scholarly journals Mystic Language and Symbols: Unity of Being and Pakistani Women Fiction Writers

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (101) ◽  
pp. 170-181
Author(s):  
Ambreen Salahuddin
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
World View ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Theoretical Sampling ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Pakistani Women ◽  
Mystic Experience ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Ancient Texts

This article explores the concept of unity of being in fiction by Pakistani women writers. The usage of mystic language and depiction of mystical and Sūfi symbols in literature can be traced back to ancient texts. However, it has been deemed alien for women to be Sūfis and have mystic experience, apart from a few exceptions. Indulging in formulating mystical symbols and using mystic language by women has not been perceived as too womanly. The main reason for this is the fact that women’s world-view has been restricted and thus deemed limited. Complete works of fiction by Pakistani women writers writing in Urdu have been explored for this research. There are two steps in sample selection i.e. women fiction writers and their fiction. Women writers are selected on the basis of set criteria. Selection of text is done through theoretical sampling. Women fiction writers have used mystic symbols meaningfully at innumerable places in their works. By the study of these works, it can be concluded that women writers have indulged in using mystical language and symbols and have done it in a crafty manner, though retaining the traditional usage of these symbols and metaphors.

Sample selection of prognostics validation test based on multi-stage Wiener process

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-614
Author(s):  
Zhiao Zhao ◽  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Guanjun Liu ◽  
Jing Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Wiener Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Degradation Data ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Selection Of

Sample allocation and selection technology is of great significance in the test plan design of prognostics validation. Considering the existing researches, the importance of prognostics samples of different moments is not considered in the degradation process of a single failure. Normally, prognostics samples are generated under the same time interval mechanism. However, a prognostics system may have low prognostics accuracy because of the small quantity of failure degradation and measurement randomness in the early stage of a failure degradation process. Historical degradation data onto equipment failure modes are collected, and the degradation process model based on the multi-stage Wiener process is established. Based on the multi-stage Wiener process model, we choose four parameters to describe different degradation stages in a degradation process. According to four parameters, the sample selection weight of each degradation stage is calculated and the weight of each degradation stage is used to select prognostics samples. Taking a bearing wear fault of a helicopter transmission device as an example, its degradation process is established and sample selection weights are calculated. According to the sample selection weight of each degradation process, we accomplish the prognostics sample selection of the bearing wear fault. The results show that the prognostics sample selection method proposed in this article has good applicability.

scholarly journals Self Esteem and General Well Being in Adolescents with Low vs High Emotional Competence

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarvdeep Kohli ◽  
Anjali Malik ◽  
Varsha Rani
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Competence ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Emotional Evaluation ◽  
Competence Scale ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Selection Of

An essential component of youths’ successful development is learning to appropriately respond to emotions, including the ability to recognize, identify and describe one’s feelings. Emotional competence refers to one’s ability to express or release one’s inner feelings or emotions. Self-esteem reflects a person’s overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well as an attitude toward the self. General well being refers to the harmonious functioning of the physical as well as psychological aspects of the personality, giving satisfaction to the self and benefit to the society. The present study focuses on the self esteem and general well being in adolescents with low vs high emotional competence. For this purpose, first of all emotional competence scale was administered on 260 adolescents within the age range of 15-18 years, to identify the low emotionally competent and high emotionally competent adolescents. After the sample selection of 152 subjects (76 low emotionally competent and 76 high emotionally competent) Rosenberg’s Self-esteem scale and General well being scale were administered. Results indicate that high emotionally competent adolescents have high self-esteem and better general well being than low emotionally competent adolescents.

scholarly journals PENGARUH PROFITABILITAS, SOLVABILITAS, DAN OPINI AUDIT TERHADAP KETEPATAN WAKTU PENYAMPAIAN LAPORAN KEUANGAN (TIMELINESS) DENGAN KUALITAS AUDITOR SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERATING

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-139
Author(s):  
Thia Margaretha Tarigan
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Audit Opinion ◽  
Auditor Quality ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Selection Of

This research aims to verify and provide empirical evidences about: the effect of Profitability, Solvability, and Audit Opinion to Timeliness with Auditor Quality as moderating variabel of manufacturing companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The population of this research are 138 manufacturing companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) since 2010 – 2014. Sample selection of this research use purposive sampling method. The sample of this research are 78 manufacturing companies. Type of data used are secondary data, that collected by documentation. Statistical tool used is logistic regressions analysis. The result of this research concluded that only profitability have positive significant to timeliness while solvability and audit opinion have not significant to timeliness. Auditor quality as moderating variabel has not strengthened the correlation between profitability, and audit opinion to timeliness but not weaknessed the correlation between solvability to timeliness.

