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Besani, Mary Nontsoto. "Integrated development planning as a tool for promoting community participation at Fezile Dabi District Municipality / Nontsoto Mary Besani." Thesis, North West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/12829.
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The background of this study is established on the concepts, integrated development
planning (IDP) and public participation. IDP serves as a principal strategic planning
instrument which guides and informs all planning, budgeting, management and
decision-making in a municipality. IDP has legal status and it supersedes all existing
plans which guide development in the municipality. The basis for public participation in
South Africa is outlined in key legislation and government policy documents. Public
participation is seen as a democratic process of engaging people in thinking, deciding,
planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that
affect their lives. Many municipalities are challenged by poor performance, under-expenditure and unqualified audits resulting from inadequate institutional and organisational arrangements. Further, local authorities often lack clarity on role-divisions in project management for service delivery. The above mentioned statements with regard to community development, lead to the eruption of violent protest in local municipalities (Mafube and Metsimaholo). Further, the challenges faced by municipalities precipitated the need for research around the processes of participation in local affairs. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether IDP can serve as a tool for promoting community participation at Fezile Dabi District Municipality. The hypothesis for this study indicated that "The process of development of integrated development planning in municipalities requires the involvement of community, to enhance service delivery". The hypothesis and research objectives of this study were realised by means of literature review and empirical surveys. The interviews conducted were mainly supported by semi-structured questionnaires, based on open-ended and closed-ended questions. Further, the objectives of the study were realised through five chapters contained in this study. The study found that: * Community participation exists in FDDM, although community member are doubtful about their roles in local decision-making; * The alignment of public participation process and lOP process are applied incorrectly; * processes of the public participation vis-a-vis the one of the lOP process are not aligned; * the mechanism for public participation are inadequate; and * performance systems are not effective. Municipalities are playing a pivotal role in the delivery of basic social services necessary to improve the living standards of South Africans. The study concludes with a series of recommendations towards the enhancement of community development.<br>M. Development and Management, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010
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Singer, Katherine Anne. "Too many Kates." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1357.
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. 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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Song, Eunkyung, Ranjit Philip, Sandeep Chilakala, Demetrio Macariola, and Gayatri Jaishankar. "Respiratory Infections - How Many Is Too Many?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8860.
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Jones, Julia W. "Study of Navy recruiting simulation tool." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FJones%5FJulia.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Eitelberg, Mark J. ; Roberts, Benjamin J. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 28, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Manpower/Supply, Recruiting, Utilization, Training, Simulation. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-108). Also available in print.
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Nabbe, Patrice. "One consensual depression diagnosis tool to serve many countries : a challenge !" Thesis, Brest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BRES0035/document.
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Introduction: La dépression est un motif fréquent de consultation en médecine générale. Sa variabilité rend son diagnostic difficile. Un outil diagnostique efficace, stable et ergonomique serait une aide en recherche en médecine générale. L’objectif de cette étude était de trouver un outil consensuel entre médecins généralistes (MG) et psychiatres sur plusieurs pays européens. Méthodes: Une revue systématique de littérature été entreprise pour trouver les outils validés en médecine générale contre le psychiatre. Un consensus selon une RAM en a sélectionné un. Il a été traduit selon une procédure garantissant la stabilité du transfert et l’écologie en médecine générale. Un protocole de validation a été produit pour s’assurer de la conservation des qualités psychométriques. L’étude de validation externe française a été réalisée.Résultats: Sept outils ont été extraits : CESD-R, GDS 5-15-30 questions, PSC-51, HADS, HSCL-25. Les données psychométriques d’efficacité (Se, Sp,VPP, VPN) ont été colligés. La HSCL-25 a été sélectionnée pour ses hautes qualités combinées d’efficacité, de stabilité et d’ergonomie. Elle a été traduite en 9 langues relatives à 3 groupes linguistiques : le grecque, les langues romanes et slaves. L’étude de validation française a prouvé que la forme française de la HSCL-25 (F-HSCL-25) a de hautes performances diagnostiques (Se 59,4%, Sp 91,4%, VPP 69,8%, VPN 86,9%) adaptées à la recherche en médecine générale.Implication: la HSCL-25 est un outil valide et efficace pour le diagnostic de la dépression en soins primaires. Ils pourraient augmenter les performances diagnostiques des MG et favoriser des recherches collaboratives<br>Depression is a common reason for consultation in general practice. Its variability makes its diagnosis difficult. An effective, reliable and ergonomic diagnostic tool would be an aid to research in general practice. The aim of this study was to find a consensual tool between general practitioners (GPs) and psychiatrists in several European countries.Methods: A systematic literature review was undertaken to find validated tools in general practice against the psychiatrist. A consensus according to a RAM (RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method) has selected one. It has been translated according to a procedure guaranteeing the stability and the ecology in general practice. A validation protocol has been produced to ensure the retention of psychometric qualities. The French external validation study was carried out.Results: Seven tools were extracted: CESD-R, GDS 5-15-30 items, PSC-51, HADS, HSCL-25.Psychometric effectiveness data (Se, Sp, VPP, VPN) were collected. The HSCL-25 has been selected for its high combined qualities of effectiveness, reliability and ergonomics. It has been translated into 9 languages relating to 3 linguistic groups: Greek, Romance and Slavic languages. The French Validation Study has proven that the French form of HSCL-25 (F-HSCL-25) has high diagnostic performance (Se 59.4%, Sp 91.4%, VPP 69.8%, and VPN 86.9%) adapted to research in general practice.Implication: HSCL-25 is a valid and effective tool for diagnosing depression in primary care. They could increase the diagnostic performance of GPs and foster collaborative research
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Chaimov, Nicholas. "Insightful Performance Analysis of Many-Task Runtimes through Tool-Runtime Integration." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22731.
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Future supercomputers will require application developers to expose much more parallelism than current applications expose. In order to assist application developers in structuring their applications such that this is possible, new programming models and libraries are emerging, the many-task runtimes, to allow for the expression of orders of magnitude more parallelism than currently existing models.
This dissertation describes the challenges that these emerging many-task runtimes will place on performance analysis, and proposes deep integration between runtimes and performance tools as a means of producing correct, insightful, and actionable performance results. I show how tool-runtime integration can be used to aid programmer understanding of performance characteristics and to provide online performance feedback to the runtime for Unified Parallel C (UPC), High Performance ParalleX (HPX), Apache Spark, the Open Community Runtime, and the OpenMP runtime.
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Hornik, Kurt. "Are There Too Many R Packages?" Austrian Statistical Society, c/o Bundesanstalt Statistik Austria, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3814/1/121Hornik.pdf.
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The number of R extension packages available from the CRAN
repository has tremendously grown over the past 10 years. We look at this
phenomenon in more detail, and discuss some of its consequences. In particular,
we argue that the statistical computing community needs a more common
understanding of software quality, and better domain-specific semantic
resources.
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Price, James Richard. "Tools and techniques for programming many-core architectures." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752798.
