554 research outputs found
Forthaven Saba, Nederlandse Antillen
No full textOm cruiseschepen te ontvangen op Saba, Nederlandse Antillen, zijn een aantal alternatieven ontwikkeld. De haven wordt ook gebruikt als goederenhaven en hiervoor is een prognose opgesteld voor het jaar 2005. De golfsituatie was onbekend en daarom is door middel van programma's een golfklimaat berekend voor en in de haven. Het alternatief dat het best aan de gestelde criteria voldoet is gekozen. Dit betekenqdat de kade met 35 m wordt verlengd tot een totale lengte van 110 m. Ook de golfbreker wordt verlengd om de schepen tegen golfaanval te beschermen.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
The Self-translator’s [In]Visibility: Domestication, Foreignization, and More
No full textThis paper examines the translator's invisibility and visibility in applying the translation strategies of domestication and foreignization used in autobiographical self-translation from Japanese to English. This study is part of a larger research project investigating the self-translation process I experienced while self-translating my autobiography, originally written in Japanese, my native language, into English, my second language. In this autobiographical self-translation process, the roles of the author, first-person narrator, protagonist, and translator are coterminous. Therefore, the narrative's translation process must be examined from multiple perspectives, which involve, for instance, the author-translator's perceptions of the new target audience, the events, and participants described in the story, etc. Focusing primarily on the influence of the audience, the present study examines, from a social-psychological perspective, the translator's style-shifting behavior as manifested in the application of the two translation strategies. Domestication, for instance, can be seen as the translator's convergence toward the target text audience (i.e., readers) and foreignization as a divergence from them. Self-translators may apply foreignization, not only for divergence but for other reasons—e.g., their emotional attachment toward the source text, story, and characters. In self-translation, the author and translator are identical. This fact may make the issue of translators' invisibility insignificant. Yet, self-translators may still become invisible when they apply domestication and converge toward the target text audience. But at the same time, the application of domestication or foreignization by self-translators may be regarded as their expression of their selves, which makes them truly visible as translators—likely not to the audience but to themselves
Talent Attraction in the Automotive Industry: Employer Branding Strategies for Next-Generation Employees
No full textAuthor Syeda Saba Siddique, LL.BMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Talent Attraction in the Automotive Industry: Employer Branding Strategies for Next-Generation Employees
No full textAuthor Syeda Saba Siddique, LL.BMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Measuring Interculturalism: An Empirical Investigation into Public Support for Intercultural Policy in Quebec
No full textIn this study, a deductive approach was utilized to develop a scale to measure public support for interculturalism policy in Quebec. Specifically, guided by Bouchard’s (2015) conceptualization of interculturalism and complemented by insights from other scholars within the Quebec context, several elements of interculturalism were identified. This process resulted in the development of a Likert-type scale aimed at capturing Quebecers’ support for this policy. The initial scale included six dimensions aligned with Bouchard’s framework and an additional dimension (i.e., Support for the Accommodation of Cultural and Religious Requests, reflecting the significance of secularism in the region). In Study 1, a community sample consisting of 480 individuals born and residing in Quebec was recruited via Léger. A parallel analysis and a Minimum Average Partial (MAP) test suggested retaining four factors. Subsequently, exploratory factor analysis supported a four-factor model of interculturalism, comprising Interactions and Shared Culture, Integration, Support for Accommodation of Cultural and Religious Requests, and the French Language. This finding indicated a departure from Bouchard’s (2015) original conceptualization. Study 2 further validated this structure using an independent community sample of 456 individuals born and residing in Quebec. A confirmatory factor analysis reinforced the four-factor model, demonstrating good fit to the data. The model demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties. Overall, the results indicated that Bouchard’s (2015) model of interculturalism was not empirically substantiated. Instead, interculturalism was best represented by the four identified factor-structure: Interactions and Shared Culture, Integration, Support for Accommodation of Cultural and Religious Requests, and the French Language. These findings point to a mismatch between the policy ideals outlined in Bouchard’s model and the public views captured in the samples used in this dissertation. Interactions and Shared Culture, Integration, and Accommodation were all positively correlated, but the French Language factor followed a different pattern: it correlated positively with Interactions and Shared Culture, showed no relationship with Integration, and was negatively related to Accommodation. This pattern revealed a polarization: respondents tended either to endorse diversity and inclusion or prioritize protection of French. Nevertheless, the majority of participants held assimilationist attitudes and thus favoured a protective stance toward the French language. These findings enhance understanding of interculturalism and its public perceptions in Quebec, potentially guiding the development and implementation of policies aimed at encouraging the public to embrace diversity.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad
Towards a design for an improved drinking water supply system on Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba
No full textIn 2008, the author has conducted a research study on behalf of the Caribbean Water Association on the consequences of the constitutional change of the Netherlands Antilles for the drinking water supply on Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba (BES). This research study formed the basis for further research in the form of this MSc. thesis. Being the responsible Ministry for the supply of drinking water on the future BES islands, VROM positively embraced the idea to study solution alternatives to improve the current situation on the BES islands. The Ministry of VROM granted the author with the financial means and support to conduct this thesis research study. In chapter 7 of this report a set of guidelines and instruments is presented that can support the Ministry of VROM in defining and preparing an improved drinking water supply on the BES islands.Sanitary EngineeringWatermanagementCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Canadian Citizens' Beliefs about Diversity: Influence of Generation Status, Multicultural Ideology and Cultural Identity on Immigration Attitudes
No full textTraditionally, cross-cultural research tends to make comparisons between groups of people based on their ethnicity or citizenship. In the face of increasingly multicultural societies such as Canada, research suggests that it is necessary to re-evaluate the criteria by which we group people and make comparisons. The present study explores whether factors such as generation status, multicultural ideology, and cultural identity influence Canadian citizens’ immigration attitudes. A community sample (N=306) of Canadian citizens completed an online survey. Results found no significant differences in participants’ immigration attitudes based on their generation status or whether they were part of the ethnic majority/minority. However, there was a strong positive correlation between multicultural ideology and immigration attitudes, and a weak positive correlation between national identity and immigration attitudes. Multicultural ideology also mediated the relationship between generation status and immigration attitudes when comparing first and third generation participants
Intersections in Street Harassment: Muslim Women’s Experiences with Sexism and Islamophobia in Public Spaces
No full textStreet harassment, commonly defined as unwanted sexual or gendered attention from strangers in public spaces, is a pervasive form of everyday violence. Yet, much of the existing literature centers White, Christian, cisgender women’s experiences, sidelining the voices of those whose encounters with public harassment are shaped by racialization, Islamophobia, and gender nonconformity. This dissertation addresses these gaps by examining the experiences of fifteen Muslim women, femmes, and non-binary individuals living in Southern Ontario. Guided by intersectionality theory and grounded in a standpoint feminist and constructivist paradigm, this qualitative study used semi-structured interviews and reflexive thematic analysis to explore how street harassment is experienced, interpreted, and navigated by participants whose identities render them both visibly marginalized and vulnerable. The findings reveal that harassment is not only gendered, but also deeply racialized and religiously coded, shaped by participants’ visible markers of Muslim identity and perceived nonconformity to Western ideals. Four interrelated themes emerged: (1) Embodied Visibility explores how religious and gendered expression affect vulnerability to public harassment; (2) The Nature and Meaning of Harassment captures how participants define and make sense of their experiences; (3) Emotional and Psychological Impacts details the mental and relational toll of repeated violations; and (4) Public Responses and Infrastructures of (In)Justice critiques the failures of bystanders, transit systems, and institutions tasked with ensuring safety. Drawing on these themes, the study proposes an expanded, participant-informed definition of street harassment that situates it as a mechanism of social regulation, one that enforces boundaries of gender, ethnicity, faith, and class. This research makes a significant contribution by centering the narratives of Muslim participants, particularly those who wear the hijab or are otherwise visibly marked in public space. The findings have implications for public policy, education, mental health care, and anti-harassment advocacy. Ultimately, this work calls for a reimagining of justice, not as a matter of institutional intervention, but as a collective practice rooted in care, resistance, and recognition of those most affected
A new system of authorship best assessment
No full textPurpose:The standard bibliometric indexes ("m-quotient "H-," "H2-," "g-," "a-," "m-," and "r-" index) do not considered the research' position in the author list of the paper. We proposed a new methodology, System of Authorship Best Assessment (SABA), to characterize the scientific output based on authors' position. Material and Methods:Four classes S1A, S1B, S2A, and S2B include only papers where the researcher is in first, first/last, first/second/last, and first/second/second-last/last position respectively were used for the calculation of H-index and number of citations The system was tested with Noble prize winners controlled with researchers matched for H-index. The different in percentage between standard bibliometric index and S2B was calculated and compared. Results:The percentage differences in Noble prize winners between S2B-H-index versus Global H-index and number of citations is very lower comparing with control group (median 4.15% [adjusted 95% CI, 2.54-5.30] vs 9.00 [adjusted 95% CI, 7.16-11.84], p < 0.001; average difference 8.7% vs 20.3%). All different in percentage between standard bibliometric index and S2B except two (H2- and m-index) were significantly lower among Noble prize compared with control group. Conclusion:The SABA methodology better weight the research impact by showing that for excellent profiles the S2B is similar to global values whereas for other researchers there is a significant difference
Women leaders in trade unions of Pakistan : stories of struggle and leadership
No full textFriedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Pakistan Office ; author: Saba Gul Khattak ; illustrators Abdullah Shahid, Aiman Saleem, Areeban Shaukat Qureshi [und weitere
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