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Fyson, Robert Charles Madocks. "Chartism in North Staffordshire." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301815.
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Allen, Helen Louise. "Chartism in the foreign exchange market." Thesis, City University London, 1990. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7532/.
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This thesis examines the use and nature of chartism in the foreign exchange market, bringing together an analysis of chartist methods and the views/empirical work of economics. A survey of general chartist methods demonstrates the origins of the modern techniques, the construction of the various indicators, the use of pattern recognition and the variety of calculated indices. Despite these methods being widely used in the market, there seems to be very little bridging between practical chartism and the many fundamental-based academic studies of exchange rate determination/forecasting. Key points of the academic literature which have features pertinent to non-fundamental chart analysis are therefore discussed, and what little explicit analysis of chartism has been done is highlighted. It is clear that analysis of the subject is a growing area of the literature. It transpires, however, that there is minimal actual evidence available about the use of chartism in practice. To provide information on this, a questionnaire survey was conducted to examine the extent to, and manner by which, chartism is used in the (London) foreign exchange market and how it is perceived by the market participants themselves. This gives clear information on the extent of chartist advice in the market and the wide variety of techniques used, along with insights into the differing views held by market participants on the subject. While something of a broad consensus emerges regarding the possible methods and the weights given to charts at differing time horizons, there is sufficient heterogeneity in general to suggest that differences of views will be transmitted in actual chartists advice. To test this directly, a database of chartists' forecasts was constructed by a telephone survey of a panel of chartists, to compile their one and four week ahead predictions for the three major bilateral rates. This gives a unique data set, from which it is possible to analyse the forecasts of individuals as well as the median forecast. The data is subjected to a battery of tests and comparisons, a recurring result of which is indeed the apparent difference in accuracy between individual chartists. For example comparisons with a range of other forecasting techniques (economic and statistical), show some chartists under-perform these consistently while the best are even able to outperform a random walk. Tests of the implied expectations mechanism reveal that the hypothesis of rationality of chartism cannot be entirely rejected over the short horizon, but that there is stronger evidence of irrationality over the four week period, a result which becomes more pronounced as the information set is expanded, which provides evidence against the chartist tenet that 'the price discounts everything'. Testing for different methods of expectation formation reveals that in general the hypothesis of static expectations cannot be rejected against the variety of afternatives considered. Overall, the crucial result in this area was that of an inelasticity of expectations: chartists' advice does not appear to exert a destabilising on the foreign exchange market by overreacting systematically to changes in the current rate. In sum, this thesis forms a bridge between chartism and economics, by examining the methods and results of the former and analysing them with the tools of the latter.
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Bottrill, Graham. "British socialist literature : from Chartism to Marxism." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2006. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55629/.
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This thesis is a selected narrative sequence, focusing upon social/political narratives published between 1870 and 1888 in order to connect the literature of Chartism, published in the 1840s and 1850s, with the naturalistic political novels of Margaret Harkness published between 1888 and 1921. The thesis was initially conceived during graduate study undertaken at the University of California in 1981-3. The foundations were fully laid by research undertaken independently during 1989 and 1990, while teaching in New York. Here, the truly inspiring facilities of the New York Public Library made it all real. The complications of returning to England in 1991 and the pressures of earning a living in a non-academic environment resulted in the study being left for many years, though not forgotten. I owe the completion of the thesis to its reception by the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University in 2003, and to the rigorous and detailed support from my adviser, Professor Stephen Knight. I would also like to extend my thanks to the facilities of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy for supplying me with prints of rare microfilmed documents, available only from the British Library. Working on such a thesis as a part-time student in addition to full-time and largely unrelated work eats significantly into personal time. I therefore thank my partner, Ruth Hecht, for her support and positive encouragement throughout its composition. Finally, I would like to remember my family, the Bottrills, who lived for many generations between Coventry and Leicester, the men as farm labourers or coal miners in rural pits, the women in domestic service. They lived and worked throughout the period covered by this thesis, and to them ultimately it is dedicated.
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Keeble, David. "Interpretive representation in Thomas Carlyle's Chartism : a relevance-theoretic analysis." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403734.
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Little, Alan. "Chartism and Liberalism popular politics in Leicestershire 1842 to 1874." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1991. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.580627.
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Skelly, Colin. "The origins, nature and development of moral force Chartism, 1836-1850." Thesis, University of York, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10975/.
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Gibson, Joshua. "The political thought of the Chartist Movement." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277026.
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The Chartist movement was the mass-movement for constitutional reform in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Chartism is one of the most written about subjects in modern British history, yet the ideas of the movement remain strangely neglected. This thesis tackles this problem by examining Chartist ideas along a broad front. By examining the political thought of a movement, rather than a select number of highly educated intellectuals, this thesis also makes a statement about how to study popular political ideas. Chapter One locates the foundations of Chartist political thought in the movement’s social and cultural context. It asks what the Chartists read and were able to read, how they viewed knowledge and education, and the religious basis of Chartist intellectualism. Chapter Two turns to Chartist political theory, in particular, the Chartist interpretation of the British constitution. It is shown that Chartists drew on a sophisticated conception of the common law that rooted the British Constitution in natural law. Chapter Three considers Chartism’s economic ideas, which, it is argued, must be understood in relation to their understanding of classical political economy. Chapter Four examiners Chartist natural-right arguments alongside the ideas of non-Chartist radicals. Finally, Chapter Five traces the careers of a number of Chartists and the influence of Chartist ideas in America. It also attempts to take account of what Chartism meant to Americans. By considering these topics, this thesis provides a clearer impression of why ideas were important to the Chartists, what sort of ideas the Chartists held, and the legacies of Chartist ideas for democratic politics later in the century.
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Winn, Sharon A. "Friends of the people chartists in Victorian social protest fiction /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1989. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/8913882.
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Pye, Neil. "The Home Office and the suppression of Chartism in the West Riding, c.1838-1848." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2011. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/11682/.
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The main purpose of this research is to re-examine Chartism by analysing how the Home Office’s suppression of the movement affected the development of the British State and the machinery of public order during the 1830s and 1840s. In recent years, the study of Chartism has become a domain for historians engaged in cultural history. As a result, studies of both a political and localised nature have been neglected. The poverty of recent research in these areas has occurred since the major dispute between Dorothy Thompson and Gareth Stedman Jones, over the ‘linguistic’ turn and the meaning of the language of Chartism took place during the 1980s. Since the early-1990s, the debate has now moved on towards what Patrick Joyce and James Vernon have identified as ‘the language of politics’. The aim of this research is to move the debate away from a cultural perspective and, instead, to examine how government policy changed to deal with Chartism. The purpose of this study is, therefore, not to examine the legislative effects of social, political and economic reforms as suggested by Gareth Stedman Jones, but to offer a more thorough investigation of the lines of argument pursued by Dorothy Thompson and James Vernon. Thompson argued that state suppression played a huge role in the demise of Chartism, whilst Vernon has asserted that during the first half of the nineteenth century the political system gradually became closed and disciplined. Mass movements such as Chartism, it is argued, failed in their quest to bring about major changes to the political system in the early nineteenth century, largely because they succumbed to huge pressure from the state and its institutions. In order to establish the influence of the Home Office, this study has analysed how its policy impacted upon the Chartists in the West Riding. This involved a struggle for hegemony between central government and local agencies which ultimately brought about significant changes to the way in which the state functioned, along with many improvements to its machinery of control. These reforms included the advent of better policing and a gradual redefining of the roles of traditional forms of control such as the magistracy, army, militia and yeomanry. From a thorough investigation of both primary and secondary source materials, the evidence suggests that Dorothy Thompson was generally correct in her observation that the Home Office suppression of Chartism allowed the state to learn from its mistakes and become more effective in managing public order. However, this study will argue that the process was not as clear cut as Thompson implied. The implementation of reforms was a gradual process in which the Home Office played a significant role in the management of tensions that existed amongst various central and local government agencies. In doing so, the state became more efficient in controlling disorder. It remains for others to investigate the view of Gareth Stedman Jones that Chartism was by-passed by a reforming state.
