This research is a personal reflection and a self-study of two performances that have taken place over the course of two years. My Medium Project titled, When Memories Break, set out to navigate ways of decolonising oppressive dominance and investigating the ramifications of indoctrination in dance. In 2017, during my Honours Degree in Dance Studies at the University of Cape Town, I created a poster-painting with a fellow #FeesMustFall artist-activist. This poster-painting, entitled, Amputation, was introduced at UCT School of Dance' Confluences 9: Deciphering decolonisation in Dance Pedagogy in the 21st Century in Cape Town, South Africa. Since then, Amputation has become a personal credo that I have carried with me in my Practice as Research field of study. In 2018, as part of my Minor Project, I not only highlighted my memories and experiences in Classical Ballet, but also included my memories of other informal1 dance influences. The purpose of this essay is therefore not to depict ballet as a current colonialist art form but rather to draw attention to what it represented during the years of colonialism, apartheid, and the aftermath of that. It is against this background that I explore the issues related to the relationship I have with my dance training to date. As a performer-researcher, I will use my living experience as a case study. This article provides a perspective from a performer-researcher's position using selfreflexivity as a research methodology. My conclusion supports the notion that self-reflection in the quest for decolonisation in dance by performer-researchers is important for the evolution of a more democratic society.

Complaint handling is an effective tool for public sector governance. Effective complaint handling improves relationships between organizations and citizens by fostering trust and accountability, helps address gaps in public service delivery, and supports innovation in public service design. Despite these benefits, complaint handling practices at the local government level in British Columbia (BC) is often ad hoc, poorly designed, or non-existent. This thesis asks: what are the drivers and barriers for effectively handling complaints at the local government level in BC? The thesis argues that complaint handling occurs within a context of limited resources, which informs the drivers and barriers for effectively handling complaints. The thesis explores the drivers and barriers of complaint handling through a reflexive thematic analysis of interviews with senior-level local government administrators. The analysis revealed that operating in a context of limited resources led to the emergence of creative practices for handling complaints, including preventing complaints before they arise and handling complaints informally. Additionally, complaint handling is characterized by a tension between its private sector roots and public sector values like equality and fairness. The thesis concludes by making recommendations to improve complaint handling at the BC local government level. / Graduate

In order to create landscapes able to adapt to the constantly shifting demands placed upon it by human and ecological processes, there is a need to incorporate the flux of these human and ecological processes into a physical and dynamic share of the built environment. This will require a perceptual shift in understanding this human/ecological relationship (on the part of both the designer and the user) as well as a change in the design/implementation/management strategies currently employed by designers and planners. Instead of designing landscapes expected to be maintained to look and act in a static manner, the built environment needs to be designed with flux in mind. This thesis' methodology begins with a position paper narrating the current body of knowledge regarding human experience and treatment of dynamic systems within the built environment, focusing specifically on the Outer Banks, a series of barrier islands located off the northern coast of North Carolina. It looks at this relationship through three languages: scientific (or geomorphologic), legislative and design. Next is a sampling of case studies aimed at emphasizing this dynamic relationship between humans and their surroundings. Finally, the design project incorporates the viewpoint developed in the position paper and applies it to a hypothetical site design located in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The site is currently slated for a Hilton hotel that will be finished by Spring 2006; however, the spirit of the design has the potential to be incorporated into many sites along the coast. / Master of Landscape Architecture

The goal of this study is to see how risk assessment is executed on the social media platform Facebook. The aim is to see how risk assessment in contrast of Ulrich Becks (2012) theory about risk society and reflexive modernization can help understand how users on Facebook minimize the possible risk of their actions on Facebook. The study is of a qualitative variety and is based on interviews with ten different Facebook users and processed by being thematised by criminalty, risks of health, politic risks, economical risks and risks about integrity. It is also summarized by different strategies to minimize risks that the participants discussed in the interviews. The most important results in this study was connected to risks about source criticism and actions that could have an impact on work-related questions. It was possible to see in the study that if a user had knowledge about potential risks they were mostly more likely to protect themselves against it. Also it concludes that in some cases experience that users learns from does not have to be related to their own experiences.

