Thesis (MEdPsych (Educational Psychology)--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this research voyage of discovery, we story the voices of me (the research inquirer), my family and a teacher about our experience with a young woman with Autism Spectrum Disorder – my youngest sister Leyna.1 This is our attempt to give Leyna and (dis)ability a voice. Their voices have been silenced from research for too long. I try to explain a narrative research lens as a foundation for this document – one that views autism not as a disorder, but as a difference that needs to be embraced. People often live their lives according to the problem stories they tell themselves, and do not see the alternative stories that surround them every day. On this voyage I therefore tell our story to document the inspirational experiences that people with autism bring about in the lives of those supporting them. Little research that focuses on alternative stories about autism has been done on a global scale. Moreover, little research has been done on autism specifically in the South African context. This thesis relates the stories of the people involved in caring for my sister with autism. It brings a message of hope and suggests possibilities for future research voyages about autism. 1 Pseudonym / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie navorsingsontdekkingsreis vertel ons 'n storie deur verskeie stemme te laat hoor: ek, die navorsingsondersoeker, my gesin en 'n onderwyseres vertel 'n storie oor ons ervaringe met 'n jong vrou met Outisme Spektrum Versteuring – my jongste suster Leyna.2 Hierdie is ons onderneming om vir Leyna en gestremdheid 'n stem te gee. Te veel stemme is al te lank deur navorsing stilgemaak. Ek probeer die narratiewe navorsingslens te verduidelik as 'n grondslag vir hierdie dokument – een wat outisme nie as 'n versteuring sien nie, maar eerder as 'n verskil wat aangegryp en gerespekteer moet word. Mense leef dikwels hul lewens uit op grond van die probleemgesentreerde stories wat hulle aan hulself vertel, en sien nie die alternatiewe stories raak wat hulle daagliks omsluit nie. In hierdie reis vertel ek dus ons storie om die inspirerende ervarings wat mense met outisme in die mense wat hulle ondersteun teweeg bring, te dokumenteer. Min navorsing wat op die alternatiewe stories oor outisme fokus is tot op hede op 'n globale skaal gedoen. Verder is daar nog min navorsing oor outisme spesifiek in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks gedoen. Hierdie studie vertel die stories van die mense wat betrokke is in die versorging van my suster met outisme. Hiermee word 'n boodskap van hoop gebring en moontlikhede voorgestel vir toekomstige navorsingsreise oor outisme. 2 Skuilnaam is gebruik

Current literature has indicated a concern about standards of maternity care experienced by pregnant asylum seeking women. As the next generation of midwives, it would appear essential that students are educated in a way that prepares them to effectively care for pregnant asylum seekers. Consequently, this study examined the way in which midwifery students constructed a pregnant asylum seeker's health and social needs, the discourses that influenced their constructions and the implications of these findings for midwifery education. For the duration of year two of a pre-registration midwifery programme, eleven midwifery students participated in the study. Two focus group interviews using a problem based learning (PBL) scenario were conducted. In addition, three students were individually interviewed and two students' written reflections on practice were used to construct data. Following a critical discourse analysis, dominant discourses were identified which appeared to influence the way that pregnant asylum seekers were perceived. The findings suggested an underpinning discourse around the asylum seeker as different and of a criminal persuasion. In addition, managerial and medico-scientific discourses were identified, which appeared to influence how midwifery students approach their care of women in general, at the expense of a woman centred, midwifery perspective. The findings from this study were used to develop 'the pregnant woman within the global context' model for midwifery education and it is recommended that this be used in midwifery education, to facilitate the holistic assessment of pregnant asylum seekers' and other newly arrived migrants' health and social needs.

