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Penn State University
1.
Apenteng, Seth Ofosuhene.
PATENT ANALYSIS OF SHALE GAS TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT.
Degree: MS, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, 2016, Penn State University
URL: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/9941soa108 
► The substantial increase in shale gas production has allowed the United States to achieve self-reliance and greatly improved its energy security, and this has in…
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▼ The substantial increase in shale gas production has
allowed the United States to achieve self-reliance and greatly
improved its energy security, and this has in turn had an influence
on the world economy as well as geopolitical developments. The U.S.
Department of Energy estimate a 45% increase in total U.S. dry
natural gas production, from 24.4 Tcf in 2013 to 35.5 Tcf in 2040.
The analysis in this thesis helps us understand technologies
landscape and role of government and industry in Shale Gas
technology development.
Subjects/Keywords: ANALYSIS
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Apenteng, S. O. (2016). PATENT ANALYSIS OF SHALE GAS TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT. (Masters Thesis). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/9941soa108
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Apenteng, Seth Ofosuhene. “PATENT ANALYSIS OF SHALE GAS TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed February 22, 2020.
https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/9941soa108.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Apenteng, Seth Ofosuhene. “PATENT ANALYSIS OF SHALE GAS TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT.” 2016. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Apenteng SO. PATENT ANALYSIS OF SHALE GAS TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Penn State University; 2016. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/9941soa108.
Council of Science Editors:
Apenteng SO. PATENT ANALYSIS OF SHALE GAS TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT. [Masters Thesis]. Penn State University; 2016. Available from: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/9941soa108
Wake Forest University
2.
Moon, Gary Alan.
Neumann Solutions to a Two-Phase Elliptic Free Boundary Problem in R^2.
Degree: 2016, Wake Forest University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59325
► This thesis concerns the problem of minimizing a particular energy functional over an appropriate class of admissible functions on a bounded, convex domain in two-dimensional…
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▼ This thesis concerns the problem of minimizing a particular energy functional over an appropriate class of admissible functions on a bounded, convex domain in two-dimensional Euclidean space. We require admissible functions to satisfy Dirichlet boundary conditions on a portion of the fixed boundary with positive one-dimensional Hausdorff measure and Neumann boundary conditions on the rest of the fixed boundary. In this thesis we consider the behavior of minimizers in a neighborhood of some point on the Neumann fixed boundary. The primary result is that minimizers are Lipschitz continuous up to the Neumann fixed boundary.
Subjects/Keywords: Analysis
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Moon, G. A. (2016). Neumann Solutions to a Two-Phase Elliptic Free Boundary Problem in R^2. (Thesis). Wake Forest University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59325
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Moon, Gary Alan. “Neumann Solutions to a Two-Phase Elliptic Free Boundary Problem in R^2.” 2016. Thesis, Wake Forest University. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59325.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Moon, Gary Alan. “Neumann Solutions to a Two-Phase Elliptic Free Boundary Problem in R^2.” 2016. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Moon GA. Neumann Solutions to a Two-Phase Elliptic Free Boundary Problem in R^2. [Internet] [Thesis]. Wake Forest University; 2016. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59325.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Moon GA. Neumann Solutions to a Two-Phase Elliptic Free Boundary Problem in R^2. [Thesis]. Wake Forest University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59325
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Kansas State University
3.
Baral, Rudra.
Nepal
Orthodox Tea: Analysis of industry, production, and market
potential.
Degree: MS, Department of Agricultural
Economics, 2019, Kansas State University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/40271
► This study covers industry analysis, financial analysis and market analysis of Nepal orthodox tea. It aims to evaluate the industry forces, analyze the financial performance…
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▼ This study covers industry
analysis, financial
analysis and market
analysis of Nepal orthodox tea. It aims to
evaluate the industry forces, analyze the financial performance of
firms, and assess market potential. The study is based on field
survey, key informants’ interviews, and participant observation in
combination with data from secondary sources. The financial
information of 65 tea processing firms was collected using standard
financial formats. The production and trade related statistical
data were obtained from National Tea and Coffee Development Board
Nepal, Trade and Export Promotion Center Nepal, FAOSTAT,
International Trade Center and STATISTA.
The results of industry
analysis indicate that in general, tea processors have low
bargaining power against input suppliers and tea buyers. The
processing industry was found to be less attractive for new
entrants. The threat of substitutes was found to be low. But there
is intense internal competition among processing firms for
resources and markets. Limited and inefficient production, low
economies of scale, unorganized supply chain system, limited access
to global market are the major binding constraints identified by
this study.
The results of the financial
analysis found positive
returns of investment and increasing returns to scale. However, the
average capacity utilization of the processing firms is found to be
33 percent. A Cobb-Douglas production function was used to estimate
production potential and the result depicted that a one percent
increase in the investment in capital, labor and raw material could
increase revenue by 0.20 percent, 0.12 percent and 0.68 percent
respectively. Thus, this study revealed that the processing firms
can decrease processing costs and increase profits by expanding
production. The total factor productivity is found to be 3.67 which
is the growth of real output not explained by the increase in
capital and labor used in the production.
The global tea market is
growing at the annual compound growth rate of 3.4 percent by
volume, 5.7 percent by price and 9.3 percent by value. About 79
percent of the consumers who purchased Nepalese tea rated it
excellent. This study informs that there is a promising export
potential due to increased demand, competitive price, unique taste
and quality products. However, the study shows that about 90
percent of the total exports go to the low-priced Indian market and
only 10 percent are exported to premium market. The
analysis
indicates that China, India, Sri Lanka and Kenya are the major
competitor of Nepal. Similarly, Pakistan, Russia, United Arab
Emirates and Morocco are potential markets for volume export
whereas European countries and North America are potential
lucrative markets for specialty Nepalese tea. As a result of
foregoing it is recommended that Nepalese exporters diversify and
differentiate their market to enhance their profit potential. The
findings of this study are particularly relevant to the Nepalese
tea processors to improve their competitiveness, production
efficiencies, and…
Advisors/Committee Members: Aleksan Shanoyan.
Subjects/Keywords: Tea;
Industry analysis; Financial analysis; Market analysis
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Baral, R. (2019). Nepal
Orthodox Tea: Analysis of industry, production, and market
potential. (Masters Thesis). Kansas State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2097/40271
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Baral, Rudra. “Nepal
Orthodox Tea: Analysis of industry, production, and market
potential.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Kansas State University. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/2097/40271.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Baral, Rudra. “Nepal
Orthodox Tea: Analysis of industry, production, and market
potential.” 2019. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Baral R. Nepal
Orthodox Tea: Analysis of industry, production, and market
potential. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Kansas State University; 2019. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/40271.
Council of Science Editors:
Baral R. Nepal
Orthodox Tea: Analysis of industry, production, and market
potential. [Masters Thesis]. Kansas State University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/40271
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
4.
Luo, Xiaoteng.
Immobilization-free electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis.
Degree: 2011, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
URL: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-7072
;
https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1129759
;
http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7072/1/th_redirect.html
► DNA-based bio-analysis is important in the fields of molecular diagnostics, environmental and food safety monitoring, pathogen identification, forensic sciences, etc. Electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis has the…
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▼ DNA-based bio-analysis is important in the fields of molecular diagnostics, environmental and food safety monitoring, pathogen identification, forensic sciences, etc. Electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis has the advantages of high sensitivity, compatibility for miniaturization and easy operation. Most of existing electrochemical approaches require a probe immobilization step, which increases preparation time, lowers hybridization efficiency, requires washing steps, hampers multiplexing and therefore limits the application of the technology in point-of-care scenarios. This thesis describes a novel “immobilization-free” approach for electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis in which no probe immobilization step is required and the hybridization or other interaction between the detection probe and the target occurs in a homogeneous solution phase. The approach takes advantage of the neutral backbone of a ferrocene-labeled peptide nucleic acid (Fc-PNA) probe, utilizing the electrostatic repulsion between the negatively-charged DNA backbone and a negatively-charged ITO electrode to transduce the hybridization between the target DNA and the Fc-PNA into a reduction of the electrochemical signal of Fc, therefore realizing an immobilization-free, signal-off electrochemical DNA detection. Based on the immobilization-free electrochemical DNA detection, an electrochemical melting curve analysis technique is developed, as well as a multiplex immobilization-free electrochemical DNA detection and quantification method. In order to produce more reliable results, the immobilization-free electrochemical DNA detection is transformed to the “signal-on” operating mode by introducing an additional DNA probe and solution-phase competitive hybridization into the system. Furthermore, the application of the immobilization-free electrochemical DNA detection strategy is expanded to the detection of DNA-modifying enzymes (exemplified with DNA polymerase) and aptamer-binding bio-molecules (exemplified with adenosine). Finally, the detection sensitivity of the immobilization-free electrochemical DNA-based bio-analytical platform is improved by using an electrode coated with a positively-charged conducing polymer as well as an interdigitated array electrode. The development of an immobilization-free detection platform is a great leap towards point-of-care applications of electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis technologies.
Subjects/Keywords: Electrochemical analysis
; Biomolecules – Analysis
; DNA – Analysis
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Luo, X. (2011). Immobilization-free electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis. (Thesis). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Retrieved from http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-7072 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1129759 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7072/1/th_redirect.html
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Luo, Xiaoteng. “Immobilization-free electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis.” 2011. Thesis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-7072 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1129759 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7072/1/th_redirect.html.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Luo, Xiaoteng. “Immobilization-free electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis.” 2011. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Luo X. Immobilization-free electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis. [Internet] [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2011. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-7072 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1129759 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7072/1/th_redirect.html.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Luo X. Immobilization-free electrochemical DNA-based bio-analysis. [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2011. Available from: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-7072 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1129759 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7072/1/th_redirect.html
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
McMaster University
5.
Chen, Wen.
A Hybrid Software Change Impact Analysis for Large-scale Enterprise Systems.
