This research focuses on the methods of introduction into BDSM, role identification, and the management of private information as it relates to BDSM. The method utilized for this study was in-depth interviews of fifteen current participants in the BDSM subculture. It is primarily through peer association, sexual scripting, and impression management that new members are introduced, learn their role, and manage their information within the BDSM subculture. It was found that peer association is the primary method of socializing members. Role identification is accomplished through both a method of sexual scripting as well as complimentary differentiation, the process by which a stimulus is transmitted and received, and subsequent stimuli are transmitted back, reinterpreted and responded to. It is through impression management and stigma management that members learn to maintain the privacy of their participation. Future research should include additional analysis with a larger sample size to determine if the current findings will continue to hold true.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Ana Letycia Basso Garcia - 2017.pdf: 3161693 bytes, checksum: 8ea7726402d9acbdddc870e75a0b1cef (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Improving rice yield has been a big challenge for rice breeding programs around the world. One alternative to identify inbred lines with high yield potential, and discover genes related to yield and its components is to explore the genic pool of the population originated from crosses between cultivars not regularly used, as those introduced from another country. The objective of this study was characterizing a recombinant inbred lines population from the cross between Maninjau and Epagri 108. There were evaluated 296 RILs in experiments conducted in Goianira (GO), Boa Vista (RR) and Pelotas (RS), in 2016. In the experiments in GO and RR, the alpha lattice design (17x18) with two replications were used, and in Pelotas was applied the BAF design. Data were collected for yield (PD) and plant height (AP) in the three places, days to flowering (DF), in RR and GO, 100-grain weight (PG), in RS and GO and leaf blast resistance (BS), in GO. The data were analyzed by a mixed model with the deviance analysis. Variance components were estimated by REML/BLUP and the genetic parameters and correlation coefficients were calculated. The statistics parameters as CV e , CV g , CV r and selective accuracy were also estimated. The G x E interaction analysis was processed by the MHPRVG method. Also, the genetic distances between the progenies that had highest breeding values in each place and their relatives (Maninjau and Epagri 108), was estimated, using a 24 SSR markers panel. For Boa Vista and Goianira, most of the highest yield RILs were like the parental Epagri 108. Most of the random effects of the statistic model used in this study were significant. The RILs population showed genetic variability inside (σ g2 significant). The experimental precision in RR and GO was from good to excellent with accuracy over 90% and in RS it was moderate (~50%), probably because of the environmental effect action. Yield showed moderate heritability (0,67) and the characters DF, AP and PG showed high heritability (>0,90). Positive significant correlation was observed between the characters PD and PG, and DF and AP, however the last one showed negative correlation with yield. Nine RILs had the best performance by the MHPRVG, and it was above 30% of the general mean. They are recommended for the breeding program use. The RIL 105 were ranked as the best for stability, adaptability and yield, simultaneously. These results suggest that there is a significant genetic variation between the RILs evaluated. Therefore, this population might be used either in selection of high yield performance genotypes or for QTL mapping foragronomic traits in many environments. / O aumento da produtividade em arroz é um desafio para os programas de melhoramento do mundo todo. Uma alternativa para identificar linhagens mais produtivas, ou mesmo descobrir genes correlacionados à produtividade e seus componentes, é conhecer e explorar o pool gênico de populações provenientes de cruzamentos entre cultivares ainda pouco utilizadas, como materiais introduzidos. O objetivo desse trabalho foi caracterizar uma população de linhas puras recombinantes (RILs), provenientes do cruzamento entre Maninjau x Epagri 108. Foram avaliadas 296 RILs em experimentos conduzidos em Goianira (GO), Boa Vista (RR) e Pelotas (RS), no ano de 2016. Em GO e RR os ensaios foram implantados em delineamento alfa-látice (17x18) e em Pelotas foi utilizado BAF. Foram coletados dados referentes à produtividade (PD) e altura de plantas (AP) nos três locais, além de dias até o florescimento (DF), em RR e GO, peso de 100 grãos (PG), em RS e GO. Os dados foram analisados via modelos mistos, através da análise de deviance. Os componentes de variância foram estimados via REML/BLUP e foram estimados os parâmetros genéticos e coeficientes de correlação entre caracteres, bem como os parâmetros estatísticos CV e , CV g , CV r e acurácia seletiva. A análise de interação G x E foi feita com base no método da MHPRVG. Foram estimadas as distâncias genéticas entre as linhagens de maior valor genotípico em cada local e os parentais do cruzamento, através de um painel de 24 marcadores SSR, e para Boa Vista e Goianira, a maioria das linhagens mais produtivas foram mais similares ao genitor Epagri 108. A maioria dos efeitos aleatórios do modelo estatístico adotado foi significativa. A população de RILs apresentou variabilidade genética (σ g2 significativo). A precisão dos experimentos de RR e GO foi de boa à ótima, com acurácia maior que 90%, enquanto do RS foi moderada (~50%), provavelmente devido à maior ação do efeito ambiental. A produtividade se revelou com h2 moderada (0,67) e os caracteres DF, AP e PG apresentaram alta herdabilidade (>0,90). Foi verificada correlação positiva significativa entre os caracteres PD e PG e DF e AP, porém esses dois últimos têm correlação negativa significativa com a produtividade. Nove RILs se destacaram pela MHPRVG, com desempenho superior a 30% em relação à média geral. Elas são, portanto, recomendadas para uso do programa de melhoramento. A RIL 105 foi classificada como a de melhor estabilidade, adaptabilidade e produtividade, simultaneamente. Os resultados indicam que a população tem alta variabilidade genética e, pode ser utilizada tanto na seleção de genótipos de bom desempenho produtivo, quanto na detecção de QTLs para caracteres de interesse agronômico em múltiplos locais.