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Scriven, Thomas. "Activism and the everyday : the practices of radical working-class politics, 1830-1842." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/activism-and-the-everyday-the-practices-of-radical-workingclass-politics-18301842(499e8040-fc6d-4711-904e-b86cf257d3a4).html.
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This thesis will re-evaluate the Chartist movement through research into day-to-day practice in four areas: sociability, material networks, gender and political subjectivity. It will demonstrate that Chartism's activism and the everyday lives of its members were indistinct. In the early years of the movement and the years preceding it, activism and political thought engaged with the quotidian to successfully build a movement that was not only relevant to but an integral part of people's everyday lives. This thesis will analyse how this interaction was not limited to Chartist activists politicising everyday grievances, but also how day-to-day practices and relationships contributed to the infrastructure, intellectual culture and political programme of the movement. This thesis will make original contributions to a number of debates. It challenges the dominant view of Chartism as first and foremost a political movement distinct from its social conditions. It will be argued that this dichotomy between the political and the social cannot be sustained, and it will be shown that activists were most successful when they drew from and were part of society. It will criticise the related trend in studies of Chartism and Radicalism to focus on political identity, meaning and forms of communication. It will argue that these topics are valuable, but need to be seen within a wider existential framework and integrated with an approach that sees cultural activity as one part of a range of activities. As such, it will illustrate the ways that cultural practices are bound with social relationships. Following this, it will make the case for practice to be looked at not just in symbolic or ritualistic terms but also in terms of day-to-day activities that were crucial for the development and maintenance of political movements. It will be argued that prosaic, mundane and day-to-day activities are integral aspects of social movements and as such are worthwhile areas of research. Finally, it will add to our understanding of Chartism by providing biographical information on Henry Vincent, an under-researched figure, and the south west and west of England, under-researched regions. This thesis is organised into two parts. The first will follow the work of activists in developing Chartism in the south west of England from the end of the Swing Riots until the Chartist Convention of 1839. Here it will be argued that Chartism relied upon a close and intensive interaction between activists and the communities they were politicising, with the result being that the movement was coloured by the politics, intellectual culture and practices of those communities. The second section will look at how the private lives and social networks of individual activists were integral to their political ideas, rhetoric and capacity to work as activists. Correspondence, documents produced by the state, the radical press and the internal records of the Chartist movement all shed light on the way everyday life and political thought and action merged.
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Dadswell, Richard David. "'England's Islands three': regional variations in the poetry of Chartism from the South Midlands, London, Scotland and Wales." Thesis, University of Buckingham, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.645207.
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Martin, Janette Lisa. "Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60." Thesis, University of York, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/834/.
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Itinerant lecturers declaiming upon free trade, Chartism, temperance, or anti-slavery could be heard in market places and halls across the country during the years 1837-60. The power of the spoken word was such that all major pressure groups employed lecturers and sent them on extensive tours. Print historians tend to overplay the importance of newspapers and tracts in disseminating political ideas and forming public opinion. This thesis demonstrates the importance of older, traditional forms of communication. Inert printed pages were no match for charismatic oratory. Combining personal magnetism, drama and immediacy, the itinerant lecturer was the most effective medium through which to reach those with limited access to books, newspapers or national political culture. Orators crucially united their dispersed audiences in national struggles for reform, fomenting discussion and coalescing political opinion, while railways, the telegraph and expanding press reportage allowed speakers and their arguments to circulate rapidly. Understanding of political oratory and public meetings has been skewed by over-emphasis upon the hustings and high-profile politicians. This has generated two misconceptions: that political meetings were generally rowdy and that a golden age of political oratory was secured only through Gladstone's legendary stumping tours. However, this thesis argues that, far from being disorderly, public meetings were carefully regulated and controlled offering disenfranchised males a genuine democratic space for political discussion. Its detailed research into Yorkshire and the North East, demonstrates both the growth of popular political speechmaking and the emergence of a class of professional lecturers. It identifies a paradigm shift from classical oratory to more populist styles of speaking, as more humble speakers took to the platform; and it argues that through the growth of popular political oratory the platform had been rehabilitated by the 1860s and the lecture format commercialized
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Jones, Samuel. "En farlig idé? : Debatten om allmän rösträtt i det brittiska parlamentet, 1839-1848." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38315.
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Great Britain’s road to universal suffrage was a long one. Much attention has been paid by historians to the moments of great legislative reform, but less to the idea behind them. History is, however, also about the journey to such moments and how ideas gain or lose traction in society. The mass working-class movement of Chartism, with its call for universal (manhood) suffrage and its three national petitions of 1839, 1842 and 1848, forced parliamentarians to debate this radical and, in the view of many, dangerous idea. This study analyses the political discourse of the parliamentary debates held in these years with the aim of shedding light on how the notion of universal suffrage was constructed and understood by parliamentarians at the time. By analysing the debates online with a keyword search for ‘universal suffrage’ several recurring arguments and discourses are revealed, namely the political and moral legitimacy of the chartists and their sympathisers in parliament; how the concept of time is used in arguments for and against universal suffrage; entitlement to political representation; and the security of property. Taking inspiration from the linguist Tuen van Dijk’s theory of political discourse analysis, these discourses are regarded as more than mere words spoken in parliament, but rather as political actions which had a bearing on the world outside. Moreover, the aim is also to situate and contextualise these discourses in broader society and the events and developments of the 1830s and 1840s. While the abovementioned discourses are prevalent in all three years, the debates of 1848 see a change in focus and tone, due the wider European revolutionary climate. It is hoped that this analysis of parliamentary debates between 1839 and 1848 will contribute to a better understanding of an oft-neglected chapter in Britain’s road to universal suffrage and of Chartism’s role in this hard-won struggle.
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Findlay, Isobel. "Reading for reform : history, theology, and interpretation and the work of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ29935.pdf.
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Raffestin, Louis. "Trading strategies and endogenous asset price movement." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0292/document.
