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Matchett, Sara. "Breathing space : cross-community professional theatre as a means of dissolving fixed geographical landscapes." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8034.
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In this paper, I investigate the idea of cross-community professional theatre as a means of dissolving fixed georgraphical landscapes. Key to this is the synergy between mainstream and community theatre, out of which this idea emerges. I explore how theatre facilitates conversations across differences. 'Differences' encompass questions of geographical, class and racial divides as well as the ideological differences between mainstream and community theatre. Cross-community professional theatre involves working with people from different communities around specific issues. Professional actors work alongside non-professional actors from communities to create a piece of theatre. Community members are involved in the process as well as in the performance. Cross-community refers not only to the exchange between professional actors and non-professional actors, but also to the idea of theatre providing a framework for conversations between different communities.
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Lindner, Anders. "Unilateral posterior cross-bite in preschool children with special references to sucking habits a clinical and experimental study /." Stockholm : Kongl. Carolinska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet, 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23913354.html.
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Chidiac, Emile, of Western Sydney Macarthur University, and Faculty of Education. "The problem of taxonomy and conceptual equivalents in terminology: with special focus on Australian accounting terms." THESIS_FE_XXX_Chidiac_E.xml, 1994. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/578.
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This thesis discusses the problem of accounting terminology in the Australian context and investigates the difficulties of lexicography and translation of accounting terms and the disadvantages created by lack of standardised terminology in the Arab World. It has been discovered that accounting terms have various equivalents in ordinary and specialised dictionaries. The translation of terms is so problematical that it is difficult to distinguish between one term and the next. Although the definitions given to some terms may vary from one dictionary to the other, the Arabic equivalents adopted confuse the user as to the real meaning and usage of such terms. Confusion is deepened when terms of different accounting and commercial nature are being used as if they were synonyms, judging by the Arabic equivalents given to them. Furthermore, there are accounting terms referring to taxation which are unique to Australia and require explanation and translation. Having evaluated the dictionaries and assessed the equivalents given to certain terms, I discovered the need for a new method in lexicography. The introduction of this new method is to make easier the user's task of looking up an entry in the dictionary or trying to identify it. The results achieved in this research should be beneficial to users of general and accounting dictionaries. They are concerned with the collection, description, processing and presentation of terms specific to a single subject area - accounting with reference to taxation. The introduction of an improved method in lexicography, the manner of identifying the terms, the listing of entries and the steps followed in checking equivalents are major achievements of this research. The conclusions reveal to the users the disadvantages of existing arrangements and the way the entries use listed and lack of proper equivalents. This research has led to the formulation of accounting and taxation terms that are unique to Australia and have no equivalents in the Arab World. Such inclusion of new terms would enable the Arabic speaking people to understand the accounting system and the taxation structure in Australia. Such an introduction of terms is made easy by implementing the new method with terms numbered, defined, translated, identified and cross-referencedUniversity of Western Sydney
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Sjöstrand, Magnus. "Graphical Cross-Reference Browser for the OMDev Environment." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Programvara och system, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-100444.
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With todays software development we see huge structures of objects and relationships beingbuilt up. How these are constructed and designed is important to how we make robust andflexible architectures. Developers have to constantly have this overview in mind whenworking with the whole system to prepare for potential changes later on. One object may bereplaced by another one or removed completely; this is when the relationship going to andfrom them comes into picture. Many decisions on what to change or what to remove from thisstructure needs some way of proving that this wont have any side-effects on anything else. Adeveloper could make such a decision by scanning through all files and build a mindset of allthe dependencies between the objects to make sure that something like this would be okay.This report evaluates the possibilities of making a tool that can ease this task in order togain a better overview of all the dependencies going through the system. By observingprojects that are built for other similar tasks and how they haven chosen their implementationwe can build a tool that will inspect the objects specifically to Modelica code. This report alsodiscuss how we can elaborate on the number of features in order to gain more interactivityand make a more user-friendly experience to the end users.The results of our implementation will show a fully functional and optimized productinside the software Eclipse. This product provides all required information by extending uponexisting functionalities of Modelica to get the perspective and access to data that we need fora complete analyze. This report will also show how we effectively make use of graphicallibraries to provide interactivity, bonds, layout orderings and translation from data to visualsobjects. All of these together are ingredients to a tool in which a user can gain a fast responseand move around quickly in his model-structure. In the end we can see that our implementation can reference most things related todependencies in an object-oriented language and explain to the user how these relationshipsplay into our object-structure or where their sources are and where they are pointing.
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Grottheim, Odd Eirik. "Development and assessment of electronic manual for well control and blowout containment." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2701.
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DEA ?? 63, Floating Vessel Blowout Control is a blowout containment study which was
completed in 1990, and it did not include discussions about operations in the water
depths we currently operate in. As offshore drilling is continuously moving into deeper
and deeper waters, a need to further investigate well control and blowout containment in
ultradeep water has arisen.
This project describes the development and assessment of an electronic cross-reference
tool for well control and blowout containment, with added focus on ultradeep water
operations. The approach of this manual is fully electronic, thus being able to serve the
needs of the engineer/driller with greater ease in both pre-planning and in a stressful onthe-
job setting.
The cross-reference is a manual for the state of the art in well control and blowout
containment methodology. It provides easy-to-use topical organization by categories and
subcategories, and aims at providing clear links between symptoms, causes, and
solutions. Clear explanations to complicated issues are provided, and confirmation of
applicable blowout intervention procedures, be it conventional or unconventional, are
discussed.
Human error and equipment failure are the causes of blowouts, and they are bound to
happen in an ultradeep water environment. Well control events are harder to detect andhandle in ultradeep water, and quick reaction time is essential. After detection and shutin,
the Driller??s method is the preferred circulation method in ultradeep water, due to its
responsiveness and simplicity. In case kick handling is unsuccessful, contingency plans
should be in place to handle a potential blowout. If a blowout does occur, and the
blowing well does not self-kill through bridging, a dynamic kill through relief well
intervention is likely to be necessary, as underwater intervention is difficult in ultradeep
water. With new ultradeep water drilling technologies providing potential for increased
performance, alternative well control methods might be necessary. Along with these new
technologies follow new unfamiliar procedures, and proper education and training is
essential.
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Halgryn, Petrus J. (Petrus Johannes). "Cross pollination biology of apples, with special reference to 'African Red'." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51667.
