Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-144).

Background: The focus of this study is on how far GPs' perceptions of dementia map onto the components and contributing factors to stigma as described by Link and Phelan (2001; 2006) and Jones et al. (1984). Aim: The study explores GPs' perceptions of dementia as a stigma, develops a specific conceptualization of the stigma of dementia and considers implications for timely diagnosis. Methods: Data from twenty-three GPs in northern England were collected by semistructured telephone interviews. Within the context of a qualitative design, a combined process of grounded theory and framework analysis was adopted to collect and analyse data. Results: The findings reveal that GPs' perceptions of dementia map onto Link and Phelan and Jones' identification of contributing factors and components of stigma and may hinder timely diagnosis. Three themes emerged reflecting a dynamic process of making sense of dementia, relating perceptions to oneself and considering the consequences of dementia. Within those themes, certain categories had particular salience for GPs, namely the characteristics of the attribute, existential anxiety and discrimination. The themes and categories are inter-related and can be considered as parts of a system. Perceived lack of reciprocity could be detected in most categories which suggests that it is influential in the social construction of the stigma of dementia. Conclusion: The data suggest that current conceptualizations of stigma are insufficient to fully account for the stigma of dementia. A specific conceptualization of the stigma of dementia is proposed and the implications of GPs' perceptions for timely diagnosis are discussed.

Researchers have increasingly directed attention to the importance of emotions in decision making. Recent theories have focused on the interpersonal effects of emotions--the influence of the decision maker's expressed emotions on observers' decisions and judgments. In the current research, we examine people's expectations of how incidental, discrete emotions affect behavior. We also study how these expectations affect decisions in interactive settings, and contrast them with how emotions actually impact other people's behavior.These ideas were tested in four studies. In Study 1a, participants (N = 58) answered a questionnaire asking their perceptions of how different emotions affect behavior. In Study 1b, participants (N = 203) read a number of hypothetical scenarios in which different interactions between them and another person took place. Studies 2 (N = 98) and 3 (N = 132) were two economic games -- a Stag-Hunt game and a Trust Game -- involving decisions with non-trivial financial consequences.Across these four studies, I found that people do have strong beliefs about how incidental emotions affect behaviors. Because of these beliefs, when told about their counterparts' emotional state, people in interactive settings modify their behavior. The impact of people's beliefs on behavior, however, was more consistent for negative emotions such as anger and fear, than for positive emotions such as happiness and gratitude. These findings also indicate that people are sensitive to the different effects of different emotions: different negative emotions such as guilt and anger have different effects on their expectations. Finally, I found that people's expectations about how their counterparts' emotions affect behavior can be inaccurate in specific settings.

After King William created the New Forest in the twelfth century, the English monarchy sought to define the vert, both legally and ideologically, as a site in which the king’s rights were vigorously enforced. In the romance literature of England, the forest was treated as an exclusive chivalric testing ground, as the site of the aristocracy’s self-validation. The folk reaction against the privatization of this common space and its resources finds a strong literary articulation in the first Robin Hood ballads centuries later. The outlaw reclaims the forest by inhabiting it, appropriating the symbols of its governance, and establishing within it a court that is both legal and social, decked out in the trappings and traditions of romance chivalry and the forest administration. This thesis examines the ideological impulses behind Robin’s occupation of the forest, discussing their relationship to the legal and literary history of the English forest.

<p><font face="Times New Roman"> <p align="left">Limitations of the study include the issue of counsellor variables and the fact that the participants varied between receiving a debriefing on a group or individual basis. The experience of the trauma debriefings were explored but more specific information relating to debriefing could have been elicited. Therefore, these findings cannot be generalised and further research could<font face="Times New Roman"> explore the utility and efficacy of trauma debriefing.</font></p> </font></p>

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The Night Nativity by Geertgen tot Sint Jans depicts the birth of Christ in a manner that emphasizes the role of the Virgin as mother and Christ as the enlightener of the world. In this paper, I will argue that the Night Nativity was directed primarily toward meeting the devotional needs and interests of the nuns of the Convent of Our Lady of the Visitation near Haarlem. This convent is of particular interest because it is associated with the Windesheim Congregation of the Modern Devotion, which was a religious movement that privileged certain forms of lay spirituality. In particular, the adherents of the Modern Devotion seemed to have preferred various forms of affective devotion often associated with “women’s spirituality.” Geertgen’s image, I believe, appealed to the women in the convent because it focuses on the role of the Virgin and, in doing so, activated well-known tropes of female spirituality.