A Grounded Theory of the Process of Spiritual Change Among Homicide Survivors

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-65
Author(s):  
Shannon K. Johnson ◽  
Brooks Zitzmann
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Homicide Survivors ◽  
Spiritual Change ◽  
Theoretical Sampling ◽  
The World ◽  
Range Theory ◽  
Closed Theory ◽  
Renewal Movement ◽  
Selection Of

Grounded theory was used to generate a mid-range theory of the process of spiritual change in the lives of survivors of homicide victims. Theoretical sampling guided the selection of 30 participants from a larger study of spiritual change after homicide ( N = 112). Individual interviews were analyzed using a four-step sequence of line-by-line, focused, axial, and selective coding. Analysis generated a closed theory consisting of three fluids, consecutive but nonlinear stages. Each stage consisted of an overarching process and a state of being in the world: (a) Disintegrating: living in a state of shock; (b) Reckoning: living in a state of stagnation; (c) Recreating and reintegrating the self: living in a state of renewal. Movement through the stages was fueled by processes of spiritual connection that yielded changes that permeated the theory. Findings can be used to help practitioners address the processes that drive spiritual change in the lives of homicide survivors.

Interviews with Whom?

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Kathleen Gerson
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Strategy ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
The Core ◽  
Theoretical Sampling ◽  
Good Sample ◽  
Selection Of

Chapter 3 considers the principles underlying the selection of an appropriate sample for depth interviewing and the range of strategies available to identify and recruit participants in that sample. Rather than claiming representativeness, as a quantitative researcher might, a depth interviewer aims to select a sample capable of yielding theoretically generalizable insights—an approach called theoretical sampling. Theoretical sampling focuses on finding a variety of participants who are well positioned to reveal the practices, mechanisms, and relationships the research seeks to explain. The chapter then looks at the range of strategies for finding a good sample and deciding whom to include and whom to exclude. Whether the sampling strategy involves recruiting randomly selected participants, snowball sampling, seeking volunteers, or some combination, a good sample contains both the core controls and the built-in comparisons needed to answer the study questions and develop an explanation for the outcomes.

Bells and Cupolas: The Formative Role of the Female Body in Marina Tsvetaeva's Poetry

Slavic Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibelan Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Female Body ◽  
World View ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Marina Tsvetaeva ◽  
Female Roles ◽  
Poetic Creation ◽  
Landmark Study

Like many other Russian women writers, Marina Tsvetaeva did not merely include women's language and physical experience in her poetry; they were central to her concern with poetry and poetic creation. These elements of her work have in recent years evoked an interest from women readers and feminist scholars of Russian literature which is reflected in the number of studies devoted to aspects of her work. Antonina Gove discusses the presence and chronological development of female roles in Tsvetaeva's poetry; Anya Kroth illustrates the importance of gender and specifically androgyny in Tsvetaeva's construction of a dichotomous world-view. Barbara Heldt's landmark study of women in Russian literature, Terrible Perfection, devotes several pages to Tsvetaeva as an autobiographer and a woman poet liberated from the “split selves” of her predecessors.

scholarly journals Design and Validation of the Instrument for the Measurement of Learning and Performance in Football

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (13) ◽  
pp. 4629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan M. García-Ceberino ◽  
Antonio Antúnez ◽  
Sergio J. Ibáñez ◽  
Sebastián Feu
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Reliable Instrument ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Learning And Performance

The assessment of tactical-technical knowledge of football is essential to develop optimal and integral teaching processes for students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to design and validate an instrument so that teachers, coaches, and researchers can observe and codify both the tactical behaviors and technical skills performed by the students in the game of football. The design and validation of the instrument were carried out in four phases: a) review of the literature and previous instruments; b) design of the Instrument for the Measurement of Learning and Performance in Football (IMLPFoot). It assesses all the offensive and defensive play actions, with and without the ball, as well as their three components (decision-making, technical execution, and final result); c) sample selection of experts (N = 12); and d) quantitative (Likert-type scale from 1 to 10) and qualitative assessment of degree the pertinence, unambiguity, and importance of each of the 33 items included in the IMLPFoot. Aiken’s V coefficient was used to determine content validity. Likewise, internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach’s α coefficient. The results showed demanding levels of validity (V ≥ 0.77), internal consistency (α = 0.983), inter-rater, and intra-rater reliability. Therefore, it is a valid and reliable instrument that makes possible a complete assessment of football in physical education classes and/or in the sports context (out-of-school football).

