This study focuses on Berni Searle’s art, in which she searches for alternative figurations of identity. For Searle, identity as a category seems insufficient, as it cannot account for individuals of mixed heritage. Searle’s body of work testifies to an attempt to position and locate herself and marginalised subjects within post-apartheid South Africa. History, tradition, culture, race and gender are pivotal to Searle’s visual examination of her body and her identity, as these inscribe the subject at both symbolic and physical levels. Identity was investigated within South African context and the contexts of various postcolonial, postmodern and feminist debates. Searle’s works were investigated revealing nomadic subjectivity, as philosophised about by Gilles Deleuze and theorised about by Rosi Braidotti. Nomadic subjectivity promotes the notion that identity is fluid and located in the interstitial spaces between dichotomies and various debates. The habitation of such liminal spaces in the interstices between binary oppositions and views relates to what Homi Bhabha has defined as the “third space” and the notion of hybridity. Searle constructs her identity by affixing disparate aspects of her self. This is a continuous process whereby the artist inserts and erases her body. Searle’s works are investigated by using the film as a format. In Cinema 1: the movement-image (1986) Deleuze outlined three core cinematic elements, namely the frame, shot and montage, which are employed in an attempt to investigate the various processes at work in Searle’s artistic production. In addition to this, these filmic components were considered for their conceptual implications both in terms of the medium of film and symbolically. The concept of time, as discussed in Cinema 2: the time-image (1989) was utilised to investigate the implications of time for the nomadic subject and the notion of memory. Copyright 2005, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Adendorff, A 2005, Nomadic figurations of identity on the work of Berni Searle, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12072005-161121 / > / Dissertation (M (Visual Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Visual Arts / unrestricted

This text aims to identify the main features of development of sickness insurance in the Czech lands. In the second half of the 19th century new mutual benefit societies started to emerge -- similarly like in Great Britain and the United States, and in the same time in 1888 the compulsory workers sick insurance was introduced. In the first part, this work offers analytical framework for analysis of this development, especially the approach of the public choice school, the concept of cognitive hazard and of social capital. In second part, the author gives historical overview of the era, brief overview of the development of so-called Friendly societies in Great Britain and the United States and an analysis of compulsory workers sick insurance and voluntary societies in Bohemia. The analysis shows the role of interest groups (workers movement, employers, physicians etc.) that shaped the compulsory insurance in similar way as captured in the Anglo-Saxon experience. The push-through of the compulsory insurance strengthens their positions. The application of social capital and cognitive hazard concept reveals that the compulsory insurance could bring unintended cost in the long run by lowering a voluntary cooperation.

Le présent mémoire porte sur la poétique de la présence dans l’oeuvre d’Yves Bonnefoy. Dans la première partie de notre travail, nous montrerons en quoi cette poétique s’est élaborée en porte-à-faux avec ce que nous avons identifié comme une poétique de l’absence, théorisée par des écrivains tels que Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry et Maurice Blanchot, qui chacun à leur manière ont perçu la littérature comme une activité de négation. Dans la deuxième partie de ce travail, nous nous pencherons sur cette poétique de la présence par laquelle Bonnefoy tente de rendre présentes au sein de sa langue les choses auxquelles il fait référence, plutôt que de les faire disparaitre. Plus précisément, nous analyserons comment cette poétique se développe au sein des quatre recueils que forment ses Poèmes, son oeuvre maîtresse, par un souci que le poète accorde à la finitude et à la mort, où il tente par ses mots de s’inscrire dans un lieu, dans le passage du temps et dans un rapport à l’autre. / This thesis explores the poetics of presence in Yves Bonnefoy’s written works. A first section introduces the elaboration of this poetics, in opposition with what we have identified as a poetics of absence, as theorized by authors such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry and Maurice Blanchot. Each in their own way, these authors represent litterature as an activity of negation. A second section further explores Bonnefoy’s poetics of presence as a manifestation in language of things named, rather than their disappearance. More precisely, we analyze how this poetics develops in the four books that compose Bonnefoy’s Poèmes. In this major work, the poet’s poetics is illustrated by his attention to finitude and death, as verses carve his inscription in a place, in the passage of time and in a relationship to the other.

