This report focuses on subtleties in different musical elements composed for the two films Francis and The Pink Cloud Syndrome, produced at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts between 2014 and 2015. Examples of how subtleties in the film scores were intentionally implemented in relation to the films are provided to give the reader an insight to this specific topic. Through analysis and reflections it was shown that subtleties could be found in every musical element addressed in this report at some point in the films. / <p>Bilaga: 1 DVD</p>

This thesis examines an aspect of embodied relationship that is recognised in colloquial figures of speech but is not theorised, nor even much acknowledged in the psychotherapeutic literature. It argues that when we experience subtle sensations of extending towards another person, as we might when our "heart goes out" to them, and of pulling away, as we might when we "draw back", this seemingly internal experience is snesed by the other. Using a phenomenological-hermeneutic methodology underpinning by Merleau-Ponty, van Manen and Todres, exercised were used to bring such experiences to the awareness of several cohorts of experienced and inexperienced therapists attending a training course. Verbal and written accounts of what was felt during the exercised, and of similar experiences from more naturalistic settings, were collected along with the researchers' own accounts. These accounts are discussed within the framework of a Gadamerian Conversation with a view to making explicit the implication for Person-centred therapy with regard to practice, supervision and training. The conversation speaks of the the impact of these experiences upon whether or not clients perceive therapists as authentic, unconditionally accepting and empathic. Assumptions are uncovered and challenged and an alternative narrative emerges from a consideration of multiple contexts. The conversation also speaks of an unseen dance of closeness and distance that arises as each moves towards and away from the other. Conversation (and silence) is inevitably accompanied and impacted by this dance, which happens in the background of every interaction. The unseen dance impacts not only the relationship, but also each person's organismic state.

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the construct validity of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) as a screening test for alcoholism. The study sample consisted of 238 participants. These included 50 alcoholics, 50 normals, 50 psychiatric outpatients, 50 co-dependent family members and 38 drug addicts, so classified by clinician diagnosis.All participants were administered the SASSI and also the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) and the MacAndrew Alcoholism-Screening Scale (AMAC). Correct classification rates for all three tests were determined using both a five-group criterion of classifying as an alcoholic, normal, psychiatric outpatient, co-dependent or drug addict, and a simpler two-group criterion of classifying as a substance abuser or non-abuser. Five null hypotheses were tested using Chi-square (alpha = .01) tests for equal proportions of classification accuracy. A sixth null hypothesis was tested using linear discriminant function analyses.Results Five-group criterion:1. The three tests differed in correctly classifying alcoholics, with the MAST statistically significantly superior to the AMAC and the SASSI.2. The three tests differed in correctly classifying normals, with the MAST and the AMAC statistically significantly superior to the SASSI.3. The three tests differed in correctly classifying psychiatric outpatients, with the AMAC statistically significantly superior to the SASSI.4. The three tests differed in correctly classifying drug addicts, with the AMAC and the SASSI statistically significantly superior to the MAST.5. The three tests did not differ to a statistically significant degree in classifying codependents.Two-group criterion (abuser/non-abuser):1. The three tests differed in correctly classifying alcoholics, with the MAST statitically significantly superior to the AMAC and the SASSI.2. The three tests differed in correctly classifying normals, with the SASSI statistically significantly superior to the AMAC and the MAST.3. The three tests differed in correctly classifying psychiatric outpatients, with the SASSI and the AMAC statistically significantly superior to the MAST.4. The three tests differed in correctly classifying drug addicts, with the MAST statistically significantly superior to the AMAC and the SASSI.5. The three tests differed in correctly classifying co-dependents, with the SASSI statistically significantly superior to the AMAC and the MAST.Employing the two-group criterion, all tests vastly improved their performance with the SASSI significantly superior to the MAST and the AMAC at author-recommended cutting scores. Increasing the cutting score for the MAST improved classification accuracy even further. Employing the linear discriminant function, the three tests differed significantly, with the MAST statistically significantly superior to all other scales.ConclusionsNone of the three scales performed adequately with the five-group criterion. The simpler two-group criterion produced an 87% classification accuracy rate for the SASSI with the study sample at author-recommended cutting scores, which was statistically significantly superior to the MAST and the AMAC. The highest classification accuracy rates of 90.3% and 91.2% respectively were produced by the MAST at elevated cutting scores of 10 and 12 in the two-group criterion. These parallelled linear discriminant function results for the MAST. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

