abstract: The present study examined daily survey data collected from married couples over the course roughly 14 days. I investigated the relationships of the morning quality ratings of three distinct spousal interactions conversation (physical affection, and sexual activity) reported in mornings on later-day positive and negative affect, as well as next-day intensity of negative somatic symptoms (e.g. headaches, dizziness, aches and pains). Hierarchical linear modeling was used to estimate path models for both husbands and wives. Direct and indirect effects were observed. Results showed that quality of conversation and physical affection increased later-day positive mood for both husbands and wives; however, positive quality activity increased later-day positive affect for wives only. Quality of sexual activity decreased later-day negative affect for wives only. Less later-day negative affect decreased next-day intensity of symptoms for both husbands and wives. Lastly, quality of sexual activity decreased later-day negative affect, which decreased next-day somatic symptoms for wives. This was the only significant indirect effect. Implications are that high marital quality is important for maintaining psychological health for both spouses, and physical health, particularly for wives. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Psychology 2012

Lila A. Reid Master of Fine Arts Department of Dance June 2018 Title: Using Collaborative Processes and Touch-Based Partnering to Formulate Concept and Choreography for a Screendance The research in this study uses collaborative methodology, touch-based partnering, and screendance. The facilitator and two dancers aimed to understand how touch-based partnering and collaborative process curates movement material for the creation of screendance. The dancers and facilitator engaged in orienting movement workshops by studying three partnering idioms: Contact Improvisation, Country Swing, and Cha Cha. They later employed a methodology for collaborative choreography and ultimately filmed movement material in four filming shoots with reflective rehearsals interspersed. The facilitator independently created the screendance, Petrichor, from the footage. The film was premiered at a presentation event on January 19, 2018, where the dancers and facilitator also conducted a lecture-demonstration and talk-back with the audience. Reflections on the study resulted in new understandings about extended applications in touch-based partnering, collaborative methodologies, and the medium of screendance for dance educators and artists. The screendance, Petrichor, can be viewed as a supplemental file.

This thesis provides a history of the sense of touch in modern Britain. Seeking out fugitive intimacies and incidental brushes of lover and stranger alike, it argues that far from being a natural constant, what, how, and why people touched, and what they felt when they did, has a history. Through five case studies of different domains - the mind sciences, visual impairment, public transport, law, and commercialized leisure - it explores how these uses changed, and how they transformed Britons' understandings and experiences of their bodies. Both as a practice and a metaphor, from making space on the bus to keeping 'in touch', touch established the distinctions that Britons made between their bodies and the world and themselves and others. In doing so, touch crucially shaped histories of law, labour relations, scientific experiment, education, and love in the early twentieth century. But it also reformulated the very distinctions of selfhood - distinctions of inner self and outer body, person and thing - on which our accounts of modernity are based. By tracing a history of touch, then, this thesis turns touch into a means of critique. It challenges histories of modernity for which selfhood is a substance rather than produced only through particular social relationships. But it also proposes a new way of thinking about selfhood as an immanent relationship the self has with itself through use of the body. Through historically specific ways of touching, early twentieth-century Britons shaped not only their experience of themselves as bodies, but also the boundaries defining them as selves. Their selfhood was, in short, what they did with the body through touch. By exploring the history of touch between 1870 and 1960, this thesis therefore offers an alternative account of British modernity and a way of re-examining histories of selfhood within and beyond modern Britain.

FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / A proposta do estudo consiste na anÃlise do conceito AlteraÃÃo da percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil em pacientes com Acidente Vascular Cerebral (AVC), realizada com anÃlise da literatura e opiniÃo de peritos. O estudo visa possivelmente atualizar a taxonomia de DiagnÃsticos de Enfermagem (DE), tendo em vista que o DE referente a essa alteraÃÃo nÃo consta mais na classificaÃÃo da NANDA Internacional (NANDA-I), apesar de alteraÃÃes na percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil serem identificadas frequentemente em pacientes com AVC. Os objetivos do estudo sÃo: Analisar o conceito AlteraÃÃo da percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil em pacientes com acidente vascular cerebral. Identificar atributos crÃticos, antecedentes e consequentes de AlteraÃÃo da percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil em pacientes com acidente vascular cerebral; Apresentar as definiÃÃes conceituais e as referÃncias empÃricas de AlteraÃÃo da percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil em pacientes com acidente vascular cerebral; Validar com peritos a definiÃÃo conceitual (conceito diagnÃstico), os antecedentes (fatores relacionados) e os consequentes (caracterÃsticas definidoras) da AlteraÃÃo da percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil. Foram realizadas duas etapas: na primeira foram identificados atributos, antecedentes e consequentes de AlteraÃÃes da percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil em pacientes com AVC com base na literatura, a partir da busca nas bases de dados: Scopus, Pubmed e Cinahl, alÃm de consulta a livros texto; e a segunda consistiu em verificar a opiniÃo de peritos a respeito do conceito (conceito diagnÃstico), dos antecedentes (fatores relacionados) e consequentes (caracterÃsticas definidoras), com suas respectivas definiÃÃes conceituais e referÃncias empÃricas desse fenÃmeno. ApÃs a realizaÃÃo das etapas propostas obtiveram-se os seguintes resultados: IdentificaÃÃo dos atributos crÃticos, fatores relacionados e caracterÃsticas definidoras do fenÃmeno AlteraÃÃo da percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil em pacientes com AVC, possibilitando a reformulaÃÃo do conceito dessa condiÃÃo clÃnica. De acordo com a AnÃlise de conceito e apÃs a validaÃÃo por peritos, o fenÃmeno AlteraÃÃo da percepÃÃo sensorial tÃtil em pacientes com AVC envolve trÃs atributos crÃticos: EstÃmulo ideal, RecepÃÃo intacta e AlteraÃÃo na interpretaÃÃo. Esses atributos possibilitaram a construÃÃo do conceito: AlteraÃÃo ou incapacidade de interpretar estÃmulos que entram em contato com a superfÃcie corporal do indivÃduo, fornecidos em condiÃÃes ideais e com recepÃÃo intacta pelos receptores tÃteis cutÃneos superficiais e profundos. Quanto aos componentes do fenÃmeno, foram definidos os fatores relacionados com seus respectivos conceitos e definiÃÃes operacionais: Gravidade do AVC e LocalizaÃÃo do AVC. Foram determinadas as caracterÃsticas definidoras com seus respectivos conceitos e definiÃÃes operacionais: AlteraÃÃo na percepÃÃo de toque leve, AlteraÃÃo na percepÃÃo de pressÃo, AlteraÃÃo na percepÃÃo de temperatura, AlteraÃÃo na percepÃÃo de textura, AlteraÃÃo na estereognosia, ExtinÃÃo de um estÃmulo simultÃneo, AlteraÃÃo na percepÃÃo de localizaÃÃo tÃtil e DiscriminaÃÃo somatossensorial prejudicada. Espera-se que os resultados obtidos possam ser aplicados na assistÃncia a pessoas com AVC com alteraÃÃes sensoriais tÃteis, possibilitando uma prÃtica de cuidado mais extensiva e fundamentada no conhecimento cientÃfico. Ademais, espera-se que o desenvolvimento deste estudo seja um passo inicial e importante para uma nova inclusÃo desta resposta humana na taxonomia de diagnÃsticos de enfermagem da NANDA-I. / The purpose of the study is to analyze the concept of Alteration tactile sensory perception in patients with stroke, performed with analysis of literature and opinion of experts. The study aims to update the taxonomy of nursing diagnoses (ND), considering that the ND regarding this change does not appear more in the classification of NANDA International (NANDA-I), despite the change of tactile sensory perception often be identified in patients with stroke. The study objectives are: To analyze the concept of Alteration in tactile sensory perception in patients with stroke. Identify critical attributes, antecedents and consequences of Alteration in tactile sensory perception in patients with stroke; introduced the conceptual definitions and references empirical Alteration in tactile sensory perception in patients with stroke; Validate experts with the conceptual definition (diagnostic concept), background (related factors) and the resulting (defining characteristics) of Alteration in tactile sensory perception. There were two stages, the first identified attributes, antecedents and consequences of Alteration of tactile sensory perception in people with stroke based on the literature, form the search in databases: Scopus, Pubmed and Cinahl and consulting textbooks; and the second check in the opinion of the experts, about the concept (concept diagnosis), the background ( related factors) and consequent (defining characteristics), with their definitions conceptual and empirical references this phenomenon. After, performing the steps proposed produced the following results: Identification of critical attributes, related factors and defining characteristics of the phenomenon Alteration of tactile sensory perception in patients with stroke, enabling the reformulation of the concept of this clinical condition. According to the analysis of concept and after validation by experts, the phenomenon Alteration of tactile sensory perception in patients with stroke involves three critical attributes: Stimulus ideal, Reception intact and Change in interpretation. These attributes allowed the construction of the concept: Change or inability to interpret stimuli that come into contact with the individual body surface, provided ideal conditions for reception and tactile receptors by intact skin and shallow. As for the components of the phenomenon were defined factors associated with their respective concepts and operational definitions: Severity of stroke and stroke location. Defining characteristics were determined with their respective concepts and operational definitions: Change in perception of light touch, Change in perception of pressure, Change in perception of temperature, Change in the perception of texture, Change in stereognosis, Extinction a simultaneous stimuli, Change in perception of tactile location and Discrimination somatosensory impaired. It is hoped that the results can be applied in assisting people with stroke with tactile sensory changes making the practice more extensive care and based on scientific knowledge. Moreover, it is expected that the development of this study is an initial step to a new and important inclusion of human response in the taxonomy of nursing diagnoses from NANDA-I.

