Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Diatom test'

This diploma thesis focuses on the study of the procedure of evaluation of the crash tests made on car steering columns and the subseuent optimalisation of this procedure by creating an evaluation sequence. The theoretical part contains the description of the testing environment and the description of the procedure of the crash test in use. Further in this section there is a description of several computer programmes which are used in the testing and evaluation procedure. The practical part starts with a description of the developement and the creation of the evalution programme that is able to evaluate the tests without the need for the operator to evaluate them himself. The results gained from the programme are veried in the following chapter. The conclusion is focused on comparing the old evaluation method with the new one that uses the evaluation sequences.

This is a study of autobiographical letters written in the early 1950s by seven Swedish sailors. The letters were contributions to a project at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm aiming to collect and publicize workers' autobiographical narratives. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how the sailors composed their narratives in dialogue not only with heroic epics and other oral and written literary traditions but also with folklore studies and with contemporary public conversations about Sweden. According to Bachtin, any given text must be understood as a dialogue with the entire history of literature and the analysis in this study shows that the sailors' narratives are composed according to the pattern of the returning Homeric hero: the hero by destiny, the hero by action, and the hero by tradition. In terms of contents the letters are centered on two major themes: the two world wars and the transformation of Sweden from a poor rural society into a modern well-fare state. These themes are dramatized in plots, test-conflicts, motifs, and motif-complexes (functions, motiphemes), well-known from oral traditions and classical drama. An experiment in which two of the letters are subjected to “ethnopoetic transcription” shows the nature and extent of the oral idiom used by the writers. Two other writers display their literary ambitions through an abundance of paraphrases and hidden quotations. For the museum staff, the sailors' contributions were problematic. The verbal artistry of the writers challenged assumptions that workers' life narratives should be “simple and ingenious descriptions” and transparent sources of ethnological data. Furthermore, the sailors' frankness about Sweden's and their own part in the world wars challenged the myth of the neutrality and peacefulness of the Swedish folkhem.

