The Sisterhood of Dark Sanctuary is an original play about two sisters who are struggling to find their own identities away from their mother. The sisters have developed a functioning relationship wherein they alternate between the dominant partner and the passive partner, often assuming the roles of a mother and a child. This relationship has become so secure and stable for the sisters that they cannot develop healthy adult identities apart from each other.

Computational infrastructure for reprenting persons and citations has been available in R for several years, but has been restructured through enhanced classes "person" and "bibentry" in recent versions of R. The new features include support for the specification of the roles of package authors (e.g.,maintainer, author, contributor, translator, etc.) and more flexible formatting/printing tools among various other improvements. Here, we introduce the new classes and their methods and indicate how this functionality is employed in themanagement of R packages. Specifically, we show how the authors of R packages can be specified along with their roles in package 'DESCRIPTION' and/or 'CITATION' files and the citations produced from it. (author's abstract) / Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics

La presente investigación analiza las representaciones de feminidad creadas por Claudia Llosa para las protagonistas de sus films Madeinusa (2006) y La teta asustada (2009) con la finalidad de identificar si difieren de la representación anterior de los sujetos femeninos jóvenes de origen rural andino producida por el cine nacional, entre las décadas de los 60 y 90, que las personificaba como individuos subordinados, pasivos y descorporizados. Adoptando las categorías agencia (Giddens), cine narrativo subversivo (Lauretis) y placer visual (Mulvey), así como la metodología de análisis de la Teoría Fílmica Feminista. Para ello se examinan 16 escenas claves, 8 por cada película, que permiten identificar el rol y posición que ambas figuras femeninas ocupan en sus tramas, la configuración de su imagen a través de los códigos cinematográficos y los discursos sobre la feminidad expresados por las propias protagonistas y cómo se plasman en sus diferentes interrelaciones y/o espacios. Las tres matrices empleadas –segmentación, personajes e imagen– ofrecen un cuadro completo de todos los elementos que intervienen y se articulan a nivel del aparato cinematográfico para configurar las feminidades de ambas protagonistas; y, así, comprobar que Madeinusa y Fausta se sitúan en un punto intermedio con las protagonistas jóvenes que propone el actual cine clásico. Personajes cuya feminidad rompen con la tradición patriarcal, son sujetos activos, autónomos, que deciden sobre sus cuerpos y son dueños de su destino pero que alternan su transgresión con características de la feminidad tradicional. De esta manera, la tesis constituye un aporte a un campo poco profundizado por las ciencias sociales y los estudios de género en el país: el cine nacional, que juega un papel fundamental a la hora de definir modelos de feminidad y masculinidad a través de sus imágenes, representaciones y significados. / Tesis

Study One: Study One aims to better understand the roles that adolescents take during cyberbullying situations exploring the influence of attitudes towards cyberbullying, social grouping (being alone or with others), age and gender. Methods: Focus groups were used to adapt the Participant Role Scales (Salmivalli, 1998) and the Pro Victim Scale (Rigby & Slee, 1991) to explore cyberbullying. These adapted measures were completed by 261 participants across four year groups (year 7 to 10) via self report questionnaires. Results: Across social groupings an average of 73% of adolescents took participant roles in cyberbullying situations. There were significant differences between assistant, defender, outsider and victim behaviour when alone or when physically with others. In addition attitude towards cyberbullying significantly influenced the role taken and females were more likely to be defenders than males. Age significantly influenced outsider behaviour when participants were alone and defender behaviour when participants were physically with others. Study Two: Study Two aims to better understand what promotes or inhibits bystander involvement in cyberbullying situations. Methods: The study adopted an explorative approach to understand the experiences of 28 adolescents in a South West Local Authority in England. Data was collected via a semi-structured interview schedule administered in focus groups. Findings were analysed using latent thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Results: The decision for adolescent bystanders to actively join a cyberbullying situation was found to be complex. CMC, social influence (prior relationship, being alone or with others) and popularity and status of those participating in cyberbullying contribute to bystanders’ assessment of the risk and reward of participation. If reward outweighs risk an active role is taken (assistant, reinforcer, defender). However if risks are perceived to be higher than rewards then an outsider role is adopted.

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There is significant documentation showing that health disparities experienced by underserved persons can be mitigated through the provision of quality integrated healthcare. This research project was grounded in social support theory and how support influences improvements in physical, psychological, and overall health. Social workers in integrated healthcare are in a unique position to be the source of social support for individuals experiencing health disparities, yet there is little research concerning how these social workers are providing services and how they affect health outcomes. This research addressed gaps in the literature concerning social worker roles in order to improve integrated healthcare for underserved populations. Data was gathered from social workers employed by Federally Qualified Health Care integrated facilities in Colorado that treated underserved populations. An action research methodology was used to investigate social worker roles through the utilization of a focus group (N = 4); there were 4 emergent themes. These themes were: social workers supporting patients and staff, influencing quality healthcare integration, possessing certain characteristics and competencies, and performing role responsibilities. Support through the use of personal characteristics, competencies, and role responsibilities was identified by stakeholders as the foundation of quality integrated healthcare. The potential impact of understanding social worker roles may include improved health outcomes for individuals served, improved social work practice, improved integrated healthcare provision, gaps in the literature filled, positive social change, and contribution to a wider body of knowledge.

