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Rosas, Blanch Faye, and faye blanch@flinders edu au. "Nunga rappin: talkin the talk, walkin the walk: Young Nunga males and Education." Flinders University. Yunggorendi First Nations Centre, 2009. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20090226.102604.
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This thesis acknowledges the social and cultural importance of education and the role
the institution plays in the construction of knowledge in this case of young Nunga
males. It also recognizes that education is a contested field. I have disrupted
constructions of knowledge about young Nunga males in mainstream education by
mapping and rapping - or mappin and rappin Aboriginal English - the theories of
race, masculinity, performance, cultural capital, body and desire and space and place
through the use of Nunga time-space pathways. Through disruption I have shown
how the theories of race and masculinity underpin ways in which Blackness and
Indignity are played out within the racialisation of education and how the process of
racialisation informs young Nunga males experiences of schooling. The cultural
capital that young Nunga males bring to the classroom and schooling environment
must be acknowledged to enable performance of agency in contested time, space and
knowledge paradigms. Agency privileges their understanding and desire for change
and encourages them to apply strategies that contribute to their own journeys home
through time-space pathways that are (at least in part) of their own choosing.
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Healey, Dan. "Homosexual desire in revolutionary Russia, public and hidden transcripts, 1917-1941." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0013/NQ41437.pdf.
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Park, Carolyn. "Propaganda exposed a glimpse into the truth of hidden agendas." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/597.
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Government propaganda has been a topic of interest since America was founded, and today is no exception. Every recent Presidential Administration has been accused of using taxpayer dollars to fund propaganda. Although the funding of propaganda has been prohibited by the Consolidated Appropriations Act since 1951, it still occurs frequently. There is no entity that reviews government correspondence before it is released to the public, so government agencies are free to produce what they feel is appropriate even if it is prohibited by the Act. Furthermore, there is no law that specifically forbids government propaganda, and the current punishments amount to a slap on the wrist making the production covert propaganda worth the risk. This thesis will also look at the Smith-Mundt Act and the media that it funds for foreign audiences. The material produced through this Act is banned from being disseminated in the U.S. The Smith-Mundt Act's ban does not take into account for the technological advances that have occurred since 1948 making the ban problematic for public diplomacy. The intent of this thesis is to evaluate the current state of government propaganda and determine what changes need to occur in order to curtail or eliminate government propaganda. This research will analyze the current laws and types of propaganda that are being used while taking into account the relevant history, frequently used types, and methods of propaganda.B.A. and B.S.
Bachelors
Health and Public Affairs
Legal Studies
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Chou, Lin-Yi. "Improving the performance of Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models on Information Extraction tasks." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070212.152608/index.html.
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Al-Muhtaseb, Husni Abdulghani. "Arabic text recognition of printed manuscripts : efficient recognition of off-line printed Arabic text using Hidden Markov Models, Bigram Statistical Language Model, and post-processing." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4426.
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Arabic text recognition was not researched as thoroughly as other natural languages. The need for automatic Arabic text recognition is clear. In addition to the traditional applications like postal address reading, check verification in banks, and office automation, there is a large interest in searching scanned documents that are available on the internet and for searching handwritten manuscripts. Other possible applications are building digital libraries, recognizing text on digitized maps, recognizing vehicle license plates, using it as first phase in text readers for visually impaired people and understanding filled forms. This research work aims to contribute to the current research in the field of optical character recognition (OCR) of printed Arabic text by developing novel techniques and schemes to advance the performance of the state of the art Arabic OCR systems. Statistical and analytical analysis for Arabic Text was carried out to estimate the probabilities of occurrences of Arabic character for use with Hidden Markov models (HMM) and other techniques. Since there is no publicly available dataset for printed Arabic text for recognition purposes it was decided to create one. In addition, a minimal Arabic script is proposed. The proposed script contains all basic shapes of Arabic letters. The script provides efficient representation for Arabic text in terms of effort and time. Based on the success of using HMM for speech and text recognition, the use of HMM for the automatic recognition of Arabic text was investigated. The HMM technique adapts to noise and font variations and does not require word or character segmentation of Arabic line images. In the feature extraction phase, experiments were conducted with a number of different features to investigate their suitability for HMM. Finally, a novel set of features, which resulted in high recognition rates for different fonts, was selected. The developed techniques do not need word or character segmentation before the classification phase as segmentation is a byproduct of recognition. This seems to be the most advantageous feature of using HMM for Arabic text as segmentation tends to produce errors which are usually propagated to the classification phase. Eight different Arabic fonts were used in the classification phase. The recognition rates were in the range from 98% to 99.9% depending on the used fonts. As far as we know, these are new results in their context. Moreover, the proposed technique could be used for other languages. A proof-of-concept experiment was conducted on English characters with a recognition rate of 98.9% using the same HMM setup. The same techniques where conducted on Bangla characters with a recognition rate above 95%. Moreover, the recognition of printed Arabic text with multi-fonts was also conducted using the same technique. Fonts were categorized into different groups. New high recognition results were achieved. To enhance the recognition rate further, a post-processing module was developed to correct the OCR output through character level post-processing and word level post-processing. The use of this module increased the accuracy of the recognition rate by more than 1%.
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Al-Muhtaseb, Husni A. "Arabic text recognition of printed manuscripts. Efficient recognition of off-line printed Arabic text using Hidden Markov Models, Bigram Statistical Language Model, and post-processing." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4426.
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Arabic text recognition was not researched as thoroughly as other natural languages. The need for automatic Arabic text recognition is clear. In addition to the traditional applications like postal address reading, check verification in banks, and office automation, there is a large interest in searching scanned documents that are available on the internet and for searching handwritten manuscripts. Other possible applications are building digital libraries, recognizing text on digitized maps, recognizing vehicle license plates, using it as first phase in text readers for visually impaired people and understanding filled forms.
This research work aims to contribute to the current research in the field of optical character recognition (OCR) of printed Arabic text by developing novel techniques and schemes to advance the performance of the state of the art Arabic OCR systems.
Statistical and analytical analysis for Arabic Text was carried out to estimate the probabilities of occurrences of Arabic character for use with Hidden Markov models (HMM) and other techniques.
Since there is no publicly available dataset for printed Arabic text for recognition purposes it was decided to create one. In addition, a minimal Arabic script is proposed. The proposed script contains all basic shapes of Arabic letters. The script provides efficient representation for Arabic text in terms of effort and time.
Based on the success of using HMM for speech and text recognition, the use of HMM for the automatic recognition of Arabic text was investigated. The HMM technique adapts to noise and font variations and does not require word or character segmentation of Arabic line images.
In the feature extraction phase, experiments were conducted with a number of different features to investigate their suitability for HMM. Finally, a novel set of features, which resulted in high recognition rates for different fonts, was selected.
The developed techniques do not need word or character segmentation before the classification phase as segmentation is a byproduct of recognition. This seems to be the most advantageous feature of using HMM for Arabic text as segmentation tends to produce errors which are usually propagated to the classification phase.
Eight different Arabic fonts were used in the classification phase. The recognition rates were in the range from 98% to 99.9% depending on the used fonts. As far as we know, these are new results in their context. Moreover, the proposed technique could be used for other languages. A proof-of-concept experiment was conducted on English characters with a recognition rate of 98.9% using the same HMM setup. The same techniques where conducted on Bangla characters with a recognition rate above 95%.
Moreover, the recognition of printed Arabic text with multi-fonts was also conducted using the same technique. Fonts were categorized into different groups. New high recognition results were achieved.
To enhance the recognition rate further, a post-processing module was developed to correct the OCR output through character level post-processing and word level post-processing. The use of this module increased the accuracy of the recognition rate by more than 1%.King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
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Zardini, Agnese. "Modeling the transmission of viral diseases: understanding hidden processes to inform public health policies." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/313656.
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The diffusion of viral diseases may critically depend on hidden processes, like human mobility, people’s behavior, or underlying environmental conditions. The thesis focuses on the investigation of those variables that remain partially unobserved but that could strongly influence the spread of infectious diseases. First, an innovative method is introduced to estimate the overall abundance of mosquitoes over time across all sites of interest in Europe and the Americas, on the basis of only freely available eco-climatic data. The model, calibrated against a large set of entomological data, is used to highlight which mosquito species could contribute to the disease transmission across different regions and identify the areas at higher risk of autochthonous transmission of dengue, chikungunya, and zika fever. A similar approach is also discussed to investigate the potential burden of Usutu virus (USUV) in the northeast of Italy. The conducted analysis estimates the potential USUV prevalence expected among Culex pipiens mosquitoes and human blood donors. The second part of the thesis focuses on the study of the global pandemic of COVID-19. Results obtained with an epidemiological model based on novel age-specific contact data, collected across different geographical contexts of Ethiopia is presented. The analysis aims at assessing how socio-demographic factors and observed mixing patterns can impact the burden of COVID-19 in the scenario of an unmitigated SARS-CoV-2 epidemic and under a school closure mandate. Finally, an epidemiological analysis of individual COVID-19 records collected during the first epidemic wave in the Lombardy region (Italy) is presented. Leveraging an unbiased sample of infections, the performed analysis quantifies all the main parameters related to the natural and healthcare burden caused by the natural history of SARS-CoV-2. Estimates provided are essential for modeling activities aimed at investigating the disease spread or projecting the impact of alternative public measures on the disease and healthcare burden.
