Dissertations / Theses: 'Marked themes'

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Bruno, Vincent. "Central themes of Mark's Gospel." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Fang, Yi. "Theses on information imperfection, market failure and remedy." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24560.

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The theses focus on the market failure induced by information imperfection. We study this type of market failure separately in the context of corporate equity finance and long-term bilateral transactions. In the equity finance market, adverse selection may arise due to the asymmetric information of firms’ value. It has been argued that firms, in response to the inefficiency induced by adverse selection, may signal their unobservable values through choices of equity flotation methods. In the context of UK open offers and rights offers, we provide evidences for this signalling hypothesis. We find that information content significantly falls after both rights offers and open offers, which suggests resolution of asymmetric information with equity offers. Our result suggests there exists a non-pooling equilibrium through firms’ choices of equity flotation methods and that open offers are employed by good firms to signal quality to the public. Besides, with the measures of information content of trades, we establish some patterns of adverse selection in London SEAQ. Information content of trades is related to trade size. Small trades are not informative, while median trades and large trades are informative. For the comparison between purchases and sales, large purchases are more informative than large sales, while median purchases are less informative than median sales. These results suggest informed traders handle large purchases and large sales with different strategies, and that market makers are less harsh to traders with positive private information. We set up a hypothesis of the pattern of human intermediation in London SEAQ: human intermediation works in a “carrot” format when private information is more costly to obtain and adverse selection is more severe; it works in a “stick” format when information of a stock can be generated for less less cost and market makers face fewer threats from informed trading. In most long-term bilateral trading relationships, transaction parties have to make investments which are geared towards their partners. Once the investments are sunk, a party can not rely on market to discipline his partner, and his investments return will be vulnerable to expropriation. This problem, known as the hold-up problem, will discourage parties from making socially desirable investments. We reconsider the hold-up problem by allowing a party to separately invest in his outside option in order to capture its value. We find that after considering this investment option, the hold-up problem is potentially more severe than previously observed. Parties to a transaction may make investments which are not productive from a social point of view. More importantly, the inefficient investment may even crowd out relationship specific investments, which may result in relationship-breaking in a highly productive relationship.

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Lee, Sug-Ho. "Unbelief as a theme in Mark's gospel." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09292006-142658/.

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Elias, Nadia. "Marked theme and intonation's role in achieving topical coherence in spoken discourse in English." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/119685/.

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The present study focuses on the negotiation of "topical coherence" (Geluykkens, 1999). Using a Map Task, it investigates how the interaction between 'Thematic Structure': Theme and Rheme and 'Information Structure': Given and New (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014; Halliday, 1967a, b) achieves coherence in informal English discourse. The starting point for investigation of topical coherence is the idea that Theme and Given coincide in unmarked cases. The study examines instances where the two systems do not coincide and examines the meanings that are generated through this divergence in order to reveal what effect this divergence has on the spoken interaction. Marked Themes by being usually realised in their own tone groups are information units with information foci and thus informationally foregrounded (Tench, 1996). The focus of information will fall on the Theme as well as on the Rheme. The study examines what role the intonational realisations of the marked Theme, tonicity, tonality and key system will have in structuring map task interactions and in facilitating the successful completion of a map task. Data gleaned from map task shows that marked Theme aids the interlocutors in their negotiation as it is used to foreground previously mentioned information (e.g. a landmark or location on the map) by taking it as point of departure to more easily guide the hearers to the intended location. The data shows also that the previously mentioned information within the marked Theme is made tonic, projected as if it were New and marked Theme is presented as an information unit, in separate tone group, to attract hearers' attention to the importance of the information within the marked Theme. Therefore, the interaction between word order and intonation contributes to guiding the hearers more easily to the intended location. The data also shows that there is an interaction between key and marked Theme. Marked Theme is uttered on high key in contexts that demand the projection of particular information within the marked Theme to draw hearers' attention to the exact location on the map and on mid key to denote the addition of information and to confirm and clarify the details. The information uttered on high key within the marked Theme is previously introduced information (i.e. recoverable). It is concluded that marked Theme aids the interlocutors of the map task in their interaction about the route and contributes to achieving a coherent interaction on the topic of the map task, the route.

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Lowry, Catherine Norah. "The theme of place in #A la recherche du temps perdu'." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242008.

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Jetty, Sujatha. "Finding reliable profitable patterns for stock market /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1559859541&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Liu, Rui. "Correlation between fundamental values in the financial market /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1136097091&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Mohammed, Saher H. "A pattern matching system for the stock market /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1324378611&sid=23&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Arnold, Sven. "Aktuelle Themen in der Unternehmensbewertung." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-112082.

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Die vorliegende kumulative Dissertationsschrift beschäftigt sich mit finanzwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen im Bereich der Unternehmensbewertung. Dabei wurden aktuelle Themen diskutiert, die in Theorie oder Praxis ungelöste Probleme darstellen. Hervorzuheben ist an dieser Stelle, dass sich die ersten drei Artikel mit dem Werteinfluss der Zinsschanke auf den Wert von fremdfinanzierungsbedingten Steuerersparnissen (Tax Shield) beschäftigen. Die drei darauf folgenden Artikel beschäftigen sich schwerpunktmäßig mit der konsistenten Modellierung von Finanzierungspolitiken und dem Werteinfluss der Insolvenzmöglichkeit von Unternehmen. Der siebte und achte Artikel haben die Kapitalstruktur und weitere wichtige Parameter für die Unternehmensbewertung zum Thema.

