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Ho, Chia-Hui. "A critical process for the evaluation of methodology." Thesis, University of Hull, 1997. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6007.
Full textJennings, Peter Leonard. "Critical realism : an alternative perspective on evaluation methodology." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/68704/.
Full textGurpinar, Erkan. "Critical Realism As A Rival Methodology For Institutional Economics." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610068/index.pdf.
Full textSincharoenpanich, Puangpetch, and Nunthapin Chantachaimongkol. "Critical factors for implementing the Scrum software development methodology." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-18203.
Full textBleakley, Graham John. "A methodology for the design of safety critical mechatronics." Thesis, City University London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310448.
Full textMočnik, Špela. "Cosmopolitanism as critical theory : an analysis of the ethics, methodology and practice of critical cosmopolitanism." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/59629/.
Full textLemon, Douglas M. "A methodology for the identification of critical locations in infrastructures." Thesis, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/37787.
Full textThe extreme importance of critical infrastructures to modern society is widely recognized. These infrastructures are complex, independent and ubiquitous; they are sensitive to disruptions that can lead to cascading failures with serious consequences, Preotecting the critical infrastructures from terrorism, human generated malevolent attack directed to maximum social disruption, present an enormous challenge. Recognizing that society cannot afford the costs associated with absolute protection, it is necessary to identify the critical locations in these infrastructures. By protecting the critical locations society achieves the greatest benefit for the protection investment. This project examines a screening methodology for the identification of critical locations in infrastructures. The framework models the infrastructures as interconnected digraphs and employs graph theory and reliability theory to identify the vunerable points. The vunerable points are screened for their susceptibility to a terrorist attack, and a prioritized list of critical locations is produced. The prioritization methodology is based on multi-attribute utility theory, and involves various disciplines including quantitative risk assessment and decision analysis. The methodology is illustrated through the presentation of a portion on the analysis conducted on the community of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lemon, Douglas M. (Douglas Michael) 1967. "A methodology for the identification of critical locations in infrastructures." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17749.
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The extreme importance of critical infrastructures to modem society is widely recognized. These infrastructures are complex, interdependent, and ubiquitous; they are sensitive to disruptions that can lead to cascading failures with serious consequences. Protecting the critical infrastructures from terrorism, human generated malevolent attack directed toward maximum social disruption, presents an enormous challenge. Recognizing that society cannot afford the costs associated with absolute protection, it is necessary to identify the critical locations in these infrastructures. By protecting the critical locations society achieves the greatest benefit for the protection investment. This project examines a screening methodology for the identification of critical locations in infrastructures. The framework models the infrastructures as interconnected digraphs and employs graph theory and reliability theory to identify the vulnerable points. The vulnerable points are screened for their susceptibility to a terrorist attack, and a prioritized list of critical locations is produced. The prioritization methodology is based on multi-attribute utility theory, and involves various disciplines including quantitative risk assessment and decision analysis. The methodology is illustrated through the presentation of a portion on the analysis conducted on the community of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
by Douglas M. Lemon.
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De, Lemos Rogerio. "A methodology for the requirements analysis of critical real-time systems." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2068.
Full textTanase, Aurelian. "Improved methodology for deriving the critical heat flux look-up table." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27923.
Full textHung, Wei-Hsi (Frank). "Supporting Organisational Critical Activities From Web Sites: An Evaluation Methodology Development." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2545.
Full textVertigan, Sean Anthony. "Ethics and the business of schooling : developing a critical realist methodology." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10007511/.
Full textFord, Tiiu Kirsti 1972. "Biotic Factors and Temperature Tolerances via Critical Thermal Methodology in Goldfish." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279125/.
Full textHight, Terry L. "Contemporary Couple Enrichment: A Critical and Meta-analytic Review of Methodology." VCU Scholars Compass, 1997. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5251.
Full textBowen, Simon John. "A critical artefact methodology : using provocative conceptual designs to foster human-centred innovation." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2009. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3216/.