As computers and their networks continue to be developed, our day-to-day lives are being surrounded by increasingly more complex instruments, and we often have to ask questions about using them. At the same time, large collections of texts to answer these questions are being gathered. Therefore, there are potential answers to many of our questions that exist as texts somewhere. However, there are various gaps between our various questions and the texts, and these prevent us from accessing appropriate texts to answer our questions. The gaps are mainly composed of both expression and vagueness gaps. When we seek texts for answers using conventional keyword-based text retrieval systems, we often have trouble locating them. In contrast, when we ask experts on instruments or operators of call centers, they can resolve the various gaps, by interpreting our questions flexibly, and by producing some ask-backs. The problem with experts and call centers is that they are not always available. Two approaches have been studied to resolve the various gaps: the extension of keyword-based text retrieval systems, and the application of artificial intelligence techniques. However, these approaches have their respective limitations. The former uses texts or keywords as methods for ask-back questions, but these methods are not always suitable. The latter requires a specialized knowledge base described in formal languages, so it cannot be applied to existing collections with large amount of texts. This thesis targets real-world the large text collections provided by Microsoft Corporation, and addresses a novel methodology to resolve the gaps between various user questions and the texts. The methodology consists of two key solutions: precise and flexible methods of matching user questions with texts based on NLP (natural language processing) techniques, and ask-back methods using the matching methods. First, the matching methods, including sentence structure analysis and expression gap resolution, are described. In addition, these methods are extended into matching through metonymy, which is frequently observed in natural languages. After that, a solution to make ask backs based on these matching methods, by using two kinds of ask-backs that complement each other, is proposed. Both ask-backs navigate users from vague questions to specific answers. Finally, our methodology is evaluated through the real-world operation of a dialog system, Dialog Navigator, in which all the proposed methods are implemented. Chapter 1 discusses issues on information retrieval, and present which issues are to be solved. That is, it examines the question logs from a real-world natural-language-based text retrieval system, and organizes types and factors of the gaps. The examination indicates that some gaps between user questions and texts cannot be resolved well by methods used in previous studies, and suggests that both interactions with users and applicability to real-world text collections are needed. Based on the discussion, a solution to deal with these gaps is proposed, by advancing an approach employed in open-domain question-answering systems, i.e., utilization of recent NLP techniques, into resolving the various gaps. Chapter 2 proposes several methods of matching user questions with texts, based on the NLP techniques. Of these techniques, sentence structure analysis through fullparsing is essential for two reasons: first, it enables expression gaps to be resolved beyond the keyword level; second, it is indispensable in resolving vagueness gaps by providing ask-backs. Our methods include: sentence structure analysis using a Japanese parser KNP, expression-gap resolution based on two kinds of dictionaries, text-collection selection through question-type estimates, and score calculations based on sentence structures. An experimental evaluation on testsets shows significant improvements of performance by our methods. Chapter 3 proposes a novel method of processing metonymy, as an extension of the matching methods proposed in Chapter 2. Metonymy is a figure of speech in which the name of one thing is substituted for that of something else to which it is related, and this frequently occurs in both user questions and texts. Namely, this chapter addresses the automatic acquisition of pairs of metonymic expressions and their interpretative expressions from large corpora, and applies the acquired pairs to resolving structural gaps caused by metonymy. Unlike previous studies on metonymy, the method targets both recognition and interpretation process of metonymy. The method acquired 1, 126 pairs from corpora, and over 80% of the pairs were correct as interpretations of metonymy. Furthermore, an experimental evaluation on the testsets demonstrated that introducing the acquired pairs significantly improves matching. Chapter 4 presents a strategy of navigating users from vague questions to specific texts based on the previously discussed matching methods. Of course, it is necessary to make some use of ask-backs to achieve this, and this strategy involves two approaches: description extraction as a bottom-up approach, and dialog cards as a top-down approach. The former extracts the neighborhoods of the part that matches the user question in each text through matching methods. Such neighborhoods are mostly suitable for ask-backs that clarify vague user questions. However, if a user’s question is too vague, this approach often fails. The latter covers vague questions based on the know-how of the call center; dialog cards systematize procedures for ask-backs to clarify frequently asked questions that are vague. Matching methods are also applied to match user questions with the cards. Finally, a comparison of the approaches with those used in other related work demonstrates the novelty of the approaches. Chapter 5 describes the architecture for Dialog Navigator, a dialog system in which all the proposed methods are implemented. The system uses the real-world large text collections provided by Microsoft Corporation, and it has been open to the public on a website from April 2002. The methods were evaluated based on the real-world operational results of the system, because the various gaps to be resolved should reflect those in the real-world. The evaluation proved the effectiveness of the methods: more than 70% of all user questions were answered with relevant texts, the behaviors of both users and the system were reasonable with most dialogs, and most of the extracted descriptions for ask-backs were suitably matched. Chapter 6 concludes the thesis.
Kyoto University (京都大学)
0048
新制・課程博士
博士(情報学)
甲第11209号
情博第135号
新制||情||31(附属図書館)
UT51-2004-T178
京都大学大学院情報学研究科知能情報学専攻
(主査)教授 松山 隆司, 教授 河原 達也, 助教授 佐藤 理史
学位規則第4条第1項該当

Abstract  The aim of the study is to gain an understanding of how two teachers in the lower level of compulsory school, through the way they organize the teaching of reading with a focus on reading aloud, give pupils a possibility to converse about texts in order to develop an understanding of the texts. The study builds on two observations that focus on the possibilities that teachers give the pupils for conversation and the activities that deepen their understanding of the text they have read. Supplementary material consists of interviews with the two teachers. The collected material has been analysed with two analytical tools, sequential reading elements and textual mobility. The theoretical premises for the study are the sociocultural perspective (Säljö, 2012), reception theory (Rosenblatt, 2002; Langer, 2005) and Christie’s (1998) view of the teaching process in terms of macro-genres. The teachers’ comments from the study show that both teachers have the intention to ask reflective questions which give the pupils a chance for conversation at both associative and interactive level, but the observations showed that most of the teachers’ questions gave the pupils a possibility to move within the text through text-based mobility.

