Thèse de doctorat présenté en vue de l'obtention du doctorat en psychologie - recherche intervention, option psychologie clinique (Ph.D) / Le bien-être sexuel, soit l’évaluation subjective des aspects physiques, émotionnels, cognitifs et sociaux de sa sexualité, inclut la satisfaction sexuelle, les pensées, connaissances, émotions et expériences personnelles en lien avec la sexualité. Il est associé à plusieurs bienfaits physiques et psychologiques et constitue un ingrédient essentiel des relations amoureuses satisfaisantes. Or, la satisfaction sexuelle tend à diminuer pendant la relation et les difficultés sexuelles sont fréquentes chez les couples de longue durée. Il est donc nécessaire de s’intéresser aux facteurs favorisant le bien-être sexuel chez ces couples. Selon le Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Model of women’s sexual dysfunction (Rosen & Bergeron, 2019), des facteurs relationnels, comme les caractéristiques de la relation (p. ex. intimité), les caractéristiques individuelles des partenaires (p. ex. attachement) et les caractéristiques des activités sexuelles précises (p. ex. motivations sexuelles), doivent être considérés dans l’étude du bien-être sexuel des couples. Ainsi, la thèse visait à examiner des facteurs relationnels liés au bien-être sexuel chez les deux partenaires de couples de longue durée de la population générale. À l’aide d’un devis dyadique prospectif, la première étude a investigué le bien-être sexuel de manière globale : elle s’est penchée sur les associations entre l’intimité et la satisfaction sexuelle et conjugale pendant 13 mois chez 145 couples. Les résultats suggèrent la présence d’associations bidirectionnelles entre l’intimité et la satisfaction sexuelle ainsi qu’entre l’intimité et la satisfaction conjugale. Une perception d’intimité plus élevée était associée à des niveaux de satisfaction sexuelle et conjugale plus élevés dans le temps. En retour, des niveaux de satisfaction sexuelle et conjugale plus élevés étaient associés à une perception d’intimité plus élevée dans le temps. La deuxième étude a examiné le bien-être sexuel de façon plus proximale à l’aide d’un devis dyadique à journaux quotidiens (21 jours) : elle a investigué les associations entre les insécurités d’attachement, les motivations sexuelles d’attachement et de soutien ainsi que les émotions ressenties par les deux partenaires de 149 couples lors des activités sexuelles. Les résultats démontrent que les individus présentant plus d’évitement de l’intimité avaient moins tendance à rapporter des motivations sexuelles de soutien, ce qui était associé à des expériences émotionnelles plus négatives lors des activités sexuelles. Les personnes présentant plus d’anxiété d’abandon rapportaient davantage de motivations sexuelles d’attachement, ce qui était associé à des expériences émotionnelles plus négatives pendant les activités sexuelles pour les deux partenaires. Toutefois, les personnes présentant plus d’anxiété d’abandon rapportaient également plus de motivations sexuelles de soutien et cela était associé à des expériences émotionnelles plus positives pendant les activités sexuelles pour les deux partenaires. Les résultats de la thèse mettent en relief l’importance de considérer les prédispositions individuelles, les caractéristiques de la relation ainsi que les raisons pour lesquelles les individus s’engagent dans des interactions sexuelles pour mieux comprendre le bien-être sexuel des partenaires de couples de longue durée. La thèse apporte une contribution théorique de par son investigation de postulats théoriques peu étudiés empiriquement à ce jour. Plusieurs implications cliniques découlent également des résultats et sont discutés dans la thèse. / Sexual well-being, i.e., subjective evaluation of physical, emotional, cognitive, and social aspects of one’s sexuality including, for instance, sexual satisfaction, thoughts, knowledge, emotions and personal experiences related to sexuality, is associated with important physical and psychological health benefits. It is also an essential ingredient of a satisfying romantic relationship for many adults. However sexual satisfaction tends to decrease with the length of the relationship, and sexual difficulties are often a concern for couples in relationship therapy. Thus, there is a need to address factors that may promote sexual well-being in long-term couples. According to the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Model of women's sexual dysfunction (Rosen & Bergeron, 2019), multiple relational factors, such as relationship characteristics (e.g., intimacy), partners’ individual characteristics (e.g., attachment), and characteristics of sexual activities (e.g., sexual motivations), must be considered when studying couples' sexual well-being. As such, the overall purpose of this dissertation was to examine relational factors related to sexual well-being in both partners of long-term couples in the general population. The first study investigated global sexual well-being by examining its involvement in relationship dynamics with a longitudinal dyadic design. Specifically, this study examined the associations between intimacy and sexual and relationship satisfaction over a 13-month period in 145 couples. The results suggest that the associations between intimacy and sexual satisfaction as well as between intimacy