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Morris, T. Randahl C. "Reconsidering Testimonial Forms and Social Justice: A Study of Official and Unofficial Testimony in Chile." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/30.
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Testimony flows from a story that originates long before the opportunity to be a witness about human atrocities occurs. And, ironically, testimony – the voice that is suppressed during times of state sanctioned terror – continues to flow long after the perpetrators fade from power. It is this ethereal and enduring paradox that raises the questions of what testimonial forms are, how they communicate, and whether they positively impact social justice as evidenced by enhanced communicative freedoms.
The testimonial forms of this study are narratives about human rights atrocities which emerged from the 17-year military junta in Chile led by Augusto Pinochet. This project examines the development and uses of official and unofficial testimony surrounding times of transitional justice using a multi-modal analysis incorporating narrative and historical analysis, communication ethics, and critical theory which yields a meta-analysis of testimony and the context in which it functions. This research concludes that a life cycle of testimony exists that is organic and evolving. Furthermore, due to the unique circumstances of transitional justice periods, a theory of testimony ethics is called for to increase individual communicative freedoms that lead to enhanced social justice as well as to increase the success of truth commission communication processes.
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Beck, Albert R. Hankins Barry. "All truth is God's truth the life and ideas of Frank E. Gaebelein /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5208.
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Ward, Rachel. "Truth, trauma and memory a critical analysis of truth commissions with specific reference to Liberia." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14064.
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On the 18th August 2003 in the City of Accra, Ghana, representatives of the new Liberian government signed what became known as the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). The Agreement marked the formal end of over twenty years of civil war and strife for Liberia and the Liberian people. Article XIII of the CPA outlines the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Accordingly, the Commission was mandated to provide a forum that will address issues of impunity, as well as an opportunity for both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations to share their experiences in order to get a clear picture of the past to facilitate genuine healing and reconciliation.In essence, the proposal was for individuals to share their experiences, through speech and language, of the violence and inhumane treatment suffered through the years of war, in order to provide the greater community of Liberia with a clearer understanding of their collective history and, as a result, lead the country to realise "genuine healing and reconciliation‟ through this process. Through a philosophical and psychological framework this paper seeks to explore the promises and limitations of truth commissions - with specific refererence to the truth commission established in Liberia - through a deconstruction and discussion of their central elements: truth, testimony, history and reconciliation. The paper will contest the notion posited in the mandates of truth commissions that truth is something objective and verifiable that can be found; rather, I insist that if we align our understanding of truth with Nietzschean thinking on the subject, truth commissions can foster the creation of truth through the individual's creative engagement with speech and language as they testify at truth commission hearings. The paper then goes on to discuss some of the problems inherent in the idea that, through the act of narrative, individuals can heal through a spoken testament of their traumas. Following post-modernist thinking, this paper is sceptical of claims of official truth and history which privileges certain memories and narratives and in fact subscribes to a version of history which suits the agenda of the new order and government, or those who have been tasked with writing this official truth and history. Indeed, by the very notion that truth commissions 'rewrite' the past they admit that truth and history are permeable, biased and privileged to whomever is writing it. This paper argues that despite truth commission's claims that they are therapeutic bodies aimed at the overall healing and betterment of those afflicted by the pains of war, truth commissions are in fact political bodies designed to forward the agenda of the new reigning order. In addition, this paper makes suggestions as to what elements of a truth commission can have a positive and healing effect, and could therefore lead to what I argue to be true and lasting reconciliation. The paper will contest the notion posited in the mandates of truth commissions that truth is something objective and verifiable that can be found; rather, I insist that if we align our understanding of truth with Nietzschean thinking on the subject, truth commissions can foster the creation of truth through the individual's creative engagement with speech and language as they testify at truth commission hearings. The paper then goes on to discuss some of the problems inherent in the idea that, through the act of narrative, individuals can heal through a spoken testament of their traumas. Following post-modernist thinking, this paper is sceptical of claims of official truth and history which privileges certain memories and narratives and in fact subscribes to a version of history which suits the agenda of the new order and government, or those who have been tasked with writing this official truth and history. Indeed, by the very notion that truth commission's 'rewrite' the past they admit that truth and history are permeable, biased and privileged to whomever is writing it. This paper argues that despite truth commission's claims that they are
therapeutic bodies aimed at the overall healing and betterment of those afflicted by the pains of war, truth commissions are in fact political bodies designed to forward the agenda of the new reigning order. In addition, this paper makes suggestions as to what elements of a truth commission can have a positive and healing effect, and could therefore lead to what I argue to be true and lasting reconciliation The paper then goes on to discuss some of the problems inherent in the idea that, through the act of narrative, individuals can heal through a spoken testament of their traumas. Following post-modernist thinking, this paper is sceptical of claims of official truth and history which privileges certain memories and narratives and in fact
subscribes to a version of history which suits the agenda of the new order and government, or those who have been tasked with writing this official truth and history. Indeed, by the very notion that truth commission's 'rewrite' the past they admit that truth and history are permeable, biased and privileged to whomever is
writing it. This paper argues that despite truth commission's claims that they are therapeutic bodies aimed at the overall healing and betterment of those afflicted by the pains of war, truth commissions are in fact political bodies designed to forward the agenda of the new reigning order. In addition, this paper makes suggestions as to what elements of a truth commission can have a positive and healing effect, and could therefore lead to what I argue to be true and lasting reconciliation.
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Kolesnyk, Olena. "Human and cosmic truth in William Shakespeare’s interpretation." Millenium, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/323559.
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The article is about the mythopoeic idea of unity and interrelation of the human being and the Cosmic life, and its interpretation given in the texts of W. Shakespeare’s works.