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Nous étudions des stratégies d'investissement dont l'utilisation s'est généralisée sur les marchés financiers, et leur impact sur le prix des actifs et le risque de marché.Dans le premier chapitre nous nous intéressons aux stratégies de diversification de portefeuille. Nous montronsau travers d'un modèle théorique que si la diversification a un effet positif au niveau individuel pour l'investisseur,elle crée également des liens entre les différents investisseurs et titres, qui peuvent se révéler dangereux d'un pointde vue systémique. Nous mesurons les deux effets afin de discuter de la désirabilité globale de la diversification.Le second chapitre considère les stratégies d'investissement basées sur le groupement de titres financierspartageant certaines caractéristiques en différentes classes, ou styles. Nous postulons que ces stratégies créentun co-mouvement excessif entre titres d'un même style, qui seront vendus et achetés ensemble au sein d'une mêmeclasse. Appliquant cette intuition aux notes des agences sur les obligations, nous montrons qu'une obligation quichange de note se met en effet à varier comme sa nouvelle note, même quand les fondamentaux économiques ne lejustifient pas.Dans le troisième chapitre nous étudions trois types d'investisseurs opérant sur le marché des changes : les carry traders, les chartistes et les fondamentalistes. Notre modèle théorique suggère que l'interaction entre cestrois règles d'investissement peut expliquer la déconnexion bien documentée entre le taux de change et sa valeurfondamentale, ainsi que provoquer un effondrement endogène des taux de changeWe study how popular investment rules in financial markets may induce endogenous movements inasset prices, leading to higher market risk.In the first chapter, we focus on portfolio diversification. We show through a theoretical model that this strategyis beneficial at the individual investor level, but also creates endogenous links between assets and investors, whichcan be dangerous from a systemic perspective. We measure both effects in order to discuss the overall desirabilityof diversification.The second chapter considers strategies based on grouping assets that share common characteristics intodifferent classes, or styles. We postulate that these strategies create excess comovement between assets of asimilar style, as they are traded together as part of the same class. Applying this reasoning to bond credit ratings,we show that bonds joining a new rating class indeed start comoving more with the bonds of this rating, evenwhen fundamental factors suggest otherwise.In the third chapter, we study three investors who operate in the foreign exchange market: carry traders,chartists and fundamentalists. We provide a theoretical model which suggests that the interaction between thesetrading rules may explain the well documented exchange rate disconnect from its fundamental value, and lead toendogenous currency crashes
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Merlyn, Teri, and n/a. "Writing Revolution: The British Radical Literary Tradition as the Seminal Force in the Development of Adult Education, its Australian Context, and the Life and Work of Eric Lambert." Griffith University. School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040616.131738.
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This thesis tells the story of an historical tradition of radical literacy and literature that is defined as the British radical literary tradition. It takes the meaning of literature at its broadest understanding and identifies the literary and educational relations of what E.P. Thompson terms 'the making of the English working class' through its struggle for literacy and freedom. The study traces the developing dialectic of literary radicalism and the emergent hegemony of capitalism through the dissemination of radical ideas in literature and a groundswell of public literacy. The proposed radical tradition is defined by the oppositional stance of its participants, from the radical intellectual's critical texts to the striving for literacy and access to literature by working class people. This oppositional discourse emerged in the fourteenth century concomitant with nascent capitalism and has its literary origins in utopian vision. This nascent utopian imagination conceived a democratic socialism that underpinned the character of much of the following oppositional discourse. The thesis establishes the nexus of the oppositional discourse as a radical literary tradition and the earliest instances of adult education in autodidacticism and informal adult education. The ascent of middle class power through the industrial revolution is shadowed by the corresponding descent of the working class into poverty. Concomitant with this social polarisation is the phenomena of working class literary agency as the means to political and economic agency. While Protestant dissenting groups such as the Diggers and Levellers were revolutionary activists, it was Methodism that formed a bulwark against revolution. Yet it was their emphasis on self-improvement that contributed to an increasingly literate populace. Radical texts produced and disseminated by individuals and organisations and read by autodidactics and informal reading groups are seminal in the formation of a working class identity. Spearheaded by the Chartist movement, education became a central ethic of working class politics and the civil struggle for economic and political justice throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries. The avant garde movements of the early twentieth century are analysed as a strand of this tradition. The narrative of the thesis then moves to the penal colony of Australia and explores the radical literary tradition's development there. Early colonial culture is seen as having a strong impetus towards a developing a native literary expression of the new land. Where conservative colonial literature struggled to differentiate itself from formal British literary models, the radical heritage and its utopian vision of a working man's paradise gave definitive expression to the Australian experience. This expression was strongly influenced by Chartist ideals. The British radical literary tradition is thus seen to have had a dominant influence in the development of a native radical literary tradition that strove to identify the national character. Socialist thought developed in Australia in concert with that in the parent culture, and anarchist and libertarian trends found a ready home amongst independent minded colonials. Yet, in preventing the formation of a native aristocracy the small radical population made a compromise with liberalism that saw a decidedly conservative streak develop in the early labour movement. There were little in the way of sophisticated radical literary offerings at first, but from the mid-nineteenth century a vanguard of radicals produced a thriving native press and other fugitive text forms. At the turn of the century the native radical literary tradition was vibrantly diverse, with a definitive style that claimed literary ownership of the Australian character. However, exhausted by the battles over WWI conscription and isolated by censorship, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was able to subsume the vanguard position from the socialists. The Party laid claim to the Australian radical literary tradition, at once both strengthening it with the discipline of a Marxist ideology and diminishing its independence and diversity. Party literary theory centred upon the issue of class, developing a doctrine of socialist realism that communist writers were expected to practice. How well a writer adhered to socialist realist principles became a measure of their class position and loyalty. Drawing more from primary sources, the thesis develops an analysis of the intellectual development of the Australian post-WWII writer Eric Lambert through his experience of class instability during Depression and war. The study examines Lambert's decision to join the Party and his literary response to his experiences of war, the Party, the turmoil of 1956 and life after the Party. Lambert's body of work is then analysed as the unintentional memoir of a writer working as an adult educator in the radical literary tradition. Lambert's struggles, for artistic independence within the narrow precepts of Party dogma and with class tensions, were common amongst intellectuals committed to the communist cause. Like many of his peers, Lambert resigned from the Party at the end of 1956 and suffered a period of ideological vacuum. However, he continued to write as a Marxian educator, seeking to reveal that which makes us human in the humanity of ordinary people. It is concluded that, while the Party did much to foster disciplined cohesion, the mutual distrust it generated amongst its intellectuals suppressed the independent thought that had kept the radical literary tradition alive. Although the Party developed an ideological strength within the radical literary tradition, its dominance over thirty years and subsequent fall from grace acted to fragment and discredit that centuries-old tradition which it subsumed. An argument is made for a reinvestment of the centrality of the radical literary tradition in the education of adults for the maintenance of social justice and the democratic project.
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Merlyn, Teri. "Writing Revolution: The British Radical Literary Tradition as the Seminal Force in the Development of Adult Education, its Australian Context, and the Life and Work of Eric Lambert." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367384.
