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- Embodiment, Eighteenth Century History, Diary Studies, Social History of Medicine

Introduction. This paper focuses on a research strategy combining the concept of mental models, diary method, drawings technique and thematic analysis to study individual information spaces. The possibility of implementing such approach was tested on a case study of personal information spaces of undergraduate information management students. Method. Methods of critical literature review and case study were used. Empirical data were gathered by means of the diary technique in its verbal, written and open form and by participant-generated drawings, and analysed with thematic analysis. Analysis. The analysis allowed to: (1) elicit selected components of individual information spaces as represented in their mental models, such as information activities, sources, people, places, affective and socio-cultural factors, and (2) to capture the main features of mental models, i.e. themes (cross-data patterns). Results. The pursuit of positive emotions, comfort, peace and safety is the dominant force shaping information behaviour and personalized information spaces. Conclusions. Triangulation of concepts of mental models, diary method, drawings technique and thematic analysis proved to be a fruitful study approach, not only offering holistic insight into personal information spaces but also opening new research questions.

- by Monika Krakowska and +1
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- Case Study Research, Qualitative Research, Diary Studies, Thematic Analysis

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- by Alberto Bonchino
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- Diary Studies, Early German Romanticism, Deutscher Idealismus, Franz Von Baader

Dairy activities have traditionally been integral to India’s rural economy. The country is the world’s largest producer of dairy products and also their largest consumer. Almost its entire produce is consumed in the domestic market and the country is neither an importer nor an exporter, except in a marginal sense. Despite being the world’s largest producer, the dairy sector is by and large in the primitive stage of development and modernization. Though India may boast of a 200 million cattle population, the average output of an Indian cow is only one seventh of its American counterpart. Indian breeds of cows are considered inferior in terms of productivity. Moreover, the sector is plagued with various other impediments like shortage of fodder, its poor quality, dismal transportation facilities and a poorly developed cold chain infrastructure. As a result, the supply side lacks in elasticity that is expected of it. On the demand side, the situation is buoyant. With the sustained grow...

- by Dr. Naveen Gaurav
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- Microbiology, Environmental microbiology, Biotechnology, Plant biotechnology
- by Anna Kurpiel
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- Diary Studies, Lower Silesia
- by Csaba Katona
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- History, Modern History, Cultural History, Central European history

Using the theoretical context of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study examined whether work has a disruptive influence on people’s ability to carry out their daily intentions to exercise, and whether daily planning helps overcome this. A daily questionnaire was completed by 42 employees for 14 days. A brief daily planning intervention was administered to half of the employees. Multilevel modelling was used to analyse the data. The moderating effects of daily perceived behavioural control (PBC), job demands and work-related anxiety and depression on the relationship between intention to exercise and subsequent behaviour were investigated, as well as the impact of the intervention. Intention and PBC predicted exercise. Job demands appeared to disrupt people’s ability to carry out their daily exercise intentions. Contrary to expectation, people in the no intervention group were more likely to exercise. Furthermore, on low-demand days they were most successful in realising their exercise intentions (when they intended to exercise for longer), whereas people in the intervention group, on high-demand days were least successful in realising their exercise intentions. The intervention may have operated contrary to expectation by drawing attention to potential failure.

- by nicola payne and +1
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- Theory of Planned Behavior, Implementation Intentions, Diary Studies, Multilevel modelling

At the beginning of a teaching experience in a new culture, the language teacher's interpretations of what occurs in the classroom are frequently based more on intuition than insight. Because perceptions of the learners and the culture can have far-reaching effects on the motivation of language teachers and the affective nature of their classroom instruction, it sometimes is necessary for teachers to pause and reflect upon the validity of their personal assumptions. In this paper, we will explore the benefits and difficulties of undertaking a diary study, based upon our personal experience.