and relationship satisfaction are bidirectional. Indeed, higher perceived intimacy was associated with higher levels of sexual and relationship satisfaction over time. In turn, higher levels of sexual and relationship satisfaction were also associated with higher perceived intimacy over time. The second study examined sexual well-being more proximally using a dyadic daily diary design (21 days). The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between attachment insecurities, attachment- and caregiving-related sexual motives, and emotions experienced during sexual activities by both partners of 149 couples. Analyses revealed that individuals with higher levels of attachment avoidance were less likely to report caregiving sexual motives, which was associated with more negative emotional experiences during sexual activities. Individuals with higher levels of attachment anxiety reported more attachment sexual motives, which was associated with more negative emotional experiences during sexual activities for these individuals and their partners. However, individuals with higher levels of attachment anxiety also reported more caregiving sexual motives and this was associated with more positive emotional experiences during sexual activities for both partners. Overall, the dissertation and its two articles highlight the importance of considering partners’ individual predispositions, relationship characteristics, as well as the reasons why individuals engage in sexual interactions to better understand the sexual well-being of partners in long-term couples. This research makes a substantial theoretical contribution by investigating theoretical assumptions that have rarely been studied empirically to date. Several clinical implications also arise from the findings and are discussed in the dissertation.

This PhD Dissertation was completed through 2011 to 2016 and was nominated for a CAGS-UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award. / My dissertation explores transnational adoptions of black African children by white Western parents as a site through which to think about global affective relationality and transnational histories within intimate proximities. The image of an interracial, transnational family can seem to be a fulfillment of the potential for transcendent love symbolized by humanitarian fundraisers such as Live Aid— a love that collapses borders and brings together races in multicultural bliss. Furthermore, adoptions of African children can potentially challenge discursive systems of categorization that frame the black body as existing outside the body politic. At the same time, however, we cannot understand transnational adoption without taking into account the histories of power that make possible and potentially limit the contours of these affective orientations. Indeed, representations of a transnational family consisting particularly of black African children and white Western parents not only invoke the logic of white moral motherhood within the context of contemporary globalization; they also point to European philosophical traditions that presuppose the colonizer’s right to the black body. In this project, thus, I ask: what are the sociopolitical and cultural motivations behind the desire to express humanitarian love towards African children through the act of adoption? How might these motivations create avenues for exclusion and exploitation even as they create new geographies of belonging? To answer these questions, this project brings the affective domain of contemporary transnational adoption between African children and white American parents into conversation with histories of colonial transnational intimacies and the precarious lived experiences of classed and racialized individuals in the African postcolony. In challenging popular celebratory fictions of the transnational family, it critically examines not only the utopian aspirations and social costs of transnational adoption as a humanitarian project, but also the very affect produced and channeled through adoption as a humanitarian act. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / My dissertation takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyze transnational adoptions of black African children by white Western parents. It offers answers to the following questions: 1. How do the ghosts of colonialism, along with the violent realities of globalization, expose the inequities hidden within idealized humanitarian narratives of rescue underlying global adoptions while at the same time revealing their transformative potential? 2. How can we account for the experiences and psychic struggles of the African adoptee, and what do their contradictions of idealized Western narratives tell us about the fantasies and anxieties of their Western parents? Ultimately, I argue that while the transnational family suggests transformative transnational connections, Western humanitarian frameworks have also sought to manage the messiness of these connections, to fix white and black bodies into old colonial roles, and to exclude certain bodies, namely those of the African birth mothers, out of the affective realm of transnational adoption. At the same time, these attempts at management, I argue, only speak to the productive potential of these messy relations to transform and exceed colonial limitations.

