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Facebook är ett populärt nätvert som många använder sig av i dagens läge. I och med att Facebook är en plats där man ständigt interagerar med andra människor är jag intresserad att ta reda på hur självkänslan påverkas av ett aktivt Facebookanvändande vilket även är syftet med hela uppsatsen. Mina frågeställningar är: Hur påverkas självkänslan av att använda Facebook? Vilka specifika funktioner bidrar till att påverka självkänslan? För att ta reda på detta har jag använt mig av kvalitativa intervjuer som jag har utfört på fyra aktiva användare. I min analys har jag kommit fram till att Facebook påverkar självkänslan både positivt och negativt. Jämförelsen med andra personers profiler har främst en negativ påverkan, men kan även fungera som motivation till att själv prestera bättre. Bekräftelse i form av "likes" och fina kommentarer visade sig endast ha en positiv påvkeran på självkänslan. De specifika funktioner som bidrar till att påverka självkänslan är statusuppdateringar, bilder, gilla-funktionen samt möjligheten att få positiva kommentarer av andra personer.

Mitt syfte med denna examensuppsats har varit att analysera och beskriva hur fem formgivarnamarknadsför sig själva och sina produkter på internet. Utifrån detta syfte formulerades tre frågeställningar: Vilka egenskaper har gjort webbsidan attraktiv för den besökande? Vilket syfte har formgivaren med webbsidan? Hur visualiserar och presenterar formgivaren sina produkter och sig själv?   För att besvara dessa har jag använt mig av den kvalitativa metoden, semiotisk bildanalys och ettfrågeformulär med öppet strukturerade frågor i standardiserad ordning använts. Formuläret har skickats uttill fem formgivarna via e-post. Valet av respondenter skedde genom ett strategiskt urval av pristagare frånElle interiörs designpris mellan åren 2006-2011. Av de fem valda formgivare har alla svarat.Resultatet av denna studie har utvecklats från mina åsikter som besökare av formgivarnas hemsidor,respondenternas svar på frågeformuläret och genom en analys av deras marknadsföring ur en semiotisksynvinkel.Slutsatsen av studien av de utvalda formgivarnas marknadsföring av dem själva och deras produkterfastställer att marknadsföringen som formgivarna använder sig av är en informativ marknadsföring riktaddirekt till slutkunden. Uppsatsen ska ses som generell för vad företag inom formgivning bör tänka på närde marknadsför sig och sina produkter via internet.

The design process of aerospace systems is becoming more and more complex. As the process is progressively becoming enterprise-wide, it involves multiple vendors and encompasses the entire life-cycle of the system, as well as a system-of-systems perspective. The amount of data and information generated under this paradigm has increased exponentially creating a difficult situation as it pertains to data storage, management, and retrieval. Furthermore, the data themselves are not suitable or adequate for use in most cases and must be translated into knowledge with a proper level of abstraction. Adding to the problem is the fact that the knowledge discovery process needed to support the growth of data in aerospace systems design has not been developed to the appropriate level. In fact, important design decisions are often made without sufficient understanding of their overall impact on the aircraft's life, because the data have not been efficiently converted and interpreted in time to support design. In order to make the design process adapt to the life-cycle centric requirement, this thesis proposes a methodology to provide the necessary supporting knowledge for better design decision making. The primary contribution is the establishment of a knowledge engineering framework for design decision support to effectively discover knowledge from the existing data, and efficiently manage and present the knowledge throughout all phases of the aircraft life-cycle. The second contribution is the proposed methodology on the feature generation and exploration, which is used to improve the process of knowledge discovery process significantly. In addition, the proposed work demonstrates several multimedia-based approaches on knowledge presentation.

The present study investigated self-presentational predictors of shyness among university students via a mediational causal model, in which socially-prescribed perfectionism, perceived social skills, and perceived parental attitudes were proposed to interact with fear of negative evaluation and self-esteem to predict shyness. The sample consisted of 497 undergraduate students (287 females, 210 males) selected from Middle East Technical University by stratified random sampling. Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Social Skills Inventory-Short, and Parental Attitude Scale were used in data collection. Pilot studies were conducted for assessing the reliability and validity of Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, and Social Skills Inventory-Short. Path analysis was utilized to test the causal model. The results revealed that shyness was positively predicted from fear of negative evaluation and socially-prescribed perfectionism / and negatively from self-esteem and perceived social skills. Fear of negative evaluation was predicted positively from socially-prescribed perfectionism and perceived strictness/supervision from parents, and negatively from self-esteem / whereas self-esteem was predicted positively from perceived social skills, perceived parental psychological autonomy and acceptance/involvement, and negatively from socially-prescribed perfectionism. These findings suggested that fear of negative evaluation partially mediated the relationship between shyness and socially-prescribed perfectionism / between shyness and perceived parental strictness/supervision / and between shyness and self-esteem. In addition, self-esteem partially mediated the association of shyness with socially-prescribed perfectionism / with perceived social skills / with parental acceptance/involvement / and with parental psychological autonomy. Findings are discussed within the self-presentational framework of shyness.

