Academic literature on the topic 'Who was who'

Aims: To ascertain the prevalence in the community of heavy periods and period pain, and of judging periods to be a ‘problem’; To model reporting of ‘problem’ periods and consulting in terms of socio-demographic, other non-menstrual health factors and menstrual symptoms; To investigate self care, informal and formal help-seeking amongst women with heavy menstrual bleeding. Methods: Questionnaires were sent to 4610 women aged 25 to 44 sampled through general practice lists with a response rate of 61.5% after one reminder. Results: Of women who had menstruated in the past six months, 30% reported heavy periods, a further 5% very heavy periods and 15% severe period pain. Only 22% reported their periods as a marked or severe problem. Multivariate logistic regression showed ‘problem’ periods to be associated with reported use of non-hormonal or no contraception, longstanding illness, heaviness and pain. Severe pain was at least as strongly associated with ‘problem’ periods as very heavy loss. Qualitative findings suggested that many women spoke with uncertainty about judging ‘heaviness’, referring to a variety of factors including personal norm, degree of difficulty in coping with blood loss or pattern of loss. Judging ‘problem’ periods seemed more straightforward focusing largely on impact on everyday life. Consulting about periods in the last six months was reported by 15% of all women and 23% of women reporting heavy or very heavy loss. Multivariate analysis showed that, amongst those reporting heavy periods, consulting in the last six months was associated with reporting ‘very heavy’ loss, resting most periods, shorter duration of symptoms and reporting periods as a ‘problem’. Conclusions: The emphasis on self care and informal information-seeking, together with the sometimes limited knowledge of treatments available, suggests the need for greater communication with women, both through dissemination of health education materials and through the popular media.

This thesis advances a micro-parametric analysis for the variation in wh-dependencies in a number of modern Arabic dialects, especially, Iraqi, Lebanese and Jordanian. It will be shown that although these dialects have much in common, there are certain differences in the strategies used in the formation of wh-questions. At a narrower level, it will also be shown that argument wh-phrases such as ‘who’ and ‘what’ in these dialects display asymmetric behaviour in the various wh-questions. In this thesis, I argue that cross-linguistic variation can only be accounted for in terms of morpho-syntactic properties of individual wh-phrases. As far as the Arabic dialects investigated here are concerned, I propose that wh-expressions such as Iraqi meno ‘who’ and Lebanese ˇsu ‘what’, unlike what has been assumed, are copular wh-phrases and, as such, have internally complex structures. It is this internal complexity, I argue, that directly affects their external syntax. To put the findings in perspective, this thesis examines the possibilities that Universal Grammar offers languages in terms of building wh-dependencies ranging from topicalisation and variable binding to relativisation and equation. The thesis, departs away, however, from mainstream approaches to cross-linguistics variation couched in the P&P framework (Chomsky 1981, 1986, 1995), such as LF-movement and binding, on the grounds that they are too rigid to capture the variation observed here. Instead, the thesis supports, and makes a contribution to, novel approaches to cross-linguistic variation, such as the Nanosyntax framework (Starke 2010, 2011), which take syntax to operate on (sub)-morphemic levels. Overall, the analysis has implications for the syntax of wh-constructions in general and the interaction at the morphology-syntax interface in particular.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Document formatted into pages; contains x, 217 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-217). Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2006 June 3.

This study looked at how individuals choose whom to work with when a task necessitates collaboration. Prior research done on collaborative environments as well as outcomes of collaboration suggests that who you collaborate with will depend on two primary factors: the individuals from which you have to choose and the circumstances surrounding the task. In the proposed study, these factors will be explored. This thesis identified the lack of literature on informal collaboration, addressing the gap in the literature regarding processes that individuals use when choosing collaborators. This research focused on the influencing factors of similarity and expertise involved in this decision processes. Furthermore, this study aimed to understand how individuals choose collaborators under differing conditions of difficulty, novelty, and interdependence necessitated by the task.

