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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"levels of consciousness"”.
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Incubating dreams : awakening creativity
This research centers on the question of whether interfacing with dreams can help us explore and augment the creative potential of our minds. The dreaming experience at sleep onset, called hypnagogia, is the main focus of this thesis: these first minutes of sleep provide ideal conditions for …
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Chinese Peasants on the Wheels of Change: Rural Reform and Its Impact in a Tianjin Village
The remarkable flourishing of life-cycle and calendrical rituals is a sign of the state's diminishing ideological hegemony in the village. The main proponents of traditional rituals refused to endorse the state's application of the science/superstition, modernity/tradition divides to their own …
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Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding
… enables Genesis to form detailed mental models of characters in a story. I started by annotating stories with characters' entrances and exits, treating stories as theatrical plays. I assumed that characters observe events only while onstage, and I used their observations to populate mental …
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The Common Meanings and Shared Practices of Sedation Assessment in the Context of Managing Patients with an Opioid: A Phenomenological Study
The purpose of this study was to explore the concept of opioid-induced sedation and how nurses define and measure sedation in the hospital setting. Opioid medications are the primary treatment for acute pain in the post-operative setting. One of the most serious side effects of opioid therapy is …
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Manaaki whenua. Manaaki tangata: Care for the land, care for the people: Leading critical school reform with mana whenua and whānau Māori
… Pākehā students and compromised the ability of Māori students to engage with learning and succeed. Despite the promises of equality inherent in the Treaty of Waitangi, this historical foundation has, for over 150 years, perpetuated intergenerational cycles of education failure for Māori …
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Apartheid and identity redefinition : a conflictual analysis
… has attempted to examine how the imposition of Apartheid identity constructs has adversely impacted upon the processes of and to describe the extent to which the participants have allowed the present hegemony to influence the structuring of their consciousness. The structural inequalities …
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Body driven cognition : writing to the body to influence the mind
… on cognitive processes, we must build off of updated and inclusive cognitive models. Recent research in psychology distinguishes levels of consciousness into a tripartite model - conscious, unconscious, and meta-conscious. HCI technologies largely focus on the conscious pathway for …
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A determination of the prevalence of palliative care patients admitted to the Groote Schuur Hospital Emergency Centre and their Presenting Complaints
Background: The Emergency Centre is often an entry point to health services and is, therefore, well positioned to identify patients with palliative care needs. It is also the place of care sought by the families of palliative care patients when their loved ones are seriously ill or terminal. It …
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The Paradox and Contradictions in Cultural Value and Exchange Worth of Anatolian Hand-crafted Wool Felted Textiles
… to explain the development and implementation of a new model, methods and process of practice required for the rejuvenation of hand crafted woolfelted textile making customs and practices of the Anatolian region of Turkey, which mediates tradition in a contemporary context. In progressing the …
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An interdisciplinary approach to belief formation and resistance to change
One of the most remarked on, and perplexing, aspects of beliefs is their resistance to change as discussed by researchers such as Frijda, Mesquita, Manstead and Bern, amongst others. This is especially the case for false beliefs. The thesis examines the many influences on belief formation in …
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Evaluating an Online Course’s Capacity to Promote Self-Authoring Consciousness: Assessing the Developmental Impact of a Scalable Intervention on Adults’ Stage of Ego Development
<p>A summary report of a six-year long multi-national research collaboration conducted by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), referenced Kegan’s ‘self- authoring order of mental complexity’ (also known as ‘self-authoring consciousness’) – as, overall, the capacity …
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Participant or Protagonist? The impact of the personal on the development of children and young people’s participation
… NGOs in São Paulo, Brazil. There is profound confusion within children and young people’s participation both in theory and in practice. A credible and coherent body of theory to inform practice is lacking and consequently wide variations in the quality of practice have been identified. …
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Participant or Protagonist? Exploring the personal in children and young people's participation
… NGOs in São Paulo, Brazil. There is profound confusion within children and young people’s participation both in theory and in practice. A credible and coherent body of theory to inform practice is lacking and consequently wide variations in the quality of practice have been identified. …
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Tracking brain dynamics across transitions of consciousness
How do we lose and regain consciousness? The space between healthy wakefulness and unconsciousness encompasses a series of gradual and rapid changes in brain activity. In this thesis, I investigate computational measures applicable to the electroencephalogram to quantify the loss and recovery of …
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Electroencephalographic effects of general anaesthetics : a suite of clinical studies and theoretical models
The primary object of this thesis was to investigate aspects of empirically-measured, anaesthesia-induced electroencephalographic (EEG) changes that could be explained by network models of cortical interactions. The thesis consists of a collection of various theoretical and clinical papers in three …