Teses / dissertações: "Symbolic approaches"

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Galassi, Andrea. "Symbolic versus sub-symbolic approaches: a case study on training Deep Networks to play Nine Men’s Morris game". Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12859/.

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Le reti neurali artificiali, grazie alle nuove tecniche di Deep Learning, hanno completamente rivoluzionato il panorama tecnologico degli ultimi anni, dimostrandosi efficaci in svariati compiti di Intelligenza Artificiale e ambiti affini. Sarebbe quindi interessante analizzare in che modo e in quale misura le deep network possano sostituire le IA simboliche. Dopo gli impressionanti risultati ottenuti nel gioco del Go, come caso di studio è stato scelto il gioco del Mulino, un gioco da tavolo largamente diffuso e ampiamente studiato. È stato quindi creato il sistema completamente sub-simbolico Neural Nine Men’s Morris, che sfrutta tre reti neurali per scegliere la mossa migliore. Le reti sono state addestrate su un dataset di più di 1.500.000 coppie (stato del gioco, mossa migliore), creato in base alle scelte di una IA simbolica. Il sistema ha dimostrato di aver imparato le regole del gioco proponendo una mossa valida in più del 99% dei casi di test. Inoltre ha raggiunto un’accuratezza del 39% rispetto al dataset e ha sviluppato una propria strategia di gioco diversa da quella della IA addestratrice, dimostrandosi un giocatore peggiore o migliore a seconda dell’avversario. I risultati ottenuti in questo caso di studio mostrano che, in questo contesto, la chiave del successo nella progettazione di sistemi AI allo stato dell’arte sembra essere un buon bilanciamento tra tecniche simboliche e sub-simboliche, dando più rilevanza a queste ultime, con lo scopo di raggiungere la perfetta integrazione di queste tecnologie.

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BADAOUI, RAOUL. "APPROACHES FOR PARASITIC-INCLUSIVE SYMBOLIC CIRCUIT REPRESENTATION AND EXTRACTION FOR SYNTHESIS". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1132193275.

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Hamilton, Roy. "A comparison of two approaches of symbolic modeling and self-efficacy /". Terre-Haute (IND) : Dissertation . Com, 1999. http://www.dissertation.com/library/1120745a.htm.

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Askar, Sameh El Said Abdel Aziz. "Symbolic approaches and artificial intelligence algorithms for solving multi-objective optimisation problems". Thesis, Cranfield University, 2011. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/5557.

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Problems that have more than one objective function are of great importance in engineering sciences and many other disciplines. This class of problems are known as multi-objective optimisation problems (or multicriteria). The difficulty here lies in the conflict between the various objective functions. Due to this conflict, one cannot find a single ideal solution which simultaneously satisfies all the objectives. But instead one can find the set of Pareto-optimal solutions (Pareto-optimal set) and consequently the Pareto-optimal front is established. Finding these solutions plays an important role in multi-objective optimisation problems and mathematically the problem is considered to be solved when the Pareto-optimal set, i.e. the set of all compromise solutions is found. The Pareto-optimal set may contain information that can help the designer make a decision and thus arrive at better trade-off solutions. The aim of this research is to develop new multi-objective optimisation symbolic algorithms capable of detecting relationship(s) among decision variables that can be used for constructing the analytical formula of Pareto-optimal front based on the extension of the current optimality conditions. A literature survey of theoretical and evolutionary computation techniques for handling multiple objectives, constraints and variable interaction highlights a lack of techniques to handle variable interaction. This research, therefore, focuses on the development of techniques for detecting the relationships between the decision variables (variable interaction) in the presence of multiple objectives and constraints. It attempts to fill the gap in this research by formally extending the theoretical results (optimality conditions). The research then proposes first-order multi-objective symbolic algorithm or MOSA-I and second-order multi-objective symbolic algorithm or MOSA-II that are capable of detecting the variable interaction. The performance of these algorithms is analysed and compared to a current state-of-the-art optimisation algorithm using popular test problems. The performance of the MOSA-II algorithm is finally validated using three appropriately chosen problems from literature. In this way, this research proposes a fully tested and validated methodology for dealing with multi-objective optimisation problems. In conclusion, this research proposes two new symbolic algorithms that are used for identifying the variable interaction responsible for constructing Pareto-optimal front among objectives in multi-objective optimisation problems. This is completed based on a development and relaxation of the first and second-order optimality conditions of Karush-Kuhn-Tucker.

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Combettes, Sylvain. "Symbolic representations of time series". Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UPASM002.

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Les objectifs de cette thèse sont de définir de nouvelles représentations symboliques et des mesures de distance adaptées aux séries temporelles pouvant être multivariées et non-stationnaires. De plus, elles doivent préserver l'information temporelle, être interprétables et rapides à calculer. Nous passons en revue les représentations symboliques de séries temporelles, ainsi que les mesures de distance sur séries temporelles, chaînes de caractères et séquences symboliques (qui résultent d'un processus de symbolisation).Nous proposons deux contributions: ASTRIDE pour un ensemble de séries temporelles univariées, et d_{symb} pour un ensemble de séries temporelles multivariées. Nous avons également développé le d_{symb} playground, un outil interactif en ligne permettant aux utilisateurs d'appliquer d_{symb} à leurs données téléversées. ASTRIDE et d_{symb} sont pilotées par les données, car elles utilisent la détection de ruptures pour l'étape de segmentation, puis des quantiles ou un partitionnement par les K-moyennes pour l'étape de quantification. Enfin, elles appliquent la distance d'édition générale avec des coûts personnalisés entre les séquences symboliques obtenues.Nous montrons les performances d'ASTRIDE, comparé à 4 autres représentations symboliques, sur des tâches de reconstruction, et lorsque cela s'applique, sur des tâches de classification. Pour d_{symb}, les expériences montrent à quel point la symbolisation est interprétable. De plus, comparée à 9 distances élastiques sur une tâche de partitionnement, d_{symb} atteint des performances compétitives tout en étant plusieurs ordres de grandeur plus rapide
The objectives of this thesis are to define novel symbolic representations and distance measures that are suited for time series that can be multivariate and non-stationary. In addition, they should preserve the time information, be interpretable, and fast to compute. We review symbolic representations of time series (that transform a real-valued series into a shorter discrete-valued series), as well as distance measures on time series, strings, and symbolic sequences (that result from a symbolization process).We propose two contributions: ASTRIDE for a data set of univariate time series, and d_{symb} for a data set of multivariate time series. We also developed the d_{symb} playground, an online interactive tool that allows users to apply d_{symb} to their uploaded data. ASTRIDE and d_{symb} are data-driven as they use change-point detection for the segmentation step, then either quantiles or a K-means clustering algorithm for the quantization step. Finally, they apply the general edit distance with custom costs between the resulting symbolic sequences.We show the performance of ASTRIDE compared to 4 other symbolic representations on reconstruction and, when applicable, on classification tasks. For d_{symb}, experiments show how interpretable the symbolization is. Moreover, compared to 9 elastic distances on a clustering task, d_{symb} achieves a competitive performance while being several orders of magnitude faster

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Poria, Soujanya. "Novel symbolic and machine-learning approaches for text-based and multimodal sentiment analysis". Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25396.

