73 research outputs found
Meaningful Occupations Impacted by Burn Injuries
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
Burn injuries can significantly impact an individual’s ability to return to meaningful occupations and identity in society; every burn has a story. Occupational therapists can contribute to recovery through the use of therapeutic use of self and a holistic approach.
Primary Author and Speaker: Hayley Mata
Contributing Authors: Ruth Humphry, Shelley Sehorn, Heather S. Dodd, Sydney J. Thornton, Mark Prochazka, Bruce A. Cairns</jats:p
Creation of humour in plays Antonin Prochazka "Pilsen Moliere"
No full textIn my bachelor thesis I focus on the comedy that Antonin Prochazka created in his plays. The starting point is the analysis of four plays that will become the medium for a broader investigation. Particular attention is paid to creating comedy and the comic schematic design which the author uses
Political Marketing in Central Europe
No full textDiploma thesis Political Marketing in Central Europe analyzes the historical background, culture specifics, economical, geographical and socio-demographical factors which are influencing voters' decisions in individual countries, mentions the communication of political parties and analyzes the results of parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, and presidential elections in Austria and Poland, which took place in 2010. Based on the findings the author tries to predict the probable further development of political parties in the political scenes in the country and identifies key factors of voters' decisions in each country
Framework for Developing Innovation Systems in Small Island Developing States: Roadmap for turning Curaçao into the OTEC Centre of Excellence
No full textThe objective of this thesis was to design a generically applicable framework for guiding the development of technological innovation systems in small island developing states (SIDS). Existing theories formed the bases of the framework but important changes were derived from a cross-case study of five island based innovation systems and an in-depth case study of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology on the island of Curaçao. Two key factors were found to make the development of innovation systems in SIDS different. Firstly, only specific technologies should be targeted – high-margin or service sectors, and the ones that utilize strategic locations or specific natural resources of the islands. Secondly, due to the characteristics of SIDS the innovation systems’ integration into the landscape and regimes of the islands is essential – the links between the innovation systems and regimes and landscapes are much stronger in SIDS than in developed states. Therefore strong network of local partners should be established in order to guarantee sufficient support from the islands’ regimes. Also, due to the potential impacts on the islands’ landscapes, projects that are parts of the TIS should be of ‘moderate’ sizes so that they do not make the SIDS overly dependent on the success or failure of the technology. Furthermore, the innovation systems should be developed gradually in order not to disrupt the fragile economies of the islands. By following this set of rules, close relationships between the sectors and the islands’ regimes and landscapes can be established. This results into a win-win situation where the TIS can develop as it benefits from the island’s support (permits, policies, tax exemptions etc.) and the island itself reaps socio-economic benefits. Without this win-win situation, the TIS will struggle to develop.Management of TechnologyTechnology Dynamics and Sustainable DevelopmentTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Studies on benzylchlorocarbene
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Treatment of theme and characterisation in the works of Yusuf Idris.
No full textYusuf Idris is a short story writer, novelist and playwright. On the whole, he uses each genre for different purposes. In his short stories he is the subjective writer concerned with a minute analysis of mental states and moods. In his novels he is the socially aware and politically committed writer, while In his plays he tackles social problems on an abstract level. While he has succeeded to a great extent as a short story writer and a playwright Yusuf Idris has failed as a novelist. His novels appear to be a string of short stories held together tenuously by a main theme or else they are overblown short stories. Yusuf Idris then is to be seen primarily as a short story writer and a playwright. In the short stories the author treats his characters as lonely Individuals who suffer by being isolated from other human beings, and the solution to their problem lies in a return to the fold of the corporate entity. Here Yusuf Idris contradicts herself, as it is precisely this corporate entity, supposedly ensuring the happiness of the individual which is the source of his unhappiness. The characters ere depicted as living either in the city or the country. For Yusuf Idris it is the latter that promises harmonious human relationships while the former is the source of unhappiness. By idealising the country the author distorts the quality of urban living when contrasting town life and city life. The characters are constantly faced with defeat, mainly through poverty. Sex occupies a central position in his writing and it is treated In terms of its influence on behaviour. Physical and mental suffering are treated in detail and the author's training as a medical man is readily apparent. The author's major contribution, however, lies in his analysis of the obsession, which underlies many of his short stories, and influences his technique of characterisation. His plays are diametrically opposed to the rest of his work. In them the psychological element is lacking and issues ore discussed on an abstract level. It is as if the short stories and the ploys had been written by two different men
Modelling the effect of alternative management strategies on the catch and effort in the carpenter (Argyrozona argyrozona) linefishery
