<p>This thesis puts focus on the points where organisations perceive, translate and implement a new organisational idea, and the implementation and translation of one specific efficiency method is studied. We have looked at how a group of small manufacturing companies have implemented an efficiency method (Efficient production/Lean Production) and how they have translated it to fit their own organisation.</p><p>The authors were interested in finding out both about the challenges and the positive outcomes of implementing an efficiency method in a company. While getting to know more about the subject, the translator’s (the person responsible of implementing the method into the own organisation) role and importance to the implementation became more interesting. In cooperation with a Host Company (HC), a decision was made to study a group of small manufacturing companies who had all participated in one of HC’s programs, Lean School for Small Companies.</p><p>To be able to make generalisations from the results, a multiple-case study was carried out. To fulfil our purpose and gain a somewhat objective understanding of the processes of implementation we decided that it was necessary to interview two people from each company, one that had attended the Lean School and one who did not, but was directly affected by the efficiency method in daily work. The empirical findings were analysed in the light of the theoretical ideas we found about implementation of efficiency methods and translation of organisational ideas.</p><p>The results of the study were in many aspects consistant with the theories found on the subject. The processes of an implementation is complex and are affected by the factors commitment of leaders, problems or obstacles, the translators role and ability to manage the translation process and, furthermore, by knowledge input.</p>

The Sweden Democrats has become the third largest party in Sweden after the parliamentary elections in 2014. Ever since the party was founded in 1988, debates regarding the party’s policy has been of great interests but also the party’s ideological affiliation whether to classify it as a populist radical right party or not. Furthermore, many scientists have arrived at the conclusion that the Sweden Democrats should be seen as a populist radical right party. This conclusion makes it interesting to further investigate what ideological affilitation the party should identify itself with since the party itself argues to be a social conservative party with a nationalist ethos. With this in mind, the purpose of this study is to examine if the party has populist radical right fundamentals in its recent policy program through the use of the method idea analysis and through the use of creating an ideal type of the theory populist radical right. In addition, it has thus been possible to confirm or to deny the Sweden Democrats as a populist radical right party. The result of this thesis has shown that the policy program does consist of populist radical right elements. Hence, it has been concluded that the Sweden Democrats should be categorized as a populist radical right party.

Σκοπός της εργασίας αυτής ήταν μια πρώτη μελέτη των προβλημάτων ανάγνωσης των κωφών μαθητών Γυμνασίου. Συγκεκριμένα, στη παρούσα εργασία μελετήθηκε κατά πόσο οι κωφοί μαθητές Γυμνασίου μπορούν να διαβάσουν με προσοχή ένα κείμενο, καθώς και κατά πόσο μπορούν να κατανοήσουν το κείμενο και να συγκρατήσουν πληροφορίες από αυτό. Αναλυτικότερα, έγινε προσπάθεια να απαντηθούν τα εξής ερωτήματα: κατά πόσο μπορούν οι κωφοί μαθητές α)να διαβάσουν τόσο προσεκτικά, ώστε να καταλάβουν τη συνοχή / συνεκτικότητα ενός κειμένου και να εντοπίσουν ασαφή στοιχεία, β)να κατανοήσουν την κεντρική ιδέα ενός κειμένου και γ)να συγκρατήσουν πληροφορίες από ένα κείμενο και να απαντήσουν σε ερωτήσεις κατανόησης. Στην έρευνα έλαβαν μέρος 11 (Ν=11) κωφοί μαθητές και των τριών τάξεων του Ειδικού Γυμνασίου Κωφών και Βαρηκόων Αγίας Παρασκευής, καθώς και 23 (Ν=23) ακούοντες μαθητές της Α΄ Γυμνασίου από το Γυμνάσιο Γαλατά, οι οποίοι αποτέλεσαν την ομάδα ελέγχου. Τα αποτελέσματα της εργασίας έδειξαν ότι οι κωφοί μαθητές έχουν χαμηλότερο αναγνωστικό επίπεδο σε σύγκριση με ακούοντες μαθητές. Συγκεκριμένα, οι κωφοί μαθητές αντιμετωπίζουν σοβαρές δυσκολίες στην κατανόηση της συνοχής ενός κειμένου, στη διατύπωση της κεντρικής του ιδέας, καθώς και στη συγκράτηση πληροφοριών από το κείμενο αυτό, προκειμένου να απαντήσουν σε σχετικές ερωτήσεις κατανόησης. Ειδικότερα, η διατύπωση της κεντρικής ιδέας φαίνεται ότι δυσκολεύει ιδιαίτερα όλους τους μαθητές, κωφούς και ακούοντες, αφού και οι ακούοντες μαθητές είχαν πολύ χαμηλές επιδόσεις. Αξίζει, επίσης, να σημειωθεί ότι οι μαθητές της τελευταίας τάξης είχαν καλύτερη επίδοση από τους μαθητές των μικρότερων τάξεων, το οποίο δείχνει