The primary purpose of this study was to explore and identify the meaning and importance of service for health professionals. Those who participated in this study are all registered nurses who each have between 10 and 40 years of clinical nursing and nurse lecturing experience. The participants each wrote two stories, one about the meaning of service and the other about the importance of service. Definitions of service generally suggest organised labour involving an act of help or assistance. Our intent was to understand what constituted service for each of us in the healthcare - and specifically the nursing practice/education - context.A secondary purpose of this qualitative research was guided by participatory and critical theory paradigms. Seven participants and I (as the initiating researcher) formed a co-operative inquiry group to undertake the research using a collaborative process. Within this method the leader and the group became co-participants and co-researchers. Nurses and women are identified as marginalised people and by honouring the principles of co-operative inquiry we were empowered through this process. While the initial data was analysed thematically by the lead researcher, the original 19 sub-themes were refined by participants into five themes.The findings of the participants are consistent with overseas studies on emotional labour and sentimental work. The five themes that emerged as the meaning of service are helping, giving, elements of service, acts of doing, and pride in work. Helping was defined as an attitude and an action, which often results in a spiritual connection. Giving involves stretching yourself, and altruistic behaviour that also incorporated a spiritual component. Five sub-themes merged to form the third theme elements of service; working with people, being a public servant, being a servant, need and duty. The complexity and hidden aspect of service work was expressed in acts of doing where being professional was paramount. The final theme, pride in work, acknowledged childhood conditioning and a sense of contributing to the greater good through our unique work as nurses. This study affirmed that service has much importance to those involved and deepened our understanding of the blend of meanings service expresses.

Submitted by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2012-10-23T11:44:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Caroline.pdf: 12153012 bytes, checksum: ad32bc32f0cec24e31aafbbf3c31f12d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2012-10-23T11:44:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Caroline.pdf: 12153012 bytes, checksum: ad32bc32f0cec24e31aafbbf3c31f12d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2012-10-23T11:45:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Caroline.pdf: 12153012 bytes, checksum: ad32bc32f0cec24e31aafbbf3c31f12d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-23T11:45:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Caroline.pdf: 12153012 bytes, checksum: ad32bc32f0cec24e31aafbbf3c31f12d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Deocélia Vianna apresentou por um curto período, de 1952 a 1953, uma atração radiofônica intitulada Madame Danjou, que consistia em um programa de consultório sentimental, para o qual as ouvintes encaminhavam suas dúvidas através de cartas. Para as mulheres, o hábito de escrever cartas e diários não representou, ao longo dos anos, apenas uma peculiaridade feminina, e sim a possibilidade de expressão. Assim, em nossa análise sobre as demandas encaminhadas ao programa Madame Danjou, buscamos identificar elementos que nos permitam qualificar tanto as missivistas quanto a própria radialista como integrantes de um contexto específico, sem, no entanto, ignorar suas particularidades. Para tanto, consideramos o programa radiofônico como espaço de reflexão e sociabilidade para esses agentes sociais, devido ao fluxo de perguntas e respostas que o caracteriza. Antes, porém, não podemos perder de vista a trajetória particular de Deocélia Vianna, bem como as especificidades desse tipo de programa para compreendermos a outra ponta do diálogo que se estabelece: os conselhos. Também privilegiaremos a sua dimensão normatizadora, visto que tais conselhos eram direcionados para a remediação de conflitos do âmbito privado, via a adequação de determinados comportamentos. / From 1952 to 1953, Deocélia Vianna presented a radio show entitled Madame Danjou, which consisted in an advice column (also called ‘agony aunt’), and most of the listeners were women. For them, the habit of writing letters and diaries represented the possibility of expression. In our analysis of the demands addressed to Madame Danjou program, we seek to identify elements that could qualify both the letter writers and the broadcaster as part of a specific context, without, however, ignore its peculiarities. To this end, we consider the radio program as a space for reflection and sociability for those social workers, due to the flow of questions and answers that characterizes it. But first, we must not lose sight of the particular path of Deocélia Vianna, as well as the specificity of this type of program to understand the other end of the dialogue that is established: the advice. We also privileged the normative dimension, since these boards were directed to the remediation of conflicts privately, through the appropriateness of certain behaviors.

