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Research On The Industrial Chain Network-Driven Innovation Model Of China's Audio-Visual Industry Park, Yang Chen

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This dissertation explores the model through which Chinese audio-visual industry parks drive innovation leveraging industrial chain networks, with Xing Guang Movie and Television Park as the core case study. It also integrates analyses of several other representative Chinese audio-visual industry parks. Based on these case analyses, it identifies critical elements essential for successful innovation within audio-visual industry parks driven by industrial chain networks, thereby providing a realistic foundation for the theoretical framework of the thesis.

Drawing on innovation theory, network theory, industrial chain network theory, and collaborative capability theory, this study abstracts the model driving innovation through industrial chain networks …

Valuing Social Data, Amanda Parsons, Salome Viljoen

Articles

Social data production—accumulating, processing, and using large volumes of data about people—is a unique form of value creation that characterizes the digital economy. Social data production also presents critical challenges for the legal regimes that encounter it. This Article provides scholars and policymakers with the tools to comprehend this new form of value creation through two descriptive contributions. First, it presents a theoretical account of social data, a mode of production that is cultivated and exploited for two distinct (albeit related) forms of value: prediction value and exchange value. Second, it creates and defends a taxonomy of three “scripts” that …

Shifting Blame And Gendered Differences: A News Media Study Of The Characterization Of Police Sexual Violence, Brittany Nieman

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis offers a critical analysis of media representations of police sexual violence cases in Canada. This paper looks to fill the gap on media representations of police sexual violence cases and to contribute to long standing literature on gendered issues in policing. Symbolic interactionism, framing theory, and critical feminist ideologies make up the theoretical background for this work. Using Altheide and Schneiders (2012) Qualitative Document Analysis Process, a media analysis was conducted on 104 Canadian news articles revolving around police sexual violence cases occurring on Canadian policing services. This study primarily revealed a dichotomy in representations of the complainant …

Indigenous Wholistic Abolition: Visioning Indigenous Queer, Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Futures, Giselle Dias

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

As a queer Métis, activist and organizer in the field of prisoners’ rights, penal abolition, and transformative justice, I have been interested in learning about how Indigenous peoples’ relationship with Aki (Land) grounds abolition theory and guides the ways that I and other Indigenous abolitionists engage in abolition. As part of this process, I wanted to speak to other Indigenous queer, Two-Spirit, trans, non-binary, and/or Indigiqueer (Q2STNBI) people about their visions of abolition and abolitionist futures through a relational Land-based lens. Therefore, I used a methodology that centres Métis worldviews and community organizing and is grounded in the ethics of …

Leadership And Emergent Faith Communities In Canada: A Phenomenological Study, Anne Anderson

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The purpose of this study is to explore how participants within emergent faith communities in Canada experience leadership. Through a phenomenological approach, members from five emergent faith communities across Canada have been interviewed in a semi-structured format. Emerging themes of transformational leadership, community along with belonging, and possible future areas of research will be discussed.

Exit Through The Giftshop: Claims-Making And The Construction Of A Countercultural Brand, Cecil Mcglynn

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Independent, online microcelebrity influencers are increasingly many people’s source of news. A popular group of these influencers, called the Alternative Influence Network (AIN) has come under scrutiny in recent years for collaborating with radical, far-right political actors to advance particular viewpoints (Lewis, 2018). While those within the AIN claim these outputs represent their freedom of speech, some researchers have voiced concern around the possibility of these influencers proliferating or even popularizing radical political ideals. Steven Crowder is among the most popular influencers in the AIN. He performs a daily show, ‘Louder with Crowder’, to his 5.8 million YouTube subscribers. In …

Defamation, Presumed Damages, And Reputational Injury: A Legal And Philosophical Inquiry, Benjamin C. Zipursky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Deal With The Devil: Pragmatic Mission And Early American Methodism’S Complicity With Slavery, William Payne

