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Li, Zhen. "Making our way through the e-world : Chinese adult elearners' learning experiences." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/66102/.
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The thesis describes an investigation into Chinese adult learners’ learning experiences through case studies of two e-learning programmes conducted in China that were significantly different from each other in their original design. Margaret Archer’s critical realist account of structure and agency informs the theoretical framework of this study. The interactions between individual learners and their e-learning environments combined with their wider social cultural contexts, as manifested in their e-learning experiences are examined mainly through the lens of learners’ reflexivity. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and detailed accounts on learners’ experiences are given from qualitative data, obtained from interviews, digital diaries, informal discussions and reports. Learners were found to be exercising high level of reflexivity as the basis of their decision making in every aspects of their learning, including their commitment to learn, the formation of a learning community, the use made of learning technologies, adaptation to a new learning environment. The findings suggest that e-learning experiences are not technology-driven nor context determined. These findings have significant implications for e-learning design by reassuring the importance in understanding learners’ personal power and social context. They also caution against uncritical direct transfer of educational practice from one context to another.
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Kennedy, Jason Edward. "Invision: our world redefined." Thesis, Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/kennedy/KennedyJ0510.pdf.
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The interstate 70 corridor serves as a gateway to the mountainous region of Colorado for all of Denver's residents, the majority of travelers from the East, and most all visitors flying into the state. The corridor no longer functions efficiently as a connecting tie and the Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel acts as a centralized hub in the system and under adverse conditions both are susceptable collapse effectively crippling the entire network. As population increases, the number of drivers on the road will increase and inturn traffic congestion will continue to get worse. If the current trend continues the state of Colorado is positioned to loose billions of dollars in lost oppourtunity, not to mention the loss in percieved quality of living to the Denver residents. This project seeks to, through the anaylsis of the exising conditions and the plausible future, describe a solution to the problem.
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Hurwitz, R., Renee Rice Moran, LaShay Jennings, and Laura Robertson. "Making edTPA Our Own." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/775.
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Rieders, Eliana. "Our Thirsty World: Contextualized Responses to the World Water Crisis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/26.
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Wars fought over oil have characterized the latter half of the past century, the repercussions of which have been felt in every corner of the globe. Although war remains a constant, attention is transitioning away from oil to another natural resource. As we move through the 21st century, water wars are now at the forefront of global conflicts. Fighting over access to this vital resource is nothing new. Allen Snitow, a documentary filmmaker and journalist claims: “For thousands of years, the conflicts between towns and countries have been defined by the battle over who gets to use the stream. The word rival and river have the same root.”1 Disputes over access to water have been inevitable because of human’s dependence on this natural resource for sustenance. The lack of a substitution for water makes the world water crisis a threat requiring immediate attention and innovative solutions.
The assumed responsibility of the government to provide sustainable solutions has proven ineffective in its failure to protect the human right to water. As a world water crisis, there is a need for a more cohesive management approach. Identifying and implementing effective and equitable approaches to water management is a highly debated subject across many disciplines. A common approach to combating issues of access to potable water involves the private sector and its reliance on the market. Alternatively, some advocate for treating water as a public or community good to avoid the commodification of an essential resource. Through various examples and a fleshed out case study, I illustrate how solutions to the water crisis are not determined by theoretical frameworks, but are shaped by the viability of the approaches in a given region. The factors that influence the feasibility of an approach include: the availability of water resources and other geographical or environmental circumstances; the political stability or corruption within the government; the degree of established infrastructure; determination of who the government is responsible for providing water services to; and the specific cultural needs of different groups. By analyzing the aforementioned theoretical perspectives on water management through a lens that considers each of these factors, I attempt to identify and analyze the context for which these approaches are appropriate and effective in providing equitable access to clean water. The political, economic, cultural and geographical contexts of a region are critical in considering how to best alleviate issues of access to potable water. In addition, I argue that across all of these diverse contexts in which we identify water access issues, it is invariably necessary to treat water as a public good in order to protect the human right to water.
1 Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, and Michael Fox, Thirst: Fighting the corporate theft of our water, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007), 3.
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Richter, Yvonne. "World War II moments in our family /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-09012006-152739/.
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Thesis (honors)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Under the direction of Josh Russell. Electronic text (71 p. : ill., ports.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 8, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71).
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Coen, Amanda. "Quine, Wittgenstein, and our knowledge of the world." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ60673.pdf.
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Xue, Tianfan. "Exploiting visual motion to understand our visual world." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113978.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-126).<br>Motion is important for understanding our visual world. The human visual system relies heavily on motion perception to recognize the movement of objects, to infer the 3D geometry of a scene, and to perceive the emotions of other people. Modern computer vision systems also use motion signals extracted from video sequences to infer high-level visual concepts, including human activities and abnormal events. Both human and computer visual systems try to perceive changes in the 3D physical world through its 2D projection, either on the image plane or on our retinas. The observed 2D pixel movement is the result of several factors. First, the image sensor might move, inducing egocentric motion, even when the scene is static. Second, the medium between objects and a camera might change and affect how light transmits from the objects to the sensor, like the shimmering in a hot-road mirage. Finally, the objects in a scene might move, either actively, like a person walking along a street, or passively, like a tree branch that is vibrating due to wind. All of these movements reveal information about our visual world. In this dissertation, we will discuss how to infer physical properties of our visual world from observed 2D movement. First, we show how to infer the depth of a scene from egocentric motion and use this to remove undesired visual obstructions. Second, we relate the slight wiggling motion due to refraction to the movement of hot air and infer the location and velocity of the airflow. Last, we illustrate how to infer the physical properties of objects, such as their deformation space or internal structure, from their motion.<br>by Tianfan Xue.<br>Ph. D.
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Cricchio, Matthew S. "The Quiet Near the End of Our World." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4892.
