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How We Wear: Creating Clothing of Identity and Connection
Get PDFThe clothes we choose to wear are often a representation of the identity we wish to project into the world, acting as a form of self expression and impacting the way we experience our environments. Creative acts of making also allow an opportunity to represent selfhood, as our experiences, stories, and identities are actively integrated in the product of our labour through our participation in these creative processes. The act of making clothing then becomes an invaluable resource in understanding and representing ourselves to the world around us. This thesis seeks to explore the relationships that exist in our acts of making by engaging with the creative act of making clothes. The processes of making these articles of clothing are displayed through written accounts of feelings, stories, inspirations, and experiences while making, providing insight and contributions to a stronger sense of self and understanding of identity
"I Can't Even Sign off on a Hired Car": Three Emic Studies of Middle Manager Empowerment and Disempowerment in a Greedy Institution
Get PDFThe construct of empowerment is understood to comprise a person’s motivational belief that they are empowered and the antecedent factors that influence this belief. Not all antecedent factors have received equal attention in organizational studies. Organizational context, for example, is surmised to influence empowerment beliefs, but the strength and nature of this influence has not been studied in depth. Moreover, the construct of disempowerment has not been well developed in organizational studies, and how organizational context can influence disempowerment is even more obscure. This thesis addresses these gaps by exploring how empowerment and disempowerment are perceived in a specific organizational context – that of a greedy institution. It does so through three emic studies of middle managers in a police organization. Each paper applies grounded theory methods to explore, first, how middle managers in a greedy institution conceptualize empowerment; second, how they experience disempowerment; and finally, what factors they identify as influencing their empowerment or their disempowerment. Our findings enable us to, first, suggest that middle managers in a greedy institution view the relationship with their superior as central to their concept of empowerment; second, that they attribute disempowerment to either the behavior of their superior or their organizational culture, and that their primary behavioral reaction is to accept being disempowered without protest; and third, that the relationship dynamics of empowerment and disempowerment appear to lie on a continuum, so that any single dynamic either empowers or disempowers depending on its strength and direction. Taken together, these three papers contribute to the research and practice of empowerment by offering insights into how organizational context may influence empowerment beliefs and provide concepts to enable further research to develop a robust construct of disempowerment in management studies
Parallel Processing Based Techniques for Multimodal Video Filtering in Large-Scale Data Systems
Get PDFThe rapid growth of video and audio data presents challenges in efficiently extracting meaningful insights from large datasets. This research addresses the need for scalable and accurate multimodal content filtering, particularly for applications such as surveillance and assisting individuals with memory-related challenges. Traditional video filtering methods often face challenges with scalability and contextual understanding when filtering audio and visual data. A multimodal video filtering technique is devised, integrating Natural Language Processing (NLP) for dialogue analysis, object detection models for visual content identification, and parallel processing techniques for efficient data handling. A proof-of-concept prototype is developed to demonstrate the system’s ability to filter videos based on user-specified dialogues and objects, enhance context-aware filtering, and detect critical events in real time. Results of experiments performed on the prototype provide several insights into system behaviour and performance
La Migration Forcée au Canada
Get PDFThis book is available in open access to all readers. Please download the book and consult the copyright page and acknowledgments to determine the organizations responsible for financially supporting that access, in addition to McGill-Queen's University Press (https://www.mqup.ca) and Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (https://carleton.ca/lerrn) with the assistance of the Carleton University Library. The series editors would really appreciate hearing about readers' experiences and uses of this edition of the ebook. To share, please write to [email protected] migrations forcées ont façonné la création du Canada en tant qu'État colonisateur et de peuplement. Elles constituent une caractéristique déterminante de nos réalités nationales et mondiales contemporaines. De nombreuses personnes au Canada ont une expérience directe ou indirecte de la réinstallation et de la protection des réfugiés, de la traite des personnes et des déplacements causés par le changement climatique. La migration forcée au Canada est une ressource d’envergure dans le domaine en plein essor des études sur les migrations. L’ouvrage s'appuie sur des perspectives disciplinaires multiples. Des auteures et auteurs issues des mondes de la recherche, de la pratique et des savoirs autochtones mettent en lumière les expériences vécues de déplacement et les politiques migratoires à tous les paliers - municipal, provincial, territorial et fédéral - avec une attention particulière portée à l’expérience québécoise et aux minorités francophones du Canada. Depuis les premiers déplacements d'Autochtones et le colonialisme de peuplement, en passant par l'esclavage des Noirs jusqu'à l'apatridie, la traite des personnes et la migration climatique, les chapitres montrent comment la migration humaine est façonnée par des identités et des structures qui se recoupent. Les discussions sur le handicap, la race, la classe, l'âge social et l'identité de genre sont particulièrement novatrices. Situant le Canada dans le cadre de tendances, de normes et de structures internationales plus larges - à la fois passées et présentes - La migration forcée au Canada fournit des outils incontournables pour évaluer les informations émanant des journalistes, des représentants du gouvernement, des collègues et d'organisations non gouvernementales. L’ouvrage propose également de nouvelles pistes d'enquête, de discussion, de recherche et d'action
