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Kimler, Marco. "Using Style Markers for Detecting Plagiarism in Natural Language Documents." Thesis, University of Skövde, Department of Computer Science, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-824.
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Most of the existing plagiarism detection systems compare a text to a database of other texts. These external approaches, however, are vulnerable because texts not contained in the database cannot be detected as source texts. This paper examines an internal plagiarism detection method that uses style markers from authorship attribution studies in order to find stylistic changes in a text. These changes might pinpoint plagiarized passages. Additionally, a new style marker called specific words is introduced. A pre-study tests if the style markers can fingerprint an author s style and if they are constant with sample size. It is shown that vocabulary richness measures do not fulfil these prerequisites. The other style markers - simple ratio measures, readability scores, frequency lists, and entropy measures - have these characteristics and are, together with the new specific words measure, used in a main study with an unsupervised approach for detecting stylistic changes in plagiarized texts at sentence and paragraph levels. It is shown that at these small levels the style markers generally cannot detect plagiarized sections because of intra-authorial stylistic variations (i.e. noise), and that at bigger levels the results are strongly a ected by the sliding window approach. The specific words measure, however, can pinpoint single sentences written by another author.
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Dickson, Tabitha Gwendoline. "Effect of ability, ascent style, and route type on psychological and physiological markers in rock climbing." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Sport and Physical Education, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9444.
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Rock climbing is thought to rely upon the interaction of various performance components, and has previously been described as a complex multi-faceted sport. It has been suggested that psychological aspects of performance, such as task perception and the interaction of resulting pre-climb anxieties, contribute greatly to the physiological responses and the overall performance during ascent. However, research which seeks to investigate both psychological and physiological responses during specific bouts of rock climbing are few in number. This thesis attempts to contribute to the novel yet limited body of field based psychophysological research relating to rock climbing. To this end, the studies contained within this thesis investigated psychological and physiological responses as a result of difficult on-sight rock climbing. Elaborating upon previous research, additonal factors which are thought to influence these responses were explored. More specifically, differences in responses between ability groups, style of ascent, and route type were investigated.
In study one, differences in psychological and physiological responses with respect to ability level and ascent style were investigated, during a single on-sight ascent. Seventy-two climbers were split into ability groups defined as lower-grade, intermediate, advanced and elite based on self-reported on-sight grades (Ewbank) of ≤17, 18-20, 21-24 and ≥ 25 respectively. Each climber attempted an on-sight ascent of a designated test route set on an indoor artificial climbing wall. A separate test route was set for each ability group which targeted their self-reported ability with respect to best on-sight. Participants were randomly assigned to either a lead or top-rope ascent and climbers were not informed of their style of ascent until 15 min prior to climbing. Responses to the climbing task were measured pre, during, and post-climb using a number of psychological and physiological markers.
In total fifty-two participants successfully completed their on-sight ascents, and data for successful ascents were analysed and compared. Pre-climb variables were considered together in order to investigate pre-climb state, more specifically levels of anxiety, prior to ascent. Results indicated that there were no significant differences for grouped pre-climb variables with respect to ascent style. These results suggest that irrespective of ascent style, successful climbers exhibited similar psychophysiological responses prior to attempting an on-sight ascent. Furthermore, this trend was replicated across all ability groups. These findings were thought to be indicative of the high demand and level of uncerainty imposed by the on-sight condition of ascent, lending support to previous suggestion that an on-sight ascent induces the highest anxiety response. During the climb, HR and were measured and averaged across the entirety of the ascent. When expressed as a percentage of and the average HR and responses during ascent were found to be comparable across ability groups. As such, all ability groups appeared to utilise similar fractions of maximal capacity, with elite climbers successfully ascending a route up to eight difficulty grades harder than those of lower ability, whilst still performing at the same workload intensity. It would appear that oxygen uptake during rock climbing may not be directly related to difficulty or personal ability. A technical advantage, personal climbing style, and possible physiological adaptations may be contributors to more strategic and efficient ascents resulting in the capacity to climb at higher grades of difficulty.
The second study presented within this thesis was comprised of two phases of investigation; (1) to investigate whether psychological and physiological responses to competition-style climbing differed with respect to ability level, and (2) to investigate potential psychological and physiological differences based on route type and outcome (success and failure). In phase 1 of study two, intermediate, advanced and elite climbers attempted an lead on-sight ascent of a competition-style route which increased in difficulty as the climber progressed. The route was set with the intention of being just beyond the upper limits of the elite climbers self-reported best on-sight ability (~26 Ewbank). This was done in order to ensure that a fall from the route was highly likely, even for the elite climbers. All climbers failed to successfuly ascend the test route and as such all climbed to the point of failure resulting in a fall. The results obtained both prior to, and during ascent suggest that the intermediate and advanced climbers in the current study may have been limited by technical ability as opposed to physical exhaustion, or increased levels of anxiety. Elite climbers were to be able to maintain a more sustained physical effort during the more difficult phases of the climb. This appeared to be reflected in post-climb blood lactate concentration and ratings of task demand with respect to both physical demand and effort. As such it may be that elite climbers are more accustomed to maximal effort and demonstrate an increased tolerance to the higher exercise intensity required during more difficult ascents.
In the second phase of study two the psychological and physiological responses of climbers in a competitive setting obtained in phase 1, were compared with those exhibited by participants during both successful and unsuccessful lead on-sight ascents in study one. The aim of study two phase 2 was to determine whether the responses of successful climbers differed from those who succeeded by reaching the top of a route, and performances in a competitive context where success is denoted by the distance achieved by a climbers on their ascent. The main findings in this instance were that although there were no significant differences observed between categories of ascent (successful, unsuccessful and competition) for grouped pre-climb variables, trends in CSAI-2R responses indicated high cognitive anxiety coupled with lower self-confidence prior to unsuccessful ascents. As such it may be that self-confidence acts as a buffer in moderating success in rock climbing, demonstrating the role of positive emotions and their impact upon performance as opposed to the detrimental effect of the negative. A second finding of this study was that there appeared to be a differing HR- relationship based on ascent category. Modest increases in were shown for all ascents, irrespective of ability level. A plateau in response was accompanied by a similar plateau in HR response during successful ascents, yet HR was shown to increase in a linear fashion until point of failure during unsuccessful ascents. It is possible that these findings highlight the presence of a climbing specific limitation.
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Chummun, Narain Harry. "The relationship between boron, stress hormones and bone markers in humans of different ages, life style and health status." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2000. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/8728/.
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Hormones (sex hormones, thyroxine, cortisol and parathyroid), cytokines (interleukins-1 and 2 and tumour necrosis factor), life style (exercise, smoking and reproductive history), nutrition (calcium, meat, vegetables, vitamin D, caffeine and alcohol) and diseases (diabetes mellitus, malabsorption and thyrotoxicosis) affect bone mass. The loss of calcium, phosphate and magnesium from bone makes it weaker which enhances the incidence of bone diseases such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis and increases the risks of fractures causing pain, sufferings and even death particularly in older females. Treatment of these diseases and the 200,000 related fractures costs the National Health Service over £940 millions annually (National Osteoporosis Society, 1998/1999). The multifactorial aetiology of osteoporosis and difficulties in deciding the most effective treatment to suit individual sufferer makes preventative measures more suitable in lowering the incidence of this disease and therefore reduces human sufferings, cost and mortality. Boron, a ubiquitous element in soil, water, ground vegetables and fruits modulates sex hormones in animals. Its role in human is unclear and inconclusive. Boron prolonged the half-life of 17(3 oestradiol and delayed the loss of bone mass particularly in post-menopausal women with low magnesium (Neilsen, 1990) and increased absorption and retention of calcium, phosphate and magnesium during vitamin D deficiency (Hunt, 1994). Excessively high level of boron suppressed sex steroids and increased the loss of bone minerals (Benderdour et al, 1998). Cortisol reduced bone mass (Delany et al, 1995) but the effects of catecholamines on bone are largely undetermined. This study aims to assess the relationship between boron, cortisol, catecholamines, serotonin and bone turnover in relation to age, gender, life style, nutrition, reproductive history and health status in men and women of 3 age groups, mainly nurses and to make recommendations, if appropriate, to improve bone mass or reduce the rate of bone loss. 172 male and female volunteers were placed in respective groups aged 11-20, 20-40, over 40 years old and all the pregnant subjects in one group. Early morning urine was analysed for calcium and magnesium by flame spectrophotometry, phosphate, hydroxyproline and creatinine by spectrophotometry, boron by inductive coupled plasma spectrophotometry and cortisol, adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin by high performance liquid chromatography. Information about each subject's life style, nutrition and health was obtained using a questionnaire. Data were processed and analysed using excel and minitab packages and only significance level at P<0.05 or less was accepted using ANOVA, t-test and Pearson's correlation coefficient. There were positive trends between urinary levels of boron and calcium and significant correlation (P<0.05) between boron and phosphate in all the male subjects particularly in M20-40, suggesting that these subjects would be more prone to bone loss. In addition, the levels of boron were significantly higher (PO.05) in post-menopausal compared to pre-menopausal subjects, in F<20 low alcohol drinkers compared to M<20, during stress in M20-40 compared to F20-40, in F>40 with the history of osteoporosis compared to those in M>40 as well as in F20-40 heavy smokers compared to those in M20-40 and in subjects taking the contraceptive pill. Age, exercise, hysterectomy, HRT, vegetables consumption and vitamin supplements did not significantly influence urinary boron levels. Heavy alcohol consumption, greater stress, heavy smoking and family history of osteoporosis increase urinary boron levels and this might enhance bone damage, particularly in post-menopausal subjects. Urinary cortisol, adrenaline and dopamine levels were raised (P<0.05) in F>40 and M>40 and correlated with an increased calcium excretion which suggest that the increased catecholamine levels in these subjects may promote calcium loss and compromise ageing bone. Regular intake of alcohol above 1500 ml of beer, 750 ml of wine and 150 ml of spirits per week, heavy smoking of over 10 cigarettes or 3 ounces of tobacco per day, eating less than 3 vegetables, not taking weight bearing exercises at least 3 times per week and a lack of multivitamin supplements during puberty and middle age, increased bone turnover and may predispose bone to fractures. Male nurses were at a greater risk (PO.05) than the females from increased turnover of phosphate, magnesium, calcium and hydroxyproline as these also positively correlated with either boron, adrenaline or cortisol. The levels of urinary catecholamines were significantly (PO.05) higher in M20-40 compared to F20-40 who were stressed and suggested either male subjects had poor coping mechanism or that female subjects had a different response mechanism. The correlation between boron, cortisol, adrenaline and phosphate in the male subjects as a whole but particularly in M20-40, in whom adrenaline also correlated with hydroxyproline, suggest that these male subjects are at greater risks of bone damage and poor health. Improved dietary intakes of calcium, vegetables and boron and a healthier life style of reduced alcohol and smoking with more weight-bearing exercises could significantly reduced bone loss and therefore prevent osteoporosis. In addition, male nurses should minimise stress levels not only to protect bone loss but for a better health.
