Tang dans la fondation de la dynastie Shang vers l'an 1600 avant notre ère. Hormis quelques souverains antiques, il est le seul personnage historique en Chine qui apparaît aussi bien dans les inscriptions oraculaires du milieu du 13ème siècle avant notre ère, que dans les textes philosophiques et littéraires des Royaumes combattants (5ème-3ème siècles av. n. è.) transmis jusqu'à nos jours. À cela s'ajoute un ensemble de manuscrits découverts il y a une quinzaine d'années. Ces écrits, dont Yi Yin est le protagoniste, furent rédigés sur des fiches de bambou dans l'ancien pays de Chu, aux alentours du 4ème siècle avant notre ère. Leur contenu totalement inédit permet de jeter un nouveau regard sur le processus de développement de la légende de Yi Yin. La présente étude vise à esquisser un panorama - aussi complet que possible au stade actuel - de cette légende. À cette fin, nous exposerons tout d'abord le contexte de découverte ainsi que la méthode de reconstitution et de lecture des manuscrits sur bambou en écriture de Chu. Puis nous passerons en revue l'ensemble des témoignages écrits relatifs à Yi Yin datant de la période pré-impériale : d'une part les sources épigraphiques et transmises, d'autre part les manuscrits, qui seront édités, traduits et annotés. Enfin, nous examinerons les principaux visages prêtés à Yi Yin dans les manuscrits, qui le dépeignent comme le pilier du changement dynastique, l'instructeur du prince, mais aussi le héros d'une fable. Suivant une approche intertextuelle, nous mettrons en évidence la diversité de la légende, qui fut adaptée, selon les cas, dans une visée plutôt politique, plutôt morale et spirituelle, ou encore littéraire. Notre étude donnera ainsi l'occasion d'observer et de questionner les variations que connut la figure de Yi Yin au cours des sièclesAn exemplary figure of Chinese tradition, Yi Yin assisted Prince Tang in the establishment of the Shang Dynasty around 1600 BCE. Except for a few ancient rulers, he is the only historical figure in China to appear both in the oracle inscriptions of the mid-13th century BCE and in the philosophical and literary texts of the Warring States period (5th-3rd centuries BCE) transmitted to the present day. In addition to this, we will take into account a collection of manuscripts discovered about fifteen years ago. These texts, in which Yi Yin is the protagonist, were written on bamboo slips in the ancient state of Chu, around the 4th century BCE. Their completely new content brings fresh insights into the development process of the legend of Yi Yin. This study aims to provide an overview - as comprehensive as possible at the current stage - of this legend. To this end, we will first outline the context wherein the bamboo manuscripts in Chu script were discovered, and the method used to reconstruct and read them. We will then review all the written evidence related to Yi Yin dating from the pre-imperial period, i.e. the epigraphic and transmitted sources on the one hand, and the bamboo manuscripts which will be edited, translated, and annotated, on the other. Finally, we will examine the main roles attributed to Yi Yin in the manuscripts, which depict him as the pillar of dynastic change, the prince's instructor, but also the hero of a fable. Following an intertextual approach, we will highlight the diversity of the legend, which was variably adapted, for political, moral and spiritual, or even literary purposes. Our study will thus give an opportunity to observe and question Yi Yin's varied representations through the ages
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Henriksson, Johan. "Molecular Quadratic Response Properties with Inclusion of Relativity." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11035.
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Hart, M. J. Alexandra. "Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294.
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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science.
The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do.
Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process.
It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact.
The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail.
A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported.
It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact.
On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment.
The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency.
Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches.
Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.
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Hsu, Ya-hwei, and 許雅惠. "The Tomb of Chung-shan King and the Change of Warring States Period Bronze." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50726002248336950688.
