Work In Thesis Research Articles

The Influence of Self-efficacy on Resilience in Students Who Work in Thesis

Students who are working on their final project often faced with various problems and pressures. They need to build self-efficacy to be able to increase confidence in achieving something. Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief in their ability to organize and take steps in solving certain problems or tasks. Individuals with high self-efficacy view difficult tasks as challenges to face rather than as threats to avoid. Respondents are highly committed to achieving its goals, respondents will also invest a high level of effort and strategic thinking to deal with failure. Resilience is the ability to thrive in the face of adversity in every individual whilst facing problems or pressure. By increasing resilience, humans can develop life skills such as communicating, realistic abilities in making life plans, and being able to take the right steps for their lives. This study was conducted to determine whether self-efficacy has an effect on resilience. The research design used in this study is a quantitative research design with a sample of 75 people and the population of this study is students who are working on a thesis. The data were first analysed for validity, reliability, and followed by simple regression analysis. The results showed that self-efficacy had an effect on the resilience of 30,5% and a significant value of p = .000 (p<0.05), testing the effect of the dimensions of self-efficacy on resilience showed results that strength has the greatest influence on resilience.

Industrial action research: the Norwegian way

This article explores how to promote inter-professional collaboration between health professionals and welfare professionals in a project organisation (the Inter-professional collaboration project IPC-project) aimed at work life inclusion for people with reduced work ability. Through a participative research design centred on a series of three workshops during a 6-month period, the project members explored how they could improve their practice and better support the users of the services. We frame this participatory research project in the Norwegian tradition of industrial action research (Kemmis and McTaggart 2003), which focuses on broad participation and researcher supported organisational development including all members of the organisation in joint explorations of existing and desired practice, and where there is an intent of the organization to implement the new practice. The article is based on the empirical work in a Master thesis submitted at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

PINK LAKE: A novella by John Kinsella

John Kinsella is widely known as an ‘international regionalist’, activist, anarchist, poet, novelist. As Nicolas Birns explains in the introduction to Kinsella and this particular novella, Pink Salt, this affords his work a kind of stretch across places and times, particulars and universals, region and the world system and its ecosystems. The publication of this work in Thesis Eleven is an auspicious occasion for us. The journal has long published writing about literature, its politics and performance. Here we present the act in literature itself. It is, as Birns shows, a kind of text where real is surreal, and the other way around. It offers an experiment in writing in politics that we hope opens new vistas, both closer to home and afar.

Two-derivative Runge–Kutta methods for PDEs using a novel discretization approach

We develop a novel and general approach to the discretization of partial differential equations. This approach overcomes the rigid restriction of the traditional method of lines (MOL) and provides flexibility in the treatment of spatial discretization. This method is essential for developing efficient numerical schemes for PDEs based on two-derivative Runge–Kutta (TDRK) methods, where the first and second derivatives must be discretized in an efficient way. This is unlikely to be achieved by using MOL. We then apply the explicit TDRK methods to the advection equations and analyze the numerical stability in the linear advection equation case. We conduct numerical experiments on the Burgers' equation using the TDRK methods developed. We also apply a two-stage semi-implicit TDRK method of order-4 and stage-order-4 to the heat equation. A very significant improvement in the efficiency of this TDRK method is observed when compared to the popular Crank-Nicolson method. This paper is partially based on the work in Tsai's PhD thesis (2011) [10].

The isomorphism problem for residually torsion-free nilpotent groups

Both the conjugacy and isomorphism problems for finitely generated nilpotent groups are recursively solvable. In some recent work, the first author, with a tiny modification of work in the second author's thesis, proved that the conjugacy problem for finitely presented, residually torsion-free nilpotent groups is recursively unsolvable. Here we complete the algorithmic picture by proving that the isomorphism problem for such groups is also recursively unsolvable.