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Aghanifor, Ishmael. "Charging the use of studded tires in Stockholm city-A cost Benefit analysis." Thesis, http://www.eurafrika.com, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-37753.

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The stockholm county proposed legislation in 2010 on the use of studded tires in the city. The aim of the policy was to reduce the use of studded tires by 50 percent. The research question investigates the authenticity of the policy where it was hypothesized that the net social benefits for the imposition of this charge was less than or equal to zero. Emperical literatures were chosen systematically and with the help of theories on welfare economics, a meta analysis was employed quantifying cost and benefits of all outcomes. The findings shows that the NSB is less than zero meaning that it was a wise decision to reject the proposal.
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Babiuc, Octavian. "Effect of gritting sand quality on road dust pollution." Thesis, KTH, Vägtekniks laboratorium, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-194340.

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Pollution of air represents the contamination with matter that can affect both humanhealth and the environment. Road dust has been recognized as a dominant source ofparticulate matter and one of the factors that contributes to its development is the useof gritting sand. Gritting sand is being used during snowy winter conditions as atraction control method. During spring season, when snow and ice melt and surfacesdry out, and the influence of traffic, asphalt surface wear, particle ejection from tires,etc; under the effect of their interaction, cause the formation of particulate matter.A general aim of this study was to perform analysis of factors which can be consideredresponsible generating road pollution, with resistance to abrasion of gritting sandbeing a potential key problem. The correlation between the use of studded tires andparticulate matter formation has been considered to be one of major issues in urbanareas.In order to carry out this investigation, an individual study case was considered,measurements indicated that levels of pollution increased even after studded tires werebanned.The literature review revealed important knowledge gaps regarding the quantificationof particulate emissions from non-exhaust sources, most importantly, emissions due tolow quality gritting sanding. At this point, very little information is available thatcould be used for determining the resistance to abrasion of gritting sanding material.This is further supported by numerous institutions and companies, all suggesting thatquality of gritting sand is not taken into consideration. Gritting sand is part of abigger problem which also involves types of pavement, types of tires, weather,background pollution, etc. Furthermore, there is no practical method to characterizewear of resistance of gritting sand.
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Giragosian, Sarah. "Queer creatures, queer times." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633190.

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Queer Creatures, Queer Times makes a critical intervention in queer theory and queer poetics through a combination of critical and creative approaches to explore how posthumanist thought and animal studies might correct a blindspot in current critical work on queer experience and texts. Queer theory tends to neglect non/human subjects, yet an ecological and posthumanist critique helps to trouble its humanist bias as well as its overly neat ties to constructivist and performative notions of selfhood. I argue that modern lyric poetry, in emergence during the cultural transmission of Darwinian precepts and the social invention of the homosexual, is uniquely situated to challenge the exclusivist principles that underlie specieisim, Social Darwinism, and heterosexism. While queer theory tends to overlook evolution in the construction of subjectivity and sexuality, I posit that such tendencies diminish opportunities for thinking through non-coherent selfhood and the radical contingency of beings upon other life forms. Accompanying my critical essays on three modernist queer poets, Djuna Barnes, Elizabeth Bishop, and Marianne Moore, are my poetics essay entitled "Towards a Poetics of the Animal" and my poetry manuscript Queer Fish. Both poetic texts explore non-dominant forms of queer relation between animals and humans.

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Oliver, Sophia. "Modelling studies of the atmospheric tides." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365773.

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Angerinos, Michael J. "A synthesis on the evolution of the studded tire." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/9049.

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Ever since studded tires were flrst introduced, the advantages, disadvantages, and effects of studded tires on vehicles, drivers and pavement systems has been the center of research and controversy for highway and transportation administrators, as well as safety engineers. The primary objective of this synthesis is to assemble, extract, organize and present information pertaining to the history of the studded tire (i.e., how it has evolved over time) in a detailed/descriptive chronological manner. The project also explores the relationship between the wear of pavements and the studded tire developments that have taken place over the past forty years
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Wanat, Matthew Stephen. ""Feels Like Times Have Changed": Sixties Western Heroes." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364225401.

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Conte, Francesco. "Expanding the brush tire model for energy studies." Thesis, KTH, Fordonsdynamik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-164284.

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Considering the more and more important issues concerning the climate changes and the global warming, the automotive industry is paying more and more attention to vehicle concepts with full electric or partly electric propulsion systems. The introduction of electric power sources allow the designers to implement more advanced motion control systems in vehicle, such as active suspensions. An example of this concept is the Autonomous corner module (ACM), designed by S. Zetterström. The ACM is a modular based suspension system that includes all features of wheel control, such as control of steering, wheel torque and camber individually, using electric actuators. With a good control strategy it is believed that is it possible to reduce the fuel consumption and/or increase the handling properties of the vehicle. In particular, camber angle has a significant effect on vehicle handling. However, very few efforts have been done in order to analyse its effects on tire dissipated energy. The aim of this study is to develop a new tire model, having as starting point the simple Brush Tire model, in order to analyse the tire behaviour, in terms of forces generated and energy dissipated, for different dynamic situations. In order to reach this scope, the characteristic equations of the rubber material are implemented in a 3D Multi-Line brush tire model. In this way the energy dissipated, thus the rolling resistance force, can be studied and analysed, considering also the tire geometry. From the results of this work it is possible to assert that the angular parameters (e.g. camber angle) affect the power losses in rolling tires, as well as the tire geometry influences their rolling resistance. Thus, using a good control strategy, it is possible to reduce the power losses in tires.
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Kozuka, Ryohei. "Studded tire wear - comparison between British Pendulum and Pin on disc testing." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Avd.), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-209485.

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Studded tires are widely used during the winter season in the Nordic countries due to their performance qualities in extreme cold temperatures, however they cause wear on the road surface. This is not only an economic problem but also a health problem due to amount of airborne wear particles that are generated.  Therefore, a test method under controlled laboratory conditions for tire and road wear is needed. In this thesis,studded tire wear on concrete road samples are studied using two test equipments; a Pin on disc and a British pendulum rig test.  Three different types of concrete road materials and two different types of tire stud geometries were used in the study. The road sample wear ranks the same in both test equipment’s following the rebound hardness of the concrete material. For the two studded tires samples differences in the amount of wear could be noticed. One possible explanation here is the wear dependence on the velocity due to the difference in simulated vehicle speed for the two tests equipment’s.
Dubbdäck används i stor utsträckning under vintersäsongen i Norden på grund av deras prestandaegenskaper i kalla temperaturer. Ett problem med dubbdäck är att de orsakar slitage på vägytan. Detta är inte bara ett ekonomiskt problem utan också ett hälsoproblem då en del av slitaget är partiklar som är luftburna och inandningsbara. Därför finns det ett behov av testmetoder för däck och vägslitage i kontrollerad laboratoriemiljö. I denna studie utvärderas dubbdäcksnötning i två testutrustningar; den brittiska vägpendeln och en pinne-på-skiva maskin. Prov utfördes med tre olika vägvarianter av betong och två olika dubbgeometrier. Storleken på nötningen rankades den samma för de olika vägbeläggningarna i de två olika provutrustningarna. Dock så inverkade dubbgeometrin på resultatet och olika nivåer på vägslitage kunde noteras för de två dubbvarianterna i beroende på val av provutrustning. En möjlig förklaring kan vara ett hastighetsberoende av nötningen då de två olika provutrustningarna simulerar olika fordonshastigheter.
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Kurbanova, Mohira R. "Times of Courage: Women’s NGO Movement in Uzbekistan." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1273606596.

