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Svensson, Andreas, and Tim Zetterberg. "Utvärdering av höjdosäkerheten i digitala höjdmodeller framställda fotogrammetriskt med UAS." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-14822.
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Digitala ytmodeller (Digital Surface Model – DSM) används ofta i geodetiskt sammanhang. DSM har länge skapats bland annat med hjälp av fotogrammetri där flygbilder har tagits med traditionella flygningar. Intresset tilltar nu för att framställa DSM med hjälp av obemannade flygfarkoster, så kallade UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System). Den största fördelen med UAS är att det går snabbt och enkelt att få den lilla flygfarkosten upp i luften för att ta flygbilder och framställa DSM kostnadseffektivt.Syftet med detta examensarbete var att undersöka vilken höjdosäkerhet som kan uppnås i DSM som framställts genom fotogrammetri med UAS. För att åstadkomma detta har två flygningar gjorts den 25 april 2013 med en Gatewing X100 över ett område i Grillby där cirka 350 flygbilder togs sammanlagt. Efter flygningarna mättes med en totalstation 16 kontrollprofiler in på olika terrängtyper över flygområdet enligt rekommendationer i SIS-TS 21145:2007 ”Statistisk provning av digital terrängmodell”.Från de två flygningarna som gjordes i Grillby framställdes två olika DSM i programvaran AgiSoft Photoscan. DSM importerades därefter till SBG Geo där höjdskillnaderna mellan kontrollprofilerna och DSM beräknades. Medelavvikelsen i höjd varierade mellan -0,112 m och 0,050 m för de olika provytorna. De provytor som systematiskt avvek från DSM var asfaltprofilerna, dessa låg konstant (ca 0,1 m) under DSM. Anledningen tros ligga i bildmatchningen i programvaran AgiSoft Photoscan.De DSM som framställdes i detta examensarbete uppfyllde kraven för klass 4 enligt SIS-TS 21144:2007 vilket innebär att max medelavvikelse i höjd får vara 0,15 m. Det innebär, enligt samma SIS-TS, att framställda DSM är lämpade som projekteringsunderlag för arbetsplan väg och systemhandling järnväg (i jämn terräng).Digital Surface Models (DSM) is common used for geodetic measurement today. Digital surface models have been created for a long time using photogrammetry where aerial photographs have been taken with traditional flights. The interest to produce DSM using unmanned air vehicles (UAS) has increased lately. The main advantage of a UAS system is that it is quick and easy to get the little aircraft up in the air to take aerial photographs and produce DSM cost-effective.The aim of this thesis was to investigate the height of uncertainty that can be achieved in DSM created by photogrammetry using UAS. To achieve this two flights have been made the 25th of April 2013 with a Gatewing X100. The flights were made over an area in Grillby where approximately 350 aerial photographs in total were taken. After the flights 16 control profiles were measured with a total station on different terrain types over the flight area as recommended by the document SIS-TS 21145:2007 “Statistical testing of Digital Terrain Models”.From the two flights that were made in Grillby, two different DSM was produced in the software AgiSoft Photoscan. The DSM was imported to SBG Geo and height differences between the control profiles and the DSM were calculated. This resulted in height differences which ranged between -0.112 m and 0,050 m in the various sample surfaces. The sample surface that deviated most from the DSM was the asphalt profiles that deviated about -0.1 m. It was considered to be a systematic error, but the source of the systematic error has not been located among the measurements. The error is believed to instead be in the image matching done by AgiSoft Photoscan. The DSM created in this thesis is classified as class 4 in a table from SIS-TS 21144:2007 which means that the max mean difference in height inside the DSM is ±0,15 m. This shows us that the DSM created with photogrammetry using UAS is suited for both as material for planning in railway and road constructions and for visualization of the ground.
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Strakšys, Justinas. "Sričiai orientuotos informacinės sistemos kūrimo metodikos tyrimas ir taikymas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090304_095856-47494.
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Viena iš naujausių sistemų kūrimo metodikų – sričiai orientuotas modeliavimas (angl. domain specific modeling). Ji paremta sričiai orientuotos kalbos kūrimu ir jos panaudojimu sistemos kūrimui. Ši metodika leidžia sistemos kūrimui naudoti sąvokas, artimas probleminei sričiai, kas padidina abstrakcijos lygi projektavimo metu. Srities sąvokos aptariamos ir įvardinamos kartu su ekspertais ar paprastais darbuotojais, dirbančiais analizuojamoje srityje, ir nebūtinai išmanančiais sistemų kūrimo metodus. Ši metodika leidžia sistemos projektuotojui lengviau susikalbėti su užsakovais, nes modeliuose figūruojančios sąvokos yra užsakovui suprantamos ir aiškios.Domain Specific Modeling is a software engineering methodology for designing and developing information systems. It involves systematic use of a graphical domain specific language (DSL) to represent the various facets of a system. DSM languages tend to support higher-level abstractions than general purpose modeling languages, so they require less effort and fewer low-level details to specify a given system which is very important nowadays, when the functionality of information system must be maximized with minimum development time and cost. This paper compares usage of DSL for information system development with other two, most often used methodologies for this purpose: MDA and usage of UML. It gives basic advantages and disadvantages of DSL and DSM usage, describes differences of DSL (DSM), UML and MDA. This paper also describes usage of DSM methodology (creating DSL and using it for software development) for creating information system. It covers main steps of creation process’s: describing the domain concepts, describing the artifacts that are planning for the DSL, building domain model, building the designer for DSL, building the artifact generator, implementing validations and constraints, testing and deploying the DSL.
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SUARATO, JEAN-PIERRE. "Essai sur une nosographie sexologique : a propos de la classification proposee en 1980 par l'american psychiatric association (d.s.m. iii) ; la sexologie medicale aux confins de la psychiatrie et de la medecine organique." Aix-Marseille 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989AIX20124.
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FREDRIKSSON, DISA, and JOEL OLSSON. "Analys av systemarkitektur." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-192087.
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I detta kandidatexamensarbete som skrivits inom ämnet systemarkitektur undersöktes och besvarades ett antal frågeställningar som berör området. Projektets syfte var att undersöka användningen av DSM och forskningsverktyget IGTA++, som är en MATLAB-baserad algoritm. Kan de nämnda hjälpmedlen användas för att modularisera redan färdiga produkter, produkter med höga prestandakrav och specifika användningsområden och kan samma metod användas för olika produkter är frågor som besvaras. Genom att välja tre produkter med skilda användningsområden, krav på prestanda och precision samt olika produktarkitekturer som sedan monterades isär och studerades besvarades frågorna. De tre produkterna som valdes var en tryckluftsdriven mutterdragare som förlitar sig mycket på mekanik, en borrmaskin som har både elektriska komponenter och mekaniska kopplingar och en haptikenhet vars funktion beror mycket av den elektroniska signalstyrningen. Analyser av de ingående komponenterna resulterade i DSM:er för vardera produkt. Därefter klustrades dessa i MATLAB med IGTA++ för att få förslag på moduler. Modulerna studerades och det konstaterades att resultaten duger men behöver efterarbete för att bli fullständigt användbara. Projektets slutsatser blev därför att IGTA++ fungerar bra som ett hjälpmedel vid modularisering men kräver efterarbete för att uppnå önskat resultat. Algoritmen fungerar även på olika sorters produktarkitekturer och de varierande resultaten beror på produkternas komplexitet. Det går även att använda IGTA++ på redan färdiga produkter för att helt eller delvis modularisera.This is a Bachelor Thesis within the subject of system architecture and was written in Swedish. In this thesis, the purpose and deliverables were to investigate and answer the given questions regarding the subject system architecture. The projects purpose is to study the use of DSM and the newly developed research tool IGTA++, a MATLAB based algorithm. Can the mentioned tools be used for modularization of already existing products and can products with high demands on performance and specific areas of use be modularized with the same method are the questions that will be answered. By choosing three products with different areas of use, demands on performance and precision but also different product architectures and then taking them apart and studying the components and their interactions, the questions were answered. The three chosen products were a pneumatic nutrunner relying heavily on mechanics to fulfill its purpose, a drilling machine using both electronics and mechanics and lastly a haptic unit whose function depend on electronic signals. Analyzes of the products components resulted in DSM:s for each product. Thereafter the DSM:s were clustered in MATLAB using IGTA++ to obtain suggestions on how the products should be modularized. The suggested modules were analyzed and it was seen that the results are sufficient but require some work to be useful. The conclusions of the project are that IGTA++ serves as an aiding tool when modularizing but demands post algorithm work to achieve desired results. The algorithm can be applied to different types of product architectures and variations in the results are related to the products complexity. IGTA++ can also be used for already existing products to completely or partially modularize.
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Šárová, Irena. "Mapování závislostí mezi projekty." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193935.
