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Li, Xiao. "Regularized adaptation : theory, algorithms, and applications /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5928.

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Li, Siu Leung, and 李小良. "Toward a theory of dramatic adaptation: with special reference to Shakespearean and Ming Qing adaptations." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31207352.

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Li, Siu-leung. "Toward a theory of dramatic adaptation : with special reference to Shakespearean and Ming Qing adaptations /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12324322.

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Burns, Carolyn Claire Isabelle. "Adaptation and twentieth-century opera." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10617.

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Combining critical theory and dramaturgical analysis, this thesis considers twentieth-century English-language opera adaptations from a structural and cultural perspective, with particular focus on the increasing complexity of relationships between different types of literary text and the position of contemporary opera within national literary cultures. Employing the strategies of new musicology, particularly the examination of the ways the experience and interpretation of music is shaped by gender and sexuality, this argument forms a rebuttal of conventional opera analysis which frames theoretical consideration of the genre as primarily a negotiation of the comparative representative power of the libretto and the score. This thesis consists of three parts: the first develops a theoretical framework for the consideration of adaptation, combining analysis of adaptation theory, opera studies and a thematic reading of the prominence of psychological narratives in twentieth-century drama. The second part suggests a framework for narrative analysis of opera, beginning with a discussion of the thematic and structural expression of femininity in opera and the representative function played by the sung voice in narrative music, identifying non-naturalistic dramaturgical analogues to opera, and considering the aesthetic implications of extravagant stage artifice. The final part outlines the changing cultural position of opera in contemporary society through discussion of the position of the genre in relation to broader stage and literary culture in the United States and Australia, with particular focus on the impact of broadcast and recording technology on opera production, closing with a consideration of how the complex relationship between technology and live acoustic performance might come to shape the composition of new work. This thesis concludes with the contention that while the specific conventions and cultural status of opera make it an ideal media for atypical interpretations of canonical texts, the intricacy of the relationship between adapted operas and their source material is a reflection of the expansive creative and critical potential of all textual adaptations, rather than an exception based on the particular stylistic specifications of opera.

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Cox, S. J. "Techniques for rapid speaker adaptation in speech recognition." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267271.

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Munoz, Medina Andres. "Learning Theory and Algorithms for Auctioning and Adaptation Problems." Thesis, New York University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3740907.

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A common assumption in machine learning is that training and testing data are i.i.d. realizations of the same distribution. However, this assumption is often violated in practice: the training and test distributions are often somewhat related but different. For example, the training sample for a face recognition system may be a carefully curated data set in general different from the full face data found on online. Similarly, spam email messages change over time and thus the training sample for a spam classifier at any time differs from the test data. The first problem described above is known as domain adaptation and the second known as learning under drifting distributions. The first part of this thesis presents theory and algorithms for these problems. For domain adaptation, we provide tight learning bounds based on the novel concept of generalized discrepancy. These bounds strongly motivate our learning algorithm and it is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that this algorithm can significaly improve upon the current state-of-the-art. We extend the theoretical results of domain adaptation to the more challenging scenario of learning under drifting distributions. Moreover, we establish a deep connection between on-line learning and this problem. In particular, we provide a novel on-line to batch conversion that motivates a learning algorithm with very favorable empirical performance. The second part of this thesis studies a crucial problem at the intersection of learning and game theory: revenue optimization in repeated auctions. More precisely, we study second-price and generalized second-price auctions with reserve. These auction mechanisms have become extremely popular in recent years due to the advent of online advertisement. Both type of auctions are characterized by a reserve price representing the minimum value at which the seller is willing to forego of the object in question. Therefore, selecting an optimal reserve price is crucial in achieving the largest possible revenue. We cast this problem as a learning problem and provide the first theoretical analysis for learning optimal reserve prices from samples for both second-price and generalized second-price auctions. These results, however, assume that buyers do not react strategically to changes in reserve prices. In the last chapter of this thesis, we analyze the possible strategies for the buyers and show that, if the seller is more patient than the buyer, it is not in the best interest of the buyer to behave strategically.

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Ward, Kerry W. "Alignment as a process of enabling organizational adaptation extending the theory of alignment as guided adaptation /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204310.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Business, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0267. Adviser: Iris Vessey. "Title of dissertation from home page (viewed Jan. 8, 2007)."

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Gillen, Michael J. "A test of the adaptation theory of figure reversal selective adaptation as a function of physical stimulus /." Click here for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1564034651&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Nolazco, Flores Juan Arturo. "Spectral subtraction and model adaptation for robust speech recognition in noise." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318436.

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Ma, Qiang. "The application of genetic algorithms to the adaptation of IIR filters." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1995. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/32269.

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The adaptation of an IIR filter is a very difficult problem due to its non-quadratic performance surface and potential instability. Conventional adaptive IIR algorithms suffer from potential instability problems and a high cost for stability monitoring. Therefore, there is much interest in adaptive IIR filters based on alternative algorithms. Genetic algorithms are a family of search algorithms based on natural selection and genetics. They have been successfully used in many different areas. Genetic algorithms applied to the adaptation of IIR filtering problems are studied in this thesis, and show that the genetic algorithm approach has a number of advantages over conventional gradient algorithms, particularly, for the adaptation of high order adaptive IIR filters, IIR filters with poles close to the unit circle and IIR filters with multi-modal error surfaces. The conventional gradient algorithms have difficulty solving these problems. Coefficient results are presented for various orders of IIR filters in this thesis. In the computer simulations presented in this thesis, the direct, cascade, parallel and lattice form IIR filter structures have been used and compared. The lattice form IIR filter structure shows its superiority over the cascade and parallel form IIR filter structures in terms of its mean square error convergence performance.

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Reu, Caroline Marie. "Corporate, cirque, commute : an adaptation of situationist theory to contemporary america." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23450.

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Chen, Yun-Ju. "Urban design and the adaptation of marketplaces : towards a grounded theory." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579511.