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Richter, Andrea. "Over-employment, labour immobility, distress work and firm start-ups : four economic themes of Russia's slow transition to the market." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312612.

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Lemrise, Aimee. "Geographical assessment of farmers market consumers in southern Illinois /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1791982181&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Starkey, Darin M. "Environmental analysis of Illinois coal entry into the transportation market /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1796120861&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Du, Ruixue. "The Relationship Between Share Price and Operating Cash Flow Under the Casual Theme Restaurant Setting." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33274.

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In spite of the well-accepted belief of the relationship between cash flow and stock price, there are some controversies about whether cash flow is a good value driver in terms of explaining the volatility of stock prices, when compared with other value drivers, such as earnings or dividends.

Most of the previous studies that have focused on the relationship between stock price and cash flow have used cross-industries data, primarily S&P 500 index. These studies do not distinguish service industry from manufacturing industry. However, the service industry is different from manufacturing in many ways. These differences make cash play different roles in the daily operation between the service industry and the manufacturing industry.

Given these factors, whether the relationship between stock price and cash flow indentified in previous studies will hold in the casual theme restaurant industry is the question this study tries to answer. Therefore, a set of 20 casual theme restaurant companies are selected through the COMPUSTAT database as the sample of this study.

In this study, the performance of cash flow, earnings and dividends helping to explain the stock price move will be compared and ranked under the setting of casual theme restaurants. This result will provide the management of casual theme restaurants a guideline, which explains how to maintain the stock price increase and minimize the volatility by monitoring the most important value driver of the industry.

The methodology of this study will follow the traditional multiple valuation model. The logic of this model is to compare the pricing error of different value drivers and determine which one is the best.

The results of this study show that operating cash flow outperformed earnings and dividends in the multiple valuation tests. This is different from the results of previous studies that earnings has the strongest explanatory power in the variance of share price.
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Youn, Hwa-young. "Co-branding strategy for imported children's programming in the United States market /." Available to subscribers only, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1079668391&sid=26&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Quattri, Maria. "On making agricultural markets work for the poor : new evidence from Ethiopia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/on-making-agricultural-markets-work-for-the-poor-new-evidence-from-ethiopia(fb37de7d-5f71-4f60-829a-1ffd9f84f0ea).html.

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This thesis contributes to the literature on making agricultural markets work for the poor, with specific reference to Ethiopia. It contains three substantive chapters, which may be read independently. The chapters use primary surveys with traders conducted in 2002 (chapters 2 and 3) and 2007 (all the chapters).Chapter 1 investigates Ethiopian traders’ decision on whether and how much to use brokers. Results shine light on how the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), which recently formalized the brokerage functions, could be most beneficial for the functioning of agricultural markets. We show that the ECX could consider introducing new food crops in the trading system, offering warehouse receipt financing to its clients, and spreading the network of its warehouses throughout the country. Chapter 2 inquires whether the focus on technological and institutional upgrading is sufficient to make Ethiopian agricultural markets more efficient and if the existence of many small intermediaries causes market inefficiency. Findings suggest that, when transporters are used, transport costs could be reduced by avoiding trans-shipment, and reducing the number of times the transporter has to stop to allow for cargo loading and off-loading. No evidence is found for increasing returns to transaction size. Chapter 3 conceptualizes the notion of market integration as ‘tradability’ and analyses what determines the likelihood of market diversification among Ethiopian traders. The variables that are found to significantly impact on this probability are location (which is correlated with access to asphalt roads), availability of market information, traders’ educational level, access to commercial finance and storage capacity. Results indicate that market fundamentals affected the likelihood of market diversification more in 2007, when prices were rapidly surging, than in 2001 when prices were decreasing. The findings of this thesis support the ‘getting markets right’ school, in that incentives, infrastructure and institutions are essential for market development, and long-distance coordination of market exchange can be achieved through public-private cooperation.

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Bashir, Rabia. "Developing markers from BAC-End sequences to improve marker assisted selection in soybean /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456299651&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Hopkins, David. "Hermeticism, catholicism and gender as structure : a comparative study of themes in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst." Thesis, University of Essex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328353.

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Denenny, David Timothy. "Cultural Naturalism and the Market God." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2464.

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This work employs John Dewey's cultural naturalism to explore how and why the orthodox economic tradition functions as a religious faith.Scholars such as the theologian Harvey Cox and others now view orthodox economic practice as a religion. Other scholars such as Max Weber, Alasdair MacIntyre, and numerous others view modern economic practice as exemplifying a particular ethic. The focus in this work is placed upon the destructive consequences of practicing the Market faith. This work argues that much of contemporary economic practice maintains a view of science that is incompatible with the kind of naturalism found in Classical American Pragmatism. The history of the development of economics as a religious faith is explored beginning in the seventeenth-century up to the present day. The philosophical assumptions that have composed this relatively new faith are analyzed in detail. The conclusion provides an account of what we may hope for in the future.

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Palmer, Ann Marie. "Muslim cultures and the Walt Disney World theme parks the spread of religious perceptions in a global market /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0025036.

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Hagba, Dorbor M. "Can market volume help in predicting share market volatility." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/15043.