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Paton, Kirsteen. "The hidden injuries and hidden rewards of urban restructuring on working-class communities : a case study of gentrification in Partick, Glasgow." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1812/.
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This thesis explores the relationship between urban restructuring and working-class communities in the context of post-industrial neoliberalism. While working-class communities were the bedrock of classical sociological analysis in the industrial period, it is thought that class no longer provides a meaningful social identity and increasing individualisation is often said to signify that agency is set free from the confines of structure. In this thesis, I attempt to, first, confront these assertions by reasserting the relationship between urban restructuring working-class communities and, second, represent contemporary working-class lives, through an ethnographic case study of gentrification in working-class neighbourhood, Partick in Glasgow. Substantively, in this thesis I take gentrification as a key process of class restructuring which is spatially articulated and is the leading edge of urban policy both in the UK and globally. While gentrification intimates that urban restructuring and working-class communities are inextricably connected, this relationship is not always fully explicated within research; orthodox definitions separate economic and cultural fields and working-class experiences are underrepresented. Thus theoretically, in this thesis, I attempt to attend to these shortcomings by using hegemony as framework. Hegemony refers to a form of rule relevant to how transformations in social relations are managed whilst the capitalist system is maintained overall. This involves a mix of consent and coercion which combine structural and agential processes, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between material and the phenomenological levels. Within this, gentrification is conceived as a political strategy, which not only seeks to create space for the more affluent user; it seeks to, consensually, create the more affluent user which, in the context of neoliberalism, relates to a moral and financial economy. This new sociological perspective on gentrification combines cultural and material understandings, whilst making working-class communities and their everyday lives the centre point of analysis. This focus is imperative since working-class people and places are the principal targets of policy-led gentrification, yet current representations of and conceptual language used to describe working-class lives have waned within mainstream sociology. I examine how working-class residents receive, negotiate and resist gentrification processes to reveal the ‘hidden injuries’ as well as the ‘hidden rewards’ of urban restructuring. This study aims to do this by collecting ‘locational narratives’ of 49 residents of Partick. These accounts revealed that respondents’ rejection of traditional class identity did not signify the end of class, rather, it demonstrated that there was a material rationale underpinning individualisation and their disassociation with class, which relate to neoliberal ideologies that decontextualise class and promote self-determination. Residents’ place-based attachment is revealed to be a crucial class signifier – on both phenomenological and material levels. Elective fixity describes the choice and control residents’ have over their ability to stay fixed within their neighbourhood. Respondents are shown to have a paradoxical relationship with gentrification whereby they are invited to participate in processes as consumer citizens, through homeownership or consuming privatised neighbourhoods services, yet are not provided with the means to consume. Residents’ experiences of gentrification are characterised by tensions around control and choice and lack thereof. While gentrification brought new rewards whereby working-class respondents could, provided they had the means, act as gentrifiers, they were also confronted with novel forms of displacement, identified as new typologies which relate to the increased privatisation of social housing. Thus, an emergent negotiated culture of contemporary working-class communities is revealed which is set within the confines of structure within a post-industrial neoliberal context. Using a framework of hegemony to understand the political project of gentrification reveals the reciprocal relationship between urban restructuring and the remaking of the working-class subject.
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Mathers, Alice Robin. "Hidden voices: The participation of people with learning disabilities in the expereince of public open space." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489130.
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The self-advocacy of people with learning disabilities is an issue of high current importance. In the UK 210,000 people have severe and profound learning disabilities, whilst twenty-five in every thousand of the population in England has a mild to moderate learning disability (Department of Health, 2001). At the most restricted end of the communication spectrum, people with learning disabilities are often forgotten members of their communities, whose label learning disabled wrongly causes confusion and fear.
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Mancheva, Marta. "Hidden Transcripts on Public Transportation: A Meta-Methodological Exploration of Visual Ethnography in Qualitative Transportation Research." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-259147.
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Better understanding of urban travelers is necessary, as sustainable development is becoming an integral part of transportation policy and practice. A volume of research shows people’s expressed willingness to adopt more sustainable urban travel behaviours, but a general sense of resistance to change is often encountered. Current methods in transportation research are not able to fully grasp on individual motivations such as discontent with public transport. This gap of knowledge in qualitative transportation research calls for the development of new methods. James Scott’s concept of the hidden transcript allows for the assumption that there are expressions of dissatisfaction towards public transportation at grassroots level. In order to access hidden transcripts on public transportation in Stockholm there is a need for a new method, which is developed in this thesis. The proposed visual mixed method draws from principles of visual ethnography, virtual ethnography, nethnography and social media research. The methodology is then tested and assessed as a platform to give voice to hidden transcripts on public transportation. The choice of method for developing the method is meta-methodology. The discussion sheds light on the potential of the framework (1) to grant access to hidden transcripts; (2) to fill a knowledge gap in transportation qualitative research; (3) to assist planners towards sustainable development of urban transportation.
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Polisetti, Haritha. "Hidden Markov Chain Analysis: Impact of Misclassification on Effect of Covariates in Disease Progression and Regression." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6568.
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Most of the chronic diseases have a well-known natural staging system through which the disease progression is interpreted. It is well established that the transition rates from one stage of disease to other stage can be modeled by multi state Markov models. But, it is also well known that the screening systems used to diagnose disease states may subject to error some times. In this study, a simulation study is conducted to illustrate the importance of addressing for misclassification in multi-state Markov models by evaluating and comparing the estimates for the disease progression Markov model with misclassification opposed to disease progression Markov model. Results of simulation study support that models not accounting for possible misclassification leads to bias. In order to illustrate method of accounting for misclassification is illustrated using dementia data which was staged as no cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment and dementia and diagnosis of dementia stage is prone to error sometimes. Subjects entered the study irrespective of their state of disease and were followed for one year and their disease state at follow up visit was recorded. This data is used to illustrate that application of multi state Markov model which is an example of Hidden Markov model in accounting for misclassification which is based on an assumption that the observed (misclassified) states conditionally depend on the underlying true disease states which follow the Markov process. The misclassification probabilities for all the allowed disease transitions were also estimated. The impact of misclassification on the effect of covariates is estimated by comparing the hazard ratios estimated by fitting data with progression multi state model and by fitting data with multi state model with misclassification which revealed that if misclassification has not been addressed the results are biased. Results suggest that the gene apoe ε4 is significantly associated with disease progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia but, this effect was masked when general multi state Markov model was used. While there is no significant relation is found for other transitions.
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DeLise, James Michael. "Hidden In Plain Sight: Disparate-Impact Discrimination as a Legal-Theoretical Paradigm for Difference-Conscious Public Policy." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/241354.
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In this dissertation, I argue that the liberal multicultural paradigm of difference accommodation would have greater potency, tenability and relevance if scholars contextualized their claims and approach as intrinsic to U.S. political history and philosophy, as opposed to portraying it as extrinsic and antithetical to these political-philosophic traditions. Reframing liberal multiculturalism in this fashion allows for the acknowledgment of an extant legal-theoretical framework--disparate-impact discrimination--that addresses some of the demands of racial justice and aligns with the liberal multicultural commitment to cultural recognition. This is a significant contribution to the liberal multicultural paradigm of difference accommodation, as existing liberal multicultural theory does not incorporate demands for racial justice. Moreover, recasting liberal multiculturalism in this fashion contributes to the endeavors of difference theorists in general and liberal multiculturalists in particular by showing that, within the United States, difference-sensitive policies have been desirable, necessary and efficacious. A failure to reframe liberal multiculturalism in this way, however, reinforces the view that difference-conscious policies are foreign to the United States--a view consistent with the individualized reading of equal protection that has become ascendant on the U.S. Supreme Court. This reading of equal protection expresses hostility toward any race-conscious policies and has brought once inviolable, moderate race-conscious policies under attack. The current trajectory of race-conscious policies in the U.S., and the disavowal of the history on which such race-conscious policies are based, creates some urgency for remedying this oversight.
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Korzh, Alla. "Educational inequalities and Ukrainian orphans' future pathways| Social reproduction or transformation through the hidden curriculum?" Thesis, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3590370.
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This qualitative multi-site case study, situated in the context of Ukraine's post-Soviet political economy, examined how orphanage educators' expectations and beliefs about orphans' academic abilities and potential, curriculum, peer relationships, and education policy shaped orphans' post-secondary education decisions and trajectories. Examination of the educational experiences of orphans and children deprived of parental care shed light on socio-economic inequalities confronting these marginalized youth in and beyond state care. This dissertation is informed by critical theories of social and cultural reproduction that examine the relationship between schooling and socio-economic inequalities. I draw mainly on the concepts of the hidden curriculum and forms of capital (cultural, social, and economic).
