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Huang, Stephanie M. "Nostos: On Recollecting Loss and the Physical Manifestation of Loss." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/760.
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This paper examines nostalgia in photo-poetry book Nostos, and nostalgia’s existence as a theoretical global condition arising from displacement, looking at nostalgia specifically not as a yearning for home, but a yearning for a lost sense of feeling at home. It traces the lineage of image-text hybrid art practices and examines the significance of conveying meaning through both synergistically. It studies the psychoanalytic process of transforming loss into object, or absence into presence, ultimately using the object as a lens to view oneself and the way in which nostalgia manifests itself.
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Seiber, Andrew. "Examination of Perceptions of Weight Loss and Weight Loss Methods." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3699.
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The purpose of this study was to examine individuals’ perceptions of weight loss and weight loss methods. Respondents were employees and customers attending health/wellness events at local supermarkets in June, July, and August 2019. Participants completed a survey to assess their understanding and perceptions of weight loss and methods used to achieve weight loss. The majority of participants were white females, 60 years or older with a college degree and a Body Mass Index (BMI) classified as overweight or obese. Data revealed most participants had a variety of misconceptions relating to weight loss and weight loss methods that were obscure and fad-diet oriented, including low-carbohydrate diets. Participants did understand benefits of weight loss but expressed maintaining weight loss was a challenge. These findings suggest that fad diets are alluring to individuals and individuals did not incorporate evidence-based behavior changes to promote or sustain weight loss.
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Peña, Manchón Francisco Javier de la. "Advanced methods for Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy core-loss analysis." Paris 11, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA112379.
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Les microscopes électroniques en transmission modernes sont capables de fournir une grande quantité d'informations sous la forme de jeux de données multi-dimensionnelles. Bien que les procédures développées pour l'analyse des spectres uniques soient utilisables pour le traitement de ces données, le développement de techniques plus avancées est indispensable pour une exploitation optimale de ces informations hautement redondantes. Dans ce contexte, nous avons exploré des alternatives aux méthodes standard de quantification, et cherché à optimiser les acquisitions expérimentales afin d'améliorer la précision des analyses. Cela constitue une réponse aux défis actuels de la spectroscopie de perte d'énergie d'électrons (EELS) dont les facteurs limitants sont souvent liés aux dégâts d'irradiation et à la contamination. La quantification élémentaire par la méthode standard d'intégration est limitée aux cas simples. Nous avons montré que l'utilisation d'une méthode basée sur l'ajustement des courbes expérimentales peut surmonter la plupart des limitations de la méthode standard. Cette nouvelle méthode nous a non seulement permis d'obtenir des cartographies élémentaires mais aussi les premières cartographies des liaisons chimiques à l'échelle nanométrique. Les méthodes quantitatives exigent de connaître à priori la composition de l'échantillon, ce qui constitue une difficulté majeur lors de l'analyse d'échantillons inconnus. Nous avons montré que les méthodes de séparation aveugle des sources permettent une analyse rapide et efficace des données multi-dimensionnelles, sans nécessiter la définition d'un modèle. En conditions optimales, il est ainsi possible d'extraire à partir des données expérimentales les signaux correspondants aux différents constituants chimiques ainsi que leur distribution dans l'échantillonModern analytical transmission electron microscopes are able to gather a large amount of information from the sample in the form of multi-dimensional datasets. Although the analytical procedures developed for single spectra can be extended to the analysis of multi-dimensional datasets, for an optimal use of this highly redundant information, more advanced techniques must be deployed. In this context, we investigate alternatives to the standard quantification methods and seek to optimise the experimental acquisition for accurate analysis. This addresses the current challenges facing the electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) community, for whom beam damage and contamination are often the limiting factors. EELS elemental quantification by the standard integration method is limited to well-behaved cases. As an alternative we use curve fitting which, as we show, can overcome most of the limitations of the standard method. Furthermore, we extend the method to obtain, in addition to elemental maps, the first bonding maps at the nanoscale. A major difficulty when analysing multi-dimensional datasets of samples of unknown composition is that the quantitative methods require as an input the composition of the sample. We show that blind source separation methods enable fast and accurate analysis of multi-dimensional datasets without defining a model. In optimal conditions these methods are capable of extracting signals from the dataset corresponding to the different chemical compounds in the sample and their distribution
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Lamb, Robert. "Dynamic Loss Distributions." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520974.
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Thys, Noel. "Hearing loss simulation." Thesis, Peninsula Technikon, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1127.
