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Pugh, Dale Michelle, and com dalempugh@hotmail. "A Substantive Theory to Explain How Nurses Deal with an Allegation of Unprofessional Conduct." RMIT University. Health Sciences, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070523.120244.
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As a social endeavour, the practice of nursing is expected to minimise risk of harm to patients. In reality, the risk of breaching or failing to meet a standard of practice, with resultant harm to patients is ever present. Such variations to the expected standard may result in harm to the patient and be viewed as unprofessional conduct within the legislative context. The phenomenon of unprofessional conduct can have significant and sometimes dire outcomes for patients and nurses and provides challenges to understand antecedents to its occurrence and the impact on the nurse. From this realisation, the significance of this study is twofold. Firstly, the literature revealed that an allegation of unprofessional conduct and the associated experience of being reported to a regulatory authority can have significant psycho-social and professional impact on the nurse. Secondly, the phenomenon has received little formal analysis. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore the phenomenon of alleged unprofessional conduct, and to develop a theory that provided understanding of the phenomenon and a framework for action. Data was obtained from in-depth interviews of a specialised sample of 21 nurses in any state or territory of Australia who had been the subject of notification by a nursing regulatory authority of alleged unprofessional conduct. Data analysis occurred simultaneously using the constant comparative method. This resulted in the generation of a substantive theory, explaining how nurses dealt with an allegation of unprofessional conduct. This study found that nurses experienced varying degrees and combinations of personal and professional vulnerability. This put them at risk of either making an error, breaching a practice standard, and/or at risk of being reported to a nurse regulatory authority for an allegation of unprofessional conduct. The core social process, a transformation of the personal and professional self is a process that the nurse both 'engages in' and 'goes through', in response to the social problem, being reported to a nurse regulatory authority for alleged unprofessional conduct, and its aftermath. The social process is made up of two categories: loss of the assumptive world: the experience of deconstruction and relearning the world. Loss of the assumptive world is comprised of being confronted, deconstruction of the personal self and deconstruction of the professional self. The category Relearning the world: the experience of reconstruction is constructed of the sub-categories, preserving the self: minimising the unravelling; reconstructing the personal self; reconstructing the professional self; and living within the world. Consequences of the category relearning the world are dynamic and influenced by a number of factors. The ability to transact the deconstructed self and move through the reconstructive processes and experience can be viewed in the following states, stymied, evolving or transacted. The personal and professional transformation of the individual nurse is influenced by the degree of deconstruction initially experienced, the interplay with the influencing factors internal and external support processes; resilience; time; and the constant of vulnerability. The findings of this study have implications for clinical, management, education and research practices in nursing. It also exposes problems with the use of nurse regulatory authorities as a punitive strategy for nurses who err. The uncovering of this substantive theory articulates a process whereby nurses are transformed personally and professionally in response to a traumatic or challenging life event. This substantive theory has value in providing a decision making framework for managing breaches of nursing standards, as a learning tool to identifying and managing risk in nursing and providing a framework for self and external support to nurses who may find themselves in this situation.
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Powell, Nicola Juliette. "The potential of the therapeutic relationship in dealing with learning disabled children." Thesis, Pretoria : [S.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06152005-154202/.
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Simmons, Sharon Lynn. "SOCIAL WORKERS’ AND TEACHERS’ FEELINGS OF SELF-EFFICACY IN DEALING WITH SCHOOL BULLYING." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/csw_etds/23.
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Bullying continues to be a serious problem in schools. School social workers and teachers face challenges daily to deal with bullying. This author examined school social workers’ and teachers’ perceptions about their feelings of efficacy to deal with bullying and what may account for those feelings in a population of 71 teachers and 26 social workers employed in Kentucky schools. Research was gathered using a self-report, electronic survey consisting of subscales of the Teachers’ Attitudes about Bullying Questionnaire (Beran, 2005), the School Bullying Questionnaire (Nicolaides, Toda & Smith, 2002), the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (Spreng, McKinnon, Mar & Levine, 2009) and questions designed by the researcher. This study examined the influence of demographic variables as well as the amount and type of professional education and/or training, the professionals’ perceptions of the level of bullying present and how much of a problem it is in their schools, perceived levels of administrative support, the professionals’ personal experiences with bullying and the professionals’ level of empathy. Finally, this study explored the role of school social workers as bullying educators within the school environment by self-report and by teacher reports.
The results of the study revealed that social workers reported significantly greater efficacy than did teachers. Additionally, when compared with teachers social workers reported higher levels on all measures of comfort. Other differences between the two professional groups included that social workers reported higher levels of working in urban schools, a higher level of empathy, a greater desire for additional training and a higher incidence of personal experience. Teachers reported higher levels of working in their own school districts, and working in suburban and rural schools and a higher level of believing bullying is a big problem in their school. With regard to the dependent variable of efficacy the independent variables of empathy, the extent of bullying, bystander and additional training trended toward significance.
Results regarding social workers as bullying educators revealed that the majority of social workers identified bullying prevention and intervention programming as part of their responsibilities and reported feeling comfortable in this role. Teachers’ responses closely aligned with school social workers’ self-assessments with the majority of teachers reporting social workers in their schools as supportive and helpful in addressing bullying. However, these variables did not have a significant effect on the dependent variable of efficacy. Professional teacher education programs, school social work programs and professional development trainings should incorporate trainings that focus on the role of empathy in managing bullying into their curriculums. Additionally, graduate educational offerings and professional development opportunities for school social workers should incorporate additional trainings to prepare social workers as bullying educators for other school professionals. Finally, additional research efforts that explore school professionals’ efficacy for dealing with bullying may be an important factor in addressing this problem.
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Hume, Deborah L. "Empowering women : developing skills and building self efficacy for dealing with verbal sexual coercion /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9924891.
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Robertson, Lucy F. "Dealing in self-ownership : the pursuit of money and personal autonomy in urban Jamaica." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25125.
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Based on ethnographic research in Whitehouse, Montego Bay, Jamaica, this thesis examines understandings of personal autonomy and the pursuit of self-control in a small urban community. Whilst outsiders perceive people in Whitehouse as marginal to society, closer examination shows that although individuals consider themselves poor, they are not without agency. The thesis demonstrates that whilst Jamaica is a modern capitalist society, an understanding of local views of dependency and control is necessary for interpreting Jamaican social life. Individuals do not consider themselves to be dependent on other people - be it employers or kin - and it is through the deployment of an ideology and practice of autonomy that self-ownership is both sought and celebrated. By showing that people in Whitehouse do not simply resist dominant ideologies and practices, rather, they do not consider themselves to be under the control of others, this thesis contributes to anthropological discussions of power and resistance. Money plays a dominant role in a variety of contexts within Jamaica, creating an ideology which equates money and power. Through the analysis of discourses and practices surrounding money, it is shown that money can create freedom from unwanted relationships, but it can also limit a person’s freedom of choice, as pressure is applied to give money away, and individuals can feel ‘trapped’ in relationships. Thus within Whitehouse, money per se is not central to personhood, but the pursuit of money is integral to ideas about the person. In this way, any person can attain personal status through being active and creative in applying entrepreneurial skills. This theme runs through the thesis and shows how the most ‘marginal’ people attempt to achieve autonomy and self-governance.
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Tewari, Ayush [Verfasser]. "Self-supervised reconstruction and synthesis of faces / Ayush Tewari." Saarbrücken : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2021. http://d-nb.info/124153764X/34.
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Dalal, Dev K. "Dealing with Deliberate Distortions: Methods to Reduce Bias in Self-Report Measures of Sensitive Constructs." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1325789286.
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Riester, Markus. "Genealogy Reconstruction." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-38656.
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Genealogy reconstruction is widely used in biology when relationships among entities are studied. Phylogenies, or evolutionary trees, show the differences between species. They are of profound importance because they help to obtain better understandings of evolutionary processes. Pedigrees, or family trees, on the other hand visualize the relatedness between individuals in a population. The reconstruction of pedigrees and the inference of parentage in general is now a cornerstone in molecular ecology. Applications include the direct infer- ence of gene flow, estimation of the effective population size and parameters describing the population’s mating behaviour such as rates of inbreeding.
In the first part of this thesis, we construct genealogies of various types of cancer. Histopatho- logical classification of human tumors relies in part on the degree of differentiation of the tumor sample. To date, there is no objective systematic method to categorize tumor subtypes by maturation. We introduce a novel algorithm to rank tumor subtypes according to the dis- similarity of their gene expression from that of stem cells and fully differentiated tissue, and thereby construct a phylogenetic tree of cancer. We validate our methodology with expression data of leukemia and liposarcoma subtypes and then apply it to a broader group of sarcomas and of breast cancer subtypes. This ranking of tumor subtypes resulting from the application of our methodology allows the identification of genes correlated with differentiation and may help to identify novel therapeutic targets. Our algorithm represents the first phylogeny-based tool to analyze the differentiation status of human tumors.