Research conducted in Ukraine, primarily through quantitative surveys, tends to pathologize orphans and neglects to investigate how their secondary education experiences impact their trajectories post-institutionalization. This study, framed in qualitative methodology, was informed by observations of daily in- and out-of-classroom activities in two orphanages; in-depth, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with Grade 10 and 11 orphanage students, orphanage educators and administrators, and orphanage alumni; and document analysis. I focused on 81 orphanage youth and 41 educators as key participants embedded in the orphanage system.
My findings demonstrated that, despite some institutional changes, the ideologies, regimes, and cultures of Ukrainian orphanages still reflect the Soviet legacy of sequestered institutions providing substandard quality education. My examination of orphanage education revealed that many teachers, informed by genetic deficit ideology, communicated low expectations for student success and implemented an unchallenging curriculum characterized by watered-down teaching and learning materials, oversimplified assignments, canceled classes, and inflated grades. This study uncovered nuanced use of a hidden curriculum that ensured social reproduction and what I term a "transformative hidden curriculum" that fostered student success through art therapy, soft pedagogy, and hard caring.
Furthermore, this study shed light on factors that influenced orphans' complex post-secondary education decision-making processes, including peer pressure to attend vocational school; teacher-directed versus teacher-encouraged decisions; and informed, independent decisions largely thwarted by structural constraints. Lack of cultural and social capital significantly limited orphans' options and disenfranchised them in the labor market, thus perpetuating social reproduction in Ukrainian society.
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Ward, Ingrid Alexandra Kirsten. "Hidden in the sands of time geoarchaeology of sandstone landscapes in the Keep River region, Northern Territory, Australia /." Access electonically, 2003. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20041014.103128/index.html.
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Hancock, Tamara S. "Genealogies of Affect among a Young Veterinarian's Public Letter| An Exploratory Study of Hidden Curricula in a College of Veterinary Medicine." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13877147.
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Contemporary research in veterinary medical education indicates alarming rates of depression and anxiety among veterinary students. Yet, the focus of this scholarship is primarily on mental illness as effects of a social and relational process, rather than interrogating the affectual nature of the process. Medical education has a long history of interrogating various facets of socialization as largely embedded in the hidden curricula—the tacit culture of a social entity, and repository for values and norms of conduct. Unfortunately, scant scholarship explores the hidden curricula of veterinary medicine. Recently, an anonymous letter signed Young Veterinarian was published on a public website, and opened an electronic dialogue regarding the nature of affects imbedded in professional socialization. Many themes of the letter referred to issues imbedded in the literature. This study followed this online dialogue, and initiated one in a College of Veterinary Medicine. Centering this letter, object-focused interviews were conducted to explore how members of this community are affected by the anonymous letter. Analytical insights suggest three broad areas of affects related to the hidden curricula: Onto-epistemic tensions; affective neutrality; and freedom, debt, and hopelessness. Implications for research and professional practice/curricula are discussed and deliberated.
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Yau, Wai Chee, and waichee@ieee org. "Video Analysis of Mouth Movement Using Motion Templates for Computer-based Lip-Reading." RMIT University. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20081209.162504.
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This thesis presents a novel lip-reading approach to classifying utterances from video data, without evaluating voice signals. This work addresses two important issues which are the efficient representation of mouth movement for visual speech recognition the temporal segmentation of utterances from video. The first part of the thesis describes a robust movement-based technique used to identify mouth movement patterns while uttering phonemes. This method temporally integrates the video data of each phoneme into a 2-D grayscale image named as a motion template (MT). This is a view-based approach that implicitly encodes the temporal component of an image sequence into a scalar-valued MT. The data size was reduced by extracting image descriptors such as Zernike moments (ZM) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients from MT. Support vector machine (SVM) and hidden Markov model (HMM) were used to classify the feature descriptors. A video speech corpus of 2800 utterances was collected for evaluating the efficacy of MT for lip-reading. The experimental results demonstrate the promising performance of MT in mouth movement representation. The advantages and limitations of MT for visual speech recognition were identified and validated through experiments. A comparison between ZM and DCT features indicates that th e accuracy of classification for both methods is very comparable when there is no relative motion between the camera and the mouth. Nevertheless, ZM is resilient to rotation of the camera and continues to give good results despite rotation but DCT is sensitive to rotation. DCT features are demonstrated to have better tolerance to image noise than ZM. The results also demonstrate a slight improvement of 5% using SVM as compared to HMM. The second part of this thesis describes a video-based, temporal segmentation framework to detect key frames corresponding to the start and stop of utterances from an image sequence, without using the acoustic signals. This segmentation technique integrates mouth movement and appearance information. The efficacy of this technique was tested through experimental evaluation and satisfactory performance was achieved. This segmentation method has been demonstrated to perform efficiently for utterances separated with short pauses. Potential applications for lip-reading technologies include human computer interface (HCI) for mobility-impaired users, defense applications that require voice-less communication, lip-reading mobile phones, in-vehicle systems, and improvement of speech-based computer control in noisy environments.
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Lindahl, Lena. "Högre allmänna läroverket i Falun : Ett ordnings- och förteckningsarbete." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-175013.
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The text deals with the process of reorganizing and cataloging the archival material emerging from State secondary grammar school in Falun, which appears to have been poorly managed for a number of years. The work was done with consideration to former ways of organizing the material, and a great deal of research was needed in order to establish the outer provenance of the archive.The theoretical discussion goes deeper into the questions of provenance and appraisal in regard to the work,and some choices, especially the decision to reorganize the archive, are motivated with reference to Swedishrules and regulations concerning state authorities' archival management and their duties towards Swedish citizens.
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Lean, Sandra. "Hidden in plain view : the impact of popular beliefs and perceptions, held as factual knowledge about the Criminal Justice System, on incidences of wrongful accusation and conviction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/11691.
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Available research demonstrates that public perceptions and beliefs about the Criminal Justice System (CJS) differ from its actual processes and procedures, but there is little research on the effects of such a difference, specifically with regard to wrongful accusation and/or conviction of factually innocent persons, and their families. Perceptions and beliefs, held as reliable and accurate knowledge, may impact on wrongful accusation/conviction of the factually innocent, both on the lived experiences of wrongly accused/convicted persons themselves, and on perceptions held about them (and responses to calls for case reviews) within the wider public. Although a great deal of research has been carried out on the subject of wrongful conviction generally, this has focussed, in the main, on legal, procedural and structural causes of wrongful conviction, and, in particular, on a small number of ‘high profile’ cases. This research examines perceptions and beliefs held as knowledge by individuals claiming to be factually innocent, wrongly accused/convicted persons, and the results of attempts to employ such perceptions and beliefs to maintain claims of innocence. Further, the experiences of family and friends of the wrongly convicted, whose lives continue in the community following the conviction of their family member, are examined, with particular attention to the interface of beliefs and perceptions between such families and the wider community. To a lesser extent, the role of the media, in shaping public opinion, the effects of media coverage on trial procedures and outcomes, and non-reporting or selective reporting is also addressed. A series of semi-structured interviews was carried out throughout the UK, with wrongly accused/convicted persons, family members of those individuals, and members of groups and organisations working to highlight the problems of wrongful accusation and conviction. A survey aimed at examining key perceptions and beliefs, held as factual knowledge about the CJS within the wider public, was also conducted. The analysis of the data indicated that not only do individuals and families attempt to employ erroneous perceptions and beliefs as factual knowledge in cases of wrongful accusation and conviction, but that such attempts feed into and support the case against the wrongly accused (in direct opposition to the aims and objectives of those employing them). Furthermore, knowledge of the actual workings of the CJS (held by CJS actors) can be, and is, used to exploit the ignorance of those so accused, and their family members. This is made possible because legal meanings of key words and phrases are vastly different from their commonly understood meanings, a factor known only to CJS actors, and not, generally, to the wider public. Political rhetoric and media representations support and reinforce those commonly held understandings, simultaneously maintaining the inaccessible code of actual CJS processes, thereby influencing public perceptions of those who are accused and convicted.
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Weekes, Ursula. "The Master of the Berlin Passion and his public : the production and reception of engravings and metalcuts as inserted additions in manuscripts from the Rhine-Maas region, ca. 1450-1500." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398929.
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Chen, Kedi, and Jialu Yang. "A good one or a bad one：A comparison of US and Chinese reviews of the film : Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och it, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4403.
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The aim of this thesis is to compare the different Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon film reviews from Chinese and American reviewers respectively, and to see how they evaluate and understand the film in the different ways. We use reception theory as our theoretical tool, and divide the film into four themes so that we can compare the different reviews in a more relative way. Meanwhile, we also present some brief ideas to explain the reason why the film gets the different response from both sides. Since our main purpose is to compare the different film reviews, so we choose the comparative design as our research design. The main findings of this thesis show that Chinese and American reviewers do have some distinct evaluations, understandings and views about the film.Besides, culture and aesthetic become the two major factors to influence the response from both sides.
