Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Geographical theory'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Geographical theory.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
Hionis, Jerry Jr. "Non-Parasitic Warlords and Geographical Distance." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216545.
Full textPh.D.
This dissertation presents an extension of the warlord competition models found in Skaperdas (2002) and Konrad and Skaperdas (2012). I consider two non-parasitic warlords located on a line. Each warlord allocates resources for the extraction of natural resources, the production of goods and services, and conflict with the opposing warlord. Within the symmetric rates of seizure model, I use three different forms of the contest success function, a primary tool in the conflict theory literature, in my analysis. I show that the warlord closer to the point of conflict will invest less into the hiring of warriors and more into the production of goods and services, yet wins a larger proportion of total goods and services produced within the economy. Under certain conditions, the placement of the point of conflict at the midpoint between the two warlords maximizes the total resources toward war and minimizes total production. Under the asymmetric rates of seizure model, I find that the warlord closer to the point of conflict invests more in warfare and less in production; that is, results that counter what is found in the symmetric model.
Temple University--Theses
Yusoff, Kathryn. "Arresting vision : a geographical theory of Antarctic light." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2005. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/49392/.
Full textChoi, B. D. "Space and social theory : A geographical critique and reconstruction." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377854.
Full textAlmadani, Firdos Mohammed. "Modelling and analysing vague geographical places using fuzzy set theory." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37352.
Full textAkomas, George Chiagozie. "Effects of geographical location on MFI lending behaviour in developing countries." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2018. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34683/.
Full textKowalski, Jeremy. "The Geographical and Spatial Imaginings of Islamist Extremism/Terrorism." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/980.
Full textKároly, Andrea. "Investment strategies under uncertainty : Theory and evidence of preemption in case of geographical market entrance." kostenfrei, 2007. http://www.opus-bayern.de/uni-passau/volltexte/2008/1200/.
Full textSimpson, Peter. "Relationship Between Airline Category, Geographical Region, and Safety Performance." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5528.
Full textRyder, Andrew. "Geographical aspects of reform : growth poles in socialist theory and practice with special reference to Poland." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304954.
Full textThomson, Patricia Lorna, and kimg@deakin edu au. "DOING JUSTICE: STORIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS AND NEIGHBOURHOODS." Deakin University, 1999. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20031119.101136.
Full textBlomley, N. K. "Retail law at the urban and national levels : Geographical aspects of the operation and possible amendment of the Shops Act (1950)." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373823.
Full textSajadi, J. "The English East India Company's trade with an Iranian port at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century : A geographical study." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370374.
Full textStjernström, Olof. "Flytta nära, långt bort : de sociala nätverkens betydelse för val av bostadsort." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-61927.
Full textdigitalisering@umu
Pacheco, Rodrigo da Cunha. "Kant e os fundamentos epistemológicos da teoria geográfica da paisagem: possibilidades e limitações." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8135/tde-17112015-122106/.
Full textThis research seeks to analyze the Kantian critical philosophy with two basic aims: to identify its articulation with the view of geography Kant promoted through his course of physical geography and to determine the positive and negative aspects it offers to the epistemological foundation of the current geographical landscape paradigm. The initial hypothesis was that the critical philosophy could base the discussion about the epistemological foundation of a geographical landscape theory. It found that the philosopher had an intense relationship with the geographical knowledge of his time, which contributed to the formulation of his critical philosophy, since it provided empirical foundation for his reflections. The intense philosophical debate Kant provoked, however, did not repeat in the geographical realm. His geographical reading of landscape sought to relate elements on the space like the characteristics of the inhabitants and their climates. Nevertheless, it was also full of limitations due to his preference for a Universalist and normative approach of societies, as researchers do in the field of natural sciences. His historical conception of society was not enough. This research defends that the result of Kant´s geographical method of approach was defective in some aspects. It ignored the historical context that people lived and provided a flawed geographical education, which promoted even certain determinism and racial intolerance, as his course of physical geography and other work sindicate. The philosopher reserved a place for geography in his architectonic of knowledge, but did not seek to develop it to the scientific level. Nonetheless, his philosophy influenced other characters that would actively contribute to the development of scientific geography and with the formation of the geographical landscape paradigm. It is important to realize that his critical philosophy has important reflections about the characteristics of the scientific knowledge and the position of man in nature. These issues are relevant to assist in the epistemological analysis of geography. This work still demonstrates that the Kantian critical philosophy can contribute even today to the development of the geographical landscape paradigm in its epistemological field, despite the limitations of the philosopher as a geographer (or even as a social scientist). This contribution can be positive (by the appropriation of some reasoningsit offers), and negative (finding its mistakes and searching to overcomethem).
Alves, Flamarion Dutra [UNESP]. "Trajetória teórico-metodológica da geografia agrária brasileira: a produção em periódicos científicos de 1939-2009." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/104306.