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Kangumu, Bennett. "Contestations over Caprivi identities : from pre colonial times to the present." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8176.

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This study investigated the hypothesis that Caprivi identities exist; and that they have always been contested. These identities defined as a sense of not belonging to greater South West Africa exist in two forms: i) as a spatial or geographical entity usually divided into East and West in history for administrative purposes; and, ii) as a people, such as Subia, Mafwe, Mayeyi, Mbukushu, Barakwena, Totela, Mbalangwe, and Lozi, collectively referred to as ‘Caprivians’. Through utilizing primary sources such as oral interviews and archival material as well as secondary sources, the study endeavored to establish how Caprivi identities were constructed; what the nature of its contestations are; and how ‘Caprivians’ responded to its construction. It was established that Caprivi identities were the result of administrative neglect in state formation that constructed isolation on the basis of difference – that ‘Caprivians’ are different from other groups in South West Africa, and that Caprivi was geographically remote from Windhoek and hence difficult to administer as part of South West Africa. Resultantly, only a primitive form of indirect rule existed in the area for most part of its colonial history resulting in constant change of colonial masters. Though it was pushed more to neighboring territories administratively, it was not made an integral part of such territories but made to stand separate as a geographical entity.
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Bergström, Jennie. "En jämställd värld? : Innehållsanalys av The Times, Svenska Dagbladet och Iran Times International." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-2169.

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This study examined by content analysis and semiotic picture analysis how gender equal the UK newspaper The Times, the U.S/Iranian nespaper Iran Times International and Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet were May 1st 2009 and May 8th 2009. The study had a foundation of feminist theory about patriarchy and gender theory with a contribution of research about race and its impact on patriarchy.

None of the three papers were fully gender equal. Even though Svenska Dagbladet was found to be the most gender equal when it came to the number of women represented all of the newspapers examined showed patriachal structures since women more often than men were described as victimes, trivialized, incompetent and inferior.  People with a race other than white were in minority but patriarchy seems to be a stronger form of oppression than racism. White men were in majority and were less opressed than other groups and were because of that most in favour of the newspapers symbolic powers.

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Talley, Edie. "The Present, A Thousand Times Deeper." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2279.

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The creative nonfiction essays and poetry in this collection explore family survival during the hardest of times--when the desire to give up is at its greatest--as told from the perspective of a woman who is a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. These are not stories of defeat. Nor are they merely explorations of death and dying. They are cleebrations of living, of surviving, of loving and being loved against all odds.
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Jackson, Michael Kevin McGill T. C. McGill T. C. "Optical studies of semiconductor heterostructures : measurements of tunneling times, and studies of strained superlattices /." Diss., Pasadena, Calif. : California Institute of Technology, 1991. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-07022007-134108.

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Satter, Kurt. "Competitive Usability Studies of Virtual Environments for Shipbuilding." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/331.

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Establishing usability specifications as measurable attributes in repeatable scenarios has been an essential task in the management and continuous improvement processes [1]. Early studies in Usability Analysis were primarily conducted to assist software developers and hardware designers in improving the Human- Computer Interface (HCI) or Man- Machine Interface (MMI). However, this study was conducted to provide comparative data supporting broad conclusions regarding the comparative merits of one technology (nonstereoscopic, conventional CAD systems) competed against another (tracked, stereoscopic virtual environments). Competing environments to establish usability features and preferences provides a new tool to the interface designer. Benchmark scenarios were designed and executed to measure navigation, fault identification/repair, and spatial awareness through a sequence of choices and to provide user preference of one GUI paradigm over another functionally similar paradigm. This study, performed on a ship design application, included an analysis of the effects of user collaboration in virtual environments.
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Bullingham, Rachael. "Changing times : discovering how openly lesbian athletes navigate team sport." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2016. http://repository.winchester.ac.uk/308/.

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Research on lesbian athletes’ experiences is dated, with the majority being conducted in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, the 1980s represent a unique socio-cultural period, one Anderson (2009b) describes as homohysteric. Thus, as society has become more inclusive in previous generations, including within women’s sport (Fink et al 2012; Anderson & Bullingham 2013) and men’s sport (Anderson 2000, 2002, 2005a, 2005b, 2009b, 2011a; Adams & Anderson 2011) there is a need to reconsider the relationship between homophobia and sport. Semi-structured interviews from 31 lesbian athletes (from beginner to international standard players) were analysed using the coding procedures within Charmaz’ approach to grounded theory (Charmaz 2006). Results were subsequently applied to the adapted model of homohysteria (Anderson 2009b; Worthen 2014). Memos were used throughout the coding procedure to aid reflexivity and to ensure that results were grounded in data. Results show athletes competing in a positive environment, gaining support from teammates and coaches. Social situations were fully inclusive, including attending socials in LGBT friendly bars, demonstrating that fear surrounding the lesbian label has declined. Language has helped to develop this inclusive atmosphere; talking about sexuality has been shown to negate the environment of silence formerly experienced by lesbian athletes. This change in environment has changed how athletes ‘come out’. No longer do athletes need to prepare a statement; in fact coming out has become something of a non-event. Some athletes were even able to demonstrate an improvement in their professional lives, due to the diminished requirement to conceal their (homo)sexuality. However, some athletes still shunned the lesbian label, not through fear but by deeming it an unimportant facet of their individuality. Additionally, players’ athletic capital had no effect on their acceptance within the team, with the exception of international athletes. Participants faced very limited incidence of homophobia, but in those cases where homophobia was experienced, they would actively challenge the negative behaviour or language, as would their teammates. The supportive environment extended to providing advice and comfort to any athletes struggling with the process of coming out. In addition, participants in some cases became role models for their teammates. While the majority of the results were positive, there remained room for improvement in certain areas. There is still clear evidence that the environment has not changed for all athletes and there remain some areas to be addressed by sporting administrations. Old stereotypes of the predatory lesbian or the affective nature of sport on sexuality were raised by participants but tended to refer to historic events (over 10 years old).
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O'Neal, Kelsey L. "The Ties that Bind: Russian Aid to Ukraine." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/331.

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Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has struggled to construct a new foreign policy paradigm in a world that is no longer bipolar. Instead of the Cold War era arms stockpiles, Moscow has signed multiple Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START), and instead of physically taking over neighboring territories, increasing diplomacy and economic incentives have become Moscow’s primary tool to garner and maintain influence in its near abroad. Soft power initiatives, that can all roughly fit into a foreign aid model, from the Russian Federation to the near abroad come in different forms: oil subsidies, aid in kind, and direct financial investment. The Russian Federation has used all three of these strategies in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union in an attempt to keep the country in its sphere of influence. The use of foreign aid, be it oil subsides, aid in kind, or direct financial aid, all work towards the same goal of promoting Russian policies and interests in the near abroad. Ukraine, with its unique political, cultural and geographical importance, demonstrates the new struggle between Russia and the West. The struggle’s main actors are the Russian Federation against the eastern half of NATO and the EU, and the conclusion is unclear. Foreign aid and soft power are now playing a critical role in the outcome.
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Van, der Waag Ian Joseph. "Hugh Archibald Wyndham : his life and times in South Africa, 1901-1923." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10879.

