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Dakhi, Saniago, and Horas Hutabarat. "LANGUAGE EFFECTIVENESS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING SCIENTIFIC WRITING OF INDONESIAN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS." English Review: Journal of English Education 7, no. 1 (December 9, 2018): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/erjee.v7i1.1496.
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The linguistic feature distinction between written and spoken discourse, like scientific writing, narrative text, discussion text, oral speech, etc. has been a longstanding discussion among scholars. However, there is limited number of studies on Indonesian undergraduate thesis context. This article reports the language effectiveness, i.e. lexical density and grammatical complexity of undergraduate thesis using the Flesch�s Analysis of the Readability of Adult Reading Materials (1974) and the determinant factors influencing them. This descriptive study, applying online system application, was conducted in an Indonesian pseudonym university. Forty-two undergraduate theses were used as data source of lexical density and grammatical complexity, and four English lecturers participated on interview. Results showed that the average lexical density ratio was 42.14 and the grammatical complexity was 14.54. On the other hand, the determinant factors of academic writing holistically encompass; (1) psychological factors including identity awareness, motivation, and conceptual competency, (2) sociocultural factor covering personal experience, and (3) linguistic factors, namely linguistic awareness and application, and mechanical competency. To sum up, three important conclusions are drawn. Firstly, there is no exactly the same lexical density and grammatical complexity across chapters of the undergraduate theses. Secondly, the undergraduate theses are lexically acceptable, but grammatically are not as they are interpreted as American students� slick fiction product. Finally, variables affecting academic writing are not only linguistic factors, but also psychological and sociocultural ones.Keywords: lexical density; grammatical complexity; undergraduate thesis; Indonesian context; academic writing; language effectiveness.
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SCHMIDT, JAN CORNELIUS. "FROM SYMMETRY TO COMPLEXITY: ON INSTABILITIES AND THE UNITY IN DIVERSITY IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE." International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 18, no. 04 (April 2008): 897–910. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218127408020768.
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Throughout this paper I will argue that dynamical and structural instabilities are the sources of complexity and pattern formation. The argument can be accomplished by defending two theses. First, a demarcation thesis: two different approaches are predominant in mathematical sciences today — the symmetry-approach and the complexity-approach. Second, a synthesis thesis: although the two approaches differ, they can be connected and, further, to some degree integrated: instabilities are core concepts connecting the two approaches. However, in a specific sense we can say: evolution leads from symmetry to complexity by transitions across borders of instabilities. This paper will provide further arguments in favor of a structural unity in phenomenological diversity [Mainzer, 2005].
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Carbonell-Olivares, María, Luz Gil-Salom, and Carmen Soler-Monreal. "The schematic structure of Spanish PhD thesis introductions." Spanish in Context 6, no. 2 (September 9, 2009): 151–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.6.2.01car.
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Since the 1990s written academic genres have received considerable attention in discourse and rhetorical studies, especially texts written in English. Although few studies describe PhD theses as a genre, some work has been carried out on their macrostructure and the rhetorical moves of certain sections. In the Spanish literature, genre studies on academic writing are scarce relative to those in English, especially in the case of doctoral theses. We analyse the introductions of 21 doctoral theses in computing written in Spanish using Bunton’s model (2002) for thesis introductions in English. The results indicate that most of the steps in this model are applicable to our corpus, but several new steps and sub-steps have been distinguished to account for the observed moves of Spanish PhD thesis introductions. The complexity of the thesis introduction is related to the scope and depth of the research carried out for a doctoral thesis, the need to display extensive knowledge of the field and to justify the relevance of the research.
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Neander, Karen. "The Function of Cognition: Godfrey-Smith's Environmental Complexity Thesis." Biology & Philosophy 12, no. 4 (October 1997): 567–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1006524203891.
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Calude, Cristian S., Elena Calude, and Karl Svozil. "The complexity of proving chaoticity and the Church–Turing thesis." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 20, no. 3 (September 2010): 037103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3489096.
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Keijzer, Fred, and Argyris Arnellos. "The animal sensorimotor organization: a challenge for the environmental complexity thesis." Biology & Philosophy 32, no. 3 (February 16, 2017): 421–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-017-9565-3.
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Lightman, Bernard. "Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 73, no. 2 (June 2021): 115–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.56315/pscf6-21lightman.
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RETHINKING HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle by Bernard Lightman, ed. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. ix-307 pages, with notes, selected bibliography, and index. Hardcover; $50.00. ISBN: 9780822945741. *First some background to the making of Rethinking History, Science, and Religion. This edited collection by Bernard Lightman, Professor of Humanities at York University, Toronto, Canada, and past president of the History of Science Society, is the product of a two-day symposium on "Science and Religion: Exploring the Complexity Thesis," during the International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Rio de Janeiro in 2017. One can consider this to be a companion volume to The Warfare between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die, edited by Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Numbers, and Ronald A. Binzley (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).1 *In one way, Rethinking History, Science, and Religion is a focused and daring work. It asks a fundamental question directed at much of contemporary historiography in the field of science-religion relations: if science and religion are not perpetually in conflict, as ever so many historians have claimed over the past fifty years, is complexity a better, if not the best, way to recount the relationship between science and religion? Complexity is the solution first proposed by John H. Brooke in his now classic 1991 text, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press).2 In fact, Lightman dedicates his edited book to John H. Brooke, the leading proponent of complexity. *But what does the "complexity thesis" add to our discussion? Is it really a thesis? Is it a principle? Does it explain or does it rather describe the situatedness and contingency of the science-religion relationship, its cartography, as David Livingstone might say? Is its sole positive feature to discourage us from making facile assumptions about the relationship between science and religion? Or does it simply add another c-word to our vocabulary: complexity instead of contrast, concordance, compatibility, conflict, conversion, complementarity (or harmony)? Brooke