In contrast to asexually reproducing cancer cell populations, pedigrees of sexually reproduc- ing populations cannot be represented by phylogenetic trees. Pedigrees are directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and therefore resemble more phylogenetic networks where reticulate events are indicated by vertices with two incoming arcs. We present a software package for pedigree reconstruction in natural populations using co-dominant genomic markers such as microsatel- lites and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) in the second part of the thesis. If available, the algorithm makes use of prior information such as known relationships (sub-pedigrees) or the age and sex of individuals. Statistical confidence is estimated by Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling. The accuracy of the algorithm is demonstrated for simulated data as well as an empirical data set with known pedigree. The parentage inference is robust even in the presence of genotyping errors. We further demonstrate the accuracy of the algorithm on simulated clonal populations. We show that the joint estimation of parameters of inter- est such as the rate of self-fertilization or clonality is possible with high accuracy even with marker panels of moderate power. Classical methods can only assign a very limited number of statistically significant parentages in this case and would therefore fail. The method is implemented in a fast and easy to use open source software that scales to large datasets with many thousand individuals.
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Schmidt, Jochen. "3-D reconstruction and stereo self calibration for augmented reality." Berlin Logos-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2907732&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Birch, Maxine. "The quest for self-discovery : the reconstruction of self identity stories in alternative therapy groups." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363640.
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Penny, Richard. "Self-respect in the just society : a Rawlsian reconstruction and defence." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/389734/.
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This thesis is concerned with the status of the good of ‘self-respect’ within John Rawls’s account of the just society. Self-respect has a central place within Rawls’s theory of justice—and yet, as many recognise, Rawls’s discussion of this good is both fragmented and opaque. As such, very basic questions remain unanswered. What is the nature of this good? Precisely how does it relate to justice? And what moral implications follow from this for organising the basic structure of a just society? In the first part of this thesis I address these (and other) important questions. I begin by reconstructing a Rawlsian account of self-respect, so as to arbitrate between the multiple uses Rawls ascribes to the term. What emerges, I argue, is an account of self-respect which is not only more coherent than Rawls’s exposition may suggest, but one which has an interesting and sophisticated relationship to the account of justice which Rawls develops. I use this account to argue that considerations of self-respect act as a constraint upon the principles of justice Rawls sets out, and I set out what I take to be a covert distributive standard for this good. These findings not only shed light on the status of self-respect within Rawls’s work, but also on a number of theoretical debates over the kind of project in which Rawls was engaged. With this exegesis completed, the second part of the thesis asks what the implications are for three contemporary debates over the Rawlsian ‘legacy’. I first address G.A. Cohen’s ‘incentive-based’ critique of Rawls, and argue that the good of self-respect serves to deepen the thrust of this challenge. I then address recent accounts of ‘Market Democracy’ and argue that its proponents are wrong to argue self-respect can act as the bridge between Rawlsian and libertarian thought. Finally, I address the recent work done to expand upon the Rawlsian ideal of a ‘property-owning democracy’. I argue that—subject to some minor revisions—this interpretation comes closest to realising thevision that Rawls had for the status of self-respect in the just society.
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McKean, Lindsay. "'Feeling like me again' : reconstructing women's self-image through breast reconstruction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24951.
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An examination of the relevant literature revealed a lack of theoretical conceptualisations of breast reconstruction’s role regarding women’s self-image. The present study aimed to explore this topic further and develop appropriate theory. A Grounded Theory methodology was employed to retrospectively explore the experiences of women who had undergone breast reconstruction, focusing upon the concept of self-image. Ten participants took part in the current study, recruited from breast cancer support groups. Data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews and analysed via the NVivo 8 computer package. The views of three breast cancer care staff were also canvassed via focus group in order to verify the findings and emerging theory. The current investigation generated a core category entitled ‘Feeling like me again’. This category emerged as a reflection of the participants’ belief that breast reconstruction surgery has helped them to restore a sense of normality in their lives and in how they see themselves. The core category comprised two principal categories, namely ‘Normal Appearance’ and ‘Normal Life’, and their subordinate themes. A further two main categories were generated, entitled ‘Moving On’ and ‘Image of Sick Person’. The categories were formulated into a Model of Breast Cancer, Breast Reconstruction and Self-Image. Implications of this model in relation to existing theory and clinical practice were considered. This study has highlighted that breast reconstruction’s role in relation to women’s self-image is subtle and wide-ranging.
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Griffiths, Owen. "The reconstruction of self and society in early postwar Japan 1945-1949." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ48640.pdf.
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Leggett, I. C. "3D scene reconstruction and object recognition for use with AGV self positioning." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320495.
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Hutchinson, Susan L. "The altered self, an exploration of the processes of self-identity reconstruction by people who acquire a brain injury." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24973.pdf.
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Pile, E. G. L. "Self and World : A critique and Jamesian reconstruction of the phenomenology od selfhood." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510490.
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Yamaoka, Ryuichi. "Morality and politics of a modern self : a critical reconstruction of Lockean liberalism." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1997. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2470/.
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This thesis attempts to delineate the moral and political thought of John Locke as a philosophical narrative of liberalism. A central issue of the thesis is the idea of the liberal or modern self, but I do not interpret Locke's thought exclusively from this perspective. Rather, do I attempt to describe a moral vision that integrates Locke's ideas as a whole, in which his concept of the self is to be understood. The thesis shows that Locke's moral vision is a serious contribution to the liberal tradition, which gives us an insight into another, non-Kantian liberalism. After explaining the methodological nature of the thesis in the Introduction, I illustrate the development of Locke's early thought in chapters two and three. This reveals some theoretical problems imposed upon the intellectual effort of the mature Locke. The following three chapters deal with Locke's magnum opus. Essay concerning Human Understanding; they show that despite his failure to construct a demonstrative science of morality, Locke achieved a moral vision in his philosophical enterprise which has more enduring value than the moral science. Chapter seven interprets Locke's political argument from the standpoint of this moral vision. It sheds new light on Locke's political individualism (his theory of property, social contract, civil government, public good, political obligation, and revolution), and reveals some aspects of the nature of liberal politics. Chapter eight directly deals with Locke's concept of the self. It elucidates two distinct elements in his argument for the self (which are, in abstraction, mutually antagonistic), and explains how this duality of the concept of the self is secured in Locke's moral vision without difficulty. The conclusion summarises the main arguments presented in the thesis and suggests how we are to develop the insights we discovered in Locke's moral vision.
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Ged, Geneva. "Conscious Reconstruction: The Effects of Second Language Acquisition on Self-Perception of Gender Identity." TopSCHOLAR®, 2013. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1317.
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Gender interacts with other facets of English Language Learners’ social identity like race and ethnicity to guide their learning experiences, desires, and outcomes; however, much of traditional Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) research has focused on how motivation and language learning beliefs differ between male and female English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) students with the intent to identify difference, if it exists. English Language Learners who are studying abroad or who have immigrated to the United States have already established a gender identity influenced and created by their experiences in their first language and culture. Yet, immersion in a new culture and acquiring a second language may cause these students to re-evaluate their perceptions of gender roles and influence their choice of language, as previously found by Gordon (2004) and Schmenk (2004). This thesis attempts to break from this tradition of ‘differential tendencies’ research in the creation of two pilot surveys, one of which was tested, that attempt to solicit information on English Language Learner’s perceptions of their own gendered identity and their consciousness of the catalyst for identity change that is learning a second language. In this case, an English pilot survey asked 32 ESL students to evaluate their beliefs about their own perceptions of gender identity, their conscious choice of language utilization, and their perception of their inclusion in American culture; from that survey, a second has been created but not piloted. A conclusion is drawn that incorporates research about the appropriateness of addressing developing gender identity by teachers inside of the classroom.
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Travers, Michele Kerry. "From Violation to Reconstruction: The Process of Self-Renewal Associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome." University of Sydney. Clinical Nursing, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/636.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a contested condition that generates scepticism and occupies a marginalised position within medical and social contexts. The thesis examines the illness experiences, and specifically the experiences of self, for people affected with CFS. Using qualitative inquiry, a substantive theory related to the process of self-renewal and adaptation associated with CFS is explicated. The theory encompasses the trajectory of CFS from onset to chronicity, and in exceptional instances, recovery. Illness narratives were derived from in-depth, semi-structured interviews of 19 adults, including 16 people affected with, and 3 people recovered from, CFS. Data was coded and analysed using a grounded theory approach. Analysis generated two parallel narratives that defined the illness experience of CFS: the narrative of the illness biographies and the narrative of self, specifically the struggling and diminished self seeking renewal. The illness biographies encompassed the stories of symptoms and their explanations, the encounters that ensued and their contentious milieu. The narrative of self was the primary narrative. It articulated the negative consequences to self and personhood associated with CFS, named the Violation of Self, and the consequent efforts of participants to decrease the struggle and violation by use of the Guardian Response and the Reconstructing Response. The Guardian Response provided protection and self-reclamation. The Reconstructing Response fostered self-renewal and meaning. The two narratives were bridged by the threats of CFS. That is, the illness biographies were accompanied by threats of disruption related to chronic illness, and by threats of invalidation that arose from CFS as a contested condition. In turn, these threats provided the catalyst to the violation and responses as described in the narrative of self. Under different conditions the relative strengths of violation, guardianship or reconstruction fluctuated, and it was these fluctuations that presented the participants with the ongoing struggle of CFS.
