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Male and Female Athletes’ Perceptions of their Coaches’ CommunicationHartsough, Leanna L., Hartsough January 2017 (has links)
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"Det är ovärderligt. För mig." : En undersökning om Boken kommer med fokus på livskvalitet. / "It is Invaluable. To Me." : An Investigation of the Home-Library Service with Focus on Life Quality.Wessberg Hasselbom, Matilda January 2024 (has links)
Introduciton. The aim of this master’s thesis is to investigate whether the Library Outreach Service (Boken kommer), a home-library-service, contributes positively to how the users’ experience their life quality. Method. This study is based on semi-structured interviews with ten Boken kommer-users, a smaller qualitative survey and one interview with the librarian in charge of the home-library-service in the Swedish municipality Norrtälje. Analysis. The theoretical framework used for the analysis in this study is based on the results from two different studies that define life quality for people over the age of 65. These results are used to explain and understand the users’ experiences and perceptions of whether the service has a positive impact on their perceived quality of life. Results. The analysis identifies several themes that were brought up by the users in the interviews and in the survey. These themes covered a social aspect, to be part of the community, the access to literature, the possibility to participate in different ways and their perception of what is meaningful in their lives. These themes can all contribute to life quality. Conclusion. The findings indicate that users find the home-library-service to contribute positively to their experienced life quality and that the service is a very important element in their lives. Limitations. As this study draws its findings from a small sample selection, general conclusions are limited and further studies of larger groups in a broader context with this perspective would make a good contribution to research. This is a two-year master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.
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[en] NEW FORMS OF DEFENSE IN OVERLOAD AGE / [pt] NOVAS FORMAS DE DEFESA NA ERA DOS EXCESSOSTERESINHA DE JESUS NOSKE ROSSI 07 July 2004 (has links)
[pt] Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar como os usuários
da Internet vêm lidando com o crescente aumento de
possibilidades de interação proporcionado pelos novos
dispositivos comunicacionais virtuais e, em especial, pelo
correio eletrônico. Para tanto, foram realizadas quinze
entrevistas de perguntas abertas com homens e mulheres que
tivessem no mínimo 25 anos de idade e que já estivessem
utilizando a Internet e o correio eletrônico há pelo menos
um ano. Após transcrito, o material coletado nessas
entrevistas foi analisado através da técnica de análise do
discurso. Foi possível concluir que três novos excessos
relativos à esfera da comunicação interpessoal já estão
fazendo parte do cotidiano desses internautas: o excesso de
interação, o excesso de demanda de interação e o excesso de
mensagens recebidas diariamente. Foi possível verificar,
ainda, que estes usuários vêm buscando diferentes formas de
lidar com estes excessos e deles se defender. Entre estas
novas formas de defesa encontram-se: a priorização de
mensagens urgentes, a abertura de diferentes contas de e-
mail com a finalidade de separar diferentes níveis de
intimidade, a utilização de uma conta de e-mail extra
para evitar informar os endereços pessoais a sites ou
pessoas não confiáveis, o rápido apagamento de mensagens
não desejadas, a utilização de um momento especial para ler
e responder mensagens e, finalmente, o controle - bem como
eventual redução - da quantidade de contatos via e-mail. / [en] This study aimed at investigating how Internet users are
dealing with the increase of interaction possibilities
brought about by new communication devices and, specially,
by the e-mail. An investigation was carried out with
fifteen men and women who were at least twenty-five years
old and had been using the Internet and e-mail programs for
at least a year. An open-ended-question interview was
conducted with each of them. After transcribed, the
material collected in these interviews was analyzed through
discourse analysis techniques. The results of this analysis
made it possible to identify the emergence of three types
of excess concerning the new forms of interaction: the
excess of interaction, the excess of demand for interaction
and the excess of incoming messages. These results also
made it possible to conclude that these users are using
different forms to deal with these excesses and to defend
themselves from them. They give priority to urgent
messages, open different e-mail accounts in order to
separate different levels of intimacy, use at least one
extra account so that they do not have to inform their
personal address to sites or people they do not trust,
quickly delete undesirable messages, use a special moment
of the day to read and reply messages, and, finally,
control - as well as reduce - the amount of e-mail
contacts.
