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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Mental health services in the Marine Corps an exploratory study of stigma and potential benefits of desigmatization training within the OSCAR (Operational Stress Control and Readiness) program

Cooper, Susanna R. 12 1900 (has links)
Approved for public release; distribution in unlimited. / This study examines stigma associated with mental health services counseling in the Marine Corps for the purpose of assessing areas of concern where lack of awareness or stigma exists. Marines with longstanding unresolved personal problems or more immediate emotional distress may be less effective, they may also not know where to go for help. Secondly, stigma may be associated with the fear of negative performance evaluations and decreased future promotions, which may reflect an underutilization of the available mental health services. Results of this study reflect: 1)that stigma does exist; 2)that Marines have a poor knowledge of the availability and variety of mental health services; 3)that there is little in the way of destigmatization training within the Marine Corps. By studying civilian models which may have a destigmatization component, this study presents possible methods for incorporating destigmatization training into the OSCAR program. Theoretically, the results of this study, garnered through interviews with practitioners, literature, and an OSCAR program review, can be used to further the efficacy of Marine Corps mental health services by way of education and destigmatization training. / Captain, United States Marine Corps
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Oscar Wilde e Dorian Gray: sobre a experiência da perda, da dor e do luto / Oscar Wilde and Dorian Gray: on the experiences of loss, pain, and mourning

Vieira, Marcus Rodrigues Jacobina 12 December 2014 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcus Rodrigues Jacobina Vieira.pdf: 1160437 bytes, checksum: 442a325aeb410a9a2ce12e8ce617c63a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-12 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This is a research on mourning and melancholy, the challenges of going through a mourning process and the refusal to accept aging and the passage of time.The research was inspired in psychoanalytic theory and on the reading of the novel The portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, whose main character, Dorian Gray refused to grow old. Some aspects of Oscar Wilde´s life history were extracted from his biograpy by Daniel Salvatore Schiffer and from Tzvetan Todorov´s book Les Aventuriers de la Absolu to illuminate the the same problematic of the difficulty to enter in the work of mourning, leading to melancholy and to the empoverishment of creativity. The mourning ellaboration process and the kleinian theory of the depressive position were closely related to symbolization and to creativity, through the kleinian theory of positions and through the work of Hanna Segal and Ronald Britton / Esta é uma pesquisa a respeito dos processos de luto e melancolia, dos desafios que surgem à elaboração de lutos e perdas, e da resistência ao envelhecimento e a passagem do tempo. Foi inspirada na teoria psicanalítica e na leitura do romance O Retrato de Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde, e de seu personagem principal, Dorian Gray, que não aceitava envelhecer. Alguns aspectos da vida de Oscar Wilde foram extraídos de sua biografia, escrita por Daniel Salvatore Schiffer e do livro de Tzvetan Todorov, A beleza salvará o mundo: Wilde, Rilke e Tsvetaeva: os aventureiros do absoluto, para iluminar a mesma problemática de inibição do luto, conduzindo à melancolia e ao empobrecimento da criatividade. Os processos de luto e a teoria desenvolvida por Melanie Klein da posição depressiva foram intimamente relacionados à simbolização e à criatividade, através da teoria kleiniana das posições, e do trabalho de Hanna Segal e Ronald Britton
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O mito do duplo em retratos / The myth of the double in pictures

