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This thesis contains a qualitative content analysis of Daily Monitor, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet’s articles about children, and child soldiers in Uganda. In total, there were 26 articles that have been applied to this study. The purpose of this thesis was to compare all 26 articles with each other to see potential diffrences or similarities. Theory based answers were applied when I was analyzing the articles' differences and similarities. The thematic content analysis applied and used to catagorize the concerning theames in the articles are: children or soldiers (as the major theme), and heroes and victims (as undercategorial theme). Postcolonial, childhood and childsoldier theories were used as the theoretical framework to the thesis, and they were all applied in the analysis. The chosen theoretical framework contributed not only to a critical viewpoint about children, and child soldiers, but also to Western power relations, which appeared in many newspapers. Furthermore, the theoretical framework contributed with different views about children, and child soldiers in different social and cultural contexts.

Do external factors, such as war, affect rhetoric used by presidents during speeches, and do they affect what journalists write about said speeches? These are questions raised and answered in this paper. The research material consists of three speeches by Vladimir Putin, three speeches by Volodymyr Zelenskyj, and seven articles discussing these speeches during Russia's invasion of Ukraine 2022. We also analyze factors within Social identity theory (Dashtipour, 2012), such as how the creation of an identity is portrayed in both speeches and articles. Summatively, we found that both analyses deemed different external factors to be influencing, and both results confirmed that external factors contribute to change.

Based on a contrastive and variationist approach, this research work sheds light on the study of the structure of the Noun Phrase in Cameroon Pidgin English in contrast with Standard British English. Among other relevant topics, the following aspects of the NP are considered: the system of pronouns, nominal anaphora, the system of articles, the deictic implementation, quantification, intensification and reduplication.

How much art is projected into the home and community as a result of art experiences in the school is difficult to determine without some criterion as a standard for judgement. Based upon this premise, the author attempted, with the cooperation of the art committee of the Dallas Junior League, to test the aesthetic judgement of selected groups of children in the Dallas Public Schools by evaluating their reactions to an exhibition of common household articles currently available on the Dallas market.

The investigator undertook an analytical study of articles published in selected issues of five popular weekly periodicals from January, 1947, to January, 1948, pertaining to the areas of health and physical education and recreation.