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Thesis (MBA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper explores a number of statistical models for predicting the daily stock return volatility of an aggregate of all stocks traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The study is largely inspired by the work of Chris Brooks (1998). The volume of shares traded might be as important as the change in a market index since substantial price increases and decreases are often accompanied by heavy trading activity. An application of linear and non-linear Granger causality tests highlights evidence of bidirectional causality, although the relationship is stronger from volatility to volume than from volume to volatility. The out-of-sample forecasting performance of various linear and non-linear models of volatility are evaluated and compared. The models are also augmented by the addition of a measure of lagged volume to form more general ex-ante forecasting models. The results indicate that augmenting models of volatility with measures of lagged volume leads only to fairly small improvements in forecasting performance. The report also shows that the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is vulnerable to financial turmoil in other major markets.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingsverslag verken 'n aantal statistiese modelle vir die vooruitskatting van die daaglikse onbestendigheid in aandeleopbrengste van die totaal van alle aandele wat op die Johannesburgse Aandelebeurs (JSE) verhandel word. Hierdie studie is grotendeels geinspireer deur die werk van Chris Brooks (1998). Die volume aandele wat verhandel word, kan net so belangrik wees soos die verandering in 'n markindeks omdat beduidende prysverhogings en -verlagings dikwels met swaar verhandelingsaktiwiteite gepaard gaan. 'n Toepassing van liniere en nie-liniere Grangeroorsaaklikheidstoetse lewer bewys van tweerigting-oorsaaklikheid, hoewel daar 'n sterker verband van onbestendigheid na volume is, as van volume na onbestendigheid. Die buite-steekproef vooruitskattingsprestasie van verskeie liniere en nie-liniere modelle van onbestendigheid word geevalueer en vergelyk. Die modelle word aangevul deur die byvoeging van gesloerde volumes om meer algemene vooruitskattingsmodelle te vorm. Die resultate dui daarop dat aangevulde modelle van onbestendigheid met sloerings in volume slegs tot betreklik klein verbeteringe in vooruitskattingsprestasie lei. Die resultate dui daarop dat die Johannesburgse Aandelebeurs kwesbaar is vir finansiele turbulensie in ander belangrike markte.

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Cabana, Marie. "Calcul direct acoustique et analyse des mécanismes de génération de bruit des écoulements cisaillés libres." Poitiers, 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Cabana-Marie/2008-Cabana-Marie-These.pdf.

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La connaissance des mécanismes physiques responsables de la production sonore par les écoulements turbulents est indispensable pour permettre l’élaboration des techniques de réduction et de contrôle du bruit d’origine aérodynamique. Dans ce travail, nous avons développé une méthodologie d’analyse s’appuyant sur une décomposition du terme source de l’analogie de Lighthill, qui fait apparaître explicitement la dilatation et la vorticité, et sur un filtrage en nombre d’ondes. Associé à des bases de données obtenues par calcul direct acoustique, qui offrent un accès simultané à toutes les quantités dynamiques et acoustiques, cet outil permet d’identifier le rôle acoustique des différents termes. L’application de notre méthodologie à l’analyse des sources acoustiques dans une couche de mélange, permet d’interpréter le rayonnement sonore comme le résultat de subtils déséquilibres spatio-temporels entre les termes. Une nouvelle version du code de calcul direct acoustique a ensuite été développée, afin d’obtenir des bases de données en configuration 3D pour un coût de calcul raisonnable. Nous avons choisi d’implanter des schémas compacts décentrés d’ordre élevé pour la discrétisation spatiale, et de tester leur aptitude au calcul direct acoustique sur un cas test. Les résultats obtenus montrent la capacité de ces schémas à contrôler les oscillations numériques à résolution marginale et soulignent leur robustesse. Deux simulations de jets 3D chaud et froid ont été réalisées, dont nous présentons des résultats dynamiques et acoustiques préliminaires
Identifying the mechanisms responsible for the production of sound in free-shear flows is a challenging task due to our poor understanding of the underlying physics, in particular concerning the flow acoustic interactions. A new analysis methodology based on a decomposition of the Lighthill aerodynamic sources term is proposed, aimed at understanding the respective roles of the subsequent subterms and extracting their radiating components using a filtering in wavenumber space. This analysis is performed on a temporal mixing-layer database obtained from a direct computation of sound and the essence of sound production mechanism is found to comprise sublte imbalances which disrupt inherent space-time symmetries between the various subterms. To enable direct computation of sound in three-dimensional configurations and constitute aerodynamic and acoustic databases amenable to this analysis methodology, a specific numerical treatment using high-order upwind compact schemes is developed. Their ability to direct computation of sound is evaluated on the test case of a mixing layer for which a reference solution is available. These schemes have proved their efficiency to damp spurious oscillations and their robustness faced with a marginal resolution or a Reynolds number increase. Thanks to this development, two simulations of a round jet are performed, an isothermal and an anisothermal ones. Preliminary results are presented on both the aerodynamic and acoustic fields, and temperature effects are investigated

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Chapman, Joshua. "FRANKLIN BOULEVARD REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA MARKET ANALYSIS." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2010. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/422.

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The following Market Analysis is an analysis of the Franklin Boulevard Redevelopment Project Area. The analysis is divided into the following four sections: ♦ Planning Context ♦ Real Estate Market Conditions ♦ Emerging Market Opportunities & Case Studies ♦ Conclusion The report serves as an opportunity to aide stakeholders of the Franklin Boulevard Redevelopment Project Area. Stakeholders include residents, business owners, the City of Sacramento, County of Sacramento, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA), and the North Franklin District Business Association (NFDBA). The stakeholders are continually searching for data and creative examples of how to transform the area into a premier “urban” destination in the Sacramento Region.

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Dasso, Michael W. "Analysis of the United States Hop Market." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2015. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1419.

