Gambling becomes a source of difficulties of varying severity for some individuals whereas it is a positive experience for most of other people. Although gambling continues to be an entertaining activity for the majority of gambling individuals, prevalence rates suggest that pathological gambling is not low compared to other types of diagnosis. Most of the data with respect to gambling is from Western gambling literature, whereas research investigating the associated features of problem and pathological gamblers are very limited in the Turkish sample. The present study aimed to adapt two gambling-related instruments into Turkish and subsequently to examine the contributory roles of gambling participation, personality, affect, cognition, and motives of Turkish gamblers on gambling severity and gambling-related harm. The present study sample consisted of 357 males who were gambling in the sports and horse-races betting terminals. The findings pointed out it is important to conduct gambling research with Turkish samples considering the gambling severity and harm scores of the participants. The Turkish versions of Gambling-Related Cognitions Scale and Gambling Motives Scale showed promising psychometric properties with respect to their reliability and validity analyses. Besides, relatively higher negative affect, neuroticism, gambling-related cognitions, avoidance motive, and gambling participation were found to be associates of probable pathological gambling among Turkish regular gambling individuals. Moreover, the relationships of gambling cognitions / motives and gambling severity were mediated by the gambling participation. The main findings and related findings of the present study together with their implications are reported and discussed within the relevant gambling literature.

More and more industries have collaborated aggressively with other fields, and try to strengthen their relationship recently in cultural creative industries. However, people always focus their attention on the successful reason of executing alliance, but they ignore the successful reason of concluding alliance. The process of concluding alliance usually come fault because of the gap in their concept. For the reason, this thesis will research the factor of concluding alliance successfully. According to the process of concluding alliance, we have known the result of concluding alliance would have affected by motive, partner selection and the type of alliance. The alliance could conclude when the factor match up with each other. Base on this structure, the thesis try to explore which reason affecting the alliance conclusion. This thesis applied in-depth interview method to gather the firsthand information of the cultural creative industries. According to the research structure and firsthand information, it could generalize five successful factor of concluding alliance. Finally, it would have examined the development of cultural creative industries in Taiwan and found them lack for a channel to connect.

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<p>This essay seeks to discern the motives of the aid allocation of western governments. The aim of the essay is to find differences between three highly similar aid donors: namely Denmark, Norway and Sweden, by doing a comparative case study according to the most similar case method. The research has been conducted by analyzing material from two ministers of each government, the Foreign Ministers and Ministers for International Development, by using a motive-analysis method. Social constructivism and structural realism have been used as a theoretical explanation. These two theories have been helpful in understanding how International Relations work.The results showed that although the three countries were highly similar, they showed some crucial differences in their motivation for aid allocation, especially in the case of Denmark. Theoretically, this could be explained by social constructivism, i.e. that the states have different priorities and experiences.</p>

In dieser Arbeit geht es um private Homepages, und dabei insbesondere aus einer persönlichkeitspsychologischen und differentiell-psychologischen Perspektive um die Besitzer und Besitzerinnen solcher Webangebote. Im Kapitel 1 ("Einführung: Selbstdarstellung und Persönlichkeit auf privaten Homepages") geht es um Aspekte der Selbstdarstellung im Allgemeinen, und im Speziellen auf privaten Homepages. Dieses Kapitel ist eine Einleitung für die vorliegende Arbeit. Im Kapitel 2 ("Explikation des Begriffs "private Homepage"") wird zunächst ein Überblick über das bisherige Verständnis und die bisherigen Definitionen bzw. Definitionsversuche hinsichtlich des Forschungsgegenstandes 'Private Homepage' gegeben – was also wird eigentlich unter dem Begriff einer privaten Homepage verstanden? Am Ende dieses Abschnitts werden die in dieser Arbeit verwendeten definitorischen Aspekte vorgestellt. Einen Überblick über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Forschung zum Gegenstand 'Private Homepage' finden Sie im Kapitel 3 ("Stand der Forschung zum Gegenstand "Private Homepage""). Zentral in diesem Kapitel ist eine Tabelle, in der alle dem Verfasser bekannten und für die vorliegende Arbeit relevant erscheinenden empirischen Forschungsarbeiten zu privaten Homepages aus sozialwissenschaftlichen und verwandten Disziplinen gelistet sind. Der empirische Teil dieser Arbeit umfasst zwei Studien. Kapitel 4 ("Selbstdarsteller oder Menschen wie Du und ich?") hat die erste empirische Studie zum Inhalt. Auf Basis einer mit der Zielsetzung der Repräsentativität gezogenen Stichprobe privater deutschsprachiger Homepages und einer webbasierten Befragung von N = 266 Homepagebesitzern werden vor dem Hintergrund psychologischer Theorien der Selbstdarstellung Ergebnisse zur Soziodemographie, Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen, Zielen, Zielgruppen, sowie intendierte Wirkungen von Homepagebesitzern berichtet. Dieses Kapitel endet mit einem Exkurs, in dem in explorativer Weise Aspekte der Selbstdarstellung – insbesondere Aspekte einer authentischen Selbstdarstellung auf der Homepage – vertieft werden; die Ergebnisse dieses Abschnitts beruhen auf Interviews, die mit ausgewählten Homepagebesitzern geführt wurden. Kapitel 5 ("Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung von Besitzern privater Homepages") hat die zweite empirische Studie zum Gegenstand. Auf Basis einer selektiven Stichprobe von als 'besonders, vom Durchschnitt abweichend' eingeschätzter Homepages werden die Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung von Homepagebesitzern hinsichtlich verschiedener ausgewählter Persönlichkeitsmerkmale verglichen. Dabei wird zunächst untersucht, ob zwischen Ratern, die die Persönlichkeit der Homepagebesitzer auf Basis des Betrachtens derer Homepages einschätzen, Konsens besteht, und ob die Persönlichkeitseinschätzungen der Rater mit den Selbsturteilen der Homepagebesitzer übereinstimmend sind, wenn das Kriterium die Selbstbeschreibungsdaten der Homepagebesitzer sind. Untersucht wird weiter, ob spezifische Merkmale der Homepage Moderatoren für die Persönlichkeitseinschätzung der Homepagebesitzer sind. Im Kapitel 6 finden Sie eine generelle Diskussion zu der vorliegenden Arbeit.