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Prys, Myfryr. "Style in the vernacular and on the radio : code-switching and mutation as stylistic and social markers in Welsh." Thesis, Bangor University, 2016. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/style-in-the-vernacular-and-on-the-radio-codeswitching-and-mutation-as-stylistic-and-social-markers-in-welsh(952270df-9881-48b5-9193-85b0b8c4eecd).html.
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This thesis seeks to analyse two types of linguistic features of Welsh, code-switching and mutation, as sociolinguistic variables: features which encode social information about the speaker and/or stylistic meaning. Developing a study design that incorporates an analysis of code-switching and mutation in naturalistic speech has demanded a relatively novel methodological approach. The study combined a variationist analysis of the vernacular use of both variables in the 40-hour Siarad corpus (Deuchar 2014) with a technique that ranks radio programmes in order of formality through the use of channel cues and other criteria (Ball et al 1988). This allows for a comparison of the use of code-switching and mutation in multiple stylistic contexts, each of which show varying degrees of emotional engagement and self-monitoring by speakers. The analysis found that code-switching was strongly correlated with the level of formality of each radio programme, and that at least one aspirate mutation trigger, (a), also patterned in a similar way. Some other mutation triggers, most notably including the nasal possessive trigger (fy), seemed to be primarily affected by the speakers’ backgrounds and their relative ages in particular. A qualitative analysis of the type of discourse found in each radio programme made further links between the institutional style of each programme and their use of the stylistically controlled ‘marker’ variables, with non-standard variants appearing to be indexical of solidarity, subversion and irony, while standard variants indexed prestige, authority and earnestness.
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Zhao, Ying, and ying zhao@rmit edu au. "Effective Authorship Attribution in Large Document Collections." RMIT University. Computer Science and Information Technology, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080730.162501.
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Techniques that can effectively identify authors of texts are of great importance in scenarios such as detecting plagiarism, and identifying a source of information. A range of attribution approaches has been proposed in recent years, but none of these are particularly satisfactory; some of them are ad hoc and most have defects in terms of scalability, effectiveness, and computational cost. Good test collections are critical for evaluation of authorship attribution (AA) techniques. However, there are no standard benchmarks available in this area; it is almost always the case that researchers have their own test collections. Furthermore, collections that have been explored in AA are usually small, and thus whether the existing approaches are reliable or scalable is unclear. We develop several AA collections that are substantially larger than those in literature; machine learning methods are used to establish the value of using such corpora in AA. The results, also used as baseline results in this thesis, show that the developed text collections can be used as standard benchmarks, and are able to clearly distinguish between different approaches. One of the major contributions is that we propose use of the Kullback-Leibler divergence, a measure of how different two distributions are, to identify authors based on elements of writing style. The results show that our approach is at least as effective as, if not always better than, the best existing attribution methods-that is, support vector machines-for two-class AA, and is superior for multi-class AA. Moreover our proposed method has much lower computational cost and is cheaper to train. Style markers are the key elements of style analysis. We explore several approaches to tokenising documents to extract style markers, examining which marker type works the best. We also propose three systems that boost the AA performance by combining evidence from various marker types, motivated from the observation that there is no one type of marker that can satisfy all AA scenarios. To address the scalability of AA, we propose the novel task of authorship search (AS), inspired by document search and intended for large document collections. Our results show that AS is reasonably effective to find documents by a particular author, even within a collection consisting of half a million documents. Beyond search, we also propose the AS-based method to identify authorship. Our method is substantially more scalable than any method published in prior AA research, in terms of the collection size and the number of candidate authors; the discrimination is scaled up to several hundred authors.
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Widanalage, Varuna Lasantha Kumara, and Serkan Kizilirmak. "Reducing fabric consumption : by improving marker efficiency." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23894.
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Resource degradation is a significant problem in the world, which is directly related to the textile and fashion industry. Efficient use of the material has been identified as an essential aspect to be addressed seriously. It is a critical topic that has attracted the attention of people and companies in recent years and has become a fundamental issue of sustainability. This research study was based on UN sustainable development goals number 12 and 8, which focuses on resource efficiency. The research is designed in considering fabric consumption, which has a significant impact on the textile and clothing industry to contribute to a brighter future and a more sustainable life. The purpose of this study is to reduce the fabric consumption through improving marker efficiency. The research focuses on investigating the behaviour of marker efficiency concerning usable fabric widths, markers with different sizes and marker with style combinations to reduce fabric consumption. The improvements of the existing markers lead to reduce fabric wastage during the cutting process while improving resource efficiency in consumption and production. In this study, the explanatory sequential design of mixed research method is employed with carrying out experiments to collect and analyze quantitative data, explained and elaborated with qualitative findings through expert interviews to get insights into the quantitative findings in a deductive approach. The marker efficiency significantly varies according to the combination of sizes and style and usable fabric width. The improvements of the marker efficiency, reduce the fabric consumption per garment and increase resource efficiency while preventing waste generation. A saving of 1% of a material which consumed millions of tons per year, significantly affect on reducing resource depletion and environmental pollution. This study is limited to five usable fabric widths, four size marker combinations and two style combinations. Moreover, it is focused on material efficiency, and cost efficiency is not considered. There are possibilities for clothing manufactures’ to improve resource efficiency by improving marker efficiency while planning the demand, considering multi-size and multi-style markers. They can concern usable fabric widths, which provide higher marker efficiencies during material purchasing.
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Vega, Alexandre Paulino. "Estilo e marcadores sociais da diferença em contexto urbano: uma análise da desconstrução de diferenças entre jovens em São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-23112009-151601/.
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Neste trabalho é apresentada uma etnografia sobre jovens freqüentadores da Rua Augusta e adjacências na cidade de São Paulo. São analisadas as negociações desses jovens em relação à freqüência de lugares comuns por jovens de estilos diferentes. A maneira como as diferenças são transformadas em desigualdade através do uso de marcadores sociais da diferença é analisada tendo como base uma bibliografia sobre sexualidade, papel de gênero, heteronormatividade e estilo. Será apresentado o campo onde foi feita a pesquisa e contingências da observação participante em um ambiente de flerte. Em seguida são comentadas as perspectivas teóricas utilizadas na análise dos dados obtidos em campo. Também será apresentada a descrição das pessoas que freqüentavam os locais descritos durante o decorrer da observação e por fim são feitas considerações finais sobre os tópicos presentes nos capítulos anteriores.This work presents an ethnography on young frequenters of Augusta street and the nearby locations in the city of São Paulo. It analyzes the negotiations these youngsters carry in relation to the presence of different styles in that area. The manner in which difference is transformed into inequality through the use of social markers of difference is analyzed based on a bibliography on sexuality, heteronormativity and style. The fieldwork is presented as well as the contingencies of doing participating observation in an environment of flirting. Then there are comments on the theoretical perspectives used to analyze the obtained data. It also presents a depiction of the people present in the field during the time of the research and lastly the final considerations on the data from the other chapters are presented.
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Chao, Hsiao-Ying. "THE VALUE OF STYLE ROTATION STRATEGIES IN EMERGING ASIAN MARKETS." NSUWorks, 2011. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/17.
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In the first essay, in contrast to some earlier studies, I document statistically significant within-country style effects in several emerging Asian equity market portfolios. Small capitalization and value stocks tend to outperform their style counterparts. However, there are considerable periods of time when large capitalization and growth stocks outperform. Overall, single style strategies are risky when applied to each individual market.
