Mémoire (M.Ed.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1995. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig Maximilians-Universität zu München, 1979.

Proefschrift Universiteit Maastricht. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

In today's business world, the role of children in the family buying decision-making process is continuously getting the importance and attention of researchers, academics, and business organizations. The depth of children‟s influence on the family is still untapped in the contemporary research process. Changes in socioeconomic and demographic structures considerably increase the involvement of children in their family decision making. This has created an analysis gap in this field of study. No prior research was conducted in this field of study with particular reference to Bangladesh Bangladeshi and the British Bangladeshi children. The main area of interest of the thesis is to explore the role of children in the family buying process. The review of the literature proposes a conceptual framework/model which considers different socioeconomic and demographic factors. The literature does not only describe the influence of children in the family buying decision stages, but it also discusses the degree and influence of other factors. A detailed comparison is made of the roles between children in Bangladesh Bangladeshi and the British Bangladeshi families. The pedagogical conceptual framework works as a precursor to form the research hypotheses used to analyze the data more critically. A cluster random sampling was used to collect the data from the United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Data was collected directly from 200 respondents through the structured questionnaire system. Secondary data was used to analyze the research gap. A structured questionnaire was pre-tested in order to measure the validity, reliability and proper justification of the conduct of the study. Statistical tools were used to analyze the descriptive and multivariate analysis for the quantitative data. Analysis of the data assisted in testing the hypotheses guiding the study and explored new research phenomena in which the role of children in the family buying decision-making process was identified. Any research gap will form the recommendations of the study.

No / In this chapter we lay out a broad outline of Rostow’s Stages growth theory. Rostow in his seminal work identified five different stages of economic growth - the traditional society, the preconditions for take-off, the take-off, the drive to maturity, and the age of high mass consumption. Interest in Rostow’s stages theory was in 1960s and persists even now as researchers are still intrigued by the ideas and notions laid out in Rostow’s theory (Costa et al. 2016 a,b; McCartney 2018; Solivetti 2005). Interestingly in today’s world, the theory is being applied to different contexts and scenarios such as application of theory to environment, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor etc (Kesgingoz, H. and Serkan 2016; McCartney 2018). The stages of growth theory covered a broader spectrum of issues ranging from economic, social and political to US-Russia (the then USSR) cold war and their dominance at the global level. In this chapter we restrict ourselves to economic aspects of stages theory only. / The chapter is published under the title: 'Stages of Growth'

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¡@In this study, the plastic deformation of (001) single crystal silicon at 900 oC is investigated by uniaxial compression along [001]. Using optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy to observe the sample surface, and analysis the corresponding microstructure of different strain deformed silicon by transmission electron microscopy, particularly dislocation, slip systems and work hardening behaviour. ¡@Experimental temperature condition was chosen which over the BDT temperature range of silicon. We were found similar stages of work hardening described in metals and use the result of analysis dislocations and slip systems to suggest a hardening process of plastic deformation. ¡@The observations are similar to the feature in stage II (dislocation tangled) and stage III (dislocation cell structure). Partial dislocation and dipole are formed in less strained sample. We suggest a hardening process of plastic deformation from these results.

Proefschrift Maastricht. / Lit. opg. - Met een samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Background: The southern Appalachian states show a high prevalence of smoking, with associated high rates of both heart disease and cancer, yet cultural differences raise questions concerning the applicability of the most frequently used model for smoking cessation, the transtheoretical model, for smokers from this region of the country. Objective: To identify, by examining the applicability of the transtheoretical model for southern Appalachian smokers, the percentage of individuals in each of the five stages of change, the use of the processes of change from the transtheoretical model, and the scores on recognized predictors of smoking cessation including the temptation to smoke, the perceived barriers to cessation, the pros and cons of smoking, and nicotine dependence. Methods: This population-based, descriptive, cross-sectional study used a random sample of 3,800 telephone numbers, which were called up to eight times. The 659 smokers or former smokers who agreed to participate were mailed a written questionnaire consisting of six well-established scales that measure constructs from the transtheoretical model. The final sample consisted of 357 usable questionnaires. Results: The distribution of smokers in northeastern Tennessee differed from national samples across the first three stages of change, with 56% in precontemplation, as compared with previous findings of 40% in national samples. The subjects' scores for the pros of smoking were similar across the stages of change in this sample, and although the scores for the cons differed significantly across the stages in the sample, post hoc analysis indicated that the only significant change occurred between precontemplation and contemplation. The scores for temptation to smoke did not differ significantly across the stages of change in this sample. Discussion: Smokers from Appalachian Tennessee differ from smokers in other parts of the United States, and these findings raise questions about the applicability of the transtheoretical model for this population.

