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Et.al, Muhammad Azhad Hilmi Muhammad Aiman Hilmi. "Enhancing the Transparency of Student Merit System Using QR Code Technology: A Smart Campus Initiative." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 3 (April 10, 2021): 2047–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i3.1072.

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Technology has led to the utilization of information systems into human daily life activities. Computer systems have helped improve the modern human lifestyle by simplifying and facilitating activities from listening to music, grocery shopping to communicating with peoples across the world. Gearing up to smart campus initiatives, one of the issues to be tackled was the transparency in validating the student’s attendance system used in many campuses and university events. The employment of technologies such as QR Code and facial recognition to validate the student’s attendance certainly have helped in addressing this issue. In order to ensure the transparency of the existing manual student merit system used in the campus, this paper presents a solution known as CyberScan QR Code for Student Merit System that allows the students to obtain merits by scanning QR codes, as well as allowing student councils to provide merits for any events by generating QR codes. Students can keep track of their current total merit points and the events that they have previously attended so if there are any problems regarding their merits, they can always refer to their history of attended events as evidence. This paperless solution merit system also helps to reduce the usual time taken to calculate a huge amount of merits thus preventing from any miscalculation. Clearly, this initiative creates not just an efficient, transparent service but another greater experience for students to feel connected academically and socially.

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전진현, Park sunghyeok, and YoungDal Cho. "Understanding of students ‘take merit points’ experience on merit·demerit points system -Case study of repeated ‘impose demerit-take merit’ students at K-Middle school-." Journal of Law-Related Education 8, no. 3 (December 2013): 83–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.29175/klrea.8.3.201312.83.

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Marx, John, and Mark Garrett Cooper. "Does Merit Have a Future?" PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 133, no. 3 (May 2018): 678–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.3.678.

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Cathy N. davidson'S the new education: how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux challenges us to address nonacademics, and to update our teaching, by focusing on the big picture. She calls on us to rise above departmental politics and the tribalism of disciplinary debates. Instead of engaging in those familiar struggles, we should be talking with our neighbors and our elected representatives about the advantages of eliminating letter grades; the virtues of pedagogies that are learner-centered, collaborative, and project-based; the perils of specialization; the damage that departments do by stifling change; the promise of educational technology if divorced from the profit motive; the myth that STEM degrees lead directly to career success; and, of course, the need for public reinvestment in higher education. Each of these talking points draws energy from Davidson's contention that digital media have rendered industrial models of education obsolete.

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GOLSANAMLOU, ZAHRA, SAHAR IZADI VISHKAYI, MEYSAM BAGHERI TAGANI, and HAMID RAHIMPOUR SOLEIMANI. "INFLUENCE OF COUPLING GEOMETRY AND DEPHASING ON THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF A C60 MOLECULAR JUNCTION." Nano 09, no. 06 (August 2014): 1450057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s179329201450057x.

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Thermoelectric properties of a C60 molecule coupled to three-dimensional metallic electrodes are studied using Green function formalism in linear response regime. A tight-binding model is used to investigate the effects of the dimerization and coupling geometry on the electrical conductance, thermopower and figure of merit. Increase of the contact points between the molecule and electrodes results in decrease of the number of the peaks of the electrical conductance because of the interference effects. In addition, oscillation of the thermopower is reduced in the multiple contacts. Results show that the increase of the contact points leads to the reduction of the figure of merit. Furthermore, the effect of the phase breaking scattering on the figure of merit is analyzed using the Büttiker probe method.

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Anderson, Marvin. "John Calvin: Biblical Preacher (1539–1564)." Scottish Journal of Theology 42, no. 2 (May 1989): 167–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600056428.