Recent studies found that organizations have been investing significant capital in developing teams and employees in geographic areas where labor and resources are considerably cheaper. Furthermore, organizations are moving core operational activities such as research and development and back-office processes to globally distributed teams. However, several factors that are inherent to these virtual teams can have a negative impact on employee perceptions and engagement; specifically, the physical and temporal differences between employees and their supervisors, the lack of meaningful social interaction intrinsic to working relationships, and cultural biases that can be fostered when close, daily interactions is not there to help bridge the dissimilarity. When strategies are not in place to mitigate these deficiencies, it can cause virtual employees to disengage emotionally and intellectually from the organization, or lead them to feel justified in working against the best interest of the company. Past research indicates that although deviant behavior in the workplace is not new, transgressions committed by employees have been increasing significantly every year. Beyond the focus of why employees are motivated to act against the organization, to what extent do the recent changes to the organization’s structure influence this type of behavior through their actions at the macro (organizational) and micro level (leadership). In addition, there is a related phenomenon that has aided the transformation of the workplace – namely, the ubiquity of technology. In the context of workplace deviance, established research has documented an increasing trend of employees utilizing company technology as a medium and amplifier when harming the organization. It is important to understand whether technology has facilitated or hindered workplace deviance by virtue of the technology itself (as a means), and as part of the new employee roles created by the evolving technology (i.e, virtual employees). Therefore, it is important to identify how individual attitudes and behaviors can be affected by an employee’s degree of virtuality. This study will add to the understanding of how social interaction and physical proximity, leadership and other perception factors contribute to the changes organizations are experiencing as their structure evolves and adapts to compete in the new global environment.

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Mc-clubs are marked as mysterious with dangerous motorcycles and deviant. Research has noticed both the illegal and legal clubs, but few have performed a comparison. The paper describes the similarities, differences, and the characteristics among legal and illegal mc-clubs. The comparison is done by looking at the structure, symbols, brotherhood, and criminal involvement. The depiction of the clubs is done by the help of Edwin M. Lemert’s terms primary and secondary deviance and Lewis Yablonsky’s definition of the social, delinquent, and violent gang. A content analysis based on 28 previous and current articles has been used to find the specific themes the clubs have in common and what characterizes and separates them. The clubs were shown to have similar structure, symbols and brotherhood, the difference lying in the intensity of the three components. The major difference is the criminal involvement. The illegal clubs reject the conventional society where the deviance is a form of identity, sharing it with like-minded in a violent setting. The legal clubs, however, conform and simultaneously deviate and have their own community with values and beliefs. Implications and future research is discussed.