This paper researches how different amounts of data affect different word vector models for classification of dialog system user input. A hypothesis is tested that there is a data threshold for dense vector models to reach the state-of-the-art performance that have been shown with recent research, and that character-level n-gram word-vector classifiers are especially suited for Swedish classifiers–because of compounding and the character-level n-gram model ability to vectorize out-of-vocabulary words. Also, a second hypothesis is put forward that models trained with single statements are more suitable for chat user input classification than models trained with full conversations. The results are not able to support neither of our hypotheses but show that sparse vector models perform very well on the binary classification tasks used. Further, the results show that 799,544 words of data is insufficient for training dense vector models but that training the models with full conversations is sufficient for single statement classification as the single-statement- trained models do not show any improvement in classifying single statements.
Detta arbete undersöker hur olika datamängder påverkar olika slags ordvektormodeller för klassificering av indata till dialogsystem. Hypotesen att det finns ett tröskelvärde för träningsdatamängden där täta ordvektormodeller när den högsta moderna utvecklingsnivån samt att n-gram-ordvektor-klassificerare med bokstavs-noggrannhet lämpar sig särskilt väl för svenska klassificerare söks bevisas med stöd i att sammansättningar är särskilt produktiva i svenskan och att bokstavs-noggrannhet i modellerna gör att tidigare osedda ord kan klassificeras. Dessutom utvärderas hypotesen att klassificerare som tränas med enkla påståenden är bättre lämpade att klassificera indata i chattkonversationer än klassificerare som tränats med hela chattkonversationer. Resultaten stödjer ingendera hypotes utan visar istället att glesa vektormodeller presterar väldigt väl i de genomförda klassificeringstesterna. Utöver detta visar resultaten att datamängden 799 544 ord inte räcker till för att träna täta ordvektormodeller väl men att konversationer räcker gott och väl för att träna modeller för klassificering av frågor och påståenden i chattkonversationer, detta eftersom de modeller som tränats med användarindata, påstående för påstående, snarare än hela chattkonversationer, inte resulterar i bättre klassificerare för chattpåståenden.

Procurou-se avaliar parâmetros fisiológicos de antas (Tapirus terrestris) de vida livre capturadas no Parque Estadual Morro do Diabo, estado de São Paulo, Brasil, entre 1996-2008 pelo Programa Anta Mata Atlântica. Paralelamente, avaliou-se a exposição desses animais a patógenos de interesse em saúde pública e saúde animal. Nesse período foram obtidas amostras de 35 animais. Os valores médios de hemograma e bioquímica sérica foram comparados com os valores de referência do ISIS, através do uso do teste t de Student. Os resultados médios de todos os parâmetros avaliados estavam dento do intervalo de variação descrito para a espécie em cativeiro. Títulos sorológicos incluíram Encefalite Equina Oeste (n=1 animal), Encefalite Equina Leste (n=6), Leptospira interrogans sorovar pomona (n=6), Leptospira interrogans sorovar autumnalis (n=1), Leptospira interrogans sorovar hebdomadi (n=1), Língua Azul (n=5), Rinotraqueíte Infecciosa Bovina (IBR) (n=1). Não foi detectada a presença de anticorpos para Febre Aftosa, Doença de Aujeszky, Parvovirose Suína, Diarréia Viral Bovina, Leucose Bovina, Estomatite Vesicular, Anemia Infecciosa Equina e Brucelose. Todas as capturadas apresentavam alta infestação de carrapatos, identificados como Amblyomma brasiliense, Amblyomma cajennense, Amblyomma coelebs, Amblyomma ovale, Amblyomma naponense, Haemaphysalis juxtakochi e Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. Alguns animais apresentaram Tunga penetrans e mosca-do-chifre (Haematobia irritans). Oito amostras de urinas de antas de vida livre foram analisadas e descritas pela primeira vez. Os swabs das cavidades naturais apresentaram Staphylococcus aureus em todos os orifícios. Escherichia coli em todos os orifícios, com exceção da orelha. Proteus sp. em todos os orifícios, com exceção do prepúcio. Ânus e vagina presentaram as mesmas bactérias, já prepúcio e ânus se distinguiram pelo Staphylococcus saprophyticus.
It was evaluated physiologic parameters of wild Lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) captured in Morro do Diabo State Park, São Paulo state, Brazil, between 1996 2008 by Atlantic Rainforest Lowland Tapir Program. Together, it was evaluated the expose of these animals to pathogens of public health and animal health interest. During this time it was collected samples from 35 animals. The medium value of blood cells and serum biochemistry were compared with reference values of ISIS, with the t test of Student. All medium values of parameters evaluated were inside of regular range described for the specie in captivity. Serologic titles include West Equine Encephalitis (n= 1 animal), East Equine Encephalitis (n=6), Leptospira interrogans sorovar pomona (n=6), Leptospira interrogans sorovar autumnalis (n=1), Leptospira interrogans sorovar hebdomadi (n=1), Bluetongue (n=5), Infectious Bovine Rhinotraqueitis (IBR) (n=1). It was not detected antibodies to Foot and Mouth Disease, Aujeszky\'s disease, Porcine Parvovirosis, Bovine Viral Diarrhea, Bovine Leucosis, Vesicular Stomatitis, Equine Infectious Anemia and Brucelosis. All captured animals had high level of infestation of ticks, identified as Amblyomma brasiliense, Amblyomma cajennense, Amblyomma coelebs, Amblyomma ovale, Amblyomma naponense, Haemaphysalis juxtakochi and Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. Some animals had Tunga penetrans and mosca-do-chifre (Haematobia irritans). Eight samples of urine from wild tapirs were analyzed and described first time. The swabs from natural cavity showed Staphylococcus aureus in all of them. Escherichia coli in all cavities, except ears. Proteus sp. in all cavities, except prepucial. Anus and vagina showed the same kinds of bacteria, but prepucial and vagina show the same bacteria, and prepucial and anus to be different because Staphylococcus saprophyticus.