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Thesis (MTech (Electrical Engineering))--Peninsula Technikon, Cape Town, 2000.This document gives a report on the research that has been done to simulate hearing loss. People working with the hearing impaired have no idea of what and/or how the hearing impaired person hears sound. An instrument that enables a normal hearing person to hear what a hearing impaired person hears, is referred to in this document as a Hearing Loss Simulator (HLS). An investigation of the feasibility and practicability of the abovementioned instrument, has led to the development of the HLS by making use of a distinct type of technology called Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology. Before hearing loss can be simulated, the hearing loss first needs to be determined. A study of different procedures and methods for screening hearing has led to the incorporation of an existing instrument called an Audiometer. An audiometer is an instrument that determines the hearing loss by making use of pure tone sine waves. The results are then plotted on a graph called an Audiogram. The results of other methods that determine the hearing loss can also be transferred to the Audiogram. The Audiogram's information which is, in fact, the frequency response of the ear, is stored in a computer and is utilized to realize the HLS function. Six different DSP based methods were studied to shape any audio information according to a specific frequency response. The optimum method was identified and then implemented. The various methods are the following: Filter bank method Inverse Discrete Fourier Transforms (IDFT) method Inverse Fast Fourier Transforms (IFFT) method Chirp-z method Wavelet method Yule-walker method The ITFT method was identified as the optimum method and was therefore implemented. The algorithm to realize this method, was carried out by doing the IFFT calculation on computer and subsequently doing the filtering on a DSP processor called an ADSP-2181 processor. The audio information under investigation is fed into the instrument, it is then filtered according to the audiogram information and then sent out again. Any normal hearing person who wants to investigate the hearing impairment of the hearing impaired person can listen to sound reproduction through either a set of headphones or through a free field. This process is referred to in this dissertation as Hearing Loss Simulation.
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Komada, Patrycja. "Memory and Loss." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231935.
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Szczecin is a city in a western Poland which after WW II was damaged, lost its identity and inhabitants. Polish-German border was moved to the west of Oder river. Most of Pomerania, including Szczecin was eventually given to Poland. About 90 precent of the city centre was damaged, bombings took away city’s identity.According to Rossi the city is always considered as a man-made object and the past will always be partly experienced and gives meaning to permanence.So I wondered how much of past is still present in Szczecin? The wounds healed after many years, but what is there left of the city that it used to be?During analyse of city urban structure I found public buildings that were demolished and forgotten and reconstructed them from pictures, as pictures are the only evi-dence of their presence.In Szczecin today there is no theather building, no exhibition hall in the centre, no synagogue building, no panoramic cinema and no public transportation office which is also a public space.Frgaments of memories brought together in one place are forming the memorial of the city’s past fulfilling the gap between the past and present.Not many of city’s inhabitants know about the fact that the city used to have theatre in the place where where now highway enters the city centre, panorama viewing building in the park, exhibition hall surrounded by townhouses, public transportation office next to city’s central transportation hub or a synagogue in a place where the library is.
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Behlen, Shawn Lee. "Anatomy of Loss." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278022/.
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Hoppe, David M. "Designing for loss." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Akin, Faith W. "Bilateral Vestibular Loss." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1997. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2459.
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Zaleha, Sarita. "Feeling environmental loss." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2027.
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My work is concerned with our perceptions of climate change and our relationship with the environment. Scientific study of historical worldwide climate data shows that global temperatures have been steadily rising for at least the last one hundred years. The concept of the anthropocene—a particular geologic epoch defined by human presence—links climate change specifically to humans and their impact on the environment. Even confronted with the data, many feel disconnected from climate change. While one can detect temperature change of single degrees over the course of seconds or minutes, it is difficult to feel this kind of temperature change over the course of decades. My work for the past three years has been concerned with questions related to how we feel and figure environmental loss. Crafting, mourning, and emotion have continually cropped up in my work as ways of apprehending environmental loss.
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Oemig, Carmen Kay. "Frequency and appraisal of social support in a behavioral weight loss program relationship to behavioral and health outcomes /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1197667569.
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Ercan, Can. "Phpa As A Frictional Pressure Loss Reducer And Its Pressure Loss Estimation." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608451/index.pdf.
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As the demand of oil and gas is increasing, using the existing reservoirs more efficiently as well as searching for new reservoirs is mandatory. Most undiscovered reservoirs are in deep or ultra-deep offshore locations, where drilling to such targets are very difficult with the available fluid circulation technology, since there exists a significant frictional pressure loss due to extreme long wellbores. In order to reduce the frictional pressure losses inside the drillstring, frictional drag reducers are used. Frictional drag reducers are mostly high molecular weight linear polymer molecules and can be used with water or hydrocarbon based solvents. The system used in this study is Baroid EZ-Mud water solutions. Baroid EZ-Mud is a liquid polymer emulsion containing partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide / polyacrylate (PHPA) co-polymer.
This study aims to observe the performance of EZ-Mud as a frictional drag reducer. For this purpose, a flow loop that consisted of a circular pipe where the frictional pressure losses can be observed under various flow rates and concentrations is developed.
Pipe flow experiments were performed using water-based mud generated using different concentrations of Baroid EZ-Mud at different flow rates. Differential pressure values were recorded for each run. Rheological properties of each mud sample were determined using Fann (Couette) viscometer in order to determine the theoretical frictional pressure losses. Theoretical and measured frictional pressure losses were compared. Results showed that, as the concentration of EZ-Mud was increased, considerable frictional drag reduction as high as 60% was observed.