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This thesis is a portion of a novel manuscript. The novel is tentatively titled The Quiet Near the End of Our World. These 20 chapters introduce the readers to the four main characters: Mir Hamza Khan, Isaiah Khost, Toor Jan, and Daniel Bing. The machinations of Mir Hamza Khan result in a school attack in a rural village in Afghanistan that wounds Toor Jan. Toor Jan is admitted to an American hospital where he meets intelligence operative, Daniel Bing. Dan decides to use Toor Jan as a spy to bring Mir Hamza Khan to justice for the attacks but must first navigate the wishes of his commander Isaiah Khost. The four men collide in an explosive conflict where none of them are safe.
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Grahn, Mikael, and Niklas Karlsson. "A World of Our Own : Mimesis as Relatability." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14642.
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Parker, Lisa Karee. "A World of Our Own: William Blake and Abolition." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11302006-120306/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Christine Gallant, committee chair; Paul Schmidt, LeeAnne Richardson, committee members. Electronic text (130 p. : ill., some col.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 20, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130).
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Vácha, Ondřej. "Filosofický kontext sociálního konstruktivismu jako teorie mezinárodních vztahů." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-201584.
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The present thesis interpretes Nicholas Onuf´s fundamental book World of Our Making. This text tries to evaluate Maja Zehfuss´ and Charlotte Epstein´s poststructuralist arguments against constructivist IR theory and tries to resolve the problem within a broader philosophical context. In the end it seeks to consider their argument against the inherent tension of Onuf´s constructivism and consequently suggest a possible solution.
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Sarmiento, Andrea, and Julie Sassus. "Women, are we our own barriers when making careers?" Thesis, University of Kalmar, Baltic Business School, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-464.
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<p>The scarcity of female leaders rise curiosity to explore the reasons of the phenomenon. Many attempts have been done to explain the scarcity but somehow it seems that investigations explore the same factors and not what has been seen as a taboo; women’s feelings and thoughts towards each other as obstacles in making careers. Therefore is the aim of this study: to gain knowledge about women’s feelings and thoughts about other women in a corporate environment to be able to draw conclusions whether this matter can be a contribution to the debate concerning obstacles for women to climb in their career.</p><p>This research is conducted through an inductive approach with eight qualitative interviews choosing both women leaders and non-leaders. Jealousy and envy between women were discovered, which do not seem to restrain or create obstacles for other women but only or mostly, to women having these feelings and thoughts. Jealousy and envy are just a symptom of the real problem which is poor selfconfidence in the corporate environment. We discovered a vicious circle which shows us the connection between jealousy, self-confidence, competition and success. The vicious circle could be an input to the debate to explain obstacles that women could meet in their path to leading positions.</p><p>Women have to start believing in themselves with help of society where she is not directly or indirectly restrained for the fact of being a woman.</p>
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Benfield, Ian Lindsay. "Our complex world : understanding it, living in it, sustaining it." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53546.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We live in a complex world. We have questions and face problems that
defy conventional reductionist approaches to finding answers and solutions.
This is because we find ourselves dealing with complex systems that are
dynamic, self-organizing and adaptive, while maintaining a balance between
static order and chaotic change.
The Earth, or Gaia, is such a system. So is the biosphere, and so is an ecosystem,
an economy, a business and any living organism, including homo sapiens. By
concentrating on the connections and interactions between entities, and not
things in themselves, complexity research is enabling us to grasp a better
understanding of the spontaneous, self-organizing dynamics of our world.
Complexity studies can have an enormous impact on the conduct of economics,
business and politics.
This thesis describes the characteristics of complex systems, analyzes the Earth
and its evolutionary story as a complex adaptive system, discusses how we can
harness complexity, and how through cooperating and caring we can survive and
even prosper in the world of today. A pluralistic moral 'world vision' is argued for,
founded on an ethics of universal compassion for all living things, that can lead to
responsible and pragmatic action.
As human beings, if 'He are to uplift the poor and restore and preserve the ecology
of the Earth, what will be required is a major transformation of our environmentally
destructive world economy into one that can sustain progress and human flourishing.
This will entail a change of mind and heart, a sense of global interdependence and
universal responsibility.
The challenges we face are immense. However, there are encouraging signs that
worldwide people are becoming increasingly aware of what is called for. More and
more people are showing their willingness to rise to the occasion. It is a time of
transition. It is complex, daunting, yet exciting.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Ons leef in 'n komplekse wêreld waarin ons gekonfronteer word met vrae en probleme
wat nie beantwoord of opgelos kan word deur middel van die gebruiklike reduksionistiese
benaderings nie. Die rede hiervoor is dat ons te make het met komplekse sisteme wat
dinamies, selforganiserend en selfaanpassend is, terwyl dit tegelykertyd 'n balans
handhaaf tussen statiese orde en chaotiese verandering.
Die aarde, of Gaia, is so 'n sisteem. Ook die biosfeer, 'n ekosisteem, 'n ekonomie, 'n
besigheid en enige lewende organisme, insluitend homo sapiens, konstitueer komplekse
sisteme. Daarom kan kompleksiteitsnavorsing, wat klem lê op die verbande en interaksies
tussen entiteite, eerder as op die entiteite self, dit vir ons moontlik maak om die spontane
en selforganiserende dinamiek van ons wêreld beter te begryp. Kompleksiteitstudies kan
dan ook 'n enorme impak hê op die manier waarop ekonomie, besigheid en politiek
beoefen word.
Hierdie tesis beskryf die eienskappe van komplekse sisteme, en analiseer die Aarde en
haar evolusionêre verhaal as 'n komplekse, selfaanpassende sisteem. Verder bespreek
dit ook hoe kompleksiteit ontgin kan word, en hoe ons deur samewerking en sorg kan
oorleef en selfs floreer in die wêreld van vandag. Op grond van 'n etiek van universele
medelye met alle lewende dinge word 'n pleidooi gelewer vir 'n pluralistiese morele
"wêreldvisie" wat kan lei tot verantwoordelike en pragmatiese optrede.
Wat egter vereis word indien ons, as mense, armoede wilophef en die ekologie van die
aarde wil herstel en handhaaf, is 'n daadwerklike transformasie van ons
omgewingsvernietigende wêreldekonomie in die rigting van 'n ekonomie wat vooruitgang
en menslike florering kan onderhou. So 'n transformasie sal 'n verandering van denke en
ingesteldheid vereis, asook 'n sin vir globale interafhanklikheid en universele
verantwoordelikheid.