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This thesis tells the story of an historical tradition of radical literacy and literature that is defined as the British radical literary tradition. It takes the meaning of literature at its broadest understanding and identifies the literary and educational relations of what E.P. Thompson terms 'the making of the English working class' through its struggle for literacy and freedom. The study traces the developing dialectic of literary radicalism and the emergent hegemony of capitalism through the dissemination of radical ideas in literature and a groundswell of public literacy. The proposed radical tradition is defined by the oppositional stance of its participants, from the radical intellectual's critical texts to the striving for literacy and access to literature by working class people. This oppositional discourse emerged in the fourteenth century concomitant with nascent capitalism and has its literary origins in utopian vision. This nascent utopian imagination conceived a democratic socialism that underpinned the character of much of the following oppositional discourse. The thesis establishes the nexus of the oppositional discourse as a radical literary tradition and the earliest instances of adult education in autodidacticism and informal adult education. The ascent of middle class power through the industrial revolution is shadowed by the corresponding descent of the working class into poverty. Concomitant with this social polarisation is the phenomena of working class literary agency as the means to political and economic agency. While Protestant dissenting groups such as the Diggers and Levellers were revolutionary activists, it was Methodism that formed a bulwark against revolution. Yet it was their emphasis on self-improvement that contributed to an increasingly literate populace. Radical texts produced and disseminated by individuals and organisations and read by autodidactics and informal reading groups are seminal in the formation of a working class identity. Spearheaded by the Chartist movement, education became a central ethic of working class politics and the civil struggle for economic and political justice throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries. The avant garde movements of the early twentieth century are analysed as a strand of this tradition. The narrative of the thesis then moves to the penal colony of Australia and explores the radical literary tradition's development there. Early colonial culture is seen as having a strong impetus towards a developing a native literary expression of the new land. Where conservative colonial literature struggled to differentiate itself from formal British literary models, the radical heritage and its utopian vision of a working man's paradise gave definitive expression to the Australian experience. This expression was strongly influenced by Chartist ideals. The British radical literary tradition is thus seen to have had a dominant influence in the development of a native radical literary tradition that strove to identify the national character. Socialist thought developed in Australia in concert with that in the parent culture, and anarchist and libertarian trends found a ready home amongst independent minded colonials. Yet, in preventing the formation of a native aristocracy the small radical population made a compromise with liberalism that saw a decidedly conservative streak develop in the early labour movement. There were little in the way of sophisticated radical literary offerings at first, but from the mid-nineteenth century a vanguard of radicals produced a thriving native press and other fugitive text forms. At the turn of the century the native radical literary tradition was vibrantly diverse, with a definitive style that claimed literary ownership of the Australian character. However, exhausted by the battles over WWI conscription and isolated by censorship, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was able to subsume the vanguard position from the socialists. The Party laid claim to the Australian radical literary tradition, at once both strengthening it with the discipline of a Marxist ideology and diminishing its independence and diversity. Party literary theory centred upon the issue of class, developing a doctrine of socialist realism that communist writers were expected to practice. How well a writer adhered to socialist realist principles became a measure of their class position and loyalty. Drawing more from primary sources, the thesis develops an analysis of the intellectual development of the Australian post-WWII writer Eric Lambert through his experience of class instability during Depression and war. The study examines Lambert's decision to join the Party and his literary response to his experiences of war, the Party, the turmoil of 1956 and life after the Party. Lambert's body of work is then analysed as the unintentional memoir of a writer working as an adult educator in the radical literary tradition. Lambert's struggles, for artistic independence within the narrow precepts of Party dogma and with class tensions, were common amongst intellectuals committed to the communist cause. Like many of his peers, Lambert resigned from the Party at the end of 1956 and suffered a period of ideological vacuum. However, he continued to write as a Marxian educator, seeking to reveal that which makes us human in the humanity of ordinary people. It is concluded that, while the Party did much to foster disciplined cohesion, the mutual distrust it generated amongst its intellectuals suppressed the independent thought that had kept the radical literary tradition alive. Although the Party developed an ideological strength within the radical literary tradition, its dominance over thirty years and subsequent fall from grace acted to fragment and discredit that centuries-old tradition which it subsumed. An argument is made for a reinvestment of the centrality of the radical literary tradition in the education of adults for the maintenance of social justice and the democratic project.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Dengate, Jacob. "Lighting the torch of liberty : the French Revolution and Chartist political culture, 1838-1852." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/eee3b4b8-ba1e-48bd-848e-26391b96af26.
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From 1838 until the end of the European Revolutions in 1852, the French Revolution provided Chartists with a repertoire of symbolism that Chartists would deploy in their activism, histories, and literature to foster a sense of collective consciousness, define a democratic world-view, and encourage internationalist sentiment. Challenging conservative notions of the revolution as a bloody and anarchic affair, Chartists constructed histories of 1789 that posed the era as a romantic struggle for freedom and nationhood analogous to their own, and one that was deeply entwined with British history and national identity. During the 1830s, Chartist opposition to the New Poor Law drew from the gothic repertoire of the Bastille to frame inequality in Britain. The workhouse 'bastile' was not viewed simply as an illegitimate imposition upon Britain, but came to symbolise the character of class rule. Meanwhile, Chartist newspapers also printed fictions based on the French Revolution, inserting Chartist concerns into the narratives, and their histories of 1789 stressed the similarity between France on the eve of revolution and Britain on the eve of the Charter. During the 1840s Chartist internationalism was contextualised by a framework of thinking about international politics constructed around the Revolutions of 1789 and 1830, while the convulsions of Continental Europe during 1848 were interpreted as both a confirmation of Chartist historical discourse and as the opening of a new era of international struggle. In the Democratic Review (1849-1850), the Red Republican (1850), and The Friend of the People (1850-1852), Chartists like George Julian Harney, Helen Macfarlane, William James Linton, and Gerald Massey, along with leading figures of the radical émigrés of 1848, characterised 'democracy' as a spirit of action and a system of belief. For them, the democratic heritage was populated by a diverse array of figures, including the Apostles of Jesus, Martin Luther, the romantic poets, and the Jacobins of 1793. The 'Red Republicanism' that flourished during 1848-1852 was sustained by the historical viewpoints arrived at during the Chartist period generally. Attempts to define a 'science' of socialism was as much about correcting the misadventures of past ages as it was a means to realise the promise announced by the 'Springtime of the Peoples'.
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Simonet, Bertrand. "Ernest Jones : chartisme et socialisme." Lyon 2, 2003. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2003/simonet_b.
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Dans les années 1850, en Angleterre, Ernest Jones s'évertua à refonder le mouvement chartiste sur de nouvelles bases et s'imprégna de la doctrine socialiste, sous la conduite de Karl Marx. En 1851, à la lumière des nouvelles interprétions du régime capitaliste, il élabora un programme démocratique-socialiste, incorporant les aspirations sociales du prolétariat. Cependant qu'il réformait le chartisme, la classe laborieuse se détournait de l'organisation politique. Dans ce contexte, il ne parvint pas à mobiliser les masses. Jones fut aussi un internationaliste fervent. Il lança son Comité International, puis son Association Internationale, qui servirent de modèle organisationnel à la Première Internationale. Sa conversion au socialisme ne fut pourtant jamais totale, et ses idées radicales favorisèrent son rapprochement avec la bourgeoisie libérale réformiste. C'est néanmoins en tant que premier interprète des thèses de Marx en Angleterre, que Jones est passé à la postéritéIn the 1850's in England, Ernest Jones strove to build the Chartist movement on new foundations and absorbed the socialist doctrine, under Marx's supervision. In 1851, in the light of the new interpretations of the capitalist régime, he drew up a socialist-democratic programme, comprising the social demands of the proletariat. While he was thus reforming the Chartist party, the working classes turned their backs on political organisation. In this context, he didn't succeed in rallying the masses behind him. Jones was also a staunch internationalist. He launched his International Committee and his International Association, which anticipated the organisational forms of the First International. However, Jones's conversion to socialism was never complete, and his radical ideas favoured his political connection with the reformist liberal bourgeoisie. Even so, it's as the first exponent of Marx's theories in England that Jones should be remembered
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Simonet, Bertrand Chrétien Maurice. "Ernest Jones chartisme et socialisme /." Lyon : Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2003. http://demeter.univ-lyon2.fr:8080/sdx/theses/lyon2/2003/simonet_b.