Le développement de la nutrigénétique/nutrigénomique (NGx) a suscité de nombreuses attentes puisque les retombées qui lui sont associées s’avèrent potentiellement bénéfiques autant pour les individus en santé que pour les individus malades. De grandes attentes avaient également été associées au Projet de décryptage du Génome Humain (PGH). Aujourd’hui, seules quelques attentes de celles envisagées se sont concrétisées. Le PGH a donc évolué dans un contexte marqué par du biohype, soit la promotion d’attentes exagérées, voir irréalistes. Étant donné l’importance des attentes associées avec le développement de la NGx et des limites méthodologiques auxquelles fait encore face la recherche clinique conduite dans ce domaine, l’objectif principal de cette thèse est de déterminer si les publications scientifiques rapportant des résultats de recherches cliniques effectuées en NGx contribuent à l’émergence d’un phénomène de biohype. Plus spécifiquement, il s’agira également de documenter la perception des chercheurs oeuvrant dans le domaine de la NGx du phénomène de biohype, d’identifier certains facteurs qui pourraient expliquer son émergence dans la littérature scientifique propre à ce domaine et de proposer des pistes d’actions pour limiter les risques associés à ce phénomène. Nous avons tout d’abord procédé à une analyse documentaire d’articles scientifiques rapportant des résultats issus de recherches cliniques en NGx. Celle-ci nous a révélé que plusieurs bénéfices étaient promus dans cette littérature alors même que les limites méthodologiques n’étaient pas d’emblée présentées et discutées. Cette observation nous portait à croire que ces bénéfices étant potentiellement prématurés. Nous avons ensuite voulu valider notre constat auprès des chercheurs œuvrant principalement dans le domaine de la NGx. Cette enquête nous a permis de constater que les chercheurs étaient généralement en accord avec les bénéfices que nous avons recensés dans les articles scientifiques. Toutefois, ils n’envisageaient pas leur concrétisation à moyen terme. Par ailleurs, cette enquête nous a également révélé que les limitations méthodologiques actuellement rencontrées dans la conduite de recherches cliniques soulevaient des doutes quant à la faisabilité des bénéfices promut dans les articles scientifiques. Ces données viennent confirmer notre observation à savoir qu’un phénomène de biohype serait réellement en émergence dans les articles scientifiques rapportant des résultats de recherches cliniques en NGx. Outre des informations concernant les publics ciblés par les chercheurs et les éléments que doivent contenir un article scientifique, cette enquête nous a également aidés à mieux comprendre les avantages associés à la promotion de bénéfices. Selon la majorité des chercheurs interrogés, la promotion de bénéfices dans un article scientifique augmenterait les chances d’un manuscrit d’être publié et favoriserait la continuité du financement du domaine de recherche. Cette activité étant caractérisée par un environnement compétitif, la promotion de bénéfices semble être une avenue à envisager pour se démarquer. Quoique la promotion de bénéfices prématurés ou exagérés ne soit pas considérée comme de l’inconduite scientifique, elle peut causer entre autres un affaiblissement du sentiment de confiance entre le public et les chercheurs et ultimement, contrevenir à la continuité d’une saine activité de recherche. À la lumière de ces données, nous croyons qu’une des stratégies qui permettrait de prévenir l’apparition des risques associés au phénomène de biohype serait de sensibiliser les chercheurs et les éditeurs de journaux scientifiques à ces derniers. Plus particulièrement, nous encourageons l’intégration de lignes directrices portant sur la gestion du biohype dans les codes de conduites qui ont été mis en place pour favoriser les bonnes pratiques en recherche. / The development of the nutrigenetics/nutrigenomics (NGx) has generated many expectations since the associated benefits are potentially beneficial for everyone, that is to say, both for healthy and sick individuals. High expectations were also associated with the Human Genome Project (HGP), but as of today only a few have been realized. The HGP thus evolved in a context marked by biohype, i.e., the promotion of exaggerated or unrealistic benefits. Given the importance of expectations associated with the development of NGx and the methodological limitations faced by clinical research conducted in this area, the main objective of this thesis is to determine whether scientific publications reporting results from clinical research conducted in Ngx contribute to the emergence of a biohype phenomenon. More specifically, it will also document the perception of researchers working in this area concerning this phenomenon, try to identify factors that could explain its emergence in scientific literature specific to NGx and suggest ways of actions to mitigate the risks associated with this phenomenon. We first conducted a document analysis of scientific articles reporting results from clinical research in NGx. This revealed that many benefits were promoted in the literature even though the methodological limitations were not necessarily presented or discussed. This observation led us to believe that the promoted benefits were potentially premature. We then sought to validate our findings among researchers working mainly in the field of NGx. Our survey revealed that researchers were generally in agreement with the benefits that we identified in the scientific articles. However, they did not consider that their realization was feasible in the medium term. This survey also revealed that the methodological limitations currently encountered in the conduct of clinical research raised doubts about the realistic outcome of the benefits promoted in scientific articles. These data confirm our observation that a biohype phenomenon is actually emerging in scientific articles reporting results of clinical research in NGx. Besides information about the audiences targeted by researchers and the elements that need to be included in a scientific article, the survey also helped us better understand the advantages associated with the promotion of benefits. The majority of researchers interviewed found that the promotion of benefits in a scientific article would increase the chances of a manuscript being accepted for publication and also foster continuing funding of the research area. In a competitive environment such as biomedical research, the promotion of benefits seems to be an avenue taken to stand out from the field. Although promoting premature or exaggerated benefits are not considered as being scientific misconduct, biohype can cause a weakening of the trust between the public and researchers. Ultimately, it can hinder the continuity of sound scientific research. Based on these findings, one of the strategies that could be use to prevent or mitigate the occurrence of the risks associated with biohype would be to increase awareness of the issue amongst researchers and scientific journal editors. Specifically, we encourage the integration of guidelines on the management of biohype within the codes of conduct that have been put in place to promote good practices in research.

英語學習者如何能在普及的網路環境中，挑選難易度符合自身英文閱讀能力的文章，便是一個值得探討的議題。為了提升文章難易度分類的準確度，近代研究選取許多難易度特徵去分類。本研究希望能夠藉由英文語文難易度特徵、文字特徵，各自歸類和綜合歸類後與原先官方文章類別比較，檢驗是否可以利用語文特徵與文字特徵結合後的歸類結果，來提高準度。 本研究以GEPT的模擬試題文章作為歸類的依據。研究架構主要分成三部分：語文難易度特徵歸類、文字特徵歸類與綜合前兩者歸類。先以語文難易度特徵組成特徵向量的維度，並算出各語文特徵值後，再使用kNN將文章歸類成初級、中級或中高級，並做為比較準確度的依據；再以GEPT文章斷詞，並選取特徵詞作為特徵向量維度、TF-IDF作特徵值進行文字特徵歸類；最後則是將前面兩種特徵結合作為歸類標準。分別的F-measure為0.61、0.47，最後一個、也是表現最好的結果是以兩者結合後歸類，F-measure有0.68。 如何從大量的英文文章當中找到適合自己程度循序漸進的學習，是本論文期望未來可以藉由最後語文難易度特徵加上文字特徵的結果來達到的目的。未來可以結合語文難易度特徵以及文字特徵來幫助英文文章做分類，並可以從中分類出不同類別且不同程度的英文文章，讓使用者自行選擇並閱讀，使學習成效進而提升。 / It is rather an important issue that how to grasp the difficulty of the articles in order to efficiently choose the English articles that match our proficiency in the popularity of Internet. Recently, researchers have selected many characteristics of difficulty degrees in order to enhance the accuracy of the classification. The study aims to simplify the former complicated procedures of article classification by using the classification results of linguistic difficulty characteristics, text characteristics respectively, and the combination of the both; in the hope to raise the accuracy of the classification through the comparison of the results. The article classification of the study is based on GEPT official practicing exams. There are three parts of this study: the characteristics of the linguistic difficulty and the text, and the combination of the both. First, the dimensions of the linguistic vectors will be the linguistic characteristics. The articles will be classified into primary, intermediate, or intermediate-high levels by kNN method, considered the comparison basis for the classification of the articles’ difficulty. Second, after GEPT articles are broken into words, the dimensions of the text vectors will be the selected words; the TF-IDF will be the values of the text vectors. The third part is to classify articles by using the combination of the former two results. After comparing the three, the best method is the third, the accuracy is 0.68. The study hopes the result could help people choose proper English articles to learn English step by step. In the future, we could classify the articles by the combination of the both of linguistic difficulty characteristics and text characteristics. Not only classified as the different levels, but also classified as the different categories. The learners could choose what they like and the articles could correspond their degree in order to promote the effect of learning.