This thesis explores the emotional responses of British servicemen's wives to the repeated relocation inherent in their lifestyles. Adopting a psycho-social perspective, it aims to achieve a deeper understanding of respondents' experiences than would be possible through utilising either a sociological or psychological perspective alone.

While some parts of identity remain constant throughout one’s life, many aspects of a person’s identity are subject to rapid and constant change and negotiation. Using theories regarding the role possessions play in the construction, reinforcement, and manifestation of a person’s identity, this thesis project explores the potential to facilitate meaningful insights and awareness into one’s own identity. This will be achieved by designing a reflexive journaling process. A qualitative evaluation of this prototype journal process used by a pilot group of young creative individuals will generate an assessment of the proposed process

São apresentados resultados envolvendo subespaços discretos em diversos tipos de problemas em Topologia Geral. São também apresentadas construções de contraexemplos tanto em ZFC como com axiomas extras. / It is presented some results involving discrete subspaces in many kind of problems in General Topology. It is also presented some constructions of counterexamples in ZFC and assuming extra axioms.

Os grupos reflexivos durante a formação médica têm sido destacados na literatura como uma estratégia eficaz de intervenção contribuindo para uma reflexão sobre o papel profissional. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar a eficácia de uma atividade grupal com estudantes de medicina, a respeito do papel profissional e de suas dificuldades iniciais no curso médico. O referencial teórico adotado foi o Sociodrama Educacional. O estudo foi dividido em 4 etapas: 1) Pré-inquérito, através de questionário estruturado, com alunos de medicina do 1o ao 3o ano (N=240), obtivemos o nível de satisfação dos estudantes frente a questões sobre o ciclo básico; 2) realização de 11 grupos focais com estudantes do 1º ao 3º ano de medicina,selecionados da fase anterior, para o levantamento de suas representações sobre os seguintes temas: a escolha pelo curso médico, as dificuldades vivenciadas até o momento e as expectativas quanto ao papel profissional (N=24); 3) Grupo Reflexivo com participação de 10 alunos da fase anterior com 9 reuniões semanais, distribuídas em atividades de aquecimento e reflexão através da interpretação lúdica de papéis; 4) entrevista final de avaliação dividida em 3 momentos: cognitivo, afetivo e avaliativo. O estudo caracterizou-se como uma pesquisa-intervenção, valendo-se dos pressupostos da abordagem qualitativa de investigação. As entrevistas de grupos focais identificaram que as representações dos estudantes de medicina no início de sua formação estão ancoradas por idéias altruístas e podem ir se modificando ao longo da formação, podendo existir momentos de conflitos durante o desenvolvimento desse papel. Nesse sentido, a avaliação obtida dos alunos em relação ao grupo reflexivo proposto foi de reconhecimento da importância do mesmo como um modelo para uma reflexão crítica do papel profissional em desenvolvimento. / The reflexive groups during the medical formation have been highlighted in the literature as an effective strategy of intervention contributing to a reflection on the professional paper. The objective of the present work went evaluate to effectiveness of a group activity with medicine students, regarding the professional paper and of its initial difficulties in the medical course. The adopted theoretical referencial was Educational Sociodrama. The study was divided in 4 stages: 1) Preinquiry, through structured questionnaire, with medicine students of the 1st to the 3rd year (N=240), we obtained the satisfaction level of the students front to subjects on the basic cycle; 2) accomplishment of 11 focal groups with students of the 1st to the 3rd year of medicine, selected of the previous phase, for the rising of its representations on the following themes: the choice for the medical course, the difficulties existents until the moment and the expectations with relationship to the professional paper (N=24); 3) Reflexive Group with 10 students\' of the phase previous with 9 weekly meetings participation, distributed in heating activities and reflection through role-playing; 4) glimpses evaluation end divided in 3 moments: cognitive, affective and evaluative. The study was characterized as a researchintervention, being been worth of the presuppositions of the qualitative approach of investigation. The interviews of focal groups identified that the medicine students\' representations in the beginning of its formation are anchored by altruistic ideas and they can go modifying along the formation, could exist moments of conflicts during the development of that paper. In that sense, the students\' obtained evaluation in relation to the proposed reflexive group went of recognition of to importance of the same as a model for a critical reflection of the professional paper in development.

