This essay is focused on gender issues in the film The Kissing Booth directed by Vince Marcello and how it can be used in a Swedish EFL classroom to problematize the stereotypical portrayals of the main characters. Since film is readily available for people in the Western world, including young students, it is important to teach them to be mindful of how media content can influence people in different ways. Even though the movie challenges some gender norms at first glance, an application of the Bechdel test shows that The Kissing Booth actually strengthens the Western world's traditional representation of gender. Because gender was mostly viewed as a binary correlated to sex before, it is easy to stay within those restrictive ways when creating and depicting characters in film. However, theorists have found that gender is not innate but performative and if it is not depicted as such in mainstream media, it may uphold outdated notions of gender and prevent changes in attitudes needed for a more inclusive society. Modern events, such as the Me Too movement, also indicate that there is a need for more conversations about these issues.

<p>SYFTE: Vårt syfte är att analysera Sandvik AB:s mässdeltagande genom intervjuer med nyckelpersoner inom företaget. Fokus ligger på hur dessa uppfattar företagets medverkan på mässor. Dessutom har vi efter samråd med Sandvik AB valt att presentera förslag till hur företaget kan effektivisera sin mässmedverkan.</p><p>METOD: De empiriska data som insamlades skedde genom intervjuer med anställda vid Sandvik AB:s bolag. Våra intervjuer genomfördes med en kvalitativ metod. Vi ville skapa en öppen dialog mellan oss och respondenterna varav frågorna framställdes med detta i åtanke. I maj besökte vi SPCI 2008 i Älvsjö, världens största mässa för pappersindustrin. På mässan genomfördes intervjuer med slumpvis valda besökare. Detta utfördes för att vi skulle få en uppfattning angående besökarnas orsak till att besöka mässor.</p><p>RESULTAT OCH SLUTSATS: Våra slutsatser visar att Sandvik AB främst medverkar på mässor för att träffa existerande och potentiella kunder men även för att introducera nya produkter. Forumet ger företaget en möjlighet att träffa ett stort antal besökare på ett fåtal dagar vilket är både tid- och resurssparande. För att besökarna ska behålla Sandvik AB i minnet efter mässor är det viktigt att företaget skiljer sig från de andra utställarna. Detta kan ske i form av inbjudningar, utseendet på montern samt aktiviteter under mässan.</p><p>Vi har genom studien kommit fram till att det är svårt, nästintill omöjligt att sätta kvantitativa mål för en mässa. Det kan ta flera år efter genomförd mässa för att besökarna ska utvecklas och bli kunder. På så sätt blir det komplicerat att koppla en viss affär till en specifik mässa. Både teorin och empirin diskuterar att antal leads är ett bra sätt att mäta om en mässa varit framgångsrik. Vi menar att detta inte är ett tillförlitligt tillvägagångssätt då osäkerheten och skillnaden av leads är omfattande. Väljer man ändå att mäta mässan på detta sätt anser vi att det krävs en kategorisering av olika slag leads för att få så pålitligt resultat som möjligt.</p><p>FÖRSLAG TILL FORTSATT FORSKNING: Då tidigare forskning kring mässor är begränsat finns vidare behov av studier i ämnet. Det finns utrymme för många riktningar och frågeställningar som ej tidigare granskats.</p><p>Denna uppsats skulle kunna kompletteras med en framtida studie för att få en djupare insyn om effekterna av Sandvik AB:s medverkan på mässor. Vid fortsatta studier skulle även undersökningar av stålindustrin i dess helhet kunna undersökas.</p><p>UPPSATSENS BIDRAG: Vi anser att vår studie ligger till grund för en fortsatt utveckling av Sandvik AB:s mässdeltagande. De slutsatser som vår uppsats resulterat i är värdefulla gällande företagets förståelse angående mässor.</p> / <p>AIM: Our aim is to analyze Sandvik AB:s contribution at trade fairs through interviews with key persons within the company. The focus of the essay is to describe how these participants consider the company’s contribution at trade fairs. After consultations with Sandvik AB we decided to present several proposals what the company can do to make their contribution at the trade fairs more efficient.</p><p>METHOD: The empirical data was based on interviews with employees at Sandvik AB. For our interviews, we have chosen a qualitative method. We wanted to have an open dialogue between ourselves and the participants therefore the questionnaire was produced with this in mind. In May we went to SPCI 2008 in Älvsjö, which is the world's greatest trade fair for the paper industry. At the trade fair interviews were made with randomly chosen visitors. These were conducted to get an understanding about the visitors’ reasons to visit trade fairs.</p><p>RESULT AND CONCLUSIONS: Our conclusions of the essay show that Sandvik AB foremost contributes at trade fairs in order to meet existing and potential customers but also in order to introduce new products. The forum gives the company possibilities to meet many visitors in a short period of time which is both time- and resource saving. In order to get the visitors to retain Sandvik AB after the trade fairs it is important that the company differentiates from the other exhibitors. This can occur in the shape of invitations, booth appearance and activities during the trade fair.