Dissertations / Theses: 'Production of information'

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Andersson, Ulf. "Informatics and Media production." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för medier och design, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-5884.

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Svehn, Ludvig, and Kristoffer Thunberg. "Information for production control." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-95233.

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Syftet med studien är att utvärdera behovet av digitala informationsverktyg i produktionsfasen. Byggbranschen arbetar ständigt för att effektivisera arbetsmetoder i produktionsfasen. För att hantera dagens ökade informationsflöde samt möta marknadens krav på effektivisering av byggprocessen har vissa företag börjat använda digitala informationsverktyg som hjälpmedel. Detta för att hantera flödet av information ut till byggarbetsplatsen. I studiens inledande kapitel behandlas byggprocessens delar för att presentera den information som ligger till grund för produktionen. Detta följs av den information som genereras för styrning i produktionsfasen. Genom att erhålla denna information kan en utvärdering av informationsverktygens tillämpning utföras. Studien har genomförts på företaget Skanska. För att samla underlag till studien har det skett observationer och intervjuer på projektplatserna, vilket redovisas och ligger till grund för resultatet. Resultatet av studien har visat på fördelarna med informationstillgänglighet i kombination med rörlighet. Tjänstemännen (produktionschefer och arbetsledare) är i störst behov av informationsverktyg på grund av dess informationsbehov kombinerat med rörlighet i arbetet. Yrkesarbetare har inte samma informationsbehov därav är ett stationärt verktyg fullt tillräckligt i dess dagliga arbete.

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Tam, Hon Keung. "Estimation risk, information asymmetry and information production in public equity offerings /." View abstract or full-text, 2004. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?FINA%202004%20TAM.

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Baxendale, Anthony Thomas. "Construction management information systems for production control." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334455.

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Hopkins, Jeffrey W. "Three Essays on Information and Production Economics." Connect to resource, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1216928343.

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Pihnastyi, O. M., G. K. Kozhevnikov, and Tetiana Bondarenko. "The information controlling model transport system during transient conditions." Thesis, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA, 2019. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/48796.

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This article is devoted to designing an information management system for the conveyor line of mining enterprises. The analytical design method for the transient mode of the stepped speed control system of the conveyor line was developed. The partial differential equation was used in constructing the conveyor line model. The description of the production system is fulfilled in the single step approximation. A decision was obtained which determines the state of the parameters of the production line for a technological position specified as a function of time. Has been determined the length of the transition period during which the initial condition for the distribution of labour objects along the conveyor affects the parameters of the state of the conveyor line. The method for calculating the current parameters of a conveyor line with the use of partial differential equations allows the design of control systems for production lines of conveyor type for transient modes. The originality of the results obtained is to improve the PDE-models of the conveyor-type production systems used to design highly efficient production control systems operating in transient modes.

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Wang, Shubo. "Investor information and asset returns in production economies." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40718.

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In this thesis, I explore the implications of investor information for asset returns in general equilibrium economies with production. In the first chapter, I study what determines the relationship between information quality and long-run risk in a Cox-Ingersoll-Ross type model with recursive preferences. Building on the recent work by Ai (2010), I separate the risk premium into the short-run and long-run components to highlight aspects of preferences that are important for this relationship. It is shown that the attitude towards temporal resolution of uncertainty determines the direction in which changes in information quality alter the compensation for long-run risk, while the elasticity of intertemporal substitution is important for the amplitude of this effect. In the second chapter, I investigate how incomplete information affects asset returns in a real business cycle model with Epstein-Zin preferences. In the model economy, productivity is altered by both transitory and permanent shocks. The representative agent observes movements in productivity but cannot perfectly distinguish their sources. As a result he must solve a signal extraction problem. This incomplete information model is found to be quantitatively consistent with some common observations about asset prices and aggregate quantities, including, for example, the equity premium, the risk-free rate, the price-dividend ratio and the dynamics of consumption and output. Furthermore, the model generates a downward sloping term structure of equity risk as empirically observed-namely, assets with short-duration of cash flows have larger risk premium and return volatility than assets with long-duration of cash flows.

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Cowles, Heidi Wind. "Processing information structure : evidence from comprehension and production /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3100373.

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Pellicone, Anthony James. "Performing Play| Cultural Production on Twitch.tv." Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606825.

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Streaming is an emerging practice of videogame culture, where a player broadcasts a live capture of their game-play to an audience. Every day Twitch.tv, the most popular streaming platform, features thousands of streams broadcast to millions of viewers. Streams are detailed multimedia artifacts, and their study allows us to understand how the culture of games is produced, reproduced, and reinvented.

In this dissertation, I examine the act of streaming using a theoretical concept that I have developed called ‘performed play’, which combines social performance theory, game culture studies, situated learning, and sociological perspectives in order to understand streaming as an act that produces culture. Through the theoretical construct of performed play, I argue that we can better understand digital game-play as a cultural act. I present two interrelated studies: a grounded theory analysis of a social space dedicated to streaming, and an ethnographic study comprised of seven individual streamers.