ότι οι κωφοί μαθητές χρειάζονται περισσότερο χρόνο και εκπαίδευση, προκειμένου να κατακτήσουν την ανάγνωση και να αρχίσουν να κατανοούν ένα κείμενο. Τέλος, τα αποτελέσματα αυτά θα πρέπει να ληφθούν υπόψη από τους εκπαιδευτικούς, προκειμένου οι τελευταίοι να δώσουν στους κωφούς μαθητές τον απαραίτητο χρόνο και εκπαίδευση για την καλύτερη δυνατή κατάκτηση της ανάγνωσης. / The purpose of this assignment was a first study of the reading problems of the deaf high school students. Namely, in the present assignment it was examined whether and to which extent the high school students can read a text carefully as well as whether they are able to comprehend the text and retain elements from it. To analyze this, there was an attempt to answer the following questions: whether the deaf students a) can read carefully so as to comprehend the cohesion and coherence of a text and pinpoint ambiguous data b) whether they can perceive the main idea of a text and c) whether they are able to retain information from a text and answer reading comprehension questions . 11 high school deaf students -of all the 3 grades of the Specialized High School For the Deaf and Hearing Impaired in Aghia Paraskevi - participated in this study as well as 23 hearing students of the first grade of the high school in Galata, who comprised the control group. The results of the study showed that the deaf students have a lower reading standard in comparison with the hearing students. Specifically, the deaf students face tremendous difficulties in comprehending the cohesion of a text in expressing the main idea as well as in retaining data from this specific text in order to respond to relevant comprehension questions .In a deeper analysis the formulation of the central idea seems to particularly complicate all the students -hearing and deaf alike- since the hearing students had a very low performance. Moreover it is worth noted that the deaf students need more time and training so as to acquire the reading skills and start comprehending the text. Finally, these specific results should be taken into consideration by the educationalists so as the latter to allow deaf students the time and training needed for the best possible acquisition of the reading skills.

Denna uppsats försöker beskriva Johan Magnus Wickelius (1817-1867) livsförståelse. Eller hans teologiska typ. I det arbetet har jag använt Benkt-Erik Benktsons typologiska metod, inom vilken man arbetar med schematiserade typer som Wickelius är jämförd med och placerade inom (eller inte) under arbetes gång. Denna typologiska metod är inte en klassificering där individen, som undersöks, är placerad i ett fack för alltid. Individen är istället placerad i ett landskap där de schematiserade typerna är som kullar emellan (eller på) vilka individen sedan placeras. Materialet som använts för att placera Wickelius i detta landskap är en 211 sidor lång text som Wickelius skrev från 1859 till 1865, och på framsidan av denna text så skrev han att den inte fick säljas eller lånas ut. Denna karaktär hos texten fick mig att använda Schleiermachers och Diltheys hermeneutiska teorier; detta för att få ett perspektiv på texten enligt vilket de viktiga aspekterna att studera i Wickelius text var individualiteten, singulariteten och att levandegöra detta, av Wickelius skrivna, brev. Målet för tolkningen var att tolka texten först lika bra som, men sen bättre än författaren. Som ett sätt att strukturera materialet delade jag sedan in de texter jag trodde hade något att tillföra typologiseringsarbetet, i tre kategorier. Dessa var: religion, livet och döden. För att få någon att gå i dialog med, så använde jag Karl Barths skrivande om den absolute mannen, som beskriver som upplysningsmannen som en person som gav sig själv rättigheten att mäta allt utifrån honom själv. Ett tronupphöjande av människan som påverkade tidens kristna teologi. Barth menade att tidens teologi förmänskligades, och att de fanns fyra områden där detta märktes tydligt. Dessa var: (1) Staten, och dess kyrka, (2) Borgerlighetens moral, (3) Vetenskapens och Filosofin, (4) Individens inre liv. Dessa fyra områden används sedan för att analysera de tre olika sorterna av text som utvanns ur Wickelius textsamling, för att beskriva hans teologiska typ. Wickelius följer ungefär den absolute mannens väg såsom Barth beskriver den och blir till slut en ganska typisk upplysningskristen, men han har också klara drag av ortodoxi och krossar även gränsen några gånger till naturlig religion. Detta gör hans teologi och den hermeneutiska situation texten beskriver, komplex. / This essay tries to describe J.M. Wickelius (1817-1867) worldwiew, or his theological type. To do so I’ve used Benkt-Erik Benktsons typological method, which works with schematized types that Wickelius are compared