Full textBAPTISTA, DANILO FEBRONI. "STRUCTURE OF ELECTRICITY WHITE TARIFF IN BRAZIL: CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND PROPOSAL OF METHODOLOGY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30527@1.
Full textEssa dissertação de mestrado teve dois objetivos principais. O primeiro foi avaliar a metodologia atual de determinação de preços para tarifa branca de energia elétrica. O segundo foi propor uma nova metodologia, baseada na simulação e otimização do parâmetro kz, com a inserção de variáveis voltadas para a observação do equilíbrio econômico e financeiro da tarifa, a modicidade tarifária. De acordo com a estrutura tarifária brasileira, a tomada de decisão equivocada no tocante à regulamentação da tarifa branca poderá acarretar em consequências deletérias para a tarifa de energia, caso sejam concedidos benefícios indevidos a consumidores, ou por outro lado, ser uma barreira impeditiva para a migração, que causaria o fracasso da nova modalidade. Para o desenvolvimento do trabalho foi utilizada uma metodologia de clusterização das curvas de carga por tipo e desenvolvido uma metodologia baseada em parâmetros da regulamentação atual e variáveis fundamentadas em experiências internacionais de tarifação horo-sazonal na baixa tensão. A aplicação da metodologia foi realizada pela simulação do parâmetro kz, com a obtenção das respectivas tarifas (fora de ponta, intermediária e ponta), para cada kz simulado foram calculadas as variáveis do modelo por tipologia e, na sequência, realizada a otimização da variável kz pela observação dos resultados consolidados das tipologias do subgrupo. Concluiu-se com esse estudo que a metodologia atual não observa parâmetros relevantes para a determinação dos preços da tarifa branca e que as distorções possuem maior impacto absoluto no subgrupo residencial e maior impacto relativo na classe industrial. A metodologia proposta demonstrou-se consistente na obtenção das relações de preços da tarifa branca e, oportunamente, poderá contribuir para o aprimoramento da nova modalidade tarifária.
This Master s thesis has two main goals. The first is to assess the current method for determining the electrical energy white tariff prices. The second is to propose a new methodology based on simulation and optimization of the kz parameter with the inclusion of new variables, aiming at the the economic and financial balance of the tariff, considering the fact that its adoption by the utility clientes is not at all compulsory. According to the Brazilian tariff structure, making wrong decision regarding the regulation of the white tariff may result in harmful consequences not only for the energy tariff, but also for the distribution utility. To develop the thesis it was used a clustering methodology by type of load curves and applied parameters based on international experiences that has used such kind of tariff. The methodology was carried out by simulation of the kz parameter, obtaining the white tariffs, for each simulated kz value. the model variables by type were then calculated. Finally, the optimal kz value was obtained by observing the consolidated results of the subgroup typologies. It is concluded from this study that the current methodology does not consider relevant parameters for the determination of the white tariffs prices and that distortions have greater absolute impact on residential subgroup and greater relative impact on the industrial class. The proposed methodology proved to be consistent in getting the price ratios of the white tariff and, in due course, can contribute to the improvement of the new tariff structure.
Wagner, Claire. "Placing psychology a critical exploration of research methodology curricula in the social sciences /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06292004-123737.
Full textVerma, Dinesh. "A study and critical review of design evaluation methodologies." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11012008-063731/.
Full textEmamjome, Fahame. "Re-conceptualisation of information quality : a critical realist perspective." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/105645/1/Fahame_Emamjome_Thesis.pdf.
Full textHunt, L. A. Pearl. "Music lessons : a cultural studies analysis of music's capacity for critical pedagogy and methodology." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29158.
Full textClark, Jodie. "The critical analysis of discourses in communities of practice : a methodology for ethnographic research." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492853.
Full textBergström, Gunnar. "Exploring the SPR methodology for monitoring of critical attributes in toxicity testing and bioproduction." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Teknisk biologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-73410.
