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Zhao, Lei. "Study on Optimality Conditions in Stochastic Linear Programming." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1343%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Prinz, Pascal. "Turnaround Strategies in Response to the Asian Crisis A Large-Sample Study of the Role of Asset and Cost Retrenchment in Singapore /." St. Gallen, 2004. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01666023001/$FILE/01666023001.pdf.
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Srinivaasan, Gayathri. "Malicious Entity Categorization using Graph modelling." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-202980.
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Today, malware authors not only write malicious software but also employ obfuscation, polymorphism, packing and endless such evasive techniques to escape detection by Anti-Virus Products (AVP). Besides the individual behavior of malware, the relations that exist among them play an important role for improving malware detection. This work aims to enable malware analysts at F-Secure Labs to explore various such relationships between malicious URLs and file samples in addition to their individual behavior and activity. The current detection methods at F-Secure Labs analyze unknown URLs and file samples independently without taking into account the correlations that might exist between them. Such traditional classification methods perform well but are not efficient at identifying complex multi-stage malware that hide their activity. The interactions between malware may include any type of network activity, dropping, downloading, etc. For instance, an unknown downloader that connects to a malicious website which in turn drops a malicious payload, should indeed be blacklisted. Such analysis can help block the malware infection at its source and also comprehend the whole infection chain. The outcome of this proof-of-concept study is a system that detects new malware using graph modelling to infer their relationship to known malware as part of the malware classification services at F-Secure.Idag, skadliga program inte bara skriva skadlig programvara men också använda förvirring, polymorfism, packning och ändlösa sådana undan tekniker för att fly detektering av antivirusprodukter (AVP). Förutom individens beteende av skadlig kod, de relationer som finns mellan dem spelar en viktig roll för att förbättra detektering av skadlig kod. Detta arbete syftar till att ge skadliga analytiker på F-Secure Labs att utforska olika sådana relationer mellan skadliga URL: er och fil prover i Förutom deras individuella beteende och aktivitet. De aktuella detektionsmetoder på F-Secure Labs analysera okända webbadresser och fil prover oberoende utan med beaktande av de korrelationer som kan finnas mellan dem. Sådan traditionella klassificeringsmetoder fungerar bra men är inte effektiva på att identifiera komplexa flerstegs skadlig kod som döljer sin aktivitet. Interaktioner mellan malware kan innefatta någon typ av nätverksaktivitet, släppa, nedladdning, etc. Till exempel, en okänd loader som ansluter till en skadlig webbplats som i sin tur släpper en skadlig nyttolast, bör verkligen vara svartlistad. En sådan analys kan hjälpa till att blockera malware infektion vid källan och även förstå hela infektion kedja. Resultatet av denna proof-of-concept studien är ett system som upptäcker ny skadlig kod med hjälp av diagram modellering för att sluta deras förhållande till kända skadliga program som en del av de skadliga klassificerings tjänster på F-Secure.
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Mondaca, Fernandez Iram. "Spectroscopy Techniques for quantification of Microorganisms in Environmental Samples." Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2006. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1416%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Ma, Wing Yan. "Five sample joint neutrino/antineutrino oscillation analysis in T2K." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/58946.
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This thesis describes a simultaneous fit to all five of the far detector oscillation samples analysed to date (FHC/RHC 1Rmu, FHC/RHC 1Re and FHC nue CC1pi+) using T2K data taken from 2009-2017 with \sci{1.47}{21}~POT in neutrino mode and \sci{0.76}{21}~POT in antineutrino mode. The aim of this analysis is to search for CP violation by setting limits on \dcp and measure the oscillation parameters \sonethree, \stwothree and \Dm232. The T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) experiment is a long-baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment that is designed to make precision measurements of neutrino oscillation by observing numu disappearance and nue appearance. A numu beam is produced using a 30 GeV proton beam at the J-PARC and is detected by the near detector complex, ND280, and by the far detector, Super-Kamiokande, which is 295 km away from J-PARC. The far detector and one of the near detectors are located in an off-axis direction to the neutrino beam centre, resulting a narrow neutrino energy peak of 0.6 GeV and where the numu survival probability is expected to be minimal (or maximal nue appearance probability). The neutrino fluxes and their uncertainties at the near and far detector are predicted by the Monte Carlo simulation tuned with data from external hadron production experiments. The uncertainties of the neutrino flux parameters and certain neutrino interactions parameters at the far detector are reduced by the measurement at the off-axis near detector. Since the last analysis there has been improvement to event reconstructions at SK which results in 20% increase in nue increased purity in the 1R muon samples. Using data taken from 2009-2017, we observed 240 mu-like, 74 e-like, 15 nue CC1pi+ -like events in neutrino mode, and 68 mu-like, 7 e-like events in antineutrino mode. Confidence intervals for delta CP are produced using the Feldman-Cousins method, and confidence intervals of the other oscillation parameters are produced using the constant delta chi square method. The best-fit oscillation parameter values are found to be consistent with previous official results while giving tighter constraints. There is a first indication of CP conservation in neutrino sector excluded at 2 sigma level. The results are also presented showing the correlations that exist between the oscillation parameters.
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Ding, Jiani, Zheng Cai, Xiaohui Fan, Stark Daniel P, Fuyan Bian, Linhua Jiang, McGreer Ian D, Robertson Brant E, and Brian Siana. "Constraining C iii] Emission in a Sample of Five Luminous z = 5.7 Galaxies." IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623843.
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Recent observations have suggested that the C III] lambda 1907/1909 emission lines could be alternative diagnostic lines for galaxies in the reionization epoch. We use the F128N narrowband filter on the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to search for C III] emission in a sample of five galaxies at z = 5.7 in the Subaru Deep Field and the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field. Using the F128N narrowband imaging, together with the broadband imaging, we do not detect C III] emission for the five galaxies with JAB ranging from 24.10 to 27.00 in our sample. For the brightest galaxy J132416.13+274411.6 in our sample (z = 5.70, J(AB) = 24.10), which has a significantly higher signal to noise, we report a C III] flux of 3.34 +/- 1.81 x 10(-18) erg s(-1)cm(-2), which places a stringent 3 sigma upper limit of 5.43 x 10(-18) erg s(-1)cm(-2) on C III] flux and 6.57 angstrom on the C III] equivalent width. Using the stacked image, we put a 3 sigma upper limit on the mean C III] flux of 2.55 x 10(-18) erg s(-1) cm(-2) and a 3 sigma upper limit on the mean C III] equivalent width of 4.20 angstrom for this sample of galaxies at z = 5.70. Combined with strong C III] detection reported among high-z galaxies in the literature, our observations suggest that the equivalent widths of C III] from galaxies at z > 5.70 exhibit a wide range of distribution. Our strong limits on C III] emission could be used as a guide for future observations in the reionization epoch.
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Bewsey, Kyle. "Exploring Psychopathic Personality Traits and Moral Development in a Non-criminal Sample." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271780/.
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This study explored psychopathic personality traits among a non-criminal, college undergraduate sample. Much research has been done on conceptualizing the construct of psychopathy, but this work has been conducted primarily with incarcerated individuals using a structured interview, The Psychopathy Checklist – Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 1991, 2003). The goal of the current study was to assess psychopathic traits among non-criminal individuals using The Self-Report Psychopathy Scale - Version Four (SRP-IV; Paulhus, Neumann, & Hare, in press), and compare how SRP-IV scores were associated with a well recognized semi-structured interview for psychopathy, The Psychopathy Checklist – Screening Version (PCL: SV; Hart, Cox, & Hare, 1995). The study also examined whether psychopathic personality traits could be predicted using a measure of normal-range personality, based on the five-factor model (FFM; Digman, 1990), and a measure developed by Loevinger (1976) related to ego development. Five-Factor Model Rating Form (FFMRF; Mullins-Sweat, Jamerson, Samuel, Olson, & Widiger, 2006) scores and Total Protocol Ratings (TPR score) on the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT; Hy & Loevinger, 1996) were used to predict psychopathy scores. Correlations of SRP-IV scores and PCL: SV scores with FFMRF scores and WUSCT TPR scores were also examined for their uniformity. As predicted, there were significant, negative correlations between FFM domains, Agreeableness and Conscientious, and SRP-IV scores, as well as significant, negative correlations between WUSCT TPR scores and SRP-IV scores. These correlations ranged from small to strong for both SRP-IV overall scores and for SRP-IV factor scores (i.e., Interpersonal Manipulation, Callous Affect, Erratic Lifestyle, and Criminal Tendencies). Additionally, FFM domain scores and WUSCT TPR scores significantly predicted SRP-IV scores. FFM domains, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, and WUSCT TPR scores, were the strongest predictors of SRP-IV scores. Similar results were found when FFM domain scores and WUSCT TPR scores predicted SRP-IV factor scores. Results also indicated Agreeableness and Conscientious explained an additional 24% of the variance in psychopathy scores, after controlling for WUSCT TPR scores. Conversely, WUSCT TPR scores explained an additional 5% of the variance in psychopathy scores after controlling for Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Finally, as predicted, the differences in correlations between psychopathy scores (i.e., PCL: SV, SRP-IV), and Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and WUSCT TPR scores were not statistically significant providing evidence that correlates of psychopathic traits can be measured among non-criminal individuals using a self-report measure, the SRP-IV, and that these findings are concordant with those based on a standardized structured assessment for psychopathy. Limitations of the study, implications, and recommendations for future research are also discussed.
