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Clare, Rebecca. "Elite and Subaltern Voices in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-5757.
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Singh, Nehna Daya. "The postcolonial aesthetics of beauty, nature and form: Reading the glass palace, the hungry tide and the shadow lines by Amitav Ghosh." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7558.
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Magister Artium - MAOne can think of an aesthetic as one’s artistic mode and purpose. The aesthetic is differently foregrounded in each of Ghosh’s three selected novels: in the first novel studied, aesthetic concerns are linked with beauty. Female beauty in particular, is the primary aesthetic focus in The Glass Palace since it is beauty that inspires love and appreciation. In the second novel, The Hungry Tide, the aesthetic explores techniques of writing that encompass environmental questions. This novel shows nature as its primary aesthetic since it is through the encounter with nature that its aesthetic is realised and an appreciation for all life forms are established.
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Johnson, Eleanore. "Ill at ease in our translated world ecocriticism, language, and the natural environment in the fiction of Michael Ondaatje, Amitav Ghosh, David Malouf and Wilma Stockenström." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002277.
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This thesis explores the thematic desire to establish an ecological human bond with nature in four contemporary novels: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh, An Imaginary Life by David Malouf, and The Expedition to The Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenström. These authors share a concern with the influence that language has on human perception, and one of the most significant ways they attempt to connect with the natural world is through somehow escaping, or transcending, what they perceive to be the divisive tendencies of language. They all suggest that human perception is not steered entirely by a disembodied mind, which constructs reality through linguistic and cultural lenses, but is equally influenced by physical circumstances and embodied experiences. They explore the potential of corporeal reciprocity and empathy as that which enables understanding across cultural barriers, and a sense of ecologically intertwined kinship with nature. They all struggle to reconcile their awareness of the potential danger of relating to nature exclusively through language, with a desire to speak for the natural world in literature. I have examined whether they succeed in doing so, or whether they contradict their thematic suspicion of language with their literary medium. I have prioritised a close ecocritical reading of the novels and loosely situated the authors’ approach to nature and language within the broad theoretical frameworks of radical ecology, structuralism and poststructuralism. I suggest that these novels are best analysed in the context of an ecocritical mediation between poststructuralist conceptions of nature as inaccessible cultural construct, and the naïve conception of unmediated, pre-reflective interaction with the natural world. I draw especially on the phenomenological theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose insistence that perception is always both embodied and culturally mediated truly renders culture and nature irreducible, intertwined categories. By challenging historical dualisms like mind/body and culture/nature, the selected novels suggest a more fluid and discursive understanding of the perceived conflict between language and nature, whilst problematizing the perception of language as merely a cultural artefact. Moreover, they are examples of the kind of literature that has the potential to positively influence our human conception of nature, and adapt us better to our ecological context on a planet struggling for survival.
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Pehrson, Hannah, and Nicola Pantic. "Från noll till hundra på åtta sekunder : En experimentell studie av laddningsindikatorers påverkan på användarupplevelsen." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för medier och design, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8128.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether progress indicators' various degrees of feedback have any impact on the users' subjective experienced time and satisfaction during loading sequences in smartphones. By executing a user test 30 participants used and evaluated three mobile applications, containing unique stimuli in the form of progress indicators. Throughout this we have been informed of the participants self-reflection experience through subsequent interviews. The result of this shows a clear correlation between progress indicators' degree of feedback and their impact on the subjective experienced time, and the degree of satisfaction. We made interesting findings in terms of the fastest perceived loading sequence was not alwaysthe most satisfying, but we can only discuss the reason behind this since further researchis required. Finally, we conclude that the development of applications should make useof progress indicators with a high degree of feedback since they positively promotes the subjective experienced time and satisfaction. Because of studies with this focus in UXare infrequent, we assume that this study can form the basis for further and deeper research in the subject.Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om laddningsindikatorers olika grad av återkoppling har någon inverkan på användares subjektiva tidsuppfattning och tillfredsställelse vid laddningssekvenser i smartphones. Genom att i ett användartest låta 30 deltagare använda och utvärdera tre mobilapplikationer, försedda med unika stimuli i form av laddningsindikatorer, har vi fått ta del av deltagarnas självreflektiva upplevelse genom efterföljande intervjuer. Resultatet av detta visar på ett tydligt samband mellan laddningsindikatorers grad av återkoppling och dess påverkan på den subjektiva tidsuppfattningen, samt graden av tillfredsställelse. Vi gjorde intressanta fynd i form av att den snabbast upplevda laddningssekvensen inte alltid var den mest tillfredsställande, men orsaken kan vi endast diskutera kring då vidare forskning krävs. Slutligen drar vi slutsatsen att man vid utveckling av applikationer bör använda sig av laddningsindikatorer med hög grad av återkoppling, då de positivt främjar den subjektiva tidsuppfattningen samt tillfredsställelsen. Då forskning med detta fokus inom UX är sällan förekommande ser vi att denna studie kan ligga till grund för vidare och djupare forskning inom ämnet.