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Bosch, Campos Vicente. "Advances in Document Layout Analysis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/138397.
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[EN] Handwritten Text Segmentation (HTS) is a task within the Document Layout Analysis field that aims to detect and extract the different page regions of interest found in handwritten documents. HTS remains an active topic, that has gained importance with the years, due to the increasing demand to provide textual access to the myriads of handwritten document collections held by archives and libraries.
This thesis considers HTS as a task that must be tackled in two specialized phases: detection and extraction. We see the detection phase fundamentally as a recognition problem that yields the vertical positions of each region of interest as a by-product. The extraction phase consists in calculating the best contour coordinates of the region using the position information provided by the detection phase.
Our proposed detection approach allows us to attack both higher level regions: paragraphs, diagrams, etc., and lower level regions like text lines. In the case of text line detection we model the problem to ensure that the system's yielded vertical position approximates the fictitious line that connects the lower part of the grapheme bodies in a text line, commonly known as the
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One of the main contributions of this thesis, is that the proposed modelling approach allows us to include prior information regarding the layout of the documents being processed. This is performed via a Vertical Layout Model (VLM).
We develop a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based framework to tackle both region detection and classification as an integrated task and study the performance and ease of use of the proposed approach in many corpora. We review the modelling simplicity of our approach to process regions at different levels of information: text lines, paragraphs, titles, etc. We study the impact of adding deterministic and/or probabilistic prior information and restrictions via the VLM that our approach provides.
Having a separate phase that accurately yields the detection position (base- lines in the case of text lines) of each region greatly simplifies the problem that must be tackled during the extraction phase. In this thesis we propose to use a distance map that takes into consideration the grey-scale information in the image. This allows us to yield extraction frontiers which are equidistant to the adjacent text regions. We study how our approach escalates its accuracy proportionally to the quality of the provided detection vertical position. Our extraction approach gives near perfect results when human reviewed baselines are provided.[ES] La Segmentación de Texto Manuscrito (STM) es una tarea dentro del campo de investigación de Análisis de Estructura de Documentos (AED) que tiene como objetivo detectar y extraer las diferentes regiones de interés de las páginas que se encuentran en documentos manuscritos. La STM es un tema de investigación activo que ha ganado importancia con los años debido a la creciente demanda de proporcionar acceso textual a las miles de colecciones de documentos manuscritos que se conservan en archivos y bibliotecas. Esta tesis entiende la STM como una tarea que debe ser abordada en dos fases especializadas: detección y extracción. Consideramos que la fase de detección es, fundamentalmente, un problema de clasificación cuyo subproducto son las posiciones verticales de cada región de interés. Por su parte, la fase de extracción consiste en calcular las mejores coordenadas de contorno de la región utilizando la información de posición proporcionada por la fase de detección. Nuestro enfoque de detección nos permite atacar tanto regiones de alto nivel (párrafos, diagramas¿) como regiones de nivel bajo (líneas de texto principalmente). En el caso de la detección de líneas de texto, modelamos el problema para asegurar que la posición vertical estimada por el sistema se aproxime a la línea ficticia que conecta la parte inferior de los cuerpos de los grafemas en una línea de texto, comúnmente conocida como línea base. Una de las principales aportaciones de esta tesis es que el enfoque de modelización propuesto nos permite incluir información conocida a priori sobre la disposición de los documentos que se están procesando. Esto se realiza mediante un Modelo de Estructura Vertical (MEV). Desarrollamos un marco de trabajo basado en los Modelos Ocultos de Markov (MOM) para abordar tanto la detección de regiones como su clasificación de forma integrada, así como para estudiar el rendimiento y la facilidad de uso del enfoque propuesto en numerosos corpus. Así mismo, revisamos la simplicidad del modelado de nuestro enfoque para procesar regiones en diferentes niveles de información: líneas de texto, párrafos, títulos, etc. Finalmente, estudiamos el impacto de añadir información y restricciones previas deterministas o probabilistas a través de el MEV propuesto que nuestro enfoque proporciona. Disponer de un método independiente que obtiene con precisión la posición de cada región detectada (líneas base en el caso de las líneas de texto) simplifica enormemente el problema que debe abordarse durante la fase de extracción. En esta tesis proponemos utilizar un mapa de distancias que tiene en cuenta la información de escala de grises de la imagen. Esto nos permite obtener fronteras de extracción que son equidistantes a las regiones de texto adyacentes. Estudiamos como nuestro enfoque aumenta su precisión de manera proporcional a la calidad de la detección y descubrimos que da resultados casi perfectos cuando se le proporcionan líneas de base revisadas por humanos.
[CAT] La Segmentació de Text Manuscrit (STM) és una tasca dins del camp d'investigació d'Anàlisi d'Estructura de Documents (AED) que té com a objectiu detectar I extraure les diferents regions d'interès de les pàgines que es troben en documents manuscrits. La STM és un tema d'investigació actiu que ha guanyat importància amb els anys a causa de la creixent demanda per proporcionar accés textual als milers de col·leccions de documents manuscrits que es conserven en arxius i biblioteques. Aquesta tesi entén la STM com una tasca que ha de ser abordada en dues fases especialitzades: detecció i extracció. Considerem que la fase de detecció és, fonamentalment, un problema de classificació el subproducte de la qual són les posicions verticals de cada regió d'interès. Per la seva part, la fase d'extracció consisteix a calcular les millors coordenades de contorn de la regió utilitzant la informació de posició proporcionada per la fase de detecció. El nostre enfocament de detecció ens permet atacar tant regions d'alt nivell (paràgrafs, diagrames ...) com regions de nivell baix (línies de text principalment). En el cas de la detecció de línies de text, modelem el problema per a assegurar que la posició vertical estimada pel sistema s'aproximi a la línia fictícia que connecta la part inferior dels cossos dels grafemes en una línia de text, comunament coneguda com a línia base. Una de les principals aportacions d'aquesta tesi és que l'enfocament de modelització proposat ens permet incloure informació coneguda a priori sobre la disposició dels documents que s'estan processant. Això es realitza mitjançant un Model d'Estructura Vertical (MEV). Desenvolupem un marc de treball basat en els Models Ocults de Markov (MOM) per a abordar tant la detecció de regions com la seva classificació de forma integrada, així com per a estudiar el rendiment i la facilitat d'ús de l'enfocament proposat en nombrosos corpus. Així mateix, revisem la simplicitat del modelatge del nostre enfocament per a processar regions en diferents nivells d'informació: línies de text, paràgrafs, títols, etc. Finalment, estudiem l'impacte d'afegir informació i restriccions prèvies deterministes o probabilistes a través del MEV que el nostre mètode proporciona. Disposar d'un mètode independent que obté amb precisió la posició de cada regió detectada (línies base en el cas de les línies de text) simplifica enormement el problema que ha d'abordar-se durant la fase d'extracció. En aquesta tesi proposem utilitzar un mapa de distàncies que té en compte la informació d'escala de grisos de la imatge. Això ens permet obtenir fronteres d'extracció que són equidistants de les regions de text adjacents. Estudiem com el nostre enfocament augmenta la seva precisió de manera proporcional a la qualitat de la detecció i descobrim que dona resultats quasi perfectes quan se li proporcionen línies de base revisades per humans.
Bosch Campos, V. (2020). Advances in Document Layout Analysis [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/138397
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Sousa, Wilson Vanderlei Costa. "A contribuição da gestão do capital intelectual no serviço público para a administração dos custos ocultos." Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2015. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/4398.
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Partindo do princípio de que os custos ocultos podem estar presentes em todas as entidades, inclusive nas instituições públicas brasileiras – onde as disfunções resultantes da interação de estruturas atrofiadas com comportamentos atrofiados fazem com que estes custos se perpetuem – esta pesquisa busca responder, dentro do contexto da administração pública, como a Gestão do Capital Intelectual pode contribuir para melhor administrar os custos ocultos. Neste sentido, deve-se levar em consideração que as técnicas contabilísticas não podem reconhecer esse tipo de custo e que a Nova Gestão Pública tem buscado técnicas de gerenciamento aplicáveis ao setor público que resultem no aumento da eficiência, transparência e qualidade dos serviços prestados ao cidadão. Para tanto, primeiramente buscou-se na literatura os principais conceitos, origens, natureza e classificação dos custos ocultos e do Capital Intelectual, bem como os modelos e técnicas para sua identificação e mensuração. A partir daí, realizou-se um estudo de caso no Departamento de Contabilidade e Finanças da Universidade Federal Fluminense e áreas correlacionadas. Foi aplicado um questionário baseado em método de reconhecimento e mensuração do Capital Intelectual do setor público, o qual pode apresentar resultados que direcionam para insuficiência, estagnação ou excelência, sendo os dois primeiros grandes indicadores da ocorrência de custos ocultos. Foi possível verificar que a Gestão do Capital Intelectual no Serviço Público pode ser aplicada de forma a contribuir na regulação dos comportamentos e estruturas atrofiadas, objetivando com isso diminuir as disfunções que geram custos ocultos e produzem efeitos destrutivos para a performance eficiente do serviço público.