聚醯亞胺薄膜用於軟性電路板市場從2006年起，由於競爭者眾多，整個產業環境變得十分嚴苛，事業屬性從獨佔性變成競爭十分激烈的寡佔性市場。此篇論文通過產業的總體環境分析及產業分析來對軟板市場進行區隔，並針對不同目標市場擬定行銷策略，將產品重新定位來滿足不同目標市場的需求，以期達到杜邦公司聚醯亞胺薄膜產品在軟性電路板市場的永續成長。 從含有產品價格因素在內的問卷調查中找到產業鏈中最有議價能力廠商的最重要需求及預估用量，進而做為公司開發下一世代聚醯亞胺薄膜產品的依據。 / Start from 2006, Polyimide films industry has become very competitive in flexible printed circuits applications. The polyimide film industry has transformed from monopoly to oligopoly, major players in flexible printed circuits market are DuPont, Kaneka, SKC-Kolon and Taimide companies. After analyzing the political, economics, social, technical and industrial trends, The FPC industry has been re-segmented into two segments – Basic market and Niche market. With different strategies been developed for different markets, we re-position our different type of Kapton® polyimide films for different markets and developed an executable marketing plan which will be test in selected customers. Through price included questionarries, we also found the key industrial decision makers’ unmet needs, price expectation and potential volume. Base on the findings, we are able to develop the next generation polyimide films to satisfy customers.

The diplom a thesis deals with home and its concepts in philosophical works. The aim was to grasp and describe home as a philosophical category, using the ideas and theories that we found in the Czech philosophical texts that came out during the 20th and 21st centuries. Through these available information, we have attempted to unify and create a more coherent, interconnected theory, in which we divided home intoseveral basic chapters that are absolutely decisive and decisive for the concept and understanding of home, both past and present.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study examined the roles of commitment and attributions in uninvolved partner responses to imagined sexual infidelity. Undergraduate students (N = 298) in dating relationships participated in a hypothetical sexual infidelity scenario in which they imagined their romantic partner engaged in sexual intercourse with someone else. Measured-variable path analysis was used to evaluate the predictive ability of commitment and attributions on negative emotional responses and predicted relationship continuation. The hypothesized conceptual model demonstrated poor fit to sample data. Through exploratory model building, an alternative model was generated that demonstrated good fit to sample data. A subset of commitment, investment, predicted negative affect. In addition, attributions predicted predictions of relationship continuation. Negative emotional responses were highly endorsed on a validated measure for emotional responses, the PANAS-X (Watson & Clark, 1994). Further, study findings highlight the importance of the use of a compliance check in assessing successful participant completion of imagined infidelity scenario. Unique study contributions include directions for further conceptual model development for this area of research as well as support for the use of compliance checks and careful selection of infidelity scenario.

The submission of this thesis was preceded by a specialised studio „Brněnské nábřeží a kulturní čtvrť Ponava“. This work focused on a complex urban architectural solution to the area around the former “Jaselská kasárna”, the urban context, transport services, the field configuration etc. The thesis follows this project in a section defined by streets U Červeného mlýna, Staňkova and Střední. The goal of the thesis lies in the creation of an intensive goal – a cultural area, which will offer a high-quality space for intergenerational communication and new social experiences and activities. It newly connects the urban part Ponava with the town center of Brno by a high-quality axis for pedestrian and cycling transport. The project of this cultural area arose after a thorough analysis of surrounding, intercity and global relations as a combination of aims: for children – the elementary art school with graphic and dancing fields, for seniors – leisure time center, and for all together - a multifunctional concert hall and a revitalized area of the former industrial zone of furniture production to a multipurpose intergenerational area with a modern art gallery, offices for young businessmen, architects and artists, and a music club in the basement of the gallery.