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Van, Praet Younes Johan. "Transmettre et être en quête du "'ilm" : ethnographie des modalités de transmission des savoirs islamiques dans l'agglomération rouennaise." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMR036.
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Dans cette thèse, j'ai cherché à comprendre comment, à l'échelle d'une agglomération de province, la structuration d'une aspiration collective à transmettre l'islam en vient-elle à générer des offres et expériences différenciées du "'ilm"entendu comme l'ensemble des pratiques et discours en lien avec la transmission des savoirs islamiques. Ce travail vise à contribuer à la question de la transmission de l'islam en France par le biais d'une observation empirique des structures et pratiques d'enseignement confessionnel de l'islam dispensé aux adultes au sein de l'agglomération rouennaise. L'enquête, de type ethnographique, a été menée de 2013 à 2018 de façon participative, ce qui permet de mieux rendre compte des expériences et trajectoires des acteurs de la transmission. Pour cela j'ai circonscrit le terrain à l'agglomération rouennaise située en Normandie. Ce choix vient à contre-pied de la prévalence souvent accordée aux structures les plus visibles ayant une portée nationale. J'ai réalisé des entretiens par récit de vie auprès de plus d'une vingtaine d'enseignant-e-s et d'apprenant-e-s, ainsi que des entretiens semi-directifs auprès de responsables d'associations et de lieux de culte. Toutefois la majeure partie des données est avant tout constituée d'observations d'enseignements et de situations informelles au quotidienIn this dissertation, I tried to understand how, in a medium-sized city such as Rouen, the collective aspiration to transmit islam, as it is given a structure, generates in turn different offers and experiences of the "'ilm". In this work "'ilm" refers to the whole of the discursive practices related to the transmission of islamic knowledge. The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the question of the transmission of Islam in France by observing the range of structures and practices of Islamic teaching to adults in the Rouen area. This ethnographic study, which is a participatory assessment, was led between 2013 and 2018, allowing the experiences and lifepaths of the actors of transmission to be accounted for in a more thorough way. In order to do so, I have restricted the scope of the survey to the Rouen area in Normandy. My choice offsets the dominant trend that extends more attention to structures with nationwide visibility and reach. I have interviewed over twenty teachers and learners in life-story interviews and I conducted semi-structured interviews of leaders of religious associations and places of worship. Nonetheless, most of my data consists of participant observation in teaching contexts and in informal day-to-day situations
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Barholm, Niklas. "Själens växt : En diskursanalytisk undersökning av synen på kunskap och kunskapsförmedling inom den svenska spiritismen." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Religionsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-44271.
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This essay’s purpose is to explore the view on knowledge and transmission of knowledge in the Swedish, spiritualist movement during the turn of the century. The method is a critical discourse analysis of the texts of the spiritualist publication of Efteråt? between the years of 1899 and 1911. The theories applied to the subject are two; first the theories of Wouter J. Hanegraaff and his ideas about ”rejected knowledge” where some concepts during the course of history has been deemed true, and other concepts have been rejected. This process has often been the case in a ”battle of discourses” as is the case with the spiritualist discourse against the discourse of mainstream science. The second theory applied are the dynamics of power as presented by Michel Foucault and interpreted by Clare O’Farrell. This theory is also at the core of critical discourse analysis. The analysis of the material makes it evident that the spiritualist movement walks a line between religion and science where they claim to transcend them both. The internal discourse both criticize mainstream science; not the methods per say, but the ideal of materialism and the lack of spirituality they perceive in the contemporary body of the church. The view on knowledge is heavily anchored in a concept of spirituality, being heralds of true science, and recognizing the inner, true potential of the human creature. The view on transmission of knowledge is centered around ideas of development of spirituality, the notion that the spirit-world can teach us everything and critique against the contemporary school system.
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Van, Praet Younes Johan. "Transmettre et être en quête du "'ilm" : ethnographie des modalités de transmission des savoirs islamiques dans l'agglomération rouennaise." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMR036.
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Dans cette thèse, j'ai cherché à comprendre comment, à l'échelle d'une agglomération de province, la structuration d'une aspiration collective à transmettre l'islam en vient-elle à générer des offres et expériences différenciées du "'ilm"entendu comme l'ensemble des pratiques et discours en lien avec la transmission des savoirs islamiques. Ce travail vise à contribuer à la question de la transmission de l'islam en France par le biais d'une observation empirique des structures et pratiques d'enseignement confessionnel de l'islam dispensé aux adultes au sein de l'agglomération rouennaise. L'enquête, de type ethnographique, a été menée de 2013 à 2018 de façon participative, ce qui permet de mieux rendre compte des expériences et trajectoires des acteurs de la transmission. Pour cela j'ai circonscrit le terrain à l'agglomération rouennaise située en Normandie. Ce choix vient à contre-pied de la prévalence souvent accordée aux structures les plus visibles ayant une portée nationale. J'ai réalisé des entretiens par récit de vie auprès de plus d'une vingtaine d'enseignant-e-s et d'apprenant-e-s, ainsi que des entretiens semi-directifs auprès de responsables d'associations et de lieux de culte. Toutefois la majeure partie des données est avant tout constituée d'observations d'enseignements et de situations informelles au quotidienIn this dissertation, I tried to understand how, in a medium-sized city such as Rouen, the collective aspiration to transmit islam, as it is given a structure, generates in turn different offers and experiences of the "'ilm". In this work "'ilm" refers to the whole of the discursive practices related to the transmission of islamic knowledge. The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the question of the transmission of Islam in France by observing the range of structures and practices of Islamic teaching to adults in the Rouen area. This ethnographic study, which is a participatory assessment, was led between 2013 and 2018, allowing the experiences and lifepaths of the actors of transmission to be accounted for in a more thorough way. In order to do so, I have restricted the scope of the survey to the Rouen area in Normandy. My choice offsets the dominant trend that extends more attention to structures with nationwide visibility and reach. I have interviewed over twenty teachers and learners in life-story interviews and I conducted semi-structured interviews of leaders of religious associations and places of worship. Nonetheless, most of my data consists of participant observation in teaching contexts and in informal day-to-day situations
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Bélanger, Sarrazin Roxanne. "Les divinités gréco-égyptiennes dans les textes magiques coptes : une étude du syncrétisme religieux en Égypte tardo-antique et médiévale." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40941.
