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Tveten, Thomas Moltke-H. "How to make money on mobile applications." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for telematikk, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-25928.
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The number of mobile applications grows exponential fast with 1,000 new applications published each day, and 1 million already available. The competition among applications is fierce, but the applications that become popular generates large revenues. One example is WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion. The application market is a winner-take-all market, that everyone can participate in by developing their own application. There is no cost in terms of money to develop an application, and thus developers only need to risk their own time. The aim of this thesis is to gain an understanding of the mobile application market, and to analyze it from a business perspective. It is especially one topic this thesis elaborates, and that is the analysis of the self-developed application in relation to the application market. There are three main subjects that are analyzed associated with this topic, and are as followed.1. The developing and marketing of mobile applications.2. A complete business model for mobile applications3. The impact of network externalities influencing mobile applications.1. In order to do an in-depth analysis of the main factors influencing applications, I developed and analyzed my own mobile application. During the development I obtained experiences of the vast amount of time and effort behind the development of applications, and the factors that need to be present in order to meet the users’ needs. When the application was finished, I conducted an extensive marketing through advertising on Facebook. During the marketing the application became ranked as the 26th most popular application on the Norwegian App Store, and the 2nd most popular word game. Due to the application’s popularity, I was interviewed by the newspaper Byavisa, the TV channel TV2, and in the book Mobile App Growth Hacks. The the- sis presents an analysis of the effect from the marketing and the various interviews, along with the effect from other marketing channels utilized. The primary finding in relation to this topic, is the large effect marketing has on the application’s popularity and the application’s ability to acquire new users. This indicates the importance of marketing for applications that struggle to be noticed.2. The thesis presents a complete business model for the self-developed application by using Osterwalder’s business model ontology. The business model examines how applications create value to their target customers, and provides an in-depth analysis of the self-developed application’s cost structure and how it generates revenue. The main findings in relation to the business model, is the large impact the application’s user activity has on the revenue generated, and that the revenue subsidizes the costs to a large extent.3. An extensive analysis of the networks externalities influencing the self-developed application is performed. The analysis presents the large influence network externalities have on applications’ ability to maintain existing users, and acquire new. Due to the network externalities, this may lead to an exponential increase or decrease in the application’s popularity. By applying a modified epidemiological model on the self-developed application, the application’s network externalities are modeled. The model is calculated based on the application’s user activity and the effect from the network externalities, and thus provides mathematical equations that can be used by developers to gain more control over the effects.There are three other findings in this thesis worth noting. First, the psychology in applications are one of the key factors to increase applications’ user activity, and thus the revenue. The application’s psychology increases users’ desire to continue using the app, by focusing on users’ emotions and behavior. Second, there are five key performance indicators that analyze the application’s strengths and weaknesses in order to increase users’ engagement, and thus increase the application’s revenue by focusing on its most profitable customers. Third, the application’s popularity are primarily determined by the application’s extent of the Word of Mouth concept. Word of Mouth is basically passing of information from person to person by oral or digital communication. In the application market, this occurs when people share their opinion about an application to others. The effect from the concept is large, and has to be present in order for an application to maintain its popularity.
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van, 't Klooster Johannes Maria. "How to make money : distributive justice, finance, and monetary constitutions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274911.
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A capitalist society has two defining features. The first is well-known. A capitalist economy leaves coordination of exchange and production largely to private authority. The dissertation investigates a second feature. In a capitalist economy, individuals and firms coordinate exchange through contracts that involve obligations to pay money. Financial contracts allow individuals to defer payment and save money for expenditures at a later point in time. My dissertation assigns a crucial role to the structure of institutions and to the rules that create and define the authority over money. I refer to such a structure as a monetary constitution. In existing capitalist societies, money is not entirely under public control, as proponents of socialism or full reserve banking require. Nor is it entirely in private hands as libertarian free bankers would ideally have it. Instead, the supply of money to the economy takes place through a hierarchical order of money creation. Money issued by the central bank stands at the top of the hierarchy. Below it, private financial institutions issue different forms of credit money. In this sense, the monetary constitution is a hybrid of both public and private authority over money. Political philosophy has said virtually nothing about the authority over money. I aim to persuade the reader that this is a grave neglect. The three main claims of the dissertation are: 1. Money and finance are central to any account of distributive justice that is adequate for a capitalist society. 2. There are five objections to unregulated private money creation. 3. Existing monetary constitutions need fundamental reform. In support of the first claim, I argue that money is a crucial metric for any theory of distributive justice that is adequate for a capitalist society. I also put forward a new account of the crucial role of credit and saving in realising a fair intertemporal distribution. Finally, the second and third claims support the first claim where it concerns the authority over money. In support of the second claim, I argue that unregulated private money creation leads to (1) financial instability, (2) macroeconomic instability, (3) unsustainable use of natural resources, (4) an unfair distribution of economic means, and (5) an undemocratic concentration of political power. I also put forward a new account of why financial instability matters from the perspective of distributive justice. In support of the third claim, I argue for the incremental abolition of private money creation. Although the delegation of public money creation to an independent central bank is not objectionable in principle, I go on to argue that existing mandates are insufficiently democratic and need reform.
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Palix, Nicolas, Julia L. Lawall, Gaël Thomas, and Gilles Muller. "How Often do Experts Make Mistakes?" Universität Potsdam, 2010. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4132/.
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Large open-source software projects involve developers with a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise. Such software projects furthermore include many internal APIs that developers must understand and use properly. According to the intended purpose of these APIs, they are more or less frequently used, and used by developers with more or less expertise. In this paper, we study the impact of usage patterns and developer expertise on the rate of defects occurring in the use of internal APIs. For this preliminary study, we focus on memory management APIs in the Linux kernel, as the use of these has been shown to be highly error prone in previous work. We study defect rates and developer expertise, to consider e.g., whether widely used APIs are more defect prone because they are used by less experienced developers, or whether defects in widely used APIs are more likely to be fixed.
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Hertli, Sascha. "How to Make IPO Underpricing Investable." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/04603346001/$FILE/04603346001.pdf.
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Budd, Chris. "HOW TO MAKE A RUGGEDIZED SSD." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624195.