Dit is duidelik dat die uitdagings wat ons moet trotseer kolossaal is. Daar is egter
bemoedigende tekens wêreldwyd wat aandui dat mense toenemend begin bewus raak
van wat vereis word. Meer en meer mense toon hul bereidwilligheid om die situasie die
hoof te bied. Dit is 'n tyd van verandering. Dit is 'n komplekse en angswekkende tyd, maar
uiteindelik tog ook 'n opwindende tyd.
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Cichy, Natalie A. R. Soranno. "Making the Child's World: Fostering Permanence." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2874.
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Making the Child's World: Fostering Permanence, is a redefining, reordering and recalibration of the planning of a centre for children in transition within the child welfare system that would operate alongside foster homes. It is not a prescription for the ideal building design. Instead it is a proposition for a set of standards and qualities necessary of a child-centered environment; one where the child can be comfortable and secure, in the face of his or her family circumstances. <br /><br /> This thesis discusses the period between infancy and school age as crucial in the physical and emotional development of children; a time when they first establish concepts of space, relationships, and feelings. Each environment and social interaction experienced plays a large role in a child's development, both socially and physically. The dynamics, scale and intimacy of Play Therapy need to infiltrate the architectural strategy of this type of centre so that the centre itself adopts the values of Play Therapy, enabling the physical environment to act as a rehabilitative tool in the Play Therapy Programme.
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Narasimhan, Haripriya. ""Our health is in our hands" women making decisions about health care in Tamilnadu, South India /." Related electronic resource, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407687251&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Sybylla, Roe, and roesybylla@hotmail com. "Making Our Freedom : Feminism and ethics from Beauvoir to Foucault." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 1997. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20040629.142154.
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This thesis examines the possibilities for feminism that arise from the work of Michel Foucault, which I explicate by comparison it with humanist existentialism. I begin with The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir's application of existentialism to women. I expose the problems that arise in Beauvoir's project. Woman's body is an obstacle to her transcendence, and further, she must abandon her feminine desires and values, and accommodate herself to masculine patterns if she is to overcome her immanence and subordination. To understand why such problems recur in The Second Sex, I turn to Sartre's Being and Nothingness. After examining the conceptions underlying his thought, I conclude that his philosophy is unable to encompass difference, and is therefore antithetical to the feminist project.
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Foucault's philosophy offers solutions to these problems by eliminating consciousness as universal subject of action, and by making subjectivity a product of time, through showing how subjects are formed though the changing effects of power upon bodies. His thought encompasses difference at a fundamental level, through understanding human beings as particular 'events' in time. I argue that Foucault's philosophy does not depend fundamentally, as does Sartre's, upon woman as Other.
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Foucault shows how our particular historical form of rationality, created within power relations, sets limits on what we can think, be and do. He shows how thought can overcome some of these limits, allowing us to become authors of our own actions. Misunderstandings are common, particularly of his conception of power and its relation to subjectivity. Many commentators demand changes that reinstate the concepts he fundamentally rejects. Others do not see the unity of his philosophy. I show its importance to women's emancipation and to a feminist ethics.
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Finally, I compare Foucault's thought with feminism of difference. With the help of Heidegger, I argue that Foucault offers a superior but complementary way to know who we are, through understanding the history of our making. I show how the masculine and the feminine can be reconciled through a reconceptualisation of the relation of sex to time. All told, Foucault is a philosopher of freedom and for him the practice of freedom is an ethics.
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Sorensen, Nathalie. "Making sense for our lives, women's collaborative reading of fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ35328.pdf.
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Snowden, La Gretta. "Music Programs that Engage Our Communities: Making a Stronger Connection." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000065.
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Kolb, Jakob J. "Heuristic Decision Making in World Earth Models." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22147.
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Die Dynamik des Erdsystems im Anthropozän wird durch eine zunehmende Verschränkung von Prozessen auf physikalischer und ökologischer sowie auf sozioökonomischer Ebene bestimmt. Wenn Modelle als Entscheidungshilfen in diesem Umfeld nützlich sein sollen, müssen sie diese komplexen Rückkopplungen ebenso berücksichtigen wie die inhärent emergenten und heterogenen Qualitäten gesellschaftlicher Dynamik. Diese Arbeit schlägt vor, den Menschen als begrenzten rationalen Entscheidungsträger zu modellieren, die (soziales) Lernen nutzen, um Entscheidungsheuristiken zu erwerben, die in einer gegebenen Umgebung gut funktionieren. Dies wird in einem Wirtschaftsmodell mit zwei Sektoren veranschaulicht, in dem ein Sektor eine fossile Ressource für die wirtschaftliche Produktion verwendet und die Haushalte ihre Investitionsentscheidungen in der zuvor beschriebenen Weise treffen. In der Modellökonomie können individuelle Entscheidungsfindung und soziale Dynamik die CO 2 Emissionen nicht auf ein Niveau begrenzen, das eine globale Erwärmung über 1,5◦C verhindert. Eine Kombination aus kollektivem Handeln und koordinierter öffentlicher Politik allerdings kann. Eine Folgestudie analysiert das soziale Lernen der individuellen Sparquoten in einer Ein-Sektor-Wirtschaft. Hier nähert sich die aggregierte Sparquote der eines intertemporär optimierenden allwissenden Sozialen Planers an, wenn die soziale Interaktionsrate ausreichend niedrig ist. Gleichzeitig führt eine abnehmende Interaktionsrate einem plötzlichen Übergangs von einer unimodalen zu einer stark bimodalen Verteilung des Vermögens unter den Haushalten. Schließlich schlägt diese Arbeit eine Kombination verschiedener Methoden vor, die zur Ableitung analytischer Näherungen für solche vernetzten heterogenen Agentenmodelle verwendet werden können, bei denen Interaktionen zwischen Agenten sowohl auf individueller als auch auf aggregierter Ebene auftreten.<br>The trajectory of the Earth system in the Anthropocene is governed by an increasing entanglement of processes on a physical and ecological as well as on a socio-economic level. If models are to be useful as decision support tools in this environment, they ought acknowledge these complex feedback loops as well as the inherently emergent and heterogeneous qualities of societal dynamics. This thesis improves the capability of social-ecological and socio-economic models to picture emergent social phenomena and uses and extends techniques from dynamical systems theory and statistical physics for their analysis. It proposes to model humans as bounded rational decision makers that use (social) learning to acquire decision heuristics that function well in a given environment. This is illustrated in a two sector economic model in which one sector uses a fossil resource for economic production and households make their investment decisions in the previously described way. In the model economy individual decision making and social dynamics can not limit CO 2 emissions to a level that prevents global warming above 1.5 ◦ C. However, a combination of collective action and coordinated public policy actually can. A follow up study analyzes social learning of individual savings rates in a one sector investment economy. Here, the aggregate savings rate in the economy approaches that of an intertemporarily optimizing omniscient social planner if the social interaction rate is sufficiently low. Sumultaneously, a decreasing interaction rate leads to emergent inequality in the model in the form of a sudden transition from a unimodal to a strongly bimodal distribution of wealth among households. Finally, this thesis proposes a combination of different moment closure techniques that can be used to derive analytic approximations for such networked heterogeneous agent models where interactions between agents occur on an individual as well as on an aggregated level.