The main subject of the thesis is multi-layered historical towns which are formed as a result of collective creation process and continuous inhabitancy that new buildings, edifices and open areas superimpose in time forming a specific character which can be defined as multi-layeredness. Considering the specific character of multi-layered towns, the principles for the presentation of historical stratification is the foremost objective of the thesis. The thesis focuses on &amp / #8216 / presentation principles based on cultural significance of multi-layered historical towns so as to conserve, sustain and present their specific character as an integral part of the conservation process. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to determine presentation principles for multilayered historical towns in order to reveal and conserve their historical stratification by assessing the historical continuities, interruptions and transformations based on the cultural significance of multi-layeredness. Focusing on this aim, the thesis is structured in two parts as the identification of presentation principles for multi-layered historical towns, discussing the information groups effecting the determination of cultural significance followed by the implementation of these principles on a concrete example as the case study. Subsequently, a proposal for the presentation principles guiding the design stages together with the identification of information groups for the determination of cultural significance is apprehended for the case study. The case study selected in the thesis for the implementation of the proposed principles is Tarsus which is a multi-layered historical town in Turkey having presentation potential for historical stratification. To conclude, depending on the cultural significance specific to multi-layered historical towns, presentation is a way for the understanding and dissemination of these significances. The presentation principles set in this thesis can be regarded as a part of the conservation planning that has to be integrated to the existing process and it is possible to state that these principles are essential for the conservation and sustainability of multi-layered character of historical towns.

It is defined in international charters that presentation is one of the main responsibilities of conservation policies. The consicousness on cultural heritages and their conservation leads to related disciplines to prepare efficient presentations. Traditional presentations cannot bear to constitute a medium where different types of information and mulitple techniques can be integrated in a single medium. This thesis considers Virtual Environment as a multi-layered medium for such a need and uses it on the presentation of a Architectural Cultural Heritage that has a very important place in the foundation of Turkish Republic. The study proposes a scheme for the process with respect to the author&amp / #8217 / s technical capabilities and literature surveys on the examples that are prepared in VE and searches the advantages or disadvantages, sufficiencies or insufficiencies. The system runs through a CD that is attached to back of the text, has an interactive virtual tour and internet pages that are all prepared by the author.

The subject of presentation of archaeological resources is still a developing concept in Turkey. The concepts of educational value and concern, needs a more common recognition and more practice in this context. The same statement goes for the management of natural resources. However, proper public presentation of archaeological and natural resources and public education in those is crucial for the protection of these resources. Moreover, an integrated presentation, approaching the archaeological resources within their natural environment, is required for sustainability, a better preservation and interpretation of the resources. In this sense, this thesis proposes an application / a trail system for the integrated presentation of the archaeological and natural resources in the case of METU Campus Area in Ankara, Turkey. In this way, it aims to ensure the preservation of the resources by raising awareness through good interpretation and education.

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the behavior of news jobholders managing the blog. There have been lots of researches for the motivation of writing blogs. Based upon past researches, this thesis adds the partial traditional dissemination theory idea to discuss the relation between criticalness of blog presentation and diversified blog topics from the gatekeeper pressure, challenging the point of view of the organization, communication, requirement from the company, and self-presents. The research is conducted by Questionnaire Survey and it is found that the communication, criticalness, and the subject multiplication in the blogs are significantly correlated. In the other hand, the requirement from the company and self-present are only related to diversified blog topics. As a result, the motivation and habit of news jobholders using blogs alter unceasingly. The future study can focus more on addressing this difference of evolving to realize how news jobholders in the traditional media work use new technical blogs.

Als die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) im Mai 2007 in die Universitätsund Landesbibliothek Halle einlud, waren die Ziele klar abgesteckt: Die zahlreichen, von der DFG geförderten Massendigitalisierungsprojekte an deutschen Bibliotheken sollten besser koordiniert und für die Wissenschaft noch besser sichtbar werden. Vertreter der Bayrischen Staatsbibliothek, der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Halle, der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB), der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen und der DFG diskutierten deshalb über gemeinsame Datenformate und Richtlinien zur Gestaltung der Internetpräsentation von Digitalisaten.