</p><p>Throughout the study we have realised that it is difficult, almost impossible to set quantitative objectives for a trade fair. It can take several years after an attendance from Sandvik AB at a trade fair for the visitors to develop and become customers. Because of this reason it becomes complicated to link a certain business to a specific trade fair. Both theory and empiric discuss that the quantity of leads is a good way to measure if a trade fair has been successful. Due to this fact it is not a reliable procedure because of the uncertainty and the difference of leads is extensive. If you choose to measure the trade fair with this method, we consider that a categorisation of leads is necessary to receive as reliable results as possible.</p><p>SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: Previous research about trade fairs are limited and we recognize a need of continued studys about the subject. There are still many directions and questions about trade fairs that have not been reviewed earlier.</p><p>This essay could be complemented with a future study in order to get a deeper insight about the effects of Sandvik AB:s participation at trade fairs. An extended study could also examine the steel industry as an entirety.</p><p>CONTRIBUTION OF THE THESIS: We consider that our study is a base for a continued development of Sandvik AB:s contribution at trade fairs. The conclusions our essay resulted in is valueble for the company’s understanding regarding trade fairs.</p>

SYFTE: Vårt syfte är att analysera Sandvik AB:s mässdeltagande genom intervjuer med nyckelpersoner inom företaget. Fokus ligger på hur dessa uppfattar företagets medverkan på mässor. Dessutom har vi efter samråd med Sandvik AB valt att presentera förslag till hur företaget kan effektivisera sin mässmedverkan. METOD: De empiriska data som insamlades skedde genom intervjuer med anställda vid Sandvik AB:s bolag. Våra intervjuer genomfördes med en kvalitativ metod. Vi ville skapa en öppen dialog mellan oss och respondenterna varav frågorna framställdes med detta i åtanke. I maj besökte vi SPCI 2008 i Älvsjö, världens största mässa för pappersindustrin. På mässan genomfördes intervjuer med slumpvis valda besökare. Detta utfördes för att vi skulle få en uppfattning angående besökarnas orsak till att besöka mässor. RESULTAT OCH SLUTSATS: Våra slutsatser visar att Sandvik AB främst medverkar på mässor för att träffa existerande och potentiella kunder men även för att introducera nya produkter. Forumet ger företaget en möjlighet att träffa ett stort antal besökare på ett fåtal dagar vilket är både tid- och resurssparande. För att besökarna ska behålla Sandvik AB i minnet efter mässor är det viktigt att företaget skiljer sig från de andra utställarna. Detta kan ske i form av inbjudningar, utseendet på montern samt aktiviteter under mässan. Vi har genom studien kommit fram till att det är svårt, nästintill omöjligt att sätta kvantitativa mål för en mässa. Det kan ta flera år efter genomförd mässa för att besökarna ska utvecklas och bli kunder. På så sätt blir det komplicerat att koppla en viss affär till en specifik mässa. Både teorin och empirin diskuterar att antal leads är ett bra sätt att mäta om en mässa varit framgångsrik. Vi menar att detta inte är ett tillförlitligt tillvägagångssätt då osäkerheten och skillnaden av leads är omfattande. Väljer man ändå att mäta mässan på detta sätt anser vi att det krävs en kategorisering av olika slag leads för att få så pålitligt resultat som möjligt. FÖRSLAG TILL FORTSATT FORSKNING: Då tidigare forskning kring mässor är begränsat finns vidare behov av studier i ämnet. Det finns utrymme för många riktningar och frågeställningar som ej tidigare granskats. Denna uppsats skulle kunna kompletteras med en framtida studie för att få en djupare insyn om effekterna av Sandvik AB:s medverkan på mässor. Vid fortsatta studier skulle även undersökningar av stålindustrin i dess helhet kunna undersökas. UPPSATSENS BIDRAG: Vi anser att vår studie ligger till grund för en fortsatt utveckling av Sandvik AB:s mässdeltagande. De slutsatser som vår uppsats resulterat i är värdefulla gällande företagets förståelse angående mässor. / AIM: Our aim is to analyze Sandvik AB:s contribution at trade fairs through interviews with key persons within the company. The focus of the essay is to describe how these participants consider the company’s contribution at trade fairs. After consultations with Sandvik AB we decided to present several proposals what the company can do to make their contribution at the trade fairs more efficient. METHOD: The empirical data was based on interviews with employees at Sandvik AB. For our interviews, we have chosen a qualitative method. We wanted to have an open dialogue between ourselves and the participants therefore the