Assuming that hidden costs may be present in all entities, including Brazilian public institutions – where dysfunctions resulted from the interaction between both atrophied structures and atrophied behaviors make these costs to perpetuate themselves – this research aims to answer, within public administration context, how intellectual capital management can help to improve hidden costs management as well. In this sense, it must be taken that accounting techniques cannot recognize this kind of cost and the New Public Management has searched for management techniques applicable to public sector that result in increasing efficiency, transparency and quality of services provided to citizens. To do so, first one has sought in literature about the main concepts, origins, nature and classification of hidden costs and Intellectual Capital, as well as models and techniques for its identification and measurement. Thereafter, one has performed a case study in the Accounting and Finances Department of Federal Fluminense University and its related areas.It has been applied a survey based on a method for recognition and measurement of intellectual capital in public sector, which can produce results that lead to failure, stagnation or excellence, the first two ones are considered main indicators of the occurrence of hidden costs. Was possible to verify that the Intellectual Capital Management in Public Service can be applied in order to contribute for the regulation of behavior and atrophied structures, aiming this way to reduce dysfunctions that generate hidden costs and produce destructive effects for the efficient performance of the public service.
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Puigcerver, I. Pérez Joan. "A Probabilistic Formulation of Keyword Spotting." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/116834.
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[ES] La detección de palabras clave (Keyword Spotting, en inglés), aplicada a documentos de texto manuscrito, tiene como objetivo recuperar los documentos, o partes de ellos, que sean relevantes para una cierta consulta (query, en inglés), indicada por el usuario, entre una gran colección de documentos. La temática ha recogido un gran interés en los últimos 20 años entre investigadores en Reconocimiento de Formas (Pattern Recognition), así como bibliotecas y archivos digitales.
Esta tesis, en primer lugar, define el objetivo de la detección de palabras clave a partir de una perspectiva basada en la Teoría de la Decisión y una formulación probabilística adecuada. Más concretamente, la detección de palabras clave se presenta como un caso particular de Recuperación de la Información (Information Retrieval), donde el contenido de los documentos es desconocido, pero puede ser modelado mediante una distribución de probabilidad. Además, la tesis también demuestra que, bajo las distribuciones de probabilidad correctas, el marco de trabajo desarrollada conduce a la solución óptima del problema, según múltiples medidas de evaluación utilizadas tradicionalmente en el campo.
Más tarde, se utilizan distintos modelos estadísticos para representar las distribuciones necesarias: Redes Neuronales Recurrentes o Modelos Ocultos de Markov. Los parámetros de estos son estimados a partir de datos de entrenamiento, y las respectivas distribuciones son representadas mediante Transductores de Estados Finitos con Pesos (Weighted Finite State Transducers).
Con el objetivo de hacer que el marco de trabajo sea práctico en grandes colecciones de documentos, se presentan distintos algoritmos para construir índices de palabras a partir de modelos probabilísticos, basados tanto en un léxico cerrado como abierto. Estos índices son muy similares a los utilizados por los motores de búsqueda tradicionales.
Además, se estudia la relación que hay entre la formulación probabilística presentada y otros métodos de gran influencia en el campo de la detección de palabras clave, destacando cuáles son las limitaciones de los segundos.
Finalmente, todas la aportaciones se evalúan de forma experimental, no sólo utilizando pruebas académicas estándar, sino también en colecciones con decenas de miles de páginas provenientes de manuscritos históricos. Los resultados muestran que el marco de trabajo presentado permite construir sistemas de detección de palabras clave muy rápidos y precisos, con una sólida base teórica.[CAT] La detecció de paraules clau (Keyword Spotting, en anglès), aplicada a documents de text manuscrit, té com a objectiu recuperar els documents, o parts d'ells, que siguen rellevants per a una certa consulta (query, en anglès), indicada per l'usuari, dintre d'una gran col·lecció de documents. La temàtica ha recollit un gran interés en els últims 20 anys entre investigadors en Reconeixement de Formes (Pattern Recognition), així com biblioteques i arxius digitals. Aquesta tesi defineix l'objectiu de la detecció de paraules claus a partir d'una perspectiva basada en la Teoria de la Decisió i una formulació probabilística adequada. Més concretament, la detecció de paraules clau es presenta com un cas concret de Recuperació de la Informació (Information Retrieval), on el contingut dels documents és desconegut, però pot ser modelat mitjançant una distribució de probabilitat. A més, la tesi també demostra que, sota les distribucions de probabilitat correctes, el marc de treball desenvolupat condueix a la solució òptima del problema, segons diverses mesures d'avaluació utilitzades tradicionalment en el camp. Després, diferents models estadístics s'utilitzen per representar les distribucions necessàries: Xarxes Neuronal Recurrents i Models Ocults de Markov. Els paràmetres d'aquests són estimats a partir de dades d'entrenament, i les corresponents distribucions són representades mitjançant Transductors d'Estats Finits amb Pesos (Weighted Finite State Transducers). Amb l'objectiu de fer el marc de treball útil per a grans col·leccions de documents, es presenten distints algorismes per construir índexs de paraules a partir dels models probabilístics, tan basats en un lèxic tancat com en un obert. Aquests índexs són molt semblants als utilitzats per motors de cerca tradicionals. A més a més, s'estudia la relació que hi ha entre la formulació probabilística presentada i altres mètodes de gran influència en el camp de la detecció de paraules clau, destacant algunes limitacions dels segons. Finalment, totes les aportacions s'avaluen de forma experimental, no sols utilitzant proves acadèmics estàndard, sinó també en col·leccions amb desenes de milers de pàgines provinents de manuscrits històrics. Els resultats mostren que el marc de treball presentat permet construir sistemes de detecció de paraules clau molt acurats i ràpids, amb una sòlida base teòrica.
[EN] Keyword Spotting, applied to handwritten text documents, aims to retrieve the documents, or parts of them, that are relevant for a query, given by the user, within a large collection of documents. The topic has gained a large interest in the last 20 years among Pattern Recognition researchers, as well as digital libraries and archives. This thesis, first defines the goal of Keyword Spotting from a Decision Theory perspective. Then, the problem is tackled following a probabilistic formulation. More precisely, Keyword Spotting is presented as a particular instance of Information Retrieval, where the content of the documents is unknown, but can be modeled by a probability distribution. In addition, the thesis also proves that, under the correct probability distributions, the framework provides the optimal solution, under many of the evaluation measures traditionally used in the field. Later, different statistical models are used to represent the probability distribution over the content of the documents. These models, Hidden Markov Models or Recurrent Neural Networks, are estimated from training data, and the corresponding distributions over the transcripts of the images can be efficiently represented using Weighted Finite State Transducers. In order to make the framework practical for large collections of documents, this thesis presents several algorithms to build probabilistic word indexes, using both lexicon-based and lexicon-free models. These indexes are very similar to the ones used by traditional search engines. Furthermore, we study the relationship between the presented formulation and other seminal approaches in the field of Keyword Spotting, highlighting some limitations of the latter. Finally, all the contributions are evaluated experimentally, not only on standard academic benchmarks, but also on collections including tens of thousands of pages of historical manuscripts. The results show that the proposed framework and algorithms allow to build very accurate and very fast Keyword Spotting systems, with a solid underlying theory.
Puigcerver I Pérez, J. (2018). A Probabilistic Formulation of Keyword Spotting [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/116834
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Buljan, Katharine. "Is there life before death? : pursuit of eternal existence through the examination of a being's ambivalent and contradictory nature - an examination of the hypothesis that for understanding death, firstly a being's real essence, which is hidden under the ego, should be discovered /." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030901.102100/index.html.
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Mhlungu, Lindelwa Letticia. "An exploratory study of the fiscal illusion of individual taxpayers in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27316.
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Fiscal illusion is understood to be a concept that occurs where taxpayers do not always realize how much they contribute towards government revenue in the form of taxation, or how much they receive in the form of public goods and services (Dell’ Ánno&Mourao, 2011:2). The purpose of this study was to discover the originating causes of fiscal illusion amongst individual taxpayers in South Africa. To achieve this objective, available literature was reviewed, which revealed that complexity of the tax systems is argued to be one of the causes of fiscal illusion. A study conducted in South Africa suggested that taxpayer’s perception toward tax affects their attitude (Oberholzer, 2007:45). The hypothesis derived from the literature was then applied to a real life context by conducting interviews with a sample of individual taxpayers. Based on the analysis of data obtained, the study revealed that fiscal illusion of individual taxpayers in South Africa falls within four conceptual elements namely, hidden taxes, number of taxes, double taxation and, to a limited extent, tax shifting.Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Fonseca, Lars. "Det godkända fusket : Normförhandlingar i gymnasieskolans bedömningspraktiker." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för pedagogik (PED), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-37139.