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Hugh Archibald Wyndham was born in 1877, on the eve of the so-called 'Scramble for Africa', and died in 1961, surviving long enough to witness the dissolution of empire and the exit of South Africa from the British Commonwealth. His eighty-six years break into four, almost equal periods; the second of which, his twenty-two years spent in South Africa, are the focus of this study. These years, marked by the creation of the South African state, the forging of an exclusive, white, South African nationalism and, increasingly, by conflict among her peoples, is the core of what seems to be a coherent historical period extending from approximately 1800 to 1950.
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Dossani, Khairunessa. "Virtue and veiling| Perspectives from ancient to Abbasid times." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1547087.

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This thesis establishes a link between conceptions of female virtue and the practice of veiling by women from ancient to medieval times in the Mediterranean region. This is evidenced by the consistent advocacy and prescription of veiling in ancient and medieval theological texts, including Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, and Islamic texts. Veiling practices are shown to have a religious foundation, grounded in the ideas of honor and virtue. These notions were reflected in society over time with veiled aristocratic noblewomen and unveiled marginalized classes. While acknowledging class-based theories of female veiling, the thesis concentrates on the religious factors for veiling, particularly for medieval Muslim societies. The argument of this thesis is that while veiling did not originate in Islamic societies, Muslims validated the practice through their own literature and laws. The paper also includes evidence of female seclusion, which co-exists with the spread in the practice of veiling by women.

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Thacher, David. "Ties that bind? : confronting value conflict in community policing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37043.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.
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Autonomy has become the villain in many debates about government bureaucracies, and reformers have increasingly urged public agencies to build stronger ties with the outside world. These relationships can make organizations more effective and improve their legitimacy, but they also create new challenges for practice that research has not yet fully explored. In this study, based on a comparative analysis of eleven diverse case studies in policing, I describe the problems and dilemmas that working in partnership entails, and how effective practitioners overcome them. I argue that the central problems of building and sustaining partnerships involve conflict over values: Different social institutions advance different social values, and when the partners who cling to them try to collaborate, conflict flares up at the point of contact. In policing, a small number of conflicts appear recurrently in four different types of partnerships: In community ties, these conflicts involve the relative importance of soft crime, the proper level of police authority, and the tension between equity and the interests of individual neighborhoods; in business ties, they center on the private sector's responsibility for social impacts; in political ties, they involve fights about money, mistakes, and responsiveness; and in inter agency ties, they concern the relative importance of crime control compared with other goals of public policy, and the proper ordering of organizational domains. In some views, conflicts like these are unavoidable, and calls for "partnerships" among organizations are futile. But these cases suggest that many effective police practitioners have been able to overcome them in two ways. First, they employ strategies of institutional change (like appealing to an existing value to institutionalize a new one) to shift their priorities or those of their partners. They thereby close the normative gap that divides them, putting their partnerships on less-contentious ground. Second, some police departments have developed a capacity to attend to competing values in the manner of Isaiah Berlin's fox: Instead of subordinating all but one value in a dilemma, their practitioners have a moral humility and a penchant for "incompletely-theorized agreements" that makes them effective in a world of value pluralism.
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Wood, Andrew Richard. "Theoretical studies of atmospheric tides for the interpretation of satellite data." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359582.

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Gillett, Brendan. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the Times." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/155.

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Bryan Lee O'Malley's "Scott Pilgrim" series is, arguably, one of the most important American literary works of the early twenty-first century. Evaluating this work w/r/t multimediality and simultaneous multiliteracy, emotions and affective states, friends and their informal economies, and the role of active fandoms in current artistic production, this thesis seeks to explain why "Scott Pilgrim" has found such deep resonance with a generation of kids growing up at the time of publication.
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Huebenthal, Jan. "Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality." W&M ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1563898925.

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Using methods of critical queer genealogy and discourse analysis, Injury & Resistance historicizes the HIV/AIDS epidemic through four lenses—activism, criminalization, memory, and “post-AIDS” queer health—in national and transnational U.S. locales from 1987 to the present. Unlike in the 1980s, when white middle-class gay men were the most visible demographic of what was known as the “gay plague,” today’s American AIDS epidemic is becoming more and more racialized. And unlike 30 years ago, HIV today is a chronic condition that is effectively treatable with antiretroviral drug regimens. Concurrent with the medical survivability of HIV/AIDS, queer Americans have won legal rights to marry, serve openly in the military, and adopt and raise children. Meanwhile, however, for many the AIDS crisis has remained just that: a crisis. If current patterns persist, today one in two African American gay men will become HIV-positive within his lifetime—amidst a healthcare landscape in which racial, regional, and socioeconomic disparities abound. To date, little scholarly work has attended to how the epidemic’s American histories, having fueled an LGBT politics of individual “equality,” have in fact produced these stark simultaneities in which HIV is a chronic reality for some but has remained an emergency for others. Indebted to Michel Foucault, Injury & Resistance historicizes this evolution through a queer “history of the present” that explores the non-linear and asynchronous motions between and among AIDS past and HIV present. In the absence of a multitemporal critique, I argue, we risk ceding the urgency of HIV/AIDS to the past and preclude confronting what is an ongoing public health epidemic. Sources include oral histories from the ACT UP Oral History Project, memoirs of survival, activist photography, medical science statistics and publications, public health campaigns, newspaper records, and documentary film, as well as archival holdings from the Smithsonian National Archive Center, the Archiv der Sozialen Bewegungen (Archive of Social Movements) in Hamburg, Germany, the Special Collections at the James Branch Cabell Library at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and the New York Public Library, among others. This diverse body of sources re-contextualizes national and transnational U.S. AIDS histories that anticipate an ongoing crisis with peculiar dualities: yesterday yet today, ghostly yet present, and acute yet chronic. Arranged loosely from past to present, the four chapters and epilogue present evidence, readings, theories, and speculations, listening for past and present echoes of HIV/AIDS histories that reverberate in experiential chasms between injury and resistance. Chapters present a critical genealogy of feminist activism in the New York chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) from 1987 to 1993, explore a 1987 West German court case against African American ex-soldier Linwood Boyette for alleged HIV transmission, trace Derridean hauntology and queer temporalities in two AIDS memoirs and the National AIDS Memorial Grove, place narratives of “post-AIDS” queer health in relation to neoliberal LGBT rights politics, and consider Uganda’s 2011 “Kill the Gays Bill” as a transcultural circulation of U.S. anti-queer affect and violence. Throughout, this dissertation insists that the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis, with its rich histories of resistance and dissent, must again become cornerstones of contemporary queer culture and politics.
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Melberg, Camilla, and Frida Andersson. "Självskadebeteende : En studie om identitet och självuppfattning." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-22082.