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Hops are one of the four main ingredients used to produce beer. Many studies have been done to analyze the science behind growing and harvesting hops, creating hop hybrids, and how to brew beer with hops. However, there has been little research done revolving around the economic demand and supply model of the hop market. The objectives of this study are to create an econometric model of supply and demand of hops in the United States from 1981 to 2012, and to identify important exogenous variables that explain the supply and demand of hops using the two-stage least squares (2SLS) method of analysis. Using the 2SLS method, the demand model yielded that the US beer production variable is significant at the 10 percent level. For every 1 percent change in US beer production, there will be a 6.25 percent change in quantity of hops demanded in the same direction. The supply model showed that US acreage is significant at the 1 percent level. For every 1 percent change in US acreage, there will be a 0.889 percent change in quantity of hops supplied in the same direction. The implications of this study are viewed in relation to both producers and consumers.

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Memari, Majid. "Predicting the Stock Market Using News Sentiment Analysis." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2442.

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ABSTRACT MAJID MEMARI, for the Masters of Science degree in Computer Science, presented on November 3rd, 2017 at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Title: PREDICTING THE STOCK MARKET USING NEWS SENTIMENT ANALYSIS Major Professor: Dr. Norman Carver Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing application software is inadequate to deal with them. GDELT is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database ever created. It is a platform that monitors the world's news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day that stretches all the way back to January 1st, 1979, and updates daily [1]. Stock market prediction is the act of trying to determine the future value of a company stock or other financial instrument traded on an exchange. The successful prediction of a stock's future price could yield significant profit. The efficient-market hypothesis suggests that stock prices reflect all currently available information and any price changes that are not based on newly revealed information thus are inherently unpredictable [2]. On the other hand, other studies show that it is predictable. The stock market prediction has been a long-time attractive topic and is extensively studied by researchers in different fields with numerous studies of the correlation between stock market fluctuations and different data sources derived from the historical data of world major stock indices or external information from social media and news [6]. The main objective of this research is to investigate the accuracy of predicting the unseen prices of the Dow Jones Industrial Average using information derived from GDELT database. Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. This research is based on data sets of events from GDELT database and daily prices of the DJI from Yahoo Finance, all from March 2015 to October 2017. First, multiple different classification machine learning models are applied to the generated datasets and then also applied to multiple different Ensemble methods. In statistics and machine learning, Ensemble methods use multiple learning algorithms to obtain better predictive performance than could be obtained from any of the constituent learning algorithms alone. Afterwards, performances are evaluated for each model using the optimized parameters. Finally, experimental results show that using Ensemble methods has a significant (positive) impact on improving the prediction accuracy. Keywords: Big Data, GDELT, Stock Market, Prediction, Dow Jones Index, Machine Learning, Ensemble Methods

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Medlin, Allison Kay Molnar Joseph J. "Bargain theater a dramaturgical analysis of a flea market /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SUMMER/Sociology/Thesis/Medlin_Allison_2.pdf.

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Mulley, John Charles. "Genetic marker studies in humans /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm958.pdf.

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Williams, Elin Elizabeth. "The child, language and literature : the theme of childhood in the work and times of Marcel Proust." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bdc9acb3-b2ff-4a05-b17a-7efa3414b181.

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This thesis aims not only to set Proust's treatment of childhood in the context of his work as a whole, but also to set that work in the context of contemporary writing about childhood. Chapter 1 reveals the existence of a fashion in Proust's time for literature devoted to childhood. This genre has a tendency towards technical innovation, despite repetition of the same subject matter, or 'myths'. One particularly important myth, that of the 'child-artist', is seen to be influential - not only on Proust's work but also on contemporary scientific attitudes to childhood. Chapter 2 traces the origins of the genre to the earlier literary form of the Pastoral. It examines residual elements of the Pastoral, or the myth of the pastoral childhood, in later works which may have influenced Proust. Combray, it is concluded, both affirms and questions this myth. Chapter 3 examines the mythology of play. Although play generally has a significant role in the genre, it is peculiarly absent from Combray. In Proust's novel, the usual functions of play are fulfilled by reading, while apparent examples of play that remain are in reality strategies for obtaining sexual gratification. Chapter 4 shows how Proust's use of metaphor represents a partial return to the syncretism characteristic of childhood impressions and the essentialism of the child's beliefs about proper names. The final chapter verifies the impressions of earlier chapters that Proust's work simultaneously affirms and denies the child-artist myth, and that his hero can only become a narrator when a process of fusion between child and adult is complete. This process permits a reinterpretation of A la recherche, its structure, and themes (such as society and love) in terms of childhood. Thus, the importance of childhood and its associated genre to Proust's work as a whole is confirmed.

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Lemrise, Aimee Louise. "Geographical Assessment of Farmers Market Consumers in Southern Illinois." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/465.

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This study sought to assess southern Illinois farmers market consumers' interest in and reasons for supporting local food. The exploratory and descriptive approach to this study is to provide significant insight into various consumer dimensions for supporting local food. This helps seek meaning to consumer actions and identifies issues that concern them regarding the agrifood system. There were no explicit expectations as this was an attempt to unearth theory from survey data. Data was collected by administering surveys to four farmers markets, each in different counties, in southern Illinois. This research revealed important community definitions of local food by geographic region. The majority of survey participants defined local as southern Illinois. Geographical linkages exist between survey responses and place. There are interesting comparisons between rural to urban farmers market consumers. The key dimensions for a viable local food system in this study represent the categories of factors that relate to the importance consumers place on local food. The farmers market consumers key dimensions for supporting local food are the following: Quality, Loyalty, and Enrichment. This can aid in marketing differentiated product `quality' schemes that can add value to products. These are solutions that help stabilize markets for farmers trying to subsist in the local food system therefore, maintaining consumers' access to sources of local food.