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This thesis describes the issue of project dependencies. In managing projects we meet almost every time some kind of dependency. Currently, the project is almost never an isolated group of activity that is able to independently bring same value or result. Therefore, this issue occurs in many areas of managing project. The first theoretical part is focused on some of these areas. It describes disciplines such as Project, Program and Portfolio management. These areas are characterized and then described how they can solve project dependencies. The second part is focused on matrices DSM and DMM, which can serve as one of the methods to effectively manage all connections and dependencies in projects. Area DSM and DMM matrix is first explained and then are expressed its possibilities. In the last part are the information gained in the previous phase applied to a practical example in the banking environment. The method is applied to 25 projects that are guided in an unnamed banking institution. For these projects are set dimensions and are subsequently compiled specific DSM (Dependency Structure Matrix) and DMM (Domain Mapping Matrix) matrices. To certain dimensions is then used clustering method and on the resulting matrix is used simple matrix notation, such as transposition and matrix multiplication. It will create basically a tool, which is a network of all the dependencies between dimensions and projects that can simulate pre-defined scenarios.
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Riley, Pamela G. "DSM-5, Asperger's Syndrome Diagnosis, and Mothers' Experiences with Mental Health Services." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6657.
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Mothers who have children with a previous Asperger's syndrome diagnosis had to go through a process to maintain or obtain services for their child when the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM-5) removed the diagnosis. Prior to and since the release of the DSM-5 in 2013, there has been an expression of concern in the literature about how this diagnostic change would affect services for children with a previous Asperger's syndrome diagnosis. Current research has not sufficiently explored the experiences mothers have had with this process. The purpose of this hermeneutical phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of mothers since this diagnostic change. Data were collected and saturation was reached at 6 participants using semistructured interviews. Interpretive phenomenological analysis was used to interpret the experiences of these mothers which produced 3 main themes related to the process of obtaining a new diagnosis, insurance-funded services, and educationally-funded services. The results included both subthemes and superordinate themes that highlighted the need for more stakeholder education, difficulty navigating systems, the need for advocacy, concerns about new diagnoses and loss of services, and the public's perception and the stigma associated with the Asperger's syndrome diagnosis both before and after this diagnostic change. Study results may assist with improving counselors and other stakeholder's knowledge about the importance of the mothers' experiences when there is a diagnostic change of this nature. Also, counselor educators can instill the importance of diagnostic accuracy and supporting all stakeholders when teaching new counselors.
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Steyl, Jacob Petrus. "An automated solution to facilitate sustainable DSM in the mining environment / J.P. Steyl." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2531.
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South Africa is experiencing a serious electricity supply problem. This problem is expected to persist until at least 2012. During the winter of 2006 load shedding and electricity supply-cuts started occurring in the Western Cape. These spread to the rest of the country during the summer of 2007. By January 2008 daily load shedding was a common occurrence across South Africa.
In the 1990s the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME), the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) and Eskom started a national demand side management (DSM) programme with the help of energy services companies (ESCOs). The aim is to reduce demand peaks and to promote the efficient use of electricity. These projects can be implemented much faster than building new power stations and are also more cost-effective. In 2008 an accelerated DSM program was launched to address the electricity shortage in South Africa.
Unfortunately, South African DSM projects experience the same sustainability problems as their counterparts overseas. These projects have been shown to be unsustainable over the five year projected life-span. There are various reasons for this, including client mismanagement and maintenance problems.
An automated and rapid feedback system was identified as the best solution to address this problem. If plant personnel could be informed as soon as a DSM project's performance starts to decline, they would be able to respond much faster to rectify the problem. Reporting on DSM performance is difficult to achieve as these reports and the processing of measured data are time-consuming and presently no system exists to automate the process.
A new feedback solution was developed to fully automate the process of data gathering, processing and reporting. The implemented solution reduced the number of man-hours spent by ESCOs' project engineers dramatically. In addition, project performance increased by 13% and showed an increase in over-performance of 12.8%, while financial savings for clients improved by an average of 12%.
The feedback solution also provides the client with an accurate maintenance reporting system. This system can be implemented on all DSM projects, maximising Eskom's DSM investment.Thesis (M.Ing. (Mechanical Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.
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Patureau-Hatchett, Micah. "Counselors' Perceptions of Training, Theoretical Orientation, Cultural and Gender Bias, and Use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV-Text Revision." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/847.
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Counselor educators and counseling practitioners today reflect the future direction of the counseling profession; therefore, their opinions are important when discussing how professional counselors can reconcile the basic philosophies of humanistic counseling with the practical advantages and ethical and philosophical disadvantages that appear to be coexistent when discussing the diagnosis of clients and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-Text Revision (DSM). This study sought to provide a reflective and concise description of the current perceptions of licensed professional counselors in reference to their training, their practice, and their dispositions about diagnosis and utilization of the DSM despite its theoretical grounding in the medical model and its chronic problems with gender and cultural bias—all in direct opposition to counseling's humanistic, multicultural model of practice. Results of this study suggested that more training in DSM/diagnosis led to participants' higher perception of their ability to diagnose and utilize the DSM; however, participants' perceptions were split on whether or not training should include psychopharmacology. Results also suggested that LPCs most frequently occurring ethical dilemma in relation to diagnosis involved the reimbursement requirements of insurance/managed care companies; however, they strongly disagreed that diagnosing clients conflicted with their counseling professional identity. Participants strongly agreed that they were multiculturally competent; however, those participants who indicated that they diagnose using a multicultural or wellness perspective did not agree that the DSM does not adequately present disorders in such a way as to allow LPCs to diagnose culturally diverse and female clients accurately.
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Valentine, Lisa M. "PTSD Symptoms and Dominant Emotional Response to a Traumatic Event: An Examination of DSM-IV Criterion A2." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84294/.
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To qualify for a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder the DSM-IV requires that individuals report dominant emotions of fear, helplessness, and horror during the trauma. Despite this stipulation, traumatic events can elicit a myriad of emotions other than fear such as anger, guilt or shame, sadness, and numbing. The present study examined which emotional reactions to a stressful event in a college student sample are associated with the highest levels of PTSD symptoms. Results suggest mixed support for the DSM-IV criteria. Although participants who experienced a dominant emotion of fear reported high PTSD symptomatology, participants who experienced anger, disgust-related emotions, and sadness reported PTSD symptoms of equivalent severity. Participants also reported experiencing other emotions more frequently than they reported experiencing fear. Coping style was unrelated to dominant emotion experienced; however, dysfunctional coping was associated with worse outcomes in terms of PTSD symptoms. These results have diagnostic and treatment limitations.
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Caubarrus, Hadjadj Evelyne. "Personnalité : psychologie et psychopathologie : part de l'axe ii du dsm iii dans un trouble psychiatrique : à propos de 100 cas." Bordeaux 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988BOR25138.
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Alfano, Candice A. "Examination of the overlap between DSM-111-R overanxious disorder and DSM-IV generalized anxiety disorder in childhood." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1064.
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Since DSM-III-R criteria for Overanxious Disorder (OAD) was subsumed under Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in DSM-IV, three studies have investigated the overlap between the diagnoses. Although two studies have identified children meeting both OAD and GAD criteria (OAD/GAD group), a third study has identified children who met criteria for OAD, but not GAD (OAD group). Based on finding these two groups of children, we examined whether children in the OAD group (n= 30) could be differentiated from children in the OAD/GAD group (n=81) based on self and parent report of anxious symptoms and level of functional impairment. Conditional probability rates were also calculated for each of the DSM anxious symptoms to determine their overall clinicalutility. Findings revealed that the OAD group of children experienced fewer anxious symptoms than children in the OAD/GAD group, though both groups showed some amount of impairment. The implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Muschallik, Lukas [Verfasser]. "Biochemische und biokatalytische Charakterisierung der Butandioldehydrogenasen aus Bacillus clausii DSM 8716T und Bacillus licheniformis DSM 13T / Lukas Muschallik." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1225932033/34.
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Malkus, B. M., and Amy J. Malkus. "Using the DSM-IV-TR in Addictions." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4322.
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Almas, Luís Pedro Parreira Galito Pimenta. "DSM-PM2 adequacy for distributed constraint programming." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/16454.