Antropóloga Social / Con un enfoque feminista y transnacional, la presente investigación se propuso conocer los procesos de continuidad y transformación en los roles y estatus de género de seis mujeres mexicanas calificadas que actualmente residen en Santiago de Chile. Esta problemática se analiza a través del concepto de trayectoria migratoria, de la teoría performativa del género propuesta por Butler (1990) y la teoría articulacionista de la migración. Se trata de una investigación cualitativa con una profundidad exploratoria- descriptiva, poniendo en relieve la dimensión subjetiva de la migración. En consecuencia, se trabajó con historias de vida temáticas, poniendo énfasis en el rol de la calificación en el proceso de movilidad de mujeres y en la migración como escenario propicio para desestabilizar y/o perpetuar la estructura tradicional del género. Los resultados dan cuenta de los contextos heterogéneos que dan inicio a la trayectoria migratoria de mexicanas hacia Chile, identificando tres tipos de motivaciones: laborales, educativas y familiares/amorosas. Por su parte, se han descrito tres perfiles de cambio y continuidad en relación a los roles de género, que ponen en evidencia la relación entre las esferas de la producción y la reproducción en el contexto de la migración femenina. Finalmente se problematiza acerca de las valoraciones otorgadas a la experiencia migratoria y cómo estas dan cuenta de la transformación hacia posiciones más autónomas, más emancipadas e independientes

This study has investigated the evolution of Michelin Siam Group (MSG), a Thai subsidiary of the Michelin Group (France), over the period between 1987 and 2007. Particular attention has been given to the process of changing subsidiary roles as well as factors influencing the process. The study has adopted a qualitative case-study approach based on the data collected from interviews of senior managers at MSG. The analysis has demonstrated that over the past 20 years, MSG has undergone several changes in its charters and capabilities, with the changes in its roles accordingly. In its early years (pre-1997), MSG was a ??local implementer?? in its MNC network, mainly serving the local market in a limited range of product lines mandated by the headquarters (HQs). Its charters, both manufacturing and commercial charters, have since been extended to cover broader product lines and international markets beyond Thailand through the accumulation of production capabilities enhanced by a range of training programmes. MSG has thus increasingly shifted from a ??local implementer?? to a ??regional/global implementer??. More importantly, it has also been revealed that the changes in MSG??s roles have been strongly influenced by the HQs. Through its control over decision making, the HQs has been heavily involved in introducing changes at MSG. However, the role of subsidiary, industry, and local environment factors should not be neglected. MSG??s increasing capabilities and superior performance coupled with the favourable and dynamic local environment as well as the competitive nature of an industry have been found to have instigated HQs?? favourable decisions for MSG. While the HQs has been the dominant driver of MSG??s roles and changes in its roles, the findings of this study largely appear to support the influences of the interplay of corporate, subsidiary, industry, and local environment factors in shaping subsidiary roles over time.

This study examined whether Australian public relations and communication practitioners enact an organizational conscience role through their involvement in the organizational value-setting process. Thirty communication practitioners from 26 large organizations in Melbourne and Sydney were interviewed between May 2004 and May 2005 to ascertain and discuss their involvement in organizational value setting. Using semi-structured in-depth interviews to gather data and then applying a multiple perspective approach in its thematic data analysis, the research found that most respondents were involved in organizational value setting albeit at different stages of the process. In analysing the nature of the respondent's involvement in the process along with individual and organizational factors, three roles emerged namely, the agent of critical conscience, the agent of concertive control, and the agent of corporate compliance. However the results suggest that most respond ents enacted primarily the concertive control and corporate compliance agency roles. The study also found that the predominant managerial/functionalist perspective constrains practitioners from enacting the conscience leadership role. In exploring the practitioners' ability to influence organizational members, findings support recent studies that membership in the dominant coalition does not necessarily give public relations/communication practitioners power and influence. Rather, direct access to the CEO, expertise, performance and personality were found to be the key ingredients to the individual communication practitioners' organizational influence. Findings also reveal that public relations/communication practitioners preferred to participate but not drive the organizational value-setting process. In using a multiple perspective approach to study public relations roles, this study provides empirical basis for identifying potential leadership roles for public relations/communication practitioners and for suggesting an extension of the manager-technician role typology. The study calls for public relations/communication practitioners to enact a critical conscience agent role as part of finding a meaningful, ethical and socially responsible practice. This study proposes that critical thought and dialectical inquiry be embedded within the public relations/communication practitioner's role and public relations education.

The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes about gay marriage. The main research question was: Do traditional attitudes toward familial gender roles and conservative, moderate, and liberal views about religiosity impact attitudes about gay marriage? I used data from the 2006 General Social Survey (GSS) of 1,977 adults living in the United States. Results of this study found people with traditional attitudes toward familial gender roles have more negative attitudes about gay marriage. Also, people with strong religious affiliation and more frequent attendance at religious services have more negative attitudes about gay marriage. Furthermore, people who were very religious and belonged to specific religious affiliations have more negative attitudes about gay marriage. Conversely, this study found people who were slightly religious, not religious, and very spiritual have more positive attitudes about gay marriage and people who belonged to specific religious affiliations have more positive attitudes about gay marriage. / Dr. Melissa Swauger Dr. Diane Shinberg Dr. Kay Snyder