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Kohout, Karel. "IT Risk register." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-142166.
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The theoretical part of the thesis analyzes several selected methodologies and best-practices related to information technology risks management, with focus on documents and guidance developed by ISACA. It builds a set of ideas and basic requirements for effective model of an IT risk register. Strong emphasis is placed on mapping CobiT 4.1 based Risk IT to COBIT 5. The practical part describes implementation of an exploratory web-based IT risk register in Python programming language utilizing the Django framework and employs concepts from the analysis.
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Kavanagh, Kayla. "Translating Le coup de la girafe: A Register Analysis of Fictional Orality." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38840.
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This thesis examines fictional orality through the lens of register theory, and the application of these concepts in translation. Fictional orality is created by the intersection of two registers that are quite distinct in some languages and cultures: the more formal, written literary register, and the informal, spoken register. This results in an entirely new hybrid register, which seeks to balance the spontaneous, informal language of natural speech with the conventions of formal, written language. I aim to explore this hybrid register in my translation of Le coup de la girafe by Camille Bouchard. The story is told in a first-person, present-tense narration, so fictional orality is ubiquitous in the novella, and it is an excellent text to use for this purpose.
In this thesis, I first lay out the theoretical framework for my translation by delving into register theory and fictional orality, and how these notions have been adapted to translation studies. Then, drawing on this framework, I discuss how I applied these concepts in my approach to the translation of Le coup de la girafe, using specific examples from the text. After this, I conclude by presenting the translation itself.
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Singer, Jeremy David. "Static program analysis based on virtual register renaming." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613845.
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Purvis, Tristan Michael. "A linguistic and discursive analysis of register variation in Dagbani." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3322533.
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Hayter, Thomas. "Ac simulation model for the analysis of register insertion local area networks." Thesis, University of Hull, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235837.
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Dadvand, Payam. "Ambient air pollution and cardiac malformation a register-based spatio-temporal analysis." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506660.
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Al-Ali, Mohamed. "Genre, schema, and the academic writing process : an enquiry into the generalisability of generic structure and its relationship to schematic knowledge." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1471/.
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Makris, Georgios. "Transparency-based hierarchical testability analysis and test generation for register transfer level designs /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9997571.
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Wu, Y. "A corpus-based register analysis of corporate blogs : text types and linguistic features." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2016. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3000395/.
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A main theme in sociolinguistics is register variation, a situation and use dependent variation of language. Numerous studies have provided evidence of linguistic variation across situations of use in English. However, very little attention has been paid to the language of corporate blogs (CBs), which is often seen as an emerging genre of computer-mediated communication (CMC). Previous studies on blogs and corporate blogs have provided important information about their linguistic features as well as functions; however, our understanding of the linguistic variation in corporate blogs remains limited in particular ways, because many of these previous studies have focused on individual linguistic features, rather than how features interact and what the possible relations between forms (linguistic features) and functions are. Given these limitations, it would be necessary to have a more systematic perspective on linguistic variation in corporate blogs. In order to study register variation in corporate blogs more systematically, a combined framework rooted in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and register theories (e.g., Biber, 1988, 1995; Halliday & Hasan, 1989) is adopted. This combination is based on some common grounds they share, which concern the functional view of language, co-occurrence patterns of linguistic features, and the importance of large corpora to linguistic research. Guided by this framework, this thesis aims to: 1) investigate the functional linguistic variations in corporate blogs, and identify the text types that are distinguished linguistically, as well as how the CB text types cut across CB industry-categories, and 2) to identify salient linguistic differences across text types in corporate blogs in the configuration of the three components of the context of situation - field, tenor, and mode of discourse. In order to achieve these goals, a 590,520-word corpus consisting of 1,020 textual posts from 41 top-ranked corporate blogs is created and mapped onto the combined framework which consists of Biber’s multi-dimensional (MD) approach and Halliday’s SFL. Accordingly, two sets of empirical analyses are conducted one after another in this research project. At first, by using a corpus-based MD approach which applies multivariate statistical techniques (including factor analysis and cluster analysis) to the investigation of register variation, CB text types are identified; and then, some linguistic features, including the most common verbs and their process types, personal pronouns, modals, lexical density, and grammatical complexity, are selected from language metafunctions of mode, tenor and field within the SFL framework, and their linguistic differences across different text types are analysed. The results of these analyses not only show that the corporate blog is a hybrid genre, representing a combination of various text types, which serve to achieve different communicative purposes and functional goals, but also exhibit a close relationship between certain text types and particular industries, which means the CB texts categorized into a certain text type are mainly from a particular industry. On this basis, the lexical and grammatical features (i.e., the most common verbs, pronouns, modal verbs, lexical density and grammatical complexity) associated with Halliday’s metafunctions are further explored and compared across six text types. It is found that language features which are related to field, tenor and mode in corporate blogs demonstrate a dynamic nature: centring on an interpersonal function, the online blogs in a business setting are basically used for the purposes of sales, customer relationship management and branding. This research project contributes to the existing field of knowledge in the following ways: Firstly, it develops the methodology used in corpus investigation of language variation, and paves the way for further research into corporate blogs and other forms of electronic communication and, more generally, for researchers engaging in corpus-based investigations of other language varieties. Secondly, it adds greatly to a description of corporate blog as a language variety in its own right, which includes different text types identified in CB discourse, and some linguistic features realized in the context of situation. This highlights the fact that corporate blogs cannot be regarded as a simple discourse; rather, they vary according to text types and context of situation.
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Kaveti, Akil. "HDL IMPLEMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF A RESIDUAL REGISTER FOR A FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC UNIT." UKnowledge, 2008. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/538.
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Processors used in lower-end scientific applications like graphic cards and video game consoles have IEEE single precision floating-point hardware [23]. Double precision offers higher precision at higher implementation cost and lower performance. The need for high precision computations in these applications is not enough to justify the use double precision hardware and the extra hardware complexity needed [23]. Native-pair arithmetic offers an interesting and feasible solution to this problem. This technique invented by T. J. Dekker uses single-length floating-point numbers to represent higher precision floating-point numbers [3]. Native-pair arithmetic has been proposed by Dr. William R. Dieter and Dr. Henry G. Dietz to achieve better accuracy using standard IEEE single precision floating point hardware [1]. Native-pair arithmetic results in better accuracy however it decreases the performance by 11x and 17x for addition and multiplication respectively [2]. The proposed implementation uses a residual register to store the error residual term [2]. This addition is not only cost efficient but also results in acceptable accuracy with 10 times the performance of 64-bit hardware. This thesis demonstrates the implementation of a 32-bit floating-point unit with residual register and estimates the hardware cost and performance.
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Law, Yee Wah Mary. "The study of register differentiation of two types of press text : opinion article & feature news." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2003. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/488.
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Hansen, Janice. "The Western Australian register of multiple births : a twin-family study of asthma." University of Western Australia. School of Population Health, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0204.
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[Truncated abstract] Background: Genetic epidemiology draws on the mechanisms of heredity and the reproductive characteristics of populations to formulate methods to investigate the role of genetic factors and their interaction with the environment in disease aetiology. Asthma and atopy are complex genetic disorders and are among the most common diseases to affect the developed world. Twin studies provide an elegant means of disentangling genetic and environmental contributions to the aetiology of conditions that have a significant impact on the health of the general population in ways that cannot be achieved by any other study design, by comparing disease frequency in monozygotic (MZ) or identical twins, who share 100% of their genes with that in dizygotic (DZ) or non-identical twins who share, on average, 50% of their genes. Twin-family studies allow the complete partitioning of phenotypic variation into components representing additive genetic, dominance, shared environment and non-shared environment. ... For twin family data, the best fitting model was the one which included additive genetic effects and either genetic dominance or shared sibling environment, and that shared family environment was not important. With respect to asthma in WA twin families, there are no reasons to conclude that the EEA is not valid. Conclusions: The WA Twin Register is the first population-based register of childhood multiples to be established in Australia, and the WATCH study is one of only a few population-based twin-family studies in the world. Families who participated in the WATCH study were no different from non-participants with respect to social class and there was no difference in the prevalence of DDA in WATCH study twins and either their singleton siblings or the general population of WA children. Results from the GEE models replicate those found in numerous studies from many different countries. The BUGS models developed have been shown to produce consistent results with both simulated and real data sets and offer alternative methods of analyzing twin and twin-family data. By including an extra term in the partitioning of the variance to account for the environment effect of being a MZ twin, a numerical value is calculated for the difference in MZ and DZ correlation with respect to the phenotype examined, which allows the validity of the EEA to be directly assessed.