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Emotions and sentiments play a crucial role in our everyday lives. They aid decision-making, learning, communication, and situation awareness in human-centric environments. Over the past two decades, researchers in artificial intelligence have been attempting to endow machines with cognitive capabilities to recognize, infer, interpret and express emotions and sentiments. All such efforts can be attributed to affective computing, an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, social sciences and cognitive science. Sentiment analysis and emotion recognition has also become a new trend in social media, avidly helping users understand opinions being expressed on different platforms in the web. In this thesis, we focus on developing novel methods for text-based sentiment analysis. As an application of the developed methods, we employ them to improve multimodal polarity detection and emotion recognition. Specifically, we develop innovative text and visual-based sentiment-analysis engines and use them to improve the performance of multimodal sentiment analysis. We begin by discussing challenges involved in both text-based and multimodal sentiment analysis. Next, we present a number of novel techniques to address these challenges. In particular, in the context of concept-based sentiment analysis, a paradigm gaining increasing interest recently, it is important to identify concepts in text; accordingly, we design a syntaxbased concept-extraction engine. We then exploit the extracted concepts to develop conceptbased affective vector space which we term, EmoSenticSpace. We then use this for deep learning-based sentiment analysis, in combination with our novel linguistic pattern-based affective reasoning method termed sentiment flow. Finally, we integrate all our text-based techniques and combine them with a novel deep learning-based visual feature extractor for multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition. Comparative experimental results using a range of benchmark datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Iori, Tomoyuki. "Symbolic-Numeric Approaches Based on Theories of Abstract Algebra to Control, Estimation, and Optimization". Doctoral thesis, Kyoto University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/263785.

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Burkitt, Ian. "The sociological problem of personality formation : with special reference to symbolic interactionist, Marxist and figurational approaches". Thesis, University of Leeds, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235695.

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Sandström, Johan. "Organizational approaches to greening : technocentrism and beyond". Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-65798.

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How and why do organizations approach greening? How can we conceptualize approaches and how can we encourage reflexive dialogues on them? These are the main questions addressed in this qualitative study on organizational greening. The study sets off by discussing matters of research philosophy, arguing that our trust in science ought to be revised and that a more postmodern and constructionist philosophy might be a way to go. This is then followed by a theoretical review, showing that organizational studies have a history in environmental issues, but that it is basically technocentric in orientation. A more reflexive organizational approach is suggested. The empirical part of the study is based on qualitative research of five case studies, representing a mix of organizations situated in Sweden, all with an explicit ambition to approach greening. The analyses target the organizations' approaches from practice to assumptions, pointing at the commonalities as well as the tensions. Basically, greening was an issue for all studied organizations, but an increasing pressure to market-orient their operations in line with the business rhetoric dominated their identity construction. The environment was included if there were opportunities of win-win situations between environment and economy in sight. Once embarked upon, the organizations tended to focus on technocratic practices, developing or implementing management systems, product development indexes, life-cycle methodologies and other tools. On a more philosophical level, in the study referred to as the worldview level, the approaches were predominandy characterized by a representative epistemology and a dualistic ontology, that is, they were clearly anthropocentric. With a base in these findings, an alternative approach is discussed as a way out, or as a way of constructing a reflexive dialogue on greening. This is partly based on the tensions within and between the cases, which encouraged reflections on how greening was approached. In the alternative, organizations are seen as actors on a symbolic agora where transparency, participation and self-reflexivity are keys to organizational legitimacy. This view frames organizations in the dominating approach as agoraphobic producers of materialistically dependent satisfiers. The alternative also targets the limits of a preference and materialistically oriented view on die satisfaction of human needs. Instead, it is argued that environmental and cultural sensitivity should be acknowledged as natural parts of organizational greening. This, however, demands more room for reflexive dialogues encouraging ontological awareness and a respect for more ecocentric views.
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David, Robin. "Formal Approaches for Automatic Deobfuscation and Reverse-engineering of Protected Codes". Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0013/document.

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L’analyse de codes malveillants est un domaine de recherche en pleine expansion de par la criticité des infrastructures touchées et les coûts impliqués de plus en plus élevés. Ces logiciels utilisent fréquemment différentes techniques d’évasion visant à limiter la détection et ralentir les analyses. Parmi celles-ci, l’obfuscation permet de cacher le comportement réel d’un programme. Cette thèse étudie l’utilité de l’Exécution Symbolique Dynamique (DSE) pour la rétro-ingénierie. Tout d’abord, nous proposons deux variantes du DSE plus adaptées aux codes protégés. La première est une redéfinition générique de la phase de calcul de prédicat de chemin basée sur une manipulation flexible des concrétisations et symbolisations tandis que la deuxième se base sur un algorithme d’exécution symbolique arrière borné. Ensuite, nous proposons différentes combinaisons avec d’autres techniques d’analyse statique afin de tirer le meilleur profit de ces algorithmes. Enfin tous ces algorithmes ont été implémentés dans différents outils, Binsec/se, Pinsec et Idasec, puis testés sur différents codes malveillants et packers. Ils ont permis de détecter et contourner avec succès les obfuscations ciblées dans des cas d’utilisations réels tel que X-Tunnel du groupe APT28/Sednit
Malware analysis is a growing research field due to the criticity and variety of assets targeted as well as the increasing implied costs. These softwares frequently use evasion tricks aiming at hindering detection and analysis techniques. Among these, obfuscation intent to hide the program behavior. This thesis studies the potential of Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE) for reverse-engineering. First, we propose two variants of DSE algorithms adapted and designed to fit on protected codes. The first is a flexible definition of the DSE path predicate computation based on concretization and symbolization. The second is based on the definition of a backward-bounded symbolic execution algorithm. Then, we show how to combine these techniques with static analysis in order to get the best of them. Finally, these algorithms have been implemented in different tools Binsec/se, Pinsec and Idasec interacting alltogether and tested on several malicious codes and commercial packers. Especially, they have been successfully used to circumvent and remove the obfuscation targeted in real-world malwares like X-Tunnel from the famous APT28/Sednit group

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David, Robin. "Formal Approaches for Automatic Deobfuscation and Reverse-engineering of Protected Codes". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0013.