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As Redes de alta velocidade e o melhoramento rápido da performance dos microprocessadores fazem das redes de computadores um veículo apelativo para computação paralela. Não é preciso hardware especial para usar computadores paralelos e o sistema resultante é extensível e facilmente alterável. A programação por restrições é um paradigma de programação em que as relações entre as variáveis pode ser representada por restrições. As restrições diferem das primitivas comuns das outras linguagens de programação porque, ao contrário destas, não específica uma sequência de passos a executar mas antes a definição das propriedades para encontrar as soluções de um problema específico. As bibliotecas de programação por restrições são úteis visto elas não requerem que os programadores tenham que aprender novos skills para uma nova linguagem mas antes proporcionam ferramentas de programação declarativa para uso em sistemas convencionais. A tecnologia de Memoria Partilhada Distribuída (Distributed Shared Memory) apresenta-se como uma ferramenta para uso em aplicações distribuídas em que a informação individual partilhada pode ser acedida diretamente. Nos sistemas que suportam esta tecnologia os dados movem-se entre as memórias principais dos diversos nós de um cluster. Esta tecnologia poupa o programador às preocupações de passagem de mensagens onde ele teria que ter muito trabalho de controlo do comportamento do sistema distribuído. Propomos uma arquitetura orientada para a distribuição de Programação por Restrições que tenha os mecanismos da propagação e da procura local como base sobre um ambiente CC-NUMA distribuído usando memória partilhada distribuída. Os principais objetivos desta dissertação podem ser sumarizados em: - Desenvolver um sistema resolvedor de restrições, baseado no sistema AJ ACS [3], usando a linguagem ”C', linguagem nativa da biblioteca de desenvolvimento paralelo experimentada: O PM2 [4] - Adaptar, experimentar e avaliar a adequação deste sistema resolvedor de restrições usando DSM-PM2 [1] a um ambiente distribuído assente numa arquitetura CC-NUMA; /ABSTRACT - High-speed networks and rapidly improving microprocessor performance make networks of workstations an increasingly appealing vehicle for parallel computing. No special hardware is required to use this solution as a parallel computer, and the resulting system can be easily maintained, extended and upgraded. Constraint programming is a programming paradigm where relations between variables can be stated in the form of constraints. Constraints differ from the common primitives of other programming languages in that they do not specify a step or sequence of steps to execute but rather the properties of a solution to be found. Constraint programming libraries are useful as they do not require the developers to acquire skills for a new language, providing instead declarative programming tools for use within conventional systems. Distributed Shared Memory presents itself as a tool for parallel application in which individual shared data items can be accessed directly. In systems that support Distributed Shared Memory, data moves between main memories of different nodes. The Distributed Shared Memory spares the programmer the concerns of massage passing, where he would have to put allot of effort to control the distributed system behavior. We propose an architecture aimed for Distributed Constraint Programming Solving that relies on propagation and local search over a CC-NUMA distributed environment using Distributed Shared Memory. The main objectives of this thesis can be summarized as: - Develop a Constraint Solving System, based on the AJ ACS [3] system, in the C language, the native language of the experimented Parallel library - PM2 [4]; - Adapt, experiment and evaluate the developed constraint solving system distributed suitability by using DSM-PM2 [1] over a CC-NUMA architecture distributed environment;
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Moreira, Max Silva. "O DSM, o sujeito e a clínica." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/VCSA-8QWG6D.
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This thesis aims to show that, although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), since its third edition, states the atheoretical character of itsmethodology, there is a relevant contribution of the psychoanalytical theory about hysteria that underlies the Somatoform Disorders and Dissociative Disorders described in it. In order to do so, we have selected events that illustrate the controversial situations that exposed psychiatry to public questioning in terms of its scientific base and, then, organized a brief history of the development of psychiatric classifications, identifying the methodology used in its elaboration. We have verified that the application of the scientific method to the study of mental diseases, having been inspired by other fields such as botanic and physics, was associated with the objective of establishing a universal classification of mental diseases. The reference to the scientific method led psychiatry to a bipolarity between a base organicism and another psychogenic aspect, not having ever, in the range of scientific methodology, been able to solve the deadlock of the establishment of the etiology of mental diseases. The dissemination of psychoanalysis in the United States, following Freud conferences in 1909 at Clark University and also through Adolf Meyer's work, influenced the first two versions of the manual, and led to a movement of the North American psychiatry by suppressing these references from DSM-III. It was considered that the psychoanalytic etiology of the mental diseases did not suit science and threatened to disassociate psychiatry from medicine. On the other hand, studies in dependability that had taken place in Europe and North America, in mid-20th century, revealed problems in the validation of diagnosis, which led the American Psychiatry Association (APA) to deal with the lack of validity of the diagnosis by increasing its dependability, by applying a statistical index (Cohen's Kappa coefficiet), and to standardize the clinic interview. We show that these efforts constitute strategies for the exclusion of the subject not only from the manual, but also the clinic and professional training. Finally, we have specified the diagnosis of the Conversion Disorder, which has been historically connected to hysteria - an extinct category from tje manual - as an example of the psychoanalytic heritage of the DSM.Esta dissertação objetiva demonstrar que, embora o Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais (DSM), desde sua terceria edição, afirme o caráter ateórico de sua metodologia, há uma relevante contribuição da teoria psicanalítica sobre a histeria subjacente aos Transtornos Somatoformes e aos Transtornos Dissociativos ali descritos. Para isso, relacionamos eventos que demonstram as controvertidas situações que expuseram a psiquiatria ao questionamento público de suas bases científicas para, em seguida, realizar um breve histórico sobre o desenvolvimento das classificações psiquiátricas, identificando a metodologia empregada em sua elaboração. Verificamos que a aplicação do método científico ao estudo das doenças mentais, tendo sido inspirado por outras disciplinas, como a botânica e a física, associou-se ao objetivo de estabelecimento de uma classificação universal das doenças mentais. A referência ao método científico levou a psiquiatria a uma bipolaridade entre um oraganicismo de base e outra vertente psicogênica não tendo jamais, no âmbito da metodologia científica, conseguido resolver o impasse do estabelecimento da etiologia das doenças mentais. A difusão da psicanálise nos Estados Unidos, a partir das conferências de Freud em 1909, na Universidade Clark e por intermédio do trabalho de Adolf Meyer, influenciou as duas primeiras versões do manual e levou a um movimento da psiquiatria norte-americana pela supressão dessas referências a partir do DSM-III. Considerava-se que a etiologia psicanalítica das doenças mentais não se adequava à ciência, e ameaçava desvincular a psiquiatria da medicina. Por outro lado, estudos de confiabilidade realizados na Euroa e na América, em meados do século vinte, revelaram problemas na validação dos diagnósticos. Isto levou a Associação Psiquiátrica Americana (APA) a tratar a falta de validade dos diagnósticos pelo aumento de sua confiabilidade, pela aplicação de um índice estatítico (o Cieficiente Kappa de Cohen), e a normalizar a entrevista clínica. Demonstramos como esses esforços constituem estratégias para a exclusão do sujeito não apenas do manual, como também da clínica e da formação profissional. Por fim, especificamos o diagnóstico de Transtorno Conversivo, historicamente vinculado à histeria - categoria extinta do manual - como exemplo da herança psicanálitica no DSM.
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Svensson, Jonas, Karl-Linus Blomberg, and Joakim Eriksson. "Mapping of relations and dependencies using DSM/DMM-analysis : Casting mold manufacturing at Husqvarna." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-256.
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Husqvarna is a Swedish company producing products for forestry, park and gardens. Due to harder competition they wish to increase efficacy in production. This can be achieved by shorter lead-times in the complex process of making casting molds. Activities within this process have certain relations and dependencies between each other that can be analyzed by using a Dependence Structure Matrix. The Dependence Structure Matrix is a tool that can improve efficiency by rearranging activities according to how they are dependent of each other.
The purpose is to make a Dependence Structure Matrix of activities that Husqvarna can use to analyze dependencies within the process of cast molding. The DSM Matrix will propose restructured activities of the process which can be evaluated to determine if greater efficacy can be reached.
To determine the activities within the process of making cast molds a workshop at Husqvarna for the people involved was conducted. A matrix has been constructed based on the information of activities and their dependencies. This information has then been analyzed by the software Multiplan.
The process of making casting molds could be analyzed by the DSM/DMM approach. A new order of how to carry out activities is the outcome of the analysis. The result can be analyzed by Husqvarna in order to determine if greater efficacy can be reached.
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van, der Hoek Milou. "TRANSGENDER, TRANSITIONING & DSM : An analysis of discursive violence and violations of human rights in academic discourse and DSM." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Centrum för genusvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-167822.
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This thesis analyses the violence perpetrated against transgender people. It scrutinizes the concept of transgender and the important role of transitioning. It looks at the essentialist and social constructionist debate and its relation to transgender. In this thesis, I will advocate a theory of violence in which violence is understood as structural. I will advocate bringing the lived experience of transgender people to the foreground in theorizing about embodiment. Hereby, I will especially focus on discursive violence and the violation of human rights. I will relate transgender and the importance of transitioning to DSM’s understanding of Gender Identity Disorder. Consequently, I will uncover DSM’s subtle misogyny and transphobia and argue that it perpetrates discursive violence against transgender people. In addition, I will scrutinize the direct and indirect ways it violates the human rights of transgender people. Finally, the thesis will discuss the suggestions the Hammarberg report has made in order to improve the human rights situation of transgender persons.