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The purpose is to illustrate the phenomenon of self-harm from a social psychological and sociological perspective. The purpose is furthermore to examine the role social relationships play in the individuals´ self- imagine and what role does identification play for anyone who harm themselves? We want to examine in what way social relationships are important and how they function for individuals who harm themselves, both once they have started to harm themselves, and if the relationships in any part caused the cutting to begin with. Questions: How do individuals shape their identity based on self- harm? Which self-image do individuals have who self-harm? Is there anything in the person's previous social relationships that have caused them to begin to hurt themselves? Method: In this paper we have analyzed five autobiographies. We have used open coding from grounded theory as analytical method and subject positions based on discourse analysis. Theory: We have used the Cooley concepts looking glass self, Foucault's theory of power, Giddens' concept of ontological security and existential anxiety. Results and Analysis: We found six different categories that we thought were central. These were negative self-image, guilt, lack of family support, negative experiences of others' views, the protective identity as self- harmer and insecure social relationships in school. Conclusion: The self-harming is a very complex behavior. In this paper we have found that social relationship has a major influence on if a person begins to develop self-harm. The negative social impact on social relations in childhood plays a particularly important role and affects the individual's identity and self-image. Identity was both linked to the development of a negative self-image and difficulty to stop harm themselves when upset, it was the thing they identified with and which gave them security.
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Mulcahy, Robert Alan. "A Hero of Two Times: Erast Fandorin and the Refurbishment of Genre." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1369768067.

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Allen, Shirley May. "The role and education of children in Old Testament times." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52566.

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On title page: Master of Philosophy in Bible Skills
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2001
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Children in the Old Testament world, at first glance, seem to playa very minor role in the make-up of that society but was this really so? In researching the role and education there are many questions, which need answering. Questions that come to mind are: What role did children play in the tribe, clan and family? How did children relate to their fathers, mothers and siblings? What education and training did children receive? When did they receive it? Was it formal or informal? Did the status and education of children change from early Israel through to the beginning of New Testament times? How could children identify with their religion? What did children contribute to their religion? What legal rights did children have? How did their situation compare to the children in other countries in the . Ancient Near East? In investigating these questions in chapter one it was necessary to research the social system, which included the complex multigenerational family. It was also important to look at children in the Old Testament world from a sociological anthropological stance. As religion and religious concepts were embedded in the fabric of the Old Testament society it was important to see which ones influenced the status of children. There was also a need to investigate how children were protected by the law and how they were affected by the economy as Israelite society was largely an agrarian society. In chapter two when investigating the education of children in the Old Testament world it was necessary to look at parental responsibility as well as the role of priests, prophets, sages, scribes and teachers. Wisdom literature in the Old Testament played an important role in the education of every child, either formally or informally. Not all of the education was moral education; much of the instruction that children received was vocational. The challenge when looking at education is that the evidence is mostly inferred. In analysing the role of children in the Old Testament world it becomes apparent that children play a far greater role and are of higher social status than it appears at a cursory glance when looking at the patriarchal society in which they lived. The education of children took place mostly in the setting of the home on an informal basis. It was only much later that formal education was introduced and even then the exact beginning of schools is difficult to pinpoint. It would be incorrect to attempt to transplant the role of the child in the Old Testament world into contemporary culture without transplanting the whole society. It would however be correct to look at the Old Testament child within the context of the extended family as far as redemptive history and creation is concerned.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Kinders in die Ou Testamentwêreld blyk met die eerste oogopslag In geringe rol te speel in die samestelling van daardie gemeenskap, maar is dit werklik so? Met die navorsing van die rol en opvoeding was daar baie vrae wat beantwoord behoort te word. Vrae wat opduik is: Watter rol het die kinders gespeel in die stam, familiegroep en gesin? Wat was die verhouding tussen die kinders en hulle vaders, moeders, broers en susters? Watter opvoeding en onderrig het kinders ontvang? Wanneer het hulle dit ontvang? Was dit formeelof informeel? Het die status en opvoeding van kinders verander van vroeë Israel deur tot aan di~ begin van Nuwe Testamenttye? Hoe kon die kinders met hulle geloof identifiseer? Watter bydrae het kinders tot hulle geloof gelewer? Wat~er wetlike regte het kinders gehad? Hoe het hulle situasie vergelyk met die kinders in ander lande in die Antieke Nabye- Ooste? Deur hierdie vrae in hoofstuk een te ondersoek was dit nodig om die ,. maatskaplike stelsel te ondersoek, wat die komplekse veelvuldige geslagfamilie ingesluit het. Dit was ook belangrik om na kinders in die Ou Testamentwêreld vanuit In sosiologiese antropologiese oogpunt te kyk. Aangesien godsdiens en godsdienstige konsepte ingebed was in die wese van die Ou Testamentiese samelewing, was dit belangrik om te sien watter die status van kinders beïnvloed het. Dit was ook nodig om te ondersoek hoe kinders deur die wet beskerm is en hulle beïnvloed is deur die ekonomie aangesien die samelewing in Israel hoofsaaklik In landelike gemeenskap was. In hoofstuk twee met die ondersoek van die opvoeding van kinders in die wêreld van die Ou Testament was dit nodig om te kyk na ouerlike verantwoordelikheid sowel as die rol van priesters, profete, wysgere, skrifgeleerdes en leermeesters/onderwysers. Wysheidsliteratuur in die Ou Testament het In belangrike rol gespeel in die opvoeding van elke kind, hetsy formeelof informeel. Die opvoeding was nie alles morele opvoeding nie; 'n groot gedeelte van die onderrig wat kinders ontvang het was beroepsgerig. Die uitdaging wanneer na die opvoeding gekyk word, is dat die meeste bewyse hoofsaaklik afgeleide bewyse is. Wanneer die rol van kinders in die Ou Testamentwêreld geanaliseer word, word dit duidelik dat kinders 'n baie groter rol gespeel het, en 'n hoër maatskaplike aansien geniet het as wat 'n bloot tersaaklike blik op die patriargale samelewing waarin hulle gewoon het, aantoon. Die opvoeding wat kinders ontvang het, het hoofsaaklik in die konteks van die huis, en op fn informele basis plaasgevind. Dit was eers baie later dat formele opvoeding bekendgestel is en die presiese begin van skole is ook moeilik om vas te stel. Dit sou nie korrek wees om te probeer om die rol van die kind in die Ou Testament oor te plaas in die wêreld van die kontemporêre kultuur sonder om die hele samelewing ook oor te plaas nie. Die sou egter korrek wees om na die Ou Testament kind te kyk binne die konteks van die uitgebreide gesin wat verlossingsgeskiedenis en die skepping aan betref.
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Söderman, Wendel Johan. "The times they are a-changin’ : oberoende skivbolags utveckling i en förändrad skivbolagsindustri." Thesis, Stockholm University, School of Business, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6139.

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Tiderna har förändrats inom skivbolagsbranschen. Sedan 2001 har skivförsäljningen minskat med över 33 procent. De senaste årens teknologiska förändringar har förändrat förutsättningarna och strukturen i skivbolagsbranschen. Resultatet har blivit att majorbolagen upplever en kris. Men samtidigt som majorbolagen talar om kris så växer skivbolagsbranschen underifrån och antalet oberoende skivbolag ökar. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka hur de oberoende skivbolagen har påverkats av de teknologiska förändringar som förändrat skivbolagsbranschen. För att uppfylla detta syfte har studien utformats utefter en kvalitativ fallstudie. Studiens resultat visar att de oberoende skivbolagen har påverkats i positiv bemärkelse av de teknologiska förändringar som förändrat skivbolagsbranschen. Trots att skivförsäljningen har minskat på grund av fildelning, har andra teknologiska förändringar gjort att aktiviteter i värdekedjan går att utföra till lägre kostnader vilket har varit positivt för de oberoende skivbolagen. Den minskade skivförsäljningen har också lett till att majorbolagen har blivit defensiva vilket har skapat möjligheter för de oberoende skivbolagen att växa.