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Wu, Yu-Sin, and 吳郁欣. "Developing History about The Relation Between Founding of Shen-Tong-Tuan And Woodcarving Spruce-up Buddha Statues of Beigang Lu-Shan-Tang." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07373518106742803724.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
台灣文化研究所
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After the surrender of Japan and the retrocession of Taiwan upon the ending of World War II, Taiwanese people derived freedom from rigid religious restriction under the “Kominka Movement” which was a sort of naturalization and enforced for a decade during Japanese occupation. Religious activities began to revive vigorously among the population thereafter. Mazu belief, a traditional Chinese worship has become the core of Taiwanese popular religion. Count of believers were growing fast. Mazu temples have been spreading all over the places since then, including the famous “Baigang Chao-Tian-Gong”. It is a renowned historical structure which started to build more than 300 years ago during Qing Dynasty. The Temple comes to fame especially for its annual circular procession rituals and arts performance of “Din-Tao” (processional parade) activities carrying through profound history. Therefore to preserve heritage and keep in record seems to be an urgent necessity for us today. Lu-Shan-Tang originally was a woodcarving store established in 1949 by Wu, Chu-Jeh. Many master pieces of arts and crafts keeping in Chao-Tian-Gong are someway connected with Lu-Shan-Tang. Later in 1959, Lu-Shan-Tang initiated the founding of the “Shen-Tong-Tuan” (Holy Minors Troupe), the pioneer of such a religious performance team in Taiwan. “Shen-Tong-Tuan” usually is assigned to lead the procession parade for clearing the way for The Goddess, Maza. But Lu-Shan-Tang's “Shen-Tong” spiritually refers to the statue of the gods that is different from the meaning of “holy child” as familiar with layman today. In fact, The meaning of “Shen-Tong” has been transformed from a substantive to an adjective. Both “Tang” and “Tuan” coexisted during The 60s. The aims of this thesis is to explore the motivation for the founding of “Shen-Tong-Tuan” and the cause of getting attention by Baigang Chao-Tian-Gong through relevant literature and oral interviews. And try to illustrate this unique group through the transformation of the meaning of “Shen-Tong”. Taiwan government began to attach much importance to the concept of intangible cultural heritage in 2005, including sculptures, spruce-up Buddha statues, and culture of “Din-Tao” (processional parade) referred in this thesis. The annual procession rituals of Mazu carried out by Beigang Chao-Tian-Gong was designated as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2010 by Assets Bureau of the Ministry of Culture. “Shen-Tong-Tuan” (Holy Minors Troupe) has been featured in the activities as an important part of the programs during the procession which deserves to be preserved, maintained and recorded as well.
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Hsu, Shu-Chuan, and 許淑娟. "State And Local：The Time-Space Development Of Chi-Shan Town(1700s-1945)." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50661130751584786630.
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博士國立臺灣師範大學
地理研究所
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ABSTRACT The country street research of Taiwan can reflect the result of the development of a region, mentioning the mechanism of the country street development, usually emphasizing the study of the individual country street, this paper adopts the view of point of ‘state-local’, trying to analysis how the both mechanisms to affect the development of the country street. Make use of the ‘site-situation’ concept of the geography, to present the condition of the local, using the management police of the frontier area, ethnicity policy, economic policy, the arrangement of administrative district of the government as the state. This paper discusses the object with the an neighboring–mountain(ensign mountain)street, Chi-Shan Street , conduct and action, the research result is as follows: The Chi-Shan Street is in the northwest center of the plain of Pingtung, crossing Neimen mountain, accordance the plain of Tainan and Kaohsiung, be located the process position between two geography areas. The Chi-Shan Street have a neighboring –mountain situation , have the restrict conditions that it outward develop, having the transportation excellence of accordance with the neighboring country . The Chi-Shan Street becomes the two possessing the military and business function in Qing dynasty. Under the government management, rebellion ethnic conflict, making the mountain area neighboring The Chi-Shan Street was an unstable area, and the market region can’t extend. The government managed the lands,the people, the economy, the transportation with the control method in Japanese era. Its superiority position were exerted, The Chi-Shan Street becomes the center arouse the ensing mountain area. According the same condition of The Chi-Shan Street,the difference between the two state mechanism make the different local landscape, including 1000s inhabitants adds to 10000s people, one small street changing many blocks. The process of the shrink and extend of the The Chi-Shan Street should reflect the influence of the artificial state mechanism. Keywords: state、local、site、situation、country street、 Chi-Shan
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Éthier-Sawyer, Sarah. "Dompter le dragon : l’économie politique de la drogue et le conflit armé en Birmanie." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11130.