The Asbury Journal

Early American Methodism inherited a staunch abolitionist position from John Wesley. Bishops Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke strongly opposed slavery. Under their leadership, the early minutes and disciplines included a series of rules that required preachers to free their slaves and ameliorate the effects of slavery. They also waged an ongoing “war” with the various state legislatures that allowed slavery. After a strong backlash threatened Methodism’s ability to minister to slaves, enter plantations, and work in the South, the church prioritized the evangelistic mandate over the cultural mandate. The compromise mitigated social hostility and allowed Methodism to become the largest …

Book Reviews, Glen O'Brien, Zachariah S. Motts, Roderick T. Leupp, Jonathan Tysick, Duane F. Watson, William B. Bowes

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

The Apprenticeship Of Observation In Gifted Education, David Wolff

Open Educational Resources - Teaching and Learning

The ‘Apprenticeship of Observation’ is described as one’s perception of ‘good teaching’ as informed by our own experiences as a student observing teaching for thirteen years in a K-12 school system. Perception of gifted education is susceptible of the ‘apprenticeship of observation’ and often influencing teachers’ actions and beliefs about the needs of gifted learners.

Punishment And Resources, Mark D. White

Publications and Research

Philosophers of punishment have paid little attention to resource constraints, which have an undeniable impact on how various approaches to punishment work in the real world. It has fallen on economists, with their central focus on scarcity and opportunity cost, to analyze the resource demands of different philosophies of punishment. However, the utilitarian nature of mainstream economics limits the scope of economic theories of punishment to deterrence, which fits naturally into mathematical economic techniques, as opposed to retributivism, the principled nature of which resists quantification. This chapter explores the resource implications of punishment. It starts by identifying shortcomings of the …

Adaptive Bounded-Confidence Model For Opinion Maximization, Jacob Ortiz

Master's Projects

Social networks have become a significant source of information due to their easy accessibility, low cost, and ability to spread information quickly. Opinions are crucial in shaping our communication and decision-making processes, and our social connections significantly influence them. We model opinions as continuous values from 0 to 1, i.e., 0 means strong disagree and 1 means strong agree. Each agent has an initial opinion as well as a confidence about her opinion and through interactions with the other agents both are updated. Opinion maximization has gained popularity due to social media’s growing impact on our daily lives, where we …

An Attributed And Diverse Encoder-Decoder Processing Technique For Anomaly Detection., Kenneth Antony John

Master's Projects

Attributed graphs are graphs that contain extra information about the attributes of nodes and edges. They can be used to model a plethora of real-world scenarios like social networks, bank transactions, and even academic citation data. Anomalies in such graphs can be irregularities or unusual patterns that are observed in the attributes or the structure of the graph. Anomaly detection in attributed networks is a crucial task, aiming to identify such anomalies. Existing methodologies use various deep learning techniques using graph neural networks, graph encoder-decoder architectures, and multi-layer perceptions. This study proposes a new approach to improve the existing methods …

Vincentian Formation In Africa For Missionary Preaching In The Footsteps Of Saint Vincent De Paul, Linus Umoren C.M.

Vincentian Studies

Vincent de Paul was deeply concerned with the proper preparation of the clergy so that the poor could be evangelized. Linus Umoren outlines Vincent's method of preaching and the challenges the Church faced in reforming the clergy during the Counter-Reformation. Many of today’s new priests, including Vincentians, are coming from Africa. It is therefore necessary to develop a formation program that is uniquely suited to the African cultural context. Because of colonialism, the Church in Africa still needs to develop its own theological perspective instead of the one that had been brought to it by Europeans. It also faces several …

The Ethical Student Scale: Development Of A New Measure, Tuvana Rua, Leanna Lawter, Jeanine K. Andreassi Ph.D.