Based on the experimental data obtained from the flow loop using EZ-Mud with different concentrations, a friction factor correlation as a function of Reynolds Number and EZ-Mud concentration is developed. The proposed correlation performance was also compared with the existing correlations from the literature. It has been observed that, frictional pressure losses using the developed friction factor could be estimated within an error range of maximum 15 %, whereas, the existing models could not predict frictional pressure losses as accurate as the proposed model.
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Marsili, Aurélien. "Identification of LHC beam loss mechanism : a deterministic treatment of loss patterns." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00807367.
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest machine ever built, with a total circumference of 26.7 km; and it is the most powerful accelerator ever, both in beam energy and beam intensity. The main magnets are superconducting, keeping the particles into two counter circulating beams, which collide in four interaction points. CERN and the LHC will be described in chap. 1. The superconducting magnets of the LHC have to be protected against particle losses. Depending on the number of lost particles, the coils of the magnets will become normal conducting and/or will be damaged. To avoid these events a beam loss monitoring (BLM) system was installed to measure the particle loss rates. If the predefined safe thresholds of loss rates are exceeded, the beams are directed out of the accelerator ring towards the beam dump. The detectors of the BLM system are mainly ionization chambers located outside of the cryostats. In total, about 3500 ionisation chambers are installed. Further challenges include the high dynamical range of losses (chamber currents ranging between 2 pA and 1 mA). The BLM system will be further described in chap. 2. The subject of this thesis is to study the loss patterns and find the origin of the losses in a deterministic way, by comparing measured losses to well understood loss scenarios. This is done through a case study: different techniques were used on a restrained set of loss scenarios, as a proof of concept of the possibility to extract information from a loss profile. Finding the origin of the losses should allow acting in response. A justification of the doctoral work will be given at the end of chap. 2. Then, this thesis will focus on the theoretical understanding and the implementation of the decomposition of a measured loss profile as a linear combination of the reference scenarios; and the evaluation of the error on the recomposition and its correctness. The principles of vector decomposition are developed in chap. 3. An ensemble of well controlled loss scenarios (such as vertical and horizontal blow-up of the beams or momentum offset during collimator loss maps) has been gathered, in order to allow the study and creation of reference vectors. To achieve the Vector Decomposition, linear algebra (matrix inversion) is used with the numeric algorithm for the Singular Value Decomposition. Additionally, a specific code for vector projection on a non-orthogonal basis of a hyperplane was developed. The implementation of the vector decomposition on the LHC data is described in chap. 4. After this, the use of the decomposition tools systematically on the time evolution of the losses will be described: first as a study of the variations second by second, then by comparison to a calculated default loss profile. The different ways to evaluate the variation are studied, and are presented in chap. 5. The next chapter (6) describes the gathering of decomposition results applied to beam losses of 2011. The vector decomposition is applied on every second of the ''stable beans'' periods, as a study of the spatial distribution of the loss. Several comparisons of the results given by the decompositions with measurements from other LHC instruments allowed different validations. Eventually, a global conclusion on the interest of the vector decomposition is given. Then, the extra chapter in Appendix A describes the code which was developed to access the BLM data, to represent them in a meaningful way, and to store them. This included connecting to different databases. The whole instrument uses ROOT objects to send SQL queries to the databases, as well as java API, and is coded in Python. A short glossary of the acronyms used here can be found at the end, before the bibliography.
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Hughes, Joyce M. "Factors influencing successful weight loss and weight loss maintenance in slimming clubs." Thesis, St George's, University of London, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265263.
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Logan, Catherine. "Evaluation of commercial weight loss programmes during weight loss and weight maintenance." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428607.
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Bachman, Robert Lee 1947. "A Psychosocial Comparison Between Weight Loss Maintainers and Weight Loss Non-Maintainers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330956/.
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Psychosocial differences between weight loss maintainers and weight loss non-maintainers were compared at least one year after reaching a medically approved weight goal through a medically supervised weight loss program. Research questions addressed differences between groups on the dimensions of somatization, obsessive/compulsive issues, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, ability to resolve past emotional issues, social interpersonal relationships, and tolerance of ambiguity.
The all-female sample consisted of maintainers of weight loss (N=30), non-maintainers (N=33), psychotherapy maintainers (N=14), and psychotherapy non-maintainers (N=ll). Research instruments administered were the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised, Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior, Personal Orientation Inventory, and Budner Scale for Tolerance/Intolerance of Ambiguity.
To determine differences between groups, a t test was performed on data relating to the maintaining and non-maintaining groups. An analysis of variance was performed on data related to the maintaining, non-maintaining, psychotherapy maintaining, and psychotherapy non-maintaining groups. An intercorrelation matrix was completed for all variables.
Non-maintainers of weight loss had significantly more difficulty with somatic problems as indicated in the results of both the t test and the analysis of variance (p < .009, p < .02, respectively). Non-maintainers expressed more complaints which focused on cardio-vascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and somatic equivalents of anxiety (headaches, pain, discomfort of the gross musculature).