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Aujourd’hui, le corpus des textes magiques coptes compte 314 manuscrits publiés et plusieurs dizaines de textes toujours inédits, datés pour la plupart entre le 5e et le 12e siècle de notre ère. Parmi ceux-ci, un petit groupe composé de vingt-trois manuscrits magiques comprend des charmes qui présentent des invocations à des divinités grecques ou égyptiennes (p. ex. Artémis, Isis, Horus, Seth, Petbe) ou de courts récits mythologiques (historiolae) les mettant en scène. L’existence même de ces charmes soulève plusieurs questions : comment des références à des divinités traditionnelles se sont-elles retrouvées dans des textes « chrétiens » datés des 5e–12e siècles, et surtout, quels mécanismes ont été utilisés par les experts en rituels de l’Égypte tardo-antique et médiévale pour intégrer ces références dans leurs charmes ? Afin de répondre à ces questions, cette étude propose le premier examen exhaustif de l’ensemble de ces vingt-trois textes magiques coptes.
Dans les trois premiers chapitres, nous étudions chacun des vingt-trois textes coptes en détail—les types de textes, les objectifs des charmes, les éléments traditionnels et chrétiens utilisés, les différentes façons dont ceux-ci ont été combinés—en plus de les comparer avec des textes magiques datés des périodes pharaonique (en moyen égyptien) et gréco-romaine (en démotique et en grec). Dans le dernier chapitre, nous offrons un examen plus général du groupe de vingt-trois textes en discutant entre autres de la datation et de la provenance des manuscrits, ainsi que des expressions récurrentes utilisées, ce qui nous permet également de les replacer dans le contexte plus large de l’ensemble du corpus des textes magiques coptes.
Cette étude montre, d’une part, que nos vingt-trois textes magiques coptes témoignent d’une grande continuité dans les pratiques magiques en Égypte, puisque les éléments traditionnels utilisés (références aux divinités grecques et égyptiennes, historiolae, formules et expressions) ont été transmis, par l’intermédiaire de manuscrits magiques, depuis l’époque pharaonique jusqu’à l’époque médiévale. D’autre part, ces textes témoignent également de changements, et plus particulièrement, de nombreux processus syncrétiques, puisque les éléments traditionnels ont été réinterprétés, puis juxtaposés ou fusionnés à des éléments chrétiens. Ainsi, notre examen révèle comment les experts en rituels de l’Égypte tardo-antique et médiévale, en s’inspirant de manuscrits magiques plus anciens et en combinant des éléments de différentes traditions religieuses dans leurs charmes, sont devenus des agents du syncrétisme religieux et, de façon plus générale, de la transformation religieuse.
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Head, Jonathan. "The religious framework of Kant's philosophy : practical knowledge, evil and religious faith." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2454/.
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This thesis explores the religious underpinnings of Kant’s thought through a consideration of the related topics of the problem of evil, the nature of religious faith, the possibility of practical knowledge, and the nature of philosophy, as well as his approach to various aspects of Christian theology, such as Scripture, eschatology, and Christology. Texts from both the pre-Critical and Critical period of Kant’s works are considered, building up a picture of Kant as a philosopher deeply concerned with the cultivation and maintenance of religious faith within the bounds of reason. The links between the philosophies of Kant, Leibniz and the Pietists are also considered in order to emphasise their shared commitments in using philosophy to complement moral faith. Further, it is argued that Kant is also concerned to combat superstition, enthusiasm and immorality in the Church, which are seen as barriers to ‘true’ faith. Through these considerations, we also discern an underlying realist religious framework to discussions on religious topics in Kant’s works, even in the Critical philosophy. It is argued that Kant’s philosophy of religion and ethical theory are intended to be not only compatible with but complementary to orthodox Christianity. As a result, a number of contemporary interpretive lines surrounding Kant’s philosophy of religion that intend to dilute the Christian commitments of the Critical system are rejected. These discussions are then employed to provide context for a reading of Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason (1793) as lying within a realist religious framework. Current interpretive issues in the literature surrounding Religion are discussed in relation to this framework.
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Hor, Ching Lai. "Knowledge extraction in transmission and distribution substations." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411335.
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Monkhouse, Wendy. "Forms of ancient Egyptian knowledge : studies in transmission." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444231/.
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This thesis addresses the question of the transmission of knowledge in Egypt through the dynastic to the Islamic period. It begins by describing the problem of how knowledge is conceptualized and structured within academic discourse, creating false dichotomies that have shaped a narrative of total loss and destruction. Transmission and continuity are instead proposed to take place within a dynamic model of transformation, and the study of a traditional locus of knowledge within the dynastic period, the House of Life, is juxtaposed with the long-term biography of the Egyptian tomb. The House of Life is recognized as a problematic entity, particular issues being the nature of the 'knowledge' it maintained, and how much of the textual knowledge was eventually expendable. The investigation of biographies of the tomb leads to the study of the transmission of knowledge through practice, which can be traced through to the present day.
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Karsten, Anja. "Knowledge and attitudes of religious leaders towards HIV/AIDS." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50387.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Religion plays a significant role in the structuring of people's identities and perceptions and also has the potential to playa fundamental role to determine how communities respond to HIV/AIDS. Faith-based organisations are respected in their communities and have existing resources, structures and systems in place. People who are diagnosed with HIV often turn to the church where they receive emotional and spiritual support. The primary objective of this study was to determine the knowledge of religious leaders about HIV/AIDS and their attitudes towards people living with it. A non-experimental quantitative research design was used in this study and the data was gathered through a structured questionnaire. The respondents were not exceptionally informed about the transmission of the HI-virus, but their knowledge around the risk of specific sexual behaviour was high and their attitudes towards PLHA generally positive.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geloof speel "n belangrike rol in die vorming van "n mens se identiteit en persepsies en het ook die potensiaal om gemeenskappe se reaksie rakende MIV/Vigs te bepaal. Geloofsorganisasies word in hul gemeenskappe gerespekteer en het bestaande hulpbronne en stelsels in plek. Mense wat MIV postitef gediagnoseer word, wend hul dikwels na hierdie organisasies waar hul emosionele en geestelike ondersteuning ontvang. Die doel van hierdie navorsing was om die kennis en houdings van geloofsleiers rondom MIV/Vigs en die mense wat daarmee leef te bepaal. "n Nie-eksperimenteel kwantitatiewe navorsingsontwerp is gebruik, en die data is deur middel van "n gestruktureerde vraelys ingesamel. Hoewel die respondente se kennis omtrent die oordrag van die MI-virus nie voldoende was nie, het hul die nodige kennis rondom die risiko van spesifieke seksuele gedrag gehad. Hul houdings rondom MIV/Vigs en mense wat daarmee leef was positief.
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Funck, James H. "Gowin's Knowledge Vee: A Heuristic for Adult Religious Education." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278009/.
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The application of Gowin's knowledge vee as a means to design instruction for adult Bible study was investigated in this study. The study was designed to determine whether subjects using this instructional approach differed from subjects using traditional instructional materials regarding their attitudes toward Bible study, attendance, knowledge retention, application of study materials to life, and recruitment of new class members.