The human being, as represented in W. Shakespeare’s works, can be considered on three levels: personal, social and cosmic. As a person, a Shakespearean character is defined not only by his / her mind only, but also by the body. In the plays we see individuals of different gender, age, health and appearance. All these characteristics are relevant to the behavior of the individual and the response they get. Shakespeare skillfully shows different affects, and some states that can be explained with the help of the modern notion of hormones. All this was quite revolutionary for his epoch. Thus a human being is described as a creature with the complex psycho physiological constitution. One of the most important words in this context is "heart" that unites both physical and spiritual spheres. It brings to memory Ukrainian tradition of Cordocentrism, especially in P. Yurkevich’s interpretation.
The metaphor of "body" is sometimes used in the pays to describe a social unity. Shakespeare was not a revolutionary, or even a political radical. Sometimes he shows the common people as politically deluded and easily lead. But mostly the commoners are portrayed as persons possessing the common scene and the moral standards, that guarantee the return to norm after social and political upheavals. It is important to note, that Shakespeare shows the kings as persons with weaknesses and problems, who must work hard to keep themselves and their country in order. In many plays he makes his monarchs declare the principal equality of human beings, with all the social differences appearing as secondary and transitory characteristics. Moreover, the same can be said about all the differences, underneath which all the humans are basically the same creatures with the same wants. All of them can suffer and thus are worthy of sympathy. There are some hints that animals can also be seen in the same context. This thought foreshadows the contemporary notion of animal rights an human responsibility for the planet.
On the Cosmic level, the human beings are shown as the integral parts of the greater whole. In many plays there are statements reflecting the medieval model of the Universe, which goes back to the mythopoeia. The basic concept is the interrelation between the state of a person, of social group and of the world. Both the nation and its ruler were hold responsible for the cosmic state of affairs. The violation of the "Truth of the King" may have lead to turning the country into the Wasteland. This important mythologeme underlies all the plot of "King Lear". Taking this into consideration helps us to understand many obscure points. One of them is the behavior of the protagonist, that was traditionally explained only as the complete unreason of a madman who in the times of crisis asks irrelevant questions. In truth, Lear asks about the cause of the apocalyptical storm, which, on his opinion, was the direct result of some great sin. It is very close to the Greek belief, reflected in Sophocles’ "Oedipus", where the plague was sent by gods to punish the ruler’s crime. This belief also explains why in all Shakespearean plays – again, most noticeably in "King Lear" – there is an obligatory explanation in the finale. All the characters must tell their story and their confessions should be taken as forming the part of one general story. Shakespeare shows that the truth must be known and upheld, whatever the cost. Only thus the normal personal, social and cosmic life can continue. It doesn’t mean that all the plays are what was in the Soviet tradition called the "optimistical tragedies". Sometimes the losses are too great and the future is dubious. But it is the revealing of the human and cosmic truth that makes any future possible. In "King Lear" we also see the non-Aristotelian formula of catharsis, that sums up all the meaning of the suffering and losses: a person must learn compassion to restore or compensate what was destroyed in the blind egotistical strife.
All these deeper senses of the plays, revealed by means of applying the principles of culturological hermeneutics, reflect the vestiges of the ancient belief in the human responsibility for the general state of the world. Such ideas, discarded by the Modern European Rationalism, are re-actualized in our times of the global ecological crisis, that demands a new level of awareness and new struggle with the human selfishness on all the levels: personal, social and universal. Taking into consideration these hidden meaning allows us deeper understanding of the Shakespearean tragedy. It can have both theoretical and practical importance, the latter being connected with the outlook-forming role of art. In the post-soviet theatres there is a tendency to turn the tragedies into the absurdist plays. It is an easy way for a director. But now it is more important to show that something can be, and must be done.
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Mannix, Aoife. "Contemporary Irish life writing : how fictional is the truth?" Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2014. http://research.gold.ac.uk/11034/.
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This thesis comprises a memoir entitled ‘Is It Yourself?’ and a critical commentary. The memoir tells the story of three generations of Irish women, the author, her mother and her grandmother. It describes the impact of family secrets and lies on their sense of identity. The commentary examines the process of writing the memoir within the context of contemporary Irish life writing. It looks at the difficult relationship between truth and fiction in autobiographical writing. It consists of an introduction that gives an overview of how issues of truth telling are particularly complex in an Irish literary context. The first chapter then looks at the connections between memory and place with reference to the work of J. M. Synge. The second chapter examines the use of language in life writing, particularly the influence of the Irish language on the memoir writer Hugo Hamilton. The third chapter looks at the role of the self as narrator, specifically in relation to Irish women writers and sexuality with reference to the work of Nuala O’Faolain and Nell McCafferty. The conclusion considers the idea of truth as multiple and permeated by fiction by looking at the writing of Brendan Behan and John McGahern as well as the influence of the short story and other forms of fiction on Irish life writing. Throughout, there is a connection made between the principal theme of the memoir, the difficulty of telling the truth in real life, and the difficulties of writing the truth on paper.
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Segal, Ariel Jacob. ""Scientific truth, rightly understood, is religious truth" the life and works of Reverend Edward Hitchcock,1793-1864 /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3286.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of History. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Jardine, Varushka. "The Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2010. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03112010-141422.
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Joakim, Olsson. "Knowledge, truth and the life-affirming ideal in Nietzsche’s perspectivism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-340449.
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Norris, Timothy John. "Hans-Georg Gadamer : poetics and truth in the human sciences." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4925/.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer argues that understanding is rooted in conversation and that it is understanding that shapes the human sciences. By showing how words reveal their conceptual value in conversation, we have to question the human sciences attachment to method. The alienating effect of an instrumental view of language is the key issue in this work. We focus on how we communicate as ethical and lyrical subjects in the human sciences while observing scientific protocols. The key question that dominates the current work is: how can poetics and truth, seen as a primary part of our verbal experience of the world, come to capture the problem of self-understanding and concept formation in the human sciences?