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Ask, Frida, and Sara Fransson. "Hundra år med åtta timmars arbetsdag : En kvalitativ studie om arbetstidsförkortning och framtidens arbetstid." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85582.
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Denna studies syfte är att identifiera arbetsgivares attityder kring arbetstidsförkortning, samt finna svar på om de ser det som ett realistiskt alternativ inför framtiden. För att lyckas uppnå vårt syfte har vi utgått från en kvalitativ metod med ett induktivt synsätt. Vi har intervjuat fem representanter från olika företag för att undersöka hur de ser på arbetstidsförkortning som fenomen. Resultatet visar att arbetsgivare både ser för- och nackdelar med arbetstidsförkortning. De största hindren mot att införa arbetstidsförkortning som våra informanter ser är företagens okunskap, känsla av osäkerhet samt risken för ekonomiska förluster. Fördelarna som de ser är framförallt att arbetstidsförkortning kan öka balansen mellan arbete och fritid, gynna jämställdheten i samhället samt att det är ett sätt att orka arbeta högre upp i åldrarna när pensionsåldern höjs. Resultatet visar även att arbetsgivare ser ännu mer flexibilitet i framtiden och att de idag inte ser tillräckligt stort behov av kortare arbetsdagar för att det ska bli en prioriterad fråga för deras företag. Om sjuktalen däremot ökar kan de se arbetstidsförkortning som ett alternativ även i deras organisationer.The purpose of this study is to identify the employers' attitudes concerning working time reduction, and find answers to whether they see it as a realistic alternative for the future. In order to succeed in achieving our goal, we have used a qualitative method with an inductive approach. We have interviewed five representatives from different companies in order to investigate what they think about work time reduction as a phenomenon. The result shows that employers see both advantages and disadvantages of working hours reduction. The biggest obstacles to the implement of working hours reduction that our informants see are the companies' lack of knowledge, a sense of uncertainty and the risk of financial losses. The advantages that they see are especially that working hours reduction can increase the balance between work and leisure, benefit gender equality in society and that it is a way for employees to be able to work all the way to retirement, even when the retirement age increases. The result also shows that employers see even more flexibility in the future and that they do not currently see sufficient need for shorter working days in order for it to be a priority issue for their company. On the other hand, if the sickness rate increases, they can see reduction of working hours as an alternative even in their organizations.
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De, Bruin Louise. "The silent weapon in war and peace : the power of patriarchy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37375.
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History has proved that too much power, in any form, is detrimental to the greater good of the society concerned. People at the hands of the power-hungry face discrimination and are often subjected to extreme violence and abuse. Society has undergone several changes and progressions through time, including economic, political and social changes. One thing that has remained unchanged however, is man‟s power over woman. Patriarchal power is present in all sectors and scenarios of society, from the home to the international legal system.
My study focuses on the notion that an abundance of power leads to fear, violence and total disarray at the micro and macro levels of society. I argue that the essential problem in the relationship between man and woman is not a man‟s abuse of power, but rather that he has too much power in the first place. A culture of entitlement breeds among men, enabling them to treat women as inferior, sub-human objects.
Definitions of male and female prove to be concreted into specific roles and gendered identities within the home and the greater society. People fall automatically into these roles, blindly and unquestioningly. It is for this reason that I maintain all members of society ensure the survival of patriarchy – even if they do so unconsciously. While the difference in the understanding of rape and sexual intercourse should be stark, it is blurred because they are defined according to male terms. Man‟s entitlement allows him to think it his right to take sex from a woman, even if she does not offer it willingly. Culture and tradition serve as major obstacles in any possibility of society‟s progression. Culture has proved such an undisputed order in society that it even trumps the international legal system of human rights. Culture justifies, or at least trivialises, the abuse of women. The social stigmatisation of sexual abuse silences women, providing further endorsement for men to continue asserting their power. A woman‟s life, as determined by male hierarchy, gender bias, culture and social stigmas, is therefore fated. It is with this in mind that I strongly question the progression of society into a true form of liberality and equality. In order for society to attain such a transcended state, it will have to disregard everything that it knows and deconstruct everything that has defined it up to that point. Until this is achieved, women will continue to live their lives in fear of the silent weapon in war and peace.Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Cai, Hung [Verfasser], and Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Dameris. "Investigation of stratospheric variability from intra-decadal to seasonal time scales / Hung Cai. Betreuer: Martin Dameris." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2015. http://d-nb.info/107624341X/34.
