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Riefer, Patrick [Verfasser]. "Organic-geochemical investigations on the mode of incorporation of a defined nonylphenol isomer and the herbicide MCPA in soil derived organo-clay complexes / Patrick Riefer." Aachen : Hochschulbibliothek der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1018187472/34.
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Salin, Fred. "La mise au travail des réfugié·es en France : enquête sur les modes d'incorporation économique des gouverné·es de l'asile." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, EHESS, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024EHES0145.
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La thèse vise à analyser ce qui détermine les conditions d’accès au marché du travail (la mise au travail) des personnes venues en France par le système d’asile (les gouverné·es de l’asile) et à penser les trajectoires économiques, prises dans des modalités d’assignation et d’exploitation spécifiques, d’une immigration cadrée comme politique. En s’appuyant sur un dialogue critique avec le concept de mode d’incorporation, les premiers chapitres historiques reconstituent, à partir d’archives croisées d’administrations et d’associations, l’incorporation économique différentielle (c’est-à- dire structurant et structurée par différents rapports sociaux de domination) des réfugié·es en France, des années 1920 aux années 2010. Je retrace ainsi l’émergence d’un régime spécifique de mise au travail des réfugié·es, puis sa scission à partir des années 1980, en analysant dans chaque configuration historique le jeu croisé des individus et organisations formant le sous-champ bureaucratique de gestion des réfugié·es : administrations, organisations et membres de l’espace de la cause des réfugié·es ou acteurs économiques. La spécificité de la mise au travail des réfugié·es est alors à chercher dans les droits acquis, dans les dispositifs concrets ou encore dans des modes spécifiques de contrôle des mobilités (camps et centres). À partir d’un terrain au ministère de l’Intérieur et d’entretiens réalisés en 2020 et 2021 avec des acteurs associatifs, privés lucratifs et publics, je m’intéresse ensuite à la politique publique dite d’« intégration professionnelle des réfugiés » déployée à partir de 2015. J’étudie la genèse sous tension de cette politique à la lumière des clivages du champ administratif. Je montre l’effet de l’investissement d’une multiplicité d’acteur·ices du privé lucratif sur le cadrage discursif de l’emploi des réfugié·es, l’organisation de l’action publique et la structuration du champ associatif. J’analyse également la production d’un français au rabais et d’une garantie de compétences dégradées par des associations d’intermédiation de l’emploi des réfugié·es prises en étau entre l’État et le marché. Enfin, à partir de l’exploitation statistique de l’enquête ELIPA 2 et d’entretiens réalisés auprès de personnes exilées, je tente de comprendre les statuts et trajectoires d’activité des réfugié·es à la fin des années 2010 en articulant méthode qualitative et méthodes quantitatives dans une perspective intersectionnelle. À travers différentes périodes et différentes méthodes, je propose donc d’analyser la mise au travail des gouverné·es de l’asile en France comme un produit des modes d’incorporation économique différentiels. Si les conditions matérielles et juridiques des réfugié·es favorisent dans l’ensemble la disponibilité de leur force de travail dans les segments subalternes de l’appareil productif, venant renforcer une division classiste, genrée et ethnoraciale du travail, certains groupes et certaines personnes sont à même d’opposer aux contraintes institutionnelles des ressources collectives ou individuelles, c’est-à-dire d’être un peu moins gouverné·esThe aim of this thesis is to analyze the factors that determine the conditions of access to the labor market for individuals who arrive in France through the asylum system – whom I refer to as “governed by asylum”. I explore the economic trajectories of these immigrants often framed as political. Drawing on a critical dialogue with the concept of “modes of incorporation”, the first chapters take a historical perspective in order to trace the differential modes of economic incorporation of refugees in France from the 1920s to the 2010s, which both structure and are structured by various social relations of domination. Using a combination of archival materials from government agencies and charities, I retrace the development of a specific system for employing refugees and its fragmentation from the 1980s onwards. In each historical configuration, I analyze the interactions between individuals and organizations within the bureaucratic subfield of refugee management : administrations, nonprofit organizations and members of the field of refugee advocacy, as well as economic actors. The specific nature of the process of refugee labor market integration is to be found in the various rights acquired, in concrete arrangements or in specific modes of mobility control (camps and accommodation centers). Based on fieldwork conducted at the French Interior Ministry and interviews carried out in 2020 and 2021 with actors from the nonprofit, public and private sectors, I then focus on the public policy concerning the “professional integration of refugees” introduced from 2015 onwards. I examine the policy’s contentious origin in light of divisions within the administrative field and demonstrate how the involvement of various private actors influences the discursive framing of refugee employment, the organization of public action and the structure of the nonprofit organizations field. I also analyze how nonprofits, acting as intermediaries in refugee employment and caught between state and market pressures, produce a simplified version of the French language proficiency among refugees and downgraded professional qualifications. Finally, based on a statistical analysis of the ELIPA 2 survey as well as interviews with exiles, I aim to scrutinize the employment status and trajectories of refugees at the end of the 2010s by combining qualitative and quantitative methods from an intersectional point of view. Across different periods and different methods, I propose to consider the employment of refugees and asylum seekers in France as a result of differential modes of economic incorporation. While the material and legal conditions of refugees generally restrict their labor power to the subordinate jobs of the productive system – reinforcing a classist, gendered and racial division of labor – certain groups and individuals manage to be somewhat less governed than others, countering institutional constraints through collective or individual resources
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Hosoda, Takamichi 1965. "Incorporating unobservable heterogeneity in discrete choice model : mode choice model for shopping trips." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9498.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-95).
In this thesis, we propose a methodology for incorporating attitudinal data in a choice model to capture unobservable heterogeneity across the population. The key features of this approach are, 1) the concept of latent attitudes, and the assumption that 2) the respondent's answers to psychometric attitudinal questions relating to the importance of attributes are manifestations of these attitudes and that 3) those attitudinal data bring sufficient information to capture unobservable heterogeneity across the population in the context of choice behavior. Each individual is probabilistically assigned to a finite number of segments according to his/her own value of latent attitudinal variable(s) as well as to threshold parameter(s) common to the population. Segment-specific parameters are estimated simultaneously. An empirical case study on shopping trip mode choice demonstrates the effectiveness of the methodology.
by Takamichi Hosoda.
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Satzewich, Victor Nicholas. "Modes of incorporation and racialization : the Canadian case." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1988. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6627/.
