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Why the way we consider the body matters – Reflections on four bioethical perspectives on the human body
No full textAbstract Background Within the context of applied bioethical reasoning, various conceptions of the human body are focused upon by the author in relation to normative notions of autonomy. Results The author begins by descriptively exploring some main positions in bioethics from which the "body" is conceptualized. Such positions conflict: the body is that which is constitutive of the individual's experience and perception, or it is conceived of materially or mechanistically; or as a constructed locus, always historically and culturally transformed. The author goes on to suggest a methodological approach that dialectically considers embodiment from four different perspectives: as bodily self-determination, as respect for the bodily unavailability of the other, as care for bodily individuality; and lastly, as acknowledgement of bodily-constituted communities. These four perspectives encompass autonomy in two of its main interpretations: as the capability of a person to act independent of external forces, and as the moral ideal of pursuing individual wishes by means of role distance, self-limitation and universalization. Various bioethical cases are utilized to show how the four perspectives on the body can complement one another. Conclusion The way we consider the body matters. The author's dialectical method allows a premise-critical identification and exploration of bioethical problems concerning the body. The method is potentially applicable to other bioethical problems.</p
Silke Forlag : Building Brand Equtiy for a Publisher
No full textThe purpose of this master thesis is to contribute to the knowledge about increasing
the brand equity for a publisher. More specifically the thesis emphases on the
communication the publisher sends out to consumers, in order to get the consumer to
be aware of the publisher when buying books. Making the consumer notice the
publisher and their values and not only the author or the book itself. Silke Forlag has
been chosen as the publisher to be analyzed for this case.
The theoretical framework for this study mainly focus on brands, brand equity and
brand knowledge. The first part defines and elaborates about brands, brand equity and
brand knowledge. The elements of brand awareness and brand image are also
explained. The second part focuses on how to manage and build brand equity through
different strategies and Keller´s (2008) guidelines for manage consumer based brand
equity and his pyramid is applied.
In order to map out todays situation, a qualitative research has been executed, where
both Silke Forlag and the end consumers have been interviewed. The collected data
have then been analyzed and systemized and viewed in the light of the theory. The
focus has been on what associations the consumers have towards the publisher.
From the findings in this thesis, Silke Forlag have done many things right in terms of
associations and having a unique focus, but the focus have not been strong enough on
the end users. It seems that consumer do not consider what publisher is behind the
book. It is more important for the consumers who have written the book and how it
looks. The research shows that Silke Forlag needs to be more active in marketing
themselves as a brand, in order to create resonance towards the consumers
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program
No full textThe Founder and President of Ivy Child International, Rose Pavlov and author, Autumn Silke developed and implemented a customized 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) curriculum to provide techniques and strategies for an inner-city adolescent population to cope with stress. Students and teachers were given pre, mid, and post assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. The results indicate a significant reduction in disciplinary action taken as well as a reduction in stress reported by both students and teachers
Adult and Continuing Education in France
No full text"The English language volume offers a current stock-take of central areas in adult and vocational further education in France. The author Silke Schreiber-Barsch bases her work on various types of data and information. Beginning with historical developments, Schreiber-Barsch covers the topics of political, financial and institutional framework conditions, as well as offer, participation and teaching personnel. In closing, she outlines the current research status in terms of adult education and its role in the third level education system.
The regional portrait offers well founded starting point and good orientation for getting to know the French system for adult and vocational further education.
Adult and continuing education in France
No full textDer englischsprachige Text liefert eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme zu den zentralen Bereichen der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung in Frankreich. Die Autorin Silke Schreiber-Barsch stützt sich auf vielfältige Daten und Informationen. Beginnend mit der historischen Entwicklung spannt Schreiber-Barsch den Bogen über die politischen, finanziellen und institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen bis zu Angebot, Teilnahme und Lehrpersonal. Abschließend umreißt sie den Forschungsstand zur Erwachsenenbildung und deren Rolle im Hochschulsystem.
Das Länderporträt bietet fundiertes Einstiegswissen und eine gute Orientierung über das System der Erwachsenen- bzw. Weiterbildung in Frankreich.The English language volume offers a current stock-take of central areas in adult and vocational further education in France. The author Silke Schreiber-Barsch bases her work on various types of data and information. Beginning with historical developments, Schreiber-Barsch covers the topics of political, financial and institutional framework conditions, as well as offer, participation and teaching personnel. In closing, she outlines the current research status in terms of adult education and its role in the third level education system.