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Hunger, Katharina [Verfasser], Karl [Akademischer Betreuer] Kleinermanns, Michael [Akademischer Betreuer] Schmitt, and Jürgen [Akademischer Betreuer] Köhler. "Time-resolved Spectroscopy between Nanoseconds and Hours: Polymer Photocrosslinking, 1,6-Diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene Emission and Guanosine Hydrogen Transfer / Katharina Hunger. Gutachter: Michael Schmitt ; Jürgen Köhler. Betreuer: Karl Kleinermanns." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1031993576/34.
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Huang, Wen-Hung Kevin [Verfasser], Jian-Jia [Akademischer Betreuer] Chen, and Jan [Gutachter] Reineke. "Scheduling algorithms and timing analysis for hard real-time systems / Wen-Hung Kevin Huang ; Gutachter: Jan Reineke ; Betreuer: Jian-Jia Chen." Dortmund : Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1135487804/34.
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Toth, Ibojka Maria. "Borderland American - Hungarian video installation /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1165764619.
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Thesis (M.F.A)--Kent State University, 2006.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed March 27, 2008). Advisor: Martin Ball. Keywords: American - Hungarian Video Installation, 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest, Hungary, Documentary - Style Production Process, Fragmented Memories of Time and Place, American - Hungarian Struggles with Personal and Cultural Identities, Discourse about Mul.
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Fageehi, Yahya. "SIMULATION-BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS WITH SUPPLY AND DEMAND UNCERTAINTY." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1531147903589262.
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Kuo, Yi-Ting, and 郭怡廷. "History and Redemption in Amitav Ghosh''s The Hungry Tide." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rm2psu.
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This thesis takes Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide as the text to develop the postcolonial concept by the setting of characters and plots. Structurally, this thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter One introduces the traces of history. In this chapter, I use Benjamin’s “historical materialism”to flesh out the meanings of history with a particular emphasis on his seminal essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” In Chapter Two, I regard “translating history” as my focal point. For me, translating history refers to everyone’s own stand because each part of memory will be saved by people with different emotions, status, or ages and so on. Different ways to look at the same thing will construct distinct outcomes and perspectives ultimately. In The Hungry Tide, Kanai has managed to link the content of the diary to his past image of Uncle Nirmal and Kusum while he was reading Nirmal’s diary in order to understand Nirmal’s mental state at that time. From reading, Kanai will have his own attitude toward events written down in the diary. If it wasn’t read by Kanai, readers would read another version of the story probably. The translation of facts is extremely important here. On the other hand, the interpretation of historical facts can retrieve the flaw of faded memory. In Chapter Three, I look into the relationship between history and its afterlife. This chapter is rooted in Benjamin’s conception of redemption. Why do we need to emphasize the significance of parts omitted by historians? The answer is redemption. No matter whether Ghosh’s view or Benjamin’s argument, both of them show one idea: history will shoulder the task of redemption which is a way to see history in the past and to connect to its future. In conclusion, the chief discourse of this paper is to propose in The Hungry Tide the historical dilemmas and conflicts mentioned by Ghosh in Benjamin’s approach. Instead of the methodology of dichotomies, I argue that the power of redemption highlights the refusal of cultural differences in historical performance and the citation of fragmented history. The completeness of history should be stemmed from its incomplete parts. Incompleteness also has the oppressed hold the position of voicing within history in order to prove its historical situation in the flood of history in which the oppressed plays a key role.
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Lei, Jing, and 雷靜. "Translinguality as Code-switching or Code-meshing?: An Inter-objective Analysis of Figuration and Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z6py5m.
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This dissertation will explore novels written in the post-colonial period from code-meshing perspective under a theme of translinguality, as that phenomenon reveals figurative paths of communication and indigenous identity. I try to redefine the notion of “translingual novel,” which is filled with a variety of translingual practices and whose author is a transnational or those bilinguals/pluri-linguals. This group of people has a chance to observe the world with their in-between lens. The “translingual novel” in the contemporary era, should be those fictions conducting code-meshing events, rather than simple code-switching activities, in both linguistic and narrative dimensions, with the intention to establish indigenous identity and unique figurative expressions in the narration process. In this process, translinguality should not be merely seen as the expression means of certain fixed identity, rather as a contributor/maker to generate an evolving identity for those Diasporas who are hugely influenced by global mobility and communication. Therefore, identity and figuration have become two essential components of translingual novel. Harnessing methodologies of inter-objectivity and vectorization, this dissertation will study two themes within translinguality, namely identity and figuration, in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (2000). By tracing Indian and African translingual novels in the post-colonial era, I will analyze and categorize narrative features of translingualism from the perspective of inter-objectivity and vectorization, with an aim to determine trajectories of code-meshed practice embodied on the theme of figuration and identity.
