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Стандрет, Петро Олегович, and Petro Standret. "Розробка мобільного додатку операційної системи IOS для здійсненням контролю історії пересування користувача з використанням мови Swift та середовища Xcoder." Master's thesis, ТНТУ ім. І Пулюя, 2021. http://elartu.tntu.edu.ua/handle/lib/36808.
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В результаті розробки розроблено мобільний застосунок для iOS який надає мінімально – необхідний функціонал для запису і відображення локацій який буде зручним для користувача.Мета роботи – мобільний застосунок для запису та відображення локацій користувача. Дана робота включає розробку програмного забезпечення на основі використання баз даних. Практичні методи полягають в використані технологій iOS SDK та мови програмування Swift включно із середовищем Xcode.
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Amorim, Celeste M. D. "Diffusion of innovations in economies in the periphery core transition : the case of management innovations and the influence of location, sources of knowledge and firm idiosyncrasies." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252213.
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Spence, David Royston. "Location based code placement in distributed systems." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613847.
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Mizusawa, George A. "Performance of Hyperbolic Position Location Techniques for Code Division Multiple Access." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30542.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently adopted rules requiring cellular telephone, Personal Communication System (PCS) and Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) licensees to provide two dimensional automatic location information (ALI) for a user requesting E-911 service. These wireless service providers will need to utilize effective position location (PL) technology in order to meet FCC rules. Hyperbolic PL systems are one such technology that can provide accurate PL information using the existing cellular/PCS infrastructure and without requiring additional hardware/software implementation within the mobile unit. In recent years, the IS-95 Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system has gained increasing popularity in North America because of the many advantages it offers over existing air interfaces. However, CDMA systems present some unique challenges to the effectiveness of hyperbolic position location systems.
This thesis investigates the performance of the hyperbolic PL technique in CDMA systems. The effect of multipath and shadowed mobile radio environments, the location of the user within the cell, and configuration and number of base stations on the accuracy of the hyperbolic PL technique is investigated. The effect of the power control scheme required in CDMA system operation on the performance of the hyperbolic system is also demonstrated. The simulation results provide insight to the limitations and effectiveness of hyperbolic position location systems within CDMA systems.Master of Science
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Worlock, Pope Catherine. "Placing come and go : locating the lexical item." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29077/.
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By examining language simultaneously along the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes, Sinclair (2004a) identified the lexical item as an object of the discourse comprising an obligatory core and semantic prosody, and optional collocates, colligates and semantic preferences. This research investigates Sinclair’s theoretical model by locating the lexical items that are associated with the complementary verbs come and go in the spoken and written discourses in a selection of the International Corpora of English (ICE). The corpora selected are ICE-Canada, -GB, -India and –Jamaica. This research is innovative in that it adapts Sinclair’s methodology to examine high frequency lexical items across different discourses and different World Englishes It establishes that there is a significantly greater difference in frequency of the lexical items associated with come and go within the different discourses of the ICE corpora in comparison to between the ICE corpora. It replaces the core with the node, it introduces structural preference and discourse preference as co-selection components of the lexical item, and it substitutes semantic force for the term semantic prosody as defined by Sinclair: the ‘reason why [the item] is chosen’ (Sinclair 2004a: 144). Thus the lexical item comprises an obligatory node and semantic force, and optional collocates, colligates, structural preferences, semantic preferences and discourse preferences. As a consequence of these theoretical and methodological adaptations, this research shows that semantic forces with the associated co-selection components can function in tandem and that semantic forces, again with the associated co-selection components, can function in layers. The research concludes that the lexical item is not an identifiable object in the discourse, but it is the syntagmatic realisations of a paradigmatic choice.
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Alhindawi, Nouh Talal. "Supporting Source Code Comprehension During Software Evolution and Maintenance." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374790792.
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Marinuzzi, Natalie Romina. "LOCATION OF SINKHOLE CONFINING BREACH USING GROUNDWATER FLOW PATTERNS DERIVED FROM CONE PENETRATION TESTING." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4442.
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Dynamic forces in the hydrologic cycle move underground water through Florida's carbonate rocks dissolving chemical components of the rocks, leaving behind caves, solution pipes, and other voids that result in a karst terrain. Ravelling is the common subsidence mechanism throughout most of Florida where unconsolidated materials filter downward into voids in the underlying limestone. A cavity in the overburden develops and enlarges over a period of many years. The enlarged cavity is also known as sinkhole. The investigations of sinkhole characteristics and potential involve studying the regional geology, hydrology and mapping historic sinkholes that have occurred in the area. Use of Cone Penetration Test (CPT) soundings, in conjunction with conventional soil borings are becoming more common in the assessment of subsurface soil conditions in the vicinity of sinkhole-related ground surface. The penetration resistance data by CPT can determine the presence and extent of raveled soil zones characteristic of sinkhole features, and the penetration pore water pressure data can be used to determine the integrity of the clay confining unit at each test sounding location. The objective of this study is to identify the possible location of the confining breach at a sinkhole in Seminole County. The methods used in the assessment of the sinkhole's subsurface conditions were Standard Penetration Test (SPT), which provided information that helped to identify the location of the ravelled zones within the soil profile, and Cone Penetration Test that gave information of the piezometric water levels obtained from the pore pressure dissipation curves. The total head was calculated from the piezometric water levels corresponding to the different elevations. The data were found to exhibit a downward behavior of the total head, starting at around elevation 50 feet, NGVD that extended towards lower elevations. The SPT boring log identified a ravelled zone starting at 31 feet approximately. From both information it was possible to establish that the hydraulic head was influenced by the proximity of the ravelled zones, where the head precipitated rapidly as the elevation decreased. From the result of this study, it was concluded that the location of the breach in the confining layer started at 61.8 feet deep below the ground surface. Potentiometric contour lines at elevation 24.40 feet denoted flow patterns of water from the surroundings of the depression towards the approximate location of the center, which is the existing of subsurface cavity.M.S.
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Engineering and Computer Science
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Schulte, Lukas. "Investigating topic modeling techniques for historical feature location." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-85379.
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Software maintenance and the understanding of where in the source code features are implemented are two strongly coupled tasks that make up a large portion of the effort spent on developing applications. The concept of feature location investigated in this thesis can serve as a supporting factor in those tasks as it facilitates the automation of otherwise manual searches for source code artifacts. Challenges in this subject area include the aggregation and composition of a training corpus from historical codebase data for models as well as the integration and optimization of qualified topic modeling techniques. Building up on previous research, this thesis provides a comparison of two different techniques and introduces a toolkit that can be used to reproduce and extend on the results discussed. Specifically, in this thesis a changeset-based approach to feature location is pursued and applied to a large open-source Java project. The project is used to optimize and evaluate the performance of Latent Dirichlet Allocation models and Pachinko Allocation models, as well as to compare the accuracy of the two models with each other. As discussed at the end of the thesis, the results do not indicate a clear favorite between the models. Instead, the outcome of the comparison depends on the metric and viewpoint from which it is assessed.
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DeLozier, Gregory Steven. "Feature Location using Unit Test Coverage in an Agile Development Environment." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1406157529.
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Forand, David H. "Examination of Deformation in Crystalline Rock From Strike-Slip Faults in Two Locations, Southern California." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/683.
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Damage zones adjacent to or associated with faults are important to the geologic community because of their implications to hazards and their ability to preserve evidence for, and show history of, slip, fluid flow, and deformation associated with large strike-slip faults. We examine two fault zones in southern California where fault zone damage is expressed. We revisit the drilled crystalline core from the Cajon Pass California drill hole, 4 km northeast of the San Andreas fault (SAF), and 1 km north of the Cleghorn fault, to perform a systematic structural analysis of deformation and alteration associated with strike-slip faulting at the site. The core preserved 19 fault zones, 11 of which were not previously identified. The most significant fault is a fully intact steep-dipping fault zone at 3,402 m depth with potassium feldspar and epidote alteration. This fault correlates well with the nearby left-lateral Cleghorn fault. The extent of deformation varies within the core, and is controlled by the size of the fault zones intersected by the core. The extent of deformation varies and is controlled by the size of the faults the core intersected. We also examined the nature of right separation across the Clark fault damage zone along the Santa Rosa segment using a marker assemblage of biotite, hornblende-bearing tonalite - marble - bearing metasedimentary rocks - migmatite located in Coyote Mountain and the southeast Santa Rosa Mountains. Separation measured from this study is 16.8 km + 3.67 km / -6.03 km. Our measurement uses the updated location of the Clark fault in Clark Lake Valley and matches a distinctive lithologic contact across the fault instead of matching the diffuse western boundary of the Eastern Peninsular mylonite zone as previously used. We calculate the errors associated with projecting the contacts across Quaternary cover to the trace of the Clark fault, and consider a range of projections. Additional strain may have been accommodated in folds and small faults within the damage zone of the San Jacinto fault zone. Two large map-scale folds deform the marker assemblage near the San Jacinto fault zone and we tested whether Cretaceous ductile deformation or brittle late Quaternary right slip produced the folds.