questionnaire was produced with this in mind. In May we went to SPCI 2008 in Älvsjö, which is the world's greatest trade fair for the paper industry. At the trade fair interviews were made with randomly chosen visitors. These were conducted to get an understanding about the visitors’ reasons to visit trade fairs. RESULT AND CONCLUSIONS: Our conclusions of the essay show that Sandvik AB foremost contributes at trade fairs in order to meet existing and potential customers but also in order to introduce new products. The forum gives the company possibilities to meet many visitors in a short period of time which is both time- and resource saving. In order to get the visitors to retain Sandvik AB after the trade fairs it is important that the company differentiates from the other exhibitors. This can occur in the shape of invitations, booth appearance and activities during the trade fair. Throughout the study we have realised that it is difficult, almost impossible to set quantitative objectives for a trade fair. It can take several years after an attendance from Sandvik AB at a trade fair for the visitors to develop and become customers. Because of this reason it becomes complicated to link a certain business to a specific trade fair. Both theory and empiric discuss that the quantity of leads is a good way to measure if a trade fair has been successful. Due to this fact it is not a reliable procedure because of the uncertainty and the difference of leads is extensive. If you choose to measure the trade fair with this method, we consider that a categorisation of leads is necessary to receive as reliable results as possible. SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: Previous research about trade fairs are limited and we recognize a need of continued studys about the subject. There are still many directions and questions about trade fairs that have not been reviewed earlier. This essay could be complemented with a future study in order to get a deeper insight about the effects of Sandvik AB:s participation at trade fairs. An extended study could also examine the steel industry as an entirety. CONTRIBUTION OF THE THESIS: We consider that our study is a base for a continued development of Sandvik AB:s contribution at trade fairs. The conclusions our essay resulted in is valueble for the company’s understanding regarding trade fairs.

This thesis studies the non-verbal communication such as the body language in the context of a trade show. The non-verbal communication is one of the primary conveyors of messages and trade shows are one of the major channels were firms attract new customers. However the combination of trade shows and non-verbal communication is overlooked. The method consists of interviews with visitors and observations of the booths and the visitors. The setting was chosen as the annual Hannover Messe were five booths of Swedish firms were studied. The result indicates that firms can further improve their body language. Suggested improvements involve to not having the sales representative work in the booth. This is remarked as a taboo by authors within the area; still this action commonly occurs.  The booth design plays a prominent role in the visitor interactions so does the staffing. The way to approach a visitor is not differing much between the booths in the study however there are three possible ways to physically approach visitors as a sales representative. The best way has not been established and the visitor interviews gave a mixed result regarding this matter. Although the best way is not found all observed booths missed out on dialogs with prospective customers much due to that full attention was not directed towards the visitors. The authors want to emphasis on the adaptation towards visitor as an important pawn in the exhibiting, some sales representatives automatically does this.

Finite impulse response (FIR) digital filters are frequently used in many digital signal processing and communication applications, such as IS-95 CDMA, Digital Mobile Phone Systems (D-AMPS), etc. FIR filter achieves the frequency response of system requirement using a series of multiplications and additions. Previous papers on FIR hardware implementations usually focus on reducing area and delay of the multiple constant multiplications (MCM) through common sub-expression elimination (CSE) in the transpose FIR filter structure. In this thesis, we first perform optimization for the quantization of FIR filter coefficients that satisfy the target frequency response. Then suitable encoding methods are adopted to reduce the height of the partial products of the MCM in the direct FIR filter structure. Finally, by jointly considering the errors in the truncated multiplications and additions, we can design the hardware-efficient FIR filter that meets the bit accuracy requirement. Experimental results show that although CSE in the transpose FIR structure can reduce more area in MCM, the direct form takes smaller area in registers. Compared with previous approaches, the proposed FIR implementations with direct form has the minimum area cost.