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Barker, Thomas William. "A comparative study of the reconstruction of self among depressed and non-depressed older adults." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246186.
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Zhou, Qiping. "Near-field microwave imaging with coherent and interferometric reconstruction methods." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1591903415194694.
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Rastgar, Houman. "Robust Self-Calibration and Fundamental Matrix Estimation in 3D Computer Vision." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26199.
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The recent advances in the field of computer vision have brought many of the laboratory algorithms into the realm of industry. However, one problem that still remains open in the field of 3D vision is the problem of noise. The challenging problem of 3D structure recovery from images is highly sensitive to the presence of input data that are contaminated by errors that do not conform to ideal assumptions. Tackling the problem of extreme data, or outliers has led to many robust methods in the field that are able to handle moderate levels of outliers and still provide accurate outputs. However, this problem remains open, especially for higher noise levels and so it has been the goal of this thesis to address the issue of robustness with respect to two central problems in 3D computer vision. The two problems are highly related and they have been presented together within a Structure from Motion (SfM) context. The first, is the problem of robustly estimating the fundamental matrix from images whose correspondences contain high outlier levels. Even though this area has been extensively studied, two algorithms have been proposed that significantly speed up the computation of the fundamental matrix and achieve accurate results in scenarios containing more than 50% outliers. The presented algorithms rely on ideas from the field of robust statistics in order to develop guided sampling techniques that rely on information inferred from residual analysis. The second, problem addressed in this thesis is the robust estimation of camera intrinsic parameters from fundamental matrices, or self-calibration. Self-calibration algorithms are notoriously unreliable for general cases and it is shown that the existing methods are highly sensitive to noise. In spite of this, robustness in self-calibration has received little attention in the literature. Through experimental results, it is shown that it is essential for a real-world self-calibration algorithm to be robust. In order to introduce robustness to the existing methods, three robust algorithms have been proposed that utilize existing constraints for self-calibration from the fundamental matrix. However, the resulting algorithms are less affected by noise than existing algorithms based on these constraints. This is an important milestone since self-calibration offers many possibilities by providing estimates of camera parameters without requiring access to the image acquisition device. The proposed algorithms rely on perturbation theory, guided sampling methods and a robust root finding method for systems of higher order polynomials. By adding robustness to self-calibration it is hoped that this idea is one step closer to being a practical method of camera calibration rather than merely a theoretical possibility.
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Miller, Brett A. "The sacred art of verbal self-defense : image restoration discourse in christian rhetoric /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9962548.
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Hu, Donghan. "ScreenTrack: Using Visual History for Self-tracking Computer Activities and Retrieving Working Context." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91181.
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People spend a significant amount of time using computers at work, at home, or school. Given users switch tasks and are frequently interrupted or distracted while working, reconstructing working context is inevitable. For example, users sometimes need to revisit an arbitrary task from the past to retrieve necessary information (e.g., webpages, files). In this scenario, retrieving working context can be time-consuming or even impossible; users may rely on their memory and may not be able to retrieve the relevant documents that they used before. Sometimes application provides a chronological history of recently opened documents (files, websites). However, it can be challenging to find the right information they need as there are many and users may not recognize from the text-based data (e.g. web page titles, document file name). Therefore, helping them reconstruct mental context and retrieving relevant applications and files can enhance overall productivity. To that end, the concept of self-tracking, which is widely used in health and fitness, is applied to the context of computer usage. In particular, the idea of using a history of a computer screen can provide visuals that users can associate with existing meta-data (file location, web page URL, time). A user can reconstruct working context from the screen visual that they recognize. The idea of using a visual history of a computer screen activities is tested through the development of ScreenTrack, a program that captures a computer screen regularly and let a user watch a time-lapse video made of computer screenshots, and retrieve applications, files, and web pages from a snapshot of a screen. I hypothesize that the chronological history of computer screen activities can effectively help users navigate visual working context and retrieve information that is associated with a snapshot. Through a controlled user study, it was found that participants were able to retrieve information that they were asked more quickly with ScreenTrack than the control condition with statistical significance (p<0.005). Besides, participants gave positive feedback on the software that they would like to use such software in their computers in various context, but expressed potential concerns of using such software for privacy and computer storage problems. In this thesis, I motivate the need of such software, review the related work, share the design consideration, and introduce design and implementation process, validate the effects of ScreenTrack with a controlled user study.Master of Science
Nowadays, people spend a significant amount of time using computers at work, at home, or school. Users switch software frequently and are often interrupted or distracted while working. Hence recalling previous working context is inevitable for computer users. Recalling previous working context can take lots of time or even impossible. Because users may rely on their own memory and may not be able to recall and retrieve the relevant documents that they used before. Sometimes software provides a history of recently opened documents (files, websites). However, it can be challenging to find the right information they need as there are many recorded information. And users may not recognize documents of interest from the textual data (e.g. web page titles, document file name). Therefore, helping people restore previous working context and reopening relevant software and files can enhance overall productivity. I designed and developed a software, called ScreenTrack. This software can take pictures of current computer screen regularly and store them. Later, users can watch a video made of stored screenshots. Based on this video, individuals can recall their previous computer activities and reopen closed software, websites, files, and documents from a snapshot. Through a controlled user study, I found that participants were able to retrieve previous computer activities more quickly under the help of ScreenTrack than without ScreenTrack. With ScreenTrack, participants spend 27.1 seconds on average to reopen a previous closed website, 37% faster than without it. Furthermore, participants gave positive feedback on this software that they would like to use ScreenTrack in the future for various purposes, for doing researches and reading papers.
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Dieuleveut, Daphné. "Coupe et reconstruction d'arbres et de cartes aléatoires." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015SACLS217/document.
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Cette thèse se divise en deux parties. Nous nous intéressons dans un premier temps à des fragmentations d'arbres aléatoires, et aux arbres des coupes associés. Dans le cadre discret, les modèles étudiés sont des arbres de Galton-Watson, fragmentés en enlevant successivement des arêtes choisies au hasard. Nous étudions également leurs analogues continus, l'arbre brownien et les arbres stables, que l'on fragmente en supprimant des points donnés par des processus ponctuels de Poisson. L'arbre des coupes associé à l'un de ces processus, discret ou continu, décrit la généalogie des composantes connexes créées au fur et à mesure de la dislocation. Pour une fragmentation qui se concentre autour de nœuds de grand degré, nous montrons que l'arbre des coupes continu est la limite d'échelle des arbres des coupes discrets correspondants. Dans les cas brownien et stable, nous montrons également que l'on peut reconstruire l'arbre initial à partir de son arbre des coupes et d'un étiquetage bien choisi de ses points de branchement. Nous étudions ensuite un problème portant sur les cartes aléatoires, et plus précisément sur la quadrangulation uniforme infinie du plan (UIPQ). De récents résultats montrent que dans l'UIPQ, toutes les géodésiques infinies issues de la racine sont essentiellement similaires. Nous déterminons la quadrangulation limite obtenue en ré-enracinant l'UIPQ ''à l'infini'' sur de l'une de ces géodésiques. Cette étude se fait en découpant l'UIPQ le long de cette géodésique. Nous étudions les deux parties ainsi créées via une correspondance avec des arbres discrets, puis nous obtenons la limite souhaitée par recollementThis PhD thesis is divided into two parts. First, we study some fragmentations of random trees and the associated cut-trees. The discrete models we are interested in are Galton-Watson trees, which are cut down by recursively removing random edges. We also consider their continuous counterparts, the Brownian and stable trees, which are fragmented by deleting the atoms of Poisson point processes. For these discrete and continuous models, the associated cut-tree describes the genealogy of the connected components which appear during the cutting procedure. We show that for a ''vertex-fragmentation'', in which the nodes having a large degree are more susceptible to be deleted, the continuous cut-tree is the scaling limit of the corresponding discrete cut-trees. In the Brownian and stable cases, we also give a transformation which rebuilds the initial tree from its cut-tree and a well chosen labeling of its branchpoints. The second part relates to random maps, and more precisely the uniform infinite quadrangulation of the plane (UIPQ). Recent results show that in the UIPQ, all infinite geodesic rays originating from the root are essentially similar. We identify the limit quadrangulation obtained by rerooting the UIPQ at a point ''at infinity'' on one of these geodesics. To do this, we split the UIPQ along this geodesic ray. Using a correspondence with discrete trees, we study the two sides, and obtain the desired limit by gluing them back together
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Calvet, Lilian. "Méthodes de reconstruction tridimensionnelle intégrant des points cycliques : application au suivi d’une caméra." Phd thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2014. http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/11901/1/Calvet.pdf.