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Burkhard, Michael A. "Sample fabrication and experimental approach for studying interfacial sliding in thin film-substrate systems." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Sep%5FBurkhard.pdf.
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Thornell, Mark E. "Sample fabrication and experimental design for studying interfacial creep at thin film/silicon interfaces." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Mar%5FThornell.pdf.
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Tepondjou, Nguedia R. L. "The impact of sample scale on the compressibility parameters of saturated fine-grained soils." Thesis, University of Salford, 2016. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/38076/.
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The need for an improved understanding of the influence of sample scale on the compressibility behaviour of fine-grained soils is crucial in many applications, such as roads, embankments and foundations. The effect of sample scale represents a challenge when obtaining engineering parameters in the laboratory compared to those obtained in the field. This research therefore aimed at contributing to existing knowledge through both experimental and numerical studies. The experimental study was completed via a series of consolidation tests on fully saturated fine-grained soil (i.e. kaolin clay) at various sample scales, which were subsequently explored analytically using the finite element software PLAXIS 2D. This type of clay was chosen as it is easily sourced and well known. A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD) were employed in studying the micro-structure of the soil. The Oedometer apparatus was used to obtain the combined effect of sample scale and initial moisture content on the compressibility parameters of kaolin clay. Compressibility parameters such as coefficient of consolidation (cv), compression index (cc) and coefficient of volume compressibility (mv) were also investigated in this study. Three different methods were used to obtain cv: Casagrande, Taylor’s and Inflection methods. The sample scales were divided into three categories: soil sample height, diameter and diameter to height (D/H) ratio scale. Particular attention was given to the D/H ratio effect on the compressibility parameters due to the frictionless boundary conditions, and sample diameter scale due to drainage path length. Based on the experimental data, Taylor’s method was considered more reliable in deriving cv as compared to the Casagrande and Inflection methods, due to the end of primary consolidation (EOP) observed at all sample scales. It was also observed that on average, sample scale has an effect on cv with a correlation factor of 0.451 and that friction was reduced by 35%. The effect of sample scale on cc and mv was found to be insignificant. The investigation also showed a correlation factor between the initial moisture content and cv of 0.546 and, 0.162 and 0.026 for cc and mv respectively. The new proposed model developed in PLAXIS 2D was found to show no significant difference with the laboratory data except where the calculated coefficient of permeability was used. A new proposed model was developed in PLAXIS to further study the effect of sample diameter scale on the behaviour of fine-grained soils.
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Svensson, Sjöbom Ludvig. "Channeling of MeV ion beams : Improving sample alignment at the tandem accelerator, Ångström laboratory." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Tillämpad kärnfysik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-230962.
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At the Tandem accelerator in the Ångström laboratory, Uppsala, Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) is one of the methods used for thin film analysis, providing information on thickness and composition. The films are commonly grown on silicon substrates, whose crystal structure gives rise to channelling effects (a strong angular dependence in the intensity of the signal), which can cause faulty results. For other samples, channelling may also be used to get information on crystal structure and quality. This work demonstrates new functions to the existing software, aiming at minimizing these effects. The new methods have been tested by measurements both in channelling directions and in directions determined by the old method. In comparison with the earlier method the worst-case error is of order 80 %,commonly around 20 %, but it is possible to achieve an error which is not detectable. It is worth to note that the stated errors appear in tests oriented for maximum channelling, where effects without the new methods give an error corresponding to an apparent thin-film thickness almost 18 times that of the actual thickness.Vid Tandemlabbet i Ångströmlaboratoriet, Uppsala, används bland annat Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) för att undersöka egenskaper, t.ex tjocklek och sammansättning, hos tunnfilmer som ofta är odlade på kiselsubstrat. Kiselkristallernas struktur ger upphov till kanaliseringseffekter, d.v.s starkt vinkelberoende intensitet, som i detta sammanhang kan ge felaktiga resultat. För andra prover kan kanaliseringseffekter användas för att få information om kristallstruktur och kvalitet. I det här arbetet demonstreras nyskrivna funktioner till befintlig mjukvara med syfte att minimera dessa effekter. De nya funktionerna har testats genom provtagningar i orienteringar som är gynnsamma och icke gynnsamma för kanalisering. Vid jämförelse med tidigare metoder ger de nya metoderna ett fel på i värsta fall ca. 80%, med bättre parametrar sjunker felet till ca 20 % och med rätt val av parametrar försvinner felet jämfört med tidigare metod. Värt att notera är att ovanstående maximala fel uppstår vid test orienterat för maximal kanalisering, där effekterna utan de nya metoderna ger ett fel på uppemot en faktor 18.
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Weiss, Katherine. "Samuel Beckett’s Film: A Tribute to James Joyce." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2276.
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Divaratne, Dilupama Ayeshani. "Transport Properties of 40% La Filled Skutterudite Thin Films Sample Preparation and Data Analysis." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1212105593.
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Sirois, Fuschia M., and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Self-Compassion and Adherence in Five Medical Samples: the Role of Stress." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2746.
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Emerging evidence indicates self-compassion can be beneficial for medical populations and for medical adherence; yet, research to date has not fully examined the reasons for this association. This study examined the association of dispositional self-compassion to adherence across five medical samples and tested the extent to which perceived stress accounted for this association. Five medical samples (total N = 709), including fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and cancer patients, recruited from various sources, completed online surveys. Self-compassion was positively associated with adherence in all five samples. A meta-analysis of the associations revealed a small average effect size (average r = .22, [0.15, 0.29]) of self-compassion and adherence and non-significant heterogeneity among the effects (Q (4) = 3.15, p = .532). A meta-analysis of the kappa2 values from the indirect effects of self-compassion on adherence revealed that, on average, 11% of the variance in medical adherence that was explained by self-compassion could be attributed to lower perceived stress. Overall, findings demonstrate that dispositional self-compassion is associated with better medical adherence among people with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and cancer, due in part to lower stress. This research contributes to a growing evidence base indicating the value of self-compassion for health-related behaviours in a variety of medical populations.
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Sirois, Fuschia M., and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Self-Compassion and Adherence in Five Medical Samples: the Role of Stress." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5549.
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Emerging evidence indicates self-compassion can be beneficial for medical populations and for medical adherence; yet, research to date has not fully examined the reasons for this association. This study examined the association of dispositional self-compassion to adherence across five medical samples and tested the extent to which perceived stress accounted for this association. Five medical samples (total N = 709), including fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and cancer patients, recruited from various sources, completed online surveys. Self-compassion was positively associated with adherence in all five samples. A meta-analysis of the associations revealed a small average effect size (average r = .22, [0.15, 0.29]) of self-compassion and adherence and non-significant heterogeneity among the effects (Q (4) = 3.15, p = .532). A meta-analysis of the kappa2 values from the indirect effects of self-compassion on adherence revealed that, on average, 11% of the variance in medical adherence that was explained by self-compassion could be attributed to lower perceived stress. Overall, findings demonstrate that dispositional self-compassion is associated with better medical adherence among people with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and cancer, due in part to lower stress. This research contributes to a growing evidence base indicating the value of self-compassion for health-related behaviours in a variety of medical populations.
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Tavernier, Elsa. "Intérêt d'une approche de type "méta-analyse prospective d'essais de taille fixe" dans l'évaluation thérapeutique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC271/document.
