Individuals have personal and occupational needs that are satisfied to some degree by attending professional meetings. The primary purpose of this study was to identify the attributes of professional society meetings that have value for attendees. Three meeting attributes were identified from a review of the literature: education, networking and leadership. The second purpose was to explain why individuals preferred certain meeting attributes. Career theories were used to provide an explanatory schema for interpreting individual differences. The findings of this study support four meeting attributes; the three hypothesized-education, networking and leadership, plus a fourth, named professional savvy. Based on the means education was the most frequently recognized attribute, networking the second, professional savvy was third, and leadership the least recognized. Career stages were shown to predict the attribute that would be valued most highly by an individual attendee. The three career stages and respective survey items shown to it be significant were {1) biological or life-span theories represented by the survey item age; (2) social class theories represented by salary, and (3) transition-based theories represented by the number of years a person has been in their profession, the number of years with the current employer and the individuals perception of changes in their job responsibilities. The data show that education is the most important attribute to three fourths of the sample and for these individuals career stages are normally distributed. For those who prefer leadership, savvy and networking more descriptive profiles can be drawn from the career stage variables. The results of this study are particularly useful to individuals who plan meetings. The data show that meeting organizers and planners can identify critical items that link the individuals to a particular career stage, and because meeting attributes are linked to career stages, programs can be designed to provide the selected or range of attributes depending on the particular make-up of the audience. / Ph. D.

abstract: The world of speculative fiction infuses the soul with the hope of the imaginary. My dissertation examines Afrofuturistic liminal imaginary space and the ways it is experienced as life-giving spaces. The imaginary and the aesthetics it births are formularies for art forms that speak to the hope of a transformed future. Speculative fiction, although in the realm of the imaginary, is an enlivened approach to express in the present collective possibilities and hopes of the people within those very imagined futures. During the past three decades, particularly, Black speculative fiction has been increasingly at the core of the new cultural productions of literature, film, horror, comics, fantasy, and music which tell the story of African descendant people. Afrofuturism is an analytic for exploration of the liberative revisioning of Black humanity in the face of persistent practices of structural injustice. My project presents the phenomenological exploration of Black Speculative Thought (ST) as it comes alive through artistic liminal spaces of Afrofuturist comic and science fiction conventions. I argue that Black imaginary liminal spaces such as Comicon Culture offer respite, renewal, and locales for creative resistance to thwart persistent alienation and nihilism of Black humanity. Furthermore, it is within these spaces where intersubjective agency can be taken up as a countermeasure to the existential realities and dominant hegemonic existences of everyday life. I examine the process, events, and experience of Black imaginary as it comes alive as potentiated hope for alternative futures. My intention is to marshal the theoretical specters of Critical Afrofuturism, Africana Philosophy, and Womanist Thought in this task. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Women and Gender Studies 2019

The goal of this thesis is to design and implement coding conventions management system for project. Prior to the creation of the system itself, the research of coding conventions benefits, the analysis of used technologies in open source projects at GitHub service, and the analysis of existing technologies managing coding conventions was done. On the basis of that, usage scenarios were designed, requirements were specified and system architecture was determined. Then the system was implemented as web application based on Blazor and EditorConfig technologies. The main aim was to create a system that would allow to store all types of programming conventions and at the same time allows users to automatically control and generate them. It is published under an open source license within the GitHub service and deployed on the Azure cloud platform.

My thesis draws connections between today's network society and the workings of gothic literature in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. Just as our society is formed and affected by the flow of information, the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility was formed by the merging and flow of scientific "technology" (or new scientific discoveries) and societal norms and rules. Gothic literature was born out of this science-society network, and in many ways embodies the ruptures implicit in it. Although gothic literature is not a network in the same sense as informationalism and the culture of sensibility are, gothic literature works according to the logic of networks on both a microscopic and macroscopic level. These correlations between networks and the gothic potentially illuminate two of gothic literature's strange and signature qualities: the subversive nature of the gothic convention, as well as the incredible—and almost inexplicable, considering its libeled and unpopular reputation—staying power of the genre. In Chapter One, I compare the society of informationalism and the eighteenth-century society of sensibility in order to extrapolate a three-pronged logic of networks: networks are subversive, networks are exclusive, and networks are based on codes. In Chapter Two I trace this logic through eighteenth-century gothic conventions as they are portrayed in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Matthew Lewis's The Monk. This shows how the gothic, like network society, depends on the paradox of containing the ideology that it subverts. In Chapter Three I investigate this paradox on a macroscopic level by examining the connections between "tales of terror" in Blackwood's Magazine and gothic literature in both the pre-Romantic and Victorian literature. By both adopting and subverting the conventions of Radcliffean gothic, these tales are a key node in the web of the gothic stretching backwards to into the eighteenth century, forwards into the nineteenth century, and beyond.

Property developers and investors seek to understand the drivers of prices for office and retail space. Through literature, we learn that size and age, locational attributes, physical features of the properties, and economic variables are significant determinants of commercial property prices. However, previous work has narrowly focused on aspects akin to formal structures and ignored the role of institutions, especially conventions and social norms incredibly, and what influences the behaviour of the property developers and investors while making the pricing decision. Therefore, the goal of this study was to understand how prices for commercial properties are determined in Uganda. The objectives of the study were to understand the role of conventions and social norms found in the property market environment on price determination and to explore the behaviour tendencies/heuristics exhibited by the players during the pricing decision-making process. The study was qualitative in nature. The researcher interviewed property owners, developers, institutional investors, and key informants to understand the conventions and social norms that exist in the property market and how they ultimately influence the pricing decision of commercial buildings. This study reveals that conventions exist in the Ugandan property markets. The conventions signal a price to the players in the property environment. However, due to information asymmetry and irrationality, each player interprets the price signals differently, using heuristics to develop the final price. This study helps researchers understand the role of individual behaviour/heuristics in advancing our understanding of institutions and the effects of the two on commercial property pricing, the economy at large and its consequences on economic policy.

