Social support is strongly associated with resilience and positive outcomes in children who have experienced risk and adversity, including children and young people in care. However, research suggests that children in care are often disadvantaged in their ability to benefit from social support due to disrupted relationships and multiple placements. Whilst a number of measures have been developed to assess the support networks of children, few are able to adequately assess and describe the complex network of relationships that exist for young people in care.The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the use of a Dependency Grid to assess social support in young people who are looked after. The Dependency Grid is an interview technique derived from George Kelly’s (1955) Theory of Personal Constructs and was administered to ten individuals aged 11-17 years who were either in foster care or residential care. Qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis were used to explore its utility to assess social support with each case. The appropriateness and ease of completing the Dependency Grid was evaluated through participant feedback interviews. The views and opinions of the young people’s social workers and a reference group consisting of social care practitioners were also obtained.The Dependency Grid was found to be a useful tool for examining the support networks of young people in care, with many advantages over existing measures. The Dependency Grid revealed similarities and differences in the way participants distributed their dependencies. Most of the participants had dispersed dependency grids and carers and friends were the most significant providers of support. Levels of social support did not vary with the increasing size of the support network (r = 0.198) and the felt ‘closeness’ of relationships, as measured using the Four Field Map, was poorly related to the allocation of dependencies (r = -0.243). Some evidence was found in relation to the validity of the Dependency Grid for individual cases using qualitative methods. The strengths and limitations of the Dependency Grid are discussed and the methodological challenges with the study and opportunities for further research are considered.

Thesis advisor: Oliver P. Rafferty / Thesis advisor: Robert J. Savage / Irish Republicans found themselves at a crisis moment in 1949. Legislation enacted by each state on the island affirmed the political reality of Ireland’s partition. The Southern state declared an Irish Republic while the Northern state affirmed Northern Ireland’s continuing integration with the United Kingdom. The partition of island between these two governments was reinforced by the Irish border in the 1950s as it had been for the previous three decades. The Irish Republican Army remained committed to ending the separation through force while the Northern Ireland security apparatus steadfastly safeguarded the realm against any foreign incursion or domestic insurrection. Irish Republicanism reorganized and the IRA launched a disastrously planned and under-resourced Border Campaign between 1956 and 1962. The IRA was fully repelled by the Northern security forces: the Royal Ulster Constabulary supported by the Special Constabulary with security assistance from the governments in Belfast, London and, eventually, Dublin. The militant aspect was accompanied by political measures that reaped electoral gains and signs of public support peaking in the mid-1950s before a clear repudiation of the movement by the end of the decade. By the start of the 1960s, the IRA had been defeated and Irish Republicanism was reeling, unsure of its future political vitality and social relevance. Northern Ireland and the Irish border was more secure than at any point in its previous 40 years of existing, ruled by a strong, confident British Unionist hegemony. For Irish Republicans living on the frontier of the Northern Ireland state, new modes of political thinking and confrontational actions with the state had been attempted and ultimately abandoned. This project examines the main dynamics at play along the Irish border between 1949 and 1961. Focus will be on the Sinn Féin, the IRA and Liam Kelly’s Republican splinter group Saor Uladh, the RUC, B-Specials and militant-political Unionism, and the role of governments in Belfast, Dublin and London during the costly decade of the 1950s. / Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2020. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.

In überraschender Weise erinnerte der australische Grünen-Politiker Bob Brown im März 1997 an den Besuch der deutschen Grünen-Gründerin Petra Kelly in Australien Mitte der 1970er Jahre: “She took back with her to Germany this idea of Greens Bans, or the terminology. As best we can track it down, that is where the word ‚green‘ as applied to the emerging Greens in Europe came from”. Als Green Bans Movement wurde eine Reihe von Gewerkschaftskampagnen genannt, bei denen Beschäftigte Arbeit bestreikten, die Umwelt und Natur schädigen würde. Petra Kelly traf bei ihrem Besuch 1977 einige der dort involvierten Gewerkschafter:innen und blieb in schriftlichem Kontakt mit ihnen. Fern von der Idee, eine etymologische Untersuchung der Entstehung der Grünen durchzuführen, erfasse ich in diesem Beitrag jenen Austausch zwischen Petra Kelly und australischen Gewerkschafter:innen und Aktivist:innen 1977 als eine Mikrogeschichte der transnationalen Verbindungen sozialer Bewegungen im Allgemeinen und der Umweltbewegung im Besonderen. Dabei zeige ich wie Kelly als „human link“ (Milder 2018) zwischen den Bewegungen fungierte. Grundlage der Untersuchung ist eine Auswahl aus Artikeln, Manuskripten, Reiseberichten und Korrespondenzen aus Kellys Nachlass, der im Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis aufbewahrt wird.