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The adaptation of marketplaces is a phenomenon of urban change across the world. As many marketplaces are struggling to remain vital and viable in historic urban centres, an innovative approach to help such public spaces adapt to change is crucial to sustain them within a robust urban structure. This thesis argues that appropriate adjustments of the spatial elements through urban design towards rebuilding a robust urban structure may contribute to the successful adaptation

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Nelson, M., J. Bowers, and Lorianne D. Mitchell. "Adaptation and Inclusion: Using Attachment Theory for Student and Employee Success." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8319.

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Taghavie-Moghadam, Mariah. "A Miraculous Deliverance: An Adaptation Through Historical Criticism and Feminist Theory." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5740.

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This thesis attempts to reconstruct the narrative of Anne Greene, a young female servant in 1650 England that was wrongfully found guilty of infanticide and made into a spectacle by her peers as an example of what happens when one breaks societies gender norms and is met by the influence of the gender politics of the period. Her female body was objectified and placed on display by a ritual performance of the hangman’s noose and the criminal corpse to further the process of by maintaining fear among members of the population, especially rebellious women. Thus, making Anne Greene a subversive figure, victimized by a patriarchal society, a trope that remains relevant today. By way of literary adaptation, explorations of bodily practice, and engagements with the historical archive this thesis allows Anne Greene’s disembodied figure to unfold as a narrative and visual tool in history. This study and the accompanying original play text allow Anne Greene to become an essential figure to feminist studies and continuing struggles for equality in the era of the “Me too” social narrative.

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Wyatt, Gregory Alan Kenneth. "Coevolutionary adaptation in mutualisms." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c3318211-a893-432e-a52e-35a6c60b76ce.

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Natural selection favours those individuals that respond best to novel features of their selective environment. For many, a critical challenge is responding to evolutionary change in mutualistic species. These responses create complex feedbacks, so only coevolutionary approaches are able to fully answer key questions about the maintenance or disruption of mutualistic behaviour, and explain the range of mechanisms that allow individuals to benefit from these associations. I first consider the hypothesis that economic models studying multiple classes of traders, where each trader seeks to optimise its own payoffs will yield insights into mutualistic systems. I show that individuals can be favoured to discriminate amongst potential partners based on the price for which they provide resources. Then, I show that market mechanisms can maintain cooperation and drive specialisation in mutualistic systems. I extend this market model to allow individuals to restrict a mutualistic partner's access to resources, and show that this strategy can stabilise cooperation and increase the fitness of both partners. I also explicitly incorporate relatedness in my market model. I show that high relatedness sometimes increases cooperativeness in members of a mutualistic species, but sometimes decreases cooperativeness as it narrow the scope for partner choice to maintain cooperation. Having studied market mechanisms, I consider indiscriminate costly help to members of another species. I discover that this trait can be favoured by natural selection and can be classified as either altruism between or altruism within species. Finally, I consider a framework for analysing coevolved phenotypic responses to a partner's cooperativeness, a challenging process to model. I demonstrate that this framework can yield firm predictions about behaviour whenever partners hold private information about their costs and benefits.

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Mustelin, Johanna Orvokki. "Ideal Ideas or Pragmatic Reality? An Exploration of the Role of Adaptation 'Theory' in Policy and Practice." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366005.

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Climate change adaptation has emerged as an important topic of both scientific and political interest. Adaptation science now claims a legitimate space in policy agendas based on its prospective insights in providing guidance to adaptation policy and practice. The growth in adaptation science has contributed to the development of principles and assumptions about the nature of climate adaptation, which now influence our research, policy and practice. These emergent guidelines consist of a collection of core assumptions, which have enabled the translation of the more normative and speculative aspects of adaptation into policy relevant knowledge, frequently referred to as ‘adaptation theory’. However, this more applied side of adaptation science still faces substantial difficulties in its ability to move meaningfully between theory and practice. Hence, increasing calls for closer integration of adaptation theory and practice continue to be made in order to validate how ‘adaptation theory’ can support policy and practice. Although academia has responded to these calls by focusing more research on the fundamental characteristics of ‘good’ and ‘successful’ adaptation, it is still unclear what constitutes ’adaptation theory’ and the extent it is relevant for policy- and decision-making processes.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Dhanda, Mungal Singh. "A cochlear model for processing of speech signals, which exhibits nonlinearity, masking and adaptation." Thesis, University of Essex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316239.

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Onur, Ozgur Deniz. "Optimal Video Adaptation For Resource Constrained Mobile Devices Based On Utility Theory." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1124148/index.pdf.

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This thesis proposes a novel system to determine the best representation of a video in the sense that, a user watching the video reaches the highest level of satisfaction possible, given the resource capabilities of the viewing device. Utility theory is used to obtain a utility function representing the user satisfaction as a function of video coding parameters, and the viewing device capabilities. The utility function is formulated as the weighted sum of three individual components. These components are chosen such that, the satisfaction on any one of the components is independent of the satisfaction on every other component. The advantage of such decomposition is the ability to express individual components as simple mathematical relations, modeling user satisfaction. Afterwards, the unknown parameters of these models are determined by results of subjective tests, performed by a multitude of users. Finally, simulated annealing is utilized to find the global optimum of this utility function representing the user satisfaction. Simulation results based on subjective viewing tests on a resource limited mobile device indicate a consistent user satisfaction by the determined optimal encoding parameters of the video.

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Mellmann, Niels. "Ecosystem-based adaptation – In Theory and Practice : A case study of projects supported by the International Climate Initiative." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-260729.

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Ecosystem-based adaptation as a concept of adapting to the adverse effects of climate change has become a popular approach that enjoys a good reputation. However, the evidence base for it is rather thin. This thesis sets out to explore the challenges and limitations linked to projects that engage in the concept, in order to estimate the potential threat that may lie in the ignorance of them. Timescales of projects related to the concept shall be the second major focus of this thesis as it has not been sufficiently examined yet by the literature. Empirical material has been gathered and analyzed in the form of interviews with people who have been and are currently working in projects related to ecosystem-based adaptation. The results allow recommendations for the implementation of future projects, as lessons learned were identified.

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Robinson, Thomas P. "A theoretical and grounded theory investigation of adaptation to identity challenges in adults." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0013/NQ39166.pdf.