The master’s thesis is focused on the construction of new building of technical hinterland DIAMO in Straz pod Ralskem. It is a two-storey building. The building is designed brick with prefab pressed reinforced concrete panels, roofed a flat roof. The work includes technical report, technological regulation for ventilated facade, design a construction site installations, time schedule, control and test plan, itemized budget, fire and safety solutions.

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Os objetivos deste trabalho foram avaliar a influ?ncia do desbaste e da fertiliza??o p?s-desbaste no crescimento de ?rvores de um povoamento clonal de eucalipto e comparar a idade t?cnica de desbaste (ITD), obtida atrav?s do M?todo dos Ingressos Percentuais, com a idade t?cnica de corte (ITC) de dois povoamentos de clones de eucalipto. Para o primeiro objetivo, os dados foram coletados em 30 parcelas permanentes, sendo 16 convencionais e 14 g?meas, em que foi analisado o efeito do desbaste (parcela convencional) e da fertiliza??o (parcela g?mea) sobre o crescimento das ?rvores. O desbaste foi realizado aos 81 meses, com intensidade de 20%, 35% e 50% de ?rea basal presente, eliminando os piores indiv?duos, e a fertiliza??o aplicada aos 99 meses. As vari?veis analisadas resultantes da totaliza??o dos dados das parcelas foram ?rea basal (B), di?metro m?dio (q), altura total m?dia (Ht) e volume total com casca (Vcc). A an?lise dos dados constituiu-se na compara??o do efeito de vari?veis em rela??o ? idade por meio de modelo de regress?o, e foi realizada aos 99 meses ap?s o desbaste e aos 81 meses ap?s a fertiliza??o. Para atender ao segundo objetivo, os dados foram coletados em 34 parcelas permanentes, instaladas em povoamentos com espa?amento de 3,0 x 2,5 metros, em dois s?tios diferentes. Essas parcelas foram medidas aos 24, 36, 48, 60 e 72 meses, durante o Invent?rio Florestal Continuo (IFC). O M?todo dos Ingressos Percentuais foi empregado para determinar a ?poca de realiza??o do primeiro desbaste. Para projetar as distribui??es diam?tricas, para idades superiores ? ?ltima medi??o, utilizou-se um modelo de distribui??o diam?trica, que consiste na recupera??o dos par?metros de uma fun??o de densidade de probabilidade (f.d.p) ao longo dos anos. Neste trabalho, adotou-se a fun??o Weibull, que foi ajustada pelo m?todo de m?xima verossimilhan?a. A partir das informa??es de n?mero de indiv?duos e valores estimados para os par?metros da fun??o Weibull, ? e ?, de ambas as distribui??es diam?tricas analisadas, calculou-se o ingresso percentual (IP) de ?rvores em classes de di?metro sucessivas ao longo do tempo. Para determinar a ITD, foi ajustado um modelo exponencial justaposto a um modelo linear simples. A ITC foi definida como o momento em que o incremento corrente ? igual ao incremento m?dio, sendo a produtividade volum?trica, ao longo do tempo, estimada pelo modelo de Clutter. O desbaste apresentou influ?ncia para as vari?veis ?rea basal, volume total com casca e di?metro m?dio, por?m n?o influenciou a altura total m?dia. A fertiliza??o realizada ap?s o desbaste n?o influenciou a produ??o das vari?veis analisadas. A idade t?cnica de desbaste de um povoamento de eucalipto localizado em um s?tio de maior capacidade produtiva ocorre antes, comparado com a idade de desbaste de um povoamento em um local de produtividade inferior. Esse mesmo comportamento ocorre para a idade t?cnica de corte. Para um mesmo s?tio, a idade t?cnica de desbaste ocorre ap?s a idade t?cnica de corte.
Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncia Florestal, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2016.
The objectives of this work were to evaluate the influence of thinning and post-thinning fertilization on tree growth of a clonal eucalypt stand, and compare the thinning technical age (ITD), obtained by the Percentages Ingress Method, with the harvest technical age (ITC) of two clonal eucalypt stands. For the first objective, the data were collected in 30 permanent plots, 16 conventional and 14 twins, in which were analyzed the effect of thinning (conventional plot) and fertilization (twin plot) on tree growth. The thinning was carried out at 81 months, with intensity of 20%, 35% and 50% of present basal area, eliminating the worst individuals, and the fertilization applied at 99 months. The analyzed variables resulting from the summation of data from plots were basal area (B), quadratic diameter (q), mean total height (Ht) and total volume with bark (Vcc). The data analysis consisted in the comparison of variable effects, in relation to age, through regression model, and was held at 99 months after the thinning and 81 months after fertilization. To attend the second objective, the data were collected in 34 permanent plots, installed in stands with spacing of 3.0 x 2.5 meters, in two different sites. These plots were measured at 24, 36, 48, 60 and 72 months, during the Continuous Forest Inventory (IFC). The Percentages Ingress Method was employed to determine the epoch of realization of the first thinning. To project the diameter distributions for older ages after the last measurement, there was used a diameter distribution model, which consists in recovering the parameters of a probability density function (f.d.p) along the years. In this work, it was adopted the Weibull function, which was adjusted by the maximum likelihood method. From the information of number of individuals and estimated values for the parameters of the Weibull function, ? and ?, from both analyzed diameter distributions, it was calculated the percentage ingress (IP) of trees in successive diameter classes along the time. To determine the ITD it was adjusted an exponential model juxtaposed to a simple linear model. The ITC was defined as the moment that the current increment is equal to the average increment, in which the volumetric productivity along the time was estimated by Clutter model. The thinning presented influence for the variables basal area, total volume with bark and quadratic diameter, however did not affect the mean total height. The fertilization performed after thinning did not influence the production of the analyzed variables. The thinning technical age of an eucalypt stand located in a higher productive capacity site occurs earlier compared to the thinning age of a stand in a lower productivity site. This same behavior occurs for the harvest technical age. For the same site, the thinning technical age occurs after the harvest technical age.