Genetic screens have laid much of the groundwork for our current understanding of biology, and mutagenesis screens in Caenorhabditis elegans have proven to be a particularly useful tool in determining the molecular components of biological processes. The Million Mutation Project (MMP) is a collection of mutagenized C. elegans strains that have been clonally propagated and whole-genome sequenced. Utilizing the MMP, I have performed a screen for touch insensitive mutants to assess the phenotypic coverage of the set, to obtain new alleles of known genes, and to potentially identify touch phenotype-causing mutations in genes that have not yet been linked to the touch response. In this thesis I first present my rationale for screening the MMP set for touch phenotypes, then review what has already been learned about genes required for the function of the neurons that sense gentle touch in C. elegans. I describe my approach to phenotyping the MMP set and present statistics on response distributions. As expected, most of the MMP strains that I determined to have strong touch insensitive phenotypes had mutations in genes identified in previous touch phenotype mutageneses. However, some of the phenotype-causing MMP alleles cause protein-coding changes in regions that were not known to be affected by previously characterized alleles. The genomic data from the MMP also allowed me to consider protein-altering mutations in known touch genes that did not result in a detectable phenotype. Finally, I address the set of strains for which we have not identified candidate causative mutations. Although I have not discovered any previously unknown touch genes through my screen of the MMP, it is still quite possible that the touch insensitive mutants I have identified will lead us to identify additional genes needed for gentle touch sensation. Ultimately, my screen has successfully demonstrated the utility of the MMP set and provided new insights as to the structure and function of the genetic determinants of gentle touch sensation in C. elegans.

Computer network administrators need advanced tools to configure network devices. For this purpose, the NETCONF protocol and the YANG modeling language were developed. The aim of this thesis is to implement the Zero Touch mechanism that serves the initial configuration of the NETCONF server. This mechanism will be integrated into the sysrepo datastore.

For keyboardists, touch is a paradox. It refers to the physical actions that constitute performance, yet to be “touched” by music is also to consider the immaterial relationship between performance and our psychology. In this dissertation, Touch and Modernity in French Keyboard Pedagogy, 1715–1915, I explore this dual notion of touch, deciphering how performers, teachers, analysts, and critics described the keyboard as a unique interface between body and mind. I track the notion of touch through an undertheorized corpus of instruction manuals for harpsichordists and pianists written in France between 1715 and 1915. The authors of these manuals outline several strikingly flexible theories of touch, described as some combination of action, sense, and metaphor. They use touch to construe the keyboardist as a modern ideal, dedicating their pedagogical programs to “newness,” configured to varying degrees as edification through rationalization, social development through institution building and urbanization, industrialization, culminating in the themes of alienation and solipsism. The musicians who wrote and used these manuals found unlikely interlocutors across a diverse field of thinkers. These interlocutors included philosophers and encyclopedists, bureaucrats, technologists, anthropologists, anatomists, psychologists, and others. Venturing explanations for the body’s relationship to sensory impressions, aesthetic judgments, and knowledge acquisition, these figures joined music pedagogues, using the keyboard and its various iterations—from instruments to telegraphs and typewriters—as a grounding object for touch. They delineated the stakes of an array of ideologies, positing an artistic, intuitive, discerning, or efficient touch as a benchmark by which to calibrate their modern subject, idealized as inhabiting an interface between historicity and progress. Their definitions for touch shuttle between public and private spheres, the exterior world and the interior psyche, the self and the other. This dissertation’s methodology treats four broad topics as lenses through which we discern modern modes of theorizing, deriving, and disseminating knowledge through touch. These include sensibility, or the condition for subjective knowledge; empiricism, or knowledge by way of experience; physiology, or knowledge acquisition through study of the interaction between mind and body; and psychology, or the potential for variable knowledge based on perception and attention. I argue that, animated by the aforementioned topics, touch enacts a dialectic of musical “work”—connoting preparatory labor, polished performance, and an object for contemplation and analysis—through which keyboardists came to represent modern subjectivity more broadly, the concept for which concretized over the course of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras. Touch thus affords a unique framework which we may use to study historical definitions of selfhood, denoting the materials, practices, and ethics of experiencing our bodies and articulating our relationship to culture and society.

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The growing number of mobile devices used today and the increasing dependency on them in the workplace makes understanding how users interact with these devices critical. This study looks to find how different generational groups commit errors on different types of devices. Participants completed tasks consisting of word and character input on two different devices, a physical keypad and touchscreen device. The number of errors and types of error, corrected and permanent were collected for each participant. It was found that participants committed more errors when using character input and physical keypad devices but also corrected more of their errors when using them. When looking at number of errors and the amount of corrected errors, the optimal input content and input method paired combination is using word input on the key device. The results of this study can help guide industries in choosing the right devices for their users.