has famously said, "There is no such thing as the relationship between science and religion. It is what different individuals and communities have made of it in a plethora of different contexts" (p. 321, italics original, Science and Religion). That statement certainly invites one to consider a complexity thesis. *Although the role of complexity has been a conversation topic for several years,3 Lightman wants to gauge the current "pulse of the field." He wishes contributors to test the "complexity principle" in scholarly contexts other than the usual Christian West (often seen as Europe and the USA/Canada), as well as in public spaces. This move invites an additional question: will the complexity thesis be able to provide a coherent narrative, or will it merely give us one contextualized example after another with no perceptible trend to bind them together? If there are many complex stories to tell, then it seems that a master-narrative or pattern would be a pipedream at best. *After an introduction by Bernard Lightman, the book is divided into three sections: Part I: The Local and the Global; Part II: The Media and the Public; and Part III: Historiographies and Theories. The book concludes with "Afterword: The Instantiation of Historical Complexity," written by John Hedley Brooke. *Part I contains four chapters ranging from a local context (chap. 1, "The Stigmata of Ancestry: Reinvigorating the Conflict Thesis in the American 1970s," by Erika Lorraine Milam), to more global ones (chap. 2, "Three Centuries of Scientific Culture and Catholicism in Argentina: A Case Study of Long-Term Trends," by Miguel de Asúa; chap. 3, "Reexamining Complexity: Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Interpretation of 'Science' in Islam," by Sarah A. Qidwai; and chap. 4, "Christian Missionaries, Science, and the Complexity Thesis in the Nineteenth-Century World," by John Stenhouse). *Each of these chapters addresses the complexity thesis with a different focus. Erika Milam argues that the supposed conflicts between science and religion "gained rhetorical traction" by both scientific creationists and die-hard evolutionists because they both denied the complexity of their own origins. Irven DeVore's studies of primate behavior is used as a template to test that thesis. Miguel de Asúa identifies three trends in Argentinean scientific culture: (1) colonial period harmony, (2) nineteenth-century conflict, and (3) twentieth-century indifference. Sarah A. Qidwai calls us to carefully consider the interpretation of science in Islam rather than by Islam in the 1865 self-published commentary by Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). John Stenhouse examines whether Ronald Numbers's suggestion that we introduce some mid-scale patterns (or generalizations) such as "naturalization, privatization, secularization, globalization and radicalization," aids us in understanding the complexity of science/religion relationships in the nineteenth century. Stenhouse concludes that a study of missionary science outside the West complicates Numbers's attempt to "simplify complexity," and does not do justice to missionary practices well into the twentieth century. *Part II contains five chapters examining the role of the media and public response to science/religion discussions and events: chap. 5, "Creating a New Space for Debate: The Monthlies, Science, and Religion," by Bernard Lightman; chap. 6, "Darwin's Publisher: John Murray III at the Intersection of Science and Religion," by Sylvia Nickerson; chap. 7, "The 'Harmony Thesis' in the Turkish Media, 1950-1970," by M. Alper Yalçinkaya; chap. 8, "A Humanist Blockbuster: Jacob Bronowski and the Ascent of Man," by Alexander Hall; and chap. 9, "Teaching Warfare: Conflict and Complexity in Contemporary University Textbooks," by Thomas H. Aechtner. *In summary, these chapters illustrate how insights from the study of print culture, communications studies, and visual studies have broadened our more "familiar grooves" of explanation and deepened our understanding of science and religion. *Part III is to my mind the most stimulating section, one in which some of the leading historians of science and religion present (their) historiographies and theories. It contains four chapters: chap. 10, "Revisiting the Battlefields of Science and Religion: The Warfare Thesis Today," by Ronald Numbers; chap. 11, "From Copernicus to Darwin to You: History and the Meaning(s) of Evolution," by Ian Hesketh; chap. 12, "Scale, Territory, and Complexity: Historical Geographies of Science and Religion," by Diarmid A. Finnegan; and chap. 13, "Conflict, Complexity, and Secularization in the History of Science and Religion," by Peter Harrison.4 *Focusing on two of the chapters: In a relatively short chapter (a "brisk survey" of eight pages), Numbers explores the factors that contribute to the continued support of the warfare thesis and the "growth of the opposing neo-harmonist point of view" (p. 183). Contemporaries such as Carl Sagan, Francis Crick, Stephen Hawking, William Provine, the New Atheists, and Christian and Muslim fundamentalists such as Ken Ham and Adnan Oktar are considered. Numbers chides scholars who legitimately question the warfare thesis but often do not address popular audiences. *Peter Harrison argues that we need to make complexity intelligible. Although historians are often averse to meta-narratives, he considers them to be both "unavoidable and indispensable." Harrison defends the utility of a master-narrative, at least something that rises above mid-scale patterns (such as those suggested by Ronald Numbers). He appeals to Charles Taylor's view of secularization as one way to begin to address the relation between science and religion. Taylor, for instance, distinguishes between science as cause of religious disbelief and science as a retrospective justification for it. Secularization involves a change in the conditions of belief which Taylor contributes to transformations within Western Christianity.5 *In "Afterword: The Instantiations of Historical Complexity," John Hedley Brooke reflects on each of the contributed chapters. He provides a concise judgement about complexity: "Understood neither as a thesis competing with other theses nor as a prescription to seek out complexity for its own sake, but as a heuristic guiding principle for a critical research methodology, it ceases to be trivial and has proven fertile" (pp. 239-40). *Brooke once again restates his earlier view on complexity: it is a "corrective to essentialist and reductionist narratives of conflict," and complexity's primary function is to critique conflict narratives as well as facile harmonizing ones. *For anyone interested in exploring the latest in the historiography of science and religion, read this stimulating and informative book. You will be challenged. Whether the contributors do justice to the central role and character of religion one will have to judge. I for one have my doubts. If we consider our lives as lived to be religion, then religion is not irrelevant to, or in conflict with, or an influential factor on, but rather the very ground for scientific practice. *Notes *1See my review in PSCF 71, no. 3 (2019): 183-84. *2See my essay review, "Telling the Story of Science and Religion: A Nuanced Account," British Journal for the History of Science 29, no. 3 (1996): 357-59. *3See Part 2, "Complexity and the History of Science and Religion," in Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion, ed. Donald A. Yerxa (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009). *4Peter Harrison's book The Territories of Science and Religion (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015) has been described by Ronald L. Numbers as "the most significant contribution to the history of science and religion since the appearance of John Hedley Brooke's landmark study, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives." [See Matthew Walhout's review in PSCF 67, no. 4 (2015): 281-84.] *5For a more extensive discussion of "science causes secularization," see Peter Harrison's article "Science and Secularization," Intellectual History Review 27, no. 1 (2017): 47-70. *Reviewed by Arie Leegwater, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI 49546.