Full textWren, Toby Christopher. "Improvising Culture: Discursive Interculturality as a Critical Tool, Aesthetic, and Methodology for Intercultural Music." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367035.
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Dobson, Philip J. "Moving from interpretivism to critical realism in IS research: An exploration and supporting IT outsourcing example." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1287.
Full textLesperance, Kathleen Joan. "The study of prognosis in Alzheimer's disease : a critical review and comparative analysis of methodology." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq29739.pdf.
Full textMcKay, Derek Murray. "Tensions between the rational and the conventional, critical reflections on the methodology of sociological inquiry." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0032/MQ30700.pdf.
Full textMapara, Shahina H. "A critical examination of the ethics and methodology of Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi's Islamic economics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0031/MQ64170.pdf.
Full textMapara, Shahina H. "A critical examination of the ethics and methodology of Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi's Islamic economics /." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30188.
Full textWatson, Heather. "A critical study of the multiview methodology : a poststructuralist textual analysis of concepts in inquiry." Thesis, University of Salford, 1995. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14713/.
Full textAbimbola, Kolapo Ogunniyi. "Scientific rationality and methodological change : a critical examination of some recent attempts to naturalize methodology." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1228/.
Full textMaeurer, Theodore R. (Theodore Robert) 1967. "Implementation of the critical chain project management methodology in IBM's S/390 software development environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9766.
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Software Development projects have a long history of being notoriously difficult to manage. From early experiences with the IBM OS/360 Operating System over 20 years ago to more recent experiences with the IBM OS/390 Operating System, the Project Management challenges remain. This phenomenon exists despite the wide spread availability of well-developed Project Management techniques such as the Critical Path Method (CPM) and the Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). The challenges also transcend the introduction of ever more powerful programming tools and techniques such as structured programming, high-level languages, source-level debuggers, and object-oriented programming. As in many industries, a key challenge in the Software industry is the reliable delivery of products in an environment of ever decreasing product cycle times. Recent work by Eliyahu M. Goldratt suggests that the struggle with on-time delivery may well lie with the underlying Project Management techniques that have become so widely accepted. These techniques foster behavior patterns that are counter-productive to the shortening of product cycle times. They fail to focus the organization on the Project Management system at large and can encourage dysfunctional decision making [l ]. Work in the field of System Dynamics has independently reached similar conclusions. The traditional Project Management techniques offer little to help the Project Manager cope with issues at the strategic level. Without strategic guidance, the Project Manager is left to make poor, informal judgments and may not make adequate allowances for factors that negatively impact project performance [2]. Goldratt offers a new, alternative project scheduling approach called Critical Chain as a mechanism for improving an organization's underlying Project Management structure. Critical Chain is based on principles developed a decade earlier in Goldratt's Theory of Constraints. The Theory of Constraints changed the way organizations think about Manufacturing processes. Likewise, Critical Chain requires that organizations reformulate their approach to managing development projects. This thesis will study the successful results of applying Critical Chain on two actual Software Development projects in IBM's System 390 Division. Each of these projects achieved commitments on time. Critical Chain's contribution to these results will be discussed. The experiences gained along with potential pitfalls of Critical Chain will also be considered. In particular, the issues involved with applying this approach to a Software Development environment in which traditional methods are in widespread use will be emphasized. A discussion of the potential limitations of the Critical Chain approach will also be provided.
by Theodore R. Maeurer.
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Bernabeu, Emanuel. "Methodology for a Security-Dependability Adaptive Protection Scheme based on Data Mining." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30131.
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Campanella, William C. "The nature of the problem statement in architectural programming : a critical analysis of three programming processes." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23156.
Full textMargolius, Jerry. "A critical review of the valuation processes of petrol filling stations in terms of the Municipal Property Rates Act 2004." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16912.
Full textvan, Ingen Michiel. "Rethinking conflict studies : towards a critical realist approach." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16202.