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Allender, Elyse J. "Automated Tools and Techniques for Mars Forward Exploration." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1480328341223151.
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Capotondi, Alessandro <1983>. "Programming models and tools for many-core platforms." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7630/4/Capotondi_Alessandro_tesi.pdf.
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The negotiation between power consumption, performance, programmability, and portability drives all computing industry designs, in particular the mobile and embedded systems domains.
Two design paradigms have proven particularly promising in this context: architectural heterogeneity and many-core processors.
Parallel programming models are key to effectively harness the computational power of heterogeneous many-core SoC.
This thesis presents a set of techniques and HW/SW extensions that enable performance improvements and that simplify programmability for heterogeneous many-core platforms.
The thesis contributions cover vertically the entire software stack for many-core platforms, from hardware abstraction layers running on top of bare-metal, to programming models; from hardware extensions for efficient parallelism support to middleware that enables optimized resource management within many-core platforms.
First, we present mechanisms to decrease parallelism overheads on parallel programming runtimes for many-core platforms, targeting fine-grain parallelism.
Second, we present programming model support that enables the offload of computational kernels within heterogeneous many-core systems.
Third, we present a novel approach to dynamically sharing and managing many-core platforms when multiple applications coded with different programming models execute concurrently.
All these contributions were validated using STMicroelectronics STHORM, a real embodiment of a state-of-the-art many-core system. Hardware extensions and architectural explorations were explored using VirtualSoC, a SystemC based cycle-accurate simulator of many-core platforms.
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Capotondi, Alessandro <1983>. "Programming models and tools for many-core platforms." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7630/.
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The negotiation between power consumption, performance, programmability, and portability drives all computing industry designs, in particular the mobile and embedded systems domains.
Two design paradigms have proven particularly promising in this context: architectural heterogeneity and many-core processors.
Parallel programming models are key to effectively harness the computational power of heterogeneous many-core SoC.
This thesis presents a set of techniques and HW/SW extensions that enable performance improvements and that simplify programmability for heterogeneous many-core platforms.
The thesis contributions cover vertically the entire software stack for many-core platforms, from hardware abstraction layers running on top of bare-metal, to programming models; from hardware extensions for efficient parallelism support to middleware that enables optimized resource management within many-core platforms.
First, we present mechanisms to decrease parallelism overheads on parallel programming runtimes for many-core platforms, targeting fine-grain parallelism.
Second, we present programming model support that enables the offload of computational kernels within heterogeneous many-core systems.
Third, we present a novel approach to dynamically sharing and managing many-core platforms when multiple applications coded with different programming models execute concurrently.
All these contributions were validated using STMicroelectronics STHORM, a real embodiment of a state-of-the-art many-core system. Hardware extensions and architectural explorations were explored using VirtualSoC, a SystemC based cycle-accurate simulator of many-core platforms.
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Hamdy, Ronald C., J. V. Lewis, Amber Kinser, et al. "Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2741.
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Choices are often difficult to make by patients with Alzheimer Dementia. They often become acutely confused when faced with too many options because they are not able to retain in their working memory enough information about the various individual choices available. In this case study, we describe how an essentially simple benign task (choosing a dress to wear) can rapidly escalate and result in a catastrophic outcome. We examine what went wrong in the patient/caregiver interaction and how that potentially catastrophic situation could have been avoided or defused.
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Hamdy, R. C., J. V. Lewis, Amber Kinser, et al. "Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1231.
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Choices are often difficult to make by patients with Alzheimer Dementia. They often become acutely confused when faced with too many options because they are not able to retain in their working memory enough information about the various individual choices available. In this case study, we describe how an essentially simple benign task (choosing a dress to wear) can rapidly escalate and result in a catastrophic outcome. We examine what went wrong in the patient/caregiver interaction and how that potentially catastrophic situation could have been avoided or defused.
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Tadlock, Rebecca Lynn. "One School, Many Differences: An Assessment Tool for School Counselors and Multicultural Counseling." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1796120841&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (M.S.Ed.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009.<br>"Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education." Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-168). Also available online.
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McCarthy, Avril Dawn. "Development and validation of a virtual environment as a training tool for surgeons in knee arthroscopy." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366114.
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Bamberg, Marlene. "Planetary mapping tools applied to floor-fractured craters on Mars." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2014. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/7210/.
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Planetary research is often user-based and requires considerable skill, time, and effort. Unfortunately, self-defined boundary conditions, definitions, and rules are often not documented or not easy to comprehend due to the complexity of research. This makes a comparison to other studies, or an extension of the already existing research, complicated. Comparisons are often distorted, because results rely on different, not well defined, or even unknown boundary conditions.
The purpose of this research is to develop a standardized analysis method for planetary surfaces, which is adaptable to several research topics. The method provides a consistent quality of results. This also includes achieving reliable and comparable results and reducing the time and effort of conducting such studies. A standardized analysis method is provided by automated analysis tools that focus on statistical parameters. Specific key parameters and boundary conditions are defined for the tool application. The analysis relies on a database in which all key parameters are stored. These databases can be easily updated and adapted to various research questions. This increases the flexibility, reproducibility, and comparability of the research. However, the quality of the database and reliability of definitions directly influence the results. To ensure a high quality of results, the rules and definitions need to be well defined and based on previously conducted case studies. The tools then produce parameters, which are obtained by defined geostatistical techniques (measurements, calculations, classifications).
The idea of an automated statistical analysis is tested to proof benefits but also potential problems of this method. In this study, I adapt automated tools for floor-fractured craters (FFCs) on Mars. These impact craters show a variety of surface features, occurring in different Martian environments, and having different fracturing origins. They provide a complex morphological and geological field of application. 433 FFCs are classified by the analysis tools due to their fracturing process. Spatial data, environmental context, and crater interior data are analyzed to distinguish between the processes involved in floor fracturing.
Related geologic processes, such as glacial and fluvial activity, are too similar to be separately classified by the automated tools. Glacial and fluvial fracturing processes are merged together for the classification. The automated tools provide probability values for each origin model. To guarantee the quality and reliability of the results, classification tools need to achieve an origin probability above 50 %. This analysis method shows that 15 % of the FFCs are fractured by intrusive volcanism, 20 % by tectonic activity, and 43 % by water & ice related processes. In total, 75 % of the FFCs are classified to an origin type. This can be explained by a combination of origin models, superposition or erosion of key parameters, or an unknown fracturing model. Those features have to be manually analyzed in detail. Another possibility would be the improvement of key parameters and rules for the classification.
This research shows that it is possible to conduct an automated statistical analysis of morphologic and geologic features based on analysis tools. Analysis tools provide additional information to the user and are therefore considered assistance systems.<br>Planetenforschung umfasst oft zeitintensive Projekte, bei denen Expertise und Erfahrung eine wesentliche Rolle spielen. Auf Grund äusserst komplexer und sich selten wiederholender Forschungsfragen sind Annahmen, Definitionen und Regeln zur Lösung dieser Fragen nicht leicht nachvollziehbar oder aber nicht eindeutig dokumentiert. Ein Vergleich der Ergebnisse unterschiedlicher Forscher zum selben Thema oder eine Erweiterung der Forschungsfrage macht dies somit nur schwer möglich. Vergleiche liefern oftmals verzerrte Ergebnisse, da die Ausgangslage und Randbedingungen unterschiedlich definiert worden sind.
Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es eine Standardmethode zur Oberflächenanalyse zu entwickeln, die auf zahlreiche Untersuchungsfragen angewandt werden kann. Eine gleichbleibende Qualität der Ergebnisse muss durch diese Methode gewährleistet sein. Ein weiteres Ziel ist es, dass diese Methode ohne Vorwissen und Expertise angewandt werden kann und die Ergebnisse in kurzer Zeit vorliegen. Ausserdem müssen die Ergebnisse vergleichbar und nachvollziehbar sein. Automatisch operierende Analysewerkzeuge können die zahlreichen Anforderungen erfüllen und als Standardmethode dienen. Statistische Ergebnisse werden durch diese Methode erzielt. Die Werkzeuge basieren auf vordefinierten, geowissenschaftlichen Techniken und umfassen Messungen, Berechnungen und Klassifikationen der zu untersuchenden Oberflächenstrukturen. Für die Anwendung dieser Werkzeuge müssen Schlüsselstrukturen und Randbedingungen definiert werden. Des Weiteren benötigen die Werkzeuge eine Datenbank, in der alle Oberflächenstrukturen, aber auch Informationen zu den Randbedingungen gespeichert sind. Es ist mit geringem Aufwand möglich, Datenbanken zu aktualisieren und sie auf verschiedenste Fragestellungen zu adaptieren. Diese Tatsache steigert die Flexibilität, Reproduzierbarkeit und auch Vergleichbarkeit der Untersuchung. Die vordefinierten Randbedingungen und die Qualität der Datenbank haben jedoch auch direkten Einfluss auf die Qualität der Ergebnisse. Um eine gleichbleibend hohe Qualität der Untersuchung zu gewährleisten muss sichergestellt werden, dass alle vordefinierten Bedingungen eindeutig sind und auf vorheriger Forschung basieren.
Die automatisch operierenden Analysewerkzeuge müssen als mögliche Standardmethode getestet werden. Hierbei geht es darum Vorteile, aber auch Nachteile zu identifizieren und zu bewerten. In dieser Arbeit werden die Analysewerkzeuge auf einen bestimmten Einschlagskratertyp auf dem Mars angewandt. Krater mit zerbrochenen Kraterböden (Floor-Fractured Craters) sind in verschiedensten Regionen auf dem Mars zu finden, sie zeigen zahlreiche Oberflächenstrukturen und wurden durch unterschiedliche Prozesse geformt. All diese Fakten machen diesen Kratertyp zu einem interessanten und im geologischen und morphologischen Sinne sehr komplexen Anwendungsgebiet. 433 Krater sind durch die Werkzeuge analysiert und je nach Entstehungsprozess klassifiziert worden. Für diese Analyse sind Position der Krater, Art des Umfeldes und Strukturen im Kraterinneren ausschlaggebend. Die kombinierten Informationen geben somit Auskunft über die Prozesse, welche zum Zerbrechen des Kraterbodens geführt haben.
Die entwickelten Analysewerkzeuge können geologische Prozesse, die sehr ähnlich zueinander sind, von einander abhängig sind und zusätzlich auch dieselben Oberflächenstrukturen formen, nicht eindeutig unterscheiden. Aus diesem Grund sind fluviale und glaziale Entstehungsprozesse für den untersuchten Kratertyp zusammengefasst. Die Analysewerkzeuge liefern Wahrscheinlichkeitswerte für drei mögliche Entstehungsarten. Um die Qualität der Ergebnisse zu verbessern muss eine Wahrscheinlichkeit über 50 % erreicht werden. Die Werkzeuge zeigen, dass 15 % der Krater durch Vulkanismus, 20 % durch Tektonik und 43 % durch Wasser- und Eis-bedingte Prozesse gebildet wurden. Insgesamt kann für 75 % des untersuchten Kratertyps ein potentieller Entstehungsprozess zugeordnet werden. Für 25 % der Krater ist eine Klassifizierung nicht möglich. Dies kann durch eine Kombination von geologischen Prozessen, einer Überprägung von wichtigen Schlüsselstrukturen, oder eines bisher nicht berücksichtigten Prozesses erklärt werden.
Zusammenfassend ist zu sagen, dass es möglich ist planetare Oberflächenstrukturen quantitativ durch automatisch operierende Analysewerkzeuge zu erfassen und hinsichtlich einer definierten Fragestellung zu klassifizieren. Zusätzliche Informationen können durch die entwickelten Werkzeuge erhalten werden, daher sind sie als Assistenzsystem zu betrachten.
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Li, Ying. "Too Many Theories Or Too Many Skills? The Perceived Impact Of Theoretical Knowledge Of Mass Communication Among Journalists And Public Relations Practitioners." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1878966091&sid=13&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009.<br>"College of Mass Communication and Media Arts." Keywords: Journalism, Journalism education, Journalist, Mass communication theory, Public relations, Public relations practitioner. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-188). Also available online.
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Rasing, Willem C. ""Too many people" : order and nonconformity in Iglulingmiut social process /." Nijmegen : Kath. Univ., Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid, 1994. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/277758882.pdf.
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Welford, Gabrielle. "Too many deaths decolonizing Western academic research on indigenous cultures /." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765883251&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1208476968&clientId=23440.
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Parrish, Skip-Thomas. "Too Few Voices, Too Many Distractions, Too Little Concern, Too Little Understanding: the American Media during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6000.
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Upwards of one million people died during the Genocide, Civil War, and Refugee Crisis in Rwanda and surrounding nations, during one of the fastest Genocides to occur in modern history. Even though the United Nations and its member states had a legal mandate to intervene in cases of Genocide due to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, the world chose not to. While there were a myriad of reasons for this the media played a part in this situation.
Using the coverage of US print magazine articles, this thesis argues that the media missed the point and the signs of what was happening on the ground due to a fundamental lack of understanding of Rwanda, the African Great Lakes region, and Africa itself. Borrowing concepts of the creation of the “other,” lack of understanding of Africa, imperial language, and first world views of the third world from Edward Said and Curtis A. Keim this master's thesis shows that there were intellectual disconnects happening within the American press that made intervention nearly impossible. Once the Genocide was nearly complete and a more prosaic refugee crisis started America jumped at the chance to aid the refugees, a large number of them perpetrators of the Genocide, and the media showed reinvigorated interest in Rwanda.