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Whitehouse, Harvey. "Inside the cult : religious innovation and transmission in Papua new Guinea /." Oxford : Clarendon press, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357788434.
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Hsü, Elizabeth. "Transmission of knowledge, texts and treatment in Chinese medicine." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240101.
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Hanemann, Rachel Whitney. "Educating Catholics for a liberal society : an ethnographic study of religious transmission." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/61373/.
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Current debates in the UK about faith schools often focus on whether they are able to promote liberal values while maintaining the values and doctrine of their religious tradition. These debates, worked out through education policy, legislation and the media, are typically conducted at the level of macro or meso-level generalisations, but are not informed by micro-level studies of how the transmission of religious tradition in relation to liberal values takes place through specific interactions between staff and students. This thesis seeks to contribute to such a knowledge-base through an ethnographic study of interactions between staff and students in relation to processes of religious transmission in a Catholic secondary school in London. Drawing on a Bourdieusian theoretical framework, informed by related work on the transmission of religious memory and the formation of religious emotion, the study examines how staff in this school try to enable students to develop a religious habitus in which Catholicism and liberal values are not experienced as being in tension with each other. The staff project of forming this Catholic habitus in their students is pursued in both conscious and non-conscious ways. Recognising the importance of reconciling Catholicism with wider liberal values, staff pursue a range of strategies with students to manage any tension that arises between them, with varying degrees of success. Conflict between liberal values and aspects of Catholic doctrine and ethical teaching is, in particular, avoided through emphasising the development of a distinctive Catholic habitus through the transformation of students' bodies and emotions through ritual and other forms of devotional practice. Staff seek to nurture such embodied and emotional formation particularly through the management of students' interactions with particular sacred times and spaces, trying to negotiate between enacting their authority over students and their understanding of students as active agents who need to come to their own authentic and freely chosen performance of Catholicism. Students engage with this project of formation in a variety of ways, ranging from committed collaboration to covert or overt forms of resistance. Whilst students' engagement with this staff project can sometimes reflect a shared sympathy for its devotional aims, it can also be motivated by an interest in the greater opportunities that arise through cultivating religious capital. For many students, this project of formation is approached through compliance rather than enthusiasm or hostility, but in ways where 'surface-acting' of devotional performance belies a lack of cultivation of more strongly-felt religious emotion or belief. Through its analysis of these micro-level processes, the thesis contributes to existing research on religious transmission in schools by extending an understanding of how this can take the form of particular kinds of interaction relating to students' embodied and emotional formation. It also generates a typology of staff approaches to managing potential tensions between their religious tradition and liberal values that could be utilised in other studies. It contributes to wider policy debates by problematizing simplistic notions of faith schools as inherently authoritarian sites of religious transmission, hostile to liberal values, by considering how staff can seek to reconcile religious tradition and liberal values through their practice as well as how students retain considerable agency in responding to such processes of religious formation.
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Badger, James. "The transmission of values in a church school : consensus and contradiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365609.
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Streit, Sigrid. "Gesture and rhetorical delivery: The transmission of knowledge in complex situations." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1310146979.
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Li, Chang-mei. "The application of rule-based knowledge to load forecasting of electrical power systems." Thesis, Durham University, 1990. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6295/.
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The thesis describes short-term load forecasting by an expert system approach based on knowledge engineering. Conventionally, short-term load prediction is based on mathematical models which either extract the mathematical properties in the time series of load data, or present the static causal relationships between the load demand and its effective factors. The conventional methods can predict the electrical demand under normal situations, but not for special events. The thesis proposes a new approach to estimate the loads for special events, such as time change-overs, public holidays, which is mainly based on knowledge about the system load. Based on the ARIMA model, modifications have been made to predict weekend loads, which take the weather effects into consideration. The thesis also proposes a method to disaggregate the overall load into its components in order to study the relationships between the components and the causal variables. The time change-over (from Greenwich Mean Time to British Summer Time and vice versa) effects can be considered by separately estimating the lighting load and the rest load. The thesis investigates the holiday load characteristics and presents different estimation methods for different public holidays ranging from normal Monday Bank Holidays to Christmas Day holiday periods. Knowledge about the load is represented in production rules. The proposed estimation methods are written in POP-11 which can be interfaced with FORTRAN in which the ARIMA model is programmed for the prediction of the load under normal situations.
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Coholic, Diana School of Social Work UNSW. "Exploring spirituality in feminist practices - emerging knowledge for social work." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Social Work, 2001. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17873.
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This research study investigates self-identified feminist social workers??? conceptualizations of spirituality, how spirituality influences their practices, and their ideas about the effects of spiritually influenced practice. There is increasing interest in exploring and considering spirituality across social work approaches, accompanied by a strong demand for empirical research and the development of knowledge in this area. The past few years in particular have witnessed an expanding social work literature that discusses the incorporation of spirituality into practice. In this thesis spirituality refers to a complex construct that can be deeply personal and/or communal, and that can encompass a sense of connection with something bigger that transcends ordinary life experience. In order to examine spirituality in the context of feminist social work practice, the goals of this study needed to be exploratory and demanded the use of a qualitative methodology. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with twenty experienced direct practice social workers. Grounded theory analysis of the interview data uncovered surprising and significant convergences amongst research participants??? beliefs, values and practices. These unexpected commonalities invited a further analysis of the data that produced a set of practice principles. These practice principles reflected the participants??? understandings of spirituality and basic values, their ideas about processes of spiritual development and beliefs about the spiritual essence of human life, and their spiritually influenced practice methods and relationships. The process of developing practice principles included further data collection through the written feedback of participants and the use of three focus groups. This second round of data collection and analysis extended and refined the practice principles. The practice principles are particularly relevant for social work because they are based in the participants??? collective practice wisdom and represent an important step towards helping to legitimize spiritual knowledge. The practice principles also have important implications for social work practice, education and research in that they can promote discussions about spirituality, guide practice, provide a base for the future development of spiritually influenced models and frameworks, and direct curriculum development.
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Friedman, Susana. "The festive song repertory of the Barbacoas, Columbia, and it's implications for Ballad Transmission." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265780.
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Wall, F. Sam. "The religious epistemology of Dr. Ronald H. Nash." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Schulz-Rittich, Peter. "Opportunistic transmission strategies for wireless multiuser systems with imperfect channel knowledge /." Aachen : Shaker, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016034346&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Borossa, Julia. "Narratives of the clinical encounter and the transmission of psychoanalytic knowledge." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362958.
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Butterworth, Melinda. "Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices: Mosquito-borne Disease Transmission in Southwest Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33045.
