Background: The combination of three forces, the organizations’ desire for visibility, the citizens’ interest in the HSOs and the increasing pressure upon journalists to attract the interest of the audiences have all contributed to the fact that HSO managers nowadays have more interactions with the media than ever before. Aim: The aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper knowledge about HSO managers’ interaction with the media; their experience of the interaction, strategies and support. Method: The material of the study A was subject to a qualitative research approach along the lines of grounded theory, whereas content analysis was applied to study B. Results: The results show how the personal consequences as well as the consequences for their managerial practice vary in accordance with the extent to which the manager, the organization and the media attribute individual focus. The amount of support and from where within the organization the support was offered varied. When the managers did receive support from within their organization, it primarily came from co-workers or subordinates. Any strategies for interactions with the media were rarely organization-wide or even put into writing. Instead, they were defined by the managers themselves along the way. Discussion: The managers’ interactions with the media may be influenced both on a managerial and organizational level. Neither manager nor organization seem to profit from an individual focus, at least not in the long term. Conclusions: The result indicate the grade of reactions, stand in relation to the level of personification. Also the results suggests that this was influenced by the manager him- or herself, the organization as a whole and by the media. Managers tended to strive for an open and proactive strategy in relation to the media. They did not perceive much support and felt they were expected to handle the interactions with the media all on their own. / Bakgrund: Mötet mellan media och chefer inom Human Service Organisationer (HSO) har kommit att förändrats. Journalisten har allt mindre tid på sig att utforma sina rapporteringar varför förenklade beskrivningar har i högre grad kommit att bli en del av journalisternas vardag. Parallellt har medborgarnas krav på transparens kring HSO ökat, vilket bidragit till mediernas ökade bevakning kring dessa verksamheter. Artiklar och inslag ifrån HSO väcker ofta ett intresse och i ett allt mer hårdnande medialandskap så tävlar journalisterna om sina mottagare. Samtidigt har HSO ett allt större intresse för att synas i media. Medias kanaler har blivit ett viktigare medel för ett uppbyggande och bibehållande av varumärket. Dessa tre samspelande krafter; verksamheterna önskan om att synas, medborgarnas intresse för HSO och journalisternas allt mer ökade krav på att väcka intresse hos mottagaren har bidragit till att de chefer som leder HSO har fler möten med media och att dessa möten har kommit att bli viktigare för verksamheterna. Syfte: Syftet med avhandlingen var att identifiera hur chefer inom HSO som möter media reagerar då de är i ett personligt fokus. Likaså var syftet att undersöka vilka stödåtgärder de erbjudits och efterfrågat samt hur stöd och strategier kan påverka mötet med media. Metod: Avhandlingsarbetet i den första studien har en kvalitativ forskningsansats i linje med grounded theory, medan den andra studien utgår ifrån innehållsanalys. Resultat: Resultaten visar på hur graden av reaktioner kan påverkas av i vilken grad chefen själv, organisationen och media personifierar. I den mån chefen själv ser sig som ensam ansvarig och organisationen inte verkar för att dela ansvaret så ökar graden av reaktioner hos chefen. Kombineras den interna personifieringen med extern personifiering såsom ifrån media så ökar graden av reaktioner hos chefen ytterligare. Väljer verksamheterna att fördela ansvaret för mötet med media minskar istället graden av personifiering och därmed också chefernas reaktioner. Graden av stöd och varifrån stödet erbjöds i organisationen varierade, men resultatet visade på att majoriteten av de chefer som ingick i studien vare sig förväntade sig eller fick så mycket stöd under ett medialt fokus. I den mån cheferna fick stöd inom den egna organisationen så var det främst ifrån kollegor och underordnade. Vad gäller strategier för mötet med media så var strategin sällan organisationsgemensam och nedskriven utan den utformades allteftersom av cheferna själva. Diskussion: Resultatet visar att konsekvenserna på chefsfunktionen och organisationen varierar beror på i vilken grad chefen, organisationen och media hanterar personifiering. Varken chef eller organisation tycks tjäna på en personifiering, åtminstone inte i förlängningen. Ett uppdelat ansvar mellan överordnad, kommunikatör och ledningsgrupp skulle kunna minska graden av personifiering. Detta skulle i sin tur kunna förbättra förutsättningarna för ett tryggare möte med media. Slutsatser: Reaktioner såsom undvikande, obeslutsamhet, en vilja att avgå samt en hårdhet gentemot sig själv och andra stod i direkt relation till graden av personifiering. Graden av reaktionerna kan påverkas av chefen själv, organisationen samt av media. Cheferna i studien strävade efter ett öppet och proaktivt förhållningssätt i relation till media. De uppfattade inte mycket stöd och ansåg det som sitt ansvar att möta media själva. Stöd som de fick kom ifrån kollegor och underordnade. / <p>QC 20160502</p>