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Fourniotis, Pavlatos Panayis. "Compiler optimisation of typeless languages." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275469.
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We have written an optimising compiler for a typeless, imperative, modular programming language. The optimiser, which works on a 3-address intermediate representation generated from the source program, uses some novel techniques described in this thesis. The techniques are universally applicable, although some are particularly useful in typeless compilation. We present a new register allocation and assignment scheme. Unlike traditional "colouring" allocators, our method separates the problem into distinct allocation and assignment phases. The former is achieved by using an iterative process to extend a local (within basic blocks) allocation method to the global (across basic blocks) domain. This obviates the need for a sophisticated assignment algorithm; we show how to use simple heuristics to assign registers after allocation. We also present a simple method for identifying loops in a program's intermediate representation and assigning loop nesting levels. Unlike traditional methods, this does not rely on the concept of flowgraph dominators, and is able to deal sensibly with irreducible flowgraphs and "unstructured" loops that interlock or partially overlap. The major part of the thesis concerns value range analysis. Based on the theoretical framework of abstract interpretation, we describe an analysis of the intermediate code that predicts safe approximations to the run-time value ranges of variables and memory used by the program being compiled. To be useful in compiling a typeless language, this analysis must be able to handle values of different kinds (integers, pointers, function addresses, etc.) We show how we can subsume some traditional optimisation techniques, such as constant propagation, into more powerful methods that take advantage of value range information to optimise a wider variety of cases. We also show how this information can be used to recover most of the benefits of types, without sacrificing the flexibility of typelessness. Besides the above, value range analysis allows a number of optimisations that were heretofore impossible. Many of these are improvements to register allocation; we investigate better treatments for variables that can be accessed by address. We also describe a method of removing memory accesses by allowing variables that are simultaneously live to share registers, and suggest a similar scheme for values stored in memory. Finally, we show how the results of value range analysis can be shared across different program modules and different compiler runs. The method used is powerful enough to be useful, but simple enough to integrate with old code that cannot be recompiled. Inter-modular optimisation can be transparent to the user, improving the results of value range analysis within a module without altering its functionality; or it can be visible, optimising modules with respect to each other.
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Torgerson, Richard Christen. "A Comparison of Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin Tone Register: An Acoustic Analysis of Three Native Speech Styles." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1003.pdf.
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Anderson, Wendy J. "A corpus linguistic analysis of phraseology and collocation in the register of current European Union administrative French." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4909.
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The French administrative language of the European Union is an emerging discourse: it is less than fifty years old, and has its origins in the French administrative register of the middle of the twentieth century. This thesis has two main objectives. The first is descriptive: using the flourishing methodology of corpus linguistics, and a specially compiled two-million word corpus of texts, it aims to describe the current discourse of EU French in terms of its phraseology and collocational patterning, in particular in relation to its French national counterpart. The description confirms the phraseological specificity of EU language but shows that not all of this can be ascribed to semantic or pragmatic factors. The second objective of this thesis is therefore explanatory: given the phraseological differences evident between the two discourses, and by means of a diachronic comparison, it asks how the EU discourse has developed in relation to the national discourse. A detailed analysis is provided of differences between the administrative language as a whole and other registers of French, and indeed of genre-based variation within the administrative register. Three main types of phraseological patterning are investigated: phraseology which is the creation of administrators themselves; phraseological elements which are part of the general language heritage adopted by the administrative register; and collocational patterning which, as a statistical notion, is the creation of the corpus. The thesis then seeks to identify the most significant influences on the discourse. The data indicates that, contrary to expectations, English, nowadays the most commonly-used official language of the EU institutions, has had relatively little influence. More importantly, the translation process itself has acted as a conservative influence on the EU discourse. This corresponds with linguistic findings about the nature of translated text.
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Xu, Jinzhong. "Stream Cipher Analysis Based on FCSRs." UKnowledge, 2000. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/320.
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Cryptosystems are used to provide security in communications and data transmissions. Stream ciphers are private key systems that are often used to transform large volumn data. In order to have security, key streams used in stream ciphers must be fully analyzed so that they do not contain specific patterns, statistical infomation and structures with which attackers are able to quickly recover the entire key streams and then break down the systems. Based on different schemes to generate sequences and different ways to represent them, there are a variety of stream cipher analyses. The most important one is the linear analysis based on linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs) which have been extensively studied since the 1960's. Every sequence over a finite field has a well defined linear complexity. If a sequence has small linear complexity, it can be efficiently recoverd by Berlekamp-Messay algorithm. Therefore, key streams must have large linear complexities. A lot of work have been done to generate and analyze sequences that have large linear complexities. In the early 1990's, Klapper and Goresky discovered feedback with carry shift registers over Z/(p) (p-FCSRS), p is prime. Based on p-FCSRs, they developed a stream cipher analysis that has similar properties to linear analysis. For instance, every sequence over Z/(p) has a well defined p-adic complexity and key streams of small p-adic complexity are not secure for use in stream ciphers. This disstation focuses on stream cipher analysis based on feedback with carry shift registers. The first objective is to develop a stream cipher analysis based on feedback with carry shift registers over Z/(N) (N-FCSRs), N is any integer greater than 1, not necessary prime. The core of the analysis is a new rational approximation algorithm that can be used to efficiently compute rational representations of eventually periodic N-adic sequences. This algorithm is different from that used in $p$-adic sequence analysis which was given by Klapper and Goresky. Their algorithm is a modification of De Weger's rational approximation algorithm. The second objective is to generalize feedback with carry shift register architecture to more general algebraic settings which are called algebraic feedback shift registers (AFSRs). By using algebraic operations and structures on certain rings, we are able to not only construct feedback with carry shift registers, but also develop rational approximation algorithms which create new analyses of stream ciphers. The cryptographic implication of the current work is that any sequences used in stream ciphers must have large N-adic complexities and large AFSR-based complexities as well as large linear complexities.
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Boden, Peter. "The analysis of internal migration in the United Kingdom using census and National Health Service Central Register data." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1989. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/189/.
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The Census provides spatially detailed information on internal migration within the UK. It is only available decenially, however, so during inter-censal years it is necessary to rely on the NHSCR as an alternative measure of population movement. The value of the NHSCR in the analysis of migration and its suitability as an input to the procedure for projecting sub-national populations remains uncertain. This thesis examines the relationship between NHSCR and Census-derived migration data for a common period (1980/81) and illustrates the conceptual and measurement differences and similarities between the two. Although a strong correlation between the respective patterns of migration is evidenced, significant spatial and age-sex discrepancies in the measured levels of population movement are observed. The presence of Armed Forces and student moves and the phenomenon of multiple/return migration, particularly amongst young adults, are cited as major reasons for the differences. Given an understanding of the characteristics of each type of data, the thesis undertakes to illustrate spatio-temporal patterns and trends in migration since 1970 using both transition and movement information. A reduction in the level of migration throughout the seventies and early eighties has been followed by an increase in the general propensity to migrate, with increasing decentralisation processes moving people away from the most densely populated areas, but with an increasing attractiveness of the South East, particularly Greater London, to young, mobile adults and a net loss of migrants from North to South. The illustration of contemporary trends in migration using time-series data highlights the potential shortcomings of a sub-national population projection model based primarily on 1981 Census information. The thesis critically examines a number of features of the migration component of the OPCS/DOE projection procedure using NHSCR migration data, and suggests possible improvements to the methodology.
