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What is the experience of vivid dreaming and its impact on the dreamer’s life? A phenomenological inquiry
Get PDFDreams that are impactful continue to hold significance throughout a dreamer's life, shaping their perceptions, emotions, and behaviours. Psychological research has been challenged by methodological difficulties owing to the fact that dreams can only be studied through first-person accounts. Building upon the work of Pagel & Vann (1992), Kuiken & Sikora (1993), and Olsen, Schredl, and Carlsson (2020), this study, grounded in existential-phenomenological philosophy, aims to deepen our understanding of how vivid dreamers are affected upon awakening. Through structured existential analysis (SEA) with eleven purposefully selected participants aged between 22 and 45, their profound dreams were explored, revealing three temporal themes (Dreaming as Being, Awakening to Being, and Living with the Dream) and nineteen subthemes that encompassed personal, social, physical, and spiritual dimensions. Notably, the study uncovered novel findings related to transformative encounters within their dreams, significantly altering the participants' perceptions of themselves, others, and their relationship to their dreams. The participants' psychological journeys and existential concerns, including freedom and responsibility, isolation and connectedness, death and embodiment, and meaning and meaninglessness, emerged as key themes. Unexpected novel themes, 'Accumulating Insight', 'Replaying Dreams: Assembling Meaning from Experiences', and Coping Mechanisms in the Dream's Wake: The Compulsion to Move Forward, illustrated their sense of immersion and engagement with dream content, leading to experiences of complex emotions such as shame, guilt, and anger. Moreover, the study revealed the transformative potential of vivid dreams in the participants' lives, providing them with insights that led to overcoming struggles, personal growth, and the development of strong relationships from the insights of their dreams. These novel findings offer valuable implications for counselling psychologists, suggesting that vivid dreams can be valuable tools to explore dreamers' profound lived experiences facing existential realities. By addressing existential concerns and exploring opportunities for personal growth, vivid dreams can have an ongoing impact by enhancing individuals' self-understanding and well-being, as well as psychotherapy and academic training for counselling psychologists
Entwicklung eines Modells für disruptive Produktinnovationen in der deutschen Automobilindustrie vor dem Hintergrund älterer Kunden
No full textThis thesis explores a new paradigm within the automobile industry, focusing on its implications for product development in the German car industry. The primary objective is to create a model for disruptive product innovations in the German automotive market, with attention to the context of older customers. Through a critical review of existing literature on the industry, disruptive innovation, and the interaction of elderly customers with advanced technology, a scientific gap is identified. This gap pertains to the challenges of integrating electrification and digitalization into vehicles traditionally dominated by hardware engineering, as managed by established car manufacturers.
This research examines traditional methods and strategies in new product development within the automotive industry, considering the ongoing transitions. The aim is to develop a model for disruptive product innovations, enabling traditional OEMs to adapt their development strategies and maintain competitiveness in the evolving industry landscape.
The development of the final model is carried out using a case study approach, which involves both document research and expert interviews. This methodology allows for an in-depth understanding and application of theoretical concepts in real-world scenarios.
For assessing the findings and enhancing the validity of the model, qualitative content analysis is employed, following Mayring's approach. This method ensures systematic and insightful evaluation of the data collected from various sources.
The development of a new product development model for disruptive innovation (NPED) provides a notable contribution to closing the identified research gap by providing a solid foundation for developing disruptive innovations within the new paradigm of the German automotive industry, considering the needs of older individuals.
The industry of established OEMs is undergoing a transformation toward a new paradigm, characterized by digitalization and a higher frequency of disruptive innovations, rather than the incremental innovations of the past. Traditional manufacturers must find ways to adapt their structures to thrive within this new paradigm. The NPED model offers an approach for traditional OEMs to successfully navigate and compete in this evolving landscape
Virtuous or downward spirals – a qualitative exploration of the interconnections between student belonging, engagement, and anxiety over time
Get PDFStudents’ sense of belonging at university is increasingly linked to positive student success outcomes. Recent research has added greatly to understanding around the factors that affect student belonging, such as student engagement and wellbeing, however most research explores the topic through a single snapshot; limiting an understanding of how belonging interacts with these factors over time. The originality of this study lies in addressing this gap in longitudinal belonging research by exploring the online diaries and survey responses from 39 first-year undergraduate students at two English universities. Reflexive thematic analysis was utilised to understand how students described their journeys of belonging across the first year of study. The results of this study show how students perceive virtuous or downward spirals between engagement and belonging, as well as how anxiety influences how students balance acting authentically with pushing the boundaries of their comfort zones. Universities have an opportunity to utilise these findings through updated approaches to talking with students about the connections between belonging, engagement and anxiety. This could be part of social belonging interventions, personal tutoring conversations, or other student communications routes. Furthermore, the close links between belonging and engagement could be considered as part of how universities establish learning analytics approaches – recognising that changes in students’ engagement patterns are likely to be closely linked to changes in students’ sense of belonging. The article ends with recommendations for practice on these above topics, as well as reflecting on limitations with the study design and implementation
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No full textSymphony for orchestra with piano obbligato, recorded by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra with John Randvere (piano) conducted by Robertas Šervenikas. Released on the FHR label, UK, 7 November 2025
Fostering innovation adoption for enhanced SME performance: evidence from Addis Ababa's manufacturing sector