WCBT Faculty Publications

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to develop the “ethical student scale” to understand the underlying factors that lead to the decisions of cheating and plagiarism and where business students are developmentally from a moral perspective and to help academic institutions assess how best to develop ethical education throughout the curriculum. This three-dimensional nine-item scale based on Kohlberg’s moral development model is proposed to serve as a valuable tool for educators who are struggling with identifying the best approach to help their students make ethical choices both within and outside of the walls of their educational institutions and once …

Closing The Culture Gaps: Policies And Codesign In Remote Western Australia. A Long-Time Story Of A Community-Based Kimberley Aboriginal Organisation, Arjati Schipf

Theses

This research is the result of a collaboration with the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre (KALACC), a remote community-based Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO) located in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The research investigates the organisation’s strategies to overcome systemic barriers to support remote Aboriginal communities to achieve Closing the Gap (CTG) socioeconomic targets in improving education, employment, and health. KALACC believes that without culture at the centre of CTG strategies, the targets will not be achieved. The key question is how will diverse understandings of culture be achieved through codesign and engagement with Aboriginal people and their community-based organisations …

Living Charity: Beata Caterina, The Pizzicaiuoli Altarpiece And Lived Religion In Fifteenth-Century Siena, Susan A. Nolan

Theses

This thesis examines charity as a key element of early modern experience in the context of the Pizzicaiuoli altarpiece (1447). Painted by well-known artist Giovanni di Paolo, the altarpiece was commissioned by the Sienese guild of grocers, the Pizzicaiuoli, and was situated in the church of the Santissima Annunziata, located in the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. The central focus of the altarpiece is the main panel depicting the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Presentation), which is surrounded by iconic images of saints. Below the Presentation scene, in a predella (the lowermost horizontal component of …

The Roberts Court Revolution, Institutional Legitimacy, And The Promise (And Peril) Of Constitutional Statesmanship, Thomas G. Donnelly

Law Faculty Publications

Our nation is in the middle of a constitutional revolution. While many periods of constitutional transformation have arisen out of large-scale political realignments, the Roberts Court Revolution is a product of our nation’s long (and unusual) political interregnum. Even as neither political party has managed to secure enough support to reconstruct our nation’s politics, the Roberts Court—with its young and ambitious conservative majority—has already moved quickly to reconsider key pillars of the existing constitutional regime. This represents a challenging moment for the Roberts Court and its institutional legitimacy. To counteract this danger, the Justices might return to an old idea—one …

Contextualizing Tiktok Controversies: Critical Discourse Analysis Of Platform Privacy Debates, Bshaer Kameil Aharazi

Graduate Thesis and Dissertation post-2024

This study focuses on online news coverage of TikTok's privacy policies to uncover accusations related to security threats between October 2020 and May 2023. Using critical discourse analysis, the research compares TikTok's discourse with other platforms like Facebook and YouTube, highlighting the role of governments, tech companies, and users in shaping this discourse. Furthermore, it demonstrates how cultural and political factors influence privacy discussions, particularly regarding the controversies, discussions, and accusations between the United States and China. AI tool ChatGPT analyzes the discourse by focusing on the news texts' most prominent topics and keywords. The goal is to identify key …