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Nortjé, André. "DSM strategy for national water pumping systems / André Nortjé." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9527.
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The continual increase in electrical energy demand in South Africa has resulted in a precariously low reserve margin in supply from the primary utility, Eskom. This resulted in extensive load shedding throughout the country. Far-reaching measures had to be introduced in order to ensure a reliable supply of electricity.
DSM interventions were shown to be very successful short term solutions for the mining industry, reducing the strain on the national grid. This resulted in an increasing number of investigations to broaden the base of DSM projects to other industries.
One such intervention was the Usutu-Vaal water distribution scheme, situated near Standerton, South Africa. This scheme includes the Grootdraai, Tutuka, Grootfontein, Rietfontein and Naauwpoort pumping stations. With a combined installed capacity of 36.5MW and the extremely large water storage capacities, these pump stations have been identified as prime candidates for DSM interventions.
This dissertation discusses the method followed for a DSM project intervention and the results of the implementation. The national grid was relieved by an average of 12.3 MW during the Eskom weekday peak period, by shifting the pumping load into the off-peak periods. Simulations have shown that an annual financial saving of approximately R4.7million may be expected.Thesis (MIng (Mechanical Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013
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Källström, Johan. "Building and Tree Parameterization in Partiallyoccluded 2.5D DSM Data." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för systemteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-125130.
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Automatic 3D building reconstruction has been a hot research area; a task which has been done manually even up today. Automating the task of building reconstruction enables more applications where up to date information is of great importance. This thesis proposes a system to extract parametric buildings and trees from dense aerial stereo image data. The method developed for the tree identification and parameterization is a totally new approach which have yielded great results. The focus has been to extract the data in such a way that small flying platforms can use it for navigational purposes. The degree of simplification is therefor high. The building parameterization part starts with identifying roof faces by Region Growing random seeds in the digital surface model (DSM) until a coverage threshold is met.For each roof face a plane is fitted using a Least Square approach.The actual parameterization is started with calculating the intersection between the roof faces. Given the nature of 2.5D DSM data there is no possibility to perform wall fitting. Therefor all the walls will be constructed with a 2D line Hough transform of the border data of all the roof faces. The tree parameterization is done by searching for possible roof face topologies resembling the signature of a tree. For each possible tree topology a second degree polynomial surface is fitted to the DSM data covered by the faces in the topology. By looking at the parameters of the fitted polynomial it is then possible to determine if it is a tree or not. All the extraction steps were implemented and evaluated in Matlab, all algorithms have been described, discussed and motivated in the thesis.
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McLeese, Michelle Frances. "In Their Own Words: Faculty/Staff and Student Accounts of Stress at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88017.
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This study examines the stressful responses of faculty/staff and students after experiencing the April 16, 2007 school shootings at Virginia Tech. Understanding people's responses to trauma not only assists in more knowledge about what is stressful after a traumatic event but also may facilitate the finessing of tools and strategies for resilience and recovery in the aftermath of trauma. After investigating stressful responses to the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, and in particular those with probable PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder), I found it was not always necessary to meet the "stressor" A criterion of PTSD. This is crucial because the "stressor" criterion A of PTSD is required to receive the diagnosis of PTSD. Although I found subtle stress differences for women compared to men, and faculty/staff compared to students, none of the differences were statistically significant. This research additionally contributes to the literature by detailing a profile of stressors for both faculty/staff and students in the aftermath of the worst college campus shooting in U.S. history to date. Findings suggest future research should examine the "stressor" criterion A of PTSD as well as the full spectrum of stressful responses both in the "immediate" and "delayed" aftermath of trauma(s).Ph. D.
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Nydegger, David. "Kundeneinbindung in die frühen Phasen des Innovationsprozesses." St. Gallen, 2004. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01652890001/$FILE/01652890001.pdf.
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Kindstrand, Viktoria. "Adaption : In the clutches of a discourse." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3796.
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“Adaptation – in the clutches of a discourse” is a project that investigates a discursive power and knowledge production. The project uses perspectives from philosophy, phenomenology, sociology, social constructivism and discourse theory in order to get a multilayered understanding of the uses of one manifested standardisation of normality or rather abnormality – the DSM manual. The DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders – is an American manual used worldwide to understand mental disorders or irregularities. The inherent checklists that are used to diagnose individuals are based on the notions of normality within society. The DSM is constituted of checklists of different symptoms in behaviour, mood or other physiological effects that signifies mental disorders. How do the DSM and the uses of the DSM reflect the society? In the answer you will find economical, political and structural interests in using standardized ways of explaining the mental irregularities or differences of the human being.
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Chapman, Matthew Computer Science & Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "vNUMA: Virtual shared-memory multiprocessors." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Computer Science & Engineering, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/42594.
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Shared memory systems, such as SMP and ccNUMA topologies, simplify programming and administration. On the other hand, systems without hardware support for shared memory, such as clusters of commodity workstations, are commonly used due to cost and flexibility considerations. In this thesis, virtualisation is proposed as a technique that can bridge the gap between these architectures. The resulting system, vNUMA, is a hypervisor with a unique feature: it provides the illusion of shared memory across separate nodes on a fast network. This allows a cluster of workstations to be transformed into a single shared memory multiprocessor, supporting existing operating systems and applications. Such an approach could also have applications for emerging highly-parallel architectures, allowing a shared memory programming model to be retained while reducing hardware complexity. To build such a system, it is necessary to meld both a high-performance hypervisor and a high-performance distributed shared memory (DSM) system. This thesis addresses the challenges inherent in both of these tasks. First, designing an efficient hypervisor layer is considered; since vNUMA is implemented on the Itanium processor architecture, this is with particular reference to Itanium processor virtualisation. Then, novel DSM protocols are developed that allow SMP consistency models to be reproduced while providing better performance than a simple atomically-consistent DSM system. Finally, the system is evaluated, proving that it can provide good performance and compelling advantages for a variety of applications.
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Schmalz, Jonathan. "Oh G-d, A Borderline: Clinical Diagnostics As Fundamental Attribution Error." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103389/.
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Researchers raise concerns that the diagnostic approach can create stigma and lead to clinical inferences that focus on dispositional characteristics at the expense of situational variables. From social cognitive theory to strict behavioral approaches there is broad agreement that situation is at least as important as disposition. The present study examined the clinical inferences of graduate student clinicians randomly presented a diagnosis (borderline PD) or no diagnosis and either randomly given context information or no context information before watching a videotaped clinical interaction of a fabricated client. Responses to a questionnaire assessing dispositional or situational attributions about the client’s behavior indicated a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder did not significantly increase dispositional attributions and did not significantly moderate the importance of contextual factors. A notable difference between the attributions made by psychodynamic and third wave behavioral respondents was observed. Conceptual and experimental limitations as well as future directions are discussed.
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Brady, Sharon. "Societal representations of dsm-iv-tr personality disorder criteria : an examination of dsm and dimensional assessment of personality pathology structures." Thesis, Ulster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542224.
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This research provides an examination of DSM personality disorder criteria using the DSM-IV-TR Axis II and Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP) frameworks. Data. The British Psychiatric Morbidity of Adults Living in Private Households, 2000 (BPMS) survey, an epidemiological study covering England, Scotland and Wales (n=8580) was obtained from the UK Data Archives at the University of Essex. The personality disorder section of the interview was measured by self-report methods using the SCID-II (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Axis II Disorders) screening questionnaire. Methods. The statistical software programme MplusTM version 5.21 was used to carry out statistical analyses. Item response theory (IRT) methods produced discriminatory and severity characteristics of the DSM personality disorder criteria. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was utilized to examine the latent factors of the DSM personality disorders and clusters, and DAPP primary traits and domains. Hybrid modelling that combines CFA with latent class analysis techniques (LCFA) identified sub-populations within both the DSM and DAPP structures. Binomial logistic regression analyses of these sub-populations provided examination of group characteristics. Results. IRT item characteristic parameters indicated a number of DSM personality disorder are not performing well in terms of the underlying 11 disorders and domains. CFA indicated good model fit for the structures on inclusion of a number of extra specified relationships between some criteria. LCFA identified sub-populations that differ in terms of severity and likelihoods of criteria endorsements. Conclusions. IRT and LCFA both confirm that a number of criteria used for the assessment of personality disorder have poor discriminant validity, and these should be reviewed as indicators in new guidelines. Analyses at sub-population levels provide support for dimensional trait-type representations of personality disorder, and have provided useful profiles for hidden groups that have not been previously identified and should be of interest for clinicians, policy-makers and working groups for future editions of psychiatric guidelines.
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Veldema, Ronald [Verfasser]. "Improved DSM efficiency, flexibility, and correctness / Ronald Veldema." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Univ., Dep. Informatik, 2010. http://d-nb.info/101054117X/34.
