The following research presents a study of communication in requirement elicitation meetings. Achieving consensus of requirements is difficult in mostsituations, but even more so in requirement elicitation meetings. This report proposes and validates questions regarding requirement elicitation meetings between different stakeholders by modelling their subjective perspectives using the conceptual metaphor theory. Through a case study, qualitative data was collected from project managers and communicators from 5 Swedish companies. The result shows that misunderstanding is not detected until further into the process as a result of carrying different notions behind terms. The importance of shared experiences of words presents itself, and the use of metaphorisation is suggested as a useful approach to reach consensus.

The context of this research project is Eersterust, a suburb situated east of Pretoria. Eersterust is hallmarked by socio-economic contrast: While some people in the community live comfortable lives, other community-members endure poverty and hardship. Eersterust is plagued by socio-economical problems including unemployment, crime, substance abuse and gang-activity. Music Therapy was established in Eersterust in 2003 at a community-based centre called YDO (The National Youth Development Outreach). YDO facilitates the social rehabilitation of adolescents who are at risk of coming in conflict with the law or have already committed some sort of petty crime. When Music Therapy was introduced at YDO it was isolated from the rest of the organisation as well as from the broader community of Eersterust. The Music Therapist at YDO realised that she had to adapt her work in order for it to justly address the needs of the context. In the process of adaptation, Music Therapy became integrated within the organisation and currently works both with and within the broader community of Eersterust. The adaptation of the Music Therapy practice has lead to some unconventional practices of Music Therapy according to traditional Music Therapy discourse. These Music Therapy practices may be described from a Community Music Therapy angle. The aim of this research project is to analyse the narrative of the Music Therapist working within YDO/Eersterust in order to describe the practice of Music Therapy within this context from the angle of Community Music Therapy. The following research questions were addressed in this research study: <ol><li> How is Community Music Therapy at Eersterust constructed in the context of a Music Therapy narrative? </li> <li>How does the narrative draw from and contribute to the emerging field of Community Music Therapy?</li></ol> The study is conducted within a qualitative paradigm and methods of narrative analysis were used to describe the practice of Music Therapy in the context of YDO/Eersterust. The research study is data-driven and raw data consisted of a single semi-structured interview conducted with the Music Therapist working at YDO. The narrative text was transcribed, coded and categorized. From the analysis process themes emerged that indicated the primacy of the context in influencing the construction of the narrative of the Music Therapist. These themes were used to answer the two pertaining research questions. The discussion focuses on the importance of the context as it seems to impinge directly on the Music Therapy practice within the context of YDO/Eersterust. The discussion draws from Social Construction Theory to explain how Community Music Therapy is constructed within the narrative of the Music Therapist. At the same time Community Music Therapy draws from and contributes to the narrative of the Music Therapist. Certain areas of discussion were highlighted in the emerging themes and these areas are used to describe Community Music Therapy within the context of YDO/Eersterust. In this research project the Consensus Model is presented as a contrasting thinking tool to Community Music Therapy discourse. The Consensus Model describes the standardised practice of Music Therapy as a neutral and transferable therapeutic model that can be applied in a similar way in all contexts while Community Music Therapy advocates context-bound and context-specific Music Therapy work with and within communities. Community Music Therapy implies that Music Therapy is not necessarily a neutral model that can be transferred from one context to the next. Areas may exist where Community Music Therapy and the Consensus Model may present different opinions regarding Music Therapy practice. The narrative data concludes that both Community Music Therapy and the Consensus Model are constructed within the narrative of the Music Therapist. Both these models exist simultaneously in the context of YDO/Eersterust. Music Therapy in South Africa is still an emerging field of practice. Community Music Therapy may be especially relevant to South Africa as Music Therapists are increasingly called upon to work in the contexts of socio-economically disadvantaged communities, similar to Eersterust. Whilst this study may have focused only on a single community in South Africa, my hope is that it will encourage Music Therapists in South Africa to review and research Music Therapy with and within communities in South Africa. This study will also contribute to the emerging discourse of Community Music Therapy. / Dissertation (MMus (Music Therapy))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Music / Unrestricted

Organizational culture is a widely known concept and is something that has increasingly become a subject of importance as many argue for its relation to an organization’s overall performance and business. The idea for this study was born in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic that broke out during the year of 2020. The authors’ interest in the subject of organizational culture and the identified lack of research on the area culminated in the research question to what extent does remote work affect organizational culture? The aim with our study was to deepen our knowledge on remote work and its effects on culture because of the widespread discussion on a more flexible attitude towards it even after the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical framework in this study was based on a three- perspective-approach that consists of three different perspectives on how to study organizational culture. The research was based on a qualitative case study and nine semi- structured interviews were conducted. The results showed that organizational culture has been affected by remote work to some extent. The authors suggest future research on the subject with a similar study, but at a later point in time to be able to conclude the more long term and permanent effects of remote work on organizational culture.