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Kristenson, Olle. "Pastor in the Shadow of Violence : Gustavo Gutiérrez as a Public Pastoral Theologian in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-109762.
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This dissertation is a study of the role of Gustavo Gutiérrez as a public pastor in the 1980s and 1990s in Peru. His collaboration with the Lima newspaper La República from the early 1980s gave him a figurative pulpit from which he addressed the Peruvian public on specific occasions. The fundamental question in the dissertation is: How did Gutiérrez respond as pastor to the Peruvian public and how did he express his pastoral concern? The study analyses materials that has not been object for previous studies, such as theological essays and articles in newspapers and periodicals. With inspiration from discourse analysis four discourses have been identified in Gutiérrez’ texts. These discourses interact and through this interaction Gutiérrez formulates his pastoral message. For the socio-political analysis two political discourses are used, the radical and the liberal. The radical political discourse deals with justice for the poor and liberation from oppression as a condition for peace and harmony in society, which are in focus for the liberal political discourse. With the Catholic theological discourse Gutiérrez sets the socio-political analysis in relation to Catholic doctrine and through the pastoral theological discourse he gives reason for hope and inspiration to action. As an advocate for a theology of life, Gutiérrez urges those who read and listen to him to break the pattern of death and opt for this theology of life. In his role as pastor, Gutiérrez speaks words of comfort and encouragement but also words of admonition and warning to those in power who have the capacity to transform society.
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Delgado, Andres. "Memory and Truth in Human Rights: The Argentina Case. The Issue of Truth and Memory in the Aftermath of Gross Human Rights Violations in Argentina." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4306.
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This thesis focuses on the importance of truth and memory in the process of transitional justice, within the context of the aftermath of gross violations of human rights that occurred during the military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 in Argentina. The military junta that ruled Argentina took power under the pretext of national security, arguing that an enemy threatened to destabilize and destroy Argentine society. During the period of the military dictatorship an estimated 30,000 people "disappeared"; relatives of those disappeared mobilized and formed human rights organizations to confront the military regime for its abuses. Once the dictatorship collapsed and democratic rule was reestablished these human rights organizations changed their focus, mobilizing once again to find their missing relatives, learn the truth, and prosecute those responsible of any crimes.
A series of amnesty laws and pardons protected the perpetrators of many of the crimes of the military regime through most of the 1990's, until in 2005 the Argentine Supreme Court declared those laws unconstitutional. During the period before the 2005 ruling human rights organizations worked hard to gather the truth about the crimes of the military regime and ensure these crimes were not forgotten. Their initiatives included the famous weekly march to the Plaza de Mayo by members of Madres (Mothers), one of the most important human rights organizations in Argentina; escraches (reveal what is hidden) and public protests by HIJOS (Sons and daughters of the disappeared), actions in which members of HIJOS would go to the houses of known members of the military juntas and protest at their front doors; and programs to find missing grandchildren by Abuelas (Grandmothers), a human rights organization dedicated to searching for the missing children of the disappeared; and others. Because of the structure of terror during the military junta, most Argentines did not know exactly what was happening to the missing persons, and they were afraid to ask. The truth gathering initiatives and the official report of the commission charged with investigating the junta, CONADEP, came into being in response to this lack of knowledge. They helped to inform the Argentine people and the new generations of what had happened during the military dictatorship in hopes of making sure that such abuses do not occur again.
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Henderson, David W. "Bringing truth to life communicating biblical truth to a changing world : a practical handbook for preaching, teaching and sharing faith /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Hammond, Nicholas. "Playing with truth : language and the human condition in Pascal's Pensees." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334930.
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Elsherif, Ikram Ahmed Ibrahim. "'A truth about the interior life' : Toni Morrison and African-American history." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322370.
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Bonabom, Isidore. "The development of a truth regime on 'the human' : human rights in the Gold Coast (1945-57)." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38621/.
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The thesis proposes to approach the idea of human rights as a specific truth regime on ‘the human' that contests those regimes of falsity which deny the essence of humanness on grounds such as race, sex, colour, gender, national or social origin. This theoretical proposition is supported by a case study of the deployment of the idea of human rights in the Gold Coast from 1945 up to Ghana's independence from colonial rule in 1957. As such, the study analyses how the concept of human rights, affirmed in the 1945 United Nations Charter and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and articulated in the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, influenced domestic politics in one British colony in Africa. At the same time, the study highlights the way in which post-World War II nationalism produced some of the most important political changes affecting this region in this era. Relying on a first-hand investigation of archival and primary sources, the thesis scrutinizes the formulation of demands for the collective right to self-determination which emanated from nationalist movements, the evolving drafts for a bill of rights in Ghana's Independence Constitution and the debates on whether or not to extend the European Convention on Human Rights to the Gold Coast. The particular and disprivileged position of women in the colony is a subject of critical commentary throughout the thesis. By examining critically the emergence of the human rights idea, the study draws attention to the complex interplay of factors as well as actors that inspired a new-fangled notion of universal rights, while highlighting the way politics, including Cold War politics, contributed to define the subject of human rights in an ambiguous, incomplete but promising way.
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Abduroaf, Muneer. "Truth Commissions: Did the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission serve the purpose for which it was established?" Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_6028_1359554144.
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<p>Since the 1980&rsquo<br>s, many dictatorships around the world have been replaced by new democracies. These old dictatorships were notorious for their human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured<br>and many others were disappeared. When the new governments came into power, they had to confront these injustices that were perpetrated under the predecessor regime. This was necessary to create a culture of human rights<br>promote a respect for the law and access to justice. Many confronted these injustices in different ways, some granted amnesty, some prosecuted and others instituted truth commissions. This research paper focuses on truth commissions. The research focuses particularly on the study of the South African Truth Commission. The mandate of the South African Truth Commission is analysed and the investigation into whether the commission served the purpose for which it had been established is discussed.</p>
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Rattazzi, Erin Alexis. "Narrating rape at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14273.