An analysis of variance showed non-maintainers (p < .05) to be significantly less effective in resolving past emotional issues than maintainers, psychotherapy maintainers, and psychotherapy non-maintainers. Non-maintainers were more burdened by guilt, regrets, and resentments from the past.
Results of the analysis of variance indicated that psychotherapy maintainers (p < .03) were more socially adjusted than maintainers, non-maintainers, and psychotherapy non-maintainers. Inclusion and control subscales characterized psychotherapy maintainers to be more socially adaptable and flexible. They assumed responsibility without support of others and were less burdened with fears of helplessness and incompetence.
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Jones, Nicholas Spencer. "Hyperlipidaemia and hearing loss." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265047.
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Berger, Larisa (Larisa A. ). "Catalogue of a Loss." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79028.
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Thesis (S.B. in Humanities and Engineering)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 83).
Catalogue of a Loss is a collection of sixty-two prose poems written within the past year and half. The work is printed on 4x6 cards. Each poem may be read individually from a single card or the poems can be read in sequences. Each poem maps to at least one prescribed sequence that is visually indicated on the card(s). In the case that the poem maps to multiple sequences that poem is reprinted so that each subset it belongs to may be individually represented. Within this document, I've provided re-printings of the cards along with four of the larger possible sequences I have framed for the reader (indicated by red / violet / cyan/ gold). There are no duplicates within this set therefore the described cross-referencing in which a single poem maps to multiple sequences is not represented. The reader is encouraged to make what he will of the sequences: my intention is that the relationships suggested by the proposed reading-sequences do not establish a single structure designed to constrain the reader but offer, instead, multiple structures that will inspire new relationships of the reader's own making. The work is a memoir-of-sorts. I began working on this piece in January 2011 knowing that I would write about my father who died in January 2007-ten years after he first began experiencing symptoms of dementia. In that time I took off the Fall semester and lived in San Francisco. Writing this work caused my own re-examination on life with my parents, life at MIT and life out in the world. The work examines my life at an intimate distance. Even the colors that I used to encode the poems are taken from our family portrait. The card-form emulates exactly how I was remembering my past: connections were formed and then blurred; random details were vivid and unforgettable while others completely disappeared. The resulting work explores the lines between art and life, between art-making and life-making, between past and present, between solitude and loneliness, between intellectual exile and the comforts of home, between "family" self and "independent" self. In the sixty-seven cards represented within this document are the past five years of my life.
by Larisa Berger.
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Rocha, Watt Dionea. "Tracing loss, touching absence." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2017. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2846/.
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This research considers an artist’s encounter with works of art that carry or evoke the affective traces of an experience of loss. Examining images, photographs and sculptural objects and installations that inscribe and in turn expose absence in presence, this research through writing as a practice simultaneously investigates and performs the work as a response to loss. The thesis proposes that the work of art evokes loss by materialising absence. The work of art, like the work of mourning, works by inscribing a trace of the affective experience – the absence of the presence of the other. It is through the affective materiality of the work of art that we come to sense loss; when confronted with, and wounded by, the inscription of absence and its powerful relation to time. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, the study shows how loss can silence but also move us to create a new language when existing forms of representation fail to signify. Shifting between asignification and signification, the new poetic language carries an imprint of the body; it reconnects to affects to inscribe loss. In the languages of writing, photography and sculpture, I suggest, art attempts to give shape to what cannot be said, to what cannot be shown, to what resists representation. Through close readings of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Louise Bourgeois, the thesis suggests that by resisting representation these artists create works in which textile materials indicate a fundamental encounter with a material sign that gives rise to affects. I analyse works in which fabric is infused with the trace of an absent other. The analysis of contemporary works rubs against the narratives of the origins of art in the ‘Corinthian Maid’ and in the history of prehistoric handprints on cave walls, both of which reveal the gesture of inscribing a presence that anticipates absence. The study draws on philosophy to consider that what is inscribed is not only the absence of a presence but existence; what is inscribed is the vestige or trace of a ‘passing through the world’. The research is generated by a transformative encounter with loss and with art that invites yet resists interpretation; an affective encounter through which what is other can touch, and what touches can be thought. Art, I suggest (after Deleuze), can move us to recover the creative potency of thought in order to inscribe the singularity of the encounter. To write through loss is to write what is impossible to represent and yet insists on being written.
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Harris, Susanna. "The Nature of Loss." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1620050401352492.
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Childress, Lawrence. "The Loss-Processing Framework." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3896.