Full textConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Este estudo analisou as bases teórico-metodológicas da geografia agrária brasileira partindo do ano de 1939 até 2009, com base em dez periódicos científicos selecionados em geografia. Evidenciou-se o pluralismo de concepções metodológicas e temáticas a partir da década de 1990. Assim, a pesquisa mostrou uma determinada coerência metodológica entre os períodos de 1939 a 1965, com base no método indutivo-descritivo-empírico alicerçado na geografia regional francesa. Após este momento, a geografia agrária passou a adotar uma linguagem matemática-estatística para a explicação dos fenômenos espaciais, com base no positivismo lógico, durante este paradigma vigente entre 1965 a 1980. A renovação crítica inseriu nos estudos agrários a preocupação com o dado social e as análises da contradição do capitalismo, abordagens políticas e econômicas, o auge dessa geografia agrária crítica foi nas décadas de 1980 a 2000. A partir desse momento, há uma diversidade de abordagens metodológicas não permitindo dizer que exista uma principal tendência paradigmática na geografia agrária brasileira neste início de século XXI. Destaca-se neste tese a importância do resgate de teorias e conceitos já utilizados na geografia agrária eu explicam os fenômenos atuais, além de salientar as principais tendências teórico-metodológicas no início do século XXI
This study aims at analyzing the process of transformation occurred in the theoreticalmethodological assumptions of Brazilian Agrarian Geography, based on ten scientific journals selected between 1939 and 2009, which attests the pluralism in methodological and themetic conceptions from the 1990s. Thus, this perspective demonstrated a determined methodologic coherence between the years of 1939 and 1965, based on inductive-descriptive-empirical method, rooted in the Frence Regional Geography. Until that moment, Agrarian Geography had chosen a mathematical-statistical language in order to explain space phenomena, based on logic positivism, during this paradigm current between 1965 and 1980. The critical renewal inserted in the agrarian studies a concern with the social datum and the analysis of the contradiction of capitalism, political and economic approaches, and the summit of that agrarian geography was between the 1980s and 2000s. From that moment on, there is a diversity of methodological approaches, which does not permit to affirm the existence of a main and paradigmatical trend in the Brazilian Agrarian Geography in the early 21st century
Kitchen, Rebecca Jane. "How do ethnic minority students represent geographical knowledge? : exploring the stories that relate to representations and link with post-14 subject choices." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267923.
Full textGoudarzi, Forough. "Non-cooperative beaconing control in vehicular ad hoc networks." Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15608.
Full textOzguner, Nimet Pinar. "Cevre Kale: Applications Of Newly Developed Methods, Technology And Data For Understanding The Iron Age City In Yarasli." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607164/index.pdf.
Full textevre Kale and its associated structures. During the course of the study, 5 km long outer wall enclosing a territory around Ç
evre Kale documented for the first time by employing high altitude aerial imagery. In addition to the GIS analyses, examination of the geology, land use and soil quality data showed that the outer wall is in a way acting to guard and protect inhabitants of the fortress and, perhaps more importantly, the well-watered pasture surrounding the fortress and demarcated by the enclosure wall. Evaluation of the available archaeological and historical evidence suggested that Ç
evre Kale might be of a site with significant military importance at least in the first half of the 6th century BC. As a result, this thesis is underlying the importance of high and low altitude aerial imagery in terms of documentation, evaluation and monitoring of the archaeological sites as part of the archaeological research
Voulgaris, Ioannis. "Measuring the attractiveness of a city block." Thesis, KTH, Samhällsplanering och miljö, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-238847.
Full textAlves, Flamarion Dutra. "Trajetória teórico-metodológica da geografia agrária brasileira : a produção em periódicos científicos de 1939-2009 /." Rio Claro : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/104306.