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L’analyse de codes malveillants est un domaine de recherche en pleine expansion de par la criticité des infrastructures touchées et les coûts impliqués de plus en plus élevés. Ces logiciels utilisent fréquemment différentes techniques d’évasion visant à limiter la détection et ralentir les analyses. Parmi celles-ci, l’obfuscation permet de cacher le comportement réel d’un programme. Cette thèse étudie l’utilité de l’Exécution Symbolique Dynamique (DSE) pour la rétro-ingénierie. Tout d’abord, nous proposons deux variantes du DSE plus adaptées aux codes protégés. La première est une redéfinition générique de la phase de calcul de prédicat de chemin basée sur une manipulation flexible des concrétisations et symbolisations tandis que la deuxième se base sur un algorithme d’exécution symbolique arrière borné. Ensuite, nous proposons différentes combinaisons avec d’autres techniques d’analyse statique afin de tirer le meilleur profit de ces algorithmes. Enfin tous ces algorithmes ont été implémentés dans différents outils, Binsec/se, Pinsec et Idasec, puis testés sur différents codes malveillants et packers. Ils ont permis de détecter et contourner avec succès les obfuscations ciblées dans des cas d’utilisations réels tel que X-Tunnel du groupe APT28/Sednit
Malware analysis is a growing research field due to the criticity and variety of assets targeted as well as the increasing implied costs. These softwares frequently use evasion tricks aiming at hindering detection and analysis techniques. Among these, obfuscation intent to hide the program behavior. This thesis studies the potential of Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE) for reverse-engineering. First, we propose two variants of DSE algorithms adapted and designed to fit on protected codes. The first is a flexible definition of the DSE path predicate computation based on concretization and symbolization. The second is based on the definition of a backward-bounded symbolic execution algorithm. Then, we show how to combine these techniques with static analysis in order to get the best of them. Finally, these algorithms have been implemented in different tools Binsec/se, Pinsec and Idasec interacting alltogether and tested on several malicious codes and commercial packers. Especially, they have been successfully used to circumvent and remove the obfuscation targeted in real-world malwares like X-Tunnel from the famous APT28/Sednit group

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Åslund, Petra, e Magdalena Dahlgren. "Hopp eller förtvivlan? : En kvantitativ enkätundersökning i sociala medier om människors attityder till kommunikationen kring klimatförändringar". Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72590.

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Klimatfrågan är ett ständigt aktuellt ämne i dagens samhälle och det tycks finnas en stor medvetenhet hos de flesta människor om att det krävs akuta insatser och stora livsstilsförändringar, om vi ska ha möjlighet att minska vår klimatpåverkan. Trots att klimatförändringarna lämnar få oberörda och många individer uppger sig dessutom vara både insatta och engagerade i klimatfrågan, så omsätts engagemanget inte alltid till handling. Denna miljösociologiska kvantitativa studie avser undersöka om olika typer av klimatbudskap har en inverkan på individens attityd gentemot klimatförändringar vid exponeringstillfället. Studien undersöker också huruvida det finns skillnader i individens socio-ekonomiska bakgrund som inverkar på deras självskattade klimatengagemang. I studien deltog 140 respondenter med varierande bakgrundsvariabler (ålder, kön, boendeort, utbildningsnivå och inkomst). Respondenterna som delades upp i två experimentgrupper och en kontrollgrupp, fick besvara en digital enkät med en kvasi-experimentell design. Resultatet visade att de olika kommunikativa angreppssätten att förmedla frågor kring klimatet på, inte hade en inverkan på respondenternas attityd gentemot klimatförändringar vid exponeringstillfället. Det fanns inte heller en signifikant skillnad avseende respondenternas klimatengagemang mellan bakgrundsvariablerna boendeort och utbildningsnivå. Däremot visade resultatet en signifikant skillnad mellan män och kvinnor gällande skattat klimatengagemang, något som ligger i linje med tidigare forskning.
Climate change is a constantly debated issue in our society today, and most people seem to have a sense of awareness that we need to act urgently and make major changes in our lifestyle in order to decrease our impact on the climate. Despite the fact that climate change leaves few untouched and many individuals also claim to be both well informed and engaged in the climate issue, the commitment is not always put into action. This environmental sociological quantitative study intends to investigate whether different types of climate messages have an impact on the individual's attitude towards climate change at the time of exposure. The study also examines whether there are differences in the individual's socio-economic background that affect their self-rated climate commitment. In the study 140 respondents with varying background variables participated (age, sex, level of education, place of residence and income). Respondents who were divided into two experimental groups and one control group were asked to answer a digital survey with a quasi-experimental design. The result showed that the different communicative approaches to conveying issues around the climate did not have an impact on the respondents' attitude towards climate change at the time of exposure. There was also no significant difference with respect to the respondents' climate commitment between the background variables residential area and level of education. However, the result showed a significant difference between men and women regarding estimated climate engagement, which is in line with previous research.

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Tino, Peter, Christian Schittenkopf, Georg Dorffner e Engelbert J. Dockner. "A symbolic dynamics approach to volatility prediction". SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1998. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1142/1/document.pdf.

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We consider the problem of predicting the direction of daily volatility changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). This is accomplished by quantizing a series of historic volatility changes into a symbolic stream over 2 or 4 symbols. We compare predictive performance of the classical fixed-order Markov models with that of a novel approach to variable memory length prediction (called prediction fractal machine, or PFM) which is able to select very specific deep prediction contexts (whenever there is a sufficient support for such contexts in the training data). We learn that daily volatility changes of the DJIA only exhibit rather shallow finite memory structure. On the other hand, a careful selection of quantization cut values can strongly enhance predictive power of symbolic schemes. Results on 12 non-overlapping epochs of the DJIA strongly suggest that PFMs can outperform both traditional Markov models and (continuous-valued) GARCH models in the task of predicting volatility one time-step ahead. (author's abstract)
Series: Working Papers SFB "Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science"

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Chung, Seung H. (Seung Hwa) 1975. "A decomposed symbolic approach to reactive planning". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82765.

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Heaton, Haidee R. "Symbolism and the actor's perspective : a grounded theory study of the actor's approach to symbolist vocal work /". free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3137709.

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Scott, Sam. "Feature engineering for a symbolic approach to text classification". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ36741.pdf.

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Rose, Daniel E. "A symbolic and connectionist approach to legal information retrieval /". Hillsdale, NJ [u.a.] : Erlbaum, 1994. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/277923123.pdf.

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Ponce, de León Amador Pedro José. "A statistical pattern recognition approach to symbolic music classification". Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/21337.

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Basios, Vasileios. "Symbolic dynamics and control of chaotic systems :a probabilistic approach". Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211586.

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Vander, Veen Sarah. "Mock jurors' attitudes toward aboriginal defendants: a symbolic racism approach /". Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2688.

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Glynos, L. Jason. "A Lacanian approach to ethics and ideology". Thesis, University of Essex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313088.

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Flensner, Katarina. "Konsten att prova sina vingar : förutsättningar för kreativa förändringsprocesser i socialt arbete – en kvalitativ studie". Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för socialpedagogik och sociologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8239.