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This thesis makes a contribution to three areas of sociological thought. First, it is concerned with the elaboration and extension of the political economy approach to migration as it is represented in the work of Stephen Castles and his various co-authors. It suggests that the work of Castles, et al., is relatively silent on the role of the state, and ideological relations in the structuration of migration. In seeking to further refine the political economy framework as it is applied to migration, this thesis draws upon two other sets of literature which, in part, have emerged as counters to some of the more economistic of their formulations. In this light, the second area of sociological literature I draw upon is the recent work on the concepts of free and unfree labour. Finally, this thesis is informed by an analysis of recent debates on the concept of racialization. In synthesizing these three strands of sociology, this thesis advances the theoretical claim that political economy oriented theorists should focus on modes of incorporation, or the manner in which foreign-born labour articulates with capital and the state. Within this context, four distinct modes of incorporation under capitalism are identified. These modes of incorporation are designated as: free immigrant labour, unfree immigrant labour, free migrant labour and unfree migrant labour. This thesis suggests that agents are subject to particular modes of incorporation, in part, on the basis on the process of racialization. This thesis uses the cases of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese migration to Canada, and the post-1945 migration of farm labourers, from a number of source countries, including, specifically, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, and the Caribbean, to the south western Ontario fruit and vegetable industry to highlight the centrality of the state in the process of migration, and the differential modes of incorporation of foreign-born persons into sites in production relations. Furthermore, the process of racialization is seen to have an impact on whether particular groups are allowed entry to a social formation, and upon how they are incorporated into sites in production relations.
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Lancaster, Stephen Thomas 1967. "A nonlinear river meandering model and its incorporation in a landscape evolution model." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47672.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277).
A topographic steering river meandering (TSRM) model based on continuity of a simplified flow field through bends is developed. The equilibrium coupling between helical flow and sediment transport, as in Ikeda [1989] determines downstream variation of transverse bed slope. The model tests the hypothesis that meander development patterns can be captured under the assumptions: (a) bank shear stress arises from forces associated with topographically induced convective accelerations; (b) turbulent boundary layer dissipation of these forces at the banks is sufficiently represented by gaussian smoothing at a parameterized scale; and (c) lateral migration of the channel is proportional to bank shear stress. The resulting TSRM model produces realistic complex meander patterns and scroll bar-like topography. Model compound bend formation is compared to a field case and found to arise from the nonlinear interaction of bank roughness and channel hydraulics scales. When the latter is short relative to the former, maximum bank shear stress occurs early in the bend and leads to compound bend formation. New statistical stream sinuosity and spatial coordinate variation measures are applied to both natural and model streams and reveal secondary sinuosities arising from compound bend formation in both cases. Scroll bar topography and channel bank roughness are studied in the field to compare natural and model mechanisms. A channel-hillslope integrated landscape development (CHILD) model incorporates the TSRM model. The CHILD model represents the landscape as an irregular, Delaunay triangulated mesh of landscape nodes that may be moved, deleted, or added to accommodate meandering channels that are in general discretized at different spatial resolution than the surrounding landscape. The interactions among meandering, bank erodibility's bank height dependence, and uplift rate in a detachment-limited river valley are examined. An equilibrium landscape adjusts to the onset of meandering and approaches a new dynamic equilibrium. For the detachment-limited case, the hypothesis that meandering is more active when uplift is quiescent is rejected. When bank erodibility's bank height dependence is greater, bend scale sinuosity is smaller, but the tendency toward multi-bend loop formation is reinforced.
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Vikholm, Inger. "Incorporation of model proteins into lipid layers : aspects of biosensors /." Espoo : Technical Research Centre of Finland, 1996. http://www.vtt.fi/inf/pdf/publications/1996/P273.pdf.
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Zhou, Maichun, and 周買春. "Modified Xinanjiang model and its incorporation with GIS and topmodel." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31241402.
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Marques, Luís Miguel Costa. "Natural antioxidants extraction and their incorporation into model pharmaceutical systems." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/6324.
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Dissertation to obtain a Master Degree in BiotechnologyThis work is divided in two parts comprising two distinct areas of science that are bonded with a functional purpose: study of the polyphenolic composition in leaves of three coffee genotypes and their responses to cold and drought stresses; and analysis of the effect of incorporation of some polyphenolic compounds in a microemulsion model system. Three genotypes of coffee, Icatu Obatã and Apoatã, were subjected to temperature and water content stress conditions and their sensitivity or resistance to the treatments imposed was investigated. Responses were analyzed from phenolic fraction point of view in the leaves of coffee plants. It was found that polyphenols are actually involved in the response to these abiotic stresses and that the 4.5-diCQA seems to have an essential role in the recovery from cold in Obatã. Various phenolic compounds were identified and quantified, being the majority: 5-CQA, epicatechin, procyanidin, 3,4-diCQA, 3.5-diCQA, 4.5-diCQA, 5-FQA and mangiferin that was discovery as a new polyphenol in C. arabica and also works as a biomarker to differentiate between C. arabica and C. canephora. It was confirmed that Apoatã (Coffea canephora) possesses a greater amount of polyphenols than Obatã and Icatu (Coffea arabica). It was ascertained that Icatu and Obatã seem to be more resistant to cold stress than Apoatã, but more sensitive to drought than Apoatã. The model microemulsions is build up from a nonionic surfactant, C12E5, decane and water, a system already well characterized. Two antioxidants, 5-CQA and α-tocopherol, and a drug, lidocaine, were incorporated in microemulsions, being the effect of its addition studied through phase diagrams and DLS. A general model was proposed, arguing that the addition of a hydrophilic molecule increases the temperature of the microemulsion phase (micelles), while a hydrophobic decreases, which is of most importance for pharmaceutical applications. The antioxidant activity is not significantly affected within and outside the microemulsion and was determined the existence of synergistic effect when mixing 5-CQA and α-tocopherol in this system.
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Garza, Núñez Dagoberto. "An industry evolution model incorporating strategic interaction." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30753.
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Yerneni, Ashok. "A reliability model incorporating software quality metrics." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50098.
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Large scale software development efforts in the past decade have posed a problem in terms of the reliability of the software. The size and complexity of software that is being developed is growing rapidly and integrating diverse pieces of software in the operational environment also poses severe reliability issues, resulting in increased development and operational costs. A number of reliability models have been defined in the literature to deal with problems of this kind. However, most of these models treat the system as a "black box" and do not consider the complexity of the software in its reliability predictions. Also, reliability is predicted after the system had been completely developed leaving little scope for any major design changes to improve system reliability.
This thesis reports on an effort to develop a reliability model based on complexity metrics which characterize a software system and runtime metrics which reflect the degree of testing of the system. A complete development of the reliability model is presented here. The model is simple and reflects on our intuition of the software development process and our understanding of the significance of the complexity metrics. Credibility analysis is done on the model by simulating a number of systems and applying the model. Data collected from three FORTRAN coded systems developed for NASA Goddard was used as representative of the actual software systems. An analysis of the results is finally presented.Master of Science
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Karnieli, Arnon 1952. "Storm runoff forecasting model incorporating spatial data." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/191138.