Full textBanca: Vera Maria Favila Miorin
Banca: Darlene Aparecida de Oliveira Ferreira
Banca: Maria Aparecida dos Santos Tubaldini
Banca: Giancarla Salamoni
Resumo: Este estudo analisou as bases teórico-metodológicas da geografia agrária brasileira partindo do ano de 1939 até 2009, com base em dez periódicos científicos selecionados em geografia. Evidenciou-se o pluralismo de concepções metodológicas e temáticas a partir da década de 1990. Assim, a pesquisa mostrou uma determinada coerência metodológica entre os períodos de 1939 a 1965, com base no método indutivo-descritivo-empírico alicerçado na geografia regional francesa. Após este momento, a geografia agrária passou a adotar uma linguagem matemática-estatística para a explicação dos fenômenos espaciais, com base no positivismo lógico, durante este paradigma vigente entre 1965 a 1980. A renovação crítica inseriu nos estudos agrários a preocupação com o dado social e as análises da contradição do capitalismo, abordagens políticas e econômicas, o auge dessa geografia agrária crítica foi nas décadas de 1980 a 2000. A partir desse momento, há uma diversidade de abordagens metodológicas não permitindo dizer que exista uma principal tendência paradigmática na geografia agrária brasileira neste início de século XXI. Destaca-se neste tese a importância do resgate de teorias e conceitos já utilizados na geografia agrária eu explicam os fenômenos atuais, além de salientar as principais tendências teórico-metodológicas no início do século XXI
Abstract: This study aims at analyzing the process of transformation occurred in the theoreticalmethodological assumptions of Brazilian Agrarian Geography, based on ten scientific journals selected between 1939 and 2009, which attests the pluralism in methodological and themetic conceptions from the 1990s. Thus, this perspective demonstrated a determined methodologic coherence between the years of 1939 and 1965, based on inductive-descriptive-empirical method, rooted in the Frence Regional Geography. Until that moment, Agrarian Geography had chosen a mathematical-statistical language in order to explain space phenomena, based on logic positivism, during this paradigm current between 1965 and 1980. The critical renewal inserted in the agrarian studies a concern with the social datum and the analysis of the contradiction of capitalism, political and economic approaches, and the summit of that agrarian geography was between the 1980s and 2000s. From that moment on, there is a diversity of methodological approaches, which does not permit to affirm the existence of a main and paradigmatical trend in the Brazilian Agrarian Geography in the early 21st century
Doutor
Ercan, Ismail. "A Fuzzy Based Decision Support System For Locational Suitability Of Settlements." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12607017/index.pdf.
Full textgood location&rdquo
is the dominating factor. This study reports on the development of a kind of decision support system for locational suitability of settlements that integrates the fuzzy set (FZ) theory, a rule-based system (RBS) and GIS. This study is thought as the assistant for the property managers that are buyers and sellers. It can function as the property consultant for the buyers when they are looking for a property to buy and also it helps the real estate agencies to sell their properties. On the other hand, different scenarios of the potential areas according to the different user&rsquo
s preferences are depicted and they are joined and compared with the results of the vulnerability to earthquake hazards&rsquo
of the same area. Odunpazari - Eskisehir area is selected for implementation of the case study because of the data availability. As a result of this study, it can be said that most suitable property changes depending on the people&rsquo
s preferences. In addition, it is seen that most of the buildings that are locationally suitable are highly vulnerable to the earthquake hazards.
Viana, Matheus Palhares. "Caracterização e modelagem de redes biológicas geográficas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/76/76132/tde-23052011-082033/.
Full textIn the present work, we developed a mapping methodology able to build a graph representation for biological branched systems. Initially, such systems are stored as digital images and then they undergo a pre-processing in order to standardize the images. The pre-processed imagens are used to build tridimensional models of the interested systems. A label-propagation algorithm is used to extract the skeleton from the volumetric models and these skeletons are then represented by a graph, composed by nodes and edges. The nodes and edges of these graphs store properties of the original system, such as spatial position, lengths and diameter, as well as the topological features of such systems. Finally, the graphs are studied by using the complex networks theory within a specific context for each system. Our procedures were apllied sucefully to different biological systems, such as carotid artery, arterial trees, mitocondrial structure and pores in soil samples.
Batista, Sinthia Cristina. "Cartografia geográfica em questão : do chão, do alto, das representações." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/100294.
Full textAo buscar explorar o mapa em suas múltiplas determinações o movimento de pensamento e trabalho de pesquisa conduziu, temporariamente, a pensá-lo a partir da tríade: linguagem, lógica e mediação. Neste momento traduzida pela relação entre: uma ‘Cartografia Geográfica’ – pensada como linguagem que sistematiza, versa e veicula um conhecimento geográfico; o Método - partindo da relação entre as lógicas formal e dialética que desvela as facetas materiais e simbólicas da condição espacial (da produção do/no espaço) e o Mapeamento Comunitário – no processo de elaboração de uma série de mapas como mediação relevante para a compreensão da lógica espacial e apropriação do espaço, possibilitando práticas de autogestão territorial. Trata-se de uma abordagem que a partir da teoria crítica das representações de Henri Lefebvre (2006) tensiona a materialização e simbolização da produção do espaço a partir dos mapas, procurando alcançar a vida da tríade espaço percebido, concebido e vivido, assim como das dimensões de sua produção: os espaços de representações; as representações do espaço e a prática social. Esta proposta realiza-se em um processo de mapeamento comunitário, compreendido