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Inom socialt arbete möter brukare i olika sammanhang skapande verksamheter i exempelvis dagverksamhet, sysselsättning eller som arbetsträning. Att delta i verksamheten kan vara frivilligt eller tvingande. Denna studie undersöker hur hantverkspedagoger arbetar med skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete, samt vilka strukturer och förhållningssätt som måste finnas i verksamheten för att denna ska ge förutsättningar till förändringsprocesser för deltagaren. Studiens syfte är att fördjupa förståelsen för hur visuellt skapande verksamhet används för att möjliggöra förändring för brukare inom det sociala arbetets fält. Verksamheterna som undersöks i studien använder sig samtliga av visuellt skapande, vilket är olika former av skapande såsom måleri, keramik, textiltryck och sömnad. Studien genomfördes utifrån en kvalitativ ansats med ostrukturerade fokusgruppsintervjuer som val av metod. Metoden utökades efterhand med en telefonintervju. Totalt genomfördes två fokusgrupps-sessioner och en telefonintervju med sammanlagt sex informanter. Den teoretiska ram, ur vilken den skapande verksamheten belyses och analyseras, utgår från symbolisk interaktionism, där definition av situationen samt sympatisk introspektion är två centrala begrepp. Andra centrala begrepp i studien är Axel Honneths definition av erkännande samt Martin Bubers mellanmänskliga möten. Studiens resultat visar att pedagogernas arbete bridrar till förändringsprocesser, genom strukturella såväl som pedagogiska förhållningssätt, vilka båda genomsyras av ett processorienterat förhållningssätt där deltagarens egna processer är centrala. I den avslutande diskussionen diskuteras den skapande verksamhetens förändringspotential inom socialt arbete i förhållande till teoretiska begrepp så som mellanmänskliga möten, definition av situationen och symboliskt våld för att belysa ett vägval mellan två förhållningssätt som socialpedagogen ständigt ställs inför.
In social work clients encounter arts in different contexts as in, for example, daytime activities, employment or job training. The participation in the activities may be voluntary or mandatory. This study examines how specialist crafts tutor work with creative activities in social work and the structures and attitudes necessary to provide conditions for change for the participant. The work places surveyed in this study all used creative methods involving visual arts such as paintings, ceramics, textile and sewing. The study´s purpose is to deepen the understanding of how visual creative activity is used to enable change for users in the field of social work. The activities evaluated in the study all use forms of visual creativity, which include various forms of creativity such as painting, sculpture, textile printing and sewing. The study was conducted based on a qualitative approach and the choice of method was unstructured focus groups with specialist crafts tutors. The method was extended during the research process by a telephone interview. In total, there were two focus group sessions and one telephone interview with a total of six informants. The theoretical framework from which creative activity is highlighted and analyzed is based on symbolic interactionism, where definition of the situation and sympathetic introspection are two key concepts. Other key concepts in the study are Axel Honneth's definition of recognition as well as Martin Buber's interpersonal encounters. The result of the study shows that specialist crafts tutors work contributes to change through structural and pedagogical approaches, which both are permeated by a process-oriented approach where the participant's own processes are central. In the final discussion the potential of creative activities for change within social work is discussed in relation to the theoretical concepts of interpersonal encounters, definition of the situation and symbolic violence to illuminate a choice between two approaches that social pedagogue faces.

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Battistotti, Paolo. "An invariant approach to symbolic calculus for pseudodifferential operators on manifolds". Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-invariant-approach-to-symbolic-calclus-foe-pseudodifferential-operators-on-manifolds(228c33cf-d786-4796-8f42-5835881bc7fa).html.

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In this work we present a symbolic calculus for ΨDOs on a smooth manifold M based on a suitable notion of the global phase function. In previous literature on the topic, either local coordinates or connections have been used to define the phase functions, symbols and oscillatory integrals defining ΨDOs. We obtain global formulae for the compositions and adjoints of ΨDOs. Applications are given to elliptic ΨDOs, boundedness on Sobolev spaces and functional calculus for elliptic ΨDOs.

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Liu, Y.-S. "A symbolic approach to process planning using frame-based knowledge representation". Thesis, University of Southampton, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235214.

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Cecchi, Bernales Paulina Alejandra. "Invariant measures in symbolic dynamics : a topological, combinatorial and geometrical approach". Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. https://theses.md.univ-paris-diderot.fr/CECCHI-BERNALES_Paulina_2_complete_20190626.pdf.

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Dans ce travail nous étudions quelques propriétés des systèmes symboliques, avec un accent particulier mis sur le rôle joué par les mesures invariantes de tels systèmes. Nous nous attachons à l'étude des mesures invariantes d'un point de vue topologique, combinatoire et géométrique. Du point de vue topologique, nous nous concentrons sur le problème de l'équivalence orbitale et l'équivalence orbitale forte entre des systèmes dynamiques donnés par des actions minimales de Z, par l'étude d'un invariant algébrique, à savoir, le groupe de dimension dynamique. Notre travail donne une description du groupe de dimension dynamique pour deux classes particulières de sous-shifts : les sous-shifts S-adiques et les sous-shifts dendriques. Du point de vue combinatoire, nous nous intéressons au problème de l'équilibre des sous-shifts minimaux et uniquement ergodiques donnés par des actions de Z. Nous étudions le comportement concernant l'équilibre pour des sous-shifts substitutifs, S-adiques et dendriques. Nous établissons des conditions nécessaires pour qu'un sous-shift substitutif minimal avec des fréquences rationnelles soit équilibré par rapport à ses facteurs, en obtenant comme corollaire le déséquilibre des facteurs de longueur supérieure à 2 dans le sous-shift engendré par la substitution de Thue-Morse. Enfin, du point de vue géométrique, nous étudions le problème de réalisation des simplexes de Choquet comme des ensembles de mesures de probabilité invariantes associés à des systèmes donnés par des actions minimales des groupes moyennables sur l'ensemble de Cantor. Nous introduisons la notion de groupe moyennable congruent-monopavable, nous montrons que tout groupe moyennable virtuellement nilpotent est congruent-monopavable, et que pour un group discret infini G avec cette propriété, tout simplexe de Choquet peut s'obtenir comme l'ensemble des mesures invariantes d'un G-sous-shift minimal
In this work we study some dynamical properties of symbolic dynamical systems, with particular emphasis on the role played by the invariant probability measures of such systems. We approach the study of the set of invariant measures from a topological, combinatorial and geometrical point of view. From a topological point of view, we focus on the problem of orbit equivalence and strong orbit equivalence between dynamical systems given by minimal actions of Z, through the study of an algebraic invariant, namely the dynamical dimension group. Our work presents a description of the dynamical dimension group for two particular classes of subshifts: S-adic subshifts and dendric subshifts. From a combinatorial point of view, we are interested in the problem of balance in minimal uniquely ergodic systems given by actions of Z. We investigate the behavior regarding balance for substitutive, S-adic and dendric subshifts. We give necessary conditions for a minimal substitutive system with rational frequencies to be balanced on its factors, obtaining as a corollary the unbalance in the factors of length at least 2 in the subshift generated by the Thue-Morse sequence. Finally, from the geometrical point of view, we investigate the problem of realization of Choquet simplices as sets of invariant probability measures associated to systems given by minimal actions of amenable groups on the Cantor set. We introduce the notion of congruent monotileable amenable group, we prove that every virtually nilpotent amenable group is congruent monotileable, and we show that for a discrete infinite group G with this property, every Choquet simplex can be obtained as the set of invariant measures of a minimal G-subshift
En este trabajo estudiamos algunas propiedades dinamicas de sistemas simbolicos, con especial enfasis en el rol que juegan las medidas de probabilidad invariantes de tales sistemas. Nuestra aproximacion al estudio de las medidas invariantes se realiza desde tres angulos: topologico, combinatorio y geometrico. Desde el punto de vista topologico, nos enfocamos en el problema de la equivalencia orbital y equivalencia orbital fuerte entre sistemas dinamicos dados por acciones minimales de Z, a traves del estudio de un invariante algebraico, a saber, el grupo de dimension dinamico. Nuestro trabajo presenta una descripcion del grupo de dimension dinamico para dos clases particulares de subshifts minimales: los subshifts S-adicos y los subshifts dendricos. Desde el punto de vista combinatorio, nos interesamos en el problema del equilibrio en subshifts minimales y unicamente ergodicos dados por acciones de Z. Investigamos el comportamiento en relacional equilibrio para subshifts substitutivos, S-adicos y dendricos. Establecemos condiciones necesarias para que un subshift substitutivo minimal con frecuencias racionales sea equilibrado en sus factores, obteniendo como corolario el desequilibrio en los factores de largo mayor o igual a 2 en el subshift generado por la substitucion de Thue–Morse. Finalmente, desde el punto de vista geometrico, investigamos la posibilidad de realizar sımplices de Choquet como conjuntos de medidas de probabilidad invariantes asociados a sistemas dados por acciones minimales de grupos promediables sobre el Cantor. Introducimos la nocion de grupo promediable congruente-monoembaldosable, probamos que todo grupo promediable virtualmente nilpotentees congruente-monoembaldosable, y mostramos que para un grupo discreto e infinito G con estapropiedad, todo sımplice de Choquet puede obtenerse como el conjunto de medidas invariantes de un G-subshift minimal