本研究旨在探討大學女生「關係」的發展與轉變，為了能更貼近受訪者的主觀經驗、真實面貌，本研究採用質性研究中的現象學取向，並以深度訪談的資料蒐集方式，訪談兩位大學後期的女生，以深入瞭解「關係」對於青少年晚期女性個體化過程的影響，與過程中親子關係的歷程變化。 本研究發現，對於大學女生而言，良好的關係將會促使其朝向親密的人我關係發展，而她們的關係也將呈現出由「廣」變「窄」、由「淺」入「深」的變化。此外，相較於傳統個體化所強調的獨立自主，女性的個體化似乎意味著一種重視與他人的連結卻不會失去自己的親密關係，而透過「溫柔的發聲」--展現自己的能力在與父母理性地溝通、主動地關懷父母上，即在關係的滋養裡可以慢慢地發展出自我、並產生表達自己的行動能力，女性在關係中的此種發聲過程則可展現其動態「朝向親密」的歷程，這樣產生移動改變力量的過程似乎同時也是empowerment的展現。因此對大學女性來說，朝向親密似乎是在個體化外，另一條邁向成熟長大的路徑。 最後，根據本研究發現，提出反思與建議，以供實務工作者以及後續相關研究的參考。 關鍵字：大學女生、個體化、關係、質性研究 / The purpose of this research is to explore the development and transformation of female college students’ relationships. To further understand the participants’ subjective experiences and reality, the study adopts “phenomenology model” of qualitative research as its research method. Through the in-depth interviews with two female college students, the study tries to understand how 「relationships」 influence individualizations of female adolescents and how parent-child relationships change during the process. This research finds: for female college students, good relationships will prompt them to develop intimate self-other relationships. Besides, their relationships will arise from broad to narrow, from flat to deep. In addition, female individuation seems to imply that one can maintain a kind of intimate relationship that emphasizes the connection with others without losing oneself. The way participants express themselves in the relationships demonstrates the process of how they dynamically move toward intimacy, which at the same time is an expression of empowerment. That is to say, the participants gradually develop their selves and have the ability to express themselves through the nourishment in the relationships. Accordingly, for female college students, moving toward intimacy seems to be another way to reach maturity beside individuation. Finally, based on the findings of the study, several suggestions for guidance and further research are selected and provided. Keywords: female college students, individual, relationship, qualitative research method.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-188).

The aim of this master thesis is to examine the Swedish term for reading promotion, läsfrämjande, and gain a greater understanding for the meanings inherent in the word. To do this, narrative theory in the form if Harding's typology of six different types of narratives arranged on a scale from general to particular has been used for the analysis.The study focuses on librarians that work with children and young adults in public libraries and their rela-tionships with reading promotion. On the surface the Swedish word for reading promotion is simple, but exam-ined closely it becomes apparent that it is in fact multifaceted. The word consists of many different narratives that interact and in different ways change and affect each other. This study has identified five different types of collective narratives connected to the word läsfrämjande. These are the democratic narrative, the narrative of qualitative litterateur, reading for the soul, the enabling narrative and the literacy narrative. Together with the other types of narratives these form the basis of the personal narrative the librarians form around their reading promotion work and the word läsfrämjande.The personal narrative connected to the word will always be unique to the individual librarian, and it is be-cause of this that the word is so hard to define. The meaning will differ in small ways between different people, but because the personal narratives are built from the same collective narratives there will appear to be consensus in the meaning.This study has been produced as a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

Nas últimas duas décadas, estudos empíricos em finanças têm utilizado o método de estudo de eventos para detectar retornos anormais no entorno de eventos que, teoricamente, deveriam ser incorporados instantaneamente no preço dos títulos. O método de estudo de eventos, a partir da década de 90, com a massificação das planilhas eletrônicas e dos pacotes estatísticos, se popularizou no meio acadêmico brasileiro, sendo um dos principais métodos de pesquisa em finanças com ênfase em mercado de capitais ou finanças corporativas. Apesar da eficácia do método em detectar a anormalidade dos retornos, comprovada em diversos estudos empíricos, acredita-se que o método seja pouco eficiente em determinar a verdadeira amplitude do retorno anormal, uma vez que são necessários pressupostos estatísticos e argumentos econômico-financeiros que podem não ser válidos. O fato de que cada modelo apresenta um desempenho diferente de captura dos retornos anormais contribui com a tese de que os modelos utilizados atualmente não conseguem filtrar totalmente o retorno anormal da série normal. Portanto, este estudo teve como objetivo principal testar a aplicabilidade do método de Análise de Componentes Independentes - ICA - em detectar retornos anormais em séries temporais e comparar o seu desempenho com os modelos geradores de retornos anormais mais utilizados em testes empíricos. Com este objetivo, foram realizadas milhares de simulações envolvendo parâmetros semelhantes aos do mercado de ações brasileiro, com o uso de algoritmos de simulação elaborados exclusivamente para esta finalidade. Os resultados sugerem