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This study is concerned with design forecasting of storm hydrographs with emphasis on runoff volume and peak discharge. The objective of the study was to develop, calibrate and test a method for forecasting storm runoff from small semi-arid watersheds using an available prediction model. In order to turn the selected prediction model into a forecasting model an objective procedure in terms of an API-type model was developed for evaluating the soil moisture deficit in the upper soil layer at the beginning of each storm. Distinction was made between the physically-based parameters and the other fitting parameters. The rainfall excess calculation was computed by solving the Green and Ampt equation for unsteady rainfall conditions using the physically-based parameters. For the physically-based parameters a geographic information system was developed in order to account for the variability in time and space of the input data and the watershed characteristics and to coregister parameters on a common basis. The fitting parameters were used to calibrate the model on one subwatershed in the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed while the physically-based parameters remained constant. Two objective functions were selected for the optimization procedure. These functions expressed the goodness of fit between the calculated hydrograph volume and peak discharge and the observed volume and peak discharge. Linear relationships between the effective matric potential parameter and the two objective functions obtained from the sensitivity analyses made it possible to develop a bilinear interpolation algorithm to minimize, simultaneously, the difference between the calculated and observed volume and peak discharge. The prediction mode of the model was tested both on different storm events on the same subwatershed and on another subwatershed with satisfactory results. In the prediction mode the effective matric potential parameter was allowed to vary from storm to storm, however, in the forecasting mode these values were obtained from the API model. Relatively poor results were obtained in testing the forecasting mode on another subwatershed. These errors were able to be corrected by changing the channel losses fitting parameters.
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Broach, Joseph. "Travel Mode Choice Framework Incorporating Realistic Bike and Walk Routes." PDXScholar, 2016. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2702.
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For a number of reasons--congestion, public health, greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, demographic shifts, and community livability to name a few--the importance of walking and bicycling as transportation options will only continue to increase. Currently, policy interest and infrastructure funding for nonmotorized modes far outstrip our ability to model bike and walk travel. To ensure scarce resources are used most effectively, accurate models sensitive to key policy variables are needed to support long-range planning and project evaluation, and to continue adding to our growing understanding of key factors driving walk and bike behavior. This research attempts to synthesize and advance the state of the art in trip-based, nonmotorized mode choice modeling.
Over the past fifteen years, efforts to model the decision to walk or bike on a given trip have been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive behavioral framework and inconsistency in measurement scales and model specification. This project develops a mode choice behavioral framework that acknowledges the importance of attributes along the specific walk and bike routes that travelers are likely to consider, in addition to more traditional area-based measures of travel environments. The proposed framework is applied to a revealed preference, GPS-based travel dataset collected from 2010-2013 in Portland, Oregon. Measurement of nonmotorized trip distance, built environment, tour-level variables, and attitudinal attributes as well as mode availability are explicitly addressed. Route and mode choice models are specified using discrete choice techniques, and predicted walking and bicycling routes are tested as inputs to various mode choice models.
Results suggest strong potential for predicted route measures to enhance walk and bicycle mode choice modeling. Findings also support the specific notion that bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure contribute not only to route choice but also to the choice of whether to bike or walk. For decisions to bicycle, availability of low-traffic routes may be particularly important to women. Model results further indicate that land use and built environments around trip ends and a person’s home still have important effects on nonmotorized travel when controlling for route quality. Both route and area travel environment impacts are mostly robust to the inclusion of residential self-selection variables, consistent with the idea that built environment differences matter even for households that choose to live in a walkable or bikeable neighborhood. The combination of area and route-based built environment measures alongside trip context, sociodemographic, and attitudinal attributes provides a new perspective on nonmotorized travel behavior relevant to both policy and practice.
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Tian, Ye. "Knowledge-fused Identification of Condition-specific Rewiring of Dependencies in Biological Networks." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52557.
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Gene network modeling is one of the major goals of systems biology research. Gene network modeling targets the middle layer of active biological systems that orchestrate the activities of genes and proteins. Gene network modeling can provide critical information to bridge the gap between causes and effects which is essential to explain the mechanisms underlying disease. Among the network construction tasks, the rewiring of relevant network structure plays critical roles in determining the behavior of diseases. To systematically characterize the selectively activated regulatory components and mechanisms, the modeling tools must be able to effectively distinguish significant rewiring from random background fluctuations. While differential dependency networks cannot be constructed by existing knowledge alone, effective incorporation of prior knowledge into data-driven approaches can improve the robustness and biological relevance of network inference. Existing studies on protein-protein interactions and biological pathways provide constantly accumulated rich domain knowledge. Though novel incorporation of biological prior knowledge into network learning algorithms can effectively leverage domain knowledge, biological prior knowledge is neither condition-specific nor error-free, only serving as an aggregated source of partially-validated evidence under diverse experimental conditions. Hence, direct incorporation of imperfect and non-specific prior knowledge in specific problems is prone to errors and theoretically problematic.
To address this challenge, we propose a novel mathematical formulation that enables incorporation of prior knowledge into structural learning of biological networks as Gaussian graphical models, utilizing the strengths of both measurement data and prior knowledge. We propose a novel strategy to estimate and control the impact of unavoidable false positives in the prior knowledge that fully exploits the evidence from data while obtains "second opinion" by efficient consultations with prior knowledge. By proposing a significance assessment scheme to detect statistically significant rewiring of the learned differential dependency network, our method can assign edge-specific p-values and specify edge types to indicate one of six biological scenarios. The data-knowledge jointly inferred gene networks are relatively simple to interpret, yet still convey considerable biological information. Experiments on extensive simulation data and comparison with peer methods demonstrate the effectiveness of knowledge-fused differential dependency network in revealing the statistically significant rewiring in biological networks, leveraging data-driven evidence and existing biological knowledge, while remaining robust to the false positive edges in the prior knowledge. We also made significant efforts in disseminating the developed method tools to the research community. We developed an accompanying R package and Cytoscape plugin to provide both batch processing ability and user-friendly graphic interfaces. With the comprehensive software tools, we apply our method to several practically important biological problems to study how yeast response to stress, to find the origin of ovarian cancer, and to evaluate the drug treatment effectiveness and other broader biological questions. In the yeast stress response study our findings corroborated existing literatures. A network distance measurement is defined based on KDDN and provided novel hypothesis on the origin of high-grade serous ovarian cancer. KDDN is also used in a novel integrated study of network biology and imaging in evaluating drug treatment of brain tumor. Applications to many other problems
also received promising biological results.Ph. D.
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Guney, Ibrahim Ethem. "A Market Model For Pricing Inflation Indexed Bonds With Jumps Incorporation." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609792/index.pdf.
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Protection against inflation is an essential part of the today's financial markets, particularly in high-inflation economies. Hence, nowadays inflation indexed instruments are being increasingly popular in the world financial markets. In this thesis, we focus on pricing of the inflation-indexed bonds which are the unique inflation-indexed instruments traded in the Turkish bond market. Firstly, we review the Jarrow-Yildirim model which deals with pricing of the inflation-indexed instruments within the HJM framework. Then, we propose a pricing model that is an extension of the Jarrow-Yildirim model. The model allows instantaneous forward rates, inflation index and bond prices to be driven by both a standard Brownian motion and a finite number of Poisson processes. A closed-form pricing formula for an European call option on the inflation index is also derived.
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Stone, Elizabeth Anne. "Multilevel Model Selection: A Regularization Approach Incorporating Heredity Constraints." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/234414.