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Richardson, Diane Fern, e Diane Fern Richardson. "Toward a Pedagogy of Ambiguity: Incorporating and Assessing Ambiguity in a Multiliteracies-Based Foreign Language Classroom". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621855.

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One of the major challenges that persists in postsecondary foreign language (FL) education in the US today is how to implement a more integrated approach to language and literature instruction, that is, one that fosters critical awareness on multiple levels and prepares learners to be globally-connected and engaged citizens (MLA, 2007; Swaffar & Urlaub, 2014). Major contributions for achieving these goals have come from an array of pedagogical approaches that share in common their focus on language as a resource for making socially and symbolically rich meanings that do more than convey facts or express objectives. These include those designated as multiliteracies and genre-based approaches, as well as those that promote intercultural, symbolic and literary competencies as integral to the language learning experience. All of these frameworks acknowledge to some extent the fact that ambiguity-understood here as the multiplicity, indeterminacy, or destabilization of meaning-characterizes language itself and thus also our day-to-day and global communication, as well as the experience and process of FL learning. This dissertation, based on a qualitative classroom-based research study, considers how ambiguity can more be comprehensively integrated into FL learning and in particular into text-oriented teaching practices. The approach taken was a pedagogy that embraces ambiguity by providing learners and educators with strategies for navigating the moments of indeterminacy, uncertainty, and doubt that they will inevitably encounter in and out of the FL classroom. The study, set in an intermediate German language and culture course at a large public university, investigates 1) how to incorporate and assess moments of ambiguity more comprehensively across the curriculum and 2) how learners responded to various encounters with ambiguity, including ambiguity of genre, perspective, and silence. Data analysis revealed that purposeful integration of induced ambiguity can facilitate more comfort with those three dimensions and that it complements the principles of a multiliteracies-based FL pedagogy.

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Nguyễn, Huu Nghia (Hữu Nghĩa). "A symbolic approach for the verification and the test of service choreographies". Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00961450.

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Service-oriented engineering is an emerging software development paradigm for distributed collaborative applications. Such an application is made up of several entities abstracted as services, each of them being for example a Web application, a Web service, or even a human. The services can be developed independently and are composed to achieve common requirements through interactions among them. Service choreographies define such requirements from a global perspective, based on interactions among a set of participants. This thesis aims to formalize the problems and attempts to develop a framework by which service choreographies can be developed correctly for both top-down and bottom-up approaches. It consists in analyzing the relation between a choreography specification and a choreography implementation at both model level and real implementation level. Particularly, it concerns the composition/decomposition service design, the verification, and the testing of choreography implementation. The first key point of our framework is to support value-passing among services by using symbolic technique and SMT solver. It overcomes false negatives or state space explosion issues due by abstracting or limiting the data domain of value-passing in existing approaches. The second key point is the black-box passive testing of choreography implementation. It does not require neither to access to source codes nor to make the implementation unavailable during the testing process. Our framework is fully implemented in our toolchains, which can be downloaded or used online at address: http://schora.lri.fr.

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Mouttappa, Pramila. "A symbolic-based passive testing approach to detect vulnerabilities in networking systems". Phd thesis, Institut National des Télécommunications, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01017860.

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Due to the increasing complexity of reactive systems, testing has become an important part in the process of the development of such systems. Conformance testing with formal methods refers to checking functional correctness, by means of testing, of a black-box system under test with respect to a formal system specification, i.e., a specification given in a language with a formal semantics. In this aspect, passive testing techniques are used when the implementation under test cannot be disturbed or the system interface is not provided. Passive testing techniques are based on the observation and verification of properties on the behavior of a system without interfering with its normal operation, it also helps to observe abnormal behavior in the implementation under test on the basis of observing any deviation from the predefined behavior. The main objective of this thesis is to present a new approach to perform passive testing based on the analysis of the control and data part of the system under test. During the last decades, many theories and tools have been developed to perform conformance testing. However, in these theories, the specifications or properties of reactive systems are often modeled by different variants of Labeled Transition Systems (LTS). However, these methodologies do not explicitly take into account the system's data, since the underlying model of LTS are not able to do that. Hence, it is mandatory to enumerate the values of the data before modeling the system. This often results in the state-space explosion problem. To overcome this limitation, we have studied a model called Input-Output Symbolic Transition Systems (IOSTS) which explicitly includes all the data of a reactive system. Many passive testing techniques consider only the control part of the system and neglect data, or are confronted with an overwhelming amount of data values to process. In our approach, we consider control and data parts by integrating the concepts of symbolic execution and we improve trace analysis by introducing trace slicing techniques. Properties are described using Input Output Symbolic Transition Systems (IOSTSs) and we illustrate in our approach how they can be tested on real execution traces optimizing the trace analysis. These properties can be designed to test the functional conformance of a protocol as well as security properties. In addition to the theoretical approach, we have developed a software tool that implements the algorithms presented in this paper. Finally, as a proof of concept of our approach and tool we have applied the techniques to two real-life case studies: the SIP and Bluetooth protocol

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Schley, Dan R. "Symbolic-Number Mapping in Judgments and Decisions: A Correlational and Experimental Approach". The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1448802342.