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The circumstances of responding to loss due to human death are among the most stressful experiences encountered in life. Although grief’s symptoms are typically considered essential to their gradual diminishment, possible negative impacts of complications related to grief are also well known, and have been associated with detriments to mental and physical health. Grief, however, can also generate transformative positive change. Thus, albeit ineludible, responding to loss is not uniformly experienced, expressed, or understood. It is also culturally-shaped, making attempts to define “normal” grief, as well as to label some grief “abnormal”—and to medicalize it—possibly problematic. Bereavement (the situation surrounding a death) and mourning (the publicly expressed response to loss due to death) are changing. Some of these changes (e.g., the increase in hospice care settings prior to deaths, and alterations in the ritual responses following all deaths—irrespective of their context) may have important implications for avoiding grief’s possible complications and for promoting its potential benefits. An improved alignment of grief theory, research, and practice is warranted; but theories of grief are diverse, and historically have not been empirically well-supported. This research articulates a new grief model, the loss-processing framework, featuring three dimensional components (perception, orientation, and direction). As a first step toward validation of the framework, also included is an empirical study examining retrospective descriptive reports of adult loss response relating to the first of these three dimensions (perception). As an interpretive, translational approach to understanding grief, the loss-processing framework may serve to positively impact grieving, health, and life quality.
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Burton, Michael John. "The loss of place." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53414.
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The current crisis of the “American City”, stems from the notion of “The Loss of Place.” This concept of “Place” is defined and a specific project study demonstrating this concept of “Place” is presented. By utilizing new technologies available for methods and means of construction to produce “Meaningful” buildings that convey a sense of “Place” the identity and character of our cities will re-emerge.Master of Architecture
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Calhoun, McKenzie L. "Weight Loss Medication Update." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6887.
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Hall, Todd R. "How to Factor Loss." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3090/.
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How to Factor Loss is a collection of poems and translations prefaced by a critical paper over Robert Hass's “Meditation at Lagunitas.” The preface, “A Sensuous Theory, A Sensuous Poem,” explores how Hass merges the discourses of theory and poetry to create a poem that hangs suspended between a confidence and an anxiety about language. The poems in this thesis are primarily responses to finitude. The first section turns toward an “other” as a strategy of placating desire and of reaching both inward and outward. The second section explores the potential failures of art as a means of touching objects. The final section acknowledges that finitude is the condition of humankind, and it turns toward a more tender language, one that embraces limitations and is filled with something like faith. The collection is followed by an appendix which contains translations of several poems by René Guy Cadou and Georg Trakl.
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Monama, Bonga Justice. "Dismissal for stock loss." Thesis, University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1111.
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Barbieri, Elena <1990>. "Workout Loss Given Default." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6492.
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Studio sul rischio di credito con particolare attenzione al rischio di recupero dei crediti insolventi. Viene proposto un lavoro empirico sulle perdite derivanti dai prestiti bancari dato il default del debitore.
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Tong, Yanan. "Nitrogen loss assessment and environmental consequences in the loess soil of China /." Umeå : Dept. of Forest Ecology, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2003. http://epsilon.slu.se/s284.pdf.
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QUINTANS, ERICA TAVARES. "I HAVE ALSO LOST MY SON: PATERNAL MOURNING IN GESTACIONAL/NEONATAL LOSS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34141@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTITUIÇÕES COMUNITÁRIAS DE ENSINO PARTICULARES
O luto é um processo natural e esperado diante do rompimento de um vínculo significativo. Socialmente ainda é desconsiderado o pesar perante a perda gestacional/neonatal, sendo uma categoria de Luto Não Reconhecido. Os homens são socialmente incitados a evitar suas emoções e a não entrar em contato com seus sentimentos, existindo a ideia de que eles não se enlutem pela perda de um(a) filho(a) no período gestacional/neonatal. O presente estudo pretendeu pesquisar a vivência de homens sobre o luto na perda de um(a) filho(a) no período gestacional/neonatal. Para isso, foi realizada, inicialmente, uma revisão da literatura de estudos do tema, na qual foram encontrados poucos registros sobre o assunto, os existentes sendo internacionais. Após essa etapa, foi realizado um estudo exploratório por meio de 10 entrevistas semi-estruturadas, baseadas em um roteiro previamente delineado. Foram realizadas 3 entrevistas piloto. A análise dos resultados foi feita a partir do Método de Explicitação do Discurso Subjacente (MEDS). Do discurso dos sujeitos emergiram 8 categorias de análise: Foi perda mesmo… e eu também senti; Cuide dela e segure firme, porque você precisa ser forte!; Não vamos falar sobre isso; Algo mudou entre nós; Ritual: um momento singular, para uma experiência singular; Algumas coisas tornaram esta experiência mais fácil… Outras coisas a tornaram ainda mais difícil; Existe um sentido para o que eu vivi; No futuro eu quero... Como resultado destaca-se o fato de os homens sentirem diversas emoções profundas ante a perda de um filho no período gestacional/neonatal, ainda que, muitas vezes, não encontrem um suporte social efetivo. Em relação aos rituais de despedida, os homens encontram-se divididos quanto a sua realização. Entretanto, o relacionamento conjugal parece ser a fonte de apoio necessária para vivenciar as emoções e saírem fortalecidos dessa experiência. A maioria dos homens parece ter conseguido encontrar um sentido para suas experiências, percebendo que são pessoas melhores após perderem os(as) seus(uas) filhos(as). A partir da perda, muitos têm uma perspectiva de futuro e de reconstrução de suas vidas, desejando ter mais filhos ou mudar de cidade. Ficou evidente que, quando existe a oportunidade, os homens falam abertamente sobre como foi, para eles, a experiência de perder os(as) seus(uas) filhos(as).