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Bryan, Allen Wayne. "Prediction of parallel in-register amyloidogenic beta-structures In highly beta-rich protein sequences by pairwise propensity analysis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54628.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Amyloids and prion proteins are clinically and biologically important beta-structures, whose supersecondary structures are difficult to determine by standard experimental or computational means. In addition, significant conformational heterogeneity is known or suspected to exist in many amyloid fibrils. Recent work has indicated the utility of templates and pairwise probabilistic statistics in betastructure prediction. A new suite of programs, BETASCAN, STITCHER, and HELIXCAP, are presented to address the problem of amyloid structure prediction. BETASCAN calculates likelihood scores for potential beta-strands and strand-pairs based on correlations observed in parallel beta-sheets. The program then determines the strands and pairs with the greatest local likelihood for all of the sequence's potential beta-structures. BETASCAN suggests multiple alternate folding patterns and assigns relative ab initio probabilities based solely on amino acid sequence, probability tables, and pre-chosen parameters. STITCHER processes the output of BETASCAN and uses dynamic programming to 'stitch' structures from flexible abstract templates defined by constraints for amyloid-like all-beta structures. The 'stitched' structures are evaluated by a free-energy-based scoring algorithm incorporating BETASCAN scores, bonuses for favorable side-chain stacking, and penalties for linker entropy. The analyses of STITCHER structures emphasize the importance of side-chain stacking ladders in amyloid formation. HELIXCAP detects a class of end-caps, called beta-helix caps, which stabilize known beta-helix structures. These structures are known to stabilize globular beta-helix proteins and prevent their amyloidogenesis; their presence in a sequence is a powerful negative predictor of amyloid potential. Together, these algorithms permit detection and structural analysis of protein amyloidogenicity from sequence data, enhancing the experimental investigation of amyloids and prion proteins.
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Rumplík, Michal. "Zkoumání souvislostí mezi pokrytím poruch a testovatelností elektronických systémů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-235536.
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This work deals with testability analysis of digital circuits and fault coverage. It contains a desription of digital systems, their diagnosis, a description of tools for generating and applying tests and sets of benchmark circuits. It describes the testing of circuits and experimentation in tool TASTE for testability analysis and commercial tool for generating and applying tests. The experiments are focused on increase the testability of circuits.
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Balzer-Siber, Marco. "Functional and Stylistic Features of Sports Announcer Talk: A Discourse Analysis of the Register of Major League Soccer Television Broadcasts." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2515.
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This study analyzes the register of television sports announcers in Major League Soccer broadcasts, based on six 20-minute transcription samples. The first part considers individual linguistic features and inquires whether they fulfill a communicative function or whether they are of stylistic nature. In an effort to attract more viewers in the United States, production companies had originally adopted the duality model of a play-by-play announcer and a color commentary from other American sports, while many other countries traditionally feature only one commentator. Consequently, the second part of this discourse analysis will focus on the cooperative interactional behavior. The conclusion will be drawn that the register of live action announcing, in contrast to halftime as well as pre- and post-game reporting, is based on cooperative principles. Moreover, both the individual and the collaborative linguistic variables mostly reflect an effort to protect one’s own and the colleague’s public image.
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Zahradníková, Lucie. "Analýza evidenčních nástrojů pro skladové hospodářství." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165101.
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This diploma thesis deals with register programs that help small and medium-sized enterprises with their warehouse management. In thesis are analyzed programs that are available on the internet for free downloading as demo version. The main part of this thesis is devoted to the analysis of available register programs for warehouse management from several aspects. One of the aspect is user's. This aspect is about user interface and therefor if it is the controllability simple or not. The second aspect is about information technology and deals with installation, the availability of updates, databases in which are data saved, etc. The third aspect is financial affordability. During testing was used real data from small business. The final part describes rating of programs that have been analyzed and their verbal evaluation. The benefit of this thesis is to provide a view of available register programs for warehouse management, which are available for small and medium-sized businesses in the Czech Republic.
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Hošták, Martin. "Systém pro podporu managementu rizik." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-236676.
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The thesis deals with project management body of knowledge with focus on a risk management. It explained the importance of risk management in software developing projects. Risk management cycle and used methodology is described. The core unit of second part is requirements analysis for risk management support system, description of the application via UML and implementation of application which was created in development environment NetBeans IDE 6.5 in Java language. Conclusion of my thesis contains a short summary and possible way of extension.
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Zrcek, Milan. "Analýza rizik IT." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-73386.
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The aim of this thesis is to analyse the risks of information technologies in the company Metalik Ltd. which balances on the boundary of small and medium enterprises. One part of this analysis is a preparation of the scale for estimation of the impacts, threats and vulnerabilities. Finally is drafted a register of actions which responds to IT risks which were identified in the frame of the thesis. The register is in compliance with the business plan of the company and its recent market position. The contribution of this thesis is in showing how the firm, which can represent the typical small or medium enterprises, works with IT risks. The principles of some correctional actions can be also generally related to this group of enterprises. The benefit specifically for the firm Metalik Ltd. is documentation for future work with the risks connected with the information technologies.
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Kranauskaitė, Agnė. "Informal register in prose fiction and problems of translation into Lithuanian: an analysis of feminist bestsellers Sex and the City and Lipstick Jungle by Candice Bushnell." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080805_134728-02977.
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The aim of the thesis is to analyze informal register in prose fiction. The analysis focuses on the representation of text messaging, foreigners’ oral discourse, swear words and references to sexual activities, as well as parts of the body in both the original and translation of feminist bestsellers Sex and the City (1997) and Lipstick Jungle (2005) by Candice Bushnell. The analysis is based on the theory of feminist bestseller and the use of spoken discourse in written language.
The paper is divided into six parts and also includes eight appendices. Part One introduces the aim of the paper and gives a short summary of the feminist bestsellers Sex and the City (1997) and Lipstick Jungle (2005) by Candice Bushnell. Part Two presents a short history of feminist bestseller and outlines the theoretical background for the analysis. Part Three focuses on the informal register in prose fiction, namely in the feminist bestsellers. Further, Part Four discusses the differences between spoken and written language, as well as ways to imitate spoken language in the literary translation. An analysis of the cases found in the two feminist bestsellers is presented in Part Five where Chapter 5.1 presents the problems concerning texting and is further divided into Section 5.1.1 which is devoted to the theoretical approach to translating text messages and Section 5.1.2 which analyses the examples of text messages. Chapter 5.2 introduces different perspectives on language interference and... [to full text]Šio darbo tikslas – ištirti kalbos paribius grožinėje literatūroje. Daugiausia dėmesio skiriama trumpųjų žinučių, užsieniečių šnekamajai kalbai, keiksmažodžiams ir žodynui, kuriuo įvardinamos seksualinės sueitys ir kūno dalys; pavyzdžiai analizei paimti iš tos pačios autorės, Candice Bushnell, dviejų feministinių bestselerių „Seksas ir miestas“ (1997) ir „Lūpdažių džiunglės“ (2005). Darbą sudaro šešios pagrindinės dalys ir dešimt priedų. Pirmojoje dalyje pristatomas darbo tikslas ir pateikiamos trumpos knygų santraukos. Antrojoje dalyje pristatoma feministinių bestselerių istorija ir pateikiama teorinė medžiaga, kuria bus remiamasi praktinėje dalyje. Trečioji dalis dėmesį skiria kalbos paribiams grožinėje literatūroje, šiuo atveju, feministiniams bestseliariams. Kitoje, ketvirtoje dalyje aptariami skirtumai tarp sakytinės ir rašytinės kalbos bei būdai, kuriais rašytinėje kalboje imituojama sakytinė kalba, verčiant grožinę literatūrą. Feministiniuose bestseleriuose „Seksas ir miestas“ (1997) ir „Lūpdažių džiunglės“ (2005) rasti pavyzdžiai nagrinėjami penktojoje dalyje. Skyrius 5.1 skiriamas trumpųjų žinučių rašymo teorinei apžvalgai, kuri pateikiama poskyryje 5.1.1, o poskyris 5.1.2 skiriamas praktinei žinučių rašymo analizei. Skyrius 5.2 pristato kalbos interferenciją ir yra padalintas į poskyrį 5.2.1, kur pateikiama teorija bei poskyrį 5.2.2, kur nagrinėjami užsieniečių: japono ir prancūzo, kurie šneka angliškai, kalbos pavyzdžiai. Skyrius 5.3 skirtas vertimo problemoms, su... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Kuikka, Sanni. "Classification Tree Based Algorithms in Studying Predictors for Long-Term Unemployment in Early Adulthood : An Exploratory Analysis Combining Supervised Machine Learning and Administrative Register Data." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-167720.