Die Dissertation zeigt, dass die Prinzipien kohärenter Kommunikation auf psycholinguistisch begründete Prinzipien der Textproduktion zurückzuführen sind. Die gemeinsame Basis von Text- und Dialogproduktion ist die Quaestio, die als leitende Frage Vorgaben für den Aufbau eines Textes, aber auch einer einzelnen Äußerung macht. Im Text sichert die Quaestio Kohärenz, indem die Textbausteine auf der konzeptuellen Ebene – und nicht allein durch lexikalische oder grammatische Mittel – verknüpft werden. Das bedeutet, dass Kohärenzherstellung eine kognitive Leistung ist, die nicht allein rezeptiv zu erbringen ist, sondern auch bei der Sprachproduktion die Beachtung von Planungsvorgaben verlangt. Zunächst werden die Begriffe Kohärenz und Kohäsion und verschiedene Ansätze zu ihrer Beschreibung diskutiert. Außerdem werden Methoden der Dialoganalyse einander gegenüber gestellt. In dieser Diskussion werden unter anderem Rhetorical Structure Theory und Centering-Theorie behandelt. Da die Arbeit eher strukturelle mit qualitativen Analysen verbindet, werden methodische Zugänge zur Dialoganalyse wie die Konversationsanalyse, aber auch Clark’s sozialpsychologischer Ansatz der joint actions und joint activities sowie Pickering’s und Garrod’s alignment-Theorie aufgegriffen. Letztlich wird auf das Quaestio-Modell von Stutterheim zurückgegriffen, da es aus psycholinguistischer Perspektive den weitesten Erklärungsrahmen bietet. Der Hauptteil der Dissertation ist der Modell-Entwicklung anhand authentischer Gesprächsdaten gewidmet. Schließlich werden Prinzipien der Quaestio-Bearbeitung im Dialog entwickelt. Da unterschiedliche Gesprächssituationen untersucht werden, liefert diese Arbeit ein Inventar an Kohärenzprinzipien samt ihrer charakteristischen Merkmale, das nicht nur die Analyse beliebiger weiterer Gespräche erlaubt, sondern beispielsweise auch zur Entwicklung von Kommunikationsroutinen eingesetzt werden kann. So werden Anwendungsperspektiven psycholinguistischer Forschung erkennbar.
This doctoral thesis shows in how far principles of coherent communication can be traced back to psycholinguistically founded principles of text production. The so-called quaestio forms the common basis of text and dialogue production. As an implicit underlying question it sets preferences for the structure of a whole text as well as a single utterance. The quaestio ensures coherence of texts on a conceptual basis rather than merely through the use of lexical or grammatical means. Thus, the production of coherence can be seen as cognitive achievement not only by listeners, but also by speakers who have to follow planning constraints. The thesis discusses the terms coherence and cohesion as well as descriptive approaches dealing with these terms. Additionally, methods of dialogue analysis are confronted with each other. This discussion treats for example Rhetorical Structure Theory and Centering-Theory. The thesis discusses diverse methodological approaches, because it combines structural with qualitative analyses. Thus approaches such as Conversation Analysis, Clark’s concept of joint actions and joint activities, but also Pickering’s and Garrod’s alignment-theory are being treated. In the end the quaestio approach by Stutterheim is chosen, because it offers the widest explanatory framework from a psycholinguistic point of view. The main part of the thesis is dedicated to detailed analyses of real-life dialogue. In conclusion, principles of quaestio management in dialogues are proposed. Because the study treats a wide variety of interaction settings, it delivers a set of principles of coherence and their typical features that allows not only for analyses of any other set of dialogues, but may also support the development of communication routines. Therefore, this thesis hints on application scenarios of psycholinguistic research.