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Fröhlich, Christine, Frank Jacobi, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "DSM-IV pain disorder in the general population." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-105073.
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Background: Despite an abundance of questionnaire data, the prevalence of clinically significant and medically unexplained pain syndromes in the general population has rarely been examined with a rigid personal-interview methodology. Objective To examine the prevalence of pain syndromes and DSM-IV pain disorder in the general population and the association with other mental disorders, as well as effects on disability and health-care utilization.
Methods: Analyses were based on a community sample of 4.181 participants 18–65 years old; diagnostic variables were assessed with a standardized diagnostic interview (M-CIDI).
Results: The 12-month prevalence for DSM-IV pain disorder in the general population was 8.1%; more than 53% showed concurrent anxiety and mood disorders. Subjects with pain disorder revealed significantly poorer quality of life, greater disability, and higher health-care utilization rates compared to cases with pain below the diagnostic threshold. The majority had more than one type of pain, with excessive headache being the most frequent type.
Conclusions: Even when stringent diagnostic criteria are used, pain disorder ranks among the most prevalent conditions in the community. The joint effects of high prevalence in all age groups, substantial disability, and increased health services utilization result in a substantial total burden, exceeding that of depression and anxiety.
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Silva, Angela Batista da [UNESP]. "Editando vidas: focos do DSM na medicalização social." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134167.
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This study on the origins of the diagnostic categories will investigate whether the Psychiatric model, materialized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - that nominates itself to clinical finalities for research and education - contributes or not with the continuity of the historical affirmative of interdictions to humane realities, now codified and legitimated to diagnostic categories. The interest for this object of investigation came out of the volume of diagnosed people who are also medicated and led into specialized mental health and educational services where I practice as a psychologist and in which I daily ask myself: are the times we are living in producing the mental disorders or these are something inherent in human being? That is the context in which I built an allegory using the cinematographic language of Eisenstein, along with a theoretical and methodological support of Foucault to think about the realities that we have been producing. Through the language of cinema, I approach the processes and meanings that create a scenery that resembles the dynamics of our everyday lives. Therefore I created three sequences in which I perform a critical analysis of the speeches of the professionals that work in the areas of psychology and education, as well as a genealogical of the DSM discourse, taking in consideration the history of psychiatry. This procedure is the pathway to find out whereas our current guide to deal with mental disorders is a method or an artifice of historical discontinuity reproduction. During the plot, my concern was to build a scenery overloaded with experiences I lived in my practice as a psychologist. The voice of Simão Bacamarte from the book The Alienist by Machado de Assis, comes into the scene to represent mental health professionals as myself. Hopefully this research will contribute to problematize the perceptions of the professionals From the areas of education and mental ...
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Silva, Angela Batista da. "Editando vidas : focos do DSM na medicalização social /." Rio Claro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134167.
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Resumo: O estudo sobre a origem das categorias diagnósticas investigará se o modelo de método da Psiquiatria, materializado no Manual Diagnóstico Estatístico dos Transtornos Mentais (DSM), concebido com finalidades clinicas, de pesquisa e ensino, contribui, ou não, com a continuidade da afirmação histórica da realidade humana, agora codificada e legitimada por categorias diagnósticas. O interesse por esse objeto de investigação se deveu à assimilação do volume de pessoas diagnosticadas, medicadas e encaminhadas aos atendimentos especializados nas áreas da educação especial e saúde mental, nas quais atuo como Psicóloga e que diariamente me trazem a inquietante pergunta: vivemos tempos em que o adoecimento mental é uma realidade produzida ou é característica inerente ao humano? Diante desse contexto, construo uma alegoria, utilizando a linguagem cinematográfica de Eisenstein, com suporte do referencial teórico e metodológico de Foucault, para refletir sobre as realidades que temos produzido, porque, através das técnicas do cinema, aproximo-me dos processos e sentidos que permeiam a construção de uma realidade-cena, que se assemelha àquela em que transitamos. Assim, realizei, em três sequências, segundo a sugestão de Foucault (1996), uma análise crítica do que diz o discurso dos profissionais que atuam nos contextos que problematizo; uma análise genealógica do que diz o discurso do Manual Diagnóstico Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais (DSM); e, por fim, porém não separado do que dizem os dois discursos, o que revela a história da Psiquiatria e da Doença Mental. Esse procedimento, orientado por meus referenciais teóricos, pode significar o caminho para descoberta de como o modelo para amparar intervenções e atuações profissionais do cotidiano é um método ou um artifício de reprodução de descontinuidades históricas. Durante o desenvolvimento do enredo preocupei-me em construir um cenário carregado de...
Abstract: This study on the origins of the diagnostic categories will investigate whether the Psychiatric model, materialized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - that nominates itself to clinical finalities for research and education - contributes or not with the continuity of the historical affirmative of interdictions to humane realities, now codified and legitimated to diagnostic categories. The interest for this object of investigation came out of the volume of diagnosed people who are also medicated and led into specialized mental health and educational services where I practice as a psychologist and in which I daily ask myself: are the times we are living in producing the mental disorders or these are something inherent in human being? That is the context in which I built an allegory using the cinematographic language of Eisenstein, along with a theoretical and methodological support of Foucault to think about the realities that we have been producing. Through the language of cinema, I approach the processes and meanings that create a scenery that resembles the dynamics of our everyday lives. Therefore I created three sequences in which I perform a critical analysis of the speeches of the professionals that work in the areas of psychology and education, as well as a genealogical of the DSM discourse, taking in consideration the history of psychiatry. This procedure is the pathway to find out whereas our current guide to deal with mental disorders is a method or an artifice of historical discontinuity reproduction. During the plot, my concern was to build a scenery overloaded with experiences I lived in my practice as a psychologist. The voice of Simão Bacamarte from the book The Alienist by Machado de Assis, comes into the scene to represent mental health professionals as myself. Hopefully this research will contribute to problematize the perceptions of the professionals From the areas of education and mental ...
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Gilmour, James Ewan. "The modelling of energy efficient drying for DSM." Thesis, Aston University, 1999. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/15309/.
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This thesis investigates the modelling of drying processes for the promotion of market-led Demand Side Management (DSM) as applied to the UK Public Electricity Suppliers. A review of DSM in the electricity supply industry is provided, together with a discussion of the relevant drivers supporting market-led DSM and energy services (ES). The potential opportunities for ES in a fully deregulated energy market are outlined. It is suggested that targeted industrial sector energy efficiency schemes offer significant opportunity for long term customer and supplier benefit. On a process level, industrial drying is highlighted as offering significant scope for the application of energy services. Drying is an energy-intensive process used widely throughout industry. The results of an energy survey suggest that 17.7 per cent of total UK industrial energy use derives from drying processes. Comparison with published work indicates that energy use for drying shows an increasing trend against a background of reducing overall industrial energy use. Airless drying is highlighted as offering potential energy saving and production benefits to industry. To this end, a comprehensive review of the novel airless drying technology and its background theory is made. Advantages and disadvantages of airless operation are defined and the limited market penetration of airless drying is identified, as are the key opportunities for energy saving. Limited literature has been found which details the modelling of energy use for airless drying. A review of drying theory and previous modelling work is made in an attempt to model energy consumption for drying processes. The history of drying models is presented as well as a discussion of the different approaches taken and their relative merits. The viability of deriving energy use from empirical drying data is examined. Adaptive neuro fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) are successfully applied to the modelling of drying rates for 3 drying technologies, namely convective air, heat pump and airless drying. The ANFIS systems are then integrated into a novel energy services model for the prediction of relative drying times, energy cost and atmospheric carbon dioxide emission levels. The author believes that this work constitutes the first to use fuzzy systems for the modelling of drying performance as an energy services approach to DSM. To gain an insight into the 'real world' use of energy for drying, this thesis presents a unique first-order energy audit of every ceramic sanitaryware manufacturing site in the UK. Previously unknown patterns of energy use are highlighted. Supplementary comments on the timing and use of drying systems are also made. The limitations of such large scope energy surveys are discussed.
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Poletti, Luca. "Generazione automatica di Modelli Digitali del Terreno da immagini satellitari ad alta risoluzione." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.
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La creazione di modelli digitali del terreno o delle superfici attraverso stereocoppie satellitari, è rilevante in molti ambiti ingegneristici, soprattutto quando le zone da rilevare sono inaccessibili o ampie. L’estrazione dei DSM dalle immagini può avvenire per mezzo di processi automatizzati, che giungono a risultati diversi in funzione del tipo di algoritmo utilizzato (e della morfologia dell’area rilevata).
