652 research outputs found
Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
Exploring the potential of using bio briquette ash in building materials
No full textAs the population and urbanization increase, the demand for affordable housing and the environmental
impact of conventional materials have become more pronounced. This study seeks sustainable solutions
through the repurposing of waste products. This study examined the potential application of bio-briquette
ash derived from sanitary sludge in building-material production. Bio-briquette ashes were produced by
incinerating bio-briquette char in an open kitchen at temperatures ranging from 300°C to 450°C.The
chemical composition of bio-briquette ashes produced with different binders (cassava peels, wastepaper,
and no binder) was analyzed using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results
showed that the ashes contain substantial amounts of oxides, including SiO2, Fe2O3, Al2O3, and CaO,
which are comparable to other supplementary cementitious materials like rice husk ash, sugarcane
bagasse ash, and fly ash. The findings indicate that these bio-briquette ashes have low pozzolanic
properties, however, they have the potential to produce cement-based products after activating their
reactivity either by optimization of burning temperature, mechanical grinding or chemical activation to
improve strength, durability, and workability. Future studies will focus on optimizing the burning
temperature, mechanical grinding, or chemical activation of the bio-briquette ashes to enhance their
reactivity as well as utilizing bio-briquette ash in building materials production and evaluating their
performance in practical applications.The author would like to express gratitude to
the funder of this research project, the Vrilous
Project of Belgium, as well as Ardhi University for
sponsoring this study. Special thanks are
extended to Prof. Elke Knapen from Hasselt
University and Prof. Shadrack M. Sabai from
Ardhi University for their valuable support
throughout the research. Additional appreciation
goes to the project team members of the
Decent Housing Project, as well as the
management of Hasselt University in Belgium
and Ardhi University in Tanzania, for their
administrative assistance
Exploring the potential of using bio briquette ash in building materials
No full textAs the population and urbanization increase, the demand for affordable housing and the environmental
impact of conventional materials have become more pronounced. This study seeks sustainable solutions
through the repurposing of waste products. This study examined the potential application of bio-briquette
ash derived from sanitary sludge in building-material production. Bio-briquette ashes were produced by
incinerating bio-briquette char in an open kitchen at temperatures ranging from 300°C to 450°C.The
chemical composition of bio-briquette ashes produced with different binders (cassava peels, wastepaper,
and no binder) was analyzed using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results
showed that the ashes contain substantial amounts of oxides, including SiO2, Fe2O3, Al2O3, and CaO,
which are comparable to other supplementary cementitious materials like rice husk ash, sugarcane
bagasse ash, and fly ash. The findings indicate that these bio-briquette ashes have low pozzolanic
properties, however, they have the potential to produce cement-based products after activating their
reactivity either by optimization of burning temperature, mechanical grinding or chemical activation to
improve strength, durability, and workability. Future studies will focus on optimizing the burning
temperature, mechanical grinding, or chemical activation of the bio-briquette ashes to enhance their
reactivity as well as utilizing bio-briquette ash in building materials production and evaluating their
performance in practical applications.The author would like to express gratitude to
the funder of this research project, the Vrilous
Project of Belgium, as well as Ardhi University for
sponsoring this study. Special thanks are
extended to Prof. Elke Knapen from Hasselt
University and Prof. Shadrack M. Sabai from
Ardhi University for their valuable support
throughout the research. Additional appreciation
goes to the project team members of the
Decent Housing Project, as well as the
management of Hasselt University in Belgium
and Ardhi University in Tanzania, for their
administrative assistance
Identification of key measures to promote and enhance cycling for visiting National Parks: A case study of Peak District National Park, England
No full textIncreasing pressure of cars towards National Parks is alarming for both nature and tourists. This research identifies the potential measures that can promote and enhance cycling within and around National Parks. The methodological approach includes 1) a literature review to identify measures sucessfuly implemented in the past in different case studies, 2) development of a questionnaire based on these measures, for inquiry of experts involved in the planning process of the case study, Peak District National Park (PDNP), England and 3) use of Kendall's W coefficient of concordance to determine the consensus among experts, about the rank and order of these potentional measures. The experts are most in favor of a flexible entry fee based on the transport mode of the visitor, a mobility app as a route planner, and infrastructural development. The Kendall's W shows a varying agreement among experts from moderate to strong for different categories of measures. Management implications • The research identifies the need to consider cycling as an essential mode