近年來ETF規模快速成長，亞洲區域經濟成長與穩步發展更是帶動國際ETF市場動力來源，而元大台灣50指數型證券投資信託基金因規模大，受到投資人的青睞。根據過去的研究指出，網路上的文本訊息會對群眾情緒造成影響，進而影響股價波動，對投資者而言，若能從大量網路財金快速分析投資者大眾情緒進而預測股價波動走勢，勢必可提高報酬率。然而，每日有上百篇的財金文本產生，人工分析耗時耗力，本研究採用文字探勘技術，提出一套情感分析的價格預測模型。 過去文本情感分析的研究中已證實監督式學習方法可以透過簡單量化的方式達到良好的分類效果，然而，為解決監督式學習無法預期未知的限制，本研究透過非監督式學習將2016整年度的財金文本進行文章主題判別，計算情緒指數並標記文本情緒傾向，再來使用監督式學習結合台股資訊指標、國際指標、總體經濟指標、技術指標等，建立分類模型以預測元大台灣50ETF的價格趨勢。 實驗結果中，主題標注方面，本研究發現因文本數量遠大於議題詞數量造成TF-IDF矩陣過於稀疏，使得TF-IDF結合K-means主題模型分類效果不佳。LDA主題模型基於所有主題被所有文章共享的特性，使得在字詞分群優於TF-IDF結合K-means。情緒傾向標注方面，證實本研究擴充後的情感詞集比起NTUSD有更好的字詞極性判斷效果。 本研究透過比較情緒指數結合技術指標之分類模型與單純技術指標分類模型的準確率發現，前者較後者高出7%的準確率。進一步結合間接情緒指標的分類模型更有71%準確率，故證實財金文本的情感分析確實能有效提升元大台灣50的價格趨勢預測。 / Rapid and stable economic growth in Asia motivated the asset scale of ETF in the globe growing rapidly in the recent years. Yuanta Taiwan Top 50 ETF gains the investors’ favor because of the advantages of large market scale. Past research have shown that the text documents on the internet, e.g. news and tweets, would make great effect on public emotion, and the public emotion could even affect the stock price. For investors, it is important to know how to analyze the potential emotion in text documents to predict the stock trend. However, the traditional way to analyze text documents by human cannot afford the large volume of financial text documents on the internet. In past sentimental analysis research, supervised method is proven as a method with high accuracy, but there are limits about predicting unknown future trend. This research combined supervised and unsupervised methods to deal with these large financial text documents. By using unsupervised method to find out the topic of documents, and then calculate the sentimental index of each documents to differentiate the sentiment polarity. Afterwards, using supervised method to build a prediction model with the sentimental index. According to the result, we found that the performance of LDA model is better than the TF-IDF with K-means model. Moreover, the prediction model which include the sentiment index has higher accuracy than the one include the technical indicators only.

La Révolution Française a été à l’origine d’une accélération de l’histoire aussi bien que de la création de « l’Ancien Régime », sur les plans institutionnel et impressionniste. De nombreux romanciers, historiques ou sensibles (et souvent les deux), nés avant 1789, ont exprimé, sous les différents régimes qui se succèdent par la suite, une nostalgie de la civilisation des divers Anciens Régimes, en représentant les heures glorieuses de la Monarchie Absolue, la « douceur de vivre » d’un XVIIIe siècle apaisé, la courtoisie héroïque des dames et chevaliers dont les amours sont appelées à illustrer le courant troubadour. Ces travaux s’arrêtent sur les moyens et visées de la reconstruction romanesque des périodes prérévolutionnaires dans un large corpus, chronologiquement étendu jusqu’à 1847, en convoquant certains auteurs canoniques (Chateaubriand, Florian, Sade) ou souvent sollicités (Mme Cottin, Mme de Genlis, Mme Gay, Mme de Souza) et plusieurs « minores », dont certains n’avaient pas encore fait l’objet d’études modernes, (Mme de Bawr, Mme Brossin de Méré, Mme Candeille, Guesdon, l’abbé Proyart …) / The French Revolution creates a History’s acceleration and the concept of the Ancien Regime, on institutional and impressionist levels. After 1789, numerous novelists, historical or sentimental (many times both), born during Louis XV and Louis XVI reigns, express nostalgia for Ancien Régime’s civilization. They write about the highlights of the Bourbon’s monarchy, the “douceur de vivre” of the Marie-Antoinette era or the medieval courtesy (in troubadour pieces of work about ladies and knights). This doctoral thesis explores the purposes and methods of the representation of prerevolutionary periods in novels. The large corpus (1789-1847) include famous male (Chateaubriand, Florian, Sade) and female (Mme Cottin, Mme de Genlis, Mme Gay, Mme de Souza) authors and several “minores” – some of them still ignored by modern studies - (Mme de Bawr, Mme Brossin de Méré, Mme Candeille, Guesdon, l’abbé Proyart …)