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Igugu, Onajite Johnson. "LAPSync : a Location-Aware Protocol for Remote File Synchronization." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4460.
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Commercial provisioning of file synchronization services (FSS) relies entirely on protocols that utilize a remote central server that is often located in the cloud to host important files. Updates at user computers are propagated to the central server and from the central server to other sources in need of such updates. Therefore, a synchronization operation between two computers located on the same network often results in file data transmission to and from this local network at least twice. This introduces an unnecessary bandwidth usage on a user’s local network and has become an issue, especially since there is an increase in the demands for internet resources. This thesis work presents a new file synchronization protocol towards FSS known as LAPSync (location-aware protocol for remote file synchronization). This paper also proposes a hierarchical synchronization mechanism by utilizing LAPSync. Our proposed solution relies on the ability of LAPSync clients to acquire knowledge about the location of clients participating in the synchronization operation to construct a hierarchical synchronization path. Finally, we implement our protocol into a prototype and conduct experiments to compare with drop-box (a popular file synchronization service). The results obtained show that LAPSync offers a reduction in bandwidth usage when the files to be synchronized exist on the same local network
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Frodsham, Daniel James. "Mapping beyond cartography : the experimental maps of artists working with locative media." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19185.
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The experimental maps produced by artists working with locative media both bear witness to and participate in a radical reworking of the way in which space is conceived and encountered that destabilizes longstanding assumptions about the nature of representation, knowledge, and power. These mapmaking practices, it is argued, operate at the juncture of a cartographic tradition that entails distinctively modern ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the world, and digital technologies and software operations that propose alternative ways of linking the world up. The thesis charts how these art maps engage in a critique of cartography, the extent to which they remain indebted to it, but also their use of coded operations to pioneer novel apprehensions of space that mark a decisive ‘break’ with a modern worldview. The map works of locative media are accordingly positioned in relation to what is seen as a paradigmatic shift from Cartographic Space to Code Space, and the analysis of case studies supplies a means of comprehending this ongoing transformation, demonstrating that mapping survives beyond cartography but entails a tearing apart of the cartographic surface and the representational epistemology that accompanies it. Gone are the compass, scale and fix-points by which, for centuries, a sense of place was anchored and the world made knowable, yet to be set adrift in this way is not to be left ‘all at sea’. Working with the novel intuitions, forms and geometries that arise from the operations of software code, post-cartographical mapping practices continue to supply a sense of orientation. However, they also pioneer novel forms of territory, and power over territory, that call for new strategies of counter-mapping and, with it, a ‘post-cartographical’ reframing of the study of locative media. Now pictured as a site of contestation between antithetical spatial paradigms, locative media is rehabilitated as a vital force, operating at a pivotal moment, in a broadly epoch-defining reshaping of space and spatial representation.
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Mohammad, Salimian. "A Mixed Integer Second Order Cone Programming Reformulation For A Congested Location And Capacity Allocation Problem On A Supply Chain Network." Master's thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615407/index.pdf.
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Supply chain network design involves location decisions for production facilities and distribution centers.
We consider a make-to-order supply chain environment where distribution centers serve as crossdocking
terminals. Long waiting times may occur at a cross-docking terminal, unless sucient handling
capacity is installed. In this study, we deal with a facility location problem with congestion
eects at distribution centers. Along with location decisions, we make capacity allocation (service
rate) and demand allocation decisions so that the total cost, including facility opening, transportation
and congestion costs, is minimized.
Response time to customer orders is a critical performance measure for a supply chain network. The
decisions like where the plants and distribution centers are located aect the response time of the
system. Response time is more sensitive to these decisions in a make-to-order business environment.
In a distribution network where distribution centers function as cross-docking terminals, capacity or
the service rate decisions also aect the response time performance.
This study is closely related to a recent work Vidyarthi et al. (2009) which models distribution centers
asM/G/1 queuing systems. They use the average waiting time formula ofM/G/1 queuing model. Thus,
the average waiting time at a distribution center is a nonlinear function of the demand rate allocated to
and the service rate available at the distribution center. The authors Vidyarthi et al. (2009) propose a
linear approximation approach and a Lagrangian based heuristic for the problem.
Dierent than the solution approach proposed in Vidyarthi et al. (2009), we propose a closed form
formulation for the problem. In particular, we show that the waiting time function derived from M/G/1
queuing model can be represented via second order conic inequalities. Then, the problem becomes
a mixed integer second order cone programming problem which can be solved by using commercial
branch-and-bound software such as IBM ILOG CPLEX. Our computational tests show that proposed reformulation can be solved in reasonable CPU times for practical size instances.
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Bhagchandani, Sanjay. "Use of Cone Beam Computed Tomography in the Determination of Mental Foramen Location in Relation to Mandibular 1st and 2nd Premolars." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2165.
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The purpose of this study was to use existing Cone Beam Computer Tomography images to determine the vertical and horizontal location of the mental foramen in relation to the mandibular first and second premolars, as well as the distance in millimeters from the apex of each. The distance from the inferior border of the foramen to the inferior border of the mandible was also recorded. The average distance from the apices of the mandibular first and second premolars to the mental foramen was 7.43mm (SD= 1.97) and 5.30mm (SD=1.65) respectively. The foramen was located 11.44mm (SD=1.49) from the inferior border of the mandible. The foramen was in line with the apex of the mandibular second premolar 41% of the time. The mental foramen was further away from the inferior border of the mandible in males and older patients. Mental foramina seemed to be positioned more apically and distally in older patients.
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Sabangan, Rainier Monteclaro. "Identification and Estimation of Location and Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated 2k-p Designs Using Generalized Linear Models." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269014397.
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Ieva, Carlo. "Révéler le contenu latent du code source : à la découverte des topoi de programme." Thesis, Montpellier, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MONTS024/document.
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Le développement de projets open source à grande échelle implique de nombreux développeurs distincts qui contribuent à la création de référentiels de code volumineux. À titre d'exemple, la version de juillet 2017 du noyau Linux (version 4.12), qui représente près de 20 lignes MLOC (lignes de code), a demandé l'effort de 329 développeurs, marquant une croissance de 1 MLOC par rapport à la version précédente. Ces chiffres montrent que, lorsqu'un nouveau développeur souhaite devenir un contributeur, il fait face au problème de la compréhension d'une énorme quantité de code, organisée sous la forme d'un ensemble non classifié de fichiers et de fonctions.Organiser le code de manière plus abstraite, plus proche de l'homme, est une tentative qui a suscité l'intérêt de la communauté du génie logiciel. Malheureusement, il n’existe pas de recette miracle ou bien d’outil connu pouvant apporter une aide concrète dans la gestion de grands bases de code.Nous proposons une approche efficace à ce problème en extrayant automatiquement des topoi de programmes, c'est à dire des listes ordonnées de noms de fonctions associés à un index de mots pertinents. Comment se passe le tri? Notre approche, nommée FEAT, ne considère pas toutes les fonctions comme égales: certaines d'entre elles sont considérées comme une passerelle vers la compréhension de capacités de haut niveau observables d'un programme. Nous appelons ces fonctions spéciales points d’entrée et le critère de tri est basé sur la distance entre les fonctions du programme et les points d’entrée. Notre approche peut être résumée selon ses trois étapes principales : 1) Preprocessing. Le code source, avec ses commentaires, est analysé pour générer, pour chaque unité de code (un langage procédural ou une méthode orientée objet), un document textuel correspondant. En outre, une représentation graphique de la relation appelant-appelé (graphe d'appel) est également créée à cette étape. 2) Clustering. Les unités de code sont regroupées au moyen d’une classification par clustering hiérarchique par agglomération (HAC). 3) Sélection du point d’entrée. Dans le contexte de chaque cluster, les unités de code sont classées et celles placées à des positions plus élevées constitueront un topos de programme.La contribution de cette thèse est triple: 1) FEAT est une nouvelle approche entièrement automatisée pour l'extraction de topoi de programme, basée sur le regroupement d'unités directement à partir du code source. Pour exploiter HAC, nous proposons une distance hybride originale combinant des éléments structurels et sémantiques du code source. HAC requiert la sélection d’une partition parmi toutes celles produites tout au long du processus de regroupement. Notre approche utilise un critère hybride basé sur la graph modularity et la cohérence textuelle pour sélectionner automatiquement le paramètre approprié. 2) Des groupes d’unités de code doivent être analysés pour extraire le programme topoi. Nous définissons un ensemble d'éléments structurels obtenus à partir du code source et les utilisons pour créer une représentation alternative de clusters d'unités de code. L’analyse en composantes principales, qui permet de traiter des données multidimensionnelles, nous permet de mesurer la distance entre les unités de code et le point d’entrée idéal. Cette distance est la base du classement des unités de code présenté aux utilisateurs finaux. 3) Nous avons implémenté FEAT comme une plate-forme d’analyse logicielle polyvalente et réalisé une étude expérimentale sur une base ouverte de 600 projets logiciels. Au cours de l’évaluation, nous avons analysé FEAT sous plusieurs angles: l’étape de mise en grappe, l’efficacité de la découverte de topoi et l’évolutivité de l’approcheDuring the development of long lifespan software systems, specification documents can become outdated or can even disappear due to the turnover of software developers. Implementing new software releases or checking whether some user requirements are still valid thus becomes challenging. The only reliable development artifact in this context is source code but understanding source code of large projects is a time- and effort- consuming activity. This challenging problem can be addressed by extracting high-level (observable) capabilities of software systems. By automatically mining the source code and the available source-level documentation, it becomes possible to provide a significant help to the software developer in his/her program understanding task.This thesis proposes a new method and a tool, called FEAT (FEature As Topoi), to address this problem. Our approach automatically extracts program topoi from source code analysis by using a three steps process: First, FEAT creates a model of a software system capturing both structural and semantic elements of the source code, augmented with code-level comments; Second, it creates groups of closely related functions through hierarchical agglomerative clustering; Third, within the context of every cluster, functions are ranked and selected, according to some structural properties, in order to form program topoi.The contributions of the thesis is three-fold:1) The notion of program topoi is introduced and discussed from a theoretical standpoint with respect to other notions used in program understanding ;2) At the core of the clustering method used in FEAT, we propose a new hybrid distance combining both semantic and structural elements automatically extracted from source code and comments. This distance is parametrized and the impact of the parameter is strongly assessed through a deep experimental evaluation ;3) Our tool FEAT has been assessed in collaboration with Software Heritage (SH), a large-scale ambitious initiative whose aim is to collect, preserve and, share all publicly available source code on earth. We performed a large experimental evaluation of FEAT on 600 open source projects of SH, coming from various domains and amounting to more than 25 MLOC (million lines of code).Our results show that FEAT can handle projects of size up to 4,000 functions and several hundreds of files, which opens the door for its large-scale adoption for program understanding
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Sperotto, Fernanda Queiroz. "As regulamentações ambientais redefinindo a geografia da produção : estudo de caso da produção de celulose no Cone Sul." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/95376.