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Les conflits armés dans des pays producteurs de drogues illicites, comme la Birmanie, sont parmi les plus longs du XXe et du XXIe siècles. Dans ces conflits, l’industrie de la drogue est souvent présentée comme la source de financement qui permet aux groupes insurgés de poursuivre leur combat contre le gouvernement central. Cependant, l’économie illicite birmane s’est développée pendant un conflit armé tout comme durant une période de stabilité accrue. Une analyse des régions shan, wa et kokang de l’État Shan démontre que les industries de la drogue ont prospéré à la fois durant le conflit armé et en l’absence de celui-ci lorsque des ententes entre élites existent autour du partage des rentes de cette économie.Armed conflict in drug-producing countries such as Burma conflict, are among the longest in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In these conflicts, the drug industry is often portrayed as the source of funding that allows insurgent groups to continue their struggle against the central government. However, the Burmese illicit economy grew both during armed conflict and during a period of increased stability. An analysis of the Shan, Kokang and Wa regions of Burma’s Shan State demonstrates that drug industries have flourished during armed conflict and in its absence when elites have agreed to share rents from the industry.
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Wu, Liang Heng, and 吳亮衡. "State Power and Space Construction-As a case of YANG-MING-SHAN(1895-1966)." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65h77z.
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Clague, Katherine Jane, and 辛心. "A Study of Transnational and Human Security in Shan State, Myanmar: A Critical Security Perspective." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24581285165865505195.
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碩士淡江大學
東南亞研究所碩士班
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A new generation of trans-national security threats facing us in this Globalised era are borderless in nature; emerging from a remapping of the globe along unipolar lines following the end of the cold war, the illegal drug trade for example has gradually developed into a globalised industry, and the production of this trade has orientated itself towards the territory of so called failed states or economically and geopolitically marginalised areas. The situation in the Shan State, Myanmar, is an exaggerated version of this, as the country’s chronic drug trade has not only deepened and diversified but also led to the emergence of a string of other non-traditional security threats all fuelled by the characteristic poverty and marginalisation of this problem area. The complex connection between this new generation of security threats on the one side and failed or marginalized states on the other is not after all a coincidence but rather an indication of the deep-seated structural problems laying often dormant within the World political and economic system (UN 2000c:11 Bhattacharyya 2005: 92), revealing a deep and undeniable link between security and poverty. In recent years many of these human centred, poverty fuelled security threats have been defined in international security literature as part of a human security discourse. However, despite the fact that trans-national and human security are both part of this new non-traditional security discourse, they are in reality drastically different in terms of motivation and referent object for their securitization. With the Welsh School of Critical Security Studies (CSS) as its theoretical base, this thesis argues that any discussion of constructing new security measures at a localized level should be contingent on the deconstructing of the top-down hegemony which currently exists in mainstream security discourse. By stepping out of the given local and global framework, this critical project has sought out the roots of insecurity in the geopolitical historical context of Myanmar’s Shan States: the deep-seated conflict existing between the indigenous collective images of the region and the modern shared inter-subjective ideas which have become the ‘reality’ of the realist school of security studies. Following this process of deconstruction, this paper analyzes two attempts at an international level to reconstruct security measures for addressing trans-national security threats in the light of their roots in poverty and underdevelopment: the drug trade and HIV/AIDS. Through probing into the counterproductive effects of realist informed measures and policies, formulated in response to the emergence of these trans-national security threats, it becomes evident that only by first deepening the security discourse to include human-centred means with emancipatory ends, can policymakers and actors begin to address the multiple sources of insecurity threatening the Shan State which have been highlighted by the broadening of security to include new non-traditional issues. Finally this thesis discusses the potential of mainstreaming human security as a future direction for policymakers and security actors alike. Emphasising the dual advantages of this approach in its potential to improve the human security situation in the region and in turn reduce the amount of trans-national threats emerging from its borders, while at the same time working to restore both the Shan State and Myanmar to their respective political communities through a process of communicative action; while through the process of promoting cooperation and interaction between national and local governments and civil society within Myanmar, taking the first tentative step in establishing a bottom-up political community for the future.
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Lin, Bing-Yi, and 林秉毅. "Relationship among Lifestyle, State of Health, and Travel Insurance Demand-Evidence from Taipei Yaun-shan Seniors Clubs." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03515415225870026633.
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碩士開南大學
觀光與餐飲旅館學系
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This study is attempted to explore the relationship among lifestyle, state of health and travel insurance demand of senior travelers. Based upon 378 valid questionnaires, the study employs SPSS 14.0 to analyze the data, using the techniques of descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. It is found that as considering buying insurance the senior travelers regard ‘company reputation’ is the first priority, followed by ‘service system’, ‘agent attitudes’ and ‘purchase convenience’. Also, it finds that the variables for lifestyle, health state and travel insurance demand are all inter-correlated, demonstrating significantly positive correlations among them. Further, the result of multiple regression analysis confirms that there are influential effects found in some pairs of the variables. The implications may be useful for the related sectors and future study.