I find that streaming is a practice comprised of three connected behaviors: assembling technology to produce the digital artifact of the stream, acting as a curator and manager of one’s audience, and projecting a persona as a player. These behaviors are moderated by the goals and desires of the streamer, and influenced by the metrics displayed by Twitch (e.g., viewership). Activity within the practice is further mediated by one’s history, relationship to games, and communities that are imported into the space of the stream. I find that streaming is very much a day-to-day activity, making the stream a blend of one's personal identity alongside an individual interpretation of game culture. Synthesizing findings across both my studies, I conclude that due to the highly personal and quotidian nature of performed game-play, the practice has the potential to change larger game culture by allowing previously marginalized populations to form their own communities as players of games.

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Hermelingmeier, Christian. "Decisions under imperfect information the ordering of information structures and production under endogenous uncertainty." Hamburg Kovač, 2009. http://d-nb.info/998409960/04.

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Hermelingmeier, Christian. "Decisions under imperfect information : the ordering of information structures and production under endogenous uncertainty /." Hamburg : Kovac, J, 2010. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-4888-6.htm.

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Myachykov, Andriy. "Integrating perceptual, semantic and syntactic information in sentence production." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis. Move to record for print version, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/31/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Röhr, Christine Tanja. "Information status and prosody : production and perception in German0F*." Universität Potsdam, 2013. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6611/.

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In a production experiment and two follow-up perception experiments on read German we investigated the (de-)coding of discourse-new, inferentially and textually accessible and given discourse referents by prosodic means. Results reveal that a decrease in the referent’s level of givenness is reflected by an increase in its prosodic prominence (expressed by differences in the status and type of accent used) providing evidence for the relevance of different intermediate types of information status between the poles given and new. Furthermore, perception data indicate that the degree of prosodic prominence can serve as the decisive cue for decoding a referent’s level of givenness.

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Lau, Shiu-kong Jason, and 劉紹剛. "Impacts of sharing production information on supply chain dynamics." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245523.

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Hindley, D. "Information content of AVHRR data for crop production estimates." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357999.

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Brennan, Catherine M. (Catherine Marie). "Representing troubleshooting information for a high-volume production line." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35384.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 75).
by Catherine M. Brennan.
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Wang, Yong. "Diversification, information asymmetry, cost of capital, and production efficiency." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/13948.

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Business Administration
Ph.D.
This study examines how diversification changes firms' key characteristics, which consequently alter firms' value. The reason why I focus on this topic is because of the mixed findings in literature about the valuation effect of diversification. This study offers deeper insights to the influence of diversification on important valuation factors that are already identified in finance literature. Specifically, it examines if diversification affects firms' information asymmetry problem, firms' cost of capital and cash flow, and firms' production efficiency. The study looks at both the financial industry and non-financial industry and the chapters are arranged in the following order. Firstly, empirical studies show that investors do not value BHCs' pursuit of non-interest income generating activities and yet these activities have demonstrated a dramatic pace of growth in the recent decades. An interesting question is what factors drive the discontent of the investors with the diversification endeavors of the BHCs in non-interest income activities. The first chapter examines the subject from the view point of information opaqueness, which is unique in the banking industry in terms of its intensity. We propose that increased diversification into non-interest income activities deepens information asymmetry, making BHCs more opaque and curtailing their value, as a result. Two important results are obtained in support of this proposition. First, analysts' forecasts are less accurate and more dispersed for the BHCs with greater diversity of non-interest income activities, indicating that information asymmetry problem is more severe for these BHCs. Second, stock market reactions to earning announcements by these BHCs signaling new information to the market are larger, indicating that more information is revealed to the market by each announcement. These findings indicate that increased diversity of non-interest income activities is associated with more severe information asymmetry between insiders and outsiders and, hence, a lower valuation by shareholder. Secondly, since Lang and Stulz (1994) and Berger and Ofek (1995), corporate literature has taken the position that industrial diversification is associated with a firm value discount. However, the validity and the sources of the diversification discount are still highly debated. In particular, extant studies limit themselves to cash flow effects, totally overlooking the cost of capital as a factor determining firm value. Inspired by Lamont and Polk (2001), the second chapter examines how industrial and international diversification change the conglomerates' cost of capital (equity and debt), and thereby the firm value. Our empirical results, based on a sample of Russell 3000 firms over the 1998-2004 period, show that industrial (international) diversification is associated with a lower (higher) firm cost of capital. These findings also hold for firms fully financed with equity. In addition, international diversification is found to be associated with a lower operating cash flow while industrial diversification doesn't alter it. These results indicate that industrial (international) diversification is associated with firm value enhancement (destruction). Given the fact that the majority of the firms involved in industrial diversification also diversify internationally, failing to separate these two dimensions of diversification may result in mistakenly attributing the diversification discount to industrial diversification. Thirdly, financial conglomerates have been increasingly diversifying their business into banking, securities, and insurance activities, especially after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA, 1999). The third chapter examines whether bank holding company (BHC) diversification is associated with improvement in production efficiency. By applying the data envelopment analysis (DEA), the Malmquist Index of productivity, and total factor productivity change as a decomposed factor of the index, are calculated for a sample of BHCs over the period 1997-2007. The following results are obtained. First, technical efficiency is negatively associated with activity diversification and the effect is primarily driven by BHCs that did not diversify through Section 20 subsidiaries before GLBA. Second, the degree of change in diversification over time does not affect the total factor productivity change but is negatively associated with technical efficiency change over time. This latter effect is also primarily shown on BHCs that did not have Section 20 subsidiaries before GLBA. Therefore, it can be concluded that diversification is on average associated with lower production efficiency of BHCs, especially those BHCs without first-mover advantage obtained through Section 20 subsidiaries. These chapters explores the possible channels through which diversification could alter firms' valuation. They contribute to the literature by offering further knowledge about the effect of diversification.
Temple University--Theses