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Virginiaâ s temperate climate is suitable for several mosquito species capable of transmitting pathogens to humans. In southwest Virginia, La Crosse encephalitis and West Nile fever are most prominent. The objective of this research, which uses the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a theoretical framework, is to assess knowledge of mosquito-borne disease in southwest Virginia, as well as perceptions and practices of mosquito prevention. Given that several cases of La Crosse encephalitis have been reported in Wise and Tazewell counties, they were selected as study sites to conduct surveys.
Five demographic and socioeconomic variables (gender, age, income, education level and length of time one has lived in the county) were used as predictor variables in logistic regression analyses. Gender, age, and length of residence time in the county were found to be statistically significant predictors of specific health-related behaviors. Within the framework of the HBM, barriers to removing standing water around the home and wearing insect repellent were highlighted. Knowledge of mosquito-borne diseases within the area was generally low, with only one individual correctly identifying La Crosse encephalitis as a threat in the region. Higher numbers (6%) were aware of West Nile virus, while 4% reported malaria in the region, demonstrating a disconnect between actual and perceived risk.
These results can enhance existing public health programs by increasing knowledge, addressing public uncertainty about insect repellent safety, and addressing ways to make recommended practices more effective with the knowledge of how different aspects are perceived by varying groups within the community.Master of Science
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Chanthavong, Saiyadeth Pimonpan Isarabhakdi. "Knowledge about HIV/AIDS transmission among female youth in Lao P.D.R. /." Abstract, 2008. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2551/cd421/5038599.pdf.
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Labas, Alan. "The nature of professional small business advisor knowledge and the knowledge transmission process : A regional Australian perspective." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2019. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/170944.
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This thesis specifically examines the relationship between professional business advisor (PBA) knowledge and the knowledge transmission actions undertaken by such advisors when addressing the knowledge requirements of businesses, specifically Regional Australian small businesses. The thesis adopts a qualitative research approach to explore perceptions of individuals who provide advisory services to small businesses, within the context of Regional Australia. The analysis undertaken is a practical application of the critical realist research paradigm to explain how human agency, social structures, and mechanisms interact in the process of creating a knowledge transmission event by PBAs. The conceptual framework developed in this thesis brings together key concepts from scholarly research disciplines of knowledge management, information management, communications, services marketing and business advice. The conceptual framework reflects the research aims and provides the basis for the research methodology. The framework is of a unique critical realist research design that allows the study to progress through sequential world views. Each world view allows the continual broadening of the reality being studied, enabling more focused answers to the research questions posed. This study focuses on PBAs who service small businesses operating in four inner regional and two outer regional locations within the State of Victoria. Over the six regions, a total of 29 face-to-face interviews were conducted, along with one focus group in each region. The findings from this database, using the conceptual framework as a guide, identified a complex, heterogeneous, open environment in which PBA knowledge transmission occurs. This research process recognises PBAs as social structures with causal powers whose knowledge stock is the primary mechanism through which these powers are exercised to generate a knowledge transmission event. A significant conclusion emerges that PBA tacit (and not explicit) knowledge is a conditional mechanism which gate-keeps whether the PBA knowledge transmission event is enacted.Doctor of Philosophy
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Jeffrey, Andrew V. "Some issues concerning the epistemic value of religious experience /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5697.
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Vom, Bruck Gabriele. "Descent and religious knowledge : #houses of learning' in Modern San'a, Yemen Republic." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282618.
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Clutterbuck, Andrew Howard. "Structural knowledge elicitation in a religious domain: Muslim children's understandings of Islam." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417107.
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Washatka, John W. "A critical analysis of the religious epistemology of John Hick." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Borossa, J. "The role of the case history in the transmission of psychoanalytic knowledge." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596783.
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This dissertation constitutes a historical and a theoretical exploration of the issues of power and authorship surrounding clinical writing in psychoanalysis. In the Introduction, the case history is shown to have a key, albeit paradoxical, status in psychoanalysis. It is simultaneously called to function as a narrative representation of the private interaction between patient and analyst and as a regulator of psychoanalysis as a discipline and an institution. A genealogy of psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge, related to the concept of transference and focusing on the figure of Freud is introduced, and the question of the politics of institutional transmission is raised. In Chapter One, the formation of psychoanalysis as a discipline is examined, beginning with the shift in the representation of the hysteric between the work of Charcot and others and Breuer and Freud's Studies on Hysteria. The collaborative nature of the interaction between patient and psychoanalyst is investigated. The development of formal structures regulating the professional training and identity of analysts is linked to the failure of the ideal of self-analysis. Freud's psychoanalytic case histories are discussed as an illustration of the problem of mastery and discipleship in psychoanalysis. In Chapter Two, the instability of the professional identity of the analyst is explored through the example of British psychoanalysts, particularly those of the Independent Group. Their emergence as a group in the wake of the "Controversial Discussions" is examined. With reference to the precedent of Sandor Ferenczi, their particular technical stance is shown to give rise to a distinct style of clinical writing which seems to erode the boundary between the roles of patient and analyst. Interviews with key British analysts are discussed, as well as published case histories. The work of Masud Khan, in particular, is examined since both his practice and writing are deemed to have been transgressive of psychoanalysis as an institution.
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Bahar, Dany. "Essays on the Transmission and Diffusion of Productive Knowledge in International Economics." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11337.
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Numerous empirical studies have shown the difficulties associated with the transmission of knowledge and the limitations of its diffusion process. What are the implications of these difficulties and limitations to international economics? This dissertation deals with this question by looking at how productive knowledge plays a role in the evolution of the comparative advantage of nations and the international expansion of multinational corporations. The first chapter finds that a country is 65% more likely to start exporting a good that is being exported by any of its geographic neighbors, consistently with evidence on the limited geographic patterns of knowledge diffusion. The second chapter finds that migrants, serving as carriers of productive knowledge, play a role in explaining the appearances of new export industries in both their sending and receiving countries. In particular, in terms of their ability to induce exports in the average country, an increase of only 65,000 people in the stock of migrants is associated with about 15% increase in the likelihood of adding a new product to a country's export basket. The figure becomes 15,000 for skilled migrants. The third chapter looks at how the barriers to knowledge transmission within the firm limit the horizontal expansion of multinational corporations. The findings suggest that multinational corporations are, on average, about 12% less likely to horizontally expand a sector that is one standard deviation above the mean in the knowledge intensity scale.
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Cook, B. J. "The transmission of knowledge about the Holy Land through Europe 1271-1314." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356101.
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Teixidor, Toneu Irene. "The evolution of medicinal floras : insights from Moroccan medicinal plant knowledge transmission." Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/75513/.