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"Adapting with the times: Fajia law and state development." 2015. http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291500.
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This study explores a significant and little studied aspect of the pioneering doctrinal work of the Fajia tradition, the Book of Lord Shang 商君書 (ca. 260 B.C. -‐233 B.C.): its system of rewards. In contrast with previous scholarship that has questioned the existence of a coherent Legalist political vision and even its idea of law fa 法 or that has focused strictly on penalty, this study considers Fajia law and discipline not only viable categories for analysis, but also important conceptual products of the intensely competitive, bellicose political climate of the Warring States period. The central concern is with the character fa 法 in Fajia texts. Beginning with an analysis of the Book of Lord Shang’s system of rewards, the study then examines how the use of the character fa 法 in this text distinguished itself from earlier usages and, hence, represents an important distinctly shared characteristic across Fajia texts generally. This shows that the Fajia system of rewards includes an important pedagogical aspect that requires the ruler’s subjects to develop themselves for the sake of state development. Therefore, this study also evaluates the pedagogical value of Fajia rewards based on social scientific research on organismic learning. This pedagogical aspect of Fajia governance, the study argues, is the means through which the Fajia notion of law reinforces its cultural ideals of the state.本文企圖考察在商君書(ca. 260 B.C. ‐ 233 B.C.)重要之一的方面：賞賜。以前的研究已經質疑連貫法家的政治思想，甚至其法律觀念鮮明特點的存在，或集中於嚴格刑罰的方面。可是這項研究認為法家的法律紀律的方面不只是可行的類別分析，還有法治觀念是戰國時期的競爭激烈，好戰的政治氣候的重要概念產品。最重要關注的是“法”字的意義在法家的文本。在開始本文分析商君書的獎勵系統。然後它探討如何在商君書中使用的“法”字，從早期的用途區分，以及它如何代表所有“法家”文本之間的一個重要的明顯特徵的共享。這表明，“法家”獎勵的系統包括一個重要的教學方面。它需要統治者的臣民來發展自己，為了國家的發展。因此，本文基於社會科學研究機體學習評估“法家”獎勵系統的教學價值。其實上，法家政治思想有這種教學方面的證明是強化了國家的文化理想的手段。
King, Brandon Russell.
Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 415-424).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on 11, October, 2016).
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
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Read, Alesia Noelle. "Characterizing American shad spawning habitat in the Upper Roanoke River Basin, Virginia." 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04272005-113400/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
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Wang, Kai-min, and 王凱民. "A research of the potential analysis and current status for the Yang-Ming-Shan National park thermal spring resources." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61130323270017013731.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
環境工程學研究所
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Yang-Ming-Shan National Park consists of the unique and magnificent natural landscape, the Da-Tuan volcanic terrain and abundant thermal spring resources. This park is the most suitable region in Taiwan for international thermal spring tourism with the convenience of nearby Taipei public transportation in addition. However, the domestic thermal spring leisure resorts face many issues such as insufficient public facility, chaotic landscape, arbitrary pipeline erection, unregistered water rights and insufficient thermal spring database, which lead to limited potential and development of these thermal spring area. This thesis reorganizes the past survey data of Yang-Ming-Shan National Park thermal spring resources, which includes reference, internet source and survey report; the Geographical Information System (GIS) is also applied to reestablish the database, figures and tables to compile the research area of thermal spring resources; the potential analysis of thermal spring resources is operated by SWOT after the current status reorganization. According to the result of SWOT analysis, the research area of thermal spring resources can be divided into four main classification includes (A) Urban commercialized thermal spring ,(B) Suburban commercialized thermal spring ,(C)Regular thermal spring ,(D) Conservancy thermal spring. This thesis proposes the development restriction and management strategy and lists out the advantage and disadvantage of these in the end.