El objetivo del estudio es describir la manera en la que se manifiesta el vínculo afectivo de parejas en adultos con ausencia paterna biológica en la infancia. Desde el paradigma cualitativo, se utilizó el diseño fenomenológico, usando como técnica de recolección de información la entrevista semiestructurada. Participaron 9 jóvenes entre hombres y mujeres comprendidos entre 22 y 26 años, que tienen o han tenido una relación de pareja. Se utilizó el análisis contenido obteniendo como categorías: Contextualización, Intimidad y Calidad de la relación analizando lo expresado por cada participante. Se encontró que los participantes presentan dificultades para relacionarse en el plano amoroso, expresar sus emociones, comunicarse; así mismo mencionan tener poco apoyo por parte de sus parejas, inseguridad y baja autoestima / The objective of the study is to describe the way in which the affective bond of couples is manifested in adults with biological paternal absence in childhood. From the qualitative paradigm, the phenomenological design was used, using the semi-structured interview as an information gathering technique. 9 young men and women between 22 and 26 years old, who have or have had a relationship, participated. The content analysis was used, obtaining as categories: Contextualization, Intimacy and Quality of the relationship, analyzing what was expressed by each participant. It was found that the participants have difficulties to relate in the loving plane, express their emotions, communicate; They also mention having little support from their partners, insecurity and low self-esteem / Tesis

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Detta examensarbete gjordes i två syften, att ge Scania teoretiskt underlag till en ny teknik för hantering av personalens från och närvaroplanering, samt implementera den nya tekniken. Scanias dåvarande lösning utnyttjades genom att använda olika Excel-ark, dessa har uppfattats som ineffektiva och krångliga att arbeta med. Detta har lett till en hel del extra administrativt arbete och behovet av en ny lösning definierades till ett examensarbete. Den initiala fasen av projektet handlade om att förstå relevanta processer rörande från och närvaroplanering. Allt eftersom processerna var förstådda definierades krav på den nya lösningen genom kvalitativa metoder och intervjuer med respondenter av olika befattningar från verksamheten. Kraven som erhölls från intervjuerna visade sig vara relativt konsistenta och fastställdes i en kravspecifikation. Kravspecifikationen användes för att utvärdera olika lösningar som valts ut från marknadens utbud. Vidare genomfördes en make or buy analys som gjorde det möjligt att avgöra om lösningen skulle köpas in eller utvecklas internt. Efter interna diskussioner inom Scania, där resultaten från utvärderingen och make or buy analysen analyserades, fattades beslutet att den nya lösningen skulle byggas i en Microsoft SharePoint miljö. Miljön var redan tillgänglig för Scania och implementeringen gjordes i form av en pilotimplementering. Två grupper från Scanias verksamhet fick en förfrågan om de ville agera piloter, i syfte att utvärdera lösningen efter styrkor, svagheter och önskad funktionalitet. Pilotfasen är planerad att starta i början av september 2013. / This thesis was done with two-fold purpose, to give Scania a theoretical base for a new technology for management of the personnel presence and absence planning and to implement this new technology. Scanias former solution was utilized by using different Excel sheets and these have been perceived as inefficient and cumbersome to work with. This has led to a lot of additional administrative work and the need for a new solution was defined to this thesis. The initial phase of the project focused on understanding the relevant processes related to the presence and absence planning. When the processes were well understood, requirements on the new system were captured through qualitative methods and interviews with respondents of different positions from the enterprise. The requirements obtained from the interviews proved to be relatively consistent and was defined in a requirement specification. These requirements were used to evaluate different solutions chosen from the commercial stock. In addition, a make or buy analysis were created and made it possible to determine whether the solution would be bought or developed internally. After internal discussions within Scania, where the results from the alternative solution evaluation and the make or buy analysis was considered, it was decided that the new solution would be built in a Microsoft SharePoint environment. The environment was already available for Scania and the implementation was done as a pilot implementation. Two groups from Scanias enterprise was asked to act pilots, in order to evaluate the solution by strengths, weaknesses and desired functionalities. The pilot phase is planned to start in early September 2013.