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Unemployment at young age is a negative life event that has been found to have scarring effects for future life outcomes, especially when continuing long-term. Understanding precursors for long-term unemployment in early adulthood is important to be able to target policy interventions in critical junctures in the life course. Paths to unemployment are complex and a comprehensive outlook on the most important factors and mechanisms is difficult to obtain. This study proposes a data-driven, exploratory approach for studying individual and family level factors during ages 0-24, that predict long-term unemployment at the age of 25-30. A supervised machine learning approach was applied to understand associations deriving from longitudinal, individual-level administrative data from a full birth cohort in Finland. The data comprise information about physical and social wellbeing, life course events, as well as demographics, including the parents of the cohort members. Potential predictors were chosen from the data based on theories and previous research, and used to train a model aiming to correctly classify unemployed individuals. A CART algorithm was used to build a classification tree that reveals important variables, ranges of them as well as combinations of factors that together are predictive of long-term unemployment. A random forest algorithm was used to build several trees producing smoothed predictions that reduce overfitting of one tree. CARTs and random forest models were compared to each other to understand how they perform in a research task predicting life outcomes. Both individual and family level factors were found to be predictive of the outcome. Combinations of variables such as GPA lower than ~7.5, ego’s low education level, late work history start, depressive disorders and low parental education and income levels were found to be particularly predictive of unemployment. CART models correctly classified up to 87% of the unemployed, while misclassifying 70% of the employed and having 45% overall accuracy. Testing for CART model stability, finding consistency across several tree models improved robustness. Random forest correctly predicted up to 59% of the unemployed, while also correctly classifying 65% of the employed and producing robust results. The two algorithms together provided valuable insight for better understanding factors contributing to unemployment. The study shows promise for classification tree based methods in studying life course and life outcomes.
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Berg, Christian. "The ever increasing use of acid suppressive therapy : Descriptive analysis of data from the national wholesale and prescription databases on the consumption of proton pump inhibitor in Norway." Thesis, Nordic School of Public Health NHV, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-3223.
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Pharmacoepidemiological analyses are needed as a background for evaluation of drug use and for making cost-effective priorities. Drug sales and prescription databases provide useful tools for analysis of drug consumption and expenditures. In this essay, an analysis of the sales and prescribing of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), drugs used for acid related gastric disorders, are presented. Since 1996, the consumption of PPIs in Norway has increased by approximately 10 % per year, with esomeprazole as the most commonly used drug. An increasing number of individuals are using these drugs with considerable costs for the reimbursement schemes, e.g., in 2006 more than 450 million NOK. Verified reflux oesophagitis is the predominant indication for reimbursement prescribing. There are, however, indications of an overprescribing of PPIs. The prescribing in Norway is different from Denmark and Sweden, both regarding choice of drug and level of consumption. The prevalence of PPI use increased with age, reaching a maximum of nearly 12 % in the age groups 70-79 and 80-89 years of age. A considerable proportion is long-term users (> 2 years). These groups have a high risk of polypharmacy treatment. Even though the PPIs have been on the market for many years, negative effects associated with long term use are being discussed and need to be further explored. Attention should be focused on the rational use of PPIs and not only on the reduction of costs for PPI therapy.Farmakoepidemiologiske analyser er nødvendige som bakgrunn for å evaluere legemiddelbruk og gjøre kostnads-effektivitets prioriteringer. Databaser med informasjon om salg og forskrivning av legemidler er nyttige redskaper for slike analyser. I denne oppgaven presenteres en analyse av salgs- og forskrivningsdata for protonpumpehemmere, en legemiddelgruppe som brukes ved syrerelaterte gasterointestinale sykdommer. Forbruket av protonpumpehemmere i Norge har siden 1996 økt med 10 % per år, med esomeprazol som vanligste legemiddel. Et økende antall personer bruker disse legemidlene. Utgiftene for det offentlige trygdesystemet er omfattende, mer enn 450 millioner NOK i 2006. Verifisert spiserørbetennelse er den dominerende årsak til forskrivning angitt på reseptene. Det er indikasjoner på en for høy forskrivning av protonpumpehemmere. Forskrivningen i Norge er forskjellig fra Danmark og Sverige, både med hensyn på valg av legemiddel og forbruksnivå. Prevalens for bruk av protonpumpehemmere øker med alder og når et maksimum på nær 12 % av befolkningen i aldersgruppene 70-79 og 80-89 år. En betydelig andel bruker legemidlene over lengre tid (> 2 år). Dette er grupper som bruker mange legemidler samtidig (polyfarmasi). Selv om protonpumpehemmerne har vært på markedet i mange år, diskuteres fortsatt negative følger av langtidsbruk og det er behov for å studere bruken nærmere. Oppmerksomheten bør rettes mot rasjonell bruk av disse legemidlene, ikke bare hvordan utgiftene til dem skal kunne reduseres.
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Edlund, Jessica. "Can the effect of income on survival after stroke be explained by access to secondary prevention? : A mediation analysis on data from the Swedish stroke register." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Statistik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160797.
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In Sweden, research has shown that socially underprivileged groups have poorer access to stroke care, both in the acute stage and secondary prevention after stroke, and are more likely to have adverse outcomes. The aim of this thesis is to study the causal mechanisms behind the association between low income and death after having a stroke. More specifically, to what extent is the effect of income on death mediated through treatment according to guidelines? To do this, mediation analysis have been applied to a data material from Riksstroke, the Swedish stroke register. The results of a mediation analysis rely on confounding assumptions that cannot be verified using observed data and it is important to quantify the effects of violations. Sensitivity analysis has therefore been applied to investigate how sensitive the results are to unobserved confounding. The results show that a small part of the effect of having low income on the probability of death 29 days to 1 year after stroke is mediated by treatment according to guidelines. This effect is significant positive for the study population. The same results were shown for patients with high risk of dying after stroke. However, there were no evidence of a mediated effect for patients with low risk of dying after stroke. The sensitivity analyses indicate that the estimated effects for the population are non-significant or reversed for certain levels of unobserved confounding. This must be considered when interpreting the results.Forskning har visat att socialt underpriviligerade grupper i Sverige har sämre tillgång till strokevård, både i akutskedet och de sekundärpreventiva vårdinsatserna efter stroke. De har också större risk att avlida. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka de kausala mekanismerna bakom sambandet mellan låg inkomst och död efter stroke. Mer specifikt är det av intresse att undersöka till vilken grad effekten av inkomst på död medieras genom behandling enligt riktlinjer. För att undersöka detta har mediationsanalys applicerats på ett datamaterial från Riksstroke. Estimerade mediationseffekter bygger på starka antaganden om confounding som inte går inte att verifiera genom observerat data. Sensitivitsanalys har därför använts för att undersöka hur känsliga resultaten är för icke-observerad confounding. Resultaten visar att en liten del av effekten av låg inkomst på död 29 dagar till 1 år efter stroke medieras av behandling enligt riktlinjer. Effekten är positiv och signifikant för hela stickprovet. För patienter med hög risk att dö efter stroke visas också en signifikant positiv medierad effekt. För patienter med låg risk att dö efter stroke fanns inga bevis för en medierad effekt. Sensitivitsanalysen indikerar att de estimerade effekterna för hela stickprovet är icke-signifikanta eller omvända för specifika nivåer av icke-observerad confounding. Detta måste övervägas vid tolkning av resultaten.
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Vikström, Niclas. "The House of Stewart as Agent of Language Change : A Historical Sociolinguistic Corpus Analysis of Register Variation and Language Change in the Stewart Letters (1504-1669)." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-128379.
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The present project set out to explore whether or not the members of one of the most powerful families in history functioned as agents of language change. Using the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (PCEEC), the present project examines and discusses linguistic conservatism and innovation in relation to the historical movement towards a Standard English. This is done by scrutinising six members of the house of Stewart that can be found in the PCEEC following theories and frameworks pertaining to the scientific discipline of sociohistorical linguistics. The findings of the present study suggest that the house of Stewart appears to have been in the vanguard of language change in several respects.
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Konečný, Martin. "GAP analýza systému řízení bezpečnosti informací." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-399368.
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The master’s thesis focuses on GAP analysis of information security management system. The thesis consists of theoretical, analytical and practical part. The first part discusses the theoretical background of the issue of information and cyber security. The analytical part describes the current condition of the researched company. The thesis’s output is the draft of risk register and draft of security countermeasures implementation. The draft targets on countermeasures leading to increase information security in company.
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Ohlsson, Sofi. "Marriage in Fashion? : Trend Reversal in Marriage Formation in Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-60091.