que o método ICA é capaz de detectar anormalidades em séries temporais, fornecendo, desta forma, a descoberta do real impacto do retorno anormal nos elementos da amostra, necessitando apenas de uma modelagem prévia em função do tamanho da amostra e sua variância. / In the last two decades financial empiric studies have used the event study method to detect abnormal return on events that in theory should be instantly incorporated on securities price. This method became popular to Brazilian academic environment through the intensification usage of electronic worksheet and statistic packages in the 90`s turning into one of the main research methods for financial studies with emphasis on stock market and corporative financing. Despite the efficiency of the method in detecting abnormalities it`s believed that it`s least effective on establishing the real amplitude of the abnormal return considering that statistics presupposed and economic and financial arguments may not be valid. The fact that each model shows a different performance on capturing abnormal returns contributes to the idea that today`s models can`t completely filter the abnormal return on a normal series. Therefore this study has as a main objective to test the applicability of the Independent Component Analysis method – ICA – in detecting abnormal returns in time series and comparing its performance against abnormal return generating models more used on empiric tests. With this objective, thousands of simulations involving parameters similar to the Brazilian stock market with the usage of simulation algorisms elaborated exclusively for this purpose. The results suggest that ICA method is capable of detecting abnormalities in time series supplying in this form a discovery on the real impact of abnormal return on sample elements needing only a previous molding due to the size of its sample and variance.

The purpose of this research is to use semiotic and narrative theory to unpack the layered meanings related to postage stamps and handwritten letters and explore their similarities. The theories of Peirce on icon, index and symbol, provide a systematic framework from which to explore the parallel narratives in a personal collection of postage stamps and letters received between 1996 and 1999. Postage stamps and letters are sent as a unit, allowing their public and private narratives to arrive in parallel. Both the practical and theoretical components of this research explore these narratives, treating letters and postage stamps as both personal and impersonal objects of communication. They are archival objects of national and personal history and of an era that is slowly fading. This research does not reinforce the different modes of communication offered by postage stamps and letters, but rather unpacks and compares, from a personal perspective, their many layers of meaning. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Visual Arts)

Nas últimas duas décadas, estudos empíricos em finanças têm utilizado o método de estudo de eventos para detectar retornos anormais no entorno de eventos que, teoricamente, deveriam ser incorporados instantaneamente no preço dos títulos. O método de estudo de eventos, a partir da década de 90, com a massificação das planilhas eletrônicas e dos pacotes estatísticos, se popularizou no meio acadêmico brasileiro, sendo um dos principais métodos de pesquisa em finanças com ênfase em mercado de capitais ou finanças corporativas. Apesar da eficácia do método em detectar a anormalidade dos retornos, comprovada em diversos estudos empíricos, acredita-se que o método seja pouco eficiente em determinar a verdadeira amplitude do retorno anormal, uma vez que são necessários pressupostos estatísticos e argumentos econômico-financeiros que podem não ser válidos. O fato de que cada modelo apresenta um desempenho diferente de captura dos retornos anormais contribui com a tese de que os modelos utilizados atualmente não conseguem filtrar totalmente o retorno anormal da série normal. Portanto, este estudo teve como objetivo principal testar a aplicabilidade do método de Análise de Componentes Independentes - ICA - em detectar retornos anormais em séries temporais e comparar o seu desempenho com os modelos geradores de retornos anormais mais utilizados em testes empíricos. Com este objetivo, foram realizadas milhares de simulações envolvendo parâmetros semelhantes aos do mercado de ações brasileiro, com o uso de algoritmos de simulação elaborados exclusivamente para esta finalidade. Os resultados sugerem que o método ICA é capaz de detectar anormalidades em séries temporais, fornecendo, desta forma, a descoberta do real impacto do retorno anormal nos elementos da amostra, necessitando apenas de uma modelagem prévia em função do tamanho da amostra e sua variância. / In the last two decades financial empiric studies have used the event study method to detect abnormal return on events that in theory should be instantly incorporated on securities price. This method became popular to Brazilian academic environment through the intensification usage of electronic worksheet and statistic packages in the 90`s turning into one of the main research methods for financial studies with emphasis on stock market and corporative financing. Despite the efficiency of the method in detecting abnormalities