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O setor de produção de celulose mundial vem passando por mudanças significativas nas últimas décadas, principalmente no que tange à sua localização, haja vista o deslocamento de seu centro produtivo dos países desenvolvidos para os países emergentes. Dentre estes, destacam-se os da região do Cone Sul, especialmente o Brasil, o Chile e o Uruguai. O objetivo desta tese é investigar a formação de um paraíso de poluição, ou seja, a possibilidade de indústrias com elevado potencial poluidor estarem migrando para países com regulamentação ambiental supostamente mais branda. Para tanto, analisou-se a existência de diferenciais de conduta e de desempenho ambiental em dois grupos de empresas: um formado pelas empresas estrangeiras situadas na região e suas coirmãs no exterior, e outro pelas primeiras e as nacionais. Na conduta ambiental, analisaram-se as certificações ambientais, a divulgação de relatórios de sustentabilidade e, nestes, a publicação de níveis de emissão de poluentes e de investimentos direcionados ao controle da poluição e/ou de melhoria ambiental. O desempenho ambiental foi avaliado a partir dos parâmetros de emissão de poluentes no ar e na água propostos pela abordagem Best Available Techniques (BAT). Foi possível identificarem-se diferenças tênues de conduta ambiental entre as empresas estrangeiras e as nacionais, havendo, porém, diferenças importantes de desempenho. As plantas estrangeiras localizadas no Cone Sul apresentam, em geral, um desempenho ambiental superior ao das suas próprias coirmãs no exterior e ao das firmas nacionais do segmento. Como estas se diferenciam por serem plantas recentes, que começaram a operar na segunda metade de 2000, tudo indica que a tecnologia utilizada é igual, ou superior, àquela observada nos seus países de origem. Portanto, a hipótese de formação de um paraíso de poluição no Cone Sul não foi confirmada. Entretanto, há um eminente processo de efeito poluição em formação, basicamente decorrente da presença local de tantas instalações industriais de grande porte, muitas delas com capacidade produtiva instalada que excede a um milhão de toneladas/ano.The sector of world cellulose production has undergone significant changes in recent decades, especially in regard to its location, given the displacement of its production center from developed to emerging countries. Among these countries, we highlight those of the Southern Cone, especially Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. The objective of this thesis is to investigate the formation of a pollution haven, that is to say, the possibility of industries with high pollution potential to be migrating to countries with supposedly more lenient environmental regulations. Therefore the existence of differential behavior and environmental performance was analyzed in two groups of companies: one formed by foreign companies located in the region and sister companies abroad, and another by the foreign companies and the national ones. As to the environmental conduct, the environmental certifications and the disclosure of sustainability reports were analyzed, and in these reports, the publication of emission levels of pollutants and investments directed to the control of pollution and / or environmental improvement. The environmental performance was evaluated from the parameters of pollutant emissions in air and water proposed by the Best Available Techniques (BAT) approach. It was possible to identify subtle environmental conduct differences between foreign and domestic enterprises, presenting, however, important differences in performance. Foreign industrial plants located in the Southern Cone show, in general, a superior environmental performance to those of their own sister companies abroad and to national firms in the sector. As these are different because they are newer plants which began operating in the second half of 2000, it seems that the technology used is equal to or higher than that observed in their countries of origin. Thus, the hypothesis of the formation of a pollution haven in the Southern Cone was not confirmed.
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Garcia, Lara Gabrielle. "Uso do corte raso em mosaico visando à redução dos efeitos hidrológicos em florestas plantadas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11150/tde-23042015-172810/.
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A expansão das áreas de reflorestamento colocam em evidência os possíveis efeitos destas nos recursos hídricos. Tendo como principal característica o crescimento acelerado, as florestas plantadas apresentam elevadas taxas de evapotranspiração, e, embora não sejam consideradas usuárias de água, o consumo das mesmas modifica a produção de água na microbacia. Buscando entender este cenário, o objetivo do estudo foi identificar alternativas de corte raso em mosaico a serem utilizadas para mitigar os efeitos das florestas plantadas nos recursos hídricos. Foram testados variáveis de intensidade e configuração espacial do corte raso e seus efeitos obtidos por meio de simulações chuva-vazão na microbacia experimental de Itatinga. O estudo foi dividido em duas partes, a primeira foi referente à análise do consumo por meio da curva de permanência do deflúvio em diferentes cenários de intensidade de corte, e a segunda pela simulação hidrológica distribuída de cenários de corte variáveis tanto na intensidade quanto na localização. A partir dos resultados obtidos foram realizadas comparações com as vazões mínimas de referência (Q7.10 e Q90) para quantificação do consumo de água das florestas ao longo do tempo. Os resultados mostraram que quando totalmente coberta com floresta o consumo de água sempre ficava além do recomendado, conforme o corte da cobertura simulado era intensificado (até 100% de corte) os valores de consumo caiam, sendo que a partir de cinquenta porcento de corte o deflúvio ficava abaixo dos dois índices de vazão mínima de referência analisados. Na segunda parte do estudo os cenários de intensidade e localização do corte (30, 50 e 70% de corte nas cotas baixas e altas) foram comparados com a referência - cobertura total com floresta - e os resultados analisados quanto ao escoamento total, pico de vazão e volume dos eventos. Foi também simulado um cenário para a análise do efeito da vegetação ripária na redução dos impactos. Os resultados mostraram que os efeitos das diferentes intensidades de corte raso estão relacionados a altura total precipitada, pois apresentaram diferenças significativas para os menores eventos de chuva, não tendo as intensidades diferenças no corte para os maiores eventos (lâminas de chuva acima de 15 mm). A localização do corte nas cotas baixas da bacia resultou em picos de vazão e volume maiores do que o cenário referência para uma mesma intensidade de corte. Quando os cortes foram realizados nas cotas altas os resultados não diferiram significativamente do cenário referência em nenhuma porcentagem de corte, com exceção para a altura precipitada entre 4 e 8 mm. As simulações dos efeitos da floresta ripária mostraram que quando mantida ao longo do rio a vegetação diminui o escoamento direto, no entanto, este efeito depende da intensidade do evento de chuva, não sendo significativo para grandes eventos. Por meio dos dados foi possível concluir que o corte em mosaico é uma ferramenta que deve ser utilizada no manejo das florestas plantadas, pois por meio deste é possível diminuir o consumo através da intensidade e mitigar os efeitos do aumento do escoamento por meio da localização do corte.The expansion of areas of planted forests shows possible effects they have on water resources. Due to the characteristics of accelerated growth, commercial reforestations have high rates of evapotranspiration. Although planted forests are not considered water users, their consumption modifies water production in the watershed. Seeking to understand this scenario, the objective of this study was to identify alternatives to clear-cutting in mosaic that can be used to mitigate the effects of planted forests in water resources. Variables of intensity and spatial configuration of clear-cutting and its effects obtained through rain-flow simulations were tested in the experimental watershed of Itatinga. The study was divided into two parts, the first consisted of the analysis of consumption through the flow permanence curve in different scenarios of cut intensity, and the second was characterized by hydrological simulation of distributed variable cutting scenarios both in intensity and in location. The results were used to compare with the minimum flow rates of reference (Q7.10 and Q90) to quantify water consumption of forests over time, measuring the relationship between consumption and minimum reference flow. The results showed that when fully covered with forest, water consumption was always beyond the recommended, and as the simulated cut of the vegetation cover was enhanced (until 100% cutting), consumption values dropped. After 50 percent of cutting, runoff remained below two rates of minimum flow reference analyzed. In the second part of the study, the scenarios of intensity and location of cuts (30, 50 and 70% of cut in downstream and upstream) were compared with reference - complete forest cover - and the results were analyzed in terms of total runoff, peak flow and volume of events. It was also simulated a scenario for the analysis of the effects of riparian vegetation on the reduction of impacts caused by the clear-cutting of the planted forest. The effects of different intensities of clear-cutting are related to the size of the event of rain, because they showed significant differences for smaller rain events, however, no differences in the intensities were observed for greater events (precipitation above 15 mm). The location of the cut in downstream scenarios resulted at peak flow and volume larger than the reference scenario for the same cut intensity. When the cuts were made in upstream, the results did not differ significantly from the reference scenario in any percentage of cut, except for the rain size between 4 and 8 mm. Simulations of the effects of riparian forest showed that when they are kept along the river, the vegetation decreases the direct runoff, however, this effect depends on the intensity of the rain event, not being significant for large events. The use of data allowed to conclude that the cut in mosaic is a tool that could be used in the management of planted forests, as it decreases consumption through intensity and mitigates the effects of increased runoff due to the location of the cut.