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SSDs are now commonplace in all types of computing from consumer laptops to enterprise
storage systems. However, most of those SSDs would not survive in environments with extreme
temperatures or high shock and vibration such as found in embedded and military systems. The
problems in this space are more than just mechanical; they involve all aspects of the design
including electrical and even firmware. A combination of all three engineering disciplines is
needed to provide a robust ruggedized SSD product.
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Smith, Nathaniel M. "How to Make Friends and Maximize Value." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461096878.
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Chauvel, Benjamin, and Raphaël Madjour. "How to Make Profit in Trade Show." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33544.
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This paper investigates the participation of companies in a Trade Show. The purpose of this research is to highlight what are the best ways for successfully participating in Trade Show and make profit. In order to find the right information, one previous research was identified from the library data base, which allowed us to find some other existing articles. One of the major results was that companies do not seriously prepare for their Trade Show. Moreover, it is also important to follow-up their attendees after the Trade Show.
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Summers, Katherine Elizabeth. "Money and meaning : how working-age social security recipients understand and use their money." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3794/.
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This thesis explores how working-age social security money in the UK is understood and used from the perspective of its recipients, using an approach that emphasises the ‘social meaning’ of money. The thesis is motivated by two initial observations. On the one hand, politicians and policymakers have demonstrated an awareness that social security money has the capacity to carry and communicate social meaning. Yet, on the other hand, the mostly individualistic, asocial, perspectives of neoclassical and (more recently) behavioural economics, have continued to dominate the way in which social security policy has been framed. Against this background, the main argument of the thesis is that both academics and policymakers have so far underestimated the social aspects of social security money on a micro level, within the lives of its recipients. A novel alternative perspective is proposed, drawing on insights from new economic sociology, that theorises social security money as constituted by social context, social relations, and social meanings. This theoretical perspective is explored empirically using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 43 working-age social security recipients living in East London. The interviews are analysed using a form of thematic analysis. The empirical findings are presented in three main sections that address the participants’ experiences of claiming, organising, and spending social security money. Based on these empirical findings, the thesis argues that four key concepts can help to clarify how working-age social security money is understood and used from the perspective of its recipients. These are: supplication and earned entitlement; control and responsibility; dependence and independence; and administratively-defined need. The thesis concludes by showing the implications of these key concepts for how policymakers approach the design of social security payments specifically, and how they might better understand recipients’ experiences of social security policy more generally.
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Hofecker, Terry A. "How to make fresh contacts for new churches." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Miller, Jennifer. "Eighth grade reading curriculum how teachers make choices /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1190057922.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Kent State University, 2007.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 15, 2008). Advisor: Nancy Padak. Keywords: Curriculum; reading; standards; adolescent literature. Includes survey instrument. Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-217).
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Zheng, John. "How to make a small company's services successful." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999zheng.pdf.
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Sheleg, Moran. "How to make a past : painting since Reinhardt." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10040550/.
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The recent resurgence of critical interest in the practice of painting has yielded significant attempts to move beyond pre-millennial debates over its apparent demise following the failure of modernism and the triumph of advanced capitalism. Yet, in trying to counter the loss of art’s autonomy as brought about by postmodernism and the ‘post-medium condition’, these accounts have often over-emphasised the persistence of indexicality through painting’s digital turn as its last hideout in an increasingly abstracted world. Complicating this premise, my thesis explores how artists have, since the mid-twentieth century, mined the relationship between painting, its past and the psycho-social space of perception through means other than the symbolic brushstroke. To this end, rather than a dialectical structure of deadlocked binaries, painting is here reimagined as a way of making patterns through time. That is, instead of a linear story of cause and effect, painting comprises a vast array of parallel trajectories. In the first two chapters I examine the roles played by exhibition design and colour within Ad Reinhardt’s retrospective attempts to make such a pattern out of (and for) his work, before going on to track further examples across a transatlantic set of practices begun during the supposed watershed for painting instigated by the 1960s. Examining works and writings by Bridget Riley, Jo Baer and Patrick Caulfield alongside Reinhardt’s own, this thesis spans an extended moment in which the concept of painting’s life-cycle gave way to alternative paradigms cutting across the stylistic and ideological imperatives still shaping its discussion today. Reframing mainstays of modern art such as the monochrome, the grid and the arabesque as primary tools in painting’s historical reformulation, rather than primal sites of its undoing, I conclude by considering how painting’s current ubiquity might in turn remake the patterns of its past.
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Johnson, Amanda Rachel. "Off the Charts: how to make a scene." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1649.
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This body of work explores multiple technical and aesthetic methods of representing complex statistical information in an approachable visual language, bridging the boundaries between data science, graphic design and fine arts. Ordinary data charts are combined together with other charts and diagrams and transformed in unexpected ways in order to form the basic structure of mythical landscape scenes. Line plots over time become the rising and falling curves of hills and mountains, bar charts are morphed into industrial factories on the horizon, and bubble charts become billowing smoke, a forest of trees, or a school of fish. The hope is that the work will act as an engaging alternative to traditional data representation and will encourage curiosity and a fresh perspective.
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Sjölin, Paulina, and Martin Forsberg. "How to make car-addicts become proud cyclists." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22839.