This study, based on interviews with seven teachers of Swedish, investigates how they define the concept of text interpretation and how they assess pupils’ ability to interpret text. The results show that the teachers define text interpretation as an ability to perceive hidden messages in text and an ability that is closely connected to reading comprehension. This description agrees with the way text interpretation is explained in previous research but not with the description in the curriculum. This is a defect, since teachers ought to know what they are supposed to assess, based on the steering documents they are expected to follow in their professional practice. Here, however, the teachers’ assessment skills are shown to be an asset. When teaching literature the teachers say that they normally use dialogue and written assignments in which pupils reason on the basis of the content of the text and their personal experience. The forms of assessment are summative and formal, although it seems difficult to use fixed answer templates for reasoning in contexts like this where it is not clear what can be said to be right or wrong. Summative assessment, however, seems more reliable and credible than formative assessment. A picture thus emerges of the difficulty of assessing text interpretation which is simultaneously multivalent and reliable.
Denna studie är grundad på intervjuer av 7 svensklärare i syfte att undersöka hur de definierar begreppet texttolkning och hur de bedömer elevers förmåga att tolka text. I resultatet framgår att lärarna definierar texttolkning som en förmåga att uppfatta dolda budskap i text och en förmåga som är nära sammankopplad med läsförståelse. Denna beskrivning stämmer väl överens med hur texttolkning förklaras i tidigare forskning men inte med den beskrivning som framkommer i läroplanen. Detta är en brist då lärare bör veta vad de ska bedöma, utifrån styrdokument de ska utgå från i sin yrkesutövning. Här framstår dock lärares bedömningsfärdighet som en tillgång. Vid litteraturundervisning säger lärarna att de vanligen tillämpar dialog och skriftliga inlämningsuppgifter, med resonemang utifrån både textens innehåll och personliga erfarenheter. Bedömningsformerna är summativa och formella, även om fasta svarsmallar ter sig svåra att använda vid resonemang, då det i dessa sammanhang inte tydligt framgår något som med säkerhet kan sägas vara rätt eller fel. Summativ bedömning ter sig dock mer tillförlitlig och trovärdig vid en bedömningssituation, jämfört med formativ. Här framkommer således en bild av att det är svårt att bedöma texttolkning som på samma gång är flertydig och tillförlitlig.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit begibt sich die Autorin auf eine einzigartige Tauchreise in das islamische Denken. Sie betrachtet die größeren Fragen des interreligiösen und kulturellen Dialogs zwischen Christentum und Islam, sowie die Grundlagen, auf denen dieser Dialog nach Vorstellungen muslimischer Religionsexperten geführt werden sollte. Der Reiseführer ist Prof. Dr. Peter Heine, deutscher Islamwissenschaftler. Um die Wende des interreligiösen und kulturellen Dialogs einzuleiten, legen die berühmtesten Gelehrten der islamischen Welt, darunter Großscheich von Al-Azhar Prof. Dr. Tantawi, der ägyptische Gelehrte und Politiker Dr. Zakzouk, Großmufti von Ägypten Dr. Ali Gomaa, Großmufti von Mauretanien Dr. Ibn Bayyah, sowie Großmufti von Syrien Dr. Hassoun, zum ersten Mal die Grundzüge eines wahrhaften, ernsten und erfolgreichen Dialogs zwischen der westlichen und islamischen Welt nieder. Die „Regensburger Rede“ des Papst Benedikt XVI im Jahr 2006, der darauffolgende offene Brief von 38 muslimischen Gelehrten an den Papst, sowie der Text der Botschaft aus Amman sind die Grundsteine zur Herstellung einer friedlichen, solidarischen Welt, in der ein offener geistiger Austausch gefördert und gegenseitiges Verständnis gefordert wird.
An unique trip into the Islamic thought. Using the ship of humanity the present work dives into the largest issues of the inter-religious and cultural dialogue between Christianity and Islam, as well as the basics on which this dialog should be conducted according to the ideas of famous Muslim religious experts. The guide is Dr. Peter Heine, the famous German Islamic scholar. For the first time, the most famous scholars of the Islamic world, including Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Grand Mufti of Egypt Dr. Ali Gomaa, Dr. Zazouk, minister of higher religious organization, Grand Mufti of Mauritania Dr. Ibn Bayyah, Grand Mufti of Syria Dr. Hassoun and others draw the basic principles of a successful and honest dialogue between the Western and Islamic world in order to live in a solidaric and peaceful world to restore the turn of interreligious and intercultural dialog.