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McMullan, J. "An adaptation of medium theory analysis: YouTube as a digital moving image medium." Thesis, McMullan, J. (2015) An adaptation of medium theory analysis: YouTube as a digital moving image medium. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/29591/.

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YouTube has fast come to support global moving-image communication for millions of people. In the current literature, however, YouTube is not considered a ‘medium’ the same way that cinema and television are. Much of this has to do with the computer’s suggested status as a ‘meta-medium’, or ‘medium that can be all mediums’, which in turn heralds the computer itself as a single digital medium. My own perspective is that the term ‘medium’ deserves to be revised to include digital platforms that support novel communication practices. In my perspective, digitisation is yet another foundation technology that facilitates the invention of new mediums from its new ‘proto-affordance’ of computability. In this regard, previous foundation technologies include that of the machine and electricity, with the respective new proto-affordances of reproducibility and instantaneity. The emergence of both of these foundation technologies instigated periods of new media at the time and, hence, spawned new mediums. In terms of moving-image mediums, cinema is mechanical, television is electrical, and YouTube is digital. New mediums of each original foundation technology remediate those of the foundation technology before it, and foundation technology proto-affordances are cumulative. This describes our current engagement with digital, electrical, machines. Bolter and Gruisin define a medium as “that which remediates” (2000, p. 65). Thus, to demonstrate that YouTube remediates cinema and television and is a medium in its own right, I created perthbands.tv. perthbands.tv consists of 28 published video episodes (plus one private) portraying local original music acts, and exists in many online forms—including a streaming web-page and a YouTube channel. Distributing content that is not unlike that of television through YouTube, perthbands.tv exhibits new aspects of moving-image communication. It demonstrates that the participatory culture of YouTube promotes on-going media conversations regarding its moving-image content, which in turn contribute to the overall text. In more ways than one, YouTube users are shaping cultural meaning and contributing to future moving-image content, something that neither traditional cinema nor television can support. This remediation of cinema and television makes YouTube a moving-image medium in its own right, with its own specific affordances and conventions of communication. Gaudreault and Marion outline the emergence of a new medium as consisting of three stages: appearance, emergence and constitution (2005, p. 12). The first indicates a medium’s initial state as a new technology for communication that adopts the existing nature and practices of existing mediums. Then, through maturation into a new communicative process a medium offers itself for social experimentation. Finally, in a form of rebirth, it becomes institutionalised as a new singular medium that supports unique communicative practices. In the case of YouTube, it appeared with its roots in existing practices, such as initially being touted as a private way to share home videos online. As its creators evolved its technological interface, YouTube users explored its potential for novel forms of communication—including the illegal viral dissemination of snippets of broadcast television. This arguably led to a boost in YouTube’s popularity, which in turn influenced its purchase by Google. With Google ownership came YouTube’s institutionalisation, in its commercialisation, legalisation, and forging of relationships with big media. This was YouTube’s rebirth, in its constitution as a singular new medium. Throughout YouTube’s emergence and evolution, the online participatory culture that was its users continued to explore its communicative affordances and develop new conventions and practices of communication. The video blog is a result of this effort, as an asynchronous, two-way, genre of the moving image that was developed from the affordances of Web 2.0 platforms. That the moving image genre of video blogs relies on the Internet as technological infrastructure implies that YouTube is its supporting medium. Once YouTube is recognised as a medium, it can be analysed in opposition to cinema and television as to its social, cultural, and psychological impact. This helps clarify the position of YouTube as an evolution of human communication via the moving-image, as well as its place within visual culture.

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Forster, Gary. "Fairytale theory and explorations of gender stereotypes in post-1970s Rapunzel adaptations." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11423.

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Although Rapunzel criticism habitually concerns literary fairytales, this thesis contributes to the field a sustained examination of the feminist and patriarchal uses to which Rapunzel has been put, with close attention to the range of media, forms, and styles into which ‗Rapunzel‘ has been adapted, from 1970 onwards. It argues that each adaptation appropriates ‗Rapunzel‘ to repeat or disturb gender ideologies, and also extends or contracts the scope of the fairytale and its feminism. Underpinned by memetics, selective adaptation and fairytale theories, and Adrienne Rich‘s concept of ‗re-vision‘, individual chapters focus upon redrawing the boundaries of what makes a (feminist) Rapunzel adaptation a (feminist) Rapunzel adaptation. The thesis also examines the difficult question of why Rapunzel motifs or ‗memes‘ have persisted and whether this is due to the power of cultural ideologies or to certain universal human urges to which ‗Rapunzel‘ ostensibly appeals. As what is meant by feminism changes from the 1970s through to the present day, the selected works are considered in terms of terms of second- and third-wave feminism and postfeminism. Chapter 1 (the Introduction) establishes the approach and rationale. Chapter 2 examines the Grimm ‗Rapunzel‘ variants of 1812 and 1857 as a prelude to examining the ideological uses to which Rapunzel is put post-1970. Chapter 3 focuses on how four feminist poets subject the memes and morals of ‗Rapunzel‘ to different feminist revisions, and thereby challenge the patriarchal meanings invested by the Grimms. Chapter 4 extends this work by examining a feminist moral fable, two complex short stories, a psychological novella, and a graphic novel, in order to draw contrasts between celebratory and darker, more disturbing ‗post-fairytale‘ feminist Rapunzels. Demonstrating the many genres and media into which feminist Rapunzels have been translated, several adapters use the tale on behalf of various kinds of individualism and subjectivisation, and suggest a movement toward greater psychological complexity and interiority in their treatment of Rapunzel memes. Chapter 5 focuses on how Rapunzel memes translate to screen in the feminist reworking Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair (1978) and the postfeminist adaptations Barbie as Rapunzel (2002), Shrek the Third (2007), and Disney‘s Tangled (2010) and Into the Woods (2014). Chapter 6, the final chapter, further extends the analysis by examining Rapunzel‘s general prevalence in the cultural imagination, namely in adverts and on television. By assembling and giving fresh analyses of rare and well-known Rapunzel tales, the chapters critique the gender essentialism in fairytales and reinstate Rapunzel as key to fairytale debate. This research has led to the conclusion that post-1970s Rapunzels exemplify how fairytales appropriate or discard memes in accordance with the possibilities of genre and medium, as well as with the changing face of feminism over the last four decades.