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BEGGS, EDWIN, JOSÉ FÉLIX COSTA, DIOGO POÇAS, and JOHN V. TUCKER. "AN ANALOGUE-DIGITAL CHURCH-TURING THESIS." International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science 25, no. 04 (June 2014): 373–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129054114400012.
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We argue that dynamical systems involving discrete and continuous data can be modelled by Turing machines with oracles that are physical processes. Using the theory introduced in Beggs et al. [2,3], we consider the scope and limits of polynomial time computations by such systems. We propose a general polynomial time Church-Turing Thesis for feasible computations by analogue-digital systems, having the non-uniform complexity class BPP//log* as theoretical upper bound. We show why BPP//log* should be replace P/poly, which was proposed by Siegelmann for neural nets [23,24]. Then we examine whether other sources of hypercomputation can be found in analogue-digital systems besides the oracle itself. We prove that the higher polytime limit P/poly can be attained via non-computable analogue-digital interface protocols.
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Bateman, Tim, and Alexandra Wigzell. "Exploring Recent Trends in Youth Justice Reconvictions: A Challenge to the Complexity Thesis." Youth Justice 20, no. 3 (October 23, 2019): 252–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473225419883707.
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In recent years, it has become accepted wisdom that children subject to youth justice intervention, in England and Wales, are more complex than previously, as a consequence of a substantial rise in diversion from the system that filters out children with lower levels of need and less entrenched offending. This ‘complexity’ thesis has been used to explain rises in rates of reoffending. This article demonstrates that the patterns shown in the reoffending data are not those that would be predicted by the complexity thesis. Indeed the data suggest that some groups of children may be less entrenched in offending than hitherto.
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Ajide, Kazeem Bello. "Is natural resource curse thesis an empirical regularity for economic complexity in Africa?" Resources Policy 76 (June 2022): 102755. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102755.
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GorzeÅ„-Mitka, Iwona. "Perception of Complexity Area in Management–an Exploratory Study in Poland." Information Management and Business Review 7, no. 5 (October 30, 2015): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/imbr.v7i5.1173.
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The purpose of this article is presentation theoretical and empirical analysis about complexity perception in organization. We propose following thesis: "perception of complexity in company is possible by separating complexity levels of particular areas of company activity". Taking into account the general aspect of perception and complexity perception in management to the understanding this concept we use the Cynefin model. We accept the assumption that the recognition complexity levels in selected areas create value in decision making processes. Theoretical considerations are supplemented by results of the study in 157 Polish SMEs. The study was conducted in May 2015.
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Frajzyngier, Zygmunt. "John H. McWhorter. 2011. Linguistic simplicity and complexity: Why do languages undress? Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. 338 pp." Journal of Language Contact 5, no. 2 (2012): 319–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-00502004.
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This review article consists of three parts: a presentation of McWhorter’s book, an evaluation of the book, and a proposal for a systematic metric for one version of the notions of simplicity and complexity in languages. McWhorter’s basic thesis, that creoles have simpler grammars than their lexifier languages and simpler grammars than languages transmitted through acquisition in childhood, must begin with rigorous definitions of the terms ‘simplicity’ and ‘complexity’. The paper proposes a way to measure simplicity and complexity. Whether the notions of simplicity or complexity have a heuristic value remains an open question.
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Wu, Yan Peng, and Shui Qiang Liu. "An Algorithm for Testing Isomorphism of Planer Graph Based on Distant Matrix." Advanced Materials Research 487 (March 2012): 317–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.487.317.
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The testing for graph isomorphism is one of the many problems in the subject of graph theory. This thesis proposes an algorithm for testing isomorphism of planer graph of polynomial time via structuring characteristics of planer graph based on distance matrix. The algorithm, with a time complexity of O (n^4) and a space complexity of O (n^2), has a great application value.
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Hanić, Jasmina, Tanja Pavlović, and Alma Jahić Jašić. "Journey through the writing process: Metaphors of thesis writing experience." ExELL 6, no. 2 (December 1, 2018): 163–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0003.
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Abstract This paper aimed to investigate metaphorical images used by master’s students in order to gain an insight into their schemata for thinking about the process of master’s thesis writing. Semistructured interviews on the topic of master’s thesis writing with three students coming from humanities, social sciences and natural sciences served as a corpus from which the data were extracted. The paper analysed participants’ unconscious use of metaphorical language in their narratives, mirroring their perception of the thesis writing process. The results revealed that the participants’ personal experience revolves around the concept of journey as the central image they share and the journey metaphor, along with a group of related specific metaphors, serves to illustrate the complexity of the writing process itself.
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Meng, Zhao Jian, and Jing Wang. "Simulated Analysis of Impacts of Alteration of Mineral Resource Tax Policies on Economic Growth Based on Input-Output Method." Applied Mechanics and Materials 291-294 (February 2013): 1610–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.291-294.1610.
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The analysis in this thesis carried out to describe the changes of economy based on input-output model can only be regarded as an approximate reflection, considering the complexity, variability and uncertainty of the economical society.
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Willey, Gordon R. "Horizonal Integration and Regional Diversity: An Alternating Process in the Rise of Civilizations." American Antiquity 56, no. 2 (April 1991): 197–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/281415.
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The Precolumbian culture sequences for Mesoamerica and Peru, the two New World areas where native civilizations attained their greatest complexity, show, in each case, an alternation between periods of horizon-style unifications and periods of marked regional stylistic diversity. It is the thesis of the present essay that this alternating process of intense regional interaction broken by periods of lesser interaction is a vital one in the rise to civilizational complexity.
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Fodor, Jerry A., and Ernie Lepore. "The Emptiness of the Lexicon: Reflections on James Pustejovsky's The Generative Lexicon." Linguistic Inquiry 29, no. 2 (April 1998): 269–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438998553743.
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We consider Pustejovsky's account of the semantic lexicon. We discuss and reject his argument that the complexity of lexical entries is required to account for lexical generativity. Finally, we defend a sort of lexical atomism: though, strictly speaking, we concede that lexical entries are typically complex, still we claim that their complexity does not jeopardize either the thesis that lexical meaning is atomistic or the identification of lexical meaning with denotation.