Degree: PhD, 2015, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18275
► This work is concerned with analysing the potential impact of direct changes to large- scale enterprise systems, and, in particular, how to minimise testing efforts…
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▼ This work is concerned with analysing the potential impact of direct changes to large- scale enterprise systems, and, in particular, how to minimise testing efforts on such changes. A typical enterprise system may consist of hundreds of thousands of classes and millions of methods. Thus, it is extremely costly and difficult to apply conventional testing techniques to such a system. Retesting everything after a change is very expensive, and in practice generally not necessary. Selective testing can be more effective. However, it requires a deep understanding of the target system and a lack of that understanding can lead to insufficient test coverage. Change Impact
Analysis can be used to estimate the impacts of the changes to be applied, providing developers/testers with confidence in selecting necessary tests and identifying untested entities. Conventional change impact
analysis approaches include static
analysis, dynamic
analysis or a hybrid of the two analyses. They have proved to be useful on small or medium size programs, providing users an inside view of the system within an acceptable running time. However, when it comes to large-scale enterprise systems, the sizes of the programs are orders of magnitude larger. Conventional approaches often run into resource problems such as insufficient memory and/or unacceptable running time (up to weeks). More critically, a large number of false-negatives and false-positives can be generated from those approaches.In this work, a conservative static
analysis with the capability of dealing with inheritance was conducted on an enterprise system and associated changes to obtain all the potential impacts. Later an aspect-based dynamic
analysis was used to instrument the system and collect a set of dynamic impacts at run-time. We are careful not to discard impacts unless we can show that they are definitely not impacted by the change. Reachability
analysis examines the program to see “Whether a given path in a program representation corresponds to a possible execution path”. In other words, we employ reachability
analysis to eliminate infeasible paths (i.e., miss-matched calls and returns) that are identified in the control-flow of the program. Furthermore, in the phase of alias
analysis, we aim at identifying paths that are feasible but cannot be affected by the direct changes to the system, by searching a set of possible pairs of accesses that may be aliased at each program point of interest.
Our contributions are, we designed a hybrid approach that combines static anal- ysis and dynamic
analysis with reachability
analysis and alias/pointer
analysis, it can be used to (1) solve the scalability problem on large-scale systems, (2) reduce false-positives and not introduce false-negatives, (3) extract both direct and indirect changes, and (4) identify impacts even before making the changes. Using our approach, organizations can focus on a much smaller, relevant subset of the overall test suite instead of blindly doing their entire suite of tests. Also it enables testers to augment…
Advisors/Committee Members: Wassyng, Alan, Maibaum, Tom, Computing and Software.
Subjects/Keywords: software impact analysis; static analysis; dynamic analysis; reachability analysis; alias analysis; program analysis
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Chen, W. (2015). A Hybrid Software Change Impact Analysis for Large-scale Enterprise Systems. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18275
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chen, Wen. “A Hybrid Software Change Impact Analysis for Large-scale Enterprise Systems.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18275.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chen, Wen. “A Hybrid Software Change Impact Analysis for Large-scale Enterprise Systems.” 2015. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Chen W. A Hybrid Software Change Impact Analysis for Large-scale Enterprise Systems. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18275.
Council of Science Editors:
Chen W. A Hybrid Software Change Impact Analysis for Large-scale Enterprise Systems. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18275
6.
Kamal Koh, Hasna Heng.
Synchronization for different opinions in Malaysia multiracial society: a mathematical exploration study.
Degree: Faculty of Science, Technology and Human Development, 2017, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
URL: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9852/
► Malaysia is known for the multiracial and multicultural society who lives together harmoniously despite of the diversities. The tolerance of the people towards each others’…
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▼ Malaysia is known for the multiracial and multicultural society who lives together
harmoniously despite of the diversities. The tolerance of the people towards each
others’ culture and religions has always been the subject of interest for social science
researchers. The harmony is due to the phenomena of synchronization of the
notions among the community. Synchronization has been widely studied since it
is a natural phenomena happening around us everyday, such as the synchronization
of fireflies flashes at night. In relate of these, we anticipate in the study of
the synchronization of the opinions in a diverse society with mathematical modelling.
In this thesis, we analyse three different methods of synchronization by 3
different models: Kuramoto model, Opinion Changing Rate model and a linear
model associate with the famous Friedkin and Johnsen Model. We first develop a
modified version of existing mathematical models and then conduct the numerical
experiment on the models to utilize them in the desired framework.
Subjects/Keywords: QA297 Numerical analysis. Analysis
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Kamal Koh, H. H. (2017). Synchronization for different opinions in Malaysia multiracial society: a mathematical exploration study. (Masters Thesis). Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Retrieved from http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9852/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kamal Koh, Hasna Heng. “Synchronization for different opinions in Malaysia multiracial society: a mathematical exploration study.” 2017. Masters Thesis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9852/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kamal Koh, Hasna Heng. “Synchronization for different opinions in Malaysia multiracial society: a mathematical exploration study.” 2017. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Kamal Koh HH. Synchronization for different opinions in Malaysia multiracial society: a mathematical exploration study. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9852/.
Council of Science Editors:
Kamal Koh HH. Synchronization for different opinions in Malaysia multiracial society: a mathematical exploration study. [Masters Thesis]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2017. Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9852/
7.
Jacob, Kavikumar; Khamis, Azme .
A study on t-best approximation problems in Fuzzy N-Formed Linear Spaces.
Degree: Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 2012, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
URL: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2871/
► A proble'm in fundamental mathematics is to find an approximation to the functions which are given explicitly or implicitly by operator equations, from a set…
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▼ A proble'm in fundamental mathematics is to find an approximation to the functions
which are given explicitly or implicitly by operator equations, from a set of
functions of simple structure. It is well known that the Approximation Theory of
functions can be divided into Best, Good and Possible Approximation. The theory
of best approximation is mainly concerned with the questions of existence, uniqueness,
characterizations, qualitative properties of the minimizing functions and the
approximations errors minimize when the complexity order of the system is increased.
The best approximation is playing a vital role in engineering problems. It
considers the problem of approximation defined on a set taking values in an normed
and n-normed space. To find an approximation of the exact value, it must know
something about the problem element. Usually the information is imprecise; thus
there exist much information corresponding to same problem element. Under such
an interpretation it seems natural to consider the information as fuzzy, rather than
crisp. This is the motivation of the thesis to develop the concept of best approximation,
best coapproximation in the framework of fuzzy normed and fuzzy n-normed
syaces. The objective of this thesis is a systematize study of t-best approximation,
t-best simultaneous approximation and t-best (simultaneous) coapproximation
problems in fuzzy normed and fuzzy n-normed spaces X with respect to continuous
t-norm. This study is useful for the development of fuzzy functional analysis and
fuzzy approximation theory in order to get the precise solutions.
Subjects/Keywords: QA297 Numerical analysis. Analysis
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Jacob, Kavikumar; Khamis, A. (2012). A study on t-best approximation problems in Fuzzy N-Formed Linear Spaces. (Thesis). Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Retrieved from http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2871/
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jacob, Kavikumar; Khamis, Azme. “A study on t-best approximation problems in Fuzzy N-Formed Linear Spaces.” 2012. Thesis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2871/.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jacob, Kavikumar; Khamis, Azme. “A study on t-best approximation problems in Fuzzy N-Formed Linear Spaces.” 2012. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Jacob, Kavikumar; Khamis A. A study on t-best approximation problems in Fuzzy N-Formed Linear Spaces. [Internet] [Thesis]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2012. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2871/.
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Council of Science Editors:
Jacob, Kavikumar; Khamis A. A study on t-best approximation problems in Fuzzy N-Formed Linear Spaces. [Thesis]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2012. Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2871/
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University of Hong Kong
8.
Wang, Xiaohang.
Some topics in analyzing high-dimensional covariance
matrices.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Hong Kong
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238859
► This thesis considers two problems related to high-dimensional covariance matrices, namely, covariance matrix estimation and multivariate volatility modeling. Covariance matrix estimation is important in many…
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▼ This thesis considers two problems related to
high-dimensional covariance matrices, namely, covariance matrix
estimation and multivariate volatility modeling.
Covariance matrix
estimation is important in many statistical methods and
applications. For example, it is applied in asset allocation,
classification of human tumors based on gene expression arrays, and
many others. Sample covariance matrix is frequently used as an
estimator of the population covariance matrix. However, sample
covariance matrix becomes poor and unstable with the increase in
the dimensions of the data vectors. A typical problem is that the
eigenvalues of the population covariance matrix become distorted.
This thesis proposes a method for resolving this problem, namely,
an efficient estimation method that imposes a new likelihood
penalty on the covariance matrix. The proposed estimator is
guaranteed to be non-negative definite and its estimation algorithm
is fast and efficient. The proposed method is compared with several
existing methods via simulation and empirical studies.
Another
interesting topic in analyzing high-dimensional covariance matrices
is multivariate volatility modeling, which is crucial in option
pricing, portfolio risk forecasting, and risk measurement and
management. The increasing availability of intra-day trading data
has drawn widespread attention to the study of daily realized
covariance matrices constructed from high-frequency data. The
existing methods for reducing the dimensions of a sample of
covariance matrices include matrix-based methods such as matrix
factor (MFA) model and common component analysis (CCA), and
vector-based method such as principal component analysis (PCA). The
relationship and differences in performance between these two
classes of methods have yet to be explored in the literature. In
this thesis, I fill this research gap by comparing the methods
theoretically and empirically.
Note that the factor loading
matrix in the MFA model is constant over time, and hence it may not
work well in forecasting high-dimensional covariance matrices. To
resolve this problem, a dynamic matrix factor (DMF) model is
proposed to allow the loading matrix to vary over time. The DMF
model assumes that the realized covariance matrix follows a central
Wishart distribution with the conditional expectation of the
realized covariance matrix being decomposed into a loading matrix
and a diagonal matrix via spectral decomposition. In the DMF model,
a loading-driven process with the scalar BEKK model is used to
capture the dynamics of the loading matrix, and each diagonal term
is modeled by a separate GARCH(1,1) model. The forecasts of the
realized covariance matrices are guaranteed to be positive
definite. To maintain a parsimonious model structure, the DMF model
is extended to the case of high-dimensional covariance matrix.