Dans le cadre de la tenue au feu des matériaux composites, il est nécessaire d’évaluer la dégradation de leurs propriétés thermiques et mécaniques due à des pertes de masse, de la fissuration matricielle et/ou des délaminages. Néanmoins, peu d’études dans la littérature sur la tenue en température des composites aéronautiques concernent le comportement mécanique et la rupture des interfaces avant toute dégradation thermique, sujet qui est l’objet principal de ce travail. Ainsi, l’objectif est de proposer un modèle de prévision de rupture concernant tant l’amorçage que la propagation du délaminage pour des chargements thermomécaniques. Ce travail a porté en grande partie sur la caractérisation des propriétés d’interfaces à l’aide d’une analyse d’essais de propagation de fissure en mode II pour des éprouvettes chauffées par effet Joule. Ces analyses numériques montrent que le comportement du pli n’explique pas la réponse macroscopique pseudo-ductile observée expérimentalement. Ainsi, une méthode de dialogue essai-calcul, comparant les champs cinématiques mesurés par corrélation d’images numériques et ceux simulés par éléments finis, souligne l’importance du comportement visqueux à l’échelle de l’interface.C’est par une approche similaire de type FEMU que les paramètres d’une loi de rupture de type cohésif ont été identifiés en température et en tenant compte des différentes sources d’incertitude. Ce travail met en évidence la similitude entre le cisaillement plan et hors plan, tant sur le comportement que sur la rupture. En parallèle, l’analyse d’essais de tenue en température par impact laser a permis d’établir un critère d’amorçage par une approche couplée en contrainte et en énergie. Une confrontation de ce critère aux paramètres de la loi de zone cohésive identifiés précédemment permet de discuter de l’échelle de modélisation de l’interface
Within the framework of the fire resistance of composite materials, it is necessary to assess the degradation of their thermal and mechanical properties due to mass losses, matrix cracking and/or delamination cracks. Nevertheless, few studies in the literature about the temperature resistance of aeronautical composites concern the mechanical behaviour and the rupture of interfaces before any thermal degradation,subject which is the main topic of this work. Thus, the objective is to propose a failure model concerning both the delamination crack initiation and growth under thermomechanical loads. Much of this work has focused on the characterisation of interface properties using an analysis of mode II crack propagation tests for Joule heated specimens. These numerical analyses show that the ply behaviour does not explain the macroscopic pseudo-ductile response observed experimentally. Thus, a test-calculation dialog method, comparing the kinematic fields measured by digital images correlation and those simulated by finite elements, underlines the importance of the viscous behaviour at the interface scale. By a similar FEMU approach the parameters of a cohesive-type fracture law have been identified in temperature and taking into account the different sources of uncertainty. This work highlights the similarity between plane and out-of-plane shearing, both on behaviour and on failure. In parallel, the analysis of temperature resistance tests by laser impact made it possible to establish a crack initiation criterion by a coupled stress and energy approach. A comparison of this criterion with the parameters of the cohesive zone law previously identified makes it possible to discuss about the modeling scale of the interface

This thesis focuses on the dialogue between two dissimilar forms of art: text and image, criss-crossing within one work of art. The point of interest is the exact moment of their encounter, which opens an interesting intermediary field for the litterateur as well, which I define and explore in the theory chapter. I aim to find possible tools for analysis,examine changes in perception, and the capacity of the semiotic base.