Throughout the procreation sonnets and those numerous sonnets that promise immortality through verse for Shakespeare's beloved young man, the poet personifies time as an agent of relentlessly destructive change. Yet Shakespeare's approach to the personification of time, as well as his reactions to time, changes over the course of the sequence. He transforms his fear of and obsession with time as a destroyer typical of most sonnets to an attitude of mastery over the once ominous force. The act of contemplating time's power by personification provides the speaker with a deeper awareness of time, love, and mutability that allows him to form several new philosophies which resolve his fear. By the end of the sequence, the poet no longer fortifies himself and the beloved against time's devastation because his new outlook fosters an acceptance of time that opposes and thus negates his previous contention with this force.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-09-09T11:37:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 KÁTIA GORETH SARDINHA FERNANDES.pdf: 1014050 bytes, checksum: e1369e89d3283b287c346eff63fbd15b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-09T11:37:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 KÁTIA GORETH SARDINHA FERNANDES.pdf: 1014050 bytes, checksum: e1369e89d3283b287c346eff63fbd15b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-10 / This Master’s dissertation aimed to analyze and investigate the personification of evil in Grande Sertão: Veredas of Guimarães Rosa. (Great Wilderness): Paths of starting from that the religiosity in the work is present in Brazilian literature, and it is relevant at all times, because it concerns the popular culture of the people, with regional hinterlands traits. Addressing some ways how society prepares its imaginary about the demon figure, the devil figure often regulates the way of acting and thinking of the people according to the local culture in which they live, in this case the wilderness. The research Work of Grande Sertão: Veredas contributes to survey the specific situations of personification of evil and its main culture traits established by people who lived in a particular place. The analysis in its social-historical and cultural context is relevant to note and understand the interconnection and the interrelation of these situations of cultural regionalism and the relations of que religious phenomenon. For the academic field it means to deepen the knowledge of the religious phenomenon in relation to this literature concepts in the work Grande Sertão: Veredas contains narratives that reflect the realities of the existence of God and the Devil lived in the backcountry people culture. Here it can be seen the popular imagination in the devil figure, very present in the religious and popular culture in the work of Guimarães Rosa. Based on these principles, is intented to address the Devil’s existence raised by own narrator and protagonist, the roughneck Riobaldo. The devil appers throughout the work, in various metaphors or populars images involving good and evil, love and hate especially, saying and popular names of the devil and beliefs of religiosity present in the backcountry. / Esta dissertação de Mestrado buscou analisar e investigar a personificação do mal em Grande Sertão: Veredas de Guimarães Rosa partindo de que a religiosidade na obra está presente na literatura brasileira, sendo relevante em todas as épocas, porque diz respeito à cultura popular do povo, com traços regionais do sertão. Abordando algumas formas de como a sociedade elabora seu imaginário acerca da figura do demônio, a figura do diabo regula muitas vezes a forma de agir e pensar das pessoas de acordo com a cultura local em que estão inseridos, neste caso o sertão. A pesquisa da obra Grande Sertão: Veredas contribui para fazer um levantamento das situações específicas da personificação do mal e seus principais traços de cultura estabelecida por pessoas que viviam em uma determinada região. A análise em seu contexto sócio-histórico e cultural torna relevante observar e compreender a interconexão e interrelação dessas situações do regionalismo cultural e as relações do fenômeno religioso. Para o campo acadêmico isso significa aprofundar os conhecimentos sobre o fenômeno religioso em relação aos conceitos de literatura presente na obra Grande Sertão: Veredas. O texto Grande Sertão: Veredas contém narrativas que refletem realidades da existência de Deus e do demônio vividas na cultura do povo sertanejo. Aqui poderá ser visto o imaginário popular na figura do demônio, muito presente na cultura popular religiosa e na obra de Guimarães Rosa. Com base nestes princípios, pretende-se abordar o problema da existência do diabo, levantado pelo próprio narrador e protagonista, o jagunço Riobaldo. O diabo aparece, ao longo da obra, sob diversas metáforas ou imagens populares envolvendo o bem e o mal, o amor e o ódio, sobretudo, ditos e nomes populares sobre o demônio e crenças da religiosidade presente no sertão.

Cette thèse s'intéresse à la personnalisation et à la personnification d'agents intelligents dans le cadre d'applications web. Les techniques de personnalisation et de personnification sont de plus en plusutilisées pour mieux répondre aux besoins des utilisateurs. La plupart de ces techniques reposent sur des outils de raisonnement issus de l'intelligence artificielle. Cependant, ces techniques sont habituellement utilisés de manière ad-hoc pour chaque application. L'approche de cette thèse est de considérer la personnalisation et la personnification comme deux instances d'altération de comportement, et à étudier l'altération du comportements d'agents rationnels. Les principales contributions sont WAIG, un formalisme basé sur le langage Golog adapté à l'expression d'applications web, et PAGE, un cadre formel pour la manipulation et l'altération de programmes agents Golog, permettant la transformation automatique d'agent selon un critère donné. Ces contributions sont illustrés par plusieurs scénarios concrets issus des domaines de la personnalisation et de la personnification. / This thesis deals with personalization and personification of rational agents within the framework of web applications. Personalization and personification techniques are more and more used to answer the needs of users. Most of those techniques are based on reasoning tools that come from the artificial inteligence field. However, those techniques are usually used in an ad-hoc way for each application. The approach of this thesis is to consider personaliaation and personification as two instances of alteration of behaviour, and to study the alteration of the behaviours of rational agents. The main contributions are WAIG, a formalism for the expression of web applications based on the agent programming language Golog, and PAGE, a formal framework for the manipulation and the alteration of Golog agent programs, which allow to transform an agent automatically following a given criterion. Those contributions are illustrated by concrete scenarios from the fields of personalization and personification.