Finally, the proposed DMF models are applied to several real-world
data sets.
published_or_final_version
Statistics and Actuarial Science
Doctoral
Doctor of Philosophy
Subjects/Keywords: Multivariate analysis; Analysis of covariance
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Wang, X. (2016). Some topics in analyzing high-dimensional covariance
matrices. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Hong Kong. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238859
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wang, Xiaohang. “Some topics in analyzing high-dimensional covariance
matrices.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Hong Kong. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238859.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wang, Xiaohang. “Some topics in analyzing high-dimensional covariance
matrices.” 2016. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Wang X. Some topics in analyzing high-dimensional covariance
matrices. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Hong Kong; 2016. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238859.
Council of Science Editors:
Wang X. Some topics in analyzing high-dimensional covariance
matrices. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Hong Kong; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238859
University of Hong Kong
9.
李曾; Li, Zeng.
Spectral analysis of large auto-covariance matrices with
application to high dimensional time series analysis.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Hong Kong
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/241406
► Sample auto-covariance matrix plays a crucial role in high dimensional times series analysis. In this thesis we study the spectral properties of large sample auto-covariance…
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▼ Sample auto-covariance matrix plays a crucial role
in high dimensional times series analysis. In this thesis we study
the spectral properties of large sample auto-covariance matrix, the
explicit form of the density function of limiting singular value
distribution is derived under the so called {\em
Mar\v{c}enko-Pastur regime} where the dimension and sample size
tend to infinity proportionally.
Based on this result, we look
into the problem of identifying number of factors in factor models.
Actually a thresholding ratio estimator is proposed based on
singular values of sample auto-covariance matrix of the observed
time series. We fully characterize the limits of both the factor
and noise eigenvalues and establish a phase transition phenomenon
which shows how detectable factors are distinguished from the
noise. The proposed estimator is capable of detecting all the
significant factors including those ones with multi-level strength
and exhibits excellent performance in both simulation and empirical
studies. The technical tools employed come from recent advances in
random matrix theory, including spiked population models and
finite-rank perturbations of large random matrices.
A second
problem studied in this thesis is to test high dimensional white
noise, which is a classical and important tool for diagnostic
checking in time series modeling.
For vector time series where the
dimension is large compared to
the sample size, traditional
omnibus portmanteau tests
such as the multivariate Hosking and
Li-McLeod tests become extremely
conservative, losing their size
and power dramatically. There is thus
an urgent need to develop
new tests for testing a high-dimensional
white noise. Several new
tests are proposed to fill in this gap.
One of the proposed test
statistic is a scalar which
encapsulates the serial correlations
within and across all
components. Precisely, the statistic equals
to the sum of squares of the
eigenvalues in a symmetrized sample
auto-covariance matrix at a
certain lag. Two other multiple-lags
based tests are also proposed to
complement the single-lag based
one. We develop adequate high dimensional limiting theory for these
test statistics using tools from random matrix theory. Asymptotic
normality for the
test statistics is derived under different
asymptotic regimes when
both the dimension p and the sample size
T diverge to infinity.
We provide evidence for the validity of
such high-dimensional limits in a significant range of
(p,T)
combinations, therefore ensuring broad applications in practice.
Extensive simulation experiments confirm an excellent behavior of
these high-dimensional tests in finite samples
with accurate size
and satisfactory power.
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Statistics and Actuarial Science
Doctoral
Doctor of Philosophy
Subjects/Keywords: Analysis of covariance; Multivariate analysis
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李曾; Li, Z. (2017). Spectral analysis of large auto-covariance matrices with
application to high dimensional time series analysis. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Hong Kong. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10722/241406
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
李曾; Li, Zeng. “Spectral analysis of large auto-covariance matrices with
application to high dimensional time series analysis.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Hong Kong. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10722/241406.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
李曾; Li, Zeng. “Spectral analysis of large auto-covariance matrices with
application to high dimensional time series analysis.” 2017. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
李曾; Li Z. Spectral analysis of large auto-covariance matrices with
application to high dimensional time series analysis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Hong Kong; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/241406.
Council of Science Editors:
李曾; Li Z. Spectral analysis of large auto-covariance matrices with
application to high dimensional time series analysis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Hong Kong; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/241406
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
10.
Wentzel, Mauritz.
Identification and characterization of novel oncology related platinum complexes using chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques.
Degree: PhD, Faculty of Science, 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/715
► In this thesis mass spectral and chromatographic techniques were developed and applied to identify and characterise numerous novel platinum(II) and (IV) compounds designed as anticancer…
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▼ In this thesis mass spectral and chromatographic techniques were developed and applied to identify and characterise numerous novel platinum(II) and (IV) compounds designed as anticancer agents. In a novel method for the synthesis of cis-oxalato(trans- -1,2- cyclohexanediamine)platinum(II) or oxaliplatin these techniques could be applied to differentiate between the molecular complex and the autoionised analogue (viz. Ptdach2 2+Ptox2 2-). In another novel synthetic method for the same compound the ligand exchange reactions at various temperatures could be investigated and kinetic curves obtained served to illuminate the chemistry involved, indicating the role of small amounts of water in the essentially non-aqueous solvent systems dmf and isoamyl alcohol respectively. These allowed ligand exchange without resulting in hydrolyses even up to 85°C. The ionisation rate of divalent platinum halide complexes was determined for various amine ligands as well as N-S chelate ligands. A comparison of these could suggest why N-S complexes have poor anticancer action. Ionisation was not only studied for neutral molecular species but also for monocationic ones. Relationships could be found with stereochemical aspects of the chelates used. By investigating results of EV-CAD studies thermodynamic data could be obtained which indicated that bond strength decreases from chloro to iodo analogues although extent of ionisation in aqueous solution, i.e kinetic stability, is the reverse. Products formed by the reaction of NO2 gas with Platinum(II) compounds could be identified and separated which greatly contributed to the understanding of the chemistry involved in the formation of mononitro platinum(IV) complexes. Some of these proved to have exceptional anticancer properties. Studies of the interaction of thiol containing biomolecules were performed as a function of time. The results contributed to the understanding of the action of the anticancer agents
Advisors/Committee Members: Du Preez, J G H Prof.
Subjects/Keywords: Chromatographic analysis; Spectrum analysis
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Wentzel, M. (2008). Identification and characterization of novel oncology related platinum complexes using chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques. (Doctoral Dissertation). Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10948/715
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wentzel, Mauritz. “Identification and characterization of novel oncology related platinum complexes using chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10948/715.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wentzel, Mauritz. “Identification and characterization of novel oncology related platinum complexes using chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques.” 2008. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Wentzel M. Identification and characterization of novel oncology related platinum complexes using chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University; 2008. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/715.
Council of Science Editors:
Wentzel M. Identification and characterization of novel oncology related platinum complexes using chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University; 2008. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/715
Victoria University of Wellington
11.
Dewar, Joe.
Calling to Complain:
An Ethnographic and Conversation Analytic Account of Complaints to an Industry
Ombudsman.
Degree: 2011, Victoria University of Wellington
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/2271
► Although the term complaining represents an ostensibly straightforward behaviour, it has come to obtain a range of meanings within academic and commercial works which have…
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▼ Although the term complaining represents an ostensibly straightforward behaviour, it
has come to obtain a range of meanings within academic and commercial works which
have directed research toward understanding the behaviour and attempting to improve
the way that it is undertaken, particularly in commercial environments where complaint
handling constitutes an important field of commercial practice for many firms. It is
proposed in this thesis that such variation in the way that complaining is approached is
problematic, as it is treated ways that frequently underemphasise the fundamental point
that it is overwhelmingly conducted in interpersonal interactions using language as its
primary vehicle (Edwards, 2005). This thesis offers an approach to complaint handling
and complaining that eschews such approaches in favour of an empirically grounded
account based on the principles of ethnographic
analysis, conversation
analysis, and
discursive psychology. Through investigating the complaint handling procedures as
practiced by employees in an institution expressly dedicated to the receipt of complaints
and enquiries from customers by employing participant observation and interviews, an
account of complaint handling is developed that identifies how a range of forces works
to impact on the way that it is performed in an institutional environment, furnishing
complaint handling with a level of detail not currently offered in managerial literature
dedicated to developing the practice. Next, two research chapters present the
investigation of two different aspects of complaint interactions themselves. The first of
these focuses on call openings as customers and institutional agents work to align
themselves to the project of the call, demonstrating varying orientations to institutional
complaining as callers demonstrate their own procedures for complaining (and
enquiring) which may not match the institutional prerogatives and procedures of the
agents receiving the calls. The final research chapter offers an
analysis of a recurrent
practice in the complaint calls themselves: callers’ use of self-disclosure in the service
of rendering matters as problematic and warranting complaint. This finding adds to
existing discursive understandings of how complaining is done. Taken together the
findings offer an alternative approach to investigating complaint handling by treating it
as an indexical practice bound to local demands. This offers a detailed depiction of
complaint handling and complaining ‘in situ’ that may offer researchers and commercial
entities a new approach to investigating how it is that complaining is done and how, in
commercial or institutional contexts, complaint handling may be improved through the
methods employed in the thesis.
Advisors/Committee Members: Weatherall, Ann.
Subjects/Keywords: Complaining; Ethnographic analysis; Conversation analysis
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Dewar, J. (2011). Calling to Complain:
An Ethnographic and Conversation Analytic Account of Complaints to an Industry
Ombudsman. (Masters Thesis). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/2271
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Dewar, Joe. “Calling to Complain:
An Ethnographic and Conversation Analytic Account of Complaints to an Industry
Ombudsman.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10063/2271.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Dewar, Joe. “Calling to Complain:
An Ethnographic and Conversation Analytic Account of Complaints to an Industry
Ombudsman.” 2011. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Dewar J. Calling to Complain:
An Ethnographic and Conversation Analytic Account of Complaints to an Industry
Ombudsman. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2011. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/2271.