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Parrochia, Daniel. "Algorithmics and the Limits of Complexity." Science in Context 9, no. 1 (1996): 39–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002301.
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The ArgumentDagognet's work shows that making algorithmic compressions seems to be one of the major targets of scientific progress. This effort has been so successful that until recently one might have thought everything could be algorithmically compressed. Indeed, this statement, which might be seen as a scientific translation of the Hegelian thesis in its strong form (“the real is rational and the rational is real”), admits to some objective limits in computer science. Though a lot of algorithms are successful, there exist today, and perhaps forever, logical and physical limits that cannot allow us to cherish the dream of a “theory of everything.” Moreover, a complete mastery of complexity does not seem possible — because some domains of reality are too complicated to be computable, because the human brain is too limited, because computers cannot do that much better than the human brain, and because, ultimately, there are some kinds of things it would make no sense to compress. This paper shows that Dagognet's work came to recognize what a glance at the history of algorithmics has made evident.
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Fadli, Fatmawati. "Analisis Kualitatif Kecemasan Berkomunikasi Mahasiswa Dengan Dosen Pembimbing Dalam Proses Bimbingan Skripsi." JURKAM: Jurnal Konseling Andi Matappa 1, no. 2 (September 16, 2017): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.31100/jurkam.v1i2.8.
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The phenomenon of anxiety experienced by graduate students not only because of the complexity of scientific research process, but also because of worrying to supervisor who guide as well as the methods used by supervisor during thesis guidance. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze students’ communication anxiety with the supervisor in the process of thesis guidance. This research was a study using a qualitative methodology. Data collection techniques used were in-depth interviews and observation. The respondents involved were 2 and recruited through snowball sampling technique. The results found that the respondents experienced anxiety when communicated with the supervisor during the thesis guidance. Anxiety is caused by lack of communication skills and experience, reinforcement, degree of evaluation, subordinate status, and degree of dissimilarity.
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ARRIGHI, PABLO, and GILLES DOWEK. "THE PHYSICAL CHURCH-TURING THESIS AND THE PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM THEORY." International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science 23, no. 05 (August 2012): 1131–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129054112500153.
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As was emphasized by Deutsch, quantum computation shatters complexity theory, but is innocuous to computability theory. Yet Nielsen and others have shown how quantum theory as it stands could breach the physical Church-Turing thesis. We draw a clear line as to when this is the case, in a way that is inspired by Gandy. Gandy formulates postulates about physics, such as homogeneity of space and time, bounded density and velocity of information — and proves that the physical Church-Turing thesis is a consequence of these postulates. We provide a quantum version of the theorem. Thus this approach exhibits a formal non-trivial interplay between theoretical physics symmetries and computability assumptions.
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Sabellek, Leif. "Ontology-Mediated Querying with Horn Description Logics." KI - Künstliche Intelligenz 34, no. 4 (June 21, 2020): 533–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13218-020-00674-7.
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AbstractAn ontology-mediated query (OMQ) consists of a database query paired with an ontology. When evaluated on a database, an OMQ returns not only the answers that are already in the database, but also those answers that can be obtained via logical reasoning using rules from ontology. There are many open questions regarding the complexities of problems related to OMQs. Motivated by the use of ontologies in practice, new reasoning problems which have never been considered in the context of ontologies become relevant, since they can improve the usability of ontology enriched systems. This thesis deals with various reasoning problems that emerge from ontology-mediated querying and it investigates the computational complexity of these problems. We focus on ontologies formulated in Horn description logics, which are a popular choice for ontologies in practice. In particular, the thesis gives results regarding the data complexity of OMQ evaluation by completely classifying complexity and rewritability questions for OMQs based on an EL ontology and a conjunctive query. Furthermore, the query-by-example problem, and the expressibility and verification problem in ontology-based data access are introduced and investigated.
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Zhang, Qi, and Jun Hai Ma. "Analysis on Hopf Bifurcation and Complexity of one Kind Financial System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 48-49 (February 2011): 813–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.48-49.813.
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From a mathematical model of one kind complicated financial system, we make a dynamic analysis on this kind of system on the basis of studies of scholars both at home and abroad. We find characteristics of various dynamic systems driven by different parameters, and study possible Hopf bifurcation as well as the relationship between Hopf bifurcation and the values of parameters. Besides, we make use of algorithm to analyze complexity of the system. The results of numerical simulation prove that the theory used in the thesis is correct. This study is regarded with good theoretical and practical value.
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Sun, Yi Zhen, Xiao Wei Han, and Chang Tong Li. "Handheld Terminal Design Based on Wireless Sensor Internet for Contestants." Applied Mechanics and Materials 433-435 (October 2013): 1478–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.433-435.1478.
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To tackle the problems brought by the wired terminal multiplying and complexity of the wireless terminal cluster, the thesis designed handheld terminal design based on the wireless sensor Internet for contestants. It solves problems such as complex cluster and bad communication performance of the terminals in traditional contests with the help of zigbee technology. Besides the common function, it possesses extra functions, such as voice prompting, judge scoring and audience voting. The thesis mainly deals with the hardware and software design. The test result shows such design can better meet the needs of sorts of contests with the advantages of automatic networking, multiple function and stable performance, etc.
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Cirkovic, Milan. "Simplicity out of complexity? On physical eschatology and abiogenesis." Theoria, Beograd 64, no. 3 (2021): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo2103005c.
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Standard reductionist narrative about the necessity of complex systems arising from simple subsystems can be undermined from multiple directions. Here, I shall suggest an unexpected way of such undermining which occurs upon joining our best understanding of the future evolution of the universe (as outlined by physical eschatology) with the continuity thesis which plays the key role in studies of the origin of life (abiogenesis). Many aspects of evolution - including physical, chemical, and astrobiological evolution - would look quite different from what we empirically find around us at the present epoch if the history of the universe within our cosmological horizon were to be observed from a timeless ?Archimedean? point. Avoiding the pitfalls of this chronocentric bias leads to several unexpected conclusions, one of them being that the directed panspermia, coupled with advanced biotechnology, represents the most probable origin of almost all phylogenetic lineages in the universe. Therefore, complex lifeforms are required for emergence of (almost) all simple lifeforms. This has several counterintuitive and unexpected philosophical consequences.