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Thesis (MScAgric)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ineffective pollination of the main cultivar with the pollinator cultivar is due to either an incompatibility problem between the main and pollinator cultivar, or because the flowering times of the main and pollinator cultivars do not overlap adequately. Three trials were conducted to try and find a more effective way to determine cultivar compatibility and to group cultivars together according to their budburst reaction to chilling. Most apple cultivars are self-incompatible and need cross-pollination for fruit set. Due to differences in the genetically defined fertilisation compatibility between the pollen from the male parent (pollinator) and the egg cell of the female parent, various apple pollinators differ in their ability to set fruit with viable seed. Fruit weight and size are positively correlated with seed set although it has been found that the pollinator can have a direct influence on fruit quality. 'African Red' apple trees on M7 rootstock in an evaluation block on a commercial farm in the Koue Bokkeveld region (32°55'N 19°27'E, Mediterranean climate, ;::::1060Utah chill units, and ;::::530mm rainfall annually; altitude 966 m) were used to assess the influence of 5 pollinators ('Granny Smith', 'Winter Banana', 'Cripps' Pink', 'Cripps' Red' and 'Simpson Crab') on fruit set, fruit weight and length and diameter. The degree to which 'African Red' is self-compatible was also assessed and the effect of flowering position ("king" vs. lateral) on fruit quality was determined. None of the pollinators showed a significantly higher fruit set. No differences in fruit set were found between the "king" and lateral flowering positions. No significant differences were found in the average number or weight of well developed seeds between pollinators. In both years fruit weight was significantly correlated to seed number for all five pollinator cultivars. In 1998 'Simpson crab' gave fruit that were significantly more elongated than those of 'Cripps' Pink'. 'African Red' is highly self incompatible. Compatibility assessments that are based on the number of fruit that develop after the flowers ofthe main cultivar had been hand pollinated in field trials are a time-consuming process. Allele-specific PCR amplification for some of the known S-alleles of the incompatibility S-gene (S2, S3, S5, S7 and S9) was carried out to successfully predict the compatibility of genotypes. The results compared well with that found in literature. For all the Malus domestica cultivars tested at least one, but in some instances both alleles of the S-gene were determined. 'Simpson crab' (Malus baccata) did, however, not possess any of the tested S-alleles. One-year-old, ca. 40 mm long shoots of various apple cultivars were selected from commercial orchards in both the Elgin [34°S, 305 m, ca. 750 chill units (CU) (Richardson et al., 1974)] and Koue Bokkeveld (33°S, 945 m, ca. 1300 CU) regions of the Western Cape, South Africa in two consecutive years (1998 and 1999). Shoots were forced at a constant 25°C with continuous illumination after receiving their allocated chill units. The effect of chilling period on the budburst of each cultivar in both regions was estimated by determining, 1) the total proportion of budburst (%Bb), 2) the proportion of shoots with terminal budburst (%TBb), and 3) the rate of budburst [lI(days to 25% budburst)]. It was found that these indices differed significantly between cultivars, and within cultivars between areas, as far as budburst patterns, in reaction to chilling, were concerned. The rate of budburst was the most consistent in describing the reaction of buds to different chilling periods and could be used to group cultivars together according to their budburst reaction to chilling.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: KRUISBESTUIWINGSBIOLOGIE VAN APPELS MET SPESIALE VERWYSING NA 'AFRICAN RED'. Oneffektiewe kruisbestuiwing III die boord kan toegeskryf word aan Of onverenigbaarheid tussen die hoof- en bestuiwingskultivar Of as gevolg van die blomtyd van die kruisbestuiwer wat nie genoegsaam oorvleuel met die van die hoofkultivar nie. Drie proewe is uitgevoer om 'n meer effektiewe proses daar te stel vir die toets van kultivarverenigbaarheid en om kultivars te probeer groepeer na gelang van hul reaksie op bepaalde hoeveelhede koue. Meeste appelkultivars is selfonverenigbaar en benodig kruisbestuiwing vir genoegsame vrugset. As gevolg van verskille III die geneties gedefinieerde bevrugtingsverenigbaarheid tussen die stuifmeel van die manlike ouer (bestuiwer) en die eiersel van die vroulike ouer (hoofkultivar), verskil bestuiwers in hul vermoë om vrugte met sade te set. Vruggrootte en -massa is positief gekorreleerd met saadset alhoewel dit al gevind is dat die bestuiwer op sig self ook 'n invloed op vrugkwaliteit kan hê. 'African Red' appelbome op M7 onderstamme, in 'n evaluasie blok op 'n kommersiële plaas in die Koue Bokkeveld (32°55'N 19°27'E, Meditereense klimaat, ::::1060 Utah koue eenhede, en ::::530mmjaarlikse reënval; ligging 966 m), is gebruik om die invloed van 5 bestuiwers ('Granny Smith', 'Winter Banana', 'Cripps' Pink', 'Cripps' Red' and 'Simpson Crab') op vrugset, vrugmassa, -lengte en -deursnee oor twee seisoene te bepaal. Die mate waartoe 'African Red' self onverenigbaar is en die effek van blomposisie ("king" vs laterale blom) op vrugkwaliteit is ook bepaal. Geen een van die bestuiwers het vrugset beduidend beïnvloed nie. Ook is daar geen verskille gevind tussen die "king" en laterale blomposisies t.o.v. vrugset nie. Geen beduidende verskille is tussen bestuiwers gevind in die gemiddelde aantal of gewig van volsade geset nie .. In albei jare was die vrugmassa beduidend gekorreleerd met saadset vir al vyf bestuiwerkultivars. In 1998 het 'Simpson Crab' vrugte geset wat beduidend langer was as vrugte wat geset het toe 'Cripps' Pink' as bestuiwer gebruik is. Daar is ook gevind dat 'African Red' hoogs selfonverenigbaar is. Verenigbaarheidstoetse wat gebaseer is op die aantal vruggles wat ontwikkel nadat blomme van die hoofkultivar met die hand bestuif is, is 'n tydsame proses. Allele spesifieke PCR amplifikasie vir bekende S-allele van die onverenigbaarheids S-geen (S2, S3, S5 S7en S9) is suksesvol uitgevoer om die verenigbaarheid van genotipes vooraf te bepaal. Die resultate het goed vergelyk met wat in literatuur gevind is. Vir al die Malus domestica spesies wat getoets is, is ten minste een, en in sommige gevalle twee, van die S-allele gevind. Die blomappel 'Simpson' (Malus baccata) het egter nie een van die vyf S-allele opgelewer nie Een-jaar-oue, 40 mm lang lote van verskeie appelkultivars, is in twee opeenvolgende jare (1998 en 1999) vanuit kommersiële boorde in beide die Elgin [34°S, 305 m, ca. 750 koue eenhede (CU) (Richardson et al., 1974)] and Koue Bokkeveld (33°S, 945 m, ca. 1300 CU) areas van die Wes Kaap gsny. Die lote is geforseer om te bot by 'n konstante temperatuur van 25°C met deurlopende beligting, nadat elke groep lote aan 'n bepaalde hoeveelheid koue blootgestel is. Die effek van koue op bot van elke kultivar in beide areas is bepaal deur, 1) die totale persentasie knoppe wat gebot het, 2) die persentasie terminale knoppe wat gebot het, en 3) die tempo van bot [l/(dae tot 25% bot)] te meet. Daar is gevind dat bo-genoemde parameters beduidend tussen kultivars, en binne kultivars tussen areas, verskil. As 'n beskrywing van die reaksie van knoppe op koue het die tempo van bot die mees konstante resultate oor die twee opeenvolgende seisoene gelewer en kon hierdie parameter gebruik word om kultivars in groepe, na gelang van hul reaksie op koue, in te deel.
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Lund, Jeffrey A. "Fine-Grained Topic Models Using Anchor Words." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7559.