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Kuchařová, Hana. "Technologie RFID v ekonomických sektorech." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85237.
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This thesis is focused on explanation of RFID technology. The first part analyses its historical development, describes the basic elements needed for its operation and standards enabling its spread into the supplier-customer chains. Furthermore are summarized its common applications such as systems for real-time location, traceability and identification of persons. Finally is summarized its usage in particular economic sectors. The end of the thesis is focused on suitable procedures for implementation of RFID technology into the enterprise, with respect to a feasibility of the project, which is determined in the initial study based on the methodology MMDIS.
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Zichová, Jana. "Analýza a vyhodnocení umísťování staveb dle stavebního zákona ve vybrané lokalitě v okrese Brno - venkov." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-316705.
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This thesis analyses and evaluates the placement of buildings according to the building code. The thesis has two parts: in the theoretical part, it describes the building code and basic concepts related to the placement of buildings, and analyses the forms of planning permission in detail. Since the issue of the placement of buildings is quite extensive, it is the thesis deals with the exceptions of buildings situation rules more in detail, namely with Decree No. 501/2006 Coll. The second, practical part, shows the procedure of proceedings these exceptions on three examples from Brno-venkov region. At the end of the thesis, goals and results of the work are evaluated.
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Oliveira, Matheus Lima de 1984. "Influence of anatomical location and FOV size on cone-beam computed tomography gray values = Análise da influência da localização anatômica e tamanho do FOV nos valores de cinza em imagens de tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/289200.
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Orientador: Guilherme Monteiro TosoniTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba
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Resumo: O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a influência da região anatômica e do tamanho do FOV (field of view) nos valores de cinza em imagens de tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico (TCFC). Soluções homogêneas de fosfato de potássio dibásico (K2HPO4) foram preparadas em sete diferentes concentrações e armazenadas separadamente em tubos de polipropileno. Um phantom de uma cabeça humana teve seis dentes extraídos - um incisivo central um primeiro prémolar e um primeiro molar da maxila e da mandíbula - e substituídos por esses tubos, que foram escaneados separadamente pelos aparelhos NewTom 3G, NewTom 5G e 3D Accuitomo 170, sob diferentes tamanhos de FOV. Em cortes axiais, valores médios de cinza foram obtidos em cinco níveis diferentes dentro de cada tubo de polipropileno e a média foi calculada. Para cada aparelho, análise de regressão linear avaliou a relação entre os valores médios de cinza e a concentração de K2HPO4 em seis regiões anatômicas, sob os diferentes FOVs. Coeficiente de determinação (R2) foi calculado. Nos três aparelhos, a correlação linear entre os valores de cinza e as concentrações de K2HPO4 variou entre as regiões anatômicas e os tamanhos de FOV (0,93 < R2 < 0,99). Desse modo, pode se concluir que a relação entre os valores de cinza em imagens de TCFC e a densidade do objeto não é uniforme por todo o arco dentário e é influenciada pelo tamanho do FOV nos três aparelhos de TCFC testados. A comparação desses valores obtidos em diferentes regiões anatômicas e com diferentes tamanhos de FOV não é confiável
Abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of anatomical location and FOV (field of view) size in CBCT numbers. Homogeneous solutions of dipotassium phosphate (K2HPO4) were prepared at seven different concentrations and stored separately in polypropylene tubes. Six teeth were extracted from a human head phantom - the upper and lower central incisors, first premolars and first molars - and replaced by the tubes, which were scanned separately by NewTom 3G, NewTom 5G and 3D Accuitomo 170 under different FOV sizes. In axial sections, CBCT numbers were obtained at five levels within each polypropylene tube, and the average was calculated. For each CBCT unit, linear regression analysis evaluated the relationship between CBCT numbers and the concentration of K2HPO4 in six anatomical regions, under different FOVs. Coefficient of determination (R2) was calculated. Linear correlation between CBCT numbers and concentrations of K2HPO4 ranged between anatomical regions and FOV sizes (0.93 < R2 <0.99). Thus, it can be concluded that the relationship between CBCT numbers and object density is not uniform throughout the dental arch, and is influenced by the FOV size on the three CBCT units tested in this study. The comparison of CBCT numbers from different anatomical regions and with different FOV sizes is unreliable
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Radiologia Odontologica
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Хайлова, Тетяна Володимирівна, and Tetyana Khailova. "Окремі питання правового регулювання здійснення іноземного інвестування в Україні." Thesis, Донецький юридичний інститут МВС України, 2016. http://dspace.puet.edu.ua/handle/123456789/6813.
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Було запропоновано уточнююче визначення поняття іноземний інвестор. Під таким слід розуміти фізичну, юридичну особу або державу, які мають постійне місце знаходження (проживання) за межами території України та приймають рішення про переміщення вільних або залучених коштів в економіку України.
It was suggested clarifying the definition of a foreign investor. Under such should understand the physical, legal person or state, having a permanent location (residence) outside the territory of Ukraine and decides on the free movement or borrowed funds into the economy of Ukraine.
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Dahlin, Mathilda. "Avkodning av cykliska koder - baserad på Euklides algoritm." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap (from 2013), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-48248.
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Today’s society requires that transformation of information is done effectively and correctly. In other words, the received message must correspond to the message being sent. There are a lot of decoding methods to locate and correct errors. The main purpose in this degree project is to study one of these methods based on the Euclidean algorithm. Thereafter an example will be illustrated showing how the method is used when decoding a three - error correcting BCH code. To begin with, fundamental concepts about coding theory are introduced. Secondly, linear codes, cyclic codes and BCH codes - in that specific order - are explained before advancing to the decoding process. The results show that correcting one or two errors is relatively simple, but when three or more errors occur it becomes much more complicated. In that case, a specific method is required.Dagens samhälle kräver att informationsöverföring sker på ett effektivt och korrekt sätt, det vill säga att den information som når mottagaren motsvarar den som skickades från början. Det finns många avkodningsmetoder för att lokalisera och rätta fel. Syftet i denna uppsats är att studera en av dessa, en som baseras på Euklides algoritm och därefter illustrera ett exempel på hur metoden används vid avkodning av en tre - rättande BCH - kod. Först ges en presentation av grunderna inom kodningsteorin. Sedan introduceras linjära koder, cykliska koder och BCH - koder i nämnd ordning, för att till sist presentera avkodningsprocessen. Det visar sig att det är relativt enkelt att rätta ett eller två fel, men när tre eller fler fel uppstår blir det betydligt mer komplicerat. Då krävs någon speciell metod.
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Zucchi, Juliana Domingues. "Modelo locacional dinâmico para a cadeia agroindustrial da carne bovina brasileira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11132/tde-02082010-170845/.