Mourning is a natural and expected process in the face of breaking a meaningful bond. Socially it is still disregarded the regret against gestational/neonatal loss, being a category of Unrecognized Grief. Men are socially urged to avoid their emotions and not to get in touch with their feelings, and there is the idea that they do not get involved in the loss of a child in the gestational/neonatal period. The present study aimed to investigate the experience of mourning in the loss of a son/daughter in the gestational/neonatal period. For this, a literature review was initially carried out in which few studies on the subject were found, all of which are international. After this step, an exploratory study was carried out through 10 semi-structured interviews, based on a previously delineated script. Two pilot interviews were held. The analysis of the results was made from the Explanation Method of the Underlying Discourse (MEDS). From the discourse of the subjects emerged 8 categories of analysis: It was loss even ... and I also felt; Take care of her and hold it tight, because you have to be strong !; Let s not talk about it; Something has changed between us; Ritual: a singular moment for a singular experience; Some things have made this experience easier... Other things have made it even more difficult; There is a sense to what I have lived; In the future I want to ... As a result, the fact that men feel several deep emotions about the loss of a child in the gestational/neonatal period is highlighted, although often they do not find effective social support. Regarding the farewell rituals, men are divided as to their accomplishment. However, the marital relationship seems to be the source of support needed to experience the emotions and come out strengthened from this experience. Most men seem to have managed to find meaning in their experiences, feeling that they are better people after losing their children. From the loss many of them have a future perspective and reconstruction of their lives, desiring to have more children or change to another city. It became clear that when there is an opportunity, men openly talk about how it was for them the experience of losing their children.
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Malwandla, Musa. "Loss distributions in consumer credit risk : macroeconomic models for expected and unexpected loss." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20414.
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This thesis focuses on modelling the distributions of loss in consumer credit arrangements, both at an individual level and at a portfolio level, and how these might be influenced by loan-specific factors and economic factors. The thesis primarily aims to examine how these factors can be incorporated into a credit risk model through logistic regression models and threshold regression models. Considering the fact that the specification of a credit risk model is influenced by its purpose, the thesis considers the IFRS 7 and IFRS 9 accounting requirements for impairment disclosure as well as Basel II regulatory prescriptions for capital requirements. The thesis presents a critique of the unexpected loss calculation under Basel II by considering the different ways in which loans can correlate within a portfolio. Two distributions of portfolio losses are derived. The Vašíček distribution, which is the assumed in Basel II requirements, was originally derived for corporate loans and was never adapted for application in consumer credit. This makes it difficult to interpret and validate the correlation parameters prescribed under Basel II. The thesis re-derives the Vašíček distribution under a threshold regression model that is specific to consumer credit risk, thus providing a way to estimate the model parameters from observed experience. The thesis also discusses how, if the probability of default is modelled through logistic regression, the portfolio loss distribution can be modelled as a log-log-normal distribution.
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Mpholo, Lebogang Thateng. "Incidence of hearing loss in young and elderly patients following spinal anaesthesia for cystoscopy." Thesis, University of Limpopo ( Medunsa Campus ), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/415.
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Thesis ( M Med (Anaesthesiology)--University of Limpopo, 2011.Introduction: Multiple studies have described a variable incidence of transient hearing loss (hypoacousis) from 0.4% to 40% after subarachnoid block, especially in the low-frequencies range (125 – 500 Hz) (1, 2). The mechanism of transient hypoacousis is attributed to leakage of cerebrospinal fluid, which leads to a decrease in perilymph pressure within the cochlear. Hypothesis: The study hypothesis was based on an assumption that hearing loss is more frequent in young patients who undergo spinal anaesthesia in comparison with elderly patients. Objective: 1) To determine the incidence of hearing loss after spinal anaesthesia in the young versus elderly patients. Materials and Methods: Ninety-eight male patients (ASA 1 - 11) scheduled for cystoscopy under spinal anaesthesia were recruited for the study. Recruitment of patients for the study was age-dependent and was divided into two groups: One group (49 patients) had patients aged between 17 and 44 years (Group Y) and the other group had 49 patients aged between 45 and 77 years made up group two (GROUP E). Subarachnoid injection at L3-4 was performed using a standard 22-gauge Quincke spinal needle with patients in the sitting position and 2,5 ml to 3 ml of 0.5% isobaric bupivacaine was administered. Patients were evaluated on the day before spinal anaesthesia by pure tone audiometry at three different frequency sounds viz. 125 – 500 Hz (Low frequency), 500 – 2000 Hz (Speech frequency) and at 2000 – 4000 Hz (High frequency). This assessment was repeated 48 hours after the spinal block was given. Statistical Analysis: Analysis was descriptive providing information on the mean (or median) and standard deviation of the variables for each of the two groups. The results of the audiometry were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance and transformation to p-value. Differences in outcomes of the study between the two groups were recorded as being statistically significant if p-value is ≤ 0.05. Results: No patient from the two groups developed hearing loss either at low or high frequencies. However, there was a statistically significant improvement in audiometric results (p-value ranging from 0.0001 and 0.063) 48 hours post-surgery in the elderly group as compared with patients in the younger group. Conclusion: The study revealed no hearing loss post-spinal anaesthesia in both groups. It did, however, show that the elderly group have better hearing acuity at all three frequency levels of sound compared to the younger group after spinal anaesthesia.