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Coleman, Dorothy P. "Interpreting Hume's Dialogues." Religious Studies 25, no. 2 (June 1989): 179–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500001797.
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This paper provides a methodological schema for interpreting Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion that supports the traditional thesis that Philo represents Hume's views on religious belief. To understand the complexity of Hume's ‘naturalism’ and his assessment of religious belief, it is essential to grasp the manner in which Philo articulates a consistently Humean position in the Dialogues.
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TAUFIK, N. T., E. H. NUGRAHANI, and R. BUDIARTI. "MODEL PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI DUA DAERAH DAN SIMULASI EFEK PERUBAHAN PARAMETERNY." Journal of Mathematics and Its Applications 7, no. 1 (July 1, 2008): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.29244/jmap.7.1.47-57.
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The traditional growth theory usually considers only the accumulation of conventional inputs of labor and capital as the primary variables responsible for the growth. It has been proven to be insufficient for explaining the complexity of modern economic growth. This thesis aims to study a two-region economic growth model proposed by Zhang (2005). This model explains the dynamics of economic system based on capital and knowledge accumulation. It also considers relationships between regional growth and regional trade patterns. Each region's production is similar to the standard one-sector growth model. Knowledge accumulation is assumed to be accomplished through learning by doing. Unfortunately, in obtaining the equilibrium solution of the model Zhang made some mistakes. Therefore, this thesis offers some corrections. The analysis done in this thesis includes obtaining equilibrium of the economic system and its feasibility conditions. Some results of simulation study show that knowledge improvement is more effective to increase equilibrium value of economic growth compared to improvement in investment or amenity level.
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Johnson, Shardrom, Jinwu Han, Yuanchen Liu, Li Chen, and Xinlin Wu. "Hybrid Approach with Improved Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Annealing for Thesis Sampling." Future Internet 10, no. 8 (July 30, 2018): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi10080071.
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Sampling inspection uses the sample characteristics to estimate that of the population, and it is an important method to describe the population, which has the features of low cost, strong applicability and high scientificity. This paper aims at the sampling inspection of the master’s degree thesis to ensure their quality, which is commonly estimated by random sampling. Since there are disadvantages in random sampling, a hybrid algorithm combined with an improved genetic algorithm and a simulated annealing algorithm is proposed in this paper. Furthermore, a novel mutation strategy is introduced according to the specialty of Shanghai’s thesis sampling to improve the efficiency of sampling inspection; the acceleration of convergence of the algorithm can also take advantage of this. The new algorithm features the traditional genetic algorithm, and it can obtain the global optimum in the optimization process and provide the fairest sampling plan under the constraint of multiple sampling indexes. The experimental results on the master’s thesis dataset of Shanghai show that the proposed algorithm well meets the requirements of the sampling inspection in Shanghai with a lower time-complexity.
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Gao, Xin Rui. "Research of Efficiency of Computer 3D Animation." Applied Mechanics and Materials 421 (September 2013): 672–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.421.672.
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3D animation is an application of computer graphics. The factors that affect the efficiency of 3D animation include animation algorithms, 3D models, materials and textures, rendering, and LOD (level of detail). This thesis discusses these technologies separately. By using these technologies properly, we could reduce the complexity of algorithms and the overall data quantity and then enhance the efficiency of 3D animation.
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He, Lei Ming, Li Hui Du, and Jian Yang. "Back-Analysis of Indoor Test Parameters for Rock-Fill of Shui Bu Ya CFRD." Advanced Materials Research 243-249 (May 2011): 4581–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.243-249.4581.
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In the numerical calculation of geotechnical project, it’s difficult to confirm the parameters because of the complexity and the uncertainty of them as the time is changing. However, the back-analysis provides us an effective way. Based on the result of the triaxial test on rock-fill of Shui Bu Ya CFRD, the thesis adopts the direct back-analysis method which combines the BP Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm to calculate the Tsinghua non-linear K-G model parameters of the rock-fill. The back-analysis parameters are used to simulate the filling process of Shui Bu Ya CFRD and predict the displacement of the dam. The thesis provides a technical reference for displacement back-analysis of soil parameters for CFRD.
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Wang, Xin-Hua, Yu-Lin Jiao, Yong-Chao Niu, and Jie Yang. "Optimizing Signal De-Noising Algorithm for Acoustic Emission Leakage of Wavelet." Cybernetics and Information Technologies 16, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 116–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cait-2016-0009.
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Abstract Traditional wavelet denoising method cannot eliminate complex high-pressure pipe signals effectively. In the updated wavelet adaptive algorithm, this thesis defines the constraints in order to reconstruct the signals accurately. According to the minimum mean square error criterion, the results predict the weight coefficient and get the optimal linear predictive value. Adopting the improved algorithm under the same condition, this thesis concluded that Db6 increased the complexity of wavelet algorithm by 50% by comparative experiments. It will be more conducive to the realization of hardware and the feasibility of real-time denoising. Dual adaptive wavelet denoising method improved SNR by 50%. This denoising method will play a key role in the detection rate of high-pressure pipe in the online leakage detection system.
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Portugali, Juval. "Complexity Theory as a Link between Space and Place." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 38, no. 4 (April 2006): 647–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a37260.
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Since the early 1970s, the notions of space and place have been located on the two sides of a barricade that divides what has been described as science's two great cultures. Space is located among the ‘hard’ sciences as a central term in the attempt of geography to transform the discipline from a descriptive into a quantitative, analytic, and thus scientific, enterprise. Place, on the other hand, is located among the ‘soft’ humanities and social philosophy oriented social sciences as an important notion in the post-1970 attempt to transform geography from a positivistic into a humanistic, structuralist, hermeneutic, critical science. More recently, the place-oriented geographies have adopted postmodern, poststructuralist, and deconstruction approaches, while the quantitative spatial geographies have been strongly influenced by theories of self-organization and complexity. In this paper I first point to, and then explore, structural similarities between complexity theories and theories oriented toward social philosophy. I then elaborate the thesis that, in consequence, complexity theories have the potential to bridge the geographies of space and place and, by implication, the two cultures of science. Finally, discuss in some detail conceptual and methodological implications.
