With the emergence of urban shopping mall in Taiwan, the general commodity marketers created a new retailing business model. Several stores of the same product category convene together in the mall to take advantage of the congregation of a consumer crowd. The current study conducted a questionnaires survey at Dream Mall of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, studying consumer behavior regarding the same-product category store: purchase readiness, information search, and store choice. The three testing same-category-stores in the mall are Daiso, Nitori and the Working House, which all are selling household wares. Another two major topics of the current research are shopper types and evaluation of shopping mall. The 468 valid consumer subjects for the study were randomly solicited to participate the questionnaires survey at the door fronts of each above stores.The result of indicates there exist different types of shopper in the mall., There are significant differences in terms of purchase readiness and in information search. Moreover, purchase readiness and attribute consideration on products significantly affect their store choice.

Before we can properly answer the question “What is marriage?,” we must first be able to answer the question “What is marriage for?” Defining what marriage is, before fully understanding what marriage is for, presumes we already know what marriage is for, when in fact we do not. In a moral sense, marriage is for love. And in a legal sense, marriage is for everyone (regardless of sexuality or race). In this paper I discuss how, regardless of whether you view marriage in a purely moral or in a purely legal light, marriage equality should be afforded to all citizens.

Sexual representations in Seba al-Herz’s Saudi Arabian novel The Others span various kinds of sexual identification and experience. Surface level readings of the novel find examples of lesbian identities and encounters, but a deeper, more nuanced examination of the novel unearths a complex set of queer desires, practices, sexual encounters, and relationships that do not fit neatly in to regulated sexual identity categories. Through literary analysis, I argue that through ambiguities in the novel’s construction and narration, and through the Narrator’s sexual experiences, The Others offers a kind of sexual expression that opens up possibilities of de-territorializing and re-territorializing sexual experience beyond static identity labels.

Mitt arbete handlar om redan från de att jag startade mitt eget band Ridge fram tills dess att vi släppte vår debutskiva Same Ground. Om att våga göra musik från sitt hjärta,att tveka,kämpa,repa,spela in och att släppa skiva på eget bolag. Det handlar också om min uppväxt och hur det påverkat mig. Jag skriver reflekterande om processen. / <p>Bilaga: 1 CD</p>

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka sjuksköterskors upplevelse av omvårdnaden av patienten vid förändrade inskrivningsrutiner inför en operation på kirurgavdelningen på Enköpings lasarett. Metod: Kvalitativ design med deskriptiv ansats. Åtta sjuksköterskor med erfarenhet av att arbeta innan och efter de nya inskrivningsrutinerna trädde i kraft intervjuades. En intervjuguide av semistrukturerad typ togs fram med en bred huvudfråga och olika teman för att besvara syftet. En innehållsanalys på manifest nivå med en induktiv ansats gjordes. Resultat: Upplevelsen av omvårdnaden vid de förändrade inskrivningsrutinerna var individuell hos de intervjuade sjuksköterskorna. Den generella upplevelsen var att omvårdnaden förändrats och resultatet visar positiva såväl som negativa aspekter av detta relaterat till de förändrade inskrivningsrutinerna. Slutsats: Då vården står inför en stor utmaning med en växande och åldrande befolkning är detta inskrivningssystem en del av den anpassning sjukvården går igenom för att bli mer effektiv. Fler liknande studier kan möjliggöra att denna typ av inskrivningsrutiners positiva aspekter kan uppmärksammas och förstärkas samt att de negativa aspekter som framkommit kan diskuteras och åtgärdas. / Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate nurses' experience of nursing care of the patient with the new routine of same day admission before surgery in the surgical department at Enköpings hospital. Method: Qualitative design with descriptive approach. Eight nurses with experience working before and after the new routine of same day admission were interviewed. An interview guide of semi- structured type was developed with a broad main issue and different themes to answer the purpose. A content analysis of the data was made. Results: The experience of nursing after the introduction of same day admission was individual of the nurses who were interviewed. The general experience was that nursing care has changed and the result shows positive and negative aspects of this related to the changed admission routine. Conclusion: When care is facing a major challenge with a growing and aging population, this admission system is a part of the adaptation healthcare goes through to become more efficient. More similar studies may enable this type of admission so that positive aspects can be highlighted and strengthened and the negative aspects that emerged can be discussed and addressed.

The acquisition of relational concepts plays an integral role and is assumed to be a prerequisite for analogical reasoning. Language and token-trained apes (e.g. Premack, 1976; Thompson, Oden, and Boysen, 1997) are the only nonhuman animals to succeed in solving and completing analogies, thus implicating language as the mechanism enabling the phenomenon. In the present study, I examine the role of meaning in the analogical reasoning abilities of three different primate species. Humans, chimpanzees, and rhesus monkeys completed relational match-to-sample (RMTS) tasks with either meaningful or nonmeaningful stimuli. For human participants, meaningfulness facilitated the acquisition of analogical rules. Individual differences were evident amongst the chimpanzees suggesting that meaning can either enable or hinder their ability to complete analogies. Rhesus monkeys did not succeed in either condition, suggesting that their ability to reason analogically, if present at all, may be dependent upon a dimension other than the representational value of stimuli.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2007 / Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Social Work. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-62).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas A&M University, 2007. / Adviser: Daniel Brossart. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) - Simon Fraser University, 2006. / Theses (Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology) / Simon Fraser University.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Church History and Polity))--Univeristy of Pretoria, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.