230 research outputs found
“Hermaphrodite Reflected In Jennifer Eugenides’s Middlesex (2002): A Queer Approach”
No full textABSTRACT
This research is purposes to describe about Calliope ( Cal) Helen Stephanides, an Hermaphrodites who have twice sexuality organs identification based on searching her-self of live as hermaphrodite in Middlesex’s Novel author by Jennifer Eugenides . The purposing of this research are to analyze Middlesex novel using a Queer Theory. The writer using two data resources as reference there are primer data resourcs, and secondary data resource. Data primer resource is get from Middlesex novel, then secondary data resource is get from book or journal that including about hermaphrodite and queer theory
Keyword: Hermaphrodite, Queer Theory, Cal, Inces
Screening for diabetes in optometric practice
No full textDiabetes is an increasing problem worldwide and is placing increasing strain on the healthcare system. It often goes undiagnosed for many years until complications occur. Identifying undiagnosed disease presents a challenge to all healthcare professionals. In the UK, screening has traditionally been the role of general practitioners, although other professionals such as pharmacists have recently become involved. Optometrists may also be in a good position to carry out screening tests themselves. Their role in screening for diabetes has not been previously investigated.
The first part of the thesis takes a qualitative approach to explore optometrists’ perceptions, attitudes and beliefs about diabetes and screening for the disease. It demonstrated that if certain barriers, such as cost and training, can be overcome, some optometrists are willing to carry out screening tests. It also raises issues regarding their professional roles and their relationship with other healthcare providers.
The second part of the thesis describes the development and implementation of a screening scheme using random capillary blood glucose (rCBG) tests. Over three-quarters of eligible adults participated in the screening. We found that around one third (318) of those had a rCBG level requiring further investigation. Half of these people reported attending their GP and receiving further investigation. 16 (5%) were subsequently diagnosed with either diabetes or pre-diabetes. Those who participated in the screening programme found the test procedure to be comfortable, convenient and would recommend it to others.
Analyses of strategies to identify those most at risk who would benefit from screening suggest that offering rCBG tests to those who are aged over 40 years with either a BMI of 25kg/m2 or more, or a family history of diabetes or both, would be effective for detection purposes.
This research confirmed the feasibility of testing for diabetes in optometry practices and opens the door for another, PCT-based, study. This novel approach has never been tried before
The Portrait of the Artist as an Irish Woman: The Figure of Helen in Jennifer Johnston's The Railway Station Man
No full textJennifer Johnston is (1930- ) a prominent contemporary Irish writer, the author of
short stories, television scripts and plays for the theatre, although her reputation mainly rests
on her novels. By using female protagonists in the majority of her novels, she directs
the readers’ attention to women’s positions and their opportunities in the country. (Introduction)angol nyelv és irodalomegyetem
Why the inflation in legislation on women’s bodies
No full textThis dissertation argues that historical patriarchal theories have crept into the world’s legal systems to date, and as a result this has led to inflation in legislation upon women’s bodies. The author seeks to prove that patriarchal theories have become part of our social and legal institutions to date, resulting in unnecessary controls placed upon women’s bodies to the point that, women’s attempt to assert autonomy over their own bodies have been criminalised or placed under heavy civil penalties. The author suggests that this has been particularly so because, women have been relegated to the private sphere and as such, are underrepresented within the legislature, political arenas, the process passing legislation and the legal profession in general. As well as analysing the structure of the various social, legal and political institutions as they relate to the causes of inflation in legislation upon women’s bodies, the author investigates the medicalisation of women’s bodies which has led to over legislation with regards to: legislation and women’s attire, Indecent exposure and the breast, the treatment of military women with regards to their bodily autonomy and pregnancy
Art and the unconscious : a semiotic case study of the painting process
No full textThis dissertation is an attempt to design an interpretation model for the comprehension of unconscious content in artworks, as well as to find painting techniques to free the unconscious mind, allowing it to be expressed through artwork. The interpretation model, still in its infancy, is ripe for further development. The unconscious mind is a fascinating subject—in art production as well as in many scientific fields. This hidden part of the mind, being the source of creativity, constitutes an important foundation for many possible and valuable inquiries in multiple areas of knowledge. In the present study, the unconscious is approached from an art-educational perspective.