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Trots att vetskapen om klimatförändringar är utbredd bland människor, verkar individer sällan fundera över att deras egna handlingar bidrar till klimatförändringar när de väljer hur de ska transportera sig, detta märks ¨tydligt när det kommer till det utbredda användandet av bil. För att minska andelen ”onödig” bilism drivs arbeten, inom Malmö stad, med fokus på information, kommunikation och kampanjer som ämnar öka andelen gång-, cykel- och kollektivtrafikresenärer. Detta arbete kan sammanfattas med ett ord: beteendepåverkan. Målet med beteendeförändringar är en del i arbetet mot att göra Malmö till en mer attraktiv och hållbar stad. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur förändringsagenter på kommunal nivå i Malmö uppfattar sitt yrke och sin yrkesroll, vilket innefattar hur de uppfattar de ramar inom vilka de arbetar, hur de uppfattar kompetens, vilken uppfattning de har av framgång i arbetet samt hur framgång kan och bör mätas. Det empiriska materialet i denna studie är en kvalitativ analys av sex intervjuer med förändringsagenter på Trafikmiljöenheten inom Malmö Stad. Resultatet visar att de intervjuade förändringsagenterna ser både möjligheter och hinder med att jobba inom offentlig sektor. Fördelarna menar de, är att de känner en viss frihet då de inte skall ”sälja en produkt”, att de har möjlighet att påverka hur arbetet skall genomföras och att de har möjlighet att komma med egna idéer. Nackdelarna är att det professionella spelrummet i hög grad är beroende av det politiska spelrummet, där det finns en spänning mellan att jobba långsiktigt samtidigt som effekter på kort sikt skall kunna presenteras. Det är viktigt för förändringsagenter att ha social och interpersonell kompetens, snarare än teknisk och praktisk kompetens för att göra ett bra arbete. Intervjupersonerna uppfattar att det skett en allmän förändring av den allmänna attityden till miljö- och trafikfrågor de senaste 10 till 15 åren, vilket har gjort det lättare för förändringsagenterna att nå ut med sina budskap.<br>Although knowledge about the complex of problems with climate change is widespread, individuals often do not consider their own actions as contributors to climate change when they make their own choice of how to transport themselves, especially with the widespread use of cars. To reduce unnecessary car use, work is taking place at the public sector level in the city of Malmö. Through information, communication and campaigns, the city aims to raise the amount of pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users; this job can be summarized as: behavioral change. This job is part of the aim to make Malmö a more attractive and more sustainable city. The purpose of this study is to investigate how agents of change at the public sector level understand their profession and their professional role. This involves how they understand the boundaries in which they can operate, their understanding of competencies, how they understand success in their work, and how success can be and should be measured. The study took place through a qualitative study in the form of interviews where six agents of change at the Trafikmiljöenheten in Malmö Stad make up the empirical population for the study. The results show that the interviewed agents of change see opportunities and hindrances with working in the public sector. The advantages are that they feel a level of freedom, as they are not a company aiming to sell a product and that they feel they have the opportunity to affect how the work should go about through the opportunity to bring forward their own ideas. The disadvantages are the political arena that they are a part of, where the policies of the ruling politicians form the boundaries in which the agents of change can perform their work. There is tension between working with effects that only become evident in the long-term and the demands of showing short- term effects. The agents of change say that competencies of social and interpersonal character rather than technical and practical competencies are important for doing a good job. The interviewees outlined that the general attitude towards environmental questions and choice of transport modes has changed over the past 10-15 years which makes it easier for the agents of change to reach out with their messages.
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Miller, Jennifer Lynn. "Eighth Grade Reading Curriculum: How Teachers Make Choices." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1190057922.
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Andersson, Louise, and Sara Klingberg. "How to make ambassadors turn their friends into ambassadors." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-98033.
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With the internet's rampage, the possibilities for consumer-driven distribution of information are massive. One way to use this inter-consumer approach is to encourage existing customers, or ambassadors, to invite their friends and family to become a part of the brands success. But how can companies motivate existing customers to play a more important role in the brand expansion? The purpose of this thesis is to explore the motives and triggers for existing customers to invite friends, to become new customers. This by combining the empirical data collected from telephone interviews and web surveys, with theories on brand equity and inter-consumer marketing. To delimit the thesis, only motives connected to the marketing of premium products with a high customer involvement have been analyzed. For this purpose, Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB was chosen. The empirical delimitation of this thesis is thus the customers of Mackmyra. The results showed that the motives that are perceived motivational differ from person to person. The incentives identified as more prevalent than others were access to unique products, priority to limited editions, possibility to experience the company from the inside, invitations to exclusive events, price reductions and points to exchange for merchandise.The identified incentives were segmented. After the segmentation, every company should carefully consider which segments to target, as those best suited for incentive programs differs from case to case.
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Schoennauer, Eric M. "Suicide terrorism : how psychological operations can make a difference /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FSchoennauer.pdf.
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Stuermer, Matthias Emmanuel. "How firms make friends : communities in private-collective innovation /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2009. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=18630.
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Hyler, Maria E. "Membership and marginalization : how school structures make a difference /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Stokoe, Nicole Yvette. "Determining how therapists make sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370414/.
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Herrin, Morgan Ross. "How to make chicken salad out of chicken shit." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1328808742.
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Stewart, Sarah. "How do children and adults make inferences about ownership?" Thesis, Northumbria University, 2014. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/23691/.
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In everyday life both adults and children are faced with the problem of judging who owns an object. Past research has indicated that adults and children may base their decisions on who was seen possessing an object first (the first possessor bias) or the person with whom an initial visual association was created. The current thesis aimed to investigate this, and ascertain whether children and adults maintain their bias to choose the first possessor of an object as its owner when other competing information regarding ownership is available. Chapters 2 and 3 used between subjects factorial designs in which adults (aged 18-60) and children (aged 3-4 years) viewed a number of stories of characters possessing objects in a variety of different scenarios. After viewing each story participants were required to judge which character owned the object. Results showed that when adults and children had no information, other than who possessed an object first, they chose the first possessor as the owner of the object. However when other competing information, such as the gender or age stereotype of the object, or who had constructive possession of the object, was available both adults and children disregarded their first possessor bias and made decisions in line with this other information. Chapter 4 used a between subjects factorial design and a mixed factorial design. The aim of the experiments was to ascertain whether adults and children take the history of an object into account when deciding who owns an object. Adults (aged 18-60) and children (aged 3-4 years) were shown stories in which one character wore and object and another character held an object. Information was given to help participants infer the history of each of the objects in the stories. Following each story participants were asked to judge who owned the object. Results demonstrated that both adults and children take the history of an object into account in their ownership decisions, and privilege this information above other competing information such as visual association, but that adults do this more reliably than children. All the experiments in this thesis demonstrated that when there is no other information available both adults and children base their decisions on who was seen possessing an object first. However when other information is available both adults and children take this into account in their decisions. Adults and children may use the information in order to reconstruct the history of an object to ascertain who had contact with it in the past and therefore who may have a legitimate claim of ownership over it.
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Jansson, Andreas, and Alexander Rozenbachs. "HR as strategic partner : How to make it happen." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-298744.