This dissertation is interested in how people talk about character in a variety of public spheres. Specifically, it explores the tangled relationship between authenticity and ethos, or what is taken as the distinction between intrinsic and constructed character. While this dissertation does not presume to settle the question of authenticity’s actuality, it does discuss the ways authenticity cues in rhetorical acts continue to influence how “sincere character” in those acts is understood, even as audiences exhibit shrewdness in recognizing that character is a purposeful manifestation of the rhetor. The fundamental phenomenon this dissertation seeks to describe is how people, with better and worse success, negotiate the dissonance between valuing character as authentic and as presentation and representation. Character in this view is a much richer and more paradoxical concept than many discussions of the term admit. A too-diluted study of ethos limited strictly to pinpointing credibility in an argument makes it difficult to articulate why an exhibition of character sometimes works and sometimes flops. Ethos in its fullest complexity is, and is not, constructed by any single act; it is the consequence of narratives, both of those narratives, and also what we say about those narratives; it is something we know about a rhetor, at the same time that it comes from what the rhetor claims to know; it is, most important, an appeal to authenticity, even when we know ethos is discursively, kairotically, and socially constructed. This dissertation offers an expanded definition of ethos as rhetorical transactions that rhetors and audiences mutually negotiate in order to determine the extent to which all sides will have their rhetorical needs met, and the extent to which all sides can assent to the those needs. The dissertation, using the works of Wayne Booth, Kenneth Burke, and Chaïm Perelman as its primary theoretical structures, offers pedagogic implications for these mutual negotiations. / text

This dissertation focuses on the triangulated relationship among female sexuality, patriarchy, and empire and examines literary and historical texts to understand how Britons increasingly identified as imperialists over the course of the nineteenth century. This project, the first book-length study of its kind, features analyses of canonical works like Mansfield Park, David Copperfield, and Adam Bede as well as analyses of paintings, etchings, conference proceedings, newspaper advertisements, colonial reports, political tracts, and medical records from Britain and its colonies. I challenge critical conceptions of the fallen woman as a trope of domestic fiction whose position as outcast illustrates the stigmatization of female sex during the nineteenth century, and I argue that the depiction and punishment of fallen women in multiple genres reveal an interest in protecting and maintaining an imperial system that claims moral superiority over the people it colonizes. My critical stance is both feminist and postcolonial, and my work complicates readings of fallen women in Victorian literature while also adding significantly to scholarship on gender and empire begun by Anne McClintock and Philippa Levine. I claim that during the nineteenth century, the fallen woman comes to represent that which will threaten patriarchal and imperial power, and her regulation reveals an intent to purify the British conscience and strengthen the nation’s sense of itself as a moral and exceptional leader in the world. My investigation into fallenness and empire through a wide range of texts underscores the centrality of imperialism to British society and to the lives of Britons living far removed from colonial sites like India or East Africa.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:51:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3755.pdf: 3612414 bytes, checksum: e80a028a9b64b5753bef71155748f139 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-25 / Despite the benefits provided by the ergonomic approach to the design process, their participation is still limited, given that the specifics of workers as gestures and reasoning, in most cases, are not covered by the professionals responsible for developing new systems work. Thus, this work is to present a case study involving the practice of ergonomic design in the development of a crane cab in a petroleum refining industry. For this, we developed an Ergonomic Work Analysis (EWA), used as the basis for the development of concepts supported by sketches, plans and digital models. It was also used as a way of representing the human-environment system, digital human dummy that gave rise to the scenarios used in the construction of simulated situations. These situations were aimed at the confrontation of different representations of the members of the design process. From the conclusions of the case study, we presented the constraints and the contributions that simulation can bring to the process of designing work situations, whether in the construction of scenarios, or in simulated situations or participating in ergonomic designs. / Apesar de os benefícios proporcionados pela abordagem da ergonomia ao processo de concepção, sua participação ainda se encontra limitada, tendo em vista que as especificidades dos trabalhadores como gestos e raciocínios, na maioria dos casos, não são contemplados pelos profissionais responsáveis em desenvolver os novos sistemas de trabalho. Nesse sentido, este trabalho se propõe a apresentar um estudo de caso envolvendo a prática da ergonomia de concepção no desenvolvimento de uma cabine de ponte rolante em uma indústria de refino de petróleo. Para isto, foi desenvolvida uma Análise Ergonômica do Trabalho (AET), utilizada como base para a elaboração de conceitos suportados por croquis, plantas e maquetes digitais. Também foi utilizado, como forma de representação do ambiente homem-sistema, manequim humano digital que deu origem aos cenários utilizados na construção de situações de simulação. Essas situações tiveram como objetivo a confrontação das diferentes representações dos integrantes do processo de projeto. A partir das conclusões do estudo de caso, foram apresentados os constrangimentos e as contribuições que a simulação pode trazer ao processo de concepção de situações de trabalho, seja na construção dos cenários, seja nas situações de simulação ou na participação da ergonomia nos projetos.