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Education on behalf of social trust constitutes a central theme in all societies. Different forms of cheating and fraud have a negative impact on the bonds of social trust. The purpose of the thesis is to increase understanding of the scope for learning about the individual-society relationship as it finds expression in pedagogical practices involving norms relating to cheating. The established norms concerning school cheating are identified in group-based discussions involving Upper Secondary students and teachers. Students ascribe each other roles on the basis of the perceived capacity to produce school results and thereby also to justify the need for school cheating. In the norm negotiations a significant tolerance is shown towards cheating which is adjudged to be necessary, provided that a hierarchic, fair distribution of grades can be retained. The teachers perceive expectations of acting for goal fulfilment, in the form of good student grades, as based on economic arguments. Good student grades imply satisfied customers in a market exposed to competition and a strong market value for the individual school. From a critical viewpoint these norms are related to the contemporary, dominant neo-liberal principles of commercialisation and individualisation in social organisation. The school actors perceive, in accordance with stratified norm theory, the norms from economic systems of conduct as more strongly conditioning on conduct than those norms from political-administrative or socio-cultural conduct systems. The teachers are aware of expectations, in hidden concert and consent with other school stakeholders, to offer social approval for student cheating and sympathetic marking concerning the lowest grade for passing i.e. violation of rules, where this is necessary to meet the economic as well as political-administrative objectives that have been established. To be part of pedagogic practices involving school cheating implies learning to uncouple rules and practice, law and morality. Such a double agenda is incompatible with norms and ideals in official curricula as well as being destructive of the bonds of social trust; it thereby functions as a hidden curriculum.
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Tiphine, Lucas. ""L'événement proxémique" : étude des relations de circulation entre piétons aux heures de pointe à Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris et Tokyo." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSEN009/document.
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Dans un contexte de saturation des réseaux de circulation liée à l'accélération de l'urbanisation, le but de cette recherche est d’alimenter le débat scienti8ique sur les réponses à apporter à cet enjeu social par l’étude des comportements de régulation des distances physiques entre les piétons dans les lieux publics. La composante urbaine de la théorie de la proxémie d'Edward T. Hall est prise comme inspiration liminaire. Celle-ci soutient qu'il existe une corrélation entre l'organisation de l'espace macro de la Société et celui micro des comportements individuels. Elle conduit Hall à une distinction entre « cultures du contact » et du « non – contact », les premières préférant une plus grande proximité physique entre les corps. Toutefois, la différenciation des aires culturelles de Hall (par exemple : « monde arabe »= « culture du contact ») n'apparaît plus pertinente à l'ère de la mondialisation urbaine.Une nouvelle théorie « micromacro », fondée sur 4 macro-orientations susceptibles d'avoir une influence sur les comportements, est alors proposée : égalité entre citadins, individualisation, urbanité relative et régulation de l'urbanisme. Deux autres appréciations de l’existence d’une corrélation scalaire entre des niveaux de description des relations spatiales sont également testées. L'une, appelée « micromeso », s’inspire de la théorie des « sites comportementaux » de Roger Barker. Elle considère que les comportements proxémiques sont corrélés avec des unités intermédiaires définies par un lieu et une heure spécifiques telles que «le métro à l'heure de pointe». L'autre théorie,appelée « micro », affirme que toute forme de corrélation scalaire est une erreur écologique.Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris et Tokyo, qui répondent différemment aux macro-orientations de la théorie micromacro sont prises comme terrains d’étude. Les comportements à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur du métro de chacune de ces aires métropolitaines sont observés (théorie micromeso). Dans ces deux conditions, des niveaux similaires d’enjeu spatial sont étudiés (théorie micro). Les résultats amènent à conclure que les relations de circulation sont mieux décrites par ordre d'efficacité lorsqu'on les considère cumulativement comme micro > micromeso >micromacro. Je défends alors la thèse selon laquelle les sociétés devraient débattre des améliorations des microconditions des relations de circulation plutôt que de se concentrer sur les explications micromacro et micromeso des dysfonctionnements de celles-ci, qui peuvent par exemple être identifiées dans la mise en compétition des individus autour du thème de la civilitéIn a context of traf8ic networks saturation related to urbanisation acceleration, thisresearch is aimed at contributing to the scienti8ic debate on this issue by building a model to describe dynamic pedestrians’ physical distances regulation behaviours in public places.The urban dimension of Edward T. Hall’s theory of proxemics is taken as an initial inspiration. This author argues that a correlation exists between the organisation of space at the macro level of Society and the micro level of individual behaviours. It leads him to a synthetic distinction between ‘contact cultures’ and ‘non-contact cultures’. The former tends to prefer smaller distances at all scales of space organisation compared to the latter.This hypothesis is considered seriously in the research. Nonetheless, Hall’s macroculturalist anthropological area distinction (e.g.: the ‘Arab World’ = ‘contact culture’) isnot relevant anymore in the urban globalization era. Therefore, a new ‘micromacro’theory, based on 4 macro orientations expected to have an influence on micro behaviours,is proposed: equality between urban citizens, individualisation, relative urbanity and urban planning regulation.Two other scalar correlation theories of spatial relations description are also tested. One,called ‘micromeso’, is based on Roger Barker’s behaviour setting theory. It states thatproxemical behaviours are correlated with intermediate units related to a specific placeand time such as ‘the subway at peak hours’. The other theory, called ‘micro’, states thatany form of scalar correlation is an ecological fallacy. Accordingly, the description processhas to remain at the very level of physical distance relations between individuals.These different theories are tested empirically in Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyowhich all answer differently to the macro orientations of the micromacro theory. Behaviours inside the metro and outside of it are observed (micromeso theory). In each condition, similar levels of spatial competition for places are taken into consideration (micro theory).The results lead to conclude that traffic relations between pedestrians are best describedwhen considered cumulatively as micro > micromeso > micromacro by order of efficiency. Eventually, I defend the thesis that urban dwellers should debate of traffic relationshipsmicro conditions improvements rather than focusing on micromacro and micromeso explanations of the networks breakdowns which can be found for instance in the competition promoted between individuals on civil behaviours
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Derros, Ellie. "L'hôpital malade de l'absentéisme santé : évaluation socio-économique des congés "maladie" non ordinaires chez les personnels non médicaux dans trois établissements publics d'Auvergne." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF10395/document.
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La présente étude s’attache à l’absentéisme long pour raison de santé chez les personnels hospitaliers non médicaux. Deux types de congé non ordinaire sont visés : les C.L.M. et C.L.D. Ceux-Ci constituent en effet un enjeu de gestion par les désorganisations et les coûts, principalement cachés, qu’ils suscitent. Ces derniers représentent également un enjeu de santé sociale (voire publique), en raison de la morbidité qu’ils expriment.Afin de les caractériser et de les mesurer, ce travail s’inspire de l’approche socioéconomique des organisations (I.S.E.O.R., Lyon). On s’efforce notamment de procéder à un diagnostic pluriel (social, organisationnel et financier). L’ambition est triple. Il s’agit 1) de faire prendre conscience de l’ampleur des préjudices (effet miroir pour la direction) ; 2) de contribuer au développement d’un référentiel théorique et pratique (évaluation élargie des absences) ; 3) d’encourager la promotion d’un présentéisme-Qualité (préconisations de type R.H.). Les diverses investigations se font sur trois hôpitaux régionaux publics (Auvergne) de taille volontairement différente (C.H.U., C.H. et H.L.). Les résultats laissent à chaque fois apparaître des profils, des fonctionnements, des dépenses et des vécus assez alarmants. Ils témoignent d’une défaillance au niveau des ressources humaines (organisationnelle et managériale). Ces retours négatifs attestent par ailleurs d’une possibilité d’extension de l’analyse de type socio-Économique (application aux interruptions prolongées en structures de soins). Ils autorisent enfin à dégager quelques pistes d’intervention, tantôt transversales(proximité dans les procédures), tantôt spécifiques (particularités de la structure)The present study focuses on the long absenteeism for health reason at non medicalhospital staff. Two types of non ordinary sick leave are aimed : the C.L.M. and C.L.D. (rulingson salary insurance). Those indeed constitute a challenge of management by thedisorganizations and the costs, mainly hidden, which they cause. They represent also a stakein social health, because of the morbidity they express.In order to characterize and measure them, this work takes as a starting point theorganizations socio-Economic approach (I.S.E.O.R., Lyon). We particularly try to carry out aplural diagnosis (social, organizational and financial). The ambition is threefold. It acts 1) tomake become aware of the scale of the damages (mirror effect for the direction); 2) tocontribute to the development of a theoretical and practical reference frame (widenedevaluation of the absences); 3) to contribute to the promotion of good and really presenteeim(human resources recommendations).The various investigations are done on three publicregional hospitals of voluntarily different size (C.H.U., C.H., H.L. – in the center of France).Each time the results let appear alarming profiles, operations, spending and lived. They giveevidence to a failure in organisational and managerial human resources. These negativereturns also attest an extension possibility of the socio-Economics’ analysis (to the extendedsickness absences in structures of care). They finally allows to identify some tracks ofintervention, sometimes transverse (proximity in the procedures), sometimes specific(peculiarities of the structure)
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Panyushkin, Alexei Filippovitch. "Hidden public debt across European countries." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/18257.