What misconceptions about Rwanda caused the media to miss the point? Did the print media help perpetuate those misconceptions, knowingly or unknowingly? With a death toll from the Genocide alone of roughly 8,000 people per day and the vast majority of them dying within the first several weeks of the Genocide, many lives may have been saved if Rwanda was made a priority by the media. Instead, while the media reported stories about chthonic hatred, the world was more concerned about a much slower Genocide in Eastern Europe. While attention was focused on other global and national stories, a racist regime intent on exterminating the Tutsi was allowed to stay in power in Rwanda.<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>History<br>Arts and Humanities<br>History
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Dohna, Tina [Verfasser], Marc [Akademischer Betreuer] Kochzius, and Dietmar [Akademischer Betreuer] Blohm. "Molecular Tools for Species Identification and Population Assessment of Marine Organisms / Tina Dohna. Betreuer: Marc Kochzius. Gutachter: Marc Kochzius ; Dietmar Blohm." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1096391309/34.
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Lowham, Elizabeth A. "Too many cooks? Distributed leadership in state brownfields remediation and redevelopment programs." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3273717.
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Niesche, Jonathan Charles Westwood. "Too Many Heroes: Renegotiating the Modernist repository and the problem of style." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10085.
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This dissertation, working in concert with a parallel studio-based investigation culminating in an exhibition of expanded painting outcomes, aims to provide a historical context, theoretical framework and experiential aesthetic vehicle for renegotiating the problem of style. In framing ‘style’ as an open question that bears no singular destination, it seeks to instantiate a dialogue between individually circumscribed notions of subjectivity and the broader contextual markers of space, place and time. Across our present, the sheer multiplicity of contemporaneous artistic activity can sometimes seem like an orgy of competing histories and possibilities all vying for attention. Navigating through this pluralist carnival of possible options, in which all manner of media and disciplinary configuration are noisily meeting and mating, is an activity that can often defy meaningful aesthetic experience. Consequently, this dissertation presents various strategies for making meaningful connections within this ‘all out fuck fest’ of artistic possibilities. To this end, it examines the question as to why many contemporary artists, myself included, are revisiting and renegotiating the ‘modernist repository’ in a manner that is no longer effectively described within the now redundant postmodern paradigm. No longer entombed within ironic nostalgia or melancholic longing, many contemporary artists are instead retooling and recalibrating the many great incomplete and unfinished trajectories within modernism as part of a multiplicitous and speculative forward momentum.
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Baseer, Abdul [Verfasser], and Marc [Akademischer Betreuer] Schneider. "Surface Crosslinked Gelatin Nanoparticles As New Tool for the Delivery of Hydrophilic Macromolecular Drugs / Abdul Baseer ; Betreuer: Marc Schneider." Saarbrücken : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1210486121/34.
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Rogner, Sam. "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? : Burden Sharing and Effectiveness in Peacekeeping Operations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353715.
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This paper examines the effect of burden sharing in peacekeeping operations (both among contingent troops and in the entirety of the mission) and effectiveness, specifically whether a party chooses to renege on a peace agreement. The author hypothesizes that burden sharing will make it less likely that a party reneges on a peace agreement. The theoretical argument made in the paper is that burden sharing will help in solving the commitment problem inherent to peace agreements, by signaling to the combatants that the peacekeeping mission is there to stay (and won’t be vulnerable to a potential withdrawal from an important contributor), as well as signaling that there is international support for punishing measures against a party who would renege on the agreement. The paper examines all peacekeeping missions that deployed following a peace agreement between 1992-2016 using data on peacekeeping contributions from the United Nations. The hypotheses will however not be supported by the empirics. In fact there is limited evidence for burden sharing among contingent troops to increase the likelihood that a party chooses to renege on a peace agreement, while burden sharing among all personnel (military and civilian) have no effect on the matter.
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Cotter, Marc [Verfasser], and Joachim Prof [Akademischer Betreuer] Sauerborn. "Developing a biodiversity evaluation tool and scenario design methods for the Greater Mekong Subregion / Marc Cotter. Betreuer: Joachim Prof Sauerborn." Hohenheim : Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1027352944/34.
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Bamberg, Marlene [Verfasser], and Hartmut [Akademischer Betreuer] Asche. "Planetary mapping tools applied to floor-fractured craters on Mars / Marlene Bamberg. Betreuer: Hartmut Asche." Potsdam : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Potsdam, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1064159745/34.
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Woods, Evan T. "The Problems of the Many." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563318642660876.
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Purcell, Fernando. ""Too many foreigners for my taste" : Mexicans, Chileans and Irish in California, 1848-1880 /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Heppert, Jennifer K. "Evolution of TOO MANY MOUTHS and stomatal patterning mechanisms in the monocot Dioscorea bulbifera." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1273.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Sciences<br>Biology
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Sullivan, Curtis J. "Too Many American Icons: Conflicting Ideologies of Wild Horse Management in the American West." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29873.
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Wild free-roaming horses in the American West continue to exist in tension with the land they inhabit, the government that “manages” them, and the people that are impacted by them. The problem, argued here, is the result of the ideological construction of mustangs in American culture, and it calls forth questions about human-nature relationships as well as contemporary understandings of Environmentalism. This research follows in the theoretical foundations of Raymond Geuss and Tommie Shelby to unpack the epistemic properties (empirical evidence of the contexts from which ideologies are formed), functional properties (consequences of suffering and benefits as a result of ideologies), and genetic histories (historical contexts the construct the ideologies in a culture) of ideologies relating to wild horses in the West; by doing so it also provides insight into nature identification, the borders and barriers of human creations, and the limitations of access for performing environmentalism. This text focuses primarily on the life and experiences of Velma Bronn Johnston as an exemplar of environmental change in unexpected ways. Her narrative culminates in the passing of the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971 that created material changes for the lives of mustangs in the West as well as long-term consequences for citizens of the United States of America. Consequentially, mustangs of the West face a population “problem” that costs the United States more than $80 million annually with almost no signs of decreasing.
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Bastari, Azzurra. "Analysis of the Adriatic macrobenthic assemblages along a spatio-temporal gradient. Habitat mapping as a tool to address restoration and recovery of marine resources." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/243051.
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Il mare Adriatico è una delle regioni del bacino Mediterraneo più impattate poiché soggetto a multipli fattori di stress, come cambiamenti climatici e una lunga storia di intenso sfruttamento delle risorse. Allo stesso tempo ospita una grande varietà di endemismi, aree di riproduzione, nursery e foraggiamento.
Il drammatico declino delle risorse target e non del mare Adriatico richiede un urgente sviluppo di nuove ed idonee misure di gestione e conservazione degli ecosistemi marini. Il cambiamento delle comunità macrobentoniche di fondo mobile può innescare un’alterazione delle reti trofiche, della qualità delle acque, del riciclo dei nutrienti. Pertanto, un’efficiente gestione degli ecosistemi marini non può prescindere dal recupero degli habitat bentonici.
I risultati di questo lavoro di dottorato hanno permesso di evidenziare i principali cambiamenti avvenuti sulle comunità bentoniche dei fondali del largo del mare Adriatico (centro e nord) nel corso di circa 60 anni (1934 – 1998). Si è osservato un declino degli organismi dell’epifauna e delle specie macrobentoniche più fragili con Spugne ed Echinodermi che si sono ridotti fino ad un 90-70%.