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Calvin is often seen as ‘larger than life’ by his disciples and his enemies. This contention animates a recent article by William Bouwsma, whose forthcoming Oxford monograph is titled,John Calvin: A Sixteenth Century Portrait. One must be cautious in obtruding the historical Calvin over against the theologian, thereby contending that for the Genevan Reformer theological questions were primarily a way of life. For Calvin hisInstitutewas also a response to contemporary theological questions. One such question elicited Calvin's response in 1555 to Laelius Socinus on the merits of Christ. Calvin warns against ‘certain perversely subtle men’ who obscure God's mercy in Christ. Socinus asked whether the death of Christ which won merit for all persons was also meritorious for Christ himself. To set Christ's merit against God's mercy ‘is no less stupid curiosity than their temerity in making such a definition’. Calvin inserted that letter into the 1559Institute. Concurrent with Bouwsma's article, Alister McGrath points to Calvin's response to precise questions raised by thevia modernaschool of theology at Paris under the Scot John Major in which human merit and that of Christ rest on divine good pleasure alone. Calvin's solution is continuous with the voluntarism which he encountered while in Paris.

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Woodward, John B. "Recovering the Energy in Diesel Exhaust: Some Thermodynamic Points." Marine Technology and SNAME News 24, no. 03 (July 1, 1987): 205–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/mt1.1987.24.3.205.

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The concepts of availability and reversible heat transfer are reviewed; the latter is shown to be the basis for diesel engine bottoming cycles. The thermodynamics of bottoming or waste-heat conversion to work by a gas turbine in parallel with the turbocharger turbine are discussed, and compared with those of a Rankine cycle for the same function. The two alternatives are shown to be of equal merit until practical differences are introduced; the first alternative is then favored. Throughout, formulas and calculations are given in detail to provide information on techniques not commonly found in either thermodynamics texts or technical papers.

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Arashpour, Mehrdad, Majeed Shabanikia, and Mohammadreza Arashpour. "Valuing the contribution of knowledge-oriented workers to projects: a merit based approach in the construction industry." Construction Economics and Building 12, no. 4 (October 15, 2015): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v12i4.2724.

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Evidence points to the fact that frequent resignation of project engineers from construction companies is primarily the result of dissatisfaction with the factors that shape the salary scale. This research aims to identify the major influencing factors in merit based salary calculation systems for knowledge-oriented engineers so as to more accurately reflect their contribution to construction projects. Results from a questionnaire sent to managers, engineers and HR professionals throughout the Iranian construction industry revealed that while there was overall agreement on principles to a merit-based approach, engineers in particular identified ‘professional skills’, ‘experience’ and ‘creativity’. Management-oriented parties should take into account engineer perspectives in order to more accurately value the knowledge-oriented contribution of these workers to construction projects. This research provides a basis for understanding the key factors in the merit based salary scale formulation through the construction industry.

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Erwin, Christopher, and Melissa Binder. "Does Broad-Based Merit Aid Improve College Completion? Evidence from New Mexico's Lottery Scholarship." Education Finance and Policy 15, no. 1 (January 2020): 164–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00270.

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We use the natural experiment of a state lottery scholarship to measure the effect of generous financial aid on graduation rates at New Mexico's flagship public university. During the study period, the scholarship program paid full tuition for eight semesters for any state resident earning a 2.5 grade point average in their first semester at any public two-year or four-year college. We find a significant positive completion effect of 10 percentage points (17.9 percent) for academically well-prepared students that is offset by a large negative effect of 11.6 percentage points (38.8 percent) for less-prepared students. We posit that the scholarship program, which effectively erased the difference in tuition at two- and four-year colleges, may have induced weaker students to take their chances on a more prestigious, yet riskier, academic path.

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THIBEAULT, C., Y. SAVARIA, and J. L. HOULE. "HEURISTIC PREDICTION OF THE OPTIMUM NUMBER OF SPARES IN DEFECT-TOLERANT INTEGRATED CIRCUITS." Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers 02, no. 02 (June 1992): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218126692000088.

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This paper presents a heuristic method that efficiently approximates the optimum number of spares predicted by yield models through figures of merit. This method, which is based on simple approximate functions, offers a very good trade-off between CPU time and accuracy. Indeed, the CPU time required is negligible compared to what is needed for a direct prediction of the optimum number of spares using yield models and figures of merit. Also, the approximations provided by the proposed heuristic method are very close to the exact values predicted by yield models over a wide range of parameters. A hybrid prediction method, that makes it possible to accelerate the prediction of the optimum amount of redundancy without precision losses, is also presented. This hybrid method, which uses results from the heuristic method as starting points around which yield models and figures of merit are applied, is almost optimum in terms of CPU time over the parameter range considered.