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This dissertation focuses on estimation and selection methods for a simple linear model with two levels of variation. This model provides a foundation for extensions to more levels. We propose new regularization criteria for model selection, subset selection, and variable selection in this context. Regularization is a penalized-estimation approach that shrinks the estimate and selects variables for structured data. This dissertation introduces a procedure (HM-ALASSO) that extends regularized multilevel-model estimation and selection to enforce principles of fixed heredity (e.g., including main effects when their interactions are included) and random heredity (e.g., including fixed effects when their random terms are included). The goals in developing this method were to create a procedure that provided reasonable estimates of all parameters, adhered to fixed and random heredity principles, resulted in a parsimonious model, was theoretically justifiable, and was able to be implemented and used in available software. The HM-ALASSO incorporates heredity-constrained selection directly into the estimation process. HM-ALASSO is shown to enjoy the properties of consistency, sparsity, and asymptotic normality. The ability of HM-ALASSO to produce quality estimates of the underlying parameters while adhering to heredity principles is demonstrated using simulated data. The performance of HM-ALASSO is illustrated using a subset of the High School and Beyond (HS&B) data set that includes math-achievement outcomes modeled via student- and school-level predictors. The HM-ALASSO framework is flexible enough that it can be adapted for various rule sets and parameterizations.
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Van, Driel Martin. "A model incorporating the heterogeneity of insured lives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ59080.pdf.
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Pappas, George S. "An asset and liability management model incorporating uncertainty." Thesis, Brunel University, 2001. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7292.
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Asset and Liability Management (ALIvI) is a well-established method, which enables companies to match future liabilities with future cash flow streams of assets. The first stage is to develop a deterministic model with forecast cash flow streams. In reality this can lead to results that are often volatile to deviations of future cash flows from their predicted values. There are two main stages to this problem. Firstly, there is the issue of representing the future uncertainties. To this end we have developed a scenario generator that forecasts alternative realizations of future cash flows streams of different assets using alternative scenarios about a financial Index and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Considering this with the deterministic model leads to the creation of ALM models which incorporate uncertainty. Having represented the uncertainty, we use an optimisation model to generate the current decisions concerning acquisition and disposal of assets. This model is a two stage stochastic programming model that aims to achieve targeted cash flows for each future year. Risk is represented in the form of assigning shares to different risk groups. In this thesis we describe our models of randomness and how they are captured in the two-stage stochastic programming model. We compare our model to a mean-variance representation. Both models are simulated through time. Backtesting is used to investigate the quality of both approaches.
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Butcher, Phillip John. "Incorporating radiation inputs into an operational snowmelt model." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.
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Kodikara, Kodikara Arachchige Tharindu Lakshitha. "Structural health monitoring through advanced model updating incorporating uncertainties." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/110811/1/Kodikara%20Arachchige%20Tharindu%20Lakshitha_Kodikara_Thesis.pdf.
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This research developed comprehensive model updating systems for real structures including a hybrid approach which enhanced existing deterministic model updating techniques by providing measures to incorporate uncertainties in a computationally efficient way compared to probabilistic model updating approaches. Further, utilizing the developed hybrid approach a methodology was developed to assess the deterioration of reinforced concrete buildings under serviceability loading conditions. The developed methodologies in the research were successfully validated utilizing two real benchmark structures at Queensland University of Technology equipped with continuous monitoring systems.
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Leclair, Margot. "Creativity-in-action, Arrangements and Affects in the Creative Industries." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLED075/document.
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Le constat de départ de cette recherche, souligné par la littérature, est celui du débat permanent au sein des organisations créatives, entre priorités artistiques et créatives d'un côté et intérêts économiques de l'autre côté. Nous interrogeons la manière dont les acteurs créatifs gèrent les contraintes économiques qui les entourent dans ce contexte marqué par la rationalisation. Au travers d'une étude qualitative et approfondie de l'industrie de la mode -entretiens et travail ethnographique, nous avons observé les pratiques quotidiennes des acteurs créatifs du secteur. Premièrement, et au travers du travail de Michel de Certeau, nous révélons ici les différentes tactiques et autres arrangements que ceux-ci développent vis-à-vis des contraintes, une forme d'action qui joue un rôle important dans les organisations créatives. Cette forme d'action, que l'on nomme trouble du créatif, entretient une ambiguïté autour du travail créatif en organisation, nécessaire pour créer. Ensuite, nous révélons les forces socio-matérielles et affectives qui constituent les pratiques créatives de façon intrinsèque, et soulignons le poids de telles forces dans la négociation permanente avec les motifs économiques. Subséquemment, nous proposons le concept de créativité-en-action, une manière à la fois incarnée, matérielle et affective d'agir créatif, au sein des industries créativesThis PhD departs from the research literature that underlines the on-going debate arising in creative companies, between art/creative priorities on the one hand and economic/business interests on the other hand. We wonder how actors involved into the creative process deal with economic and rationalization constraints. Through an in-depth, qualitative study in fashion industry -interviews and ethnographic work, we investigate empirically the daily practices of creative actors. First, and notably through Michel de Certeau's work, we reveal the various tactics and arrangements that they develop towards such constraints, as a form of action that plays an important role in creative organizations. This form of action we call creative fuzziness maintains a necessary ambiguity around creative work. Second, we underline the socio-material and affective forces that inherently constitute creative practices, and how much such forces weigh in the economic negotiation. We then suggest the concept of creativity-in-action, an embodied-material and affective way of acting creative, within creative industries
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Kristoffersson, Ida. "Incorporation of Departure Time Choice in a Mesoscopic Transportation Model for Stockholm." Licentiate thesis, Stockholm : Transport- och samhällsekonomi, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10516.
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Kong, Xianhua. "Incorporating landscape pattern features in a spatial harvest model." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ46368.pdf.
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Chao-Chin, Kan. "Towards a model of strategic management incorporating fuzzy logic." Thesis, University of Hull, 2010. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:2681.