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Bolton, Matthew E. "A Rhetorical Approach to Adaptation: Effects, Purposes, and the Fidelity Debate." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1315967449.

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Nilsson-Örtman, Viktor. "Thermal adaptation along a latitudinal gradient in damselflies." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-62276.

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Understanding how temperature affects biological systems is a central question in ecology and evolutionary biology. Anthropogenic climate change adds urgency to this topic, as the demise or success of species under climate change is expected to depend on how temperature affects important aspects of organismal performance, such as growth, development, survival and reproduction. Rates of biological processes generally increase with increasing temperature up to some maximal temperature. Variation in the slope of the initial, rising phase has attracted considerable interest and forms the focus of this thesis. I explore variation in growth rate-temperature relationships over several levels of biological organization, both between and within species, over individuals’ lifetime, depending on the ecological context and in relation to important life history characteristics such as generation length and winter dormancy. Specifically, I examine how a clade of temperate damselflies have adapted to their thermal environment along a 3,600 km long latitudinal transect spanning from Southern Spain to Northern Sweden. For each of six species, I sampled populations from close to the northern and southern range margin, as well from the center of the latitudinal range. I reared larvae in the laboratory at several temperatures in order to measure indiviudal growth rates. Very few studies of thermal adaptation have employed such an extensive sampling approach, and my finding reveal variation in temperature responses at several levels of organization. My main finding was that temperature responses became steeper with increasing latitude, both between species but also between latitudinal populations of the same species. Additional genetic studies revealed that this trend was maintained despite strong gene flow. I highlight the need to use more refined characterizations of latitudinal temperature clines in order to explain these findings. I also show that species differ in their ability to acclimate to novel conditions during ontogeny, and propose that this may reflect a cost-benefit trade-off driven by whether seasonal transitions occur rapidly or gradually during ontogeny. I also carried out a microcosm experiment, where two of the six species were reared either separately or together, to determine the interacting effects of temperature and competition on larval growth rates and population size structure. The results revealed that the effects of competition can be strong enough to completely overcome the rate-depressing effects of low temperatures. I also found that competition had stronger effects on the amount of variation in growth rates than on the average value. In summary, my thesis offers several novel insights into how temperature affects biological systems, from individuals to populations and across species’ ranges. I also show how it is possible to refine our hypotheses about thermal adaptation by considering the interacting effects of ecology, life history and environmental variation.

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Tan, Xiaohuan. "Nash strategies with adaptation and their application in the deregulated electricity market." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1164044251.

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MacMurraugh-Kavanagh, M. K. "A suitable case for treatment : stage-to-screen adaptation 1977-1990." Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259481.

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Ray, Kolyan Michael. "Asymptotic theory for Bayesian nonparametric procedures in inverse problems." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278387.

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The main goal of this thesis is to investigate the frequentist asymptotic properties of nonparametric Bayesian procedures in inverse problems and the Gaussian white noise model. In the first part, we study the frequentist posterior contraction rate of nonparametric Bayesian procedures in linear inverse problems in both the mildly and severely ill-posed cases. This rate provides a quantitative measure of the quality of statistical estimation of the procedure. A theorem is proved in a general Hilbert space setting under approximation-theoretic assumptions on the prior. The result is applied to non-conjugate priors, notably sieve and wavelet series priors, as well as in the conjugate setting. In the mildly ill-posed setting, minimax optimal rates are obtained, with sieve priors being rate adaptive over Sobolev classes. In the severely ill-posed setting, oversmoothing the prior yields minimax rates. Previously established results in the conjugate setting are obtained using this method. Examples of applications include deconvolution, recovering the initial condition in the heat equation and the Radon transform. In the second part of this thesis, we investigate Bernstein--von Mises type results for adaptive nonparametric Bayesian procedures in both the Gaussian white noise model and the mildly ill-posed inverse setting. The Bernstein--von Mises theorem details the asymptotic behaviour of the posterior distribution and provides a frequentist justification for the Bayesian approach to uncertainty quantification. We establish weak Bernstein--von Mises theorems in both a Hilbert space and multiscale setting, which have applications in $L^2$ and $L^\infty$ respectively. This provides a theoretical justification for plug-in procedures, for example the use of certain credible sets for sufficiently smooth linear functionals. We use this general approach to construct optimal frequentist confidence sets using a Bayesian approach. We also provide simulations to numerically illustrate our approach and obtain a visual representation of the different geometries involved.

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Egbert, Matthew. "Adaptation from interactions between metabolism and behaviour : self-sensitive behaviour in protocells." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39564/.

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This thesis considers the relationship between adaptive behaviour and metabolism, using theoretical arguments supported by computational models to demonstrate mechanisms of adaptation that are uniquely available to systems based upon the metabolic organisation of self-production. It is argued how, by being sensitive to their metabolic viability, an organism can respond to the quality of its environment with respect to its metabolic well-being. This makes possible simple but powerful ‘self-sensitive' adaptive behaviours such as “If I am healthy now, keep doing the same as I have been doing – otherwise do something else.” This strategy provides several adaptive benefits, including the ability to respond appropriately to phenomena never previously experienced by the organism nor by any of its ancestors; the ability to integrate different environmental influences to produce an appropriate response; and sensitivity to the organism's present context and history of experience. Computational models are used to demonstrate these capabilities, as well as the possibility that self-sensitive adaptive behaviour can facilitate the adaptive evolution of populations of self-sensitive organisms through (i) processes similar to the Baldwin effect, (ii) increasing the likelihood of speciation events, and (iii) automatic behavioural adaptation to changes in the organism itself (such as genetic changes). In addition to these theoretical contributions, a computational model of self-sensitive behaviour is presented that recreates chemotaxis patterns observed in bacteria such as Azospirillum brasilense and Campylobacter jejuni. The models also suggest new explanations for previously unexplained asymmetric distributions of bacteria performing aerotaxis. More broadly, the work advocates further research into the relationship between behaviour and the metabolic organisation of self-production, an organisational property shared by all life. It also acts as an example of how abstract models that target theoretical concepts rather than natural phenomena can play a valuable role in the scientific endeavour.