<p>Modern microbialites provide the opportunity to explore the influences of biology on microbialite formation and understand how biosignatures can be preserved in these structures. In this study, we used the isotopic compositions (δ¹³C) of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and their structurally-defined profiles, in conjunction with calcium carbonate isotopic compositions and imaging to evaluate microbial autotrophic and heterotrophic processes associated with freshwater microbialites from Kelly Lake, British Columbia. This was done to determine what types of metabolism may have been influencing microbialite growth and whether a biosignature of this process was preserved. In addition, PLFA profiles from a microbialite-derived pure culture were analyzed under various growth conditions to assess environmental influences on microbial PLFA composition.</p> <p>Although the majority of the δ¹³C values of Kelly Lake microbialite surface carbonates fell within the range predicted for equilibrium precipitation, samples collected from 26 m were found to have enriched δ¹³C_carb values and are likely a biosignature of autotrophy at this depth. PLFA profiles and δ¹³C_PLFAvalues also supported the predominance of autotrophy, however, they indicated that heterotrophic organisms were also present. This data suggests that autotrophic metabolisms have influenced the local geochemistry in the past, at least at 26 m, and are likely substantial contributors to microbialite growth.</p> <p>Changes in temperature, pH, NaCl concentrations, and cell densities were found to induce variations in the PLFA profiles of the <em>Exiguobacterium</em> strain RW2. The degree of PLFA unsaturation changed in each of the different culture conditions, and was predominantly adjusted through alterations in the branched monoenoic PLFAs, particularly i-17:1Δ⁵. These results highlight the difficulties associated with applying PLFA profiles as evidence for shifts in a microbial community composition, since altered growth conditions can induce intra-specific PLFA changes.</p> / Master of Science (MSc)