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Eisner, Mariah Claire. "Comparing Logit and Hinge Surrogate Loss Functions in Outcome Weighted Learning." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1585657996755039.
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Homann, Gary P. "An examination of maintenance practice incorporated into a weight loss program." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1338922421&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Davis, Carol E. Egli. "Separation loss in searching birthmothers." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1054662211.
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Daney, Samantha. "Improving Outcomes for Children At-Risk for Hearing Loss." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1470233353.
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Thomas, Elizabeth Anne. "Type 2 diabetes, hearing loss, and contributors to hearing loss in older Mexican Americans." Diss., Search in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. UC Only, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378510.
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Fogarty, Nicholas. "Psychological profiles of weight-loss : a comparison of surgical and behavioural weight-loss interventions /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09p/09pf655.pdf.
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Sevy, Fua Rosa Maria. "Private loss, public memory : an ethnography of the Holocaust memorial exhibition Faces of Loss." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23338.
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This investigation consisted of an ethnographic study of the memorial exhibition Faces of Loss mounted at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. The exhibit was based on scanned images of original pre-Holocaust pictures of the victims of the Holocaust whose families now live in Vancouver. Pictures of deceased relatives, confined for years in the privacy of survivors’ and second generations’ homes, were publicly displayed. In conducting this ethnography, the researcher became a participant observer during the production and public display of the exhibition. Data were generated through descriptive fieldnotes, personal journal entries, twenty-eight individual interviews that included Holocaust survivors, child survivors and second generation, and one group interview with nine child survivors. The data analysis suggests that bringing their private losses to the public arena proved therapeutic for the participants. The images displayed allowed them to honour the memory of their relatives and provided the participants with a forum to talk about their losses. The exhibition became a medium for the wider community to bear witness to the participants’ trauma, offering the Holocaust survivors and their children the healing experience associated with testimonial acts. The exhibition also engaged participants in collective remembrance and mourning practices. The display of visual images played a crucial role in facilitating these processes among the participants.
It follows that local Holocaust museums, as cultural places, could be turned into venues for facilitating memorial and therapeutic processes among Holocaust survivors and their children. By exploring the role of museums as forums for bringing private losses into public space, this study sheds light on the therapeutic use of community-based settings for individuals and groups who have undergone psychosocial trauma.
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Gass, Mhairi Hope. "Low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy in a scanning transmission electron microscope of GaInNAs." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415656.
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Smedensjö, Myhre Mauritz, and David Nilsson. "Loss Aversion : A Study of Changes in Loss Aversion Towards a 50/50 Gamble." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95429.
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Loss aversion is a theory which states that losses loom larger than gains. Negative outcomes are weighted heavier than positive outcomes in decision making but could this weight change when different prospects are evaluated? This thesis focuses on how the loss aversion changes toward different magnitudes of a loss for young individuals when they are faced with a 50/50 chance of winning or losing a gamble. The loss aversion is tested toward six different magnitudes of a potential loss ranging from 100 kr to 4 000 kr. The loss aversion toward these six different magnitudes is then compared to examine how the loss aversion changes. This data was collected using a survey experiment that was digitally distributed to economics students at Linnaeus University in Växjö.The results from the subsequent analysis showed that the loss aversion was not constant towards all six losses. The loss aversion was different in ten out of fifteen pairwise comparisons. Respondents became more loss averse when the loss increased but the loss aversion did however seem to be less sensitive to increases in losses above the 1 000 kr mark.
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Kelsey, Kurt L. "Use of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (Rusle) to predict event soil loss /." Link to abstract, 2002. http://epapers.uwsp.edu/abstracts/2002/Kelsey.pdf.
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Bordieri, Michael J. "Generating sustainable weight loss : investigating the efficacy of a behavioral based weight loss intervention /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885431361&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Bordieri, Michael James. "Generating Sustainable Weight Loss: Investigating the Efficacy of a Behavioral Based Weight Loss Intervention." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/42.
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Two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Traditional obesity interventions (e.g. drug therapy, diets, behavior therapy) generate moderate short-term weight loss but have little evidence of long-term weight maintenance. The cultural phenomenon of "yo-yo dieting" mirrors empirical findings which suggest that weight loss, albeit demanding, is a far easier process to target than weight maintenance. The present study sought to evaluate the efficacy of an acceptance based behavioral intervention designed to generate improvements in psychological health and quality of life in obese and overweight adults as well as encourage gradual and sustainable weight loss. The therapy package combined the traditional behavioral interventions of self-monitoring and goal setting with an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) protocol across eight weekly individual therapy sessions. While no significant immediate weight loss was observed following the intervention, significant improvements in general psychological health, reductions in anxiety and escape maintained eating, and increases in weight related acceptance and action were found in the treatment group (n = 9) compared to a wait list control group (n = 10). These findings suggest that an acceptance based intervention targeting wide band outcomes might serve as a viable alternative to traditional approaches targeting only immediate weight loss.