Esta dissertação trata do corpo performático, em especial na sua relação com a imagem. Situa-se nos limites entre arte, educação e filosofia; apresentando o corpo, a imagem e a performance junto à ações performáticas autorais desenvolvidas pela autora. Os conceitos são tratados junto ao pensamento da diferença, especialmente nos estudos deleuzeanos em torno do cinema, da arte, da criação e da subjetividade. Trabalha-se o problema da imagem como representação estratificada, moralizante, em busca de uma imagem performática, caósmica, na qual organismos, estratos e corpo sutil se misturam e borram as fronteiras do que se representa. A partir de ações, performances e vídeoperformances, mostra-se como pode o corpo domesticado pelas armadilhas do poder se fazer máquina autopoiética, criadora, nos termos de Félix Guattari, de um “território existencial heterogêneo”, único e nascente. A pesquisa, por fim, defende um corpo performático que se cria e se produz, sucessivamente. / This thesis/dissertation is about the performing-body, especially in its relation to the image. It is situated in the boundaries of art, education and philosophy; presenting the body, the image and the performance related to authorship performing actions done by the authoress. The concepts are processed within the thought of the difference, especially in the deleuzian studies about cinema, art, creation and subjectivity. The work is done on the issue of the image as a moralizing, stratified representation, on the search of a performing image, chaosmic, in which organisms, extracts and subtle body mingle and blur the boundaries of what is being represented. Based on actions, performances and video-performances, it is shown how the body, domesticated by the traps of power, become a self poetic machine, and according to Félix Guattari, create an “existential heterogeneous territory”, unique and nascent. Lastly, the research defends a performing-body which self creates and self reproduces successively.

Esta dissertação trata do corpo performático, em especial na sua relação com a imagem. Situa-se nos limites entre arte, educação e filosofia; apresentando o corpo, a imagem e a performance junto à ações performáticas autorais desenvolvidas pela autora. Os conceitos são tratados junto ao pensamento da diferença, especialmente nos estudos deleuzeanos em torno do cinema, da arte, da criação e da subjetividade. Trabalha-se o problema da imagem como representação estratificada, moralizante, em busca de uma imagem performática, caósmica, na qual organismos, estratos e corpo sutil se misturam e borram as fronteiras do que se representa. A partir de ações, performances e vídeoperformances, mostra-se como pode o corpo domesticado pelas armadilhas do poder se fazer máquina autopoiética, criadora, nos termos de Félix Guattari, de um “território existencial heterogêneo”, único e nascente. A pesquisa, por fim, defende um corpo performático que se cria e se produz, sucessivamente. / This thesis/dissertation is about the performing-body, especially in its relation to the image. It is situated in the boundaries of art, education and philosophy; presenting the body, the image and the performance related to authorship performing actions done by the authoress. The concepts are processed within the thought of the difference, especially in the deleuzian studies about cinema, art, creation and subjectivity. The work is done on the issue of the image as a moralizing, stratified representation, on the search of a performing image, chaosmic, in which organisms, extracts and subtle body mingle and blur the boundaries of what is being represented. Based on actions, performances and video-performances, it is shown how the body, domesticated by the traps of power, become a self poetic machine, and according to Félix Guattari, create an “existential heterogeneous territory”, unique and nascent. Lastly, the research defends a performing-body which self creates and self reproduces successively.