No full textIn South Africa, linefishing increased in the mid-1800s and eventually reached a peak in the 1980s/90s. A legal linefishery emergency was declared in 2000 in accordance with the Marine Living Resources Act of 1998. This was a large blow for the commercially important industry. Nonetheless, the carpenter stocks had already been overexploited to such a high degree by linefishing, and also as part of trawling bycatch, that even at an effort less than half of the effort that produces a maximum sustainable yield, carpenter stocks were still found below the biomass found at the maximum sustainable yield. In order to explore three different management strategies for the carpenter stock on the offshore Central Agulhas Bank, an agestructured, non-stochastic model was set up. The influences of the following strategies - Total Allowable Catch (TAC), as well as revised minimum size limit and closed season – on a stock found at a dismal 19.2% of carrying capacity, are projected using this model on a monthly time-step. The objectives of this fishery are to achieve a biomass in the final year equal to the biomass found at a maximum sustainable yield (7243 t) and to maximise effort (employment) and catch. The overall recommendation for this stock was a reduction in minimum size limit from 35 cm to 30.48 cm in combination with a flexible TAC starting at 790 t. It is also recommended that even though models are important for fisheries management, no model should be taken in isolation without first considering life history traits and other important information about a stock
Negotiating ludic normativity in Facebook meme pages
No full textTitle: Negotiating ludic normativity in Facebook meme pages Author: Ondřej ProcházkaAffiliation: Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital SciencesThis thesis explores the capacity of Internet memes to inflect social realities in the communities organized around them on social media, particularly Facebook. Memes are not mere playful ‘jokes’ or ‘parodies’ spreading virally on the Internet in countless variations, they are also powerful tools for political investment aimed to sway public attention and opinions. Memes have been increasingly documented as a vital component in the unprecedented spread and ‘normalization’ of hateful sentiments and ideologies characterized by ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’ politics appealing to emotions rather than ‘facts’ in the digital mainstream. Based on author’s more than five-year observation of communities around Countryball memes, this work argues that much of the socio-cultural and communicative dynamics involving memes can be understood in terms of ludic play. The object of the study – Countryballs memes – are simple meme-comics featuring ball-shaped creatures in colors denoting nation-states while satirically reinventing international ‘drama’ through the prism of socio-cultural and linguistic stereotypes. Having become a household name among memes, Countryballs offer communicative resources to playfully engage not only with wider socio-political issues, but also to with the linguistic, semiotic and ideological boundaries of our communicative norms shaped by the affordances of social media. The present work demonstrates how play can be used as a useful concept for understanding not only how matters of public attention are packed, framed and transmitted in the digital culture via (Countryball) memes, but more importantly how such matters are in fact interpreted by those who engage with them. More specifically, it shows how play enables alternative modes of expression and meaning making with different normative patterns and preferences which stand outside ‘standard’, ‘rational’ or ‘civil’ expectations. And it is precisely ludic play that fosters different types of communication and sociality which are often done ‘just for fun’, however serious or offensive their effects may be. To identify these effects and their implications in the contemporary digital age, the thesis employs a discourse-analytical methodology informed by current advances in digital ethnography and sociolinguistics. It focuses on negotiations among participants in memetic communities about what counts as ‘appropriate’, ‘acceptable’ or ‘correct’ in their socio-communicative behavior. Together in four case studies, the present work provides a comprehensive account of how participants articulate, police, break and re-construct ludic normativity in connection with recent socio-political issues and digital culture at large. This includes the role of memes in the newly emerging forms of communication, in the rise of populism and nationalism, algorithmic manipulation and exploitation, curating digital content and more. The concept of play is continually revisited throughout the discussion against the developments in the scholarship on Internet memes and their ludic genealogy. In doing so, the thesis also revisits some of the traditional concepts such as the notion of ‘community’ and ‘communicative competence’ to arrive at more precise accounts of the concrete processes of globalization and digitalization in our societies and their effects. <br/
Growth of nanocrystalline Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films using the spray pyrolysis technique and their characterization
No full textPreparation and Optical Properties of Polycrystalline Aluminum Germanate
No full textAluminum germanate, the germanium analog of mullite, 3 AlO2O3. 2 GeO2, was first prepared by Gelsdorf, Muller-Hesse and Schweite (Ref. 1), who demonstrated that both partial and complete substitution of SiO2by GeO2in mullite was possible. They also determined the lattice constants of the solid solutions. The following studies reported some physical properties of aluminum germanate such as density (Ref. 2) optical constants (Ref. 2) crystal structure (Ref. 3) and I. R. absorption (Ref. 4). Phase equilibria in the system AlO2O3−GeO2were investigated by Miller et al. (Ref. 5) and Perez-y-Jorba (Ref. 6). The ratter author found several compounds of which germanium mullite was the most stable and showed a relatively wide compositional range. Miller et al. observed only 3 Al2O3. 2 GeO2with no evidence of solid solutions. The compound was reported to melt incongruently at 1530° C. Recently Yamaguchi et al. (Ref. 7) prepared aluminum germanates of a wide range of stoichiometry from alkyl oxides and found, in addition to germanium mullite, the compound Al2O3−2GeO2which was stable between 1190° and 1310° C. The authors also report infrared absorption spectra.</jats:p
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