Cesaro, Patrícia Souza Silva 14 December 2012 (has links)
Submitted by Erika Demachki (erikademachki@gmail.com) on 2014-09-26T20:27:29Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Cesaro, Patrícia Souza Silva-2012-dissertação.pdf: 2464854 bytes, checksum: 532712a329cd48a09f59cb655120e2a6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Silva (jtas29@gmail.com) on 2014-09-26T21:15:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Cesaro, Patrícia Souza Silva-2012-dissertação.pdf: 2464854 bytes, checksum: 532712a329cd48a09f59cb655120e2a6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-09-26T21:15:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Cesaro, Patrícia Souza Silva-2012-dissertação.pdf: 2464854 bytes, checksum: 532712a329cd48a09f59cb655120e2a6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-14 / The myth of the double is part of a set of the most antique human myths which permeate man`s imaginary since his own existence. It has as its main manifestations the cases of persons resembling one another, identical twins, the fact that someone sees himself in another one, the duality. The term used to designate the double, coined by German writer Jean-Paul Richter, is doppelgänger, and it means the one who walks by the side or close by, the travelling companion or fellow traveler. It has to do with one‘s experience of him/her in alterity or otherness. Some examples of occurrences of the myth of the double in literatures can be, among other: Shakespeare‘s A Comedy of Errors, Plato`s The Banquet, Robert Louis Stevenson‘s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, Dostoyevsky‘s The Double. This thesis has as the object of its analysis the recurrence (and reoccurrence) of the myth of the double in literature and in order to do that it concentrates on the examination of four works which are similar through the manifestation of the double in portraits. Three of them are short stories and the last one is a novel: Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s ―The Prophetic Pictures,‖ Edgar Allan Poe‘s ―The Oval Portrait,‖ Nikolai Gogol‘s ―The Portrait [Портрет],‖ and Oscar Wilde‘s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The theoretical support for the thesis concentrates on a larger use or presence of the idea of the double, as in the Romanticism, and in the development of some themes dear to the 19th Century, such as the fragmentation of the self, the new notions of myth, the idea of the double and specifically the myth of the double. The main theoreticians or theorists used where, among others, are Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Arnold Hauser, Anatol Rosenfeld, J. Guinsburg, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. / O mito do duplo faz parte de um conjunto de mitos dos mais antigos, que permeiam o imaginário do homem desde a sua própria existência. Tem por principais manifestações os casos de sósias, gêmeos idênticos, o ver a si mesmo em outro, a dualidade. O termo consagrado para designar o duplo, cunhado pelo escritor alemão Jean-Paul Richter, é doppelgänger, e significa aquele que caminha ao lado, o companheiro de estrada. Tem a ver com uma experiência de si na alteridade. Alguns exemplos de recorrência ao mito do duplo na literatura, entre outros, podem ser: A comédia dos erros, de Shakespeare, O banquete, de Platão, O médico e o monstro, de Stevenson, Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, O duplo, de Dostoiévski. Esta dissertação tem o objetivo estudar a recorrência do mito do duplo na literatura e, para isso, foram selecionadas quatro obras, que se assemelham pela manifestação do duplo em retratos. São três contos e um romance: ―Os retratos proféticos‖, de Nathaniel Hawthorne, ―O retrato oval‖, de Edgar Allan Poe, ―O retrato‖, de Nikolai Gogol, e O retrato de Dorian Gray, de Oscar Wilde. O suporte teórico da dissertação se concentra no maior uso ou presença da ideia do duplo, como no Romantismo e no desenvolvimento de temas caros ao século XIX, como a fragmentação do sujeito, as novas noções de mito, de duplo e especificamente do mito do duplo. Os principais teóricos são, entre outros, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Arnold Hauser, Anatol Rosenfeld, J. Guinsburg, Jean-Pierre Vernant.
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The Importance of Being Oscar: A Performance Studies Inquiry of Wilde's Literary Women

Lanier, Sydney Nicole 21 April 2009 (has links)
The plays of Oscar Wilde hold more than just sharp wit and likable characters; they also contain examinations of aspects of the playwright's own personality and explorations of possible life choices. Through the use of Performance Studies theory, this thesis seeks to shed light on how Wilde saw himself versus how he presented himself at different points in his life. The texts analyzed within are Wilde's 1891 dramatic religious retelling, Salomé, and his 1894 domestic comedy, The Importance of Being Ernest. Within each are clues to the interior desires of their author: Salomé offers an investigation of a strong female personality in a repressive male society, while The Importance of Being Earnest expands on the feminine taking control over destiny.
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Adán y Eva, Fausto y Dorian Gray: Tres mitos de transgresión /

González de la Llana, Natalia. January 2009 (has links) (PDF)
Universidad Complutense, Diss--Madrid, 2006.
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The invisible picture