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Topic modeling is an effective tool for analyzing the thematic content of large collections of text. However, traditional probabilistic topic modeling is limited to a small number of topics (typically no more than hundreds). We introduce fine-grained topic models, which have large numbers of nuanced and specific topics. We demonstrate that fine-grained topic models enable use cases not currently possible with current topic modeling techniques, including an automatic cross-referencing task in which short passages of text are linked to other topically related passages. We do so by leveraging anchor methods, a recent class of topic model based on non-negative matrix factorization in which each topic is anchored by a single word. We explore extensions of the anchor algorithm, including tandem anchors, which relaxes the restriction that anchors be formed of single words. By doing so, we are able to produce anchor-based topic models with thousands of fine-grained topics. We also develop metrics for evaluating token level topic assignments and use those metrics to improve the accuracy of fine-grained topic models.
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Palmer, Nancy Nyberg. "Cross-cultural training and orientation for missionaries with special reference to the North American Baptist conference /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Kirdar, Serra. "Education, gender and cross-cultural experience with reference to elite Arab women." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:db8d8e68-d8df-4cad-97d3-81fd3f4e939c.
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The core of the thesis investigates the role of education in the engendering of cultural change and leadership among a select group of a powerful 'first generation' of Arab women; specifically, the role of dual educational/cultural experiences, both Arab and Western. The broader aim of the study is to analyze the merging of cultural traditionalism and modernity and how dual education has enhanced the ability of women, especially Arab women, to become leaders in their professional careers, and within their respective communities, whilst still maintaining strong ties to their culture, religion and traditions, albeit to varying degrees. The writer has chosen to investigate the association between cultural identity and educational experience of elite educated Arab women, through a small sample, who have had exposure to both Western and Arab educational systems at different points in their lives. The researcher's heritage has led to a fundamental ideological interest in the coexistence of traditionalism and modernisation and whether the two can complement one another. There are now a significant number of Arab women who have had the privilege of education and exposure to the two types of systems. Yet, gender constraints and predefined gender roles still very much dictate the socio-cultural contexts in which such women have to operate. The patriarchal 'system' is omnipresent in the West as well as in the Arab world. The challenges the writer has faced even as a 'Western' Arab to reconcile tradition and intellectual and educational exposure has served as a greater impetus for this investigation. The investigation and the intent of this thesis as described above, is to test the preliminary hypothesis that, in the context of elite Arab women, their exposure to both West and Arab educational cultures is germane to their potential for influencing female professional development. How their educational experiences have influenced their own identities and their ability to adhere to the gender roles prescribed is of significant interest. What influence has such education had on these women's prospects for instituting and pioneering change in their respective societies and professions? Is the synergy of certain aspects of modernity and tradition possible? The general conclusion is that it is.
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Lu, Cheng, John Roach, and George Sasvari. "Utilization of an IEEE 1588 Timing Reference Source in the iNET RF Transceiver." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/606168.
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ITC/USA 2008 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Fourth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 27-30, 2008 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaSynchronization of the iNET communication link is essential for implementing the TDMA channel access control functions within the transceiver MAC transport layer, and providing coherent signal demodulation timing at the transceiver PHY layer. In the following implementation, the 1588 timing reference source is the GPS receiver. Because it is being used in the Ground Station Segment and Test Article Segment, it becomes feasible to utilize the 1588 timing reference for cross-layer (MAC+PHY) iNET transceiver synchronization. In this paper, we propose an unified iNET transceiver synchronization architecture to improve iNET transceiver performance. The results of the synchronization performance analysis are given.
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Kadry, Mona Ahmed. "Cross Cultural Knowledge Transfer in IT Training Organisations, with specific reference to Egypt." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524698.
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Due to the rapid change of conditions knowledge is becoming increasingly more importance today. Knowledge is now considered superior to technology and capital as a source of competitive advantage, however needs to be efficiently transferred and well managed to explore its full potential. The process of knowledge transfer is actually the core business of training organisations. Even though, as in the present study, knowledge might be developed and maintained by third parties, yet, it is up to the training organisation to work on transferring this knowledge to their trainees. This study intends to investigate three main issues: 1. How knowledge is effectively transferred into an IT training organisation especially in Egypt. 2. Do cultural, political and socio-economic factors affect the process of knowledge transfer especially if this knowledge is an externally produced one coming from a different foreign context? 3. How knowledge can be repacked to suit local trainees. Attempting to cover these previous issues, a list of research aims and objectives followed by research questions were set up. The literature review which was found convenient, from the researcher's point of view, to cover so far these domains is shown in the contents of this report. In order to get empirical data to allow thorough analysis and investigation different research methodologies and tools were used and initial results and findings that were obtained will be presented during the course of the report.
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Ibrahim, Kamal Mohammed. "Genetic variation in composite cross five of barley : with special reference to disease resistance." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304277.
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Koutlaki, Sofia. "The Persian system of politeness and the Persian folk concept of face, with some reference to EFL teaching to Iranian native speakers." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339017.
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Ferreira, Elisabete. "Anaphoric demonstratives in student academic writing : A cross-disciplinary study of (un)attended this and these." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30220.
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Cohesive devices such as anaphoric reference play an important role in written discourse. This thesis investigates the extent to which the anaphoric demonstratives this and these are used as determiners (‘attended’) or pronouns (‘unattended’) by first-year undergraduate students from four different academic disciplines. Data extracted from the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus were analysed quantitatively to determine the frequency of use of attended and unattended this/these across disciplines, as well as qualitatively to examine the types of nominal and verbal structures that follow the demonstratives. When compared to findings from previous studies, novice student writers were found to employ this/these as pronouns to a larger extent than both students at a more advanced level and research article writers. It was also observed that the determiners this and these pattern differently, selecting distinct attending nouns to a great extent. In addition, comparison of the results for each subcorpus shows that even though there are some differences between the four disciplines, these differences are not as great as might be expected and do not indicate a clear distinction between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ sciences. While the influence of genre has not been scrutinised, other possible explanations proposed relate to the educational context and level of study in association with the range of lexical choices available to novice student writers.
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Winskel, Heather. "A cross linguistic study on the acquisition of temporal reference systems : Thai, Lisu and English." Thesis, Durham University, 1992. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1188/.
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Fioreze, Romeu. "The intermittent drying of agricultural crops with particular reference to energy requirements." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.331946.
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Olgemar, Markus. "Camera Based Navigation : Matching between Sensor reference and Video image." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Electrical Engineering, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15952.
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an Internal Navigational System and a Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS). In navigational warfare the GNSS can be jammed, therefore are a third navigational system is needed. The system that has been tried in this thesis is camera based navigation. Through a video camera and a sensor reference the position is determined. This thesis will process the matching between the sensor reference and the video image.
Two methods have been implemented: normalized cross correlation and position determination through a homography. Normalized cross correlation creates a correlation matrix. The other method uses point correspondences between the images to determine a homography between the images. And through the homography obtain a position. The more point correspondences the better the position determination will be.
The results have been quite good. The methods have got the right position when the Euler angles of the UAV have been known. Normalized cross correlation has been the best method of the tested methods.
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Kuloglu, Mustafa. "Development of a Novel Wideband Horn Antenna Polarizer and Fully Polarimetric Radar Cross Section Measurement Reference Target." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338387100.
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Toi, Claire. "Culture, race and therapy : with special reference to South African Chinese therapists." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49900.