ความเหลื่อมล้ำที่รู้สึกได้: ความหนืดพรุนของกลิ่นเหม็นและความร้อนจากการประกอบร่วมในกรุงเทพมหานคร, ปิยเทพ ตันมหาสมุทร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การศึกษาเมืองเป็นเรื่องที่ท้าทายมากขึ้นท่ามกลางการขยายตัวของเมืองอย่างรวดเร็วและการเปลี่ยนแปลงของสภาพภูมิอากาศในระดับมหภาค นักวิชาการเรื่องเมืองต่างพยายามทำความเข้าใจการเปลี่ยนแปลงของเมืองที่เกิดขึ้นตามยุคสมัย ฝั่งสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตร์และผังเมืองทำความเข้าใจพื้นที่ด้วยการกำหนดสเกลเป็นหย่อมย่าน เช่น เขต จังหวัด แขวง ชุมชน ฯลฯ ขณะที่งานศึกษาทางสังคมศาสตร์ยังมองเมืองในฐานะการประกอบสร้างทางสังคม มุมมองเหล่านี้อาจละเลยการดำรงอยู่ของวัตถุสภาวะที่มนุษย์ไม่สามารถมองเห็นหรือสัมผัสได้ งานศึกษานี้เสนอว่าการอยู่อาศัยในเมืองสามารถทำได้ด้วยกระบวนการคิดเชิงประกอบร่วม (assemblage thinking) ผ่านการใช้พื้นที่บ้าน-ย่านที่เผชิญกับกลิ่นเหม็นและความร้อน กรณีศึกษานี้จะช่วยสะท้อนให้เห็นความหนืดและปรุพรุนที่ทำให้วัตถุสภาวะไหลเวียนคร่อมข้ามไปมาระหว่างพื้นที่ได้ ผู้ศึกษามองกลิ่นเหม็นและความร้อนในฐานะการประกอบร่วมจากผู้กระทำการที่หลากหลายของเมือง สถานที่ที่ผู้ศึกษาใช้เป็นตัวแทนของ “บ้าน” คือ ตึกแถว รูปแบบของการอยู่อาศัยที่เติบโตมาพร้อมกับการกลายเป็นเมืองของกรุงเทพมหานคร เพื่อชี้ให้เห็นถึงการรับมือกลิ่นเหม็นและความร้อนภายใต้ข้อจำกัดเชิงพื้นที่และวัตถุ สำหรับการเก็บข้อมูล ผู้ศึกษาใช้วิธีวิทยามานุษยวิทยาสถาปัตยกรรมผ่านการสังเกตการณ์อย่างมีส่วนร่วมที่บ้านของผู้ให้ข้อมูลและใช้การทำผังบ้านและย่าน เพื่อใช้ทั้งข้อมูลเชิงพรรณนาและทัศนาในการวิเคราะห์กระบวนการประกอบร่วมและการไหลเวียนของกลิ่นเหม็นและความร้อน การศึกษาการประกอบร่วมของกลิ่นเหม็นและความร้อนที่ไหลเวียนบนเส้นแบ่งอันหนืดพรุนของบ้าน-ย่านช่วยให้ผู้ศึกษาได้เข้าใจผัสสะของเมือง (sentient urbanity) ที่ทำงานข้ามไปมาระหว่างสเกลย่านและบ้าน ความเป็นเมืองลักษณะนี้เปิดเผยให้เห็นถึงความสัมพันธ์ที่ไม่เท่าเทียมที่เกิดขึ้นกับย่านภูธเรศและจอมทอง ดังนั้นงานศึกษานี้ได้เปิดเผยความเหลื่อมล้ำที่มากไปกว่าบริบททางสังคม-เศรษฐกิจ แต่เกิดจากการประกอบร่วมของเมืองที่ส่งผลให้กลิ่นเหม็นและความร้อนไหลเวียนไปยังตึกแถวและย่านทั้งสอง