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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The seven women who shared their stories of rape at the human rights violation hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ('TRC') in South Africa offer a nascent public record of women's experiences of rape under apartheid. This project is motivated by a desire to examine how these testimonies of rape were affected by explicit and implicit underlying narrative frameworks associated with the language of the TRC, and that of rape. In particular, this project analyses the extent to which the juxtaposition of these two frameworks at the TRC may have either enabled or constrained the seven women's narratives.
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Dumbuya, Lansana. "The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-conflict Sierra Leone." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/988.
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"This work is arranged into six chapters. Beyond the introduction, chapter two highlights atrocities of the war and evaluates the diplomacy process, which eventually resulted in the creation of the TRC. It briefly examines the Abidjan and Conakry Peace Plan and specifically elaborates on the Lome Peace Accord, which finally culminated in the promulgation of the Truth and Reconciliation Act of 2000. The human rights and humanitarian law dimension of the conflict will also be addressed. Chapter three gives a general description of truth commissions and analyse the TRC with specific refernce to its structure, function, jurisdiction, mandate, proceedings, evidence, and its investigative methods, which is the backbone of the Truth Commission. It will aslo assess whether naming names would be a potent tool for the Commission to bring perpetrators to shame. From a human rights perspective chapter four address issues such as healing and reconciliation, truth, forgiveness, and assesses whether they are effective remedies for human rights violations. The issue of amnesty, especially Article IX of the Lome Peace Accord, will be evaluated. This chapter will also discuss the issue of impunity. Chapter five deliberates on the relationship between tribunals and truth commissions generally and specifically elaborate on the TRC and the Special Court with specific reference to their legal framework, composition, jurisdiction, information sharing, and whether both institutions serve as accountability mechanisms. Chapter six concludes the dissertation by determining whether or not there are any lessons one can learn from the Commission. It closes by making recommendations for the smooth functioning of the Commission and how it can effectively contribute to the needs of traumatised societies." -- Chapter 1.<br>Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Jean Allain at the Department of Political Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the American University in Cairo, Egypt<br>Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2003.<br>http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html<br>Centre for Human Rights<br>LLM
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Barahona, de Brito Alexandra. "Truth or amnesty : human rights and democratization in Latin America; Uruguay and Chile." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358437.
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Perlo, Katherine W. "Animal Truth : The role of the animal in the development of Human Worldviews." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496404.
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Reed, Elizabeth. "The Fiction of Truth: Intergenerational Conflict in the Life and Works of Flannery O'Connor." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1396880375.
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Cassidy, Pierre. "Will to Power: The Philosophical Expression of Nietzsche's Love of Life." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19945.
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Any adequate interpretation of the concept of the will to power, given the radical break with the history of philosophy it presupposes, requires a preceding analysis of Nietzsche’s critique of the history of philosophy as a critique of metaphysics. Only once Nietzsche’s critique of metaphysics is properly understood as a critique of, in the broadest sense, any correspondence conception of truth, can the philosophical concept of the will to power, as a product of that critique, be understood as well. Each of the three typical types of interpretative approaches to the will to power (i.e. as a metaphysical concept, as an empirical concept, as an object of interpretive play) will provide a critically constructive opportunity to narrow an acceptable definition of Nietzsche’s positive conception of philosophy as a distinctive and unorthodox type of history, according to which any interpretation rests, not on truths, but on its author’s prejudices or fundamental values. Moreover, using Gilles Deleuze’s largely ignored or otherwise grossly misunderstood Nietzsche et la philosophie, a non-normative, post-metaphysical justification consistent with that critique can then be provided for Nietzsche’s radical reform to the philosophical method. According to Nietzsche, philosophy as a will to power is preferable to philosophy as a will to truth because it is consistent with his profound and unjustified love of life. In fact, the will to power it is the philosophical expression of that love.
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Hashemi, Dana. "The role vitamins in human life." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13181.
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Rudyk, Y. I., and S. V. Solyonyj. "IoT components integration into human life." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2021. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/19356.
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Кобякова, Ірина Карпівна, Ирина Карповна Кобякова, Iryna Karpivna Kobiakova, and V. V. Stepanov. "Modeling the human life frame concept." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/64767.
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Cognitive linguistics is a linguistic branch that considers ways of collecting, keeping and using verbalized knowledge. It is a science about language itself as well as about a reflected world picture. In its broadest meaning, world picture is regarded as a knowledge set about reality that was generated by public, group or individual consciousness. World pictures are divided into objective-reality, cognitive and linguistic pictures.
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Nichols, Angela D. "Not All Truth Commissions Are Alike: Understanding Their Limitations and Impact." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799497/.
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This dissertation project develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and thus contribute to peace and stability in the aftermath of major traumatic events (e.g. civil war, mass killings, regime changes). I identify three components of truth commission legitimacy---authority, fairness, and transparency---that facilitate beneficial outcomes for societies emerging from a period of severe human rights repression or civil war. I theorize and test how institutions with these legitimacy characteristics contribute to an increase in respect for human rights and decrease political violence in transitioning societies, thus contributing to peace and stability. In order to test the hypothesized relationships, I create a truth commission characteristic dataset that provides greater detail than existing datasets. This project is a contribution to our understanding of the relationships between human rights, institutions, conflict, and international law. It provides one explanation for the inconsistent findings of extant work concerning the impact of transitional justice, generally and truth commissions, specifically. I provide evidence that there are identifiable "best practices" that truth commissions should consider adopting. This information can assist states, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations alike in making difficult decisions regarding the transitional justice process, which is expensive and time consuming further necessitating an understanding of what practices are most crucial for achieving peace and stability.