It is estimated that 10% of the global population is impaired to a significant degree by a decrease in hearing sensitivity. With the greatest proportion of these persons residing in developing countries where communities are grossly underserved, it is incumbent on hearing healthcare professionals to seek means of offering equitable hearing health care services to these communities. The delivery of conventional diagnostic hearing services to these population groups is challenged by limitations in human resources, financial constraints and by the dearth of audiometric testing facilities that are compliant with permissible ambient noise levels for reliable testing. Valid diagnostic hearing assessment without an audiometric test booth will allow greater mobility of services and could extend hearing healthcare service delivery in underserved areas. The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of diagnostic pure tone audiometry in a natural environment, outside a sound treated room, using a computer-operated audiometer with insert earphones covered by circumaural earcups incorporating real-time monitoring of environmental noise. A within-subject repeated measures research design was employed to assess elderly adults with diagnostic air (250 to 8000 Hz) and bone (250 to 4000 Hz) conduction pure tone audiometry. The study was of a quantitative nature and the required data was collected by testing subjects initially in a natural environment and subsequently in a sound booth environment to compare the threshold measurements. One experienced audiologist used audiometric KUDUwave test equipment to evaluate subjects in both environments. A total of 147 adults with an average age of 76 (± 5.7) years were tested. Ears had pure tone averages (500, 1000, 2000 and 4000 Hz) of ≥ 25 dB in 59%, >40 dB in 23% and ˃ 55 dB in 6% of cases. Analysis of collected data showed air conduction thresholds (n = 2259) corresponding within 0 to 5 dB in 95% of all comparisons between testing in the natural and sound booth environments. Bone conduction thresholds (n = 1669) corresponded within 0 to 5 dB in 86% of comparisons and within 10 dB or less in 97% of cases. Average threshold differences (–0.6 to 1.1) and standard deviations (3.3 to 5.9) were within typical test-retest reliability limits. Recorded thresholds showed no statistically significant differences with a paired samples t-test (p ˃ 0.01) except at 8000 Hz in the left ear. Overall the correlation between the air-conduction thresholds recorded in the sound booth environment and the natural environment was very high (˃ 0.92) across all frequencies while for bone conduction threshold correlation for the two environments fell between 0.63 and 0.97. This study demonstrates that valid diagnostic pure tone audiometry in an elderly population can be performed in a natural environment using an audiometer employing insert earphones covered by circumaural earcups with real-time monitoring of ambient noise levels. Mobile diagnostic audiometry performed outside of an audiometric sound booth may extend current hearing healthcare services to remote underserved communities where booths are scarce or inaccessible. In combination with Telehealth applications this technology could offer a powerful and viable alternate diagnostic service to persons unable to attend conventional testing facilities for whatever reasons. / Dissertation (MCommunication Pathology)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology / Unrestricted

Young adult dystopian fictions follow the patterns established by the classic adult dystopias such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, but not completely. Young adult dystopias tend to end happily, a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith and John Savage. Young adult authors resist hopelessness, even if the fictional world demands it. Using a rhetorical approach established by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep, this thesis traces the reasons for the inclusion of hope and the strategies by which hope is created and maintained. Booth's rhetorical approach recognizes that a narrative is a relational act. At issue in this study is the consideration of what follows from viewing a narrative as a dynamic exchange between text, author and reader. Through a focus on rhetoric as identification, the responsibilities of both the author and the reader to a text are identified and discussed. Three young adult novels, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Giver by Lois Lowry and Feed by M.T. Anderson will be analyzed as case studies. Together the analysis of these novels reveals that storytelling is an act of forging identifications and forming alliances. The reader becomes more than just a spectator of the author's rhetoric; the reader is a fully involved member of the interpretive and evaluative process.