como instrumento para o engajamento de comunidades (em seu sentido de classe) à autogestão territorial. Tal compreensão dá-se a partir da análise crítica dos processos de mapeamentos participativos que vislumbram a elaboração/legitimação de políticas públicas inseridos num contexto político que fomenta a participação popular e as insere nas “tomadas decisões” subsumindo a possibilidade do conflito e da luta, sempre em busca de um consenso para todos os “setores” da sociedade. O processo de pesquisa levou ao entendimento de que a participação efetiva do povo nas decisões sobre suas próprias demandas se faz na luta, na superação da contradição forjada pelo modo de produção capitalista da condição humana desigual de ser/estar no mundo, portanto na valorização dos processos históricos, conflitos, permanências e possibilidades da classe social. Esta proposta se realiza a partir de dois momentos distintos, mas inter-relacionados: 1. A construção de uma prática pedagógica para a formação do geógrafo em que a Cartografia Geográfica é ponto de partida para o desenvolvimento do raciocínio espacial, bem como para a compreensão do mapa como produto social, que forja e veicula representações da sociedade que o produz a partir de uma intencionalidade historicamente determinada e espacialmente produzida. Revivificada pela compreensão do mapa como processo que institui diferentes relações entre saber, poder e representações, tornando-o instrumento de luta. 2. A produção de um Memorial do Assentamento Roseli Nunes que para além da compreensão do mapa como instrumento de luta o realiza como materialização da apropriação cotidiana do espaço, portanto na possibilidade da autogestão territorial, considerando sua história e sua geografia. Estes momentos, concretizados em práxis (sala de aula e trabalho comunitário) se fundiram e alcançaram um entendimento de que o processo de elaboração e uso dos mapas revela representações subjetivadas, engendradas objetivamente, de uma prática social que produz espaço, mas que também mediam um discurso sobre a realidade a ser objetivada. Portanto, o mapa como instrumento de luta viabiliza a compreensão e apreensão de uma dada lógica espacial, cotidiana (compreendida na relação entre as diversas escalas) e ao mesmo tempo a possibilidade de reivindicar condições objetivas para a resistência no espaço e quiçá a possibilidade da transformação social.
In seeking to explore the map in its multiple determinations the movement of thought and research led temporarily to think of it from the triad of language, logic and mediation. At this time translated by the ratio : a " Geographical Cartography " - conceived as a language which organizes, conveys and discusses a geographic knowledge , the method - based on the relationship between formal and dialectical logic unveiling material and symbolic aspects of the spatial condition (of production/in space) and the Communitarian Mapping - the process of developing a series of maps as relevant to the understanding of spatial logic and appropriation of space mediating , facilitating the practice of territorial self-government . It is an approach from critical theory of representations of Henri Lefebvre (2006) tenses the materialization of symbolization and production of space from the maps, pursuing the life of the triad perceived space, conceived and lived as well as the dimensions of its production : the spaces of representations , representations of space and social practice . This proposal is realized in a process of communitarian mapping, understood as a tool for engaging communities (in its sense of class) to territorial self-management. This understanding gives the critical analysis of participatory mapping processes that envision the development/legitimation public policies in a political context that promotes popular participation and insert them into the "decisions taken" subsuming the possibility of conflict and struggle, always in search of a consensus for all " sectors " of society . The research process has led to the understanding that the effective participation of people in decisions about their own demands is made through the fight , to overcome the contradiction forged by the capitalist mode of production of unequal human condition of being in the world , therefore the valuation of historical processes , conflict , continuity and possibilities of social class . This proposal takes place from two different times, but inter - related : 1. The construction of a pedagogical practice for geographer formation whose Geographical Cartography is a prerequisite for the development of spatial reasoning , as well as for understanding the map as a social product , forging and conveys representations of the society that produces from an intentionality historically and spatially determined. Revivified by understanding the process map as establishing different relationships between knowledge, power and representations, making it the instrument of struggle. 2. The production of a Memorial of the Settlement Roseli Nunes, which beyond the comprehension of the map as an instrument of struggle performs as the materialization of everyday appropriation of space, so the possibility of territorial self-government, considering its history and its geography. These moments, realized in practice (classroom and community work) merged and reached an understanding that the process of preparation and use of maps reveals subjectivized representations engendered objectively, a social practice that produces space, but also mediate one discourse about reality being objectified. Therefore , the map as an instrument of struggle enables the understanding and perception of a given everyday spatial logic ( understood in the relationship between the various scales ) while the possibility of claiming objective conditions for endurance in space and perhaps the possibility of social transformation.
McFarland, Sean Alan. "Decision making theory with geographic information systems support." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3393.
Full textVillellas, Ariño Jesús. "Demographic and life-history variability across the range of a widespread herb: the role of environmental, geographical and genetic factors / Variabilidad demográfica y de historia vital en una planta de amplia distribución: el papel de los factores medioambientales, geográficos y genéticos." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/111288.