The purposes of the study were to examine: (1) the opinions of the lay faculty and the administrators regarding the role of the lay faculty in academic governance; (2) the importance of selected internal devices and impediments that facilitate or hinder lay faculty participation; and (3) the influence of the Vatican II decrees regarding lay faculty participation in governance. The population for the study consisted of 154 full time lay faculty and 31 administrators from 5 Catholic colleges in Indiana.The principal research instrument was a seventy item questionnaire directed at obtaining responses to a series of forced-choice decisional activities and encouraging written commentaries illustrating some basic issues in Catholic college governance practices. A visit to each college and a review of the college publications supplemented the responses received in the questionnaire.The principal analytical method employed was a t-test of independent groups at .05 level of probability applied to the means and standard deviations of the response on the decisional activities in Part One of the questionnaire. Percentages and the means were calculated for the responses in Part Two which was concerned with the importance of selected variables that facilitated or hindered lay faculty participation in governance. Percentages were also used in Part Three, demographic information, to construct a profile of the lay faculty and administrators at Catholic colleges. A review of the literature supplemented the statistical analysis of the data.The data were reported under the following divisions:1. Part One - The responses on the twenty-nine decisional activities concerning academic affairs, student affairs, personal and financial affairs, and public-alumni affairs were statistically analyzed to examine the difference in opinions between the lay faculty and the administration.2. Part Two - Means and percentages were employed in ranking the importance of selected variables that facilitate or hinder lay faculty participation in governance.3. Part Three - A profile was constructed using such factors as age, sex, highest degree held, years at the college, and rank to compare the lay faculty and the administrators at the Catholic colleges in the study.4. Narrative summaries supplemented the data reported in tables in each part of the study.The findings of the study support the following conclusions:1. The faculty and administrators indicated that the faculty role was more predominant in the academic affairs than in areas of student affairs, personal and financial affairs, public and alumni affairs.2. The administrators felt that the faculty role in academic governance was greater than the role indicated by the faculty.3. There were similarities in the findings of this study as compared to the findings in the Archie Dykes and American Association of University Professors studies Similarities were noted in the predominance of the faculty role in academic affairs and the predominance of the administrators role in the area of financial affairs.4. In rating the usefulness of the participatory devices, the most important finding was that, except for departmental meetings and faculty senate, none of the devices were rated very high in providing opportunities for meaningful faculty participation.5. Ranked last among the devices, the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, was nonetheless, viewed as having some usefulness in affecting faculty participation.6. The feelings that too much time was spent in meetings and committees belaboring various points, and faculty apathy, were ranked as the two most important factors inhibiting faculty participation in academic governance.7. The Vatican II decrees were viewed as exerting a mild influence upon the implementation of faculty participation in academic governance.8. The governing boards of the Catholic colleges were viewed, by the majority of the respondents, as being unavailable to the faculties.9. A majority of the respondents indicated that they were not aware of the colleges adopting the American Association of University Professors Statement on Governance.

Epidemiological studies have shown that disparities in mental health service utilization still exist among ethnic minority groups in the United States. This study looks specifically at the lay referral system and what factors influence the likelihood of an individual referring a friend to mental health services. Since college student populations have fewer barriers than most to seeking treatment, 60 Asian American and 49 White American college students were sampled for the purposes of this study. They evaluated one of four vignettes in which cultural competency of the potential therapist and type of symptoms being presented were manipulated. Though there was no significant interaction found, implications of the current findings and corrections to the methodology for future research are discussed.

The goal of this academic project was to study the effects of different variables on the damage progression around a central hole in carbon fiber composite coupon specimens. The tracked variables included the type of layup, stress ratio, stress levels, and damage mechanisms observed in each specimen. In-situ x-ray of the individual laminates recorded the extent of damage, mostly longitudinal splitting, as a function of the cycle count. The following lay-ups were included in the experiment: [45/90/-45/02/45/02/-45/0]s, [±5/65/(±5)2/-65/±5]s, and [±5/65/(±5)2/-65/5/65]s. More specifically, the objective of this study was to determine the stress levels at which detectable damage started to develop. The researchers chose to apply 50,000 cycles at each stress level and once damage was detected, the stress level was typically raised by 34.5 MPa (5 KSI), and then cycled another 50,000 cycles until damage exceeding 1.27 cm (0.50") in length was observed. Once the damage exceeded 1.27 cm (0.50"), cycling was continued to 1,000,000 cycles. Upon completion of the fatigue cycling, each specimen's residual strength was determined. The damage length versus stress level was plotted as a way to compare damage onset stresses and growth as a function of lay-up and stress ratio.