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Fallahi, Faraz. "MACHINE LEARNING ON BIG DATA FOR STOCK MARKET PREDICTION." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2178.

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In recent decades, the rapid development of information technology in the big data field has introduced new opportunities to explore a large amount of data available online. The Global Database of Events, Location (Language), and Tone (GDELT) is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open source database of human society that includes more than 440 million entries capturing information about events that have been covered by local, national, and international news sources since 1979 in over 100 languages. GDELT constructs a catalog of human societal-scale behavior and beliefs across all countries of the world, connecting every person, organization, location, count, theme, news source, and event across the planet into a single massive network that captures what is happening around the world, what its context is and who is involved, and how the world is feeling about it, every single day. On the other hand, the stock market prediction has also been a long-time attractive topic and is extensively studied by researchers in different fields with numerous studies of the correlation between stock market fluctuations and different data sources derived from the historical data of world major stock indices or external information from social media and news. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Logistic Regression are two of the most widely used machine learning techniques in recent studies. The main objective of this research project is to investigate the worthiness of information derived from GDELT project in improving the accuracy of stock market trend prediction specifically for the next days' price changes. This research is based on data sets of events from GDELT database and daily prices of Bitcoin and some other stock market companies and indices from Yahoo Finance, all from March 2015 to May 2017. Then multiple different machine learning and specifically classification algorithms are applied to data sets generated, first using only features derived from historical market prices and then including more features derived from external sources, in this case, GDELT. Then the performance is evaluated for each model over a range of parameters. Finally, experimental results show that using information gained from GDELT has a direct positive impact on improving the prediction accuracy. Keywords: Machine Learning, Stock Market, GDELT, Big Data, Data Mining

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Cacho, Joyce Agnes Sabina. "United States competitiveness in soybean trade : loss market share in the Japanese soybean import market /." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222009-040252/.

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Gentil, Marie-Véronique Hagège Daniel Maury Stéphane. "Contrôle épigénétique du risque de montaison chez une plante de grande culture." S. l. : S. n, 2009. ftp://ftp.univ-orleans.fr/theses/marie-veronique.gentil_1673.pdf.

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Zhang, Jun. "Organization & Analysis of Stock Option Market Data." Digital WPI, 2011. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/34.

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Option market data are quoted in terms of option prices and are fragmented into over 100 individual contract files per day for each symbol. Traders and quantitative analysts compare values of options in terms of implied volatilities. The current project refactors fragmented option price data into implied volatility files organized by stock symbols and expiration dates. Each resulting file comprises the temporal evolution of daily volatility smile curves for every day prior to expiration. Possible analysis enabled by the refactored data is demonstrated.

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Qu, Jing. "Market and Credit Risk Models and Management Report." Digital WPI, 2012. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/649.

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This report is for MA575: Market and Credit Risk Models and Management, given by Professor Marcel Blais. In this project, three different methods for estimating Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) are used, examined, and compared to gain insightful information about the strength and weakness of each method. In the first part of this project, a portfolio of underlying assets and vanilla options were formed in an Interactive Broker paper trading account. Value at Risk was calculated and updated weekly to measure the risk of the entire portfolio. In the second part of this project, Value at Risk was calculated using semi-parametric model. Then the weekly losses of the stock portfolio and the daily losses of the entire portfolio were both fitted into ARMA(1,1)-GARCH(1,1), and the estimated parameters were used to find their conditional value at risks (CVaR) and the conditional expected shortfalls (CES).

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Emeny, Matthew. "The book-to-market effect and the behaviour of stock returns in the Australian equity market." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ECM/09ecme533.pdf.

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"August 1998" Bibliography: leaves 74-78. The relationship between the returns to a stock, and ratio of book equity to market equity of the firm, are tested for the Australian stock market, and statistically significant evidence is found in support if the :book to market effect". Several tests are performed to determine whether this return premium is the result of additional risk or market inefficiency. No evidence is found to suggest that high book-to-market stocks are associated with additional risk, and only weak evidence is found to suggest that return premium is a result of investor over-reaction. An alternative explanation IS offered, relying on the dynamic behavior of firms and the process by which investors value the stocks of these firms.

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Starkey, Darin Michael. "ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF ILLINOIS COAL ENTRY INTO THE TRANSPORTATION MARKET." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/479.

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High oil prices and nationalist desires to reduce foreign dependency create opportunities for Illinois bituminous coal to be involved in the transportation market. Using Illinois coal for transportation will have varied environmental effects depending on the method of involvement. To determine these effects, this study calculated CO2 emission for gasoline and eight other vehicle propulsion methods involving Illinois coal for 100,000 miles traveled. The vehicle propulsion methods considered were electricity from Pulverized coal in a Sub-Critical power cycle (PSC), electricity from Integrated Gasification Combined power Cycle (IGCC), electricity from an Ultra Super Critical power cycle (USC), ethanol, butanol, Fischer-Tropsch (FT) diesel, hydrogen, and a combination IGCC/ethanol system to propel vehicles that use their respective fuels. Results show USC, IGCC, PSC, and hydrogen emitted the lowest CO2 with a net of 69,494, 72,866, 75,752, and 81,587 lb CO2/100,000 miles respectively. The base-line gasoline method emitted 99,170 lb CO2, while ethanol, butanol, and IGCC/ethanol methods emitted 97,078, 106,338, and 92,449lb CO2, respectively. The highest CO2 emission came from Fischer-Tropsch diesel with 180,560 lb CO2. It was concluded that life cycle energy efficiency and CO2 offset were the most influential factors for CO2 emissions per 100,000 miles.