- by Gregory Hadley and +1
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- Teaching English as a Second Language, Qualitative methodology, Qualitative Methods, TESOL

This paper explores employees' use of organizational values in the context of a post-merger integration (PMI) change process, which entails adopting a new set of values. Within such a dynamic corporate context, organizational values may assist employees in proactively managing their work performance and job satisfaction by putting organizational values into practice and using them ('crafting') in the context of work. A four-week diary study was conducted in which 71 employees participated. Diary records and validated questionnaire data were collected during a post-merger integration process in a multinational corporation, and were then analyzed using multi-level modelling. This study suggests that using and practicing organizational values can affect people's motivation to act proactively in changing work settings. We discuss the implications of our findings for future work in helping organizational members craft their work by drawing on organizational values for sustainable collaboration.

- by A Georges L Romme and +1
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- Values, Collaboration, Job Satisfaction, Diary Studies
- by Jukka Törrönen
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- Sociology, Alcohol Studies, Life Style, Narrative Methods
- by Travis Thomas
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- History, Midwifery, Diary Studies, Historical methods

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is also known by the name hyaluronan. The necessity for using this fabulous material lead to investigate non-pathogenic strains which produce this material. The most non-pathogenic strain is S. thermophilus. The lack of literature on microbial production of this substance by the strain prompted us to examine the microbial production of HA from it and also to examine optimization of culture conditions where HA is produced. The bacteria Streptococcus salivarius sub. thermophilus was obtained from the Bank of Scientific and Industrial Research of Iran (PTCC 1738). To separate S. thermophilus strains from yogurts, three types of yogurts were used. They were cultured by pour-plate and surface methods on STA medium. To identify the isolated strains, biochemical tests and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) were used. Bacterial strains isolated from yoghurts were identified as S. thermophilus MN-BM-A02, S. thermophilus JIM8232 and S. thermophilus MN-ZLW-002. To separate the capsule strains, each strain was cultured on STB medium and then they were centrifuged. In order to purify the samples, ethanol and charcoal were used. To optimize production, variety of sources of carbon, nitrogen, temperature and pH were studied.

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- Biochemistry, Microbiology, Bacteriology, Biology

הסקירה קוראת את היומן כמעין טקטס ארס פואטי של כתיבה אוטוביוגרפית בזמן ההתרחשות של הטראומה

- by Amos Goldberg
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- Trauma Studies, Holocaust Studies, Diary Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

The first part of the study is concerned with the rhythm of the reception of Klíma’swork: from the anniversary of his death, through the “Golden Sixties” and his cult inthe underground to present-day editions. The second part of the study takes the briefexample of two versions of the story Řeč oblohy (“Language of Sky”) to analyse thevisual rhetoric of Klíma’s poetics and the importance of his diaries. Writing diaries ishere interpreted after Philippe Lejeune as an anthropologicallly conceived practice.Multilingualism and typography enable us to examine the function of the raster of Klíma’s poetics of composition (as conceived by Boris Uspensky). Here it is possible to define its three “rules” (apparent equivalence, “ontological” initial letter and visualhierarchization) and to show the most conspicuous feature of Klíma’s texts – neologization or, more precisely, “tautologization” of the philosophical terminology. All of the strategies serve the same purpose: to keep the distance between the life and viewpoints of the author and others. What is more, comparison of the two versions enables us to expose the common autobiographical basis of Klíma’s philosophical and literarywork. The polyphonic composition of the texts becomes a labyrinth which is built by the author for himself. The world which ought to be consciousness, turns into nothing. Besides, strictly diaristic (chronological) and auto-referential entries can be understood as a form of constant returns to the first meeting of oneself as an author (in otherwords, as a diaristic pact). On this occasion, it is possible to emphasize the importanceof meteorology for Klíma’s work. In this way fragments of destroyed verbal philosophy, this desperate struggle with the world with all its outdated thought (and especially outdated speech), participates in creating the melancholic beauty of his prose. And in the end the symmetrical development of the diaries and Velký román (“Great Novel”) enables us to observe mutual supplementing against the background of the traumatic recollection of the writer’s attempts at suicide. Indeed, the rhythm of the diary entries is a repetition of the above-mentioned reflections on suicide, of the Great Novel and of numerous heroic models. When understanding Klíma’s aim as an attempt to express in literature the existential situation of an individual on the margins of society, then the“illogical logic” gains a sense of profundity as the answer to modern alienation. Klíma’s Diaries sound like “drafts of his life”, or rather “a life in drafts”.