Nell’elaborato sono stati considerati due casi di studio: una zona collinare vicino alla città di Nazca, in Perù (immagini GeoEye-1) e la città di Lisbona, in Portogallo (immagini WorldView-3). Si sono costruiti i loro DSM tramite tre diversi algoritmi automatici implementati nel software ERDAS IMAGINE (eATE, ATE e Tridicon SGM) allo scopo di confrontarli per osservare il comportamento dei modelli individuando le criticità degli algoritmi stessi, e determinando il miglior approccio da impiegare nei tipi di copertura del suolo studiati, attraverso lo studio di adeguate differenze relative e profili verticali.
Dai test effettuati, è possibile asserire che per aree collinari o in assenza di elementi antropici, come per il caso di Nazca, i DSM creati dagli algoritmi di generazione automatica sono confondibili, e le superfici mediamente coincidono. Per le zone densamente urbanizzate come Lisbona, tutti i DSM generati automaticamente presentano rumori ed anomalie notevoli in ampie parti dell’area di studio, soprattutto in corrispondenza di strade e vicoli stretti. Nonostante la loro presenza, il miglior modulo per la generazione di DSM in ambito urbano è risultato il Tridicon SGM poiché permette definire accuratamente i contorni degli edifici.
Non disponendo di punti di controllo a terra non è stato possibile validare i DSM in modo assoluto, ma piuttosto verificata la congruenza interna ed il comportamento in relativo. Una valutazione della loro accuratezza in termini assoluti non era tra gli intenti della ricerca e può essere oggetto di indagini successive.
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Williamsson, David. "Modularization of Test Rigs." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-175885.
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This Master of Science Thesis contains the result of a product development project, conducted in collaboration with Scania CV AB in Södertälje. Scania has a successful history in vehicle modularization and therefore wanted to investigate the possibility to modularize their test rigs as well, in order to gain various types of benefits. The section UTT (Laboratory Technology) at Scania, where the project was conducted, had however little experience in product modularization. The author of the thesis therefore identified a specific test rig and modularized it by using appropriate methods. Moreover, a new method was developed by the author, in order to modularize the test rig according to both product complexity and company strategies. This was done by adapting the DSM (Design Structure Matrix) with strategies from the MIM (Module Indication Matrix), before clustering it with the IGTA++ clustering algorithm. The result of the different modularization methods was finally evaluated and compared, before choosing the most suitable modular test rig architecture. The chosen architecture was then analyzed, in order to determine potential benefits that it could offer. Another purpose of the thesis was to answer the research questions about the possibility to combine a DSM and MIM, and if that would improve the result when modularizing a product. The thesis also aimed at providing the project owners with a theoretical background in the field of product modularization and System-Level design (embodiment design). The conclusions of the thesis is that the chosen modular test rig architecture has 41% less complexity (compared with the original architecture) and could potentially increase the flexibility, reduce the risk of design mistakes and reduce the development time by up to 70%. It would also be theoretically possible to reuse up to 57% of the modules, when redesigning the test rig in the future. The thesis also identified that it is possible to transfer some information from a MIM and import it to a DSM, which answered one of the research questions, it was however not possible to claim that it will always improve the result.Detta M.Sc. examensarbete innehåller resultatet av ett produktframtagningsprojekt som genomfördes i samarbete med Scania CV AB i Södertälje. Scania har en framgångsrik historia inom modularisering av fordon och var därför intresserade av att undersöka möjligheten att modularisera sina provningsriggar, för att uppnå olika typer av strategiska fördelar. Sektionen UTT (Laboratorieteknik) på Scania, där projektet genomfördes, hade dock lite erfarenhet av modularisering av produkter. Författaren av detta examensarbete identifierade därför en specifik provningsrigg och modulariserade den med hjälp av lämpliga metoder. Dessutom utvecklades en ny metod av författaren för att både kunna betrakta företagsstrategier och produktkomplexiteten under modulariseringen. Detta gjordes genom att anpassa en DSM (Design Structure Matrix) med strategier från en MIM (Module Indication Matrix), innan den klustrades med hjälp av algoritmen IGTA++. Resultatet av de olika modulariseringsmetoderna utvärderades och jämfördes slutligen innan den lämpligaste modulära provriggsarkitekturen valdes. Den valda arkitekturen analyserades sedan för att identifiera tänkbara strategiska fördelar som den skulle kunna möjliggöra. Ett annat syfte med examensarbetet var att besvara forskningsfrågorna om möjligheten att kombinera en DSM och MIM, och om det i så fall skulle förbättra resultatet av modulariseringen. Målet med examensarbetet var också att förse sektionen UTT med en teoretisk bakgrund inom modularisering och systemkonstruktion. Slutsatserna av examensarbetet är att den valda modulära produktarkitekturen har 41% lägre komplexitet (jämfört med den ursprungliga arkitekturen) och skulle dessutom potentiellt kunna öka flexibiliteten, minska risken för konstruktionsfel samt minska ledtiden (under utvecklingen) med upp till 70%. Det skulle också vara teoretiskt möjligt att återanvända upp till 57% av modulerna när den studerade provningsriggen behöver utvecklas i framtiden. Under examensarbetet identifierades också möjligheten att överföra information från en MIM till en DSM, vilket besvarade en av forskningsfrågorna. Det var dock inte möjligt att besvara frågan om det alltid förbättrar resultatet.
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Miranda, Ana Luiza Penna Rocha. "Transtornos de personalidade: história do conceito e controvérsias atuais." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=9238.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorEste trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a estruturação do diagnóstico de Transtorno de Personalidade. Inicialmente, o trabalho percorre o território conceitual com o qual, desde sua origem na passagem do século XVIII para o XIX, a psiquiatria procurou nomear, explicar e compreender as personalidades consideradas anormais. Em seguida promove-se uma discussão acerca das concepções de personalidade, normalidade e patologia que circunscrevem a categoria, orientada a partir do estudo de seus diferentes modelos diagnósticos presentes no DSM-5. Por fim busca-se compreender a relevância atual do diagnóstico de transtorno de personalidade através da análise de alguns exemplos de seu uso em contextos médico, legal e literário. O objetivo é o de entrever o lugar ocupado por esse diagnóstico, especialmente o do tipo Antissocial, no imaginário cultural presente.
This work analyzes the processes through which the diagnosis of personality disorder has been structured. First, it covers the conceptual territory through which, from its origin in the passage of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth, psychiatry sought to name, to explain and to understand the so called abnormal personalities. This first step is followed by comments on the concepts of personality, normality and pathology that take part in the construction of this psychiatric category as it exists today. In order to do this, the structure of different diagnostic models present in the DSM-5 is analyzed. Finally, we seek to understand the current relevance of the diagnosis of personality disorder by taking into consideration examples of its use in medical, legal and literary contexts, in order to shed some light over the place occupied by this diagnosis, especially the anti-social type, in todays cultural landscape.
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Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich. "Women-specific mental disorders in DSM-V: are we failing again?" Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-89123.
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Despite a wealth of studies on differences regarding the biobehavioral and social–psychological bases of mental disorders in men and women and repeated calls for increased attention, women-specific issues have so far not been comprehensively addressed in past diagnostic classification systems of mental disorders. There is also increasing evidence that this situation will not change significantly in the upcoming revisions of ICD-11 and DSM-V. This paper explores reasons for this continued failure, highlighting three major barriers: the fragmentation of the field of women's mental health research, lack of emphasis on diagnostic classificatory issues beyond a few selected clinical conditions, and finally, the “current rules of game” used by the current DSM-V Task Forces in the revision process of DSM-V. The paper calls for concerted efforts of researchers, clinicians, and other stakeholders within a more coherent and comprehensive framework aiming at broader coverage of women-specific diagnostic classificatory issues in future diagnostic systems.
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Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Shanyang Zhao, Jamie M. Abelson, James L. Abelson, and Ronald C. Kessler. "Reliability and procedural validity of University of Michigan-CIDI DSM-III-R phobic disorders." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-102981.
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We evaluate the long-term test–retest reliability and procedural validity of phobia diagnoses in the UM-CIDI, the version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, used in the US National Co-morbidity Survey (NCS) and a number of other ongoing large-scale epidemiological surveys. Test–retest reliabilities of lifetime diagnoses of simple phobia, social phobia, and agoraphobia over a period between 16 and 34 months were K = 0·46, 0·47, and 0·63, respectively. Concordances with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) were K = 0·45, 0·62, and 0·63, respectively. Diagnostic discrepancies with the SCID were due to the UM-CIDI under-diagnosing. Post hoc analysis demonstrated that modification of UM-CIDI coding rules could dramatically improve cross-sectional procedural validity for both simple phobia (K = 0·57) and social phobia (K = 0·95). Based on these results, it seems likely that future modification of CIDI questions and coding rules could lead to substantial improvements in diagnostic validity.
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Slade, Michael Peter. "Electricity cost optimisation of a surface potable water pump system / M.P. Slade." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1845.