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L'effectif est une question majeure de la planification d'un essai randomisé et n'est pas trivial à définir. Déterminer la taille de l'échantillon d'un point de vue statistique correspond à maitriser le taux d'erreur de type II sous l'hypothèse d'une certaine différence entre les bras de traitement. Une étude est conventionnellement considérée comme correctement planifiée quand elle assure un taux d'erreur de type II à 20%, voire 10%. C'est pourquoi les comités éthiques exigent que l'hypothèse faite sur le critère de jugement principal, et la valeur prise pour le paramètre de nuisance, soient explicitées dans le protocole. En pratique ces exigences peuvent mener à des stratégies problématiques, comme la substitution du critère de jugement principal, ou bien tout simplement à l'abandon de l'essai car un compromis entre une hypothèse réaliste et le financement ou la durée de l'étude n'est pas possible. De plus, la précision des calculs est relativement illusoire, car ils nécessitent de prendre une valeur donnée pour le paramètre de nuisance, qui se révèle souvent éloignée de ce qui est observé dans l'essai. Le premier travail de cette thèse consistait à considérer un calcul d'effectif standard et à étudier dans quelle mesure les erreurs faites sur le paramètre de nuisance impactait la puissance finale de l'essai. Pour cela une étude de simulation a été conduite. Nos résultats de simulations ont montré que la puissance finale des essais était plus fortement impactée pour un critère de jugement continu que pour un critère binaire. Ces résultats montrent que même avec des calculs d'effectif correctement faits, un nombre substantiel d'essais sont sous-puissants ou surpuissants à cause de l'incertitude sur le paramètre de nuisance. Le second travail de thèse consistait à définir et évaluer une approche alternative au classique essai conçu pour avoir une puissance de 80%. Cette approche alternative est une méta-analyse prospective constituée de base de trois essais indépendants de taille 100 chacun. Les résultats des trois essais sont ensuite combinés dans une méta-analyse à effet aléatoire. Ce modèle permet d'admettre une variation entre les trois effets traitement estimés. Un des avantages de cette méthode est en effet d'apporter une information supplémentaire par rapport à un essai unique, celle de l'éventuelle hétérogénéité des résultats obtenus. Cette approche alternative est ce que nous appellerons une méta-expérience. Une étude de simulation a été menée pour évaluer son efficacité statistique, en comparaison avec l'approche classiquement utilisée. Les résultats montraient qu'une méta-expérience assurait en moyenne la même précision, la même puissance et le même taux d'erreur de type I que l'approche classiqueChoosing the sample size is a important stage of a clinical trial. On a statistical level, determining the sample size means to control the type II error rate under the hypothesis of a given difference between thez two treatment arms. A trial is considered to be correctly planned if its type II error rate is equal to 20%, or even 10%. Consequently, ethical committees ask the hypothesis on the main outcome and the assumption on the nuisance parameter to be clearly stated in the protocol. These requirements sometimes lead to different issues, such as the use of surrogate outcomes or even the abandonment of the trial. In the first work of this thesis, we examine the extent to which inaccurate assumptions for nuisance parameters used to calculate sample size can affect the power of a randomized controlled trial. We performed a simulation study. In total, 23%, 0% and 18% of RCTs with continuous, binary and time-to-event outcomes, respectively, were underpowered (i.e., the real power was < 60\%, as compared with the 80% nominal power); 41%, 16% and 6%, respectively, were overpowered (i.e., with real power > 90%). Even with proper calculation of sample size, a substantial number of trials are underpowered or overpowered because of imprecise knowledge of nuisance parameters. In the second work of this thesis, we defined and evaluated an alternative design named meta-experiment which circumvents the need for sample size calculation. In a simulation study, we compared a meta-experiment approach to the classical approach to assess treatment efficacy. The meta-experiment approach involves use of meta-analyzed results from 3 randomized trials of fixed sample size, 100 subjects. A prospective meta-analysis of data from trials of fixed sample size provided the same precision, power and type I error rate, on average, as the classical approach. The meta-experiment approach may provide an alternative design which does not require a sample size calculation and addresses the essential need for study replication; results may have greater external validity
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Graham, Alyce. "The Creativity Loophole: Needlework, Social Conventions, and the Permissibility of Creative Expression for Early American Women." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/141.
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This thesis investigates creative expression through needlework by wealthy or elite women in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century, focusing on women in the United States South. This inquiry begins in broad terms and proceeds to the close examination of one particular needlework sampler held in the collection of the Valentine Richmond History Center. The first chapter uses prescriptive literature popular in the eighteenth century to establish the restrictive, obedient, and subservient expectations for women’s behavior. The second chapter explores the reasons that the same books that prohibited many forms of pleasure promoted needlework as an acceptable activity for women. This chapter addresses the practical aspect of needlework, the presence and significance of textiles in the home, and the ways needlework expressed creativity. The final chapter analyzes a needlework sampler stitched in 1812, connecting it both with the themes introduced in the first two chapters and a wider range of issues.
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Zhou, Liren. "An analysis of journey to work characteristics in Florida using Census 2000 public use microdata sample data files." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000256.
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Malmgren, Johanna, Louise Johansson, and Caroline Nilsson. "Musik sätter ton i film : En studie om filmmusiks betydelse för film och dess upplevelse." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60216.
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Syfte Vårt syfte är att utreda och analysera vad som karaktäriserar filmmusik samt klarlägga musikens betydelse för film. Forskningsfrågor På vilket sätt kan film och musik influera varandra och hur kan samspelet mellan dem se ut? Hur kan musik användas som ett verktyg för att påverka helhetsupplevelsen av film? Metod Vår studie är av en kvalitativ karaktär grundad i ett växelspel mellan en induktiv och en deduktiv ansats. Empirisk data baseras på sju semistrukturerade intervjuer. Slutsats I studien har vi kommit fram till att filmmusik har stor betydelse för kundens slutgiltiga upplevelse av en film. Filmmusik kan fungera i ett sätt att guida konsumenten genom filmen och ta till sig det uttryck som vill förmedlas. För att musiken ska få sin ultimata kraft bör det finnas en fin balansgång i samspelet mellan komponenterna. Det finns ingen mall att följa när det kommer till musiksättande i samband med film, sammanhanget är det som spelar roll. De båda medieformerna kan vid rätt balans sinsemellan höja och även dra fokus till varandra.Purpose Our purpose of this study is to investigate and analyse what characterises film music and what makes the music significant for film. Research questions In what way can film and music influence each other and how can the interaction between the two take form? How can music be used as a tool to influence the general experience of the film? Method Our method in this study is based on a qualitative approach with an interplay between an inductive and deductive hypothesis. Empirical data is based on seven semi structured interviews. Conclusion Our study has shown that film music has great impact on the customer's experience of a film. Film music can work as a way to guide the consumer through the movie and absorb the expression that is transmitted. For the music to reach its full potential there should be a balance in the interaction between the components. There is no specific right or wrong when it comes to putting music into films, it is the context that matters. With the right balance both forms of media can accentuate and market each other.
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Weiss, Katherine. "James Joyce and Sergei Eisenstein: Haunting Samuel Beckett's Film." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2282.
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Samuel Beckett's Film has been the focus of several articles in the past decade. While current investigations of Beckett's film are diverse, what most of them share is their dependence on biographical data to support their readings. Many scholars who have written on Beckett's failed cinematic excursion, for example, point to Beckett's letter of 1936 to Sergei Eisenstein. However, the link between Beckett's interest in film and his admiration for James Joyce has sadly been overlooked. Both Irish writers saw the artistic possibilities in film and both admired the Russian silent film legend, Sergei Eisenstein. Although there is no record of Joyce and Beckett discussing cinema or of Beckett knowing about Joyce's meeting with Eisenstein in 1929, it seems unlikely that Beckett would not have known something about these meetings or Joyce's much earlier film enterprise, the Volta. By re-examining Film and speculating on the possible three way connections between Eisenstein, Joyce and Beckett, I wish to add a footnote to Beckett studies which hopefully will lead others to wander on the Beckett-Joyce-Eisenstein trail and which will open up further discussions of Film. Beckett's film is haunted by the memory of his friendship with James Joyce and his admiration for Eisenstein's talent, both of which are visible in the screen images and theme of Film.
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Israelsson, Kathrin, and Susanne Söderström. "Fyra förskollärares uppfattning om hur TV och film påverkar barns samspel." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, CHILD, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-29925.
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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur fyra förskollärare upplever att tre- till femåriga förskolebarns samspel påverkas av deras TV- och filmupplevelser. Frågeställningarna berör på vilket sätt förskollärarna upplever att TV och film påverkar barns samspel positivt och/eller negativt. Fyra förskollärare vales med hjälp av idealtypiskt urval och intervjuades med hjälp av öppna frågeställningar vilka förväntades ge oss möjlighet att fördjupa oss i vad informanterna sett och upplever när det gäller förskolebarnens TV- och filminspirerade samspel. Det teoretiska ramverk som använts i analysen av intervjuerna är Sociala aktiviteter, Medierade aktiviteter samt Kreativa aktiviteter. Dessa bygger på Strandbergs tolkning av Vygotskij och den Sociokulturella teorins tankar kring utveckling och lärande. Resultaten visar på att förskollärarna upplever att TV och film bidrar med delad kunskap, artefakter, karaktärer samt regler vilka blir verktyg som hjälper barnen att hitta vägar in i samspel. Brist på delad kunskap kring TV och film, samt okreativa förhållningssätt till regler och karaktärer hämtade från TV och film blir hinder för barnen i deras samspel.
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THACHERY, JUGUL RAVINDRAN. "SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEODYMIUM SULFIDE BULK SAMPLES AND THIN FILMS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1012424793.
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Rooney, Alison. "Evaluation of the Pre-School Five Miute Speech Sample as a Measure of Expressed Emotion and Parent-Child Interactions." Thesis, Bangor University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516458.
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Leppänen, K. (Kimmo). "Sample preparation method and synchronized thermography to characterize uniformity of conductive thin films." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2015. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526208312.