Robin Gustavsson: Naiviteten som täckmantel ± Om manlighet i Erlend Loes Fvonk. Svenska, självständigt arbete, avancerad nivå, 15 högskolepoäng, HT 2021. Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap. Uppsatsen analyserar berättarstil, maskulinitet och manlig vänskap i Erlend Loes roman Fvonk (2012). Syftet med studien är att belysa hur Loe bryter mot traditionella manliga värden genom att använda sig av en naiv berättarstil. Uppsatsen utgår från en kvalitativ metod – närläsning, berättartekniskt och tematiskt studium, och använder sig av Raewyn W. Connells tankar om hegemonisk maskulinitet som teoriansats. Studien visar att Loes naiva berättarstil genomsyrar berättandet, vilket leder till att han kan förmedla en vänskapsrelation för två medelåldersmän på ett nytt, överraskande och problematiserande vis. Den naiva stilen har uppsatsen tolkat som medveten, och som ett försök att nå en högre grad av ursprunglighet och naturlighet.

Critical work on popular American women's fiction still has not reckoned adequately with the themes of interracialism present in these novels and with interracialism's bearing on the sentimental. This thesis considers an often overlooked body of women's popular sentimental fiction, published from 1860-1865, which is interested in themes of interracial romance or reproduction, in order to provide a fuller picture of the impact that the intersection of interracialism and sentimentalism has had on American identity. By examining the literary strategy of "miscegenated narration," or the heteroglossic cacophony of narrative voices and ideological viewpoints that interracialism produces in a narrative, I argue that the hegemonic ideologies of the sentimental romance are both "deterritorialized" and "reterritorialized," a conflicted impulse that characterizes both nineteenth-century sentimental, interracial romances and the broader project of critiquing the dominant national narrative that these novels undertake.

根據研究指出 ETF 資產規模近幾年快速成長，元大台灣卓越 50 基金因市場 規模大等優勢受到投資人的青睞，賴以巨量資料的發展使得文字探勘技術成熟， 故本研究希冀提出一套情感分析的價格預測模型，提升投資者的報酬率。 過往學者以文章中的單詞作為文字探勘的分析單位，常會產生同義詞、多義 詞的問題，因此提出情感型態分析的監督式學習方法建立模型。另外為了解決監 督式學習難以取得訓練資料的限制，本研究混合非監督式學習方法進行主題分群 與情緒傾向標注。 本研究建立台灣股市新聞文本資料集，並篩選熱門議題詞詞庫，進行非監督 式的 LDA 主題模型，發現在 2016 年總統選舉期間，媒體對於公司相關議題的注 意力降低，使得相關的文本數量大幅減少;另外在情緒傾向標注階段，因混和了 NTUSD、知網及自行擴充演算法的情感詞庫，能夠將 10%中性詞彙產生極性判 斷、96%的文本標注情緒傾向。 視覺化工具分析結果指出，DIF-MACD 能夠預測台灣卓越 50 基金的長期走 勢，而新聞情緒指數則在短期的價格波動上表現良好，且在主題模型分群中，總 體經濟、公司維運類別的新聞情緒指數具有約 1-2 日領先指標特性，對於後續的 價格預測模型有所助益。 在監督式情感分析方法，為解決上述同義詞、多義詞的問題，本研究採用型 態分類模型於中文文本，並與向量空間模型、支援向量機等方法做比較。實驗結 果指出優化的型態分類模型，並結合台灣加權股價指數，表現相對良好，F1- Measure 可達 85%。進一步討論新聞情緒對於價格預測的重要性，發現在非交易 時間序列中的新聞情緒，能夠對 0050 的價格波動產生影響。 / The past research points out that the scale of ETF assets has been growing rapidly in recent years. Yuanta Taiwan Top 50 ETF is popular with investors because of the advantages of large market scale. Through the development of Big Data, the technology of Text Mining becomes mature. Thus, we analyze the price forecast model to raise the investors' rate of return. The research of Text Mining used to take the document term to analyze, but it often results in the problem with synonym and polysemy. Therefore, this research proposes a supervised learning method of sentiment pattern analysis. In addition, in order to solve the problem with training data about the supervised learning method, we mix the unsupervised learning method to carry out the subject grouping and sentimental tendency. In this study, we establish the news dataset and screen it as popular terms that are used to an unsupervised method of LDA model. The result points out that the number of news about company dropped significantly during the 2016 Taiwan president election because of the change of media sensation. Moreover, we create the sentiment dictionary that can determine the polarity of 10% neutral terms and the emotional tendency of 96% documents by mixing the NTUSD, HowNet knowledge Database and the self-expansion algorithm. Through the data visualization, the result shows that the curve of DIF-MACD is able to predict the long-term trend of 0050, while the sentiment index of the news makes a good showing in the short-term price volatility. Besides, the news sentiment index of the subjects that belong to general economy and company has about 1 to 2 day leading indicators. Eventually, we employ the Sentiment Pattern Taxonomy Model(PTM) in Chinese texts as supervised learning method and compare with VSM and SVM. The experiment result shows that PTM combined with Taiwan Weighted Stock Index is the best when its F1-Measure is up to 85%. Apart from this, we find that the sentiment index of the news in non-trading time can influence the price volatility of 0050.