La maladie d’Alzheimer est largement connue du grand public comme une destruction mnésique amenant peu à peu vers un délitement irréversible de l’appareil neuronal. La majorité des recherches actuelles investigue principalement les stades précoces à modérés de la pathologie. En revanche, lorsque le déclin s’accentue irrémédiablement, présentant alors une perte de l’ensemble des capacités, nous pouvons nous demander ce qui peut encore témoigner d’une possible subjectivité. C’est à ce moment que l’intérêt des chercheurs envers ces malades prend principalement fin. En effet, les personnes ne peuvent alors plus s’alimenter par elles-mêmes, ne sont plus en capacité de subvenir à leurs propres besoins les plus vitaux. Ce qui donne à penser que le cerveau ne sait seulement plus que faire fonctionner le cœur et le système respiratoire. D’autant plus que cet ultime palier se caractérise notamment par une perte apparente de tout langage. Lorsque tout souvenir, savoir et connaissance semblent avoir déserté, sur quelles ressources l’« aidant » peut encore prendre appui ? À ce stade, comment continuer de soutenir une personne sans ne prendre soin que d’un corps ? Car si toute subjectivité donne le sentiment d’être anéantie, le risque peut être grand de dépersonnaliser l’accompagnement. La question de la persistance d’une vie psychique peut alors se poser avec une perspicace acuité. Toutefois, peut-on dire pour autant que cet état se caractérise par une mort psychique ? Les doutes ne peuvent que se confirmer lorsque l’on assiste chez certaines personnes à des manifestations déconcertantes, par exemple, qu’elles soient sous la forme des gestes intrigants, sous l’intonation de cris stridents voire de rires impromptus. Celles-ci ne peuvent venir que dérouter tout professionnel et révéler un sentiment proche d’un constat d’échec. Peut-on y entendre des comportements idiopathiques, témoins uniquement d’un dérèglement cérébral ? Alors comment continuer d’investir ces personnes ? Dans une visée résolument clinique et phénoménologique, quatre accompagnements d’inspiration psychanalytique vont nous permettre de dégager des axes de possibles réponses face à ces différentes interrogations. Notre investigation, pouvant se prolonger chez certaines personnes jusqu’à environ deux ans, se réalise par le biais de séances individuelles. Si les comportements de ces personnes peuvent nous dérouter ce n’est pas tant sur l’incompréhension qu’elles génèrent mais au contraire par les ressources parfois insoupçonnées qu’elles mobilisent. Sous quelles formes un langage peut persister ou parfois être recréé ? Que vient-il révéler de leur vécu psychique ? En quoi ces résultats viennent profondément questionner les cadres actuels pour ces personnes ? Une analyse du contre-transfert mettra à nu ce que peut provoquer un tel accompagnement et esquisser, en perspective, un travail autour du négatif auprès de ceux qui les rencontrent. / Alzheimer's disease is widely known by the general public as a destructive mnesic syndrome evolving little by little into irreversible neuronal deterioration. The majority of current research investigates the early to the moderate stages of the disease. However, when the cognitive decline becomes irreparable, demonstrating a loss of all mental and physical capacities, we may wonder what could bear witness to the patient's possible subjectivity. It is at this point that researchers' interest in patients tends to wane. Indeed, these patients cannot feed themselves anymore, and are no longer capable of meeting their most vital personal needs. This leads us to believe that the brain is only running the heart and respiratory systems, especially as this ultimate stage is characterized by a visible loss of any language. When memory and knowledge seem to have parted, what resources can the "care-giver" lean on? At this stage, how can one continue to care for a patient without focusing merely on the body? With a seeming lack of any glimpse of subjectivity, the risk of the companion's depersonalization can be great. The question of the persistance of the patient's psychical life can thus be posed. Without evidence of its peristance, could we say that this state is characterized by a psychical death? Our doubts can only be confirmed when we attend to certain patients' disconcerting appearances, for example, as they make intriguing gestures, the peculiar intonation of screams, or even of impromptu laughter. These behaviors can confuse professionals and trigger feelings of failure. Must we understand this idiopathic behavior as mere expressions of cerebral disorder? If this is so, how could one continue to emotionally invest in these patients? With a resolutely clinical and phenomenological approach, four psychoanalytically inspired case studies provide us with some possible answers to these various questions. Our investigation, lasting up to approximately two years with certain patients, was carried out by means of individual sessions. If these patients' behavior destabilizes us, it is not so much due to the incomprehension that it generates, but on the contrary, to the sometimes unsuspected resources that they mobilize. In what ways can language persist or sometimes be recreated? What does this reveal of the subject's psychical real-life experience? In what ways do these results profoundly question the current care framework for these patients? An analysis of counter-transference will reveal what can induce such an accompaniment and sketch out "the work of the negative" with those who meet them.