In the second essay, I report that average return correlations among the zero-cost style portfolios are low - emphasizing the value of an intra-regional diversification strategy. These correlations exhibit significant variation over time. Measures of integration for the style portfolios are also low on average but tend to vary over time. Style returns in the original ASEAN-5 markets exhibit much higher correlations following the Asian financial crisis, and, these correlations remain elevated for several years. These results suggest that while diversification is helpful on average, there are some periods of time when a regional style rotation strategy is warranted and other times when country-specific rotation strategies are reasonable.
In the third essay, I conduct bootstrap experiments on significant winner and loser continuations for each style and the style triplets in Asian emerging equity markets. I provide only modest evidence of style continuation in Asian emerging markets. I also test for style-level momentum in emerging Asia and condition style momentum returns on January, market state, monetary policy and cross-sectional dispersion. I find significant conditional style-level momentum in some Asian emerging markets but not others. I attribute the weaker style momentum results in emerging Asia to a lack of country-level style-specific derivatives in these markets.
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Norberg, Margareta. "Identifying risk of type 2 diabetes : epidemiologic perspectives from biomarkers to lifestyle." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-953.
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Limthanakom, Natcha. "A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING STYLE ROTATION IN U.S. EQUITY MARKETS." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/61.
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In the first essay, I document sample-specific and time period-specific style returns in two distinct sets of U.S. equities: Fama and French style portfolios and the S&P 1500 style indexes. The value and size effects are apparent in the Fama and French portfolios. Only the size effect is evident in the S&P data. In general, the Fama and French style returns are greater than those of the S&P 1500 styles. Style returns tend to be time-varying and exhibit momentum over a variety of formation period-holding period horizons.
In the second essay, I utilize a bootstrap procedure to test for the presence of styleswitchers - as defined in Barberis and Shleifer (2003). I document style winner and loser continuations. There are some periods when no matter which particular style won (lost) in the past, it is more likely to continue winning (losing) in the future. I also test some Barberis and Shleifer (2003) propositions regarding style momentum. One proposition holds that Sharpe ratios from style-level momentum strategies should be at least as large as asset-level momentum Sharpe ratios. While many style momentum strategies generate significant returns, the implied Sharpe ratios are lower than those reported for asset-level momentum strategies. The Barberis and Shleifer (2003) model also suggests that style momentum could be time-varying. I condition style momentum returns on January, lagged market state, lagged monetary policy changes and lagged changes in relative dispersion and find significant conditional style-level momentum.
In the third essay, I identify and test explanatory factors that potentially predict style momentum returns. Several macroeconomic, relative dispersion, market related and volatility related factors are associated with future short-term style momentum returns. Interactions of many of these variables with market and monetary state indicator variables are significant in the
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Fjaestad, Anna. "Se och synas : En studie om att synliggöra förbättringsarbeten." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-32212.
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Se och synas är ett examensarbete i informationsdesign med inriktning mot textdesign. Syftet med detta arbete är att synliggöra förbättringsarbeten på företag med lean-produktion. Examensarbetet ingår i ett större forskningsprojekt, Integrering av innovationsorienterat arbete i lean-produktionssystem, ett samarbete mellan forskare på Mälardalens högskola och olika fallföretag där Eskilstuna ElektronikPartner AB är en av dessa företag. Arbetet strävar efter att ta fram ett designförslag som ska få målgruppen att tänka på förbättringar genom att synliggöra förbättringsarbeten. Målet är att få målgruppen att se och synas, det vill säga se förbättringar och visa upp förbättringsarbeten genom att synas. Under inhämtningen av empirin från observationer, intervjuer och fokusgrupp visade det sig att målgruppen genomför många förbättringar som inte synliggörs och att de önskade mer företagsinformation. Inläsningen av teorier och litteratur kring kognitiv psykologi, stilmarkörer i text, riktlinjer för lättläst text och principer för layout och grafisk form gav mig kunskap om hur information kan utformas på digitala storbildsskärmar. Text och grafik måste vara tydligt utformade. Genom stilmarkörer i språket, lättskrivna texter och hierarkier i grafisk form görs informationen läslig och lätt att förstå. Utifrån empiri och teori har ett gestaltningsförslag tagits fram som synliggör förbättringsarbeten på företag med lean-produktion. Gestaltningen utgår från målgruppens åsikter och består av ett handlingsmönster där förbättringsarbetet synliggörs både muntligt och skriftligt. Gestaltningen består också av en fysisk artefakt där information kring förbättringsarbeten visas på digitala storbildsskärmar.To see and be seen is a thesis in information design with emphasis on text design. The aim of this thesis is to visualiz improvement in companies with lean production. This thesis is a part of a reseach about embedding innovation-oriented work within lean-production systems. This reseach i based on cooperations between reseachers at Mälardalens högskola and different business cases. On of these business cases is Eskilstuna ElektronikPartner AB. This theses aims to develop a designproposal that will get the target group to consider improvements by visualizing improvements. The goal is to get the target group to see and be seen , that is to see improvement and demonstrate improvement by appearing. From the result of empirical data gathered from observations, interviews and focusgroups has shown that the target group implements many improvements that are not made visible and that they wanted more company information. The conclusion of theories about cognitive psychology, style markers in text, guidelines for readable text and principles of layout and graphic design, gave me knowledge of how information can be designed in digital large screens. Text and graphic design must be clear. Through style markers in text, easily written texts and hierarchies in graphical form, information can be made legible and easy to understand. Based on the empirical work and the theories a design proposal has been developed that visualiz improvements in companies with lean production. The design is based on the opinions of the target group and consists of a pattern of behavior where improvement efforts are made visible both orally and in writing. The design also consists of a physical artifact, where information about the improvement is shown on digital large screens.
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Eachus, Peter. "Locus of control, self-efficacy and attributional style of investment professionals." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358746.
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Fetherolf, Raylin. "The Effects of National Culture on Stock Return Comovement in European Equity Markets." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors160687215859392.
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Kuo, Weiyo. "Essays on equity style and asset management." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324848.
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Diggins, Kimberly A. "Shifting cultures of recycled style : a history of second-hand clothing markets in Montreal." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0001/MQ43853.pdf.
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Sorley, Matthew G. "Explanatory style and the financial markets, individual risk preference and response to financial loss situations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0016/MQ48411.pdf.
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Sorley, Matthew G. Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "Explanatory style and the financial markets; individual risk perference and response to financial loss situations." Ottawa, 1999.
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Cooper, Kristen Jane. "Does CEO Leadership Style Impact on Adoption of the Marketing Concept?" Thesis, University of Canterbury. Management, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/869.
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An exploratory investigation using a case study approach was undertaken in five organisations in different sectors, to explore whether there is any connection between CEO leadership style and adoption of the marketing concept by the organisation. Findings emerged on several levels. The market orientation and marketing concept, beyond the level of customer focus, is not well understood in organisations. The integration of market orientation and marketing effort across the organisation presents as the most problematic component of the marketing concept, as well as the one where CEO leadership style has the most potential to impact. The language of leadership theory is not actively assumed by people working in the case study organisations. The way people experience leadership style is ultimately personal, interpersonal and difficult to describe. Leadership attributes are valued differently in different organisations. Highly regarded leadership strengths result in perceived weaknesses being forgiven. In relation to the main research question, intuitively most people believed there is a connection between CEO leadership style and adoption of the marketing concept, but this was difficult to test at an organisational level due to small sample sizes and because each case study business presented with relatively high market orientations and CEOs with appropriate leadership styles. The CEO leadership themes commonly determined to be relevant were people focus (in terms of customers and staff), vision, change orientation, and passion/enthusiasm for the business. Survey data at the individual level was aggregated across the five organisations and analysed. Results showed the above attributes, and others associated with transformational leadership approaches, were related to perceptions of market orientation. While these results cannot be statistically generalisable because of the small and unrepresentative sample used, the findings suggest that the link between individual organisation members' perceptions of market orientation and CEO leadership would be worthy of a larger study.
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Meuleman, Louis. "Public management and the metagovernance of hierarchies, networks and markets : the feasibility of designing and managing governance style combinations /." Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/559859333.pdf.
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Yu, Tao. "Portfolio performance and investment styles : an empirical analysis of UK stock markets and unit trusts." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621443.
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This thesis sheds light on evaluating portfolio performance in terms of investment styles the portfolios follow. Investment styles imply that a fund invests in a distinct group of stocks that share some common characteristics. Investment managers with similar investment styles, who select securities based on same principle criteria, are likely to perform more like each other than like the overall market, or like managers with different styles. This thesis aims to provide an investigation into the effects of styles on portfolio performance. To this end, the characteristics of various investment styles are analyzed, and then the validity of benchmarks used to measure portfolio performance is examined. By using company accounting and monthly return data, I set up portfolios as proxies of value, growth, small-cap, large-cap, momentum, contrarian, and technology investment styles that are widely recognized by professionals and academics. The properties of style portfolios are investigated in order to understand which firms actually enter into the portfolios and their sector breakdown and the extent to which styles overlap. As a general rule, I find differences between styles in terms of accounting ratios and sector emphasis. However, some style portfolios demonstrate similarity with others. Through comparing the overlapping rate between style portfolios with that of a set of simulated random portfolios, I find significant overlaps between selected portfolios for various styles, suggesting that the evaluated styles are not independent. The risk factors used to group style portfolios contribute to establishing benchmark models for evaluating portfolio performance. Before using risk-factor models to evaluate portfolio performance, I investigate the validity of the models through examining abnormal returns of simulated randomly selected portfolios that are expected to have zero average values, since there is no investment skill involved in random portfolios simulation. The results of statistical tests raise doubts as to the validity of various benchmark models, given the fact that most of the benchmark models generate non-zero average abnormal returns for randomly selected portfolios. Finally, a return-based style analysis is used to classify investment styles of the selected UK unit trusts. Generally the unit trusts underperfonn the benchmarks that take account of various risk factors, and very few of the funds showing significantly positive abnormal returns. Regarding investment styles, the small-cap style shows consistently better performance than the other styles. The size and value factor appear to dominate in classifying styles. However, after adding more risk factors into models, the 6-month momentum and 24-month contrarian factors exhibit ability to deviate the unit trusts' exposure to size and book-to-market factors.