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Pokorny, Andrew. "Chord-Specific Scalar Material in Classical Music: An Adaptation of Jazz Chord-Scale Theory." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18443.

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Jazz chord-scale theory identifies scales that can be used to embellish a particular type of chord. It has fostered the notion that chords can generate their own local scales. This idea as well as many of the scale types that jazz chord-scale theory identifies are essentially foreign to classical music theory, which instead tends to focus on the scales that represent relatively global key areas--that is, the scales that accommodate entire chord successions. Both the jazz and classical perspectives can coexist, and each can inform and supplement the other. This study explores implications of the jazz chord-scale perspective for classical music and classical music theory. The scalar notes and intervals that embellish a particular chord are referred to as chord-specific scalar material (CSSM). Following the suggestion of jazz chord-scale theory and Ramon Satyendra's chord spaces, each chordal zone can exhibit its own local tonal hierarchy potentially consisting of a local tonic note (usually a chord root), chordal notes and intervals, scalar notes and intervals, and sub-scalar notes and intervals. Focusing particularly on the scalar level of these chord-specific tonal hierarchies, CSSM is a relatively foreground phenomenon that can be understood against the backdrop of a deeper, uninterrupted scalar space that is associated with the key of the passage at hand. A chord succession can occupy the deeper scalar space while each chord is embellished with CSSM suggestive of potentially different local scalar spaces. This study considers examples of CSSM spanning the music of Bach through Fauré, and it proposes a classification of four general types of CSSM found in classical repertoire. Each type suggests a different theoretical derivation for examples of CSSM, and each type has its own implications for tonal function (both locally and globally), coherence, and color. The fourth type apparently did not emerge until the Romantic era. Special attention is given to CSSM in the music of Gabriel Fauré, who seemingly developed rather innovative CSSM techniques. Practical benefits of this theoretical approach for today's composers, improvisers, and performers are also considered. Various techniques for generating CSSM are offered, and further scalar possibilities are explored.
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Sim, Jean C. R. "Designed Landscapes in Queensland, 1859-1939: experimentation - adaptation - innovation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/10835/1/wholePHDsim1999.pdf.

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The conservation of historic cultural landscapes in Queensland is in its infancy. Effective conservation practice, however is based on sound historical information, and no previous study has investigated the historical development of local parks, gardens and other landscapes. The objectives of this research were to examine the factors which influenced landscape design in Queensland, to identify the forms and expressions of design derived from these influences, and to identify any distinctive aspects related to local landscape character. The timeframe chosen for this investigation was from the beginning of the separate colony of Queensland (1859) to the outbreak of World War 2 (1939). Using historical method, the research began with an exploration of published primary sources (particularly garden literature from the 1860s to 1930s) related to Queensland and other 'tropical' areas. A series of hypotheses was proposed to explain the findings, and these were tested by further analysis and data gathering. There followed a triple-layered central proposition, suggesting that: (i) in Queensland, the traditional delineation of styles to describe landscape design is of limited application because of the lack of elite professional designers and wealthy clients; (ii) there developed a discernible 'tropical landscape design character' in suitable climatic areas, which included two distinct visual aspects expressed in the landscape (the 'exotic' and the 'prosaic'); and, (iii) these design outcomes were the result of a design process of 'acclimatisation' experienced by early settlers (gardeners and designers) working in unfamiliar lands and climates, and includes the stages of experimentation, adaptation and innovation.

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Taylor, Brett D. "The organizational adaptation of online schools in traditional school districts." Scholarly Commons, 2014. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/71.

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The purpose of this study is to examine how traditional school districts create online schools and how they navigate contingencies to establish online organizational structures. This study uses the theoretical framework of contingency theory to understand how school districts structurally adapt to internal and external factors, or contingencies to establish new online schools. This multiple case study collected data from three online schools in California that have opened in the past two to seven years. While some research exists concerning the challenges of creating online schools, little has been done as to the challenges and factors that traditional school districts encounter in creating and organizing online schools. The findings from this study revealed that online schools must adapt to contingencies through adaptation features. These identified features were divided into categories that included addressing the context; systems planning, management, and leadership; and in-process adaptability. These findings have important implications for traditional school districts with online schools or exploring the option of creating an online school, as well as for policy makers who help define the contingencies online schools face.

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Chan, Tsz Ho. "Link adaptation algorithms for MIMO-based WiMAX systems /." View abstract or full-text, 2007. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?CSED%202007%20CHANT.

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Johnson, Sandhya Raichur. "Innovation Adaptation| A Study of Indian OD Practitioners Implementing Appreciative Inquiry in For-Profit Organizations." Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10181968.

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Diffusion of innovation across cultures is a broad field of study, especially when considering the adaptation of organizational development (OD) innovations into multicultural environments. Although OD interventions are often adapted to fit unique circumstances of each organization’s culture, this study explored whether there were specific adaptations that occur when OD interventions are applied to Indian organizations by Indian practitioners. The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover how appreciative inquiry (AI) as an OD intervention was received and adapted by OD practitioners in India with particular focus on for-profit organizations.

A thematic analysis of 17 implementations shared by Indian practitioners was conducted to examine the fidelity and extensiveness of AI adaptation. Toward this end, the study was tailored to ensure the intervention was localized and situated more specifically in the organizational and leadership contexts. Results revealed that AI, when applied to India-based for-profit organizations, exhibited a level of adaptation that could be applied on a global scale. It is anticipated that understanding the factors that drive AI adaptation in India will assist scholars and practitioners to establish guidelines for successfully transferring organizational innovations.

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Yip, Leo Shing Chi. "Reinventing China: cultural adaptation in medieval Japanese Nô Theatre." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1087569643.

