The purpose of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of fear of crime in the context of two highly distinct small town environments: one characterized by extremely rapid population growth due to energy development, and the other characterized by relative stability and slow population expansion. Although in general prior fear of crime research has indicated relatively low levels of fear in rural small towns, the altered social environment of the rapid growth community may result in substantially heightened fear of crime. Using survey data collected from random samples of households in each of the study communities, the relationships between fear of crime and community of residence was examined, as were relationships between fear and respondents' age, sex, length of residence, and criminal victimization experiences. Results indicate substantially higher fear of crime among boomtown residents, a finding which is tentatively interpreted as indicative of more general social disruption under conditions of rapid growth.

This paper examines the effect of impression management on goal level and commitment to the goal. Participants involved in a goal-setting program in the United States were asked to complete a web survey regarding their desire to impress superiors and their commitment to the goal. The specific dependant measures were self-set goal and goal commitment. No statistically significant differences were found between high and low desires to manage impressions with respect to goal set, but a higher desire to manage impressions was positively correlated with a higher degree of goal commitment. This finding suggests that triggering impression management is beneficial for situations in which high goal performance is desired as it increases goal commitment. Future studies could verify these results using larger sample sizes and tackle such issues as goal performance.

Policymakers need a wide array of information for multiple purposes. Acquiring information often is costly, so it is assumed that incentives must be provided to overcome these costs and stimulate information gathering. It is further assumed that increasing the number of actors engaged in acquiring information creates free-rider problems. In 2007 the U.S. House of Representatives created a select committee to address energy and environment issues, but did not give that committee legislative authority. The new committee could not compete with others for the ability to write or amend legislation, so its presence should not have changed the standing committee’s information gathering patterns. In fact, committees did alter their hearing patterns in response to the select committee’s work. Information has jurisdictional and reputational value to policymakers in addition to the incentives it can help them obtain, and policymakers will act to acquire information even without explicit incentives to do so. / text

Thesis (MTech. degree in Performing Arts) -- Tshwane University of Technology. 2010. / The training of students for the technical side of the Entertainment Industry in South Africa is not something that has been with us for many years. It is only for the last 33 years that an institution, the then Technikon Pretoria, started a course that trains Scenic Artists in South Africa. Not many institutions are training Scenic Artists in South Africa, and the current Department of Entertainment Technology has always been the leader in this field. In the United Kingdom, training students as Scenic Artists has been part of their programmes for the last ninety years. One finds that there is a demand for training Scenic Artists in the United Kingdom, because of the size and complexity of the Entertainment Industry there. During the Apartheid era, South Africa was excluded from the International scene, so the demand did not really exist here for a number of years. Lately, the Entertainment Industry in South Africa has picked up momentum and expanded its borders immensely, and this has created a great demand for trained Scenic Artists in South Africa. Today one can proudly say that one is part of an industry that trains people as Scenic Artists in South Africa that contributes to the global Entertainment Industry. The Scenic Artists who completed their studies at TUT are employed nationally and internationally, and deliver a very high standard of work on the most impressive projects. During the research that was done between the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa and the Rose Bruford College and Guildhall School of Drama and Music, both in the United Kingdom in London, one can see that there are no major differences between the three institutions. Each institution has its own methodology, but at the end, all are working towards one goal, and that is to train the best Scenic Artists possible. The differences that present it are in the course structure, available facilities and the amount of staff allocated to do the training.

Goal setting theory has consistently found that high and specific goals lead to better performance than low and vague goals do. However, the independent effect of each of these two dimensions, difficulty and specificity, on performance is less clear. Although goal difficulty has been shown to affect performance level independent of goal specificity, evidence for an independent effect of goal specificity is mixed. In the current research, we introduce a moderator, regulatory focus, of the relationship between goal specificity and performance level. Specifically, we hypothesized that people in a promotion focus would be more motivated by aiming for wider goals that have a higher possibility of success and therefore fit an eager-approach strategy, while people in a prevention focus would be more motivated by aiming for narrower goals that have a small range of acceptable outcomes and therefore fit a vigilant-avoidance strategy. We examined this hypothesis with different hypothetical scenarios that manipulated goal width (wide versus narrow) with numerical ranges (Study 1) and visually with a bar graph (Study 2), and with different behavioural tasks that manipulated goal width in a saving strategies task (Study 3) and an anagram task (Study 4a, 4b). The findings revealed promising trends that were consistent with our hypothesis across all studies.

Thesis -- Departmental honors in English. / Short stories and an essay: The notion of home : an exploration of domestic setting in contemporary fiction. Bibliography: ℓ. 176-177.

Thesis (doctoral) - Technische Universität, Darmstadt, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.

The study of the ionosphere over the sunrise period is necessary for an understanding of the vtiriations in layer structure with time and has been a topic of research of many workers. On the whole these investigations have been restricted to a study of critical frequency variations with relatively short intervals of a few minutes between successive records, of N-h curves deduced from ionograms with long intervals (15 minutes or so) between successive N-h curves or of continuously monitored single frequency reflections. Not one of the three techniques is entirely satisfactory for a detailed study of ionospheric behaviour over sunrise. The first two do not give a sufficiently clear indication of what happens in the initial stages of layer development, while from the third incomplete data is obtained as to what is happening at a specific electron-density level. For this reason a preliminary investigation of the ionosphere over sunrise was made at Rhodes University during August, 1959. The records were obtained at four-and-a-half minute intervals and scaled by the method of KELSO (1952 ). "Many of t he results were inconclusive but it appeared that records would have to be taken at approximately one minute intervals and reduced to N-h curves by a scaling technique which made full allowance for low-level ionization if useful results were to be obtained. An attempt has been made in this thesis to investigate the behaviour of the ionosphere over sunrise more fully than can be done by the three techniques referred to. A number of observed phenomena are also examined. Part I deals with the theoretical background to ionosphere physics in general and describes the equipment, equipment modifications and experimental procedure. Part II presents the results obtained. The records for a largescale travelling disturbance are analysed. Various observed phenomena are described and discussed. A simple method of obtaining production rates from experimental data is described. The implications of the observed variations of production rates with height and time are discussed. Suggestions for further research and improvement of the methods used arc made in Charter 9.

This study is an investigation of the dramatic expression in thirty musical settings of Goethe's "Erlkonig," to attempt to determine why the works by Franz Schubert and Carl Loewe have achieved such popularity.

This study intends to examine the impact of a well known debate page in one of Sweden’s biggest newspapers, Dagens Nyheter. We have done this by analysing Ekot, Aktuellt, Göteborgs Posten and Västerbottens-Kuriren to see to what extent they “take” news from the debate page. The method used was content analysis and to describe some of our thoughts about how we placed the hits in different categories we chose eight of our hits to exemplify. The material from the newspapers, radio and television was examined to discover the potential impact from the debate page. To carry out this study we have mainly used theories about how media get influenced by each other’s news and how they do follow-ups and refer to the original media. Other theories of importance for our study are for example those about what kinds of events that become news and how media influences people’s thoughts about what’s important. One of the most important conclusions we were able to draw after carrying out our study was that the debate page in Dagens Nyheter has quite a small impact on what our chosen media reported on. The biggest impact was found in the newspapers, whereas radio and television very seldom referred to the debate page. To sum up, one can absolutely say that the debate page in Dagens Nyheter is powerful and do have impact on other media, but an article published on the page is not automatically discussed and debated in other media during the day.