- by Mateusz Chmurski
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- Multilingualism, Visual Rhetoric, Manuscript Studies, Autobiography
- by Till Kinzel
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- Historiography, Diary Studies, Diaries, Literary studies
- by Mark Robinson
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- Information Systems, Information Science, Information Retrieval, Communication

This chapter explores the way German-Jewish diarists described and analyzed bystander behavior under the Nazi dictatorship. Focusing on the long-running diaries of Willy Cohn and Else Behrend-Rosenfeld it examines the deterioration of interpersonal relations, focusing on the shift from the social war against the Jews of the pre-war years to the total war of extermination between 1939 and 1945. Cohn’s and Behrend-Rosenfeld’s accounts of bystander behavior offer val-uable analytical clues for explaining the dynamics of persecution. Beneath the fatal net of anti-Jewish measures implemented by Nazi officials, state executives and openly anti-Semitic compatriots, however, Jews encountered a steady albeit ephemeral spirit of subjunctive solidarity. Many ordinary Germans seemed will-ing to offer some measure of empathy and help if Jews in turn acknowledged the sufferings of the increasingly embattled Volksgemeinschaft. These findings shed light on the origins of some of the most salient aspects in post-war German memory, notably the discourse of victimization and the reluctance to examine the role of millions of German bystanders in the rise of and drive behind Nazi policies.

- by Christina Morina
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- Jewish Studies, German History, Holocaust Studies, Diary Studies

Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht Kriegstagebücher als besondere Form von Ego-Dokumenten. Was bewirkt die besondere Situation der Abfassung bei der Selbstreflexion, welche Themen werden entscheidend? Wie hoch liegt der Quellenwert von... more

As Argentina rose to political and economic prominence at the turn of the twentieth century, debates about the family, as an ideological structure and set of lived relationships, took center stage in efforts to shape the modern nation. In Argentine Intimacies, Joseph M. Pierce draws on queer studies, Latin American studies, and literary and cultural studies to consider the significance of one family in particular during this period of intense social change: Carlos, Julia, Delfina, and Alejandro Bunge. One of Argentina’s foremost intellectual and elite families, the Bunges have had a profound impact on Argentina’s national culture and on Latin American understandings of education, race, gender, and sexual norms. They also left behind a vast archive of fiction, essays, scientific treatises, economic programs, and pedagogical texts, as well as diaries, memoirs, and photography. Argentine Intimacies explores the breadth of their writing to reflect on the intersections of intimacy, desire, and nationalism and to expand our conception of queer kinship. Approaching kinship as an interface of relational dispositions, Pierce reveals the queerness at the heart of the modern family. Queerness emerges not as an alternative to traditional values so much as a defining feature of the state project of modernization.

- by Joseph M . Pierce
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- Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Photography
- by Emilia Koustova
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- Cultural History, Russian Studies, Soviet History, War Studies

The article discusses the problem of addressivity (Bakhtin’s
adresovannost’) in the diaries of Soviet citizens, based on an understanding of the diary as an unсertain genre balanced between privacy and publicity. On the one hand, diarists can address a You who is,
paradoxically, both absent and present: a virtual addressee whose presence reveals the need for dialogue. On the other hand, the addressee can take the form of a We who is particularly meaningful for the diarist. The word We here refers to a community that the diarist considers sig-
nificant, which can be termed recognition groups. The diarist enters into an internal dialogue with these recognition groups, imitating their discourse. The variety of such forms of addressivity is demonstrated through the analysis of three diaries of young people in the Soviet period: Nikolai Belousov (1913-2002, diary written in 1937-1939), Nina Lugovskaia (1918-1993, diary written in 1932-1939) and Maria Germanova (1922-1997, diary written in 1941-1942).