of mobility from the local and visitors' perspective. Cycling is an important, healthy activity that helps people to reach various destinations. • The research highlights important measures that can help managers to convince visitors to use a bicycle instead of another mode. • The research findings provide guidance and a framework to promote and enhance the concept of cycling for managers involved in the planning/policy-making of visitors' mobility within and around a national park. • Managers should divert their focus towards the promotion of active mobility. They should understand that promoting cycling tourism will help them to overcome the dominance by cars. • The research indicates practical steps in order to guide managers in the implementation of the proposed measures.The authors would like to thank a couple of researchers from the University of Derby, Buxton. First of all, a lot of thanks to Dr. Peter Wiltshier and Dr. Iride Azara, senior lecturer in tourism, for providing a platform to collect data and organizing interviews with concerned officials. The author would especially like to pay gratitude to Emma Pope, Ph.D. student, University of Derby, for her coordination during the data collection process. Lastly, a bundle of thanks to Michael Reardon, senior transport officer (DCC), for providing access to relevant data. The research work is part of doctoral research. The doctoral research is funded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad, Pakistan. The author would also like to thank the doctoral schools of
Hasselt University for the provision of a mobility grant
Collaborative housing processes: Paradigms in transition from a north South perspective
No full textBy way of introduction, this chapter explains the main differences and convergences in housing provision paradigms in European and Chilean cities. From housing as part of Welfare State models, both societies have seen the replacement of the right to housing by the financialization of housing. The chapter highlights a red thread in this book, namely the presence of “cultures of the collective” in the provision of housing, which responds to different traditions and contexts in cities in the global north and in the global south. However, despite these differences, both relate to the essential question on how urban dwellers decide on how they want to live.Housing Managemen
Writers, artists, mothers: Author figures in the short fiction of Mary Lavin
No full textThis paper traces the development figures of the author in the short fiction of the Irish writer Mary Lavin against the background of her anomalous position as woman, writer and mother in the conservative and patriarchal context of mid-century Ireland. Through a detailed reading of six stories, the paper shows how after staging a confident author figure in the early "A Story With A Pattern", Lavin dramatized the tension between her roles as mother and artist in a series of oppositional characters in stories such as "The Becker Wives", "Eterna" and "In a Café". Her artist figures, modelled after the Romantic conception of the author as exceptionally gifted outsiders, are thus unable to attain 'ordinary' lives as wives or mothers; while her alter ego in the so-called widow stories are mostly realised as 'just' wife, widow and mother. Only in two stories written at the end of her career does Lavin again stage an author figure who combines the roles of mother and writer, thus offering an alternative to the Romantic and predominantly masculine image of the author that has long dominated Irish literary culture.status: Publishe
Developing Design Interventions for Cyberbullying: A Narrative-Based Participatory Approach
No full textyes"This paper presents a user-generated framework for designing affordances that would counter acts of cyberbullying on social media sites. To do so, we used narrative inquiry as a research methodology, which allowed our two focus groups - one composed of teens and the other of undergraduate students - to map out a cyberbullying story and overlay it with a set of design recommendations that, in their view, might alleviate mean and cruel behavior online. Four ""cyberbullying stories"" were constructed by the participants, each one revealing two sub-plots - the story that ""is"" (as perceived by these participants) and the story that ""could be"" (if certain design interventions were to be embedded in social media). In this paper, we describe seven emergent design themes evident in the participants' design recommendations for social media: design for reflection, design for consequence, design for empathy, design for personal empowerment, design for fear, design for attention, and design for control and suppression."Made available in DSpace on 2014-02-25T19:29:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Stellungnahme zum Beschlussentwurf des G-BA zu einer Änderung des Beschlusses zur Neufassung der Richtlinie über die Früherkennung von Krankheiten bei Kindern bis zur Vollendung des 6. Lebensjahres (Kinder-Richtlinie) : Maßnahmen der Qualitätssicherung sowie Anforderungen an die Dokumentation und Evaluation sowie Anlage 1 zum Untersuchungsheft für Kinder (25.02.2016)
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Stellungnahme zum Beschlussentwurf des G-BA zu einer Änderung des Beschlusses zur Neufassung der Richtlinie über die Früherkennung von Krankheiten bei Kindern bis zur Vollendung des 6. Lebensjahres (Kinder-Richtlinie) : Maßnahmen der Qualitätssicherung sowie Anforderungen an die Dokumentation und Evaluation sowie Anlage 1 zum Untersuchungsheft für Kinder (25.02.2016)
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