Full textLas especies de amplia distribución han recibido tradicionalmente poca atención, a pesar de su importancia para la estructura y el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas. En esta tesis, se analiza la variabilidad demográfica, de historia vital y genética en una planta de amplia distribución en Europa y el norte de África (Plantago coronopus), en un total de 22 poblaciones a lo largo de gran parte del rango latitudinal de la especie (centro y periferia norte). Se pretende analizar la magnitud y las causas de esta variabilidad intraespecífica en relación con la posición de las poblaciones dentro del rango y con los principales factores medioambientales. Las poblaciones periféricas mostraron una menor diversidad genética, pero no mostraron en general un peor o más variable comportamiento demográfico en cuanto a densidad o tasa de crecimiento poblacional, contradiciendo así las hipótesis clásicas centro-periferia. Se encontró un mismo patrón de diferenciación demográfica dentro de las regiones tanto central como periférica, en relación con la variación en el régimen de precipitaciones. La tasa de reclutamiento de nuevos individuos fue el proceso del ciclo vital con mayor importancia para el funcionamiento de las poblaciones. Se encontró también una gran variación entre poblaciones en las características de las semillas (número, tamaño, mucílago y proporción de dos tipos de semilla dimórficos) en relación con el gradiente de estrés ambiental. Finalmente, la variación fenotípica dentro de las poblaciones se relacionó con la variabilidad ambiental, mientras que la diversidad genética se correlacionó con la posición central vs. periférica de las poblaciones y posiblemente con la historia demográfica de la especie. Globalmente, este estudio muestra la importancia de distinguir entre periferia geográfica y marginalidad ecológica, y sugiere que el éxito de las plantas de amplia distribución reside en una gran variabilidad demográfica y de historia vital a diferentes escalas espaciales.
Dooley, Phillip. "The Effective implementation of GIS in local government using diffusion theory /." Connect to thesis, 2001. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001047.
Full textTengku, Mohd Azahar Tuan Dir. "Génération de prédiction par la combinaison de fusion de données et de modélisation spatio-temporelle : application à la localisation de la répartition de la maladie basal stem rot dans les plantations de palmiers à huile." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LAROS386.
Full textThis thesis represents a new approach for predicting plant disease in a plantation through combination of data fusion and spatio-temporal modelling. Plant disease is a major problem in the world of agriculture. Example in Malaysia, basalstem rot disease (BSR) caused by Ganoderma Boinense is the most serious disease for oil palm plantation in Malaysia. The fungus infects oil palm trees, initially causing yield loss and finally killing the trees. Various factors were previously reported to influence incidence of BSR, such as previous crops, techniques for replanting, types of soils and the age of trees. At present effective and sustainable management strategies to control BSR are hampered mainly by a lack of understanding of mechanisms of disease establishment, development and spread. The present research is an attempt to apply data fusion technique and temporal modelling in Geographical Information System (GIS) to investigate the behaviour of plant disease in a specific area (small skill area). This research will focus on how GIS can help to assess the distribution plant disease in a small scale plantation. With concurrent advances in global positioning systems (GPS) and the use of geographical Information Systems(GIS) techniques have provided powerful analysis tools for precision agriculture. Data for analysis were obtained from oil palm planting density experiments at MPOB research stations at Teluk Intan, Perak, Malaysia. In the case of BSR disease, the results of the predictive modelling show a significance correlation between predicted BSR diseases with visually observed BSR data. It found that the proposed predictive modelling has well predicted the presence of BSR disease. Although at the beginning stage of BSR diseases infection, the model has not fitted exactly the distribution of the disease, we believe that with the proper selection of the source of data, the performance of the model will be improved.Overall, the model has well predicted the presence of diseases with accuracy up to 98.9%
Andriani, Pierpaolo. "The emergence of self-organisation in social systems : the case of the geographic industrial clusters." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4011/.
Full textAnderson, Ian Alfred. "Deviation Factors in the Mississippi Flyway: Geographic Barriers and Ecological Quality." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1597314324074134.
Full textStubbs, John Graham. "Towards a theory of geographically uneven privatisation : The case of New Zealand public hospital ancillary services." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6816.
Full textMaroudis, Marguerite. "Le contrat à distance : notion et régime, étude comparative (droit français et droit libanais)." Thesis, Grenoble, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013GREND006.
Full textThe distance contract knew a real development with the intervention of the new information and communication technologies which aroused an accelerated passage from the catalog to the screen and a commercial revolution of which the remote sale and essentially the e-commerce establish its privileged point of observation. The existing European, French and Lebanese legislative initiative was not, unfortunately, as high as the technological progress. On one hand, it bounds the distance contract as a contract of consumer law and not as a contract of common law. On the other hand, it connects the economic balance of power unbalanced between the contracting parties to their respective qualities (consumer and professional) and not to the defect of negotiation which precedes the conclusion of the distance contract. It is advisable, from then on, to propose a simultaneous comparative study which allows to reconsider the distance contract in the light of the period which precedes its conclusion by supplying solutions for the gaps and the existing legal disparities in the French and Lebanese substantive laws and in the European directives, to demonstrate that the distance contract as a contract of membership or by mutual agreement is a contract of common law which benefits from a appropriate regime. By involving diverse branches of the law, this comparative study allows to encircle this appropriate legal regime of the distance contract to release its notion
Öhrn, Meit. "Geographic Profiling: A scientific tool or merely a guessing game?" Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25431.