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Delk, Ashley. "The Relationships Between Real Time Energy Balance, Hunger, and Body Composition." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/nutrition_theses/55.
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The Relationships Between Real Time Energy Balance, Hunger, and Body Composition
Delk A, Benardot D, Nucci A, & Thompson WR.
Georgia State University
Introduction: Previous research has indicated that hunger is associated with the quantity, volume, and macronutrient composition of food intake. Hunger has never been assessed from the viewpoint of real time energy balance, although there is limited research on hunger and eating frequency.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationships between real time energy balance, hunger, and body composition in college students between the ages of 18-30.
Methods: Participants were assessed for body composition using a Tanita scale and energy balance was determined on an hourly basis using NutriTiming® software. A hunger scale was used to assess participant hunger every hour.
Results: There is a statistically significant relationship for the entire population between energy balance average and body fat percent (R= -0.376; P=0.037). Hours spent in energy deficient is positively associated with body fat percent (R=0.467; P=0.008), while hours spent in an optimal energy balance is negatively associated with body fat percent (R= -0.465; P=0.009). Hours spent in an energy balance surplus (+400 kcals) were not significantly associated with body fat percent. However, hours spent in an anabolic state (>0 kcals) was negatively associated with body fat percent (R=-.457; P=.010). Conversely, hours spent in a catabolic state (<0 kcals) were positively associated with body fat percent (R=.457; P=0.10). Using linear regression analysis with body fat percentage as the dependent variables and age, height, weight, gender, and hours in optimal energy balance, we determined that we could predict a large amount of variance in body fat percentage (R= .931; P= <.001). The only time during the day that there was a significant correlation between body fat percent and hunger was at 5pm (R= -0.391, P = 0.029).
Conclusions: These data suggest that that the more time spent in energy deficit is associated with a higher body fat percent. This should encourage college students between the age of 18-30 to avoid restrictive eating patterns and strive to maintain optimal energy balance in order to achieve a low body fat percent.
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Yeh, Wei Hung, and 葉威宏. "The Congealment of Space-time–The Discourse on Yeh, Wei- Hung’s Sculpture." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96160573441717005459.
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The history of metal sculpture is only one hundred years. Through the prosperity of industry and the development of former artists, the steel is one of the essential elements in the creation. However, for people who create with metal, welding is not only the technology of adhesion, but also the dialogues between the creators and metal. The process of creation is lonely and hard, which could be realized only through material familiarity and technology practice. Since 20th century, the model of sculpture has gradually changed, which also changes the viewpoints to works. The viewpoints don’t focus on the main parts of works, but also on the atmosphere of whole space, and furthermore even not only on the concrete space we see, but the mental space which comes from inside, like the works of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). The theory “the Congealment of Space-Time” starts from the self-emotions, which expresses the mind and digs the hidden feelings at the same time through the creation. I think the creator should understand himself first in order to touch others. From the work《menu (2009)》 to《… (2010)》, a series of works as the diary are the records of emotions. In the works’ style, I use the concept of “One Piece” to think what atmosphere the works create and how to specifically present the congealment of space-time in the mind.
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Walters, Elizabeth R., and Azhar Khan. "Investigating the time elapsed since the last food item was consumed as a factor affecting cognitive performance in young adults." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16733.
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YesCognitive ability is used in numerous everyday situations (for example, in the classroom, workplace and home) and can be measured using cognitive tests designed to target specific cognitive domains. Cognition can be influenced by external factors (for example, age, education, caffeine intake and time of day) which if not controlled for or noted could influence performance. Prior food intake has not received a direct focus in the cognition literature, and therefore, this study aims to investigate the time elapsed since the last food item was consumed as a factor which may affect cognitive performance. Fifty-two healthy adults with no reported cognitive impairment or diagnosis of any eating or metabolic disorder took part in the study. Participants completed a self-rated hunger scale and stated the time that they last consumed a food item. The time of day that the assessments were completed was also noted. All participants completed a brief cognitive battery consisting of a semantic recall assessment, digit span and parts A and B of the Trail Making Test. Results revealed a significant main effect of minutes since the last food item was consumed on semantic recall and both Trails A and B whereby performance was significantly worse as the time since the last food item was consumed increased. These results suggest that information about when the participant consumed food prior to assessment should be gathered to check for any such effects. This could have implications for cognitive performance in educational settings and clinical environments, where scores often determine academic progression and further interventions.