The relational identity threat response model describes how workplace relationships experiencing relational identity threat predict discretionary workplace behavior (i.e. momentary organizational voice, momentary behavioral engagement, and momentary supervisor-directed deviance). More specifically, the model utilizes an experience sampling methodology to capture the ebb and flow or momentary changes within supervisor-subordinate relationships with a focus on potential negative shifts in a subordinate’s relational identity with his/her supervisor. By examining momentary behavior, meaning actions subordinates take within a short period of time such as the last few hours, I draw attention to the often overlooked effects of dynamic workplace relationships, arguing that the ebb and flow within supervisor-subordinate interactions play a critical role in subordinate choice as to the amount of momentary organizational voice, momentary behavioral engagement, and momentary supervisor-directed deviance to offer. That is, I utilize recent developments within social identity theory (Brewer & Gardner, 1996; Sluss & Ashforth, 2007) to examine how subordinates reconcile relational identity threat, or potential shifts in the nature of ‘who we are’ (Sluss & Ashforth, 2007). Further, the data support the argument that momentary relational voice, which is communication to the supervisor focused on improving the workplace relationship or relational functioning, partially mediates relational identity threat’s consequences for positive discretionary workplace behavior (i.e. momentary organizational voice, momentary behavioral engagement). Additionally, I draw attention to self-compassion (i.e. how a subordinate treats him or herself [Neff, 2003a]), which moderates subordinate responses to relational identity threat within a supervisor-subordinate relationship.

Organizations are increasingly devoting interest towards understanding the causes of workplace deviance behaviors, which include interpersonal aggression, theft, violence, vandalism and sabotage. These behaviors are particularly relevant to organizations, in that the yearly losses due to theft are estimated at over 40 billion dollars for U.S. businesses (Coffin, 2003), and acts of workplace deviance could cost as much as 200 billion dollars annually (Murphy, 1993).In this research, I integrated theoretical perspectives from psychology and organizational behavior with neurocognitive evidence in order to examine the effects of sleep deprivation on workplace deviance behavior. In particular, I argue that cognitive resource theories offer explanatory power for the proposed linkage between sleep loss and deviant behaviors. Specifically, sleep deprivation was expected to reduce cognitive capacity and self-regulatory ability, and as a result decrease individuals' self-control, increase hostility, and impair moral decisions, which would in turn increase workplace deviance. Finally, proposed methods are presented for two studies. The first study utilized a field sample of shiftworkers with irregular sleep schedules (i.e., nurses). The second study utilized a lab sample of university students who were subjected to sleep deprivation conditions in a controlled environment.Results largely supported the model in both samples, with the exception of moral reasoning, which was unrelated to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation affected self-control and hostility, which were in turn related to deviance, with the exception of self-control and interpersonal deviance in Study 2.

Thesis advisor: Paul Breines / This dissertation attempts to problematize the question of agency in disciplinary societies by examining the symbolic importance in fin-de-siècle French culture of the abject deviants who were the target of medico-legal discourse in the Third Republic. In particular, I develop three main propositions. First, I am making a broad anthropological claim that the power implicitly given to deviants to establish boundaries between normality and abnormality paradoxically enabled them to shift borders of cleanliness and pollution in public discourse. Whereas others have argued that borderline deviants are powerless in their abjection, I propose the opposite: by giving deviants the power to shape the order of the Third Republic, medico-legal authorities unwittingly gave them precisely that -- enormous power. Second, I contend that this power largely took shape within the context of the rise of consumer society and urban spectacle. Spectacularization and widespread accessibility to information engendered a populace capable of suspicion, resistance, and resignification. Others have interpreted the spectacularization of narratives of deviance as being foisted upon passive consumers lacking intellectual agency and therefore accepting these narratives as the standards for bourgeois behavior. I suggest instead that spectacularization provided the precondition of possibility for the invention of a resistant and even potentially revolutionary populace. Third and finally, I make the claim that those who are seen are also capable of seeing, and hence, of questioning, negotiating, and redefining. Others, particularly those influenced by the work of Michel Foucault, have argued that "the public" was a docile, passive crowd, stripped of agency, helplessly accepting of ideas of republican virtue embodied by medico-legal discourses of deviance and the clinical gaze. In particular, the paradigm of the "panopticon" has perhaps overly influenced notions of bourgeois society. In the panoptic society, being self-conscious of always being (hypothetically) seen, actors police themselves to the point of inaction. I contend that this position assumes the desirability of a "correct" form of behavior to which all others must conform. Therefore, I argue for a very different conception of bourgeois society. If we look not to the panopticon, but rather to venues of spectacularization and consumer culture, we will see that, contrary to the marginalization implied by the panoptic model, deviance was celebrated as a symbol of freedom and release from the deterministic medico-legal gaze and helped to create multiple competing "scopic regimes." As a result, the consumer culture of the grands boulevards was not a sterile, depoliticized world of uncritical engagement defined by passive observation and consumption of spectacle and commodity, but rather a culture that celebrated spectacle as a venue for re-infusing the public sphere with social and political ambiguity against the rigid boundaries erected by the medico-legal discourses of the Third Republic. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.