Full textVan, Dreven Amber, and res cand@acu edu au. "Waiting: a critical experience." Australian Catholic University. School of Nursing, 2001. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp12.25072005.
Full textRobinson, Herbert Samuel. "A critical systems approach to infrastructure investment and resource management in developing countries : the 'InfORMED' methodology." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394440.
Full textHaniffa, Rashan. "Developing a methodology for the evaluation of acute and critical care outcomes in resource-limited settings." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0057e38d-a5ee-4089-9ee0-247c7ffb9596.
Full textMathee, Mohamed Shaid. "A critical reading of Fazlur Rahman's Islamic methodology in history : the case of the living Sunnah." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8005.
Full textSunnah has become synonymous with hadith as it is found primarily in the six canonical works of hadith. This change, Rahman argues, came about after Mohammad b. Idris al-Shafi'i articulated his bayan scheme, which in a nutshell means that the entirety of law resides in two texts the Qur'an and the Sunnah and that Sunnah is only the Sunnah of Muhammad (concept and content). In search for uniformity and stability, Rahman claims, that Shafi'i destroyed the living Sunnah or more precisely the organic relationship between Sunnah, ijtihad (progressive interpretation) and ijma. But was this living Sunnah conceptually linked to the """"Ideal Sunnah"""" of the Prophet? Why did Shafi'i decimate an entire tradition and what were his reasons and how did he do it? This thesis seeks to answer these questions by critically analyzing Rahman's living Sunnah notion. On the other hand whilst it appreciates Shafi'i's argument for the Sunnah, of the Prophet only, as the exclusive legislative supplement to the Qur'an it problematizes how Shafi'i dealt with the materials from which he reconstructed (the content) the Prophetic Sunnah (as a concept).
Schad, Daniel. "Development of a methodology for the identification, prediction and diagnosis of critical system states at airports /." Köln : DLR, Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016768378&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textFlarup, Jensen Katrine [Verfasser], and Jürgen [Akademischer Betreuer] Wilde. "Methodology to identify critical mechanisms in the dye solar cell related to the degradation of triiodide." Freiburg : Universität, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1119899672/34.
Full textMartinez, Aja Y. "Critical Race Counterstory as Rhetorical Methodology: Chican@ Academic Experience Told Through Sophistic Argument, Allegory, and Narrative." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228451.
Full textAstbury, John. "Dirt." Thesis, Konstfack, Industridesign, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3010.
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Shebob, Abdulhamid. "Development of a methodology for analysing and quantifying delay factors affecting construction projects in Libya." Thesis, Teesside University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10149/315373.
Full textBayir, Arzu, and Bhavya Shetty. "EVALUATING THE IMPORTANCE OF A STRUCTURED METHODOLOGY BY MANAGEMENT OF CRITICAL RISK/FAILURE FACTORS IN ERP IMPLEMENTATION." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-13179.
Full textSlack, John Taylor. "A comprehensive methodology for measuring costs and benefits of critical habitat designation under the Endangered Species Act." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003:, 2003. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11252003-091701/unrestricted/slackjohnt200311Masters.pdf.
Full textLannon, J. "A critical analysis of the new perspective in Paul : with particular reference to the methodology of E.P. Sanders." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269040.
Full textSummers, Ronald. "A methodology for the design, implementation and evaluation of intelligent systems with an application to critical care medicine." Thesis, City University London, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332618.
Full textGotora, Tendai. "Maternal mortality in high HIV prevalence countries: a critical analysis of the MMEIG methodology for estimating maternal mortality." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12068.
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The main objective of this research is to analyse critically the methodology used by the Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG) to estimate maternal mortality in countries with high HIV/AIDS prevalence. This study interrogates each of the assumptions (implicit and explicit) in the MMEIG method by reviewing literature/studies that investigated each assumption.
Milligan, Ross. "Critical evaluation of the battery electric vehicle for sustainable mobility." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2017. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978220.
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