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze two out of three main types of Hidden Public Debt, Commercial Debt and Public Private Partnerships Financing Needs, across 11 European Countries between 2000-2012.
When faced with the need to raise taxes or reduce spending, governments have for some time turned to a third option by resorting to off book loans and liabilities that do not appear in public accounts. Hidden public debts are those state commitments and liabilities that, despite a lack of specific allocation or inclusion in forecasts and liabilities, are assumed by the government.
Amongst the major results, this article concludes that countries with stronger economies, more transparency of government expenditures and relatively high tax rate stayed in- or moved to the bucket of relatively low debt levels, namely with hidden debt below 1% of GDP. Also, the level of hidden debt within the PIIGS is twice if what the rest of the sample has.
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Lin, Heng-Ju, and 林恆如. "The Hidden Disused Public Properties: Causalities And Choices." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73515654936901446480.
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The disclosure of the disused public properties by the mass media has brought the attentions of the government and the public to this emerging issue. It has been ten years since this issue was firstly reported in 2001. Inorder to find a solution to this problem, a specific project team has been formed by The Public Construction Commission (PCC). The purpose of this team is to serve as an information sharing platform through which the disused public properties can be revitalized. However, the number of the disused public properties reported by news media is much higher what the government has proclaimed. Many of these disused public properties can be found everywhere in Taiwan, but they are not regulated by the PCC. This thesis first examines the unregulated disused public properties via the lenses of policy, media, geographical position and category. Then, focusing on those regulated disused public properties, this thesis tries to specify the difficulties and strategies encountered by PCC in its revitalization endeavors. This research utilizes data obtained from mass media and interview materials and finds out that the Myth of central government planning and the lack of coordination between central and local governments have contributed significantly to the creation of the disused public properties.
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Kuo, Chun-Jung, and 郭純瑢. "The Investigation of the Hidden Curriculum in Private Management of Public School." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90516056763853435551.
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The purpose of the study was to explore the hidden curriculum in private management of public school of Goodwill Elementary School(assumed name). A number of different sources were used to collect data: observation, interviews and document analysis. The results of this study include 1. life-relating materials motivate students to learn more and get the most profound learning experiences. Students also acquire the independent and responsible learning attitude, and develop the consensus with their peer. Multiple qualitative assessments enable students to develop their dominating intelligence. But opening teaching methods burden teachers with heavy teaching and the keeping of classroom order. 2. Teachers’ respectful, communicable, encouraged, concerned and trusted leading methods let students feel valued highly and learn to interact with their teachers with the same way. 3. Students establish the confraternity and consensus with their peer, concern with each other and learn how to manage themselves in the family-like, cooperative learning environment. 4. Teachers feel supported strongly by the school but teachers have heavy work loading. Students think they learn more and happily in school and love to go to school. Students also realize the importance of interpersonal relationship. The suggestions are also concluded. Keyword：Private management of public school, Hidden curriculum, Goodwill Elementary School
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Hickey, Todd Michael. "A public "house" but closed : "fiscal participation" and economic decision making on the Oxyrhynchite estate of the Flavii Apiones /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3006507.
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Brownhill, Suzanne Helena. "Intensified constraint : the battle between individual and social forces influencing hidden depression in men /." 2003. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20030926.102053/index.html.
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Esonu, Bernard. "An analysis of the concept of "sustainability" in mining agreements in Papua New Guinea the case of Hidden Valley/Hamata mine /." 2009. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20091007.111919/index.html.
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"Hidden from history: representation of women in the Hong Kong Museum of History and the search for alternatives." 2007. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896742.
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Hui Pui Lam Joe.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-128).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Chapter Chapter 1 --- Buried in the footnotes-Introduction
Chapter 1.1 --- The importance of museums --- p.1
Chapter 1.2 --- What are museums? --- p.6
Chapter 1.2.1 --- Museums in Hong Kong --- p.6
Chapter 1.2.2 --- Definitions of Museums --- p.7
Chapter 1.3 --- Research Questions --- p.10
Chapter 1.4 --- Research Texts: --- p.10
Chapter 1.4.1 --- Background information of the ´بHong Kong Museum of History' --- p.10
Chapter 1.4.2 --- Background information of the ´بThe Hong Kong Story´ة --- p.11
Chapter 1.4.3 --- Background information of the ´بTai O Cultural --- p.12
Chapter 1.5 --- Methods of study --- p.13
Chapter 1.6 --- Chapter outline --- p.15
Chapter Chapter 2 --- The theoretical and critical framework
Chapter 2.1 --- ´بModernist museums´ة as gendered institutions --- p.18
Chapter 2.1.1 --- The dominant form of museum in the MH --- p.21
Chapter 2.2 --- Literature on gender representation in art galleries and history museums --- p.22
Chapter 2.2.1 --- In the context of art galleries --- p.22
Chapter 2.2.2 --- The pragmatic approach --- p.23
Chapter 2.2.3 --- The quantitative approach --- p.24
Chapter 2.3 --- "Gaby Porter and other museologists, works" --- p.25
Chapter 2.3.1 --- Gender dualism --- p.27
Chapter 2.3.2 --- Object-centered approach --- p.31
Chapter 2.3.2.1 --- The concept of ´بemotion material´ة --- p.35
Chapter 2.3.2.2 --- Methods to regenerate the representation of women in history museum --- p.37
Chapter 2.3.3 --- Classification system --- p.39
Chapter 2.4 --- New museology movement --- p.40
Chapter 2.4.1 --- Post-museum --- p.40
Chapter 2.4.1.1 --- The characteristics of post-museum --- p.42
Chapter 2.4.1.2 --- How does post-museum relate to gender? --- p.44
Chapter 2.4.2 --- Ecomuseum --- p.45
Chapter Chapter 3 --- Case study of the Hong Kong Story- Gender dualism and object-centered approach in exhibition
Chapter 3.1 --- General description of the Hong Kong Story (HKS) --- p.47
Chapter 3.2 --- Displays in lower and upper floors --- p.48
Chapter 3.2.1 --- Lower floor: Folk Culture in Hong Kong --- p.49
Chapter 3.2.2 --- Upper floor: Birth and Early Growth of the City and Modern Metropolis and the Return to China --- p.51
Chapter 3.3 --- Gender dualism in Exhibition --- p.53
Chapter 3.3.1 --- Male-defined experiences of work and daily life --- p.59
Chapter 3.3.2 --- Marginalization of work in domestic area --- p.63
Chapter 3.4 --- Object-centered approach taken by curators --- p.65
Chapter 3.4.1 --- Lower floor- The representation of wedding ceremony --- p.68
Chapter 3.4.1.1 --- Reasons behind the under-representation of women experiences in traditional wedding ceremonies --- p.69
Chapter 3.4.2 --- Upper floor- The under-representation of women experiences --- p.72
Chapter 3.5 --- Methods to exhibit the non-material formed history and emotion material --- p.75
Chapter Chapter 4 --- Out of the box: Case Study of the Tai O Cultural Workshop
Chapter 4.1 --- Orientation of the Workshop and the role of Ms. Wong in the Workshop --- p.81
Chapter 4.1.1 --- The Position of Ms. Wong in the Workshop --- p.82
Chapter 4.2 --- Description of displays --- p.83
Chapter 4.2.1 --- The interpretation of objects --- p.86
Chapter 4.2.2 --- The importance of Ms. Wong as a guide --- p.88
Chapter 4.3 --- A critical analysis of exhibition --- p.89
Chapter 4.3.1 --- The role of guide in the Workshop --- p.90
Chapter 4.3.2 --- The naming issue --- p.92
Chapter 4.3.3 --- The ways of object interpretation --- p.95
Chapter 4.3.4 --- Objects as emotion material --- p.96
Chapter 4.3.5 --- The position of Ms. Wong as a curator --- p.101
Chapter 4.3.6 --- The orientation of the Workshop- Tai O as a unique and lively community --- p.104
Chapter 4.4 --- Reasons for the success of the Workshop --- p.108
Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion
Chapter 5.1 --- Comparison between the MH and the Workshop --- p.110
Chapter 5.2 --- Limitation of the Workshop --- p.114
Chapter 5.3 --- The positive role of laymen to change curatorial practices --- p.115
Chapter 5.4 --- In what ways can HKS learn from the Workshop? --- p.117
Bibliography --- p.121
Appendix
Appendix: Pictures of the Hong Kong Story (Chapter 3) and the Tai O Cultural Workshop (Chapter4) --- p.130
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"Hidden Death and Social Suffering: A Critical Investigation of Suicide, Death Surveillance, and Implications for Addressing a Complex Health Burden in Nepal." Doctoral diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44431.