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Thesis (MSc)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Differences between the therapist and the client such as differing genders, social classes, races, cultures and languages, inevitably influence the therapeutic situation. This research assignment reviews the literature available concerning multicultural counselling. the variables which therapists contend with in a multicultural therapeutic situation and the state of multicultural therapy in South Africa. The main body of this assignment focuses on the training experiences. as well as the countertransfcrential experiences. of therapists from a minority group with specific attention given to South African Chinese therapists. Also included are helpful ways of addressing the potential difficulties that arise in a therapeutic relationship where the culture or race of the therapist and client differ. In closing, this assignment asks what gaps exist in the literature with regard to South African Chinese therapists and what further research would be required to fill these gaps.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Verskille tussen die terapeut en die kliënt. soos verskillende geslagte. sosiale klasse. rasse. kulture en tale. beïnvloed die terapeutiese situasie onvermydelik. Hierdie navorsingsopdrag hersien die literatuur wat beskikbaar is ten opsigte van multikulturele voorligting. die veranderlikes waarmee terapeute te doen kry in 'n multikulturele terapeutiese situasie en die toestand van multikulturele terapie in Suid- Afrika. Die vernaamste deel van hierdie opdrag fokus op die opleidingservarings. asook die teenoordragervarings. van terapeute wat van 'n minderheidsgroep afkomstig is, met spesiale aandag aan Suid-Afrikaanse Chinese terapeute geskenk. Ook ingesluit is nuttige maniere om die potensiele struikelblokke wat in 'n terapeutiese verhouding ontstaan. waar die kultuur of ras van die terapeut en kliënt verskil. aan te spreek. Om afte sluit. hierdie opdrag bevraagteken die leemtes wat voorkom in cl ie Iiteratuur met betrekk ing tot Su id-A Crikaanse Ch inesc terapeute en watter verdere navorsi ng sal benodig word om hierdie leemtes te vul.
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Chang, Suzana. "The Influence of Cultural Factors Including Language on Business Outcomes: Perceptions and Experiences of New Zealand exporters in Asia with reference to South Korea." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9373.
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This thesis examines the role of language and culture in international business. Through a theoretical framework, it investigates how these are integrated and argues that an understanding of the complexity of the relationship between language and culture in cross-cultural communication is crucial in international business, as essentially it provides an explanation as to what effective communication means. The premise that language and cultural barriers might be preventing New Zealand businesses from enhanced engagement in Asia was investigated using quantitative data obtained from an online survey of New Zealand exporters supported by qualitative data from case studies. The results revealed that New Zealand companies were expressing much apprehension regarding language and cultural barriers prior to entry into Asia but upon entry, they had found that the experience had not been as difficult as anticipated. English alone was sufficient for the most part, particularly during the early phases. However, if businesses wanted to commit fully on a long term engagement with Asia, then English alone was not enough because without the knowledge of the local language and culture, they could not communicate effectively to build long-term relationships. Faced with a rapidly changing, increasingly competitive multilingual global environment, this study suggests that New Zealand businesses will need to find practical solutions to best enhance their opportunities in Asia.
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Hu, Hu. "Platelet and leukocyte activation, and platelet-leukocyte cross-talk : mechanistic aspects with special reference to diabetes mellitus /." Stockholm, 2003. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2003/91-7349-734-7.
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Suthrell, Charlotte. "Clothing culture : sex, gender and cross-dressing with reference to UK transvestites and the hijras of India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270148.
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Lee, Kwan-Hee. "Cross-sociocultural comparison of aesthetic attitudes to gardenscape with special reference to Chatsworth, England and Piwon, Korea." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260605.
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Manamathela, Sibongile Amelia. "The water footprint of selected crops within the Olifants/Doorn Catchment, South Africa." University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4751.
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>Magister Scientiae - MScRapidly increasing global population is adding more pressure to the agricultural sector to produce more food to meet growing demands. However the sector is already faced with a challenge to reduce freshwater utilisation as this sector is currently using approximately 70% of global water freshwater resources. In South Africa, the agriculture sector utilizes approximately 62% of freshwater resources and contributes directly about5% to the Gross Domestic Product. South Africa is a water scarce country receiving less than 500mm/year of precipitation in most parts of the country, and consequently approximately 90% of the crops are grown under irrigation. Studies have evaluated irrigation practices and crop water use in the country. However information is lacking on the full impact of South African horticultural products on freshwater resources. The water footprint concept can be used to indicate the total and source (blue/green) of water used to produce the crops. Information about water footprint (WF) can be used for identifying opportunities to reduce the water consumption associated with production of vegetables and fruits at the field to farm- gate levels, including the more effective use of rainfall (green water) as opposed to water abstracted from rivers and groundwater (Blue water). It can also be used to understand water related risks associated with the production of crops and facilitate water allocation and management at catchment/water management scale. While the potential value of water footprint information is well recognized there is still inadequate knowledge on how best to determine the water footprints of various crops within a local context. The aim of this study was to determine the water footprint and the crop water productivity of navel oranges, pink lady apples and potatoes produced with the Olifant/Doorn water management area in South Africa.The water footprint of the navel oranges, pink lady apples and potatoes assessed following the water footprint network method was 125 litres/ kg, 108 litres/kg and 65 litres/ kg respectively. The study concluded that water footprint studies should be carried out on the whole catchment instead of one farm in order to assess the sustainability of the process.
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Holland, James Ray. "The implications for ministry of the teachings of Kenneth Cracknell with special reference to former students." Fort Worth, Tex. : [Texas Christian University], 2006. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-10132009-085739/unrestricted/Holland.pdf.
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Thesis (D.Min.)--Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, 2006.Title from dissertation title page (viewed Nov. 5, 2009). Includes abstract. "A project report and thesis submitted to the Faculty of Brite Divinity School in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Ministry, Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Counseling." Includes bibliographical references.
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Padmasiri, Wanigasundara W. A. "Extension needs of a plantation industry with special reference to the tea industry in Sri Lanka." Thesis, University of Reading, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379215.
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Hägglöf, Peter. "Plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 : structure-function studies and its use as a reference for intramolecular distance measurements /." Umeå : Umeå University, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-177.
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Farage, P. K. "Chilling and freezing effects on photosynthesis and production in field crops with particular reference to photoinhibition." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383552.
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Oosthuizen, Henning. "A comparative study on the educational debate in central Europe, with specific reference to Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia 1989-1991." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17502.
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Bibliography: p. 191-205.This dissertation seeks to determine how the socio-economic and political changes, following the 1989 revolutions in Central Europe, have found reflection and led to the emergence of interest groups in the education debate. It looks at the reforms initiated by the new ruling .power-elite in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. This reform process, embodying the value system of the new governments, has led, the dissertation seeks to show, directly to new and vibrant interest groups on the educational landscape. This study identifies the seven prominent interest groups - seeking to satisfy their own interests - which engage the government in the education policy making arena. This policy making arena, which I refer to as the "arena of power", is analysed through focussing on the relationship of power between the seven interest groups and the state. The Halasz (1986: 123) classification of interest groups in communist Hungary in 1986, forms the point of departure for my examination of post-1989 interest groups. Each chapter highlights the circumstances that influenced the development of interest groups and the extent of their participation in reforms. The dissertation concludes with a reclassification of post-1989 interest groups in Central Europe, in order to facilitate a better understanding of the dynamics of interest groups in the "arena of power".