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Success in strategic management is not only based on the planning view for strategy formulation but also the need to consider strategy implementation. From a strategic planning view, this thesis identifies the six insufficiencies of strategic management: (a) strategy is implemented by means of people, whose behaviour cannot be determined by a plan; (b) strategy needs wide communication in an organization; (c) strategy formulation is separated from implementation; (d) the strategic planning process may contribute to only part of the organization; (e) planning neglects the dynamic environment and interactive influence of relationships; (f) performance measurement neglects qualitative data such as employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and stakeholders’ performance (Kaplan and Norton, 2004). This research proposes a pluralistic approach –a six-view model consists of roots, stem, and flowers and fruits - the six-views, including logic and language, learning, cultural, political, ethical and planning views as the roots of critical systems thinking for promoting strategic management, which combines formulation and implementation with fuzzy logic by a robust planning, leadership style, participation of organizational members, and stakeholders’ cooperation to overcome the current deficiencies of the planning view particularly in line with the Taiwanese background. This six-views model is also called the “roots theory”, because the source of these views are organizational roots which range from leadership, a company culture built to cohere employees’ beliefs, engages wide communication in different departments, encourages team learning and innovative ideas, and has mutual trust with suppliers and customers, even stakeholders. The stems of the roots theory offers the foresight of a competitive environment with Five-forces analysis to identify the stage of the product life cycle in strategic business units (SBUs) for promoting supply chain operation. Performance evaluation identifies the results of strategy implementation, which includes employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and stakeholders’ performance as flowers and fruits of a tree. Effective strategic management results from combining the six-views because strategies fail when strategy is not implemented well (Bossidy and Charan, 2002; Joyce et al., 2003; Kim and Mauborgne, 2005; Kaplan and Norton, 2008). Neilson et al. (2008) point out that enterprises fail at execution because they go straight to structure reorganization and neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness - decision rights and information flow. The research was conducted in three interrelated phases. First, the nature of strategic management and different views of strategic management were identified by means of a literature review. Each view of strategic management was shown to be insufficient by Mintzberg’s (1987a) five Ps; and another P (partners’ expectations) came from this research for strategy formulation, so that an integrated thinking approach (Cummings and Daellenbach, 2009) incorporating six-views was needed for effective strategic management. Moreover, two tools of management such as critical systems thinking and fuzzy logic approaches were examined to assess how well they can promote strategic management in organizations. Second, a questionnaire was developed to unveil the current situations of strategic management and confirm the six-views model in Taiwanese companies. The questionnaire was sent to two hundred Taiwanese companies and produced sixty-three usable responses. The SAS package was employed to analyse the data. Simultaneously, senior managers were interviewed from seven manufacturing industries and eight service firms to discover the deeper concerns of strategic management in Taiwanese companies. Finally, four companies were selected as case studies to practically research, to support the interpretation of the results and to induct a novel model of strategic management. Some of the significant findings of the data analysis were that: factor analysis determined that the list of the six-views naturally separated into six distinct groups with Eigenvalue more than one; Duncan’s test showed that the overall companies in the learning, planning and six-views belonged to “Ranking A”. The six-views and the logic and language view were positioned in “Ranking B”. The logic language, cultural and ethical views belonged to “Ranking C”. The political view, however, was placed in “Ranking D” and it had a significantly lower rating compared with the other views. From multiple linear regression analysis, this research revealed that the priority order of significant influence variables were the cultural view, learning view, planning view, and logic and language view to promote strategic management and multi-collinearity was not severe. In fact, descriptive statistics and Eastern and Western management literature disclosed that the political and ethical views can contribute to effective strategic management. Therefore, this thesis applied six-views to promote strategy formulation and implementation. The multiple linear regression analysis of the six-views model disclosed that the six-views can be used as roots to enhance supply chain operation further to achieve better organizational performance in Taiwanese companies. The audit of the six-views by fuzzy logic found that the planning view is perceived as promoting the most effective strategy formulation; however, the integrated five-views for implementation is not strong enough to improve strategic management. Companies A1, A2, A3, and A4 possess strong six-views; they should adopt development strategy. The results of the test showed employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and stakeholders’ performancewhere employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction were directly correlated for four companies. In terms of characteristics of industry, the result of strategic management with the six-views linked to stakeholders’ performance with stakeholders’expectations and corporate social issues was consistent with a positive tendency as manufacturing industries, companies A1-A2, and service firms, companies A3-A4. In addition, it is worth mentioning that companies A1, A2 and A4 did not conduct an ideal social political arena of stakeholders’ groups when compared with company A3. In conclusion, the planning view has gained wide acceptance for Taiwanese companies wishing to successfully achieve strategy formulation, but implementation shows insufficiencies. Therefore, this research proposes the six-views model for complementing the lack of a planning view and expands existent theory of the planning view, highlighting the “people” for implementing strategy, especially as related to Taiwanese companies. The roots theory is based on both the theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence, that the analysis of the six-views should play a major role in promoting effective strategic management. The research findings are discussed and recommendations for further research are also proposed.
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Clarke, D. A. "The strength of model composites incorporating silicon carbide fibres." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380359.
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Lyman, Noah J. "Incorporating Shear Resistance into Debris Flow Triggering Model Statistics." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2020. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2254.
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Several regions of the Western United States utilize statistical binary classification models to predict and manage debris flow initiation probability after wildfires. As the occurrence of wildfires and large intensity rainfall events increase, so has the frequency in which development occurs in the steep and mountainous terrain where these events arise. This resulting intersection brings with it an increasing need to derive improved results from existing models, or develop new models, to reduce the economic and human impacts that debris flows may bring. Any development or change to these models could also theoretically increase the ease of collection, processing, and implementation into new areas.
Generally, existing models rely on inputs as a function of rainfall intensity, fire effects, terrain type, and surface characteristics. However, no variable in these models directly accounts for the shear stiffness of the soil. This property when considered with the respect to the state of the loading of the sediment informs the likelihood of particle dislocation, contractive or dilative volume changes, and downslope movement that triggers debris flows. This study proposes incorporating shear wave velocity (in the form of slope-based thirty-meter shear wave velocity, Vs30) to account for this shear stiffness. As commonly used in seismic soil liquefaction analysis, the shear stiffness is measured via shear wave velocity which is the speed of the vertically propagating horizontal shear wave through sediment. This spatially mapped variable allows for broad coverage in the watersheds of interest. A logistic regression is used to then compare the new variable against what is currently used in predictive post-fire debris flow triggering models.
Resulting models indicated improvement in some measures of statistical utility through receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) and threat score analysis, a method of ranking models based on true/false positive and negative results. However, the integration of Vs30 offers similar utility to current models in additional metrics, suggesting that this input can benefit from further refinement. Further suggestions are additionally offered to further improve the use of Vs30 through in-situ measurements of surface shear wave propagation and integration into Vs30 datasets through a possible transfer function. Additional discussion into input variables and their impact on created models is also included.
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Rodgers, Steven Francis. "Simulation of PEM fuel cells: validation of model and incorporation of humidity dynamics." Diss., Rolla, Mo. : Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2010. http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/thesis/pdf/Rodgers_09007dcc807d8717.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2010.Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed July 29, 2010) Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-67).
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Humphries, Alison G. "Incorporation and testing of revised algorithms for the aquatic plant growth model, ECOL." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ35897.pdf.
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Kinnersley, Nelson Maxwell. "Incorporation of expert beliefs in the two-parameter Bayesian logistic dose response model." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/26228.
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Logistic regression models are often proposed to describe dose-response relationships in dose-escalation clinical trials to determine the maximum tolerated dose. In a Bayesian setting, the 1-parameter continual reassessment method and the 2-parameter escalation with overdose control designs have been implemented assuming acceptable tolerability thresholds of between 20% and 35%. The literature is sparse on the operating characteristics of 2-parameter Bayesian logistic regression models (BLRM) when sample sizes are small (i.e. <50); response rates <20% or >35% are of interest; and expert beliefs are available for incorporating into prior distributions for model parameters. Motivated by a case study of a new infertility treatment, this thesis describes the operating characteristics of the 2-parameter BLRM in a dose-escalation setting, with small sample sizes, and applied to response rates consistent with both safety and efficacy endpoints i.e. 10% to 90%. When information external to the trial is available from expert beliefs, ways in which those beliefs may be elicited in a structured manner are evaluated. Simulation is used to assess the impact of these prior distributions on trial conclusions. I have demonstrated that elicitation can be performed in a structured manner in both academic and industry settings and I provide specific recommendations for the structured planning and execution of elicitation sessions. Simulations show that there is no single set of priors that always produce unbiased estimates with minimum variance across a range of target response rates, so simulations specific to the planned trial must be conducted. Furthermore, when only discrete doses are available, simulations show that choosing the available dose closest to that recommended by the model is more likely to lead to an unbiased estimate of the dose that attains a pre-specified response rate. Recommendations are provided for how to improve the study design and analysis for the motivating case study.