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Why some plants are used medicinally, and others not, is not yet totally understood; intrinsic, cultural and floristic factors may be important and their interactions are complex. Plants’ morphological, organoleptic and ecological traits have been evaluated elsewhere. This thesis focuses on the role of cultural transmission of knowledge across generations, societies and floristic environments. Using Morocco as a case study, this thesis describes medicinal plant use among understudied Tashelhit speakers in the High Atlas and specialist healers called ferraggat. The role of knowledge transmission is evaluated in a context of cultural change. Processes of transmission are also inferred from patterns of medicinal plant use regionally; a checklist for Moroccan medicinal plants is compiled and a new method based on biogeographic data is used to test a hypothesis about the influence of the Arab knowledge due to historical migrations into Morocco. Aspects of Ishelhin ethnobotanical knowledge are described through 254 vernacular plant names, which reflect local livelihoods and biodiversity values; 151 vernacular names for medicinal plants correspond to 159 botanical species and are found to treat 36 folk ailments. Men and women listed significantly different medicinal plants; herbal medicine is a women’s domain characterized by low specificity of herbal remedies and widespread use of mixtures. Medicinal plant use is guided by local concepts of health and illness including supernatural aetiologies, which also determine healthcare seeking behaviour. Belief in supernatural causes of illness and difficult access to biomedicine result in preference for ferraggat to treat childrens’ ailments in the High Atlas by a practice called frigg. Seventy plants were documented for this treatment, but emphasis on plants may be a recent substitute for remedies that used primarily wool and blood two generations ago. This is a shift in the objects of cultural meaningfulness in response to the increasing influence of orthodox Islam and state-sponsored modernisation, including public healthcare and schooling. Transmission of knowledge is underpinned by the prestige and legitimacy of alternative remedies and healing systems, which shift during socioeconomic and religious change. With biomedicine available, herbal remedies may not be preferred treatments, unless local explanatory models of illness are maintained. Meta-analysis of the Moroccan medicinal flora supports this view. Although I hypothesised that Saharo-Arabian plants would be overrepresented in the Moroccan medicinal flora, overrepresentation was not significant. Nonetheless, Arabic influence is evidenced through the Moroccan syncretic health system. The combination of pattern and process observation in the field and from macroscale analysis contributes to the understanding of how knowledge transmission shapes medicinal floras.
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Sarefield, Daniel Christopher. "Burning knowledge : studies of bookburning in ancient Rome /." Download pdf, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1092663236.
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Bolos, Anthony David. "Achievements, value, and God : an essay on the cognitive success of religious knowledge." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8911.
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Recent literature in religious epistemology has overlooked a significant debate in mainstream epistemology. In short, theories in religious epistemology have failed to consider the value problem. This essay, then, hopes to rectify this omission by arguing that one of the most influential accounts of religious epistemology - reformed epistemology - fails to adequately account for the value of knowledge. I argue, however, that a reasonable way out for the reformed epistemologist comes by way of endorsing the achievement thesis. The achievement thesis, put simply, states that knowledge is valuable because it is a cognitive achievement - unlike, for example, mere true belief. The central question of this essay, then, is this: Is Knowledge of God a Cognitive Achievement? In order to better answer this question I highlight two different ways in which one can understand the nature of cognitive achievements. First, a cognitive achievement can be understood as success from ability that is always primarily creditable to the agent. Or, second, a cognitive achievement can be understood as success from ability that is jointly creditable to the agent. Both, I argue, are compatible with knowledge and the achievement thesis. Whether knowledge of God is primarily or jointly creditable, however, will depend on the way in which one understands the role the agent plays in the belief forming process. Given the nature of reformed epistemology, I argue that knowledge of God is the kind of achievement that is jointly creditable. Further, and central to the argument, I argue that the reformed epistemologist is in a good position to meet the requirements for the strong achievement thesis. The strong achievement thesis argues that an achievement should be understood in terms of overcoming some obstacle whereby the agent's belief is the result of some ability that can be credited to the agent. The account I propose not only meets the requirements of the strong achievement thesis, but also retains a distinctive feature of reformed epistemology - namely, that the belief in God can be said to overcome the obstacle of cognitive malfunction that, as the reformed epistemologist argues, is brought about by sin. It's an achievement becasue it overcomes an excessively hostile environment (what I call the maxi-environment) that is not conducive to belief in God given the cognitive consequence of sin. In the end, it is possible to provide an account of reformed epistemology where the value of knowledge (over and above mere true belief) is adequately demonstrated.
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Chen, Alvin. "Contesting human knowledge and God : George Berkeley and the challenges of religious heterodoxy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:056fdd06-938d-4f44-8d80-65e9ec696fcf.
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This dissertation is as much a study of Enlightenment intellectual history as a reflection on the Enlightenment as a historiographical concept. It reconstructs George Berkeley's writings so as to explore his dialectics of Enlightenment in terms of the conceptual conflicts between two languages of Enlightenment. It challenges (1) the predominant philosophical explication of Berkeley's thought that places him in philosophical traditions such as idealism and empiricism, (2) recent histories of Berkeley's 'non-philosophical' writings that tend to interpret him in the light of historiographical arguments about Enlightenment political economy and, in turn, take him as a case for the Irish participation in European Enlightenment, and (3) the historiographical conception of the Enlightenment that is preoccupied with the secular modernity thesis. The Introduction analyses the two historiographical grounds of this dissertation - Berkeley studies and Enlightenment intellectual history, and explains how this thesis intends to interact with these discourses. Chapter I explicates how Berkeley exposed the methodological failure of the new science, and shows why Berkeley thought a mathematically informed natural philosophy would threaten the stability of a protestant state. Chapter II delineates Berkeley's argument for the reasonableness of Christianity by tracing his demonstration of the divine being through a cooperation between metaphysics and natural philosophy. Chapter III shows Berkeley's criticism of the new science's theories of progress that defined 'an Enlightened age' as an improved human condition after the emancipation of rational agency from ecclesiastical and political authorities. Chapter IV turns to Berkeley's own theory of improvement based on his understandings of the socio-economic difficulties in eighteenth-century Ireland. Chapter V examines Berkeley's concern about the actual, social consequences of free-thinkers' theories of progress. Chapter VI explores Berkeley's argument for a genuine, theological Enlightenment as a counterpart to the religiously heterodox Enlightenment. The Conclusion asks the question about the relevance of this thesis, drawing attention to the idea of a critical and self-critical historiography as a way to re-accessing secular modernity's sense of historicity.
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Guevara, David. "A critical investigation of William Alston's epistemology of religious experience." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Penner, Myron Arthur. "The epistemological structure of John Hick's pluralistic hypothesis." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Varga, Cristina. "Knowledge transmission in cyberspace. Discourse analysis of professional web forums as internet subgenre." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/24900.