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Sudiman, Josephine. "Empirical market microstructure studies of the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX)." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1852.

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The overall aim of this study is to improve the understanding of how two market elements within microstructure theory, namely the regulatory and behavioural aspects, influence trading dynamics in the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX). This market was chosen because it is my country’s exchange and has distinctive features, including its outstanding performance among developing equity markets and its requirement for information transparency. As trade initiators are an important part of our methodology but neither of the two databases (the Detailed Trading History by the IDX and Thomson Reuters Tickscope History by SIRCA) provide this information, four different trade initiation rules are applied to assist the study of this issue. They are 1) the tick rule, (2) the Lee & Ready method (1991), (3) the Ellis, Michaely, & O’Hara (2000) method, and (4) the chronological order rule. We demonstrate that the methods of Lee and Ready (1991) and Ellis, Michaely, and O'Hara (2000) provide results which conform closely to the chronological rule; however, this is not the case for the tick rule. In terms of the regulatory viewpoint, this study investigates the impact of tick size changes in 2000 on liquidity provision in the IDX. Our methodology follows Engle & Lange (2001) who combined price durations (time needed for a price to move at or more than a tick size) with the cumulative signed volume (the difference between the number of shares purchased and number of shares sold) transacted over the price duration, expressed as the V-Net, to study the impact of tick size on market time, size and price dimensions. The results suggest that the implementation of a single tick size for different price levels is inappropriate for the IDX, and the current policy of multiple tick sizes is preferable. For frequently-traded stocks, a small tick size is not necessarily helpful for improving liquidity with high price shares but it is for those with low prices. Both price durations and V-Net metrics were higher during periods with coarse tick sizes. Moreover, lower price duration and V-Net metrics are identical to the circumstances featuring lower spreads and lower depth during small tick sizes. In terms of the behavioural perspective, this research identifies the characteristics of the stock holdings of foreign and domestic investors, and their trading behaviour, relative profitability, and trading impact along with the associated implications for the price discovery process. We found that foreign institutional investors consistently hold high market capitalisation stocks and have a long-term investment horizon in the IDX. Therefore, they are willing to pay high buy prices and accept low sell prices. Subsequently, their trades are more likely to be associated with changes in midpoint quotes and have a high impact on price changes. Local investors are generally short-term traders; they trade frequently and submit non-competitive orders because they obtain profits from the bid and ask differences. However, there are some local investors who trade based on information and are able to update their private information quicker than foreign investors.

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De, Medina Dafne Diez. "Constant current electronarcosis of market poultry." Thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09192009-040444/.

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Hüllemann, Niko M. O. "Vertrauen ist gut - Marke ist besser : eine Einführung in die Systemtheorie der Marke /." Heidelberg : Verl. für Systemische Forschung im Carl-Auer-Verl, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2872724&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Trevizo, Elizabeth Victoria. "Shopping and Sociability at an Embedded Market in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1943.

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This thesis examines the anthropology of markets and shopping practices in Mercado Pino Suárez, an indoor market located in Centro Historico in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. The research objective of this anthropological fieldwork is to investigate how markets are a center for social relationships that influence shopping and consumption. Sociability between consumers and vendors is significant as it defines a market. The field research is a two-month-long summer project conducted to understand why people shop at the market, with a major focus on shopping for food related products. Interviews and participant observation, including participation as a consumer or as a volunteer vendor, support observations of social shopping practices that occur within the market. Shoppers attend the market for various reasons, such as purchasing for convenience, price, and quality of the products. However, this thesis will elucidate how shoppers visit the market for the experience of socializing which contributes to familiarity and trust from knowing vendors and their products. Mercado Pino Suárez exemplifies how the market is a shopping experience where vendors and shoppers can be neighbors, friends, and family. Shopper and vendor interactions go beyond economic reasons where people share ideas about food and cuisine, thus illuminating the market’s significance in shaping local culture.

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Singh, Abhay Kumar. "Modelling Extreme Market Risk - A Study of Tail Related Risk Measures." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/417.

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Market risk modelling is one of the most dynamic domains in finance. Risk is the uncertainty that affects the values of assets in the system in an unknown fashion causing fluctuations in their values and in investment outcomes. Market risk is defined as the losses due to fluctuations in the prices of financial assets which are caused by changing market conditions. Market risk modelling comprises tools and techniques which quantify the risk associated with financial instruments. Risk quantification is necessary to devise strategies such as hedging or diversification against the risk, to avoid severe losses. With the recent financial market events like the Global Financial Crisis, there is a need to evaluate the traditional risk return relationships presented in Asset Pricing models and more sophisticated risk modelling tools like Value at Risk (VaR). Along with Asset Pricing and VaR modelling another important risk issue between financial assets is the asymptotic tail dependence, which plays a vital role in accurate risk measurement in portfolio selection and hedging amongst other considerations. The usual measure of dependence, the Pearson Correlation coefficient works on the assumption of normality in the data distribution and hence is unable to capture the tail dependence between financial assets which is an important characteristic for tail risk modelling. The research presented in this dissertation models the risk quantification techniques of Asset Pricing, VaR modelling and Tail dependence, with the more sophisticated statistical tools of Quantile Regression and Extreme Value Theory (EVT), which are particularly useful in modelling the tail behaviour of the distributions. The research targets four broad objectives to evaluate extreme risk and dependence measures in the Australian stock market which are realised with the robust techniques of Quantile Regression and EVT. The thesis comprises six chapters with chapter-1 introducing the thesis presenting the driving motivations for the research and the four major objectives (which are detailed in individual chapters following chapter-1) along with the contribution of the research and finally chapter-6 presenting the conclusion. The structure of rest of the thesis is also outlined in chapter-1.