京都大学 / 新制・論文博士 / 博士(医学) / 乙第13461号 / 論医博第2248号 / 新制||医||1055(附属図書館) / (主査)教授 古川 壽亮, 教授 松村 由美, 教授 永井 洋士 / 学位規則第4条第2項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第23203号 / 工博第4847号 / 新制||工||1757(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科電気工学専攻 / (主査)教授 引原 隆士, 教授 土居 伸二, 教授 梅野 健 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

Syfte: Syftet är att förstå vad för typ av innehåll som publiceras på Malmö FF:s officiella Twitter-konto och hur klimatet kring kontot kan beskrivas.Frågeställningar: 1. Varför använder Malmö FF och supportrarna Twitter?2. Vad kommunicerar Malmö FF ut via sitt Twitter-konto och hur kan innehållet kategoriseras och beskrivas?3. Stämmer supportrarnas/följarnas tankar kring innehållet på och klimatet kring Malmö FF:s Twitter-konto överens med klubbens tankar?Teori: Teorin som använts för att tolka empirin är huvudsakligen Erving Goffmans teori om självpresentation med fokus på front- och backstage. De teoretiska begreppen konflikt och konsensus har också använts för att beskriva resultatet.Metod: Studien är fallstudie där man arbetat med triangulering – det vill säga flera olika metoder. Studien inleddes med en innehållsanalys av Malmö FF:s Twitter-flöde. Sedan följde en semistrukturerad intervju med Malmö FF:s kommunikatör och sist genomfördes två fokusgruppsintervjuer med supportrar.Resultat och slutsats: Malmö FF och deras supportrar använder Twitter för att den plattformen har ett linjärt ”liveflöde”, möjlighet att ge och få snabb information i realtid och möjlighet att föra enkla och direkta dialoger med varandra. Innehållet på Malmö FF:s Twitter-konto har delats upp i nio kategorier som sedan kategoriserats vidare till front- eller backstage. Klubben och supportrarna har väldigt liknande tankar om hur Malmö FF bör vara på Twitter och vad de bör publicera där. Det råder stark konsensus mellan klubben och supportrarna kring Twitter och detta bidrar till en känsla av gemenskap – MFF-familjen. / Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine what content Malmö FF publishes on their official Twitter account and how the interaction linked to the account can be described.Research questions:1. Why does Malmö FF and their supporters use Twitter?2. What is published on their official account and how can the content be categorised?3. Is the content and interaction around the account perceived alike by the club and their supporters?Theory: Theories that outlined this study was Erving Goffman’s self-presentation theory which included the concept of frontstage and backstage and the theoretical perspectives conflict and consensus. Methods: The methods used in this study included content analysis of Malmö FF’s Twitter account, a semi-structured interview with Malmö FF’s communicator and focus group interviews with supporters of Malmö FF. Results and conclusion: Twitter is used for its live timeline and to share information quickly and efficiently. The content published on Malmö FF’s Twitter account can be divided into nine categories and further categorised into front- or backstage. The club and their supporters strongly agree on the way Twitter should be used, related to Malmö FF.

Bibliography: pages 180-190. / The purpose of this paper is to survey the literature of consociational theory, assess its validity as a conceptual model, and to analyse both its relevance and utility as a potential framework of conflict regulation in South Africa. The paper is divided into five chapters: an overview of consociational theory as it is presented by its leading exponents; a critique of the theory's methodology and major suppositions; a modified model of consociational democracy in light of the theoretical criticisms; an application and evaluation of the modified model to South Africa; and, finally, some observations about consociational democracy's possible viability as a transitory mechanism between the present system and black majority-rule in a unitary system. The objective is to illustrate that consociational government is, normatively, an inadequate constitutional system for South Africa and, more broadly, for polities characterised by extreme ethnic or economic conflict.

Consensus control algorithms for multi-agent systems are an area of much research. Several consensus control laws are experimentally validated on a multi-robot testbed in this thesis. A graphical user interface (GUI) is developed that simplies use of the testbed, as well as allows the execution of the testbed programs to be divided across multiple computers. This not only provides a more powerful computing environment, but a more realistic communication environment for the testbed. A method for a time varying or dynamic formation is both proposed and experimentally validated on the testbed. This research also explores a method for dynamic group resizing, i.e. addition or removal of members of the formation. Also, a new control law for synchronized oscillations is validated. Finally, a testbed for multiple cooperative Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) is developed for the Procerus UAV.

Perception of depth, ego-motion and robust keypoints is critical for SLAM andstructure from motion applications. Neural networks have achieved great perfor-mance in perception tasks in recent years. But collecting labeled data for super-vised training is labor intensive and costly. This thesis explores recent methodsin unsupervised training of neural networks that can predict depth, ego-motion,keypoints and do geometric consensus maximization. The benefit of unsuper-vised training is that the networks can learn from raw data collected from thecamera sensor, instead of labeled data. The thesis focuses on training on imagesfrom a monocular camera, where no stereo or LIDAR data is available. The exper-iments compare different techniques for depth and ego-motion prediction fromprevious research, and shows how the techniques can be combined successfully.A keypoint prediction network is evaluated and its performance is comparedwith the ORB detector provided by OpenCV. A geometric consensus network isalso implemented and its performance is compared with the RANSAC algorithmin OpenCV. The consensus maximization network is trained on the output of thekeypoint prediction network. For future work it is suggested that all networkscould be combined and trained jointly to reach a better overall performance. Theresults show (1) which techniques in unsupervised depth prediction are most ef-fective, (2) that the keypoint predicting network outperformed the ORB detector,and (3) that the consensus maximization network was able to classify outlierswith comparable performance to the RANSAC algorithm of OpenCV.

Mental illness is a complex phenomenon that is social and psychological as well as biological. But since the creation of the DSM-III in the 1980s, the landscape of mental health research and treatment in the United States has been heavily influenced by the biomedical model. The thoughts and beliefs of the lay public about mental illness are often ignored despite the push for greater cultural understanding among biomedical professionals. This disconnect, coupled with the poor mental health infrastructure, has left Mississippi with an inadequate ability to help Mississippians address mental illness. This research uses cognitive anthropological methods and biocultural theory to begin to address this disconnect. A shared cultural model of mental illness by causes, symptoms, and treatments was found. There were systematic differences between the two groups’ knowledge of causes of mental illness. Understanding these will assist in providing more culturally appropriate care for the mentally ill.