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Paton-Walsh, Margaret. "Our war too : American women against the Axis /." Lawrence, Kan : University Press of Kansas, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002002976.html.
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Nilsson, Anders. "Peace in our time : towards a holistic understanding of world society conflicts /." Göteborg : PADRIGU, Dept. of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg Univ, 1999. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/304065420.pdf.
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Katsura-Gordon, Shigeo. "Democratizing Our Data : Finding Balance Living In A World Of Data Control." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-148942.
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The 2018 scandal where Cambridge Analytica tampered with U.S. elections using targeted ad campaigns driven by illicitly collected Facebook data has shown us that there consequences of living in a world of technology driven by data. Mark Zuckerberg recently took part in a congressional hearing making the topic of controlling data an important discussion at even the highest level of the government. Alternatively we can also recognize the benefits that data has in terms of technology and services that are highly personalized because of data.There’s nothing better than a targeted ad that appears at just the right time when you need to make a purchase or when Spotify provides you with the perfect playlist for a Friday night. This leaves us torn between opposites; To reject data and abandon our technology returning to the proverbial stone age, or to accept being online all the time monitored by a vast network of sensors that feed data into algorithms that may know more about our habits then we do. It is the friction of these polar opposites that will lead us on a journey to find balance between the benefits and negatives of having data as part of our everyday lives.To help explore the negatives and positives that will occur on this journey I developed Data Control Box, a product that ask the question “How would you live in a world where you can control your data?” Found in homes and workplaces, it allows individuals or groups of people to control their data by placing their mobile devices into it’s 14x22.5x15 cm acrylic container.Where the General Data Protect Act (GDPR) regulates and controls data after it has been produced by enforcing how “business processes that handle personal data must be built with data protection by design and by default, meaning that personal data must be stored using pseudonymisation or full anonymisation, and use the highest-possible privacy settings by default, so that the data is not available publicly without explicit consent, and cannot be used to identify a subject without additional information stored separately” (Wikipedia, 2018),Data Control Box limits personal data production through a physical barrier to it’s user prior to it’s creation. This physical embodiment of data control disrupts everyday habits when using a mobile device, which in turn of a creates the opportunity for reflection and questioning on what control of data is and how it works. For example a person using Data Control Box can still create data using a personal computer despite having placed their mobile device inside Data ControlBox. Being faced with this realization reveals aspects of the larger systems that might not have been as apparent without Data Control Box and can serve as a starting point to answering the question “How would you live in a world where you can control your data.” To further build on this discussion people using DataControl Box are encouraged to share their reflections by tweeting to the hashtag#DataControlBox. These tweets are displayed through Data Control Box’s 1.5 inchOLED breakout board connected to an Arduino micro-controller. Data ControlBox can interface with any network connected computer using a usb cord which also serves as a power source. The connected feature of Data Control Box allows units found around the world to become nodes in a real time discussion about the balance of data as a part of everyday life, but also serves as a collection of discussions that took place over time starting May of 2018.As a designer, the deployment of Data Control Box allowed me to probe the lives of real people and to see how they might interact with Data Control Box but also their data in a day to day setting. A total of fifteen people interacted with DataControl Box following a single protocol that was read aloud to them beforehand.A number of different contexts for the deployment of Data Control Box we’re explored such as at home, on a desk at school and during a two hour human computer lecture. I collected a variety of qualitative research in the form of photos and informal video interviews during these deployments which I synthesized into the following insights that can be used by designers when considering how to design for the control of data but also how to design for complex subjects like data. This paper retraces my arrival at this final prototype sharing the findings of my initial research collected during desk research, initial participant activities, and creation of my initial prototype Data Box /01. It then closes with a deeper dive into the design rationale and process when building my final prototype Data ControlBox and summarizes in greater detail insights I’ve learned from it’s deployment through results discussion and creative reflection.
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Cameron, Roberta Llewellyn. "The making of Wilfred Cantwell Smith's "world theology"." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25920.pdf.
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Fee, Margery. "Howard O'Hagan's Tay John: Making New World Myth." Canadian Literature, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11676.
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In making the point that no story is complete, O'Hagan undermines to varying degrees several dominant and interconnected Western ideologies: idealism, Christianity, patriarchy, class and capitalism. He also shows how a borrowed indigenous myth can be adapted to immigrant needs in a way that will distinguish Canadian novels from others.
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Eriksson, Ulrika, Carolin Ringö, and Sofia Svensson. "Social Entrepreneurship : Making money in an unfortunate world." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-27441.
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Rowe, Philip. "'We shall defend our island' : investigating a forgotten militarised landscape." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374724/.