ปัจจัยทางสังคมที่เป็นตัวกำหนดสุขภาพจิตของประชากรไทย: การวิเคราะห์พหุระดับ, สรพงษ์ เจริญกฤตยาวุฒิ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาสถานการณ์ภาวะสุขภาพจิตของประชากรไทย และปัจจัยระดับบุคคลและระดับชุมชนที่มีความสัมพันธ์กับการมีสุขภาพจิตที่ดีของประชากรไทย การวิจัยใช้ข้อมูลทุติยภูมิจากโครงการการสำรวจสภาวะทางสังคม วัฒนธรรม และสุขภาพจิต พ.ศ.2561 จัดเก็บโดยสำนักงานสถิติแห่งชาติ ซึ่งเป็นการสำรวจระดับประเทศที่เก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลจากประชากรที่มีอายุตั้งแต่ 15 ปีขึ้นไป การวิเคราะห์คัดเลือกเฉพาะตัวอย่างที่ตอบคำถามในประเด็นที่เกี่ยวกับสุขภาพจิตด้วยตนเอง รวมจำนวนทั้งสิ้น 27,147 ราย อาศัยอยู่ใน 1,989 ชุมชน การวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลใช้สถิติเชิงพรรณนาและ การวิเคราะห์พหุระดับแบบโลจิสติกแบบทวิผลการศึกษาพบว่า ประชากรไทยที่มีอายุ 15 ปีขึ้นไปเกือบร้อยละ 80 เป็นผู้ที่มีภาวะสุขภาพจิตดี ตามเกณฑ์วัดสุขภาพจิตของคนไทยฉบับสั้น (Thai Mental Health Indicator-15: TMHI-15) ตัวแปรระดับบุคคล ได้แก่ เพศ อายุ ระดับการศึกษา สถานภาพสมรส สถานภาพการทำงาน จำนวนสมาชิกในครัวเรือน สถานะทางเศรษฐกิจและสังคมของครัวเรือน ความสัมพันธ์และความผูกพันภายในครัวเรือน การรับรู้สุขภาพกายของตนเอง ความเชื่อตามหลักคำสอนทางศาสนา การปฏิบัติตนตามหลักศาสนา และคุณธรรมในการมีปฏิสัมพันธ์กับบุคคลอื่น มีความสัมพันธ์อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติกับการมีสุขภาพจิตที่ดีของประชากรไทย ในระดับชุมชน พบว่า สัดส่วนของประชากรที่มีภาวะสุขภาพจิตดีในชุมชน และค่าเฉลี่ยสถานะทางเศรษฐกิจและสังคมของครัวเรือนในชุมชนมีความสัมพันธ์อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติกับการมีสุขภาพจิตที่ดีของประชากรไทย การศึกษาครั้งนี้ชี้ให้เห็นถึงความไม่เท่าเทียมกันทางด้านสุขภาพจิตของประชากรในกลุ่มต่าง ๆ และแนวทางในการส่งเสริมภาวะสุขภาพจิตของประชากรผ่านปัจจัยทางสังคมและสภาพแวดล้อมของครัวเรือนและชุมชน

Growing Up Sustainable? Politics Of Race And Youth In Urbanplan, Copenhagen, Max Ritts, Rebecca Rutt

Geography

This paper considers how racialized youth in Denmark negotiate sustainability amid contexts marked by intersecting forms of economic restructuring, progressive neoliberalism, white ethno-nationalism, and green urban planning. Urbanplan is a low-income, notoriously “troubled” Copenhagen neighborhood where we conducted fieldwork for 7 months (2019-2020) with fifteen male youth, aged 17-21. Using ethnography, policy reviews, and interviews with city social workers, we explore how intimate experiences of nature, group-identity, and place attachment here relate to and depart from the structural forces actively reshaping the neighborhood. Our analysis combines Cindi Katz's intersectional political economy approach with recent work on green gentrification, Critical Utopian …

Mediators Of Non-Financial Disclosures And Firm Value Of Consumer Goods Companies, Ikponmwosa Michael Igbinovia, Chizoba Marcella Ekwueme

DLSU Business & Economics Review

The study examines the mediators of non-financial disclosures and firm value among non-financial firms quoted in the consumer goods sector of the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) for the period 2011 to 2018. A quantitative approach using structural equation modeling (SEM) path analysis was applied to investigate the mediating role of proposed channels of transmitting non-financial disclosures to firm value. The study finds that non-financial disclosures have significant effects on the firm value of quoted consumer goods firms in Nigeria. Profitability was found to significantly mediate the effect of social disclosures on the firm value of sampled firms in Nigeria, but …

Impossibility Of Artificial Inventors, Mateusz Blaszczyk

Scholarly Works

Recently, the United Kingdom Supreme Court decided that only natural persons can be considered inventors. A year before, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a similar decision. In fact, so have many of the courts all over the world. This Article analyzes these decisions, argues that the courts got it right, and finds that artificial inventorship is at odds with patent law doctrine, theory, and philosophy. This Article challenges the intellectual property (IP) post-humanists, exposing the analytical and normative perils of their argumentation, and recommends against getting rid of the nominally central place of humans …