Tuttavia, lo sviluppo di modelli di preferenza degli habitat dei pennatulacei ha confermato che i fondi mobili del largo Adriatico sono habitat ideali per le specie Funiculina quadrangularis e Pennatula phosphorea. Virgularia mirabilis, invece, predilige le zone sabbiose-fangose del nord e della costa occidentale. Una dettagliata descrizione morfologica di P. phosphorea e Pteroeides spinosum è stata condotta per cercare di fornire uno strumento che possa agevolare il riconoscimento di specie ancora oggi spesso confuse a causa di descrizioni finora poco dettagliate.
La tesi è stata disegnata al fine di fornire utili elementi scientifici a supporto del progetto “Adriatic Marine Ecosystem Recovery” (AMER), avente lo scopo di avviare processi utili al recupero degli ormai sovrasfruttati e degradati habitat marini del mare Adriatico.<br>The Adriatic Sea is one of the most depleted regions of the Mediterranean Sea due to a cumulative impact of multiple stressors, such as climate change and a long history of intense exploitation. At the same time it hosts a variety of endemism, of vulnerable marine ecosystems and essential fish habitats.
Severe decline of target and by-catch species call for urgent conservation measures. The ecological importance of soft bottoms macrobenthic community have been increase and their changes can lead to an alteration of food-webs, reduction of water quality, or nutrient cycling. An efficient ecosystem-based management focusing on the recovery of key benthic habitats is needed to promote recovery of stocks and to develop a sustainable exploitation of marine resources.
The results of this PhD work gives a picture of the main changes occurred on macrobenthic soft bottoms communities of the north and central Adriatic Sea during 60 years (1934 – 1998). Overall change are the decline of epifauna organisms and of the most fragile macrobenthos species with sponges and echinoderms declined by 90-70% since the 1900s.
However, the study of the spatial and bathymetric distribution of Adriatic sea-pens and the development of suitability habitats models have confirmed that the soft bottoms of the central offshore Adriatic Sea are favourable bottoms for Funiculina quadrangularis and Pennatula phosphorea. Virgularia mirabilis prefers the northern basin and the sandy-muddy occidental coastlines. A detailed morphological description of P. phosphorea and Pteroeides spinosum was also provided as a useful tool to sea-pens classification, usually misidentify because a lack of clear available taxonomical descriptions.
The thesis has been designed in order to provide useful scientific elements to support the ‘Adriatic Marine Ecosystem Recover’ (AMER) project, which main aim is provide processes to promote recovery of depleted and overexploited fish stocks and habitats of the Adriatic Sea.
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Stöhr, Alexander [Verfasser], and Marc [Akademischer Betreuer] Ehlers. "Der Einfluss von Toll-like Rezeptoren im murinen Systemischen Lupus Erythematodes / Alexander Stöhr. Betreuer: Marc Ehlers." Berlin : Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1016533446/34.
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Hedborg, Bengtsson Susanna. "Construction client collaboration for inter-organizational innovation : do too many cooks really spoil the broth?" Licentiate thesis, KTH, Projektkommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-227318.
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Our built environment has the power to influence where we live and work, how we transport ourselves, how and what we consume and many other behaviors in our everyday lives, in other words, it has a significant impact on our global environment and economy. Given the notable need for more sustainable development of both the global environment and economy, sustainability has become a critical factor also in the area of urban development. With this as a backdrop, the construction industry and its many actors, such as clients, contractors and suppliers, that collectively drive urban development, play a significant role in creating sustainable development. Innovation is a cornerstone to achieve development, so also in the construction industry. However, with its many interrelated organizations, projects and actors, innovation inevitably becomes inter-organizational. From an urban development perspective, inter-organizational innovation will happen in a multi-project context where several construction projects, led and executed by different actors from different organizations, become interdependent and are therefore required to collaborate. In any construction project, the client holds a key position and has been identified as a critical supporter for successful innovation and collaboration. On the back of these dynamics, the purpose of this licentiate thesis is to explore clients’ role in a multi-project context where inter-organizational innovation is initiated to drive sustainable urban development. From a contingency perspective, the purpose of this study has been explored through a multiple-case study where coordinated construction logistics, during the study, has been identified as inter-organizational innovation. The study has shown that coordinated construction logistics, developed for a multi-project context, must be developed and implemented differently than in a single project or organization. In other words, coordinated construction logistics can take the form of different types of construction innovation. The construction clients, in this thesis the building developers, are identified as being important to support innovation and collaboration within and between parallel and sequential projects. The study has also shown that different clients behave differently when inter-organizational innovation is present; whilst some are proactive to achieve development, others are hesitant and less supportive for change. The findings suggest that long-term committed clients take a more proactive stand for innovation, for example, by including innovation in their procurement strategies and reflecting on how to best implement it in their projects. Additionally, in a multi-project context, the collaboration between clients is found to be important in order to successfully implement innovation, for example to align procurement strategies with the next-door neighbors and to create opportunities to communicate with each other. A theoretical contribution from this thesis is that coordinated construction logistics, which is often seen from a supply-chain management perspective, could be considered as inter-organizational innovation. This conclusion expands the understanding of the empirical phenomenon and its context. Furthermore, adding to the on-going discussion on clients as innovation supporters, their role as a potential innovation supporter is established in a multi-project perspective, but where differences between different types of clients must be taken into account. The multi-project context also implies an increased need for client collaboration, which is often informal, why the clients themselves need to handle all the aspects of collaboration. Tentative findings indicate that in this context time, spatiality, innovation and requirements will affect this collaboration. From a practical side, the findings show that initiating and implementing inter-organizational innovation requires understanding of the context, such as project objectives and the system. For clients and governments active in urban development, the thesis can guide the understanding of the importance of collaboration and choosing procurement strategy for inter-organizational innovation.<br><p>QC 20180508</p>
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Roy, Roly J. "High-tech employment in the Ottawa-Carleton region, too many jobs and not enough people." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ26943.pdf.
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Pratt, David Camak. ""Too many olives in my martini" W.C. Fields and Charles Bukowski as postmodern carnival kings /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1212601300.
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Adams, Stephanie P. "Too Many (Working) Women: Economic Reconstruction and Constructing Gender Roles in Western Germany, 1946-1957." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1212782224.
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Roy, Roly J. (Roly Joseph) Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "High-tech employment in the Ottawa-Carleton Region; too many jobs and not enough people." Ottawa, 1997.
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Fite-Georgel, Pierre Verfasser], Marc [Akademischer Betreuer] Pollefeys, and Nassir [Akademischer Betreuer] [Navab. "Augmented Reality Tools for Digital Plant Engineering / Pierre Fite-Georgel. Gutachter: Marc Pollefeys ; Nassir Navab. Betreuer: Nassir Navab." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1014861608/34.
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Bhave, Neela S. "Functions and relationships of the TMM and SDD1 genes in arabidopsis stomatal development." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1195229702.
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Ripoche, Julien. "Projected Bogoliubov Many-Body Perturbation Theory : Overcoming formal and technical challenges." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLS325.