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Germane, Kimball Richard. "A CPS-Like Transformation of Continuation Marks." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3436.
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Continuation marks are a programming language feature which generalize stack inspection. Despite its usefulness, this feature has not been adopted by languages which rely on stack inspection, e.g., for dynamic security checks. One reason for this neglect may be that continuation marks do not yet enjoy a transformation to the plain λ-calculus which would allow higher-order languages to provide continuation marks at little cost. We present a CPS-like transformation from the call-by-value λ-calculus augmented with continuation marks to the pure call-by-value λ-calculus. We discuss how this transformation simplifies the construction of compilers which treat continuation marks correctly. We document an iterative, feedback-based approach using Redex. We accompany the transformation with a meaning-preservation theorem.
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Lambert, Aurore. "Etudes des modèles d'activités par l'analyse fonctionnelle du squelette post-cranien de séries ostéoarchéologiques du néolithique final en Provence." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM5066/document.
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Nos travaux ont un double objectif : (1) analyser conjointement les indicateurs afin de qualifier la relation entre leurs développements d’après les sollicitations fonctionnelles ; (2) étudier les modes d’exécution des activités d’un ensemble funéraire collectif vauclusien, l’hypogée des Boileau. Nous avons élargi cette étude à l’échelle départementale avec quatre gisements funéraires : les hypogées du Capitaine et de Roaix et le dolmen de l’Ubac. Le but est d’appréhender l’homogénéité ou la spécificité des comportements entre sujets et séries grâce aux différents indicateurs sur la majorité des os longs. L’étude des adaptations structurales a bénéficié de l’approche tomographique. Aucune relation directement due aux sollicitations n’a été mise en évidence entre les indicateurs.Les activités des sujets de l’hypogée des Boileau sont bilatérales et la pratique d’activités spécialisées n’a pas été mise en évidence. Les femmes ont un investissement physique similaire à celui des hommes pour le membre supérieur avec toutefois quelques différences comportementales. Les hommes sont plus mobiles et la posture récurrente du membre inférieur est différente par rapport aux femmes. La posture accroupie a été observée chez les deux sexes. Nous proposons l’existence d’une division sexuelle des tâches.La comparaison inter-échantillon indique une homogénéité comportementale avec quelques nuances selon les sites concernant principalement la posture du membre inférieur et les muscles sollicités du membre supérieur. Nos travaux apportent un nouvel éclairage sur les indicateurs de l’activité et le comportement des populations du Néolithique finalOur work has two aims. First, the joint analysis of the indicators in order to qualify the relationship between their developments based on the mechanical loads. Then, the study of the behavioral patterns of one collective funeral deposit in Vaucluse: the hypogeum of Boileau. Then, we expand the study at the departmental scale while comparing four funeral deposits: the Capitaine and Roaix hypogeums and the dolmen of the Ubac. The goal is to apprehend the homogeneity or the specificity of behaviors between subjects and samples through the various indicators thanks to the long bones. No relationship due to mechanical loads aroused between the indicators. Their developments are not influenced by the presence of another one and do not infer it. Indicators bring complementary information on a global skeleton or a smaller scale.The activities of the Boileau hypogeum subjects are bilateral and specialized activities is difficult to prove. Males have a physical investment equal to females for the upper limb with a few behavioral differences. Men are more mobile and their recurring postural mode for the lower limb is different. The squatting posture is common for both sexes. We propose a sexual division of labor.Inter-samples stressed a behavioral uniformity with a few nuances depending of the samples along the postural mode of the lower limb and the solicited muscles of the upper limb. The terrain has no real impact on the robusticity of the lower limb for all the samples. The artifacts in the burials cannot be used to reconstruct the behavioral patterns.Our work shed light on occupational markers and the data behavioral patterns of late Neolithic populations
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Kafková, Petra. "Faktory spotřebního chování ve vztahu k sportovním aktivitám životního stylu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76070.
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The aim of this Master's Thesis is to reveal and describe segments within a group of university students. The first part includes the theory of market segmentation, including the market research theory and description of the technique of cluster analysis. The second part contains the exploration of secondary data - identifying characteristics of the target group and searching for ideas for own research. The third part describes preparation for primary research, collecting of the data and their analysis. At the end I reveal segments with the help of cluster analysis and describe all uncovered segments.
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Small, Wayne. "Application of cross-sector style analysis of South African equities in active portfolio management." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4879.
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Magister Commercii - MComA distinctive phenomenon on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) is the market segmentation between the resource sector and the financial and industrial sectors. Criticisms also arise from employing a capitalization-weighted (cap-weighted) index such as the ALSI index when the market is less than perfectly efficient. A study conducted by Vardharah and Fabozzi (2007) also suggests that a correlation exists between sector allocation decisions and the investment styles inherent in portfolios. The uniqueness of the South African stock market is that it is dominated by three major sectors, namely, the financial sector, the industrial sector and the resources sector. The goal of this research is to examine the application of sector influences on the JSE over the examination period 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2013. It is the contention that the cap-weighted ALSI index is price-sensitive and potentially mean-variance inefficient. The study therefore attempts to evaluate the relative meanvariance efficiency of alternative sector allocation strategies versus the cap-weighted ALSI as the optimal risky portfolio on the JSE. Two optimal long-only portfolios that maximises the Sharpe ratio are constructed and compared to the market proxy on the JSE over the examination period from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2013. A longonly portfolio that comprises the JSE tradable sector indices and includes a cash allocation (risk-free proxy) and a long-only portfolio exclusive of the cash allocation are constructed. The research extends to cross-examine the inter-relationship between sector returns and the investment styles on the JSE using the Carhart (1997) four-factor model. The research further reexamines and updates the market segmentation phenomenon over the extended examination period from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2013. The practicality of two sector-based multifactor APT models are examined and compared to the single-factor CAPM to determine which of the asset pricing models better explain JSE equity returns. A sector-based two-factor APT model proposed by Van Rensburg (2002) using the JSE sector indices FNDI and RESI as the sector proxies is reexamined and a sector-based three-factor APT model using the JSE tradable sector indices FINI, INDI and RESI as the sector proxies is explored. The optimal long-only portfolio with the cash allocation is found to offer the best meanvariance efficient allocation and the ALSI index represents the most mean-variance inefficient portfolio. The resource sector is found to be the worst performing sector and significantly influences the performance of ALSI. In terms of the style risk influences, the financial sector has a strong value bias and the industrial sector has a moderate value bias, small cap bias and a momentum bias. The resource sector, for the most part, is influenced by growth stocks and has a contrarian tilt. It is also found that the market segmentation phenomenon continues to exist on the JSE. Although the explanatory power of the three-factor APT model and the two-factor APT model is similar, the distinct advantage of the three-factor APT model is that systematic risks could be observed more closely by separating FINI and INDI in the asset pricing model.
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Kubešová, Jana. "Zdravý životní styl a český spotřebitel." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-114394.
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This thesis is focused on healthy lifestyle. It concentrates specifically on impact on human health and which lifestyle lives Czech population. This work summarizes the principles of helathy lifestyle and reveals lifestyles of Czech people with market segmentation and MML-TGI data in the practical part. This can help firms in targeting and addressing people within healthy lifestyle.
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Sager, Beatrice W. (Beatrice Wynne). "Effects of Male and Female Speech Styles on the Perceptions of Clinical Psychologists." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500882/.
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Previous research suggests that gender-appropriate and gender-inappropriate use of sex-linked linguistic markers alters subjects' perceptions of the speaker. The present study examined the effects of male and female speech styles on clients' perceptions,. Undergraduates (N = 160) listened to audiotapes of clinical psychologists introducing the same client to psychotherapy. Clinician gender and sex-linked linguistic markers were manipulated. The results suggested that sex-stereotypes of males, females, and occupations played an important role in altering clients' perceptions of clinical psychologists. Sex-stereotypes did not, however, determine the desirability of the speaker as a therapist. The use of female speech styles increased the clinician's perceived femininity and desirability as a therapist.
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Malik, Garima. "The role of parenting style in child substance use." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1118077175.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 86 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-86). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Zachariáš, Michal. "Návrh a Aplikace Dvourozměrných Vizuálních Markerů pro Speciální Účely." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-412574.
