In this paper the Helpman-Hanson model is estimated using Swedish municipality level data. The Helpman-Hanson model builds on Krugman’s contributions to the NEG theory but makes use of a housing sector instead of the usual agricultural sector. The Helpman-Hanson equation is optimized both in levels and in first differences and the results confirm a positive relationship between wages and market potential, although the effect of transport costs on the distribution of wages turns out to be non-existent. Additionally, all of the estimated structural parameter values end up within the consistency ranges required by theory and most of them, except for a very large estimate for the elasticity of substitution, fall in line with previous research.

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Doctor of Philosophy / Dingo Media examines the development of media events using as a case study one of Australia’s most widely known criminal investigations, the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain at “Ayers Rock”. Considering the case as a blueprint for the way mass media events develop and evolve in the late capitalist era, this thesis suggests that the event marks a turning point in negotiation of the public sphere and Australian national identity. Using an original model, I trace from the 1980s five phases through which news stories pass in their evolution as modern media events by comparing the Chamberlain saga to contemporary cases involving “controversial” women, Schapelle Corby, Joanne Lees and Pauline Hanson. The first phase examines the emerging practice of news workers focusing on personalities rather than events; the second phase analyses both the formation of counter-publics protesting the conviction, and the development of a dialogic connection between media and publics; the third phase investigates the rise of a modern celebrity industry promoting “ordinary” individuals into subjects of media discourse; the fourth phase considers the process of mythic production surrounding the Chamberlain case as related to processes of nation-building in the late 1980s; finally, the fifth phase critiques the prevalent view that, through continual retelling, the event has suffered a loss of meaning. Axiomatic to this study will be the politics of representation, how the media records, organises and mythologises information, as well as the interaction between texts and audiences.

Doctor of Philosophy / Dingo Media examines the development of media events using as a case study one of Australia’s most widely known criminal investigations, the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain at “Ayers Rock”. Considering the case as a blueprint for the way mass media events develop and evolve in the late capitalist era, this thesis suggests that the event marks a turning point in negotiation of the public sphere and Australian national identity. Using an original model, I trace from the 1980s five phases through which news stories pass in their evolution as modern media events by comparing the Chamberlain saga to contemporary cases involving “controversial” women, Schapelle Corby, Joanne Lees and Pauline Hanson. The first phase examines the emerging practice of news workers focusing on personalities rather than events; the second phase analyses both the formation of counter-publics protesting the conviction, and the development of a dialogic connection between media and publics; the third phase investigates the rise of a modern celebrity industry promoting “ordinary” individuals into subjects of media discourse; the fourth phase considers the process of mythic production surrounding the Chamberlain case as related to processes of nation-building in the late 1980s; finally, the fifth phase critiques the prevalent view that, through continual retelling, the event has suffered a loss of meaning. Axiomatic to this study will be the politics of representation, how the media records, organises and mythologises information, as well as the interaction between texts and audiences.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2007. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 16, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-111).

Orientador: Silvio Seno Chibeni / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-28T07:46:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Menna_SergioHugo_M.pdf: 12902549 bytes, checksum: b9159687e676d7b93c15583d2d6324ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: Este trabalho de investigação tem como objetivo expor, explicitar, exemplificar e aperfeiçoar as contribuições de Norwood Hanson à metodologia da investigação científica. Com esta finalidade, em primeiro lugar me ocupo das críticas elaboradas por este autor à polarização metodológica clássica entre os contextos de justificação e de descoberta. Em segundo lugar, desenvolvo a proposta de Hanson de um conjunto de regras ou 'critérios' para retratar um domínio de racionalidade científica maior que o estabelecido: a metodologia da plausibilidade. Esta metodologia, tal como defendo, é para Hanson um conjunto de critérios para avaliar a plausibilidade de hipóteses já descobertas (em particular, hipóteses de trabalho) e não um conjunto de critérios ou uma 'máquina' para fazer descobertas ou gerar novas hipóteses -idéia defendida por outros autores. Por último, mediante a formulação de exemplos, analiso a metodologia da plausibilidade de Hanson dentro do continuum de investigação científica, e defendo que ela pode formar uma instância de avaliação independenteda de justificação / Abstract: The goal ofthis work is to present, to exemplify,and to improveNorwood Hanson's contributions to the methodology of scientific inquiry. Aiming to these goals, first I analyze Hanson's criticisms to the classic dichotomy between context of justification and context of discovery. Secondly, I develop his methodology of plausibility; that is, the set of 'criteria' that describe an area or scientific rationality greater than the traditional one. I support that this methodology was used by Hanson as a set of criteria for evaluating the plausibility of already advanced hypotheses (in special, working hypothesis) and not as a set of criteria or a 'machine' for discovering or generating new hypotheses. Last1y, I analyze -by means of different examples- the methodology of plausibility as it works within the continuum of scientific research, and I maintain that this methodology may constitute an instance of evaluation independent from the instance of justification / Mestrado / Mestre em Filosofia

Personas (typanvändare) är ett populärt verktyg för interaktionsdesigners och gör det möjligt att, bland annat, uppfatta skillnader mellan en ofta stor mängd potentiella användare och därefter anpassa en design efter detta. Men hur användbart är detta verktyg om användarantalet är litet och deras mål i huvudsak styrs av deras identiska arbetsuppgifter? Interaktionsdesigners som vill försäkra sig om att de skapar användarvänliga applikationer bedriver ofta någon from av datainsamling och testning, från och med användare. Det finns flera kända metoder för analys av data som samlats in från kvalitativa studier. Det finns dock färre konkreta riktlinjer för vilka frågor man bör söka svar på under själva datainsamlingen. Detta varierar så klart kraftigt beroende på vilken kontext man befinner sig och någon universell lista med frågeställningar som alltid täcker in det man behöver kommer sannolikt aldrig att existera. Bardram (2000) och hans kollegor har dock sammanställt en checklista med frågeställningar de utvecklat under utvecklingen av ett nytt informationssystem för Danska sjukhus. Ett sådant system är väldigt komplext så det finns anledning att undersöka hur väl deras checklista fungerar för enklare system. I denna studie utvärderades nyttan av personas och Bardrams (2000) checklista som verktyg under ett designprojekt i en miljö med ett fåtal användare, vars uppgifter i huvudsak styrs av deras identiska arbetsuppgifter och komplexiteten i systemet är liten. Resultatet visade att personas är ett lämpligt verktyg trots likheten mellan användarna. Arbetet med att utveckla det som slutligen endast blev en persona gav författaren (tillika studiens interaktionsdesigner) ett sätt att fastställa att deras mål faktiskt var väldigt lika. Personan var grunden i utvecklingsarbetet som slutade med en lyckad design. Även Bardrams (2000) checklista visade sig vara ett bra stöd under studiens gång. Författaren ger dock förslag på två punkter att lägga till i denna checklista.

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En studie som inriktar sig på de förändringar som sker med den antika grekiska krigsföringen mellan perserkrigen och de peloponnesiska krigen - med fokus på den grekiska hopliten och det grekiska kavalleriet.