it`s believed that it`s least effective on establishing the real amplitude of the abnormal return considering that statistics presupposed and economic and financial arguments may not be valid. The fact that each model shows a different performance on capturing abnormal returns contributes to the idea that today`s models can`t completely filter the abnormal return on a normal series. Therefore this study has as a main objective to test the applicability of the Independent Component Analysis method – ICA – in detecting abnormal returns in time series and comparing its performance against abnormal return generating models more used on empiric tests. With this objective, thousands of simulations involving parameters similar to the Brazilian stock market with the usage of simulation algorisms elaborated exclusively for this purpose. The results suggest that ICA method is capable of detecting abnormalities in time series supplying in this form a discovery on the real impact of abnormal return on sample elements needing only a previous molding due to the size of its sample and variance.

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It addresses the following themes: information; dialogical relation of Information Science, Museology and Semiotics, Memory and Collective Identity, Culture Heritage Material; Typologies Museum, emphasizing the Houses-Museum, museum exhibitions and Informational Practices in museological context. The research is the permanent exhibition at the Casa of José Américo Museum, located in the city of João Pessoa - PB, whose collection represents the life and work of writer and politician José Américo. It is used as a research method to Semiotic Analysis. To collect data we used the technique of direct observation and qualitative non - participatory and non-directed and informal interviews with museologist who planned and assembled the exhibition of the Museum CJA. It is concluded that exposure can be studied as a museum and field research object, understanding it as a space for dissemination of information, representing the social and cultural role of the museum. Understanding how memory representation (DIEHL, 2002) one can see that Semiotics, both as theory and as a research method, is the theory that underlies this representational process, since it is given both in the context of materiality - sign object, sign vehicle - as in the immateriality - interpretant sign. Therefore, the analysis of informational phenomena, focusing on the collective cultural memory, pervades the relationship with the semiotic analysis, through which you can build methodological models for the study of information as memory support. Understand the museums as producers of information and construction of representations from fragments of reality represented there in the material culture expressed in the exhibits is to see the museum as a place of production of meaning. / A Ciência da Informação e a Museologia apresentam abertura para o diálogo disciplinar. Ambas as áreas interessam-se pelas exposições museológicas (LOUREIRO, LOUREIRO, SILVA, 2008; MORAES, 2008) compreendidas como o principal veículo de criação de significação social do museu. Essa dissertação objetiva analisar a narrativa expositiva do Museu Casa de José Américo (CJA) a partir da caracterização da formação e o funcionamento das suas estruturas expositivas, enquanto práticas de informação, caracterizando-se como uma análise descritiva, de caráter também exploratório, de abordagem delineada como um estudo de campo (Gil, 2006). Aborda as temáticas: Informação; relação dialógica Ciência da Informação, Museologia e Semiótica; Memória e Identidade Coletiva; Patrimônio Cultura Material; Tipologias de Museu, enfatizando as Casas-Museus; Exposições Museológicas e Práticas Informacionais em contexto museológico. O universo da pesquisa é a exposição permanente do Museu Casa de José Américo, localizado na cidade de João Pessoa - PB, cujo acervo representa a vida e obra do escritor e político José Américo. É utilizada como método de pesquisa a Análise Semiótica. Para a coleta de dados foi utilizada a técnica da observação qualitativa direta e não participativa e a entrevista não dirigida e informal com a museóloga que planejou e montou a exposição do Museu CJA. Conclui-se que a exposição museológica pode ser estudada como campo e objeto de pesquisa, compreendendo-a como um espaço de divulgação da informação, representando o papel social e cultural do museu. Compreendendo a Memória como representação (DIEHL, 2002) é possível perceber que a Semiótica, tanto enquanto teoria quanto como método de pesquisa, é a teoria que fundamenta esse processo representacional, uma vez que esta se dar tanto no contexto da materialidade - signo objeto, signo veículo quanto na imaterialidade signo interpretante. Portanto, a análise dos fenômenos informacionais, com foco na memória cultural coletiva, perpassa pela relação com a análise semiótica, através da qual é possível construir modelos metodológicos para o estudo da informação enquanto suporte da memória. Compreender as instituições museológicas como produtoras de informação e construtoras de representações através de fragmentos da realidade ali representados na cultura material expressa nos objetos expostos é perceber o museu como espaço de produção de significação.