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Sweden has seen a reversal in marriage trends, from mainly declining marriage rates since the 1960s to increasing rates from 1998 and onwards. By applying event-history techniques to Swedish register data, this study examines whether the trend reversal is related to compositional changes in various socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the population, with special focus on childbearing. Only first marriages of women are studied as these largely represent the general marriage trends. The results show that the trend reversal only partly can be ascribed to compositional changes, more specifically to changes in labor-market attachment and childbearing. Thus, there is evidence of a new marriage trend in Sweden that does not conform very well to that of generally declining marriage rates as is often depicted in demographic literature. Furthermore, there is evidence of pro-cyclical marriage and childbearing trends. These patterns are especially interesting because Sweden is a country that in many aspects has been a forerunner in the development of new trends in family-demographic behavior and a country where childbearing and marriage are not necessarily seen as very closely interrelated.
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Schmidt, Wilian. "RACIOCÍNIO COMBINATÓRIO: UMA META-ANÁLISE A PARTIR DOS REGISTROS DE REPRESENTAÇÃO SEMIÓTICA." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2016. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/6769.
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The aim of this research is to investigate whether and how the semiotic representation registers are employed in the strict sense research produced by Brazilian institutions that address the development of combinatory reasoning through educational activities that had the participation of high school students. The study is based on qualitative meta-analysis, which can be understood as the realization of a systematic review of a body of research intended to culminate in an interpretive synthesis through analysis and primary data from these (BICUDO, 2014). Therefore, we adopted the semiotic representation registers based on Duval (2003, 2009, 2011) as a theoretical framework. The screening took place on the websites of postgraduate programs of Brazilian universities (Multidisciplinary Teaching of Mathematics area) and the Bank of Theses and Dissertations of Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination (CAPES). In search it was used keywords "combinatorics", "combinatorial" and "permutations". It was found that 43 research emphasized the combinatorial reasoning; 35 made explicit in its documentary corpus educational activities in basic education, higher education or training of teachers who teach mathematics. From these, 12 focused on high school, both in regular schools and in the form of Youth and Adult Education. To accomplish the data analysis it was selected four dissertations that analyze and propose activities resolved by high school students and have theoretical support in solving problems. Thus, using descriptors drawn from solving strategies of combinatorial nature of activities presented by Batanero et al (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003). It sought these evidence activities that have identified the representation registers mobilized in the solutions presented by the participants of the selected studies. The data analysis it was concluded that the use of array formulas, combination and permutation is not the strategy adopted by the students, but rather the product rule (Cartesian product or multiplicative principle). This rule mainly symbolic mobilizes records and, therefore, poses treatments in the same record type. However, when the activities are developed through formulas, that is, the product rule, the sum or quotient, were also employed symbolic records and their treatments. Additionally, these tasks were further evidence of the modification of the starting record in natural language to the intermediary, symbolic record. In other strategies such as enumerating the requested settings, recursion, subdividing the problem, set variables and translation problem the equivalent there was a greater diversity of records, namely: natural language, figural, tabular and tree. Therefore a variety in most types of conversion. Finally, it was also noted that the mobilization of semiotic representation registers in solving combinatorial nature of activities are not aimed at only the seizure of mathematical objects, but mainly a support for solving such problems.O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar se e como são empregados os registros de representação semiótica nas investigações stricto sensu produzidas por instituições brasileiras que abordam o desenvolvimento do raciocínio combinatório por meio de atividades didáticas que tiveram a participação de alunos do ensino médio. O estudo está baseado na meta-análise qualitativa, que pode ser entendida como a realização de uma revisão sistemática de um conjunto de pesquisas com a intenção de culminar em uma síntese interpretativa por meio da análise e dos dados primários destas (BICUDO, 2014). Para tanto, adotamos os registros de representação semiótica de Duval (2003, 2009, 2011) como referencial teórico. A triagem se deu nos sites dos programas de pós-graduação de universidades brasileiras (grande área Multidisciplinar, área de Ensino de Matemática) e no Banco de Teses e Dissertações da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Nas buscas utilizou-se as palavras-chave análise combinatória , combinatória e permutações . Constatou-se que 43 pesquisas enfatizaram o raciocínio combinatório e 35 delas explicitaram em seu corpus documental atividades didáticas na educação básica, no ensino superior ou na formação de professores que ensinam Matemática. Dessas, 12 centraram-se no ensino médio, tanto no ensino regular quanto na modalidade de Educação de Jovens e Adultos. Para realizar a análise dos dados selecionou-se quatro dissertações que propõem e analisam atividades resolvidas por estudantes do ensino médio e que têm aporte teórico na resolução de problemas. Diante disso, por meio de descritores elaborados a partir das estratégias de resolução de atividades de cunho combinatório apresentadas por Batanero et al (1996, 1997, 2001 e 2003), buscou-se nestas atividades indícios que permitiram identificar os registros de representação mobilizados nas soluções apresentadas pelos participantes dos estudos selecionados. Das análises dos dados conclui-se que o emprego das fórmulas de arranjo, combinação e permutação não é a estratégia mais adotada pelos estudantes, mas sim, a regra do produto (produto cartesiano ou princípio multiplicativo). Esta regra mobiliza principalmente registros simbólicos e, sendo assim, suscita tratamentos nesse mesmo tipo de registro. De modo semelhante, quando as atividades são desenvolvidas por meio de fórmulas, ou seja, pela regra do produto, da soma ou do quociente, também foram empregados registros simbólicos e seus tratamentos. Além disso, nestas tarefas houve uma maior evidência das modificações do registro de partida, em língua natural, para o intermediário, registro simbólico. Nas demais estratégias como enumerar as configurações solicitadas, recursividade, subdividir o problema, fixar variáveis e tradução do problema a outro equivalente identificou-se uma diversidade maior de registros, a saber: língua natural, figural, tabular e em árvore e, por conseguinte, uma variedade maior nos tipos de mudanças entre eles. Por fim, observou-se que a mobilização dos registros de representação semiótica na resolução de atividades de cunho combinatório não visam somente à apreensão dos objetos matemáticos, mas, principalmente, um suporte para a resolução desse tipo de problemas.
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Lindell, Klara. "A standard case of subtitling. : A comparative analysis of the subtitling of Scrubs and House M.D. with a focus on medical terminology." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78325.
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Toury’s first law of translation states that translation of all kinds entails standardisation and, moreover, that the more peripheral the status of a text is, the more standardised its translation will be. As such, the purpose of this essay was to investigate to what extent this holds true in the Swedish translations of the two US television hospital shows Scrubs and House M.D. Though they are both hospital shows, House M.D. – considering its unprecedented genre hybridity and unusual plot structure – is a less mainstream and, as such, more peripheral example of a hospital show than Scrubs, which is more mainstream and, consequently, has a more central position within this genre. The object of study concerned the genre-specific register shared by the two shows – i.e. the medical terminology – which was extracted together with its Swedish subtitles and analysed, mainly in terms of coupled pairs. The analysis consisted of identifying which translation strategies had been adopted in the transfer of terminology and, moreover, what these strategies had entailed in terms of semantic increase, decrease, or correspondence between the original texts and their translations. From this it was concluded that both texts were indeed standardised and, additionally, that House M.D. – as the more peripheral of the two texts – had undergone a more extensive standardisation than Scrubs – being the text holding a more central status.
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Tåqvist, Marie. ""Another thing" : Discourse-organising nouns in advanced learner English." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-41085.
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This study examines the use of discourse-organising nouns (DONs), such as fact, issue, and problem, in Swedish advanced students’ academic writing in second language (L2) English, and in what ways texts produced by the L2 students resemble or differ from those produced by advanced native-speaker (L1) students and from expert writing in this respect. The study uses corpus linguistic methodology and is set within the frameworks of Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics and Granger’s Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis. Results show both similarities and differences across the writer groups. Noteworthy similarities include overall frequencies of DONs and their modifiers. Differences include variety of usage and register appropriacy. These differences were often the largest between the L2 student writing and the expert writing, though findings suggest that both student groups can usefully be thought of as learners of academic writing in English in this respect. Specifically, the students’ usage was found to be less varied than the expert writing, and to be characterised by more frequent use of semantically vague nouns (e.g., thing and fact) and nouns marking attitude and involvement (e.g., opinion and question). Other central findings include the tendency, on the part of the students, to use DONs less frequently in syntactic structures prototypical of formal academic prose, and to use them more frequently in structures with the potential to express stance, compared to the expert writing. The study also found more frequent use of evaluative modifiers of DONs in the student writing. In sum, the L2 student writing and, to a lesser extent, the L1 student writing, was found to approximate the corpus of expert writing in many respects, but with less variety, fewer markers of formality, and more frequent occurrences of interpersonal features in their use of DONs. The result is discourse that can in part be characterised as vague and subjective, as well as involved and informal.This study examines the use of discourse-organising nouns (DONs), such as fact, issue, and problem, in Swedish advanced students’ academic writing in second language (L2) English, and in what ways texts produced by the L2 students resemble or differ from those produced by advanced native-speaker students and from expert writing in this respect. Results show both similarities and differences across the writer groups. Noteworthy similarities include overall frequencies of DONs and their modifiers. Differences include variety of usage and register appropriacy. In short, the L2 student writing and, to a lesser extent, the L1 student writing, was found to approximate the corpus of expert writing in many respects, but with less variety, fewer markers of formality, and more frequent occurrences of interpersonal features in their use of DONs. The result is discourse that can in part be characterised as vague and subjective, as well as involved and informal. These differences were often the largest between the L2 student writing and the expert writing, though findings suggest that both student groups can usefully be thought of as learners of academic writing in English in this respect.
