At best anger is problematic for most of us and especially an issue for women (and other discriminated groups). True a collaborative craft project focusing on silver objects, I investigate female anger and how it is perceived. Also, how the prevention of acting it out silences our need for change. I use the aesthetics of magic to reference the judging of women acting outside of set rules, and also as a tactic of female liberation.

This paper presents an investigation in how a jewelry artist understands the life and death, permanence and impermanence of human, objects, and other creatures, by communicating still life in the form of jewelry. I will bring up a fact that death and impermanence have been forgotten by my peers, and use still life and contemporary jewelry to discuss it. The paper mainly talks about: my opinion upon life and death in modern society, why and how did I related them with still life paintings, how did I make my jewelry based on still life, and discusst a dilemma I met: how will jewelry be when they are on and not on people’s body.

This project aims to challenge preconceptions of mental health and attempts to conceptually dissect the popular phrase “mental health is a luxury”. The dissection is grounded on a theoretical background related to the inefficiencies of the health care system, advocacy movements of health care rights, material culture and luxury consumption, in order to conceptualize design strategies for sociocultural change.The concept challenges the perception of mental health care as luxury through the invitation of other mental health sufferers into a collaborative co-design space that generates information about their subjective lived experiences and needs, through participatory and empathic design methods. Jewelry has been selected as a design medium that combines possibilities of self-expression, involvement in co-crafting, similarities to other devices for self-regulation and preconceptions of status. The socioeconomic issues of the accessibility of mental health care reveals inequalities related to social status, and jewelry with its historical connotation as a social status symbol is used in this project as a critical tool to portray and question the correlation between socioeconomic privilege and mental health care. The collaborative process of co-designing and translating real people’s needs into customized jewelry works as an attempt to redefine jewelry as a manifestation of human needs and to cultivate mental health sufferers’ agency and power towards their own health.

Du fait de la disponibilité de capteurs éléctroniques de plus en plus puissant, la dernière décennie a vu la popularisation de nouveaux dispositifs mobiles, comme les téléphones intelligents (smartphone), et même des dispositifs miniatures comme ceux de l'informatique portée. Ces nouveaux dispositifs apportent de nouveaux problèmes interactionnels, du fait de la petite taille de l'écran et du problème du "fat-finger" (lors de l'interaction, une large portion de l'écran se retrouve occultée par le doigt, et les tâches de pointage perdent en précision. L'objectif de ce travail est double : 1) d'acquérir une meilleure compréhension du pointage sur les petits dispositifs mobiles, grâce à une étude poussée de la loi Fitts, 2) de créer de nouvelles techniques d'interaction afin d'augmenter la bande passante interactionnelle entre l'utilisateur et le dispositif / Thanks to the availability of powerful miniaturized electronic coponents, this last decade have seen the popularization of small mobile devices such as smartphones, and even smaller devices for wearable computing. These new devices bring new interaction problems, such as the small size of the screen and the "fat-finger" problem (a relatively large portion of the sreen is occluded and pointing lacks precision). the objective of the work reported here is twofold : 1) to aquire a better understanding of pointing on small devices, thanks to an advanced study of Fitts' law, 2) to design new interaction techniques for increasing the interaction bandwidth between the user and the device.

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Student motivation is investigated in this study as a means of abrogating apathy within a public high school Jewelry course. The study is an attempt to answer a personal question of whether students could be internally motivated to a level of excitement that they would take ownership for their personal learning and the learning of their classmates. The study also addresses four main points that cause apathy, or are caused by apathy, they are: zero sum competition, compassion and support for classmates,ownership of the physical facilities, and the development of a conscientious public. Through a desire to test data on autonomy, high school students in a Jewelry 2 course were given freedom to choose what projects they made, what materials and processes they used, and what grade they received at the end of the semester. The study was a classroom action research project. Narrative analysis was used as a reflective tool to organize the data into thematic events that tracked the strengths and weaknesses of the study. Key teaching strategies were introduced in this study, including the following: personal goal setting by students to formulate an individualized curriculum; self-grading; and process diaries that the students wrote in daily to track their progress on their goals, and for use as a tool of accountability. The teaching strategies were designed to increase students' intrinsic motivation, creativity, sense of ownership for their personal learning and the learning of their fellow students, to develop a caring environment, and to develop ownership of the physical facilities of the school.

Rosary devotion has long been considered a "female-centered" religious practice. Despite this correlation, no scholars have investigated the relationship between women and the rosary. In this thesis I attempt to fill that void by examining a range of meanings the rosary held for laywomen in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Northern Europe, c. 1470 to c. 1530. Using a theoretical framework informed by materialism, gender theory, and Marian theory, my thesis argues that beyond its usual associations with indulgences, the rosary also signified prayers for conception and safe childbirth. In reciting prayers to the Madonna, laywomen spiritually and mystically projected themselves into the narrative of the Virgin's pregnancy, desiring to bear a child as Mary bore Christ.To explicate the relationship between women and the rosary, my thesis considers a variety of rosary images: female donors with their prayer beads, Andachtsbilder portraying the Christ Child holding and playing with a string of beads, images of the Holy Kinship, instructive prints from rosary manuals, and early family portrait scenes. As a whole, these images suggest that the rosary symbolized a budding womb, a wife's ideal piety, the desire for children, the maternal qualities of the Virgin, and an amulet to assuage the rigor of childbirth. Lastly, my thesis considers the rosary as religious jewelry. By looking to several examples of women depicted with ornate rosaries, my thesis argues that laywomen wore beads to elevate their status and to emulate the aristocracy. Moreover, wearing rosaries and/or being painted with one's rosary allowed for a public pronouncement of one's private piety. For women, then, wearing a rosary was another way in which they could enter into the public devotional realm. In arguing that the rosary was perceived by women as a blossoming vine, as a piece of religious jewelry, and as an aid in childbirth, I hope to have contributed new ways of understanding this multivalent devotional tool, and to have opened new avenues for others to consider the rosary beyond its usual associations with prayer counting and indulgences.

Целью работы является совершенствование инструментария оценки эффективности маркетинговой стратегии ювелирного предприятия. Предложен методический подход к оценке конкурентоспособности маркетинговой стратегии в цифровой среде путем выделения групп конкурентов на рынке ювелирных товаров в регионе на основе критериев, учитывающих специфику ювелирной отрасли, с последующим анализом качества развития цифровой торговой площадки компании. Это позволит сформировать рекомендации по развитию маркетинговой стратегии на основе повышения качества цифровой торговой площадки с учетом особенностей развития и ограничений ресурсов для каждой группы. / The aim of the work is to improve the tools for evaluating the effectiveness of the marketing strategy of a jewelry company. A methodical approach to assessing the competitiveness of a marketing strategy in the digital environment is proposed by identifying groups of competitors in the jewelry market in the region based on criteria that take into account the specifics of the jewelry industry, followed by an analysis of the quality of development of the company's digital trading platform. This will make it possible to formulate recommendations for the development of a marketing strategy based on improving the quality of the digital trading platform, taking into account the specifics of development and resource constraints for each group.

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