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Abstract The uniformity of conductive materials is an important property in thin film electronic applications such as solar cells and light emitting diodes (LED). Such uniformity variations are often very small, invisible or below the surface of the film and thus are difficult to detect even when using high-resolution characterization devices. Thus, surface measurement instruments such as profilometer, atomic force microscope, or scanning electron microscope can all encounter remarkable challenges. The uniformity of films can also be analyzed by conductivity measurements. However, they do not provide the precise spatial uniformity information of a large area sample. To be able to investigate systematically the defects of conductive thin films an appropriate sample preparation method was constructed. In addition, a synchronized heating and IR-imaging based system (called synchronized thermography = ST) was developed to overcome the limitations of existing characterization methods. ST performance was tested and analyzed by measuring the single and multi-layer structures. In this work, Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxy-thiopene):poly(styrene-sulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS) were used as examples of conductive thin films. Obtained results show that ST is capable of localizing even small defects from thin film structures based on a single IR-image. In order to make automatic identification of the defect locations and the sizes of the defects, a data processing algorithm was implemented. The performed experiments have proven ST capable of determining the conductivity of the films and the critical bending curvature of ITO. Based on thin film multi-layer PEDOT:PSS measurements, the results suggest use of the ST-method is also suitable for thickness measurements. ST with automatic data processing is a simple method to localize small defects in large-area thin film structures. This approach opens up new possibilities in measuring industrial scale manufacturing processesTiivistelmä Johtavien materiaalien tasalaatuisuus on tärkeä ominaisuus ohutkalvoelektroniikan sovelluksissa kuten aurinkokennoissa ja valoa emittoivissa diodeissa (LED). Tasalaatuisuuserot ovat usein erittäin pieniä, näkymättömiä tai ne sijaitsevat pinnan alla, joten niiden havaitseminen on vaikeaa jopa korkean resoluution karakterisointivälineillä. Niinpä pintaa mittaavat laitteet kuten profilometri, atomivoimamikroskooppi ja skannaava elektronimikroskooppi kohtaavat merkittäviä haasteita. Pinnan tasalaatuisuutta voidaan analysoida myös johtavuusmittauksilla. Ne eivät kuitenkaan anna täsmällistä spatiaalista informaatiota suurista näytteistä. Johtavien ohutkalvojen rikkoutumien systemaattista tutkimista varten kehitettiin oma näytteiden käsittelymenetelmä. Lisäksi kehitettiin synkronoituun lämmitykseen ja infrapunakuvantamiseen perustuva mittaussysteemi (menetelmän nimi: synkronoitu termografia = ST), jolla pyritään ratkaisemaan nykyisten menetelmien rajoitukset. ST-menetelmää testattiin ja analysoitiin mittaamalla yksi- ja monikerroksisten kalvojen rakenteita. Indiumtinaoksidia (ITO) ja poly(3,4-etyleenidioksi-tiofeeni):poly(styreeni-sulfonaatti):a (PEDOT: PSS) käytettiin esimerkkeinä johtavista kalvoista. Tulokset osoittavat, että ST kykenee paikallistamaan pienetkin virheet ohutkalvorakenteista jopa yhden infrapunakuvan perusteella. Automaattisen tiedonkäsittelyn algoritmi implementoitiin identifioimaan virheiden paikkariippuvuuksia ja kokoja. Tehdyt kokeet osoittavat, että ST-menetelmä soveltuu kalvojen johtavuuden ja ITO:n kriittisen taivutussäteen määrittämiseen. Monikerroksisiin PEDOT:PSS rakennemittauksiin perustuen ST-menetelmä näyttäisi soveltuvan myös ohutkalvojen paksuuksien määrittämiseen. ST-menetelmä yhdistettynä automaattiseen mittaustiedon prosessointiin on yksinkertainen menetelmä paikallistamaan pieniä virheitä suuripinta-alaisilla näytteillä. Tämä lähestymistapa avaa uusia mittausmahdollisuuksia teollisuuden tuotantoprosesseihin
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ELLIS, JENNY L. "ELEMENTAL SPECIATION ANALYSIS OF METALS, PHOSPHORUS AND SULFUR: EXPLORING ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1196104876.
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McHugh, Kelly. "DETERMINING THE PRESENCE OF AN IGNITABLE LIQUID RESIDUE IN FIRE DEBRIS SAMPLES UTILIZING TARGET FACTOR ANALYSIS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2123.
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Current fire debris analysis procedure involves using the chromatographic patterns of total ion chromatograms, extracted ion chromatograms, and target compound analysis to identify an ignitable liquid according to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E 1618 standard method. Classifying the ignitable liquid is accomplished by a visual comparison of chromatographic data obtained from any extracted ignitable liquid residue in the debris to the chromatograms of ignitable liquids in a database, i.e. by visual pattern recognition. Pattern recognition proves time consuming and introduces potential for human error. One particularly difficult aspect of fire debris analysis is recognizing an ignitable liquid residue when the intensity of its chromatographic pattern is extremely low or masked by pyrolysis products. In this research, a unique approach to fire debris analysis was applied by utilizing the samples total ion spectrum (TIS) to identify an ignitable liquid, if present. The TIS, created by summing the intensity of each ion across all elution times in a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) dataset retains sufficient information content for the identification of complex mixtures . Computer assisted spectral comparison was then performed on the samples TIS by target factor analysis (TFA). This approach allowed rapid automated searching against a library of ignitable liquid summed ion spectra. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves measured how well TFA identified ignitable liquids in the database that were of the same ASTM classification as the ignitable liquid in fire debris samples, as depicted in their corresponding area under the ROC curve. This study incorporated statistical analysis to aid in classification of an ignitable liquid, therefore alleviating interpretive error inherent in visual pattern recognition. This method could allow an analyst to declare an ignitable liquid present when utilization of visual pattern recognition alone is not sufficient.M.S.
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Al-Hammad, Muneerah Saleh. "A study of the structures of some thin film samples by X-ray and neutron reflectometry." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408372.
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Foster, David. "The film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Comédie : a theoretical and practical interpretation." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553053.
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The main topic of this research project is the film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play Comedie (1966), directed by Marin Karmitz in collaboration with Beckett. The research methodology employed is both theoretical and practical, yielding a written thesis, and a video/audio installation piece. Interdisciplinary in scope, the research encompasses aspects of film and theatre studies, . literary studies, fine art, music and philosophy, and seeks to fill a significant gap in Beckett scholarship by carrying out the first major study of the film adaptation of Comedie, as well as producing an original artwork in response to it. The theoretical side of the project utilises a diverse range of critical, literary and philosophical material to construct a thorough analysis and interpretation of a range of interconnected themes and concepts to be found within Comedie, within the stage- play from which it derives, and within several other relevant works of cinema. The practical element of the project is concerned with further developing and exploring many of the concepts expounded in the theoretical research, through the creation, manipulation and juxtaposition of video and audio material. The research employs a pragmatic and eclectic approach to critical theory and practice, and does not seek to impose any single critical or ideological framework onto its subject, initiating instead a degree-zero analysis in which an engagement with the subject gives rise to a philosophical approach that is broadly post-foundational. Such an approach means that relativism, paradox and aporia become overarching themes throughout the project, concomitant with a simultaneous recognition and rejection of binary logic. In this way, the research does not propose any all- encompassing theories about the work it addresses, but probes the multiple and often paradoxical meanings that arise from its engagement with space, film structure, the film screen, musical form, and the human voice, head and face.
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Worth, Gavin Darlene A. "Early career retention among undergraduate degree holders in science and technology: A five-year follow-up of a national Canadian sample." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9973.
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Both government and private industry are concerned as to why young Canadians, particularly young women, hesitate to choose careers in the growing labour markets of science and technology (S&T). Aggregate data suggest that women not only enter into S&T-related endeavours in disproportionately lower numbers than men, but also exit from S&T careers at higher rates than do their male counterparts. This investigation's primary objective was to establish comparative rates of "loss" (non-retention) of highly trained young women and young men from the fields of S&T in Canada. Its secondary objective was to conduct a preliminary investigation into some potential social and psychological correlates of retention (and non-retention) in S&T careers. A national sample ($N=3158$) of Natural Science, Engineering, Life Science/Health Professions, and Mathematics/Computer Science (NELM) bachelor's degree holders participated. Statistics Canada surveyed 1212 women and 1946 men in NELM fields from the university graduating classes of 1986, two- and five-years after graduation (i.e., in 1988 and 1991). A set of four complementary hypotheses were tested in order to investigate the fundamental postulation that early career retention among undergraduate degree holders in S&T would be proportionately lower for young women than for young men. Findings at both the two- and five-year follow-ups showed highly similar retention-rates for women and men. Women had only slightly high non-retention rates than men ($\sim$5%) among Natural Science and Mathematics graduates; rates were approximately equal among Engineering and Life Science graduates. In direct and sequential logistic regression analyses conducted to predict the probability of retention (vs. non-retention) in S&T at post-graduation year-5, the main predictor variable of interest--sex--consistently failed to reliably predict retention (vs. non-retention) in S&T, even after controlling for the effects of the following antecedent variables: level of mother's and father's education; respondents' age; marital status at 2-years; number of dependent children at 2-years; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for originally having enrolled in an N, E, L, or M program of study, further education at 2-years; income at 2-years; job satisfaction at 2-years; and, salary satisfaction at 2-years. Findings had two main policy implications, first with regard to the relative insignificance of sex in the prediction of persistence in S&T, and second with regard to the importance of further education and training in predicting this outcome. These are discussed in light of the inter-related issues of lessening the shortage of highly qualified S&T personnel in Canada and of eliminating the underrepresentation of women in Canada's S&T community.