This thesis consists of three essays in applied microeconomics: First, heat and school absence: evidence from a survey of Indian children. Second, heatwaves and short-term morbidity in India. Third, intra-family marriage and pregnancy outcomes. Chapter 1. India is the second most populous country on earth with young people representing a significant number of the population resulting in data that indicates such figures at 38 per cent. With such high numbers, major consideration must be given into developing informed and targeted policies to ensure positive educational outcomes for young people. This paper contributes to existing literature by investigating the impact of high temperatures on students’ rates of absenteeism, relying on the short-term exogenous variation in daily maximum temperatures. The paper highlights the heterogeneity of the effect of temperature by climate zone. To create data, we link information on children’s school absences from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS-II) in combination with meteorological data from the ERA-Interim archive taken from a thirty day period prior to individual interview dates. Our findings suggest that high temperatures have a substantial negative impact on students’ attendance in rural areas. However, limited evidence of such an effect is found in urban areas. Our results therefore indicate a need to implement future in-depth studies. Chapter 2. Within this chapter, we investigate the impact of prolonged heat exposure on individuals short-term morbidity rates over a thirty day period prior to the interview date. We work with a broad dataset and use an econometric model that utilizes plausibly exogenous variation in high weather temperatures. We implement the percentile-based approach and three different heatwave metrics as a innovative way of defining and capturing the impact of heatwaves on health outcomes. Our results show that heatwave intensity of the eighty-fifth percentile over the duration of three consecutive days of extensive heat has a significant adverse effect on individuals short-term morbidity. More so, our findings indicate a disparity between genders in relation to the impact of heatwaves. Finally, it can be suggested that individuals having to travel an extensive distance in order to access water are most affected by high temperatures. Chapter 3. Millions of people worldwide are married to their blood relatives, yet the resulting impact on offspring health continues to be debated. Within this paper, we provide evidence around this debate by studying the birth outcomes from a large, representative sample of Indian women in varying marital circumstances. We explore the impact of intra-family marriage on negative pregnancy outcomes including stillbirth, miscarriage, and child death after birth. We utilize an ordinary least squares model (OLS), which controls for a wide range of financial and family factors. The results show that being a woman related to her husband by blood increases the probability of experiencing negative pregnancy outcomes by 2.8 percentage points. Our finding is robust using the instrumental variable approach (IV). The instrumental variable represents the ambient level of violence against women, which positively affects the probability of consanguineous marriage. The IV approach leads to a slightly smaller adverse impact of 2.2 percentage points. In addition, the OLS results provide suggestive evidence that intra-family marriage has no heterogeneous impact across religion types.

Bakgrund Callcenter- verksamhet har vuxit fram snabbt och utvecklats mycket under de senaste årtionden, både internationellt och i Sverige. Det är en verksamhet som innebär många utmaningar i en ofta komplex arbetsmiljö med höga krav på samverkan inom systemperspektivet Människa - Teknik - Organisation. Arbetsförmedlingen tillhandahåller handläggning per telefon via kundtjänster på sju olika orter i Sverige. Korttidssjukfrånvaron ansågs högre i denna verksamhet än i övriga organisationen och målet var att minska den.   Syfte Huvudsyftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka om det fanns arbetsmiljöfaktorer på Arbetsförmedlingen Kundtjänst som förklarade korttidssjukfrånvaron. Detta genom att tillämpa ett MTO- perspektiv (Människa - Teknik - Organisation).   Metod För att få svar på vår frågeställning tillämpades metodtriangulering genom kvalitativ och kvantitativ datainsamling. En halvdags observation och 16 semistrukturerade intervjuer utfördes på Arbetsförmedlingens kundtjänst i Södertälje och 76 enkäter utfördes på kundtjänsterna i Södertälje och Söderhamn.   Resultat Utifrån resultaten i vår studie gick det inte att se samband mellan fysisk arbetsmiljö, höga krav eller låg kontroll och korttidssjukfrånvaro på grund av arbetet. Det fanns dock en statistiskt signifikant skillnad beträffande vissa frågor om arbetsförhållanden och korttidssjukfrånvaro på grund av arbetet.   Slutsats På de flesta frågor kunde sambandet mellan korttidssjukfrånvaro och fysisk och psykosocial arbetsmiljö inte påvisas. Däremot fanns en statistisk signifikans i några frågor gällande arbetsförhållanden i denna studie. Det fanns således flera faktorer i arbetsmiljön som skulle kunna förbättras och därmed individens upplevelse av arbetsmiljön. Detta kanske kunde bidra till minskad korttidssjukfrånvaro. Trots att det fanns vissa frågor som påvisade en signifikant skillnad mellan arbetsförhållanden och korttidssjukfrånvaro var det svårt att dra slutsatser på grund av studiens design samt att underlaget var litet. Interventioner i systemkomponenterna Människa – Teknik - Organisation kan vara av värde för att minska korttidssjukfrånvaron.