Council of Science Editors:
Dewar J. Calling to Complain:
An Ethnographic and Conversation Analytic Account of Complaints to an Industry
Ombudsman. [Masters Thesis]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/2271
University of Johannesburg
12.
Human, Johannes Urbanus.
Some aspects of harmonic time series analysis.
Degree: PhD, 2012, University of Johannesburg
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4275
► Harmonic time series are often used to describe the periodic nature of a time series, for example the periodic nature of a variable star’s observed…
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▼ Harmonic time series are often used to describe the periodic nature of a time series, for example the periodic nature of a variable star’s observed light curve. Statistical methods for determining the number of harmonic components to include in harmonic time series are limited. In this thesis a stepwise bootstrap procedure based on a F-type statistic is suggested. The performance of the stepwise procedure is compared to that of Schwartz’s Bayesian Criterion (SBC) and a procedure based on a statistic described by Siegel (1980). Harmonic series with correlated noise terms and irregularly spaced observations are also considered. Tests to detect changes in harmonic parameters are also derived in this thesis. A cumulative sum statistic to test for constant amplitude is derived. It is shown that testing for constant amplitude is equivalent to testing for constant slope in simple linear regression. We also derive a likelihood ratio statistic to test for constant amplitude. It is shown that the latter likelihood ratio statistic is asymptotically equivalent to the cumulative sum statistic. These statistics are compared to a quadratic form statistic used by Koen (2009). Likelihood ratio tests are also derived for detecting changes in the frequency or phase of harmonic time series. Graphical devices to aid in diagnostic checking are suggested.
Subjects/Keywords: Harmonic analysis; Time-series analysis
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Human, J. U. (2012). Some aspects of harmonic time series analysis. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Johannesburg. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4275
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Human, Johannes Urbanus. “Some aspects of harmonic time series analysis.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Johannesburg. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4275.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Human, Johannes Urbanus. “Some aspects of harmonic time series analysis.” 2012. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Human JU. Some aspects of harmonic time series analysis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Johannesburg; 2012. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4275.
Council of Science Editors:
Human JU. Some aspects of harmonic time series analysis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Johannesburg; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4275
University of Manchester
13.
Qin, Zhenxin.
A Framework and practical implementation for sentiment
analysis and aspect exploration.
Degree: 2017, University of Manchester
URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:308707
► With the upsurge of Web 2.0, customers are able to share their opinions and feelings about products and services, politics, economic shifts, current events and…
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▼ With the upsurge of Web 2.0, customers are able to
share their opinions and feelings about products and services,
politics, economic shifts, current events and any number of other
topics on the Web. This information, if leveraged effectively, can
provide rich and valuable insights, such as: input for vendors to
create successful marketing strategies, understanding of areas of
improvement in products and services and tracking political
opinion.The problem with this information is that it is unorganised
and unstructured, therefore, it is difficult to assess
automatically and in bulk. Studies in the field of sentiment
analysis aim to provide a solution to determining the polarities
of, and gain an overview of, the wider public opinion behind
certain topics in a large volume of textual data. This research
provides a novel framework and a solid, practical implementation of
the proposed framework for fine-grained sentiment
analysis. The
framework supports mixed-opinion text and multiword expressions
when analysing the sentiments expressed and the aspects that those
sentiments relate to.This research uses datasets across two domains
in the customer reviews area (phone products and hotel services) to
evaluate the proposed framework for its reliability and validity. A
sizeable performance improvement was noted whereby the proposed
methodology yielded a result of 91.3% accuracy in sentiment
classification, as compared to the baseline (SentiWordNet), which
had a result of 71.0%. In addition, an accuracy of 92.5% was
observed for the aspect
analysis automatically generated across the
two domains tested.
Advisors/Committee Members: SAMPAIO, PEDRO PRF, Petrounias, Ilias, Sampaio, Pedro.
Subjects/Keywords: Sentiment analysis; aspect analysis
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Qin, Z. (2017). A Framework and practical implementation for sentiment
analysis and aspect exploration. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:308707
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Qin, Zhenxin. “A Framework and practical implementation for sentiment
analysis and aspect exploration.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:308707.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Qin, Zhenxin. “A Framework and practical implementation for sentiment
analysis and aspect exploration.” 2017. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Qin Z. A Framework and practical implementation for sentiment
analysis and aspect exploration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:308707.
Council of Science Editors:
Qin Z. A Framework and practical implementation for sentiment
analysis and aspect exploration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2017. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:308707
14.
Ndwapi, Nkumbuludzi.
Robust Discriminant Analysis With Asymmetric Classes.
Degree: PhD, 2018, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22849
► Discriminant analysis uses labelled observations to infer the labels of unlabelled observations in a population. Despite many advances in unsupervised and, to a lesser extent,…
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▼ Discriminant analysis uses labelled observations to infer the labels of unlabelled observations in a population. Despite many advances in unsupervised and, to a lesser extent, semi-supervised learning over the past decade, discriminant analysis is often employed using approaches that date back to very well-known work of Fisher in the 1930s. One notable exception is mixture discriminant analysis, where the labels are estimated using parametric finite mixture models, commonly the Gaussian mixture model. The supposed advantage with mixture discriminant analysis is that multiple Gaussian components can be used for each class, hence providing a work around when a class is not Gaussian. This thesis makes several contributions to ``modern" discriminant analysis. Three robust discriminant analysis methods are introduced using mixtures of multivariate t-distributions, mixtures of multivariate power exponential distributions, and mixtures of contaminated Gaussian distributions, respectively. This provides an appealing framework for handling varying tail-weights and peakedness in the classes that may also contain mild outliers. To facilitate the modelling of asymmetric classes, we also explore robust discriminant analysis via finite mixtures of generalized hyperbolic distributions and mixtures of multivariate skew-t distributions. These approaches are tailored towards skewed classes but also have the added advantage of modelling symmetric classes where necessary. Finally, we introduce an approach that combines support vector machines with mixture discriminant analysis. This approach defines class boundaries in the labelled observations and, in some sense, improves mixture discriminant analysis performance. Crucially, in all of our mixture modelling work, we consider the case where the number of components per class is one. The utility of the approaches introduced is demonstrated on simulated and real data sets.
Thesis
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Advisors/Committee Members: McNicholas, Paul, Mathematics and Statistics.
Subjects/Keywords: Discriminant analysis; mixture discriminant analysis
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Ndwapi, N. (2018). Robust Discriminant Analysis With Asymmetric Classes. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22849
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ndwapi, Nkumbuludzi. “Robust Discriminant Analysis With Asymmetric Classes.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22849.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ndwapi, Nkumbuludzi. “Robust Discriminant Analysis With Asymmetric Classes.” 2018. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Ndwapi N. Robust Discriminant Analysis With Asymmetric Classes. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2018. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22849.
Council of Science Editors:
Ndwapi N. Robust Discriminant Analysis With Asymmetric Classes. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22849
15.
Isah, Abdulnasir.
Wavelets operational methods for fractional differential equations and systems of fractional differential equations.
Degree: PhD, Faculty of Science, Technology and Human Development, 2017, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
URL: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/10179/
► In this thesis, new and effective operational methods based on polynomials and wavelets for the solutions of FDEs and systems of FDEs are developed. In…
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▼ In this thesis, new and effective operational methods based on polynomials and
wavelets for the solutions of FDEs and systems of FDEs are developed. In particular
we study one of the important polynomial that belongs to the Appell family of
polynomials, namely, Genocchi polynomial. This polynomial has certain great
advantages based on which an effective and simple operational matrix of derivative
was first derived and applied together with collocation method to solve some singular
second order differential equations of Emden-Fowler type, a class of generalized
Pantograph equations and Delay differential systems. A new operational matrix of
fractional order derivative and integration based on this polynomial was also
developed and used together with collocation method to solve FDEs, systems of
FDEs and fractional order delay differential equations. Error bound for some of the
considered problems is also shown and proved. Further, a wavelet bases based on
Genocchi polynomials is also constructed, its operational matrix of fractional order
derivative is derived and used for the solutions of FDEs and systems of FDEs. A
novel approach for obtaining operational matrices of fractional derivative based on
Legendre and Chebyshev wavelets is developed, where, the wavelets are first
transformed into corresponding shifted polynomials and the transformation matrices
are formed and used together with the polynomials operational matrices of fractional
derivatives to obtain the wavelets operational matrix. These new operational matrices
are used together with spectral Tau and collocation methods to solve FDEs and
systems of FDEs.
Subjects/Keywords: QA297 Numerical analysis. Analysis
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Isah, A. (2017). Wavelets operational methods for fractional differential equations and systems of fractional differential equations. (Doctoral Dissertation). Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Retrieved from http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/10179/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Isah, Abdulnasir. “Wavelets operational methods for fractional differential equations and systems of fractional differential equations.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/10179/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Isah, Abdulnasir. “Wavelets operational methods for fractional differential equations and systems of fractional differential equations.” 2017. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Isah A. Wavelets operational methods for fractional differential equations and systems of fractional differential equations. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/10179/.
Council of Science Editors:
Isah A. Wavelets operational methods for fractional differential equations and systems of fractional differential equations. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2017. Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/10179/
Delft University of Technology
16.
Bloemsma, M.R.
Semi-automatic core characterisation based on geochemical logging data:.
Degree: 2010, Delft University of Technology
URL: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4acf424e-6bb5-4044-a7af-2baea8108baa
► Textural variations in sediment are considered to be one of the primary controls on the geochemical composition. This relation has been widely exploited for the…
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▼ Textural variations in sediment are considered to be one of the primary controls on the geochemical composition. This relation has been widely exploited for the climatological interpretation of unconsolidated Quartenary sediment cores. Despite the common objectives in respectively unconsolidated and consolidated sedimentological studies, for the latter the use of novel techniques to acquire geochemical data, such as non-destructive XRF on cores, has not been applied yet. Because there is an ever increasing need for detailed (textural) sedimentological data, this study investigated the possibilities of in-situ
XRF for semi-automatic textural characterization.
An improvement to the current work flow of XRF core scanning data acquisition was suggested by a pre-calibration filtering step, in order to increase the signal to noise ratio.