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Bayramoglu, Sadik. "Characterization Of Ultra-fine Grained Steel Samples Produced By High Pressure Torsion Via Magnetic Barkhausen Noise Analysis." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12610637/index.pdf.
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High Pressure Torsion (HPT) is one of the most widely used severe plastic deformation methods which enable to obtain a crack free ultra-fine grained bulk material with improved mechanical properties like increased strength and toughness. In the process, a disc shaped sample is pressed between two anvils and deformed via surface friction forces by rotating one of the anvils. The aim of this study is to nondestructively characterize the variations in the deformation uniformity of the severely deformed steel disks. Two sets of low carbon steel samples were obtained by applying the unconstrained and constrained HPT process up to 6 turns. Magnetic Barkhausen Noise (MBN) method was used in order to evaluate the samples in a nondestructive manner via a commercial device. The results of the MBN measurements were verified with those of conventional methods such asx-ray diffraction (XRD), metallographic examination and hardness measurements. The initial stages of HPT revealed the effects of conventional plastic deformation on MBN
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May, Alexis Merry. "The Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attempts (IMSA) : developing and validating a new measure in five samples." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58282.
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Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide. Despite increased research and prevention efforts, suicide attempt and death rates have not declined. One way to improve suicide prevention is to better understand the motivations for suicide attempts. The field lacks a psychometrically sound, comprehensive measure to routinely why individuals try to end their lives. The Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attempts (IMSA) was developed to assess motivations for suicide emphasized by major theories of suicidality. The IMSA was administered to five samples of individuals who had attempted suicide: undergraduates (N=66), outpatients (N=53), adult inpatients (N=59), adolescents (N=50), and a community sample recruited online (N=222). Demographic data and characteristics of the suicide attempt (e.g., method, intent, lethality, pre-attempt communication) were also collected. In all five samples, psychache and hopelessness were the most common and strongly endorsed motivations, while interpersonal influence was the least endorsed. Regardless of sample, the individual IMSA scales demonstrated good internal reliability, as did two superordinate IMSA factors identified through exploratory factor analysis. The two superordinate factors captured Internal Motivations (characterized by needing to escape or relieve unmanageable internal emotions and thoughts) and Communication Motivations (characterized by a desire to communicate with or influence another individual) in all samples. These two factors demonstrated good convergent and divergent validity when compared to another measure of suicide motivations. In addition, the IMSA scales displayed clinical utility, in which greater endorsement of Internal Motivations was associated with stronger desire to die, whereas greater endorsement of Communication Motivations was associated with weaker suicide intent and greater likelihood of rescue. Findings support two conclusions: 1) the IMSA provides reliable and valid information about a number of motivations for attempted suicide across diverse participants and situations and 2) that those motivations, their structure, and their clinical correlates are quite consistent. The IMSA can be of use for both research and clinical purposes when a comprehensive assessment of suicide motivations is desired.Arts, Faculty of
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Balança, Paul. "Régularité fine de processus stochastiques et analyse 2-microlocale." Phd thesis, Ecole Centrale Paris, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00958290.
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Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse s'intéressent à la géométrie fractale de processus stochastiques à travers le prisme d'un outil appelé l'analyse 2-microlocale. Ce dernier est issu d'une autre branche des mathématiques, l'analyse fonctionnelle et l'étude des équations aux dérivées partielles, et s'est avéré être pertinent pour décrire la géométrie fine de fonctions déterministes ou de processus aléatoires, généralisant notamment les exposants de Hölder classiques. Nous envisageons ainsi dans ce manuscrit différentes classes de processus, traitant en premier lieu le cas des martingales continues et de l'intégrale stochastique d'Ito. La régularité 2-microlocale de ces derniers fait notamment apparaître un autre concept, la pseudo frontière 2-microlocale, étroitement lié à son aîné. Nous appliquons également ce formalisme d'étude à une classe de processus gaussiens : le mouvement brownien multifractionnaire. Nous caractérisons ainsi sa régularité 2-microlocale et hölderienne, et déterminons dans un deuxième temps la forme générale de la dimension fractale de ses trajectoires. Dans notre étude portant sur les processus de Lévy, nous combinons le formalisme 2-microlocale à l'analyse multifractale, permettant alors de mettre en évidence des comportements géométriques n'étant pas captés par les outils usuels. Nous obtenons également en corollaire le spectre multifractal des processus fractionnaires de Lévy. Enfin, dans une dernière partie, nous nous intéressons à la définition et aux propriétés de certains processus de Markov multiparamètres, pouvant être plus généralement indicés par des ensembles.
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MIGUEL, ELIANE MONSORES. "DETERMINATION OF LEAD IN KEROSEN AND IN LUBRICATING OIL BY ANODIC STRIPPING VOLTAMMETRY USING BISMUTH-FILM ELECTRODE AND SAMPLE PREPARATION AS MICROEMULSION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12247@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICONeste trabalho foi desenvolvida uma metodologia analítica visando determinar chumbo em querosene e em óleo lubrificante. A voltametria de redissolução anódica com o eletrodo de filme de bismuto (BiFE) foi empregada com a medição do analito nas amostras realizada em meio microemulsionado. O modo de varredura utilizado foi o de onda quadrada (SWV) sendo o desempenho do BiFE comparado com o desempenho observado com o uso do eletrodo de gota pendente de mercúrio (HMDE), este tradicionalmente utilizado nas análises voltamétricas de metais. Na otimização da composição da microemulsão (ME) para o querosene obtevese melhor resultado, em termos de estabilidade e resposta analítica, com 77% de 1-propanol, 13% de fase aquosa (5% ácido nítrico concentrado e 8% água) e 10% de amostra v/v (valores percentuais em volume). No caso da ME para óleo lubrificante a composição otimizada foi 80% de butanol, 10% de fase aquosa (sendo 5% de ácido nítrico concentrado e 5% de água) e 10% amostra dissolvida em xileno. Em ambos os casos, o ácido nítrico serviu como fonte de eletrólitos e para a conversão de espécies químicas metaloorgânicas de chumbo para a forma inorgânica. Após a otimização dos parâmetros instrumentais, os limites de detecção (3sb/a) foram estimados na ordem de nmol L-1 independentemente do eletrodo empregado. Testes de recuperação em material de referência certificado (NIST 1085a) e em amostras fortificadas com Pb (tanto na forma inorgânica quanto na metaloorgânica) indicaram valores recuperados entre 98 e 100%. Os resultados foram confirmados por análises das mesmas amostras por espectrometria de absorção atômica com atomização eletrotérmica. Foi realizado um estudo para avaliar a magnitude das fontes de incerteza de medição voltamétrica de chumbo e o impacto de cada uma das fontes na incerteza combinada. Verificou-se que a contribuição relacionada com a preparação das soluções (padrões e amostras) foi a mais relevante, indicando a necessidade de se traçar novas estratégias de preparação de soluções e de amostragem para a minimização da incerteza combinada. A partir desse estudo, mostrou-se a viabilidade do uso de meio microemulsionado na determinação eletroanalítica de metais em frações de petróleo mais pesadas.
In the presente work, was developed an analytical method aiming the determination of lead in kerosen and in lubricating oil. Anodic redissolution voltammetry with a bismuth-film electrode was employed by measuring the analyte in the sample microemulsions. Square-wave scanning mode (SWV) was employed and the BiFE performance was compared to the one achieved using the static drop mercury electrode (HDME), the later a more traditional electrode for voltammetric analysis for metals. The optimization of the composition of kerosene microemulsion (ME) indicated best results, in terms of stability and analytical response, with 77% of 1-propanol , 13% of aqueous phase (5% concentrated nitric acid and 8% water) and 10% of sample (percent values in volume). For the lubricating oil, the ME composition was 80% of buthanol , 10% of aqueous phase (5% concentrated nitric acid and 5% water) and 10% of sample previously dissolved in xylene. In both cases, the nitric acid played a role as a source of electrolytes and in converting lead metallo-organic species in the inorganic form. After the optimization of experimental parameters, limits of detection were in the nmol L-1 range no matter the type of electrode employed. Recovery tests in certified reference materials (NIST 1085a) and in lead-fortified samples (either with inorganic and metallo-organic form) indicated recovered values between 98 and 100%. These results were confirmed by analyzing the same samples by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry. A study was also made to evaluate the measurement uncertainty sources and magnitudes of the voltammetric determination of lead and the impact of each of the sources in the combined uncertainty. As a result, the contribution of the preparation of solutions (samples and standards) was found to be the most relevant source of uncertainty, indicating the need for establishing alternative strategies for such procedures, aiming the minimization of the combined uncertainty. This work has demonstrated the viability of using microemulsions for eletroanalytical determination of metals in petroleum fractions.
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Pokpas, Keagan William. "Graphene-modified pencil graphite bismuth-film electrodes for the determination of heavy metals in water samples using anodic stripping voltammetry." University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4829.