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El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías y el uso del Internet como nueva plataforma para la enseñanza crean nuevas modalidades de interacción comunicativa entre los usuarios de Internet con el fin de aprender, comunicar y transmitir conocimiento.
Tres son los objetivos que nos proponemos alcanzar en la presente investigación. El primero se refiere a la descripción de un género discursivo fundamental para la transmisión del conocimiento en Internet: el foro de discusión profesional. El segundo objetivo, relacionado con el primero, contempla la construcción del conocimiento a través del discurso dentro del género mencionado. Por último, examinaremos las variaciones en la construcción discursiva del conocimiento en diferentes lenguas.
El marco teórico utilizado está constituido por diferentes corrientes y teorías lingüísticas existentes en Francia en la actualidad: lingüística textual, análisis del discurso y análisis de la conversación.
El material analizado está formado por un corpus de textos comparables que pertenecen a varios foros de discusión y está organizado en función de la lengua de comunicación en cinco subcorpus: inglés, español, francés, rumano y catalán. El análisis del material lingüístico nos proporciona informaciones importantes en lo concerniente a las estrategias discursivas que se usan en la construcción, comunicación y transmisión del conocimiento en varios idiomas.
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Grosse, Philippe. "Application of knowledge engineering techniques for managing operational expertise of transmission network operator." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249049.
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Lapwoch, Grace. "The long term consequences of political violence : transgenerational transmission of war related knowledge." Thesis, Ulster University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669692.
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A relatively extensive body of research exists into the concept of intergenerational transmission of trauma among survivors of holocaust and the Vietnam War. However, this information is lacking for the Acholi people in northern Uganda who have suffered over twenty five years of war. The present study set out to explore intergenerational transmission of war related knowledge from mother to child in a post conflict northern Ugandan context. In particular, the role of mother's own experiences, which in an African context appears to be a primary source of this information for children. Focus groups were conducted with 65 mothers in three selected villages in the Gulu district. A one to one semi-structured interview was also conducted with five mothers from Northern Uganda residing in five different boroughs of London. Eight hundred and thirty one children aged 8-16 years from five selected primary schools in the Gulu and the Nwoya districts completed drawings, essays, a Ladder Scale, African Youth Psychosocial Assessment and information check questionnaires. Results showed that mothers share their war experiences with their children and children are curious to know about the war. Those who do not share their experiences with their children appear to do this to protect their self image; to cope with their own traumatic experiences and due to lack of skills to handle children 's questions. Findings also showed that children are aware of war and have developed the concept of war and peace through a wider social-ecological system. The transmission of traumatic war related information may have long lasting impacts on children's adjustment and mental health. Further examination of the role played by mothers in Uganda and amongst refugee Gulu mothers who have relocated to different countries is urgently required so that appropriate support can be offered.
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Lawson, Judith Pharr. "The transmission of craft knowledge: factors of influence on the process of reflection." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37862.
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The purpose of this case study was to explore and describe the process of reflection as it developed during a school year for one cooperating teacher engaged in the coaching process with two student teachers. My interest was driven by the need currently expressed by researchers (Munby, 1989; Russell, 1988; Schon, 1987; Shulman, 1987; Weiss & Louden, 1989) to extend our understanding of reflection to the work of individual teachers. Using Schon's (1983, 1987) account of reflection as the theoretical framework, this study describes the evolution of one teacher's reflective practice as it occurred within reflective interviews, dialogues with her student teachers, and during classroom instruction, tracing the development and changes that occurred in her perspective on her work before, during, and as a result of events of practice. Anomalies in that process--occasions typified by reversions to earlier stages of development--were examined, and factors of influence on her reflection, perceptions, and actions were determined.
This work establishes a general structure of the developmental reflective process of a cooperating teacher and identifies emergent patterns in the way she spoke of her work, interacted with her student teachers, and transmitted knowledge. Patterns of control, patterns in the way that problems were framed, and patterns of the use of metaphors in the language manifested themselves through the teacher's own words which captured her thinking, beliefs, and knowledge of practice. Factors that appeared to influence those patterns include (1) the constraints of time and of the school environment, (2) the cooperating teacher's own personal history and educational experiences, and (3) the cooperating teacher's participation in a clinical faculty project, a program for cooperating teachers that provided the opportunity for reflective interaction and guided teachers through the process of collaborative inquiry and joint experimentation.
This description may clarify the notion of reflection, and may help develop principles of good practice and more clear-cut strategies in the coaching process of students and cooperating teachers and in the continuing professional development of experienced teachers.Ed. D.
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Wilkin, Peter John. "Transmission and commoditisation of medicinal plant knowledge in the marketplaces of Oruro, Bolivia." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47918/.
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This thesis analyses how Andean people’s knowledge of medicinal plants and the relationship between environment and health is represented, transmitted and commoditised in the marketplaces of the department of Oruro, Bolivia. Considering the increase in urban population and their dependence on marketplaces for medicinal plant remedies, this thesis examines the role of marketplaces and the importance of specialist stallholders in the transmission of knowledge. The central research site of Oruro is a multi-cultural city located on the Andean plateau in southwest Bolivia, a population of Spanish, Quechua and Aymara speakers with a pluralistic medical system. Fieldwork was carried out over 18 months with market stallholders in Oruro combining quantitative and qualitative methods with ethnographic documentation of knowledge transmission events. This thesis found that medicinal plant marketplaces in Oruro are highly regulated social systems that incorporate Andean socio-economic mechanisms, including ritual performance for the transmission of cultural knowledge, and the regulation of resource distribution and use. The development of a ‘chemical landscape’ model demonstrated that social exchange and trade between ecosystems and altitudinal zones broadens the spectrum of medicinal compounds available, contributes to the complexity of herbal mixtures and can limit exploitation of local plant populations. The market stallholders use specialist classifications that identify chemical properties, toxicity and variations between plant species and ecological regions. Plant classifications varied with the context and location in which they were used, and humoral classification enabled the selection and combination of plants in mixtures and justified remedy efficacy for specialists and non-specialists. Andean cultural beliefs including complementary opposites enabled transmission of knowledge on the medicinal properties of plants between highland consumers and lowland producers, and defined traditional Andean mixture efficacy. These findings demonstrate that, although state intervention and identity politics are redefining perceptions of medicinal knowledge, the market exchange system centred in Oruro city creates localised specialist knowledge and continuity of cultural knowledge transmission.
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Hawkins, Sarah. "BELIEFS AND KNOWLEDGE REGARDING HIV TRANSMISSION IN SWAZILAND: A Comparison Between the Sexes." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2018/schedule/21.