Now and then other people’s comments and/or behaviour reminds me that I look different and that my external features are connected to something beyond my Swedish identity. My black hair, dark brown eyes and my brownish skin color talk about something else. My appearance is connected to an identity, cultural identity and a country I have little knowledge of and a language I do not master. But still the way I look is a part of my heritage, a part of who I am and a part of me which I am proud of. It makes me wonder what actually makes up an identity and the power we all possess in deciding what or who another person is based on appearance. What do we become in the eyes of the beholder? Personal experiences from being Swedish, and adopted from another country, becomes the starting point for my investigation where the color of the skin leads to questions about norms, categorisations and the power of labelling another person. Living in the western world, my skin color automatically place me outside the norm. In a way that amazes me, that a single color can determine so much. As a jeweller maker in this degree project I make brooches. I use them as a method and as tools to both investigate the relationship between personal and social identity and to shed light on how structures in society and other peoples gazes push us into categories consciously and unconsciously. I use my objects as conversations pieces to reflect on history, present and future, from my perspective. There is always a beginning, but it is  in the middle of the process it all comes alive. This is where I explore material, techniques and methods and where the brooches are born. They all have a history and part of it is public. At first sight you see the surface. But the brooches are like our bodies, they also have an inside/backside which creates an intimate relationship with the wearer. The brooches are more than ornamented pins, I want them to raise awareness of diversity, different perspectives, care and their ability to communicate as they move through various places attached in different ways to the body. My degree project, Who I am and who you see, touches upon questions and emotions about belonging, inclusion and exclusion and the state of being in-between. What makes up an identity? What different parts make up a whole? Which layers are added and which are peeled off? All these questions triggers my curiosity and search for more knowledge about the human being and being human.

This is a study about Taiwan and its relation to the United Nations and the World Health Organization. The study is inspired by today’s global situation regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and Taiwan’s exclusion from UN and WHO. The purpose of the study is to understand the exclusion of Taiwan from these global organizations and its consequences. That led to three research questions concerning Taiwan’s historical background to UN and WHO, the relations since 2009 until today, the different ways Taiwan and China argue for their respective position on the “Taiwan issue” and the consequences for Taiwan and its people being excluded from UN and WHO. In order to answer these questions a case study design has been used. Another method has been argumentation analysis. The international relations theory realism has been used together with the argumentation analysis to identify the relevant arguments from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and to improve the understanding of those arguments. The results show that Taiwan’s relations to the UN and WHO has changed substantially over time, that party politics in Taiwan influence China’s approach, that there is a disagreement and different interpretation of historical events between China and Taiwan, and that the consequences of the exclusion are for Taiwan mainly related to health issues and its political status.

<p> The ubiquity of social media has enhanced consumers&rsquo; ability to stay in touch as well as save and access information about others at will. This easy access to information on social media has the potential to change the way consumers seek and remember information. This dissertation sheds light on how information accessibility on social media shapes users&rsquo; cognitions. Using a professional social network context, we examine two types of information that consumers pay attention to &ndash; content (i.e., &lsquo;who knows what&rsquo;) and connections (i.e., &lsquo;who knows who&rsquo;) and how different types of social media influencers (content generators vs. content diffusors) strategically seek information under specific contingencies - when they are vs. are not connected to others (i.e., when information accessibility is high vs. low). We also suggest that individual differences in executive attention moderate this type of content seeking. Results across five studies reveal that content generators tend to focus on others&rsquo; content when they are not linked (vs. linked) but content diffusors tend to demonstrate the opposite, i.e., increased focus on content when they are linked (vs. not linked). Alternatively, when it comes to information about connections, content diffusors tend to focus on it when they are not linked (vs. linked) while content generators demonstrate no such active information seeking behavior. Interestingly, selective content seeking manifests only in users who rank high in working memory capacity &ndash; a factor that determines strategic attention control. Overall, this research shows that strategic content seeking happens on account of attention control processes and its outcome depends upon users&rsquo; social media roles. This thesis contributes to the emerging social media literature in marketing by outlining a new phenomenon, strategic content seeking, explicating its underlying cognitive mechanism and delineating relevant social and cognitive moderators.</p>