Aragón, Miguel A. 22 August 2012 (has links)
This report outlines the conceptual, procedural and formal descriptions of the artistic development I have acquired over the course of the past three years. The current violent events caused by the War on Drugs in México –my home country- led me to this research. Beginning with the idea of erasure as language, I concentrated on the use of processes that are reductive in nature to create the bodies of work mentioned in this report. Thousands of people die in drug-related violence every year in México; by using metaphors and visual metonymies to tie together process and subject matter I explore the idea of perception, memory and transformation. I believe my work is derived from a need to find meaning in these brutal events that repositions the corpse in our field of vision, reminding us that our physical existence is finite. / text
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Blackness and rural modernity in the 1920s

Elliott, Chiyuma 05 April 2013 (has links)
The New Negro Movement (often called the Harlem Renaissance) made black creative production visible to an extent unprecedented in American History. Complex representations of African Americans started to infiltrate a popular culture previously dominated by stereotypes; people from all walks of life were confronted for the first time with art made by African Americans that asked them to think in new ways about the meaning of race in America. The term Harlem Renaissance conjures up images of urban America, but the creative energies of many New Negro figures were actually focused elsewhere—on rural America. Urbanite Jean Toomer spent time teaching in an agricultural college in the rural South, and wrote award-winning poetry and prose about that experience. Langston Hughes wrote blues lyrics about the struggles of rural migrants in New York that highlighted the complex interconnections of rural and urban experience. And the pioneer black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux incorporated numerous fictionalized accounts of his own experiences as a homesteader in South Dakota into his race movies and novels. New Negro writers asserted that their art shaped how people understood themselves and were understood by others. Accordingly, this project examines both literary representations, and how literary works related to the real lives and struggles of rural African Americans. My research combines archival, literary, and biographical materials to analyze the aesthetic choices of three New Negro authors (Hughes, Micheaux, and Toomer), and explain the interrelated literary and cultural contexts that shaped their depictions of African American rural life. Houston Baker, in his influential 1987 book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, defined black modernism as an awareness of radical uncertainty in human life. My central contention is that one of the most radical uncertainties in interwar-period America was the changing rural landscape. I revisit the largely-forgotten (though large-scale) social movement to fight rural outmigration by modernizing rural life. And I argue that, rather than accepting the simple binary that took the urban to be modern and the rural backward, African Americans in the 1920s created and experienced complicated formulations of the rural and its connections to modern blackness. / text
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The invisible dance : persistence of the Turkish harem in Oscar Wilde's Salomé

Tarlaci, Fatma 29 November 2010 (has links)
Various representations of the figure of Salomé and the Biblical legend have been produced in the European, specifically in the English literature and arts throughout the nineteenth century. Oscar Wilde’s 1891 dramatic version of the legend in many ways epitomizes the full potential of the legend and capitalizes on the period’s fascination with the Orient. The climax of the orientalism of the play, the Dance of the Seven Veils, offers a unique reflection on European fantasies about the harem and invites a comparison to Ottoman representations of this same cultural space. This project seeks to analyze the relation between the Dance of the Seven Veils as presented by Wilde, and the figure of dancing woman in the harem of the Ottoman Empire. It is the slippage between the two which has informed various representations of the Oriental female figure in the West. The gap that emerges between the Western representations and the real practices in the harem, allows for a focused critique of Orientalist practices while recovering, in some ways, the actual experience of Muslim women.The vision of the harem that the Dance of the Seven Veils in Wilde’s Salomé offers is informed not by an actual encounter, but by the image of the harem as understood in nineteenth century English culture. At the same time, it participates in Victorian feminist debates on liberating the oppressed harem woman from her veils, her sexualization, and her objectification. Ultimately the dance functions as a reaffirmation of conventional gender roles as understood in Victorian society. / text
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Simulation of the irradiation behaviour of the PBMR fuel in the SAFARI-1 reactor / B.M. Makgopa