to and placed under (or not) during the essay. This typological method is not a pidgeonholing where the individual, who is examined, is placed in a pidgeonhole forever. The individual is instead placed in a landscape where the schematized types are like hills inbetween which the individual is placed. The material used to place Wickelius in this landscape is a 211 pages long text that Wickelius wrote from 1859 to 1865, and on the frontpage of this text he wrote that it was not for sale och for lending out. The shape of the text then lead me to use the hermeneutic theories of Schleiermacher and Dilthey, to get a pespective to the text according to which the important things to study in the text was Wickelius individuality, his singularity and to bring this letter from him alive. The goal of the interrigation was to “understand the text first as well as, and then better than its author” As a way of structuring the material I divided the texts that I reckoned to have something to add in my typological work, into three categories. They were: religion, life and death. To have someone to go into dialogue with, I used Karl Barths writings about the absolute man, which is a description of the enlightenment man as a person who gave himself the right to measure everything according to himself. An enthronement of man, that influenced the christian theology of the time. Barth meant that the theology of the time were humanised, and that there were four areas that was influenced by this humanisation. Those were:The State, The Morality of the Bourgeouisie, The Academic and Philosophical transformation of Christanisty and The Inward, Individual matter. Those four areas are then used to analyze the three different kind of texts from Wickelius to describe his theological type. Wickelius approxamitly follows the absolute mans track from Barth and ends up as a rather typical enlightenment theologian, but has also some clear signs from ortodoxy and also crosses the border to natural religion. This makes his theology and the hermeneutic situation that the text describes, complex .

La presente tesis aborda el análisis de la incidencia de los procesos de metropolización surgidos en los años 90 en la costa de la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires como instancias de configuración y reconfiguración de los nuevos escenarios. A partir de la lectura de la relación entre la ciudad y el estuario surge un supuesto de partida: si entendemos que el territorio es parte integral de la sociedad y el estuario como un recorte territorial contextualizado, dicha relación es la expresión de una realidad construida, por lo que no puede existir separación entre el medio estuarial y lo metropolitano. El Estuario como parte integral de la metrópoli se concibe desde el momento que fue un espacio estructurante por su vocación portuaria. En otras palabras, sin estuario no hubiera habido metrópolis porque fue una valoración histórica como puerto. Pensando al estuario como una realidad construida permite que nos preguntemos ¿Cómo los actores han valorado ese territorio?: ¿cómo una mercancía donde prima el interés de la renta o como patrimonio social común donde la identidad del lugar adquiere un peso destacado? Así surgen los siguientes interrogantes: ¿cómo jugó y juega el estuario y sus vocaciones en la estructuración de la metrópolis o viceversa? ¿Cómo es el perfil de la interface entre ambos? ¿Qué clima de ideas contiene el territorio estuarial hoy? ¿Cuáles son los ejes de organización de la década de los 90 que impactaron en el espacio costero? ¿Cómo se inserta la costa en este nuevo modelo de metropolización? ¿Cuál es la nueva lectura de la costa emergente del proceso de globalización? Estos interrogantes conducen a formular la siguiente hipótesis de trabajo: La costa estuarial metropolitana responde a las características del modelo de metropolización de la década de los 90, donde la fragmentación territorial es su eje rector. Sin embargo esta fragmentación ha permitido el surgimiento de dos modelos de área costera: uno integrado a la metrópoli, donde las inversiones inmobiliarias y la desregulación y la privatización de los servicios son la dominante en la conformación de estos territorios –desde la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires hasta Tigre-; otro, alejado del modelo metropolitano intenta su desarrollo desde las vocaciones estuariales específicas y sus herencias territoriales y sociales –desde la ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires hasta Berisso-, donde la escasa incorporación al modelo metropolitano se hace en forma puntual en algunos sectores (Puerto La Plata, emprendimientos inmobiliarios de Marinas, entre otros). El desarrollo de la tesis se realiza en el marco de cinco momentos que permiten definir 