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abstract: Suicide is one of the fastest-growing and least-understood causes of death, particularly in low and middle income countries (LMIC). In low-income settings, where the technical capacity for death surveillance is limited, suicides may constitute a significant portion of early deaths, but disappear as they are filtered through reporting systems shaped by social, cultural, and political institutions. These deaths become unknown and unaddressed. This dissertation illuminates how suicide is perceived, contested, experienced, and interpreted in institutions ranging from the local (i.e., family, community) to the professional (i.e., medical, law enforcement) in Nepal, a country purported to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Drawing on a critical medical anthropology approach, I bridge public health and anthropological perspectives to better situate the problem of suicide within a greater social-political context. I argue that these complex, contestable deaths, become falsely homogenized, or lost. During 18 months of fieldwork in Nepal, qualitative, data tracing, and psychological autopsy methodologies were conducted. Findings are shared through three lenses: (1) health policy and world systems; (2) epidemiology and (3) socio-cultural. The first investigates how actors representing familial, legal, and medical institutions perceive, contest, and negotiate suicide documentation, ultimately failing to accurately capture a leading cause of death. Using epidemiologic perspectives, surveillance data from medical and legal agencies are analyzed and pragmatic approaches to better detect and prevent suicidal death in the Nepali context are recommended. The third lens provides perceived explanatory models for suicide. These narratives offer important insights into the material, social, and cultural factors that shape suicidal acts in Nepal. Findings are triangulated to inform policy, prevention, and intervention approaches to reduce suicidal behavior and improve health system capabilities to monitor violent deaths. These approaches go beyond typical psychological investigations of suicide by situating self-inflicted death within broader familial, social, and political contexts. Findings contribute to cultural anthropological theories related to suicide and knowledge production, while informing public health solutions. Looking from the margins towards centers of power, this dissertation explicates how varying institutional numbers can obfuscate and invalidate suffering experienced at local levels.Dissertation/Thesis
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Webb, Melanie Ann. "A switching Black-Scholes model and option pricing." 2003. http://thesis.library.adelaide.edu.au/public/adt-SUA20040201.173938.
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Includes bibliographical references. Electronic publication; full text available in PDF format; abstract in HTML format. In this thesis a switching Black-Scholes model of a price process is proposed. This model is based on the standard geometric Brownian motion (or Black-Scholes) model of a price process. However, the drift and volatility parameters are permitted to vary between a finite number of possible values at known times according to the state of a hidden Markov chain. This type of model has been found to replicate the Black-Scholes implied volatility smiles observed in the market and produce option prices which are closer to market values than those obtained from the traditional Black-Scholes formula. Electronic reproduction.[Australia] :Australian Digital Theses Program,2001. xii, 251 leaves : ill., tables ; 30 cm.
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Ferreira, Amílcar Jaime da Rocha Amargar. "Crise da dívida pública em Moçambique: análise das causas e propostas de solução." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22458.
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Atualmente, a dívida pública ocupa a lista dos principais tópicos de discussão sobre a
economia moçambicana. A dívida pública externa de Moçambique, evoluiu para números
alarmantes nos últimos 15 anos. Em parte, devido à imposição da conjuntura económica
global de determinadas políticas neoliberais e em parte devido ao escândalo das dívidas
ocultas descobertas em 2016 que levou Moçambique para uma das maiores crises que o país
já viveu, com os impactos a atingirem os setores mais pobres e vulneráveis da sociedade.
Este aumento abrupto da dívida pública externa, contribuiu para uma deterioração das
relações económicas e políticas com as principais instituições internacionais de apoio ao
Estado Moçambicano, nomeadamente o Banco Mundial, FMI – Fundo Monetário
Internacional e a União Europeia.
A experiência de uma auditoria cidadã à dívida pública no Equador, apresenta os conceitos
teóricos de abordagem essencialmente de democracia participativa, como uma “revolução
cidadã” em relação à gestão da dívida pública, que podem ser úteis para analisar o caso
moçambicano.
O presente trabalho propõe abordar as principais razões da dívida pública externa
moçambicana ter evoluído em quase o dobro nos últimos anos, assim como, pretende também
explorar as vantagens de uma auditoria cidadã, tendo o exemplo do Equador, e deste modo,
perceber como uma auditoria cidadã num contexto como Moçambique pode ser realizada, a
fim de capacitar a sociedade com uma consciência dos fatos financeiros e fortalecer as lutas
sociais por um modelo diferente baseado na transparência, justiça económica, prestação de
contas, combate à corrupção e independência dos poderes públicos.Currently, public debt occupies the list of main topics of discussion on the Mozambican economy. The external public debt has evolved to alarming numbers over the past 15 years. Partly due to the imposition of the global economic situation of certain neoliberal policies, and due to the hidden debt scandal discovered in 2016 that led to one of the biggest crises the country has ever lived, where the impacts reached the poorest sectors and vulnerable groups in society. This abrupt increase in external public debt, contributed to a contraction of economic and political relations with the main international institutions supporting the Mozambican State, like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the European Union. The experience of a citizen audit of public debt in Ecuador, presents the theoretical concepts of an essentially participatory democratic approach, such as a “citizen revolution” in relation to public debt management, which can be useful to analyze the Mozambican case. This paper proposes to address the main reasons why the mozambican external public debt has evolved almost twice in the last years, as well as it also intends to explore the advantages of a citizen audit to public debt, taking the example of Ecuador. In this way, realizing how a citizen audit in a context like Mozambique, can be carried out, in order to empower society with an awareness of financial facts and to strengthen social struggles through a different model based on transparency, economic justice, accountability, combating corruption and independence of public authorities.
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Bradley, Michelle. "What does it mean to be a “monkey-bird"?: mixed-race students’ educational experiences in the Manitoban K-12 public education system and their sense of identity." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32031.
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This thesis explores three main questions: (1) How is diversity and equity in education in Manitoban schools addressed and does this include mixed-raced students?, (2) What are mixed-race students’ experiences with and perceptions of ethnocultural equity in the Manitoban secondary school system and how do these experiences impact their personal and collective identities in the following areas: Social (relationships with peers and family members), Political (notions of Canadian identity and citizenship), Identity (sense of cultural and racial identity and social positioning), Cultural (influences of related cultural groups and communities), and Pedagogical (instructional materials, relationships with teachers and staff, teaching practices and pedagogies, school policies and initiatives) and (3) What can educators and teacher-educators learn from this research that could be used toward a more informed and successful practice? Conclusions are that more work needs to be done to develop a provincial antiracism and ethnocultural policy document for development and implementation that will help establish a system of accountability and consistency, assist our leaders in understanding the complexities of mixedness, establish relationships with different relevant community groups and families, critically examine the curricula for bias, investigate student placement, provide opportunities for counselling staff, explore how to prepare staff to deal with racial and ethnocultural harassment, and consider the representation of mixedness in the staff population.February 2017
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Zavala, Carlos Gustavo Villela. "Determinants for the effective provision of public goods by honduran hometown associations in the United States: the Garífuna case." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3779.
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Magister Artium - MAThe study concludes that the existence of HTAs in the USA is explained by the socially enforced institution of the hijos del pueblo (sons of the town) having a duty to help their hometowns, as well as the private benefits of preserving Garífuna traditions and the possibility of helping repatriate dead immigrants. Fulfilling this duty (and the consequent prestige attained) provides the incentives to send CRs home. In the cases studied, CRs were used to partly finance potable water projects, electricity projects, road paving, a community centre and the construction of a Catholic temple. In most of the cases HTAs worked with a local development organisation, known as Patronato, which formed specific committees for executing projects, for example the water and the electricity committees. For the construction of the temple, a religious organisation known as Pastoral was the local partner. The term Collective Remittances (CRs) refers to the money sent by migrant associations, known as Hometown Associations (HTAs), to Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) in their hometowns for financing public works projects. Few cases of CR are known in Honduras. The only ones reported are among the Garífunaethnic group living on the Caribbean Coast, and with a large migrant community in New York City (NYC). This mini-master’s thesis is the first study written on CRs in Honduras. It studies CR experiences in four Garífuna hometowns and their corresponding HTAs in NYC. It answers three questions: How do CRs work in each case? What are the determinants for HTAs to provide CRs to the hometowns? And what are the determinants for local CBOs in the hometowns to use the CRs effectively to provide public goods in the hometowns? CR is conceptualised as a that chooses which local group and project to finance, and the local CBO, which is the agent
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Burrun, Shanita. "Attaining quality education in Mauritius at secondary level : a case study of the Zone 2 (state secondary) schools from the educator’s perspective." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5076.
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"Education For All" is the goal which the Ministry of Education and Human
Resources, in Mauritius, wishes to attain, based on the recommendations of
UNESCO. Mauritius urges for quality education, that is, a world-class
education in which each Mauritian child should be given the opportunity to
reach high educational success. Education must be the privilege of all and not
the sole right of a few elites. This study analyses, from an educator‘s point of
view, the extent to which Mauritius is proficient in reaching quality education
at secondary level. It is mainly based on hypothesis-testing. The research
process also includes a case study of the Zone 2, for which a selfadministered
questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 90 educators. The
study reveals that Mauritius is heading towards a quantified education rather
than a quality education. Mass education can be seen as a better rhetoric for
its current educational plan.Sociology
M.A. (Sociology)