Full textGeographic profiling is considered as one of the most controversial andinnovative technologies used in criminal investigations today. The accuracy of themethodology has become a popular topic amongst scholars and has caused aheated debate regarding the success of geographic profiling. This study seeks toevaluate if geographic profiling is a useful tool for the police. Thus the aims ofthis study are to examine if the methodology is a viable tool during investigationsand further to establish to what extent geographic profiling has been successfullyapplied within the area of property crime, in particular burglary investigations. Byconducting a systematic literature review and key informant interviews this studyfound that geographic profiling can be a very useful tool for analysts. Further theresults showed that geographic profiling systems are not always more accuratethan simpler methods, however simpler strategies are not necessarily as consistentas a computerised system. Moreover the results indicate that geographic profilingcan be applied during burglary investigations, if done correctly and by a trainedinvestigator. The study concludes that geographic profiling is more than just aguessing game and if applied appropriately it will most likely identify theoffender. Lastly the results and shortcomings of this study, including the need forfuture research is discussed.
Kutesko, Elizabeth. "Fashioning Brazil : globalization and the representation of Brazilian dress in National Geographic." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 2016. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/12111/.
Full textLeung, Fu-wing William, and 梁富榮. "A GIS application of Hagerstrand's theory in implementing accessibility models." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29967181.
Full textBreetzke, Gregory Dennis. "Geo-analysis of offenders in Tshwane: towards an urban ecological theory of crime in South Africa /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01062009-141141/.
Full textHooton, Christopher Alex. "Micro-geographic economic analysis : the theory, techniques, and evidence of micro-level economic policies and their evaluations." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275253.
Full textLOPES, Boaz Antonio de Vasconcelos. "Uma proposta metodológica complexa para a gestão ambiental sustentável e georreferenciada do Jardim Botânico de João Pessoa." Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2010. http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/1762.
Full textMade available in DSpace on 2018-09-20T14:32:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BOAZ ANTÔNIO DE VASCONCELOS LOPES - TESE (PPGRN).pdf: 21835437 bytes, checksum: 1e2567b0059be149ffa12e6273f26d5c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-17
A tese desenvolve uma proposta metodológica complexa que visa a dois propósitos: servir como um paradigma científico complexo para o estudo do meio ambiente e como um procedimento prático de gestão ambiental participativa apoiada por um sistema computacional de informação georreferenciada. O método complexo está baseado em três fundamentações teóricas: concepção, procedimento e instrumento. Desenvolvidos a partir das noções de racionalidade ambiental, teoria da complexidade e sistema de informação geográfica, respectivamente. Como procedimento prático foi feita uma aplicação do método proposto na realidade da gestão ambiental do Jardim Botânico de João Pessoa, em que foram analisadas as condições de sustentabilidade desse órgão público na perspectiva social, ambiental, econômica, histórica, política, cultural, administrativa, e proposto um modelo conceitual de Sistema de Informação Geográfica (SIG). A Mata do Buraquinho, onde está inserido o Jardim Botânico de João Pessoa, é uma das maiores reservas ambientais de Mata Atlântica urbana do Brasil, no entanto, foi observado que ainda não está sendo praticado o desenvolvimento sustentável nesse importante meio ambiente. Visto que a visão de gestão adotada é baseada na racionalidade econômica, o procedimento não é integrado nem participativo e inexiste instrumento de acompanhamento para a gestão ambiental do Jardim Botânico de João Pessoa.
The thesis develops a complex methodological proposal that seeks two purposes: to serve as a complex scientific paradigm for the study of the environment and as a practical procedure of participative environmental administration supported by a georeferenced information computacional system. The complex method is based on three theoretical bases: conception, procedure and instrument. These are developed starting from the notions of environmental rationality, theory of the complexity and geographical information system, respectively. As practical procedure it was made an application of the proposed method in the reality of the environmental administration of the Botanical Garden of João Pessoa, in which the conditions of sustainability of that public agency were analyzed in the social, environmental, economical, historical, politics, cultural, and administrative perspective, and proposed a conceptual model of Geographical Information System (GIS). The Buraquinho forest, where the Botanical Garden of João Pessoa is inserted, is one of the largest environmental reservations of urban Atlantic forest of Brazil, however, it was observed that still the maintainable development is not being practiced in that important environment. Because the vision of adopted administration is based on economical rationality, the procedure is not integrated and participative and attendance instrument inexists for the environmental administration of the Botanical Garden of João Pessoa.
Dube, Matthew P. "An Embedding Graph for 9-Intersection Topological Spatial Relations." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2009. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/DubeMP2009.pdf.
Full textCromley, Gordon A. "Destroying the Jungle Republic: Counterinsurgency Theory and the Environment in South Vietnam (1967-1969)." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1564697803934883.
Full textHendricks, Michael D. "Structuring a Wayfinder's Dynamic and Uncertain Environment." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/HendricksMD2004.pdf.