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Wang, Nian En. "The xing : a comparative approach to Chinese theories of the literary symbolic". Thesis, University of Warwick, 1992. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1160/.

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This thesis is intended to be a comparative approach to Chinese theories of the literary symbolic by way of a comprehensive investigation of the term xing [Chinese symbol]. The xing has a long history of over two thousand years, is capable of protean meanings and generally considered very confusing. In the Introduction of the present work, a historical review of the study of the xing provides a map of the terrain in this area. Following this, a discussion of methodology is unfolded and suggestions are made that the general aim of this thesis is not to search for a "true" or "essential" meaning of the xing, but to examine how the word has actually been used in Chinese literary studies and to explore as much as possible its explicit and potential meanings. The ideal way of approaching an issue of this nature, the thesis suggests, would be a four-fold one, namely, the historical, descriptive, analytical and comparative approach. In this study, comparative approach is in the predominant position. The first part is designed to reveal the meanings of the xing and a number of other relevant terms. Through a descriptive analysis of the statements by major critics in various historical periods and by invoking Western theories of literature, the thesis discusses the multiple meanings of the xing, the intrinsic relationship between these meanings and the nature of poetic creation which underlies them. In the second part, a contour is drawn to demonstrate the mainstreams of Western theories of symbolism from Romanticism to Modernism. A number of important critics, such as Goethe, Coleridge, Carlyle, Mallarme and T. S. Eliot, are discussed and analysed, thus preparing the ground for an all-round comparison. The comparative study in this work is conducted in two ways: 1) Western theories of symbolism are applied to the interpretation of Chinese concepts and 2) Examples are presented to demonstrate the amazing similarities in the way Chinese and Western critics deal with the issue of the literary symbolic, so as to attain a better understanding of both. The xing not only has multiple meanings but its meanings also work on different levels. Hence, the comparison has to be a three dimensional one: xing is compared and contrasted with fu and bi, and these three terms are compared with parallel Western notions of sign, allegory and symbol; moreover, these comparisons are made on four levels - as rhetorical devices, as modes of writing, as aesthetic tendencies and as modes of interpretation. In the concluding chapter, a summary is given highlighting several major points at which the East and the West come closest and an attempt is made to reveal the underlying theoretical reasons.

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Tang, Zibin. "A new design approach for numeric-to-symbolic conversion using neural networks". PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4242.

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A new approach is proposed which uses a combination of a Backprop paradigm neural network along with some perceptron processing elements performing logic operations to construct a numeric-to-symbolic converter. The design approach proposed herein is capable of implementing a decision region defined by a multi-dimensional, non-linear boundary surface. By defining a "two-valued" subspace of the boundary surface, a Backprop paradigm neural network is used to model the boundary surf ace. An input vector is tested by the neural network boundary model (along with perceptron logic gates) to determine whether the incoming vector point is within the decision region or not. Experiments with two qualitatively different kinds of nonlinear surface were carried out to test and demonstrate the design approach.

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Nguyễn, Hữu Nghĩa. "A symbolic approach for the verification and the test of service choreographies". Thesis, Paris 11, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA112250/document.

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L'ingénierie orientée services est un nouveau paradigme pour développer des logiciels distribués et collaboratifs. Un tel logiciel se compose de plusieurs entités, appelés services, chacun d'entre eux étant par exemple une application Web, un service Web, ou même un humain. Les services peuvent être développés indépendamment et sont composés pour atteindre quelques exigences. Les chorégraphies de service définissent ces exigences avec une perspective globale, basée sur les interactions entre des participants qui sont implémentés en tant que services. Cette thèse vise à formaliser des problèmes et tente d'élaborer un environnement intégré avec lequel les chorégraphies de services peuvent être développés correctement pour les deux types d'approches de développement: l'approche descendante et l'approche ascendante. Elle consiste à analyser la relation entre une spécification de chorégraphie et une implémentation de la chorégraphie au niveau du modèle et aussi au niveau de l'implémentation réelle. Particulièrement, il s'agit de la composition/décomposition des services, la vérification, et le test de l'implémentation de chorégraphie. Le premier point-clé de notre environnement intégré est de représenter le passage de valeurs entre les services en utilisant la technique symbolique et un solveur SMT. Cette technique nous permet de réduire les faux négatifs et de contourner le problème d'explosion combinatoire de l'espace d'états, ces problèmes sont durs à l'abstraction et à l'énumération des valeurs pour les approches existantes basées données. Le second point-clé est le test passif boîte noire de l'implémentation de chorégraphie. Il ne nécessite pas d'accéder au code source, ni de rendre indisponible l'implémentation pendant le processus de test. Notre environnement intégré est mis en œuvre dans nos outils qui sont disponibles en téléchargement ou à utiliser en ligne à l’adresse http://schora.lri.fr
Service-oriented engineering is an emerging software development paradigm for distributed collaborative applications. Such an application is made up of several entities abstracted as services, each of them being for example a Web application, a Web service, or even a human. The services can be developed independently and are composed to achieve common requirements through interactions among them. Service choreographies define such requirements from a global perspective, based on interactions among a set of participants. This thesis aims to formalize the problems and attempts to develop a framework by which service choreographies can be developed correctly for both top-down and bottom-up approaches. It consists in analyzing the relation between a choreography specification and a choreography implementation at both model level and real implementation level. Particularly, it concerns the composition/decomposition service design, the verification, and the testing of choreography implementation. The first key point of our framework is to support value-passing among services by using symbolic technique and SMT solver. It overcomes false negatives or state space explosion issues due by abstracting or limiting the data domain of value-passing in existing approaches. The second key point is the black-box passive testing of choreography implementation. It does not require neither to access to source codes nor to make the implementation unavailable during the testing process. Our framework is fully implemented in our toolchains, which can be downloaded or used online at address: http://schora.lri.fr

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Magnus, Cristyn. "Evolutionary sound a non-symbolic approach to creating sonic art with genetic algorithms /". Diss., [La Jolla, Calif.] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3396736.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2010.
Title from 1st page of PDF file (viewed Mar. 9, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes 3 compact discs containing audio examples for the dissertation. Includes bibliographical references: P. 137-142.

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Hildebrand, Peggy Shields. "Situational Self-Image: A Symbolic Interactionism Approach to Brand-Image/Self-Image Congruency". Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330931/.

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The situational self-image, which recognizes the affect of situational influences, particularly social roles, was the specific topic of investigation of this study. It has generally been hypothesized in marketing literature that consumers will purchase the brand with the image most congruent with the consumers' self-image. Symbolic Interactionism, a field of study in sociology, provides the theoretical foundations for the construct situational self-image. Realization of the relationship between the situational self-consciousness and involvement was also investigated.

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Aczel, James. "Learning equations using a computerised balance model : a Popperian approach to learning symbolic algebra". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286836.

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Lampka, Kai. "A symbolic approach to the state graph based analysis of high-level Markov reward models". [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=985513926.

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Buikema, Ronald J. "Anatomy of Corporate Decline| A Symbolic Interactionism Approach to the Manager's Observations, Understanding and Response". Thesis, University of Maryland University College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3602433.