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Allen, Sara E. "Florida Red Tides: Public Perceptions of Risk." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002267.

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Chauhan, Arjun. "Modeling and Predicting Taxi Times at Airports." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3472.

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This research aims at providing methods in analyzing and estimating the taxi times of aircraft at airports, which are expected to be an important element for reducing taxiing delay and consequent excess fuel consumption and environmental costs. The proposed model involves a set of regression equations to model the taxi-out and taxi-in times at airports. The estimated results can be used to calculate the nominal taxi times, which are essential measures for evaluating the taxiing delays at airports. Given the outcomes of the regression model, an iterative algorithm is developed to predict taxi times. A case study at LGA shows that the proposed algorithm demonstrates higher accuracy in comparison to other algorithms in existing literature.
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Kennedy, Scott Thomas Olcott. "The effect of teleradiology on interpretation times for CT pulmonary angiography studies." [New Haven, Conn. : s.n.], 2008. http://ymtdl.med.yale.edu/theses/available/etd-12022008-150610/.

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Holleran, Michael. ""Changeful times"--preservation, planning and permanence in the urban environment, Boston, 1870-1930." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67114.

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Brehm-Jurish, Eva Ute. "Connective ties in discourse : three ERP-studies on causal, temporal and concessive connective ties and their influence on language processing." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2005. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/678/.

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Connective ties in discourse: Three ERP studies on causal, temporal and concessive connective ties and their influence on language processing.

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In four experiments the influence of lexical connectives such as " darum", therefore, " danach", afterwards, and " trotzdem", nevertheless, on the processing of short two-sentence discourses was examined and compared to the processing of deictical sentential adverbs such as " gestern", yesterday, and " lieber", rather. These latter words do not have the property of signaling a certain discourse relation between two sentences, as connective ties do. Three questions were central to the work:

* Do the processing contrasts found between connective and non-connective elements extend to connective ties and deictical sentential adverbs (experiments 2 and 3)?

* Does the semantic content of the connective ties play the primary role, i.e is the major distinction to be made indeed between connective and non-connective or instead between causal, temporal and concessive?

* When precisely is the information provided by connective ties used? There is some evidence that connective ties can have an immediate influence on the integration of subsequent elements, but the end of the second sentences appears to play an important role as well: experiments 2, 3, and 4.

Conclusions

First of all, the theoretical distinction between connective and non-connective elements does indeed have " cognitive reality" . This has already been shown in previous studies. The present studies do however show, that there is also a difference between one-place discourse elements (deictical sentential adverbs) and two-place discourse elements, namely connective ties, since all experiments examining this contrast found evidence for qualitatively and quantitatively different processing (experiments 1, 2, and 3).

Secondly, the semantic type of the connective ties also plays a role. This was not shown for the LAN, found for all connective ties when compared to non-connective elements, and consequently interpreted as a more abstract reflection of the integration of connective ties. There was also no difference between causal and temporal connective ties before the end of the discourses in experiment 3.

However, the N400 found for incoherent discourses in experiment 2, larger for connective incoherent than non-connective incoherent discourses, as well as the P3b found for concessive connective ties in the comparison between causal and concessive connective ties gave reason to assume that the semantic content of connective ties is made use of in incremental processing, and that the relation signaled by the connective tie is the one that readers attempt to construct.

Concerning when the information provided by connective ties is used, it appears as if connectivity is generally and obligatorily taken at face value. As long as the meaning of a connective tie did not conflict with a preferred canonical discourse relation, there were no differences found for varying connective discourses (experiment 3). However, the fact that concessive connective ties announce the need for a more complex text representation was recognized and made use of immediately (experiment 4). Additionally, a violation of the discourse relation resulted in more difficult semantic integration if a connective tie was present (experiment 2). It is therefore concluded here that connective ties influence processing immediately.

This claim has to be modified somewhat, since the sentence-final elements suggested that connective ties trigger different integration processes than non-connective elements. It seems as if the answer to the question of when connective ties are processed is neither exclusively immediately nor exclusively afterwards, but that both viewpoints are correct. It is suggested here that before the end of a discourse economy plays a central role in that a canonical relation is assumed unless there is evidence to the contrary. A connective tie could have the function of reducing the dimensions evaluated in a discourse to the one signaled by the connective tie. At the end of the discourse the representation is evaluated and verified, and an integrated situation model constructed. Here, the complexity of the different discourse relations that connective ties can signal, is expressed.
Konnektiva im Diskurs: Drei EKP-Studien zu kausalen, temporalen und konzessiven Konnektoren und ihrem Einfluss auf die Sprachverarbeitung.

Einführung und Fragestellung

In vier Experimenten wurde der Einfluss von lexikalischen Konnektiva wie " darum", " danach" und " trotzdem" auf die Verarbeitung von kurzen zweisätzigen Diskursen untersucht und mit der Verarbeitung von deiktischen Satzaderbien wie " gestern" und " lieber" verglichen, die nicht wie die Konnektiva die Eigenschaft haben, die Diskursrelation zwischen zwei Sätzen explizit auszudrücken.

Drei Fragen standen im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit:

* Findet sich der Kontrast zwischen konnektiven und nicht-konnektiven Elementen auch zwischen Konnektiva und deiktischen Satzadverbien wieder (Experimente 2 und 3)?

* Spielt der semantische Inhalt der Konnektiva die primäre Rolle: ist die Hauptunterscheidung zwischen konnektiven und nicht-konnektiven Elementen zu machen, oder zwischen kausalen (darum, deshalb), temporalen (danach, hinterher) und konzessiven (trotzdem, dennoch) Elementen (Experimente 3 / 4)?

* Wann genau wird die Information, die Konnektiva bieten, genutzt? Es gibt Evidenz dafür, dass Konnektiva einen sofortigen Einfluss haben, aber auch dafür, dass das Ende der Texte eine gewichtige Rolle spielt: Experimente 2, 3, und 4.

Konklusionen

Zunächst einmal hat die theoretische Unterscheidung zwischen konnektiven und nicht-konnektiven Worten tatsächlich " kognitive Realität" . Dies wurde bereits in früheren Studien gezeigt. Die aktuellen Experimente zeigten jedoch, dass es auch einen Unterschied zwischen einstelligen (deiktische Satzadverbien) und zweistelligen (Konnektiva) Diskursrelationen gibt, da alle Experimente, die diesen Kontrast untersuchten, qualitativ und quantitativ andere Verarbeitung für Konnektiva zeigten (Experimente 1, 2 und 3).

Zweitens spielt der semantische Typus der Konnektiva ebenfalls eine Rolle. Dieser Einfluss zeigte sich nicht für die LAN, die für alle Konnektiva im Vergleich mit nicht-konnektiven Elementen gefunden wurde, und die dementsprechend auch als Korrelat abstrakterer Integration von Konnektiva vorgeschlagen wird. Es zeigte sich ebenfalls kein Unterschied zwischen kausalen und temporalen Konnektiva vor dem Ende des Diskurses in Experiment 3. Die N400, gefunden für inkohärente Satzpaare in Experiment 2, größer für inkohärent konnektive als inkohärent nicht-konnektive Diskurse, wie auch die P3b, gefunden im Vergleich zwischen kausalen und konzessiven Konnektiva in Experiment 4, lieferten jedoch Grund zu der Annahme, dass die Bedeutung von Konnektiva in der inkrementellen Verarbeitung genutzt wird, und dass die Relation, die Konnektiva signalisieren, diejenige ist, die Leser versuchen zu erstellen.