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Étant donnée l’interaction entre les nucléons,la résolution de l’équation de Schrödinger à A corps permet d’accéder aux propriétés des états quantiques des noyaux. La théorie des perturbations à N corps (MBPT) basée sur un état de champ moyen d’Hartree-Fock permet de traiter les corrélations dynamiques mises en jeu dans les noyaux à doubles couches fermées. Au-delà des fermetures de couches, la brisure spontanée de la symétrie U(1)associée à la conservation du nombre de protons et de neutrons permet en sus l’inclusion des corrélations statiques au niveau du champ moyen et la formulation de la théorie des perturbations à N corps de Bogoliubov (BMBPT). Néanmoins, les résultats des calculs BMBPT présentent des contaminations du fait que la brisure de symétrie n’est qu’émergente dans les systèmes quantiques finis tels que le noyau atomique. Ainsi, la restauration de la symétrie U(1) au-delà du champ moyen est nécessaire pour une description correcte et donne lieuà la formulation de la méthode BMBPT projetée(PBMBPT). Le but est d’implémenter PBMBPTafin d’effectuer des calculs ab initio pour les noyaux à couche ouverte et de masse intermédiaire. Le présent travail apporte des solutions systématiques aux problèmes formels et techniques qui se posent lorsde l’implémentation numérique de PBMBPT : une méthode automatique et sûre permettant de générer les diagrammes PBMBPT ainsi que les expressions correspondantes, un formalisme permettant de calculer d’autres observables que l’énergie, une extension de l’approximation en produit normal aux méthodes avec brisures de symétries ainsi qu’un outil automatique et sûr de réduction sphérique de réseaux de tenseurs<br>Given elementary inter-nucleon interactions,the resolution of the A-body Schrödinger equation gives access to the properties of the nuclear eigenstates. Many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) based on a Hartree-Fock mean field allows one to treat the dynamical correlations at play in doubly-closed-shell nuclei. Beyond shell closures,breaking U(1) symmetry associated with the conservation of neutron and proton numbers further permits to capture static correlations at the meanfield level and to formulate the well-behaved Bogoliubov many-body perturbation theory (BMBPT).Nevertheless, BMBPT results show contaminations associated with the broken symmetry that is only emergent on finite quantum system such as theatomic nucleus. Thus, the restoration of U(1) symmetry beyond the mean field is necessary for acorrect description and gives rise to the projected BMBPT method (PBMBPT). The goal is to implement PBMBPT in order to perform ab initio calculations of singly-open-shell mid-mass nuclei.The present work provides systematic solutions to the formal and technical problems arising during the implementation of PBMBPT: an automatic and safe method to generate PBMBPT diagrams and associated expressions, a framework to calculate other observables than the energy, an extension of the normal ordering approximation to symmetry breaking methods as well as an automatic and safe tool for spherical reduction of tensor networks
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Pigatto, Leonardo. "Advanced Tools for Three-Dimensional Modeling and Control of Thermonuclear Fusion Devices." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3422889.
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This thesis represents the summary of the research activities carried out during a three-years Ph.D. project. The work is divided into two parts, with the common feature of investigating the physical properties related to stability and control of Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic modes in fusion relevant plasmas. One of the aims of the work is to better understand the interaction between such plasmas and a wide range of 3-dimensional electro-magnetic boundary conditions. This part of the research has been carried out on the RFX-mod device, where advanced control strategies have been developed thanks to its state-of-the-art magnetic feedback system. A variety of interlaced problems have been addressed, starting with the improvement of the vacuum magnetic field spectrum through actuator-sensor decoupling, compensation of broken or deactivated coils with simple and real-time applicable strategies and multi-modal Resistive Wall Mode control with varying coil number and geometry. This has allowed to develop relevant control optimization techniques and knowledge for both the Reversed Field Pinch and Tokamak configurations. The former is an excellent playground for RWM studies, given the instability spectrum that is naturally developing. For the latter configuration instead, RWM stability is considered to be one major milestone to be achieved along the road to a commercial fusion reactor. The second part of the work is dedicated to this issue, and deals with the stability properties of Advanced Tokamak scenarios, with reference to the JT-60SA experiment in particular. Studies to understand RWM physics in high beta plasmas, where fluid rotation profiles and hot ions populations from Neutral Beams can play an important role, have been carried out with the MARS-F/K linear MHD codes. If detailed physics such as kinetic effects is coupled to a simplified description of the passive/active structures on one side, on the other hand a simplified plasma can be coupled to a complex 3-D model of the structures to assess realistic active control capabilities of a given system. Different tools are used and described for studying RWM damping physics, and to five a proof-of-principle for feedback control of such instabilities in Advanced Tokamak plasmas operating beyond the no-wall pressure limit.<br>Questa tesi rappresenta la raccolta delle attività svolte durante i tre anni di un progetto di Dottorato di Ricerca. Il lavoro è stato diviso principalmente in due parti, con il comune denominatore di investigare le problematiche relative alla stabilità e al controllo di instabilità Magneto-Idro-Dinamiche in plasmi di interesse fusionistico. Uno dei principali obiettivi di questo lavoro è lo studio di come questi plasmi interagiscano con diverse condizioni al contorno, strutturali ed elettro-magnetiche, con caratteristiche tridimensionali. Questa parte della ricerca è stata svolta sull'esperimento RFX-mod, dove è stato possibile sviluppare peculiari strategie di controllo grazie all'avanzato sistema di controllo attivo. Sono state affrontate varie problematiche tra loro interconnesse, a partire dallo sviluppo di tecniche per il miglioramento del contenuto armonico dei campi magnetici di vuoto tramite disaccoppiamento attuatori-sensori. Da ciò è stato sviluppato un metodo semplificato e applicabile in tempo reale per la compensazione di attuatori rotti o disattivati, con il medesimo obiettivo di migliorare il contenuto armonico dei campi magnetici prodotti dal sistema di controllo reale. A conclusione di questa parte il controllo multi-modale di modi di parete resistiva (RWM) è stato affrontato, dal punto di vista modellistico e sperimentale. Le strategie sviluppate e gli studi effettuati sono rilevanti sia per la configurazione Reversed Field Pinch sia per il Tokamak. Il primo è un ottimo terreno di prova per studiare i modi RWM, per via dello spettro di instabilità che naturalmente sviluppa. Per la seconda configurazione invece, la stabilizzazione dei modi RWM è considerato uno dei principali obiettivi da raggiungere sulla strada verso un reattore a fusione commerciale. La seconda parte del lavoro è relativa proprio alla problematica della stabilità RWM nella configurazione Tokamak, in particolar modo negli scenari avanzati in fase di sviluppo per l'esperimento JT-60SA. Una serie di studi è stata portata avanti con i codici MARS-F/K per determinare le proprietà dei modi RWM in plasmi ad alto beta, nei quali i profili di rotazione e le popolazioni di ioni sovra termici provenienti dagli iniettori di neutri possono giocare un ruolo importante. Da un lato una descrizione dettagliata del plasma, includendo gli effetti cinetici, è stata accoppiata a un modello semplificato e bidimensionale delle strutture passive. D'altra parte una più semplice descrizione del plasma è stata considerata per l'accoppiamento con un modello dettagliato e tridimensionale delle strutture attive e passive, in quest'ultimo caso è stato possibile sviluppare un modello di controllo attivo in catena chiusa dei modi RWM.