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Chadha, Bipin. "An information driven approach to design/manufacturing integration." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19270.

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Davidsson, Staffan. "Adaptive Driver Information." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Arbetsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-25850.

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New societal requirements and functional growth put new demand on future driver information. Simultaneously, new technology and IT capabilities makes it possible to constantly adapt the information given to the driver for different reasons. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to obtain an improved understanding, strengthen knowledge of the adaptive control of driver information to understand if, for what reason, when and where to use adaptive driver information (ADI). Also some possible new means to support drivers were suggested.The main purpose of driver information is to support the driver in achieving goals such as a safer, more environmentally friendly, more efficient, legal and enjoyable transportation by providing correct information and feedback.ADI can support the driver throughout development of skill and when performing operational, tactical, and strategic level tasks. Also tasks related to setting goals for the driving task and encouraging good driving behaviour can be supported. ADI can, furthermore help drivers to stay within their comfort zone by visualizing risk or certainty, identify and thereafter adapt how a message is communicated to different personalities, maintain the driver’s mental workload within the safe task load area by reducing demand when it is too high, increase mental workload by extra stimulating task during too low a mental demand, and minimize the risk for mismatches between effort and real demand.ADI changes automatically that may cause new and unpredictable issues reducing the purpose of driver information. These may include: mode confusion, function allocation, over and under trust, locus of control issues, skill degeneration and too low/high mental workload. Research has suggested that the most efficient way to reduce these issues is to make the driver and the automation (the agents) get along together and become team players. The team players should share goals, show intention, show limits of performance, state etcetera. However, for cars, a consumer product, in which visual demand is high, an approach can be where information vanishes when agents have become a “team”. This approach may be called “team building”.Research and industrial contributions has been presented. Several examples of how ADI can be carried out have been suggested and some even illustrated.

Godkänd; 2014; 20141006 (stadav); Nedanstående person kommer att disputera för avläggande av teknologie doktorsexamen. Namn: Staffan Davidsson Ämne: Teknisk Psykologi/Engineering Psychology Avhandling: Adaptive Driver Information Opponent: Docent Forskningsledare Björn Peters, Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, Linköping Ordförande: Professor Håkan Alm, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, Luleå Tekniska Universitet Tid: Tisdag 11 november 2014, kl. 10.00 Plats: E243, Luleå tekniska universitet

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Wong, Yan-ping Agnes. "The geography of Internet production and consumption in the Asia-Pacific." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35319999.

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Nyqvist, Olof. "Information Management for Cutting Tools : Information Models and Ontologies." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Industriell produktion, Production Engineering, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4763.

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Krantz, Frida. "Building Information Modeling : In the production phase of civil works." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-101091.

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Building Information Modeling, abbreviated BIM, is a process of information sharing which enhances communication and which helps in visualizing complex problems in the building industry. BIM has not been used in a larger extent in the production phase of civil works. The purpose of the study is therefore to investigate driving forces behind the use of BIM and the resistors against it and to investigate in what ways BIM could be used in the production phase. The theoretical framework is based on one licentiate thesis, two degree projects, three research papers and three books. A qualitative method with semi-structured interviews was used. The interviews were made with a calculator, a supervisor and a CAD planner from Skanska, a constructor and project manager from ELU, a Project Information Officer from Tyréns and a VDC coordinator and VDC business developer from Veidekke who all have been working with BIM. This was to get a good representation from different actors and people with different professional roles. The study shows that the driving forces behind a use of BIM are that it enhances collaboration and communication between the actors, it makes it easier to visualize the project and the scope, and it provides a higher degree of accuracy of coordination’s. BIM also makes the work more effective and results in fewer errors. Above all, BIM give a possibility for a shorter production phase, shorter total project duration and a lower total cost. The study also shows that the resistors against the use of BIM are employee’s negative attitude against administrative work, that it is hard to measure profitability of using BIM, the uncertainty of who has the legal ownership of the data, and who has the responsibility of the accuracy of it. 3 That the implementation cost and the design phase are more expensive is also a resistor against a use of BIM. BIM could be used in visualization with 3D models in collision controls and co-reviews in meetings, work preparations and at site. A workplace outline could also be printed from the 3D model to be placed on the site for visualization. 4D scheduling and 4D animations could be used for visualization in meetings, work preparations and at site. The study showed that quantity takeoff and cost estimation with 5D is only reconciled in the meetings in the production phase and that the programs for it are not needed in this phase. RFID tags could be used at site for logistics and tracking materials, and field verifications could be used to verify that a work task is executed according to exact coordination’s in the 3D model. Furthermore tablet computers could be used for bringing the technique of BIM to the site which enables a better understanding of complex work tasks for the workers. A BIM coordinator who understands the process of working with BIM and who could work as a bridge between the users and the technical development team is important in a successful implementation. The study also shows that the focus of BIM should lie on how to make use of the technique. The examples of how BIM could be used in the production phase of civil works have to be useful and meet the needs and demands of the users. The processes of using 3D models, 4D scheduling, 4D animations, RFID tags, field verifications and tablet computers should therefore be studied thoroughly to find how the technique could be applicable at site, in meetings and work preparations and how it could enhance the daily activities and work tasks. If the demands are met it will be accepted by both the user and the organization. Further research should therefore lie on how 3D models, 4D scheduling, 4D animations, RFID tags, field verifications and tablet computers could be useful in the production phase. These BIM techniques should then be tested on a real project to investigate how the processes could be useful at site, in meetings and in work preparations. Further research should also be made on how countries like Norway, Finland and USA have made use of BIM in the production of civil works.