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Reuchlin-Hugenholtz, Emilie, Nancy L. Shackell, and Jeffrey A. Hutchings. "Spatial reference points for groundfish." ICES Journal of Marine Science 73, no. 10 (July 27, 2016): 2468–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw123.

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Abstract According to density-dependent habitat selection theory, areas of high density can be indicative of high population productivity and have positive individual fitness consequences. Here, we explore six groundfish populations on the Scotian Shelf, Canada, where a decline in areas of high density beyond a certain threshold is associated with disproportionately large declines in Spawning Stock Biomass (SSB). This is evidenced by empirical, concave, positive relationships between high-density areas (HDAs) and SSB. We introduce a methodology to estimate the threshold below which SSB declines increasingly faster per unit of HDA decline. The spatial threshold among these six stocks was remarkably consistent; when stocks lose 70–80% of HDAs, disproportionately large SSB declines are likely to occur. We propose that spatial thresholds could serve as spatial reference points to complement existing SSB limit reference points (LRPs). For some stocks we identify spatial thresholds which correspond to SSB levels that exceed those associated with the designated SSB LRP, suggesting that a review of these SSB LRPs warrants merit. For other stocks, spatial reference points can be used in concert with SSB reference points, strengthening efforts to incorporate a precautionary approach to fisheries management. Our results warrant further research into the general application of HDA as spatial limit and target reference points for fisheries management in addition to other population status indicators within a broad recovery framework.

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Moussaoui, Ritva. "Meritpoäng : Ungdomars livschanser ur skolchefers perspektiv." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-5950.

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This C-essay is a qualitative study designed to create a basis for understanding how managers involved in school affairs perceive the impact of merit points on students’ chances to continue on to higher education and how this will affect individuals' life chances. The study is based on three interviews with managers involved in school affairs. In this paper grades, merit points and socioeconomic class differences are discussed. The aim of this paper is to answer the following questions:  What impact does merit points in language studies and the way different languages are valued, in the system, have for the individual and for society?  Who are the winners in the new grading system and who are the losers; how are different socioeconomic groups affected? The material was interpreted with the help of a report written by Ingrid Nordqvist and Monica Langerth Zetterman called "Secondary School competition field-a regional perspective", a paper written by Helen Raven who did a study on grades, national tests and social reproduction and the Frenchman Pierre Bourdieu's theories. The results show that class differences will increase and that it will be difficult to rise in the social hierarchy in the future.

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Järlborn, Jennie. "Meritpoäng eller skoj? : en undersökning om meritpoängens konsekvenser för ämnet moderna språk och framtiden." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-9390.

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The main purpose of this C-essay is to answer the question: What have been the consequences and effects of the merit point system on language studies and the parties concerned (teachers, students and principals) during the school year of 2010/11? The merit point system is the result of a political decision and was implicated for the first time in the Swedish upper secondary school during the school year 2010/2011. Being a completely new phenomenon it is of great interest and importance to study its effects. The study in this essay also aims to verify, falsify or nullify two hypotheses very often referred to in the political discussions regarding the merit point system: The merit point system will replace affection and interest as main reasons for language studies in upper secondary school and cause a rectification amongst the students choices of additional courses. The merit point system will have a segregating effect upon society and make it harder for people to rise in society through education in the future. A verification of these hypotheses would imply the appearance of an increased rectification amongst students as well as an orientation towards an in the future more segregated society. The empiric material has been collected and examined with qualitative as well as quantitative methods (questionnaires and interviews) and belongs epistemologically to the phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions.

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Moore, Jeanne. "TRANSPORTATION OF THE RF SPECTRA OVER FIBER: A WORKING SYSTEM." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/606790.

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 23-26, 2000 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California
This paper presents the results of installing a distributed feedback (DFB) laser transmitter and the appropriate optical receiver in an operational site. Frequencies from 1435 to 2400 megahertz are transported intact from a remote site to a local site. From the theoretical calculations, 10 dB of dynamic range may need to be recovered by the use of an automatic gain circuit. The actual device is a delight, needing no additional circuitry to meet specifications. Predictions of performance were made from calculations. The installed system was measured for 1 dB compression point and for figure of merit.