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Reimer, Sean. "The Practicality of Statistics: Why Money as Expected Value Does Not Make Statistics Practical." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/997.
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This thesis covers the uncertainty of empirical prediction. As opposed to objectivity, I will discuss the practicality of statistics. Practicality defined as "useful" in an unbiased sense, in relation to something in the external world that we care about. We want our model of prediction to give us unbiased inference whilst also being able to speak about something we care about. For the reasons explained, the inherent uncertainty of statistics undermines the unbiased inference for many methods. Bayesian Statistics, by valuing hypotheses is more plausible but ultimately cannot arrive at an unbiased inference. I posit the value theory of money as a concept that might be able to allow us to derive unbiased inferences from while still being something we care about. However, money is of instrumental value, ultimately being worth less than an object of “transcendental value.” Which I define as something that is worth more than money since money’s purpose is to help us achieve “transcendental value” under the value theory. Ultimately, as long as an individual has faith in a given hypothesis it will be worth more than any hypothesis valued with money. From there we undermine statistic’s practicality as it seems as though without the concept of money we have no manner of valuing hypotheses unbiasedly, and uncertainty undermines the “objective” inferences we might have been able to make.
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Winn, Miranda Susan. "Beyond provocation : how viewers make sense of transgressive taboo art." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42118.
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Transgressive taboo art refers to a controversial visual art genre that deliberately discomforts its viewing audience by provocatively questioning commonly held values and widely accepted socio-cultural constructs. Within this provocation lies the potential for transformative critical reflection, as viewers recursively examine personal acceptance of socio-cultural constructs. But just as this art genre can enlighten, it also can outrage. To unpack the diversity of viewer exchange, the research presented here investigates circumstances in which novice viewers experience a pedagogic interplay and circumstances that cripple the meaning making process. As this contentious genre has largely been avoided by art educators, these findings are then used to make recommendations for optimal inclusion within an educational context. To investigate this complex process, 19 participants were extensively interviewed before, during and after they viewed three transgressive taboo artworks. Transcribed data indicates that viewers approach transgressive taboo art as both an artwork and a problem position. While most participants react with responses similar to traditional art such as comments on colour and composition, they may also engage emotionally and intellectually to the dilemma that the work presents. Often this intellectual engagement begins from an established self-position, then moves outward to the consideration of alternative perspectives. Circumstances that optimize a meaningful viewer exchange include willingness to engage dialogue openly examining intra and interpersonal values and beliefs. Circumstances that thwart engagement include an unending pursuit of artist message, anger due to a significant and specific breach in personal values, cynicism towards the artist/art world, and/or lack of knowledge. Strikingly, strong negative emotional responses and/or traditional art preferences do not necessarily impede viewers from having a meaningful exchange. Recommendations for the inclusion of transgressive taboo art within an educational context include: choosing pieces with pedagogic potential, an emphasis on sincere open dialogue, student self-awareness of personal hot points, exploration of related art history and providing students with guidelines for interpretation and a framework to facilitate art criticism. Recommendations also include two additional steps to the traditional interpretive process of description, interpretation, and evaluation, which include acknowledgement of emotional response and critical reflection of personal/cultural value set(s).
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Axia, Giovanna. "Learning how to make people feel good : children and politeness." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1993. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/887/.
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Parnell, Clarissa Jane. "The landscapes of teaching work : how teachers make educational decisions /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7685.
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Bland, C. M., and Cathy Galyon Keramidas. "Let’s Include ALL Children! How UDL Can Make That Happen!" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4153.
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Keramidas, Cathy Galyon, and C. M. Bland. "Let’s Include ALL Children! How UDL Can Make That Happen!" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4154.
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Kämmer, Juliane Eva. "How people make adaptive decisions with (the help of) others." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16823.
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Diese Dissertation untersucht aus der Perspektive der ökologischen Rationalität (ÖR) die Frage, wie Menschen Entscheidungen in sozialen Kontexten treffen, z.B. in Gruppen oder mit Hilfe von Ratschlägen. Zentral waren die Fragen, wie und welche Umweltfaktoren die Verwendung und Güte von verschiedenen Entscheidungsstrategien beeinflussen. Ziel war es, den Forschungsrahmen der ÖR mit der Gruppenforschung und Literatur zum Thema Ratgeben zu verknüpfen, um für die jeweiligen Forschungsstränge neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Im ersten Projekt wurden die Leistungen von Einzelpersonen und Zweiergruppen in einer Strategielernaufgabe miteinander verglichen. Aufgabe war es, mit Hilfe von Feedback, die Strategie zu lernen, die adaptiv in Bezug auf die Struktur der Umwelt war. Dabei war es entweder adaptiv, auf den besten diskriminierenden Cue zu setzen und die weniger validen Informationen zu ignorieren (take-the-best), oder aber alle vorhandenen Informationen zu verrechnen (weighted additive). Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sowohl Einzelpersonen als auch Gruppen die jeweils beste Strategie erlernten, wobei Gruppen einen schnelleren Lernerfolg zeigten, wenn take-the-best adaptiv war. Das zweite Projekt untersuchte, ob Gruppen Entscheidungsstrategien verwenden, die auf ihre Zusammensetzung hinsichtlich aufgabenrelevanter Faktoren abgestimmt sind. Ergebnisse eines Experiments, in dem 3-Personen-Gruppen eine Paarvergleichsaufgabe bearbeiteten, zeigten, dass Gruppen dazu in der Lage sind, den Strategien zu folgen, die am erfolgversprechendsten sind. Das dritte Projekt untersuchte den Einfluss von Aufgabenschwierigkeit auf die Güte und Verwendung von zwei häufig verwendeten Strategien (mitteln und auswählen) zur Integration von Ratschlägen. Wahrgenommene Aufgabenschwierigkeit schlug sich in verschiedenen statistischen Merkmalen der Umweltstruktur nieder, was wiederum die potentielle Güte der Strategien. Zudem stimmten Personen ihre Strategien auf die Aufgabenschwierigkeit ab.<br>This dissertation is an investigation from an ecological rationality (ER) perspective of how people make decisions in social contexts, for example, when people collectively make decisions in small groups or with the help of another person’s advice. Of particular interest were the questions of what and how environmental factors influence the use and performance of different decision strategies. The studies thus were aimed at linking the framework of ER with research on group decision making and advice taking, respectively, in order to derive new insights for the related research streams. A first project compared the performances of individuals and two-person groups in a strategy-learning task. The task was to learn with the help of feedback the most adaptive strategy for a given task environment. One environment favored take-the-best (i.e., the strategy to rely on the best discriminating cue and ignore the rest); the second environment favored the weighted additive strategy, which weights and adds all available cues. Results show that individuals and dyads learned to select the most appropriate strategy over time, with a steeper learning rate in dyads when take-the-best was adaptive. A second project investigated whether small groups apply decision strategies conditional on the group’s composition in terms of task-relevant features. Results of an experiment with three-member groups working on a paired-comparison task support the hypothesis that groups indeed adaptively apply the strategy that leads to the highest theoretically achievable performance. A third project investigated the impact of perceived task difficulty on the performance and use of choosing and averaging, two prominent advice-taking strategies. Perceived task difficulty was reflected in the statistical properties of the environment, which, in turn, determined the theoretical accuracy of choosing and averaging. Further, people were found to adaptively use the strategies in different task environments.