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HIV infection persists in Swaziland with the highest prevalence of the disease globally – 1 in 4 Swazis aged 15-49 are HIV-positive. Women have a higher rate of infection than men (31.1% of women are HIV-positive, whereas 19.7% of men are HIV-positive). The difference in prevalence between the sexes raises some concerns, particularly due to the possibility of vertical transmission from mothers to infants because the average number of children ever born per woman is 2.28 for all women and 3.58 children for married women. This research aimed to determine if there was a significant difference regarding the knowledge and personal beliefs about HIV transmission between men and women. Obtaining correct knowledge regarding the transmission of HIV and where to get tested for HIV is vital to preventing further transmission of the disease. The Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS) gathered data in 2006-2007 to determine the baseline knowledge of individuals about the transmission of HIV. Comparisons of data collected from Swazi men (n = 4,156) and women (n = 4,987) concerning their knowledge and beliefs about HIV were made in order to obtain descriptive statistics, including chi-square to determine the presence or absence of significance (p-values) and percent differences between the sexes. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software was utilized to perform all statistical analyses using both the chi-square and percent difference functions. Data was weighted accordingly prior to analyses being run in SPSS. Questions regarding the individuals’ personal beliefs about the transmission of HIV were included on surveys for both sexes, specifically addressing the following: 1) the outward appearance of those who are HIV-positive (96.1% of women and 95.7% of men believed healthy-looking individuals can be infected with HIV; p = 0.336, % difference = 0.3999, χ2 = 0.926), 2) the role (or lack thereof) of mosquitoes in transmitting HIV (65.7% of women and 66.1% of men believed mosquitoes cannot transmit HIV; p = 0.688, % difference = 0.3999, χ2 = 0.161), 3) supernatural involvement in the transmission of HIV (92.3% of women and 91.7% of men believed supernatural means do not contribute to the spread of HIV; p = 0.292, % difference = 0.5999, χ2 = 1.112), 4) and the ability of HIV to be spread via food intake (82.2% of women and 82.3% of men believe they cannot becoming infected with HIV by sharing food with an HIV-positive individual; p = 0.901, % difference = 0.0999, χ2 = 0.016). Despite no statistically significant differences between the beliefs about HIV transmission held by both men and women, the data indicated only 51.9% of women and 51.4% of men possess comprehensively correct knowledge about the transmission of HIV. Furthermore, although 91.8% of women knew where to get tested for HIV, only 78.1% of men knew where to get tested for HIV. However, an encouraging 73.8% of women and 71.8% of men between the ages of 18 and 19 stated they believed adolescents between the ages of 12 and 14 should be taught proper condom use to prevent HIV infection. Comprehensive adolescent and adult sex education programs are indicated to ensure all adolescents and sexually active men and women possess correct knowledge about the transmission of HIV and where to seek assistance for HIV testing and treatment.
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Osakwe, Godwin C. "Social Determinants of Health and Knowledge about HIV/AIDS Transmission Among Nigerian Adolescents." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3816.
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HIV is a virus that leads to AIDS. Millions of people are living with HIV. Globally, there is an increased incidence of this disease among adolescents. In literature, there is a gap regarding how social determinants of health have jointly or singly contributed to HIV/AIDS transmission. With the application of the AIDS risk reduction model (ARRM) to the secondary analysis of survey data, the purpose of this study was to determine whether any significant relationships existed between adolescents' childhood health care factors, demographic factors, social-level factors, structural-level factors, aspects of disease management factors, and knowledge about HIV transmission/AIDS among Nigerian adolescents. Survey data were used from Measure Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS) in Nigeria for 2008. Multiple linear regression revealed that childhood vaccinations were a weak predictor for HIV transmission risk (R2 - 0.020). Gender, age, place of residence, education, religion and culture, some disease management aspects (e.g., accessibility and affordability of care), and wealth index were all significant but weak predictors of knowledge of HIV/AIDS (R2 = 0.016, R2 = 0.019, R2 = 0.003 & R2 0.015). The potential positive social change effect of the study would be HIV transmission reduction through increasing knowledge of HIV/AIDS among adolescents in Nigeria. The results could be used by both governmental and nongovernmental organizations to influence childhood healthcare improvements and advance education to help reduce or eradicate the causes of HIV/ AIDS transmission among adolescents in Nigeria.
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Engel, Ezra Max. "Compact neutron sources for zero knowledge warhead verification via epithermal neutron transmission analysis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123361.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2019
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-71).
In anarchic international environments, verification methods improve the viability of arms control agreements and disarmament measures by allowing party states to escape the security dilemma. However, warhead verification requires confident assurance of warhead authenticity while protecting design information about the interrogated object. Zeroknowledge physical cryptography provides a solution to the verification paradox by introducing system designs that do not require electronic information barriers and protect sensitive information during measurement. Compact epithermal neutron sources enable the verification process to occur on-site and minimize the security risk of transporting special nuclear material to dedicated verification facilities. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of a tomographic approach to zero-knowledge physical cryptography, and MC simulations offer promising results for compact epithermal neutron sources.
by Ezra Max Engel.
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S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Mohd, Noor Mohd Junaizee. "Application of knowledge-based fuzzy inference system on high voltage transmission line maintenance." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16050/1/Mohd_Junaizee_Mohd_Noor_Thesis.pdf.
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A majority of utilities conduct maintenance of transmission line components based on the results of routine visual inspection. The inspection is normally done by inspectors who detect defects by visually checking transmission line components either from the air (in helicopters), from the ground (by using high-powered binoculars) or from the top of the structure (by climbing the structure).
The main problems with visual inspection of transmission lines are that the determination of the defects varies depending on the inspectors' knowledge and experience and that the defects are often reported qualitatively using vague and linguistic terms such as "medium crack", "heavy rust", "small deflection". As a result of these drawbacks, there is a large variance and inconsistency in defect reporting (which, in time, makes it difficult for the utility to monitor the condition of the components) leading to ineffective or wrong maintenance decisions. The use of inspection guides has not been able to fully address these uncertainties.
This thesis reports on the application of a visual inspection methodology that is aimed at addressing the above-mentioned problems. A knowledge-based Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) is designed using Matlab's Fuzzy Logic Toolbox as part of the methodology and its application is demonstrated on utility visual inspection practice of porcelain cap and pin insulators. The FIS consists of expert-specified input membership functions (representing various insulator defect levels), output membership functions (indicating the overall conditions of the insulator) and IF-THEN rules. Consistency in the inspection results is achieved because the condition of the insulator is inferred using the same knowledge-base in the FIS rather than by individual inspectors. The output of the FIS is also used in a mathematical model that is developed to suggest appropriate component replacement date.
It is hoped that the methodology that is introduced in this research will help utilities achieve better maintenance management of transmission line assets.