- by Irina Savkina
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- Soviet History, Diary Studies, Autobiography and life writing studies

En el presente trabajo se analizan los diarios reflexivos de 63 estudiantes universitarios escritos en el segundo semestre del curso 2019/2020. Dichos diarios fueron escritos como parte del trabajo del alumnado en dos asignaturas relacionadas con el patrimonio etnológico en la Universidad de Córdoba (España). Nuestro objetivo es doble: mostrar las ventajas del uso del diario como instrumento de evaluación en la educación superior y hacer un primer análisis de las emociones expresadas por el estudiantado en sus diarios derivadas de la situación de emergencia sanitaria y confinamiento que se vivió en España, y en buena parte del mundo, a partir de marzo de 2020.

- by Juan de Dios López López
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- Assessment, Higher Education, Diary Studies, Evaluación

Florbela Espanca foi e ainda é uma das mais interessantes poetisas da literatura portuguesa. Sua contribuição mais relevante foram seus sonetos, onde cantava o amor, a dor e a condição feminina com grande destreza. Florbela também se aventurou em contos e um diário. A escrita deste revela-nos mais um viés por onde podemos tentar chegar mais perto daquela mulher que virou musa, partindo da posição de escritora para a de personagem de sua própria existência. Este artigo visa trabalhar com a questão da escrita de mulheres no diário do último ano de Florbela Espanca. Proponho uma elaboração sobre a escrita feminina no diário, tendo como ponto de partida a teoria de Lúcia Castello-Branco, que introduz o conceito da “feminina desmemória”. Faz-se necessária então uma abordagem que compreende a teoria da escrita de diários, uma prática que por ser considerada como um tipo de literatura menor, maciçamente feminina, por muitos anos passou despercebida, para não chamá-la de excluída, do campo da investigação. Toda escrita é permeada por intenções, nuances que ficam por debaixo e por entre as linhas que compõe o tecido textual, os escritos relacionados à memória não são diferentes. A análise deste tipo de texto se faz importante devido à riqueza de informações que podem ser encontradas, revelando detalhes que transitam entre o privado e o público, a ficção e a realidade.

- by Gonçalo Cholant
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- Literature, Autobiography, Diary Studies, Portuguese Literature

This article presents a combined motivational and volitional intervention based on the theory of planned behavior aimed at promoting expansion-oriented job crafting behaviors. Participants were employees working in different companies, assigned to either an intervention (n = 53) or a control group (n = 55). Results of a field study (including premeasure, postmeasure, and weekly diaries) indicated that the intervention enhanced participants’ perceptions of behavioral control referred to job crafting and awareness regarding others’ engagement in job crafting. Latent change growth modeling showed that participation in the intervention led to participants shaping their job crafting intentions during the weeks, which translated into more frequent job crafting behaviors at the end of the study period. Besides, the intervention served to trigger weekly work-related flow experiences in terms of high absorption while working. Findings suggest that job crafting interventions can benefit from the inclusion of self-regulatory strategies complementing goal setting.

Жизненный путь потомка духовных наставников поморского согласия Родиона Ивановича Опарина в значительной степени типичен для старообрядцев-беспоповцев в ХХ в. Всю свою долгую жизнь, продолжавшуюся почти весь прошедший век (23.11.1905 - 10.06.1995), Р.И. Опарин изложил в своих воспоминаниях, которые по времени написания относились к середине 1950-х гг.