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Wärnberg, Karl Gustel. "The Sacred Pilgrimage : The Concept of Truth in the Life and Work of Lars Skytte." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-326295.
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This thesis studies the life and work of Lars Skytte (1610-1696), a Swedish Ambassador to Portugal who converted to Catholicism and became a Franciscan theologian, in relation to the concept of Truth. For Skytte, Truth and Catholicism are synonymous. The thesis focuses on his semi-autobiographical book Peregrinatio sancta fratris Laurentii a D. P. Sueci (1658). As a sort of intellectual biography, this study aims at situating Skytte within the context of post- reformation rhetoric and theological thought. The main question guiding the thesis is in what way Lars Skytte argues for the Truth of the Catholic Church, as opposed to what he terms ‘schismatic’ and ‘heretical’ movements. Following a set of identified arguments for the Catholic Church as the religio vera, the thesis looks at how they are employed in various ways to answer the overarching question.
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Dorgan, Kelly A. "The Truth About the Surrender of My Foster Child." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1222.
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Rye, Ashley Gail. ""The truth of the life of Christ" spiritualism, naturalism and religious devotion in James Tissot's "The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ" /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 67 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1889099001&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Paulo, Conceicao Joao Faria. "Truth-telling in a pseudo-public sphere: a study of public life and democracy in Angola." Thesis, University of Kent, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.592671.
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This thesis explores the role of the "public" in Angolan politics. The first part of the thesis outlines how the notion of the "public" is perceived. This starts with a review of Jiirgen Habennas's seminal contribution - The Structural Transformation a/the Public Sphere and the debate it provoked. Subsequently, this thesis argues that for many reasons Habermas's framework is not suitable for studying the "public" in Angola, and as a result will proceed to outline an alternative approach in which the "public" is instantiated through acts and practices of truth-telling or parrhesia as understood by Michel Foucault. Having outlined the approach to this subject, the second part of this thesis moves on to reviewing the history of the "public" in Angola. Furthermore, the final part of the thesis looks at contemporary Angolan politics. Following a review of the constitutional, legal and socio-economic framework within which public life in Angola exists, the present study examines the workings of the "public" during _ ~d after Pope Benedict's visit to Angola in March 2009. Moreover, this thesis also looks at one of the few media outlets that managed to preserve its independence vis-a.-vis the political regimt} - the Catholic Radio Ecclesia. Thus, this thesis argues that the entrenched. political regime of the Movement for the Popular Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has succeeded in creating what is referred to in this thesis as a "pseudo-public sphere". In many ways this reality mimics the activities of a "genuine" public sphere as defined by Habermas. Nevertheless, this same reality is owned and controlled by the regime. Albeit this restricted atmosphere is a "counter-public sphere" emerging through acts of parrhesia, this thesis endeavours to analyse - -me complex interaction between the "pseudo-public" and the "counter-public".
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Abramovych, G. V., S. А. Ryndin, and Г. В. Абрамович. "Implementation of artificial intelligence in human life." Thesis, ВНТУ, 2019. http://ir.lib.vntu.edu.ua//handle/123456789/24131.
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The article considers the advantages and disadvantages of using artificial intelligence in human life. The risks of its usage and thoughts of prominent developers are presented.<br>В статті розглянуто переваги і недоліки використання штучного інтелекту у житті людини. Наводяться ризики його використання та думки відомих розробників.
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Leker, Laura. "Human Capital, Life Expectancy, and Economie Development." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0127.
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Dans un article de 1967, Ben-Porath a mis en évidence qu'un allongement de l'espérance de vie rendait plus rentable l'investissement en éducation. Cependant, la validité empirique de ce mécanisme au niveau macroéconomique est contestée. Le chapitre introductif de la thèse propose une revue de la littérature et discute les difficultés rencontrées pour définir une stratégie empirique pour tester l'effet Ben-Porath. La thèse apporte une contribution théorique en proposant des modélisations de l'effet Ben-Porath dont les simulations donnent une magnitude réaliste. Le chapitre 2 développe un modèle OLG dans lequel la décision d'éducation est prise selon un marchandage intergénérationnel, contrairement aux modèles existants qui supposent que la décision d'éducation revient soit entièrement au parent, soit entièrement à l'enfant. L'introduction d'un tel marchandage influe sur la dynamique de long-terme de l'économie, en particulier sur la probabilité qu'il existe une trappe à pauvreté ou une zone de croissance perpétuelle. Le chapitre 3 développe un modèle de décision d'éducation avec rendements minceriens et horizon de vie incertain. Une simulation du modèle donne une fourchette de la magnitude attendue de l'effet Ben-Porath : un gain d'une année d'espérance de vie incite à investir 0. 25 à 0. 4 années d'éducation supplémentaires. La thèse apporte également une contribution empirique en évaluant l'effet Ben-Porath sur un panel de pays de 1900 à 1980 (chapitre 3), et sur un panel de départements français sur la 2nde moitié du XIXème siècle (chapitre 4). Les résultats donnent tous un coefficient de Ben-Porath entre 0. 15 et 0. 4, ce qui correspond à l'effet théorique attendu d'après la simulation du modèle du chapitre 3.
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O'Brien, Aaron John. "Friedrich Nietzsche’s "On the Genealogy of Morality" as History Serving Life." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36198.