“Our Hands Are Tied”: How State Educational Diversity Laws Affect Iowa Public Educators And How Educators Respond, Lydia Berns-Schweingruber

Honors Program Theses

In May 2023, Iowa passed Senate File 496, which restricts public educators from sending students social-emotional learning surveys, requires public educators to inform parents when students request a pronoun change, and bans any books depicting a sexual act from public schools (Iowa Legislature 2023). Iowa and other states’ recent educational diversity laws are part of a broader history of public school censorship. This study examines how state educational diversity laws affect Iowa public educators and how educators respond. This paper draws on data from eight interviews with Iowa public teachers, administrators, and counselors. The findings show that state educational diversity …

Language Barriers In The U.S. Legal System For Primarily Spanish Speakers: Attorney Perspectives And Potential Solutions For True Equal Access, Emma F. Kizer

Honors Program Theses

The U.S. legal system is difficult to navigate for anyone who is attempting to use it, but non-English-speaking individuals have a unique set of obstacles to overcome. Communicating and understanding legal jargon and processes can become increasingly strenuous when one does not speak English in a predominantly English system. This study is specifically focused on the barriers that Spanish-speaking clients face and potential ways to change the system in order to make the experiences of non-English speakers more accessible. By interviewing attorneys who work with both English and Spanish speaking clients, we gain insight into their perspective on issues they …

Gender Socialization And Social Media In College Students' Fear Of Crime, Ashlyn C. Miller

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between gender (socialization), viewing crime related material on social media, and fear of crime experienced by college students. While violent crime rates have fallen, the majority of college students report levels of crime are increasing. Many individuals lack both knowledge and experience related to crime, leading media exposure to influence their levels of fear. Previous research has focused on television media related to fear of crime with little research on social media, the preferred media source of young adults. College students (n = 124) from a midwestern university completed a …

Information Provided By State Human Trafficking Websites: A Content Analysis, Brooklyn Dilley

Honors Program Theses

Human trafficking evolved from the legal and regulated slavery of the past and has likely been in existence throughout human history. Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, and slavery and servitude were prohibited globally through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 (United Nations General Assembly, 1948). Nevertheless, modern-day slavery has still thrived in the form of human trafficking. There have been many global and national efforts to combat human trafficking, including the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (OMCTP). The Trafficking Victims Protection …

Fascismo Al Bivio: The Arditi Del Popolo And Civil War At The Advent Of Fascist Power, Thomas R. Discepola

Dissertations and Theses

Focused on the years immediately following World War I in Italy, the dopoguerra, this thesis revisits the entire period from 1919 to 1922 with special attention given to the largest organized, armed antifascist group, the Arditi del popolo (AdP). It argues that it was the AdP, not the Italian Communist Party (PCI), that preoccupied Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi and led the Socialists (PSI) to work with Benito Mussolini and other members of the Fasci di combattimento (FdC), their erstwhile nemeses, in creating a pacification agreement in the summer of 1921.

Therapist Engagement With Patient Nonverbal Behavior: Exploring These Interactions As A Mechanism Of Change In Virtual And In-Person Short-Term Psychotherapy, Elliana Sheriwn

Dissertations and Theses

The individual (intrapsychic) and dyadic (interpersonal) implications of nonverbal behavior have kindled interest among psychologists for decades. Many researchers and clinicians have studied nonverbal communication in the context of attachment and moment-to-moment interactions between parent and infant (Stern, 1977; Beebe et al., 2000). Theorists have also explored nonverbal behavior in the clinical setting as a dynamic relational dimension co-created by patient and therapist (Freedman and Lavendar, 1995). Although the extant literature highlights how nonverbal communication can inform psychotherapy outcome (e.g., by fostering empathy and building rapport), the topic of therapist engagement with patient nonverbal behavior—specifically, how these interactions serve as …