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Současné vizuální markerové systémy mají jednu zásadní nevýhodu oproti tzv. markerless přístupům - pohyb kamery je omezen na oblast pokrytou markery. V každém snímku musí být marker dostatečně velký, aby jej bylo možné identifikovat a vypočítat pozici a rotaci kamery. Zároveň musí být dostatečně malý, aby se celý (nebo alespoň jeho podstatná část) vešel do záběru kamery. Avšak tyto požadavky jsou protichůdné. Tato práce nabízí řešení tohoto problému za pomoci konceptu Marker Fields. Jde o strukturu, jejíž přítomnost je možné v obraze kamery snadno detekovat a identifikovat část, na kterou se kamera právě dívá, a to na základě jakékoli (malé) podoblasti s definovanou velikostí. Aby bylo možné podoblasti identifikovat zblízka i zdálky, nejsou od sebe odděleny, ale do velké míry se překrývají. V této práci jsou vysvětleny různé implementace konceptu marker fields, spolu s jejich zamýšleným použitím a výhodami a nevýhodami. Jako důkaz použitelnosti marker fields v reálném světě, se druhá největší část této práce věnuje popisu jejich reálných aplikací.
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Payne, Carolyn. "ARE INVESTORS ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY USE THE VAST AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES? A DECISION THEORY APPROACH TO INVESTOR INFORMATION ANALYSIS." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/89.
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Stock market investors are making investment decisions in an information-rich environment. In their attempt to afford investors all the decision-relevant information, standard setters are continually adding to the already weighty load seemingly oblivious to the cognitive limitations of humans.
Information overload has long been recognized as a problem to decision-makers. The information overload literature is robust with studies supporting the inverted U hypothesis: Decision accuracy will increase with additional information to the point of maximum processing capability, then decline. The decision style literature has supported the theory that individuals can be classified according to the quantity of information that they are able to process effectively.
This study combined the two theories to develop hypotheses about how investors with differing decision styles might behave differently in an information-rich environment. The hypotheses were tested in an internet-based stock market investment experiment. In general, the study did not find significant differences in the decisions of investors with different decision styles. Though the results of the experiment failed to support most of the hypotheses, the study revealed some interesting facts about the investors who participated in this study. There was an unusually high concentration of the analytic decision style in this group. This style, according to the theory, is the one best able to manage high information processing demands. A further analysis of the respondent style dominance reveals that all of the styles had significant analytic influence. This could explain the lack of variation in the decision accuracy of the respondents.
It is also possible that the respondents in this study did not reach a point of information overload. Based on prior literature, the study incorporated ten information items. However, the particular items selected may not have created a sense of information overload for the respondents. Future research should increase the information available
to respondents and observe whether differences in decisions can be explained by differences in decision styles in an information overload situation. This study provides a baseline for future studies examining how investors make decisions when so much information is available.
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Těžká, Anna. "Životní styl a spotřební chování generace 55+." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77793.
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The thesis deals with the apprehension of homogeneity and heterogeneity of the senior consumer market and their impact on marketing. The thesis is mapping specification and characterization of the lifestyle and consumer behavior of the 55+ generation in the Czech Republic. It aims to determine the marketing potential of the target group. Typical views of elderly people in terms of the society and companies are based on analysis of MML-TGI data, secondary data research and own primary data using both qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies. Primary data are acquired by the face-to-face and on-line questioning, and carrying out through individual depth interviews. The marketing approach for seniors is recommended on the base of findings and conclusions resulting from both -- the methodological and analytical part of the thesis.
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Kuncová, Jana. "Životní styl - předmět výzkumů a kritérium segmentace." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-4857.
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The thesis considers lifestyle with emphasis on its applicability in marketing practices. The first part characterises the social research projects that took place recently in the Czech Republic. The second part concentrates on the principles and methods of market segmentation, followed by an example of financial market segmentation based on features of lifestyle. The final part contains recommendations related to marketing strategies towards chosen segments.
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Ibstedt, Jennie, and Peder Waern. "Different Styles, Similar Shape : A Case Study on the Effects of Competition on Swedish Charter School Groups." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-202248.
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Abstract The school market was established in Sweden in the conjunction of several reforms, which, among other objectives, aimed at increasing diversity in the market. This allowed profitseeking firms to compete against each other in a former monopoly. According to certain theories, the mechanisms of competition are bound to make organizations more homogenous. Other researchers have claimed that differentiating mechanisms such as various strategies allow companies to become more diverse. This paradox presents an interesting research area which we have pursued. Our thesis addresses this contradiction by answering the research question: How do mechanisms of competition influence organizational diversity among charter school groups? This explanatory qualitative case study analyzes ongoing organizational trends among three Swedish charter school groups through a within – and cross case analysis. Our main findings indicate that 1) the mechanisms of competition reduces the diversity among organizations of charter school groups and thus the organizations are becoming more homogenous. However, 2) external imitation does not contribute to the homogenizing effects on organizations since brand strategy, lack of resources and transparency as well as employee resistance limits competitive imitation.
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Pilstl, Michaela. "Lifestyle market segmentation - efficiency and ethical issues." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-73795.
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Lifestyle market segmentation can be very supportive for a successful marketing strategy of a company. However it is not clear whether lifestyle market segmentation is efficient and ethical or not. Several market segmentation concepts such as Cross-Cultural Consumer Characterization, VALS, PRIZM NE, Mosaic, ConneXions NE and GfK Roper Consumer Styles are analyzed in order to give an extensive overview of the offered concepts. The observation of efficiency issues in regards to market segmentation comes to the result that there is a significant lack of empirical data and a shortage of determined factors which can improve market segmentation efficiency. Moreover, lifestyle market segmentation cannot be exclusively identified as ethically right or wrong, but depends on the individual ethical decision-making of a marketer.
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Böhmová, Veronika. "Segmentation of young people." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-17354.
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My thesis deals with clothing habits of young people. The first part descibes the process of market segmentation, the second part abou the lifestyle of young people and about their clothing habits. I used a questionaire and with the help of PASW Statistics I revaled four segments.
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PELEIAS, Fabiola D'Agostini. "Mecanismos lingu??sticos (des)favor??veis para a readability das demonstra????es financeiras: uma an??lise das empresas listadas no mercado de capitais brasileiro." FECAP, 2017. http://tede.fecap.br:8080/jspui/handle/jspui/738.
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The accounting professional who prepares financial statements, which must be clear and accurate, needs to consider the comprehension degree of the user of financial information. Therefore, they have to enhance the language quality necessary to prepare these statements. In this context, there has been an increase in readability studies and a need to increase the written language of financial information. The aim of this research was to verify the (un) favorable linguistic features in financial statements of companies listed in Brazilian capital market, in Brazilian Portuguese. In this regard, the Textual Linguistics was chosen as a basis theory, because it allows the study of grammatical, semantic and pragmatic features of the Language. Based on the proposed aim, a tool was designed ??? a checklist of (un) favorable linguistic features pointed in financial information literature. Two constructs were considered for this end: cohesion and coherence. The favorable linguistic features categorized in the tool are: pause, ellipsis, simple sentences, sentences up to two lines, connectors and substitution. And the unfavorable are: repetition of words, long sentences, complex sentences, lack of parallelism, lack of pause, confused text, words of more than three syllables and jargon. The financial statements of IBRX50 BOVESPA 2015 social year were researched, and, for each one, the Flesch test was applied. It was observed very little variability in Flesch results. Therefore, three companies with the highest Flesch results and three with the smallest were chosen and analyzed in Atlas TI Software, through the codes. For each code, a(n) (un) favorable feature was categorized and observed in the six selected financial statements. All (un) favorable features were detected in the financial statements, in higher or smaller quantity. However, when comparing these results with the Flesch ones, there was no relationship between them. It was expected that companies with higher Flesch for readability would present more favorable features, and companies with smaller Flesch, more unfavorable. Nonetheless, this was not found in the researched sample. In this sense, it could be said that the Flesch test alone is insufficient for Financial Statements readability. It is necessary to consider other qualitative features.
O profissional cont??bil que atua na prepara????o das demonstra????es financeiras, que devem ser claras, precisa considerar o grau de compreens??o do usu??rio que utiliza a informa????o cont??bil. Por isso, deve buscar melhorar a qualidade da linguagem que utiliza na prepara????o dessas demonstra????es. Nesse cen??rio, tem havido um aumento de estudos da readability e da necessidade de melhora na linguagem escrita das informa????es cont??beis. O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar os mecanismos lingu??sticos (des)favor??veis nas demonstra????es financeiras de empresas listadas no mercado de capitais brasileiro, no idioma portugu??s brasileiro. Para isso, optou-se pela Lingu??stica Textual como teoria de base, pois ela permite estudar as caracter??sticas gramaticais, sem??nticas e pragm??ticas da l??ngua. Ao considerar o objetivo proposto, foi constru??do um instrumento, que ?? um checklist de mecanismos (des)favor??veis apontados na literatura para as demonstra????es financeiras. Para isso, dois constructos foram considerados: coes??o e coer??ncia. No instrumento, os mecanismos lingu??sticos favor??veis categorizados foram: pausa, elipse, estruturas simples, senten??as de at?? duas linhas, uso de conectores e a substitui????o. E os desfavor??veis foram: repeti????o de palavras, frases longas, estruturas complexas, quebra de paralelismo, falta de pausa, confus??o no texto, poliss??labas e jarg??o. Foram pesquisadas as demonstra????es financeiras do exerc??cio de 2015 das empresas do IBRX50 (BOVESPA) e para cada uma, foi aplicada a m??trica de Flesch. Observou-se pouca variabilidade na nota de Flesch nas empresas. Foram ent??o selecionadas tr??s com maior Flesch e tr??s com menor para an??lise no software Atlas TI, por meio dos c??digos. Para cada um, foi elencado um mecanismo (des)favor??vel. Esses mecanismos foram observados nas seis demonstra????es financeiras selecionadas. Todos os mecanismos favor??veis e desfavor??veis do instrumento foram observados nas demonstra????es financeiras, em maior ou menor grau. Contudo, ao comparar esses resultados com as notas de Flesch, n??o se verificou rela????o entre eles. Esperava-se que empresas com maior Flesch para readability apresentariam mais mecanismos favor??veis, e empresas com menor Flesch, mais desfavor??veis. Entretanto, isso n??o ocorreu na amostra pesquisada. Assim, entende-se que a m??trica de Flesch, sozinha, ?? insuficiente para a readability das Demonstra????es, sendo necess??rio observar outros atributos qualitativos.