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Tanaka, Mikihiro. "The representation of conceptual and syntactic information during sentence production." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25237.

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My main concern in this thesis is to explore the representation and the mechanism underlying the production of syntactic structures and word order, and how these are affected by conceptual factors, focusing on animacy. Two types of psycholinguistic experiments are presented here. First, two recall experiments that investigated how animacy affects syntax in language production are discussed. In Experiment 1, Japanese speakers were more likely to recall Object-Subject-Verb (OSV) sentences as Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) sentences when this allowed an animate subject to appear first than when it allowed an inanimate subject to appear first; there was no such tendency for SOVs to be recalled as OSVs or for conjunct order to vary according to animacy. Experiment 2 showed that speakers again recalled OSVs as SOVs more often when this led to an animate-first sentence. However, they tended to recall sentences in the alternative voice (recalling actives as passives and vice versa) when this allowed the animate entity to appear as the subject. Secondly, I report three syntactic priming experiments. Syntactic priming is the tendency for speakers to show a reliable increase in the use of particular syntactic structures after repeating or hearing those structures in an unrelated sentence (e.g., Bock 1986). Although in Experiment 3 and 4, Japanese speakers showed significant priming effects for word order and voice, speakers were no more likely to assign an animate entity as the subject function or first position in the word order after hearing a sentence in which an animate entity appeared in the same position than in an alternative position (e.g., the object or in the second position). Experiment 5 also confirmed that English speakers showed very similar results. Taken together, these results suggest grammatical functions and word order are determined during the same stage of processing, and that animacy exerts its effects on this single stage.

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Bruch, Jessica. "Management of Design Information in the Production System Design Process." Doctoral thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-14138.

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For manufacturing companies active on the global market, high-performance production systems that contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the company are essential. Among a wide range of industries it is increasingly acknowledged that superior production system capabilities are crucial for competitive success. However, the process of designing the production system has received little attention, ignoring its potential for gaining a competitive edge. Designing production systems in an effective and efficient manner is advantageous as it supports the possibility to achieve the best possible production system in a shorter time. One way to facilitate the design of the production system is an effective management of design information. Without managing design information effectively in the production system design process the consequences may be devastating including delays, difficulties in production ramp-up, costly rework, and productivity losses. The objective of the research presented in this thesis is to develop knowledge that will contribute to an effective management of design information when designing production systems. The empirical data collection rests on a multiple-case study method and a survey in which the primary data derive from two industrialization projects at a supplier in the automotive industry. Each industrialization project involved the design of a new production system. The findings revealed ten categories of design information to be used throughout the process of designing production systems. The identified design information categories are grouped in the following way: (1) design information that minimizes the risk of sub-optimization; (2) design information that ensures an alignment with the requirements placed by the external context; (3) design information that ensures an alignment with the requirements placed by the internal context, and (4) design information that facilitates advancements in the design work. In order to improve the management of the broad variety of design information required, a framework is developed. The framework confirms the necessity to consider the management of design information as a multidimensional construct consisting of the acquiring, sharing, and using of information. Further, the framework is based on six characteristics that influence the management of design information. These characteristics are information type, source of information, communication medium, formalization, information quality, and pragmatic information. Supported by the findings, guidelines for the management of design information are outlined to facilitate an effective and efficient design of the production system and thus contribute to better production systems. The guidelines are of value to those responsible for or involved in the design of production systems.

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Zhou, Qu. "Information management in production planning and control for virtual enterprises." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396247.

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Rupp, Thomas Manfred. "Supply information provision for co-operation in complex production networks." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270502.

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Xavier, Alexandre Delfino. "Prosody and information status: analysis of production in brazilian portuguese." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/MGSS-9VYNAJ.