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Selander, Carina. "Chartist trading in exchange rate theory." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Department of Economics, Umeå University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-922.
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Galarce, Herrera Andrés, and Orellana Francisco Marcet. "Mercado cambiario chileno: — Fundamentalismo v/s chartismo." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2010. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/108011.
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Randall, Timothy Simon. "Towards a cultural democracy : Chartist literature 1837-1860." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386383.
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This thesis assesses the poetry and fiction written by participants of the Chartist political movement between 1837 and 1860. The poetry was often crude, unsophisticated and occasionally derivative, but it effectively employed irony, parody, and various metaphoric tropes, to state the justness of the Chartist cause, or to express revolutionary defiance. Often sung or recited, the earlier poetry especially, was closely integrated into Chartist agitation. The longer narrative verse demonstrated the cultural potential of the politically disfranchised working class. Prison poetry asserted the imprisoned Chartist's intellectual freedom from oppression. The militant rhetoric of later Chartist poetry masked a sense of increasing desperation as the movement declined. Short, often historical, fiction was written to analyse political movements and events, although it was not until the late 1840s that Chartist novels were written. A couple of these analysed the movement itself; its past mistakes and future possibilities. Most Chartist novels however withdrew from direct political advocacy; relying instead upon the novelist's power to determine fictional events, and the individual reader's wish to imagine a more just life, they resolved political and social problems solely within their artificial, fictional world. The evolutionary shift which Chartist literature underwent can be characterised as the transition from the Chartist song, celebrating a Chartist leader, sung at a demonstration by a hundred thousand people; to the Chartist novel, attacking the aristocracy, published in a magazine sold to a hundred thousand people. Similar imagery and motifs recurred across time and in different genres, although often serving different functions. This thesis concludes that Chartist literature was a vital component of Chartist culture; that it possessed literary merit and historical significance; and furthermore, that there were strong connections between the decline of this mass political movement from the early 1840s, and the emergence of a mass commercial fiction during the 1840s &
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Airey, Glenn. "Feargus O'Connor 1842-1855 : a study in Chartist leadership." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275462.
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Inbarajan, Prabhu Anand. "PAMPA II Advanced Charting System." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/387.
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Project Management is the primary key to successful software development. In 1995 Caper Jones stated that the failure or cancellation rate of large software systems was over 20% in his article on patterns of large software systems. More than two thirds of the projects fail due to improper management of skills, activities, and personnel. One main reason is that software is not a tangible entity and is hard to visualize and hence to monitor. A manager has to be skilled in different CASE tools and technologies to track and manage a software development process successfully. The volume of results produced by these CASE tools is so huge that a high level manager cannot look into all the details. He has to get a high level picture of the project, to know where the project is heading, and if needed, then look into the finer level details by drilling down to locate and correct problems. The objective of this thesis is to build an Advanced Charting System (ACS), which would act as a companion to PAMPA 2 (Project Attribute Monitoring and Prediction Associate) and help a manager visualize the state of a software project over a standard World Wide Web browser. The PAMPA 2 ACS will be responsible for visualizing and tracking of resources, tasks, schedules and milestones of a software project described in the plan. PAMPA 2 ACS will have the ability to depict the status of the project through a variety of graphs and charts. PAMPA 2 ACS implements a novel charting technique called as DOT Chart to track the processes and activities of a software project. PAMPA 2 ACS provides a multilevel view of the project status. PAMPA 2 ACS will be able to track any arbitrary plan starting from a collapsed / concise view of a whole project. This can be further drilled down to the lowest level of detail. The status can be viewed at the project version level, plan and workbreakdown levels, process, sub process, and activity level. Among all the process models, the DOT charts can be applied effectively to spiral process model where each spiral represents a project version.
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Lucas, Dustin. "Charting Memory and Mapping Reality." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1560966.
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Charting Memory, Bob Evans Snapshot, and Mapping Reality began as a personal quest that evolved into an exploration of the relationship of time and space, through the photographic lens, and the relationship they have to memory.
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Kelly, Bryan. "USING EXCEL MACROS FOR CHARTING." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604487.
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ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaThis paper introduces a set of macros that automate the importing of antenna data into Excel and charting that data. These macros (as discussed here) import data from a ViaSat ACUs (Antenna Control Unit) and a TCS ACU (Telemetry & Communications Systems Inc). After the import is complete, the macros can build a set of charts, all formatted and labeled in a predetermined and standard manner. A task that may take half a day or more can be completed in minutes. The concept and layout of the macros lend them to quick adaptation to your data. In scenarios of “test and collect” followed by “import and chart”, the data can be imported and charted within the minute.
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Cetinyurek, Aysun. "Robust Control Charts." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12607987/index.pdf.
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ROBUST CONTROL CHARTS
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Co-Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Birdal Senoglu December 2006, 82 pages Control charts are one of the most commonly used tools in statistical process control. A prominent feature of the statistical process control is the Shewhart control chart that depends on the assumption of normality. However, violations of underlying normality assumption are common in practice. For this reason, control charts for symmetric distributions for both long- and short-tailed distributions are constructed by using least squares estimators and the robust estimators -modified maximum likelihood, trim, MAD and wave. In order to evaluate the performance of the charts under the assumed distribution and investigate robustness properties, the probability of plotting outside the control limits is calculated via Monte Carlo simulation technique.
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Westerhoff, Frank H. "Chartists, fundamentalists, and exchange rate fluctuations /." Aachen : Shaker, 2002. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=010261952&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Westerhoff, Frank. "Chartists, fundamentalists, and exchange rate fluctuations /." Aachen : Shaker, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/355764563.pdf.
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Ramachandran, Girish 1963. "After architecture : charting a new course." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69392.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-107).
The thesis is a synthesis of technology, art, science, computation and philosophy in charting a new course for architecture. It attempts to address the questions: Can architecture model natural phenomena's or nonlinear processes? Can we have a theory for the generation of architectural forms? The site becomes an impetus for wider search which parallels emerging scientific & nonlinear paradigms, resulting in a nonlinear thesis the final product of which is not inevitable. The site becomes the model of thinking and testing. The thesis addresses the importance for architecture to recognize the convergence of two most powerful disciplines i.e. Biology and Information technology, that would have a major impact on humanity and bio-sphere in the next millennium. It is an attempt to find new forms of inspiration from nature, to find a theory of generation of forms at a period when as a result of the technological advancements in genetic engineering, biotechnology, computation, information technology and molecular engineering (nanotechnology), the relationship between man and nature is getting blurred. Ideas and concepts of artificial life, genetics and biological analogies are proving to be very valuable in the advancement of computational techniques (genetic algorithms, genetic programs) and material sciences (bio-materials, nano-technology, memory shaped alloys). This thesis explores the potentiality for architecture to engage and embrace the emerging paradigms shifts in science and interpret them architecturally and to find ways in which architecture could interface at this convergence of Biology and Information technology. This challenge demands creative exploration at the levels of architectural theory, design strategy or concepts, methods and realization. The final product is a process that is based on biological analogies and genetics, coupled with emerging computational techniques of genetic programming as a generating force for architecture. The primary inspiration comes from the fundamental basis of genetics and evolution and the information systems of nature. A prototype system built as part of this thesis integrates evolution, both as a metaphor and an active generative modeling tool, with the interpretive aspects of the design process. The architect is firmly in control but the evolution module aids him or her by providing the unexpected 3-D spatial and volumetric configurations which would be impossible to conceive otherwise and suggesting novel combinations or adaptations of forms currently under consideration.