A análise de dados de proporções apresenta, em geral, certas dificuldades uma vez que a distribuição subjacente a tais dados pode ser considerada binomial, que não segue as pressuposições básicas para o ajuste de um modelo matemático. Algumas transformações são sugeridas, mas nem sempre bons resultados são obtidos. No enfoque de modelos lineares generalizados, a estatística que mede a qualidade do ajuste do modelo para os dados é chamada deviance. Ocorre que a distribuição da deviance é desconhecida. No entanto, para dados com distribuição binomial, pode-se aproximar a distribuição da deviance por uma distribuição qui-quadrado, mas tal aproximação não é boa para tamanhos pequenos de amostra. Para melhorar essa aproximação, alguns fatores de correção para os dados são sugeridos, mas os resultados obtidos ainda não são bons para pequenas amostras. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é propor um novo fator de correção para os dados seguindo uma distribuição binomial, de modo a se obter uma melhora na distribuição da deviance para qualquer tamanho de amostra. Para isto, adiciona-se uma constante à variável resposta e, através do valor esperado da deviance, calcula-se tal constante de modo a reduzir o erro cometido na aproximação. Simulações da distribuição binomial e o cálculo da deviance são feitos e QQ-plots são utilizados para a comparação com a distribuição qui-quadrado / not available

Dados de contagem podem ser considerados, em geral, como provenientes de uma distribuição de Poisson. Neste contexto, a análise de tais dados apresenta certas dificuldades, pois não segue algumas pressuposições básicas para o ajuste de um modelo matemático. Desse modo, algumas transformações são sugeridas, mas nem sempre bons resultados são obtidos. No enfoque de Modelos Lineares Generalizados, a estatística que mede a qualidade do ajuste do modelo para os dados é chamada deviance. Porém, a distribuição da deviance é, em geral, desconhecida. No entanto, para dados com distribuição de Poisson, pode-se mostrar que a distribuição da deviance se aproxima de uma distribuição ?2, mas tal aproximação não é boa para tamanhos pequenos de amostra. Para melhorar essa aproximação, alguns fatores de correção para os dados são sugeridos, mas os resultados obtidos ainda não são satisfatórios. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é propor um novo fator de correção para os dados seguindo uma distribuição de Poisson, de modo a se obter uma melhora na distribuição da deviance para qualquer tamanho de amostra. Para isto, será adicionada uma constante à variável resposta e, através do valor esperado da deviance, calcula-se tal constante de modo a reduzir o erro cometido na aproximação. Para verificar a melhora na aproximação da distribuição da deviance a uma distribuição qui-quadrado, dados de uma distribuição de Poisson são simulados e o valor da deviance é calculado. QQ-plots são construídos para a comparação com a distribuição qui-quadrado. / Analysis of count data presents, in general, can be supposed coming from a Poisson distribution. The analysis of such data have some problems once the underlying distribution of them does not follow the basic assumptions to fit a model. Some tranformations can be suggested, but good results are not always obtained. In the approach of the Generalized Linear Models, the deviance is the statistics that measures the goodness of fit, but its distribution is unknown. Furthermore, considering Poisson distribution data, it is possible to approximate the distribution of the deviance for a chi-square distribution, but such approximation is not good for small sample size. In order of improve this approximation, corrections for the data are suggested, but the results are not good yet. Then, the aim of this work is to propose a new correction factor for data following a Poisson distribution in order to obtain an improvement in the distribution of the deviance for any sample size. For this, just adding a constant at the response variable and, through the expected value of the deviance, such constant is obtained in order to reduce the error in the aproximation. Simulated data from the Poisson distribution were made to calculate the deviance with and without the correction and QQ-plots were used to compare the values of the deviance with the chi-square distribution.