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Stoltmann, Katarzyna. "Where is the bottle? Cross-linguistic study on side assignment to objects and interpretation of static spatial relations by German, Polish, Italian and English native speakers." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22879.
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Das Ziel der Dissertation ist, den Gebrauch von sekundären Raumdeixes (‚vor‘, ‚hinter‘,
‚rechts / links von‘) und Referenzrahmen (absolut, intrinsisch, relativ) von deutschen,
englischen, italienischen und polnischen Muttersparcher_innen für die Beschreibung
von statischen Raumrelationen zu untersuchen. Zwei Experimente pro Sprache wurden
durchgeführt.
Das erste Experiment untersuchte Seitenzuweisung. Die Proband_innen sahen ein Objekt
von der Vorderseite (kanonische Position) und Rückseite (nicht-kanonische Position).
Das Ergebnis bestätigt, dass die Proband_innen der vier Sprachen die Außenperspektive
für die Seitenzuweisung des kanonisch stehenden vis-à-vis Objektes meistens benutzen.
Einige Variationen haben die Pol_innen und Italiener_innen gezeigt, vor allem bei
der Zuweisung von der rechten und linken Seite. Dabei wiesen die Deutschen und
Italiener_innen signifikante Unterschiede auf.
Mit dem Mouse Tracking habe ich die Interpretation von statischen Raumrelationen
von zwei Komplexitätsgraden untersucht. Die einfachen Raumrelationen enthielten
entweder ein extrinsisches oder intrinsisches Referenzobjekt (belebt; unbelebt) und eine
Flasche als lokalisiertes Objekt. Die komplexeren Raumrelationen wurden um einen
Agenten ergänzt und mit der indirekten Rede eingebettet. Das erlaubte die Erforschung
von Origo-Shift. In allen Raumrelationen wurden die Proband_innen gebeten, die
Lokalisation von der Flasche zu beschreiben. Die Deutschen und Italiener_innen zeigten
signifikante Unterschiede bei der Interpretation von einfachen belebten und unbelebten
intrinsischen Raumrelationen. Bei der Interpretation von komplexeren intrinsischen
Raumrelationen haben die polnischen Muttersprachler_innen die Origo am häufigsten zum
Agenten verschoben und von seinem Blickwinkel bezüglich des relativen Bezugsrahmens
die Relationen beschrieben. Im Allgemeinen, für die Interpretation von komplexeren
Raumrelationen ist die Wahl des intrinsischen Bezugsrahmens im Vergleich zu einfacheren
Raumrelationen signifikant gesunken. Das heißt, die meisten Proband_innen haben die
Origo zum Agenten verschoben und von seinem Blickwinkel die Raumrelationen bezüglich
der Spiegelstrategie interpretiert.The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the use of reference frames (absolute, relative, intrinsic) and secondary local deixes (‘in front of’, ‘behind’, ‘to the right / left of’) by German, English, Italian, and Polish native speakers to describe static spatial relations. Two experiments per language were carried out. The first experiment investigated side assignment. Participants saw the object from the front (the canonical position) and the back (the noncanonical position). The results confirm that for side assignments to a canonical positioned vis-à-vis object most speakers of the four languages use the outside perspective. However, some variations occurred for Polish and Italian, especially while identifying the right and left sides showing significant differences between German and Italian. Using mouse tracking, I tested the interpretation of static spatial relations of two kinds of complexity. The simple spatial relations included either extrinsic or intrinsic reference objects (animate; inanimate) and a bottle as localized object. The complex spatial relations were supplemented by an agent and embedded by indirect speech. This allows the investigation of origo shift. In all situations, participants were asked to describe the location of the bottle. German and Italian showed significant differences in interpreting simple animate and inanimate intrinsic relations. Interpreting the intrinsic complex relations, Polish speakers shifted the origo to the agent most frequently and described the relations from his point of view. All in all, for the complex relations, the choice of the intrinsic reference frame decreased significantly compared to the simple relations. That is, most participants shifted the origo to agents’ point of view and interpreted the spatial relations applying the reflection strategy.
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Kwak, Kyuseop. "Price response in multiple item choice spillover effects of reference price /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/143.
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Ruscheniko, Iona Helen Felicity. "Perceptions of academic workload with particular reference to research : a cross sectional survey of lecturing staff at the Port Elizabeth Technikon." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52399.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Change characterises life in the early twenty first century and higher education is no exception. Higher education in South Africa is currently in a considerable state of flux which ultimately is actualised at institutional level. It is academic staff who encounter these changes first hand. Technikon lecturers, in particular, are faced with additional challenges not faced by their university counterparts - they have been called upon to change from a primarily vocational to an academic alignment as a result of technikons being given the right to award degrees. This study conducts a cross sectional survey of academic staff at the Port Elizabeth Technikon to identify their academic workload, with particular reference to their research function. It also seeks to establish whether lecturers consider themselves to be adequately prepared for their research function. A review of the literature reveals that lecturers in higher education are involved in a wide variety of activities, the main ones being teaching, research, service, and scholarship. The literature review also shows that in overseas institutions with missions similar to the technikons, lecturers experienced changes to their workload as a result of the restructuring of higher education. The empirical study shows that academic staff at the Port Elizabeth Technikon have much in common with their international peers in terms of the changes and pressures that have been experienced. The work reality for lecturers at the named institution includes all the traditional elements associated with being academic: teaching, research, service and scholarship. Although research is a new function, this has been positively embraced by most staff and that in most cases lecturers consider themselves to be adequately prepared for this function. The empirical study also shows that more than one third of the respondents do not support the institutional vision of becoming "the first choice technological university of South Africa". Further, the study shows that, in common with other studies, staff were of the opinion that the institution undervalues teaching and that research attracts more recognition and rewards. Finally, it shows that significant numbers of staff work in excess of 50 hours per week and carry teaching loads that are greater than the institutional guidelines. Recommendations are made on the basis of these findings and a further avenue of research is suggested.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Verandering is 'n kenmerk van die lewe in die vroee een-en-twintigste eeu en hoer onderwys is geen uitsondering nie. Hoer onderwys in Suid-Afrika ervaar tans 'n besonderse toe stand van veranderlikheid, maar dit is uiteindelik op onderwysinrigtingvlak wat did tot verwerkliking kom. Dit is akademiese personeel wat hierdie veranderings eerstehands ondervind. In die besonder word Technikonpersoneel gekonfronteer met uitdagings waaraan hulle universiteitsewekniee nie blootgestel word nie - daar word van hulle vereis om van 'n primere beroeps-orientering oor te skakel na 'n akademiese ingesteldheid as gevolg van die feit dat technikons die mandaat verkry het om grade toe te ken. Hierdie studie het 'n opname onder akademiese personeel aan die Port Elizabethse Technikon gedoen om vas te stel wat die personeel se akademiese werkslading is, met besondere verwysing na hulle navorsingsfunksie. Die ondersoek poog ook om vas te stel of lektore van mening is dat hulle genoegsaam voorberei is vir hulle navorsingsfunksie. 'n Literatuuroorsig toon dat lektore in hoer onderwys betrokke is by 'n bree verskeidenheid aktiwiteite, waarvan die belangrikste onderrig, navorsing, dienslewering en vakkundigheid (scholarship) is. Die literatuurstudie toon ook dat in ander lande aan inrigtings met soortgelyke doelstellings as die technikons, lektore veranderings in hulle werksladings ondervind het as gevolg van die herstrukturering van hoer onderwys wat teen die einde van die twintigste eeu plaasgevind het. Die empiriese studie toon dat akademiese personeel aan die Port Elizabethse Technikon met betrekking tot die veranderings en druk wat ondervind word veel in gemeen het met hulle intemasionale ewekniee, Die realiteit in die werkplek vir lektore by genoemde inrigting sluit al die tradisionele elemente in wat verband hou met die akademie: onderrig, navorsing, diens en vakkundigheid (scholarship). Alhoewel navorsing 'n nuwe funksie is, is dit deur die meerderheid personeel positief aanvaar en in die meeste gevalle is lektore van mening dat hulle vir hierdie funksie voldoende voorberei is. Die empiriese studie toon ook dat meer as een derde van die respondente nie die institusionele visie om "die eerste-keuse tegnologiese universiteit van Suid-Afrika te wees" ondersteun rue. Voorts toon die studie soos ook in ander studies, dat personeel van mening was dat die inrigting onderrig geringskat en dat meer erkenning en belonings aan navorsing gegee word. Laastens toon dit dat 'n beduidende aantal personeellede meer as 50 uur per week werk- en onderrigladings dra wat meer is as die riglyne van die inrigting. Op grond van hierdie bevindings word aanbevelings gemaak en 'n verdere navorsingsrigting voorgestel.