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Sorouri, Shagahyegh. "Incorporation Of Fluorescence Measures To Model Treated Water Quality And Assess PAC Performance." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1597345883338139.
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Zhao, Qingyun. "The incorporation and initialization of cloud water/ice in an operational forecast model /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1993.
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Sperry, Brian James. "Complex Bogie Modeling Incorporating Advanced Friction Wedge Components." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33039.
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The design of the freight train truck has gone relatively unchanged over the past 150 years. There has been relatively little change to the fundamental railway truck design because of the challenges of implementing a cost effective and reliable modification to designs that have proven effective in decades of operation. A common U. S. railway truck consists of two sideframes, a bolster, two spring nests, and four friction wedges. The two sideframes sit on the axels. The bolster rides on springs on top of the sideframes. The friction wedges also ride on springs on top of the sideframe, and are positioned between the bolster and sideframe, acting as a damping mechanism. Better understanding the dynamic behavior and forces on the bodies are critical in reducing unnecessary wear on the components, along with potential negative behavior such as loss of productivity and increase in operating costs.
This thesis will investigate the dynamic behavior of the truck under warping conditions using a stand-alone model created in Virtual.Lab. This research covers two main areas.
First, the full-truck model will be developed and its simulation results will be compared to test data from the Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI). Data was provided from warp testing performed at the TTCI facilities in the spring of 2008. Once validated, the model will be used to gain a better understanding of the forces and moments that are propagated through the system, and of the dynamics of all bodies. Due to costs and physical constraints, not every bogie component can be instrumented during test, so the computer model will be able to provide valuable information not easily obtained otherwise.
Second, full-truck models using different contact geometry between the wedges, sideframes, and bolster will be compared. A model with extremely worn sideframes will allow for investigation into the effects of wear on the damping abilities and warp stiffness of the truck. Another model using split wedges will be compared with the previous model to investigate into the behavior differences in the truck using different types of wedges. By understanding the impact of different geometries on the overall performance of the truck, better decisions on design and maintenance can be made in the future.
After creating the models, we found that the full-truck model created in LMS® Virtual.Lab compared well with the test data collected by TTCI. In the comparison with NUCARS® we determined that the stand-alone model, which incorporates the wedges as bodies, captures the warp dynamics of the truck better than NUCARS®, which models the wedges as connections. By creating a model with severely worn sideframes, we were able to determine that the truck loses its abilities to damp bounce in the system as well as to prevent warping when the components become sufficiently worn. The split-wedge model behaved similarly to the standard full-truck model for bounce inputs, but had a significantly different behavior in warp. Further development will be needed on the split-wedge model to be confident that it behaved as expected.Master of Science
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Al-Ogaili, Farah F. "Incorporating Environmental Factors into Trip Planning." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1508196014262712.
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Ward, Eric John. "Incorporating model selection and decision analysis into population dynamics modeling /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5319.
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Zhao, Yi. "Incorporating contrast invariance into a developmental model of orientation selectivity /." View abstract or full-text, 2007. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ECED%202007%20ZHAO.
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Berglund, Matilda. "Implementation of a risk calculation model incorporating optimal liquidation strategies." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för fysik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-125480.
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Dallam, Thomas L. "Mood and performance: a model incorporating self-efficacy and attributions." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40322.
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The construct of mood (defined as a transient feeling state) has been
shown in numerous studies to have a great effect on our daily lives. The
purpose of the present study was twofold: (1) to investigate the effects of
mood on psychomotor test performance, and (2) to examine the
conceptualization of mood more closely. An experiment was conducted
investigating the effects of positive (happy, elated) and negative (sad,
depressed) mood on a newly developed Air Force selection battery. In
addition, self-efficacy, perceived performance, and causal attributions were
measured as potential contributors to the mood-performance relationship.
Subjects consisted of Air Force Recruits at Lackland Air Force Base. Mood was
manipulated by showing emotionally laden film clips before administering
the test battery. The selection battery consisted of psychomotor tests, which
measure reaction time and hand-eye coordination.
The mood and performance model was tested through the structural
equation modeling technique, LISREL. Results indicated that mood did not have an effect on any of the variables in the model. However, this null result
was likely due to a relatively weak mood induction. Self-efficacy was found
to predict both performance and perceived performance, and performance
was found to predict perceived performance. Post-hoc analyses revealed that
performance predicted mood such that subjects who performed well were in a
better mood than subjects who performed poorly. What is still in question is
whether mood, in turn, influences performance.
The conceptualization of mood was examined by addressing the
counter-intuitive theory by Watson, Clark, and Tellegen (1988) that positive
and negative mood are two independent factors. This theory was examined
by comparing factor structures from two different mood scales. On a more
traditional scale in which only extremely worded mood items are included,
positive and negative mood factors were not found to correlate. However, on
a newly constructed mood scale entitled the Composite Mood Checklist
(CMC), the mood factors were found to significantly correlate in a negative
direction. This finding lends evidence to Spector et al.'s (1995) argument that
positive and negative mood independence is an illusion created by artifactual
mood scales.Ph. D.
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Mutuku, James. "An open source model for teaching environments incorporating wireless devices." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6422.
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Word processed copy.Attempts have been made at bridging the digital divide in schools using desktop PC systems without much success. As a result many computer laboratories sit empty. There are many reasons for these failures. Often there are incompatibilities of software applications for the PC and its operating systems. In other cases non-existent infrastructure such as networking support for the operations. This paper describes a project aimed at achieving a more successful school educational environment by using students' mobile devices, desktop computer and open source applications. The project therefore, looks forward to a time when schools no longer have to purchase computers for their students but rather utilize mobile devices already owned by students. The paper presents results of an evaluation study on the interaction of students' moble devices with course material and teachers using open source applications in a teaching environment. The pilot project was undertaken by Schoolnet in Namibia. The result presented show that although there were constraints on such devices the educational benefits far outweight the physical limitations.
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Coetzee, Marijke. "WSACT - a model for Web Services Access Control incorporating Trust." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07102008-075251.
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Berisha, Ardita, and Cecilia Magnusson. "Identifiering och inkorporering av intressenter : företags intressentperspektiv i praktiken." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17173.