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Le Québec anglophone: une communauté distincte du reste du Canada? : étude comparative des positions éditoriales de deux journaux anglophones - The Gazette et The Globe and Mail - en rapport avec certains débats publics au Québec et au Canada de 1976 à 1982Lacasse, Chantal 13 December 2023 (has links)
Les sociétés canadienne et québécoise se sont tissées au fil des rencontres avec l'altérité. Notre analyse comparative des éditoriaux de The Gazette et du Globe and Mail s'inscrit à un moment où s'opère, sur la scène provinciale, un renversement du rapport de force entre les deux communautés linguistiques québécoises, l'anglophone et la francophone, et, sur la scène fédérale, une véritable refondation identitaire du pays. En raison de son inscription dans la socialité franco-québécoise, le discours de The Gazette paraît être le fruit « d'un processus incessant d'échanges, d'emprunts, de négociations, de transmissions et de transformations » avec l'autre, à savoir les Franco-Québécois. Par son appropriation de matériaux culturels franco-québécois, le journal montréalais exprime une affiliation fluide et plurielle, voire de l'ordre de celle du caméléon, modifiant son épiderme selon les circonstances et les environnements. C'est ainsi que, suivant les contextes politiques, idéologiques et discursifs, cette position est québécoise, anglo-québécoise, canadienne ou canadienne-anglaise. En incorporant la variable « Québec » au cœur de son équation éditoriale, The Gazette saisit et présente, avec plus d'empathie, de justesse et de subtilité que ne le fait le Globe and Mail, les enjeux liés aux réalités québécoises et canadiennes. Dénuées du « fardeau » québécois, les analyses que publie le Globe and Mail sont plus distancées, mais aussi moins éclairées, à l'endroit de la donne québécoise, entre autres parce que le quotidien torontois n'inclut pas, ou inclut très peu, le Québec dans sa vision du Canada. / Canadian and Quebec societies have been woven together through encounters with otherness. Our comparative analysis of the editorials of The Gazette and The Globe and Mail takes place at a time when, on the provincial scene, the balance of power between Quebec's two main linguistic communities, anglophone and francophone, is shifting and, on the federal scene, the country is undergoing a true reshaping of its identity. As a result of being embedded in Franco-Quebec sociality, The Gazette's discourse appears to be the result of "a continuous process of exchange, borrowing, negotiation, transmission and transformation" with the other, namely Franco-Quebecers. By its appropriation of Franco-Quebec cultural materials, the Montreal newspaper expresses a fluid and plural affiliation, similar to the skin of a chameleon, adapting itself in response to circumstances and environments. Thus, depending on the political, ideological and discursive contexts, this position is Québécois, Anglo-Québécois, Canadian, or English- Canadian. By incorporating the "Québec" variable into its editorial equation, The Gazette captures and presents the issues related to Quebec and Canadian realities with more empathy, accuracy and subtlety than does The Globe and Mail. Without the Quebec "burden", the analyses published by The Globe and Mail are more distanced, and also less insightful, with regard to the Quebec situation, partly because the Toronto newspaper does not include Quebec in its vision of Canada, or only slightly.
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Investigating politeness among IsiZulu mother tongue and non-mother tongue speakers in higher education open distance learning environmentNene, Jabulani Owen 11 1900 (has links)
This study aims to explore politeness shown by lecturers during tuition and student support conversations with the objective of promoting polite interactions between IsiZulu mother tongue and non-mother tongue speakers in higher education in South Africa. In particular, the study investigates the way in which politeness in email communication influences learning outcomes within an ODL environment, using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, a questionnaire as well as interviews to collect data from a cross-section of students from an Open Distance Learning (ODL) institution. All the results drawn from the data sources, namely the questionnaires and interviews, were enumerated according to the data collection tools used. Version 12 of SPSS and Nvivo were used to analyse the quantitative data. The analysis is also based on the politeness strategies of Brown and Levinson (1978) as well as a conceptual framework that links all the variables. Based on the results, the research hypotheses are accepted, thus indicating that politeness in email communication influences learning outcomes within an ODL environment. In particular, the results show that, overall, lecturers who employ politeness contribute positively to student compliance. Accordingly, the study recommends that ODL should recognise both the role of language in communication as well as the power and influence of politeness in communication. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil.
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WORKSHOP "MOBILITÄT"Anders, Jörg 12 June 2001 (has links)
Gemeinsamer Workshop von Universitaetsrechenzentrum und Professur "Rechnernetze und verteilte Systeme" der Fakultaet fuer Informatik der TU Chemnitz.
