Zugl.: Tübingen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2000.

Siegen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2002.

This thesis is concerned with tracing out the manifold connections between personhood and morality to argue that morality is based on fundamental properties of the person, and therefore a moral philosophy that ignores or truncates the person is one that fails to understand the central function of morality in our social practices and understanding of the self. It is at the same time to argue that morality is integral to personhood and enters the construct of the person at the most basic level. My method is to exploit our sense that our concept of the person exists to capture that which makes us more than natural beings. First, persons must self-define. What it is to be a person is not given. Persons, and each person, must create an ideal of the person to act, and through action try to realize that ideal and through that process in fact realize themselves. Second, the human psyche has its own needs and drives unrelated to those of the physical being that propel the being towards personhood. Third, persons have depth. When we recognize a being to be a person, it is evidence of depth that we recognize. Without depth persons would not be. We have evolved a specialized vocabulary -- a moral vocabulary -- that both recognizes that depth and facilitates its creation. Together these entail that the person cannot be constructed without that construct being eventually set in moral terms, and that sociality is a basic unit of analysis of the person: persons exist as beings who recognize each other and exist in a matrix of recognition within which persons come to be. In as much as existing as a person is the proper form of existence for our kind and personhood is dependent on the voluntary activity of other persons, existence as a person must as far as possible be guaranteed. This is the foundational task of morality and the source of its basic requirements. / text

Univ., Diss.--Münster (Westf.), 2002. / Literaturverz. S. 337 - 352.

Communications over social media, telephone, email, text etc have emerged as an integral part of modern society and they are popularly used for the expression of anger, anxiety, fear, agitation and opinion by the people. People's social interaction tend to increase dramatically during periods of epidemics, protest and calamities. Therefore, above mentioned communication channels plays an important role in the spread of infectious phenomenon, like rumors, fads and effects. These infectious phenomena alters people's behavior during disease epidemic [1][2]. Social contact networks and epidemics co-evolve [1][2]. The spread of a disease influences people's behavior which in turn changes their social contact network, thereby altering the disease spread itself. As a result, there is a need for modeling the spread of these infectious phenomena that lead to changes in behavior. Their propagation among population primarily depends on the social contact network. The nature of social contagion spread is very similar to the spread of any infectious disease as they are contagious in nature. To spread contagious disease requires direct exposure to an infectious agent, whereas social contagions can be spread using various communications media like social networking forums, phones, emails and tweets. EpiSimdemics is an individual-based modeling environment. It uses a people-location bipartite graph as the underlying network [3]. In its current form, EpiSimdemics requires two people to interact at a location to model simulations. Thus, it cannot simulate the spread of social contagions that do not necessarily require the meeting of two agents at a location. We enhance EpiSimdemics by incorporating Person-Person network, which can model communications between people that are not contact based such as communications over email, phone, text and tweet. This Person-Person network is used to model effects (social contagion) which induce behavioral changes in population and thus impacting the disease spread. The disease spread is modeled on Person-Location network. This leads to the scenario of two interacting networks: Person-Person network modeling social contagion and Person-Location modeling disease. Theoretically, there can be multiple such networks modeling various interacting phenomena. We demonstrate the usefulness of this network by modeling and simulating two interacting PTTSs (probabilistic timed transition systems). To model disease epidemics, we have defined Disease Model and to model effects (social contagion), we have defined Fear Model. We show how these models influence each other by performing simulations on EpiSimdemics with interacting Disease and Fear Model. Therefore a model that does not include the affect adaptations on disease epidemics and vice-versa, fails to reflect the actual behavior of a society during disease epidemic spread. The addition of Person-Person network to EpiSimdemics will allow for a better understanding of the affect adaptions, which can include behavior changes in society during an epidemic outbreak. This would lead to effective interventions and help to better understand the dynamics of disease epidemic. / Master of Science

In this dissertation I will present and test a model linking actual applicant-interviewer demographic, human capital, and cultural capital similarity to an interviewer??s recommendation to hire. Actual similarity is proposed to influence an interviewer??s perceptions of similarity with an applicant. These perceptions, in turn, lead to the interviewer??s perceptions of the applicant??s Person-Organization (PO) fit and the applicant??s Person-Job (PJ) fit. Two main mechanisms are proposed to mediate the relationship between an interviewer??s perceptions of similarity and an interviewer??s perceptions of an applicant??s fit: liking and negative behavioral expectations. Lastly, both an interviewer??s PO and PJ fit perceptions of an applicant are posited to influence the interviewer??s recommendation to hire. A total of 118 interviewer-applicant dyads contacted through the Career Center Office at a University located in the southwestern United States participated in the study. Results partially support the model. An interviewer??s perceptions of similarity with an applicant are positively related to an interviewer??s fit evaluations. An interviewer??s negative behavioral expectations of an applicant mediate this relationship. Furthermore, perceived similarity is positively related to an interviewer??s liking of an applicant. In turn, liking is positively related to an interviewer??s PO fit perceptions. However, liking does not function as a mediator between perceived similarity and fit evaluations. Finally, fit evaluations are positively related to hiring recommendations. I discuss the main implications of the study as well as strengths, limitations, and future research.