This practice-led research project explores English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through complex narratives relating to its exchange. These artefacts codify emotion through use of complex visual languages, employing the symbolic and coded use of gems, human hair, emblems, words and wordplay. The research has expanded to encompass memorial garments known as ‘widows weeds’. The aims of the research have been threefold: firstly, to add to understanding and interpretation of aspects of Victorian sentimental jewellery and associated craft practices; secondly, to explore the metaphors and narratives inherent within them; thirdly, to test the visual and technical possibilities of knowledge thus gained to address human feeling through art. Outcomes take the form of a body of new artwork and a written thesis, which are designed to be mutually informing. Together, they articulate my response to the project’s central question: can consideration of the ‘grammar of sentiment’ at work in Victorian sentimental jewellery yield new possibilities, through fine art practice, for communicating love and loss in the 21st century? The four artworks that are a main output of the research take the forms of: REGARD:LOVEME, an artist’s book exploring gem codes and wordplay; Plocacosmos, a set of hairworking trials; The Cyanotypes, which reflect upon the materiality and aesthetic of the amatory locket; and Widows Weeds, a large format photographic installation, which considers the materiality and lineage of mourning cloth. Collectively, they explore the typology of the sentimental artefact through development of text/image vocabularies that are conceived as providing a ‘grammar of sentiment’ through which to articulate aspects of human feeling. It is this exploration that constitutes my main contribution to knowledge.

Reconfigured found objects shape scenes of everyday life, questioning the structural histories that go into defining an identity. Engaging in a multidisciplinary approach of making, my work reimagines the function of ornamentation and its relationship to the body. I approach new materials and found objects with the eye of a jeweler, highlighting and exploiting the subtle, and often invisible, links between material histories and their connection to identity. Material debris patinated with age like skillets, baseballs, and furniture are used to penetrate normative structures around identity, gender, and sexual desire. Using adornment as a support in my installations I propose a new lens for viewing function through the use of ornamentation. In doing so I highlight the bodie’s impact on objects, and call into to question the role these objects play in shaping our understanding of identity—An identity that is never singular, constantly evolving, and more often than not contradictory and confusing.

Detractors of sentimental literature argue that such novels are unoriginal and concerned primarily with emotions. Feminist scholars redeem the reputation of sentimental literature to an extent. At present, a multitude of approaches present sentimental authors as active agents, engaging with public issues. Building upon the scholarship of prominent feminist historians and literary critics, this thesis provides direct evidence that three female authors embrace the responsibilities of being a social critic. The Wide, Wide World (1850) by Susan Warner, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and The Hidden Hand (1859) by Emma D.E.N. Southworth provide unique commentaries on the separation of the private and public spheres, market revolution, and religion. Decisive differences between the authors’ opinions reveal a high degree of engagement with the public issues.