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O referencial da Teoria da Localização embasa o modelo matemático de otimização dinâmico desenvolvido a fim de se determinar os melhores locais dos frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores no Brasil visando à minimização dos custos associados ao transporte, bem como os custos associados à instalação de novas unidades industriais de abate, resultando, assim, em aumento de competitividade para a cadeia. Este trabalho visa responder a três questões: (i) localizações das unidades industriais de abate; (ii) tamanho e número ótimos de cada unidade industrial de abate e (iii) fluxos mensais da matéria-prima necessários para atender a demanda dos frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores, bem como os fluxos ofertados mensalmente por eles a fim de se satisfazer a demanda dos países importadores da carne bovina brasileira. Desse modo, foram simulados quatro cenários alternativos. Os dois primeiros disseram respeito sobre a determinação da localização dos frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores e respectivos fluxos de produtos num contexto ideal, ou seja, o modelo determinou onde os mesmos deveriam ser instalados. Enquanto o primeiro cenário considerou na modelagem os dez principais estados exportadores da carne bovina desossada congelada brasileira, o segundo considerou os seis principais estados, excluindo, assim, os estados que fazem parte da Amazônia Legal. No primeiro cenário, dos dez estados considerados, em cinco deveriam ser instalados ao menos um frigoríficoabatedouro exportador, enquanto no segundo cenário dos seis estados considerados em três deveriam ser instalados ao menos um frigorífico-abatedouro exportador. Ambos os cenários indicaram São Paulo como estado candidato à instalação de maior número de frigoríficosabatedouros exportadores. Além disso, em ambos os cenários a decomposição dos custos logísticos revelou que a maior parte do custo total mínimo obtido nos processamentos dos modelos decorreu da instalação dos frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores,76,3% do custo total mínimo obtido no cenário 1 e 79,4% do custo total mínimo obtido no cenário 2, seguidos pelo custo de transporte da carne bovina aos mercados externos (14,9% e 14,1%) e custo de transporte da carne bovina aos portos exportadores (5,7% e 3,6%). O custo de transporte da matéria-prima aos frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores foi 1,9% e 1,2% do custo total mínimo obtido no cenário 1 e 2, respectivamente, ao passo que o custo de transporte da carne bovina aos mercados internos foi de 1,2% e 1,7% do respectivo custo total mínimo. O terceiro e quarto cenários disseram respeito sobre quais frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores já instalados deveriam ser responsáveis pelo abastecimento dos mercados externos demandantes de carne bovina desossada congelada brasileira. Ambos consideraram na modelagem as localizações atuais dos frigoríficos abatedouros exportadores existentes nos seis principais estados exportadores do produto. No entanto, o último cenário refere-se a projeção de aumento de demanda externa futura por carne bovina. Nesses cenários, como não há custo de intalação dos frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores a ser incorridos, a maior parcela dos custos logísticos decorreu da distribuição da carne bovina aos mercados externos. Os resultados do terceiro cenário revelaram que 12 frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores seriam suficientes para atender plenamente os mercados externos, ao passo que o aumento da demanda externa futura exigirá 14 frigoríficos-abatedouros exportadores.The theoretical framework of the Location Theory supports the dynamic optimization mathematical model developed in order to determine the potential sites for the installation of exporter slaughterhouses in Brazil, minimizing the costs associated with transportation and the costs associated with the installation of new slaughter industrial units, thereby increasing the competitiveness of the chain. The following three questions were addressed: (i) at what locations should slaughter industrial units be installed; (ii) what is the optimal-size and number of each slaughter industrial, and (iii) what are the flows of raw material required monthly to meet the exporter slaughterhouses demand and the monthly supplied amount by them in order to meet the importing countries demands? Thus, four alternative scenarios were simulated. The first two scenarios are related to determine the exporter slaughterhousess locations and the products flows in an ideal environment, i.e., the model determines where they should be installed. The difference between these scenarios is that the former considers in the modeling the Brazilian top ten exporter states of frozen boneless beef, while the second considers the six major states, excluding, thus, the states that belong to the Amazon region. In the first scenario, at least one exporter slaughterhouse should be installed in five out of ten states considered, while in the second scenario at least one exporter slaughterhouse should be installed in three out of six states considered. Both scenarios indicated that most of the exporter slaughterhouses should be installed in São Paulo. Moreover, in both scenarios the decomposition of logistics costs has shown that most of the minimum total cost obtained in the models processing was due to the installation of the exporter slaughterhouses, 76.3% of the minimum total cost obtained in the scenario 1 and 79, 4% of the minimum total cost obtained in the scenario 2, followed by the cost of transporting beef up to the foreign markets (14.9% and 14.1%) and by the cost of transporting beef up to the exporter ports (5.7% and 3 , 6%). The cost of transporting the raw material up to the exporter slaughterhouses was 1.9% and 1.2% of the minimum total cost obtained in scenario 1 and 2, respectively, while the cost of transporting beef up to the domestic markets was 1.2% and 1.7% of the minimum total cost, respectively. The third and fourth scenarios concerned about which exporter slaughterhouses already installed should be responsible for fulfilling the demands of the external markets for the Brazilian frozen boneless beef. Both scenarios considered in the modeling the actual locations of the existing exporter slaughterhouses in the six main exporter states of the product. However, the latter scenario considers an increase in the beef future demand of the external markets. Since there is no cost related to the installation of the exporter slaughterhouses to be incurred in these scenarios, the largest share of logistics costs was related to the distribution of beef up to the foreign markets. The results of the third scenario indicates that 12 exporter slaughterhouses would be enough to fully meet the demands of the foreign markets for frozen boneless beef, while the increase in the external demands will require 14 exporter slaughterhouses.
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Pojezný, Tomáš. "Vyhlídková věž v Beskydech." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226644.
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This work contains structural design and static assessment of the viewing tower in Beskydy. Construction is shaped like fir cone and it is made from glued laminated profiles and steel square tubes. Joints are realized from steel structural elements. Ground plan is regular octagon with external diameter changeable from 7,3 m to 9,3 m. Tower has five viewing platforms. Total height of construction is 27,5 m. For designed structure is made detailed static assessment and drawing documentation.
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Aloui, Nadia. "Localisation sonore par retournement temporel." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENT079/document.
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L'objectif général de cette thèse était de proposer une solution de localisation en intérieur à la fois simple et capable de surmonter les défis de la propagation dans les environnements en intérieur. Pour ce faire, un système de localisation basé sur la méthode des signatures et adoptant le temps d'arrivée du signal de l'émetteur au récepteur comme signature, a été proposé. Le système présente deux architectures différentes, une première orientée privée utilisant la méthode d'accès multiple à répartition par code et une deuxième centralisée basée sur la méthode d'accès multiple à répartition dans le temps. Le système calcule la position de l'objet d'intérêt par la méthode de noyau. Une comparaison expérimentale entre le système à architecture orientée privée et un système de localisation sonore déjà existant et basé sur la méthode de trilatération, a permis de confirmer les résultats trouvés dans le cas de la localisation par ondes radiofréquences. Cependant, nos expérimentations étaient les premières à montrer l'effet de la réverbération sur les approches de la localisation acoustique. Dans un second lieu, un système de localisation basé sur la technique de retournement temporel, permettant une localisation simultanée de sources avec différentes précisions, a été testé par simulations en faisant varier le nombre de sources. Ce système a été ensuite validé par expérimentations. Dans la dernière partie de notre étude, nous nous sommes intéressés à la réduction de l'audibilité du signal utile à la localisation par recours à la psycho-acoustique. Un filtre défini à partir du seuil d'audition absolu a été appliqué au signal de localisation. Nos résultats ont montré une amélioration de la précision de localisation comparé au système de localisation sans modèle psycho-acoustique et ce grâce à l'utilisation d'un filtre adapté au modèle psycho-acoustique à la réception. Par ailleurs, l'écoute du signal après application du modèle psycho-acoustique a montré une réduction significative de son audibilité comparée à celle du signal originalThe objective of this PhD is to propose a location solution that should be simple and robust to multipath that characterizes the indoor environments. First, a location system that exploits the time domain of channel parameters has been proposed. The system adopts the time of arrival of the path of maximum amplitude as a signature and estimates the target position through nonparametric kernel regression. The system was evaluated in experiments for two main configurations: a privacy-oriented configuration with code-division multiple-access operation and a centralized configuration with time-division multiple-access operation. A comparison between our privacy-oriented system and another acoustic location system based on code-division multiple-access operation and lateration method confirms the results found in radiofrequency-based localization. However, our experiments are the first to demonstrate the detrimental effect that reverberation has on acoustic localization approaches. Second, a location system based on time reversal technique and able to localize simultaneously sources with different location precisions has been tested through simulations for different values of the number of sources. The system has then been validated by experiments. Finally, we have been interested in reducing the audibility of the localization signal through psycho-acoustics. A filter, set from the absolute threshold of hearing, is then applied to the signal. Our results showed an improvement in precision, when compared to the location system without psychoacoustic model, thanks to the use of matched filter at the receiver. Moreover, we have noticed a significant reduction in the audibility of the filtered signal compared to that of the original signal
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Mallqui, Morales Nayda Isabel. "Diseño de migración de nodos B aplicado para una RNC caida de una red movil." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2015. http://cybertesis.urp.edu.pe/handle/urp/1276.
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La presente tesina consiste en el diseño de migración de nodos B aplicado para una RNC caída de una red móvil, con la finalidad de solucionar los problemas que se presenten ante un incidente que afecte los servicios de voz y datos de los usurarios de una red móvil.
