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Thesis (D. Min.)--Abilene Christian University, 1994. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-234).

A study to gather information on living conditions of boys and girls in Adamson High School who come from broken homes, in order to discover the individual needs of the students in order to promote greater interest and develop better citizenship.

I denna uppsats undersöks orsaker till variation i trygghetskänslan bland de boende i Stockholms olika stadsdelar. Tidigare forskning visar på att individuella faktorer påverkar hur trygg man känner sig i sitt bostadsområde, där vissa grupper är otryggare än andra grupper. Tidigare forskning pekar även på att tidigare brottsutsatthet, människor som stör ordningen i bostadsområdet såsom ungdomsgäng och missbrukare, fysiska ordningsstörningar såsom klotter och vandalism, mörker eller nedsatt belysning, boendetid i området och hur bra grannkontakt man har samt att områdets rykte påverkar trygghetskänslan. Urbanteoretisk forskning pekar även ut viss bostadsområdesplanering som mer problematisk ur trygghetsaspekt. I uppsatsen undersöker vi genom regressionsanalys hur mycket vissa av ovanstående faktorer påverkar trygghetskänslan i Stockholms stad genom att använda oss att Stockholms stads trygghetsmätning för år 2014. Resultaten visar att tidigare utsatthet för brott, vandalism och klotter, störande människor i bostadsområdet såsom ungdomsgäng och missbrukare, mörker och dålig belysning samt att sämre grannkontakt bidrar till en ökad otrygghetskänsla i Stockholms stadsdelar. Däremot har boendetid och huruvida man bor i lägenhet eller småhus har ingen påverkan på tryggheten. De oberoende variablerna som har påverkan kan i vissa fall förklara otrygghetskänslan i Stockholms bostadsområden mer än vad kontrollvariablerna gör. Vid införande av kontrollvariablerna kön, utländskt ursprung, funktionsnedsättning, ekonomiska svårigheter samt utbildningsnivå kvarstår även de oberoende variablernas påverkan på otrygghetskänslan. Däremot samexisterar de oberoende variablerna vilket leder till att de påverkar varandra och deras b-koefficientvärde sjunker något och ett fåtal oberoende variabler blir icke signifikanta när de sammanställs. Vårt resultat visar på ett relativt lågt R2-värde (11,1 %), vilket pekar på att det är finns ytterligare faktorer att ta hänsyn till vad gäller trygghetskänsla.

This report presents an analysis of a prehistoric Pueblo community in structural, functional, and evolutionary terms; it is a sequel to William A. Longacre's Archaeology as Anthropology. The emphasis is on social organization (including the patterning of community activities) and on understanding changes in this organization in terms of adaptive responses to a shifting environment.

It is known that an arbitrary smooth, oriented four-manifold admits the structure of what is called a broken Lefschetz fibration. Given a broken Lefschetz fibration, there are certain modifications, realized as homotopies of the fibration map, that enable one to construct infinitely many distinct fibrations of the same manifold. The aim of this paper is to prove that these modifications are sufficient to obtain every broken Lefschetz fibration in a given homotopy class of smooth maps. One notable application is that adding an additional projection move generates all broken Lefschetz fibrations, regardless of homotopy class. The paper ends with further applications and open problems. / text

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of English

Despite widespread interest in patterns of parenting after separation in Australia, the gaps in our knowledge remain large and fundamental. Most studies, including those overseas, have taken a quantitative tack, measuring the frequency and overall amount of face-to-face contact between children and non-resident parents (mostly fathers). But obviously there is more to parent�child contact than just time. The nature and quality of the interaction are also important � perhaps even more so. Recently there has been a push towards recognising and describing both qualitative and quantitative differences in the many ways that parental sharing of time with children can occur after divorce. This thesis attempts to identify and explore some of these differences by comparing five different patterns of care: (i) 50/50 shared care, (ii) little or no contact, (iii) holiday-only contact, (iv) daytime-only contact, and (v) �standard� contact (thought to occur every-other-weekend and half of each school holidays). A representative snapshot of parent�child contact schedules after separation is presented to provide some of the detail of arrangements within this typology. Two (complementary) types of data are used: qualitative data from a series of focus groups with separated parents, and quantitative data from three large representative samples of separated/divorced parents in Australia. Joining the dots between the various pieces of data, there is much to suggest that family dynamics in tandem with demographic factors temper the form that parent�child contact takes, with different combinations of factors clearly linked to qualitatively different patterns of postseparation parenting. While separating parents need to be encouraged to think more laterally about what arrangements might work best for their children and themselves, the data presented suggest that some parents in Australia are already being very creative and there is much diversity of arrangements. The central argument running through this dissertation is that arrangements that allow children to experience fluid, meaningful time with each parent are critical for children�s and parents� wellbeing. The ideas and data presented here � especially some of the more creative timesharing schedules developed by parents � are likely to be a useful resource for separated parents, and the family law professionals they approach for assistance, to reflect on when developing or refining parenting arrangements after divorce.

This paper is an exploratory case study of a logistics cost problem at Dep. X, and the normative purpose is to develop a model for Dep. X to aid in solving the problem of large damage costs. Dep. X is the logistic department of a warehouse located in a midsized Swedish city. The warehouse is part of an international furniture chain that operates in more than 40 countries worldwide and has an annual turnover of 211 billion Swedish SEK. This company has a clear cost focus and therefore, it is very important for the different departments to keep costs at a minimum. The problem that Dep. X is facing is related to damaged products, which can be further divided into Delivery Damages [DDs] (damages that are inflicted on products before the freight reaches the department) and Warehouse Damages [WDs] (damages that occur at the department). The warehouse has tried to solve the problem by forming a unit called ‘Cost hunters’. This group has some suspicions but has not yet found out the underlying reasons for the damaged goods. The thing that they know is that this is an unproportionally large cost for the warehouse, compared to other warehouses. In order for the researchers to investigate the cost issue, an abductive research strategy was used. The authors found out in an early stage of the research process that the problem was related to WDs and after a pre-study hypothesized four different problem areas to investigate: <ul type="disc">Flaws in Communicating Knowledge Flaws in Working Environment Flaws in Motivation Flaws Concerning Customers In order to establish whether or not these hypotheses were correct, a benchmarking study was conducted with a department under the same company, which was of basically the same size. Apart from the pre-study, a total of nine interviews were conducted; five at Dep. X and four at Dep. Y. The researchers also sent out surveys to both departments, conducted a damage levels study and had a meeting with a group manager at the distribution central in order to collect the needed information. After data collection, the data were processed and analyzed, and the researchers came to the conclusion that the problem with high WDs at Dep. X was related to, firstly, flaws in communicating knowledge and flaws in the working environment. The two other problem areas, flaws in motivation and flaws concerning customers, were also to some extent related to WDs, but this impact was not considered enough to be a major cause. The authors finish the thesis by illustrating with a model how the problems seem to have arisen and by suggesting improvement areas to deal with in order to eliminate the cost issue.