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Yong, Jaime L. P. "Economic linkages between Australian REITs and the commerical real estate market." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/577.

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Commercial property investments have been favoured by investors because of the portfolio diversification benefits and the ability for property investments to hedge against inflation. Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (A-REITs) are market traded forms of property investments but do not suffer from the relative illiquidity, large investment requirements and transaction costs inherent in the ownership of direct property assets. In order for A-REITs to be effective substitutes for property investments, they should exhibit similar characteristics and respond to market forces in the same way as real estate. However, there are some differences which may mask the ability of A-REITs to represent property assets. Because they are market traded, many believe that A-REITs are more like stocks and less like real estate. In addition, the different pricing mechanisms of the private and public property markets increase the divide in the suitability of A-REITs as property substitutes. Within the A-REIT sector, the past decade has seen the emergence of two distinct trust structures: the traditional (externally-managed) type and stapled (internally-managed) trust. This thesis aims to address the linkages between the private and public property markets, to examine how each are related over time to other financial assets namely; stocks and bonds, and the ability of both to be effective hedges against inflation. Issues associated with a smoothing bias when dealing with appraisal-based property market data are also addressed. The grouping for traditional and stapled A-REITs into separate indices instead of merely observing an overall A-REIT index enables the study to capture different relationships with related markets and economic variables. Cointegration tests and Vector Error Correction Models are estimated to establish the long-run relationships of property and A-REIT prices and how returns adjust in the short-run. The main empirical results from this study reveal that stapled AREITs are consistent representatives of commercial real estate, and provide an efficient hedge against inflation. Traditional and stapled A-REITs display different linkages with the stock and bond markets in the long and short-term. The implications of the thesis findings are that both A-REITs types should be considered separately instead of relying on a general index comprised of the two. This will affect the decisions of portfolio managers and investors looking to substitute property with A-REITs in their portfolios, as well as property appraisers who look to information transmitted from the stock market when making valuations.

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Danniel-Grognier, Marie. "Formes et manifestations de la subjectivité dans le cinéma documentaire personnel américain (1960-1990)." Poitiers, 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Danniel-Grognier-Marie/2009-Danniel-Grognier-Marie-These.pdf.

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Cette thèse est née d'un long travail de recherche consacré aux diverses formes de l'approche documentaire du cinéma américain, dans ses aspects ontologiques et épistémologiques. Le constat est aujourd'hui quasi unanime pour reconnaître l'investissement subjectif du cinéaste documentariste dans son film, de l'énonciation à l'énoncé. À ceci s'ajoute le fait que la culture américaine s'est depuis toujours fondée sur la notion de l'individu - perceptions et volontés individuelles. Il s'agit de s'immerger dans les films de type essai de cinéastes ayant une expérience filmique personnelle, dans la saisie des images du monde réel, leur agencement dans le film, montage, archives, sons, commentaire, musique, dans un mouvement double consistant à documenter le monde pour se documenter soi-même. Afin d'éviter les écueils d'une généralisation aporétique, la méthode retenue est celle, privilégiée par les film studies américaines, du « close reading », sans négliger pour autant le processus créatif, la genèse de certaines œuvres. Ce n'est qu'en proposant une analyse textuelle et esthétique précise de certains aspects significatifs d'un film, qu'on pourra en identifier les manifestations subjectives. Le corpus, circonscrit aux années 1960-1990, présente des œuvres de cinéastes qui ont tous une démarche singulière, tels Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Kramer, Emile de Antonio, Su Friedrich et Shirley Clarke, ainsi que quelques exemples isolés mais déterminants pour l'avenir de cette forme problématique d'auto-inscription filmique
This thesis is dedicated to a filmic expression that is often underestimated in film studies, since this long-term work deals with contemporary issues in American personal documentary film. The 60's represent an epistemological break in the history of documentary cinema, in that the filmmaker began to involve himself in the filmic process, both before and behind the camera. What's more, he now assumes that his visions and images of the external world are no longer objective but seen through the prism of his subjectivity, which helps him discover who he really is. Documenting the world, the other, while documenting himself – or herself. This approach, based on close reading and film aesthetic analysis, eschews aporetic generalization to root itself in issues raised by specific films and filmmakers, such as voice over commentary, music and sounds, editing, found footage, fictionalisation or metaphorical images. The films selected for study belong to idiosyncratic bodies of works of filmmakers like Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Kramer, Emile de Antonio, Su Friedrich, Shirley Clarke or the Maysles Brothers, among others. They all engage themselves in a process of self-inscription to tell their experiences of birth, childhood, exile, memory, nostalgia, loss, death or legacy

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Ballouard, Jean-Marie. "Espèces charismatiques, espèces locales et serpents en éducation à l'environnement : évaluation sur dix pays de la perception des enfants à protéger la faune et importance de l'expérience de terrain." Poitiers, 2010. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2010/Ballouard-Jean-Marie/2010-Ballouard-Jean-Marie-These.pdf.