En el desarrollo de la tesina, se describe el planteamiento del problema, el marco teórico de la tecnología UMTS y posteriormente nos centramos en los elementos principales de esta tecnología. También describimos los equipos importantes a utilizar en desarrollo del proyecto, en este caso nos enfocamos en la descripción de la RNC. Y finalmente describimos el desarrollo del proyecto, el diseño de la solución e implementación de la misma, y en donde se presentan los resultados del diseño.
This thesis is the design of migration of nodes B and its a applied when RNC fall for a mobile network, in order to solve the problems that arise before an incident affecting voice and data services from a mobile network.
In developing the thesis, we describe the theoretical framework of UMTS technology and then we focus on the main elements of this technology. We also describe the important equipment used in project development; in this case we focus on the description of the RNC. And finally we describe the solution of design and implementation .Also, the results of this project.
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MORAIS, André Luiz Gomide de. "Comparação do comprimento de trabalho do canal radicular usando tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico, radiografia periapical e localizador apical eletrônico." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2012. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1376.
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Previous issue date: 2012-02-13Introduction Strategies to obtain the working length to prepare and fill the root canals has been relevant theme of discussion in endodontics. The purpose of this study was to compare in vivo the canal root working length measures determined by cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images with the ones obtained by using periapical radiograph and electronic apex locator. Methods The root canal working lengths of 30 single-rooted teeth from 19 patients whose diagnosis was apical periodontitis were evaluated. Initial periapical radiographs for diagnosis and treatment planning, employing the parallelism technique, were taken. CBCT images were acquired with i-CAT system (aiming of diagnosing the cases of apical periodontitis that showed to be complex and doubtful) and measured with specific function of i-CAT software. The coronal opening was made, the root canals were irrigated with sodium hypochlorite solution 2.5%, being performed the exploration and initial emptying of root canal. After, the preparation of the inlet orifice and of the cervical root third was carried out . The minor foramen was located using Root ZX® locator by advancing a stainless steel K-file that best suited the root canal, according to the manufacturer´s instructions. The radiographic measurement was made by advancing a stainless steel K-file in the root canal, until its tip was 1.0 mm from the root apex (determined from the measures obtained by the electronic ape locator). These 3 working length were tabulated and compared. Kruskal-Wallis test was used to analyze the differences between working lengths methods. The significance was set at α=5%. Results The mean values and standard deviations for working length determination by electronic apex locator, periapical radiograph and CBCT images were 21.5 ± 3.1, 21.32 ± 3, 21.4 ± 2.7, respectively. Significant differences were not verified statistically (P>0.05). Conclusions CBCT images working length determination showed to be as similar as the determinations obtained by using periapical radiograph and electronic apex locator.
Introdução: Estratégias para obtenção do comprimento de trabalho para preparar e obturar canais radiculares têm sido tema relevante de discussão em Endodontia. O objetivo deste estudo foi comparar in vivo as medidas de comprimento de trabalho do canal radicular determinadas por meio da tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico (TCFC) com as obtidas por meio de radiografia periapical e localizador apical eletrônico. Metodologia: Foram avaliados os comprimentos de trabalho dos canais radiculares em 30 dentes de 19 pacientes com diagnóstico de periodontite apical. Radiografias periapicais iniciais de diagnóstico e plano de tratamento, empregando a técnica do paralelismo, foram realizadas. As imagens de TCFC foram obtidas usando o sistema i-CAT (com o intuito de diagnosticar os casos de periodontite apical que se mostraram complexos ou duvidosos) e foram medidas a partir de função específica do programa desse sistema. Foi realizada a abertura coronária, os canais radiculares foram irrigados solução de hipoclorito de sódio a 2,5%, sendo realizada a exploração e o esvaziamento inicial do canal radicular. Depois foi realizado o preparo do orifício de entrada e do terço cervical da raiz. O forame apical foi localizado usando o localizador Root ZX® por meio do avanço de uma lima tipo K-file que melhor se adaptasse ao canal radicular de aço inoxidável no canal radicular, de acordo com instruções do fabricante. A medida radiográfica foi feita por meio da colocação de uma lima tipo K-file de aço inoxidável no canal radicular, até que sua ponta estivesse a 1,0mm do ápice radicular (determinado pelas medidas obtidas com o localizador apical eletrônico). Essas três medidas de comprimento de trabalho foram tabuladas e comparadas. O teste de Kruskal-Wallis foi empregado para analisar as diferenças entre os métodos de obtenção dos comprimentos de trabalho. O nível de significância foi estabelecido em α=5%. Resultados: O valor médio e os desvios-padrões para a determinação do comprimento de trabalho por meio de imagens de TCFC, localizador apical eletrônico e radiografia periapical foram de e 21,4 ± 2,7, 21,5 ± 3,1, 21,32 ± 3, respectivamente. Diferenças significantes entre as medidas obtidas pelos três métodos não foram verificadas (p>0.05). Conclusões: A determinação do comprimento de trabalho em imagens de TCFC mostrou ser tão similar quanto às determinações obtidas por meio do método radiográfico e do localizador apical eletrônico.
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Kuo, Tzu-Yueh, and 郭子閱. "The Impact of Core Competencies, Value Chain, and International Experience on Enterprise Location Choice: A Case Study of Taiwan's SMEs." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71335439686518297744.
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碩士靜宜大學
國際企業學系
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SME is an important cornerstone of Taiwan's economic development. Taiwan's SMEs location overseas is due to government policy and saturated market. In making the investment location choice, SMEs’ concerns tend to focus on enhancing core competencies, increasing competitiveness in the international market, reducing costs of the enterprise value chain, or using their own international experience. In the various international markets, increasing the competitiveness becomes the vital issue for the SMEs. Therefore, using the individual's strength, resources to find the optimum locations overseas can be the crucial strategy. This study uses case study and in-depth interviews with SME managers to explore the impact of core competencies, value chain and the international experience on the choice of overseas location for Taiwan's SMEs. The results showed that when the core competencies of SMEs are stronger, the investment location tends to be in the developed countries; the purpose is to make the core competencies of SMEs achieve faster growth. When SME value chain is closer, the investment location choice tends to be in the developing countries; the purpose is to allow lower investment costs for the SMEs. When senior managers of SMEs are equipped with more international experience, the investment location choice tends to be in both developing countries and developed countries, as the senior managers will make the analysis and select the optimum location for the company.
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Yi-YaHsu and 許肄亞. "An application of spatial multi-criteria Evaluation (SMCE) for Analysis of development potential location of the culture-led urban regeneration– A case study of Tainan historical cultural core area." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2w8zh6.
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碩士國立成功大學
都市計劃學系
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After the 1980s, many early-developed cities tried to reverse the dilemma of urban development and the preservation of old historical textures, sought new urban development strategies, and came up with a culture-led urban regeneration strategy. How to use the own advantages of historical city to enhance its status and value is an important issue. Culture-led urban regeneration is not only the creation of economic benefits, but also a link between local culture and history. Most of the related studies discusses with case study, and less on the overall development strategy of the region and respond to differences in local cultural resources. Recent studies have suggested that culture-led urban development strategies should pay more attention to the balance between local cultural context and development planning content, in order to achieve long-term sustainable development. However, few studies have proposed an actual operational framework. Therefore, this study will integrate the resources of various sectors and construct a spatial development potential framework under the strategy of culture-led urban regeneration. This study utilized a multi-criteria evaluation method that integrates GIS technology to establish this evaluation model. The potential location of this evaluation framework can be used as a reference for the relevant upper space strategy and implemented in local space. In the future, the evaluation framework and the processes can be used to evaluate different city or historical area. This research hopes to bring into play the spirit of local resources and the integration of different sectors to achieve the vision of culture-led urban development strategy with equal emphasis on economic revitalization and cultural development.
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"Optimization of multimedia flows over data networks : the core location problem and the peakedness characterization/Optimisation des flux multimédias sur les réseaux de données : le problème de sélection du noeud central et la caractérisation par peakedness." Université catholique de Louvain, 2005. http://edoc.bib.ucl.ac.be:81/ETD-db/collection/available/BelnUcetd-05182005-123835/.
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Liou, Sung-Yi, and 劉松益. "Bar Code Location Using Gradient Operation." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37666133387578527175.
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碩士大同大學
資訊工程研究所
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It is well known that in many stores the laser bar code reader or wand is adopted at check-out counters. However, there is a major constraint when these tools are used. That is, the distance between the laser reader or wand and the target object needs to be close when the reader is applied. This may result in inconvenience in store automation because human operator has to take care of either the sensor or the objects (or both). For the purpose of store automation, human operator has to be reduced from the process. It becomes highly desirable to design an optical bar code recognition system which can automatically scan the bar code and decode it. Automatically locating a bar code on an object (e.g. consumer product, postal mail, etc.) is an important step in an optical bar code recognition system. In this thesis, the system for automatic bar code location based on the “gradient operation” is presented. Experimental results using the proposed method show that the bar codes can be located accurately.