In der Statistik und der Mathematik ist die Normalverteilung der am meisten verbreitete, stochastische Term für die Mehrheit der statistischen Modelle. Wir zeigen, dass der entsprechende stochastische Prozess, die Brownsche Bewegung, drei entscheidende empirische Beobachtungen nicht abbildet: schwere Ränder, Langzeitabhängigkeiten und Skalierungsgesetze. Ein selbstähnlicher Prozess, der in der Lage ist Langzeitabhängigkeiten zu modellieren, ist die Gebrochene Brownsche Bewegung, welche durch die Faltung der Inkremente im Limit nicht normalverteilt sein muss. Die Inkremente der Gebrochenen Brownschen Bewegung können durch einen Parameter H, dem Hurst Exponenten, Langzeitabhängigkeiten darstellt werden. Für die Gebrochene Brownsche Bewegung müssten die Skalierungs-(Hurst-) Exponenten über die Momente verschiedener Ordnung konstant sein. Empirisch beobachten wir variierende Hölder-Exponenten, die multifraktales Verhalten implizieren. Wir erklären dieses multifraktale Verhalten durch die Änderung des alpha-stabilen Indizes der alpha-stabilen Verteilung, indem wir Filter für Saisonalitäten und Langzeitabhängigkeiten über verschiedene Zeitfrequenzen anwenden, startend bei 1-minütigen Hochfrequenzdaten. Durch die Anwendung eines Filters für die Langzeitabhängigkeit zeigen wir, dass die Residuen des stochastischen Prozesses geringer Zeitfrequenz (wöchentlich) durch die alpha-stabile Bewegung beschrieben werden können. Dies erlaubt es uns, den empirischen, hochfrequenten Datensatz auf die niederfrequente Zeitfrequenz zu skalieren. Die generierten wöchentlichen Daten aus der Frequenz-Reskalierungs-Methode (FRM) haben schwerere Ränder als der ursprüngliche, wöchentliche Prozess. Wir zeigen, dass eine Teilmenge des Datensatzes genügt, um aus Risikosicht bessere Vorhersagen für den gesamten Datensatz zu erzielen. Im Besonderen wäre die Frequenz-Reskalierungs-Methode (FRM) in der Lage gewesen, die seltenen Events der Finanzkrise 2008 zu modellieren. / Coming from a sphere in statistics and mathematics in which the Normal distribution is the dominating underlying stochastic term for the majority of the models, we indicate that the relevant diffusion, the Brownian Motion, is not accounting for three crucial empirical observations for financial data: Heavy tails, long memory and scaling laws. A self-similar process, which is able to account for long-memory behavior is the Fractional Brownian Motion, which has a possible non-Gaussian limit under convolution of the increments. The increments of the Fractional Brownian Motion can exhibit long memory through a parameter H, the Hurst exponent. For the Fractional Brownian Motion this scaling (Hurst) exponent would be constant over different orders of moments, being unifractal. But empirically, we observe varying Hölder exponents, the continuum of Hurst exponents, which implies multifractal behavior. We explain the multifractal behavior through the changing alpha-stable indices from the alpha-stable distributions over sampling frequencies by applying filters for seasonality and time dependence (long memory) over different sampling frequencies, starting at high-frequencies up to one minute. By utilizing a filter for long memory we show, that the low-sampling frequency process, not containing the time dependence component, can be governed by the alpha-stable motion. Under the alpha-stable motion we propose a semiparametric method coined Frequency Rescaling Methodology (FRM), which allows to rescale the filtered high-frequency data set to the lower sampling frequency. The data sets for e.g. weekly data which we obtain by rescaling high-frequency data with the Frequency Rescaling Method (FRM) are more heavy tailed than we observe empirically. We show that using a subset of the whole data set suffices for the FRM to obtain a better forecast in terms of risk for the whole data set. Specifically, the FRM would have been able to account for tail events of the financial crisis 2008.

TITLE: The Fictional Man: Ned Kelly in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang in Comparison with Older Portrayals AUTHOR: Adam Prentis DEPARTMENT: Department of English Language and Literature SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The thesis concerns itself with the analysis of various personality aspects of the protagonist of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) - Ned Kelly. Albeit a historical figure, Ned Kelly is approached as a fictional character with focus placed on his symbolic status of Australian nationality, myth and manhood, and on the literary means that point to this. The separate aspects are placed in an evolutionary context through comparisons with older portrayals of the same character - in Max Brown's Australian Son (1948) and J. J. Kenneally's The Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang and their Pursuers (1929), all of which use a heroising approach to the man. The work shows that Ned Kelly may be perceived in many complex ways, with further possibilities for analysis suggested. Comparing the three books, it is found that although considerable unifying tendencies and moments exist, some aspects have a significant difference in focus or emphasis. A shift is noted from a confrontational idealising defence of what is perceived as a historical person to a...

This dissertation examines a range of politicized artistic practices in Great Britain during the 1970s, a decade marked by economic decline and social fragmentation. The artists I primarily focus on in the pages that follow—William Furlong, Stephen Willats, Mary Kelly, and Conrad Atkinson—all appeared on Audio Arts, a “spoken magazine” distributed on audiocassette that was founded by Furlong in 1973. During the 1970s, Furlong, Willats, Kelly and Atkinson renegotiated their relationship to art institutions, expanded the role of the artist in society, and conceived of art as a form of political praxis, and this dissertation explores the strategies these artists devised to connect to publics outside the elite, bourgeois audience of art.