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South Africa is fast approaching an era where its electrical energy demand will surpass the generating capacity of it's primary utility. The reason for this is due to the fact that over the past 10 years, the economic growth in South Africa has increased considerably and has become very energy intensive. South African electrical energy consumption is currently estimated to be growing at a rate of around 1 000 MW per year.
Due to the electrical energy demand being the greatest during peak-times, Eskom has introduced various "time of use" tariff structures, such as Megaflex and Ruraflex. These two tariff structures differentiate between standard, peak and off-peak periods of the day, as well as different seasons of the year. The tariffs for these different scenarios are adjusted such that the consumers are persuaded into avoiding unnecessary electrical energy consumption during peak periods.
It has been identified that electrical energy consumption can be split into two categories. One of the categories considers sectors where there are a large number of electrical energy consumers, each utilising a negligible amount of power. The other category considers sectors where there are few electrical energy consumers, each utilising large amounts of power. This therefore means that the consumers in the latter category have a great potential in implementing more efficient ways of consuming power.
In order to try and control the electrical energy demand problem in South Africa, Eskom has implemented a DSM (Demand Side Management) programme in order to help the larger energy consumers in shifting their peak-time loads to off-peak periods. If the client wishes to shift their load to off-peak periods, Eskom will assist by funding all costs to carry out such a project.
According to Eskom's monitoring and verification team, Eskom's DSM initiative has proven to be highly successful. Since the inception of Eskom's DSM programme in 2003, up until the end of 2005, an accumulated total load reduction of 296.3 MW has successfully been realised.
At present, most water distribution schemes have been developed without making use of Eskom's DSM initiative. As these schemes consume considerable amounts of electrical energy, they are prime candidates for an initiative such as Eskom's DSM initiative.
It had previously been identified that the Vaal Gamagara Water Scheme, situated in Delportshoop, was a prime candidate for Eskom's DSM initiative. Presented in this dissertation are the findings of the DSM investigation. Although the project has yet to be implemented, the proposed intervention methodology was manually tested, where a 3 MW load shift in the evening peak and a 3.6 MW load shift in the morning peak was achieved. If the current intervention methodology is maintained, the annual savings will be in the region of R 830,000.00.Thesis (M.Ing. (Electrical Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.
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Ilehag, Rebecca. "Exploitation of Digital Surface Models from Optical Satellites for the Identification of Buildings in High Resolution SAR Imagery." Thesis, KTH, Geoinformatik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-191203.
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Interpreting a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image and detecting buildings can be a difficult task visually. In order acquire an overview of an area that has been affected by a disaster, such as an earthquake, SAR is useful due to its independence of weather conditions and the time of the day. GeoRaySAR, a simulator that has been developed by German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), uses prior knowledge about the geometry extracted, from e.g. a Digital Surface Model (DSM), in order to identify buildings in high resolution SAR data. The simulator has previously utilized DSMs generated from Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data with a vertical and horizontal resolution of 0.1 meters and 1 meter respectively without vegetation. However, DSMs of such high quality is not available everywhere. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate DSMs generated from high-resolution optical data for identifying building in high resolution SAR data in GeoRaySAR. Specifically, images from the spaceborne sensor WorldView-2 have been utilized in this thesis for the extraction of the geometry. The DSMs have been preprocessed in terms of removal of vegetation and reduction of the noise level. The SAR images, acquired from TerraSAR-X, were utilized in GeoRaySAR in order to detect buildings with the assistance of the DSM. An image size limitation that existed in GeoRaySAR has been addressed by adding tiling, which is based on the size of the study scene. Normalized DSM (nDSM) can be determined by calculating the difference between a DSM and a DTM. A nDSM, that received some adjustments, was used as input to GeoRaySAR and compared with the results from the normal DSM. Study areas in three cities, Munich, London and Istanbul, have been used to determine the advantages and limitations of GeoRaySAR and the impact the quality of the DSM has on the building extraction results. The results indicate that building extents can be detected with DSMs generated from optical data with various success, dependent on the quality of the DSM and on which incidence angle the SAR image was acquired in. The ability to interpret a scene increases with the usage of DSMs of higher quality and with SAR images taken in less steep incidence angles. The building DSM depends heavily on the quality of the DTM, but indicates good results and little data loss in study scenes where the DTM successfully removed all objects above ground.
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Dias, Helena Magda Agostinho. "Smart metering consumer behavior study in the Republic of Ireland: Further analyses on the consumers’ electricity consumptions and usage perceptions." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9601.
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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsWith the disclosure of the conclusions of the Republic of Ireland’s Smart Metering Trials, this report intends to summarize the experience and the Consumer Behavior results. I also complement the Irish report by examining the effect of demographic and attitudinal variables in the change of electricity consumption during the trial and by studying the accuracy of the participants’ perception of the change in their consumptions and bills during the experience. The main conclusion is that the participants were not able to take full advantage of the potentiality of the Time-of-Use tariffs to reduce bills and did not have a clear perception of their consumptions and spending, which may have prevented them of achieving better results.
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Jin, Shengzhe. "Quality Assessment Planning Using Design Structure Matrix and Resource Constraint Analysis." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1292518039.
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Rechoulet, Danielle. "Le dsm-iii : etude du systeme multiaxial a partir de la litterature et de 116 patients." Bordeaux 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988BOR25021.
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Noack, René, Michael Höfler, and Ulrike Lüken. "Cannabis Use Patterns and Their Association with DSM-IV Cannabis Dependence and Gender." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-133103.
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Aims: To investigate the gender differences in the patterns of cannabis use (CU), namely frequency, times of day, social context and methods and in their association with DSM-IV cannabis dependence. Methods: A sample of 3,904 students from German universities was recruited via an internet survey. Logistic regressions and associated areas under the ROC curve (AUC) were calculated among current cannabis users (at least once a month, n = 843). Results: CU using a water pipe was more often reported by males (50 vs. 34.6%). Usual CU ‘before going to sleep at night’ was more often reported by females (47.3 vs. 35.7%). Most CU patterns showed a similar association with DSM-IV cannabis dependence in both genders. The association of CU ‘with strangers’ was stronger in females (AUC 0.68 vs. AUC 0.56). Slightly different multiple models were found (females AUC 0.86, males AUC 0.77). Conclusions: There are considerable gender differences in the CU patterns and, thus, in the way CU functions. In the association of CU patterns with cannabis dependence, the similarities are rather great. Examining the CU patterns might make a considerable contribution to the better detection of high-risk population segments for prevention and early intervention in both gendersDieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich
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Joubert, Hercules Phillipus Roedolf. "Cost and time effective DSM on mine compressed air systems / R. Joubert." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4815.
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Implementing demand side management (DSM) is expensive and often time
consuming. Eskom grants subsidies for DSM projects based on the proposed
savings. The subsidy granted is not always adequate to fund all the required
control equipment to achieve the desired saving. This study focuses on alternative
cost– and time–effective methods to implement DSM on gold mines, specifically on
the compressed–air systems where the infrastructure is inadequate, worn out or
outdated.
The compressors generating compressed air for mining are one of the largest
electricity consumer at gold mines. By optimising the energy consumption of
these compressed–air systems, the largest potential demand reduction can be
achieved. This will lighten the demand load on the already overloaded national
power grid.
Compressed air at gold mines is mainly used for production purposes, thus the
majority of savings on these systems need to be achieved during non–production
hours. Fixing air leaks, optimising compressor control, meticulous planning of
implementation locations and controlling air usage are all methods that were
investigated to achieve alternative cost– and time–effective methods to implement
DSM on mine compressed–air systems.
The methods were implemented by an Energy Services Company (ESCo) at four
different mines. The results achieved from these case studies are documented
and discussed in this study.Thesis (M.Ing. (Mechanical Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Vainer, Juana Luisa. "Consistency of lifetime DSM III diagnoses in alcoholic respondents." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26166.
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This study explored: (1) The test-retest reliability of DSM III lifetime diagnoses in 69 active alcoholic subjects interviewed twice, before entering treatment and 4 weeks later with the computerized format of the DISSI (derived from the NIMH-Diagnostic Interview Schedule). (2) The stability of psychiatric diagnoses yielded by both interviews as influenced by subjects' age, gender, current level of psychological distress and current toxic status. Poor agreement (Kappa values below 0.5) was found for panic disorder (k = 0.337) and phobic disorder (k = 0.477) while generalized anxiety disorder and depression/dysthymia presented only fair agreement (k = 0.658 and k = 0.696 respectively). Current levels of psychological distress assessed by the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-58 (HSCL-58) was found to predict the risk of inconsistent reports. Contrary to expectations abstinence did not significantly influence the report of symptoms; neither did the age or gender of the respondents. Levels of self-perceived psychological distress may influence the recall of past symptom experiences among alcoholics and thus affect the reliability of lifetime reports in this population.
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Strydom-Bouwer, Emile Liché. "DSM opportunities in underground refrigeration systems / E.L. Strydom-Bouwer." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6416.