Univ., Diss.--Hamburg, 2003.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Bonn, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-464).

I argue in my dissertation that Robert John Thornton's (1768?-1837) Temple of Flora (folio 1799-1807, quarto 1812), also entitled "The Universal Empire of Love," represents personified botanical flowers of the British Empire in a colonial microcosm where anthropomorphic plants are allegorized as Europe's others. This book was a collectible item with plates issued in a series of subscriptions, which were always bound in different combinations so that no two copies were ever the same--a book that depicts a metamorphic view of nature through a series of alterations made to the individual plates, which reflects the diversity of exotic and familiar territories in the world and the mysteries within it. Thornton chose plants, flower symbolism, and landscape backgrounds "with scenery appropriated to their subject," to encapsulate the universe as a series of botanical scenes of exotic and familiar territories of Britain's past and present, and this botanical world includes four continents of the world symbolically represented as women through the relationship between image and text, the diversity of people and naturalia within these territories, and the passage of historical and chronological time. TheTemple of Flora is a textual space that involves strategies of possessing and knowing nature through the collection and conquest of plants that represent the colonial inhabitants of the British Empire ensconced in their territories and collected by wealthy Britons as a miniature colonial and exotic world bound between two covers. / History of Science

Thesis (M. A.)--Southern California College, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-116).

Ce sujet consiste en l'étude des monuments et des images des provinces dans l'empire romain. il n'a jamais été traité dans la bibliographie scientifique dans la perspective de ce travail ce qui rend son approche innovante. il ne s'agit pas seulement de comprendre et d'expliquer la signification ou la typologie de l'iconographie des provinces de l'empire, mais aussi le contexte urbain et architectural de ce type de décoration., et l'histoire qui est à son origine. la mise en rapport entre les représentations et les divers monuments sur lesquels elles s'installent est très importante. a cela on peut également ajouter le contexte urbanistique de ces architectures transmettant l'image provinciale. la nature du monument a toujours un rapport direct avec les représentations qui y figurent, permettant à la fois de définir la nature du monument par rapport à l'iconographie présente ou l'interprétation des images à travers la fonction du bâtiment.sans renoncer aux aspects techniques, ni au catalogue, indispensables pour l'étude générale, cette recherche propose d'étudier l'ensemble de la documentation (iconographique, épigraphique, textuelle) , et d'analyser également la dimension sociale, urbanistique et historique des images des provinces à l'époque romaine.cette recherche est un complèment de la thèse de fabiola salcedo intitulé africa iconografia de una provincia romana, soutenue en 1996, qui est un travail complet sur l'iconographie de la province de l'afrique / This subject consists of the study of monuments and images of provinces in the Roman Empire.

A Familiar Context - a survey and comparison of mathematical language in the most widely-used mathematics textbook and in the standardized national tests for grade 6 students in Sweden. Studies have shown that language has a crucial role when students learn mathematics but there is a lack of empirical surveys mapping how mathematical language is used in different practices. One aspect of mathematical language called personification, which is associated with something that generates personal interest or contributes with a familiar context, seems to affect low-performing students in a negative way in their problem solving in the subjects of algebra and geometry. The overall aim of this study is to perform an empirical survey and analysis over how the personification of the mathematical language is used in the most commonly used mathematics textbook and the standardized national tests for students in grade 6 in Sweden. To answer this purpose, two research questions have been formulated: To what extent are natural language, mathematical imagery and mathematical symbols personalized in the field of algebra and geometry? How do typical mathematical tasks differ in the subjects of algebra and geometry? Method: Selected mathematical tasks from the most commonly used mathematics textbook and the national tests were analyzed in regards to personification. These selected tasks were also analyzed in regards to the concepts, metonymy and metaphor which can be used to distinguish the core of natural language in mathematical tasks. Results: There are differences between the uses of personification in the subjects of algebra and geometry. Personification was also found to be more common in the national tests than in the mathematics textbook. A comparison between the typical tasks from each subject area in the mathematics textbook and the national tests also showed that metaphorical form, a concept like personification associated with familiar context, is used more in the national tests than in the mathematics book. Conclusions: A clear difference in the use of personification and metaphorical form between textbooks and standardized national tests in mathematics for year 6 students was identified. Such differences in language usage may impair mathematics knowledge assessment. It is therefore important to make authors aware of how language use can affect a student's problem solving ability and raises the question as to whether personification and metaphorical form should be included in testing mathematical knowledge?