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Schwab, Ulrike. "The poetry of the Chartist movement : a literary and historical study /." Dordrecht : Kluwer academic publ, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35575211s.
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Griffin, George H. "Computerized Flow Process Charting System and Applications." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 1987. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/RTD/id/72384.
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University of Central Florida College of Engineering ThesisA computerized flow process charting application program of dBase III+ has been developed to aid in resource requirements planning and operations analysis. Traditional flow process charting has used as the following data elements: assembly number, assembly sequence number, distance travelled, time required for the activity and an activity symbol. The computerized system adds several variables to these in order to customize the application at Martin Marietta Electronic Systems. These additional variables include work center identification, machine number identification, lot sizes, set up and run times and manufacturing specifications. Additionally, the circle or operations symbol has been expanded to differentiate between manual, process and test activities. Resources requirements planning and analysis is accomplished by a series of reports where a user defines search requirements and enters three independent equation variables for the calculations. The three variables are realization factor or safety factor, resource availability in hours per month and monthly production demand. The resource requirements can be used in methods engineering, make-buy decisions and resource planning. Sensitivity analyses can be easily accomplished by changing the input variables and/or data.
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Sutherland, Ellen Marie. "Characterization of chartins, cytoplasmic microtubule associated proteins." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17217.
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Shu, Lianjie. "Cause-selecting charting techniques in multistage processes /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2002. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?IEEM%202002%20SHU.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2002.Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-136). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.
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Faleatua, Andrew Keleva. "Composing Identities: Charting Negotiations of Collaborative Composition." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21625.
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Polynesian artists who fuse popular music with traditional Polynesian musical elements have been celebrated by a range of scholars for establishing transcultural alliances and expanding the scope of Polynesian cultural expression. Yet a predominant focus in this discourse on the political and social resonance of fixed recordings and public performances has left relatively unexplored negotiations of cultural expectation and musical vision that occur during the formation/design period of these works. In this thesis I undertake a real-time investigation into the collaborative development of three sets of musical works that fuse popular and traditional musical genres in order to reveal the multiple mindsets and philosophical stances Polynesian musicians slip into and out of as a matter of course during the negotiation of transcultural music. I begin by illuminating the range of sonic positions contemporary Polynesian artists have staked out across a large body of recorded material and then document the collaborative development of my own composition portfolio in which I have threaded the melodic and harmonic language of contemporary jazz and pop through a series of traditional Polynesian rhythmic frameworks. Analysis of the development of these works reveals a constantly shifting hierarchy of concerns amongst participants related to cultural authenticity, audience expectations, musical reach, and aesthetic taste. Such findings reveal that artists assume multiple and at times conflicting ideological and aesthetic positions as they forge transcultural musical works, and foregrounds the importance of examining what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ as we seek to better understand what transcultural Polynesian music means to those who make it.
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Maganza, Filippo <1996>. "Multi-aspect NPC control charts: A new class of Shewhart-type control charts." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20719.
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In the last decades, control charts have proven to be an effective tool to improve the quality of production processes. In recent years, as the Industry 4.0 revolution is progressing, also the interest in Statistical Process Control (SPC) and control charts is growing.
Distribution-free control charts are an interesting family of control charts that has recently been receiving increasing attention from both industry and science. The defining characteristic of distribution-free control charts is that their in-control performances are not affected by the underlying process distribution, so no knowledge regarding the process distribution is required for their practical implementation. This feature makes distribution-free control particularly useful in the early stages of the SPC monitoring phase.
Several Shewhart-type distribution-free control charts for different kinds of monitoring problems have been proposed in the last two decades. The majority of these charts are based on linear rank statistics. In this thesis, we explore a new scheme for devising distribution-free control charts which is based on the Nonparametric Combination of Dependent Tests framework (NPC), borrowed from hypothesis testing and permutation testing theory. The NPC combination idea is very flexible and has already been used for designing multivariate control charts. In this work, we analyze the application of NPC to combine several tests in order to address different aspects of the problem or viewpoints of the data. Studying these multi-aspect NPC charts, we have discovered that combining only linear rank tests leads to a distribution-free NPC chart, whereas combining at least one non linear rank test may lead to a non distribution-free NPC chart.
From a practical perspective, we also propose and evaluate several distribution-free multi-aspect NPC charts for the univariate location and joint location-scale monitoring problems in the standards unknown case. To provide calibration and evaluation routines for multi-aspect NPC charts, a high-performance R package has been developed. Using the implemented algorithms a simulation study has been conducted to compare the proposed charts with the competitors. One of the most interesting results has been obtained with the NPC Wilcoxon-Klotz chart for the location-scale problem. This chart takes full advantage of the flexibility of the NPC framework and has really good performance under a wide variety of interesting distributions.
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Nedelec, Gaëlle. "Les chartes de déontologie des entreprises." Amiens, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AMIE0054.
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Kuo, Tsuang-Yih. "Control charts interpretation system - A protype expert system for patterns recognition on control charts." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1182440541.
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Wang, Kaibo. "Adaptive charting techniques for multivariate and dynamic processes /." View abstract or full-text, 2006. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?IEEM%202006%20WANG.
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Thompson, Katherine M. "Charting a course towards self-managed leadership development." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59487.pdf.
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Macagno, Thomas R. "Charting the transition to sustainable business : an investigation." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435977.
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Hamey, Fiona Kathryn. "Charting the single-cell transcriptional landscape of haematopoiesis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287930.
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High turnover in the haematopoietic system is sustained by stem and progenitor cells, which divide and mature to produce the range of cell types present in the blood. This complex system has long served as a model of differentiation in adult stem cell systems and its study has important clinical relevance. Maintaining a healthy blood system requires regulation of haematopoietic cell fate decisions, with severe dysregulation of these fate choices observed in diseases such as leukaemia. As transcriptional regulation is known to play a role in this regulation, the gene expression of many haematopoietic progenitors has been measured. However, many of the classic populations are actually extremely heterogeneous in both expression and function, highlighting the need for characterising the haematopoietic progenitor compartment at the level of individual cells. The first aim of this work was to chart the single-cell transcriptional landscape of the haematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) compartment. To build a comprehensive map of this landscape, 1,654 HSPCs from mouse bone marrow were profiled using single-cell RNA-sequencing. Analysis of these data generated a useful resource, and reconstructed changes in gene expression, cell cycle and RNA content along differentiation trajectories to three blood lineages. To investigate how single-cell gene expression can be used to learn about regulatory relationships, data measuring the expression of 41 genes (including 31 transcription factors) in 2,167 stem and progenitor cells were used to construct Boolean gene regulatory network models describing the regulation of differentiation from stem cells to two different progenitor populations. The inferred relationships revealed positive regulation of Nfe2 and Cbfa2t3h by Gata2 that was unique to differentiation towards megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitors, which was subsequently experimentally validated. The next study focused on investigating the link between transcriptional and functional heterogeneity within blood progenitor populations. Single-cell profiles of human cord blood progenitors revealed a continuum of lympho-myeloid gene expression. Culture assays performed to assess the functional output of single cells found both unilineage and bilineage output and, by investigating the link between surface marker expression and function, a new sorting strategy was devised that was able to enrich for function within conventional lympho-myeloid progenitor sorting gates. The final project aimed to study changes to the HSPC compartment in a perturbed state. A droplet-based single-cell RNA-sequencing dataset of 44,802 cells was analysed to identify entry points to eight blood lineages and to characterise gene expression changes in this transcriptional landscape. Mapping single-cell data from W41/W41 Kit mutant mice highlighted quantitative shifts in progenitor populations such as a reduction in mast cell progenitors and an increase towards more mature progenitors along the erythroid trajectory. Differential gene expression identified upregulation of stress response and a reduction of apoptosis during erythropoiesis as potential compensatory mechanisms in the Kit mutant progenitors. Together this body of work characterises the HSPC compartment at single-cell level and provides methods for how single-cell data can be used to discover regulatory relationships, link expression heterogeneity to function, and investigate changes in the transcriptional landscape in a perturbed environment.