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Rospars, Jean-Pierre. "Trends in the evolution of life, brains and intelligence." International Journal of Astrobiology 12, no. 3 (March 26, 2013): 186–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1473550413000074.
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AbstractThe fI term of Drake's equation – the fraction of life-bearing planets on which ‘intelligent’ life evolved – has been the subject of much debate in the last few decades. Several leading evolutionary biologists have endorsed the thesis that the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is vanishingly small. A discussion of this thesis is proposed here that focuses on a key issue in the debate: the existence of evolutionary trends, often presented as trends towards higher complexity, and their possible significance. The present state of knowledge on trends is reviewed. Measurements of quantitative variables that describe important features of the evolution of living organisms – their hierarchical organization, size and biodiversity – and of brains – their overall size, the number and size of their components – in relation to their cognitive abilities, provide reliable evidence of the reality and generality of evolutionary trends. Properties of trends are inferred and frequent misinterpretations (including an excessive stress on mere ‘complexity’) that prevent the objective assessment of trends are considered. Finally, several arguments against the repeatability of evolution to intelligence are discussed. It is concluded that no compelling argument exists for an exceedingly small probability fI. More research is needed before this wide-ranging negative conclusion is accepted.
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Uttal, William R. "Let us keep our ontology and epistemology separate!" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, no. 5 (October 1999): 852–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x99482196.
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Gold & Stoljar are right in their thesis but incomplete in not pointing out that there are many other arguments from cognate sciences suggesting that a radical eliminativist neuroreductionism is unlikely to be achieved. The radical neuron doctrine they criticize is only a hoped for dogma that cannot be verified, whereas a constrained monistic materialism (with only partial reductionism) is subject to immediate test by applying such criteria as combinatorial complexity and thermodynamic irreversibility.
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W. Shane, Joseph. "Becoming “Boundary Pioneers”: Roles for Academic Science Departments in Understanding and Addressing Interactions between Science and Religion." Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 87, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jpennacadscie.87.1.0003.
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ABSTRACT In this essay, I assert that academic scientists are ideally suited to address frequent and often contentious interactions between scientific and religious perspectives that occur on our campuses and well as among our colleagues and within our communities. I first define and provide specific examples of four historical approaches that characterize relationships between science and religion: (1) the Warfare or Conflict thesis, (2) the Independence approach, (3) the Harmony thesis, and (4) the Complexity model. Given that discussions about science and religion are often manifested in ongoing controversies surrounding biological evolution, I then summarize the origins of anti-evolution movements in the United States via the rise and persistence of Christian Fundamentalism. The essay concludes by comparing the religious beliefs of academic scientists to the general public and offering practical suggestions for serving as “boundary pioneers” between science and religion.
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Li, Wenlu, and Yinghui Wang. "Research on the Performance Evaluation Model of Higher Education Teachers Based on the Improved Grey Clustering Analysis Method." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 10, no. 8 (December 14, 2015): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v10i8.5220.
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Effective performance evaluation of university teachers is supposed to guide teaching behaviors and teaching modes as well as improve teaching quality of higher education. In response to the complexity of performance evaluation of university teachers, this thesis proposes a performance evaluation model based on the improved grey clustering analysis method. Firstly, an index model for evaluating performance of university teachers is established with confirmed layers and index sets. Secondly, performance evaluation grades are given out and whitenization weight functions of grey clustering under different performance grades are established. Based on the standardization of index model, and taking weight into consideration, this thesis provides an improved grey clustering analysis method for performance evaluation of university teachers. Last but not the least, the model is verified through case study to prove its efficacy and availability, which lays a sound support for improving higher education.
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Quiroga, Facundo, and Laura Lanzarini. "Thesis Overview Invariance and Same-Equivariance Measures for Convolutional Neural Networks." Journal of Computer Science and Technology 20, no. 1 (May 26, 2020): e06. http://dx.doi.org/10.24215/16666038.20.e06.
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The main contributions of this thesis include:
A comparative analysis of Neural Network based models for sign language handshape classification.
An analysis of strategies to achieve equivariance to rotations in neural networks for:
Comparing the performance of strategies based on data augmentation and specially designed networks and layers.
Determining strategies to retrain networks so that they acquire equivariance to rotations.
A set of measures to empirically analyze the equivariance of Neural Networks, as well as any other model based on latent representations, and the corresponding:
Validation of the measures to establish if they are indeed measuring the purported quantity. Analysis of the different variants of the proposed measures. Analysis of the properties of the measures, in terms of their variability to transformations, models and weight initialization.
Analysis of the impact of several hyperparameters of the models on the structure of their equivariance, including Max Pooling layers, Batch Normalization, and kernel size. Analysis of the structure of the equivariance in several well known CNN models such as ResNet, All Convolutional and VGG. Analysis of the impact on the equivariance of using specialized models to obtain equivariance such as Transformational Invariance Pooling.
Analysis of the class dependency of equivariance. Analysis of the effect of varying the complexity and diversity of the transformations on the measures.
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Alves-Conceição, Vanessa, Kérilin Stancine Santos Rocha, Fernanda Vilanova Nascimento Silva, Rafaella Oliveira Santos Silva, Daniel Tenório da Silva, and Divaldo Pereira de Lyra-Jr. "Medication Regimen Complexity Measured by MRCI: A Systematic Review to Identify Health Outcomes." Annals of Pharmacotherapy 52, no. 11 (May 13, 2018): 1117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1060028018773691.