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Cette thèse traite de la reconstruction tridimensionnelle d’une scène rigide à partir d’une collection de photographies numériques, dites vues. Le problème traité est connu sous le nom du "calcul de la structure et du mouvement" (structure-and/from-motion) qui consiste à "expliquer" des trajectoires de points dits d’intérêt au sein de la collection de vues par un certain mouvement de l’appareil (dont sa trajectoire) et des caractéristiques géométriques tridimensionnelles de la scène. Dans ce travail, nous proposons les fondements théoriques pour étendre certaines méthodes de calcul de la structure et du mouvement afin d’intégrer comme données d’entrée, des points d’intérêt réels et des points d’intérêt complexes, et plus précisément des images de points cycliques. Pour tout plan projectif, les points cycliques forment une paire de points complexes conjugués qui, par leur invariance par les similitudes planes, munissent le plan projectif d’une structure euclidienne. Nous introduisons la notion de marqueurs cycliques qui sont des marqueurs plans permettant de calculer sans ambiguïté les images des points cycliques de leur plan de support dans toute vue. Une propriété de ces marqueurs, en plus d’être très "riches" en information euclidienne, est que leurs images peuvent être appariées même si les marqueurs sont disposés arbitrairement sur des plans parallèles, grâce à l’invariance des points cycliques. Nous montrons comment utiliser cette propriété dans le calcul projectif de la structure et du mouvement via une technique matricielle de réduction de rang, dite de factorisation, de la matrice des données correspondant aux images de points réels, complexes et/ou cycliques. Un sous-problème critique abordé dans le calcul de la structure et du mouvement est celui de l’auto-calibrage de l’appareil, problème consistant à transformer un calcul projectif en un calcul euclidien. Nous expliquons comment utiliser l’information euclidienne fournie par les images des points cycliques dans l’algorithme d’auto-calibrage opérant dans l’espace projectif dual et fondé sur des équations linéaires. L’ensemble de ces contributions est finalement utilisé pour une application de suivi automatique de caméra utilisant des marqueurs formés par des couronnes concentriques (appelés CCTags), où il s’agit de calculer le mouvement tridimensionnel de la caméra dans la scène à partir d’une séquence vidéo. Ce type d’application est généralement utilisé dans l’industrie du cinéma ou de la télévision afin de produire des effets spéciaux. Le suivi de caméra proposé dans ce travail a été conçu pour proposer le meilleur compromis possible entre flexibilité d’utilisation et précision des résultats obtenus.
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Randall, Julian. "Enforced change at work, the reconstruction of basic assumptions and its influence on attribution, self-sufficiency and the psychological contract." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12899.
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The theoretical underpinning of Human Resource Management assumes the existence of individual motivation, which can be manipulated or managed in a way that enables organisational objectives to be achieved with the compliance and commitment of the individual worker. However, the increasing incidence of mergers, takeovers and reengineering has imposed on the individuals caught up in it change and challenge, which leaves even those retaining their employment doubtful of the benefits of HRM proclaimed by employers. Job insecurity has been well researched by those who wish to examine how enforced change affects the survivors both within the organisation and those who move on to alternative employment elsewhere. Charting the change undergone by individuals suffering such enforced change at work has traditionally involved attempts to measure the antecedents of change and correlating it to the consequences of the change. In this way the effects of imposed change on individuals can be linked to organisational consequences like intention to leave or job satisfaction. The present research allows individuals to reflect on their own confirmed and disconfirmed expectancies following the experience of enforced change at work. It allows them to examine what assumptions they had about their employer's behaviour during enforced change and how far they have accepted or rejected the legitimacy of that behaviour. For each of them this has involved interpreting events occurring during enforced change. Such interpretation may reinforce the meaning of work and its inherent value or threaten continued belief in the value of employers' promises of employment and career development. Identifying expectancies enables the researcher to examine the different responses to questions of attribution, self-sufficiency and the traditional elements of loyalty and trust together with the individual's assessment of how he or she would respond to a repeat of such enforced change. The conclusions of the present research indicate that individuals who maintain traditional beliefs of loyalty and trust are more likely to experience alienation than those who evince an independence who seek to use working experience to gain more knowledge and skill and so increase their own employability. The future dependence of employers on traditional promises of career development and life long learning would seem to have been circumscribed by the many individuals whose experience of enforced change has convinced them they need to take ownership of their own destiny in which different employers will play but a fleeting part.
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Hellström, Karlsson Rebecca, and Tobias Peterson. "Extracting Cardiac and Respiratory Self-Gating Signals from Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknik och hälsa (STH), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-171570.
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Motion artefacts due to cardiac and respiratory motion present a daily challenge in cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and many different motion correction procedures are used in clinical routine imaging. To reduce motion artefacts further, patients are required to hold their breath during parts of the data acquisition, which is physically straining – especially when done repetitively. Self-Gating (SG) is a method that extracts cardiac and respiratory motion information from the MRI data in the form of signals, called SG signals, and uses them to divide the data into the specific cardiac and respiratory phases it was acquired from. This method both avoids motion artefacts and allow for free-breathing acquisition. This project’s goal was to find a method for extracting cardiac and respiratory SG signals from MRI data. The data was acquired with a golden angle radial acquisition method for 3-dimensional (3D) scans. Extraction of the raw signal was tested for both raw k-space data and high temporal resolution image series, where the images were reconstructed using a sliding window reconstruction. Filters were then applied to isolate the cardiac and respiratory information, to create separate cardiac and respiratory SG signals. Thereafter trigger points marking the beginning of the cardiac and respiratory cycles were generated. The trigger points were compared against ECG and respiratory trigger points provided by the MR scanner. The conclusion was that the SG signals based on k-space data was functional on the scans from the evaluated subjects and the most effective choice of the two options, but image based SG signals may prove to be functional after further studies.Rörelseartefakter på grund av hjärt- och respirationsrörelser är idag vardagliga utmaningar inom magnetresonanstomografi (MR) av hjärtat, och många olika metoder används för att eliminera rörelseartefakterna. Patienterna behöver dessutom hålla andan under delar av dataupptagningen, vilket är fysiskt ansträngande – speciellt när det sker upprepade gånger. Self-Gating (SG) är en metod som extraherar information hjärt- och respirationsrytm från MR-datan i form av signaler, kallade SG signaler, och använder dem för att dela in datan i de specifika hjärt- respektive respirationsfaser som var när datan upptogs. Denna metod både undviker rörelseartefakter och tillåter fri andning under dataupptagningen. Målet med det här projektet var att hitta en metod för att extrahera SG signaler för hjärt- och respirationsrytm från MR-data. Datan samlades in med en golden angle radial-upptagning för 3- dimensionella (3D) scanningar. Extraheringen av den råa signalen testades på både rå k-space data och på bildserier av 3D-bilder med hög tidsupplösning, där bilderna var rekonstruerade med en sliding window rekonstruktion. Därefter applicerades filter för att isolera hjärt- och respirationsinformationen, för att få separata SG signaler med endast hjärt- respektive respirationsrytmer. Till slut genererades triggerpunkter för att markera början av hjärt- respektive respirationscyklerna. Dessa jämfördes med triggerpunkter uppmätta med EKG och andningskudde i magnetkameran. Slutsatsen för projektet var att SG signalerna som baserades på k-space data var funktionell för de scanningar som testades och det mest effektiva alternativet, men SG signalerna som baserades på bilder kan visa sig fungera efter mer studier.
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Daher, Rania. "L’architecture en terre crue dans la vallée du Jourdain ; une filière en reconstruction…temporaire." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015SACLV003/document.
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Le but de ce travail de recherche est de démontrer que la ré-exploitation des matériaux locaux de construction dans la vallée du Jourdain, peut contribuer à une autonomie des communautés rurales palestiniennes. Pour ce faire, cette thèse questionne le développement de la filière terre dans ces territoires. Nous posons l’hypothèse qu’il existe un lien étroit entre les transformations de la société rurale, de sa structure économique et politique, et les transformations de la filière constructive en terre. ‘Trois temps’ de cette filière ont été relevés et ont permis de vérifier cette hypothèse. Le cas de la Palestine avant 1920, l’habitat en terre crue entre 1920 et 1970 et finalement la situation actuelle. Ces évolutions nous ont permis de comprendre que la ré-exploitation des matériaux locaux permet une véritable autonomie lorsque la filière est intégrée aux pratiques économiques et sociales en cours. Cette idée a été vérifiée par l’étude du contexte actuel où la filière est en reconstruction temporaire car déconnectée des pratiques sociales et économiques. Ce travail de recherche se divise en trois parties, à l’image de ces ‘trois temps’. La première détaille la relation entre la filière terre et la notion de développement durable pour faire le lien ensuite au cas de la Palestine avant 1920. La seconde précise le changement de valeurs qui s’est opéré entre 1920 et 1970 dans la société rurale et les transformations de l’habitat qui y sont liées. Enfin, la dernière partie tente d’évaluer la reconstruction de cette filière en détaillant le contexte politique et économique actuel pour le confronter ensuite aux actions des nouveaux acteurs sur le terrainThis research aims to demonstrate that the re-use of local building materials in the Jordan Valley can contribute to the autonomy of rural Palestinian communities. To achieve this, we question the evolution of the earthen building sector in these territories. We assume that there is a close link between the transformations of the rural society, its economic and political structure and the transformations that appeared in the earthen building sector. Three historical periods have been identified and have verified this hypothesis: the case of Palestine before 1920, the period between 1920 and 1970 and finally the current situation. Through these evolutions, we understood that the re-use of local materials allows real autonomy when the earthen building sector is integrated to the ongoing social and economic practices. This idea was verified by studying the current context where this building sector knows a temporary reconstruction. This research is divided into three parts. The first part details the relation that exists between earthen architecture and the concept of sustainable development; we will be explaining the case of Palestine before 1920. The second part specifies the changing values of rural society that have taken place between 1920 and 1970 and the transformations of the habitat linked to it. Finally, the last section attempts to assess the reconstruction of this building sector by detailing the current political and economic context and confronting it with the projects led by the “new actors” on the ground
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Markari, Adrian. "Investigation on the self-healing capabilties of asphaltic materials using neutron imaging." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Bro- och stålbyggnad, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-291114.