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GUST-FRENGER, RALPH RICHARD CHRISTIAN, and 彭樂福. "Changing Mutual Cooperation of Rural Households: Case Study of Social Capital in a Village in Northern Shan State, Myanmar." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nngc6w.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
東南亞學系
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During the last decade, and particularly after the political and economic reforms which started 2011, the economic development in Burma/Myanmar accelerated considera-bly. Particularly the trade with China has grown exponentially. This economic growth has also affected more remote regions of the country, like the Northern Shan State. The study analyses on the micro level the impact of these extremely fast and pro-found changes to the livelihood of farmers in Northern Shan State. One specific aspect, the available assets, or forms of capital, of the rural households and their role in achieving the livelihood of the households, is at the center of this research. The qualitative case-study is focusing on an exemplary village close to the main road connecting central Burma/Myanmar with China. The methods employed were in-depth in-terviews, focus group discussions, and direct observation. The main driver of the economic and social changes at the village level is presently the rapid spread of hybrid maize growing for cash-income. This profound monetization and modernization process, which pace and scope is unprecedented, has considerable effects on the assets of the rural households. Natural capital is diminishing or at risk. Material and fi-nancial capital are increasing. At the same time inequality on the household level is increas-ing. Cognitive social capital is still high, both on household and village level, but at risk, among other things through increased wealth disparity. Structural social capital is becoming more institutionalized, while traditional mutual labor exchange has been adapted to the commercializing agricultural system and is still an essential asset of local peasants for sus-taininig their participation in the modernization process.
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Chiou, Wen-Tsai, and 邱文才. "A Research of the Warring State Chu Bamboo Books “Tai Yi Shen Sui”." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2q4v85.
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博士國立臺灣大學
中國文學研究所
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Tai Yi Shen Sui from Guo Dian Zhan Chan Guo Chu Mu has been researched considerably, yet a lot of questions have not been solved. This thesis is intended to organize its semantic structure, as well as the philosophic thought. The content of each chapter is as follows: Chapter One is Generalization. It includes the motive of researching,the condition of Guo Dian Chu Mu and bamboo books, the general introduction of previous study by scholars, and finally the researching method of bamboo books. Chapter Two consists two parts: organize bamboo books and comprehensive reading. Organizing bamboo books deals with four aspects, that is, (1) Discussing and analyzing the missing characters and the number of characters that should be added. (2) Discussing and categorizing (3) Trying to add the missing characters (4) Revealing the whole context. In the part of comprehensive reading a clear explanation of Tai Yi Shen Sui, Ming Zi, and Tian Dao Guei Zuo has been done. Chapter Three deals with Tai Yi and Shen Sui. The idea of Tai Yi is discussed from different four angles, astronomy, religion, strategy, and philosophy. And by means of this discussion, the meaning of Tai Yi can be deduced. As to the part of Sui, it is based on abstract philosophical thought and the real quality to find the connotation of Sui. Chapter Four focus on the thought itself. A thorough and complete research about Tai Yi Shen Sui, Ming Zi, and Tian Dao Guei Zuo has been done in this chapter. Chapter Five is the conclusion. In addition to the generalization, the concept of Tai Yi Shen Sui has also been illustrated too. Finally, a review and future development have been included.
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Wu, Chia-Ming, and 吳嘉明. "The Reciprocal Relation of State ,Cultivation,and Phenomenon form Zhai Chang’s 「Qiong Shen Zhi Hua」." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88800032752624918773.
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碩士淡江大學
中國文學系碩士班
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Zhai Chang(張載) is a famous scholar in philosophy of Song Dynasty. His main achievement is to reorganize the Chinese philosophy; also, he adds some of his viewpoints which are much alike the Western philosophy. This research chooses the phrase「Qiong Shen Zhi Hua」which is adopted from Zhai Chang’s writing works to investigate his thinking structure. The research are discussed in the following five chapters: Chapter 1: The derivation of the basic questions This chapter illustrates the formation of the thoughts of Zhai Chang, and the main structure of its contents. Chapter 2: The possibility of completing morality 1.The possibility of “Definition.” 2.The establishment of “metaphysics.” Chapter 3: Whether outer conditions inspire inner morality and behavior in performance or not 1.This chapter aims to discuss the inner bases of the phrase「Qiong Shen Zhi Hua」 2.To elaborate clearly the inner conditions of the phrase「Qiong Shen Zhi Hua」. Chapter 4: The process to achieve oneself (or Ego) After finishing discussing metaphysics, based on its conditions, this chapter describes the thinking system of Zhai Chang. Chapter 5: Conclusion This chapter is to discuss the findings and the limitation in this research.