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1874 essay "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life" (HL) presents ideas on how the past ought to be appropriated and how history ought to be written. His 1887 book "On the Genealogy of Morality" (GM) presents an account of the historical development of European morality. Given that Nietzsche appropriates the past through writing in GM, the question arises: does GM put into practice Nietzsche’s earlier ideas from HL concerning how the past ought to be appropriated through the writing of history? I argue that GM does indeed apply some of Nietzsche’s key ideas from HL. In particular, GM remains consistent with HL insofar as it appropriates the past unhistorically, makes use of the monumental and critical modes of history, and appropriates the past in a way that encourages the flourishing of an elite kind of human being. However, Nietzsche’s manner of appropriating the past in GM also diverges from what he espouses in HL. Whereas in HL he emphasizes the usefulness and desirability of forgetting and distorting the past, in GM he exhibits a more notable concern with knowing the truth about the past. I show that this difference in approach is due to the significant change that Nietzsche’s epistemology underwent between the writing of HL and the writing of GM. This difference in approach notwithstanding, the great virtue of illuminating GM through the lens of HL is that it allows us to see more clearly how a lack of concern with truth and knowledge plays a positive role in Nietzsche’s writing of the past in GM. It also helps us to understand why he appropriates the past the way that he does in GM. Just as in HL Nietzsche thought that the past ought to be appropriated in a way that encourages the activity of genius, his writing of the history of European morality in GM is undertaken with the intent to encourage the occurrence and activity of a select kind of human being, a kind of human being that Nietzsche values above all else.
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Harrison, Makiko Ito. "The human development index : a search for a measure of human values." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2499/.
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The thesis investigates methods of evaluating indexes that measure concepts of human values. My understanding of indexes, especially on how they relate to the real world and concepts (that are the objectives of the measurement), is influenced by my study of literature on models used in economic and in physics. We learn from this study of models the following: (1) regularities described in theories do not represent real world phenomena, which consist of many different forces acting simultaneously; (2) but such regularities are true in models, because they describe specific conditions under which regularities in nature are displayed; (3) there are more than one model that can represent the same phenomenon depending on which particular aspect of the phenomenon to focus on; and (4) the success of a model has to be evaluated partly by criteria that are independent from theoretical ones. Since the role indexes play in relation to real world and concepts are similar to the role models play in relation to theories, I have applied the above knowledge to propose the following three criteria to evaluate successful indexes: (1) Purpose-dependent criteria: criteria that are based on particular motivations of the measurement project; (2) Theory-dependent criteria: criteria that are reflected in the theories that expressly or implicitly guide the development of the project of measurement; and (3) Conditions-dependent criteria: criteria that are based on the conditions under which the index measures what it is designed to measure. I apply these three criteria of successful indexes to examine two projects of measuring human values, one called the Human Development Index developed by the United Nations Development Programme and the other called the Life Satisfaction Indicator developed by an officer at the Economic Planning Agency in Japan. Among the findings from the examination of those two indexes are that they can be the products of a mixture of concerns that include convenience, conventions, practicality, politics and consistency with relevant theories, and some of these concerns may conflict with each other. Another important finding is that because there are many assumptions made and simplifications applied in order to choose a quantitative representation of a human value, the application of the measure is limited. I conclude that both in using and in evaluating indexes of human values, it is important that we are aware of such limitations, so that we can more effectively know both how to avoid misusing the indexes and how to improve them over time.
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Virani, Shafique. "The voice of truth : life and works of Sayyid Nūr Muḥammad Shāh, a 15th16th century Ismāʻīlī mystic". Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23249.
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Isma'ilism, one of the most colourful and dynamic sects of Islam, boasts a rich and fascinating history. This thesis studies the life and works of Nur Muhammad Shah, a gifted exponent of the Isma'ili Sat Panth movement in Indo-Pakistan during the 15th/16th centuries. Sat Panth, the Path of Truth, is the highly mystical form of Isma'ilism which resulted from conversion efforts in the Subcontinent during the eleventh and subsequent centuries. The legacy of the order which was fostered is to be found in its corpus of sacred religious literature known as Ginans, an appellation that suggests supreme, gnostic knowledge. The Sat Panthi Isma'ilis consider the Ginans to be the embodiment, par excellence, of the Qur'an's esoteric dimension. Nur Muhammad Shah is the last of the Sat Panth authors for whom a large body of Ginanas has been preserved.<br>This work gives a historical background of the Isma'ili movement in Indo-Pakistan, examines the career of Nur Muhammad Shah from the earliest available primary sources and disproves suggestions by previous scholars that he forsook his allegiance to the Isma'ili Imam and became the founder of his own rival sect. In addition, it provides for the first time a scholarly translation of a significant portion of the Nur Muhammad Shah's Sat Veni Moti or Tale of Truth (Larger), an important Sat Panthi mystical text.
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Farrant, Anthony James. "An ethical consideration of increasing human life spans." Thesis, University of Hull, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422037.
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Gavryliuk, O. I. "Aromatic heterocycles and their significance in human life." Thesis, БДМУ, 2021. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/18680.
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Sefcek, Jon Adam. "A Life-History Model of Human Fitness Indicators." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194693.
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Recent adaptationist accounts of human mental and physical health have reinvigorated the debate over the evolution of human intelligence. In the tradition of strong inference the current study was developed to determine which hypothesis; Rushton’s (2000) differential K theory, or Miller’s (2000a) fitness indicator model (F), better accounts for general intelligence ('g') in an undergraduate university population (N = 194). Due to the lengthy administration time of the test materials a newly developed 18-item short form of the Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM-18; Sefcek, Miller, & Figueredo, 2007) was used. There was a significant positive relationship between K and F (r = .31, p < .001), however no significant relationships were found between 'g' and either K or F (for each, r = -.06, p ≥ .05). While contrary to both hypotheses, these results may be explained in relation to antagonistic pleiotropy and a potential failure to derive within species comparisons directly from between species comparisons.
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Kaminer, Debra. "Truth commission testimony : relation to psychiatric status and forgiveness among South African survivors of human rights violations." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8038.