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This study aims to assess which acoustic parameters are associated to the prosodic encoding of informational status in Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP). Three production experiments were conducted. In total, 13 people were instructed to read a series of narratives whose target words varied its status by their discursive context (given, new or accessible). After the recording sessions, the target words were stored in sound files. The duration of the target word (excluding the article), a central tendency measure (mean f0) and two dispersion measures (standard deviation and range of f0) of were analyzed. Data for analysis was extracted through Praat customized scripts and received statistical treatment. The results show that the duration and the mean f0 were the two most relevant parameters. In general, new referents have longer duration and receive a higher f0 prominence on prestressed syllables compared to given and accessible referents. These last two statuses showed no significant differences between them. The overall analysis of the data from the studies indicates that the BP speakers actually use prosodic information to signal the informational status of entities in discourse. Despite the variation among subjects, one can notice that the acoustic differences between the statuses are stable within subjects. Unlike the results found in other languages (like German), BP seems to not have a distinctive marking for accessible status, a conclusion which is supported by the data from both studies. Apparently, despite the fact that informational status is an inherently cognitive phenomenon, its manifestation is variable across languages.
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal avaliar quais parâmetros acústicos estão associados à codificação prosódica do status informational no Português Brasileiro (PB). Foram conduzidos três experimentos de produção. No total, 13 pessoas foram instruídas a ler uma série de narrativas cujas palavras-alvo variavam o seu status discursivo em função do contexto (dado, novo ou acessível). Após as sessões de gravação, as palavras-alvo foram armazenadas em arquivos de som. Foram analisadas a duração da palavra-alvo (excluindo-se o artigo), uma medida de tendência central (média de f0) e duas medidas de dispersão (desvio-padrão e gama de f0). Os dados para análise foram extraídos por meio de scripts do Praat e receberam tratamento estatístico. Os resultados mostram que duração e a média de f0 foram os dois parâmetros mais relevantes. Em geral, referentes novos possuem maior duração e recebem uma proeminência maior de f0 nas sílabas pretônicas se comparados aos referentes dados e acessíveis. Esses dois últimos status não mostraram diferenças significativas. A análise geral dos dados dos estudos indicam que falantes do PB de fato usam informação prosódica para sinalizar o status informacional de entidades no discurso. Apesar da variação encontrada entre os sujeitos, pode-se perceber que as diferenças acústicas entre os status são estáveis ntrasubjetivamente. Diferentemente dos resultados de outras línguas (com o alemão), o PB aparentemente não possui uma marcação distintiva para o status acessível, conclusão que é apoiada nos dados de ambos os estudos. Aparentemente, apesar de o status informacional ser um fenômeno inerentemente cognitivo em todas as línguas, a sua manifestação é variável entre as línguas.

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Breytenbach, Pieter Jacobus Andries. "Interspaces - Public Information Centre." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31639.

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The study explores the mediating role architecture should play towards the re-integration of degenerate urban spaces, within existing contemporary urban environment. The architecture proposed, in this case a Public Community Information Centre, furthermore intends to find a workable solution, in mediating between society, the city, and the environment that will acknowledge the processes associated with sustainable social production in the quest to eradicate a fragmented, and culturally segregated society.
Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
Architecture
Unrestricted
2013-4-17

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Van, Niekerk Melchior Jacques. "The industrialisation of software production - a knowledge management perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2169.

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Thesis (MPhil (Informations Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
This research utilises theories of organisational knowledge creation from the field of knowledge management to analyse the manner in which the industrialisation of the software development industry is likely to occur. The aim of the research is to prove the following hypothesis: If the software development industry moves towards industrialisation, then knowledge assets in the format of universal production templates will come into being. The research commences by providing background information on the state of practise of software engineering by giving an overview of the changes in the industry over the past four decades. The software development industry is consequently presented from the viewpoint of the proponents of a craftsmanship based approach to software development, and from the viewpoint of those proposing that industrialisation will offer a solution to the problems besetting the industry. In this discussion the terms industrialisation as well as economies of scale and scope are defined. Potential paths and drivers that will allow the industrialisation of the industry are presented – software factories as a path towards industrialisation, and cloud computing as a driver for industrialisation. In order to supply a knowledge management perspective, the theories of Ikujiro Nonaka and Max Boisot are presented. These theories assume different perspectives on the creation of organisational knowledge, but an attempt is made to reconcile the differences between the two theories. Particular attention is paid to the economic meaning and implications of knowledge, information and data as factors of production. The concept of knowledge assets are examined in detail, and placed into the context of software development. In the last chapter the research and conclusions of the previous chapters are consolidated, to prove the central hypothesis of this work.

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Sarkar, Sourish. "The Effect of Advance Demand Information on a Pull Production System with Two Customer Classes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33342.

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In many situations, different consumers have different degrees of willingness to wait to get delivery of a product. So, consumers can be segregated based upon the demand lead time they are providing. In this paper, two types of consumers have been considered. The first category needs immediate delivery of the product, so there is no demand lead time; whereas for the other category, demand lead time is positive. A manufacturer, which produces the items using a base stock policy, can benefit from the advance demand information that the second category of consumers are providing. Early fulfillment for a particular order means fulfilling the order before the demand lead time. In this research, it is shown that a restrictive early fulfillment policy can help the firm to reduce the chances of order loss. A production control approach for restrictive early fulfillment is discussed and the factors that may affect the early fulfillment policy are examined.
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Neupane, Suman. "Transparency in IPO mechanism : information production, IPO pricing and investors' participation." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2011. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/7170.