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Att sätta sig in i andra utvecklares kod kan vara svårt och tidskrävande. Kodkonventionerär framtagna i syfte att underlätta underhållsarbetet för andra utvecklare som arbetar medsamma projekt, då det sällan är personen som skrev programmet som sedan underhållersamma program. För lite fokus läggs på kvalitétsaspekten i utvecklingsfasen av projektvilket kostar företag pengar och resurser. Denna studie har för avsikt att undersöka hurhögskoleingenjörsstudenter inom datateknik vid olika lärosäten i Sverige förhåller sig tillJavas kodkonventioner, och om det går att urskilja en signifikant skillnad i kodkvalitémellan lärosäten i avseende på identifierare, kommentarer samt format och struktur. Enwebbenkätundersökning genomfördes vars empiri analyserades med hjälp av ANOVA somär en vedertagen metod för hypotesprövning. 21 av 23 ANOVA-test visade att ingen signifikantskillnad förekom mellan lärosätena i avseende på identifierare, kommentarer samtformat och struktur. Resultatet visade även att de kvalitétsaspekter studenterna tyckerär viktiga och prioriterar att lägga tid på är också de aspekter som studenterna tycks hastörst förståelse och kunskap kring. / To get acquainted with other developers code can be difficult and time consuming. Codeconventions are developed in order to facilitate maintenance work for other developersworking on the same project, where the person who wrote the program rarely is the personthat maintains the same program. Little attention is paid to the aspect of quality ina projects development phase, which costs companies money and resources. This studyintends to investigate how students studying for a Bachelor of Science in Engineering inComputer Science at various universities in Sweden relate to Java code conventions, andif it is possible to discern a significant difference in code quality between these universitiesin terms of identifiers, comments, format and structure. An online survey was conductedwhose empirical data was analyzed using ANOVA, which is a recognized method forstatistical hypothesis testing. 21 of 23 ANOVA test showed that no significant differenceexisted between the institutions in terms of identifiers, comments and format and structure.The results also showed that the aspects of quality, which the students think are themost important, are also in fact the aspects they have the greatest understanding andknowledge about.

<p>The decade of the nineteen-twenties has generally been recognized as a dynamic period in English-Canadian literature, but so far as fiction is concerned its achievement is widely assumed to be the introduction of social realism into the Canadian novel. Those novels which employ other than realistic conventions have been assumed by many critics to be inferior because of their non-realistic aspects. </p> <p>This dissertation examines four such novels, supposedly flawed by melodramatic excess~ Raymond Knister's White Narcissus (1929), Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese (1925), Morley Callaghan's A Broken Journey (1932), and Frederick Philip Grove's The Yoke of Life (1930) - in order to discover the function and significance of melodramatic conventions and the sort of vision they project.</p> <p>The first part of the dissertation defines such terms as "realism" and ''melodrama." and explains the critical approach to be used. In the central four chapters, this critical approach is applied to each novel in turn.</p> <p>When the novels are compared, following the detailed analysis of each, significant similarities emerge. In thematic terms, a quest is undertaken, in each case, which is meaningful on several levels: on the literal level there is an arduous physical journey across or into a specific (and generally threatening) landscape; on a symbolic level there is a journey of mythological and/or religious import; in psychological terms the journey is into the less rational aspects of human experience in an attempt to re-integrate a personality divided against itself. In terms of structure, as well, certain patterns emerge: each novel employs a balanced, rather symmetrical structure, formal devices which tend to distance the reader from the material, and vortex-like patterns of movement on the part of the protagonist.</p> <p>The formal and thematic patterns which emerge from a comparison of the four novels, then, suggest that there is a "melodramatic mode" common to them, and possibly to novels of periods other than the one explored in this thesis. Indeed, it is further argued, melodramatic conventions (which are related to the gothic mode and romanticism in general) may serve as an appropriate vehicle for the expression in fiction of a profound modern theme, the portrayal of alienated man in a secularized and relativistic universe.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Ce mémoire a pour objectif d'étudier les perceptions de la rémunération globale de la partie syndicale du secteur de l'enseignement des centres de services scolaires francophones en regard à l'évolution de la tâche et des conditions d'exercice de la profession depuis les deux dernières décennies. En ce sens, une série d'outils de collecte de données ont été empruntés : entretiens semi-dirigés individuels et de groupe, analyse des conventions collectives, analyse de documents gouvernementaux, journalistiques et d'avis sur des enjeux spécifiques à la profession et son secteur d'activité. Les résultats démontrent que le personnel enseignant du secteur public francophone et leurs organisations syndicales sont d'avis que, dans les vingt dernières années, la tâche enseignante s'est complexifiée et s'est intensifiée alors que les conditions d'exercice se sont dégradées. De plus, ces même acteur.rice.s sont d'avis que la rémunération extrinsèque (salaires, avantages sociaux, etc.) et la rémunération intrinsèque (reconnaissance, autonomie professionnelle, etc.) n'ont pas suivi l'évolution de la profession ce qui accentue, entre autres, les problèmes d'attraction et de rétention auprès des enseignant.e.s.