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The present study aimed to examine the degree to which giving TRC testimony is related to current psychiatric status and forgiveness attitudes among survivors of human rights abuses. A literature review examined the degree to which the TRC's claims are supported by the existing theoretical and empirical literature on trauma narratives and on forgiveness, and guided the way that psychological outcomes were assessed in the current study. Sunivors (n=134) who gave public, private or no testimony to the TRC completed standardised instruments measuring demographic variables, exposure to human rights abuses, current psychiatric status and forgiveness attitudes towards the perpetrator(s).
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Cross, Joanna Eleanor. "Truth to the materiality of later life : the significance of the aesthetic for the support of older people." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687277.
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Later life can be subject to an 'impoverishment of experience' (Jay, 2004): cut-price cultural expectations and community services. The argument maintained in this exploratory, interdisciplinary study is that such experience is aesthetically grounded. This research operationalises aesthetics through its foundational definition of perception through the senses, the enduring influence of Kant's (179011987) enlightenment variant on Western perceptions of ageing, and the transformational, pragmatist aesthetics of Dewey (1934) and contemporary aestheticians of the environment and the everyday. Creativity as a correlate of aesthetics is considered in inclusive, action theoretical terms (Joas, 1996). The aim: to establish whether an applied aesthetics better illuminate the everyday values and challenges faced by older men and women. This addresses a gap in the knowledge base, aesthetics in ageing studies conveyed through representational practices, the arts, or surface appearances. Fieldwork has involved a multi cultural sample of 31 older people, recruited from urban, social hubs and groups for the visually impaired. Methods have integrated auto-driven photo-elicitation or written reflections with in-depth interviews, organized around themes exploring participants' cultural attachments and social networks. Data were analysed through performative/dialogic and discourse methods (Reissman, 2008; Rose, 2007). Resultant data qualify the formative, aesthetic experience, often through senses other than sight, this foregrounding body-environment permeability. Secondly, both aesthetics and creativity, as detached from cultural imperatives, underscore the value in later of life of material, aesthetic bonds, constituting individual authority and ontological security. These considerations infer an ethical construct, a truth to the materiality of late life. This prioritises action and aesthetic sensibility towards the voice, the body and the social and physical environments that sustains both, over normative, dispositional approaches to later life support. On this basis an applied aesthetics provide an alternative voice in environmental and cultural gerontology, with practical potential for the enrichment of community services for older people.
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Meckes, Jessica L. "Telling My Truth: A Frame Analysis of Blame in Prisoner Accounts." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1250953955.
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Dancy, Geoffrey Thomas. "Do As They Say, and As They Do: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Norm Influence on Truth Commission Initiation, 1976-2003." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5381/.
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Truth commissions are bodies established in political transition, and they have the stated purpose of reckoning with human rights abuses committed by members of former regimes. The question driving this research is "Why have truth commissions increased so rapidly in the last 20 years?" This study moves beyond current research, which suggests that particular domestic political circumstances alone determine choice of transitional justice mechanisms. I argue that an international rule of behavior, the transitional restorative norm, has emerged and spread to decision-makers in countries of transition. In support of this notion, I perform a pre-theoretical historical analysis of transitional justice and develop a theory of decision-making in transition-which is later tested with quantitative statistics. This integrated approach allows for increased scientific rigor in the examination of international norms. Ultimately, the study demonstrates an interrelationship between shared ideas and political environments in the determination of domestic policy.
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Barr, Kara Elizabeth. "“In Search of Truth Alone”: John Locke’s Exile in Holland." Walsh University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1240525958.
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Klimecki, Haley M. "Expression of Human Neutrophil Elastase in K. Lactis." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/2.
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Human neutrophils are the most abundant type of white blood cell and provide the body with a line of defense against foreign, infectious microorganisms. Contained within the azurophilic granules in the cytoplasm of neutrophils are three serine proteases, Human Neutrophil Elastase, Cathepsin G, and Protease 3. Once a foreign bacterium is engulfed by white blood cells, these enzymes attack and degrade the invading body, thus killing it (Reeves et al., 2002). The focus of this research is centered on the production of one of the serine proteases, human neutrophil elastase (HNE), and while the importance of HNE can be seen, genetic mutations or improper regulation can compromise a person’s immunity. Neutropenia (a low neutrophil count) is one such disease caused by a genetic mutation of HNE that results in susceptibility to infection (Li and Horwitz, 2001). Additionally, HNE is a powerful enzyme that can attack the elastin of the lung if not properly controlled. Consequently, genetic deficiencies of alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor protein in the blood can result in emphysema because active HNE released from neutrophils is free to degrade lung tissue (Laurell and Eriksson, 1965).
Recombinant HNE is not currently available, and the enzyme must be isolated from human blood cells, which has inherent hazards. Additionally, the lack of recombinant HNE has prevented studies involving site–directed mutagenesis to study the intracellular processing of HNE near its C-terminal end where mutations have been found to result in neutropenia. Kinetic studies of the full-length HNE might shed some light on why its C-terminal region is removed before storage in cytoplasmic granules.
The HNE DNA sequence was first codon optimized for yeast and commercially synthesized. It was then fused with DNA for eGFP (enhanced green fluorescent protein) via an enterokinase cleavage site (D4K). This DNA construct (eGFP-D4K-HNE) was then inserted into the Kluyveromyces lactis (K. lactis) pKLAC1 vector, downstream of the alpha mating factor which directs proteins for secretion. Then, chemically competent GG799 cells (a strain of K. lactis) were transformed with the linearized pKLAC1-eGFP-D4K-HNE insert through a protocol from New England Biolabs. Theoretically, the gene integrates into the yeast genome upon transformation via sequences within the pKLAC1 vector that are homologous with the LAC4 gene promoter that allows for galactose utilization (Colussi 2005). Acetamide was used as a selectable marker because wild type K. lactis cells are not able to use acetamide as a nitrogen source. The pKLAC1 vector, however, contains the Aspergillus nidulans gene acetamidase (amdS) that allows only transformants to grow on plates with acetamide as the sole nitrogen source (Read 2007).