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Levick-Parkin, Melanie. "How women make : exploring female making practice through Design Anthropology." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21901/.
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This thesis explores the process of female making as a creative and socio-political act and how/where/why this creative labour gets ‘spent’, in terms of energy, outcomes and beneficiaries as well as how it might be situated in the context of contemporary Western Design ontology. Fieldwork took place over a period of 10 Months, with 11 female participants in two countries, during a number of repeat encounters, which included co-making, participant and ethnographic observations as well as informal interviews. The findings are presented as focused narratives based on three of the participants, through a series of ethnographic/auto-ethnographic accounts, which each conclude in a discussion based on my thematic analysis of that particular woman’s making. Drawing on the fieldwork with all 11 women, the three chapters which follow weave together data and theory into thematic discussions and analysis. The research documents and makes visible both the women’s making practices and things acting upon it, through observations of the participants making, and conversations and co-making with participants. A design anthropological approach of ‘anthropology as correspondence’ (Gatt & Ingold, 2013; Ingold 2013a) informed all data collection, with informal interviews providing the core data and focus of analysis, supported by analysis of visual data such as photography and moving image, as well as field notes and reflective auto-ethnographic writing, based on my experiences with the women and their making. As a design anthropological study, it situates and analyses female creative practices in a broader human ‘making’ context, whilst utilising a range of ethnographic, practice-led and co-creative methods, situated within a framework of a feminist inquiry and design discourse. Key theorists informing the analysis are Karen Barad (2007, 2008), Elizabeth Grozs (1999, 2010), Erin Manning (2016), Doreen Massey (2005) and Tim Ingold (2007, 2013a), whilst building on the work of Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock (1981), Cheryl Buckley (1986) and Sheila Rowbotham (1973/a, 1973/b), amongst many others. Key theories triangulated within the discussion and analysis stem from Material Feminism, Design Anthropology and Design Theory. This triangulation, woven around and into the observations and accounts of lived experiences, forms an emergent proposition which considers how female enactments of creative labour can provide us with ways to critique and un-ravel contemporary Design ontology, its modes of production and consumption. Drawing on post-capitalist scholars such as Kathy Weeks (2011), amongst others, and the writing of Raoul Vaneigem (1967/2006), the penultimate chapter ‘Implication for Design Pedagogy’ discusses why the implication my findings should be considered in relation to design pedagogy and education yet to come, and to ‘futures yet unthought’ (Grosz, 1999).
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Marsh, Timothy Laurence. "How to make white people happy : a short story collection." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/154de7ab-e437-487b-a234-4eeca5506c19.
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‘How to Make White People Happy’ is a creative and critical thesis that explores the nature of the journeying condition and the realities of cross-cultural immersion. The creative component is a collection of forty-three autobiographical stories that fuse elements of memoir, travelogue, satire and essay. In it, readers find docujournals about Indonesian slum life, hostile New Mexico cowboys, and star-struck pool boys who dream of fistfighting Chuck Norris. Alone in the city of Paris, a bereaved widow discovers some hard truths about travel and escapism, while on the bleak prairie barrens of Montana a grizzled recluse encounters a different kind of child’s play in an isolated barn. Readers also meet a dying Newfoundlander who dreams of an unusual cut of steak, two young lovers experimenting with the explicit in someone else’s house, and an abandoned Balinese orphan who rises to success in an elitist Anglo society. The exegesis which accompanies the collection focuses on western middle-class travel and discusses the influences and perceptions that drive it, primarily the influence of tourist media and its glorifications of travel life. Drawing from a range of scholars and writers such as Alain de Botton, James Clifford, Mark Twain, Gustave Flaubert and Charles Baudelaire, the commentary emphasizes that any alteration of our human condition occurs foremost through dynamic psychological shifts, rather than geographical ones. Other topics discussed include: belonging and displacement, the relationship between expectation and disillusionment, and aspects of travel narration, specifically humour, satire and point of view.
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Ingersoll, Madeline Ruth. "HOW DO COUPLES MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION CHOICES?" Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469822962.
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Hirschfeld, Rachel E. "How young men make sense of psychosis : a qualitative investigation." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269872.
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White, Stephanie Kazue. "How to make them stay : organizational methods to retain repatriates." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18211.