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Ulč, Jakub. "Podnikatelský záměr na základě vytvořeného franchisingového konceptu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-317054.
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The diploma thesis is designed to create a business plan based on the franchise concept of a healthy lifestyle business. The business plan is based on the analytical part of the thesis, which analyzes the internal and external environment, analysis of competition and a questionnaire survey of potential clients. The new franchise business is built on the concept of the THINK concept. The output of the diploma thesis is recommended when implementing the business plan.
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Ågren, Lars. "Swedish direct investment in the U. S." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institute of International Business (IIB), 1990. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-1882.
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Smith, Jacques. "Constructing low cost core-satellite portfolios with multiple risk constraints: practical applications to Robo advising in South Africa using active, passive and smart-beta strategies." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32985.
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Risk and tracking error budgeting was originally adopted by large institutional investors, including pension funds, plan sponsors, foundations, and endowments. More recently, risk and tracking error budgeting have gained popularity among financial advisors, multi-managers, fund of funds managers, high net worth individuals as well as retail investors. These techniques contribute to the portfolio optimisation process by limiting the extent to which a portfolio can deviate from its benchmark with regards to risk and tracking error. This is an ambitious paper that attempts to determine the optimal strategy to practically implement risk and tracking error budgeting as a portfolio optimisation technique in South Africa. This study attempts to bridge the gap between active, passive, and smart-beta investment management styles by introducing a low-cost portfolio construction technique, for core-satellite portfolio management, which contributes to the risk and tracking error budgeting process. Core-satellite portfolios are designed to expose the portfolio to a low-cost primary “core” consisting of passive and enhanced index funds, thus systematic risk “beta”, limiting the tracking error of the portfolio. The secondary “satellite” component is allocated to active and smart-beta managers to exploit expected excess return “alpha”. The primary aim of this research is to construct a rule-based product range of core-satellite portfolios called “replica portfolios”. The product range builds on the foundation of the Association for Savings & Investments South Africa (ASISA) framework. The study identifies three “target portfolios” from ASISA's framework, namely (1) High Risk: SA General Equity, (2) Medium Risk: SA Multi-Asset High Equity and (3) Low Risk: SA Multi-Asset Low Equity. Through this framework, active managers from each category are shortlisted using a Sharpe and Information Ratio filter. A secondary filtering technique, namely Returns Based Style Analysis (RBSA) is used to determine the style, R-squared and alpha-generating ability of active managers versus the passive asset classes and style indices they seek to replicate. Applying Euler's theorem for homogenous functions, we decompose the risk of the coresatellite portfolio into the risk contributed by each of its components. The primary mandate of the core-satellite portfolios in the product range is to allocate risk and tracking error efficiently across several investment management styles and asset classes in order to maximise returns while remaining within the specified risk parameters. iii The results highlighted that active managers, after fees, predominantly failed to outperform their benchmarks and passive building blocks, as identified through RBSA over the sample period (October 2009 – September 2019). However, only a small number of active managers generated superior risk-adjusted returns and were included in the core-satellite range of products. This study recommends to investors that they exploit the “hot-hands effect” by investing in specialised, benchmark agnostic active managers who consistently produce superior risk-adjusted returns. By blending active, passive and smart-beta strategies, investors are exposed to less total risk, less risk per holding and a lower tracking error. The three coresatellite portfolios developed in this study generated absolute and risk-adjusted returns that are more significant than their active and passive counterparts. Fee arbitrage was derived through the range of core-satellite products, resulting in tangible alpha over the sample period. The study encourages investors to use smart-beta strategies alongside active and passive funds since it improves Sharpe and Information ratios while enhancing the original portfolio's characteristics.
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Khrulova-Nygren, Camilla, and Louise Andersson. "Business in Russia : A study investigating to what extent culture impacts business for Swedish managers." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-35537.
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This study is an empirical research that is set to examine to what extent culture affects the performance of Swedish managers when doing business with their Russian customers. The authors aim is to find out how important cultural awareness is when doing business between Sweden and Russia as well as what factors Swedish managers should consider before doing business with a Russian customer. The purpose of this study has been set in relation to empirical evidence based on a qualitative research approach with semi structured in-depth interviews as a method. Seven in-depth interviews has been conducted in order to fulfil the research questions and the purpose of this study, all interviewees has got at least three years of business related experience towards the Russian market. One of the main objectives of this study is to create a road map that will unveil hidden rules and provide a practical approach in order to avoid apprehensions and hesitations concerning the Russian culture, before arriving and while already in Russia. This study reveals that factors such as language, non-stereotyping, and a rigorous research about the Russian culture are needed for a Swedish businessman before doing business in Russia. When a Swedish businessman has arrived in Russia, considerations and efforts should be put on factors such as the importance of a formal dress code, practice status, as well as a strict leadership style.
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Mazumder, Mohammed Imtiaz Ahmed. "The Predictability of International Mutual Funds." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2004. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/175.
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The predictability of the US-based international mutual fund returns has received renewed consideration in recent academic studies. This dissertation extends recent research by exploring the 2,479 daily return observations covering the period from January 4, 1993 to October 31, 2002 for all categories of international mutual funds. This exploration splits the sample, uses the initial sub-sample to investigate return patterns of international mutual funds and develops trading rules based on the predictable return patterns, and tests those rules on the holdout sample. The empirical findings suggest that smart investors may earn higher riskadjusted returns by following daily dynamic trading strategies. The excess returns earned by investors are statistically and economically significant, irrespective of load or no-load mutual funds and even in the presence of various exchange restrictions and regulations.
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Herrera, Palacios Jorge Diego, La Torre Mirian Elaiz Martinez, Alvarez Michael Alex Minaya, and Lujan Kiara Beatriz Zapata. "OptiMeal." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656904.
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El presente trabajo de investigación (Optimeal) comprende diversos temas acerca de cómo se desarrollará la formulación e implementación de la marca de suscripción nutricional, Optimeal. Esta ofrece una variedad de platos saludables y agradables a base de los mejores ingredientes en el mercado de Lima, Perú así como la implementación de una dark kitchen. El objetivo de este proyecto es presentar a posibles inversionistas un modelo y un plan de negocio rentable y escalable, que tiene el añadido de ser sostenible.
Se inició este trabajo de investigación con el proceso de ideación de la idea de negocio, dentro del cual se describe el modelo de negocio. Seguidamente, se desarrolló el proceso de validación del problema a través de experimentos. Producto de ello, se definió el segmento de clientes, así como el tamaño de mercado considerando la solución propuesta. Posteriormente, se diseñó el plan concierge por medio del cual se validan las ventas, y con ello se armó la proyección de ventas para tres años, considerando distintas variables.
Tomando en cuenta los resultados de la proyección, se elaboraron los planes para el proyecto: Plan Estratégico, Plan de Operaciones, Plan de Recursos Humanos, Plan de Marketing y Plan de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial.
Finalmente, la realización del Plan Financiero ha permitido conocer la factibilidad del proyecto gracias al análisis del pronóstico de ventas, costos, gastos, inversión y capital de trabajo. Así mismo, nos apoyamos en los indicadores financieros pertinentes para medir la efectividad de la administración del negocio y generar valor para los accionistas.This research work (Optimeal) covers various topics about how the formulation and implementation of the nutritional subscription brand, Optimeal, will be developed. It offers a variety of healthy and pleasant dishes based on the best ingredients in the market in Lima, Peru, as well as the implementation of a dark kitchen. The objective of this project is to present potential investors in a profitable and scalable business model and plan, which has the added value of being sustainable. This research work began with the ideation process of the business idea, within which the business model is described. Next, the validation process of the problem was developed through experiments. As a result, the customer segment was defined, as well as the market size considering the proposed solution. Subsequently, the concierge plan was designed through which sales are validated, and with this the sales projection for three years was put together, considering different variables. Taking into account the results of the projection, the plans for the project were prepared: Strategic Plan, Operations Plan, Human Resources Plan, Marketing Plan and Corporate Social Responsibility Plan. Finally, the realization of the Financial Plan has allowed us to know the feasibility of the project thanks to the analysis of the sales forecast, costs, expenses, investment and working capital. Likewise, we rely on the relevant financial indicators to measure the effectiveness of the business administration and generate value for shareholders.
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Alou, Ramis Damià. "El concepto de marcador estructural: su aplicación en el discurso poético de Phipil Larkin." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7588.