- by Elena Fursova
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- Family studies, Children and Families, Family, Diary Studies

This article examines the diary as a historical source and method for researching Maoist China. It surveys the changing and contested meanings of the everyday form, followed by a discussion on two useful interpretive approaches to Mao-era diaries, each of which is underpinned by distinct theoretical and historiographical orientations. It argues that the diary constitutes a complex but rewarding historical source, offering historians of modern China new possibilities and challenges, from the empirical quest for reconstructing social history “from below” to the discursive pursuit of theorizing revolutionary subject-formation in relation to shifting cultural politics of identification and everyday life.

- by Shan Windscript
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- Diary Studies, Chinese history (History), Subjectivity, Cultural Revolution

This article uses diary entries recorded by a Palestinian villager from outside Hebron to explore individual Palestinian subjectivities and experiences in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 war; tropes of village life and displacement in Palestinian national narratives; and the difficulties and possibilities presented by diaries in approaching Palestinian history and life writing.

- by Alex Winder
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- Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Autobiography, Diary Studies
- by Adam Sitarek and +1
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- Jewish History, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, Diary Studies
- by MEHMET BESIKCI
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- Military History, Ottoman History, Great War, Turkish and Middle East Studies

After many years of working with undergraduate, postgraduate and research students we recognise only too well the struggles that they often experience wrestling with the somewhat strange and seemingly obtuse language used to describe... more

- by Kevin D O'Gorman
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- Business, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ontology

In this chapter, I will discuss three modes of self-representation in social media: visual, written and quantitative, building upon my book Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs, and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves (Rettberg 2014b). Visual self-representation includes selfies, of course, but also other images and icons that we use to express ourselves, such as the photos we choose to share on Facebook or the layout we choose for a Tumblr log. Written self-representations can be blogs or online diaries, but also the many written status updates we share on sites like Facebook, Twitter or in comments on Instagram. The third mode I will discuss is quantified self-representation, which is becoming increasingly common as phones become step-counters and apps give us more and more opportunities to represent our lives through numbers and graphs. Quantified self-representation can mean extensive and deliberate self-tracking, as we see in the quantified self movement, or it can be something as simple as swiping right to add a filter to a Snapchat image showing the temperature where we are or the speed at which we are moving. Often the three modes overlap in social media, as with a Snapchat image that includes numerical information. A selfie with overlaid text uses both the visual and written modes of self-representation, and emoji can be understood both as part of an alphabet and as visual communication. Before discussing visual, written and quantitative kinds of self-representation in social media, we need to think about the term representation. Why are these forms of self-expression representations and not presentations?

- by Jill Walker Rettberg
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- Semiotics, Self and Identity, Blogs, Digital Media

Lewis Carroll studies treats investigations into the author’s sexuality as outmoded, even unscholarly. This is partly a response to the speculative biographical criticism and media coverage of the 1990s and early 2000s, which placed undue emphasis on his alleged pedophilia. In their efforts to provide a more nuanced, historically contextualized vision of Carroll’s child-friendships, modern critics have tended to either dismiss any allegation of impropriety or treat the subject as a perpetually open question. Both positions foreground the availability and interpretation of evidence, and raise questions concerning scholarly expertise and gatekeeping. This essay argues for a new understanding of what evidence concerning Carroll’s sexuality entails. I identify a shared organizational ethos between his two-part novel Sylvie and Bruno (1889-1893) and the journals composed during his annual summer holidays in Eastbourne. The diaries record Carroll's ongoing efforts to define the kinds of domestic intimacies that were possible between men and girls; the novel likewise explores the various relationships that could connect adults with children – familial, spiritual, romantic, and sexual. The volume of evidence contained in these sources, which amount to thousands of pages, has to be examined quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Carroll’s increasingly energetic and experimental attempts to structure and legitimise his desires through writing is itself a form of evidence, one that is cumulative and suggestive rather than singular and definitive. This evidence points to an erotic obsession with children that was unsettling even by the standards of his own time.

- by Ming-Che Tsai
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- Identity (Culture), Qing Dynasty (Ch'ing Dynasty), Diary Studies, Manchu