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Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos Humanos<br>O aumento da globalização no mundo empresarial moderno fez com que o conceito de missões internacionais e expatriação tenha de ser considerado por todas as organizações multinacionais. O repatriamento, a última e segundo algumas teorias a parte mais difícil do processo de expatriação, é também uma das pior geridas e menos investigadas. Com um turnover de repatriados nos EUA entre 20% a 50% no inicio do século 21, este é um sério problema enfrentado por essas organizações. Este estudo qualitativo exploratório investiga a eficácia de diferentes métodos organizacionais e o seu impacto na decisão final dos repatriados de ficarem ou saírem da organização. Os tópicos focados incluem a formação, o apoio da organização e a comunicação, as expectativas e o desenvolvimento de carreira. Os resultados confirmam alguns estudos anteriores e apontam para a má gestão das expectativas e falta de desenvolvimento de carreira como uma das principais causas do turnover de repatriados.<br>The increase of globalization in the modern business world has made the concept of international assignments and expatriation one that all multinational organizations must consider. Repatriation, the final, and by some accounts the most difficult part of the expatriation process is one that is under researched and poorly managed. With a turnover rate of American repatriates between 20% to 50% in the early 21st century and it is an ongoing problem facing these organizations. This exploratory qualitative study investigates the efficacy of different organizational methods and their impact on repatriates' ultimate decision to stay or leave the organization. Topics focused on include training, organizational support and communication, and expectations and career development. The results confirm some earlier studies and name poor management of expectations and lack of career development as a primary cause of repatriate turnover.<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Decloedt, Jeffrey. "How to read the Bill Reid bill." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4083.
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This thesis argues that the First Nations and their material culture have been used
as tropes in the construction of national symbols on Canadian money. The twenty dollar
bill from the 2004 series of Canadian banknotes, Canadian Journeys, was the impetus for
this inquiry. The art of Bill Reid is featured on this banknote. Reid is an artist who
identifies, on his mother's side, with the Haida First Nations and his art takes its themes
and style from the Haida crest imagery. The implications of utilizing a First Nations artist
on a Canadian banknote becomes problematic when considering the antagonistic
historical relationship Canada has had with the First Nations and the multiplicity of
unresolved land claims. Therefore, I ask, how this Bill Reid banknote should be read. In
answering this question I have divided this thesis into three parts. First, I analyze a
historical precedent for this contemporary banknote. The 1870 two dollar bill is useful for
it both gives an example of the use of First Nations as a trope in representing the nation
and it helps expose the importance of money as a national symbol at the time when
Canada was struggling to come together as a modern nation. In the next section I analyze
the Bill Reid bill as both a part of a symbolic construction of nation and as a material
practice which has regional or territorial implications. In the final section I argue that Bill
Reid utilized the language commonly used for colonial justification to elevate his own
practice. While carving out a market for his work Reid helped to reify nationally accepted
histories concerning the First Nations—namely that they are culturally dead.
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Gervais, Marie. "How do junior high students make values decisions through process drama?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60393.pdf.
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Brown, Ken. "An exploration of how teachers make sense of their school's environment." Thesis, Brunel University, 2004. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7293.
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This research explores the understanding teachers have of their local school environment. Using one primary and one secondary school, teachers understandings were explored via the collection and analysis of data predominantly of a qualitative nature. School documentation, teacher interviews and observation of meetings provided the main sources of data used to identify teacher attitudes and knowledge of their local environment. The research concludes that the relationship schools have with their local environment is based upon a lack of any systematic approach to collecting information about the local community or systematic analysis and description of the local environment. Whilst the schools suggested that they worked in partnership with individuals and agencies within the local community, the operations of the schools reflected an unequal distribution of power, the majority of which was held by the schools. Teachers tended to interpreted their actions in terms of their own professional needs rather than as a product of a systematic consideration of objectives, needs and aspirations that have been agreed jointly with members of the local community and hold sceptical attitudes towards the members of the local community in terms of the potential contribution they can and do make to the professional work of teachers. The schools demonstrated characteristics of a paternalistic monopoly in the operational style with which they interact with their local communities. The schools use their power to control their relationship with the local community of service users and attempt to control the lifestyles of members of the local community.
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Kemp, Stefan. "The primacy of financial objectives how family businesses make a difference." Lohmar Köln Eul, 2006. http://d-nb.info/999310917/04.
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Mihailidis, Paul. "Beyond cynicism how media literacy can make students more engaged citizens /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8301.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Phillip Merrill College of Journalism. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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MAIA, MARTA NIDIA VARELLA GOMES. "EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: HOW MANY DATES DO YOU MAKE A CURRICULUM?" PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21707@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>Esta dissertação tem como objetivo estudar o currículo da Educação
Infantil organizado em torno das datas comemorativas do calendário civil e
religioso em duas escolas de Educação Infantil em um dos cinco municípios mais
populosos em relação à faixa etária de 0 a 6 anos do estado do Rio de Janeiro.
Compreendendo a infância como categoria social e da história, parte da cultura e
produtora de cultura, a Educação Infantil como direito da criança e o currículo
como experiência de cultura, tem como referência teórica Bakhtin, Vygotsky,
Benjamin, Sarmento e autores que pesquisam a escola e o currículo. Procurando
compreender por que as escolas de Educação Infantil organizam o currículo em
torno de datas comemorativas, se é orientação da rede de ensino e a origem dessa
prática; conhecer e compreender práticas e interações entre crianças e adultos,
possíveis implicações na constituição de suas subjetividades, se essa prática se
relaciona a outras práticas e concepções presentes na instituição e identificar
aprendizagens que circulam nesse ambiente. O primeiro capítulo apresenta
brevemente a história recente da Educação Infantil no Brasil e a concepção de
infância assumida nessa pesquisa. O segundo capítulo procura demonstrar como o
tema se encontra presente, apresenta o currículo, as políticas, o debate sobre a
Educação Infantil e implicações na prática cotidiana. O terceiro expõe as
referências teóricas, estratégias de pesquisa, informações sobre o município,
sistema de ensino, escolas pesquisadas e processo de aproximação e inserção no
campo. O quarto capítulo trata das observações, entrevistas e análise de
documentos. O quinto capítulo intenta sintetizar os pontos mais relevantes dapara a percepção de outras possibilidades de trabalho que sejam efetivamente
identificadas com as subjetividades que dialogam na escola.<br>This thesis aims to study the curriculum of early childhood education
organized around the holidays and the calendar in two religious schools Early
Childhood Education at one of the five most populous cities in the age group 0 to
6 years in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Understanding childhood as a social
category and history, part of the culture and culture producer, early childhood
education as a right of the child and the curriculum as experience of culture, has
the theoretical background Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Benjamin, Sarmento and authors
who have researched the school and curriculum. Trying to understand why
schools from kindergarten curriculum organized around the holidays, whether it is
orientation of the school system and the origin of this practice, knowledge and
understanding of practices and interactions between children and adults, possible
implications for the constitution of their subjectivities, if this practice relates to
other conceptions in practice and identify learning institution that circulate in this
environment. The first chapter briefly presents the recent history of early
childhood education in Brazil and the conception of children taken in this
research. The second chapter explains how the theme is present, presents the
curriculum, policies, the debate on early childhood education and implications for
daily practice. The third presents the theoretical references, research strategies,
Information about the council, education system, schools and studied the process
of approximation and integration in the field. The fourth chapter deals with
observations, interviews and document analysis. The fifth chapter attempts to
summarize the most relevant aspects of research and dialogue with schools and professionals in their desire to contribute to the perception of other job
opportunities that are actually identified with the subjectivities that dialogue at the
school.