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Objective: To perform a systematic review to identify health outcomes related to medication regimen complexity as measured by the Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI) instrument. Data Sources: Cochrane Library, LILACS, PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Open Thesis, and Web of Science were searched from January 1, 2004, until April 02, 2018, using the following search terms: outcome assessment, drug therapy, and Medication Regimen Complexity Index and their synonyms in different combinations. Study Selection and Data Extraction: Studies that used the MRCI instrument to measure medication regimen complexity and related it to clinical, humanistic, and/or economic outcomes were evaluated. Two reviewers independently carried out the analysis of the titles, abstracts, and complete texts according to the eligibility criteria, performed data extraction, and evaluated study quality. Data Synthesis: A total of 23 studies met the inclusion criteria; 18 health outcomes related to medication regimen complexity were found. The health outcomes most influenced by medication regimen complexity were hospital readmission, medication adherence, hospitalization, adverse drug events, and emergency sector visit. Only one study related medication regimen complexity with humanistic outcomes, and no study related medication regimen complexity to economic outcomes. Most of the studies were of good methodological quality. Relevance to Patient Care and Clinical Practice: Health care professionals should pay attention to medication regimen complexity of the patients because this may influence health outcomes. Conclusion: This study identified some health outcomes that may be influenced by medication regimen complexity: hospitalization, hospital readmission, and medication adherence were more prevalent, showing a significant association between MRCI increase and these health outcomes.
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Murphy, David. ""Chaos rules" revisited." International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning 12, no. 7 (November 25, 2011): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v12i7.1125.
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<p>About 20 years ago, lost in the midst of my PhD research, I mused over proposed titles. I was pretty pleased with myself to come up with ‘Chaos Rules’ (the implied double meaning was deliberate) or, more completely, <em>Chaos Rules: An Exploration of The Work of Instructional Designers in Distance Education</em>. I used the then emerging theories of chaos and complexity to underpin my analysis. So it was with not just a little excitement that I read the call for contributions to this Special Issue. What follows is a ‘walk through’ my thesis, with an emphasis on the contribution of chaos and complexity theory.</p><p> </p>
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Dowd, Jason E., Tanya Duncan, and Julie A. Reynolds. "Concept Maps for Improved Science Reasoning and Writing: Complexity Isn’t Everything." CBE—Life Sciences Education 14, no. 4 (December 2015): ar39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.15-06-0138.
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A pervasive notion in the literature is that complex concept maps reflect greater knowledge and/or more expert-like thinking than less complex concept maps. We show that concept maps used to structure scientific writing and clarify scientific reasoning do not adhere to this notion. In an undergraduate course for thesis writers, students use concept maps instead of traditional outlines to define the boundaries and scope of their research and to construct an argument for the significance of their research. Students generate maps at the beginning of the semester, revise after peer review, and revise once more at the end of the semester. Although some students revised their maps to make them more complex, a significant proportion of students simplified their maps. We found no correlation between increased complexity and improved scientific reasoning and writing skills, suggesting that sometimes students simplify their understanding as they develop more expert-like thinking. These results suggest that concept maps, when used as an intervention, can meet the varying needs of a diverse population of student writers.
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DeCoursey, CA. "The Second-Language Essay as Cognitive Task: Complexity, Subjectivity and Emotion." International Journal of English Linguistics 13, no. 1 (November 30, 2022): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v13n1p43.
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Models of task complexity indicate the multiple processes and challenges second-language university students face when learning to write an essay. Studies of complex cognitive tasks frame emotion as an aspect of individual differences. This study used Appraisal analysis to assess subjective attitudes realised across four weeks of writing an essay, content analysis to identify how students took up instructor input, and co-frequency to identify strong connections. Results indicate that students focus on researching essay content at the expense of structure and language. They find topic sentences more difficult than thesis statements, and have difficulty collating sentence-level proficiency with the sophisticated discourse-level demands of the essay task. Content and attitude frequencies suggested that relatively little work was done in the first week, substantial work was done in weeks two and three, and realisations dropped sharply in the final week, suggesting resource-dispersing impacts in the final stretch. Results highlight the need for somatic measures of task complexity and effort, due to frequent realisations of stress and stress relief, and their co-frequency with misery.
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Becker, Derick A., Derick A. Becker, and Hannah Wittmeyer. "Africa’s Land Rush and the Embedded Neoliberal State: Foreign Agricultural Investment in Ethiopia and Mozambique." Comparative Sociology 12, no. 6 (2013): 753–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341284.
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AbstractAs changes to traditional economic power relationships upend the global economy, there is a resurgent interest in Africa’s raw materials by an increasing number of states beyond the traditional post-colonial coterie. These states are not fundamentally altering Africa’s status as a small economic player supplying raw goods to the world. But the level of interest, the states involved, and the changing nature of Africa’s involvement are raising questions about the long-term benefits and consequences of this renewed interest. Of particular concern is the trend in scale and type of commercial agricultural projects where land deals are slowly consuming vast sections of Africa’s agricultural land for export crops. NGOs, a few academics and virtually any news story on the subject inevitably invoke the term neo-colonialism. Our argument, however, is that the neo-colonial thesis – as well as the embedded state and neoliberal state theses taken separately – fail to capture the complexity of African commercial agriculture, particularly in the cases of Ethiopia and Mozambique. Despite ample evidence of massive, opaque land deals, investments do not tend to be restricted in bi-lateral ways nor are the investing parties members of the traditional Western world. While the role of elites is similar to the embedded state thesis, deals are mediated via wider market relations and conditions and justified in neoliberal terms. We propose that a synthesis of these latter theoretical strands better captures both the character and outcomes of African land acquisitions in our two case studies, and Africa at large.
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Urquhart, Alasdair. "The complexity of decision procedures in relevance logic II." Journal of Symbolic Logic 64, no. 4 (December 1999): 1774–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2586811.
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In this paper, we show that there is no primitive recursive decision procedure for the implication-conjunction fragments of the relevant logics R, E and T, as well as for a family of related logics. The lower bound on the complexity is proved by combining the techniques of an earlier paper on the same subject [20] with a method used by Lincoln, Mitchell, Scedrov and Shankar in proving that propositional linear logic is undecidable.The decision problem for the pure implicational fragments of E and R were solved by Saul Kripke in a tour de force of combinatorial reasoning, published only as an abstract [9]. Belnap and Wallace extended Kripke's decision procedure to the implication-negation fragment of E in [3]; an account of their decision method is to be found in [1, pp. 124–139]. The decision method extends immediately to the implication/negation fragment of R. In fact, in the case of R we can go farther: Meyer in his thesis [13] showed how to translate the logic LR, which results from R by omitting the distribution axiom, into R→⋀, so that the decision procedure can be extended to all of LR. This decision procedure has been implemented as a program Kripke by Thistlewaite, McRobbie and Meyer [17]. The program is not simply a straightforward implementation of the decision procedure; finite matrices are used extensively to prune invalid nodes from the search tree.