The nature of the unconscious is addressed through the theories of Carl Gustav Jung and Charles Sanders Peirce, as well as through the information gained from data the author produced herself during the experimental painting process she devised for this study. For psychological distinctions not addressed by Jung, the theories of Sigmund Freud are used to forward this inquiry into the unconscious mind.
A research method was created to bring Peirce’s theories into consonance with Jung’s amplification method. Since Peirce’s theories are challenging to read, to avoid misinterpretation, the author used Phyllis Chiasson’s 2001 book Peirce’s Pragmatism: The Design for Thinking as a secondary source. Peirce’s three modes of reality—firstness, secondness, and thirdness—were utilized to interpret artworks. This three-mode reality allows interpreters to reflect on their subjective feelings and then to compare them to collected data. The interpreters’ intuitive self-interpretations often correlate well with the more objective data.
In this approach to interpretation, the work of art is seen as a sign, in the Jungian as well as in the Peircean sense, and interpretation seeks to discover a sign’s objects—icon, index, and symbol. Additionally, the objects are studied in combination with Peirce’s designation of the sign’s character elements—sinsign, qualisign, and legisign. Peirce’s theory offers a logical and productive structure for approaching a variety of signs and reaching a multiplicity of interpretations.
Jungian theories inculcated a combined psychological and artistic perspective for the interpretation of artworks. Jung’s method of amplification is an effort to bring a symbol to life, and it is used as a technique to discover—through the seeking of parallels—a possible context for any unconscious content that an image might have. In amplification, a word or element—from a fantasy, dream, or, in this study, artwork—is associated, through use of what Jung called the active imagination, with another context where it also occurs. It must be remembered that unconscious images in artworks do not easily open themselves up for interpretation. One way to interpret possibly unconscious images is for the interpreter to become vulnerable by employing his or her own unconscious mind to interpret an artwork; such use of the active imagination can enable a subjective experience of the artwork on the part of the interpreter, who might thereby uncover unconscious content.
Moreover, in this study, Jung’s theory of archetypes is employed, in parallel with Peirce’s and Jung’s theories of the sign, to illuminate an artwork’s images by connecting them with collective unconscious archetypes. The author relied upon The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images (Ronnberg and Martin 2010) as the main source for interpreting possibly unconscious elements in the artworks. This approach is especially powerful when artists interpret their own artwork—possibly leading to a galvanizing self-discovery as they revisit past encounters, personal highlights, and other pieces of unconscious content that might reveal previously unknown meaning important to their life. By comparing archetypes to the unconscious content in their own lives, people can discover themselves.
Unconscious phenomena were approached on both the theoretical and empirical levels. Different methods and ideas were used to stimulate the author’s unconscious thinking while performing artwork analyses of three paintings: surrealist Salvador Dalí’s (1904–1989) Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina; abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock’s (1912-1956) The Deep; and one painting by the author herself, and for which the process of painting is videorecorded (www.astagallery.com/academic.html).
With regard to the third painting interpreted, the author is the study subject, and her artistic production is used as an opportunity to explore the unconscious mind. During the act of painting, an attempt is made to free unconscious thinking by fusing Dalí’s and Pollock’s methods as well as by testing multiple other methods. The author’s artistic production was conjoined with use of a technique that is called the verbal protocol method, which generates additional data not necessarily visible in the final artwork. This method unseals the artist’s tacit knowledge, which in normal circumstances remains silent.