Nas últimas duas décadas, estudos empíricos em finanças têm utilizado o método de estudo de eventos para detectar retornos anormais no entorno de eventos que, teoricamente, deveriam ser incorporados instantaneamente no preço dos títulos. O método de estudo de eventos, a partir da década de 90, com a massificação das planilhas eletrônicas e dos pacotes estatísticos, se popularizou no meio acadêmico brasileiro, sendo um dos principais métodos de pesquisa em finanças com ênfase em mercado de capitais ou finanças corporativas. Apesar da eficácia do método em detectar a anormalidade dos retornos, comprovada em diversos estudos empíricos, acredita-se que o método seja pouco eficiente em determinar a verdadeira amplitude do retorno anormal, uma vez que são necessários pressupostos estatísticos e argumentos econômico-financeiros que podem não ser válidos. O fato de que cada modelo apresenta um desempenho diferente de captura dos retornos anormais contribui com a tese de que os modelos utilizados atualmente não conseguem filtrar totalmente o retorno anormal da série normal. Portanto, este estudo teve como objetivo principal testar a aplicabilidade do método de Análise de Componentes Independentes - ICA - em detectar retornos anormais em séries temporais e comparar o seu desempenho com os modelos geradores de retornos anormais mais utilizados em testes empíricos. Com este objetivo, foram realizadas milhares de simulações envolvendo parâmetros semelhantes aos do mercado de ações brasileiro, com o uso de algoritmos de simulação elaborados exclusivamente para esta finalidade. Os resultados sugerem que o método ICA é capaz de detectar anormalidades em séries temporais, fornecendo, desta forma, a descoberta do real impacto do retorno anormal nos elementos da amostra, necessitando apenas de uma modelagem prévia em função do tamanho da amostra e sua variância. / In the last two decades financial empiric studies have used the event study method to detect abnormal return on events that in theory should be instantly incorporated on securities price. This method became popular to Brazilian academic environment through the intensification usage of electronic worksheet and statistic packages in the 90`s turning into one of the main research methods for financial studies with emphasis on stock market and corporative financing. Despite the efficiency of the method in detecting abnormalities it`s believed that it`s least effective on establishing the real amplitude of the abnormal return considering that statistics presupposed and economic and financial arguments may not be valid. The fact that each model shows a different performance on capturing abnormal returns contributes to the idea that today`s models can`t completely filter the abnormal return on a normal series. Therefore this study has as a main objective to test the applicability of the Independent Component Analysis method – ICA – in detecting abnormal returns in time series and comparing its performance against abnormal return generating models more used on empiric tests. With this objective, thousands of simulations involving parameters similar to the Brazilian stock market with the usage of simulation algorisms elaborated exclusively for this purpose. The results suggest that ICA method is capable of detecting abnormalities in time series supplying in this form a discovery on the real impact of abnormal return on sample elements needing only a previous molding due to the size of its sample and variance.