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Wu, Di. "Proximity Ligation and Barcoding Assays : Tools for analysis of proteins and protein complexes." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Molekylära verktyg, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-220070.
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Proteins are fundamental structural, enzymatic and regulatory components of cells. Analysis of proteins, such as by measuring their concentrations, characterizing their modifications, and detecting their interactions, provides insights in how biological systems work physiologically or pathologically at the molecular level. To perform such analysis, molecular tools with good sensitivity, specificity, high multiplexing and throughput capacity are needed. In this thesis, four different assays were developed and applied to detect and profile proteins and protein complexes in human body fluids, and in cells or tissues. These assays are based on targeting proteins or protein complexes by oligonucleotide-conjugated antibodies, and subsequent proximity dependent enzymatic reactions involving the attached DNA reporter sequences. In paper I, a solid-phase proximity ligation assay (SP-PLA) was applied to detect synthetic and endogenous amyloid beta protofibrils. The SP-PLA provided better sensitivity and increased dynamic range than a traditional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In paper II, in situ PLA was applied to investigate the correlation between MARK2-dependent phosphorylation of tau and Alzheimer’s disease. Greater numbers of MARK2-tau interactions and of phosphorylated tau proteins were observed in brain tissues from Alzheimer’s patients than in healthy controls. In paper III, a multiplex SP-PLA was applied to identify protein biomarker candidates in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease and in the analgesic mechanism of spinal cord stimulation (SCS). Among 47 proteins in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples, four were found at significantly lower concentrations (p-values < 0.001) in the samples from ALS patients compared to those from healthy controls (follistatin, IL-1α, IL-1β, and KLK5). No significant changes of the analyzed proteins were found in the CSF samples of neuropathic pain patients in the stimulated vs. non-stimulated condition using SCS. In paper IV, a new technology termed the proximity barcoding assay (PBA) was developed to profile individual protein complexes. The performance of PBA was demonstrated on artificially assembled streptavidin-biotin oligonucleotide complexes. PBA was also proven to be capable of profiling transcriptional pre-initiation complexes from nuclear extract of a hepatic cell line.
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Arthuis, Pierre. "Bogoliubov Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Nuclei : Systematic Generation and Evaluation of Diagrams and First ab initio Calculations." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLS304/document.
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Les dernières décennies ont donné lieu à un développement rapide des théories ab initio visant à décrire les propriétés des noyaux à partir de l'interaction nucléonique. Un tel développement a été rendu possible à la fois par la très importante croissance de la puissance de calcul et de nouveaux développements formels. Le présent travail se consacre au développement de la théorie de perturbation à N corps de Bogolioubov récemment proposée, qui repose sur l'usage d'un état de référence brisant la symétrie associée au nombre de particules pour permettre une description des noyaux à simple couche ouverte. Le formalisme est tout d'abord décrit en détails, son lien avec la théorie de perturbation à N corps standard est établi, tout comme sa connexion avec la théorie de cluster couplés de Bogolioubov. L'extension du formalisme à des ordres plus élevés à partir de méthodes de théorie des graphes est ensuite présentée ainsi que le programme ADG qui génère et évalue les diagrammes BMBPT à un ordre quelconque. Les implications de ce développement formel dépassent le cadre du présent travail, les méthodes développées pouvant être appliqués à d’autres méthodes à N corps. Pour terminer, de premiers résultats numériques pour les isotopes de l'oxygène, du calcium et du nickel sont présentés. Ces résultats établissent la théorie de perturbation à N corps de Bogolioubov comme une méthode de premier intérêt pour des calculs à grande échelle sur les chaînes isotopiques et isotoniques de masse moyenne<br>The last few decades in nuclear structure theory have seen a rapid expansion of ab initio theories, aiming at describing the properties of nuclei starting from the inter-nucleonic interaction. Such an expansion relied both on the tremendous growth of computing power and novel formal developments. This work focuses on the development of the recently proposed Bogoliubov Many-Body Perturbation Theory that relies on a particle-number-breaking reference state to tackle singly open-shell nuclei. The formalism is first described in details, and diagrammatic and algebraic contributions are derived up to second order. Its link to standard Many-Body Perturbation Theory is made explicit, as well as its connexion to Bogoliubov Coupled-Cluster theory. An automated extension to higher orders based on graph theory methods is then detailed, and the ADG numerical program generating and evaluating BMBPT diagrams at arbitrary order is introduced. Such a formal development carries implications that are not restricted to the present work, as the developed methods can be applied to other many-body methods. Finally, first numerical results obtained for oxygen, calcium and nickel isotopes are presented. They establish BMBPT as a method of interest for large-scale computations of isotopic or isotonic chains in the mid-mass sector of the nuclear chart
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Stark, Carsten. "Werkzeugmaschinen für die Welt. Der NSW-Export des Werkzeugmaschinenkombinates Fritz Heckert/Karl-Marx-Stadt 1970-1989." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-212806.