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Chang, Hsiu-chi, and 張秀琪. "The Social Leading Status of the Fang-jiang Family in Shin-wu under the Japanese Rule." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c4phcc.
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碩士國立中央大學
客家社會文化研究所
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Family of Fan-jiang is a very specific family, whose surname comes from Shin-wu. Even though they spread worldwide, for all the members, Shin-wu still remains their initial cradle. In the first year of Chien-lung (1736 AD), their ancestor ( Fang-jiang, Dan Kao) moved to Taiwan . He got off the ship at Down Tamsui ( Nanliao) and went to Shin-wu to clear the land. Then he led other family members there for the large-scale clearing. The Fang-jiang family in Shin-wu area managed to keep their social status of leading family in the period of power shifting in the Japanese era in Taiwan . How they were able to maintain this status? What is the relationship between this family and the colonial government during the Japanese occupation? What kind of economic benefits were obtained by the Fang-jiang family when they cooperated with Japanese in the education policy? How this family became the leading family in the area by controlling the political, economic power and social relation in this period? These topics will be explored in this paper. Through the land, the family member entered the administrative system and grasped the political keystone in the Shin-wu area. The Fang-jiang family’s cooperation with the Japanese government in developing education was the key for power. Later the family obtained the chartered right of the public business and became a new rising entrepreneur. With the wealth, the family was able to foster their children to gain degrees in the higher education. Then the family could obtain their political power and wealth through their young generation. The Fang-jiang family accumulated their influences in political, economic, and education domains. Through the help of the colonial regime and social relation, the Fang-jiang family became the domestic leaders in the district in the Japanese era from a family as landlord in the period of the Qing dynasty.
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"Whitewashing the Shah: Racial Liberalism and U.S. Foreign Policy During the 1953 Coup of Iran." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38759.
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abstract: When the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency recently declassified documents relating to the 1953 Coup in Iran, it was discovered that American involvement was much deeper than previously known. In fact, the CIA had orchestrated the coup against democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh. This action was sold to the United States public as being essential to democracy, which seems contradictory to its actual purpose. U.S. political leaders justified the coup by linking it to what Charles Mills calls “racial liberalism,” a longstanding ideological tradition in America that elevates the white citizen to a place of power and protection while making the racial noncitizens “others” in the political system. Political leaders in the United States relied on bribing the American media to portray the Shah as the white citizen and Mossadegh as a racial other, the white citizen was restored to power and the racial other was overthrown.Dissertation/Thesis
Masters Thesis Social Justice and Human Rights 2016
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Smith, Joseph Alan. "Spawning activity and migratory characteristics of American shad and striped bass in the Cape Fear River, North Carolina." 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06262009-213817/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
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Zeng, Ming-Sian, and 曾銘賢. "Study of "State of Rong Cheng Shi- Shang Bo Jian" –political retreat and Yu as basis." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25897835610403089172.
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碩士元智大學
中國語文學系
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In recent years, “State of Rong” is the most attractive representative of ancient literature of period Chu and Warring states, which contains many examples of legend and ancient history. Yao and Shun period is an important stage in history of development of Chinese civilization. Confucius and Mencius both came from Yao and Shun period. Chinese civilization values were grown from Yao and Shun period. This period is an important part of Chinese civilization foundation. In Yao and Shun period, literature has not been formed yet; but the historical events, stories about characters were reproduced as oral stories from generation to generation. After period Xizhou, Yao and Shun period legends have been gradually found in literature classics; later, when these books experienced transformation during many generations, the Yao and Shun stories were performed as myth. Mr. Gu Jiegang explained the concept of "levels which build the ancient history" and thus formed the school of ancient history. The school of ancient history identifies Yao, Shun as myths and legends, and denies the existence of Yao and Shun period itself. The author considered that myths, legends and historical relationships should be treated properly. According to concept “track of history” in legends, there are historical records in legends. In our research we will reveal the importance and value of literature from the perspective history analysis. This research examines ancient literature and it is relevant content from written characters, history and Confucian classics field, and studies political retreat and Wu legends from the ancient history school theory.
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Liu, Jia-Hung, and 劉嘉鴻. "Methods for calculating localised Kohn-Sham states and their application to the optical property study of crystals containing rare-earth elements." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30327180671524273262.
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LAI, JIA-WEI, and 賴佳緯. "The Study of History of Wu and Yu in Yu,Shao-yu's The Dynasty History of Five Hegemons and Seven Warring States." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12241784603678198570.