Kim Stanley Robinson

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Markley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Economics And Politics ◽  
Time Culture ◽  
Selection Of

Kim Stanley Robinson is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read and influential science-fiction writers of our era. In dicussing eighteen of his novels published since 1984 and a selection of his short fiction, this study explores the significance of his work in reshaping contemporary literature. Three of the chapters are devoted to Robinson’s major trilogies: the Orange County trilogy (1984-90), the Mars trilogy (1992-96), and the Science in the Capital trilogy (2004-07). Two other chapters consider his groundbreaking alternative histories, including “The Lucky Strike” (1984), The Years of Rice and Salt (2002), and Shaman (2014), and his future histories set among colonies in the solar system, notably Galileo’s Dream (2009) and 2312 (2012). The concluding chapter examines Robinson’s most recent novels Aurora (2015) and New York 2140 (2017). In interviews, Robinson describes his fiction as weaving together, in various combinations, Marxism, ecology, and Buddhist thought, and all of his novels explore how we might imagine forms of utopian political action. His novels—from the Mars trilogy to New York 2140—offer a range of possible futures that chart humankind’s uneven progress, often over centuries, toward the greening of science, technology, economics, and politics. Robinson filters our knowledge of the past and our imagination of possible futures through two superimposed lenses: the ecological fate of the Earth (or other planets) and the far-reaching consequences of moral, political, and socioeconomic decisions of individuals, often scientists and artists, caught up in world or solar-systemic events. In this respect, his fiction charts a collective struggle to think beyond the contradictions of historical existence, and beyond our locations in time, culture, and geography.

The Logic of Sample Selection: Who Represents What?

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara K. Keogh ◽  
Donald L. Macmillan
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Statistical Procedure ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Marker Variables ◽  
Sampling Problems ◽  
Limited Generalizability ◽  
Selection Of

This article focuses on sampling problems related to the use of system-identified subjects in special education research. Differences in school district criteria and procedures for selection of pupils into special education programs for the mildly handicapped have resulted in limited generalizability of research findings across studies. Overlap between samples identified as LD and EMR is particularly noticeable. Suggested approaches to deal with these sampling problems are identified. These include the use of rationally defined subgroups, the statistical procedure of cluster analysis, and marker variables.

An examination of ecopreneurs’ incentives through a combination between institutional and resource-based approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis E. Nikolaou ◽  
Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis ◽  
Kyriaki Tasopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address two research questions: which are the key factors that stimulate entrepreneurs to invest in ecopreneurship, and how ecopreneurhsip contributes to environmental sustainability. Design/methodology/approach To answer these questions, a framework has been developed to identify the incentives that lead entrepreneurs to invest in firms in the ecopreneurship through institutional and resource-based thinking. Findings From a survey of 91 Greek firms from the green service sector, it is shown that some specific institutional and resource-based view factors play a critical role in green entrepreneurs’ decisions, as well as some certain environmental practices that are frequently used by entrepreneurs to address environmental issues. Research limitations/implications First, the answer of the second research question through data collected by a questionnaire survey may be faced with skepticism by some authors, as it could be seen that entrepreneurs and managers of firms could have overstated their company's environmental activities. Second, although the sample selection of 91 firms is a representative sample (response rate 12.35 percent) of the total population of Greek green firms (761) and equal to other relative studies, a higher number of firms and a wider variety of green entrepreneurship ventures is necessary in future research. Practical implications The findings are useful for scholars, practitioners and policy makers since it provide information regarding the behavior of green entrepreneurs. Originality/value The paper analyze the types of green entrepreneurs in relation to the different features and strategies which are emerged from two theories, such as institutional and resource-based theory.

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