DSpace Collection: 2012-03-15
http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48859
2012-03-152024-03-29T04:57:54ZToward effective negotiation instruction at the graduate and professional level
http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48865
Title: Toward effective negotiation instruction at the graduate and professional level
Authors: Perry, Christian D.
Abstract: Negotiation training is common in graduate and professional programs, including those of law, business, international relations, and public policy. Though negotiation classes are frequently oversubscribed, their long-term impact is unclear. This paper will examine how negotiation is currently taught, and offer recommendations for improving negotiation courses for graduate and professional programs.2012-03-14T15:00:00ZPerry, Christian D.Negotiation training is common in graduate and professional programs, including those of law, business, international relations, and public policy. Though negotiation classes are frequently oversubscribed, their long-term impact is unclear. This paper will examine how negotiation is currently taught, and offer recommendations for improving negotiation courses for graduate and professional programs.Shakespeare's Narration
http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48864
Title: Shakespeare's Narration
Authors: Twiddy, Iain
Abstract: In analysing the impossibility of a harmonious union with a Montague, Juliet dissects internal from external identity, imaginatively instructing Romeo to 'doff thy name / And for thy name, which is no part of thee, / Take all myself'. The potential marriage is precluded not by an innate identity, but by Romeo's status, his position as a signifier in the text of Verona's rigid familial superstructure. Juliet proposes an active self-narration in opposition to its passive endurance, and a possible union with Romeo is an attempted translation. Juliet assumes that in such a translation the 'innate' self remains inviolable, but as the play demonstrates in the protagonists' deaths, internal and external identities are impossible to dissever, and the alteration of a single signifier is inextricable from the mutation of its context, the familial network; as Romeo laments, it is not he, but his 'name's cursed hand' that is responsible for the death of Juliet's kinsman Tybalt. Shakespearean characters constitute texts within contexts, the networks of family and state in which they function. They experience the divisive condition of attempting to narrate while continually being narrated. Internal and external crises occur at the points where characters recognize themselves as textual characters, and when they either claim or rescind control over their narrative meaning. Attempts to translate the self and others, and to show others as they are perceived, frequently result in personal suffering, due to the difficulty of interpreting competing levels of signification within power structures: characters as signifiers switch between monosemic, metaphorical and polysemic roles. In The Merchant of Venice, religious identity is both innate and mutable as it serves the interest of economics. Shylock attempts to expose the Christians' practice of duplicitous literalism through his bond, but justice itself is a nebulous and manipulable entity. In the death of his father, Hamlet is unwilling to play his expected role in the new theatre of state, and attempts to perpetuate the original condition through administering justice; by the end of the play the state is translated by foreign occupation. Richard, Duke of Gloucester's active narration of others and the creation of the unreadable self, in the construction of the text of kingship, ultimately effect self-abnegation, the destruction of the self as a signifier and the loss of any kind of autonomy, as he is replaced by another actor in the role of king. Examining the nature of this dialectic of passive and active narration, where characters narrate and are narrated, requires considering liminal places of conflict in the different translating actions ― whether of the self or others ― that characters perform, and the complex signifying operations of power structures.2012-03-14T15:00:00ZTwiddy, IainIn analysing the impossibility of a harmonious union with a Montague, Juliet dissects internal from external identity, imaginatively instructing Romeo to 'doff thy name / And for thy name, which is no part of thee, / Take all myself'. The potential marriage is precluded not by an innate identity, but by Romeo's status, his position as a signifier in the text of Verona's rigid familial superstructure. Juliet proposes an active self-narration in opposition to its passive endurance, and a possible union with Romeo is an attempted translation. Juliet assumes that in such a translation the 'innate' self remains inviolable, but as the play demonstrates in the protagonists' deaths, internal and external identities are impossible to dissever, and the alteration of a single signifier is inextricable from the mutation of its context, the familial network; as Romeo laments, it is not he, but his 'name's cursed hand' that is responsible for the death of Juliet's kinsman Tybalt. Shakespearean characters constitute texts within contexts, the networks of family and state in which they function. They experience the divisive condition of attempting to narrate while continually being narrated. Internal and external crises occur at the points where characters recognize themselves as textual characters, and when they either claim or rescind control over their narrative meaning. Attempts to translate the self and others, and to show others as they are perceived, frequently result in personal suffering, due to the difficulty of interpreting competing levels of signification within power structures: characters as signifiers switch between monosemic, metaphorical and polysemic roles. In The Merchant of Venice, religious identity is both innate and mutable as it serves the interest of economics. Shylock attempts to expose the Christians' practice of duplicitous literalism through his bond, but justice itself is a nebulous and manipulable entity. In the death of his father, Hamlet is unwilling to play his expected role in the new theatre of state, and attempts to perpetuate the original condition through administering justice; by the end of the play the state is translated by foreign occupation. Richard, Duke of Gloucester's active narration of others and the creation of the unreadable self, in the construction of the text of kingship, ultimately effect self-abnegation, the destruction of the self as a signifier and the loss of any kind of autonomy, as he is replaced by another actor in the role of king. Examining the nature of this dialectic of passive and active narration, where characters narrate and are narrated, requires considering liminal places of conflict in the different translating actions ― whether of the self or others ― that characters perform, and the complex signifying operations of power structures.網走市における行刑施設の受容と共存