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Moreau, Aurélien. "How fuzzy set theory can help make database systems more cooperative." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN1S043/document.
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Dans ces travaux de thèse nous proposons de tirer parti de la théorie des ensembles flous afin d'améliorer les interactions entre les systèmes de bases de données et les utilisateurs. Les mécanismes coopératifs visent à aider les utilisateurs à mieux interagir avec les SGBD. Ces mécanismes doivent faire preuve de robustesse : ils doivent toujours pouvoir proposer des réponses à l'utilisateur. Empty set (0,00 sec) est un exemple typique de réponse qu'il serait désirable d'éradiquer. Le caractère informatif des explications de réponses est parfois plus important que les réponses elles-mêmes : ce peut être le cas avec les réponses vides et pléthoriques par exemple, d'où l'intérêt de mécanismes coopératifs robustes, capables à la fois de contribuer à l'explication ainsi qu'à l'amélioration des résultats. Par ailleurs, l'utilisation de termes de la langue naturelle pour décrire les données permet de garantir l'interprétabilité des explications fournies. Permettre à l'utilisateur d'utiliser des mots de son propre vocabulaire contribue à la personnalisation des explications et améliore l'interprétabilité. Nous proposons de nous intéresser aux explications dans le contexte des réponses coopératives sous trois angles : 1) dans le cas d'un ensemble pléthorique de résultats ; 2) dans le contexte des systèmes de recommandation ; 3) dans le cas d'une recherche à partir d'exemples. Ces axes définissent des approches coopératives où l'intérêt des explications est de permettre à l'utilisateur de comprendre comment sont calculés les résultats proposés dans un effort de transparence. Le caractère informatif des explications apporte une valeur ajoutée aux résultats bruts, et forme une réponse coopérative<br>In this thesis, we are interested in how we can leverage fuzzy logic to improve the interactions between relational database systems and humans. Cooperative answering techniques aim to help users harness the potential of DBMSs. These techniques are expected to be robust and always provide answer to users. Empty set (0,00 sec) is a typical example of answer that one may wish to never obtain. The informative nature of explanations is higher than that of actual answers in several cases, e.g. empty answer sets and plethoric answer sets, hence the interest of robust cooperative answering techniques capable of both explaining and improving an answer set. Using terms from natural language to describe data --- with labels from fuzzy vocabularies --- contributes to the interpretability of explanations. Offering to define and refine vocabulary terms increases the personalization experience and improves the interpretability by using the user's own words. We propose to investigate the use of explanations in a cooperative answering setting using three research axes: 1) in the presence of a plethoric set of answers; 2) in the context of recommendations; 3) in the context of a query/answering problem. These axes define cooperative techniques where the interest of explanations is to enable users to understand how results are computed in an effort of transparency. The informativeness of the explanations brings an added value to the direct results, and that in itself represents a cooperative answer
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Garrett, David L. "Wheat-Gold Currency How To Make Large-Scale Grain Storage Possible." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1169.
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The United States has a National Oil Reserve but no food reserve. Just as the oil reserve is designed to buffer unforeseen disruptions in the critical supply, the nation should also have a food reserve for at least the same purpose. The United States and other developed nations have little or no food reserve beyond the typical demands between growing seasons. Marvelous production achievements in agriculture beginning in the early 1960s and known as the “Green Revolution” are now leveling off. Food production, suffering from such negative side effects as reduced water tables, is being outstripped by population growth (Bourne, 2009). In 2006 through 2008 the US and world drawdown of wheat and other grain stocks, together with agricultural events such as droughts in various parts of the world, caused grain reserves to hit historically low levels. The resulting lack of supply created significant disruptions, including record high prices (Figure 1) (Good and Li, 2010, USDA - Foreign Agricultural Service, 2011), countries refusing to export, riots, and famine (CNN.com, 2008). The need for higher world grain stocks seems clear. Higher grain stocks should result in lower price volatility and higher food security in Utah, the US, the UK, and internationally.
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Binns, Carole L. "How to make universities more exclusive? Hire more working-class academics." The Conversation, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17902.
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Berg, Linus, and Felix Ståhl. "Mainframes and media streaming solutions : How to make mainframes great again." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279099.