Esta dissertação trata do corpo performático, em especial na sua relação com a imagem. Situa-se nos limites entre arte, educação e filosofia; apresentando o corpo, a imagem e a performance junto à ações performáticas autorais desenvolvidas pela autora. Os conceitos são tratados junto ao pensamento da diferença, especialmente nos estudos deleuzeanos em torno do cinema, da arte, da criação e da subjetividade. Trabalha-se o problema da imagem como representação estratificada, moralizante, em busca de uma imagem performática, caósmica, na qual organismos, estratos e corpo sutil se misturam e borram as fronteiras do que se representa. A partir de ações, performances e vídeoperformances, mostra-se como pode o corpo domesticado pelas armadilhas do poder se fazer máquina autopoiética, criadora, nos termos de Félix Guattari, de um “território existencial heterogêneo”, único e nascente. A pesquisa, por fim, defende um corpo performático que se cria e se produz, sucessivamente. / This thesis/dissertation is about the performing-body, especially in its relation to the image. It is situated in the boundaries of art, education and philosophy; presenting the body, the image and the performance related to authorship performing actions done by the authoress. The concepts are processed within the thought of the difference, especially in the deleuzian studies about cinema, art, creation and subjectivity. The work is done on the issue of the image as a moralizing, stratified representation, on the search of a performing image, chaosmic, in which organisms, extracts and subtle body mingle and blur the boundaries of what is being represented. Based on actions, performances and video-performances, it is shown how the body, domesticated by the traps of power, become a self poetic machine, and according to Félix Guattari, create an “existential heterogeneous territory”, unique and nascent. Lastly, the research defends a performing-body which self creates and self reproduces successively.

Locoweed, a well-known teratogenic plant affecting livestock, is prevalent in mountain regions of the Western United States. Two common species (Astragalus lentiginosus and A. wootoni), administered to pregnant rats, induced behavioral deviations in their offspring. Treated mothers consumed less feed and gained less wieght during gestation than controls when gavaged locoweed at the rate of 1 gram whole plant per day on days 7 through 17 of gestation. A. lentiginosus reduced pup weight at birth (13% less than controls) and this weight reduction (as much as 29% less than controls) continued at least four weeks. A. lentiginosus also reduced number of offspring born alive (34.9% less than controls) and number which survived until weaning (86.4% less than controls). No gross malformations were observed in the offspring of loco-treated dams. however, when the pups were subjected to behavioral testing (beginning at 30 days of age), deviations were observed. there was considerable difference among the treatment groups when tested with the activity wheel (P=.0000). Water-intubated controls did not differ from non-fed controls, but the two loco-treated groups differed in opposite directions from controls. A. lentiginosus offspring were more active (26.5%) overall than other groups, and had an abnormal pattern of activity in the day to evening night activity totals. A. wootoni offpsring were less active (25%) than other groups in the activity wheel. Significant differences among groups were also observed in the open-field test. The trend was toward decreased activity (P=.027; 31 and 43% less than controls - A. lentiginosus and A. wootoni respectively) and increased number of fecal boluses (P=.06; 45.5 and 19.3% more than controls - A. lentiginosus and A. wootoni respectively) in the loco-treated offspring. There were no significant differences in avoidance conditioning in a two-way shuttle box among the groups, though the loco offspring made fewer avoidance responses than controls. Alizarin Red-S staining of fetuses revealed no skeletal defects in the pups. Microscopic examination of maternal tissues showed the kidney and liver degenerative changes which are typical of locoweed intoxication: primarily vacuolation of proximal tubular epithelium and of the hepatocytes. Tissues from pups on day of birth also showed mild kidney and liver changes. Older pups had no visible microscopic deviations from normal. The results indicate that the locoweed teratogen produces behavioral deviations in the offspring of rats in the absence of gross malformations.

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The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory was constructed to screen for substance abuse patterns despite non-admittance of respondents. Predictive validity studies of the SASSI are limited, and are not available for probationers. Participants were 147 male and 54 female probationers mandated to treatment. Overall differences among SASSI scales were significant for treatment compliance and outcome. Higher SASSI scales were found among those probationers who were compliant/successful. Individual scales were not significantly different, however, a trend was revealed; those respondents who scored higher tended to comply/succeed in treatment. The SASSI alone accurately classified 59.7% of respondents. In summary, the SASSI's use in predicting treatment outcome is limited and should be employed with concomitant data.