http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48863
Title: 網走市における行刑施設の受容と共存
Authors: 横田, 勉
Abstract: Criminal facilities such as prisons and detention centers are referred to as "NIMBY", and they are generally despised. However, such facilities that control crime and correction are a social necessity since they promote change and rehabilitate humans. In Abashiri city, Hokkaido, a prison has existed in the city since the pioneering phase during the Meiji era, and the facility has coexisted with other buildings (which include residences, offices, etc) without being eliminated by people. Consequently, several relations can be confirmed between the facility and the city. The purpose of this study is to explain how a penal institution has been accepted by people, and how it has coexisted with other buildings and areas in Abashiri city. In this study, four major factors have been selected, such as the administrative policy, media, tourism, and civic activities that create relationships between the facility and the city. Accordingly, a conclusion will be derived by examining the relations on the basis of each example.2012-03-14T15:00:00Z横田, 勉Criminal facilities such as prisons and detention centers are referred to as "NIMBY", and they are generally despised. However, such facilities that control crime and correction are a social necessity since they promote change and rehabilitate humans. In Abashiri city, Hokkaido, a prison has existed in the city since the pioneering phase during the Meiji era, and the facility has coexisted with other buildings (which include residences, offices, etc) without being eliminated by people. Consequently, several relations can be confirmed between the facility and the city. The purpose of this study is to explain how a penal institution has been accepted by people, and how it has coexisted with other buildings and areas in Abashiri city. In this study, four major factors have been selected, such as the administrative policy, media, tourism, and civic activities that create relationships between the facility and the city. Accordingly, a conclusion will be derived by examining the relations on the basis of each example.中間システムの役割を持つ地域プラットフォームの必要性とその構造分析
http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48862
Title: 中間システムの役割を持つ地域プラットフォームの必要性とその構造分析
Authors: 敷田, 麻実; 森重, 昌之; 中村, 壯一郎
Abstract: Community development in Japan has undergone drastic changes since the 1990s due to weakened social ties and the increased openness of society. In response, community development organizations have gradually transformed from community-centric to platform-centric. However, few studies have analyzed the structure and function of platform-oriented community development. The primary purpose of this article is to review literature related to platform-oriented strategy to examine its feasibility in the areas of community development, based on the case of the Odaashi Study Group in Odawara and Ashigara area, Kanagawa. The results indicate that the group is likely to function as a community platform as well as an excellent intermediary. The group also manages community resources with the help of stakeholders both in and outside the community. This study looks to contribute to the development of future community development designs and resource management.2012-03-14T15:00:00Z敷田, 麻実森重, 昌之中村, 壯一郎Community development in Japan has undergone drastic changes since the 1990s due to weakened social ties and the increased openness of society. In response, community development organizations have gradually transformed from community-centric to platform-centric. However, few studies have analyzed the structure and function of platform-oriented community development. The primary purpose of this article is to review literature related to platform-oriented strategy to examine its feasibility in the areas of community development, based on the case of the Odaashi Study Group in Odawara and Ashigara area, Kanagawa. The results indicate that the group is likely to function as a community platform as well as an excellent intermediary. The group also manages community resources with the help of stakeholders both in and outside the community. This study looks to contribute to the development of future community development designs and resource management.The effect of relational mobility on SNS user behavior : A study of Japanese dual-users of Mixi and Facebook
http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48860
Title: The effect of relational mobility on SNS user behavior : A study of Japanese dual-users of Mixi and Facebook
Authors: Thomson, Robert; Ito, Naoya
Abstract: Previous studies have shown clear cultural differences in how Japanese and American social network site (SNS) users interract with differing SNS platforms (see Barker and Ota, 2011; Fogg and Iizawa, 2008; Takahashi, 2010). In this study of 131 Japanese SNS users who use both Facebook and Mixi, self-disclosure, numbers of contacts, in-group numbers, and levels of perceived commitment on Mixi and Facebook were measured. The study found that such users showed a lower level of self-disclosure, connected with fewer people and had fewer categories of contacts, and felt a higher degree of commitment on Mixi than on Facebook. It is suggested that these differences stem from differing responses to percieved relational mobility on each platform; Mixi being a socioecological environment which reflects low-relationally mobile Japanese society, and Facebook being a socioecological environment which reflects high relationally mobile North American social environments. (141/150)2012-03-14T15:00:00ZThomson, RobertIto, NaoyaPrevious studies have shown clear cultural differences in how Japanese and American social network site (SNS) users interract with differing SNS platforms (see Barker and Ota, 2011; Fogg and Iizawa, 2008; Takahashi, 2010). In this study of 131 Japanese SNS users who use both Facebook and Mixi, self-disclosure, numbers of contacts, in-group numbers, and levels of perceived commitment on Mixi and Facebook were measured. The study found that such users showed a lower level of self-disclosure, connected with fewer people and had fewer categories of contacts, and felt a higher degree of commitment on Mixi than on Facebook. It is suggested that these differences stem from differing responses to percieved relational mobility on each platform; Mixi being a socioecological environment which reflects low-relationally mobile Japanese society, and Facebook being a socioecological environment which reflects high relationally mobile North American social environments. (141/150)