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Mohd, Noor Mohd Junaizee. "Application of knowledge-based fuzzy inference system on high voltage transmission line maintenance." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16050/.
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A majority of utilities conduct maintenance of transmission line components based on the results of routine visual inspection. The inspection is normally done by inspectors who detect defects by visually checking transmission line components either from the air (in helicopters), from the ground (by using high-powered binoculars) or from the top of the structure (by climbing the structure).
The main problems with visual inspection of transmission lines are that the determination of the defects varies depending on the inspectors' knowledge and experience and that the defects are often reported qualitatively using vague and linguistic terms such as "medium crack", "heavy rust", "small deflection". As a result of these drawbacks, there is a large variance and inconsistency in defect reporting (which, in time, makes it difficult for the utility to monitor the condition of the components) leading to ineffective or wrong maintenance decisions. The use of inspection guides has not been able to fully address these uncertainties.
This thesis reports on the application of a visual inspection methodology that is aimed at addressing the above-mentioned problems. A knowledge-based Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) is designed using Matlab's Fuzzy Logic Toolbox as part of the methodology and its application is demonstrated on utility visual inspection practice of porcelain cap and pin insulators. The FIS consists of expert-specified input membership functions (representing various insulator defect levels), output membership functions (indicating the overall conditions of the insulator) and IF-THEN rules. Consistency in the inspection results is achieved because the condition of the insulator is inferred using the same knowledge-base in the FIS rather than by individual inspectors. The output of the FIS is also used in a mathematical model that is developed to suggest appropriate component replacement date.
It is hoped that the methodology that is introduced in this research will help utilities achieve better maintenance management of transmission line assets.
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Gobbo, Paolo. "The tacit human dimension of scientific and religious knowledge in the thought of Michael Polanyi." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Francis, Rick. "Secondary school principals' perception, attitude, and knowledge of religious activities in Missouri public schools /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974628.
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Eccles, Elizabeth H. "The relationship among knowledge, perceived susceptibility, and social distance related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome." Thesis, Boston University, 1987. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38023.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston UniversityPLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
Despite evidence that Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is not transmitted through casual contact, people continue to demonstrate behaviors which indicate a fear of casual-contact transmission. This has been identified as contributing to the social isolation experienced by people with AIDS. This study was undertaken to determine the relationships among AIDS Knowledge (AK), Perceived Susceptibility (PS) to casual-contact transmission of HIV and Social Distance (SO), or the degree of hesitancy to interact with people with AIDS in casual-contact situations. The study was conducted in a Vermont community; an area with a low incidence of AIDS. Sixty eight subjects, from a random, digit-dialing sampling technique, were interviewed by telephone. Instrumentation consisted of: an AIDS Knowledge Tool, a six-item tool to measure PS to casual-contact transmission of HIV, a six-item SD scale to measure the level of casual-contact at which the individual would hesitate to interact with a person with AIDS, and demographic information. The scales measuring PS and SD were developed by the investigator. A negative, significant relationship was observed between AK and PS, and a positive, significant relationship was found between PS and SD. The relationship between AK and SD did not reach significance levels. A subscale of 9 Transmission-Related AIDS Knowledge items was developed and was found to have a stronger, negative relationship with PS, and a negative, significant relationship with SD. It was concluded that the findings, despite the methodological limitations, warranted further study with a larger, more diverse sample and to further develop instrumentation. The association between TransmissionRelated AK and both PS and SD indicates that education programs, specifically related to transmission may impact people's fears of casual contact transmission and their distancing behavior.
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Shaw, Kegan J. "Judgmental perceptual knowledge and its factive grounds : a new interpretation and defense of epistemological disjunctivism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33132.
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This thesis offers a fresh interpretation and defense of epistemological disjunctivism about perceptual knowledge. I adopt a multilevel approach according to which perceptual knowledge on one level can enjoy factive rational support provided by perceptual knowledge of the same proposition on a different level. Here I invoke a distinction Ernest Sosa draws between 'judgmental' and 'merely functional' belief to articulate what I call the bifurcated conception of perceptual knowledge. The view that results is a form of epistemological disjunctivism about perceptual knowledge specifically at the higher judgmental level, layered over a straightforward externalism about perceptual knowledge at the lower merely functional level. The first chapter orients the reader to epistemological disjunctivism- with particular emphasis on the 'reflective epistemological disjunctivism' defended by Duncan Pritchard with inspiration from John McDowell. Here I review the arguments for thinking such a proposal true, as well as highlight some problems and three emerging challenges for the view: what I call the internalist challenge, the new access challenge(s), and the 'new evil genius' challenge. These challenges largely inspire the chapters to follow. In the second chapter I present the positive proposal: a fresh interpretation of epistemological disjunctivism in terms of perceptual knowledge at the specifically judgmental level. I argue that this is a modification that epistemological disjunctivists should adopt since it inoculates their view against the internalist challenge: the challenge of explaining why perception should provide one with knowledge by providing one with motivating reasons for belief. In the third chapter I motivate the view further in connection with the more familiar 'basis problem' for epistemological disjunctivism. I argue that this approach supports a unique strategy for solving that problem: one that is consistent both with what is known as 'the entailment' thesis and the thought that we can reduce perceptual knowledge to a kind of rationally supported belief. In the fourth chapter I move to playing defense. I defend the proposal against the so-called 'new evil genius' challenge. This is the challenge to explain why subjects in pairs of 'good' and 'bad' cases can seem equally justified for sustaining their perceptual beliefs. I argue that what we are being sensitive to here, rather, is the fact that both subjects can be equally epistemically responsible and/or reasonable for believing what they do. Before concluding this chapter I also offer an error theory. In the fifth chapter I defend the proposal against the new access challenges raised in chapter one. These alleged challenges for epistemological disjunctivism arise specifically for versions of reflective epistemological disjunctivism that hold that one's rational support for perceptual beliefs is not only factive but reflectively accessible as well. Rather than address the challenges head on, I try to dislodge the thought they depend upon-viz., that one's factive rational support for perceptual beliefs is reflectively accessible to the subject. Here I argue that the reflective accessibility of one's factive rational support is actually a wheel turning idly in the debate with the underdetermination-based radical sceptic-so that we can simply drop it without consequence. The result is an epistemological disjunctivism that is immune to access problems. I then offer a final summary and conclude. At the end of this thesis I have attached an appendix, which is an excursion into religious epistemology and an exploration of a form of religious epistemological disjunctivism. Here I apply the epistemological disjunctivist insight to the case of religious perception in order to defend the idea that one can offer independent rational support for theistic belief by appealing to religious beliefs that are justified on the basis of religious experiences. This appendix chapter is in keeping with the general spirit of the thesis insofar as it seeks to developed epistemological disjunctivism in new and fruitful directions.