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The outmanoeuvring of Allied forces in May 1940 led to the eventual evacuation of the BEF from the continent in June 1940. Fearing an invasion, GHQ Home Forces set about the rapid re-militarisation of the UK to oppose, arguably, the first very real threat to this country’s sovereignty since the Norman conquest of 1066 AD. Constructing a series of anti-invasion defences throughout the countryside, a network of defensive fieldworks and concrete gun emplacements were erected, with linear stop lines forming part of the overall stratagem for a countrywide defence in depth. Examining one particular linear stop line, GHQ Line Green, despite previous research into its archaeological route through the landscape several questions still remain unanswered - Did the proposed wartime route for the stop line match the documented archaeology? Did the defensive fieldworks conform to 1940 WO specifications, or were they similar in design to the linear fieldworks of the First World War? Did GHQ Line Green dismiss the defensive ‘folly’ notion of the Maginot Line by being strategically sited in the Bristol hinterland? A prepared battlefield that never faced the unpredictable test of conflict, evidence offered by original cartographic, archaeological and GIS ‘Fields-of- Fire’ analysis concluded that the GHQ Line Green was strategically placed in the landscape. In ideal conditions GHQ Line Green could have had limited success in slowing down an invasion force. This dismisses the notion that the stop line was a defensive ‘folly’. With its origins found to lay in First World War fortifications, the research undertaken for this thesis will further our understanding of an often forgotten Second World War landscape.
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Snyder, Robert B. "Making our own way, influences on choice among Fort Collins Chinese restaurateurs." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0016/MQ55172.pdf.
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Hedenskog, Jens. "Exploring Game Design Pitfalls through patterns : Experiences when making our first game." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för speldesign, teknik och lärande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-1618.
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The purpose of this report is to analyze what went wrong with the adventure game project called Fairytale, I started together with 4 of my fellow university students at Gotland University, spring 2007. My ambition with this report is to enlighten problems in game design that arose during the game development process in order to prevent others from making the same mistakes. The problems are analyzed according to game design patterns defined by Björk, S. and Holopainen, J. (2005). Patterns in Game Design. Boston, Massachusetts. Jenifer Niles. The game was exhibited to the public at Gotland Game Awards 2007, Leipzig Game Developers Conference 2007, Tekniska Museet 2007, Almedalsveckan 2008 and Gotland Game Awards 2008. The results of the report show that redesigning already finished game features means a lot of troubles in relation to its dependency on other game elements. The key abilities of the main character were vaguely defined since the beginning of the project which caused problems with earlier designed levels whenever a new item was introduced. The terrain of the prior levels didn’t match the abilities of the new items, which forced changes to be made. The biggest mistake with this project was that finished game elements never were considered final. My role in the project was the solo game programmer and co-designer. I shared the designing tasks together with Annika Fogelgren who also was the producer of our team. Albertina Sparrhult, Emma Johansson and Marie Viberg were our core graphic artists. Together, we created the Fairytale game.
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Alfaro, Bernate Santiago Eloy. "Digital Synesthesia : using mobile technology and sensory substitution to interact with our world." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97974.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2015.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Digital Synesthesia is the concept of using sensors and mobile technology to create a user experience that mimics the way people use their senses and enables the perception of information that is outside of our sensory spectrum. Modern technology already offers the ability to detect this information, but what has not been achieved is a way for our brains and body to incorporate this new information as a part of our sensory tool-belt. Then we can truly begin to understand our surrounding world in a new and undiscovered way. The vision of Digital Synesthesia is to help the current idea of Human-Computer Interface evolve so that it gives way for a new Human-Environment Interface. Digital Synesthesia aims to keep our mobile devices in our pockets while allowing us to experience the world by sensing information outside of our sensory capabilities. The system will not only collect data through sensors, but also find the best way to pass the information to the body while bypassing visual and auditory channels. This way, the brain will be able to interpret the new information without shifting or dividing attention from the current task.<br>by Santiago Eloy Alfaro Bernate.<br>Ph. D.
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Wright, Joanna Christine. "Commonality in Relativity: What philosophy can still offer in our post-modern world." Thesis, Boston College, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/398.
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Thesis advisor: Christopher L. Constas<br>This work presents the post-modern problem in philosophy. It first presents knowledge as subjective or perspectival through the work of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. Part Two aims to show, how, in the midst of post-modern relativism, meaningful truths may be constructed in society<br>Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2005<br>Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: College Honors Program
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Antunes-Alves, Sara. "Our place in the mental health world: An exploration of counsellors' professional identity." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28489.
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This study employed a variation of grounded theory method to investigate how seasoned counsellors in a midsized Canadian city experienced their counsellor professional identity. Six master's-level counsellors were interviewed using a semi-structured interview protocol to develop an understanding of how they define themselves as professionals, as well as how they view the counselling profession overall. Twenty-five themes emerged, which were further classified into five categories: (a) key influences on counsellor professional identity, which included seven themes; (b) counsellors' professional image, which included seven themes; (c) counsellors' roles and practices, which included six themes; (d) counsellor education and training, which included three themes; and (e) critical events of counsellor professional identity, which included two themes. Encouraging counsellors and counsellor trainees to reflect upon their professional identity and how it develops could foster a stronger professional identity among counsellors and ultimately promote a stronger and more unified image of the profession.
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Hunter, Dwight. "Re-Thinking Privacy for the Physical and Digital World : Reformulating Our Theoretical Foundations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-242824.