Im Hinblick auf wann die Information, die Konnektiva liefern, genutzt wird, scheint es, also ob Konnektivität generell und obligatorisch für bare Münze genommen wird. So lange die Bedeutung der Konnektiva nicht mit einer präferierten kanonischen Diskursrelation konfligierte, zeigten sich keine Differenzen innerhalb verschiedener konnektiver Diskurse (Experiment 3), aber die Tatsache, dass konzessive Konnektiva die Notwendigkeit einer komplexeren Textrepräsentation voraussagen, wurde sofort erkannt und genutzt (Experiment 4). Zusätzlich resultierte eine Verletzung der Diskursrelation in Experiment 2 in erschwerterer semantischer Integration, wenn ein Konnektivum vorhanden war. Es wird daher gefolgert, dass Konnektiva die Verarbeitung sofort beeinflussen.

Diese Schlussfolgerung muss jedoch etwas abgeschwächt werden, da die satzfinalen Elemente darauf hinwiesen, dass Konnektiva andere Integrationsprozesse am Ende der Diskurse auslösten als nicht-konnektive Elemente. Es scheint, dass die Antwort auf die Frage, wann Konnektiva verarbeitet werden, weder sofort noch hinterher ist, sondern dass beide Sichtweisen korrekt sind. Es wird hier vorgeschlagen, dass vor dem Ende eines Diskurses Ökonomie insofern eine entscheidende Rolle spielt, als eine kanonische Relation angenommen wird so lange es keine gegenteilige Evidenz gibt. Ein Konnektivum könnte die evaluierten Dimensionen in einem Diskurs auf die signalisierten reduzieren. Am Ende des Diskurses wird die erstellte Textrepräsentation evaluiert und verifiziert, und ein integriertes Situationsmodell erstellt. Hier drückt sich dann die Komplexität der verschiedenen Diskursrelationen, die Konnktiva signalisieren können, aus.
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Kvist, Jonatan, and Annelie Persson. "Kemattacken i Damaskus 2013 : en jämförande studie om nyhetsrapporteringen i The New York Times, The Moscow Times och The Daily Star Lebanon." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21342.

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Denna uppsats redovisar en kvalitativ textanalys av nyhetsrapporteringen om kemattacken utanför Syriens huvudstad Damaskus i tre engelskspråkiga tidningar i USA, Ryssland och Libanon. Studien jämför nyhetsrapportering i The New York Times (USA), The Moscow Times (Ryssland) och The Daily Star Lebanon (Libanon). Underlaget för studien är material publicerat under tre perioder och består sammantaget av 35 artiklar.. Den första perioden utspelar sig de första två dagarna efter kemattacken i Damaskus förorter. Andra perioden utspelar sig dagen före och efter att Syriens regim pekas ut som ansvarig av USA:s utrikesminister. Den tredje perioden utspelar sig dagen före och efter att Syriens regim får en diplomatisk möjlighet att förhindra ett amerikanskt anfall genom att överlämna alla sina kemvapen. Uppsatsens teoretiska ramverk bygger på tidigare forskning om journalistisk narrativitet, krigs- och fredsjournalistik och hur källor hanteras i krigsrapportering. Genom att svara på åtta delfrågor besvaras studiens fråga om hur kemattacken i Damaskus förorter rapporterades i de tre tidningarna. Källor och citat i artiklarna är avgörande för helheten. Övergripande har New York Times fokus på president Obama, hans administration, dess uttalanden och relationer. När president Obama under sista perioden vänder sig till amerikanska kongressen och ber om stöd för ingripa i Syrien flyttas fokus i rapporteringen till ett än mer nationellt perspektiv. Daily Star har ett växlande perspektiv. Artiklarna följer internationell politik och hur den mobiliseras. Tidningen speglar också lidandet i Syrien samt konsekvenserna i det egna landet. Moscow Times håller sig till ett ryskt politiskt perspektiv i samtliga artiklar. Det är främst det egna landets toppolitiker som kommer till tals.
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Warren, Agnes, and Kulla Lisa Rönnqvist. "Global uppvärmning : En jämförande studie mellan Dagens Nyheter och New York Times." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15597.

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Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa likheter och skillnader i nyhetsrapporteringen om den globala uppvärmingen mellan Sverige och USA. Vi har inriktat oss på New York Times och Dagens Nyheter. Hypotesen är att den amerikanska tidningen visar sig mer skeptisk till att miljöförändringarna är mänskligt skapade än den svenska tidningen. Tidsspannet vi valt är januari till och med december år 2006 då filmen An Inconvenient Truth hade premiär och skapade debatt i frågan. Undersökningen är av kvantitativ natur. Den mest uppseendeväckande skillnaden är hur tidningarna gestaltar problemen. Vi hade förväntat oss större skillnader mellan tidningarna. Den största likheten är att ingen av tidningarna hade en enda artikel som ställde sig helt förnekande till att människliga handlingar är orsaken till global uppvärmning.
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Cwerner, Saulo Brilmann. "The times of migration : a study of the temporalities of the immigrant experience." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310371.

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Adjuik, David A. "Weak Ties at Play: Social Networks and Ghanaian Entrepreneurs in Columbus, Ohio." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1343172982.

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DeLucia, JoEllen M. ""Tales of other times" Scotland's past and women's future in eighteenth-century British writing /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274911.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2953. Adviser: Janet Sorensen. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 14, 2008).
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Lindblad, Isabelle. "Från Instagrampoet till New York Times Best Seller : Om sociala mediers påverkan på bokkedjan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353575.

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Staninska, Ana. "A theoretical model for self-assembly of flexible tiles." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002041.

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Melander, Daniel. "RECONSTRUCTING NATO IN TIMES OF CHANGE : A study of the Swedish government’s discourse on NATO in 2004 and 2015." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18559.

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This study sets out to examine the Swedish government´s altered discourse on NATO in the years 2004 and 2015. Given the drastic change in security situation in Europe over the last 20 years, it is logical to assume it has influenced the relation between Sweden and NATO. The study aims to highlight how the Swedish government governs through discourse and its understanding of NATO in different circumstances. When compared, the analyzed defense propositions both describe NATO as important, even crucial, but in vastly different ways. In 2004, NATO acts as an entry point for diplomatic and political influence in international politics as well as a way for Sweden to express its identity as an altruistic country. In contrast, NATO in 2015 is vital to the development of Sweden´s military capability and the ability to provide and receive the help necessary for its solidarity policy.
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Karpenko, Daria. "Self-assembly of Self-similar Structures by Active Tiles." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4095.

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The natural capacity of DNA for molecular self-assembly has already been exploited to create DNA based tiles which can self-assemble into nano-scale arrays and carry out nano-scale computation. Thus far, however, all such self-assembly has been passive, in the sense that the binding capacities of a tile are never altered throughout the assembly. The idea of active tiles, tiles that can send signals to each other and activate latent binding sites, has been proposed but never incorporated into a formal model. Here, I present an extension of the existent abstract tile assembly model by defining an active tile assembly and give a detailed example of an aperiodic set of active tiles which hierarchically produces a self-similar L-shape tiling. This yields a technique utilizing active tiles for the assembly of aperiodic self-similar shapes.
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Hall, Heather Leigh. "Knowledge management in times of change: Tacit and explicit knowledge transfers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4963/.