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Bitumen acts as a binding agent in asphalt mixtures where it binds the aggregates together. It is known for its potential to heal small cracks and recover its mechanical properties under the right conditions. Though this self-healing property is known, there is currently a lack of knowledge about the mechanisms that drive the process. To optimize the use of this material for pavement design, the healing ability should be better understood and controlled. In this work, it is investigated how neutron imaging can be used to increase the understanding of the mechanisms behind the self-healing in bitumen. As a first step, the sample size requirement set by the measurement technique was determined. In order to detect micro cracks in bitumen by using this technique, the sample must be sufficiently small to allow neutron transmission. On the other hand, too small samples would complicate the structural analysis of the material since less information would be possible to obtain. Bitumen with different dimensions were scanned with neutrons to determine the maximum sample thickness. This work was followed by evaluating the healing capability of fractured bitumen and mastic samples, by using time series neutron tomography. The studied samples had a varying combination of hydrated lime (HL) filler concentration, crack volume, and contact area between the broken pieces. The data acquired from the time series tomography scans was analyzed using a three-dimensional analysis procedure including denoising, segmentation and volume measurements. From the volumetric analysis, it appeared that the initial crack size and crack shape have a large impact on the healing rate. It was found that bitumen, mastic with 20%, and 30% filler content had a similar healing behavior for relatively small crack volumes. When increasing the content of HL in the mastic, the healing rate decreases exponentially, with a drastic decrease after reaching a filler content of about 30%.Bitumen fungerar som bindemedel i asfaltsblandningar där det binder ihop stenaggregaten. Bitumen är känd för sin förmåga att läka små sprickor och återfå sina mekaniska egenskaper under rätt förutsättningar. Trots att den självläkande egenskapen är välkänd, råder det idag en brist på kunskap om de mekanismer som ligger bakom denna process. För att optimera användandet av bitumen för vägbeläggningar behövs en bättre förståelse kring denna läkande egenskap. I detta projekt undersöks det hur neutronavbildning kan användas för att öka förståelsen kring de mekanismer som ligger bakom den självläkande egenskapen hos bitumen. Som ett första steg bestämdes provstorlekskravet för denna analysteknik. För att möjliggöra detekteringen av små sprickor i bitumen genom att använda denna teknik måste provmaterialet vara tillräckligt tunt för att neutronerna ska kunna transmitteras genom materialet. Allt för små provstorlekar skulle, å andra sidan, försvåra analysen av materialets struktur då informationen man kan erhålla blir mer begränsad. Bitumen med olika provstorlekar skannades med neutroner för att bestämma den maximala provtjockleken. Därefter analyserades den självläkande förmågan hos brutna bitumen- och bitumenmastixprover med tidsserie neutrontomografi. Prover med olika mängder av kalciumhydroxidfiller i bitumenblandningen, olika storlek på sprickvolymen och kontaktytan mellan de brutna provdelarna studerades. Data erhållna från experimenten användes för att göra en 3-dimensionell analys som inkluderade brusreducering av bilder, segmentering och volymmätningar. Från volymanalyserna konstaterades det att den initiala sprickstorleken och sprickformen har en stor inverkan på läkningstakten. Bitumen, mastix med 20%, och 30% filler-additiv uppvisade liknande läkningsegenskaper för relativt små sprickstorlekar. Vid en ökning av mängden filler material i mastixen minskar läkningstakten exponentiellt, med en drastisk minskning när man passerar en filler-koncentration på runt 30%.
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Infante, Maria Margarida Picciochi Azevedo Alves. "Arquitectura de resposta a situações de emergência : intervenção em Bohol." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arqeuitetura, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7764.
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Badescu, Gruia. "Architecture, 'coming to terms with the past' and the 'world in common' : post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284391.
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This dissertation discusses the rebuilding of cities after war in the context of the changing character of warfare and the increased expectations for societies to deal with difficult pasts. Departing from studies that approach post-war reconstruction focusing on the functional dimension of infrastructural repair and housing relief or on debates about architectural form, this dissertation examines reconstruction through the lens of the process of 'coming to terms with the past'. It explores how understandings of victimhood and responsibility influence the rebuilding of urban space. Conversely, it argues that cities and architecture, through the meanings ascribed to them by various actors, play an important role in dealing with the past. Building on the moral philosophy of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt, it discusses the potential of reconstruction for societies to work through the past, then it engages with frictions highlighted by three situations of rebuilding after different types of war. First, it examines the rebuilding of Belgrade as the capital of socialist Yugoslavia after the aerial bombings typical of the Second World War. Second, it analyses reconstruction debates in the same city after the 1999 NATO bombings, a high-tech operation, framed by NATO as a preventative, humanitarian intervention against a 'perpetrator' state. Third, it discusses rebuilding processes in Sarajevo, where destruction was inflicted between 1992 and 1995 by actors internal to the country, albeit with international ramifications, exemplary of Mary Kaldor's 'new wars'. Based on thirteen months of fieldwork conducted in Belgrade and Sarajevo between 2012 and 2015, it analyses intentions and consequences of reconstruction acts. It suggests the potential and the challenges of a reflective reconstruction, which engages critically with the past, and of a syncretic place-making reconstruction, which focuses on place and its agonistic promise. Its main contribution is to highlight the essential relationship between reconstruction and coming to terms with the past, arguing for an understanding of reconstruction with regards to conflict itself.
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Maitland, Hilary Anne. "Disclosing childhood sexual assault in close relationships the meanings and emotions women associate with their experiences and their lives now /." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070815.161907/index.html.
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Orts-Escolano, Sergio. "A three-dimensional representation method for noisy point clouds based on growing self-organizing maps accelerated on GPUs." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/36484.
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The research described in this thesis was motivated by the need of a robust model capable of representing 3D data obtained with 3D sensors, which are inherently noisy. In addition, time constraints have to be considered as these sensors are capable of providing a 3D data stream in real time. This thesis proposed the use of Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) as a 3D representation model. In particular, we proposed the use of the Growing Neural Gas (GNG) network, which has been successfully used for clustering, pattern recognition and topology representation of multi-dimensional data. Until now, Self-Organizing Maps have been primarily computed offline and their application in 3D data has mainly focused on free noise models, without considering time constraints. It is proposed a hardware implementation leveraging the computing power of modern GPUs, which takes advantage of a new paradigm coined as General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU). The proposed methods were applied to different problem and applications in the area of computer vision such as the recognition and localization of objects, visual surveillance or 3D reconstruction.
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Cerles, Mélanie. "Evaluation et développement d'un modèle de la mémoire épisodique reposant sur un processus de mise à jour égocentrée." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GRENS003/document.
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La mémoire épisodique donne la capacité de voyager mentalement dans son propre passé. En cela,elle permet de faire fi du temps qui passe pour pouvoir revivre des événements passés. Ce travail dethèse évalue l’hypothèse selon laquelle la mémoire épisodique et la sensation de revivre un événementpassé (i.e., conscience autonoëtique) sont basées sur une fluence dans la reconstruction de l’épisode,reconstruction impliquant une mise à jour égocentrée. Cette proposition est développée dans le modèlede Gomez et collaborateurs (Gomez, Rousset & Baciu, 2009) qui propose que la mise à jourégocentrée permette de ré-instancier un point de vue spatialisé égocentré sur l’évènement remémoré.Ce travail de thèse a amené de nouveaux arguments en faveur de ce modèle, en évaluant à la foisl’approche attributionnelle de la mémoire épisodique et le lien fonctionnel entre la mise à jourégocentrée en ligne et la mémoire épisodique. Une première série d’études met en évidence uneinfluence de la fluence du processus de mise à jour égocentrée sur la conscience autonoëtique.L’augmentation artificielle de la fluence de mise à jour égocentrée, lors de la reconnaissance,augmente le sentiment de conscience autonoëtique et ce uniquement lorsque la reconnaissanceimplique une reconstruction. Une seconde série d’études permet de mettre en évidence un effetd’interférence du processus de mise à jour égocentrée en ligne sur la récupération épisodique.Actualiser sa position dans l’espace lors d’un déplacement a beau être un processus automatique, celaralentit spécifiquement le rappel de source. Enfin, une étude impliquant des patients atteints de lamaladie d’Alzheimer, met en évidence une dissociation entre les compétences en mise à jourégocentrée chez ces patients. Ces résultats sont discutés dans le cadre du modèle de Gomez etcollaborateurs et en regard d’une conception incarnée et située de la cognitionEpisodic memory makes it possible to mentally travel back in our own past; it breaks the law of theunidirectionality of time, and allows us to mentally relive past events. The main goal of this work wasto investigate whether episodic memory and the subjective feeling of reliving a past event (i.e.,autonoetic consciousness) arise from the fluency of the reconstruction process of the event. Thisreconstruction would involve the process of egocentric spatial updating with self-motion. Thishypothesis was first developed in Gomez and colleagues' model (Gomez, Rousset, & Baciu, 2009) thatsuggests that egocentric updating re-instances an egocentric spatial point of view on the rememberedevent. The present work brings additional behavioral evidences to this model by assessing both theconception of attributional episodic memory and the functional link between online egocentricupdating with self-motion and episodic memory. A first set of studies showed that enhancingartificially the fluency of the egocentric updating process, during the recognition phase, increasedautonoetic consciousness. Moreover, such phenomenon only happened when recognition involved areconstruction process. A second set of studies showed that performing an online egocentric updatingwith self-motion interfered with remembering. Although the updating of its own position though selfmotionis automatic, it specifically slows down source recall. Finally, a last study showed adissociation between preservations of and deficits of egocentric spatial updating abilities in patientssuffering from Alzheimer's disease. The results of these studies are discussed in the context of Gomezand colleagues' model, and in terms of embodied and situated cognition
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Nurge, Mark. "ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE VOLUME TOMOGRAPHY OF HIGH CONTRAST DIELECTRICS USING A CUBOID GEOMETRY." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2974.