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Metts, Charles Rodney. "Charting the margins: subversive practices in popular forms /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487849377294712.
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Chen, Chien-An. "Formalisation of Message Sequence Charts." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491890.
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Interaction scenarios are commonly used in capturing and modelling system requirements of distributed, reactive systems. Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) . are a description technique for such scenarios. MSCs graphically describe interaction scenarios in terms of message exchange between components. Being a graphical notation, formalisation of the language is important for a unified interpretation of MSC diagrams. In this thesis, we study formalisation of MSCs. There are three main categories for the formalisation, i.e. process-based, state-based and partial ordering semantics. Each approach is demonstrated via a specific topic that has not previously been fully addressed. Through each topic, the features of these approaches can be noted. Each semantic style has its own value, and different styles can be useful in different application domains. Firstly, we propose a process calculus theory for the semantics of MSCs where data parameters are attached to messages. This work demonstrates the processbased semantics. The proposed semantics maintains the expressiveness of the standard MSC semantics while incorporating the feature of value-passing in terms of a uniform framework. In addition, the equivalence between MSCs is defined. In the second part, we focus on a design anomaly, called race conditions, to demonstrate the partial ordering semantics. We identify a weakness in the current solution and propose an alternative one. Our approach enables designers to construct a unique race-free scenario. In addition, the limitation of the solution is discovered. Moreover, we propose an algorithm to find a race-free MSC which remains race-free even if implementation is under consideration. Finally, we propose a systematic approach to translating MSC specifications into B specifications to demonstrate the state-based semantics. The bridge linking MSCs and B machines is an automaton language. This transformation contributes to the popular topic of synthesising behavioural models from scenario specifications. In this thesis, we propose a synthesis procedure to derive a UML statechart from MSCs. We then translate the resulting statechart into B machines to accomplish the whole transformation task. Supplied by The British Library - 'The world's knowledge'
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de, Silva James Ranil. "Capability charts for power systems." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Electrical Engineering, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6167.
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This thesis extends the concept of the traditional synchronous generator capability chart to describe the steady state performance of transmission lines, HVDC links, and entire AC/DC power systems.
Each capability chart depicts an operating region on the complex power plane that represents the real and reactive power that may be supplied to a load from a particular busbar. The boundaries of the operating region are defined by a web of contours that represent the critical operating constraints of the system.
The charts for small systems can be constructed by manipulating the operating equations into a form suitable for drawing loci on the complex power plane. This technique is used in this thesis to construct charts for generators, transmission lines, and HVDC links.
The operating equations of large systems are not easily manipulated, so a different approach is used to construct charts for large systems. This approach involves iterative powerflows and contour plotting to avoid the formulation of explicit closed form locus equations.
Two algorithms for drawing the capability charts of large AC power systems are described. The first algorithm uses a contour tracing technique to plot the constraint loci. The knowledge gained from the use of this algorithm was then used to design the second, faster algorithm that uses a region growing technique to help plot the constraint loci.
Capability charts for large AC/DC systems are also discussed. The operating constraints of the AC/DC converters require special treatment due to discontinuities in the converter operating equations. An offshoot of the work on AC/DC charts is the development of an improved sequential AC/DC powerflow algorithm.
A practical example of the use of the capability charting algorithms is given by drawing charts for a proposed second New Zealand HVDC link.
The capability charting algorithms will make suitable additions to existing power system interactive graphics programs. On-line displays of capability charts in system control centres could also provide useful information to human dispatchers.
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CESAR, FLAVIA DE LIMA. "ADAPTIVE CONTROL CHARTS FOR ATTRIBUTES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2000. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=1747@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORÉ importante investigar formas de aumentar a eficiência de gráficos de controle estatístico de processos por atributos, porque o controle por atributos tipicamente exige tamanhos de amostra muito grandes para se obter um tempo rápido de sinalização de desvios no processo, e estes tamanhos de amostra podem ser altamente indesejáveis ou mesmo inviáveis em diversas situações práticas. Os esquemas adaptativos, que consistem em variar um ou mais dos parâmetros do gráfico de controle (tamanho de amostra, intervalo de tempo entre amostras e abertura dos limites de controle) de acordo com a informação precedente fornecida pelo gráfico (isto é, de acordo com a posição do último ponto registrado), proporcionam, para a detecção de desvios pequenos a moderados no processo, uma melhor eficiência que os esquemas tradicionais, de parâmetros fixos. Enquanto que esquemas adaptativos têm sido propostos para gráficos de controle por variáveis, para gráficos por atributos - apesar da necessidade e oportunidade acima mencionada de investigar formas de aumentar a eficiência de gráficos de controle estatístico de processos por atributos - há uma lacuna na literatura, a ser preenchida. Esta é a motivação do presente trabalho, que propõe um esquema adaptativo para gráficos decontrole por atributos, aplicável tanto a gráficos de np como de c, variando todos os parâmetros do gráfico. Desenvolve-se o modelo matemático para cálculo das medidas de desempenho; este modelo foi implementado em uma planilha eletrônica, o que permitiu analisar quantitativamente o desempenho do esquema em uma larga gama de casos, comparando-o ainda com o desempenho de gráficos tradicionais (com parâmetros fixos), e com o de outros esquemas adaptativos, com menor número de parâmetros variando. O esquema proposto mostrou-se sensivelmente mais eficiente na maioria das situações de interesse, respondendo portanto à necessidade, que motivou o trabalho, de buscar formas de aumentar a eficiência de gráficos por atributos. Resultados adicionais do trabalho são: a identificação das situações em que cada esquema é mais eficiente (ou do esquema mais eficiente em cada situação) e conjuntos de valores recomendados para os parâmetros dos gráficos em cada situação. Estes resultados facilitam a operacionalização da ferramenta para uso na prática.