Selected colonies were transferred to both liquid and agar-based synthetic media with galactose to induce transcription and translation of the HNE gene to produce the eGFP-D4K-HNE fusion, and screened via fluorescence microscopy for production of eGFP. None of the screened colonies tested positive for the presence of the fusion protein.
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Bock, Zannie. "A Discourse Analysis of Selected Truth and Reconciliation Commission Testimonies. : Appraisal and Genre. /." Thesis, University of Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/usrfiles/modules/etd/docs/etd_gen8Srv25Nme4_2685_1260525552.pdf.
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Левковець, Олег Григорович, Олег Григорьевич Левковец, and Oleh Hryhorovych Levkovets. "Physical education, as a social phenomenon in human life." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/48637.
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Physical education - the kind of culture of the society and people. This activity and its results from the formation of physical readiness for life; on the one hand, the specific process, on the other - the result of human activity, and the means and manner of physical perfection people. In relation to culture a person acts in three ways: it develops its (consumption) is the carrier of culture and creating new cultural values. The development of "consumption" physical culture manifested in the results of this activity – in mastering knowledge of physical properties and motor abilities, "owner" of which he is [1, 3].
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Cockerman, S., Cecil Blankenship, Teresa Brooks Taylor, Jamie Branam Kridler, and Mary R. Langenbrunner. "Life After College: What Do Human Services Graduates Say?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3477.
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ADDABBO, MARGARET. "Processing of human gestures and emotions early in life." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/158165.
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I bambini iniziano a comprendere il significato dei gesti e delle emozioni altrui sin dalla prima infanzia. Lo scopo di questa tesi è di fornire un nuovo contributo a quest’area di ricerca, cercando di accrescere la nostre conoscenze sulle precoci capacità di comprensione dei gesti e delle azioni altrui. Nella Sezione 1, abbiamo messo in luce l’importanza dell’esperienza sensorimotoria per lo sviluppo dell’abilità di riconoscere gesti umani. Abbiamo dimostrato che solo gesti di prensione possibili dal punto di vista biomeccanico ma non gesti impossibili, sono in grado di orientare l’attenzione in bimbi di 6 mesi di vita, come dimostrato dalla modulazione dell’ampiezza della precoce componente ERP N290 (Capitolo 1). Un ruolo fondamentale nel riconoscimento di gesti è anche svolto dall’esperienza sensorimotoria accumulata durante il periodo pre- e postnatale. Infatti, neonati di 2 giorni di vita sono in grado di discriminare gesti di tocco da gesti di non-tocco, preferendo i primi ai secondi. Inoltre, questa preferenza visiva cambia a 3 mesi di vita, possibilmente a causa dell’esperienza accumulata durante lo sviluppo (Capitolo 2). Inoltre i neonati di pochi giorni di vita sono in grado di associare espressioni facciali familiari e di cui hanno fatto esperienza (sbadigli e singhiozzi) con i corrispettivi suoni sia in presenza che in assenza di sincronia temporale (Capitolo 3). Nella Sezione 2, abbiamo fatto luce su due aspetti importanti relativi all’elaborazione delle emozioni nella prima infanzia. Nello specifico, i nostri risultati hanno mostrato che a pochi giorni di vita i neonati sono in grado di discriminare presentazioni dinamiche di espressioni facciali rappresentanti felicità e disgusto (Capitolo 4) e, a 6 mesi di vita, il contesto emotivo è in grado di modulare a livello neurale l’elaborazione di una azione (Capitolo 5).<br>From very early in life, infants start developing some understandings about the meaning of others’ gestures and emotions. The overall aim of this thesis is to provide new insights in the field, striving to increase our understanding on processing of gestures and emotions early in life. In Section 1, we have highlighted the fundamental role of sensory-motor experience in the development of early sensitivity to human gestures. We have shown that biomechanically possible grasping gestures, but not impossible gestures, can trigger 6-month-olds shifts of attention as reflected by modulation of the amplitude of the early N290 ERP component (Chapter 1). Also pre- and postnatal sensorimotor experiences seem to play a crucial role in gesture understanding. In fact, 2-day-old newborns are able to discriminate between touching and non-touching gestures, manifesting a visual preference to the former than to the latter. Moreover, at 3 months of age spontaneous preferential responses change possibly as a result of further experiences accumulated during development (Chapter 2). Further, newborns can successfully match familiar and experienced facial gestures (i.e., yawns and hiccups) to the corresponding sound both in the presence and absence of temporal synchrony (Chapter 3). Findings in Section 2 shed new light on emotional processing in infancy. Specifically, our results have shown that already at birth newborns are able to differentiate between dynamic facial expressions of happiness and disgust (Chapter 4) and, at 6 months of age, the emotional context can modulate at the neural level the processing of an action (Chapter 5).
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Taiari, Hassen. "'Brains are Survival Engines, not Truth Detectors': Machine-Oriented Ontology and the Horror of Being Human in Blindsight." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22298.
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This paper is an examination of the horror elements found in Peter Watts’ Blindsight. In depicting an encounter with aliens, this science fiction novel explores topics such as the nature of sentience, mankind’s relationship with technology, posthumanism, and the limitations of the human body and mind. Blindsight also envisions entities (aliens, vampires, and artificial intelligences) capable of interacting with material realities inaccessible to human beings. Using Levi R. Bryant’s machine-oriented ontology, this thesis demonstrates how Watts employs these themes and issues to problematize anthropocentrism and the notion of selfhood. These elements—and more—will be discussed and shown to match the criteria associated with ontological horror.
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Bernard, Julia M., Amber Seidel, Mary Oglesby, and Colleen Pagnan. "Mothers in HDFS Academic Life: When Your Professional Life and Real Life Intertwine." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5808.
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