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Barbieri, Marcello. "A new theory of development: the generation of complexity in ontogenesis." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 374, no. 2063 (March 13, 2016): 20150148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0148.
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Today there is a very wide consensus on the idea that embryonic development is the result of a genetic programme and of epigenetic processes. Many models have been proposed in this theoretical framework to account for the various aspects of development, and virtually all of them have one thing in common: they do not acknowledge the presence of organic codes (codes between organic molecules) in ontogenesis. Here it is argued instead that embryonic development is a convergent increase in complexity that necessarily requires organic codes and organic memories, and a few examples of such codes are described. This is the code theory of development , a theory that was originally inspired by an algorithm that is capable of reconstructing structures from incomplete information , an algorithm that here is briefly summarized because it makes it intuitively appealing how a convergent increase in complexity can be achieved. The main thesis of the new theory is that the presence of organic codes in ontogenesis is not only a theoretical necessity but, first and foremost, an idea that can be tested and that has already been found to be in agreement with the evidence.
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Hansen, Britt Sætre, and Elin Dysvik. "Value of research-based master’s degree theses." iNSPIRA 17, no. 1 (July 5, 2022): 37–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.23865/inspira.v17.3156.
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Background: New types of expertise in advanced nursing is required to meet the rapid changes in health services and technologies. To meet these challenges, different master’s degree programs are evolving, which will provide systematic introductions to analytical thinking and research-based argumentation and will lay the foundation for evidence-based nursing. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate topics and methods in research-based master’s degree theses in anesthesia, critical care, and operating room nursing (AIO) to explore their contribution to best practices within nursing specialization in anesthesia, intensive care, and operating theater nursing in Norway. Method: By using thematic analysis we examined 78 research-based master’s degree theses produced over 5 years, representing the entire period of a university program in anesthesia, intensive care, and operating theater nursing. Findings: The master’s theses covered different topics, ranging from topics within best practice, competence building and teamwork. A variety of methods were used to suggest improvements in the clinical field. This means that the value of the research topics chosen can be studied from different angles and help identify the complexity of the phenomena of interest. Conclusion: Master’s degree thesis represents new, updated, and valuable knowledge for educational institutions, career development, hospital management, and clinical practitioners to guide future advanced and best practice both nationally and internationally.
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Kelz, Rosine, and Henrike Knappe. "Politics of Time and Mourning in the Anthropocene." Social Sciences 10, no. 10 (September 30, 2021): 368. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100368.
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The Anthropocene thesis makes it necessary for the social sciences to engage with temporality in novel ways. The Anthropocene highlights interconnections between ‘natural’ and ‘social’ non-linear temporal processes. However, accounts of humanity’s Anthropocene history often reproduce linear, progressive narratives of human development. This forecloses the possibilities that thinking with non-linear temporalities would offer to the political sciences. Engaging with the temporal complexity of the Anthropocene as a moment of rupture that highlights non-linearity allows to acknowledge more fully the affective impact of living on a disrupted planet. As a discourse about temporal rupture, the Anthropocene is a stocktaking of the already vast insecurities and losses brought about by exploitative relationships with earth and its inhabitants. In this form, the Anthropocene thesis highlights how material and social legacies of inequality and exploitation shape our present and delimit our imaginaries of the future. By including a reckoning of violent pasts into future practices, a productive politics of mourning could take shape.
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Panella, Alessandro. "Multiagent Stochastic Planning With Bayesian Policy Recognition." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 27, no. 1 (June 29, 2013): 1672–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v27i1.8506.
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When operating in stochastic, partially observable, multiagent settings, it is crucial to accurately predict the actions of other agents. In my thesis work, I propose methodologies for learning the policy of external agents from their observed behavior, in the form of finite state controllers. To perform this task, I adopt Bayesian learning algorithms based on nonparametric prior distributions, that provide the flexibility required to infer models of unknown complexity. These methods are to be embedded in decision making frameworks for autonomous planning in partially observable multiagent systems.
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Wang, Xing, and Ling Xu. "Design and Realization of the Intelligent Scheduling and Management System of Transmission Lines." Advanced Materials Research 381 (November 2011): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.381.109.
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Transmission line intelligent distribution and management system is the latest systematic product for optical network intelligent distribution, with the function of detecting, warning and information processing, whose purpose is to realize the delicacy management of transmission line resources and solve the problems appearing in the process of using resource management system., such as input complexity, function singleness and so on. The thesis introduces different functions of each module in this system, puts forward the solutions to this systematic function and provides some realization codes.
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Oviedo, Lluis. "Response to Donald Wiebe, “Religions as Hazard-Precaution Systems,” and Luther Martin, “The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response” Trying to Explain Religion (Again)." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 25, no. 4-5 (2013): 460–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341307.
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Abstract Religion is a multifaceted phenomenon calling for a multidisciplinary approach. Research programs ignoring such level of complexity could incur in forms of reductionism, becoming unable to account for many aspects of religious mind and behavior. The thesis exposed in the articles of Wiebe and Martin awake that suspicion: the first one because of the many ways different religions cope with illness and contagion; the second, as a consequence of the stress and anxiety linked to several religious forms, becoming functional aspects to their implementation.
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Papastefanou, Georgios, and Jonathan Gruhler. "Social status differentiation of leisure activities variation over the weekend – Approaching the voraciousness thesis by a sequence complexity measure." electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 11, no. 1 (December 18, 2014): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.13085/eijtur.11.1.1-12.
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Kim, Bogook. "The diplomatic relationship between South Korea and Hungary from 1948 to 1982." Hungarian Studies 34, no. 2 (July 6, 2021): 318–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/044.2020.00024.
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AbstractThis thesis examines the process by which the Republic of Korea (hereafter, ROK or South Korea) and Hungary established diplomatic relations. Given the complexity of the process, the subject was be divided into two papers, the first of which concerns the period 1948 to 1982 and the second that of 1982–1988, the last year being that in which the diplomatic relationship was officially declared. Moreover, it employs the two countries' confidential diplomatic documents as primary sources. This article focused on the first part of the above period.