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An Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography system has been created for use with a new image reconstruction algorithm capable of imaging high contrast dielectric distributions. The electrode geometry consists of two 4 x 4 parallel planes of copper conductors connected through custom built switch electronics to a commercially available capacitance to digital converter. Typical electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) systems rely solely on mutual capacitance readings to reconstruct images of dielectric distributions. This dissertation presents a method of reconstructing images of high contrast dielectric materials using only the self capacitance measurements. By constraining the unknown dielectric material to one of two values, the inverse problem is no longer ill-determined. Resolution becomes limited only by the accuracy and resolution of the measurement circuitry. Images were reconstructed using this method with both synthetic and real data acquired using an aluminum structure inserted at different positions within the sensing region. Comparisons with standard two dimensional ECT systems highlight the capabilities and limitations of the electronics and reconstruction algorithm.Ph.D.
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Déchelle-Marquet, Marie. "Paleoclimate reconstructionfrom climate proxiesby neural methods." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263807.
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In the present work, we investigate the capacity of machine learning to reconstruct simulated large scale surface temperature anomalies given a sparse observation field. Several methods are combined: self-organizing maps and recurrent neural networks of the temporal trajectory. To evaluate our global scale reconstruction, we base our validation on global climate indices time series and EOF analysis. In our experiments, the obtained reconstructions of the global surface temperature anomalies provide a good correlation (over 90%) with the target values when considering scarce available observations sampling about 0.5% of the globe. We reconstruct the surface temperature anomaly fields from 0.05% of total number of data points. We obtain an RMSE of 0.39°C. We further validate the quality of the results calculating a correlation of 0.92, 0.97 and 0.98 between the reconstructed and target indices of AMO, ENSO and IPO.Klimatsystemet består av olika komponenter inklusive atmosfären, havet och jorden. Som ett öppet system utbyter det hela tiden energi med resten av universum. Det är också ett dynamiskt system vars utveckling kan förutsägas av kända fysiska lagar. Interaktionen mellan dess olika komponenter leder till en så kallad naturlig variation. Denna variabilitet återspeglas i form av svängningslägen, inklusive AMO, ENSO och IPO. För att studera dessa variationer har vi klimatmodeller som representerar de olika krafterna och deras effekt på klimatförändringar på lång sikt. I detta sammanhang är variationerna i det förflutna klimatet särskilt intressanta och tillåter oss en bättre förståelse av klimatförändringar och bättre förutsäga den framtida utvecklingen. Men för att studera det förflutna klimatet eller paleoklimat är den enda tillgängliga informationen endast fullständig under de senaste 150 åren. Innan dess är de enda tillgängliga indikatorerna naturliga, kallad klimatproxy, som trädringar eller iskärnor. Vi kan härleda tidsserier med klimatdata, till exempel temperatur. Denna information är emellertid knappast tillfälligt såväl som över hela världen. Återskapa det globala klimatet från sådana data hanteras fortfarande dåligt. Länken mellan lokal information och global klimat studeras här med hjälp av statistiska metoder, inklusive neurala nätverk. Det långsiktiga målet med denna studie är att bygga en metod för att rekonstruera paleoklimatet från data om klimatproxy, vi fokuserar inledningsvis på rekonstruktionen av ett så kallat perfekt klimat, det vill säga en modell som endast tar hänsyn till naturlig variation, från rumsligt sällsynta tidsserier. De studerade uppgifterna är de från globala yttemperaturutgångar från den havsatmosfärkopplade IPSL-modellen. Uppgifterna förbehandlas för att ta bort säsongens genomsnittliga cykel och omvandlas till temperaturavvikelser. Dessutom väljs rutnätpunkter som representerar information om proxyer pseudo-slumpmässigt, med respekt för den verkliga dispositionen av dessa, övervägande i norr på kontinenterna. Uppgifterna delas upp i träningsdata (150 år), validering (30 år) och testdata (120 år). De metoder som används kombinerar (1) självorganiserande kartor och hierarkisk stigande klassificering, användbara för att producera en reducerad storlek av inmatningsdata, här baserat på tidskorrelationen mellan temperaturutvecklingen under 150 år, (2) ItCompSOM använder korrelationen mellan klasser erhållna genom självorganiserande kartor för att rekonstruera obevakad data, (3) återkommande nervnätverk för att förklara den temporära komponenten i data och förbättra den tidigare rekonstruktionen. Slutligen är definitionen av nya mätvärden nödvändig för att validera de föreslagna modellerna. Utvärderingen av produkterna görs således genom temporär rekonstruktion av AMO, ENSO, IPO klimatlägen samt genom projicering av huvudkomponenterna i analysen av huvudkomponenterna i inputdata. Således konstrueras en reducerad modell av globala temperaturdata baserad på 150 års fullständiga data först, vilket reducerar den rumsliga informationen från 9216 rutnätpunkter till 191 regioner associerade med 1 medelvärde vardera. För att ansluta denna modell till tidssekvenser av sällsynta temperaturer i världen antas det att varje klass som innefattar minst en observerad proxy-data är känd. Rekonstruktionen av globala yttemperaturutvecklingar med ItCompSOM ger en korrelation till indexen på mer än 90% för endast 0,5% av de initiala observationerna. Detta resultat förbättras kraftigt tack vare återkommande nervnätverk, vilket leder till en korrelation av 0,92, 0,97 respektive 0,98 för AMO, ENSO och IPO med endast 0,05% av observationerna. Dessa poäng förklaras med den använda metoden, regionaliseringen hjälper till att koncentrera informationen. Medan 0,5% av rutpunkterna är lika med 43 poäng, om de är korrekt fördelade, representerar de 22% av informationen om regionerna (43 av 191). Dessa mycket uppmuntrande resultat återstår att tillämpas på verkliga klimatproblem, det vill säga med hänsyn till å ena sidan den externa och antropologiska kraften, osäkerheterna relaterade till de verkliga uppgifterna om ombud å andrasidan.
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Pak, Inchan. "Historical Reconstruction and Self-Search: A Study of Thomas Pynchon's V.. John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor. Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Nicrht. Robert Coover's The Public Burning, and E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277638/.
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A search for self through historical reconstruction constitutes a crucial concern of the American postmodern historical novels of Pynchon, Barth, Mailer, Coover, and Doctorow. This concern consists of a self-conscious dramatization, paralleled by contemporary theorists' arguments, of the constructedness of history and individual subject. A historian-character's process of historical inquiry and narrative-making foregrounded in these novels represents the efforts by the postmodern self to (re)construct identity (or identities) in a constructing context of discourse and ideology.
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Stančík, Petr. "Optoelektronické a fotogrammetrické měřicí systémy." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233413.
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Dissertation deals with analysis and design of optoelectronic and photogrammetric measuring systems. Specific design of optoelectronic contactless flat object area meters with analysis of attainable measurement accuracy is described. Next part is dedicated to stereophotogrammetry - principles of 3D reconstructions, methods of camera self-calibration and matching points in images are described. The analysis of attainable accuracy of monitored parameters is discussed too. Finally, the test program with implemented described routines is introduced. This test program enables practical aplication of stereophotogrammetric system for taking spatial coordinates of 3D objects.
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Silva, Welington Ribeiro da. "O ensino de matemática na escola pública: uma (inter)invenção pedagógica no 7º ano com o conceito de fração." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2011. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6088.