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This study will focus on the feasibility of demand side electricity management on
underground refrigeration systems. It will include a relevant literature study, the
investigation process, a simulation model, expected simulated results,
implementation of DSM on an underground refrigeration system, actual results,
recommendations of further study, and a conclusion.
Eskom is presently struggling to adhere to the electricity demand in South Africa,
specifically in the peak consuming periods. It was proposed that Demand Side
Management possibilities must be investigated and evaluated on South-African
gold mines.
The gold mining industry consumes approximately 26% of the electricity supplied
by Eskom. Mines possess extensive machinery which consume much power in
their mining activities. One of the most energy intensive machines is the
refrigeration system machines.
Demand Side Management was previously successfully implemented on surface
refrigeration systems and on cascade refrigeration systems. Mining depths
increase continuously and surface refrigeration systems become inadequate. An
underground refrigeration system is a viable option to aid this problem. The possibility of Demand Side Management in underground refrigeration systems
will be investigated. A simulation model will be created of the system and various
control strategies will be applied and evaluated. These strategies will endeavour
to reduce loads during the Eskom peak consumption periods.
The control strategy was implemented on the refrigeration system and load
reduction results were obtained. The average load reduction for the evening peak,
excluding condonable days, for the month of August 2009 was 6.60 MW. The
average morning load reduction, excluding condonable days, was 6.06 MW. Load
profiles from 1 October 2009 until 15 October 2009 show that the reduction for the
evening peak, excluding condonable days, was 5.24 MW.Thesis (M.Ing. (Electrical Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010
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Culuko, Gayle Diane. "Epidemiological classification of the DSM-III-R for bulimia." Scholarly Commons, 1995. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2767.
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The purpose of this study is to operationalize the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia. This study shows how the lack of DSM-III-R quantification results in high within-group sample variability for bulimic symptomatology and greatly reduces the validity of research outcomes. The study problem for this research is: How can the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia be measured and quantified in order to procure a more valid sample of bulimics for research and treatment? The first DSM-III-R criterion for bulimia is: "Recurrent episodes of binge eating." This criterion was operationalized using the Binge Eating Quiz and by calculating the mean daily binge caloric consumption of 108 female subjects who met the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia. The second DSM-III-R criterion for bulimia is: "A strong feeling of lack of control over eating behavior during the eating binges." This criterion was operationalized by administering the Eating Attitude Test to 108 individuals who met the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia. The third DSM-III-R criterion for bulimia is: "The person regularly engages in either self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or diuretics, strict dieting or fasting, or vigorous exercise in order to prevent weight gain." Of these several purging variables, the one most commonly used by bulimics in this study (N = 108), and in all previous research studies was self-induced vomiting. Self-induced vomiting was measured by giving 108 female subjects devices to be attached to their toilets in order to measure vomit in cubic centimeters. The fourth DSM-III-R criterion for bulimia is: "Persistent overconcern with body shape and weight." This criterion was operationalized by a test designed and tested by this researcher, the Body Image Scale (BIS). The BIS was administered to 108 female subjects who met the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia. The fifth DSM-III-R criterion for the diagnosis of bulimia is: "A minimum average of two binge eating episodes a week for at least three months." This criterion is especially vague because a binge to one person may merely infer one candy bar; while to another individual, a binge may suggest a dozen donuts. Although vomiting frequency is also a vague unit of measurement for bulimia, it is perhaps less so than bingeing. Consequently, "a minimum average of two vomiting episodes a week for at least three months" may be a better measurable characteristic for this DSM-III-R criterion. When the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia was operationalized on 108 female subjects who answered "yes" to the five DSM-III-R criteria, only 46.30% (N = 50) scored significantly on the BEQ, Binge Caloric Value Count, EAT, Vomit Count, and the BIS. Consequently, only 50 out of 108 potential subjects would render valid research subject inclusion in bulimic research. Thus, this study shows that the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia should only be used as an initial screening device for subject inclusion and treatment in research studies. Other tools, such as those used in this study, should then be employed in order to obtain a more valid study sample in order to procure more empirical research outcomes. (Abstract shortened by UMI).
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Nockels, Paul. "Perceptions of clinical utility of DSM-5 among psychologists." Thesis, Northern Arizona University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10000347.
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Clinical utility has been offered by numerous researchers as a criterion for understanding the value of diagnostic constructs, but it does not yet have a standard operational definition or recommended forms of measurement. The construct has significant overlap with diagnostic validity and it is possible that sub-domains of clinical utility may emerge that would contribute to development of a scale which could assess for improvements and degradations following nosological revisions, and also provide opportunity for cross-analysis with alternative systems of mental health diagnosis. Therefore, the present study collected survey data from psychologists about the clinical utility of the DSM-5, using online data collection and quantitative methods. Seven questions of clinical utility were rated using a 5 point likert scale for each of the DSM-5's diagnostic categories and for the DSM-5 as an overall nosology. Descriptive data, internal consistency and inter-item correlations were analyzed so that results could help address research questions posed about the clinical utility of the DSM-5's diagnostic categories, the merits of DSM-5 when compared to DSM-IV, and additional recommendations regarding optimal measurement of the clinical utility of diagnostic constructs.
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NEVES, Darlene Maciel. "Técnicas de otimização não-linear aplicada a algoritmos DSM." Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007. http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/3342.
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Esta dissertação apresenta os algoritmos considerados estado-da-arte para gerenciamento dinâmico de espectro (DSM). As técnicas de otimização utilizadas nos algoritmos DSM são abordadas e brevemente discutidas para melhor entendimento, descrição e comparação dos algoritmos. A análise comparativa entre os algoritmos foi realizada considerando o ganho em taxa (kbps) obtido em simulações. Para tanto, foi realizado em laboratório um conjunto de medições de função de transferência direta e de acoplamento, posteriormente utilizadas nas simulações dos algoritmos IWF, ISB e SCALE. Os resultados obtidos nas simulações através do uso das funções de transferência medidas mostraram melhor desempenho quando comparados aos demais resultados ao considerar funções de transferência obtidas a partir do padrão 1% pior caso, resultado este reflexo da aproximação 1% em que os pares apresentam maiores níveis de crosstalk em todas as frequências da função de transferência. Dentre os algoritmos comparados, o ISB e SCALE obtiveram desempenho semelhante em canais padronizados, ficando o IWF com o desempenho próximo ao SSM. No entanto, nas simulações em cenários com canais medidos, os três algoritmos tiveram ganhos muito próximo devido ao baixo nível de crosstalk.
This M.Sc. thesis presents state-of-art algorithms for dynamic spectrum management (DSM). The strategy and description of each DSM algorithm are presented and briefly discussed as well as a comparative analysis between them for better understanding. This analysis was conducted considering the rate gain (kbps) obtained from computer simulations and the results are presented by tables and rate region curves. Additionally, it was conducted in laboratory a set of direct and coupling transfer function measurements. Later on, those measurements were used during DSM algorithms simulations; this dissertation focused in the IWF, ISB and SCALE algorithms. The results obtained from the transfer function measurements showed better performance compared to the results with transfer function 1% worst-case model. The later considers 1% of pairs present the biggest crosstalk level in all transfer function frequencies. In the case where standardized channels were employed, ISB and SCALE obtained similar performances whereas IWF had a performance quite similar to SSM. On the other hand, these three algorithms had similar gain in simulations evolving the measured channels because the low crosstalk level.
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Samuel, Douglas B. "COMPARING PERSONALITY DISORDER MODELS: FFM AND DSM-IV-TR." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/884.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2008.Title from document title page (viewed on October 30, 2008). Document formatted into pages; contains: vi, 43 p. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-39).
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Werner, Markus. "Klonierung der D-Carbamoylase aus Arthrobacter crystallopoietes DSM 20117." [S.l. : s.n.], 2001. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB9451383.
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Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich. "Women-specific mental disorders in DSM-V: are we failing again?" Technische Universität, 2010. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A25035.
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Despite a wealth of studies on differences regarding the biobehavioral and social–psychological bases of mental disorders in men and women and repeated calls for increased attention, women-specific issues have so far not been comprehensively addressed in past diagnostic classification systems of mental disorders. There is also increasing evidence that this situation will not change significantly in the upcoming revisions of ICD-11 and DSM-V. This paper explores reasons for this continued failure, highlighting three major barriers: the fragmentation of the field of women's mental health research, lack of emphasis on diagnostic classificatory issues beyond a few selected clinical conditions, and finally, the “current rules of game” used by the current DSM-V Task Forces in the revision process of DSM-V. The paper calls for concerted efforts of researchers, clinicians, and other stakeholders within a more coherent and comprehensive framework aiming at broader coverage of women-specific diagnostic classificatory issues in future diagnostic systems.