The regional portrait offers well founded starting point and good orientation for getting to know the French system for adult and vocational further education
Music made visible in time and space : concepts of simultaneity in tone-eurythmy choreography
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 105-113).Eurythmy is an art of movement that expresses music and speech. This dissertation explores eurythmy's musical field, called tone-eurythmy, in its multifaceted appearances, background and within its philosophical context. Tone-eurythmy, carried out by performers moving in space and time, makes music visible. It transforms music into a new movement-art form, that of audible-visible music, by expressing musical components as well as the artistic intentions within a composition and those held by the performing artists. The dissertation examines how musical concepts are seen by eurythmists to integrate ideas of wholeness and to understand music as both audible and inaudible. It draws on studies and findings from music psychology to show distinct effects of musical elements on the human being, and to indicate the similarities between those and the qualitative expressions of music through tone-eurythmy
Gender Differences in Political Participation: Comparing Street Demonstrators in Sweden and the United Kingdom
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record.Research on gender and politics has primarily focused on women’s participation in women’s movements and institutional politics separately. Our paper is innovative in multiple respects: First, employing a comparative perspective we analyse what impact gender regimes have on participation in street protests. Second, we study the relationship between participation in electoral and protest politics and how this relationship is gendered. Third, we compare the participation of men and women in social movements. We are able to do this by drawing on nuanced survey data of five street demonstrations in the UK and Sweden which we benchmark against the more widely used European Social Survey. Our comparative research demonstrates that involvement in protest and institutional politics varies by gender, country and context. Our findings have important implications for gender equality in terms of social inclusion and political representation and contribute to political sociology, sociology of gender, and social movement research.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)British Academ
Bringing the Mass Media in. The Contribution of the Mass Media for Understanding Citizens’ Attitudes towards the European Union
No full textEconomic considerations, identity related considerations and cueing theory are used for explaining citizens’ attitudes towards the European Union. Yet, all of this research has failed to show how elite cues on interests and identities actually reach the citizens. As a consequence, the author argues that domestic mass media as the most widely used source for citizens’ information about the European Union has the potential to fill this missing link. Mass media actively construct reality by promoting ideas (agenda-setting and framing) and thereby shaping processes of socialization and persuasion. In this article the author discusses theoretical concepts of how mass media might affect citizens’ attitudes, summarizes what we know about the role of domestic mass media in the course of EU integration, derives research desiderates and finally shows why knowledge on the link between mass media and citizens is paramount to understand the future of EU integration
Ein Sprechen wird organisiert. Andrea Frasers Projekt Eine Gesellschaft des Geschmacks
No full textSILKE BANGERT A Speaking/Vocalisation is Organised - Andrea Fraser’s Project A Society of TasteIn 1993 the US-American artist Andrea Fraser realised the exhibition project A Society of Taste with and at the Kunstverein München. In the run-up to it she interviewed board members of the Kunstverein on questions of self-conception and taste. She arranged the answers into an audio collage that could have been heard in the Kunstverein’s exhibition rooms, the written version was printed in a publication. Artworks borrowed from the board members that were partly mentioned in the audio installation were also part of the exhibition and publication.In this article this project setting is analyzed according to its different speaker positions by means of Pierre Bourdieu’s explanations on “What Does Speaking Mean”[1]. To explain the mechanism and efficacy of existing speech acts the author adopts the stylistic device of passing a skeptron (scepter) used by Bourdieu, the passing of a scepter as a symbolic gesture authorization to speak. Thus, she develops a chain of authorizations for speakers not excluding herself.[1] Pierre Bourdieu, What Does Speaking Mean? On the Economy of LinguisticChanges, German edition, Vienna 2005.
Dünnglaskonzepte für architektonische Anwendungen
No full textDieser Beitrag untersucht das Potenzial von Dünnglas für architektonische Anwendungen und berichtet über zwei Dünnglaskonzepte, die an der TU Delft in einer Reihe von Masterarbeiten unter der Leitung des Autors entwickelt wurden. Das erste Konzept thematisiert flexible und adaptive Dünnglasscheiben, die ihre Form als Reaktion auf externe Parameter verändern können. Das zweite Konzept untersucht dünne Glasverbundplatten, bei denen dünne Glasverkleidungen mit (3Dgedruckten) Kernelementen kombiniert werden, um starke, steife und dennoch leichte Glasfassadenplatten herzustellen. Von ersten Designstudien bis hin zur Entwicklung von Prototypen zeigt sich, dass beide Konzepte sehr vielversprechend und für weitere vertiefende Untersuchungen geeignet sind. Dieser Beitrag ist weitestgehend aus [1] übersetzt.Also published as Special Issue CE/papers, Volume 3, Issue 1, Special Issue: Glasbau 2019 Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Structural Design & Mechanic
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