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Castellà, Josep M. "La Complexitat lingüística en el discurs oral i escrit: densitat lèxica, composició oracional i connexió textual." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7486.
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La present tesi consisteix en una anàlisi compativa de tres gèneres de discurs ?conversa informal (llengua oral prototípica), classe magistral (gènere intermedi) i prosa acadèmica (llengua escrita prototípica)? en català, en tres aspectes de l'estructuració i la complexitat lingüística: la densitat lèxica, la composició oracional i la connexió textual (total: 90 trets lèxics, gramaticals i textuals analitzats). Els objectius principals són a/ dotar la lingüística catalana d'una descripció detallada, fins ara inexistent, del contrast lingüístic entre oralitat i escriptura, i b/ fer una aportació a la recerca internacional sobre el tema per intervenir, d'una banda, en el debat originat sobre la complexitat sintàctica i, especialment, sobre la presència d'oracions subordinades en els dos modes de discurs i, de l'altra, per ampliar aquesta mena d'investigació a l'àmbit del discurs, com han reclamat alguns tractadistes.La presente tesis consiste en un análisis comparativo de tres géneros de discurso ?conversación informal (lengua oral prototípica), clase magistral (género intermedio) y prosa académica (lengua escrita prototípica)? en catalán, en tres aspectos de la estructuración y la complejidad lingüística: la densidad léxica, la composición oracional y la conexión textual (total: 90 rasgos léxicos, gramaticales y textuales analizados). Los objetivos principales son a/ dotar la lingüística catalana de una descripción detallada, hasta ahora inexistente, del contraste lingüístico entre oralidad y escritura, y b/ hacer una aportación a la investigación internacional sobre el tema para intervenir, por un lado, en el debate originado sobre la complejidad sintáctica y, especialmente, sobre la presencia de oraciones subordinadas en los dos modos de discurso y, por otro lado, para ampliar este tipo de investigación al ámbito del discurso, como han reclamado algunos tratadistas.
The present work consists of a comparative analysis of three discourse genres --informal conversation (prototypical oral language), academic lecture (intermediate genre), and academic prose (prototypical written language)-- in Catalan, focusing on three aspects of linguistic structure and complexity: lexical density, sentence composition, and textual connexion (total: 90 lexical, grammatical, and textual features analysed). The main purposes are: (a) to provide Catalan linguistics with a detailed description --non-available so far-- of the linguistic opposition between literacy and speech; and (b) to make a contribution to the international research in this field in order to, on the one hand, participate in the discussion about the syntactic complexity, and, especially, about the presence of subordinated clauses in the two modes of discourse, and, on the other, extend this kind of research to the discourse level, as some researchers have claimed.
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Pakbaz, Mojgan. "Vaginal prolapse – clinical outcomes and patients’ perspectives : a study using quantitative and qualitative methods." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Obstetrik och gynekologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-40613.
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Background: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a relatively common condition. In Sweden, the overall estimated prevalence of POP in the female population is 31% and the prevalence of symptomatic prolapse is 8–15%. The prevalence of POP increases with age. The lifetime risk of undergoing pelvic floor surgery is estimated to 11%. The aim of this thesis was to investigate outcomes of vaginal hysterectomy for treatment of prolapse; to study outcomes of cystocele repair surgery and patient satisfaction related to different anaesthesia methods; to explore women’s experiences of vaginal prolapse; and to investigate what is known regarding POP prior to surgery and healthcare-seeking behaviour. Methods: In the Swedish National Quality Register for Gynaecological Surgery (Gynop-register), 941 women were identified who underwent vaginal hysterectomy for prolapse from 1997 to 2005 and 1,364 women were identified who underwent cystocele repair surgery from 2006 to 2009. In-depth interviews were performed with 14 women with vaginal prolapse. Interview data were analyzed with a qualitative content analysis. To investigate women’s knowledge about POP and healthcare-seeking behaviour, a questionnaire was developed, validated and distributed to women with planned surgery for POP. Women undergoing hysterectomy or incontinence surgery were used as reference groups. Results: Severe complications after vaginal hysterectomy occurred in 3% of cases. Sexual activity was improved after vaginal hysterectomy, the number of women reported to have intercourse increased by 20% (p = 0.006). Subjective symptoms of urinary incontinence and overactive bladder were resolved in 50% of the women. De novo stress incontinence was reported by 11% of the women. Use of local anaesthesia (LA) in reconstruction of cystocele showed advantage over other forms of anaesthesia. Length of hospital stay, duration of use of postoperative pain-killing drugs, and time to return to daily activity were shorter among women who underwent surgery with LA compared to other forms of anaesthesia. Patient satisfaction was not related to methods of anaesthesia. In an interview study, the process from recognition the symptoms to seeking healthcare was highlighted. Two categories, “obstacles” and “facilitators” to seeking health care, were identified. One of the obstacles was lack of information on POP in the public domain. The main facilitators were feeling sexually unattractive and impaired physical ability due to POP. Some findings from the interview study were further explored in the questionnaire study. One out of five women with vaginal prolapse did not know that the symptoms were related to prolapse before consulting their physician. Over 30% of the women in the incontinence group were embarrassed to talk about incontinence, and they were unaware that it could be treated. The most frequent description of vaginal prolapse was vaginal bulging. Women in the prolapse group had significantly less access to information through brochures and public media than women in the incontinence group (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Short-term follow-up after vaginal hysterectomy showed that sexual activity and urinary symptoms had improved. Cystocele surgery using LA showed no disadvantage compared to surgery using other anaesthesia methods. POP surgery can therefore be performed safely with LA. Information on prolapse should be easily accessible to improve the possibility for women of gaining knowledge and thereby overcoming obstacles to seeking medical advice. Healthcare professionals have a significant role to play in informing women about symptoms and available treatment options.
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Stormo, Jeremy M. "Analysis of Windows 8 Registry Artifacts." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1779.
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Microsoft’s series of Windows operating systems represents some of the most commonly encountered technologies in the field of digital forensics. It is then fair to say that Microsoft’s design decisions greatly affect forensic efforts. Because of this, it is exceptionally important for the forensics community to keep abreast of new developments in the Windows product line. With each new release, the Windows operating system may present investigators with significant new artifacts to explore. Described by some as the heart of the Windows operating system, the Windows registry has been proven to contain many of these forensically interesting artifacts. Given the weight of Microsoft’s influence on digital forensics and the role of the registry within Windows operating systems, this thesis delves into the Windows 8 registry in the hopes of developing new Windows forensics utilities.
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Zajíček, Juraj. "Návrh metodiky analýzy rizik kritických aplikací v bankovním sektoru." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-382716.
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This diploma thesis deals with the problem of risk analysis of critical applications in banking. The sponsor is the bank operating in the Czech Republic. The thesis is based on the theoretical apparatus in the field of information security and legal normatives of the Czech Republic. The thesis analyzes the laws and directives related to the issue of risk analysis, the bank's internal regulations and the previous analyzes carried out in the bank.
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Millot, Philippe. "Caractérisation de l'anglais comme lingua franca professionnelle à travers une analyse de corpus de courriels échangés en entreprise : une étude de registre." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00919362.