Apart from that, a sample selection routine was developed which, given the underlying calibration strategy, was expected to yield improved calibration results. Embedding the two algorithms into the calibration work flow proved that the sample selection algorithm as well as the pre-calibration filtering step result in improved calibration output. They are also found to be effective for real data; when applied to two datasets of unconsolidated cores, similar results were obtained.
The second part of this study included the design of a sedimentary basin infill model ”LINMIX”, based on the mixing of different sediment sources with a grain size dependent chemical composition. By doing so, the observed geochemical signal is decomposed into a portion that is the result of textural variations and a portion that reflects differences in provenance. When applying LINMIX to a record of Quaternary sediment (offshore Senegal) as a proof-of-concept, the model was able to reconstruct the geochemical record satisfyingly by linear mixing of 3 endmembers with 3 unique Grain Size Distributions (GSD’s) and 2 unique functions characterising the compositional change in the grain size spectrum (Transfer function or ’TF’). This result implies that the chemical variation induced by the relative mixing of two endmembers was only the result of grain size variation and not of source material variation. The two endmembers that were designated a common TF, have in a previous study been interpreted as both reflecting material from the same sediment source. This implies that the LINMIX model has potential for semi-automatic provenance
interpretation of sediment cores. Additionally the endmember compositions correspond fairly well with the present-day composition of the Senegal river and African eolian dust.
Finally it was investigated how geochemical data can support semi-automatic grain size prediction of consolidated sediment, for which holds that there is no sediment source variation. This was done using a dataset of Carboniferous material, which is highly variable in terms of lithofacies. Around 11 meter of core has been geochemically logged with an XRF core scanner and successfully calibrated using 40 calibration…
Advisors/Committee Members: Weltje, G.J., Lindenbergh, R.C..
Subjects/Keywords: compositional data analysis; provenance analysis
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Bloemsma, M. R. (2010). Semi-automatic core characterisation based on geochemical logging data:. (Masters Thesis). Delft University of Technology. Retrieved from http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4acf424e-6bb5-4044-a7af-2baea8108baa
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bloemsma, M R. “Semi-automatic core characterisation based on geochemical logging data:.” 2010. Masters Thesis, Delft University of Technology. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4acf424e-6bb5-4044-a7af-2baea8108baa.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bloemsma, M R. “Semi-automatic core characterisation based on geochemical logging data:.” 2010. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Bloemsma MR. Semi-automatic core characterisation based on geochemical logging data:. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2010. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4acf424e-6bb5-4044-a7af-2baea8108baa.
Council of Science Editors:
Bloemsma MR. Semi-automatic core characterisation based on geochemical logging data:. [Masters Thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2010. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4acf424e-6bb5-4044-a7af-2baea8108baa
Delft University of Technology
17.
De Mooij, J.W.C.
Characterizing stakeholders: Comparing the mindset, role, interest and control of each stakeholder
:.
Degree: 2013, Delft University of Technology
URL: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5d714651-0126-4a2b-b5d9-80d30016a13b
► The Netherlands has an excellent infrastructure, it is one of the main points of entry and hub for goods into Europe. Other countries in Europe…
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▼ The Netherlands has an excellent infrastructure, it is one of the main points of entry and hub for goods into Europe. Other countries in Europe are expanding their industry and infrastructure to overtake this position, that is why it is very important for the Netherlands to maintain its position by investing in new industry and infrastructure. Over the last decades some large infrastructural projects were performed or were planned. During a lot of these projects many problems arose just before, during and after construction, think of cost overrun, safety problems, construction problems, political discussions, environmental problems, etc.
The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, located in the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Port of Rotterdam has a large petrochemical cluster that processes crude oil into numerous end products. As the future supply of crude oil may be at risk due to depletion, high energy prices, conflicts in production area’s which will have a huge impact on the Netherlands and Rotterdam. Industries that are heavily dependent on fossil fuels will increasingly have to look for alternative fuel sources to be able to continue in their business. A possible solution to cope with these challenges is the creation of synthesis gas (syngas) cluster.
The aim of this research is to find out how actor
analysis can contribute to the prevention of project failure due to stakeholder issues. In the thesis the construction of a syngas cluster on Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam is used as a casus. The planning and construction of infrastructures like the syngas cluster involves many organizations with conflicting interest and control over issues. Insufficient communication and support between actors may cause problems at a later stage.
To find the opinion and attitude of these stakeholders the policy maker has to perform an actor
analysis to gather this information. An actor
analysis or stakeholder
analysis is a process of systematically gathering and analyzing information of actors to identify the key actors. This
analysis can be used to generate knowledge on the behaviour, intentions, positions, interrelations, agendas, interests, and the influence or resources these actors have. This gives the stakeholders the opportunity to react and interact more effectively (Schmeer, 1999).
In this thesis transactional
analysis is used to investigate the multi-actor-decision-making process. Transactional
analysis (TA) is based upon Coleman’s social theory which takes micro-economic thought as a starting point and translates it to social systems. TA can be described as the negotiating process, in which agreements are reached on exchange of control over issues. So the idea is that actors exchange power and control over issues instead of money for products. This exchange takes place within a social or political system (Timmermans and Beroggi, 2004).
The objective of transactional
analysis is to determine the ‘best’ collective decision within the multi-actor decision making process. For this purpose TA…
Advisors/Committee Members: Stikkelman, R.M., Van der Lei, T..
Subjects/Keywords: transactional analysis; policy analysis; stakeholders
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De Mooij, J. W. C. (2013). Characterizing stakeholders: Comparing the mindset, role, interest and control of each stakeholder
:. (Masters Thesis). Delft University of Technology. Retrieved from http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5d714651-0126-4a2b-b5d9-80d30016a13b
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
De Mooij, J W C. “Characterizing stakeholders: Comparing the mindset, role, interest and control of each stakeholder
:.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Delft University of Technology. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5d714651-0126-4a2b-b5d9-80d30016a13b.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
De Mooij, J W C. “Characterizing stakeholders: Comparing the mindset, role, interest and control of each stakeholder
:.” 2013. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
De Mooij JWC. Characterizing stakeholders: Comparing the mindset, role, interest and control of each stakeholder
:. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2013. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5d714651-0126-4a2b-b5d9-80d30016a13b.
Council of Science Editors:
De Mooij JWC. Characterizing stakeholders: Comparing the mindset, role, interest and control of each stakeholder
:. [Masters Thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2013. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5d714651-0126-4a2b-b5d9-80d30016a13b
University of Ottawa
18.
Nhogue Wabo, Blanche Nadege.
Hedge Funds and Survival Analysis
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Degree: 2013, University of Ottawa
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26257
► Using data from Hedge Fund Research, Inc. (HFR), this study adapts and expands on existing methods in survival analysis in an attempt to investigate whether…
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▼ Using data from Hedge Fund Research, Inc. (HFR), this study adapts and expands
on existing methods in survival analysis in an attempt to investigate whether hedge
funds mortality can be predicted on the basis of certain hedge funds characteristics.
The main idea is to determine the characteristics which contribute the most to the
survival and failure probabilities of hedge funds and interpret them. We establish hazard
models with time-independent covariates, as well as time-varying covariates to interpret
the selected hedge funds characteristics. Our results show that size, age, performance,
strategy, annual audit, fund offshore and fund denomination are the characteristics that
best explain hedge fund failure. We find that 1% increase in performance decreases
the hazard by 3.3%, the small size and the less than 5 years old hedge funds are the
most likely to die and the event-driven strategy is the best to use as compare to others.
The risk of death is 0.668 times lower for funds who indicated that an annual audit
is performed as compared to the funds who did not indicated that an annual audit is
performed. The risk of death for the offshore hedge funds is 1.059 times higher than the
non-offshore hedge funds.
Subjects/Keywords: Survival Analysis;
HedgeFunds;
Data analysis
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Nhogue Wabo, B. N. (2013). Hedge Funds and Survival Analysis
. (Thesis). University of Ottawa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26257
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Nhogue Wabo, Blanche Nadege. “Hedge Funds and Survival Analysis
.” 2013. Thesis, University of Ottawa. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26257.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Nhogue Wabo, Blanche Nadege. “Hedge Funds and Survival Analysis
.” 2013. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Nhogue Wabo BN. Hedge Funds and Survival Analysis
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2013. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26257.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Nhogue Wabo BN. Hedge Funds and Survival Analysis
. [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26257
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Manchester
19.
Qin, Zhenxin.
A framework and practical implementation for sentiment analysis and aspect exploration.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Manchester
URL: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-framework-and-practical-implementation-for-sentiment-analysis-and-aspect-exploration(9232414e-a366-403c-8359-d43bfee7a267).html
;
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713638
► With the upsurge of Web 2.0, customers are able to share their opinions and feelings about products and services, politics, economic shifts, current events and…
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▼ With the upsurge of Web 2.0, customers are able to share their opinions and feelings about products and services, politics, economic shifts, current events and any number of other topics on the Web. This information, if leveraged effectively, can provide rich and valuable insights, such as: input for vendors to create successful marketing strategies, understanding of areas of improvement in products and services and tracking political opinion. The problem with this information is that it is unorganised and unstructured, therefore, it is difficult to assess automatically and in bulk. Studies in the field of sentiment analysis aim to provide a solution to determining the polarities of, and gain an overview of, the wider public opinion behind certain topics in a large volume of textual data. This research provides a novel framework and a solid, practical implementation of the proposed framework for fine-grained sentiment analysis. The framework supports mixed-opinion text and multiword expressions when analysing the sentiments expressed and the aspects that those sentiments relate to. This research uses datasets across two domains in the customer reviews area (phone products and hotel services) to evaluate the proposed framework for its reliability and validity. A sizeable performance improvement was noted whereby the proposed methodology yielded a result of 91.3% accuracy in sentiment classification, as compared to the baseline (SentiWordNet), which had a result of 71.0%. In addition, an accuracy of 92.5% was observed for the aspect analysis automatically generated across the two domains tested.