It is important to investigate ways to improve the efficiency of the statistical control charts for attributes, because the controls for attributes typically require very large sample sizes for quick detection of changes in the process, and these sample sizes can be extremely undesirable or eventually unfeasible in many practical situations. The adaptive schemes, which vary one or more parameters of the control charts (sample size, sampling interval and control limit width) according to the most recent information about the process (the position of the last sample point in the chart), were proven to be more efficient than the traditional (fixed parameters) scheme in detecting small to moderate changes in the process. Although there is a large volume of work on adaptive schemes applied to variables control charts, there is a lack of adaptive schemes for control charts for attributes in the literature, despite the already mentioned need and opportunity of investigating ways to improve the efficiency of the statistical control charts for attributes. This is the motivation of this work. A fully adaptive scheme is proposed for both np and charts. The mathematical model is developed for the measures of performance; this model was implemented in a spreadsheet, and used for the quantitative evaluation of the scheme efficiency, and comparison with the fixed-parameter (traditional) scheme and also with other adaptive schemes, with only one or two parameters variable. The proposed scheme proved to be significantly more efficient in the majority of the situations of interest, answering the necessity of finding ways to improve the efficiency of control charts for attributes. Additional results of this work are: the identification of the situations in which each of the schemes here analyzed is the most efficient (or, the other way around: indication of the most efficient scheme for each situation), and a set of recommended values for the design parameters for each scheme, in each situation. These results are meant to make easier the adoption of the scheme in practice, increasing thereby its usefulness.
El desarrollo de técnicas que aumenten la eficiencia de gráficos de control estadístico de procesos por atributos tiene gran importancia porque el control por atributos típicamente exige tamaños de muestra muy grandes para obtener un tiempo rápido de señalización de desvíos en el proceso. En diversas situaciones prácticas estos tamaños de muestra pueden ser altamente indeseables o incluso inviables. Los esquemas adaptativos, que consisten en variar uno o más parámetros del gráfico de control (tamaño de muestra, intervalo de tiempo entre muestras y abertura de los límites de control) de acuerdo con la información precedente ofrecida por el gráfico (esto es, de acuerdo con la posición del último punto registrado), proporcionan, para la detección de desvíos pequeños a moderados, una mayor eficiencia que los esquemas tradicionales, de parámetros fijos. Mientras que los esquemas adaptativos han sido propuestos para gráficos de control por variables, para gráficos por atributos - a pesar de la necesidad y oportunidad mencionada de investigar formas de aumentar la eficiencia de gráficos de control estadístico de procesos por atributos - no existen muchas referencias en la literatura. Esta es la motivación del presente trabajo, que propone un esquema adaptativo para gráficos de control por atributos, aplicable tanto a gráficos de np como de c, variando todos los parámetros del gráfico. Se desarrolla el modelo matemático para el cálculo de las medidas de desempeño; este modelo fue implementado en una planilla electrónica, que permitió analizar cuantitativamente el desempeño del esquema en una amplia gama de casos, comparando con el desempeño de gráficos tradicionales (con parámetros fijos), y con el de otros esquemas adaptativos, con menor número de parámetros variando. El esquema propuesto se mostró sensiblemente más eficiente en la mayoría de las situaciones de interés que motivaron el trabajo. Resultados adicionales del trabajo son: la identificación de las situaciones en que cada esquema es más eficiente (o del esquema más eficiente en cada situación) y conjuntos de valores recomendados para los parámetros de los gráficos en cada situación. Estos resultados facilitan la operacionalización de la ferramenta para uso en la práctica.
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Alfarag, Fadhil. "On some multivariate control charts." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6800/.
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To maintain the quality of a product or to improve the reliability of a process, all industries need to monitor several parameters about their production process. Control charts are some visualization tools for monitoring processes statistically. In this work, we propose a few control charting schemes to monitor several characteristics of a process at the same time and to detect when it goes out of control. Our objective is to reduce the false alarms (the scheme detects a problem when actually there is none) as well as to quickly detect the correct out-of-control situation. The novelty of the proposed schemes are that they do not depend on commonly assumed Normal distribution of the process variables and is applicable for a much wider range of data distributions. At first, we make a detailed literature review of some univariate and multivariate control charts. We perform a comparison study of the commonly used multivariate control charts when the underlying distribution is not normal and show that they perform poorly giving a very high false alarm rate. Next we propose some nonparametric multivariate control charts based on the lengths of the multivariate rank vectors. The ideas are similar to the ones proposed by Liu (1995), however, we show that our proposed methods are computationally simpler in any dimension. We propose some more multivariate versions of Shewhert type, CUSUM and EWMA control charts based on spatial sign vectors and signed rank vectors. We also discuss several design parameters in the construction of these charts. None of the proposed charts depend on the assumption of underlying distribution or estimation of distributional parameters.
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Wilson, Sara R. "Control Charts with Missing Observations." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37623.
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Traditional control charts for process monitoring are based on taking samples from the process at regular time intervals. However, it is often possible in practice for observations, and even entire samples, to be missing. This dissertation investigates missing observations in Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) and Multivariate EWMA (MEWMA) control charts. The standardized sample mean is used since this adjusts the sample mean for the fact that part of the sample may be missing. It also allows for constant control limits even though the sample size varies randomly. When complete samples are missing, the weights between samples should also be adjusted.
In the univariate case, three approaches for adjusting the weights of the EWMA control statistic are investigated: (1) ignoring missing samples; (2) adding the weights from previous consecutive missing samples to the current sample; and (3) increasing the weights of non-missing samples in proportion, so that the weights sum to one. Integral equation and Markov chain methods are developed to find and compare the statistical properties of these charts. The EI chart, which adjusts the weights by ignoring the missing samples, has the best overall performance.
The multivariate case in which information on some of the variables is missing is also examined using MEWMA charts. Two methods for adjusting the weights of the MEWMA control statistic are investigated and compared using simulation: (1) ignoring all the data at a sampling point if the data for at least one variable is missing; and (2) using the previous EWMA value for any variable for which all the data are missing. Both of these methods are examined when the in-control covariance matrix is adjusted at each sampling point to account for missing observations, and when it is not adjusted. The MS control chart, which uses the previous value of the EWMA statistic for a variable if all of the data for that variable is missing at a sampling point, provides the best overall performance. The in-control covariance matrix needs to be adjusted at each sampling point, unless the variables are independent or only weakly correlated.Ph. D.
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Amin, Raid Widad. "Variable sampling interval control charts." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82617.
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Process control charts are widely used to display sample data from a process for purposes of determining whether a process is in control, for bringing an out-of-control process into control, and for monitoring a process to make sure that it stays in control. The usual practice in maintaining a control chart is to take samples from the process at fixed length sampling intervals. This research investigates the modification of the standard practice where the sampling interval or time between samples is not fixed but can vary depending on what is observed from the data. Variable sampling interval process control procedures are considered for monitoring the outcome of a production process. The time until the next sample depends on what is being observed in the current sample. Sampling is less frequent when the process is at a high level of quality and vise versa. Properties such as the average number of samples until signal, average time to signal and the variance of the time to signal are developed for the variable sampling interval Shewhart and cusum charts. A Markov chain is utilized to approximate the average time to signal and the corresponding variance for the cusum charts. Properties of the variable sampling interval Shewhart chart are investigated through Renewal Theory and Markov chain approaches for the cases of a sudden and gradual shift in the process mean respectively. Also considered is the case of a shift occurring in the time between two samples without the simplifying assumption that the process mean remains the same from time zero onward. For such a case, the adjusted time to signal is developed for both the Shewhart and cusum charts in addition to the variance of the adjusted time to signal.
Results show that the variable sampling interval control charts are considerably more efficient than the corresponding fixed sampling interval control charts. It is preferable to use only two sampling intervals which keeps the complexity of the chart to a reasonable level and has practical implications. This feature should make such charts very appealing for use in industry and other fields of application where control charts are used.Ph. D.