In this dissertation I will present and test a model linking actual applicant-interviewer demographic, human capital, and cultural capital similarity to an interviewer??s recommendation to hire. Actual similarity is proposed to influence an interviewer??s perceptions of similarity with an applicant. These perceptions, in turn, lead to the interviewer??s perceptions of the applicant??s Person-Organization (PO) fit and the applicant??s Person-Job (PJ) fit. Two main mechanisms are proposed to mediate the relationship between an interviewer??s perceptions of similarity and an interviewer??s perceptions of an applicant??s fit: liking and negative behavioral expectations. Lastly, both an interviewer??s PO and PJ fit perceptions of an applicant are posited to influence the interviewer??s recommendation to hire. A total of 118 interviewer-applicant dyads contacted through the Career Center Office at a University located in the southwestern United States participated in the study. Results partially support the model. An interviewer??s perceptions of similarity with an applicant are positively related to an interviewer??s fit evaluations. An interviewer??s negative behavioral expectations of an applicant mediate this relationship. Furthermore, perceived similarity is positively related to an interviewer??s liking of an applicant. In turn, liking is positively related to an interviewer??s PO fit perceptions. However, liking does not function as a mediator between perceived similarity and fit evaluations. Finally, fit evaluations are positively related to hiring recommendations. I discuss the main implications of the study as well as strengths, limitations, and future research.

Bakgrund: Idag räknas psykisk ohälsa som ett av de stora folkhälsoproblemen. Depression är en av de sjukdomar som räknas till psykisk ohälsa. Sjukdomen ökar runt om i världen och cirka 350 miljoner människor beräknas idag ha en depression. En persons upplevelser är unika och en depression kan därför hanteras på olika vis. Det är av stor vikt att sjuksköterskan har bred kunskap om olika personers upplevelser av sjukdomstillståndet för att kunna stödja och vägleda dem på bästa sätt. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva personers upplevelser av att leva med depression. Metod: Studien baserades på två patografier. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av Graneheim och Lundman användes. Resultat: I resultatet framkom det sex kategorier; Att vara socialt isolerad, Att ha bristande självkänsla, Att förlora kontrollen, Att ha sömnsvårigheter, Att leva under behandling och Att finna strategier och stöd för att kämpa vidare i livet. Personerna upplevde sig ensamma och isolerade på grund av depressionerna. Ångest, oro och sömnbesvär var återkommande inslag i deras vardag.De upplevde att samtalsbehandling och medicinering lindrade deras besvär. Personerna fick kraft till att återhämta sig genom familj och vänner. Slutsats: Genom att sjuksköterskan tar del av en persons upplevelser av depression kan sjuksköterskan förstå och vägleda personen genom rätt behandling. För att personer med depression ska kunna känna tillit och förtroende till sjuksköterskan är det viktigt att visa dessa personer att det finns intresse och tid till att lyssna när de berättar om sina problem.

This thesis is the first of three sections in what will be a book-long project of creative nonfiction essays. The book will parallel the author's diary with three other family diaries, spanning four generations. This thesis deals with the first of those diaries, written by Antonio Bonetti's, the author's great-grandfather. The narrative traces the author's struggle with clinical depression, juxtaposing this with his great-grandfather's political struggles in the city of Trieste during the nineteenth century (then under the Austro-Hungarian empire). Both the author's and Bonetti's diaries are excerpted and commented on by the author, comparing the author's experiences as a psychiatric patient with those of his great-grandfather as a political prisoner. This is the "conversation" of diaries. The irreverent tone of the Antonio Bonetti's prison diary confounds many of the author's expectations, leading the author to discover more commonalities than anticipated, namely a sense of humor in the face of severe diversity (the punchline as life boat). / Graduation date: 1999

This is a dissertation on how certain cognitive limitations inform a theory of knowledge. Explanations in terms of the pure indexical "I" indicate a class of cognitive limitations. "I" cannot be completely eliminated from any successful explanation of how the world is intelligible to me and only I can refer to myself with the indexical "I." This raises the possibility that there are thoughts that I can think that cannot be thought by anyone else. Given what an epistemological theory must say about the definition, structure, and instances of knowledge and epistemic merit in general, such limits to cognitive access must arise both in its explanations of ordinary cases and its specialized theoretical concepts. The main contention of this dissertation is that it must be possible for an epistemological theory to plausibly account for these limitations.