Subjects/Keywords: 658.8; aspect analysis; Sentiment analysis
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Qin, Z. (2017). A framework and practical implementation for sentiment analysis and aspect exploration. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-framework-and-practical-implementation-for-sentiment-analysis-and-aspect-exploration(9232414e-a366-403c-8359-d43bfee7a267).html ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713638
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Qin, Zhenxin. “A framework and practical implementation for sentiment analysis and aspect exploration.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed February 22, 2020.
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-framework-and-practical-implementation-for-sentiment-analysis-and-aspect-exploration(9232414e-a366-403c-8359-d43bfee7a267).html ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713638.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Qin, Zhenxin. “A framework and practical implementation for sentiment analysis and aspect exploration.” 2017. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Qin Z. A framework and practical implementation for sentiment analysis and aspect exploration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-framework-and-practical-implementation-for-sentiment-analysis-and-aspect-exploration(9232414e-a366-403c-8359-d43bfee7a267).html ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713638.
Council of Science Editors:
Qin Z. A framework and practical implementation for sentiment analysis and aspect exploration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2017. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-framework-and-practical-implementation-for-sentiment-analysis-and-aspect-exploration(9232414e-a366-403c-8359-d43bfee7a267).html ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713638
University of Waterloo
20.
Eyolfson, Jonathan.
Enforcing Abstract Immutability.
Degree: 2018, University of Waterloo
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13507
► Researchers have recently proposed a number of systems for expressing, verifying, and inferring immutability declarations. These systems are often rigid, and do not support "abstract…
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▼ Researchers have recently proposed a number of systems for expressing,
verifying, and inferring immutability declarations. These systems are
often rigid, and do not support "abstract immutability". An abstractly
immutable object is an object o which is immutable from the point of
view of any external methods. The C++ programming language is not
rigid–it allows developers to express intent by adding immutability
declarations to methods. Abstract immutability allows for performance
improvements such as caching, even in the presence of writes to object
fields. This dissertation presents a system to enforce abstract
immutability.
First, we explore abstract immutability in real-world systems. We
found that developers often incorrectly use abstract immutability,
perhaps because no programming language helps developers correctly
implement abstract immutability. We believe that this omission leads
to incorrect usages. Specifically, we wrote a dynamic analysis that
reports any writes through immutability declarations. To our knowledge,
this work was the first to explore how objects implement abstract
immutability (or fail to implement it). Our novel study found three
uses of abstract immutability: caching, delayed initialization, and
unit testing. Unit testing was a surprising application of abstract
immutability, and we believe that the ability to modify state is
needed for proper unit testing.
Next, we explore developers' revealed needs for immutability in the
source code. We found that the majority of classes contain a mix of
immutable and mutable methods, with a majority of the overall methods
being immutable. Immutability systems with only immutable or
all-mutating classes are insufficient: developers need immutability
declarations at method granularity. Our study then combined developer
immutability declarations with results from a static analysis to
estimate the true number of immutable methods. The static analysis
checked that no transitive writes to a receiver object occurred. Our
results indicated the need for a sophisticated analysis to check that
these apparently abstractly immutable methods were indeed abstractly
immutable.
Finally, we created a novel static analysis which checks that
developers follow abstract immutability. Specifically, we define
abstract immutability to mean that a class's set of immutable methods
is collectively free of writes to exposed fields. Our analysis found
incorrect usages of abstract immutability, such as incorrect caching.
This analysis is particularly valuable in the context of code
evolution, whereby subsequent programmers may make changes that break
previously-correct cache implementations, for instance. Our work
allows developers to trust that their code is abstractly immutable.
Subjects/Keywords: immutability; static analysis; dynamic analysis
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Eyolfson, J. (2018). Enforcing Abstract Immutability. (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13507
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Eyolfson, Jonathan. “Enforcing Abstract Immutability.” 2018. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13507.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Eyolfson, Jonathan. “Enforcing Abstract Immutability.” 2018. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Eyolfson J. Enforcing Abstract Immutability. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2018. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13507.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Eyolfson J. Enforcing Abstract Immutability. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13507
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of North Texas
21.
Edwards, Jonathan Ryan.
Directions Toward a “Happy Place”: Metaphor in Conversational Discourse.
Degree: 2011, University of North Texas
URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103311/
► This paper aims to show how people use and understand metaphorical language in conversational discourse. Specifically, I examine how metaphorical language has the potential to…
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▼ This paper aims to show how people use and understand metaphorical language in conversational discourse. Specifically, I examine how metaphorical language has the potential to be either effective or ineffective in its usage, and how they are bound to the contextual environment of the conversation. This particular setting is a conversation between a researcher and a participant involved in a therapeutic program. Metaphorical language is shown to be helpful
for understanding difficult subjects; however, I found most metaphorical occurrences ineffective in meaning-making. Often these ineffective metaphors are elaborated or repeated throughout the discourse event, creating problems with cohesion and understanding. Metaphor use in conversation is an effective rhetorical tool for creating meaning, but it is also a problematic device when it comes to aligning participants' conversational goal.
Advisors/Committee Members: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi, Munshi, Sadaf, Ross, John Robert, 1938-.
Subjects/Keywords: Metaphor; discourse analysis; conversational analysis
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NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wyatt, Benjamin J.
De bruijn partial words.
Degree: 2013, NC Docks
URL: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Wyatt_uncg_0154M_11180.pdf
► In a kn-complex word over an alphabet Σ of size k each of the kn words of length n appear as a subword at least…
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▼ In a kn-complex word over an alphabet Σ of size k each of the kn words of length n appear as a subword at least once. Such a word is said to have maximum subword complexity. De Bruijn sequences of order n over Σ are the shortest words of maximum subword complexity and are well known to have length kn+n-1. They are efficiently constructed by finding Eulerian cycles in so-called de Bruijn graphs. In this thesis, we investigate partial words, or sequences with wildcard symbols or hole symbols, of maximum subword complexity. The subword complexity function of a partial word w over a given alphabet of size k assigns to each positive integer n, the number pw(n) of distinct full words over the alphabet that are compatible with factors of length n of w. For positive integers h, k and n, a de Bruijn partial word of order n with h holes over an alphabet Σ of size k is a partial word w with h holes over Σ of minimal length with the property that pw(n)=kn. In some cases, they are efficiently constructed by finding Eulerian paths in modified de Bruijn graphs. We are concerned with the following three questions: (1) What is the length of k-ary de Bruijn partial words of order n with h holes? (2) What is an efficient method for generating such partial words? (3) How many such partial words are there?
Subjects/Keywords: Combinatorial analysis; Mathematical analysis
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NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wyatt, B. J. (2013). De bruijn partial words. (Thesis). NC Docks. Retrieved from http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Wyatt_uncg_0154M_11180.pdf
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NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wyatt, Benjamin J. “De bruijn partial words.” 2013. Thesis, NC Docks. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Wyatt_uncg_0154M_11180.pdf.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wyatt, Benjamin J. “De bruijn partial words.” 2013. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wyatt BJ. De bruijn partial words. [Internet] [Thesis]. NC Docks; 2013. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Wyatt_uncg_0154M_11180.pdf.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wyatt BJ. De bruijn partial words. [Thesis]. NC Docks; 2013. Available from: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Wyatt_uncg_0154M_11180.pdf
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23.
Kamarulzalis, Ahmad Haadzal.
An improved algorithm for iris classification by using support vector machine and binary random machine learning.
Degree: mphil, Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, 2018, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
URL: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12094/
► In machine learning, there are three type of learning branch that can used in classification procedures for data mining. Those branch are consist of supervised…
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▼ In machine learning, there are three type of learning branch that can used in classification procedures for data mining. Those branch are consist of supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning. This study focuses on supervised learning that seek to classify all the Iris dataset respect to three species (setosa, versicolor and virginica) in order them to mimic the actual dataset by using Support Vector Machine with four different kernel function (Linear, Radial Basis, Sigmoid and Polynomial), Random Forest (RF), k-Nearest Neighbors(k-NN) and Random Nearest Neighbors (RNN) as a method. The first objective of this study is to improve a new algorithm technique for classification. The new algorithm come from a combination of an ideas of k-NN algorithm and ensemble concept. The second objective is to conduct a supervised and binary ensemble machine learning technique for classification. This is done by using method of RF and RNN that share the same ensemble concept. The last objective is to identify the best model for classification procedures. Performance Measurement Tools such as overall accuracy, kappa, average sensitivity, average specificity, average precious, average detection rate, average prevalence and misclassification error rate (MER) were used by refers confusion matrix values output during data analysis for average and individual performance of each classifier. Besides that, Performance Visualization such as Stacked Bar Plot, Fourfold Plot, Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve and Lollipop Chart are used to simplify each output for more clear understanding. Random Nearest Neighbors (RNN) has highest accuracy value that is 98.67% and just 1.33% misclassification error rate (MER) compare to other classifier. Therefore, Random Nearest Neighbors (RNN) is preferable for supervised learning classification procedures.
Subjects/Keywords: QA297 Numerical analysis. Analysis
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Kamarulzalis, A. H. (2018). An improved algorithm for iris classification by using support vector machine and binary random machine learning. (Masters Thesis). Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Retrieved from http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12094/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kamarulzalis, Ahmad Haadzal. “An improved algorithm for iris classification by using support vector machine and binary random machine learning.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12094/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kamarulzalis, Ahmad Haadzal. “An improved algorithm for iris classification by using support vector machine and binary random machine learning.” 2018. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Kamarulzalis AH. An improved algorithm for iris classification by using support vector machine and binary random machine learning. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2018. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12094/.
Council of Science Editors:
Kamarulzalis AH. An improved algorithm for iris classification by using support vector machine and binary random machine learning. [Masters Thesis]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2018. Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12094/
24.
Baharom, Fairuz Bahirah.
Solving the volterra integral form of lane emden equations by homotopy perturbation method and adomian decomposition method.