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Cette thèse est une contribution à la branche professionnelle de l'anglais de spécialité et au domaine de l'anglais comme lingua franca. Le contexte de la recherche est le milieu de l'entreprise où les employés échangent des courriels dans le cadre de la réalisation d'actions professionnelles routinières. Dans ce contexte, l'anglais est considéré comme une langue internationale et, dans la situation où les employés sont natifs d'autres langues que l'anglais, la lingua franca. La première partie traite des quatre concepts fondamentaux de cette recherche : l'anglais comme langue internationale, le registre, la phraséologie et les discours professionnels. De ces quatre concepts émerge l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'analyse du discours professionnel en général et des courriels professionnels en particulier reposent sur la modélisation de situations professionnelles récurrentes en situations professionnelles typiques d'échange. Cette modélisation permet ensuite une analyse de registre. La seconde partie présente la démarche méthodologique dont l'objectif estla constitution d'un corpus de 500 courriels professionnels à partir d'une base de données plus large que nous avons constituée lors de notre enquête de terrain dans le monde de l'entreprise. Le corpus est tout d'abord défini selon quatre situations linguistiques que nous présentons ci-dessous : 1. scripteurs natifs et destinataires natifs 2. scripteurs natifs et destinataires non natifs 3. scripteurs non natifs et destinataires natifs 4. scripteurs non natifs et destinataires non natifs Il est ensuite défini selon les quatre situations professionnelles suivantes : 1. achats et ventes de produits 2. management d'équipes distantes 3. administration des ressources humaines 4. résolution de problèmes techniques A partir de ce corpus, nous menons une étude de la variation sur trois ensembles de traits linguistico-discursifs et paralinguistiques qui nous permettent d'évaluer le degré de minimalisme dans les courriels, le degré d'imbrication du texte dans le contexte ainsi que de mesurer le caractère interpersonnel et intime de ce type d'échange. Notre étude nous mène tout d'abord à confirmer que l'analyse de registre est une approche efficace pour la caractérisation des discours ordinaires et routiniers dans les entreprises. Elle interroge ensuite la solidité des normes et du concept de communauté de discours en présentant l'anglais en circulation sur les réseaux professionnels, éphémères et mondiaux, comme une variété fluide.
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Bissonnette, Stéphanie. "Comparaison du registre de lecteurs de bulletins de nouvelles québécois et français." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53925.pdf.
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Cheng, Hsiao-Mo. "X-ray structural analysis of the thermotropic copolyesters Xyda(registered trademark) and Vectra(registered trademark)." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1054757724.
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Frehner, Carmen. "E-Mail - SMS - MMS : the linguistic creativity of asynchronous discourse in the New Media Age /." Bern [u.a.] : Lang, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016392581&line_number=0004&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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While, Eileen, and n/a. "Female registered nurses and stress : a quantitative analysis." University of Canberra. Professional & Community Education, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061110.130058.
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This study examines the perceived causes of occupational stress amongst female
Registered Nurses working in the clinical setting at both Calvary Public and Calvary
Private Hospitals ACT Incorporated.
A modified Gray-Toft, Anderson Nursing Stress Scale (1981) was used as the instrument
for the research. The questionnaire was modified by the addition of six questions.
The questionnaire was distributed to seventy female Registered Nurses. Twenty
questionnaires were distributed to staff working within the Private Hospital and fifty to
staff in the Public Hospital.
Relevant data dating back to 1956 was examined regarding stress and burnout amongst
nurses and allied health professionals.
The results of this study, not surprisingly, supported the finding of Gray-Toft, Anderson.
That is that nursing remains an inherently stressful occupation. Respondents working in
both public and private hospitals indicated that Lack of Funding and Death and Dying
were considered to be major sources of perceived stress.
Registered Nurses working in the Public Hospital perceive higher levels of stress than do
those Registered Nurses working within the Private Hospital with respect to relative
staffing levels, workload and funding.
Comparisons by age group indicated a generally higher reported level for the youngest age
group. Comparison of full time versus part time staff indicated a significantly higher level
of perceived stress from full time staff. Analysis of reported stress by ward type indicated
that staff working in the "medical" groupings experienced higher perceived levels of stress
than those working in the "surgical" groupings.
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Goodfellow, Iain T. "Analysis of co-registered bathymetric and sidescan data." Thesis, University of Bath, 1996. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362262.
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Dalwai, Nausheena Begum. "Social networking among UWC students: instant messaging genres and registers." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4841.
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Magister Artium - MAContemporary research has pointed to the importance of social media in the lives of young people today. This project aims to explore the emerging discourse conventions and generic structures of chat conversations on social networking media applications such as MXit, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and WhatsApp. The data for this project was acquired from undergraduate students between first- and third-year of study at the University of the Western Cape across four years (2010-2012 and 2014). The data is of three types: instant messaging chats which were collected from 2010 to 2012, and questionnaires and a focus group interview which were conducted in 2014. The main theoretical frameworks used for this project are genre and register theory by Martin and Rose (2003), Eggins and Slade (1997), Chandler (1997), Eggins (2004), Halliday and Hasan (1985). Bock (2013) and Spilioti (2011) were also used for the chat analyses. In this project I argue that although generic structures in instant messaging (IM) are conventionalised they still show a great amount of hybridity and fluidity. One of the main findings illustrates how different participants choose to begin and end their chats, whether it is with or without a greeting, and although they may be flouting the conventions of IM chatting they are not necessarily considered to be impolite. Furthermore, the findings of this project explores how the evolution and advancement of technology has contributed to the style of chatting as well as the norms of instant messaging as a genre.
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Tolin, Craig Edmond. "A Spectral Analysis of Selected Vowels Sung by Bass and Baritone Student Singers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330963/.
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While a limited body of research pertaining to vocal sound quality exists, technological advances in sound analyses have facilitated a reexamination of vocal timbre. The sound quality of sung vowels ([ a], [e ], C i ]) produced by ten baritone/bass singers at the University of North Texas was analyzed by the use of Fourier analysis and electronic digital equipment. This procedure and equipment produced results over a wider frequency range with greater accuracy than prior studies on vocal timbre. The study sought to answer the following questions: (1) Using formant regions between 0-20 kHz for comparison, what similarities and differences can be observed among spectra produced from [a], [e], and [ i ] vowels sung by baritone/bass singers? (2) Using formant regions between 0-20 kHz for comparison, what similarities and differences can be observed among spectra produced from [a], [ e ], and [ i ] vowels sung by baritone/bass singers with regard to individual singers? (3) Approximately what vocal-tract tube lengths were used by baritone/bass singers when performing [a], [e ], and [ i ] vowels? (4) What similarities in vocal-tract tube lengths can be generalized as to [ a], L e ], and [ i ] vowels sung by individual baritone/bass singers? The results of the study suggested that: (1) Below approximately 4 kHz formant frequency location can be generalized by a specific vowel between subjects. (2) Above 4 kHz the generalization of formant frequency location is difficult between subjects singing the same vowels, but general frequency location for formants can be identified between samples produced by the same singer performing different vowels. (3) Subjects did alter their vocal-tract lengths as different vowel sounds were performed, but no overall pattern of tube length with reference to specific vowels was indicated. (4) Each singer did use a unique vocal-tract length. The average estimated vocal-tract length for all subjects singing a specific vowel revealed little variation in tube length with an average tube length of 278.97 mm.
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Teixeira, Vânia Sofia Martins. "Custos diretos do tratamento do cancro do cólon no Algarve." Master's thesis, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9351.
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RESUMO - O cancro colorretal é um dos tumores mais comuns nos países desenvolvidos e um grave problema de saúde pública. Em Portugal constitui a terceira causa de morte por cancro em ambos os sexos e a segunda para cada sexo separadamente. A sua importância tem vindo a aumentar devido aos custos pessoais e sociais, surgindo internacionalmente como a segunda doença oncológica com os custos económicos mais elevados. No contexto atual, onde os gastos continuam a aumentar e os recursos são limitados, é importante tornar acessível aos decisores políticos o valor dos custos do cancro do cólon, para comparar opções para a prevenção e tratamento desta doença, no momento de afetar os recursos e financiamento do cancro.
O objetivo do estudo é medir os custos diretos do tratamento do cancro do cólon na região do Algarve no ano de 2007. Para além da caracterização sociodemográfica e clínica dos doentes, pretende-se relacionar os custos das diferentes tipologias de diagnóstico e tratamento com os estádios da doença, com a idade e com o sexo.
