The Female Perspective on Self-Worth

How do we determine the value of ourselves? It is intuitive that our perception of self-worth has an implicit effect on our development as individuals. This thesis explores the process through which women determine their self-worth and why it is problematic

History, Sociology, and Theories of Organization

Also CSST Working Paper #6.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51125/1/357.pd

Modeling pilot interaction with automated digital avionics systems: Guidance and control algorithms for contour and nap-of-the-Earth flight

A collection of technical papers are presented that cover modeling pilot interaction with automated digital avionics systems and guidance and control algorithms for contour and nap-of-the-earth flight. The titles of the papers presented are as follows: (1) Automation effects in a multiloop manual control system; (2) A qualitative model of human interaction with complex dynamic systems; (3) Generalized predictive control of dynamic systems; (4) An application of generalized predictive control to rotorcraft terrain-following flight; (5) Self-tuning generalized predictive control applied to terrain-following flight; and (6) Precise flight path control using a predictive algorithm

Towards an interactive management approach to performance improvement in bureaucratic organization

Bibliography: p. 213-220.Organization science is not a new discipline. However, it persistently attracts many researchers to explore new concepts for coping with the increasing complexity in our society. The exploration is in transition, from mechanistic doctrine to systemic and humanistic notions. The mechanistic view is still prevailing and playing a dominant role, but, owing to its increasing critics, appeals for renovation of mechanistic principle incessantly arise. The tendency induces diversified approaches for intervening in the situation of bureaucratic context. This research investigates the features of organization from three angles - on the one hand, the structure and process (functional) aspects, and on the other, the purposeful behaviour of humans. Many works see the three components as separate, and deal with them accordingly. However, we contend that the three aspects are interrelated and that they should be integrated. The integration suggests that multiple views of organization are adequate because it embodies the attributes of purposeful behaviour and functional characteristics. Problems within an organization can be seen as the mutual influence of these parts. They can mutually aggravate and impede the performance of an organization. On the one hand, we contend that bureaucratic organization is inadequate, owing to its fragility in functional components of processing information to adapt to environment change. On the other hand, its rigid essence causes an inability to deal with human dimension problems. The problematical elements present a systemic relation. In turn, we attempt to explore the essence of organization's complex problems. The exploration concludes that both complexity and problems are cognitive phenomena. The illustrations suggest that the unearthing of organization problems should be grounded in the 'interaction' and 'consensus' 'model interchanging' of stakeholders. Based on this idea, we propose an intervention framework for diagnosing pathological pattern within bureaucratic organization. The framework is applied to one of South Africa's biggest local governments (the City of Tygerberg). The research result shows that the most significant problem within the City of Tygerberg is in the information-processing subsystem- associator. Besides, the 'mental pathology' locates on the 'sink' stage of the structured problem model

Honor Thyself

The black male experience and identity in America are filled with complexity. We struggle to know ourselves. We work to see the way of love and the peace of an unviolated free spirit. We want to engage with ourselves with the highest degree of freedom and comfort, not to continue to question our identity in a life-threatening white patriarchal masculinity ideal. Honoring oneself from the lenses of the Reconstruction era of the United States is essential. Reconceptualizing this history explores the significance of emphasizing Reconstruction in my life as a black male to go through a process of self-discovery and healing. Through this process, I have been given the ability to reclaim my black identity through healing, education, and self-acceptance while questioning the racial system of America and the value of a human being. This work hopes to shed light on the differences in black male perspectives and how those differences can only serve as a bridge of restoration in the black community about manhood, giving us agency and being our authentic selves in the community to revitalize what black manhood is and could be

Columbia Poetry Review

Literary journal produced annually. Student editors: Elizabeth Anderson, Sarah Pearl, Sean R. Slive. Cover: Sean R. Slive. Andrea Latherhttps://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cpr/1014/thumbnail.jp

Ecological crisis and theology: a relational approach.

Lau Man-cho.Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-51).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.1Introduction --- p.2-8Chapter Chapter 1: --- The relationship between Christianity and ecological crisis --- p.9-19Chapter 1.1 --- Anthropocentrism --- p.9-12Chapter 1.2 --- Biocentrism --- p.12-15Chapter 1.3 --- Theocentrism --- p.15-18Chapter 1.4 --- Summary --- p.18-19Chapter Chapter 2: --- The Being of God as communion of relationship --- p.20-24Chapter Chapter 3: --- The supportive evidences for relational approach in the eco-theological disscusion --- p.25-37Chapter 3.1 --- Sallie McFague and the body of God --- p.25-30Chapter 3.2 --- Denis Edwards and the Spirit of communion --- p.30-32Chapter 3.3 --- Jurgen Moltmann and God in Creation --- p.32-36Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.36-38Conclusion --- p.39-49Bibliograhpy --- p.50-5

Thinking outside the cage : sacrifice, equality and the plight of the animal

In this dissertation I illustrate the existence of anthropocentric social and legal configurations that are maintained through the embodiment of a belief system in which animals occupy a space as sacrificial beings, and philosophically examine and call into question the way in which we relate to animals within these schemata of domination. These sacrificial structures or arrangements contain animals in an identity which marks them as Other and I subsequently call for a problematisation and destabilisation of these structures. I employ a critical approach that seeks to move beyond the traditional rights-based approach that has come to dominate animal liberation discourse. Such an approach emphasises the significance of deconstruction for animal ethics and highlights the way in which the animal is subjected to marginalisation within anthropocentric schemata of domination. From this perspective, I argue that we need a deconstruction and ensuing displacement of the human (subject) as phallogocentric structure and that we need to embrace a mode of being that facilitates the development of an ethical relation to the animal Other. To this end, I advance veganism as a form of deconstruction and ethical way of being that allows us to criticise and resist repression of the animal Other. I also contemplate animal subjugation as a relation to the law and examine the ideological underpinnings of animal welfare theory and animal rights theory, the two most prominent theories aimed at transforming the human-animal relation. I proceed to critically engage with the philosophical presuppositions of animal rights theory as a possible foundation for animal liberation by addressing, like others have done before me, the historical and theoretical gaps of rights theory. I argue that animal rights theory invokes dichotomies and rigid identities that replicate and perpetuate anthropocentric relations of subordination by (paradoxically) confirming a certain interpretation of the human subject that lies at the very core of animal subjugation. I ultimately argue that such an approach must be rejected if we are to hold open the possibility of recalibrating the animal's status as sacrificial being.Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012.Jurisprudenceunrestricte

Reconceptualizing social work’s person-in-environment perspective : explorations in radical environmental thought

Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, Social Welfare, 1997

Cultural communication and alternative values: the intervention of Chinese writers in the public sphere.

by Elaine Chiu-ling Yam.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-181).AcknowledgmentsAbstractChapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction - On Literature and Public Sphere --- p.1Chapter Chapter 2: --- Cultural Communication and Chinese Writers in Deng Era --- p.24Chapter Chapter 3: --- A Master of Irony - Wang Shuo's Wanzhu Literature --- p.42Chapter Chapter 4: --- A Race of Heroes - Mo Yan's Ideal Lifeworld --- p.77Chapter Chapter 5: --- In Search of the Self - Jia Pingwa's City of Decadence --- p.111Chapter Chapter 6: --- Conclusion - The Generation of Alternative Values --- p.144Bibliography --- p.16