Der Artikel untersucht einen Werbespot von David Lynch für die Playstation 2 und ordnet ihn in das Universum der Lynch’schen Texte, das Lynchville, ein. Zunächst werden dazu einige regelmäßig wiederkehrende Motive aus dem Werk Lynchs vorgestellt. Es folgt eine eingehende Analyse des Werbespots, in der zahlreiche Parallelen zu den bekannten Filmen des Œuvres aufgezeigt werden. Abschließend wird kurz der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern der Begriff „auteur“ in dieser wohl kommerziellsten aller filmischen Ausdrucksformen überhaupt anwendbar ist. Der Artikel kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass es Lynch in diesem Werbespot gelingt, eine persönliche Visiondurchscheinen zu lassen – und dass die Karte des Lynchville deshalb um einen neuen Ort ergänzt werden muss. / The article analyzes a television-commercial, which David Lynch shot for the launch of Playstation 2. It tries to introduce that commercial into the universe of well known Lynch-Movies, the Lynchville. At first, some of the recurrent motives in Lynch’s work will be discussed. Then the commercial will be analyzed, especially regarding any parallels to Lynch’s Œuvre. Finally, the question will shortly be discussed whether in this most commercial form of filmmaking the term “auteur” can still apply. The article comes to the conclusion, that Lynch succeeds in maintaining his personal vision – and that therefore the map of Lynchville has to be expanded.

Nano-sized particles are widely regarded as a tool to study biological events at cellular and molecular levels. However, there are only a few imaging modalities that can visualize interactions between nanoparticles and living cells. A new technique -- pulsed magneto-motive ultrasound imaging, capable of in-vivo imaging of magnetic nanoparticles at improved depth and in real-time is introduced in this study. In pulsed magneto-motive ultrasound imaging, an external high-strength pulsed magnetic field is applied to induce motion within magnetically labeled tissue and ultrasound is used to detect the induced internal tissue motion. A laboratory prototype of a pulsed magneto- motive ultrasound imaging system was built, tested and optimized through modeling and experimental studies using tissue-mimicking phantoms, ex-vivo tissue samples and in- vivo mouse tumor model. The results demonstrated a sufficient contrast between normal and iron-laden tissue labeled with ultra-small magnetic nanoparticles. Finally, further modifications and research directions are discussed which can eventually lead to development of a clinically applicable pulsed magneto-motive ultrasound imaging system. / text

This study investigates four pre-school teachers point of view on loud-reading. The study aims to illuminate the pre-school teachers motive of reading loudly. The case study has been done with a socio-cultural perspective on teaching as a basic. I have chosen to use the qualitative interview technique in order to examine how teachers include loud-reading in their lessons. Informants claimed that reading-loudly nearly always is done in group, but how large the group is could vary of course. All of the teachers stated there were a lot of reasons for loud-reading. In spite of the informants claim that there are a lot of reasons to do so, the overall motive was to calm down the pupils. As for that the consensus was complete, whilst the reason for reading loudly spontaneously or plannedly did differ.

This comparative study deals with male and female subjects during their visit to Stockholm. The aim was to find out if there were any general differences in travel motives between the sexes. Travel motive and motivation in tourism is a topic that has long been studied. With the help of various motivation theories and theories about how motives for travelling are created, we conducted a survey of tourists in Stockholm and then compared their travel motives. The results gave similar answers to what we had expected regarding gender differences. Among women, the main motive was shopping. Overall, the need to see family and friends was the primary reason to visit Stockholm. We can see tendencies that there are general differences in travel motives between the sexes during their visit to Stockholm. However, there are a variety of factors that may have contributed to these differences, which are presented in greater detail later in this paper.

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