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Adam, Timothey Andrew. "PROCEDURAL MUSIC GENERATION AND ADAPTATION BASED ON GAME STATE." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1202.

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Video game developers attempt to convey moods to emphasize their game's narrative. Events that occur within the game usually convey success or failure in some way meaningful to the story's progress. Ideally, when these events occur, the intended change in mood should be perceivable to the player. One way of doing so is to change the music. This requires musical tracks to represent many possible moods, states and game events. This can be very taxing on composers, and encoding the control flow (when to transition) of the tracks can prove to be tricky as well. This thesis presents AUD.js, a system developed for procedural music generation for JavaScript-based web games. By taking input from game events, the system can create music corresponding to various Western perceptions of music mood. The system was trained with classic video game music. Game development students rated the mood of 80 pieces, after which statistical representations of those pieces were extracted and added into AUD.js. AUD.js can adapt its generated music to new sets of input parameters, thereby updating the perceived mood of the generated music at runtime. We conducted A/B tests comparing static music, both composed and computer-generated, to dynamically adapting music. We find that AUD.js provides reasonably effective music for games, but that adaptiveness of the music does not necessarily improve player experience over composed music. By conducting a user study during Global Game Jam 2014, we also find that since AUD.js provides a software solution to music composition, it can be a useful tool for game music integration under time pressure.

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McManus, Hope. "Loanword Adaptation: A study of some Australian Aboriginal Languages." Thesis, Department of Linguistics, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5335.

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This thesis is a case study of some aspects of the adaptation of English words in several Australian Aboriginal languages, including Martu Wangka, Gamilaraay and Warlpiri. I frame my analysis within Smith’s (to appear) source-similarity model of loanword adaptation. This model exploits loanword-specific faithfulness constraints that impose maximal similarity between the perceived source form and its corresponding loan. Using this model, I show that the conflict of the relevant prosodic markedness constraints and loanword-specific faithfulness constraints drives adaptation. Vowel epenthesis, the most frequent adaptation strategy, allows the recoverability of a maximal amount of information about the source form and ensures that the loan conforms to the constraints of language-internal phonological grammar. Less frequent strategies including deletion and substitution occur in a restricted environment. The essence of the present analysis is minimal violation, a principle that governs loanword adaptation as well as other areas of phonology.

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Styring, Nicola. "Examining the predictive utility of the theory of cognitive adaptation in relation to alopecia areata." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434455.

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Pitts, Margaret Jane. "Sojourner reentry: a grounded elaboration of the integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation." Taylor & Francis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621761.

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This paper offers grounded evidence in support of the elaboration of Kim's [(2001). Becoming intercultural: An integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage] integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation (ITCCA) to include sojourner reentry. Findings from 24 intensive interviews validate the heuristic value of ITCCA in the reentry context, but also reveal unique features that set reentry adaptation apart from cross-cultural adaptation. Key theoretical contributions include (1) a nuanced description of the role of reentry communication competence, (2) greater complexity of the roles and networks of interpersonal and mediated communication upon return, (3) an expansion to the environment domain to include home environment, and (4) a long-range perspective on the development of functional fitness, psychological health, and intercultural personhood. Implications for sojourner reentry training are addressed.

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Simpson, Heather Jayne. "Transformation through adaptation : a grounded theory of the patient experience of Alcohol-Related Brain Damage." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15671.

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Background: Alcohol Related Brain Damage (ARBD) is an umbrella term used to describe the range of effects that long-term consumption of alcohol can have on the structure and function of the brain. Despite the increasing prevalence of ARBD, there is a lack of research in this area, and as a result, there are no current guidelines and few services available for the treatment of this condition. There is therefore a need to increase the evidence base in this area, which will assist in the understanding, and ultimately treatment, of ARBD. Aims: This thesis consists of two parts. The first is a systematic review journal article which asks the question: “What is the impact of alcohol-abuse on memory function within the first three weeks of alcohol withdrawal?” The second part is a qualitative research project which aims to develop a grounded theory regarding the patient experience of ARBD, identifying and highlighting themes and concepts that are central to the experience. Methods: For the systematic review, four databases were searched. Studies that were included in the review had to have participants with alcohol-dependence; abstinence of less than or equal to three weeks; and to have undergone some form of neuropsychological assessment of memory function. Data from 15 articles were extracted and assessed for quality. For the qualitative study, participants (n=10) were interviewed regarding their experiences of ARBD and the data was then analysed using grounded theory methodology. Results: The results of the systematic review were somewhat ambiguous with some studies reporting impairments in verbal and visual memory, while other studies found no impairments. Episodic memory deficits were present in all studies reviewed. The results of the qualitative study propose a tentative model which describes “transformation through adaptation”. This model hypothesises that successful negotiation of the journey through ARBD hinges on the adaptations that need to be made in order to progress towards transformation. The model is understood in the framework of a number of phases, “Being diagnosed with ARBD, “Focusing on abstinence”, “Taking ownership of life with ARBD” and “Creating a valuable life”, all of which exist within a framework of being supported by specialist services. Conclusions and implications: The systematic review demonstrated some support for deficits in visual and episodic memory within the first three weeks of abstinence, while it appeared that verbal memory was relatively preserved. The heterogeneity of the studies, coupled with the methodological variability, meant that all conclusions need to be considered as tentative, and be interpreted with caution. The main difficulties with interpretation were to do with the confounding factors often found within this client group. The results reinforce the concept of tailored treatment programmes for individuals due to the large variability of the effect of alcohol (and other factors). The qualitative study proposes a model that shows how adaptation appears to play a key role in the successful negotiation of a diagnosis of ARBD. The study describes a series of categories that can be used as a framework to identify and support the changes that are necessary for recovery and reintegration. The value in this study is that the results are directly attributable to individuals who have been diagnosed, and are now successfully living, with ARBD.

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Malfitano, Grant Domonic. "The Duality of Man: Stanley Kubrick as Auteur and Adapter." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21857.