Os sistemas automáticos de conversação, conhecidos normalmente como chat bots, estão a tornar-se cada vez mais populares e devem ser capazes de interpretar a linguagem humana para compreender e comunicar com os seres humanos. A deteção de intenções desempenha uma tarefa crucial para desenvolver conversas inteligentes nestes sistemas de conversa. As implementações existentes destes sistemas requerem muitos dados etiquetados e a sua aquisição pode ser dispendiosa e demorada. Esta tese visa avaliar representações de texto existentes, utilizando abordagens clássicas, tais como Word2Vec, GloVe e modelos de Transformer pré-treinados (BERT, RoBERTa, GPT2 e outros), para possível automatização de dados de diálogo não etiquetados através de algoritmos de agrupamento. Os algoritmos de agrupamento testados, vão desde o clássico K-Means até abordagens mais sofisticadas, tais como HDBSCAN, com a ajuda de técnicas de redução de dimensão (t-SNE, UMAP). Um conjunto de dados é utilizado para avaliação das técnicas utilizadas, que contêm diálogo de intents de utilizadores em múltiplos domínios e taxonomia de intents variada que se encontram no mesmo domínio. Os resultados mostram que os Transformers apresentam um desempenho de representação de texto superior às representações clássicas. No entanto, um modelo ensemble com múltiplos algoritmos de agrupamento e de múltiplas representações de fontes diferentes apresenta uma melhoria drástica na solução final. A aplicação do UMAP e t-SNE em dimensões mais baixas pode também apresentar um desempenho tão bom ou mesmo melhor do que as representações originais.
Dialog systems commonly called chat bots are increasingly more popular and must interpret spoken language to understand and communicate with humans. Intent detection plays a crucial task to develop smart and intelligent conversations in these conversational systems. Existing implementations require a lot of labeled data and acquiring it can be costly and time-consuming. This thesis aims to evaluate existing text representations, using classical approaches, such as Word2Vec, GloVe, and current state of the art pre-trained Transformer models (BERT, RoBERTa, GPT2, and more) for possible automation of unlabeled dialog data through clustering algorithms. The cluster algorithms tested, range from the classical K-Means to more sophisticated approaches such as HDBSCAN, with dimension reduction techniques (t-SNE, UMAP) as pre processing techniques. A dataset is used for evaluation that contains multiple user intents in many domains and varying intents taxonomy in the same domain. Results show that Transformers demonstrate superior text representation performance to classical representations. Nevertheless, ensemble clustering with multiple clustering algorithms and multiple representations from different sources shows massive improvement in the final clustering solution. Applying UMAP and t-SNE in lower dimensions may also perform as good or even better than the original clustering with the original embeddings.

Master's thesis is devoted to the dialogue between image and word. Two different approaches are developed in the theoretical part. First, a word as part of a figurative expression, then an image assuming function that usually belongs to words. The second part is the main focus of the whole work, which is the diary as a medium dealing with both ways of expression. In the following chapters of the theoretical part, we are looking for the principles of diary in various examples of fine arts. Their definition opens up space for the author's - practical part. There are four different ways of the diary forms presented in practical part. The work experiments with expression between images and words to free diary from conventions and traditional ways. Similarly, the didactic part elaborates two innovative realized art projects. The first presents the concept of author identification with a fictitious character and its subsequent diary creation. In the second, the theme of the diary is demonstrated in form of a profile on the Facebook social network, which arises from the imaginary creation of an "updated artist". The master's thesis brings the original author's view into the interpretation of the visual arts through the principles of diary creation, their essence is subsequently documented and disseminated...

This diploma thesis deals with the novella The end of the nylon age written by Josef Škvorecký in 1950. It explores the text from a literary historical, literary theoretical and literary "practical", editorial point of view. After the introduction of author's work in necessary period and factual context the thesis focuses on the iterpretation of the novella, its narrative situation and the resulting structure of the text. The thesis then deals with dialogues and dialogic characteristics of the novella. The closing part pays attention to the textological issues - creating of an annotation system to the book. The novella is being related to other artist's work within each theme throughout the entire thesis.