Makgopa, Bessie Mmakgoto January 2009 (has links)
Irradiation experiments for the pebble bed modular reactor PBMR fuel (coated fuel particles and pebble fuel) are planned at the South African First Atomic Reactor Installation (SAFARI-1). The experiments are conducted to investigate the behavior of the fuel under normal operating and accelerated/accident simulating conditions because the safe operation of the reactor relies on the integrity of the fuel for retention of radioactivity. For fuel irradiation experiments, the accurate knowledge and analysis of the neutron spectrum of the irradiation facility is required. In addition to knowledge of the neutron spectrum in the irradiation facility, power distributions and knowledge of nuclear heating values has to be acquired. The SAFARI-1 reactor boosts operating fluid temperatures of about 300 K. On the contrary, the PBMR can reach temperatures in up to about 1370 K under normal operating conditions. This calls for design of high temperature irradiation rigs for irradiation of the PBMR fuel in the SAFARI-1 reactor. The design of this instrument (rig) should be such that to create an isolated high temperature environment in the SAFARI-1 reactor, to achieve the requirements of the PBMR fuel irradiation program. The design of the irradiation rig is planned such that the rig should fit in the existing irradiation channels of the SAFARI-1 reactor, a time and cost saving from the licensing perspective. This study aims to establish the know-how of coated particle and pebble modeling in using the Monte Carlo N-Particle code (MCNP5). The study also aims to establish the know-how of rig design. In this study, the Necsa in-house code Overall System for the Calculation of Reactors (OSCAR-3), a software known as OScar 3-Mcnp INTerface (OSMINT) linking OSCAR-3 and MCNP5, also developed at Necsa, as well as MCNP5 code developed and maintained by the Los Alamos team, are used to calculate neutronic and power distribution parameters that are important for fuel irradiations and for rig design. This study presents results and data that can be used to make improvements in the design of the rig or to confirm if the required operational conditions can be met with the current preliminary rig design. Result of the neutronic analysis are presented for the SAFARI-1 core, core irradiation channel B6 (where the PBMR fuel irradiation rig is loaded for the purpose of this study), the rig structure and the pebble fuel are presented. Furthermore results of the power distribution and nuclear heating values in the reactor core, the irradiation channel B6, the rig structures and the pebble fuel is also presented. The loading of the PBMR fuel irradiation rig in core position B6 reduces the core reactivity due to the fact that the loading of the rig displaces the water moderator in channel B6 introducing vast amounts of helium. This impacts on the keff value because there will be less neutron thermalization and reproduction due to the decreased population of thermal neutrons. The rig is found to introduce a negative reactivity insertion of 46 pcm. The loading of this rig in the core leads to no significant perturbations on the core power distribution. The core hottest channel is still localized in core channel C6 both with RIG IN and RIG OUT cases. A power tilt is observed, with the south side of the core experiencing reduced assembly averaged fission power, with correspondingly small compensations from the assemblies on the north side of the core. The perturbations on the core assembly averaged fluxes are more pronounced in the eight assemblies surrounding B6. Core position B6 suffers an 18% neutron flux depression with the loading of the rig. The fluxes in core positions A5, A6, A7, B5, B7 and C7 are increased when the rig is loading. The largest increases are noted as 12% in A7, 9% in A6 and 6% in A5 and B7. All the eight core positions surrounding B6 experience reduced photon fluxes with the loading of the rig. Core position B6 shows a flux depression of up to 20%, with 10% reduction in core position A6. The remainder seven positions surrounding B6 shows flux depressions of no more than 5%. Further on, due to decreased moderation effects, the axial neutron flux in core position B6 is reduced by 20% when the rig is loaded. The energy dependent neutron flux in B6 decreases by 50% in the thermal energy range with corresponding increases of up to 50% in the resonance and fast energy regions. The axial and the energy dependent photon flux in core position B6 decreases by up to 20% when the rig is loaded. The magnitude of the neutron and photon fluxes is found to have a direct proportion on the neutron and photon heating values. While the amount of neutron heating in core position B6 increases by one order of magnitude, when the rig is loaded, the photon heating values increases by up to 60% in the region spanning ±10cm about the core centerline. The amount of photon heating in the rig structural materials dominates neutron heating, except in the helium regions of the rig, where neutron heating dominates photon heating. In the fuel region of the pebble, fission heating (3803W) largely dominates photon heating (119W). / Thesis (M.Sc. (Nuclear Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009
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Simulation of the irradiation behaviour of the PBMR fuel in the SAFARI-1 reactor / B.M. Makgopa