In the verbal protocol method, the author, while engaged in the act of painting, speaks aloud the stream of consciousness that accompanies and guides the art-making activity; the recorded and transcribed monologue from the artistic production is supplied, in both Finnish and English, in appendices. This thinking-aloud technique allows a person to become more self-aware and to create more solutions while struggling with emergent artistic problems. Such narratives can reveal more about the painting than the completed artwork alone can convey. Along with the artist’s finished painting and the videorecorded material, narratives produced during the painting activity were interpreted. Moreover, the discoveries arising from the author’s interpretation of her own artwork are correlated with some of the latest research on the unconscious.
This study allows the reader-viewer an intimate glimpse into the author’s subjective painting experience and demonstrates the participation of the unconscious in an artwork’s creation. The interpretations methodology constitutes an interpretation model suitable for other artists and art educators to follow.
Keywords: unconscious, art, archetype, mandalaei tietoa saavutettavuudest
Design and evaluation of a novel passive bioaerosol sampler
No full textBioaerosols are airborne particulate matter of biological origin, such as microorganisms and pollen, and any particulates shed or produced by living organisms, like pet dander and mycotoxins. A wide spectrum of adverse environmental health effects can result from exposure to these particles, such as infectious or allergic respiratory diseases. To understand and mitigate the effects of bioaerosol exposures, bioaerosol sampling must be representative of the spatiotemporal scales over which the exposures occur. However, bioaerosol sampling is typically conducted with air pumps (i.e., actively) – this negatively affects the quality of the sample and limits when and where sampling can be performed. Passive sampling, on the other hand, does not need air pumps or external power, which makes it portable, cost-effective, and practical for conducting long-term sampling in any location. My dissertation aims to design, develop and evaluate a new passive bioaerosol sampler utilizing polarized, ferroelectric polymer films to enhance electrostatic collection of biological particles while streamlining sampling to analysis procedures. Specifically, I aim to: 1) conceptually design the passive sampler using parallel layers of a polarized, ferroelectric polymer film to optimize collection of microorganism-sized particles. 2) Determine extraction efficiencies of spiked microorganisms from the surface of the polymer film. 3) Optimize a field-deployable prototype sampler design using a compact, calm air settling chamber. Finally, 4) perform outdoor field testing of the passive sampler to evaluate its performance. Parallel layers of uniaxially oriented, polarized, poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, with 2.25 mm wide air channels was found to significantly enhance electrostatic capture of particles in size ranges of interest for bioaerosol (~0.01 to 5 ïm) with varying particle surface charge. A spiral shaped prototype sampler with a 3D-printed film holder provided user-friendly sampler setup and 100% extraction efficiency of spiked microorganisms from the surface of the PVDF and the film holder material. Through outdoor field-testing, the new sampler passively collected microorganisms comparably to the active reference sampler with an equivalent sampling rate of ~2.6 L/min. and provided better preservation of microorganism culturability. Ultimately, this research presents a novel sampling tool for bioaerosol exposure assessment, a new methodological framework for bioaerosol sampler development, and new benchmarks of success for developing passive bioaerosol sampler technology.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jennifer Helen Therkor
Conflict, Inequality and Dialogue for Conflict Resolution in Latin America: The Cases of Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela
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The Potential Role of Comics in Teaching Qualitative Research Methods
No full textThis article argues that comics have a potentially positive role to play in supporting the teaching of
qualitative research methods in higher education. It tells the story of the creation and use of a short
pedagogical comic. We begin with a brief review of the literature around the use of comics in teaching.
Then we offer two first-person accounts. Independent researcher Helen Kara narrates her creation of
Conversation with a Purpose, designed as a resource to support the teaching of qualitative interviewing. It
contains the story of a student’s first real-world interview, with some deliberately ambiguous aspects, and
some discussion questions. Then Jenni Brooks, a senior lecturer in sociology at Sheffield Hallam
University, outlines her use of the comic in teaching undergraduate sociology students. Each author offers
a brief reflection on her experience. We conclude that the use of comics has the potential to bridge the
gap between classroom and practice for inexperienced qualitative researchers, and we encourage further
research in this area
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