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Wu, Chien-chih, and 吳建志. "An Automatic System for Container Code Location, Extraction and Recognition." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48227138172207868790.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
電腦與通訊工程研究所
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The container traffic of the Port of Kaohsiung was ranked third in the world. Automatic container code recognition (ACCR) was quite helpful to manage the container import/export business from the harbor. In this study, digital image processing technique is used to automatically recognize the container codes characters (CCCs), which consist of 11 characters and can be divided into four English letters, six digital numbers, and one check digital number. The procedure can be divided into the following four steps: First, the image preprocessing involves transforming a color image into a gray-level and binarizing image, applying edge detection, and performing 8-connected component to locate the CCCs’ region. Second, using vertically and horizontally projection of container code and the segmented character normalization, the double- and single-row CCCs can be extracted and ordered from the input images. Third, this study combines a template-matching and three-section matching method to recognize the extracted characters. Final, in order to increase the recognition rate, this study also try to estimate some mis-recognized characters using the prestored database. Moreover, 140 container code images have been used to test the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method is more effective and accurate.
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Olšák, Libor. "Locating Performance Changes in Source Code." Master's thesis, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-287611.
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In regression benchmarking, it is often complicated to locate the source code modification which caused a performance change detected by a particular benchmark. Manually examining all modifications and resolving if some specific modification has caused the performance change in large projects can be timeconsuming. The thesis analyses possible methods for making that examination faster; focusing in more detail on two of them. The first is to have software that can understand the source language and can resolve which modification can potentially cause performance changes. For example, modifications in comments can not affect performance. The second is selecting source changes that were executed during the test. As a proof of concept, the methods are implemented in Mono Regression Benchmarking Suite. In this master thesis, more solutions how to increase time efficiency of the search are discussed and the two noticed above are implemented.
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Higgins, Lindsey M. "Regional Differences in Corn Ethanol Production: Profitability and Potential Water Demands." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-592.
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Through the use of a stochastic simulation model this project analyzes both the
impacts of the expanding biofuels sector on water demand in selected regions of the
United States and variations in the profitability of ethanol production due to location
differences. Changes in consumptive water use in the Texas High Plains, Southern
Minnesota, and the Central Valley of California, as impacted by current and proposed
grain-based ethanol plants were addressed. In addition, this research assesses the
potential impacts of technologies to reduce consumptive water use in the production of
ethanol in terms of water usage and the economic viability of each ethanol facility. This
research quantifies the role of corn ethanol production on water resource availability and
identifies the alternative water pricing schemes at which ethanol production is no longer
profitable.
The results of this research show that the expansion of regional ethanol
production and the resulting changes in the regional agricultural landscapes do relatively
little to change consumptive water usage in each location. The California Central Valley has the highest potential for increased water usage with annual water usage in 2017 at
levels 15% higher than historical estimates, whereas Southern Minnesota and the Texas
High Plains are predicted to have increases of less than 5% during the same time period.
Although water use by ethanol plants is extremely minor relative to consumptive
regional agricultural water usage, technological adaptations by ethanol facilities have the
potential to slightly reduce water usage and prove to be economically beneficial
adaptations to make. The sensitivity of net present value (NPV) with respect to changes
in water price is shown to be extremely inelastic, indicating that ethanol producers have
the ability to pay significantly more for their fresh water with little impact on their 10
year economic performance.
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Florian, Mihai. "SCALE: Source Code Analyzer for Locating Errors." Thesis, 2010. https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/5718/1/mf-thesis.pdf.
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This thesis presents the design and implementation of SCALE, a tool for systematic software testing multi-threaded C applications that use the pthread library. SCALE exhaustively explores the non determinism introduced by thread schedulings and tries to find violations of safety properties. We have designed SCALE to be flexible so that it is easy to add and combine different exploration and state space reduction algorithms. In this thesis we describe the currently implemented reduction algorithms, of which the most important ones are local execution cycle detection and super step partial order reduction. To exemplify how SCALE can be used, we have applied it to a few multi-threaded applications, measured its performance and compared the results to those obtained by other tools. While checking the implementation of a non-blocking queuing algorithm, we were able to find a previously unknown bug that appears only in some unexpected thread inter-leavings.
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Ling, Chou-Lun, and 凌宙綸. "The precise location for facial components based on chain code and symbol descriptor." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00281608944955843374.
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碩士國立中央大學
資訊工程學系碩士在職專班
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The face-feature location is a pre-task of face recognition; it’s also an important procedure for facial expression and face tracking. The encounted problems in the face-feature location include the change of ambient light, the direction the face, the complicated background, and the sensation of camera. Many methods have been proposed to resolve these problems. This paper consists of three main topics: (i) face detection, (ii) chain code tracking for faces, (iii) and face-feature location. The first topic discusses an approach of face detection. The second topic describes how to transfer the face contour and face-feature shapes into chain code representation and symbol description to match and verify eyes. The third topic utilizes the symbol description to find the locations of nose and mouth by face-feature template. The skin color is the most useful characteristic for detecting faces without affecting by the complicated background. We here adopt the skin color to extract face candidate following face verification. The verification procedure uses edge detection and chain code representation to describe the face. We feel that based on such an approach, we can get more reliable results. After the face extraction, the eyes are found by utilizing the symbol description and the nose and mouth are found by matching the face template. Experiments show that eye, nose, and mouth were correctly located at a rate of 71.4% in outdoors, and at a rate of 77.1% for indoors. In the future, we will explore the structure of hair and glasses to enhance the detection rate.
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Ho, Tzu-i., and 何姿儀. "Location and Transportation Planning in Cord Blood Bank Industry- A Two-Stage Model." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ryg942.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
工業管理系
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Nowadays, as the progress of biotechnology, more and more products associated with biotechnology emerge. Since that, Taiwanese government put a huge effort to biotechnology industry from 1982. Beyond this industry, cord blood storage – Cord Blood Bank (CBB) is one of the businesses, growing rapidly since the lower birth rate and the better economic condition now. As the trend of globalization of market, local CCBs, such as those in Taiwan, aim to extend their market to compete with the competitors abroad. In order to be more competing and make more profit, CCBs are required to efficiently expand their market and store the cord blood from customers. One does not just focus on the development of technological innovation, but also require determining site locations and transportation routes from the perspective of economical benefit. By considering uncertain demand and limited transportation response time in CBB industry, we aimed to discuss two research issues of the CBB practice: Laboratory location chosen problem and cord blood transportation problem. Due to the interaction of these two problems, this study proceeds with an approach using a two-stage algorithm combining two heuristics - Genetic Algorithm (GA) in stage one and Tabu Search in stage two which discussed as cord blood network transportation planning to make a trade-off between these two stages. In our experiments, the set of Solomon's VRPTW instances are attacked and found out for their best solutions by the proposed algorithm. Then, we have examined the robustness of the proposed model by changing model parameters and algorithm parameters. The outcome of our experiments has justified that the model developed in this study can solve the location chosen and transportation planning problem in CBB industry.
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Wang, Jyun-Yi, and 王浚懿. "Locating Interested Code by Program Execution Paths with Debugger." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hg3589.
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碩士國立中央大學
軟體工程研究所
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In the maintenance process of large-scale programs, tracing and understanding the source code is an important process before the program can be modified or extended. To a programmer who needs to understand an unfamiliar software system, it is always a daunting task. In most cases, the comprehension process is often time-consuming and tiresome. Some researches indicated that programmers can waste 80 percent of time comprehending software in wrong directions. The wrong directions could end up spending time on understanding the code in the wrong places and then resolve the problem by incorrect solutions. Therefore, it is crucial to help programmers to find the needed code effectively and efficiently. In large-scale software system, program comments and system documents are the important sources to help program understanding. Yet, in many projects, the documents could be incomplete, outdated, or obsolete, which do not catch up the newest version of source code. More importantly, static documents is often insufficient to describe the dynamic behaviors of a running software. Some researches show that experienced programmers choose tools such as debuggers in SDE to observe the execution of a computer program for comprehension. Based on such an observation, this work uses dynamic analysis technique and debuggers to implement a plugin in Eclipse to help developers find the location of interested code effectively.
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Chun-JungHuang and 黃俊榮. "New Retail Battlefield: The Effects of Display Location and In-Store QR Code Technology." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38f8pr.
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碩士國立成功大學
國際經營管理研究所碩士在職專班
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This research conducted one experimental design to investigate the effects of real-virtual combination of in-store display location (physical environment factor), i.e. same category versus complementary category location, and QR code content (virtual environment factor), i.e. cultural message versus product information message, on purchase intention in retail environment. This study finds that at same category display location, a focal brand supplemented with QR code technology can trigger more purchase intension and cannibalize the competing brand’s sales volume no matter the focal brand is a weak or a dominant brand. At complementary category display location, a focal brand supplemented with cultural event message through QR code technology has higher purchase intension than supplemented with product information message. Brand communication strategy emphasizes the connection with consumers’ cultural lifestyle is a critical factor to build global competitive advantage for Taiwanese houseware manufacturers who seek to transform themselves from original design manufacturers (ODM) to original brand designers. Also, Taiwanese houseware manufacturers can try to achieve sales targets and escalate brand recognition in the global market. For retailers, they can know better display arrangement, location influences at same category and complementary category before boosting sales turnover at small costs.