Full textHarvey, Rachel. "Eliciting and mapping the attributes of landscape perception : an integration of personal construct theory (PCT) with geographic information systems (GIS)." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10322.
Full textKnight, Deborah Frances. "Geographic enchantments : the trickster and crone in contemporary fairy tales and storytelling." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4195.
Full textNASCIMENTO, CAROLINA CALDAS DO. "THE OPTION VALUE OF THE FLEX-FUEL CAR IN DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS OF BRAZIL: APPLICATION OF REAL OPTIONS THEORY WITH MRM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20210@1.
Full textCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A introdução do carro Flex-fuel no mercado brasileiro em 2003 mudou a forma de decisão do consumidor. Se antes era necessário escolher o combustível pelo tipo de veículo, movido somente a gasolina ou somente a álcool, hoje é possível escolher um tipo de carro com duas opções de combustível. O carro Flex funciona com gasolina, etanol ou qualquer mistura desses combustíveis em qualquer proporção. Essa flexibilidade gera uma vantagem econômica para o seu proprietário, mas qual o benefício financeiro de um carro Flex-fuel em comparação a um carro movido somente à gasolina? Geograficamente, onde se localiza o proprietário que se beneficia mais dessa flexibilidade? Este estudo aplica a Teoria de Opções Reais na análise do valor da opção do carro Flex para as cinco regiões geográficas do Brasil: Nordeste, Norte, Centro-Oeste, Sudeste e Sul. São atendidas tanto as diferenças de preços regionais quanto a preferência de automóvel do consumidor dessas regiões. Para esse propósito, são considerados que os preços históricos dos combustíveis são estocásticos e seguem o Movimento de Reversão à Média Aritmético. A previsão dos preços e o valor da opção são gerados através da Simulação de Monte Carlo. Os resultados indicam que a opção de escolher o combustível mais barato no abastecimento adiciona considerável valor para o proprietário do carro Flex em todas as regiões e modelos de carro considerados, sendo a região Sudeste a mais beneficiada pela opção Flex.
The introduction of the Flex-fuel car to the Brazilian market in 2003 changed the way of decision of the customers. If before it was necessary to choose the fuel by the kind of vehicle, fueled only by gas or only by sugarcane ethanol, today it is possible to choose one kind of car with two fuel possibilities. The Flexfuel car can run with gas, sugarcane ethanol or any mix of those fuels at any proportion. This resulting flexibility generates an economic advantage for the car’s owners, but what are the finance benefits of having a Flex-fuel car in comparison to a gas-powered car? Where is geographically located the owner which benefits more from this flexibility? This study applies the Real Option method to analyze the option value of the Flex-fuel cars in each of the five geographic regions of Brazil: Northeast, North, Central-West, Southeast and South. It regards regional prices differences and their customer’s car preference. For this purpose, it considers that the historical fuel prices are stochastic and follow the Arithmetic Mean Reverting diffusion process. Monte Carlo Simulation provides the forecasted fuel prices and option values. The results show that the option to choose the cheapest fuel at the refueling moment adds significant value for the owner of all the regions and car models considered. The Southeast region is the most benefited from it.
Moody, Kimberly S. "Tramps, trade union travellers, and wandering workers : how geographic mobility undermined organized labour in Gilded Age America." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31007/.
Full textWindholz, Thomas. "Strategies for Handling Spatial Uncertainty due to Discretization." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/Windholz.pdf.
Full textMoraes, Verena Raquel Fornetti [UNESP]. "Jornalismo científico fetichizado: análise comparativa das revistas superinteressante, suas edições especiais e Nathional Geographic Magazine." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99805.
Full textDebatemos a idéia de que existiu, no período estudado, uma fetichização da divulgação científica nas revistas Superinteressante, suas edições especiais publicadas em 2005 e na National Geographic Magazine, editada nos Estados Unidos e traduzida no Brasil. Nosso objetivo é investigar o que acontece com a ciência quando é transformada em mercadoria e submetida na mídia aos padrões do jornalismo que aparecem em algumas revistas: sensação, sucesso e relaxamento. A hipótese é que, quando a reportagem sobre ciência assume essa forma, ela fetichiza a divulgação científica, transformando-a em mero entretenimento. Note-se, portanto, que nossa meta não é fazer a crítica da ciência divulgada, analisando se a informação jornalística é fiel ou não ao ramo científico abordado, e sim observar como a ciência perde o potencial de crítica ao se submeter ao padrão fetichizado. Estamos interessados em demonstrar, assim, como a divulgação fetichizada falha ao não fazer da ciência uma ferramenta para entender a sociedade.