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L'éducation à l'environnement est indispensable pour pallier l'érosion de la biodiversité. Les médias et l'école ont une place importante dans la sensibilisation du public, mais ils diffusent presque exclusivement des images et des messages basés sur une biodiversité spectaculaire, exotique et lointaine (ours polaire, baleinzs. . . ). L'éducation scolaire a donc un rôle important pour étendre la connaissance des enfants vers une gamme étendue d'organismes. Grâce à des questionnaires écrits diffusés dans dix pays en Europe (7), Afrique (1), et Asie (2), nous avons sondé chez des écoliers (âgés de 7 à 14 ans) leur perception des animaux. Le constat est alarmant : les enfants sont déconnectés de leur environnement local. Miroirs des médias, les enfants ont une vision restreinte de la biodiversité à protéger, limitée à quelques animaux qu'ils ont vu sur des écrans de TV ou d'ordinateur. Mais l'enquête réalisée sur la perception des serpents pour les enfants montre que ceux-ci ont une aversion modérée et que la plupart expriment leur envie de les protéger, ce qui est très encourageant. Nous avons emmené près de 600 élèves découvrir sur le terrain les espèces locales de serpents. Grâce à l'activation du canal affectif, la grande majorité des enfants sont prêts à protéger préférentiellement les serpents, au même titre que les pandas. L'ensemble de ces résultats montre tout d'abord une nette défaillance du système éducatif qui favorise l'information dogmatique et virtuelle au détriment des sorties de terrain et des expériences concrètes avec la nature. Celles-ci sont pourtant essentielles pour connecter les enfants avec l'environnement local et favoriser des comportement positifs nécessaires à la préservation de la biodiversité. Pour faire des progrès et étendre l'intérêt des enfants pour un maximum d'espèces, il est essentiel de travailler avec des espèces soit disant impopulaires telles que les serpents, que les enfants adoptent très vite
Environmental education is one of the main tools to overcome the current loss of biodiversity. Media and school occupy a central place to educate public, but they broadcast almost exclusively messages based on few spectacular and exotic animals (polar bear, whales…). Scholar education has a crucial role to promote knowledge, awareness, of schoolchildren and thus their willingness to protect a wide range of organisms, including less popular species. Using written questionnaires, we surveyed in ten different countries on Europe 7, Africa 1, and Asia 2, the perceptions of schoolchildren aged from 6 to 14 years for animals. The outcome is alarming: schoolchildren are disconnected from their local environment. Mirroring media, schoolchildren can list very few animal species requiring protection which they watched on TV screens. However, a survey of the perception of schoolchildren for snakes showed a moderate aversion level and a clear willingness to protect them, a surprising and encouraging result. We brought almost 600 children to discover native snakes through field experiences. Via the activation of the affective channel, almost all the children expressed their willingness to protect snakes, at the same level than panda and other loveable species. This study reveals the failure of the scholar educational system that focuses on dogmatic message, virtual information and intellectual approach to the detriment of field trips and physical contact with wildlife. A concrete approach of biodiversity is however essential and urgent to reconnect children with their local environment. Our results reinforce the (so far) fruitless message that schoolchildren should be bring into the field to generate positive attitude and behaviour toward the protection of the biodiversity. Environmental education should not neglect unpopular organisms declared. To progress, significant efforts must be produced to not limit conservation messages and actions to few iconic species

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Danniel-Grognier, Marie Menegaldo Gilles. "Formes et manifestations de la subjectivité dans le cinéma documentaire personnel américain (1960-1990)." [Poitiers] : [I-médias], 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Danniel-Grognier-Marie/2009-Danniel-Grognier-Marie-These.pdf.

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Dockery, Alfred Michael. "The evaluation of Australian labour market assistance policy /." Full text available, 2002. http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20030116.162443.

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Eckermann, Simon Douglas. "The market for overseas students in Australia /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EC/09ece1917.pdf.

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Kossen, Marielle. "The liberalisation of the Japanese rice market /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EC/09eck865.pdf.

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Dulguerov, Matthieu. "Real estate issues : portfolio diversification, pricing and time-on-market /." Lausanne : EPFL, 2009. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=4438.

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Thèse Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, no 4438 (2009), Programme doctoral Environnement, Faculté de l'environnement naturel, architectural et construit ENAC, Institut du développement territorial INTER (Laboratoire de recherches en économie et management de l'environnement REME). Dir.: Philippe Thalmann.

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Salim, Heazry M. "Dynamics of corporate profitability: A study of the UK market (1981-2000)." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/347.

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This thesis investigates the behaviour of corporate profits for a sample of firms in the United Kingdom for the period 1981-2000. The competitive environment hypothesis postulates that there is an in built mechanism that forces any deviations back towards the normal rate of return through a cycle of innovation, imitation, entry and exit. One of the main objectives of this study is to determine if corporate profitability follows a random or mean reverting process. The secondary objective concerns the measurement of the mean reverting process. Empirical analysis utilises cross sectional, time series and panel data analysis to uncover the dynamics of corporate earnings and profitability. It is found that corporate profitability follows a mean reverting process. There is evidence that there is convergence towards a mean rate of about 30% per year. Also, the predictable variation in profitability is non-linear. Mean reversion is stronger when profitability is below and when it is further from its mean. The market to book value contains information on the profitability of a firm. Highly profitable firms are found to operate in less competitive environments.

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Yoder, Edward Duane. "An economic study of the quick-germ technology for the dry-grind process of corn ethanol production and its effects upon the corn oil market /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1203563451&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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