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Olika verksamheter har sedan tidigare präglats av ett ägarperspektiv där relationen till formella ägare och aktieägare betraktats som företagets viktigaste relation. I takt med globaliseringen och den effektiviserade informationsspridningen blir det dock allt viktigare att inte längre bortse från andra intressenter. Det tillkommer därför större krav på företag och företagsledare att effektivt kunna identifiera vilka som utgör företagets intressenter. I tidigare forskning har teorier för identifiering och prioritering av intressenter utvecklats av bland annat Escoubés (1999) och Mitchell, Agle och Wood (1997). Dessa teorier utgår ifrån kriterierna, makt, legitimitet och brådskande karaktär. Enligt teorierna kan företag identifiera och prioritera baserat på intressenternas nivå av dessa kriterier för att kunna fastställa vilka intressenter som är viktigast. Dock sker inte identifieringen utan svårigheter bland annat tillföljd av att det saknas standarder för både intressentrelevans och för hur intressen skall balanseras. En ytterligare svårighet är att kriteriernas tillräcklighet i praktiken sällan testats empiriskt. Tillföljd av bristen på empiriska undersökningar var syftet i studien att undersöka hur företag i praktiken identifierar sina intressenter för att sedan jämföra deras praxis med tidigare teorier om identifiering och prioritering. Studien hade två angreppssätt, dels hur företag identifierar sina intressenter och även hur företag inkorporerar sina intressenters önskemål och krav i sina övergripande mål. De två angreppssätten utmynnade i två separata frågor. Den första frågan innefattade de undersökta företagens tolkning av sina intressenter. Vi ville testa den praktiska relevansen hos kriterierna genom att jämföra dem med de kriterier de undersökta företagen använde vid identifiering. Den andra frågan handlade om hur de undersökta företagen inkorporerade sina intressenters önskemål och krav i sina övergripande mål.Studien genomfördes med semistrukturerade intervjuer med informanter från fem olika företag. Studiens resultat ledde fram till två olika slutsatser. Ifråga om tolkning och identifiering av intressenter framkom att informanterna tolkade och identifierade i likhet med tidigare teorier. Vi fann dock att informanterna inte använde samma kriterier som tidigare teorier utan använde andra kriterier. De identifierade bland annat intressenterna baserat på deras möjlighet att påverka, deras bidrag till företagets existensberättigande och hur kraftfull deras fråga eller order var. Vi ansåg att informanternas kriterier och tidigare teoriers kriterier skiljde sig åt sedan de utgjorde olika termer men att deras betydelse är densamma. Ifråga om inkorporering blev det tydligt att den kunde ske antingen direkt eller indirekt hos de deltagande företagen. Vi fann att ägare inkorporerades direkt medan kunder och personal inkorporerades indirekt. Direkt inkorporering skedde med önskemål och krav vilka kom från intressenter som var kända för företaget och hade möjligheten till personlig kontakt. Indirekt inkorporering var fallet för de intressenter som var okända och fler till antalet samt saknade möjligheten till personlig kontakt där åsikter och intressen kunde uttryckas. I avsaknaden av personlig kontakt framkom att andra processer måste utnyttjas för att fånga de indirekt inkorporerade intressenternas intressen innan de kan inkorporeras i ett företags övergripande mål.Program: Civilekonomprogrammet
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Wiliem, Leonard. "Incorporating interdependence in risk likelihood analysis to enhance diagnostics in condition monitoring." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/28559/1/Leonard_Wiliem_Thesis_V1.pdf.
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This research is aimed at addressing problems in the field of asset management relating to risk analysis and decision making based on data from a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. It is apparent that determining risk likelihood in risk analysis is difficult, especially when historical information is unreliable. This relates to a problem in SCADA data analysis because of nested data. A further problem is in providing beneficial information from a SCADA system to a managerial level information system (e.g. Enterprise Resource Planning/ERP). A Hierarchical Model is developed to address the problems. The model is composed of three different Analyses: Hierarchical Analysis, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, and Interdependence Analysis. The significant contributions from the model include: (a) a new risk analysis model, namely an Interdependence Risk Analysis Model which does not rely on the existence of historical information because it utilises Interdependence Relationships to determine the risk likelihood, (b) improvement of the SCADA data analysis problem by addressing the nested data problem through the Hierarchical Analysis, and (c) presentation of a framework to provide beneficial information from SCADA systems to ERP systems. The case study of a Water Treatment Plant is utilised for model validation.
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Wiliem, Leonard. "Incorporating interdependence in risk likelihood analysis to enhance diagnostics in condition monitoring." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/28559/.
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This research is aimed at addressing problems in the field of asset management relating to risk analysis and decision making based on data from a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. It is apparent that determining risk likelihood in risk analysis is difficult, especially when historical information is unreliable. This relates to a problem in SCADA data analysis because of nested data. A further problem is in providing beneficial information from a SCADA system to a managerial level information system (e.g. Enterprise Resource Planning/ERP). A Hierarchical Model is developed to address the problems. The model is composed of three different Analyses: Hierarchical Analysis, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, and Interdependence Analysis. The significant contributions from the model include: (a) a new risk analysis model, namely an Interdependence Risk Analysis Model which does not rely on the existence of historical information because it utilises Interdependence Relationships to determine the risk likelihood, (b) improvement of the SCADA data analysis problem by addressing the nested data problem through the Hierarchical Analysis, and (c) presentation of a framework to provide beneficial information from SCADA systems to ERP systems. The case study of a Water Treatment Plant is utilised for model validation.
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Wohlrabe, Mary Durkin Rhodes Dent. "An instructional model for publication design classes incorporating current professional practice." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1991. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9219091.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1991.Title from title page screen, viewed January 6, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Dent Rhodes (chair), John David Reed, William Semlak, Robert Chandler. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 257-270) and abstract. Also available in print.
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El-Samadony, A. A. El-Y. "Development of an improved construction bidding model incorporating multiple objective functions." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373847.
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Raj, Alvin Andrew. "Statistical Saliency Model incorporating motion saliency and an application to driving." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45886.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008.At head of title on title-page: Master of Science thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-44).
This thesis extends the Statistical Saliency Model to include motion as a feature, enabling it to compute the saliency of video sequences more effectively. The motion feature is represented as optical flow and incorporated into the model. The model is validated by testing its capability in predicting reaction time performance in a driving simulator. We find that the model does help predict reaction time and some eye-movements in some simulated driving tasks.
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Lee, Seungsoo. "Study on Development of Integrated Urban Inundation Model Incorporating Drainage Systems." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/180480.
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Machac, Mary Kristin. "A Model of Expert Instructional Design Heuristics Incorporating Design Thinking Methods." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102926.