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Wong, Wai Yoke V. "The role of scientific research in the development of exported cash crops with particular reference to Malaysia." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354359.
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Åman, S. (Sari). "Markers of collagen metabolism in the assessment of rheumatoid arthritis:with special reference to cross-linked carboxyterminal telopeptide of type I collagen (ICTP)." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 1999. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514253116.
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the value
of different markers of collagen metabolism in assessing the disease
process and further disease progression in patients with inflammatory
arthritis, mainly rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
In a series of 59 patients with RA and knee joint effusion,
the level of synovial fluid (SF) carboxyterminal telopeptide of
type I collagen (ICTP), a marker for type I collagen degradation,
was associated with the Larsen's grade of the corresponding
joint (p < 0.001). The mean SF concentrations of ICTP
and the markers of type I and III collagen synthesis (the aminoterminal
propeptides of type I and III procollagens, PINP and PIIINP) were
higher than those in serum. In addition, the levels of these markers
correlated with each other in both serum and SF (p < 0.001
in both occasions).
In a three-year follow-up study of 44 RA patients from the
abovementioned series and 11 patients with other chronic arthritides,
a high SF ICTP level turned out to reflect accelerated radiological
progression in the assessed joint (p < 0.05). Contrary
to this, the results on the SF leukocyte level were contradictory.
In a population-based cross-sectional series of 90 patients
with advanced RA, elevated baseline serum ICTP levels discriminated
the patients with a need for total joint replacement surgery from
those with milder disease (p = 0.001) in a three-year
follow-up.In a study of 52 patients with recent onset RA, the changes
in BMD during a two-year follow-up were not associated with the
serum level of markers of type I collagen metabolism. In this series,
however, the decrease in BMD (measured in the spine and the femoral
neck) was smaller than earlier reported.
In a three-year follow-up series of 63 patients with early
RA, the patients with simultaneously elevated serum ICTP (> 4.6
mg/l) and RF positivity at baseline, had an increased
risk for progressive joint disease (an increase in Larsen's
score > 20 as assessed from radiographs of hands and feet)
with an odds ratio of 9.1 (95% CI 2.5 to 32.9). A risk
profile of this kind may be useful in early disease assessment
to identify the patients who will need the most active drug therapy.
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Hutton, Ian William. "The legal aspects of cross-border asset tracing with specific reference to the conflict of laws elements of international civil fraud litigation." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343554.
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Masoud, B. S. "Legal challenges of cross-border insolvencies in Sub-Saharan Africa with reference to Tanzania and Kenya : a framework for legislation and policies." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2012. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/239/.
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Although a substantial body of literature has developed in recent years in the area of cross-border insolvency, this scholarship has been dominated by scholars from the United States and Europe, so that a perspective from most of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries is lacking. This study addresses this perspective. It makes an in-depth examination and discussion of the challenges that SSA countries face in reform and application of cross-border insolvency law given the ever-growing multinational trade and investment. The study focuses on the risk of failure of SSA legislative processes to properly address the potential challenges of cross-border insolvencies in a manner that is sensitive to the local contexts and which provides a balance with international insolvency benchmarks. It examines cross-border insolvency theories; the global drivers for convergence of insolvency law through global insolvency norms; and the implications for cross-border insolvency regulations arising from cross-border trade and investment arrangements, such as the bilateral investment treaties, before considering the state and future of the legislative frameworks of SSA countries. It then brings out the ‘pressures’ exerted on and issues that emerge in the consideration and quest for crafting a workable and appropriate cross-border insolvency framework for a SSA country. Notably, the current insights and the pressures from the global convergence may result in unsuitable legislative reforms as such insights and the global insolvency norms are not necessarily and directly relevant to SSA situations. The study offers the perspective that has hitherto been lacking in the current scholarship and provides a theoretical insight and understanding on how the crafting of a workable and appropriate legislative framework may be undertaken, taking account of local policies and providing a balance with the existing international insolvency benchmarks. The study underscores the significance and challenge of prioritising the local contexts in developing a functional cross-border insolvency framework.
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Stafne, Brice E. "Development and application of a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model for assessment of modern and historical flow conditions of Upper Mississippi River Pool 8 near La Crosse, Wisconsin." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3537.
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The Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) is a diverse and dynamic ecosystem that includes the main stem river channel, side channels, backwater floodplains and lakes, islands, wetlands, grasslands, and floodplain forests. The hydrology of this rich ecosystem is one of the key drivers for physical, chemical and biological processes. However, the hydrology and hydraulics of the UMRS has been drastically altered from its natural state as a result of the construction of the locks and dams in the 1930s. Beginning with the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, biologists, ecologists, and engineers have been working to restore the river to a more natural state within the current constraints imposed by the lock and dam system. In an effort to restore rivers to a more natural state, the determination of a hydraulic reference condition is essential to understanding the "why and how" of historical river system function. Understanding the fundamental processes of historical conditions will help prioritize resources and better quantify possible outcomes for riverine restoration.
The main goal of this study was to construct a hydrodynamic reference condition for Pool 8 of the Upper Mississippi River System using hydrodynamic computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling. The CFD model will provide a better understanding of pre-impoundment flow conditions as compared to post-impoundment conditions today. The numerical model was constructed and developed primarily from a pre-impoundment 1890s topographic map with bathymetric cross-sections in the channels. The 1890s map and other sources from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided historic elevation and hydraulic reference data for model calibration. The calibrated historic model was then compared with a current model of similar scale representing post-impoundment conditions, allowing for quantitative analysis of the differences between the two conditions.