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When scholars address privacy as a condition in contemporary society it can become a very difficult subject to approach on a general level. With public concerns rising surrounding matters of digital tracking and surveillance, discussions of privacy have found a new dimension in digital information. Yet defining how digital privacy should be approached, in particular regard to a general conception of privacy, remains unclear. Research spanning across the social sciences, law, economics and technical fields have all taken their own perspectives towards studying various forms of privacy. This study seeks to unify privacy- related discourses by evaluating the conceptualization of privacy throughout existing literature in order to determine what fundamentally distinguishes digital privacy from general privacy while remaining intrinsically related. To do this, I employ Michael E. Brown's 'sub- theoretical notion' (2014) to turn privacy discourses inwards, seeking the underlying logic contained within its seemingly disparate dimensions. Using a sample of 28 purposively selected texts analyzed through a structural content analysis, resulting in a refined sample of n=4,486 structural elements contained within the texts, the various relational dynamics of privacy discussions are evaluated, noting their interrelations. I arrive at information tangibility and loci of control as the two most intrinsic elements of privacy, dramatized by developments in technological mediation, which can thus both unify and distinguish the various forms of privacy research. In a discussion of implications of this exploratory study, I conclude with how the integration of privacy's sub-theoretical notion (information tangibility and loci of control) allows for current privacy-related discourses to acknowledge not only their own limitations to social life, but to move beyond the singular notion of a correct conception of privacy to see instead how each conception is interrelated via the unifying logic of the sub- theoretical.
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Pickrell, Simone Wendy. "A surveyor's world-view : decision-making in building surveying." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301931.
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Maiguashca, Bice. "Contemporary social movements and the making of world politics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398840.
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Devani, Amal. "Stress and decision-making in a Developing world context." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88376.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-25).<br>This paper gauges the effect of physiological stress on time preference in the urban poor from informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. Using a standardized psychosocial stress challenge (the Trier social stress test (TSST)) to induce stress in a randomized setting, we attempt to estimate the effect of stress on decision making with incentive-compatible outcomes. While demonstrating discounting patterns similar to other research in the developed world, this current study finds some interesting results on the effect of stress on time preferences, but only in later periods. The study interprets this data and suggests methodological improvements and further ideas for this promising area of study.<br>by Amal Devani.<br>S.M. in Management Research
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Botha, P. R. (Philippus Rudolph). "Captive the life of our static buildings." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31644.
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This research project investigates the possibility of a public programme-overlay at the Union Buildings, situated on Meintjieskop on the western edge of the Pretoria inner city. The design of the Buildings was commissioned to Sir Herbert Baker to celebrate the newly formed Union of South Africa in 1910. The buildings were completed in 1913 and this research project attempts to commemorate the centenary of this landmark. The buildings’ current state does not allow for public participation and this seems unfortunate for both the public and the buildings. This dissertation attempts to reintroduce the Union Buildings to South Africans, the Pretoria public as well as international tourists by recording the memory of the buildings. The intervention is an interpretative archive to the life of the Union Buildings. The static, stereotomic nature of the buildings has ironically been shaped and forced into many different symbolic meanings through the ever-changing political and cultural dynamics of South Africa. The life of the buildings has been interpreted into five distinguishing symbolic-eras: Birth, Union, Oppression, Democracy and Power. The new intervention attempts to make these layered eras public. This project will also explore the relationship between architecture and craft. This study understands that architecture is more than ever becoming a two dimensional experience and this is believed to be a direct result of the dimension in which it is explored - between pen and paper. The investigation will contest this current condition in which architecture finds itself. Moreover the focus of this study will be to explore architecture in its final dimension, thus exploring the relationship between architecture and craft. In the true sense this is a study of the tekton.<br>Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria 2012.<br>Architecture<br>MArch(Prof)<br>Unrestricted
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Zamzow, Jennifer. "Moral Decision Making: How the Normative and Empirical can Inform our Prescriptive Accounts." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293469.
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If Aristotle was right in claiming that the aim of moral philosophy is to help us determine how we ought to live, then part of the aim of moral philosophy must be to help us improve our prescriptive accounts of moral decision making--our accounts of how we should make moral decisions. In my dissertation I examine implications of empirical research in cognitive science, social psychology, and decision theory for issues in moral decision making. I argue that empirical evidence suggests that principled guidance is in fact beneficial for decision making, which calls into question particularist prescriptive accounts. I also argue that contrary to the prevailing view, research suggests that taking a first-person perspective when making judgments about what we ought to do might actually help us make better moral judgments. Additionally, I argue that jurors will be more likely to make fairer and more accurate judgments by taking the perspective of the defendant than by trying to maintain a detached and 'objective' point of view.
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千賀子, 池端, Chikako Ikehata, and Chikako Fukunishi-Ikehata. ""But our citizenship is in heaven" : making Christianity "Japanese" and transnational, 1895-1945." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13100528/?lang=0, 2019. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13100528/?lang=0.
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この研究は、三人の日本自由メスジスト教団指導者たち（柿原正次、河邊貞吉、土山鐵次）の宣教活動を辿り、一国家の市民であることと宗教共同体の一員であることとの接点を探求する。彼らはそれぞれ、日本人キリスト者が同胞へのキリスト教伝道者となり得ること、さらには同胞のみならずアメリカ人や中国人への伝道者にもなり得ることを証明しようとし、キリスト教を「西洋の」宗教ではなく、「日本の」宗教であると同時に国境を越えた宗教であると再定義を試みた。<br>Tracing the missionary activities of three Japanese Free Methodist leaders–Kakihara Masaji, Kawabe Teikichi, and Tsuchiyama Tetsuji–in three developing phases, this study explores these Japanese Free Methodists' attempts to make Christianity simultaneously "Japanese" and transnational, challenging assumptions that Christianity and Christian missionaries were "Western." It demonstrates how they skillfully navigated competing national and religious borders and how they shared their spiritual power with American and Chinese Christians. By pointing out the uncertain ground of national, cultural, and religious identity, this study suggests Christianity's possibilities and limitations as a way of bringing people together across boundaries of politics and nation.<br>博士(アメリカ研究)<br>Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies<br>同志社大学<br>Doshisha University
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Jung, Darryl. "The problem of the external world : a fallibilist vindication of our claim to knowledge." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59442.