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>Magister Scientiae - MScElectrochemical platforms were developed based on pencil graphite electrodes (PGEs) modified with electrochemically deposited graphene (EG) sheets and Nafion-graphene (NG) nanocomposites in conjunction with an in situ plated bismuth-film (EG-PG-BiE and NG-PG-BiE). The EG- and NG-PG-BiEs were used as sensing platforms for determining Zn2+, Cd2+ and Pb2+ by square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SWASV). EG sheets were deposited onto pencil graphite electrodes by cyclic voltammetric reduction from a graphene oxide (GO) solution, while a dip coating method was used to prepare the NG-PG-BiE. The GO and graphene, with flake thicknesses of 1.78 (2 sheets) and 2.10 nm (5 sheets) respectively, was characterized using FT-IR, HR-SEM, HR-TEM, AFM, XRD and Raman spectroscopy. Parameters influencing the electroanalytical response of the EG-PG-BiE and NG-PG-BiE such as, bismuth ion concentration, deposition potential, deposition time and rotation speed were investigated and optimized. The EG-PG-BiE gave well-defined, reproducible peaks with detection limits of 0.19 μg L-1, 0.09 μg L-1 and 0.12 μg L-1 for Zn2+, Cd2+ and Pb2+ respectively, at a deposition time of 120 seconds. The NG-PG-BiE showed similar detection limits of 0.167 μg L-1, 0.098 μg L-1 and 0.125 μg L-1 for Zn2+, Cd2+ and Pb2+ respectively. For real sample analysis, the enhanced voltammetric sensor proved to be suitable for the detection and quantitation of heavy metals below the US EPA prescribed drinking water standards of 5 mg L-1, 5 μg L-1 and 15 μg L-1 for Zn2+, Cd2+ and Pb2+ respectively.
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Nash, Rebecca. "Talking Sense: Sensory Communication in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable, Film and Quadrat I II." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9934.
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This thesis discusses Samuel Beckett's non-verbal language, as observed in his novel, The Unnamable, his film, Film, and his pieces for television, Quadrat I + II. Beckett's sensory focus is nascent in The Unnamable, as Beckett explores the disintegration of verbal language in order to prepare ground for imagery. Imagery, here, is considered to arise from an art that is able to communicate directly with the sensory capacities of its audience. This is in contrast to artworks that primarily utilise verbal language expression, and thus communicate sensory information indirectly. Film succeeds The Unnamable by eleven years and is, effectively, a silent work. Rather than existing as an image in its own right, however, Film is primarily involved in a discussion of the nature of imagery, as the subject matter of Film is a debate with Berkeley’s statement “Esse est percipi”, that is, “to be is to be perceived”. In this film, the reader is encouraged to think about sensory engagement, rather than actively being engaged in a sensory way. Quadrat I + II were first broadcast in 1982 and are both speechless, though sound remains. These two works represent the culmination of Beckett's visual explorations as they engage with the senses directly. This thesis posits that the unique openness of Beckett’s texts demands a particular creativity of its readers, in that the texts may be considered incomplete without reader/viewer contribution to meaning. Beckett’s sensory focus means that readers’ creative understanding of texts is often imagistic in its own right. In addition, the openness of Beckett’s texts invites readers to share the experience of his protagonists. As protagonists are also presented as being involved in acts of creation, and are concerned with the nature of perception, this means that the experience of the reader is, effectively, one of making images. Thus, Beckett works to indirectly, as well as directly, to give the reader a sensory experience. This thesis primarily utilises the theories of Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and the theory of Phenomenology to defend this position.
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Silva, Deleah Vaye Emery Waters. "Nothing To Be Done: The Active Function of Samuel Beckett's Text." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3261.
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Fintan O'Toole states: "Plays survive not by being carefully preserved, not by being exhibited from time to time in theatrical museums, but by being tried and tested, taken apart and reassembled" (Game Without End).One of the great misconceptions and critiques of Samuel Beckett is of his presumed unrelenting control over his works. Artists, hoping to creatively collaborate with Beckett as they move his texts to performance, feel limited by his strict enforcement of that which he has written in his texts. Traditional relationships and functions allow directors to interpret an author's text. Not so with Beckett. Beckett demands that directors follow his authorial intentions as stated by his 'direct expression,' the indissoluble link between form (the text's physical nature) and content (the ideas expressed) within his texts. Beckett's control of his 'direct expression' is not a method of forcing meanings and interpretations upon his collaborators and his audience members. Rather, his purpose in protecting his 'direct expression' throughout the production process is to ensure the text's 'lack' of meaning and to preserve its ambiguities in performance. In this thesis I will analyze and argue that by preserving this 'direct expression' in Beckett's texts, the active relationships between author and reader (audience members) will be preserved throughout the production process and ultimately in the performance. Through this relationship, the viewer of the performance has the opportunity to become what Jacques Ranciere refers to as a more "active participant," composing their own poem with elements of the poem before them (Ranciere 13).
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Weiss, Katherine. "Book Review of Samuel Beckett’s Plays on Film and Television by Graley Herren." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2289.
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Guégan, Xavier. "Samuel Bourne and Indian natives : aesthetics, exoticism and imperialism." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2009. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/2218/.
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Samuel Bourne (1834-1912), one of the most prestigious Victorian English commercial photographers to have worked in British India, is best known for his photographs of the Himalayas. Bourne's work features in general studies of photography of the period; his representations of the Indian landscape have been the object of studies and several exhibitions. Bourne was in India initially from 1863 to 1870 thereby establishing his career as a professional photographer. Soon after his arrival he started a business with the experienced photographer Charles Shepherd. Within a few years, the firm of Bourne & Shepherd became recognised as being a directing influence over British-Indian photography. The photographs were taken either in studio or on location, and included individual and group portraits of both the British and Indians, topographical images in which peoples were incidental, as well as a range of representations of Indian life, customs and types. These images were informed by, and in turn contributed to, an expanding body of photographic practice that mixed, to varying degrees, authenticity and aesthetic style. Whilst Bourne's work was significant and influential in the representation of Indian peoples, no substantial study has been undertaken until now. The aim of this thesis is to redress this imbalance. The central focus highlights the specific character of the images portraying Indian people. This specificity was determined by a combination of technical and 'authorial' factors, by the audience to which they were addressed — ranging from the general public in Britain to the family circle of wealthy Indians — by commercial considerations, and by current and evolving notions of authority, race and gender. The first two chapters seek to frame Bourne's work by first examining the political and cultural context of photography in India during the mid-nineteenth century, then by focusing on the context of the photographer's own production. The following three chapters are concerned with the study of the photographs themselves regarding what they depict and the questions they raise such as gender, racial identities and imperialism. The last chapter is an attempt to assess the significance of these photographs by comparing them with the work of Lala Deen Dayal, and highlighting different perspectives on Bourne's work regarding British India and Western societies. Placed in the context of the development of photography as a medium of record and representation, this thesis aims to show that Bourne's work is a significant historical source for understanding British cultural presence in post-Mutiny India.
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Rosenbalm, Kelly Lane. "Sample Lessons Plans to Effectively Incorporate Group Lessons Into the Private Studio of Young Beginning Suzuki Piano Students." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1272035120.
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Kise, Laura Ann. "AN EXAMINATION OF THE TEIQUE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE BIG FIVE FACTORS, RELATIONSHIP QUALITY, AND GENERAL MENTAL HEALTH IN AN AMERICAN COLLEGE SAMPLE." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/917.
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This study sought to clarify trait EI's relationships with general personality and positive life outcomes, extending previous research suggesting that trait EI is a distinct part of personality and that it positively predicts positive life outcomes. This study examined the discriminant validity of trait EI, (as measured by the TEIQue,) relative to the Big Five personality factors via an exploratory joint factor analysis. Additionally, this study assessed the criterion and incremental validity of the TEIQue with regard to positive life outcomes (positive relations with others, perceived social support, and general mental health) controlling for Big Five factor scores from the International Personality Item Pool. Data from 240 undergraduate students from a Midwestern university were analyzed . Trait EI facets and Big Five factors loaded best onto a 3 factor solution similar to Eysenck's 3-factor model of personality, with factor 1 representing emotional stability, factor 2 indicating social-emotional traits, and factor 3 comprising general agreeableness. While these findings did not provide clear evidence of discriminant validity for the TEIQue, support was observed for its criterion and incremental validity. However, potential issues with the measures and methods are discussed.
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McKellar, David William. "The FITE for reading teaching : an examination of the initial training of senior primary teachers at a sample of institutions in England and South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003427.