No full textSMEs operating in transition economies, serving customers with limited purchasing power, demand frugal innovation to succeed in saturated markets with low-value and low-technology products. These SMEs rely on pricing strategies for survival and leverage internal resources and capabilities to enhance value or reduce costs. This study, conducted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's manufacturing sector, explores the link between innovation adoption and SME performance. Quantitative data from 692 respondents were analysed using structural equation modelling. Results indicate a significant correlation between innovation adoption and firm performance, attributed to human and financial resources investments and supportive organisational culture. External environmental factors had minimal impact on innovation adoption or performance. These findings provide valuable insights for policymakers and decision-makers aiming to support innovation adoption and SME performance. Findings emphasise the significance of contextual distinctions and the value of innovation studies within the unique business environment in which it operates
The impact of artificial intelligence capabilities on decision-making performance
Get PDFArtificial intelligence (AI) is touted as a game changer for managers, yet few empirical studies have measured whether AI improves managerial decision-making performance. The authors argue that AI enhances decision-making when companies have the digital capabilities to support its adoption and a business strategy to justify it. Drawing from the AI and the decision-making literatures, a research model is proposed linking AI capabilities, digital capabilities, and digital business orientation to decision-making performance. A longitudinal study of managers and structural equation modeling were used to test the model. The results show that while AI capabilities enhance decision making performance, their strongest effect is on decision speed. The findings also confirm the roles of digital capabilities and business orientation in mediating the impact of AI capabilities on decision-making outcomes, underscoring the need for companies to develop complementary assets to maximize the impact of their AI investments
From screen to destination: how Turkish and Korean TV series shape tourism preferences through visual, vocal, and celebrity appeals
No full textDespite extensive research on film-induced tourism, significant gaps persist: the lack of systematic analysis of distinct media components (Visual, Vocal, and Celebrity Effects), limited cross-cultural comparative studies, and insufficient examination of how these components differentially impact destination awareness and brand image. This study addresses these gaps by employing the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) theory to investigate how Turkish and Korean television series influence tourism intentions. This study conducted a multi-group analysis comparing Turkish series (n = 160) and Korean series watchers (n = 142) in Pakistan. Findings reveal significant cross-cultural differences: Turkish productions primarily influence destination awareness through vocal effects, while Korean content leverages both celebrity influence and visual elements to shape brand image and visitation intentions. The study contributes to tourism marketing literature by decomposing media influence pathways, demonstrating how cultural proximity mediates entertainment-induced travel motivation, and establishing that identical media components function differently across cultural contexts, informing targeted destination marketing strategies for entertainment-producing nations
A review of theatre interventions and mental health: inspiration, elicitation and dissemination
Get PDFBackground
There is limited knowledge of how theatre interventions have been deployed to address mental health issues in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Our aim was to examine the role of theatre as a research activity and explore the ways in which its research potential had been actualised in the literature, and examine the extent to which authors have addressed LMICs.
Methods
We undertook a scoping review informed by PRISMA guidelines, which yielded an initial capture of 1200 items, which was narrowed down to 21 papers, including some relevant interventions from Canada and the UK too.
Results
The literature demonstrates extensive experience of using theatre interventions, which used a variety of performance modalities. Theatre is used as a way of inspiring change, eliciting data from audience members and participants and as a way of disseminating public health messages or research findings.
Conclusions
We conclude with observations about areas which deserve further attention, such as critical deconstruction of expert-approved health messages, or the potential of the originating radical theatrical traditions to question patterns of power and legitimacy
The application of pre-trained transformer models to UK Court of Appeal legal judgments
Get PDFThe emergence of Transformer-based Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) has had a significant impact across a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) domains. Pre-training language models on curated legal corpora can assist researchers in developing models to improve performance on downstream legal NLP tasks. This paper reports experiments with pre-training and fine-tuning language models on British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) data, addressing specifically Appeal Court judgments (these being, in effect, meta-judgments on previous legal judgments). We pre-train BERT-based language models on this corpus and evaluate their effectiveness on BAILII-based domain-specific tasks such as named entity recognition (NER), multi-label classification (MLC), and question answering (QA). The performance of this is then compared to baseline RoBERTa (Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach) and DistilRoBERTa models with two publicly available PLMs specifically designed for legal text (i.e., LegalBERT and CaseLawBERT), all pre-trained on the BAILII dataset. Pre-training on BAILII improves the performance of the PLMs on downstream tasks, and domain-specific pre-training enables a relatively smaller model such as BERT to achieve performance at par with a larger model such as RoBERTa. The pre-trained PLMs are now publicly available for downstream tasks on BAILII
Unequal knowledge production and circulation in migration studies: gender and migration and feminist and decolonial perspectives
Get PDFIn this chapter, we address the uneven (e)valuation of knowledge, which is related both to how knowledge is produced as well as how it circulates, the two aspects being closely related. We seek to probe more deeply into the institutional dimensions of the uneven production and circulation of knowledge, and in particular, the ability to conduct research and its funding, the hegemony of English and its implications for research and teaching, and some reflections on how we might effectively challenge it within the context of academic reflexivity in the field of migration studies