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In this doctoral thesis we bring together some empirical analysis on investors’ participation in initial public offering (IPOs) from a market whose characteristics are unique and significantly different from US and other important IPO markets. There are two important features which distinguishes the Indian IPO market. First, the Indian IPO market is characterised by a high level of transparency. Information on the participation of different investor categories is publicly available during the offer period on a real time basis. Second, Indian IPO firms are also required to reserve and allocate pre-determined fraction of total shares on offer to different investor categories participating in the IPO. Our first empirical study shows that the transparency in the mechanism creates highly inelastic demand curves for a large number of IPOs. Analysis of demand over-time shows that while institutional investors take the lead in subscribing to strong IPOs, noninstitutional investors do so in weak IPOs, but perhaps not always with an honest intent. Our analysis of IPO pricing shows that favourable demand by uninformed investors is positively associated with a high IPO price. Further, while reputed underwriters appear to exercise far more caution and restraint in setting prices, we find that in a large number of IPOs, less reputed underwriters ignore information produced during the offer period and set the price at the upper bound of the price range. Our findings suggest that the transparency in allocation mechanism appears to be a double edged sword for the uninformed (retail) investors. We recommend a change in the current regulation to protect investor’s welfare. We also examine the influence of the participation of different investor categories on initial returns. Unsurprisingly, we find that while the participation of both the informed investor categories significantly influences initial returns, the participation of retail investor losses its significance in explaining initial returns for bookbuilding and auction IPOs. We also analyse the participation of informed institutional investors to examine whether the presence of new bank loans at the time of the IPO reduces information asymmetry. Our results show that presence of bank loans do not appear to reduce information asymmetry as institutional investors participate significantly less in IPOs with new bank loans. While this result is contrary to prior studies on bank loan announcements, it is consistent with a recent study which shows that prior studies on bank loan announcements are plagued by sample selection issues. In our final empirical analysis we examine the participation of employees in IPOs and analyse whether such participation can predict superior financial and operating performance of the firm. We find that IPOs with high employee participation offer significantly higher initial returns than IPOs with low employee participation. We also find that firms with high employee participation in their IPOs exhibit superior post IPO operating performance. Further, we find that the prior participation of other investor categories, in particular the institutional investors, does not appear to influence the participation of employees in IPOs. Our results suggest that employees have valuable private information about the quality of the firm. The evidence presented in the study suggests that in the context of Indian IPOs, where data on investors’ participation is available on a real time basis, uninformed investors may use information on employee participation to select well performing IPOs.

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Ma, Xiaorong, and 马笑蓉. "Three essays on information production and monitoring role of institutional investors." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50662260.

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This thesis includes one essay about the information production of institutional investors and two essays about the monitoring role of institutional investors. The first essay empirically examines the association between investor base and information production in the context of stock splits. Using the proportion of 13F filers as the proxy for the size of investor base, we show that three proxies for stock price informativeness, adjusted probability of information-based trading (AdjPIN), price non-synchronicity and probability of information-based trading (PIN), decrease significantly due to enlarged investor base after stock splits. It suggests that institutional investors are less incentivized to gather firm specific information when firm's investor base expands, which is consistent with the “risk sharing hypothesis”, proposed by Peress (2010). Furthermore, we find that the change of the price informativeness around splits is negatively related to the magnitude of positive return drifts following splits. This result is consistent with the notion that less information incorporated in stock prices results in a sluggish response by the market to corporate event. The second essay empirically identifies an external corporate governance mechanism through which the institutional trading improves firm value and disciplines managers from conducting value-destroying behaviors. We propose a reward-punishment intensity (RPI) measure based on institutional investors' absolute position changes, and find it is positively associated with firm's subsequent Tobin's Q. Importantly, we find that firms with higher RPI exhibit less subsequent empire building and earnings management. It suggests that the improved firm values can be attributed to the discipline effect of institutional trading on managers, which is in line with the argument of “Governance Through Trading". Furthermore, we find that the exogenous liquidity shock of decimalization augments the governance effect of institutional trading. We also find that the discipline effect is more pronounced for firms with lower institutional ownership concentration, higher stock liquidity, and higher managers' wealth-performance sensitivity, which further supports the notion that institutional trading could exert discipline on a manager. The third essay focuses on a particular type of institutional investor, short sellers, and explores the discipline effect of short selling on managerial empire building. Employing short-selling data from 2002-2012, we find a significantly negative association between the lending supply in the short-selling market and the subsequent abnormal capital investment. Besides, we find a positively significant association between the lending supply and the mergers and acquisitions announcement returns of acquiring firms. These results suggest that the short-selling potential could deter managers from conducting over-investment and value-destroying acquisitions. In addition, the discipline effect is stronger for firms with higher managers' wealth-performance-sensitivity, for firms with lower financial constraints, and for stock-financed acquisition deals. Finally, firms with higher lending supply also have higher Tobin's Q in the subsequent year. These results indicate that short-selling is another important external governance force.
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Ortiz, Oblitas Oscar Ernesto. "The information system for IPM in subsistance potato production in Peru." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388581.