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Primary school teachers are expected to teach reading. Whether they are adequately prepared to fulfil this role, particularly for those preparing to teach in the senior primary phase, is the concern of this thesis. Reading teaching models are useful to reading teaching course developers for devising initial training syllabuses. Such models are described, followed by an example of such a syllabus developed at Rhodes University. The Rhodes University model, described early in the thesis, is used as a background for the further consideration of aspects of reading teaching at other institutions. This model is also used as an instrument for assessing the pre-service teaching experience of student teachers. The study focuses on English speaking teacher training institutions where the majority of the student teachers are preparing to teach in English speaking primary schools. Because of the considerable influence of developments in England on South African English speaking teacher training institutions, reading teaching developments in England from 1972 to 1990 are described. The pioneering work of Cook and Moyle provides a background against which subsequent developments in reading teaching are traced. Reports produced by the Department of Education and Science provide many insights into the state of reading teaching in schools in England as well as developments in teacher training. The reading teaching courses at six teacher training institutions are examined - three in England and three in South Africa. The differences are considerable, particularly the amount of time allocated to reading teaching during the four years of initial teacher education and training common to the six institutions. Two cohorts of student teachers review and assess the Rhodes University reading teaching course in terms of the extent of its interest and value for them as prospective teachers, and the amount of time allocated to the course. The most disturbing finding of this study is the nature of reading teaching observed in schools by student teachers. It is suggested that if reading teaching in senior primary schools is to be improved, the deadlocked cycle needs to be broken by education authorities, teachers and teacher trainers resolving the problem jointly.
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Mack, Claudia Isabell. "The effect of fine particle removal from ground forage samples on In Saccro dry matter and neutral detergent fiber disappearance values." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6609.
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Thesis (MScAgric (Animal Sciences))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In vitro and in situ methods using the in sacco technique have a wide application in ruminant nutrition as they allow the degradability and quality of forages and ruminant diets to be determined quicker and at a lower cost than in vivo methods. These trials make use of artificial fibre bags, made of polyester (dacron) or nylon which are available in variable pore sizes. Results from such degradability trials are of great value to feed formulation programs such as AMTS.cattle and CPM Dairy and the more accurate the results are obtained from such trials the more accurate feed formulation models are enabling the ruminant nutritionist to formulate the best diet possible to reach the genetic potential of ruminants. The accepted method for in sacco trials (NRC, 2001) requires that the feed samples are ground through a 2 mm screen. This usually results in a variety of particle sizes, including a significant amount of extremely fine particles. Research has, however, shown that these fine particles can potentially be washed out of the dacron bags that are used in in sacco degradability trials. This would result in an overestimation of the soluble and rapidly fermentable nutrient fractions. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of fine particle removal from ground forage samples on the chemical composition and in vitro dry matter (DM) and neutral detergent fibre (NDF) degradability of forages. Lucerne hay, oat hay and wheat straw samples were sourced from seven different locations in the Western Cape. Samples were milled through a 2 mm screen and then sieved through either 150 μm, 125 μm or 106 μm. All fractions were analysed for DM, crude protein (CP), NDF, fat and ash. Based on the NDF content of the original samples, four samples from each forage type were selected for in vitro trials to determine DM and NDF disappearance over time. Samples were incubated for 0, 6, 24 and 48 hours in an ANKOM Daisy II incubator. Significant variation occurred within forage types in terms of chemical composition. Fine particle removal had no effect on the NDF content of lucerne hay and wheat straw, but sieved oat hay fractions had a higher NDF content than the un-sieved samples. The NDF content was on average 635.9 for the sieved OH fractions, whereas the NDF content of the un-sieved samples was 606.8. The CP content of sieved oat hay (61.4 on average) and wheat straw fractions (47.7 on average) were lower than the un-sieved fractions (65.7 for OH and 55.4 for WS), whereas for lucerne hay, sieving had no effect on CP content. Dry matter and NDF disappearances were significantly higher for the un-sieved samples than for the sieved fractions for all three forage types at all incubation times, which indicates an overestimation of the soluble and readily digestible forage fractions. Compared to sieved samples, DMD values at 0 hours (washing only) of the un-sieved samples were, on average, 13.8% higher for lucerne hay, 27.3% for oat hay and 44.7% for wheat straw. At 48 h, the overestimation of lucerne DMD for the un-sieved samples was between 4.0% (compared to 106 μm sieve) and 7.3% (compared to 150 μm sieve). This over-estimation in the un-sieved samples was carried over to all four time points. No significant differences between the fractions (150, 125 and 106) were found within a forage type at all incubation times. The estimated degradation rates and the predicted digested proportions were also significantly higher for the un-sieved fractions compared to the sieved fractions. It was concluded that fine particle removal from forage samples would result in more accurate estimations of in sacco nutrient degradability.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In sacco in vitro- en in situ-metodes word dikwels toegepas in die studie van herkouervoeding aangesien hierdie metodes vinniger, meer effektief en meer ekonomies is as in vivo-metodes. Hierdie studies maak gebruik van kunsveselsakkies, gemaak van poliëster (dacron) of nylon wat beskikbaar is in verskeie poriegroottes. Resultate van sulke verteringsproewe is belangrik vir toepassing in voerformuleringsprogramme soos AMTS.cattle en CPM Dairy. Die resultate wat deur hierdie studies verkry word, is belangrik vir akkurate voerformulering deur formuleringsmodelle en stel die herkouervoedingkundige in staat om die ideale voer te formuleer vir die manifestering van die dier se genetiese potensieaal. Die aanvaarde in sacco-metode (NRC, 2001) vereis dat voermonsters deur ‘n 2 mm sif gemaal word wat ‘n groot verskeidenheid partikelgroottes tot gevolg het met ‘n beduidende hoeveelheid baie fyn materiaal. Navorsing het getoon dat hierdie baie fyn partikels uit die dacronsakkies gewas kan word tydens in sacco verteringstudies, met die gevolg dat die oplosbare en vinnig-verteerbare fraksie oorskat kan word. Die doel van die huidige studie was om die invloed van die verwydering van fyn partikels op die chemiese samestelling van ruvoermonsters te bepaal, asook die in vitro droë materiaal (DM) en neutraal-onoplosbaare vesel (NDF) verteerbaarheid daarvan. Monsters van lusernhooi, hawerhooi en koringstrooi, afkomstig van sewe verskillende lokaliteite in die Wes-Kaap, is deur 'n 2 mm sif gemaal en sub-monsters is deur ‘n reeks siwwe met poriegroottes van 150 μm, 125 μm of 106 μm gesif. Al die fraksies is geanaliseer vir DM, ruproteïen (RP), NDF, vet en as. Vier monsters van elke voertipe is op grond van die NDF-inhoud geselekteer vir in vitro-studies om die DM- en NDF- verteerbaarheid oor tyd te bepaal. Monsters is vir 0, 6, 24 of 48 uur geïnkubeer. Die resultate het getoon dat daar betekenisvolle variasie in chemiese samestelling binne ruvoertipes voorgekom het. Die verwydering van die fyn partikels het geen invloed die NDF-inhoud van lusernhooi en koringstrooi gehad nie. Wat hawerhooi betref, was die NDFinhoud van die gesifte monsters egter betekenisvol hoër in vergelyking met die ongesifte monsters. Die NDF inhoud was gemiddeld 635.9 vir die gesifte monsters en vir die ongesifte monsters 606.8. Sifting het geen invloed op die RP-inhoud van lusernhooi gehad nie, maar vir hawerhooi (61.4 gemiddeld) en koringstrooi (47.7 gemiddeld) was die RP-inhoud van die gesifte monsters betekenisvol laer as dié van die ongesifte monsters (65.7 vir hawerhooi en 55.4 vir koringstrooi). In vergelyking met die gesifte monsters, was die in vitro DM- en NDF-verteerbaarhede betekenisvol hoër vir die ongesifte monsters vir al drie ruvoertipes by alle inkubasietye. Hierdie resultate bevestig ‘n oorskatting van oplosbare en maklik verteerbare fraksies in gemaalde voermonsters. In vergelyking met die gesifte monsters, was die DMV-waardes van die ongesifte monsters by 0 ure (slegs gewas) gemiddeld 13.8% hoër vir lusernhooi, 27.3% vir hawerhooi en 44.7% vir koringstrooi. Na 48 h inkubasie was die oorskatting van lusern DMV vir die ongesifte monsters tussen 4.0% (vergeleke met die 106 μm sif) en 7.3% (vergeleke met 150 μm sif). Die oorskatting is oorgedra na al vier inkubasietye. Die resultate het geen noemenswaardige verskille tussen die fraksies (150 μm, 125 μm en 106 μm poriegroottes) van ‘n ruvoertipe by enige inkubasietyd aangedui nie. Die beraamde verteringstempo’s en verteerde fraksies was ook aansienlik hoër vir die ongesifte monsters in vergelyking met die gesifte monsters. Die gevolgtrekking is gemaak dat die verwydering van fyn partikels uit gemaalde ruvoermonsters die akkurate bepaling van in sacco verteerbaarheidswaardes verhoog.
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Chu, Carol, Kristin L. Walker, Ian H. Stanley, Jameson K. Hirsch, Jeffrey H. Greenberg, M. David Rudd, and Thomas E. Joiner. "Perceived Problem-Solving Deficits and Suicidal Ideation: Evidence for the Explanatory Roles of Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness in Five Samples." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/843.