Workshop-Thema: Mobilitaet
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Doing Good While Going Public: Ramping Up the ExactTarget Foundation Amidst the IPO Process (Q1 2012)Ross, Nicole Kristine 14 February 2013 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / indefinitely
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Financial performance measurement of South Africa's top companies: an exploratory investigationMosalakae, Isaiah Gaabalwe Bojosinyana 31 July 2007 (has links)
This study explores the financial performance measurement of South Africa's Top Companies. It aims to find a conclusion on the research problem, that is 'Do South Africa's Top Companies use the available arsenal to measure their financial performance?'
Commerce and industry are the cornerstones of the economy of a country. This study purports to contribute to the ways and means of minimising the risk of business failures due to the resultant effects on the economy.
The sample comprises of sixty companies. The sampling frame is the first hundred companies of the Financial Mail 200 Top Performers for 2004.
The arsenal that is available to measure financial performance is researched in the financial literature. Mainly, this covers ratio analysis and interpretation, and the bankruptcy prediction models.
To arrive at a conclusion on the research problem, a research instrument is developed from the host of financial ratios in the literature, including the bankruptcy prediction models. The research instrument comprises of popular ratios that are also found to be 'logical', as well as the ratios that make up the Z-Score bankruptcy prediction model. The instrument is called the Ratio Map and Z-Score and is applied to test the financial strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies.
In addition to the Ratio Map and Z-Score, the measures applied by the Top Companies as 'highlights' are analysed. This is done to determine the extent at which the measures unearth the strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies.
The conclusion drawn is that the Top Companies do not utilise the available arsenal to measure their financial performance. The supporting evidence is that the most frequently applied 'highlights' measures by the Top Companies cover only one area of the many financial fields of a company, that is, share performance. On the other hand, the analyses per Ratio Map and Z-Score have not revealed major material weaknesses in the financial position of the Top Companies.
It is proposed that:
ïf More information be given in the notes to the financial statements to facilitate meaningful analysis; and
ïf A follow-up research study be done to assess the trends of the Top Companies. / Business Management / D.Comm. (Business Management)
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Investigating good usability consistency within and across the South African super 14 rugby franchise web sitesHoward, Grant Royd 08 1900 (has links)
This study investigates the usability of the South African Super 14 Rugby franchise web sites. Web site usability is a measure of a web site user’s experience when visiting a web site. A web site user’s experience will determine how well a web site’s goals are achieved. The relevant web site goals are, having as many visitors as possible, both unique visitors and repeat visitors, and ensuring that those visitors stay on the web site for as long as possible. This study uses data generation method triangulation to enhance the validity of the findings. The data generation methods are an e-mail questionnaire survey and an expert group consensus method called the Delphi Method. This study shows that within each web site and across all five web sites, there is poor usability consistency. Management guidelines and recommendations for improvements to these web sites are presented, so that the web site goals can be achieved. / Computer Science / M.Sc. (Information Systems)
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Measurement of direct response advertising in the financial services industry : a new metrics modelFriedrich, Fränzo Otto 06 1900 (has links)
Direct response advertising in the financial services industry in South Africa has become one of the most important tactics companies utilise to build and maintain market share. Ensuring that these advertising campaigns yield optimal return on investment numbers is the responsibility of marketing departments and their partners in the marketing and sales processes, such as the creative and media agencies, the distribution force, as well as the client service area that supports the client value proposition. The marketing executive therefore is accountable for the planning, budgeting and execution of direct response campaigns, which need to deliver sufficient results to support the company’s overall business objectives. The challenge all marketers face is the lack of a proven structured and scientific methodology to facilitate this planning, budgeting and execution process. It has always been a general view in the marketing fraternity that it is extremely difficult if not impossible to combine creative output measures, which are subjective in nature, with cost, sales and profit measures, which are objective in nature.
This study aims to create a structured approach to marketing strategising and planning, by creating a marketing metrics model that enables the marketing practitioner to budget according to output needed to achieve the overarching business objectives of sales, cost management and profit. This marketing metrics model therefore unpacks the business drivers in detail, but through a marketing effort lense, to link the various factors underlying successful marketing output, to the bigger business objectives.
This is done by incorporating both objective (verifiable data, such as cost per sale) and subjective variables (qualitative factors, such as creative quality) into a single model, which enables the marketing practitioner to identify areas of underperformance, which can then be managed, tweaked or discontinued in order to optimise marketing return on investment. Although many marketing metrics models and variables exist, there is a gap in the combination of objective and subjective factors in a single model, such as the proposed model, which will give the marketer a single tool to plan, analyse and manage the output in relation to pre-determined performance benchmarks. / Business Management / DCOM (Business Management)
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