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Previous issue date: 2011-06-02The present work investigates the acquisition of the concept of rational number in its fractional representation in a group of 36 seventh grade students of the fundamental schooling, in a public school of Guarapari/ES. The students developed activities about fraction for about one year. In the year 2009, it was realized a pilot study with the students from this class when they were in the sixth grade. In the year 2010 (in the second semester), the students were investigated by research activities and records developed in the lessons. It was planned and implemented a pedagogical intervention with thirty nine classrooms. These considered the cognitive, affective, social and moral development of the students. And, at the same time, they took advantage of their previous experiences with fractions. The pedagogical intervention let them look again to initial concepts of fraction already studied in previous school years. It searched to instigate the students, and to comprehend cognitive strategies used by them, while conducting them in the process of (re)discovering and (re)constructing the different meanings of fraction. This occurred while they were experimenting and manipulating with concrete materials and/or graphical representations. In the study we describe some cognitive strategies used by the students. We verified disconnection between students‟ comprehension about division and fraction. At the beginning, and during the research, the students` strategies were limited to emphasize the part-whole meaning of fraction. At the initial phases of the work, we observed a strong tendency from some students in associating the fraction idea in geometrical shapes as the relationship between the colored parts to the non-colored ones of a shape. In addition to that, they showed not to comprehend the other ideas and meanings of fraction as part-whole, ratio, division or quotient and of multiplicative operator. During the investigation path, it was taken into consideration the students` informal knowledge, and the different strategies used by them in both individual and group activities. This praised students` knowledge, actions, cognitive strategies and dialogues in classroom. And this promoted interactions among the students and with the teacher with respect to mathematics, and in particular, the fraction concept. This offered a view about the several meanings linked with fraction. In other words, it offered diversity of teaching and learning processes as well as reflections about students` strategies and teacher`s teaching methods. The work restored students` self-esteem who felt completely incapable of learning mathematics because they had remained previously in the same school year two or more time due to their several failure experiences with mathematics. The students felt able to learning mathematics, solving activities and problems and enjoying studying mathematics. The results display the importance of student`s action in the learning tasks through the reconstruction of fraction meanings in the school experience in order to occur a meaningful learning situation. The investigation points out the need to explore the acquisition of rational numbers in several situations and in different contexts, and in this way to rethink the teaching of fraction in school
Este trabalho investiga a aquisição do conceito de número racional em sua representação fracionária em um grupo de 36 estudantes do sétimo ano do Ensino Fundamental, numa escola pública do município de Guarapari/ES. Os alunos desenvolveram atividades sobre fração durante cerca de um ano. Em 2009, foi realizado um estudo piloto com os alunos no sexto ano. Em 2010 (segundo semestre), investigou-se esses alunos por meio de atividades de pesquisa e registros desenvolvidos nas aulas. Foi planejada e realizada uma intervenção pedagógica com trinta e nove aulas. Essas consideravam o desenvolvimento cognitivo, afetivo, social e moral dos estudantes. E, ao mesmo tempo, aproveitavam experiências anteriores deles com frações. A intervenção pedagógica permitia-lhes retomar conceitos iniciais de fração, já estudados em anos anteriores. Buscou-se instigar os alunos e compreender estratégias cognitivas usadas por eles, conduzindo-os no processo de (re)descoberta e (re)construção dos diferentes significados de fração. Isso ocorreu enquanto iam experimentando e manipulando com materiais concretos e/ou representações gráficas. No estudo, nós descrevemos algumas estratégias cognitivas utilizadas pelos alunos. Verificamos desconexão entre a compreensão dos alunos sobre divisão e fração. De início, e mesmo no decorrer da pesquisa, as estratégias dos alunos se limitavam a enfatizar o significado de parte-todo. Nas fases iniciais de nosso trabalho, constatamos uma forte tendência de alguns alunos em associar a ideia de fração em figuras geométricas como a relação entre as partes pintadas e as partes não pintadas de uma figura. Além de demonstrarem não compreender as outras ideias e significados de fração como parte-todo, razão, divisão ou quociente, e operador multiplicativo. Durante o caminhar da investigação levou-se em consideração o conhecimento informal dos alunos, e as diferentes estratégias utilizadas por eles em atividades individuais e em grupo. Isso valorizou conhecimentos, ações, estratégias cognitivas e diálogos dos alunos em aula. E promoveu interações entre eles e com o professor a respeito de matemática e, em particular, do conceito de fração. Isso proporcionou um olhar sobre os diversos significados associados com o tema. Ou seja, permitiu diversidade de processos de ensino e aprendizagem, assim como reflexão sobre as estratégias usadas pelos alunos e procedimentos de ensino do professor. O trabalho resgatou a autoestima de alunos que se sentiam anteriormente incapacitados de aprender matemática por terem duas ou mais reprovações anteriores em matemática. Os alunos se sentiram capazes de aprender, resolver atividades e problemas matemáticos e gostar de estudar matemática. Os resultados revelam a importância da atuação do aluno nas tarefas de aprendizagem por meio da reconstrução de significados de fração na experiência escolar para que ocorra uma situação de aprendizagem significativa. A pesquisa aponta a necessidade de explorar a aquisição de números racionais em várias situações e em diferentes contextos, e assim repensar o ensino de fração na escola
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Page, Brian Daniel. "Local Matters: Race, Place, and Community Politics After the Civil War." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1249417207.
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Dolis, Chad M. "Allocation by Association: Goal Networks and the Allocation of Resources Across Multiple Demands." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1375388896.
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Pitman, Sophie. "The making of clothing and the making of London, 1560-1660." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269651.
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In recent years, urban historians have established that the period from 1560 to 1660 was a key era for London’s development from a relatively small European urban centre into a large dynamic global capital. This dissertation attempts to intervene in London scholarship by drawing attention to the economic, political, religious and – most significantly – cultural importance of clothing in the city in this period. Using material, visual, literary and archival sources, it explores the ways clothing contributed to the development of early modern London and, in turn, how London’s rapid growth changed the making, wearing, and meaning of clothing. This dissertation places material evidence at the fore using extant objects from museum collections. It also employs the new methodology of reconstruction to explore craft, ingenuity, and emotional self-expression in dress. As clothing infused economic and social life, it draws upon on a wide range of evidence, from London guild records, to portraits, travel accounts, personal letters, diaries and account books, plays, sermons and poems. With a focus on urban experience, this dissertation discusses not only elite luxury consumption, but also investigates the wardrobes of guildsmen, immigrant craftspeople, apprentices and maids – asking what they wore, what they thought about what they were wearing, and how they used clothing to navigate through the city during this time of rapid change. A chapter on the ‘London Look’ shows how inhabitants and visitors documented the visual and material styles of the city. Exploring the collaborative processes by which clothing was made, worn and appreciated by craftspeople and consumers, a chapter on making and buying clothing demonstrates how clothes were made and charts the emergence of a new consumer culture. Existing scholarship on sumptuary laws is challenged in a chapter that demonstrates how laws were enforced in the city while also integrating extant objects into the discussion for the first time. Finally, using a sample of London wills, the dissertation shows how Londoners owned, bequeathed and inherited clothing, and imbued it with emotional meaning. In sum, this dissertation aims to integrate scholarship on early modern London with material culture studies, and to promote the new methodology of reconstruction for historians. In revealing how London was conceived during a time of rapid change, clothing can be used as a lens through which to explore wider discourse about a city that by 1657 was being described as ‘Londinopolis.’ Clothing helped to make London into a wealthy, dynamic, and diverse urban centre, and these changes dramatically shaped the way clothing was made and appreciated.
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Scipioni, Angel. "Contribution à la théorie des ondelettes : application à la turbulence des plasmas de bord de Tokamak et à la mesure dimensionnelle de cibles." Thesis, Nancy 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010NAN10125.
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La nécessaire représentation en échelle du monde nous amène à expliquer pourquoi la théorie des ondelettes en constitue le formalisme le mieux adapté. Ses performances sont comparées à d'autres outils : la méthode des étendues normalisées (R/S) et la méthode par décomposition empirique modale (EMD).La grande diversité des bases analysantes de la théorie des ondelettes nous conduit à proposer une approche à caractère morphologique de l'analyse. L'exposé est organisé en trois parties.Le premier chapitre est dédié aux éléments constitutifs de la théorie des ondelettes. Un lien surprenant est établi entre la notion de récurrence et l'analyse en échelle (polynômes de Daubechies) via le triangle de Pascal. Une expression analytique générale des coefficients des filtres de Daubechies à partir des racines des polynômes est ensuite proposée.Le deuxième chapitre constitue le premier domaine d'application. Il concerne les plasmas de bord des réacteurs de fusion de type tokamak. Nous exposons comment, pour la première fois sur des signaux expérimentaux, le coefficient de Hurst a pu être mesuré à partir d'un estimateur des moindres carrés à ondelettes. Nous détaillons ensuite, à partir de processus de type mouvement brownien fractionnaire (fBm), la manière dont nous avons établi un modèle (de synthèse) original reproduisant parfaitement la statistique mixte fBm et fGn qui caractérise un plasma de bord. Enfin, nous explicitons les raisons nous ayant amené à constater l'absence de lien existant entre des valeurs élevées du coefficient d'Hurst et de supposées longues corrélations.Le troisième chapitre est relatif au second domaine d'application. Il a été l'occasion de mettre en évidence comment le bien-fondé d'une approche morphologique couplée à une analyse en échelle nous ont permis d'extraire l'information relative à la taille, dans un écho rétrodiffusé d'une cible immergée et insonifiée par une onde ultrasonoreThe necessary scale-based representation of the world leads us to explain why the wavelet theory is the best suited formalism. Its performances are compared to other tools: R/S analysis and empirical modal decomposition method (EMD). The great diversity of analyzing bases of wavelet theory leads us to propose a morphological approach of the analysis. The study is organized into three parts. The first chapter is dedicated to the constituent elements of wavelet theory. Then we will show the surprising link existing between recurrence concept and scale analysis (Daubechies polynomials) by using Pascal's triangle. A general analytical expression of Daubechies' filter coefficients is then proposed from the polynomial roots. The second chapter is the first application domain. It involves edge plasmas of tokamak fusion reactors. We will describe how, for the first time on experimental signals, the Hurst coefficient has been measured by a wavelet-based estimator. We will detail from fbm-like processes (fractional Brownian motion), how we have established an original model perfectly reproducing fBm and fGn joint statistics that characterizes magnetized plasmas. Finally, we will point out the reasons that show the lack of link between high values of the Hurst coefficient and possible long correlations. The third chapter is dedicated to the second application domain which is relative to the backscattered echo analysis of an immersed target insonified by an ultrasonic plane wave. We will explain how a morphological approach associated to a scale analysis can extract the diameter information
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Sung, Meng-Yuan, and 宋孟原. "Reconstruction of Control of Self-Dealing by Directors in Taiwan." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26185177398357587585.