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Novice instructional designers have limited experience working with ill-structured problems, and often do not possess the mental models to effectively analyze, manage, and communicate the overall design process of new instructional design projects (Wedman and Tessmer, 1993; Rowland, 1992; Perez and Emery, 1995; Liu, Gibby, Quiros, and Demps, 2002). In their 2016 article of expert instructional design principles applied by experienced designers in practice, York and Ertmer proposed the following questions for future research, "(a) Can we teach principles to novice instructional designers? (b) What methods should we use to provide this information?" (York and Ertmer, 2016, p. 189). This research further explored these questions and offers a new model of expert instructional design heuristics incorporating design thinking methods. The purpose of this study was to identify design thinking methods that aligned with heuristics of expert instructional design practitioners, and to design and develop a new model of heuristics and design thinking methods, which could assist novice instructional designers as they enter the instructional design field. The literature outlines challenges reported among novice instructional designers throughout the instructional design process, which includes their ability to solve ill-structured problems; conduct thorough analyses; collaborate in teams; negotiate priorities; generate a variety of ideas for solutions; overcome resource, budget and time constraints; communicate and manage projects with stakeholders; and prototype, iterate and pilot new design solutions (Rowland, 1992; Hoard, Stefaniak, Baaki, and Draper, 2019; Roytek, 2010; Liu, Gibby, Quiros, and Demps, 2002; Chang and Kuwata, 2020; Tracey and Boling, 2014; Perez and Emery, 1995; Williams van Rooij, 1993). The model offers novice instructional designers specific methods and combinations of methods to use for every stage of the instructional design process. As instructional designers implement design thinking methods within the context of their daily situations, they should become more comfortable and begin to adapt the methods to meet their individual needs for each stage of their process.Doctor of Philosophy
Instructional design is a system of procedures for developing education and training curricula in a consistent and reliable fashion (Branch and Merrill, 2011; Branch and Kopcha, 2014). It embodies an iterative process for outlining outcomes, selecting teaching and learning strategies, choosing support technologies, identifying media, and measuring performance (Branch and Kopcha, 2014). Instructional designers use models of instructional design and instructional development to communicate tasks and procedures of the instructional design process (Andrews and Goodson, 1980). Over the years, numerous models of instructional design have been developed and adapted to meet the varying needs of instructional designers and developers. There is a consensus that most instructional processes consist of five core elements or stages: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation, which are commonly referred to as ADDIE (Seels and Glasgow, 1990; Branch and Kopcha, 2014). While often considered generic, the ADDIE framework contains a useful set of common criteria, which most designers state as important or necessary as a part of any instructional design process (Pittenger, Janke, and Bumgardner, 2009; York and Ertmer, 2011; 2016). Novice instructional designers have limited experience working with ill-structured problems, and often do not possess the mental models (prior experience) to effectively analyze, manage, and communicate the overall design process of new instructional design projects (Wedman and Tessmer, 1993; Rowland, 1992; Perez and Emery, 1995; Liu, Gibby, Quiros, and Demps, 2002). In their 2016 article of expert instructional design principles applied by experienced designers in practice, York and Ertmer proposed the following questions for future research, "(a) Can we teach principles to novice instructional designers? (b) What methods should we use to provide this information?" (York and Ertmer, 2016, p. 189). This research further explored these questions and offers a new model of expert instructional design heuristics incorporating design thinking methods. For this study, heuristics were defined as generalized stages of an instructional designer's process and design thinking was defined as a human-centered design process for solving complex problems. The purpose of this study was to identify design thinking methods that aligned with heuristics of expert instructional design practitioners, and to design and develop a new model of heuristics and design thinking methods, which could assist novice instructional designers as they enter the instructional design field. The literature outlines challenges reported among novice instructional designers throughout the instructional design process, which includes their ability to solve ill-structured problems; conduct thorough analyses; collaborate in teams; negotiate priorities; generate a variety of ideas for solutions; overcome resource, budget and time constraints; communicate and manage projects with stakeholders; and prototype, iterate and pilot new design solutions (Rowland, 1992; Hoard, Stefaniak, Baaki, and Draper, 2019; Roytek, 2010; Liu, Gibby, Quiros, and Demps, 2002; Chang and Kuwata, 2020; Tracey and Boling, 2014; Perez and Emery, 1995; Williams van Rooij, 1993). The model offers novice instructional designers specific methods and combinations of methods to use for every stage of the instructional design process. As instructional designers implement design thinking methods within the context of their daily situations, they should become more comfortable and begin to adapt the methods to meet their individual needs for each stage of their process.
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Kulasiri, Don. "Investigation of a simulation model for peanut drying incorporating air recirculation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44076.
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Virginia type peanuts were dried in three laboratory dryers to verify a simulation model based on Troeger and Butler's drying equations. The energy saving potential of air recirculation was also investigated. Four tests consisting of eleven drying experiments were conducted in Fall, 1986. Two air recirculation schedules were employed and three average air flow rates were used. An experimental procedure was developed to measure input and output parameters of the drying system. The weight loss of the top layer of the peanut bed was recorded with a data acquisition system. The electrical energy input to the heaters was also recorded. Based on the analysis of the data, the following conclusions were made: (1) The Troeger model predicted a lower moisture release rate than the actual rate for Virginia type peanuts. (2) If the break points in the Troeger model were changed to 0.20 and 0.70 from 0.12 and 0.40, respectively, the model predicted the final moisture content more accurately. (3) Energy savings as high as 50 percent were achieved using the recirculation schedules.
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Zhang, Ru. "Testing Two Models of Paired-Associate Learning Incorporating the Principle of Encoding Specificity." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1311256036.
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Roy, Su-Kim Delores. "Development and incorporation of a NAPL residual into the Lenhard-Parker pressure-saturation hysteretic model." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0004/MQ43347.pdf.
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Bradshaw, Charles. "Structure incorporation of model uncertainty for Bayesian adaptive tracking and its application to maritime surveillance." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27871.
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Adaptive visual object tracking (VOT) is one of the fundamental tasks in machine vision, with active research and far-reaching implications. Bayesian methods are commonly used in adaptive VOT. However, we propose that the current tendency is to restrict the inference to a subtask (e.g. classification), rather than phrasing the entire task, including the adaptive observation model, within the Bayesian inference. In this thesis we develop a framework for simultaneous modelling and estimation (SMAE), in which the common Bayesian recursive estimator (BRE) is extended to include estimation of the underlying hidden Markov model (HMM). The framework is developed not only for the task of adaptive VOT, but also for persistent tracking: the long-term task including automatic detection and tracking of multiple targets in a scene in a manner such that performance improves as a function of deployment time. To prove that the framework is usable and leads to tractable implementations, it is applied to the challenging task of maritime surveillance. Oceans provide a non-trivial noisy background against which many adaptive trackers struggle. Our developed adaptive tracker creates a baseline in which the joint distribution across observation model and target state is maintained in an adapted particle filter. A persistent tracker is then built around the adaptive tracker to produce improved results using the information from previous observations. Both the adaptive tracker and the persistent tracker use the holistic Bayesian framework described by SMAE. We find that SMAE does lead to tractable solutions that include the strength of Bayesian methods for the observation model component in adaptive VOT. In addition to this, contributions are made to the current maritime surveillance literature, in the form of a better performing salience filter for maritime and littoral scenes, and a Bayesian means for combining different salience filters. This last contribution may seem trivial; however, we were unable to find it in the maritime literature. This work also includes the application of SMAE to more philosophical topics. Although the discussion may seem informal in light of the technical nature of the body of our work, it was an integral part of the development of the framework.