A presente dissertação de mestrado teve como objeto de estudo a análise das compreensões dos alunos-professores em relação ao portfólio de aprendizagens e a síntese reflexiva no processo de aprendizagem do curso de Pedagogia a Distância da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. A observação das produções escritas dos alunos-professores foi realizada a partir do conceito de tomada de consciência de Jean Piaget. A coleta de dados ocorreu através dos registros escritos dos alunos-professores na plataforma Moodle e organizados com o apoio dos softwares NVivo e CHIC. Dessa forma, foi possível realizar dois estudos, embasados nas observações dos dados. Através do NVivo, foram realizados levantamentos e interpretações das informações. No CHIC, foi possível interpretar as relações de similaridades e implicações entre significado, aprendizagem e dificuldades compreendidas pelos alunos-professores sobre o portfólio e a síntese. Como desfecho da análise, foi possível verificar que os alunos-professores compreendem o portfólio de aprendizagens como ferramenta de fundamental relevância para a escrita da síntese reflexiva e que a produção escrita dos instrumentos de aprendizagem é vista como meio de substancial interesse para a articulação entre a teoria proposta no curso e a prática em sala de aula. / This Master’s thesis had as study object the analysis of the students-teachers’ comprehension in relation to the learning portfolio and the reflexive synthesis in the learning process of the Pedagogy Distance course of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The observation of the students-teachers’ written productions was done from Jean Piaget’s concept of awareness. The data collection was done through the students-teachers’ written records on Moodle platform and organized with the support of softwares NVivo and CHIC. In this way, it was possible to perform two studies, based on the data observations. Through NVivo, surveys and interpretations of the information were done. With CHIC, it was possible to interpret the relations of similarities and implications among meaning, learning and difficulties understood by the students-teachers about the portfolio and the synthesis. As a result of the analysis, it was possible to verify that the students-teachers understand the learning portfolio as a tool of fundamental relevance for writing the reflexive synthesis and that the written production of the learning instruments is seen as a way of substantial interest for the articulation between the theory proposed in the course and the practice in classroom.

Chronic pain and excessive alcohol consumption are individually problems in our society today. Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) affects 15.1 million adult Americans each year. Chronic pain affects over 100 million people annually in the United States. However, there is growing evidence suggesting that these two conditions can often be interrelated with chronic pain increasing consumption of alcohol, and excessive alcohol consumption increasing pain that leaves a feedback cycle trapping millions of patients in an ever worsening spiral. Large population-based studies show an association between pain and alcohol abuse, suggesting a link between increased alcohol use and reduced pain. While rodent studies consistently demonstrate antinociception following acute ethanol administration in hot-plate and tail-flick tests. However, little is currently known about the effects of alcohol in chronic pain models. We hypothesize that acute ethanol administration will possess analgesic-like properties in models of chronic pain by engaging opioid receptors in addition to its more commonly studied action at the GABA receptor. The first aim of this study was to characterize the antinociceptive effects of alcohol in Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA) and Chronic Constriction Injury (CCI) mouse models of chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain models, respectively. The second aim of this study is to investigate the mechanisms behind ethanol's analgesic like effects including tolerance, receptor activation and correlates with blood alcohol content. Lastly, we investigated whether alcohol maintains its analgesic-like effects in non-reflexive assays in addition to effects in reflexive assays.