This thesis analysed the variety of views expressed about disparities between Romanian Roma and non-Roma by people who are actively engaged in redressing unjust social and economic differences. The focus was placed on the variability of views between and within three different contexts: academic texts proposing policy measures for addressing disparities between Roma and non-Roma people; policy documents concerning measures for Roma inclusion; and conversations by people involved in the implementation of Roma inclusion policy measures. The general concerns of this study were to identify (1) the ways in which the problem of ethnic disparity was portrayed, (2) the solutions proposed to the problem of ethnic disparity, (3) the ambivalent, dilemmatic or concealed aspects concerning the topic of disparities between Roma and non-Roma people living in Romania, (4) whether the perspectives of Roma people were accounted for in the contexts analyses and (5) the similarities and differences between the discourses of academics, policy makers, practitioners and beneficiaries of public policies concerning disparities. The theoretical foundation for this thesis was offered by the social psychological literature that links disparities between groups of people and racial or ethnic prejudice. There are four ways in which this thesis has contributed to this literature. Firstly, most of the social psychological research on ethnic disparities has been experimental, whereas in this thesis, the focus was on the often overlooked discursive practices concerning ethnic disparities. Secondly, although some of the social psychological literature, especially research on the contact hypothesis and social identity theory, has looked at the dynamic interrelationship between advantaged and disadvantaged group members, most research has focused only on the perspectives of the advantaged group members. Therefore, there remains a research gap in the literature concerning the perspectives presented in inter-ethnic interactions, and even more so, by disadvantaged group members. This thesis added to the analysis the perspectives of advantaged and disadvantaged group members, both separately and in interaction. Thirdly, whereas emergent work looks at the ambivalent views towards ethnic or racial minorities, and the possible ironic effects of prejudice reduction strategies, there is virtually no research about the possible ironic, ambivalent or dilemmatic effects of strategies which target systemic based ethnic disparities - issues explored in this thesis. Finally, most social psychological research focuses on a single context of study, most commonly the public perceptions about members of the disadvantaged groups, but also marginally mass media representations, academic publications or political discourses. This thesis places attention on an equally important area of study concerned with whether and how discourses can move between different domains, and the impact or acknowledgement of elite discourses on the everyday conversations. There are four key findings that emerged from the studies conducted for this thesis. Firstly, it was found that while expressing views about ethnic disparity, academics, policymakers, practitioners and beneficiaries of public policies for Roma people displayed subtle forms of ethnicism. Secondly, a great deal of political discourse was devoted to the encouragement of individual changes in ethnic minorities, without a similar focus on the roles of majority group members in perpetuating inequality. Whereas, the problem of Roma inclusion was acknowledged by academics, policymakers, practitioners and beneficiaries of policy measures, to be a matter for public policies, some of the attribution of responsibility for inclusion was offered to Roma people, who were encouraged to change as individuals in accord with majoritarian norms. Thirdly, the analysis showed the inclusion of the perspectives of ethnic minorities only in two of the three contexts where policy measures for Roma people were proposed and implemented: academic publications and conversations. The perspectives of feminist experts and women were only marginally present in academic publications and conversations, while missing from policy discourses. Also the perspectives of academics or the non-hegemonic voices of excluded or disadvantaged Roma people were largely absent from the arguments presented in policy documents for Roma inclusion. Lastly, this thesis found that there are ambivalence, dilemmas and concealment at work within arguments proposing policy measures for redressing ethnic disparities, with important political consequences. The findings of this thesis contribute to the important conversation about the meanings of disparity and the political solutions for achieving equality between groups of people. Also, the findings of this thesis have important implications for the social psychological theory of disparity, the policies for redressing disparity and the social work practice with disadvantaged group members.