Degree: mphil, Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, 2018, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
URL: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12096/
► In this research, Homotopy Perturbation Method(HPM) and Adomian Decomposition Method(ADM), as two known methods, is analyzed for solving Volterra integral from of the Lane-Emden equations.…
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▼ In this research, Homotopy Perturbation Method(HPM) and Adomian Decomposition Method(ADM), as two known methods, is analyzed for solving Volterra integral from of the Lane-Emden equations. The result from both method are compared with the exact solution. It has been shown that these two methods are capable to get the similar result with exact solution, when solving Volterra integral from of the Lane-Emden equations. The efficiency of these two methods are demonstrated through several examples to show the ability of the methods in solving Lane-Emden equations of Volterra integral form. This research has determind that ADM is more reliable and efficient than HPM. The ADM requires shorter computational that HPM, but it yields more accurate results compared to HPM.
Subjects/Keywords: QA297 Numerical analysis. Analysis
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Baharom, F. B. (2018). Solving the volterra integral form of lane emden equations by homotopy perturbation method and adomian decomposition method. (Masters Thesis). Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Retrieved from http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12096/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Baharom, Fairuz Bahirah. “Solving the volterra integral form of lane emden equations by homotopy perturbation method and adomian decomposition method.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12096/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Baharom, Fairuz Bahirah. “Solving the volterra integral form of lane emden equations by homotopy perturbation method and adomian decomposition method.” 2018. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Baharom FB. Solving the volterra integral form of lane emden equations by homotopy perturbation method and adomian decomposition method. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2018. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12096/.
Council of Science Editors:
Baharom FB. Solving the volterra integral form of lane emden equations by homotopy perturbation method and adomian decomposition method. [Masters Thesis]. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia; 2018. Available from: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/12096/
University of Aberdeen
25.
Mitchell, Thomas.
Activation of numerical representations : sources of variability.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Aberdeen
URL: http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227222
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► This thesis presents an investigation into sources of variability in activating and processing numerical information. Chapter 1 provides an overview of research literature exploring the…
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▼ This thesis presents an investigation into sources of variability in activating and processing numerical information. Chapter 1 provides an overview of research literature exploring the ways in which magnitude information can be represented, and how models relating to number information have developed. These theoretical models are addressed in relation to the neural representation of number, and the range of behavioural markers which suggest an association between spatial and numerical processing. Chapter 2 using a dual-task paradigm investigated whether magnitude information is accessed on perceiving numbers, or if this information is linked to response selection or execution. Previous research studies investigating this question produced inconsistent findings (Oriet, Tombu & Jolicoeur, 2005; Sigman & Dehaene, 2005) with regard to the locus of magnitude processing; the findings of Experiments 1-3 reliably support access to magnitude information during response selection. Chapter 3 explored the activation of spatial-numerical response associations, where response-irrelevant magnitude information was not represented by a single stimulus (i.e. an Arabic digit) but by a numerosity representation. Experiments 4-7 found a strong association between spatial-orientation processing and numerical magnitude, but no association with perceptual-colour processing, extending previous work by Fias, Lammertyn and Lauwereyns (2001) regarding the neural overlap between the attended and irrelevant stimulus dimensions. However the strength of this association was found to be inconsistent across the number range. Chapter 4 investigated the impact of healthy aging on the presence of neural-overlap in processing spatial-numerical information, further developing the paradigm used in Chapter 3, and addressed direct predictions from the literature as to how age should influence these associations (Wood, Willmes, Nuerk & Fischer, 2008). Experiments 8-11 found evidence for spatial-numerical associations across the lifespan, but that the strength of these effects were moderated by 5 task instruction. Chapter 5 was designed to assess aging differences in numerical and spatial processing with a battery of tests and the extent to which other sources of individual difference (sex, embodiment) have a measureable impact. A range of standardised measures were used to assess verbal ability, mathematical processing, and spatial working memory alongside behavioural measures of spatial numerical associations. Experiment 12 provided evidence of aging and sex differences in different cognitive tasks and a marginal impact of embodiment on spatial-numerical processing; however the effect of embodiment was not supported in a larger more homogenous sample in Experiment 13. Chapter 6 reflects on the current findings and provides contextual information on how they align with previous research, outlining how evidence from the thesis extend current research paradigms and provides new evidence regarding the maintenance of spatial-numerical associations in healthy…
Subjects/Keywords: Numerical analysis
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Mitchell, T. (2015). Activation of numerical representations : sources of variability. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Aberdeen. Retrieved from http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227222 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665356
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mitchell, Thomas. “Activation of numerical representations : sources of variability.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Aberdeen. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227222 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665356.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mitchell, Thomas. “Activation of numerical representations : sources of variability.” 2015. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Mitchell T. Activation of numerical representations : sources of variability. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Aberdeen; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227222 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665356.
Council of Science Editors:
Mitchell T. Activation of numerical representations : sources of variability. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Aberdeen; 2015. Available from: http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227222 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665356
University of Utah
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Thomas, Matthew Lee.
Studies on the third component of complement;.
Degree: PhD, Pathology;, 1981, University of Utah
URL: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1225/rec/1274
► The third component of guinea pig complement (C3) was isolated from EDTA-plasma by poly(ethylene)glycol precipication, depletion of plasminogen on Sepharose-L-lysine, chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel, and gel…
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▼ The third component of guinea pig complement (C3) was isolated from EDTA-plasma by poly(ethylene)glycol precipication, depletion of plasminogen on Sepharose-L-lysine, chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel, and gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B. IgG was removed in a final step with Protein A-Sepharose. The recovery of functional activity was 56% with a purification of 81-fold. SDS-PAGE indicated an a3 chain structure. The apparent molecular weights of the alpha- and beta-3-chains were 115,000 ± 12,000 and 65,000 ± 7,000, respectively. When compared with human C3, the alpha-chain was of similar size, but, the guinea pig beta-chain was significantly smaller. This difference may in part be due to carbohydrate since guinea pig beta-chain, unlike human beta-chain, failed to stain for carbohydrate following periodic acid oxidation. The alpha- and beta-chains were separated on a column of Sepharose CL-4B equilibrated in 0.2% SDS and the amino-terminal structure of each was determined by Edman degradation. The structure of each chain was highly concordant with the corresponding chain of human C3. Incubation of guinea pig C3 with (14C) methylamine resulted in a final uptake of 0.76 moles/mole into the alpha-chain with the simultaneous acquisition of a free sulfhydryl group (SH). Human and guinea pig (14C) methylamine-inactivated C3 were immobilized on activated Thiol-Sepharose and digested with porcine elastase. SDS-PAGE of bound material released with L-cysteine revealed a primary band with a molecular weight of 33,000 (C3d) which retained the (14C) label. Amino-terminal structure of human and guinea pig C3d indicated 92% homology for the 29 residues identified. The (14C) label was released with a Glx residue at step 26 and the SH group, which appears upon nucleophilic inactivation, was released with cysteinyl residue at step 23. This indicates that a thiolester site is located at this position in the amino-terminal region of C3d. For human, a 35 residue tryptic peptide containing the thiolester site was previously isolated and the positions 1-16 reported (Tack et al., 1980, PNAS 77: 5764). The complete sequence of the 35 residue peptide is reported here and commences with the histidyl residue at position 15 in C3d.
Subjects/Keywords: Analysis
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Thomas, M. L. (1981). Studies on the third component of complement;. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Utah. Retrieved from http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1225/rec/1274
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Thomas, Matthew Lee. “Studies on the third component of complement;.” 1981. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Utah. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1225/rec/1274.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Thomas, Matthew Lee. “Studies on the third component of complement;.” 1981. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Thomas ML. Studies on the third component of complement;. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Utah; 1981. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1225/rec/1274.
Council of Science Editors:
Thomas ML. Studies on the third component of complement;. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Utah; 1981. Available from: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1225/rec/1274
University of Utah
27.
Westcott, Wayne L.
Reactions of xanthydrol with the amino acids and cytochrome C.
Degree: PhD, Biology;, 1953, University of Utah
URL: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1687/rec/1077
► The reactions of xanthydrol with various amino acids were investigated. Spectrophotometric measurements indicated that reactions occurred between xanthydrol and the amino acids arginine, asparagine, cysteine,…
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▼ The reactions of xanthydrol with various amino acids were investigated. Spectrophotometric measurements indicated that reactions occurred between xanthydrol and the amino acids arginine, asparagine, cysteine, glutamine, histidine, lysine and tryptophan. No reaction occurred with the amino acids alanine, ?-alanine, glycine, leucine, praline, hydroxy proline, threonine or the dipeptide glycyl-L-leucine. S-Xanthyl-cysteine was isolated as the hydrochloride. The xanthyl derivatives of N-carbobenzoxy-L-asparagine and N-carbobenzoxy-L-tryptophan were prepared in crystalline form. Hydrogenation of these compounds to remove the carbobenzoxy group was unsuccessful. N-Xanthyl nicotinamide was also prepared. The reaction products of xanthydrol and the amino acids were found to be quite unstable in solution pH 8.0 when placed in a water bath at 25? for 120 minutes or heated to 95? for 60 minutes at pH 2.5 with the exception of the tryptophan product. The violet-colored material isolated from a reaction between xanthydrol and tryptophan was stable in a mixture of 12N HC1 and glacial acetic acid or 6N NaOH when refluxed for 24 hours. Cytochrome c isolated by the producer developed by Keilin and Hartree (21) found to be electrophoretically homogeneous at pH 7.3 and pH 10.68 but inhomogeneous at pH 8.5. Chromatography on IRC-50 was effective in increasing the iron content of cytochrome c from 0.13% to 0.47%, It, too, was electrophoretically homogenous at pH 7.3 and pH 10.68 but was inhomogeneous at pH 8.5. Xanthydrol was found to react with cytochrome c. The xanthyl-cytochrome c was inactive when assayed in the succinoxidase system. A 2.66 molar excess of xanthydrol was found to cause a 63% inactivation whereas a 2 molar excess if xanthydrol caused none. Xanthydrol had no apparent effect on cytochrome c when assayed chemically. Xanthyl-cytochrome c was prepared by the reaction between xanthydrol and cytochrome c in 66% acetic acid. An average of 1.8 xanthyl residues were found per mol of cytochrome c. The xanthyl-cytochrome c had a mobility of +3.8cm.2/V/sec. x 10-5 at pH 7.3 compared with a mobility of +4.8 cm. 2/V/sec. x 10-5 of cytochrome c at the same pH. Numerous differences were noted between the absorption spectra of cytochrome c and xanthyl-cytochrome c. Xanthyl-cytochrome c was found to be an inhibitor of cytochrome c in the succinoxidase system. The chemically reduced xanthyl-cytochrome c could be oxidized enzymatically and did not inhibit the enzymatic oxidation of reduced cytochrome c. Oxidized xanthyl-cytochrome c could not be found in reduced enzymatically and inhibited the enxymatic reduction of oxidized cytochrome c. A three-fold excess of xanthyl-cytochrome c caused a 35% inhibition of cytochrome c in the succinoxidase system. Oxidized xanthyl-cytochrome c was not reduced by a soluble DPNH-cytochrome c reductase prepared from beef heart.