Upprorsbekämpning på taktisk nivå är problematiskt därför att konflikter som kräver sådanbekämpning, alltid är unika. Det finns inte heller någon generell teori som leder tillframgång.Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka ifall Kilcullens 28 artiklar går att tillämpa på denlyckade upprorsbekämpningen i Malaya.Metoden som användes är kvalitativ textanalys av britternas taktiska doktrin underkonflikten, the conduct of anti-terrorist operations in Malaya (ATOM), utifrån Kilcullens 28artiklar. Även artiklar skrivna av officerare och soldater under konflikten har använts för attge stöd till påståenden samt för att belysa ifall britterna faktiskt följde sin taktiska doktrineller ej.Resultatet visar att det inte går att applicera Kilcullens teori på britternas taktiska agerande iMalaya. Endast 10 av 28 artiklar var applicerbara.Författaren drar slutsatsen att Kilcullens 28 artiklar möjligen inte är användbara somgenerella riktlinjer för handlingsalternativ på taktisk nivå. Författaren lyfter emellertid att flerstudier på andra konflikter behövs för att fastställa påståendet. / Counterinsurgency (COIN) on the tactical level is difficult because these conflicts are alwaysunique and there is no theory that generally leads to victory.The purpose of this study is to analyze if there is a resemblence between Kilcullens 28articles and the succesful COIN of the brittish security forces in the Malayan emergency.The method that has been used is the qualitativ analysis of documens. The main documentthat has been analyzed is ATOM, the brittish tactical doctrine during the emergency. Articlesthat have been written during the emergency, 1948-1960, by officers and soldiers, have beenused to to elucidate if the brits actually followed their tactical doctrine or not.The author concludes that Kilcullens 28 articles might not be useful as general guidelines foraction at the tactical level. The author highlights, however, that more studies on otherconflicts are needed to establish the claim.

Att läsa på högskola och universitet innebär att på egen hand läsa och förstå kurslitteratur. Det är en grundläggande del av att lära inom högre utbildning. Samtidigt kan det finnas en tystnad kring hur läsningen ska ske och hur den utförs av studenter. Vetenskapliga artiklar är en publikationskälla som är välintegrerad inom akademin och utbildningar. Vetenskapliga artiklar riktar sig till andra forskare och inte till studenter under utbildning, vilket kan innebära att läsningen försvåras för studenten. Studiens syfte är att förstå studenters läspraktik av vetenskapliga artiklar och om ett stöd i form av en läsworkshop påverkar deras läspraktik. Den metod som använts är aktionsforskning som inkluderar planering, utförande och utvärdering av en läsworkshop med läsförståelsestrategin THIEVES som del. Intervjuer har genomförts med läsworkshopdeltagare. Den teoretiska analysram som appliceras på materialet är praktikarkitekturteori. Resultatet av studien visar att studenterna uttrycker att artikeltexten blir svårläst på grund av svåra ord och många fakta, samt att läsning är krävande, men ger behållning. Studenterna använder strategier med syfte att behålla fokus under läsning av vetenskapliga artiklar. De kan vilja påverka miljön runt om dem för att få bästa koncentration och motverka ett förlorat fokus. De strävar efter att vara tidseffektiva, samtidigt som de inte i förväg kan veta hur lång tid läsningen av en vetenskaplig artikel kommer att ta. De väljer mellan att läsa artiklar digitalt eller utskrivna, och ser olika fördelar med varje läsformat. De markerar och slår upp ord, men deras anteckningsvanor varierar efter syftet med läsningen. Deras läsvanor påverkas av deras självbild och behov, och även om de gärna samarbetar med andra har de svårt att se hur ett samarbete kring läsning ska ske. Läraren blir ett stöd i att förtydliga viktiga fakta och förhållanden för att förstå i texten. En läsworkshop med läsförståelsestrategin THIEVES kan påverka läspraktiken, förbättra läs flyt och textförståelse till det bättre. Det innebär inte att alla instruktioner i THIEVES upplevs lika hjälpsamma under läsning och inte heller att alla väljer att följa THIEVES.