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The celebrated 'veil-of-ideas' argument is a skeptical argument that moves from a certain epistemological doctrine about perception to a general negative conclusion concerning our thoughts about external material objects. Indeed, the argument concludes not only that we do not know, but that neither could we know nor even reasonably believe, any of the thoughts that we may possibly entertain concerning external material objects. The epistemological doctrine about perception referred to in the argument has been in fashion since Descartes and states that the nature of perceptual knowledge in general is inferential.<br>In this thesis, we will attempt to defuse this argument by calling into question the epistemological doctrine upon which it relies. This method of defusing the argument appeals to some of the reasoning to be found in the writings of J. L. Austin and, more recently, John McDowell. The following is a rough outline of how we will proceed. First, we will briefly look at the skeptical argument in question. Second, we will examine the mainstay of the epistemological doctrine, the Argument from Illusion, and argue that without the appeal to a certain view about the nature of appearance, this argument is ineffective. Third, we will adduce reasons for rejecting this view of appearance and put forward an alternative. This alternative requires us to construe knowledge in fallibilist rather than infallibilist terms. Thus, finally, we will examine the fallibilist and infallibilist conceptions of knowledge.
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Nylund, Jukka. "Creating People and Places : How the journalistic narrative shapes our image of the world." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Religion and Culture, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-7421.
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<p>Media is one of the most important gateways to the world beyond for most people. Every day we are presented with images of distant places and peoples and the events they are a part of. During the years the way these news events have been presented to the public has changed but still they create images within us of these distant places and peoples.</p><p>This paper discusses how the journalistic narrative is built up based on some theories describing media and how is used and/or uses the society it is a part of. The paper tries to answer questions on how the image of the distant places and peoples is built up, based on these theories and discussions within the journalistic community.</p><p>The process from source to print is complex. Several part takers have an interest in putting out their view of the world to the public. This creates a complex web of dependencies between the media and different groups in society. In the end the image presented is a side effect of how the journalistic text is built up, where the narrative has to be firmly rooted with individuals and places to gain acceptance with the public, and where people and places described often become artifacts, rooted in very specific events.</p>
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Weber, Thomas. "Our friend "the enemy" : elite education in Britain and Germany before World War I /." Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007013862.html.
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Taylor, Neil. "Derrida's 'middle voice' : writing as differance and the textual 'limits' of our world." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246662.
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Under the general theme of language and meaning, my precise purpose is to investigate Derrida's notion of writing as differance in relation to the 'problem' of the nature of the text conceptualized in terms of the binary opposition 'inside imaginary'Zoutside real'. That is, language construed as grounded within an hermetic realm of inner fictions or representational of a foundational outside world - the two limiting positions invoked by various extreme and untenable forms of anti-realism and realism. Thereby, I hope to clarify a way of providing a possible 'solution' to one of the major issues now confronting the philosophy oflanguage by means of what I call, for reasons which will become apparent, Derrida's 'Middle Voice'. In both form and content, my thesis as a whole traces the rhythm of Derridian writing as it complicates and confuses such boundaries as 'inside imaginary'Zoutside real', re-inscribing them as 'limited functions' of its movement between 'desire' and 'truth'. Hence, my Introduction begins by briefly contrasting Derrida's 'dynamic', non-linear, writing with Saussure's model of language and meaning. I then proceed to consider the implications of this with respect to Derrida's deconstruction of that major 'insidc'Zoutside' dualism of Western metaphysics, and I do this through readings of thinkers whose positions I take to err by overprivileging either side of these two extremes. Thus, Chapter One, starting from ubiquitous desire, is mainly concerned with the deconstruction of Lac an's linguistic re-interpretation of the Freudian unconscious. Chapter Two builds on my findings and, using as a paradigm the Barthesian text, considers Derridian writing as exceeding and moving 'outwards' from the concept of language over-idealized as an 'inside imaginary'. This, because of what, in Chapter Three I reveal as Derrida's 'middle voice' in terms of the 'rhythm' of writing, moving 'beyond' and 'between' any 'inside'foutside' opposition. Chapter Four thus shows Derrida's notion of the text, though historical and ethical through and through, also disturbing all reference to any foundational 'outside real' of history as envisaged by Jameson, Eagleton, and others. Finally, arguing against many of the standard interpretations, I give an original'writerly' reading of 'post analytical' philosophy in the form of Davidson's truth-conditions theory of meaning, showing that despite their radical differences, some of Davidson's ideas are remarkably congruent with Derridian writing. I draw to a close with a brief Conclusion, summarizing my findings in each of the chapters and placing Derrida's scriptural model of ,language' in relation to more general notions of complex dynamics and translation systems in, for example, the fields of cybernetics and biology. Finally, I end with a comprehensive Bibliography.
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Weber, Thomas. "Our friend "the enemy" elite education in Britain and Germany before World War I /." Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/122973796.html.
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Harshman, Jason R. "Our World Around the Corner: How Youths Make Meaning of Place, Belonging, and Citizenship." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403884488.
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Denness, Zoë Andrea. "'A question which affects our prestige as a nation' : the history of British civilian internment, 1899-1945." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3991/.
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This thesis offers a comparative analysis of British wartime civilian internment policies, focusing on three key case studies: the South African War (1899-1902), the First World War and the Second World War. It seeks to determine the place of the ‗concentration camps‘ of the South African War within the history of internment and the extent to which world war internment episodes were shaped by both historical and contemporary experiences. It suggests that reactions to internment, at both state and popular levels, are revealing about Britain‘s self-image in relation to civil rights, justice and the treatment of minorities. In particular, the thesis argues that gender ideologies were highly significant in determining the development of internment policies, playing a central role in shaping popular images of the enemy and underpinning official assumptions about the treatment of women by the state. The debates and discussions which emerged around internment policy also provide insight into the ways in which the experience of war can accentuate the exclusion of minorities and the reinforcement of racial stereotypes. The thesis examines the ways in which racialized and gendered discourses converged during each conflict to create particular understandings of the enemy, which in turn had a discernible impact on the development of internment policies.
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Lipietz, Barbara. "Building an 'African world-class' city : the politics of world city making in Johannesburg, South Africa." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1329803/.