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In this thesis I examine the scholarship of Adaptation Theory, commencing with the seminal work of George Bluestone in 1957, up to and including the more recent approaches of Kyle Meikle (2013), Thomas Leitch (2007), Linda Hutcheon (2006) and both Brian McFarlane (1996) and Karen Kline (1996). Each of these theorists has grappled with the overarching concept of fidelity, the status of film as autonomous art, the status of film authorship, and textual primacy. Secondly, I apply the current scholarship on Adaptation Theory to the work of film auteur, Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s films bear the indelible hallmarks of a director auteur, instantly recognisable in their stylisation and filmmaking technique. Kubrick's reputation as an obsessive and controlling director is (for the most part) unchallenged, despite the fact that he did not write original screenplays, with every film from 1956’s The Killing onwards being adapted from a primary source novel/novella. It is Kubrick’s instincts, decision making and overall approach to the source text in each film that forms the focus of this research thesis. Analysis will focus specifically on Kubrick’s final four films: Barry Lyndon (1975), adapting William Makepeace Thackeray's Luck of Barry Lyndon; The Shining (1980), adapting Stephen King's novel of the same name; Full Metal Jacket (1987), adapting Gustav Hasford's The Short Timers; and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) adapting Arthur Schnitzler's novella Dream Story. The reason for this is twofold; firstly, as a means of narrowing the scope of analysis for Kubrick's four-decade career. Secondly, I am of the view that Kubrick was at the peak of his directorial powers across these final four films, and that they represent a broad summation of the artist in terms of his technical, theoretical and philosophical approach to filmmaking. Further, I make an original contribution to the scholarship on Kubrick by suggesting that Kubrick's films can be analysed with respect to four central tenets: narrative structure, visual technique, performance, and music/sound design. These are summarised as "Kubrickian Tenets of Adaptation" or KTAs. I seek to apply those KTAs to the scholarship on Adaptation Theory through a number of theorists, but predominantly within the four paradigms of adaptation as described in Karen Kline's 1996 scholarship being Translation, Pluralist, Transformation, and Materialist. Ultimately, I determine whether Kubrick’s omnipresent approach to filmmaking fits within a particular area of Adaptation Theory, and further, whether analysis of Kubrick’s work can provide a meaningful contribution to the ongoing development of modern Adaptation Theory.

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Buechel, Kathryn Jean. "Institutional Adaptation and Public Policy Practices of Military Transfer Credit." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96791.

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Veterans who served our country, return with a wealth of experience that transfer into military credit for prior service. These transfer credits in institutions of higher education apply towards education degree attainment. With colleges and universities implementing individual policies for acceptance of credits, veterans experience a loss of credits leading to a duplication of required classes to achieve degrees. To understand inconsistent practices, both federal and institutions of higher education polices are examined. Framed by institutionalization theory, this research sheds light on the public policy process and administration of credit at the organization over time. The study provides findings for how the largest public college and higher education institution in the state of California awards academic credit for military education. Evidence suggests that public higher education institutions adapt based on effective leaders who define and defend the organization's institutional values and mission. This study provides findings on institutional adaptations to create policies and practices that public administrators use to apply transfer military credit into postsecondary academic credit. The focus is on postsecondary credit transferred, or articulated, by entering military first-year students using the GI Bill. The study asks how have major institutions of higher education formalized institutional policies and practices on awarding academic credit for military education?
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This study provides findings on institutional adaptations to create policies and practices that public administrators use to apply transfer military credit into postsecondary academic credit. The focus is on postsecondary credit transferred, or articulated, by entering military first-year students using the GI Bill. The study asks how have major institutions of higher education formalized institutional policies and practices on awarding academic credit for military education?

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Ginde, Samir. "A Game-theoretic Analysis of Link Adaptation in Cellular Radio Networks." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9932.

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In recent years, game theory has emerged as a promising approach to solving the power control problem in wireless networks. This thesis extends the reach of game-theoretic analysis to embrace link adaptation, thereby constituting a generalization of the power control problem. A realistic and natural problem formulation is attempted, wherein transmitter power and a discrete-valued Adaptable Link Parameter (ALP), e.g. code rate, constitute the action set of a player in this game. The dual goals of maximizing throughput and minimizing power consumption are reflected in the utility function selection, which uses the accurate sigmoid model for approximating throughput. The discrete action space makes it difficult to verify the existence of a Nash Equilibrium (NE) in this game using standard techniques. To circumvent this limitation, a heuristic algorithm is proposed. This algorithm is analytically shown to always converge to a NE. The subsequent results probe its validity and sensitivity. Favorable comparisons are drawn between these game-theoretic results and those arising from parallel systems techniques. A linear programming system optimization that exploits properties of the dominant eigenvalue of the system gain matrix is also presented in a comparative context.
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Ailles, Jennifer L. "Queering the queer(ed) pomosexual "readings" of Shakespeare's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ55647.pdf.

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Feeman, Kelley Laurel. "ADAPTING IMAGINATION: A COGNITIVE THEORY FOR ADAPTING COMICS TO THE STAGE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564738881854803.

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Fejzo, Orsola. "Proactive Adaptation of Behavior for Smart Connected Objects." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-76041.

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The great amount of generated data from IoT infrastructures in Smart Cities, if properly leveraged, presents the opportunity to shift towards more sustainable practices in rapidly increasing urban areas. Reasoning upon this data in a proactive way, by avoiding unwanted future events before they occur, leads to more efficient services. For a system to do so, a robust reasoning model, able to anticipate upcoming events and pick the most suitable adaptation option is needed. Recently deployed smart waste management systems for monitoring and planning purposes report substantial cost-savings and carbon footprint reductions, however, such systems can be further enhanced by integrating proactive capabilities. This work proposes a novel reasoning model and system architecture called ProAdaWM for more effective and efficient waste operations when faced with severe weather events. A Bayesian Network and Utility Theory, as the basis of Decision Theory, are utilized to model the uncertainties and handle how the system adapts; the proposed model utilizes weather information and data from bin level sensor for reasoning. The approach is validated through the implementation of a prototype and the conduction of a case study; the results demonstrate the expected behavior.