We discuss the idea that there is a fetishism of scientific journalism on Superinteressante Magazine, its special editions and on National Geographic Magazine, published in United States and translated to be published in Brazil. Our goal is to investigate what happens with science when it becomes a product, made specifically to sell magazines, and when it's subdued by magazine style's patterns: sensation, success and relaxing. The hypothesis is when science stories take this form, they become fetishism because it's transformed in simple entertainment. Observe, however, that our purpose is not to criticize the science on media analyzing if the texts are coherents to researches but point out how science looses the critic potential in this fetishism. Our interest is demonstrate how scientific journalism fails using science as an arm to understand society.
Moraes, Verena Raquel Fornetti. "Jornalismo científico fetichizado : análise comparativa das revistas superinteressante, suas edições especiais e Nathional Geographic Magazine /." Marília : [s.d.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99805.
Full textBanca: Isabel F. R. Loureiro
Banca: Wilson da Costa Bueno
Resumo: Debatemos a idéia de que existiu, no período estudado, uma fetichização da divulgação científica nas revistas Superinteressante, suas edições especiais publicadas em 2005 e na National Geographic Magazine, editada nos Estados Unidos e traduzida no Brasil. Nosso objetivo é investigar o que acontece com a ciência quando é transformada em mercadoria e submetida na mídia aos padrões do jornalismo que aparecem em algumas revistas: sensação, sucesso e relaxamento. A hipótese é que, quando a reportagem sobre ciência assume essa forma, ela fetichiza a divulgação científica, transformando-a em mero entretenimento. Note-se, portanto, que nossa meta não é fazer a crítica da ciência divulgada, analisando se a informação jornalística é fiel ou não ao ramo científico abordado, e sim observar como a ciência perde o potencial de crítica ao se submeter ao padrão fetichizado. Estamos interessados em demonstrar, assim, como a divulgação fetichizada falha ao não fazer da ciência uma ferramenta para entender a sociedade.
Abstract: We discuss the idea that there is a fetishism of scientific journalism on Superinteressante Magazine, its special editions and on National Geographic Magazine, published in United States and translated to be published in Brazil. Our goal is to investigate what happens with science when it becomes a product, made specifically to sell magazines, and when it's subdued by magazine style's patterns: sensation, success and relaxing. The hypothesis is when science stories take this form, they become fetishism because it's transformed in simple entertainment. Observe, however, that our purpose is not to criticize the science on media analyzing if the texts are coherents to researches but point out how science looses the critic potential in this fetishism. Our interest is demonstrate how scientific journalism fails using science as an arm to understand society.
Mestre
Yanar, Tahsin Alp. "The Enhancement Of The Cell-based Gis Analyses With Fuzzy Processing Capabilities." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1223304/index.pdf.
Full textBerry, Robert. "An evaluation of online GIS-based landscape and visual impact assessment tools and their potential for enhancing public participation in wind farm planning in the UK." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2009. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/an-evaluation-of-online-gisbased-landscape-and-visual-impact-assessment-tools-and-their-potential-for-enhancing-public-participation-in-wind-farm-planning-in-the-uk(08087380-8fee-46ee-9e0f-81940137d67c).html.
Full textBalram, Shivanand. "Collaborative GIS process modelling using the Delphi method, systems theory and the unified modelling language (UML)." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85881.
Full textThis dissertation examines the above issues through the design, implementation, and assessment of the Collaborative Spatial Delphi (CSD) Methodology. The CSD methodology facilitates spatial thinking and discursive strategies to describe the complex social-technical dynamics associated with the knowledge-structuring-consensus nexus of the participation process. The CSD methodology describes this nexus by synthesizing research findings from knowledge management, focus group theory, systems theory, integrated assessment, visualization and exploratory analysis, and transformative learning all represented within a collaborative geographic information system (GIS) framework.
The CSD methodology was implemented in multiple contexts. Its use in two contexts - strategic planning and management of urban green spaces in Montreal (Canada); and priority setting for North American biodiversity conservation - are reported in detail in this dissertation. The summative feedbacks from all the CSD planning workshops help incrementally improve the design of the CSD process. This dissertation also reports on the design and use of questionnaire surveys to incorporate local realities into planning, as well as the development of an evaluation index to assess the face validity and effectiveness of the CSD process from the perspective of workshop participants.
The accumulated evidence from the CSD implementations suggests that many core issues exist across spatial problem solving situations. Thus, the design and specification of a core collaborative process model provides benefits for knowledge exchange. General systems theory was used to classify the core technical components of the collaborative GIS design, and soft systems theory was used to characterize the human activity dynamics. Object oriented principles enabled the generation of a flexible domain model, and the unified modelling language (UML) visually described the collaborative process. The CSD methodology is used as a proof of concept.
This dissertation contributes to knowledge in the general areas of Geography, Geographic information systems and science, and Environmental decision making. The specific contributions are threefold. First, the CSD provides a synthesis of multi-disciplinary theories and a tested tool for environmental problem solving. Second, the CSD facilitates a fusion of local and technical knowledge for more realistic consensus planning outcomes. Third, an empirical-theoretical visual formalism of the CSD allows for process knowledge standardization and sharing across problem solving situations.