Makgopa, Bessie Mmakgoto January 2009 (has links)
Irradiation experiments for the pebble bed modular reactor PBMR fuel (coated fuel particles and pebble fuel) are planned at the South African First Atomic Reactor Installation (SAFARI-1). The experiments are conducted to investigate the behavior of the fuel under normal operating and accelerated/accident simulating conditions because the safe operation of the reactor relies on the integrity of the fuel for retention of radioactivity. For fuel irradiation experiments, the accurate knowledge and analysis of the neutron spectrum of the irradiation facility is required. In addition to knowledge of the neutron spectrum in the irradiation facility, power distributions and knowledge of nuclear heating values has to be acquired. The SAFARI-1 reactor boosts operating fluid temperatures of about 300 K. On the contrary, the PBMR can reach temperatures in up to about 1370 K under normal operating conditions. This calls for design of high temperature irradiation rigs for irradiation of the PBMR fuel in the SAFARI-1 reactor. The design of this instrument (rig) should be such that to create an isolated high temperature environment in the SAFARI-1 reactor, to achieve the requirements of the PBMR fuel irradiation program. The design of the irradiation rig is planned such that the rig should fit in the existing irradiation channels of the SAFARI-1 reactor, a time and cost saving from the licensing perspective. This study aims to establish the know-how of coated particle and pebble modeling in using the Monte Carlo N-Particle code (MCNP5). The study also aims to establish the know-how of rig design. In this study, the Necsa in-house code Overall System for the Calculation of Reactors (OSCAR-3), a software known as OScar 3-Mcnp INTerface (OSMINT) linking OSCAR-3 and MCNP5, also developed at Necsa, as well as MCNP5 code developed and maintained by the Los Alamos team, are used to calculate neutronic and power distribution parameters that are important for fuel irradiations and for rig design. This study presents results and data that can be used to make improvements in the design of the rig or to confirm if the required operational conditions can be met with the current preliminary rig design. Result of the neutronic analysis are presented for the SAFARI-1 core, core irradiation channel B6 (where the PBMR fuel irradiation rig is loaded for the purpose of this study), the rig structure and the pebble fuel are presented. Furthermore results of the power distribution and nuclear heating values in the reactor core, the irradiation channel B6, the rig structures and the pebble fuel is also presented. The loading of the PBMR fuel irradiation rig in core position B6 reduces the core reactivity due to the fact that the loading of the rig displaces the water moderator in channel B6 introducing vast amounts of helium. This impacts on the keff value because there will be less neutron thermalization and reproduction due to the decreased population of thermal neutrons. The rig is found to introduce a negative reactivity insertion of 46 pcm. The loading of this rig in the core leads to no significant perturbations on the core power distribution. The core hottest channel is still localized in core channel C6 both with RIG IN and RIG OUT cases. A power tilt is observed, with the south side of the core experiencing reduced assembly averaged fission power, with correspondingly small compensations from the assemblies on the north side of the core. The perturbations on the core assembly averaged fluxes are more pronounced in the eight assemblies surrounding B6. Core position B6 suffers an 18% neutron flux depression with the loading of the rig. The fluxes in core positions A5, A6, A7, B5, B7 and C7 are increased when the rig is loading. The largest increases are noted as 12% in A7, 9% in A6 and 6% in A5 and B7. All the eight core positions surrounding B6 experience reduced photon fluxes with the loading of the rig. Core position B6 shows a flux depression of up to 20%, with 10% reduction in core position A6. The remainder seven positions surrounding B6 shows flux depressions of no more than 5%. Further on, due to decreased moderation effects, the axial neutron flux in core position B6 is reduced by 20% when the rig is loaded. The energy dependent neutron flux in B6 decreases by 50% in the thermal energy range with corresponding increases of up to 50% in the resonance and fast energy regions. The axial and the energy dependent photon flux in core position B6 decreases by up to 20% when the rig is loaded. The magnitude of the neutron and photon fluxes is found to have a direct proportion on the neutron and photon heating values. While the amount of neutron heating in core position B6 increases by one order of magnitude, when the rig is loaded, the photon heating values increases by up to 60% in the region spanning ±10cm about the core centerline. The amount of photon heating in the rig structural materials dominates neutron heating, except in the helium regions of the rig, where neutron heating dominates photon heating. In the fuel region of the pebble, fission heating (3803W) largely dominates photon heating (119W). / Thesis (M.Sc. (Nuclear Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009

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