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Shah, Neet. "Visual Field Analysis for Functional Visual Loss." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626887.
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Houtkooper, Linda, Jaclyn Maurer, and Veronica Mullins. "Weight Loss Tips for Athletes." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146638.
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2 pp.The only way to lose fat weight is to consume fewer calories than the body uses. Athletes who successfully lose weight learn how to apply this concept, while maintaining the energy levels required for training.
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Seetharaman, Satya. "An Investigation of Load-independent Power Losses of Gear Systems." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248457135.
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Barnet, Belinda English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Lost in the archive: vision, artefact and loss in the evolution of hypertext." Publisher:University of New South Wales. English, Media, & Performing Arts, 2004. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44384.
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How does one write the history of a technical machine? Can we say that technical machines have their own genealogies, their own evolutionary dynamic? The technical artefact constitutes a series of objects, a lineage or a line. At a cursory level, we can see this in the fact that technical machines come in generations - they adapt and adopt characteristics over time, one suppressing the other as it becomes obsolete. It is argued that technics has its own evolutionary dynamic, and that this dynamic stems neither from biology nor from human societies. Yet 'it is impossible to deny the role of human thought in the creation of technical artefacts' (Guattari 1995, p. 37). Stones do not automatically rise up into a wall - humans 'invent' technical objects. This, then, raises the question of technical memory. Is it humans that remember previous generations of machines and transfer their characteristics to new machines? If so, how and where do they remember them? It is suggested that humans learn techniques from technical artefacts, and transfer these between machines. This theory of technical evolution is then used to understand the genealogy of hypertext. The historical differentiations of hypertext in different technical systems is traced. Hypertext is defined as both a technical artefact and also a set of techniques: both are a part of this third milieu, technics. The difference between technical artefact and technical vision is highlighted, and it is suggested that technique and vision change when they are externalised as material artefact. The primary technique traced is association, the organisational principle behind the hypertext systems explored in the manuscript. In conclusion, invention is shown to be an act of exhumation, the transfer and retroactiviation of techniques from the past. This thesis presents an argument for a new model of technical evolution, a model which claims that technics constitutes its own dynamic, and that this dynamic exceeds human evolution. It traces the genealogy of hypertext as a set of techniques and as series of material artefacts. To create this geneaology I draw on interviews conducted with Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson and Andries van Dam, as well as a wide variety of primary and secondary resources.
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Tripp, Lloyd D. "+Gz acceleration loss of consciousness /." Cincinnati, Ohio University of Cincinnati, 2002. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1089841115.
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Damodaran, Usha Beard Cory. "Packet loss effects on MPEG4." Diss., UMK access, 2005.
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Thesis (M.S.)--School of Computing and Engineering. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005."A thesis in electrical engineering." Typescript. Advisor: Cory Beard. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed June 20, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-67). Online version of the print edition.
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Akkasli, Cem. "Methods for Path loss Prediction." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-6127.
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Large scale path loss modeling plays a fundamental role in designing both fixed and mobile radio systems. Predicting the radio coverage area of a system is not done in a standard manner. Wireless systems are expensive systems. Therefore, before setting up a system one has to choose a proper method depending on the channel environment, frequency band and the desired radio coverage range. Path loss prediction plays a crucial role in link budget analysis and in the cell coverage prediction of mobile radio systems. Especially in urban areas, increasing numbers of subscribers brings forth the need for more base stations and channels. To obtain high efficiency from the frequency reuse concept in modern cellular systems one has to eliminate the interference at the cell boundaries. Determining the cell size properly is done by using an accurate path loss prediction method. Starting from the radio propagation phenomena and basic path loss models this thesis aims at describing various accurate path loss prediction methods used both in rural and urban environments. The Walfisch-Bertoni and Hata models, which are both used for UHF propagation in urban areas, were chosen for a detailed comparison. The comparison shows that the Walfisch-Bertoni model, which involves more parameters, agrees with the Hata model for the overall path loss.
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Vink, J. S., P. Benaglia, B. Davies, Koter A. de, and R. D. Oudmaijer. "Advances in mass-loss predictions." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1794/.
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We present the results of Monte Carlo mass-loss predictions for massive stars covering a wide range of stellar parameters. We critically test our predictions against a range of observed massloss rates – in light of the recent discussions on wind clumping. We also present a model to compute the clumping-induced polarimetric variability of hot stars and we compare this with observations of Luminous Blue Variables, for which polarimetric variability is larger than for O and Wolf-Rayet stars. Luminous Blue Variables comprise an ideal testbed for studies of wind clumping and wind geometry, as well as for wind strength calculations, and we propose they may be direct supernova progenitors.