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Showing 1 to 20 of 518 for “"diaries"”.
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Blogs : open-source diaries
Weblogs, or blogs, are Web sites maintained by one person or a few select people, are usually about one distinct subject, are constantly updated, and attract repeat visitors. This form has become a popular means of self-expression because it empowers both the writer and the audience. Blogs empower …
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Guided real time sampling using mobile electronic diaries
This thesis describes the motivation and development of Pocket Interview, an easily configurable handheld electronic data collection and diary tool. The system can be used to apply ‘experience sampling’ methods that allow the collection of data in real-time and in the user’s natural environment. …
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Toothbrush Diaries: Motivating Improved Oral Hygiene in Pediatric Dentistry
Evaluating Toothbrush Diaries as a Motivational Tool for Pediatric Patients To Improve Oral Hygiene
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Unpublished diaries of the nineteenth century: An annotated list
Abstract not available.
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The Wild Diamond Diaries: Healing Alongside America's Wild Horses
<p>To some, America’s free-roaming Mustangs and burros symbolize liberty and beauty. To others, these equines are feral at best, invasive at worst. They have a reputation for being useless, destructive, and untrainable. Yet my childhood horse—gifted to my family when I was three—was a gentled …
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“All This Was My Life”: Constructing Textual Self-Identity in Diaries
… This thesis analyzes the process by which the diaries of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Janet Schaw construct multiple textual identities and conceptualize their public and private selves. The projection of these multiple selves in the diary text serve to justify the private individual …
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Critical Care Diaries: An Exploration of Patient Perceptions using Glaserian Grounded Theory
… interest in recent years. Use of critical care diaries written on behalf of critically ill patients is one intervention that has been adopted in the study site in South Wales. Little is known about the benefits, limitations or potential for harm of such diaries and fundamentally there is a lack …
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“It’s a relief to talk…”: Mothers’ experiences of breastfeeding recorded in video diaries
… of breastfeeding as recorded in their video diaries. It reveals the unique therapeutic role of the camcorder, the evolving nature of mothers’ identities in the first few weeks after birth, the impact of commercialisation on breastfeeding and the negative impact of medicalised surveillance …
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Creating absence to acknowledge presence : relational subjectivity and postmodernism in Carol Shields’s 'The Stone Diaries'
… Daisy Goodwill Flett’s absence in The Stone Diaries. This absence, in turn, acts to acknowledge the gaps in knowledge that exist within self-legitimating grand narratives. It demonstrates that Daisy’s performance of these grand narratives, particularly heteronormativity, necessarily obstructs …
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A Métis wife's tale: Race, womanhood, and adaptation to settler colonialism in the diaries of Mary Hobart Williams
… nineteenth century. In particular, it uses the diaries of a French-Menominee woman named Mary Hobart Williams to identify examples of "survivance, "or the continued presence of indigenous peoples on the land in ways that defy cliched formulas. Williams remained stable and solvent on her own land …
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The Continual Trauma of Survivorship: the Historical Complexities of Time Constructs in Relation to Holocaust Diaries, Memoirs, and Testimonies
… the first chapter delves into Holocaust diaries and the majority of the diarists’ inability to escape the Holocaust as they perished and thereby they cannot experience a ‘post- Holocaust’ because there is no after. It is then that the focus shifts to explore Holocaust memoirs and the …
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Looking for Mary Webb: Part one - Creating a lost diary; Part two - A single violet: the lost diaries of Mary Webb
… Webb’ through the imagined recreation of her diaries. Although Webb did not receive the attention she strived for in her lifetime, she received posthumous success during the idealisation of rural England of the 1930s, and in the 1980s as Virago Press reintroduced her work to a new readership. …
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Entre a literatura e o cinema: do livro Cadernos de Nijinski: O Sentimento (1998) ao filme The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002)
… relações com a posterior obra fílmica The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001), de forma a melhor compreender algumas das implicações manifestadas na passagem de uma narrativa literária para narrativa fílmica. O fato de o filme ser baseado nos cadernos escritos pelo bailarino não representa …
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Exploring prostate cancer survivors’ self-management behaviours and social supportive experiences using questionnaires and electronic behavioural diaries: : does social support buffer the relationship between coping and health-related quality of life?
Background: Prostate cancer is now the most common type of cancer in men in the UK. Physical effects of treatments have been well documented; however, the extent to which psycho-social factors may impact upon health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is limited. Little is known about the …
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Modelling Diarists: Diary-writing and Moral Anxieties in China, 1918–62
… diary-writing in China from 1918 through 1961. Diaries are an increasingly popular but still inadequately understood primary source for historians of modern China. Previous scholars have suggested that, in the twentieth century, diary-writing became increasingly popular due to Japanese and …
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Personal stories go worldwide: the ritual of storytelling through Weblogs.
… to an electronic storytelling tradition. Online diaries or weblogs are a growing phenomenon that scholars have ignored until recently. This qualitative project uses narrative and rhetorical analysis to focus on storytelling themes in weblogs, rituals in storytelling and the similarities and …
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The Artist as Subject in Creative Stasis and Drasis, Explored through Performative Subjectivity in Media Art and Diary Practice
… framework, questions and needs of this research. Diaries and Meta-Diaries as tools of the methodological approach were significant in the understanding of the artist's subjectivity and its manifestation in the written document. Diary entries were treated as instances of subjectivity rather than …
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