This project attempts to offer an extended discussion related to objects as an attachment, as body extension, as interlocutors in how the individual (the body) experience the world. It refers to the physical representation and the many attempts to understand the transformation o…
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This project investigates how African governments strategize around private Chinese capital. How much bargaining power do individual African countries have with private Chinese investors? What factors influence countries’ strategies around this type of investment? Under what con…
L’objectif de ce projet est de montrer une image de destination holistique de la Louisiane et de mettre en évidence les facteurs qui influencent ce fantasme. Cette analyse s'inspire de l'expérience personnelle et d'une observation de l'image de destination de la Louisiane par le…
Female sport students at universities are exposed to the realities of the sports industry through theory taught in lectures, messages sent out by the media, or the process of socialisation. From this exposure, the expectancy is that they develop distinct perceptions and aspirati…
Due to advancing technologies and Internet access, the use of crowdsourcing models and collaborative platforms has become popular in translation projects. This has led to an increase in participation by volunteer translators, and, in turn, to attention being drawn to these volun…
Literature on socio-technical transitions acknowledge that negative risk perception is important to socio-technical transitions. However, beyond acknowledging risk as a potentialbarrier to the deployment of innovative technologies, this study points out that the acceptanceor rej…
Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a common complaint among amputees and despite having been studied for centuries, it remains a mysterious object of debate among researcher. To date, a vast number of ways to treat PLP has been proposed in the literature, however none of them has proven…
On 12 May 2019, a newspaper article in the Sunday Times titled “Grade 4s to learn about masturbation in new Life Orientation curriculum” hit South African citizens by storm. This article caused panic amongst educators, parents and other ‘moral police’ in society. Most textbooks …
Consumption binds the worlds of production and marketing to possession and ownership, satisfying the consumer’s functional wants and needs, but also fulfilling hedonic desires related to self-gratification and recreational aspiration. Across the last fifty years, growing consume…
This thesis focuses on the experience of voice hearing and effects on mental health and wellbeing. It is composed of two separate papers: a systematic literature review and an empirical paper.
Built after several immigration waves, Amman developed its own dialect. Previous studies investigated the stylistic and social reallocation process (Britain & Trudgill, 2005) that happened to some major phonemes. The three phonemes [k], [ʔ] and [g] are dialectal reflexes of the …
Exclusionary discipline practices including ISS, OSS, DAEP, and JJAEP have disproportionately impacted minority student populations with devastating effects over the last forty years. Suspension practices persist in public schools to this day despite no evidence to support that …
Breast cancer is among the leading causes of death in the United States. The earlier the cancer is detected and treated, the higher the survival rate for the patient. The purpose of this qualitative, interpretive, descriptive study was to examine perceptions of women with a fami…
Employability skills training programs are an essential strategy to improve the skills of the workforce and minimize unemployment in Malaysia. However, there has been a lack of assessment and evaluation studies regarding local employability skills training programs. Existing loc…
This study examines English faculty perceptions of the Writing Center at American Design University in Qatar (ADU-Q) through a sociocultural framework and social capitalist analysis. The current proliferation of American higher education branch campuses in the Arabian Gulf regio…
Algebra is a branch in mathematics and taking Algebra in middle school is often a gateway to advanced courses in high school. The problem is that the United States and Lebanon had low scores in Algebra in the 2007 Trends in Mathematics and Sciences Study (TIMSS), an internationa…
Although research has been done on the quality of university education in Nigeria, little is known about the effects of the last 2 decades of serial labor strikes in the universities. The purpose of this study was to bridge this gap by examining the perceptions of university adm…
In terms of Nigerian students taking mathematics courses in high school, there are a number of factors that determine how they are perceived and how they perceive mathematics. This study was designed to investigate how variables, such as parental influence, teacher influence, re…
This study examined the relationship between psychotherapy patients' initial perceptions of their therapist as dominant or affiliative and both the process and outcome of time-limited therapy. It was completed through the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program at Beth Israel Medic…