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Showing 1 to 20 of 378 for “"Flourishing"”.
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Flourishing relationships with consulting clients
… some other practising consultants’ experience of flourishing relationships using transcendental phenomenological methods. Unlike quantitative analysis, the description obtained in this way retains the complexity of our experience and I present it as a series of dialogues, mirroring the form of the …
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HUMAN FLOURISHING: VALUES AND VIRTUES
In the quest to understand what human flourishing is, while ancient philosophers have all pointed to virtues as a vital component, today, they have been notably left out of the conversation. The purpose of this study is to explore the possible ways the virtues of Justice, Humanity and Transcendence …
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Friction as affordance for flourishing
… often eliminates critical affordances for human flourishing - including opportunities for autonomy, agency, creativity and awareness. Through systematic observation and analysis, the research identifies three categories of expe- riential friction in architecture: physical, social and cognitive, …
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Perfectionist Republicanism: Liberty, Flourishing, Excellence
… (i) protecting equal liberty; (ii) realising the flourishing of every citizen; and (iii) the cultivation of excellence in a wide range of domains, including the arts, science, music, philosophy, humanities, and even athletic achievements. Each stage is both an end as well as a means, insofar as …
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Paramedic Flourishing at Work: A Way Forward
… service, this study followed the thread of flourishing through a quantitative survey to semi-structured interviews utilizing narrative inquiry with an appreciative focus. The integration of these findings resulted in the emergence of aggregate dimensions that were interwoven and operating …
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Genomic Justice: The Distribution of Human Flourishing
… to achieve genetic justice that promote human flourishing as a public good.</p>
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Flourishing Opportunities: Four essays in Applied Econometrics
This thesis comprehends four essays investigating strategies to fight against poverty. The first essay explores a series of police operations to pacify the slums of Rio de Janeiro to understand the impacts of intrauterine exposure to violence on birth outcomes. One argues that pregnancies starting …
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Te kawa whakauru ora: Transformative pathways to flourishing whānau
Flourishing is more than a combination of wellbeing factors or the absence of disease. It is a state of vitality, optimism and potential. We flourish when we feel positive about our ability to make choices to improve our lives. We flourish when we have opportunities to make valuable contributions …
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A vindication of politics : political association and human flourishing
… between political association and human flourishing. Does the political community itself realize some aspect of human sociability intrinsic to our full flourishing or is it simply an instrumental good? The inquiry begins with a thorough examination of the merits of John Finnis’s …
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Pastoral support for the flourishing of “in-between” families
… The study focuses on pastoral support for the flourishing of in-between families. The study builds on the work of Vhumani Magezi (2016, 2018, 2019a) on in-betweenness and applies those insights specifically to families who live outside their communities of origin, referred to as in-between …
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Flourishing Selfhood in Aristotle and Authentic Selfhood in Heidegger
… explores Aristotle's concept of human flourishing, or eudaimonia, through the lens of the flourishing self. Connections will be made with Heidegger's concept of authenticity, as seen through the lens of authentic selfhood. It is argued that there is some type of authenticity or …
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Human Flourishing in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
… challenges during and after treatment. Human flourishing (HF), a life-long process to achieve “uniqueness, dignity, diversity, freedom, happiness, and holistic well-being of the individual” (National League for Nursing, 2014, p. 1), can work as an excellent target for health care that …
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Social Flourishing: Skills for Fostering Positive Social Connections and Relationships
The capacity to cultivate flourishing relationships has important implications for health and well-being (Reis & Gable, 2003). There is increasingly a focus in positive psychology, and related fields, on identifying the positive processes and skills that can be employed to foster warm, momentary …
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Students and Faculty Indivisible: Crafting a Higher Education Culture of Flourishing
<p>This dissertation is comprised of three separate articles addressing related issues central to the culture and future of higher education. The questions that animate the investigations are: In what ways is writing self-efficacy forged in the learning relationships between student and instructor? …
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Flourishing of employees in the information technology industry in South Africa
… conducive towards well-being. Efforts to promote flourishing and optimal functioning of employees will affect individual and organisational outcomes. Flourishing and languishing are opposite end points on a continuum of mental health indicating the emotional, psychological and social well-being of …
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The Ratio of Positive to Negative Affect, Flourishing, and Health Behavior
… ratio (PR) is thought to be associated with flourishing (psychological and social well-being). However, little research has been done on how PR and flourishing relate to specific health behaviors. The relationships between PR and flourishing with health behavior i.e., physical activity, and …
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Towards Achieving Human Flourishing – An mHealth Application and Machine Learning Approach
<p>Although human flourishing has been studied in a wide range of fields, very little research has attempted to examine contributing factors of flourishing with the help of Machine Learning techniques. Based on relevant literature, this dissertation expands domains and measures of human flourishing …
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Why public policy ideas catch on: empty signifiers and flourishing neighbourhoods
… with development of the empty signifier of ‘flourishing neighbourhoods’. The thesis traces the credibility and emergence of flourishing neighbourhoods and contributes to a research agenda around hegemonic policy analysis.
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Aligning Theory and Evidence-Based Practices to Enhance Human Flourishing in Nurse Executives
<p>Today’s nurse executives lead highly complex and bureaucratic organizations undergoing sweeping reform at an unprecedented rate of change. Change and high levels of stress are the norm in health care, and ineffective stress management can hinder organizational performance and adversely impact …
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The Moral Layers of Fracking: From Basic Rights and Obligations to Human Flourishing
… fracking collides with the good life and human flourishing. In other words, I claim fracking not only hinders the availability of necessary material goods, like clean water and air, it also significantly impedes human flourishing. Moreover, fracking promotes or propagates a life of consumption …
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