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Mainframes has been used for well over 50 years and are built for processing demanding workloads fast, with the latest models using IBM’s z/Architecture processors. In the time of writing, the mainframes are a central unit of the world’s largest corporations in banking, finance and health care. Performing, for example, heavy loads of transaction processing. When IBM bought RedHat and acquired the container orchestration platform OpenShift, the IBM lab in Poughkeepsie figured that a new opportunity for the mainframe might have opened. A media streaming server built with OpenShift, running on a mainframe. This is interesting because a media streaming solution built with OpenShift might perform better on a mainframe than on a traditional server. The initial question they proposed was ’Is it worth running streaming solutions on OpenShift on a Mainframe?’. First, the solution has to be built and tested on a mainframe to confirm that such a solution actually works. Later, IBM will perform a benchmark to see if the solution is viable to sell. The authors method includes finding the best suitable streaming software according to some criterias that has to be met. Nginx was the winner, being the only tested software that was open-source, scalable, runnable in a container and supported adaptive streaming. With the software selected, configuration with Nginx, Docker and OpenShift resulted in a fully functional proof-of-concept. Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the authors never got access to a mainframe, as promised, to test the solution, however, OpenShift is platform agnostic and should, theoretically, run on a mainframe. The authors built a base solution that can easily be expanded with functionality, the functionality left to be built by IBM engineers is included in the future works section, it includes for example, live streaming, and mainframe benchmarking.<br>Stordatorer har använts i över 50 år och är byggda för att snabbt kunna bearbeta krävande arbetsbelastningar, med de senaste modellerna som använder IBMs z/Architecture processorer. I skrivande stund är stordatorerna en central enhet i världens största företag inom bank, finans och hälsovård. De utför, till exempel, väldigt stora mängder transaktionsbehandling. När IBM köpte RedHat och förvärvade container-hanteringsplattformen OpenShift, tänkte laboratoriet i Poughkeepsie att en ny möjlighet för stordatorn kanske hade öppnats. En mediaströmningsserver byggd med OpenShift, som körs på en stordator. Detta är intressant eftersom en mediaströmningslösning byggd med OpenShift kan fungera bättre på en stordator än på en traditionell server. Den initiala frågan som ställdes var ’Är det värt att köra strömningslösningar på Openshift på en Mainframe?’. Först måste lösningen byggas och testas på en stordator för att bekräfta att en sådan lösning faktiskt fungerar. Senare kommer IBM att utföra ett riktmärke för att se om lösningen är lämplig att sälja. Författarnas metod inkluderar att hitta den bästa strömningsprogramvaran enligt vissa kriterier som måste uppfyllas. Nginx var vinnaren samt den enda testade programvaran som var öppen källkod, skalbar, körbar i en container och stödde adaptiv strömning. Med den valda programvaran resulterade konfigurationen av Nginx, Docker och OpenShift i en fullt funktionell konceptlösning. På grund av Covid-19-pandemin, fick författarna aldrig tillgång till en stordator, som utlovat, för att testa lösningen. OpenShift är dock plattformsagnostisk och ska teoretiskt sett kunna köras på en stordator. Det som författarna lämnade åt framtida ingenjörer att utforska är en studie som inkluderar fler mjukvaror, även betalversioner, eftersom den här studien endast innehåller öppen källkod. Samt en utvidgning av den befintliga lösningens funktionensuppsättning.
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Duclos, Rod Armstrong Gary. "Charitable giving how ego-threats impact donations of time and money /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2282.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Kenan-Flagler Business School Marketing. " Discipline: Business Administration; Department/School: Business School, Kenan-Flagler.
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Appelberg, Jonas. "Participatory Culture : How Social Media Active Journalists Make Use of the Medium." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-16528.
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As new platforms are developed for communicating, the everyday lives of many are changedat the grounds. The aim with this study was to map the changes in routines when it comes tojournalists making news and communicating with their readers, audience and sources after theintroduction of social media in their work process. By making a qualitative study analyzinglogbooks and interviews of a handful of responding journalists I tried to find what thethoughts were behind the routines of the journalistic work process and why and how they’vechanged. The most obvious change this research has found was that the speed of today’s flowof information has made an impact on both how the respondents gather information andregard their sources. My research is in many ways complimentary to earlier research madewith the same starting point but the findings are a bit different. While my research shows thatthe dialog between producer and consumer is increasing and is sought after, other studies havefailed to make this conclusion.
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Johansson, Erik. "Assessment of Enterprise Information Security : - How to make it Credible and Efficient." Doctoral thesis, KTH, School of Electrical Engineering (EES), 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-545.
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<p>Information is an important business asset in today’s enterprises. Hence enterprise information security is an important system quality that must be carefully managed. Although enterprise information security is acknowledged as one of the most central areas for enterprise IT management, the topic still lacks adequate support for decision making on top-management level.</p><p>This composite thesis consists of four articles which presents the Enterprise Information Security Assessment Method (EISAM), a comprehensive method for assessing the current state of the enterprise information security. The method is useful in helping guide top-management’s decision-making because of the following reasons: 1) it is easy to understand, 2) it is prescriptive, 3) it is credible, and 4) it is efficient.</p><p>The assessment result is easy to understand because it presents a quantitative estimate. The result can be presented as an aggregated single value, abstracting the details of the assessment. The result is easy to grasp and enables comparisons both within the organization and in terms of industry in general.</p><p>The method is prescriptive since it delivers concrete and traceable measurements. This helps guide top-level management in their decisions regarding enterprise-wide information security by highlighting the areas where improvements efforts are essential.</p><p>It is credible for two reasons. Firstly, the method presents an explicit and transparent definition of enterprise information security. Secondly, the method in itself includes an indication of assessment uncertainty, expressed in terms of confidence levels.</p><p>The method is efficient because it focuses on important enterprise information security aspects, and because it takes into account how difficult it is to find security related evidence. Being resource sparse it enables assessments to take place regularly, which gives valuable knowledge for long-term decision-making.</p><p>The usefulness of the presented method, along with its development, has been verified through empirical studies at a leading electric power company in Europe and through statistical surveys carried out among information security experts in Sweden.</p><p>The success from this research should encourage further researcher in using these analysis techniques to guide decisions on other enterprise architecture attributes.</p>
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Cunningham, Alan David, and n/a. "How young children make aesthetic responses to visual art of their peers." University of Canberra. Education, 1994. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060704.095956.
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This study sought to investigate the way in which young children respond
to and make aesthetic judgements about art works made by their peers.
Grounded Theory was deemed to be an appropriate research methodology
enabling a scrutiny of serendipitous experiences as well as structured
investigation generated from those experiences.
A total of 296 seven-year-old children were interviewed in small groups of
three or four and asked to respond to visual art materials. These subjects
were drawn from schools in the states of Queensland, New South Wales
and the Australian Capital Territory.
Results indicated that two factors associated with the appraisal of art works
seemed to exist: a function of making aesthetic judgements and a function
of gathering and interpreting information about the art works. The study
found that children utilized a three-phase process in making aesthetic
judgements. The first phase seemed to be pre-figured; the second and third
phase seemed to occur as a outcome of prompting. This three-phase process
was designated as an Aesthetic Response Model.
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Wright, Nancy Evelyn. "Navigating the house of mirrors, how women make sense of menopause information." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ62565.pdf.
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