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Barbaroux, Anne, and Li Miao. "LOCAL ADAPTATION IN EMERGING MARKETS – in theory and reality : Study of the Swedish subsidiaries in China." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Business Administration, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-4252.

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Some MNEs encounter frustration or failures when they enter a new market. The main reason is due to a lack of adaptation. There is a lack of theoretical study about the local adaptation phenomenon of Swedish MNEs in China. Most studies are at the level of experience. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to find out the dimensions subject to local adaptation and their degree for the Swedish MNEs in China.

Culture and business practices, government demands, competition intensity, product customization, distribution channels and organizational structure, are the six main dimensions subject to local adaptation. The degree of their adaptation varies depending on different factors (established network, the MNE strategic choice, entry mode, etc). We have developed eight hypotheses to test the theories and find new factors influencing the need of local adaptation. A new model is developed by applying existing models and with the new insights specific to the Chinese market. The central dimension in this model is the culture and business practices, as it influences the other dimensions to different extents.

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Evans, David L. "The Adaptation Effect in Bilingual People who Stutter: An Examination of the Oral-Motor Rehearsal Theory." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/EvansDL2002.pdf.

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Whittemore, Rhys Duncan. "Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Actual Play Show: Author, Audience, and Adaptation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103882.

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Though tabletop role-playing games, or TRPGs, have received some scholarly attention since the creation of Dungeons and Dragons in the 1970s, very few scholars have considered how TRPGs function as a vehicle for long-form narrative. As an inherently collaborative form of narrative, the TRPG demonstrates a unique relationship between author and audience, as participants take on both roles during play. Previous narratological models of author-audience interaction are insufficient to understand the way that authorship functions in the TRPG, and the rise of actual play shows, where TRPGs are broadcast for an audience of nonparticipants, adds an extra layer of complexity to these author-audience relations. This thesis identifies key narrative elements of the TRPG, including game mechanics, framing, and collaboration, and examines how popular actual play shows and their graphic adaptations engage with these elements to create their narratives. This examination indicates that TRPGs create complex author-webs where each participant is both author and audience, and this influence pushes actual play shows and further adaptations of TRPG narratives to expand the ways in which audiences can influence and interact with narratives as they are created. The TRPG genre continues to explore how these elements can be developed beyond traditional understandings of narrative, and this development provides a framework for further narratological study of interactive works, which will only continue to evolve and grow in popularity and complexity in the continuing digital era.
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The tabletop role-playing game, or TRPG, has been growing in popularity since the creation of Dungeons and Dragons in the 1970s, and the rise of the actual play show, where a TRPG game is broadcast to viewers via video or podcast, has spurred both casual and scholarly interest in the TRPG. Players of TRPGs create narratives through collaborative storytelling moderated by certain rules and game mechanics, so each participant in a TRPG acts as both author and audience, as they create certain elements of the narrative and also witness the narrative creations of the other players. This particular collaborative author-audience model is not seen in any other form of narrative, and existing models of author-audience interactions do not account for authorship in the TRPG. Therefore, this thesis examines how several elements of the TRPG, such as the use of game mechanics to structure the narrative, the multiple frames in which players interact with each other, and the collaboration inherent in every game, contribute to the ways that authorship and audience interact in the narrative. It also looks at how popular actual play shows and the graphic novels they've created of their narratives engage with these elements to create their own unique audience interactions. As audience participation in the development of the stories they're consuming become more prominent with the rise of video games and other interactive media, an understanding of the evolving relationship between authorship and audience developed by the TRPG becomes important for examining interactive works in general.

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Stuart, Wilma Powell. "A grounded theory study Hispanic adolescents' experience of being overweight /." Thesis, Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2008r/stuart.pdf.

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Jansen, van Vuuren Pieter Albertus. "A Solution to optimal and fair rate adaptation in wireless mesh networks." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40815.

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Current wireless networks still employ techniques originally designed for their xed wired counterparts. These techniques make assumptions (such as a xed topology, a static enviroment and non-mobile nodes) that are no longer valid in the wireless communication environment. Furthermore, the techniques and protocols used in wireless networks should take the number of users of a network into consideration, since the channel is a shared and limited resource. This study deals with nding an optimal solution to resource allocation in wireless mesh networks. These networks require a solution to fair and optimal resource allocation that is decentralised and self-con guring, as users in such networks do not submit to a central authority. The solution presented is comprised of two sections. The rst section nds the optimal rate allocation, by making use of a heuristic. The heuristic was developed by means of a non-linear mixed integer mathematical formulation. This heuristic nds a feasible rate region that conforms to the set of constraints set forth by the wireless communication channel. The second section nds a fair allocation of rates among all the users in the network. This section is based on a game theory framework, used for modelling the interaction observed between the users. The fairness model is de ned in strategic form as a repeated game with an in nite horizon. The rate adaptation heuristic and fairness model employs a novel and e ective information distribution technique. The technique makes use of the optimized link state routing protocol for information distribution, which reduces the overhead induced by utilising multi-point relays. In addition, a novel technique for enforcing cooperation between users in a network is presented. This technique is based on the Folk theorem and ensures cooperation by threat of punishment. The punishment, in turn, is executed in the form of banishment from the network. The study describes the performance of the rate adaptation heuristic and fairness model when subject to xed and randomised topologies. The xed topologies were designed to control the amount of interference that a user would experience. Although these xed topologies might not seem to re ect a real-world scenario, they provide a reasonable framework for comparison. The randomised network topology is introduced to more accurately represent a real-world scenario. Furthermore, the randomised network topologies consist of a signi cant number of users, illustrating the scalability of the solution. Both data and voice tra c have been applied to the rate adaptation heuristic and fairness model. It is shown that the heuristic e ectively reduces the packet loss ratio which drops below 5% after about 15 seconds for all xed topologies. Furthermore, it is shown that the solution is near-optimal in terms of data rate and that a fair allocation of data rates among all nodes is achieved. When considering voice tra c, an increase of 10% in terms of data rate is observed compared to data tra c. The heuristic is successfully applied to large networks, demonstrating the scalability of the implementation.
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