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La presente tesis consta de dos partes principales. En la primera se pretende definir y delimitar el concepto de marcador estructural como herramienta de análisis textual aplicada a la traducción poética. Tras una aproximación a la especificidad del texto poético, y tras repasar las principales aportaciones teóricas a la traducción poética, identificamos los marcadores estructurales con los rasgos estilísticos que marcan el armazón semántico del texto.Posteriormente, se aplica el análisis basado en los marcadores estructurales a 21 poemas de Philip Larkin, seleccionados por temas. El producto práctico de este análisis es la traducción al castellano de cada poema, acompañada de un mapa donde figuran los rasgos que forman la estructura; y el producto teórico una caracterización estilística de la poesía de Larkin, representada en un mapa donde figuran sus principales rasgos estilístico.
También se aporta un esbozo de crítica de la traducción basado en dicha herramienta.
This dissertation consists of two parts. The first one is an attempt to define and delimit the concept of structural marker as a tool of text analysis applied to poetic translation. After dealing with the specificity of the poetic text and re-examining the main theories about poetic translation, structural markers are identified with the stylistic features that mark the semantic frame of the text.
Afterwards, we apply the analysis based on the structural markers to 21 poems by Philip Larkin, put into groups by themes. The practical outcome of this analysis the translation to Spanish of this poems, accompanied with a map where the main structural features can be seen; and the theoretical outcome is a stylistic characterisation of Larkin's poetry, which we represent in a stylistic map.
We also find an outline of translation criticism based in this tool called structural marker.
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KARIA, Cláudio Takao. "Caracterização genética e morfoagronômica de germoplasma de Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2008. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/436.
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Previous issue date: 2008-08-21Plant genetic resources maintained ex situ, in germplasm banks, are few used in agricultural systems and genetic plant breeding programs. One of the main reasons of this incipient use is the difficulty to obtain information about stored accessions, especially the characterization and preliminary evaluation data. Stylosanthes guianensis is a predominantly self-pollinated and diploid species, which has a great number of this stored accessions and potential for use in agricultural systems. There are approximately one thousand accessions of the S. guianensis in Embrapa‟s germplasm bank. Moreover, only one genotype of this species is now available to commercial growers in Brazil, the cultivar Mineirão. To promote the use of these resources, this study aimed to characterize accessions of S. guianensis, stored in the germplasm bank of Embrapa, using morpho-agronomic traits and microstellites markers (SSR). In morpho-agronomic characterization 535 accessions were evaluated using 23 quantitative traits. The data were analyzed by a principal component analysis (PCA), the Ward's agglomerative hierarchical clustering method, and by univariate analysis of variance, associated to a Tukey test for comparisons among means of the established groups. Thirteen similarity accession groups were established, five of them were considered the ones with the highest potential use in agricultural systems. Regarding these potential groups, it is possible to reduce from 535 to 126 accessions to be thoroughly evaluated. The molecular characterization was made in 437 accessions, using seven microsatellites fluorescent primers, and the detection of the DNA fragments generated by PCR (Polimerase Chain Reaction) was accomplished by a capillary electrophoresis. The seven loci provided 45 alleles (6.43 alleles/locus), of which four were private alleles. Both, principal coordinates analysis and cluster analysis, in this case, by UPGMA agglomerative method, showed a tendency to group accessions together by botanical varieties (canescens, guianensis and pauciflora), except for the microcephala variety. The correlation between the genetic and morpho-agronomic dissimilarities was highly significant, however, it was of low magnitude (r = 0.23, P ≤ 0.0001). This indicates that both evaluations are important and should be performed to achieve a more complete characterization of these accessions and, possibly, of the species. Taking account the germplasm accessions with agronomic potential, selected based on the morpho-agronomic evaluation, several of them presented significant genetic dissimilarities to the Mineirão cultivar. These accessions should be better assessed for agronomic traits, and crossed with this cultivar in breeding programs of the species. The results of this research will allow increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the germplasm bank activities, helping the choice of genotypes to be tested in agronomic evaluations, and stimulating further researches with these genetic resources.
Os recursos genéticos vegetais armazenados ex situ, em geral, são pouco utilizados nos sistemas de produção e no melhoramento genético de plantas. Um dos principais motivos deste uso incipiente é a dificuldade de se obterem as informações sobre os acessos armazenados, sobretudo os dados de caracterização e avaliação preliminar. A espécie Stylosanthes guianensis, diplóide e preferencialmente autógama, possui grande quantidade desses acessos e potencial de utilização em sistemas agrícolas. Somente no Banco de Germoplasma da Embrapa existe uma coleção com cerca de mil acessos registrados de S. guianensis. Por outro lado, apenas um genótipo dessa espécie é hoje comercializado no Brasil, a cultivar Mineirão. Para promover a utilização desses recursos, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo caracterizar os acessos de S. guianensis, armazenados no Banco de Germoplasma da Embrapa, utilizando-se caracteres morfoagronômicos e marcadores de locos microssatélites (SSR). Na caracterização morfoagronômica, foram avaliados 535 acessos acerca de 23 caracteres quantitativos. Os dados correspondentes foram estatisticamente investigados empregando-se a análise de componentes principais, a análise de agrupamento, pelo método aglomerativo de Ward, e a análise de variância (univariada), associada ao teste de Tukey, para comparar as médias dos grupos identificados. Foram estabelecidos treze grupos de acessos similares, dos quais, cinco foram considerados de maior potencial para a utilização nos sistemas agrícolas. Considerando-se apenas os grupos potenciais, é possível reduzir o número de acessos a serem avaliados mais detalhadamente, de 535 para 126 acessos. Na caracterização genético-molecular foram considerados 437 acessos da coleção, utilizando-se sete primers microssatélites, marcados com fluorescência, e a detecção dos fragmentos de DNA obtidos via PCR (reação da polimerase em cadeia) foi feita por meio da técnica de eletroforese em capilar. Os sete locos produziram 45 alelos (6,43 alelos/loco), dos quais quatro foram alelos privados. Tanto na análise de coordenadas principais, como na análise de agrupamento, neste caso pelo método UPGMA, os acessos demonstraram tendência de se reunirem em grupos, conforme as variedades botânicas da espécie (canescens, guianensis e pauciflora), exceto para a variedade microcephala. A correlação entre as dissimilaridades genéticas e morfoagronômicas foi altamente significativa, porém, de baixa magnitude (r = 0,23; P ≤ 0,0001), indicando que ambas as avaliações são importantes e devem ser realizadas para a melhor caracterização desses acessos e, possivelmente, da espécie. Considerando-se os grupos com potencial agronômico, selecionados na avaliação morfoagronômica, identificaram-se acessos geneticamente bastante dissimilares da cultivar Mineirão, que devem ser mais bem avaliados agronomicamente, para compor possíveis cruzamentos com essa cultivar, em programas de melhoramento da espécie. Assim, os resultados deste trabalho permitirão aumentar a eficiência e a eficácia das atividades no Banco de Germoplasma em estudo, subsidiar a escolha de genótipos a serem testados em avaliações agronômicas, podendo, ainda, estimular outras pesquisas com esses recursos genéticos.
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Johnová, Radka. "Specifika chování zákazníka na trzích kulturního dědictví." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76023.
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Doctoral thesis Specifics of Consumer Behavior on Cultural Heritage Market is a market research based analysis of visitors of museums and galleries. The main goal of the work is to describe and segment the audiences, find out stimuli influencing visitor behavior, visitor motivation and lifestyle in order to suggest new marketing strategies attracting either new visitors or to turn occasional visitors into clients. The first part uses the theoretical microeconomic approach for analyzing the demand for cultural heritage; the price policy and price strategies of museums and galleries, and results in socially justified price of merit goods. The second part compares the Czech "consumer" of cultural heritage with an average consumer behavior in the same markets within the European Union and the U.S.A. The main part of the thesis consists of the research project based on quantitative descriptive research among museum and gallery visitors. The sample size is 543 respondents. Respondents were interviewed from September 2008 to March 2009 (personal intercept interview) in 25 organizations (from large and important institutions to small and regional organizations). The research project uses the nonprobability (convenience) sample of those who came to a museum, gallery or exhibition. The thesis results in the recommendation of marketing strategies for museums and galleries.
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Goëssant, Elodie. "George Watson-Taylor, Esq, MP (1771-1841) : collectionneur de peintures dans l’Angleterre Regency." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040135.