6 capítulos. En el primer momento se pone el acento en las cuestiones teórico-metodológicas de la tesis donde se inicia el análisis definiendo qué se entiende por espacio estuarial metropolitano intentando superar el dualismo entre el estuario y la metrópoli desde una mirada del espacio y territorio como partes integrales de la sociedad, de la costa como un recorte territorial contextualizado contiguo al frente estuarial y al estuario como forma litoral producto de relaciones sociales que construyen vocaciones litorales. Para luego abordar la trilogía clima de ideas, herencias territoriales y vocaciones, concluyendo con el planteo del juego de contrapuestos dialécticos como una instancia para descubrir el germen de considerar al territorio como patrimonio social común. En un segundo momento se trabajó con las tendencias históricas de valorización costera haciendo hincapié en las vocaciones como una lectura desde lo estuarial, para luego introducirnos en una tercera etapa en el modelo de metropolización surgido del clima de ideas de los 90. Estos tres momentos nos permitieron definir un cuarto donde se trabaja con las dos visiones antagónicas pero complementarias del territorio estuarial metropolitano: el caso representativo del modelo territorial costero de los 90 (el escenario emblemático de la posmodernidad de Puerto Madero) y su contrapuesto (los territorios del anonimato desde la producción del vino de la costa). Así llegamos a plantear, en un quinto momento, el comienzo de un camino inverso: pensar desde el territorio para llegar a lo espacial como corolario de entender el juego de contrapuestos dialéctico de los lugares, que permitirá sentar las bases para considerar al territorio como Patrimonio social común.

Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM) is an unparalleled method of inner healing which was developed in 1996 by Dr. Ed Smith of Campbellsville, Kentucky. The term Theophostic is formed by a combination of two Greek words, namely Theos (God) and phos (light). God's light refers to the central aspect of the ministry during which God gives his light to the counselee in order to expose the emotional wounds from the person's past and to heal it. TPM became known as a method which is exceptionally effective in treating trauma and experience-based problems. Several evaluators of TPM, however, raise questions concerning the doctrinal and philosophical soundness of the base of TPM's theory and practice. Exponents of the anti-psychology movement, like Martin and Deidre Bobgan, are exceedingly condemning in their critique of TPM, and particularly the fact that Smith probably had used insights, concepts and techniques from psychology. In researching the literature on the subject, it was found that the reformed pastoral ministry is relatively lacking in theoretical reflection on and practical implementation of the ministry of inner healing, TPM included. The first main purpose of the research was to scientifically determine whether the doctrinal and philosophical points of departure as well as practice of TPM were sound according to the reformative Scriptural standard. Should the research data indicate that TPM is acceptable in this respect, then the reformed pastoral practice have found at least one method of inner healing to make use of. Should the research data point to the contrary, then the necessary corrections can be done accordingly. The second main purpose of the research was to determine how the theory, practice and even context of TPM can possibly be served by the new light which the research may shed upon it. In the research methodology it is decided to firstly summarize the practical theory of TPM. This was followed on a meta-theoretical level by a qualitative empirical research on TPM, as well as a comparative study on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evenly highly successful psychotherapeutic treatment method for trauma and experience-based problems. In a third meta-theoretical chapter TPM and some of its critics are evaluated in accordance with the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea. Following that, the data of the meta-theoretical chapters were compared in a hermeneutical way with the first practical theory of TPM and all its critique, as well as the reformative theological tradition. The final conclusions of the research indicate that TPM can be recommended to the reformed pastoral ministry as a reformative Scripturally sound method for inner healing and that the TPM theory, practice and context can be improved on several points as has been suggested in the study. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM) is an unparalleled method of inner healing which was developed in 1996 by Dr. Ed Smith of Campbellsville, Kentucky. The term Theophostic is formed by a combination of two Greek words, namely Theos (God) and phos (light). God's light refers to the central aspect of the ministry during which God gives his light to the counselee in order to expose the emotional wounds from the person's past and to heal it. TPM became known as a method which is exceptionally effective in treating trauma and experience-based problems. Several evaluators of TPM, however, raise questions concerning the doctrinal and philosophical soundness of the base of TPM's theory and practice. Exponents of the anti-psychology movement, like Martin and Deidre Bobgan, are exceedingly condemning in their critique of TPM, and particularly the fact that Smith probably had used insights, concepts and techniques from psychology. In researching the literature on the subject, it was found that the reformed pastoral ministry is relatively lacking in theoretical reflection on and practical implementation of the ministry of inner healing, TPM included. The first main purpose of the research was to scientifically determine whether the doctrinal and philosophical points of departure as well as practice of TPM were sound according to the reformative Scriptural standard. Should the research data indicate that TPM is acceptable in this respect, then the reformed pastoral practice have found at least one method of inner healing to make use of. Should the research data point to the contrary, then the necessary corrections can be done accordingly. The second main purpose of the research was to determine how the theory, practice and even context of TPM can possibly be served by the new light which the research may shed upon it. In the research methodology it is decided to firstly summarize the practical theory of TPM. This was followed on a meta-theoretical level by a qualitative empirical research on TPM, as well as a comparative study on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evenly highly successful psychotherapeutic treatment method for trauma and experience-based problems. In a third meta-theoretical chapter TPM and some of its critics are evaluated in accordance with the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea. Following that, the data of the meta-theoretical chapters were compared in a hermeneutical way with the first practical theory of TPM and all its critique, as well as the reformative theological tradition. The final conclusions of the research indicate that TPM can be recommended to the reformed pastoral ministry as a reformative Scripturally sound method for inner healing and that the TPM theory, practice and context can be improved on several points as has been suggested in the study. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

Yorgancioglu, Derya M. Arch, Department of Architecture Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. C&acirc / n&acirc / Bilsel September 2004, 133 pages In this thesis it is aimed to develop a particular reading of Steven Holl&rsquo / s approach to architecture. It is claimed that in Holl&rsquo / s architecture there is a philosophical depth that embraces both his thinking on and making of architecture. This thesis suggests that, the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the French philosopher (1908-1961) is Steven Holl&rsquo / s main reference in achieving a philosophical depth in architecture. The thesis research focuses on understanding Holl&rsquo / s approach to architecture and its relation to Merleau-Ponty&rsquo / s phenomenological philosophy. In the second part of the thesis, in aiming to unfold how the design process develops the study focused on the intellectual framework in Holl&rsquo / s architecture. Specific concepts that Holl dwells upon are examined in relation to their philosophical references. This section also comprises a focus on the architect as the subject of architectural practice. In the third part, the phenomenological framework in the way Holl makes architecture is studied by examining how he relates building with site and situation / body to architectural space / body and architecture to time. This examination concludes with an inquiry in the haptic sensibility of the architect into articulating spaces and forms. Lastly, the forth part involves a study on Holl&rsquo / s particular projects, through which it is aimed to examine the architectural embodiment of his phenomenological approach. The thesis research in Steven Holl&rsquo / s architectural approach, which is held through his thinking on and making of architecture, opens up a field of study about the practice of an architect and the philosophical engagement of architecture.

Thesis--Katholische Universität zu Löwen, 1982. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-180).

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