Subjects/Keywords: Analysis
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Westcott, W. L. (1953). Reactions of xanthydrol with the amino acids and cytochrome C. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Utah. Retrieved from http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1687/rec/1077
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Westcott, Wayne L. “Reactions of xanthydrol with the amino acids and cytochrome C.” 1953. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Utah. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1687/rec/1077.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Westcott, Wayne L. “Reactions of xanthydrol with the amino acids and cytochrome C.” 1953. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Westcott WL. Reactions of xanthydrol with the amino acids and cytochrome C. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Utah; 1953. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1687/rec/1077.
Council of Science Editors:
Westcott WL. Reactions of xanthydrol with the amino acids and cytochrome C. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Utah; 1953. Available from: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd1/id/1687/rec/1077
University of Edinburgh
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Loraine, Melissa.
How Psychical Researchers Construct Their Research as Scientific: A Discursive Approach.
Degree: 2013, University of Edinburgh
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8619
► Many academics have attempted to resolve the demarcation problem through boundary work. Due to this problem, it is difficult to distinguish between Science and Non-Science.…
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▼ Many academics have attempted to resolve the demarcation problem through boundary work. Due to this problem, it is difficult to distinguish between Science and Non-Science. Even some reasoned Science, such as Psychology, are accused of being unscientific. This investigation looks at how the designated Pseudoscience of Psychical research constructs its research as scientific when widely believed to investigate “non-science”. By analysing this construction through discourse
analysis, a better understanding of how Psychical research defines itself as scientific can be observed. The body of data used were works from the last twenty years found in “The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research” as this would allow access to extensive, recent works on Psychical Research. The
analysis established that the researchers constructed their work as scientific using five possible approaches. It was found to be constructed with how Psychical research is compared/linked to other science which constructs the research as sharing scientific characteristics with other Science, that Psychical research is constructed as having an improved, scientific future direction which gives the field credibility in this pursuit, Psychical research constructed as having the scientific fundamentals of replicable experiments and results which constructs it as valid and relevant, Psychical phenomenon occurring throughout history and today which infers a longstanding body of evidence important in establishing as scientific and finally as psychical phenomenon as common and useful which constructs the research as having a worthy cause. This study leads on from Lamont’s (2007) discourse
analysis into the beginnings of Psychical research being constructed as scientific. This research will allow for understanding into how Psychical research tries self-defining in recent times and a future direction it states to be heading in.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lamont, Peter.
Subjects/Keywords: Discourse Analysis
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Loraine, M. (2013). How Psychical Researchers Construct Their Research as Scientific: A Discursive Approach. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8619
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Loraine, Melissa. “How Psychical Researchers Construct Their Research as Scientific: A Discursive Approach.” 2013. Thesis, University of Edinburgh. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8619.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Loraine, Melissa. “How Psychical Researchers Construct Their Research as Scientific: A Discursive Approach.” 2013. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Loraine M. How Psychical Researchers Construct Their Research as Scientific: A Discursive Approach. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Edinburgh; 2013. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8619.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Loraine M. How Psychical Researchers Construct Their Research as Scientific: A Discursive Approach. [Thesis]. University of Edinburgh; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8619
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Georgia
29.
Butzon, Colby Douglas.
Teacher-rated personality types in middle childhood: prediction of peer-reported social adjustment.
Degree: PhD, School Psychology, 2008, University of Georgia
URL: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/butzon_colby_d_200808_phd
► Three primary objectives were proposed in the current study. The first objective was to identify a typology of personality based on teacher ratings of individuals…
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▼ Three primary objectives were proposed in the current study. The first objective was to identify a typology of personality based on teacher ratings of individuals in middle childhood. The second objective was to determine the extent to which the different personality types derived from the first objective exhibited differences in characteristics of social standing as reported by peers. Finally, the personality types were compared to multidimensional social status types found in previous research (Lease, Musgrove, & Axelrod, 2002; Lindstrom & Lease, 2005). Teacher ratings of children as measured by the Inventory of Child Individual Differences-Teacher Short Form (ICID-TS) were collected for 473 children between the ages of 9 and 12 in Georgia public schools Georgia. Additionally, peer nominations of social standing and self-reported aspects of friendships were obtained. Personality data were submitted to a combined method of cluster
analysis. First, Ward’s hierarchical agglomerative method of
analysis was conducted to determine cluster centroids. Next, an iterative k-means procedure was used to assign group members to appropriate clusters. This process resulted in five personality clusters: Dysregulated, Resilient, Disagreeable, Average, and Overcontrolled. Next, the personality clusters were examined in relation to differences in social status variables. In general, the Dysregulated cluster was viewed in a negative light by peers, the Resilient cluster was viewed positively, the Average and Overcontrolled clusters were perceived as neutral, and the Disagreeable cluster was associated with dominance and popularity, but was also disliked. Finally, the personality clusters were examined relative to social status types. Dysregulated individuals were associated with low status types, Resilient individuals were members of high status types, and the Average and Overcontrolled individuals were not more likely than expected by chance to be members of any particular social status type. Disagreeable children were rarely assigned to the Average social status type, but were more likely to be viewed by peers as Perceived Popular/Dominant, Disliked, or Low Status. These results extend theories of a typology of personality in children and elucidate associations between personality and social standing in peer groups.
Advisors/Committee Members: Roy P. Martin.
Subjects/Keywords: Cluster Analysis
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Butzon, C. D. (2008). Teacher-rated personality types in middle childhood: prediction of peer-reported social adjustment. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/butzon_colby_d_200808_phd
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Butzon, Colby Douglas. “Teacher-rated personality types in middle childhood: prediction of peer-reported social adjustment.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Georgia. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/butzon_colby_d_200808_phd.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Butzon, Colby Douglas. “Teacher-rated personality types in middle childhood: prediction of peer-reported social adjustment.” 2008. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Butzon CD. Teacher-rated personality types in middle childhood: prediction of peer-reported social adjustment. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Georgia; 2008. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/butzon_colby_d_200808_phd.
Council of Science Editors:
Butzon CD. Teacher-rated personality types in middle childhood: prediction of peer-reported social adjustment. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Georgia; 2008. Available from: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/butzon_colby_d_200808_phd
University of Georgia
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Perry, Helen Noel.
Integration of adult education and public health policy: a case study in Uganda.
Degree: PhD, Adult Education, 2008, University of Georgia
URL: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/perry_helen_n_200812_phd
► The purpose of this study was to understand the process of forming an integrated adult education and public health policy in Uganda. This qualitative case…
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▼ The purpose of this study was to understand the process of forming an integrated adult education and public health policy in Uganda. This qualitative case study examined how adult education strategies were integrated into Uganda’s National Health Strategic Plan. The unit of
analysis was the instance of policy formation involving the integration of adult education strategies within Uganda’s National Health Strategic Plan. I analyzed documents that elaborated adult education and public health policy positions stated by international and national entities and conducted interviews with eleven participants involved in formation and implementation of the integrated policy. Three research questions guided this study: (1) What interests shaped the integration of adult education approaches within national public health policy, (2) How were the interests negotiated during the policy making process, and (3) What learning did policy makers need to undertake to effect the integration of these policies?
The data
analysis employed the constant comparative method of data
analysis grounded in perspectives from program planning theory and the advocacy coalition framework. The findings that emerged from the
analysis identified multiple interests that influence public policy formation in Uganda. First, policies for improved health and education within the international and national coalitions are conceptually linked to poverty eradication. Second, constitutional stability, increased human resources, socio-cultural cohesion and control of investments were interests involved in decisions about the policy. Third, shared beliefs that bound the coalitions centered on poverty eradication, community self-reliance, and commitments to development. Fourth, with regard to the second research question on how interests were negotiated, institutional and individual power and positionality were persuasive factors in how core beliefs became policy actions. Finally, policy oriented learning centered on methods of implementation and advocacy. Four conclusions were developed from the findings about the process of integrated adult education and public health policy in Uganda: (1) International forces play a major role in guiding public policy in Uganda, (2) Positionality impacts the extent of one’s influence in policy making, (3) Policy negotiation focuses on secondary aspects of the policy rather than core beliefs that bind the policy coalitions, and (4) Learning needs of policy makers center on the means of implementation and resource mobilization. Practical implications and suggestions for further research are also presented.
Advisors/Committee Members: Sharan B. Merriam.
Subjects/Keywords: Policy Analysis
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Perry, H. N. (2008). Integration of adult education and public health policy: a case study in Uganda. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/perry_helen_n_200812_phd
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Perry, Helen Noel. “Integration of adult education and public health policy: a case study in Uganda.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Georgia. Accessed February 22, 2020.
http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/perry_helen_n_200812_phd.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Perry, Helen Noel. “Integration of adult education and public health policy: a case study in Uganda.” 2008. Web. 22 Feb 2020.
Vancouver:
Perry HN. Integration of adult education and public health policy: a case study in Uganda. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Georgia; 2008. [cited 2020 Feb 22].
Available from: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/perry_helen_n_200812_phd.
Council of Science Editors:
Perry HN. Integration of adult education and public health policy: a case study in Uganda. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Georgia; 2008. Available from: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/perry_helen_n_200812_phd
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