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Bien que peu connue, la collection Watson-Taylor fut indiscutablement l’une des plus importantes des années 1820 en Angleterre. Elle se distingue par la personnalité particulière de son inventeur qui réunit entre 1803 et 1821 une collection prestigieuse digne des grands ensembles aristocratiques. Cependant, la fortune de George Watson-Taylor reposant sur le marché du sucre de canne aux Antilles, instable et en déclin, il subit un revers de fortune en 1832 l’obligeant à vendre tous ses biens. Il acquit près de trois cent vingt tableaux parmi lesquels de nombreux chefs-d’œuvre aujourd’hui conservés dans les musées du monde entier. La recherche sur cette collection et ce personnage interroge de nombreux aspects de l’histoire de l’art et des collections à cette période charnière, notamment la question de la spéculation, du connoisseurship, du marché de l’art, du rôle du mécénat dans l’affirmation de l’école britannique de peinture dans son pays et à l’international. Elle s’intéresse également au mouvement historiciste de cette époque encore empreinte de la pensée et de l’esthétique romantique, mais aussi aux questions identitaires propres à l’émergence de nouvelles élites. Autant de sujets liés à un contexte très riche mêlant patriotisme, débat sur l’abolition de l’esclavage et réforme de la vie politique. Elle ouvre une nouvelle fenêtre sur le passage d’un collectionnisme d’Ancien Régime hérité du Grand Tour à un collectionnisme victorien davantage tourné vers l’art national et contemporain. Cette thèse a pour but d’analyser une collection célébrée puis oubliée et de déterminer sa place dans l’histoire du goût et des collections en l’Angleterre à la fin de la période RegencyEven if it isn’t well-known nowadays, the Watson-Taylor collection was indisputably one of the most important collections of the 1820s in Great Britain. It distinguished itself by the distinctive personality of its founder who assembled between 1803 and 1821 a collection as prestigious as great aristocratic ones. However, George Watson-Taylor’s wealth resting on the instable and declining West Indian sugar market, he suffered a reversal of fortune in 1832, forcing him to sell all his properties. He acquired nearly three hundred and twenty paintings including many masterpieces now exhibited in museums all over the world. Research on these collection and figure questions many aspects of the history of art and collections at this pivotal period, in particular issues like speculation, connoisseurship, art market, the role of patronage in the recognition of the British school of painting in its own country and internationally. It also treats of the historicist movement, still tinged with Romantic thought and aesthetic in that period, and of the identity issues related to the emergence of new elites. Many topics linked to a very rich context involving patriotism, debate about the abolition of slavery and political reform. It provides new information about the passage between the ways of collecting inherited from the Grand Tour, and the Victorian ones more focused on national and contemporary art. This doctoral thesis aims to analyze a celebrated then forgotten collection and to determine its place in the history of taste and collecting in Great Britain at the end of the Regency era
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Nevarez, Abel Angel. "Flamboyant markers : gay style in urban spaces." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3907.
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This thesis explores gay style within urban spaces in downtown Austin, Texas.
Employing style as a rhetorical and communicative approach and method, I investigate and analyze how gay style markers are read off the built material environment of urban spaces. Through an application and analysis of a rhetoric of style, I demonstrate how particular downtown Austin districts and neighborhoods can be read as de facto gay districts through a reading of the gay style marker flamboyance. The focus of the thesis is an analysis of the systematic and rhetorical signification of gay style markers, which function to define and constitute particular urban spaces as “gay” districts or neighborhoods. Through of an examination of flamboyance in downtown Austin’s Warehouse District and surrounding districts, I demonstrate gay style is indeed present in a “non-gay” urban space. Ultimately, I argue that gay sexual style markers are capable of being read off the built environment of urban spaces; furthermore, it is these same gay style markers that come to define and constitute gay urban spaces, districts, and neighborhoods.text
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Arantes, Ana Francisca Miranda da Cunha. "Características Psicométricas da Versão Portuguesa da Comic Style Markers (Marcadores de Estilos Cómicos)." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11067/4432.
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Exame público realizado em 21 de Novembro de 2018, às 15H00Dissertação de mestrado em Psicologia Clínica
Resumo: Emergência do estudo: Tem havido um interesse constante em compreender de que forma o humor se relaciona com diferentes aspetos do funcionamento. Objetivo do estudo: este estudo visou avaliar as características psicométricas da versão portuguesa da escala Marcadores de Estilos Cómicos, no que respeita à validade e fidelidade. Metodologia: Participantes: O estudo foi constituído por 535 indivíduos de nacionalidade portuguesa, sendo 378 do sexo feminino e 157 do sexo masculino, com uma média de idade de 29.63 anos, entre os 18 e 65 anos. Instrumentos: Foi utilizada a versão portuguesa do questionário de Marcadores de Estilos Cómicos. Procedimentos: O instrumento foi administrado em formulário online, tal como aconteceu no estudo original. No que respeita à análise dos dados, estes foram analisados com recurso ao software estatístico IMB SPSS Statistics versão 23, bem como, o AMOS versão 23. Resultados: Foram extraídos oito fatores tal como a versão original, sendo que a extração de fatores explicou 65.853% da variância total. O alpha para os oito estilos de humor apresentou valores satisfatórios, acontecendo o mesmo com a média do valor total dos alphas, sendo o valor de .952. Tendo em consideração os valores obtidos nos diferentes índices de ajustamento, o CFI apresenta um valor de 0.765, o TLI .748, o NFI .722, o RMR 0.256, o RMSEA e x2/df apresentam uma boa qualidade de ajustamento, sendo os mesmos de 0.08 e 4.811 respetivamente. Conclusão: No que diz respeito aos pontos de corte dos índices CFI, TLI e NFI, estes apresentaram um ajustamento pouco satisfatório, assim como o valor do índice RMR. O RMSEA e o x2/df apresentaram valores satisfatórios de acordo com aquilo que se considera valores ajustados. Quanto aos oito tipos de humor, os itens saturaram mais no primeiro e segundo fator e saturaram menos no fator sete e oito. A consistência interna apresentou valores bastante satisfatórios para todas as dimensões. Apesar de alguns valores não corresponderem aos da versão original, a versão portuguesa apresentou caraterísticas psicométricas válidas para a população portuguesa.
Abstract: Emergence of the study: There has been a constant interest in understanding how humor relates to different aspects of functioning. Aim of the study: the study aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the portuguese version of the Comic Style Markers (CSM), considering reference to validity and fidelity. Methodology: Participants: The sample was composed by 535 Portuguese people, 378 of whom were female and 157 were males, with a mean age of 29.63 years, between 18 and 65 years old. Instruments: The instrument that was used was the portuguese version of the Comic Style Markers questionnaire. Procedures: The instrument was administrated in an online form, as in the original study. We analised the data using statistical software IMB SPSS Statistics version 23 and AMOS version 23. Results: Eight factors were extracted as the original version, and the extracted factors explained 65.853% of the total variance. The alpha for the eight humor styles presented satisfactory values, the same with the mean of the total value of Cronbach’s alpha, that was .952. The different adjustment indices showed them results, the CFI presented a value of 0.765, the TLI .748, the NFI .722, the RMR 0.256, the RMSEA and x2/df have showed a good adjustment quality of 0.08 and 4.811 respectively. Conclusion: CFI, TLI and NFI presented an unsatisfactory adjustment, as well as the value of the RMR index. The RMSEA and x2/df have showed satisfactory values according to what is considered satisfactory values. For the eight types of humor, the items have saturated more in the first and second factor and less in factor seven and eight. The internal consistency presented satisfactory values for all dimensions. In spite of some values do not correspond to those of the original version, the Portuguese version presented valid psychometric characteristics for the Portuguese population.
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Rowinski, Katherine Suzanne. "Clinic-Referred Mothers' Autobiographical Narratives as Markers of Their Parenting Styles." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/844.
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In theory, parents should use their autobiographical narratives to describe their parenting experiences, which should reflect their parenting style. Past correlational studies show that parents with coherent narratives tend to be more sensitive to their children. Since we know that authoritative parents are able to recognize the needs of their child and respond more appropriately and sensitively, it is likely that this capacity will also be referenced in their narratives. This study looked at the narratives of 40 mothers in relation to their parenting style and child’s behavior. Results showed that narrative coherence was negatively associated with authoritarian parenting style. Authoritative parenting style was positively associated with child behavior problems, while authoritarian parenting style was negatively associated with child behavior problems. The implication of narrative coherence in relation to parenting is discussed.
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LEE, YUN, and 李韻. "Performance of Style Rotation Strategies— Case Studies of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China Stock Markets." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cu53y5.
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The study research the performance of Style Rotation Strategies of stock markets in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. First, observing data from 2003 to 2017 of book to market ratio premium, earing to price ratio premium, dividend yield premium, size premium (3 factors), size premium (5 factors), momentum premium, short-term reversal premium, long-term reversal premium, profitability premium and investment premium to judge whether the stock markets have the effect of style rotation, then adding factor timing indicators of each market, using Logistic Regression model to establish a style of rotation investment strategy. The empirical results show that: 1. In Taiwan stock market, all factors can gain higher premium and winning rate by establishing style of rotation investment strategy. 2. In Hong Kong stock market, 7 factors can gain higher premium and all factors can gain higher winning rate by establishing style of rotation investment strategy. 3. In China stock market, 8 factors gain higher premium and 9 factors can gain higher winning rate by establishing style of rotation investment strategy. The empirical results of this study show that most of the factors in the stock markets in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China can achieve higher premium and winning rates through style-driven investment strategies.
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Michell, Colin Simon. "Investigating the use of forensic stylistic and stylometric techniques in the analyses of authorship on a publicly accessible social networking site (Facebook)." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13324.
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This research study examines the forensic application of a selection of stylistic and stylometric techniques in a simulated authorship attribution case involving texts on the social networking site, Facebook. Eight participants each submitted 2,000 words of self-authored text from their personal Facebook messages, and one of them submitted an extra 2,000 words to act as the ‘disputed text’. The texts were analysed in terms of the first 1,000 words received and then at the 2,000-word level to determine what effect text length has on the effectiveness of the chosen style markers (keywords, function words, most frequently occurring words, punctuation, use of digitally mediated communication features and spelling). It was found that despite accurately identifying the author of the disputed text at the 1,000-word level, the results were not entirely conclusive but at the 2,000-word level the results were more promising, with certain style markers being particularly effective.Linguistics
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