The notion of the 'public intellectual' has been a recurring discussion topic within sociology and the humanities for decades. Yet it has been largely neglected within media and cultural studies. Accordingly, few scholars have discussed in much depth how public intellectuals operate within the media and what functions this media role may facilitate. Intellectuals in the Australian Press is an exploration into this generally overlooked area of scholarship. It aims to provide three levels of insight into the topic. Firstly, the study looks closely at the appearance and the function of public intellectuals in the Australian press. It outlines how public intellectuals contribute to the newspapers and how newspapers contribute to Australian public intellectual life. Secondly, the thesis outlines and examines in detail three types of public intellectual in Australia. Specifically, it examines the journalist, the academic and the think tank researcher as types of intellectual who write regularly for Australia's newspapers. Thirdly, Intellectuals in the Australian Press delivers detailed intellectual biographies of three of Australia's most prominent press intellectuals, each of whom exemplifies one of these three categories. These commentators are The Australian's Paul Kelly, The Age's Robert Manne, and the Sydney Morning Herald's Gerard Henderson.

Submitted by (lucia.rodrigues@ufrpe.br) on 2016-11-23T13:00:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo Fernando Lima de Souza.pdf: 1161641 bytes, checksum: 9ee330df7fe48bfd1dc20c6a5b98183a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-23T13:00:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo Fernando Lima de Souza.pdf: 1161641 bytes, checksum: 9ee330df7fe48bfd1dc20c6a5b98183a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-25 / The objective of this work was to investigate if transdisciplinarity can contribute to the understanding of the wave-particle duality principle. The investigation was conducted with students from the Physics teaching course at UFRPE. The methodology used was Kelly’s Experience Cycle, in which the objective was to involve the students in a learning process through three experiments: the wave tank; the Young experiment and Crookes’ radiometer. These three experiments motivated a discussion about wave-particle duality. A transdisciplinary didactic workshop was conducted aiming to promote a discussion about third included logic, an adequate logic to be applied to wave-particle duality. The data analysis allowed the following conclusions: (i) the students from the Physics teaching course at UFRPE had a previous concept about the wave-particle duality principle, but without a logic subjacent to this principle; (ii) the three experiments and the transdisciplinary workshop conducted during Kelly’s Experience Cycle contributed for a better comprehension about the wave-particle duality principle. / O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar, numa turma de alunos da Licenciatura em Física da UFRPE, se o Pensamento Transdisciplinar pode contribuir para a compreensão do Princípio da Dualidade da Luz. A metodologia empregada foi o Ciclo da Experiência de Kelly, que teve a perspectiva de engajar os alunos em um processo de aprendizagem, com o auxílio de três experimentos didáticos: a cuba de onda, a dupla fenda de Young e o radiômetro de Crookes. A partir desses experimentos foi possível motivar uma discussão sobre as propriedades ondulatórias e corpusculares da luz. Uma oficina sobre a Transdisciplinaridade foi também realizada com o intuito de discutir a lógica do terceiro incluído, uma lógica que se adequa ao fato da luz se comportar como onda e como partícula. As análises dos dados permitiram as seguintes conclusões: (i) as concepções prévias dos estudantes da Licenciatura em Física da UFRPE acerca do Princípio da Dualidade da Luz eram desprovidas de uma lógica que respaldasse tal Princípio e (ii) os três experimentos propostos e a oficina sobre a Transdisciplinaridade, realizadas durante o Ciclo da Experiência Kellyana, contribuíram para que os estudantes tivessem uma maior compreensão do Princípio da Dualidade da Luz.

Improvisation är konsten att komponera, uttala, arrangera eller framställa någonting ej förberett. Hur gör man då för att lära sig musikalisk improvisation? Vanligen sker detta med hjälp av en musikteoretisk ingång. Detta arbete syftar därför till att ta reda på vad ett inlärningssätt på en gehörsbaserad grund kan ha för effekter. Metoden har varit att planka olika pianisters solon på samma låt och göra en egen inspelning, även den på samma låt både före och efter plankningen för att kunna jämföra dessa båda inspelningar och observera vilka resultat arbetet givit. Det har även gjorts en inspelning på en annan liknande låt både före och efter plankningen för att undersöka om utveckling som skett i den första låten även är överförbart till andra låtar. Resultatet tyder på att ett plankningsarbete leder till utveckling inom parametrarna timing och frasering, men att andra tillvägagångssätt är nödvändiga för att stärka sådant som rytm och tonmaterial.