535 research outputs found

    Voyant tools as an analysis instrument of Pierre-louis le Roy’s text

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    The paper aims to describe the results of the application of IT technologies for the analysis of fiction text in the context of the ubiquitous digitalisation of education. The aim of the paper is to develop an understanding of the functionality and value of Voyant Tools as a potential research tool. The authors present their own approach to the implementation of Voyant Tools in the process of analysing a fiction text remote in time from the modern reader. The toolkit has been applied to the analysis of an 18th-century fiction text. Its author is the French academic P.L. Le Roy, the book "Adventures of four Russian sailors to the island of Spitsbergen brought by a storm, where they lived for six years and three months" (1766). The text was chosen because of its detective history in Russia and the participation of famous historical figures in the storey. Among them were Empress Elizabeth, M.V. Lomonosov, Empress Catherine, Count P.I. Shuvalov, S.S. Vernizober, the manager of the fur-fishing industry in Arkhangelsk, and shipowner A. Kornilov, etc. There are comparatively few special studies related to this text. Attracting a modern IT-tool to work with the text leads: first, to activation of reader's attention to the work, second, to mastering of ICT-competences within the school course "Native (Russian) literature", third, allows making interesting observations on the text regarding the characteristics of the writer's world picture, key words and images in his style, fourth, visualizes information in the form of generating "word cloud", text concordance, graphing the contextual relationships of words, showing relevant text features

    Gratitude in Healthcare an interdisciplinary inquiry

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    The expression and reception of gratitude is a significant dimension of interpersonal communication in care-giving relationships. Although there is a growing body of evidence that practising gratitude has health and wellbeing benefits for the giver and receiver, gratitude as a social emotion made in interaction has received comparatively little research attention. To address this gap, this thesis draws on a portfolio of qualitative methods to explore the ways in which gratitude is constituted in care provision in personal, professional, and public discourse. This research is informed by a discursive psychology approach in which gratitude is analysed, not as a morally virtuous character trait, but as a purposeful, performative social action that is mutually co-constructed in interaction.I investigate gratitude through studies that approach it on a meta, meso, macro, and micro level. Key intellectual traditions that underpin research literature on gratitude in healthcare are explored through a metanarrative review. Six underlying metanarratives were identified: social capital; gifts; care ethics; benefits of gratitude; staff wellbeing; and gratitude as an indicator of quality of care. At the meso (institutional) level, a narrative analysis of an archive of letters between patients treated for tuberculosis and hospital almoners positions gratitude as participating in a Maussian gift-exchange ritual in which communal ties are created and consolidated.At the macro (societal) level, a discursive analysis of tweets of gratitude to the National Health Service at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic shows that attitudes to gratitude were dynamic in response to events, with growing unease about deflecting attention from risk reduction for those working in the health and social care sectors. A follow-up analysis of the clap-for-carers movement implicates gratitude in embodied, symbolic, and imagined performances in debates about care justice. At the micro (interpersonal) level, an analysis of gratitude encounters broadcast in the BBC documentary series, Hospital, uses pragmatics and conversation analysis to argue that gratitude is an emotion made in talk, with the uptake of gratitude opportunities influencing the course of conversational sequencing. The findings challenge the oftenmade distinction between task-oriented and relational conversation in healthcare.Moral economics are paradigmatic in the philosophical conceptualisation of gratitude. My research shows that, although balance-sheet reciprocity characterised the institutional culture of the voluntary hospital, it is hardly ever a feature ofinterpersonal gratitude encounters. Instead, gratitude is accomplished as shared moments of humanity through negotiated encounters infused with affect. Gratitude should never be instrumentalised as compensating for unsafe, inadequatelyrenumerated work. Neither should its potential to enhance healthcare encounters be underestimated. Attention to gratitude can participate in culture change by affirming modes of acting, emoting, relating, expressing, and connecting that intersect with care justice.This thesis speaks to gratitude as a culturally salient indicator of what people express as worthy of appreciation. It calls for these expressions to be more closely attended to, not only as useful feedback that can inform change, but also because gratitude is a resource on which we can draw to enhance and enrich healthcare as a communal, collaborative, cooperative endeavour

    Ukraine's Many Faces Land, People, and Culture Revisited

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    Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture

    Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited

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    Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture

    Music, Mood and Attunement in the Early Novels of Samuel Beckett

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    This thesis investigates the connections between music, mood and notions of ‘attunement’ in Samuel Beckett’s early novels Murphy and Watt. It considers the intersection between ideas of music in these novels and their philosophical underpinnings, focusing specifically on the concept of melancholia. Throughout western history, melancholia has been associated with intellectual or artistic inspiration. This thesis argues that Beckett’s recourse to ideas of music in his early work draws on and critiques this aspect of the cultural configuration of melancholia. Part One considers the use of music and tuning in Murphy. It argues that Beckett’s musical references animate the (often comic) exploration of the nature and limits of different forms of knowledge in relation to the insights produced by the melancholic disposition. In doing so, Part One draws out the implications of Beckett’s creative engagement with key literary, philosophical and musical sources – especially Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, the musical theories of Jean-Phillipe Rameau, and the technicalities of musical tuning in Pythagorean philosophy, subsequently reworked by Schopenhauer. Broadening the exploration of ideas of tuning, Part Two addresses how the idea of ‘attunement’ (which is encompassed by Heidegger’s term ‘Stimmung’, denoting one’s orientation to the world through mood) brings into view the affective quality of Watt. It considers the text in relation to the epistemic feeling states associated with melancholia and demonstrates how Beckett draws on and critiques intersecting musical and philosophical discourses of ‘harmony’ – especially in the work of Leibniz – so as to explore alternative conceptions of attunement rooted in embodiment. As such, Part Two of this thesis attempts to reconfigure our understanding of the way in which Beckett’s work can be understood as musical. Overall, by exploring the epistemic affective states associated with music and melancholia in Beckett’s early novels, this thesis contributes to a wider understanding of the role played by music in modernist literature

    Data Rescue : defining a comprehensive workflow that includes the roles and responsibilities of the research library.

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    Thesis (PhD (Research))--University of Pretoria, 2023.This study, comprising a case study at a selected South African research institute, focused on the creation of a workflow model for data rescue indicating the roles and responsibilities of the research library. Additional outcomes of the study include a series of recommendations addressing the troublesome findings that revealed data at risk to be a prevalent reality at the selected institute, showing the presence of a multitude of factors putting data at risk, disclosing the profusion of data rescue obstacles faced by researchers, and uncovering that data rescue at the institute is rarely implemented. The study consists of four main parts: (i) a literature review, (ii) content analysis of literature resulting in the creation of a data rescue workflow model, (iii) empirical data collection methods , and (iv) the adaptation and revision of the initial data rescue model to present a recommended version of the model. A literature review was conducted and addressed data at risk and data rescue terminology, factors putting data at risk, the nature, diversity and prevalence of data rescue projects, and the rationale for data rescue. The second part of the study entailed the application of content analysis to selected documented data rescue workflows, guidelines and models. Findings of the analysis led to the identification of crucial components of data rescue and brought about the creation of an initial Data Rescue Workflow Model. As a first draft of the model, it was crucial that the model be reviewed by institutional research experts during the next main stage of the study. The section containing the study methodology culminates in the implementation of four different empirical data collection methods. Data collected via a web-based questionnaire distributed to a sample of research group leaders (RGLs), one-on-one virtual interviews with a sample of the aforementioned RGLs, feedback supplied by RGLs after reviewing the initial Data Rescue Workflow Model, and a focus group session held with institutional research library experts resulted in findings producing insight into the institute’s data at risk and the state of data rescue. Feedback supplied by RGLs after examining the initial Data Rescue Workflow Model produced a list of concerns linked to the model and contained suggestions for changes to the model. RGL feedback was at times unrelated to the model or to data and necessitated the implementation of a mini focus group session involving institutional research library experts. The mini focus group session comprised discussions around requirements for a data rescue workflow model. The consolidation of RGL feedback and feedback supplied by research library experts enabled the creation of a recommended Data Rescue Workflow Model, with the model also indicating the various roles and responsibilities of the research library. The contribution of this research lies primarily in the increase in theoretical knowledge regarding data at risk and data rescue, and culminates in the presentation of a recommended Data Rescue Workflow Model. The model not only portrays crucial data rescue activities and outputs, but also indicates the roles and responsibilities of a sector that can enhance and influence the prevalence and execution of data rescue projects. In addition, participation in data rescue and an understanding of the activities and steps portrayed via the model can contribute towards an increase in the skills base of the library and information services sector and enhance collaboration projects with relevant research sectors. It is also anticipated that the study recommendations and exposure to the model may influence the viewing and handling of data by researchers and accompanying research procedures.Information SciencePhD (Research)Unrestricte

    Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West

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    The twentieth century saw intensive intellectual exchange between Eastern and Central Europe and the West. Yet political and linguistic obstacles meant that many important trends in East and Central European thought and knowledge hardly registered in Western Europe and the US. This book uncovers the hidden westward movements of Eastern European literary theory and its influence on Western scholarship

    2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

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    2023-2024 graduate catalog for Morehead State University
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