Model results indicated large changes in average depth and average velocity between historic and current conditions in certain parts of the pool, while others remained relatively unchanged. For example, velocities decreased in main channel aquatic areas in the lower part of Pool 8 from an average of 0.6 m/s (2.0 ft/s) under historic conditions to 0.1 m/s (0.3 ft/s) under current conditions. In the same part of the pool, however, velocities in contiguous backwater areas remained relatively constant, with most remaining less than 0.25 m/s (0.82 ft/s). Additionally, in the lower part of the pool, discharge distribution between the floodplain areas and the main channel was historically much more dynamic, with flow concentrated in the main and secondary channels at discharges less than 2265 m3/s and in the floodplains at greater than 2265 m3/s. Under current conditions, discharge distribution is much less dynamic, with approximately 2/3 of the total discharge conveyed on the floodplain for all discharges modeled (283 m3/s to 2832 m3/s or 10,000 ft3/s to 100,000 ft3/s).
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Pakiam, Geoffrey Kevin. "Smallholder involvement in tree crops in Malaya, with special reference to oil and coconut palms in Johor, 1862-1963." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2017. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26485/.
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Pattichis, Charalambos Athanasiou. "Cyprus and the Common Agricultural Policy : a quantitative analysis, with special reference to arable crops, livestock and dairy products." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624196.
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Manolas, Evangelos. "The politics of international human rights regimes : with particular reference to the work of Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1989. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU019882.
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This thesis attempts to apply regime 'theory' to the issue-area of international human rights. This is done with reference to the evolution of the concept of human rights, human rights in East-West and North-South relations, the subject of international co-operation on human rights, i.e. international and regional human rights regimes and the work of international human rights NGOs. Regime 'theory' is particularly applied with regard to the work of Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross and with regard to the subject of promotion rather than protection of human rights. In an attempt to supplement the few existing and 'in length' applications of regime analysis to human rights issues the thesis also looks at the issues examined in an 'in breadth' manner, i.e. looking at specific human rights regimes such as the one against torture rather than at the entire post-war history of all international human rights regimes as the existing 'in length' academic articles have done. This analysis reveals the true value of the two important regime 'theoretical' propositions: (1) changes in norms and principles constitute changes of the regime itself and (2) if there is inconsistency between the regime and related behaviour then this constitutes a weakening of the regime. Regime analysis constitutes a useful analytic tool and should not be dismissed as a 'passing fad' or as 'in itself making little in the way of a long-term contribution to knowledge'. This was so for a number of reasons: (1) regimes are real and do influence behaviour and outcomes; (2) regime analysts have become students of international relations in the true meaning of the term since, by looking at the connecting points of international law politics, security and economics, they offer deep and thorough analyses of an issue; and (3) none of the three regime approaches, i.e. idealism, realism and modified structuralism (with the last one expanded to include cases where there is a fortunate convergence between humanitarian and political/security/economic concerns) can by itself offer a satisfactory account of the full range of observable phenomena. The above three points also re-confirm the validity of conclusions already drawn by other studies which utilized regime analysis. The value of regime analysis was also confirmed by other findings in the thesis: (1) the two regime 'theoretical' propositions as outlined above provided important guidelines in identifying areas which constitute a weakening of human rights regimes and as such they may be seen as very useful warning mechanisms in the service of those who seek to advance human rights, e.g. NGOs; (2) the basic causal factors utilized in the thesis, i.e. self-interest, power, norms and values as well as the two added by the author, that is ideology and foreign policy, although not constituting an exhaustive list, they were, nevertheless, sufficient in offering a more or less satisfactory account of issues under examination; and (3) basic causal factors, regime 'theoretical' propositions as well as the three regime perspectives, offered a basic framework within which to discuss various human rights issues.
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Allen, Rosemary Joy. "Combining content-based and EAP approaches to academic writing: Towards an eclectic program." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2016. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1788.
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Over the past decade, Australian universities have experienced an exponential increase in the enrolment of fee-paying overseas students whose preparation for tertiary studies may differ significantly from that of local students. Despite English language proficiency requirements, there is some concern that international entry tests do not adequately measure the complex features of university writing; an important concern given that student success is heavily dependent on their mastery of academic writing. As a result, many international students require additional support structures. Until the present, debate about the most effective way to meet the diverse needs of English as an Additional Language (EAL) writers entering universities has concerned a choice between two alternatives: on one hand a separate, short-term English for Academic Purposes (EAP) language program and on the other, direct entry into disciplines with lecturers taking responsibility for assisting students to learn the discipline-specific language skills required. While the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA, 2009, 2013) supports the latter view, this research investigates a third alternative; that is, an English for Academic Purposes Pathway program (EAPP) that not only teaches general academic English skills, but also English required in discipline specific contexts, as well as important and necessary adjunct skills that support writing.
This three-phase, mixed-methods study used both qualitative and quantitative data to investigate the efficacy of such a program. The study, which was analytic, descriptive and comparative in approach, was conducted in a naturalistic setting and, where possible, qualitative data were used to support the findings from quantitative data. Theoretical propositions guided the data collection and provided important links to connect primary and secondary research. Phase 1 investigated the academic writing needs perceived by 60 students who were either studying in the 20-week or 10-week EAPP program at Swan University (a pseudonym). Perceptions of student needs by 13 EAPP teachers were also analysed and writing samples collected. In Phase 2, the cohort decreased to 31 students representing seven faculties. Perceptions of 17 faculty staff from across and within these seven faculties were sought regarding the tasks and genres required for EAL students to meet the writing expectations within these disciplines. The marked ex-EAPP student’s faculty writing assignments were collected and analysed at the end of first semester. At this stage, because the volume of student writing produced over the course of the study was so large, disproportional stratified random sampling was used to select and analyse the EAPP and faculty writing of a sample of seven students. Research by Kaldor, Herriman and Rochecouste (1998) provided direction for frame analysis which was used to analyse the student writing. In Phase 3, which was conducted one year after entering their chosen faculties, 22 students replied to a request to judge which, if any, writing skills from their EAPP program had transferred to assist them with their faculty writing.
Findings are discussed in relation to four major issues. Firstly, reflections provided by ex-EAPP students ascertained that, on entering the EAPP program, the majority of them had been academically, linguistically, culturally and socially unprepared for study at master’s degree level in an Australian university. Secondly, analysis determined that in the students’ first year of faculty study, writing tasks and genres were almost identical in type, complexity and word-count restrictions to those taught in the EAPP program and that students readily adapted to the highly specified frameworks of any tasks that were unfamiliar. A third major finding was the significance that students placed on the type of feedback necessary to support their writing. Finally, students identified major areas of improvement in their academic writing at the end of the program, but provided suggestions in key pedagogical areas about how the EAPP program could be improved to better address their needs. This study found that EAL writing development involves much more than content knowledge, mastery over discipline-specific genre requirements and a wide vocabulary. Academic writing comprises a complex combination of extratextual, circumtextual, intratextual and intertextual features and skills, some of which are completely new to international students. A model was proposed to illustrate elements that provide: circumtextual assistance for prewriting support; intertextual assistance through reading and writing support; extratextual assistance through sociocultural support, and intratextual assistance through the scaffolding of academic writing skills. To conclude, recommended modifications to the program are presented.
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Qasem, Jamal Ragheb Said. "Fat-hen (Chenopodium album L.) and groundsel (Senecio vulgaris L.) interference with certain vegetable crops : with special reference to nutrition." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/47714.