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碩士中原大學
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For the control on the self-dealing by directors, in Taiwan, the procedure has always been centered on Article 223 of the Company Act with the supervisor trading with the directors on behalf of the company. However, both the related practice insights and academic research have different interpretations on the regulatory method. In recent years, with frequent revision of related regulations, a structural change on the control method which has been centered on supervisors has occurred. The research on the revision of the related laws of Taiwan finds that it is mostly fashioned after the U.S. laws. Therefore, this article analyzes three indicative U.S. laws-Model Business Corporation Act, Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations and Delaware General Corporation Law for presenting the U.S. law governing the self-dealing by directors and reviews the controversy of the applicability of the current law of Taiwan in order to provide the insights which hold that the traditional model of the supervisor acting on behalf of the company and the model of audit by the auditors, which has been introduced into Taiwan in recent years should be distinguished from each other for implementation as the two different control models for Taiwan’s law governing the self-dealing by directors.
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Yen-Chun, Hsieh, and 謝言諄. "A Study on Corporate Directors’ Self-dealing." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41058373724741599852.
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Recently, there have been many corporate bankruptcy crises in Taiwan, such as the case of PEWC (Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co.) and Procomp Informatics Ltd. etc. The main reason is the system of corporate governance is flawed. This study discusses these flaws focusing on the conflict transaction between directors and the corporation --also known as director’s self-dealing. In the United-States, there are several procedures of director's self-dealing: the approval or ratification of the board of disinterested directors or the special committee following the full disclosure of the material facts and conflict interest concerning the interested director ; the ratification of the shareholders following the full disclosure; or the fairness test by court's scrutiny. While each procedure has pros and cons, this study, which examines relevant cases in the United-States, proposes a better solution for Taiwan. The remedies and the litigation system offered in Taiwan are not sound. Therefore, the study takes the position that new legislation is necessary. This new legislation must provide a remedy for shareholders and the corporation to invalidate the unfair director's self-dealing or must facilitate the disgorgement of the benefit the director advanced from the self-dealing.
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Liu, Chun-Ju, and 劉純如. "A Study on Supervisors as Representatives in Directors' Self-dealing." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07289018503637704617.
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Corporation in Taiwan classifies board of directors as the business executive authorities and supervisors as the business supervision organs. They perform their individual duties but both have the duty of loyalty to their company. Self-dealing of directors involves conflicts of interest; however the Corporation Law in Taiwan fails to provide the complete norms on the procedures and substances as the foreign. The only is Corporation Law § 223, which merely specifies the regulations on supervisors as representatives, however, with the definitions unclear. Judicial practice and scholar hold different views and interpretations, leading to considerable controversy in practical operations. Owing to the lack of the Corporation Law on substantive and procedural basis to directors’ self-dealing with only the dual agency being prohibited, for the transactions with conflict of interest, the Corporation Law is here ineffective, but instead makes the rights and responsibilities of directors and supervisors blurred. As a result, supervisors are put in a situation of ambiguous authority and role, and falls into the dilemma because of uncertain responsibility. Therefore, this thesis pointed out the lack of current Corporation Law in Taiwan on directors’ self-dealing and the derivative controversy, based on the foreign legal system in this aspect. Secondly, in view of Corporate Governance, the distribution and positioning of supervisors and directors in the organizational framework in Taiwan was analyzed. Next, the rights of supervisor as the representative of company authorized by Taiwan’s Corporation Law § 223 were examined. Finally, based on the relevant provisions of the Corporation Law, we sought to the solutions and norms to the conflict of interest, hoping to solve the problems caused by directors’ self-dealing and to provide a standard regulation mechanism. The core of the system on supervisors as the representatives in directors’ self-dealing is to avoid conflict of interest. Since Taiwan's Corporate Law is no lack of relevant ways to resolve conflicts of interest, regulations such as information disclosure, interest avoidance and directors’ duty of loyalty, the designation of the Corporation Law § 223 has only a formal normative meaning. As the law is to be amended and the relevant norms have not yet been completed, in this thesis, we proposed the suggestions and made a comprehensive conclusion.
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Tsai, Chen-En, and 蔡承恩. "At Thirty, I Get It : A Men's Self-Reconstruction." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55z9yd.
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In this thesis, the researcher used self-narrative research method to reconstruct the self. At first, he showed a low level of subjectivity and low level of self-concept; from that state, he reconstructed his “self” in interpersonal interaction crisis in a relational context. During the process, he first worked on his romantic relationship and the relationship with his family, reflected on the conflicts in the relationships, and further reached his self-identity. In the middle of the research process, the researcher faced a breakup in his romantic relationship and a financial crisis in his family. Thus he realized his identity is fragile and fell into disconsolation. Later, he revived through a self-reconstruction process from dispiritedness. At last he focused on his self, describing his childhood experience and the understanding of his mother and father’s position. He found out that he constantly tried to ask for other’s approval in the relationships rather than had his own agency. He also realized that during his childhood and adolescence, he rarely had true and deep interactions with his father. Therefore, he was short of a male model as a reference and this made him unconfident and disturbed. Moreover, from a perspective of family political economical context, he examined the impact of market economy toward his family. Through the analyses above, the researcher became less preoccupied with the conflicts with his family and was able to face the challenges in the society with a newly formed self at ease.
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Yeh, Chun-Yi, and 葉軍毅. "Modeling and Reconstruction－Yeh Chun-Yi’s Self-creation Discourse." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2cxr6f.
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Art is determined by an artist's creative activities, giving a unique and harmonious form of the work, with the inclusion of the times, the community's nutrition to attract the viewers to rational analysis and judgments, and intuitive imagination, which is art to give people aesthetic experience, but also the joy of both reason and imagination. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is American abstract expressionist painting master. He uses unique way to create the works of great space, breaking the three-dimensional image depiction, non-concrete images, and color expression, but with Dropping Method to express spontaneous impulse and emotion, showing the original spirit of freedom. However, his creation also implies modern people’s inner anxiety and anguish of the tragic mood. There is a strong emotional excitement in the works of Pollock, no solid entity, only simple lines and graphics staggered extension. I am very long for this free and unfettered creative way, so try to use this creative experience performance, not limited to the canvas media, hoping that through the pigment dripping into the water to produce change by flow, and use the way of photographic record to present the image. I also explore the creative form and photography skills of Pollock, and then convert into my own nutrients, using it after absorption. Through the creative process and the thinking of work to interact with the viewer, express my thoughts and emotions, while enhancing my spiritual experience.
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Chen, Pei-E., and 陳珮娥. "The Health Belief, Self-Care Self-Efficacy and Health Care Needs after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10042076309641257461.
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Background: The benefits of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) have been well documented including treating chronic instability, improved knee functions and restored quadriceps strength. However, there is a lack of data about patients’ needs after surgery. The purpose of this study was to: 1) explore the relationship among health belief, self-care self-efficacy, and health care needs. ; 2) assess the health belief, self-care self-efficacy and health care needs after surgery. Methods: Using a one-group pre and post-test design 45 subjects who received ACLR completed the Strategies Used by People to Promotion Health Scale(SUPPHS), the Health Belief Scale, and the Health Care Needs Scale prior to surgery and 3 weeks after surgery. Descriptive statistics, Generalized Estimating Equation(GEE) assessing differences in each of health belief, SUPPHS, and health care needs between pre and post-surgery, and GEE was used to analyze the statistical relationship among health belief, self-care self-efficacy and health care needs. Results: Significant positive change were found for measures of health belief and self-care self-efficacy, and the 3-weeks post surgery health care needs score was significantly lower than the pre-surgery score. Although there were no significant correlation between health belief and health care needs, the self-care self-efficacy was positively related to health belief, and self-care self-efficacy was negatively related to health care needs. Conclusions: Understanding of factors that influence patients’ perceived health care needs can help health care professionals to promote patients’ well-being. The results could be need as a reference in future multi- component interventions for patients receiving ACLR.