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The onset or inception of organizational decline has been largely bypassed in management research over the past two decades, even though understanding this fundamental typology is key to mitigating organizational failure, while also providing important insight regarding how managers respond to phenomena that they may neither expect or understand. Understanding how managers observe, decide, and act in times of uncertainty, and how organizational culture and other factors may shape that environment, are important for scholars and practitioners alike to understand. This dissertation argues that corporate decline has largely been misunderstood from the perspective of onset or initiation; that the manager's decision-making process in times of decline must be considered in relation to the actual causes and factors associated with decline, and that the fundamental definition of organizational decline must be revised in light of advances in our understanding in management over the past three decades. This qualitative empirical descriptive study reviews literature regarding organizational decline with emphasis on the onset of decline, presents an equation for understanding a firm's propensity for decline, provides a revised definition of organizational decline, and examines the decision-making process of management when faced with decline based on symbolic interactionism theory.

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Sant'Anna, Anita. "A Symbolic Approach to Human Motion Analysis Using Inertial Sensors : Framework and Gait Analysis Study". Doctoral thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Laboratoriet för intelligenta system, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17523.

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Motion analysis deals with determining what and how activities are being performed by a subject, through the use of sensors. The process of answering the what question is commonly known as classification, and answering the how question is here referred to as characterization. Frequently, combinations of inertial sensor such as accelerometers and gyroscopes are used for motion analysis. These sensors are cheap, small, and can easily be incorporated into wearable systems. The overall goal of this thesis was to improve the processing of inertial sensor data for the characterization of movements. This thesis presents a framework for the development of motion analysis systems that targets movement characterization, and describes an implementation of the framework for gait analysis. One substantial aspect of the framework is symbolization, which transforms the sensor data into strings of symbols. Another aspect of the framework is the inclusion of human expert knowledge, which facilitates the connection between data and human concepts, and clarifies the analysis process to a human expert. The proposed implementation was compared to state of practice gait analysis systems, and evaluated in a clinical environment. Results showed that expert knowledge can be successfully used to parse symbolic data and identify the different phases of gait. In addition, the symbolic representation enabled the creation of new gait symmetry and gait normality indices. The proposed symmetry index was superior to many others in detecting movement asymmetry in early-to-mid-stage Parkinson's Disease patients. Furthermore, the normality index showed potential in the assessment of patient recovery after hip-replacement surgery. In conclusion, this implementation of the gait analysis system illustrated that the framework can be used as a road map for the development of movement analysis systems.

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Sharma, Richa. "Semi-automated approach to support logical formalism for requirements analysis and validation". Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2016. http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12345678/7227.

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Sáenz, Virginia. "Symbolic and Material Boundaries : An archaeological genealogy of the Urus of Lake Poopó, Bolivia". Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, African and Comparative Archaeology, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7196.

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The thesis focuses on Bolivian Indians who are assimilated into ethnic groups as one of many consequences of the colonial past. An understanding of the complexity of this construction draws from disciplines such as Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Sociology, in an effort to expose the power relations behind the construction. Departing from written sources and the general belief that the area would lodge the most ancient of such Indians, the Uru from Lake Poopó, a specific location has been selected in the Oruro province of the mid Bolivian highlands. The province is named after this people. The identity of the Uru people has been established by reference to other Indians in the Bolivian Andes known as the Aymara or the Quechua. Colonial accounts written by the Spanish conquerors, including priests, soldiers and commoners, as well as modern sources are discussed and analysed. The fieldwork combines archaeological and anthropological methods. Finally, the importance of multidisciplinary approaches is discussed in an effort to contribute to an understanding of multi-cause phenomena in this case the constructed ethnic identity of the Uru people.

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Tiryakioglu, Nevsal. "A Theoretical Study of the Interactive Communication Process in Video Game Playing: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach". TopSCHOLAR®, 2001. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/642.

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Video games have become the most popular leisure activity among children and adolescents. The increasing popularity of video games has urged researchers to determine the effects of video game playing on youngsters. Given the fact that most popular video games are violent in nature, much of the research has primarily focused on the correlation between playing video games with violent content and aggressive behavior in children. Most researchers have relied on previous media violence research, assuming similarities between television viewing and video game playing. However, video games are interactive media allowing the player to participate in the game scenario, which may intensify the impact of video game playing. Furthermore, the extent of possible influence by a video game may depend on the individual and environmental factors surrounding the player. This study examines the factors involved in video game playing within an interactive communication context. To achieve this goal, symbolic interactionism is used as a theoretical ground to explicate the interactive communication during video game playing. Once the pertinence of symbolic interaction theory to the player-video game interaction is demonstrated, the conceptual framework of symbolic interactionism is applied to video game playing. Based on the previous mass media models and symbolic interactionism, the interactive communication during video game playing is investigated. First, the individual and environmental factors surrounding the player are identified. Second, a theoretical model named "video game interaction model (VGIM)" is developed to examine how these factors affect the interactive communication during video game playing. VGIM illustrates the dynamics of the player-video game interaction and the relations among the variables contributing to this interaction.

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Smith, Frederick H. "Social Equalization and Social Resistance: A Symbolic Interactional Approach to Strategies of African American Slave Populations". W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539720316.

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Wilson, Brandy Michelle. "A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42107.

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In utilizing Kristeva's psychoanalytic discursive theory of identity-formation within literary symbolic structures, my thesis seeks to follow the ontological processes involved in identity and signification in “subversive” signifying practices. Specifically, I'm interested in the ways modern poetry (such as Elizabeth Bishop) defies traditional patriarchal discourse as dominant literary devices while embracing plurality and inherent virtues of the female voice. My project will trace Kristeva's semiotic/psychoanalytic evolution from linguistic models of the signifying process, to particulars of her psychoanalytic/linguistic theories, and finally, will attempt to construct a space within modern poetry, where it can be said, the subject (poet) remains on trial/in crisis, and poetic expression reveals the “jouissance” or unspoken voice of repression. Bishop's poetry constantly questions reality, knowledge, sexuality and the self. I strive to expose how Bishop's poetry performs Kristeva's theory of the self in writing; her poetry puts at the core of the self a sense of loss in her attempts to express herself in language. I offer close readings of “The Fish,” “Questions of Travel,” and “One Art,” to show how Bishop's self exposes the unconscious process of poetic activity. Kelly Oliver articulates Kristeva's contributions to linguistics and psychoanalysis quite succinctly, “When we learn to embrace the return of the repressed/the foreigner within ourselves, then we learn to live with, and love, others” (14).
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Abed, Jamil. "An iterative approach to operators on manifolds with singularities". Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2010. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4475/.