Propõe-se um estudo retrospetivo, analítico, transversal, que segue a abordagem custos da doença baseada na prevalência, adotando a perspetiva dos serviços de saúde. A principal fonte dos dados é a plataforma do ROR-Sul, extraindo-se a população constituída por todos os doentes com diagnóstico de cancro do cólon entre 1 de janeiro de 2007 e 31 de dezembro de 2007, residentes no distrito de Faro (n=170). Para a valorização dos custos recorre-se às Portarias que regulam as tabelas de preços dos serviços do Sistema Nacional de Saúde, à contabilidade analítica dos hospitais e ao Infarmed. Os resultados serão analisados através do Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) versão 20. De forma a verificar a existência de diferenças estatísticas, em termos de médias e da existência de relações, entre as variáveis sociodemográficas e clínicas utilizaram-se vários testes.
Consideramos que este estudo será um importante ponto de partida para posteriores análises económicas completas, em termos dos seus custos e suas consequências, nomeadamente a realização da análise custo-efetividade de programas de prevenção primária e secundária do cancro do cólon.ABSTRACT - Colorectal cancer is one of the most common tumours in developed countries and a serious public health issue. In Portugal, it is the third leading cause of cancer death in both sexes and the second for each sex separately. Its importance has been increasing due to personal and social costs, internationally emerging as the second most expensive cancer disease. In the current environment, where costs continue to increase and resources are limited, it is important to give to policy makers an accurate value of the costs of colon cancer, enabling to compare options for prevention and treatment of this disease, when the moment comes to allocate resources and funding for cancer treatment. The aim of the study is to measure the direct costs of colon cancer treatment in Algarve region in 2007 year. Besides sociodemographic and clinical characterization of the patients, we intend to relate the costs of different types of diagnosis and treatment stages of the disease, with age and sex. We propose a retrospective, analytical and a cross study, following an approach based on the costs of disease prevalence, adopting a health services perspective. The main source of data is the platform of the ROR-Sul, extracting the population consisted by all patients diagnosed with colon cancer between January 1st and December 31st 2007, residents in the district of Faro (n=170). For the costs assessment, it was followed local legal rules in force that regulates the price lists of the National Health System services, hospitals cost accounting and national drug authority (Infarmed). The results will be evaluated by using the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. In order to check for statistical differences in terms of averages and the existence of relationships between the sociodemographic and clinical variables, several tests were made. We believe that this study will be an important starting point for further economic complete analysis in terms of its costs and its consequences, namely the realization of cost-effectiveness of programs for primary and secondary prevention of colon cancer.
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Runser, Alicia M. "Global Joint Registry: Analysis of Revision Hip Arthroplasty Data." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1610382916575377.
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Lukins, Timothy Campbell. "Qualifying 4D deforming surfaces by registered differential features." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2830.
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Recent advances in 4D data acquisition systems in the field of Computer Vision have opened up many exciting new possibilities for the interpretation of complex moving surfaces. However, a fundamental problem is that this has also led to a huge increase in the volume of data to be handled. Attempting to make sense of this wealth of information is then a core issue to be addressed if such data can be applied to more complex tasks. Similar problems have been historically encountered in the analysis of 3D static surfaces, leading to the extraction of higher-level features based on analysis of the differential geometry. Our central hypothesis is that there exists a compact set of similarly useful descriptors for the analysis of dynamic 4D surfaces. The primary advantages in considering localised changes are that they provide a naturally useful set of invariant characteristics. We seek a constrained set of terms - a vocabulary - for describing all types of deformation. By using this, we show how to describe what the surface is doing more effectively; and thereby enable better characterisation, and consequently more effective visualisation and comparison. This thesis investigates this claim. We adopt a bottom-up approach of the problem, in which we acquire raw data from a newly constructed commercial 4D data capture system developed by our industrial partners. A crucial first step resolves the temporal non-linear registration between instances of the captured surface. We employ a combined optical/range flow to guide a conformation over a sequence. By extending the use of aligned colour information alongside the depth data we improve this estimation in the case of local surface motion ambiguities. By employing a KLT/thin-plate-spline method we also seek to preserve global deformation for regions with no estimate. We then extend aspects of differential geometry theory for existing static surface analysis to the temporal domain. Our initial formulation considers the possible intrinsic transitions from the set of shapes defined by the variations in the magnitudes of the principal curvatures. This gives rise to a total of 15 basic types of deformation. The change in the combined magnitudes also gives an indication of the extent of change. We then extend this to surface characteristics associated with expanding, rotating and shearing; to derive a full set of differential features. Our experimental results include qualitative assessment of deformations for short episodic registered sequences of both synthetic and real data. The higher-level distinctions extracted are furthermore a useful first step for parsimonious feature extraction, which we then proceed to demonstrate can be used as a basis for further analysis. We ultimately evaluate this approach by considering shape transition features occurring within the human face, and the applicability for identification and expression analysis tasks.
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Růčka, Josef. "Analýza procesu veřejné autobusové dopravy." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-228203.
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The diploma dissertation deals with the bus transport process analysis. More specifically, it deals with a proposition of the reclamation subprocess control. The dissertation contains the description of subprocess of the main process of bus transport. Moreover, it contains the analysis of the original state of the reclamation subprocess control and a set of measures and recommendations that lead to the more effective evaluation of this subprocess.
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Flodin, Mikael, and Shadi Khatibi. "Betyg och kön : likvärdighet eller diskriminering?" Thesis, KTH, Lärande, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-227802.
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Nationella och internationella kunskapsmätningar i matematik visar likartade resultat för flickor och pojkar. Trots det visar statistiken att flickor erhåller systematiskt högre slutbetyg. Denna studie undersöker huruvida betyg tjänar som likvärdigt mått på kunskap hos flickor och pojkar i gymnasiets matematikämne. Detta görs dels utifrån en kvantitativ ansats och dels utifrån en enkätstudie. Med utgångspunkt i nationell registerdata (SCB) för slutbetyg och resultat på nationella provet undersöks, medelst fyra olika analysmetoder, könsskillnader med avseende på kurs, skolform och län. Studien visar att flickor generellt erhåller högre slutbetyg än pojkar i relation till resultatet på nationella provet, vilket bekräftar tidigare forskning. Vidare påvisar analysen särskilt stora diskrepanser på betygsnivå C och högre; i matematikkurser på yrkesförberedande program; i senare kurser inom samtliga program; i Västernorrlands, Västmanlands, Gotlands och Kalmar län; liksom i fristående skolor. Korrelationsanalys tydliggör hur nationella provet utgör en mindre del av betygsunderlaget för flickor jämfört med pojkar. Dessutom avslöjar analysen ett omvänt samband mellan könsbetingad relativ prestation på nationella provet och avvikelse i slutbetyget. Enkätstudien undersöker bedömningspraktiken hos matematiklärare. Filtrering på lärarens kön, ålder, program och skolform, har tillämpats. Resultatet tyder på systematiska skillnader i bedömningspraktik mellan olika lärarkategorier, vilket innebär att betygssättningen kan brista i likvärdighet. Skillnader har påvisats mellan, i första hand, lärare på yrkesprogram och naturvetenskapliga program, såväl som mellan lärare i kommunala och fristående skolor. Också lärarens kön och ålder tycks ha viss betydelse. Studien avslutas med en diskussion kring möjliga lösningar.National and international assessments in mathematics show similar results for girls and boys. Despite this, statistics show that girls receive systematically higher final grades. This study examines whether grades serve as an equivalent measure of knowledge of girls and boys in high school mathematics. This is done partly on the basis of a quantitative approach and partly on the basis of a survey. Based on national register data (Statistics Sweden) for final grades and results of national tests, using four different methods of analysis, gender differences with respect to course, school form and county, are examined. The study shows that girls generally get a higher final grade than boys in relation to their results on the national test, confirming previous research. Furthermore, the analysis shows particularly large discrepancies at grade C and higher; in mathematics courses on vocational programs; in later courses within all programs; in V¨asternorrland, V¨astmanland, Gotland and Kalmar County; as well as in independent schools. Correlation analysis clarifies how the national test constitutes a smaller part of the assessment basis for girls compared to boys. The analysis also reveals an inverse relationship between gender dependent relative performance on the national test and the final grade deviation. The survey examines the assessment practice among mathematics teachers. Filtering on the teacher’s gender, age, program and school form has been applied. The result suggests systematic differences in assessment practice between different teacher categories, implying that grades can break in equality. Differences have been shown between, primarily, teachers in vocational programs and science programs, as well as between teachers in municipal and independent schools. Also the teacher’s gender and age seems to be of some importance. The study concludes with a discussion about possible solutions.