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碩士靜宜大學
中國文學系
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Popular historical romance novels, derived from historical, legendary, if present, drama ... and so on, finishing and re-written from architecture. Ming Dynasty novel, one of the most representative category, the content is more diverse. In terms of age story distinguish covered the nations, Three, Five ...... so different, also have descendants compete judge the merits between novels. But the so-called superiority or inferiority, is beingproposedbythecontemporary .descendants of the people or objective or subjective views from the conclusions cohesion, someone from the story of the unobstructed view, someone from the refined language of view, it was also from a historical actual situation of view. In this paper, but the Ming historical novels, I Shao fish "Five Hegemons Chi Chuan Qi-Xiong nations" on the "Yue hegemony" part. "Five Hegemons Qi-Xiong Zhou Zhi Biography" is a series of novels by generations, "Zhou Zhi" (including the "new nations Zhi", "Eastern Zhou Zhi", "piece wall nations Zhi", "Annals of Zhou Zhi, etc.") of the the first book, for subsequent arrangers such as Feng Meng, CAI Yuan, who put criticized part of "multi-language falsehood, concerning vulgar," should want "to history-based", with the "enlightenment" feature, and this series of novel guide to the direction of the "historical Reader", resulting in being descendants of the first book of the "Five Hegemons seven powers nations Chi Chuan" gradually ignore, neglect of research to date, and is Feng Tsai et al adaptation of the replaced. But the so-called novels, and enlightenment function as the main publication, should look at separately, or in combination to see, how to see the real novel value? From contemporary to date, under the cumulative generations, each with its own statement, each have their own theories, the actual occurrence of this article hoping to accumulate changes from generation to generation, as well as contemporary so-called "popular" content level, citing "Five Hegemons Chi Chuan Qi-Xiong nations "the" Yue hegemony "part of the trunk from which the history and stories of the rheological find this generation to Generation novel, which traces the actual situation changes white; then the structure of narrative analysis, and the way the narrative sequence, will thoroughly analyze and better understand the ins and outs, and more able to clearly understand theperformancepractices;finally finishing the themes of the story can see, explore different categories, proved popular novels of literary value from all its arguments, of the past given the historical novels, to have the opportunity to reinterpret profiling.
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LIU, YU-LING, and 劉育伶. "A Study on Knowledge and State of Early Childhood Teachers toward Early Intervention Reporting System.The Case of Shin-Chu City." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06344663333499411466.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
早期療育研究所
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The purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge and the state of early childhood teachers toward early intervention reporting system. By the questionnaire and inquire, early childhood teachers’ knowledge and related experience about developmental delay and reporting children with developmental delay in Shin-Chu, and the role perception and the role performance of the early childhood teachers under the early intervention reporting system were reported. There were 137 specific samples. The data was analyzed by frequencies, percentages, Pearson correlation, t-test, and one way ANOVA, the following conclusions were reached: 1.Most of the early childhood teachers had the experiences of percepting suspected child with developmental delay. But few teachers reported it because of the regulation by educational institution and deficient in reporting knowledge. 2.Early childhood teachers’ knowledge toward developmental screening was scarce; over half of teachers had no experience of developmental screening. Besides, teachers’ knowledge toward developmental delay appeared that teachers with experience of developmental screening were superior to teachers without such experience. 3.Early childhood teachers’ knowledge toward developmental delay reporting appeared that teachers who attended in-service training of special education were superior to teachers without attending. Besides, early childhood teachers’ knowledge toward developmental delay reporting also appeared that teachers with experience of perceiving or discovering developmental delay and children with special needs were superior to those without such experience. 4.Early childhood teachers’ awareness of the role perception under the early intervention reporting system was mostly as perceiver and communicator. And they feel more difficult to performance the role of communicator and reporter in the early intervention reporting system. 5.The role perception and role performance of early childhood teachers under the report system may classified to three types, there were respectively high perception-easy to perform, high perception-a little difficulties to perform, and low perception- a little difficulties to perform. 6.Early childhood teachers had difficulties in identification, communication, and instruction under the report system. 7.Early childhood teachers’ needs under the report system were information or support about medical identification, rehabilitation, and special education. 8.The original source of report data from hospital might be early childhood teachers’ first detection. Relevant suggestions were proposed to the government authorities, institution administrators, early childhood teachers and future researchers.