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Als Folge der seit Ende der 1960er Jahre gestiegenen Auslandsverschuldung avancierte der Export der DDR in das NSW zur Schicksalsfrage. Zu den ausfuhrintensivsten, Finalerzeugnisse herstellenden Branchen, mit einem kontinuierlichen Absatz im NSW zählte, neben dem Druckmaschinenbau vor allem der Werkzeugmaschinenbau. Zu beiden Branchen fehlen bislang dementsprechende Untersuchungen. Die vorliegende Arbeit schließt also eine Forschungslücke! Zwei Dinge waren entscheidend für den im Gegensatz zu anderen Branchen der DDR kontinuierlichen Absatz von Werkzeugmaschinen in das NSW: Erstens der Wille der DDR, Geschäfte in Form von Ware gegen Waren zu tätigen, um auf diese Weise Devisen zu sparen. Zweitens politische Aspekte. Weiterhin war es möglich den DDR-Werkzeugmaschinenbau in die weltweite Entwicklung des Werkzeugmaschinenbaus einzuordnen. Zur globalen Einordnung kommt diejenige auf den jeweiligen nationalen Märkten. Während Betrachtungen zur Wirtschaft der DDR gemeinhin von einer pauschalen Wettbewerbsschwäche der Wirtschaft der DDR sprechen, ohne die branchenspezifischen Probleme genauer zu betrachten, differenziert die vorliegende Arbeit stärker nach einzelnen Ursachen. Erstens die seit 1973 in immer kürzeren Abständen auftretenden zyklischen Wirtschaftskrisen, die der metallverarbeitenden Industrie, besonders der zivilen, schwer zusetzten. Bis schließlich im Jahr 1982 die Märkte im NSW beinahe vollständig zusammenbrachen, was sowohl zu einer verschärften Preispolitik als auch zur Abschottung der nationalen Märkte mittels Protektionismus führte. Zweitens technische und qualitative Probleme. Dazu gehörten neben der nicht wettbewerbsfähigen Elektrik vor allem die nicht konkurrenzfähigen mikroelektronischen Steuerungen. Drittens scheiterten auch die in den, im Vergleich zur westeuropäischen Konkurrenz ohnehin zu spät generierten Anlagenexport, gesetzten Hoffnungen. Sowohl der Irak als auch die Türkei, als die beiden größten Abnehmer von Anlagen, gerieten, wenn auch aus unterschiedlichen Gründen, in immer schwierigeres Fahrwasser<br>As a consequence of the growing foreign indebtedness since the late 1960s, the export of the German Democratic Republik (GDR) into the western markets became a question of to be or not to be. One of the most competitive sector of industry, producing final industrial goods, was, beside printing machine industry, the east german machine tool industry. Researches about their exports are still missing until today. That means the present work closes a gap of research! Two things were decisive for a continuously sale of east german machine tools into the western markets: First the will of the GDR to deal wares against wares to save foreign currencies. The international competition of the east german machine tools was a precondition to be used as an exchange currency. Seconds political reasons. Furthermor it was possible to put the east german machine tool industry in its worldwide proper place. Beside the worldwide comparison it was possible to analyse the national marketparts of the GDRs machine tool industry. While views on the east german economy talk about a lack of competition in general, without looking at the specific problems of the respective industry branch the present work distinguishes between single reasons: First the shorter intervals of the economical crises since 1973 that caused damages especially in the civil metal processing. In 1982 the western markets nearly went in totally decline, what caused an aggravate prize policy an d the closing of the national markets by protctionism. Second technical an qualitative problems. Third the too late generated export of plants connected with economical troubles of the two main importers, Iraq and Turkey
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Кривошея, В. Г., Олена Валеріанівна Ємельянова, Елена Валериановна Емельянова та Olena Valerianivna Yemelianova. "Графічні засоби експресивності у сучасній інтернет-комунікації". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/46709.
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Перебуваючи у стані постійного розвитку, віртуальна реальність Інтернету набула рис нового світу і нового стилю життя, який в свою чергу, стимулює появу нових засобів вираження експресивності письмової мови, а також нестандартне використання вже наявних. Немовні засоби експресивності останнім часом є важливим механізмом для установлення контакту та подальшої взаємодії між комунікантами [ 2, 37].
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Green, Pamela Dilys. "Extracting group relationships within changing software using text analysis." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/11896.
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This research looks at identifying and classifying changes in evolving software by making simple textual comparisons between groups of source code files. The two areas investigated are software origin analysis and collusion detection. Textual comparison is attractive because it can be used in the same way for many different programming languages. The research includes the first major study using machine learning techniques in the domain of software origin analysis, which looks at the movement of code in an evolving system. The training set for this study, which focuses on restructured files, is created by analysing 89 software systems. Novel features, which capture abstract patterns in the comparisons between source code files, are used to build models which classify restructured files fromunseen systems with a mean accuracy of over 90%. The unseen code is not only in C, the language of the training set, but also in Java and Python, which helps to demonstrate the language independence of the approach. As well as generating features for the machine learning system, textual comparisons between groups of files are used in other ways throughout the system: in filtering to find potentially restructured files, in ranking the possible destinations of the code moved from the restructured files, and as the basis for a new file comparison tool. This tool helps in the demanding task of manually labelling the training data, is valuable to the end user of the system, and is applicable to other file comparison tasks. These same techniques are used to create a new text-based visualisation for use in collusion detection, and to generate a measure which focuses on the unusual similarity between submissions. This measure helps to overcome problems in detecting collusion in data where files are of uneven size, where there is high incidental similarity or where more than one programming language is used. The visualisation highlights interesting similarities between files, making the task of inspecting the texts easier for the user.
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Lucas, Jessica Regan. "Microtubule arrays and cell divisions of stomatal development in Arabidopsis." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181759887.
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Birkhold, Annette Isabell [Verfasser], Georg N. [Akademischer Betreuer] Duda, Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Fratzl, Marc [Gutachter] Kraft, Georg N. [Gutachter] Duda, and Peter [Gutachter] Fratzl. "A 4D imaging approach to monitor bone remodeling : development, design, validation and first applications of a tomography-based medical image processing method and tool for enhanced visualization and quantification of patho-physiological dynamic structural processes in bone / Annette Isabell Birkhold ; Gutachter: Marc Kraft, Georg N. Duda, Peter Fratzl ; Georg N. Duda, Peter Fratzl." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1156180007/34.
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Comartin, Justin. "Humanitarian Ambitions - International Barriers: Canadian Governmental Response to the Plight of the Jewish Refugees (1933-1945)." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23992.
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From 1933 to 1945, thousands of European Jews attempted to gain access to Canada in order to escape Nazi oppression. This thesis examines Canada’s immigration records and policies during this period. In addition to bringing light to key issues concerning popular Canadian perceptions of Jewish immigrants and refugees in the thirties and forties, this history raises important questions about the Canadian government and ethical responsibility in a time of war; about the relationship between government policy and provincial politics; and about the position taken by Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and his Cabinet.
The author’s research brings attention to Irving Abella and Harold Troper’s work, None is too Many, which, since its publication in 1982, has stood as the authoritative work on the subject. A variety of important issues which are not treated in detail in this earlier monograph are examined in depth in this analysis: The prevalence of anti-Semitism in French and English Canada, and the Canadian immigration record are treated in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 and 4 investigate accusations that William Lyon Mackenzie King, Ernest Lapointe, Frederick Charles Blair, and Vincent Massey harboured anti-Semitic views. It is found that such charges suffer from a serious lack of evidence. Although sometimes the language used by these men in their correspondence and letters can be shocking to the modern reader, it was the colloquial language during their lives. Furthermore, their personal documents often exhibit evidence of sincere sympathy for the Jews of Europe, and frustration with Canadian popular opinion.
The author concludes that collective memory of the Holocaust has affected perceptions concerning the Canadian immigration record during the period in question. Anti-immigration sentiment was strong in Canada during the Depression. Nevertheless, as the Canadian Government became increasingly aware of the persecution of Jews within the Reich, particularly following the events of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, measures were put into place to ease Jewish immigration to Canada, such as including refugees among the admissible classes of immigrants.
The Canadian Government did not begin to receive information concerning the extermination of European Jewry until 1942. By this time, there was hardly anything Canada could do. Heinrich Himmler had forbidden Jewish emigration from the Reich in October of 1941, the war was in full swing by 1942, and ships carrying refugees and PoWs were not safe from U-boat attacks. From 1933 to 1945 Canada allowed 8,787 Jews into the country. However, all immigration to Canada was slowed during this time. Consequently, Jews, in actuality, represented a higher percentage of immigrants arriving in Canada, at this time, than they had from 1923 to 1932. This illustrates Canada’s doors we not closed specifically to Jewish refugees during the Depression and Second World War.