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Goe, W. Richard. "Food production in the emerging information society : a political-economic analysis /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487596807820783.

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Grové, Christiaan. "The interaction of human, information and technology components in real time physical asset management /." Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/377.

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Viström, Magnus. "Customised information on packaging : driving forces and logistical aspects." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, NADA, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-168.

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This thesis work is divided into two parts that relate to each other. The first part investigates driving forces and limiting factors in the customisation of information on packaging and the second part focuses on how the customisation task should be performed in order to obtain high productivity and efficient logistics. Opportunities with hybrid printing solutions where conventional technology is combined with digital printing are discussed.The first of the included papers talks about the driving forces and limiting factors in the customisation of information on packaging and focuses on marketing aspects and consumer value. The second paper investigates the logistical aspects of using digital printing to add information on pre-printed packaging, with the primary focus on the opportunities to reduce changeover time and printing form costs. The third paper investigates how digital printing can be integrated into a packaging line and identifies critical productivity related parameters. These three papers are analysed together in this report, giving input to conclusions about the driving forces and limiting factors in the customisation of information on packaging and how the customisation task should be performed to obtain high productivity and efficient logistics. Hence, this thesis work does not originate solely in one discipline. Digital printing technology, logistics and marketing aspects are all considered to draw conclusions.

It is shown that it is possible to obtain marketing advantages, fulfill market demands better, get increased consumer value and reduced costs by using a hybrid printing solution. There exists at the same time a number of limiting factors, such as print quality demands, additional costs and reliability issues that are crucial to consider before concluding whether or not customisation of information on packaging would be successful in any given business scenario.

Different scenarios for where the customisation task can be inserted into a value chain are defined and discussed. Explicit studies of one of the scenarios are made. This scenario is defined as having a customisation task inline in a packaging line. The other scenarios, customisation at the packaging producer and customisation at the wholesaler/retailer, are not explicitly investigated, but it has been possible to discuss these scenarios as well through the research results obtained. The results show that there are factors that point towards the scenario where digital printing is performed at the producer as being the most beneficial. A number of critical productivity related factors for this scenario are identified in paper III, which gives guidelines on how to obtain high productivity when a digital printing task is integrated into a packaging line. It is finally shown that it is possible to obtain high delivery service and efficient logistics by using a hybrid printing solution. It is, however, of crucial importance that possible drawbacks be considered in order to accurately conclude whether a hybrid printing solution will be successful or not.

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Pensulo, Emilius M. "Integrating computer aided engineering functions: the management of information." Thesis, Aston University, 1987. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/11853/.

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Bai, Guohua. "Feedback learning in information systems design." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, 1994. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26690.

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Luo, Jia Le. "Integration of knowledge management and enterprise resource planning for advanced production management." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2493690.

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Attia, Abdel-Hameed M. (Abdel-Hameed Mohammed). "Application of Information Theory Concepts in the Investigation of the Growth Pattern of Production, Distribution and Velocity of Information." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331792/.

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The objective of this research is the investigation of the patterns of information growth to test whether there has been an "information explosion." To tackle the main problem, there are three issues which need to be addressed: (1) the concept of information dimensionality; (2) determination of common parameters to measure the amount of information within each dimension; and (3) a working definition of "explosiveness. "

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Davidsson, Staffan. "Adaptive driver information : the way forward?" Licentiate thesis, Luleå, 2009. http://pure.ltu.se/ws/fbspretrieve/3375844.

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Ericsson, Fredrik. "Information Technology for Learning and Acquiring of Work Knowledge among Production Workers." Licentiate thesis, Linköping : Univ., Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5537.

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Keller, Ralf [Verfasser], and Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] Landmann. "Private information production and bank lending = Nichtöffentliche Informationsproduktion und Kreditvergabe von Banken." Freiburg : Universität, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1123480737/34.

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Saggu, J. S. "IKADE : an Intelligent Knowledge Assisted Design Environment incorporating manufacturing and production information." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.290190.

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Liu, Haitao 1975. "The development and implementation of a production information collection and reporting system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34759.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 56).
Production information, which includes production counts and line downtime information, is of great importance for automobile assembly plants to diagnose equipment problems and improve line utilization. Outdated information systems at many manufacturing plants are not capable of providing accurate production information in a timely manner. This thesis is a thorough account of an internship project conducted at Ford Motor Company's Kentucky Truck Plant (KTP) which turned a spreadsheet-based production information system into a relational database application, called PICRS. The first part of the thesis introduces the reader to the background of the internship project, focusing on the importance of accurate and timely production information and the inadequacy of the old system. The second part talks about the development of PICRS. Descriptions about system development approach, software and hardware considerations, database design, and interface design revolve around the low cost, usefulness, and ease-of-use of PICRS. The third part of the thesis recounts the implementation process of PICRS and discusses its benefits and impact on KTP's final assembly area. Lessons and observations on leadership, change management, and corporate culture, as mostly obtained in the implementation process, are also discussed in this part of the thesis.
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Brown, Martha. "False memory production: effects of self-consistent false information and motivated cognition." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38035.