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Roy, Tonya Couch. "Coke is it? (dis)locating identity in corporate identity discourse /." 2004. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/roy%5Ftonya%5Fc%5F200412%5Fphd.
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Kuo, Hsin-Yu, and 郭芯妤. "Investigation of the occurrence , anatomy, and location of the mandibular incisive canal in Taiwanese patients using Cone-Beam CT." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50275209069120729502.
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碩士高雄醫學大學
牙醫學研究所
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Objective: The cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) provides precise images and has been widely used in preoperative implant planning. The aim of the study is to analyze the visibility and to trace the course of the mandibular incisive canals (MIC) by application of CBCT. Material and Method: 35 subjects received mandibular CBCT (Picasso-Trio, Vatech, Korea) as pre-implant examination. Two inspectors define and locate each mandibular incisive canal’s visibility on the CBCT images through the Picasso Ezimplant 3D software. Average lengths from center of MIC to vertical inferior, horizontal buccal and lingual border of mandible body were recorded. The average MICs’ diameters and lengths of mesial extension were also measured. Statistical analysis were carried out to study MIC differences between age, bilateral side, and edentulous factors. Result: The incisive canal was visible in 85.71% of the scans, the mean extension is 14.9±3.09mm(SD) and the diameter ranged from 0.8 to 2.42mm. MIC proceeds from the buccal plate towards the lingual plate with slightly downward direction. Conclusion: The high detection rate of the mandibular incisive canal at the anterior region of mandible indicated the potential high preoperative value of CBCT scan for surgical procedure in the anterior mandible. Although the differences between sides of mandibular incisive canal were not statistically significant, the variance still exist and even higher among individuals.
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Yang, Fang Ou, and 歐陽方. "A Mobile Application using Location-based Information and QR Code-based Donation for the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42268351599369190732.
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碩士國立中興大學
資訊科學與工程學系所
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Recently, due to the convenience of mobile devices and the rapid development of mobile applications, they will gradually replace the traditional laptop and desktop computers and become a new generation of information carrier. As for the social welfare organizations, they should try to increase income and decrease expenditure more than other enterprises. Therefore, the promptness and the transparency of the information delivery have become more important to them. In this article, I am going to apply the Android’s smart mobile devices to TFCF’s mobile application platform for location-based messages. Through this platform, the users can look up the services, the immediate activities and geographic information which TFCF provides. With the mobile positioning function, the users can obtain the information nearby and spends less time on searching. The development of the mobile web page can improve the complexity of cross-platform development. To the social welfare organizations, the donation from the public is one of the important resources to continue their services. However, the way of donation through the printing bar code will cause the extra expenditure. The design provides online information relating to the fundraising and the materials needed and produces the electronic bar code through the mobile device which will increase the transparency of the information and reduce the unnecessary resources waste. With the advantage of the QR Code, it will increase the ability to identify the bar codes and the storage of the data. The electronic bar codes will improve the problems of failing to identify the damaged paper bar code and long term spending on printing and mailing.
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Mota, Vasco Tavares Salavessa Gama. "Solving the uncapacitated facility location problem using fusing moves and its application in computer vision problems." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/40543.
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Wilson, Marques Louise. "Applying the Canadian Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics in uniquely-situated northern geographical locations: are there factors in practice environments that impact adherence to the 2005 code?" 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4204.
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The purpose of this study was to explore social work practitioner familiarity with and interpretation of the 2005 Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) Code of Ethics (“Code”) to determine whether specific sections of the existing Code enable social work practitioners to deliver ethical service in uniquely-situated geographical locations in northern Manitoba.
A qualitative research style with exploratory methodology was employed in this study. In-person interviews were conducted with six social workers who have practiced in a northern Manitoba setting for at least three years post- graduation. Once given the opportunity to read and interpret the 2005 Code, five of six respondents reported that the intent of the Code is reflective of their practice, an apparent contradiction between how they described their understanding of the intent of the Code versus their practice realities. All reported that dual roles and potential conflicts of interest are very difficult to avoid when practicing social work in the North. Other key findings indicate that the study participants believe that social workers in the North: are not familiar with the 2005 Code; have a lack of education, knowledge, discussion and accessibility in this Code, and find there is a lack of application of this Code in practice environments.
The emergence of the Manitoba College of Social Workers (MCSW), through legislation, will require that all practicing social workers adhere to the 2005 Code of Ethics. All six participants reported factors in northern, rural, remote and isolated environments that affect his/her ability to adhere to the 2005 Code. When social workers are required to register to use the title of Social Worker, the MCSW will be in a position to recognize the environmental factors of practicing in northern, rural, remote and isolated environments. MCSW may choose to consider that, where social workers are required to adhere to the 2005 Code, it may not be feasible in northern, rural, remote and isolated practice areas due to specific factors that have been identified throughout this study.
In future studies, consideration and flexibility on behalf of the Psychology/Sociology Research Ethics Board (PSREB) may be necessary in order to ensure that research subjects are protected versus the need to understand, through research, the realities of social work practice. Secondly, researchers interested in expanding or replicating the findings of this study may choose to consider the disclosure and provision of the interview questions prior to the actual interviews. Additionally, future research to review ethical practice in the social work profession would facilitate a broader understanding of whether all social workers practice under existing requirements set out in current MIRSW by-laws and, in the future, provincial legislation that is applicable to every social worker in Manitoba.
This study was limited to six participants. Broader research to more fully investigate the practical realities of applying the 2005 Code in northern environments could inform how the new legislation is implemented.
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Xu, You-Hua, and 許由華. "Effect of fertility management and autumn-planting date on the growth and yield of corn and soybean at different locations." Thesis, 1988. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66089007894151588281.
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Riaz, Muhammad. "Characterization of Corn Fibres for Manufacturing Automotive Plastic Parts." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/5207.
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The study examined the properties of stalk and cob fibres from recombinant inbred corn lines and their parents, grown at two locations, in a polylactic acid (PLA) matrix. The objectives were to: determine fibre compositions; evaluate the effects of fibres on the functional properties of biocomposites and identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and gene markers for fibre performance in biocomposites. Significant Genotype*Location effects were observed. Composites had lower strength (impact, tensile, and flexural) but higher tensile/flexural modulus values than pure PLA. The latter were positively affected by cellulose and hemicellulose but negatively affected by free phenolic levels and 93 fibre QTLs and 62 composite markers were detected. This study identified fibre traits and markers for genes that may be important for the use of corn fibres in biocomposites.Ontario BioCar Initiative Project funded by Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) and Ontario Public Sector
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Van, der Merwe Anna Susanna Petronella. "Postkolonialiteit in die twintigste- en een-en-twintigste-eeuse Afrikaanse drama met klem op die na-sestigers." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1219.
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Text in AfrikaansIn this thesis the term post-colonialism in the Afrikaans drama is investigated, focussing on the post-sixties. The term post-colonialism is difficult to define. Not only are theories of post-colonialism in a state of continuous flux and shifting emphasis, but as a result of different colonial dominations, separate identities have been constructed in South-Africa; so that defining the terms colonial, post colonial and post-colonial proves to be even more problematic. The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent the Afrikaans drama fits into these discourses. The basic point of departure is the fact that post-colonialism played a considerable role in the development of the Afrikaans drama, at the same time providing a more varied scope. The research covers several aspects of post-colonialism in Afrikaans drama; each dealt with in a separate chapter. A multitude of perspectives are featured within the broader discourse in order to obtain multiple norms and standards in a phase of self-criticism. The focus falls mainly on themes and not on performance aspects. New perspectives on issues such as canon texts, silence, hero-worship, the portrayal of woman, patriarchy, and neo-colonialism are presented (chapter 1). In chapter 2 focus falls on the period before 1960, and notably the question of nationalism (associated with apartheid) and the portrayal of the Afrikaner. The literary canon, forms of violence and the position of the super-Afrikaner are viewed in a new light during the re-writing of post-colonial history and the resulting paradigm shifts after 1960. Renewed emphasis is placed on discourse concerning land (chapter 3). Contrasting concepts regarding race, class, language, gender and religion are reconsidered in order to contribute towards the heterogeneous nature of post-colonialism (chapter 4). The function of theatre is to re-evaluate in the context of a post-1994 democratic system. Texts now focus especially on empowerment, re-discovery and re-ordering of history, reconciliation, inter-cultural contact and a post-apartheid syndrome (chapter 5). Anti-hegemonic resistance in Afrikaans literature since the sixties has confronted writers with the challenge of depicting or creating a larger post-colonial reality through their texts.
Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
D. Litt. et Phil. (Afrikaans)