Sammanfattning   Bakgrund Callcenter- verksamhet har vuxit fram snabbt och utvecklats mycket under de senaste årtionden, både internationellt och i Sverige. Det är en verksamhet som innebär många utmaningar i en ofta komplex arbetsmiljö med höga krav på samverkan inom systemperspektivet Människa - Teknik - Organisation. Arbetsförmedlingen tillhandahåller handläggning per telefon via kundtjänster på sju olika orter i Sverige. Korttidssjukfrånvaron ansågs högre i denna verksamhet än i övriga organisationen och målet var att minska den.   Syfte Huvudsyftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka om det fanns arbetsmiljöfaktorer på Arbetsförmedlingen Kundtjänst som förklarade korttidssjukfrånvaron. Detta genom att tillämpa ett MTO- perspektiv (Människa - Teknik - Organisation).   Metod För att få svar på vår frågeställning tillämpades metodtriangulering genom kvalitativ och kvantitativ datainsamling. En halvdags observation och 16 semistrukturerade intervjuer utfördes på Arbetsförmedlingens kundtjänst i Södertälje och 76 enkäter utfördes på kundtjänsterna i Södertälje och Söderhamn.   Resultat Utifrån resultaten i vår studie gick det inte att se samband mellan fysisk arbetsmiljö, höga krav eller låg kontroll och korttidssjukfrånvaro på grund av arbetet. Det fanns dock en statistiskt signifikant skillnad beträffande vissa frågor om arbetsförhållanden och korttidssjukfrånvaro på grund av arbetet.   Slutsats På de flesta frågor kunde sambandet mellan korttidssjukfrånvaro och fysisk och psykosocial arbetsmiljö inte påvisas. Däremot fanns en statistisk signifikans i några frågor gällande arbetsförhållanden i denna studie. Det fanns således flera faktorer i arbetsmiljön som skulle kunna förbättras och därmed individens upplevelse av arbetsmiljön. Detta kanske kunde bidra till minskad korttidssjukfrånvaro. Trots att det fanns vissa frågor som påvisade en signifikant skillnad mellan arbetsförhållanden och korttidssjukfrånvaro var det svårt att dra slutsatser på grund av studiens design samt att underlaget var litet. Interventioner i systemkomponenterna Människa – Teknik - Organisation kan vara av värde för att minska korttidssjukfrånvaron.

The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate an aesthetic position in the late writings of Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), hence exploring the aesthetic dimensions of the authorship that seem to have remained unnoticed. By focusing on the fragmentary work Le Pas au-delà (1973) I attempt to trace an aesthetics of worklessness (désœuvrement) through the figurations of movement, space, and relation within the book. This attempt is realized through a hermeneutic reading that emphasizes the affective, rhetorical, and aesthetic expressions which appear in the literary practice of Blanchot as well as further illustrating the definition of worklessness as the absence of work. Although there is a tendency to treat the late writing of Blanchot as corresponding to his notion of the neutral rather than worklessness, I argue that the literary language of Le Pas au-delà still can be comprehended as a linguistics of worklessness which cannot be conformed into positive knowledge. Thus, the commonly deployed ontological interpretations of Blanchots’ writing are deemed to be problematic, as the notion of worklessness indicates an absence of work that cannot be conceptualized. My study shows that the absolute alterity which Le Pas au-delà appears to thematize – through its’ uncategorisable fragments, that moves between the non-places of fiction and theory, gaze and hearing, the self and the other – can be maintained through the thought of an aesthetics of worklessness. According to my reading, such a notion implies the understanding of aesthetics as a subversive practice where the sensuous is presented in its’ unpresentability.