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Remembrance of one's personal past and the development of false memories have recently received intense public scrutiny. Based upon self-schema (Markus, 1977) and self-verification (Swann, 1987) theories, two studies were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that a self-schema guides cognitive processing of self-relevant information and thereby influences the construction of a memory that includes false information, particularly more so if this information is self-schema consistent than inconsistent. Study 2 also investigated the hypothesis that the cognitive processing goal of understanding a negative outcome (motivated cognition) would interact with self-consistent expectations to enhance the likelihood that a false memory would be created. Self-schematic Type A and Type B individuals (only self-schematic Type A individuals participated in Study 2) participated in a team problem solving task (the to-be-remembered event) and returned a week later for a "questionnaire" session during which a narrative was read that contained self-consistent or self-discrepant false information. In both studies, chi-square analyses showed participants given self-consistent false information were more likely to report this information on a recall and a recognition test than were participants given self-discrepant false information. Study 2 included team performance feedback (failure or neutral), which was presented just before participants read the narrative containing the false information. The purpose of this procedure was to assess the moderating effect of motivated cognitive processes on the acceptance of self-consistent false information on memory. A loglinear analysis provided confirmation for the expected interaction. The following pattern was obtained for false recall and false self-description (description of team problem solving behavior using the false information trait adjectives): Consistent/failure > Consistent/neutral > Discrepant/neutral = Discrepant/failure. Unexpectedly, this pattern was not obtained on the recognition test data. These findings expand current understanding of processes that contribute to the production of a false memory and extend the traditional, post event false information paradigm. The results are discussed in the context of the false memory debate and future research directions are noted.
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Nkodia, Sébastien. "Conflits entre production et information dans la pensée économique de Karl Marx." Besançon, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BESA1010.

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Refaisant le parcours du cheminement de la pensée de Karl Marx, et ce, à travers différentes perspectives successives marquant spécifiquement l'évolution de sa pensée, l'objectif est de cerner le moment ou Marx se tourne, d'une manière durable et définitive, vers le versant d'une problématique nouvelle et propre au domaine de l'information dans l'analyse du couple "production-information". Des lors, l'analyse du procès de production capitaliste fait rejaillir des catégories économiques a partir desquelles Marx déploie une analyse intra-catégorielle, inter-catégorielle et extra-catégorielle digne de l'effort en exergue, du même coup, les conflits, les tensions et le paradoxes inhérents et inscrits au cœur de cette problématique comme thesaurus de lecture possible du point de vue de l'information. Pour être les compagnons de la réalité de notre vécu de nos jours, ces conflits, ces tensions et paradoxes au cœur desquels se bat toute l'existence humaine, n'en demeurent pas moins dignes de l'intérêt, et, d'une analyse intra et inter-structurelle d'où procède cette situation de fait qui nous concerne tous encore aujourd'hui, plus que du temps de Marx
Going over the course of Karl Marx's thought through different successive points of view that specifically underline his thought, the aim is to grasp the time that Karks Marx's lasting and definite turning point towards the beginning of new problematics specific to the field of information in the analysis of the production-information couple. The analysis of the processing’s of capitalist production consequently throws light on the economic categories from which Marx realizes an intra-categorical, inter-categorical and extra-categorical analysis worthy of efforts, and depicts at the same time, the conflicts, the tensions and the paradox inherent and registered in the heart of the problematics like a thesaurus of a possible reading from the point of view of information. To be the companions of truth, of our experience in our days, these conflicts, these tensions and paradox in the heart of which the whole human existence is fighting still remains interest worthy, and, out of an intra and inter-structural analysis from which emerges this situation in the sense that it concerns us all even today, more than at the time of Marx

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Rizer, Lindsey, and Lindsey Rizer. "The Agriculture Taste Regime and College Student Interpretations of Agricultural Production Information." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625315.

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The introduction of taste regimes into the agriculture literacy and communications literature is explored and discussed in this study. I analyze how college students interpret taste regime indicators (interpretations, personal view alignment, personal action) influence their perceptions of agriculture food production information. More specifically, I look at how media information effects college students’ interpretations of these taste regime indicators. Data were collected from a convenience sample of undergraduate students at a large research-intensive university who responded to an electronic questionnaire developed specifically for this study. Findings indicate that the college students involved in this study have little to no defined opinion between large-scale and alternative agriculture. This indicates that the agriculture taste regime is not taking the general populations beliefs and preferences into consideration when developing campaigns. Recommendations for large-scale and alternative campaigns are to develop more objective campaigns and for the general population become change agents forcing the agriculture taste regime to take their beliefs and preferences into consideration.

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Brown, Martha L. "False memory production : effects of self-consistent false information and motivated cognition /." This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-151732/.

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Brown, Jin G. "Big-time college athletics : information control in the production of cultural reality /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1990.

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