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Tsaliki, Anastasia. "An investigation of extraordinary human body disposals, with special reference to necrophobia : a multi-disciplinary analysis with case studies from Greece and cross-cultural comparisons." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5251/.
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This project investigates in depth and from a multi-disciplinary perspective the phenomenon of deviant burials and anomalous disposal of the dead with emphasis on necrophobia (fear of the dead; the term is introduced by the author for use in the disciplines of anthropology and archaeology). A list of criteria and a recording form for the identification of deviancy in burial contexts have been compiled and are suggested as a potential general methodology scheme. Theories of death, deviancy, and necrophobia are examined and are elaborated with case studies from Greece and cross-cultural comparison data. The project also evaluates whether the burial or disposal context and the physical condition & health status of the body are related, if their analysis reveals information on the individual's social status in life and death, and how necrophobia influences burial customs. An attempt has been made to: 1. Explain the deviant treatment of human remains considering and combining the burial customs, socio-religious factors including superstitious beliefs and social violence, burial context, and the palaeodemographical & palaeopathological data;2. Give emphasis to the concept of necrophobia and to its relation to cases of unusual burial treatment;3. Investigate temporal and spatial patterns of deviancy in the burial record;4. Emphasise the need for precise recording of burials and their context;5. Identify the limitations of the project. The project provides a novel multidisciplinary approach to the study of deviancy and necrophobia in the burial record; such a study has not, to the author’s knowledge, previously been conducted on as wide a scale against a detailed contextual background, and it is the first comprehensive study on Greek unusual burials. The research has potential for future development through the study of additional empirical data from different cultures & periods, and its theory and methodology may have forensic applications. Isotope analysis of the deviant individuals is also suggested as a method to provide information on diet and place of origin.
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Jackson, Thomas Edwin. "Youth work in Northern Ireland : an investigation of current trends and objectives and their effectiveness, with special reference to the practice of cross-community intervention." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357789.
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Mucha, Anne [Verfasser], Malte Akademischer Betreuer] Zimmermann, and Lisa [Akademischer Betreuer] [Matthewson. "Temporal interpretation and cross-linguistic variation : A formal semantic analysis of temporal and aspectual reference in Hausa and Medumba / Anne Mucha ; Malte Zimmermann, Lisa Matthewson." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2016. http://d-nb.info/121839997X/34.
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Mucha, Anne [Verfasser], Malte [Akademischer Betreuer] Zimmermann, and Lisa [Akademischer Betreuer] Matthewson. "Temporal interpretation and cross-linguistic variation : A formal semantic analysis of temporal and aspectual reference in Hausa and Medumba / Anne Mucha ; Malte Zimmermann, Lisa Matthewson." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2016. http://d-nb.info/121839997X/34.
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Zhao, Li. "Cross-cultural issues in local managers' education and training in foreign companies in the People's Republic of China : with specific reference to the Shanghai Economic Zone." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11531/.
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The purpose of the research conducted is to investigate the effects of local managers' education and training on corporate culture in foreign companies in the People's Republic of China. In order to realise the purpose, the project sets up three corresponding aims. First, an examination of corporate values and the corresponding cross-cultural issues in Western companies in a Chinese context is given. Second, a prescription of various adaptation forms of these companies is provided. Finally, the effects of the training on the corporate culture are evaluated and presented. The study employs a qualitative methodology for the exploration. Foreign companies covering the main fields of business activities in China were selected with an emphasis on the two countries: the United Kingdom and the United States. Thirty participants from those sample companies were interviewed face-to-face with semi-structured questions. The fieldwork was carried out mainly in Shanghai, which is the biggest city and an economic zone in China. At the same time, documentation was used as a complementary method in terms of providing relevant information. Data were also collected from two Asian foreign enterprises in China for benchmark. Final results in light of the research purpose and aims indicate that a foreign company in China, which is internationally accepted, is likely to apply a corporate culture that accommodates both similarities and differences between the local culture and the original culture of the foreign parent company. Such a corporate culture is not judged by its form, for it is neither a typical culture of a Western organisation nor typical one of a Chinese enterprise. It allows the corporation to keep international standards and simultaneously be capable of cultivating local managers to accept it emotionally. In this sense, local managers' education and training need to be perceived as a cultural process and delivered in a flexible way. The effects of the training upon the corporate culture are identified.
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Whale, George A. "An investigation of spatial strategy in observational drawing." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/2726.
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Guerra, Alessandra Regina [UNESP]. "Diacronia do grau de transparência do sistema de referência por expressão pronominal e desinencial do argumento-sujeito de 1ª e 2ª pessoas no português brasileiro." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/152035.
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O objetivo desta tese de doutorado é analisar a diacronia do grau de transparência do sistema de referência por expressão pronominal e desinencial do argumento-sujeito de 1ª e 2ª pessoas no português brasileiro. Especificamente, analisa-se a variação diacrônica do grau de transparência desse sistema decorrente da interação entre três mudanças ocorridas na história da língua: aumento da frequência de expressão pronominal do argumento-sujeito, aumento da frequência de uso do pronome "você" em detrimento de "tu" e aumento da frequência de emprego da forma pronominal "a gente" em prejuízo de "nós". O quadro teórico adotado é constituído por uma articulação entre a Gramática Discursivo-Funcional (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008) e um conjunto de trabalhos sobre motivações comunicativas, como iconicidade e economia, determinantes da estrutura das línguas e da dinâmica de processos de mudança diacrônica. O período recortado para estudo estende-se da primeira metade do século XIX ao início do século XXI, e o corpus da pesquisa é composto por peças de teatro brasileiras produzidas nesse período. Os dados apresentados e discutidos mostram que o grau de transparência do referido sistema, no recorte temporal selecionado, oscila em torno de um determinado eixo, variando ora em direção a diminuição, ora em direção a aumento de transparência, não se alterando de forma unidirecional. Argumenta-se, então, que esse resultado estaria vinculado, em grande medida, à atuação igualmente relevante das motivações comunicativas de iconicidade e economia.
This dissertation aims at analyzing the diachronic variation in the degree of transparency of the referential system in Brazilian Portuguese, taking into account the reference to first and second person attained in the expression of Subject argument through pronoun and verbal affix. Specifically, the variation in transparency caused by three diachronic changes is addressed: percentage increase in the pronominal expression of Subject argument, percentage increase in the use of the pronoun "você" ("you") to substitute "tu" ("you"), percentage increase in the use of the pronoun "a gente" ("we") in order to replace "nós" ("we"). The theoretical framework carried out here is drawn from an articulation between Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie, 2008) and works on communicative motivations such as iconicity and economy, which are considered as forces that determine language structure and diachronic change processes. The historical period analyzed covers the period between the first half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, and the corpus of investigation includes Brazilian plays produced during that period. The data show that the degree of transparency of the aforementioned system oscillates around a certain axis, since it sometimes varies towards decrease, sometimes towards increase of transparency, rather than moving in a unidirectional movement. This study argues that this result is associated to a great extent with an equally relevant influence of iconic and economic motivations.
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White, Carol. "Sixth form general studies: some aspects of curriculum development in English schools foundation schools withparticular reference to King George Vth School." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31955514.
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