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Perceived social problem-solving deficits are associated with suicide risk; however, little research has examined the mechanisms underlying this relationship. The interpersonal theory of suicide proposes 2 mechanisms in the pathogenesis of suicidal desire: intractable feelings of thwarted belongingness (TB) and perceived burdensomeness (PB). This study tested whether TB and PB serve as explanatory links in the relationship between perceived social problem-solving (SPS) deficits and suicidal thoughts and behaviors cross-sectionally and longitudinally. The specificity of TB and PB was evaluated by testing depression as a rival mediator. Self-report measures of perceived SPS deficits, TB, PB, suicidal ideation, and depression were administered in 5 adult samples: 336 and 105 undergraduates from 2 universities, 53 homeless individuals, 222 primary care patients, and 329 military members. Bias-corrected bootstrap mediation and meta-analyses were conducted to examine the magnitude of the direct and indirect effects, and the proposed mediation paths were tested using zero-inflated negative binomial regressions. Cross-sectionally, TB and PB were significant parallel mediators of the relationship between perceived SPS deficits and ideation, beyond depression. Longitudinally and beyond depression, in 1 study, both TB and PB emerged as significant explanatory factors, and in the other, only PB was a significant mediator. Findings supported the specificity of TB and PB: Depression and SPS deficits were not significant mediators. The relationship between perceived SPS deficits and ideation was explained by interpersonal theory variables, particularly PB. Findings support a novel application of the interpersonal theory, and bolster a growing compendium of literature implicating perceived SPS deficits in suicide risk.
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Soares, Lenin Campos. "O padre, o fil?sofo e o profeta : a Am?rica de Sim?o de Vasconcelos." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2007. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16994.
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Previous issue date: 2007-08-31To build an Portuguese America, after discovering at the beginning of XVI century, the Europeans used the physic, politic colonization and also a space ideological domain using write texts, chronicles, and started making a conceive America that was more European than American. One of those chronicles was the Society of Jesus Chronicle written by father Sim?o de Vasconcelos, a Jesuit. So our object is recognizing in this chronicle the ways that this father had imagined the America. We are looking to answer how the Jesuit use some references to Classic Antiquity (meanly Aristotle and Samuel) because how this action until happen in the Renascence (XVII century) the intellectual production certainly involve renascent topoi. To get this we used some authors that study Intellectual/ Cultural History like Burckhardt e Ginzburg and some authors from Speech Analyses like Certeau and Foucault, to, in the end, can understand how Sim?o de Vasconcelos created his Brazil
Para construir uma Am?rica, a Am?rica Portuguesa, ap?s o seu descobrimento em 1500. os europeus seu utilizaram, al?m da coloniza??o f?sica e pol?tica de uma domina??o ideol?gica do espa?o atrav?s de textos escritos, cr?nicas, e a partir delas imaginaram uma Am?rica que era mais europ?ia do que americana. Uma destas cr?nicas foi a Cr?nica da Companhia de Jesus escrita pelo padre jesu?ta Sim?o de Vasconcelos. Nosso objetivo ? reconhecer nesta cr?nica os modos que este padre imaginou a Am?rica nos atendo, principalmente, a como o jesu?ta utiliza as refer?ncias ? Antig?idade Cl?ssica (nos concentramos aqui em Arist?teles e os Livros de Samuel) porque como tal a??o se d? durante o Renascimento (s?culo XVII) a produ??o intelectual certamente acaba por envolver os topoi renascentistas. Para realizar isto nos basearemos nos autores ligados ? Hist?ria Intelectual/ Cultural como Burckhardt e Ginzburg e tamb?m autores ligados ? An?lise de Discurso, com Certeau e Foucault, para enfim poder entender como Sim?o de Vasconcelos criou o seu Brasil
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Caesar, Radek. "Depozice CaF2 ultratenkých vrstev na grafenový substrát." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-417139.
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This master’s thesis is focused on preparation and analysis of ultrathin CaF2 (calcium fluoride) films on a graphene substrate. CaF2 was deposited in UHV conditions at substrate temperatures in the range from 20 °C to 400 °C. The material was deposited on Si(111) with a native SiO2 layer and on a substrate with a CVD graphene layer. The deposited films were analyzed by XPS, AFM and SEM. Moreover four different sample holders for deposition purposes were designed in this work.
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Sanna, Chaitanya Ramesh. "Patterns of Two Types of Overlapping Genes in Five Mammalian Genomes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43601.
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Increasing evidence suggests that overlapping genes is a common phenomenon in eukaryotic genomes too and are not restricted to prokaryotes alone. Here we determined overlapping genes in a set of orthologous genes in the genomes of human, chimp, mouse, rat, and dog and contrasted the patterns of overlapping between two principal types of overlapping genes, the same-strand-overlapping genes and different-strand-overlapping genes. The two types of overlapping genes are compared with respect to their frequencies, overlap lengths, region of overlap, and conservation of overlap in five species. Our results suggest the following: different-strand-overlaps are more common, both types show different patterns with respect to overlap lengths and regions of overlap, different-strand-overlapping genes are more evolutionarily conserved, and 3'-UTR evolution plays an important role in transitions between non-overlapping genes and overlapping genes.
The thesis also presents a review of related work in terms of history, origin, types, biological significance of overlapping genes, human diseases associated with them, and their comparison in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.Master of Science
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Huhra, Rachel L. "Religious Coping as a Moderator of the Five Factor Model of Personality Traits and Alcohol Abuse Severity at Six-Month Follow-up in a Twelve Step Treatment Sample." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1183987906.
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Branchini, Rachele <1986>. "Negativi di memoria. La rappresentazione del trauma nel romanzo del Novecento. Samuel Beckett, Georges Perec, Agota Kristof." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6894/.
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Oggetto di questa tesi è l’analisi delle modalità di rappresentazione del trauma nel romanzo del Novecento e, in particolare, nelle opere di Samuel Beckett, Georges Perec e Agota Kristof. Fondamento dello studio sarà una disamina dei procedimenti linguistici e narrativi di rappresentazione del trauma nelle prose degli autori citati, al fine tracciare le linee di un’estetica in grado di descrivere le caratteristiche peculiari delle narrazioni in cui la dimensione antinarrativa della memoria traumatica assume il ruolo di principio estetico guida. L’analisi si soffermerà sulla cruciale relazione esistente, in tutti e tre gli autori, tra rappresentazione del trauma e sviluppo di strategie narrativi definibili come “denegative”. L’analisi dei testi letterari è condotta sulla base del corpus critico dei Trauma Studies, dell’ermeneutica della narrazione di stampo ricœuriano e della teoria del linguaggio psicoanalitica e affiancata, ove possibile, da uno studio filologico-genetico dei materiali d’autore.
Alla luce di tali premesse, intendo rivalutare il carattere rappresentativo e testimoniale della letteratura del secolo scorso, in contrasto con la consuetudine a vedere nel romanzo novecentesco il trionfo dell’antimimesi e il declino del racconto. Dal momento che le narrazioni traumatiche si costruiscono intorno e attraverso i vuoti di linguaggio, la tesi è che siano proprio questi vuoti linguistici e narrativi (amnesie, acronie, afasie, lapsus, omissioni e mancanze ancora più sofisticate come nel caso di Perec) a rappresentare, in modo mimetico, la realtà apparentemente inaccessibile del trauma. Si tenterà di dimostrare come questi nuovi canoni di rappresentazione non denuncino l’impossibilità del racconto, bensì una sfida al silenzio, celata in più sottili e complesse convenzioni narrative, le quali mantengono un rapporto di filiazione indiretto − per una via che potremmo definire denegativa − con quelle del romanzo tradizionale.The aim of this research is the analysis of the forms of representation of trauma in 20th century novel, in particular in the work of Samuel Beckett, Georges Perec and Agota Kristof. The core of the analysis is the examination of the linguistic and narrative processes of representation of trauma in the proses of the aforementioned authors, in order to define aesthetical categories able to describe the particular features of narratives whose leading aesthetic principle is the anti-narrative dimension of the traumatic memory. The analysis will dwell on the crucial relationship – vital in all three authors – between representation of trauma and development of narrative strategies that can be defined as ‘denegative’. The theoretical bases for the analysis of the literary texts are the anti-narrative theories of the traumatic memory, along with Ricœur’s hermeneutics of narrative and the Psychoanalytical theory of language. Where possible, this is paralleled by a philological and genetic study of authorial manuscripts. In contrast with the prevailing view that, in 20th century novel, sees the triumph of anti-mimesis and the decline of the story, I seek to reassess the representative and testimonial character of 20th century literature. Since traumatic narratives are built by and hinge on gaps of language, my contention is that these gaps of language (amnesia, achrony, aphasia, Freudian slips, omissions and more articulated losses, as in Perec’s case) do in fact represent, mimetically, the apparently inaccessible reality of trauma. These new canons of representation do not state the impossibility of narrative; on the contrary they represent a challenge to silence, an attempt hidden in sharper and more complicated narrative conventions that keep a relationship of indirect origin with the conventions of the traditional novel – in a way that one could call ‘denegative’.
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Kimbell, Sara E. "The Romantic Pilgrim: Narrative Structure in Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1274965990.
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Jackson, Nicholas Allen. "The Creation, Performance, and Preservation of Acousmatic Music." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1619144438948909.
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