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We establish elements of a new approach to ellipticity and parametrices within operator algebras on manifolds with higher singularities, only based on some general axiomatic requirements on parameter-dependent operators in suitable scales of spaes. The idea is to model an iterative process with new generations of parameter-dependent operator theories, together with new scales of spaces that satisfy analogous requirements as the original ones, now on a corresponding higher level. The "full" calculus involves two separate theories, one near the tip of the corner and another one at the conical exit to infinity. However, concerning the conical exit to infinity, we establish here a new concrete calculus of edge-degenerate operators which can be iterated to higher singularities.
Wir führen einen neuen Zugang ein zu Elliptizität und Parametrices in Operatorenalgebren auf Mannigfaltigkeiten mit höheren Singularitäten, nur basierend auf allgemeinen axiomatischen Voraussetzungen über parameter-abhängige Operatoren in geeigneten Skalen von Räumen. Die Idee besteht darin, ein iteratives Verfahren zu modellieren mit neuen Generationen von parameter-abhängigen Operatortheorien, zusammen mit neuen Skalen von Räumen, die analoge Voraussetzungen erfüllen wie die ursprünglichen Objekte, jetzt auf dem entsprechenden höheren Niveau. Der „volle“ Kalkül besteht aus zwei separaten Theorien, eine nahe der Spitze der Ecke und eine andere am konischen Ausgang nach Unendlich. Allerdings, bezüglich des konischen Ausgangs nach Unendlich, bauen wir hier einen neuen konkreten Kalkül von kanten-entarteten Operatoren auf, der für höhere Singularitäten iteriert werden kann.

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Wang, Shih-ping. "Corpus-based approaches and text analysis in relation to sound symbolism, reduplication and fixed expressions". Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504533.

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Primerano, Ilaria. "A symbolic data analysis approach to explore the relation between governance and performance in the Italian industrial districs". Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10556/2179.

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Nowadays, complex phenomena need to bee analyzed through appropriate statistical methods that allow considering the knowledge hidden behind the classical data structure... [edited by author]
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McIntosh, Paul. "Metaphor and symbolism : an action research approach to reflexivity in nurse education". Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430595.

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Weber, Linda R. (Linda Roberta). "Organizational Identity, Health Identity, and Motivation: a Symbolic Interactionist Approach to the Understanding of Heath Behaviors in Work Settings". Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331293/.

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Identity is an important determinant of behavior. This paper proposed an identity model as one way of understanding those factors related to the perceived probability or willingness of a worker to participate in health promotion programming at the worksite. Part of a larger study on employee wellness, this study took place in the municipal complex of a small city in the southeastern United States. A stratified cross sectional sample of 150 employees was selected utilizing a systematic random sampling methodology. Structured interviews were conducted with 129 participants resulting in a response rate of 92% after adjusting for those people no longer employed by the city. In order to test the identity model developed by this author, descriptive analysis, simple multiple regression analysis and path analysis were utilized. The dependent variable, perceived willingness to participate in health promotion programming, was examined in relationship to commitment to one's health identity, commitment to one's organizational identity, tendency to comply with health initiatives, and the forms of supervisory power utilized to enact employee compliance. The descriptive analysis revealed that subjective health status is moderately and positively associated with commitment to one's health identity, that individuals can be strongly committed to a negative/destructive health identity, and that both the family and physician play important roles as health advice givers. The path analysis revealed that commitment to one's organizational identity, commitment to one's health identity, and tendency to comply with health initiatives are significantly and positively associated with willingness to participate in health promotion programming, accounting for 25% of the variance in the dependent variable. In contrast, the forms of supervisory power were not shown to be related to the dependent variable. In conclusion, the identity model appears to be a useful tool for the understanding of health attitudes and behaviors within a work setting.

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Speaks, Jason Thomas. "A Grounded Theory Method Approach to Understanding the Symbolic Meaning of Smoke and Behaviors Related to Household Air Pollution". Thesis, University of California, San Francisco, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10936844.

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Background: Exposure to household air pollution from cooking fires using biomass fuels (e.g., wood, charcoal, dung) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Household air pollution (HAP) is one of the greatest environmental health risks in low-income and middle-income countries where the majority of people use biomass fuels to cook and heat their homes each day. Worldwide, approximately three billion people cook with biomass fuels; most often, these people cook inside homes with poor ventilation and use traditional stoves without chimneys. Even when clean-burning stoves and fuels are introduced in communities using HAP-producing cooking systems, adoption of these systems is often limited, and the use of clean-burning systems is not exclusive or sustained. To date, despite the need to understand behaviors related to smoke from cooking and heating sources, few investigators have used a behavioral theory or framework as a foundation for their investigation.

Methods: This qualitative exploratory study using open-ended interviews was conducted in Aleto Wondo, a rural area in southern Ethiopia. This research used grounded theory methodology and the theory of symbolic interaction to investigate the symbolic meaning that motivates actions related to exposures to household air pollution from cooking fire smoke. The target population was women who had children in the home and who primarily used biomass fuels for cooking.

Results: Themes that emerged during the analysis process and that are grounded in the data were (a) Awareness, Knowledge, and Interpretation; (b) Traditional Way; (c) Perceived Powerless and Lack of Agency; (d) Opportunities for Clarification and Education; (e) Access and Poverty; and (f) God’s Will. These themes summarized the major factors in the participants’ social world—factors that influence the participant’s symbolic meanings and interpretations that affected actions related to smoke from cooking fires.

Conclusions: Using the theoretical and methodological tools of grounded theory and symbolic interaction helped delineate how the themes identified in this research may each interrelate. Relative to household kitchen fire smoke exposure, human action is not overpoweringly affected by a single factor (e.g., God’s will, gender roles) Relative to household kitchen fire smoke exposure, human action cannot be ascribed to a single factor (e.g., God’s will, gender roles) or even a unique combination of known factors. These factors can be considered immutable or mutable based on an individual’s symbolic meanings and interpretive processes.

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Jones, Clanton Krishna. "A Phenomenological Approach to Understanding Consensual Nonmonogamy Among African-American Couples". ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7877.

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Monogamy is recognized as a singularly accepted relationship construct within the United States. As a result, little is understood about alternative relationship constructs and those who choose them. Even less is understood regarding these practices among members of marginalized communities. Despite this lack of knowledge, there is evidence to suggest that approximately 4-5% of the United States population is engaged in some form of consensually nonmonogamous relationship pairing (a percentage comparable to the LGBTQAI community), and an estimated 25% of the population will engage in some form of consensual nonmonogamy over the course of their lifespan. This study looked to understand the lived experiences of African American men and women in married or cohabitating relationships who have participated in consensually nonmonogamous relationships with secondary partners. This qualitative study was conducted with 3 African American heteronormative married couples, using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) and a combined theoretical framework which includes symbolic interactionism and queer theory. Study findings concluded that consensually nonmonogamous couples viewed consensual nonmonogamy as an orientation as opposed to a lived experience in which their primary relationship remained their priority. Emerging themes included rules related to consensual nonmonogamy, emotional regulation, stigma, and the intersectionality between race and sexuality. Implications for social change include reduced stigma related to nontraditional families, a more informed understanding of practices and experiences involving consensual nonmonogamy and the development of sociopolitical interventions, policy and advocacy, and positive and negative consequences of consensually nonmonogamous experiences.

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