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Many city managers across the world, including the current leadership of Johannesburg, have as a driving policy ambition improving their city’s ranking in the hierarchy of so-called ‘world cities’. This is despite the relatively well documented polarising tendencies of global and world cities’ (GaWC) development patterns and despite the availability of alternative, more equitable conceptualisations of city trajectories. The overriding objective of the thesis is to unsettle the power of GaWC as normative aspiration, especially for cities whose status in formal GaWC taxonomies is uncertain. The thesis focuses on the neglected role of politics in accounts of world city formation, drawing attention to the often highly conflictual nature of world city making. Bringing politics back in unsettles the normative appeal of the world city model and contributes to a critique of GaWC theory’s deterministic readings of city trajectories ‘in the globalised era’. It is also a crucial step in explaining and, indeed, highlighting the ongoing diversity of city paths on the ground. The Johannesburg case provides strong backing for a more politically attuned conception of world (and all) city trajectories. The active agency of city actors in attempting to shape the post-Apartheid city’s future defies GaWC’s focus on structural explanations of urban processes. Indeed, the sheer complexity of the political field uncovered in the research draws attention to the myriad ways in which politics matters in explanations of urban change. In particular, the study suggests the need to extend current dominant (northern-derived) analytical tools of city politics such as urban regime theory. A greater attentiveness to such political dynamics as circulating discourses, the workings of political parties/complex bureaucracies, or ‘everyday’ forms of politics, may well help expose the range of possible urban futures for – ‘ordinary’, ‘gobalising’ - cities. This argument is developed through a close examination of the City of Johannesburg’s current grappling with world city ambitions. Based on detailed qualitative research, the thesis demonstrates the intensely political nature of world city making in the post-Apartheid city. In particular, the emergence of the world city vision in Johannesburg is shown to be intimately related to the volatile and conflictual period of democratic transition in the city. The distinct political genesis of the vision explains the ambiguous political attitude to the world city imaginary amongst city managers, as well as its contradictory implementation in the two world city related nodes of Sandton and the inner city, which are discussed in detail. Intricate political dynamics have ensured that ‘world city-isation’ in Johannesburg has been localised through an ongoing engagement with the particular political and developmental requirements of post-Apartheid reconstruction.
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Kolb, Jakob J. [Verfasser]. "Heuristic Decision Making in World Earth Models / Jakob J. Kolb." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1223452182/34.
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Russell, Johnson Nicola. "Earhart County : the making of a World War Two wondertale." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1177.
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The aim of Earhart County was to create a book which would bring the world of World War Two aviation to a mainstream audience, utilising the magic and durability of folklore to mythologize the incredible feats of Churchill’s finest generation. Whilst entertaining its audience, it aims at giving them a glimpse at the many lives and aircraft that flew during the war. Research was conducted mainly through the study of autobiographical and biographical accounts of both famous and unknown aircrew, as well as post-war and contemporary fiction, aircraft manuals and books detailing the various aeroplanes flown throughout the war. Research was also made into the Russian wondertale and Vladimir Propp’s morphology. The result was the novel Earhart County, a novel which was planned using the structures and devices of the wondertale whilst constantly referencing the world of aviation.
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Pai, Neelesh G. "Making real-time precision adjustments to world-wide chip production." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50091.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-95).<br>Intel has recently embarked on a mission to improve its supply chain responsiveness. Currently production lead times are around 4 months requiring a forecast a quarter out. Most customer demand changes happen within lead time since customers only know their demand a few weeks before shipment. While stable production plans help maintain factory utilization rates their inflexibility can also lead to missed revenue opportunities or unneeded inventory. The challenge then is to make planning processes agile enough to react to late demand changes. The FAB has a 2-3 month throughput time or latency. The subsequent Assembly-Test (ATM) operation has a 1-2 month latency. Increasing competition requires the striking of a balance between competitive service levels and excess inventory. This Thesis looks to develop ways of making more real-time tactical demand updates to production plans used by the global factory network to improve Supply Chain Responsiveness. Using business analytics and organizational processes analysis, ways of making late demand changes to the production plan are evaluated. The project focuses on Intel's global ATM network due to its proximity to end customer demand. A holistic solution to use available intelligence is proposed. The focus is on creating data visibility across the supply chain and on putting feedback loops in planning processes to intercept planning processes at various points with new information as and when it becomes available.<br>(cont.) Issues examined include demand signal generation, the choice of different demand signals, solver algorithms to convert demand inputs to a global production plan, inventory target setting and implementation in production plan and finally ATM processes such as SDD (delayed product differentiation at the semi-finished goods warehouse) for Product Mix and volume determination. The hypothesis is that this will lead to a better understanding of the interaction between various planning processes.<br>by Neelesh Pai.<br>S.M.<br>M.B.A.
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Young, Paul Kristian Frederick. "The great exhibition of 1851 : making sense of the world." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2002. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520236.
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My thesis attends to economic, scientific, imperial, cultural, and religious modes of thought which underpinned the Great Exhibition, focusing particularly upon the mid-nineteenth century discourse of political economy. It offers a critical analysis of a broad scope of literature, ranging from texts concerned specifically with the Exhibition to works of fiction which reflect concepts, motifs, and issues pertinent to this example of Victorian visual culture. The Great Exhibition of 1851 can be understood as an event which was intended to provide visual form to a narrative of capitalist progress, a story which told of the material advance and metaphysical improvements inherent to an international division of labour. Exhibition commentary suggested that through the systematic revelation of global industry, the display would make sense of the way the world should work, indicating an autochthonous, providential symmetry to international commerce, and highlighting particular goods, industrial practices, and technologies which would provide the foundations for a dynamic, mutually beneficial global capitalist order. The study examines writing which did indeed herald the display as a systematic rendition of human industry, underpinned by a coherent, cogent, and universally comprehensible narrative. However, it also analyses commentary which laid emphasis on the bewildering nature of the spectacle, pointing to an absence of commercial sense and narrative. The fact that the display was not universally seen to evince the story which political economy would tell of the industrial world manifests the limited nature of this narrative. Moreover, it draws attention to the fact that only through metropolitan intervention and coercion could such a story be told. The project considers the Great Exhibition in terms of industrial capitalism's desire to create a world after its own image; it also demonstrates the complexities and difficulties which characterised such a representational endeavour.