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This study proposed a look at the importance and challenges of knowledge management in times of great change. In order to understand the information phenomena of interest, impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents in times of great organizational change, the study is positioned in a major consolidation of state agencies in Texas. It pays special attention to how the changes were perceived by the knowledge workers by interviewing those that were impacted by the changes resulting from the reorganization. The overall goal is to assess knowledge management in times of great organizational change by analyzing the impact of consolidation on knowledge management in Texas's Health and Human Services agencies. The overarching research question is what happened to the knowledge management structure during this time of great change? The first research question was what was the knowledge worker environment during the time of change? The second research question was what was the knowledge management environment of the agencies during the time of change? The last research question was did consolidation of the HHS agencies diminish the ability to transition from tacit to explicit knowledge? Additionally, the study investigates how the bill that mandated the consolidation was covered in the local media as well as the actual budget and employee loss impact of the consolidation in order to better understand the impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents as a result of major organizational restructuring. The findings have both theoretical and practical implications for information science, knowledge management and project management.
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Xu, Xia Ying. "Chinese animation in times of reform and convergence :the case of 100,000 Bad Jokes." Thesis, University of Macau, 2017. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3690678.

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Kling, Ragnar. "Developing product development in times of brutal change." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics (EFI), 2006. http://www2.hhs.se/EFI/summary/690.htm.

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McNally, Samuel. "Tracing Hitler, the rise of Nazism and the final solution : observations from the Cape Times, 1933-1945." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8970.

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This study intends to look at the Cape Times' coverage and editorial response to the Nazi regime's treatment of Jews from its rise to power in early 1933 to its demise in 1945 at the end of World War II. As such, this paper follows a path broken by Andrew Sharf and his study of British press reaction to Nazi atrocities committed against Jews, Deborah Lipstadt and her book analyzing American press coverage of the same, and Sharon Friedman's thesis on the Afrikaner press' treatment of Nazi Germany and the Jews. In acknowledging these predecessors, it is essential to explain why this study of the English South African press, in the form of the Cape Times, is necessary.
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Hansen, Amanda, and Isabell Gradin. "Australien i medieskugga? : En studie av tre svenska mediers och engelska The Times bevakning av Australien." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-6119.

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Vår hypotes om att Australien befinner sig i svensk medieskugga kom till under hösten då vi på C-kursen i journalistik gjorde en ministudie av länders förekomst i olika tidningar, och Australien/Oceanien hamnade på sista plats i den undersökningen. Med denna uppsats har vår avsikt varit att göra en mer omfattande undersökning för att ta reda på vad som kännetecknar bevakningen av Australien i viktiga svenska medier. För att få reda på hur mycket det rapporteras om Australien i ett urval av svenska medier har vi gjort en kvantitativ undersökning som inkluderar Dagens Nyheter (DN), Ekot och Rapport. Vi gjorde även en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av DN och engelska The Times för att jämföra och se vilka ämnen med anknytning till Australien som förkommer i de båda tidningarna. Resultaten av den kvantitativa och kvalitativa analysen visar att bevakningen av Australien i de undersökta svenska medierna är liten och tenderar att vara trivial. De tre största ämnena visade sig vara sport, naturkatastrofer och djur. Den kvalitativa analysen visade att engelska The Times hade betydligt fler artiklar om Australien 2008 och 2009 jämfört med Dagens Nyheter. Men även i The Times handlar det journalistiska materialet om Australien till största delen om sport, djur och naturkatastrofer. En möjlig förklaring till att Australien får lite utrymme i det undersökta materialet är det geografiska avståndet mellan Sverige och Australien samt avsaknaden av svenska korrespondenter.
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Silva, Bárbara Zocal da. "As tiras de Mafalda no Brasil: tradutores e traduções." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8145/tde-29012016-131539/.

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Esta pesquisa consiste num estudo das três traduções brasileiras de tiras cômicas de Mafalda, criadas pelo quadrinista argentino Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, o Quino, e se insere em duas das perspectivas dos Estudos Descritivos da Tradução (Holmes, 2000 [1972]): estudos de função (contextos) e de produto (textos). As três traduções foram publicadas em diferentes épocas e conjunturas, a saber: (1) as primeiras traduções das tiras de Mafalda no Brasil, realizadas na década de 1970 e publicadas pela Editora Artenova (RJ); (2) as traduções realizadas por Mouzar Benedito, em 1982, editadas por Henfil e publicadas pela Editora Global (SP); e (3) as traduções realizadas por Monica Stahel e sua equipe de tradutores, em 1991, e publicadas pela Editora Martins Fontes (SP). Investigamos esses contextos de produção e aspectos linguísticos das traduções. Ao entendermos que é inerente à linguagem das histórias em quadrinhos a combinação de elementos verbais e visuais (icônicos e pictóricos), procuramos ter em conta nas análises a anatomia relevante para a tradução (translation-relevant anatomy) proposta por Kaindl (2010), que considera, além do contexto social de produção e dos aspectos linguísticos, também elementos pictóricos e tipográficos. Na perspectiva desse autor, a tradução de histórias em quadrinhos pode ser compreendida, em suas numerosas incidências de manipulação, como um resultado das especificidades de sua tradução, bem como de sua condição social de produção e circulação. Com essas linhas diretoras em mente, estruturamos a dissertação. Num primeiro momento, procuramos identificar os elementos constitutivos da linguagem dos quadrinhos inerentes ao gênero tira cômica, no qual se inserem as tiras de Mafalda. Quanto aos aspectos contextuais, traçamos um panorama da criação das tiras da personagem, situando-a em seu contexto de publicação (suportes e datas de publicação, em relação ao momento histórico vivenciado na Argentina), e apresentamos as traduções brasileiras das tiras de Mafalda, focalizando seu contexto de produção, bem como as pessoas envolvidas nas traduções dessas tiras, isto é, as editoras e os editores que as publicaram, e os tradutores que as realizaram. Quanto ao estudo de produto, com base na taxonomia de procedimentos técnicos de tradução que Aubert (1998) adequou para examinar textos traduzidos e distâncias tradutórias entre pares linguísticos, as modalidades de tradução, estabelecemos quatorze modalidades e analisamos as traduções observando a distribuição dessas modalidades em cada uma, a fim de estabelecer um perfil descritivo e comparativo delas. Por fim, perguntamo-nos sobre possíveis vínculos entre os diferentes perfis linguísticos das traduções e dados de contexto de produção, como o perfil de cada tradutor. A presente pesquisa pretende contribuir para a historiografia da tradução espanhol-português no Brasil, bem como para os estudos descritivos de tradução de histórias em quadrinhos, um hipergênero multimodal cujas especificidades vêm recebendo atenção dentro dos Estudos da Tradução há apenas pouco mais de uma década.
This research consists in a study of three Brazilian translations from Mafalda comic strips, created by the Argentinian cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, known by his pen name Quino. The present investigation is inserted in two perspectives of Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) (Holmes, 2000 [1972]): function-oriented (based in the context) and product-oriented (text-focused). The three translations chosen were published in different periods: (1) during 1970s, when the first version of Mafalda in Portuguese was published in Brazil by Editora Artenova (RJ); (2) in 1982, made by Mouzar Benedito and edited by Henfil, published by Editora Global (SP); and (3) in 1991, made by Monica Stahel and her team of translators and published by Editora Martins Fontes (SP). Our purpose was to investigate the contexts of production and the linguistic aspects of the translations. Since it is inherent to comics the combination of verbal and iconic elements, it was considered the analysis and the anatomy relevant for the translation (translation-relevant anatomy) proposed by Kaindl (2010), which considers more than the social background of this sort of work and the linguistic aspects, the pictorial and typographic elements. According to this author, the cartoon translation should be comprehended as a result of the specificities of each translation and its social conditions of production and circulation. The thesis was structured through these guidelines. In a first moment, it was intended to identify the main elements of comics language, the genre where Mafalda belongs. An overview of the historic and publishing settings of the character was presented. Afterwards, the Brazilian versions are listed, as well as their context of production and the professionals involved in it. To study the results, it was used the taxonomy of technical procedures of translation that Aubert (1998) created to examine translated texts and the translational gaps between linguistic pairs and modalities of translation. We established fourteen modalities and analyzed the comic strips selected observing each one of these categories, in order to establish a descriptive and comparative profile of each text studied. One of our goals is to look for links between different linguistic profiles from the translations, its contexts of production and the profile of each of its translators. We intend to contribute for the historiography of Spanish-Portuguese translations in Brazil and for the translational descriptive studies of cartoons as a multimodal genre, which specific characteristics have received attention in this field of study for not much more than a decade.
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Day, Angela M. "Family Business Daughters: The Ties that Bind and Divide." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002567.

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Thurairajah, Kalyani. "Caught between the 'bleeding homeland' and the 'safe haven': negotiating loyalties in times of conflict." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121196.

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The loyalties of immigrant groups have often been questioned, particularly when they are considered to be suspect minorities whose loyalties to their homelands may outweigh their loyalties to their countries of settlement. As such, the concept of "conflicting allegiances" is built on the premise that the two loyalties are mutually exclusive, and that one must be prioritized over the other. However, this dissertation argues that the narratives that second-generation members of the Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic community hold regarding their homeland and their country of settlement opens space for the adoption of a hybrid Canadian-Tamil/Tamil-Canadian identity, as well as dual loyalties for both their homeland and their country of settlement. In conceptualizing their homeland as a "bleeding homeland", with a history of discrimination and victimization, this diasporic community is motivated to engage in homeland politics and to identify strongly with their Tamil ethnic identity. This loyalty to their homeland is further reinforced by conceptualizing their country of settlement as a "safe haven", where the Canadian identity is centred on tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism. This dissertation draws on interviews conducted with second-generation members of the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Toronto as well as their age-cohort in Sri Lanka, and argues that while there may be concerns about immigrants as suspect minority groups who hold conflicting allegiances, the story of Canada as conceptualized by second-generation immigrants actually encourages the development of a hybrid identity and the maintenance of dual loyalties.
La loyauté des groupes immigrants a souvent été questionnée, particulièrement lorsqu'ils sont considérés comme des minorités suspectes dont la loyauté envers leur pays d'origine peut être plus importante que leur loyauté envers leur pays d'accueil. Ce concept d' « allégeances conflictuelles » est basé sur la prémisse que les deux loyautés sont mutuellement exclusives et que, par conséquent, l'une doit avoir la priorité sur l'autre. Cependant, cette dissertation soutient que la conception que les membres de la seconde génération de la communauté diasporique Tamoule du Sri Lanka ont de leur pays d'origine ainsi que de leur pays d'accueil ouvre un espace qui permet l'adoption d'une identité hybride de Canadien-Tamoule/ Tamoule-Canadien, ainsi qu'une loyauté double à la fois pour leur pays d'origine et leur pays d'accueil. En conceptualisant leur pays d'origine en tant que « terre natale qui saigne », comportant un historique de discrimination et de victimisation, cette communauté diasporique est motivée à participer à la politique de leur pays d'origine et ainsi s'associer fortement avec leur identité ethnique Tamoule. Cette loyauté envers leur terre natale est de plus renforcée en conceptualisant leur pays d'accueil en tant qu' « havre de paix » où l'identité Canadienne met l'emphase sur la tolérance, la diversité ainsi que le multiculturalisme. Cette dissertation utilise des entrevues conduites avec des membres de la seconde génération de la communauté Tamoule du Sri Lanka vivant à Toronto ainsi que des membres correspondant à ce même groupe d'âge vivant toujours au Sri Lanka. Cette dissertation soutient que, bien qu'il puisse exister des inquiétudes concernant la loyauté de certains immigrants considérés comme étant des minorités suspectes qui possèdent une allégeance conflictuelle, ce projet démontre que l'histoire du Canada telle qu'elle est conceptualisée par cette seconde génération d'immigrants encourage le développement d'une identité hybride et la persistance d'une loyauté double.
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Tobin, Sarah A. "Microfinance in Neoliberal Times: The Experience of an Egyptian NGO." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001294.

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Enback, Mattias, and Danielle Sjölund. "När journalistik går Bananas!* : En kvalitativ studie om framing inom PR och journalistik i fallet Dole vs. Bananas!*." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26185.

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År 2009 hade dokumentärfilmen Bananas!* premiär. Filmen skildrar rättegången i en långdragen konflikt mellan nicaraguanska bananarbetare och fruktföretaget Dole, där skadliga bekämpningsmedel anses ha gjort bananarbetare sterila. Bananas!* skapade debatt inför premiärvisningen vid Los Angeles filmfestival, då Dole ansåg att filmens innehåll bar på osanning, och ville stoppa filmen. Efter visningen stämde Dole filmens regissör Fredrik Gertten, producenten Margarete Jangård och filmbolaget WG Film. Detta blev starten på en kamp mellan ett företag och ett journalistiskt arbete, och en medial uppståndelse blev till. Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur tidningar i USA och Sverige rapporterade om konflikten kring Bananas!*. Tidningarna Los Angeles Times och Sydsvenskan analyseras för att ta reda på hur olika karaktärer i konflikten framställdes. Breven och den stämningsansökan som Dole skickade, där företaget uttryckte sin misstro gentemot filmen, analyseras även för att ta reda på hur Dole ramade in händelsen och hur detta kan ha påverkat tidningarnas rapportering. Detta med hjälp av teorier som framing, nyhetsvärdering och nyhetsretorik. Resultatet av denna undersökning visar att framställningen av karaktärerna skiljer sig åt i de två tidningarna. I Sydsvenskan är den generella framställningen av Fredrik Gertten positiv och av Dole negativ, medan framställningen av bananarbetarna och advokaten Juan Dominguez blir något positiv. Los Angeles Times framställer Dominguez, och delvis bananarbetarna, på ett negativt sätt, medan Dole och Gertten till stor del blir neutrala i dessa artiklar. Undersökningen visar även att Doles inramning av konflikten kan ha påverkat vad tidningarnas rapportering fokuserade på, där Sydsvenskan fokuserade mer på Doles felaktiga agerande och deras stämningsansökan medan Los Angeles Times rapportering överensstämmer med Doles inramning.
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