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Orire, Endurance. "The techno-economics of bitumen recovery from oil and tar sands as a complement to oil exploration in Nigeria / E. Orire." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/5704.

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The Nigeria economy is wholly dependent on revenue from oil. However, bitumen has been discovered in the country since 1903 and has remained untapped over the years. The need for the country to complement oil exploration with the huge bitumen deposit cannot be overemphasized. This will help to improve the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and revenue available to government. Bitumen is classifled as heavy crude with API (American petroleum Institute) number ranging between 50 and 110 and occurs in Nigeria, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela etc from which petroleum products could be derived. This dissertation looked at the Canadian experience by comparing the oil and tar sand deposit found in Canada with particular reference to Athabasca (Grosmont, Wabiskaw McMurray and Nsiku) with that in Nigeria with a view of transferring process technology from Canada to Nigeria. The Nigeria and Athabasca tar sands occur in the same type of environment. These are the deltaic, fluvial marine deposit in an incised valley with similar reservoir, chemical and physical properties. However, the Nigeria tar sand is more asphaltenic and also contains more resin and as such will yield more product volume during hydro cracking albeit more acidic. The differences in the components (viscosity, resin and asphaltenes contents, sulphur and heavy metal contents) of the tar sands is within the limit of technology adaptation. Any of the technologies used in Athabasca, Canada is adaptable to Nigeria according to the findings of this research. The techno-economics of some of the process technologies are. x-rayed using the PTAC (petroleum technology alliance Canada) technology recovery model in order to obtain their unit cost for Nigeria bitumen. The unit cost of processed bitumen adopting steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), in situ combustion (ISC) and cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) process technology is 40.59, 25.00 and 44.14 Canadian dollars respectively. The unit cost in Canada using the same process technology is 57.27, 25.00 and 61.33 Canadian dollars respectively. The unit cost in Nigeria is substantively lesser than in Canada. A trade off is thereafter done using life cycle costing so as to select the best process technology for the Nigeria oil/tar sands. The net present value/internal rate of return is found to be B$3,062/36.35% for steam assisted gravity drainage, B$I,570124.51 % for cyclic steam stimulation and B$3,503/39.64% for in situ combustion. Though in situ combustion returned the highest net present value and internal rate of return, it proved not to be the best option for Nigeria due to environmental concern and response time to production. The best viable option for the Nigeria tar sand was then deemed to be steam assisted gravity drainage. An integrated oil strategy coupled with cogeneration using MSAR was also seen to considerably amplify the benefits accruable from bitumen exploration; therefore, an investment in bitumen exploration in Nigeria is a wise economic decision.
Thesis (M.Ing. (Development and Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

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D'Ans, Pierre. "Contribution à la mise au point d'une démarche rationnelle de sélection des traitements de surface: illustration dans le cas des dispositifs de fonderie de l'aluminium." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210366.

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Sélectionner des traitements de surface pour l’industrie nécessite de prendre en compte :les propriétés à conférer au substrat, la nature et la géométrie de celui-ci et les caractéristiques du milieu extérieur. Certaines combinaisons de ces paramètres rendent difficile la sélection d’un traitement unique, d’où le recours à des multitraitements de surface. Dès lors, se posent les questions suivantes :

- Utiliser des multitraitements de surface peut se faire en scindant les différentes requêtes en sous-ensembles, de manière à ce que chaque traitement réponde à l’un d’eux. Dans quel ordre ces requêtes doivent-elles être introduites par rapport au substrat ?

- Comment sélectionner les traitements de surface répondant à chaque requête individuelle ?

- Comment classer des multitraitements en termes d’adéquation au problème posé ?

Dans ce travail, les première et troisième questions sont abordées, en explorant les requêtes concernant habituellement les dispositifs de moulage de l’aluminium :

- Résistance aux contraintes d’origine thermique.

- Résistance à la corrosion par les métaux fondus.

- Résistance au frottement.

L’analyse de la bibliographie relative aux traitements de surface utilisés dans ces systèmes a été analysée et des « architectures »-types ont été identifiées (chapitre 3). On prévoit, par exemple, un traitement conférant la résistance à la fatigue superficielle, ainsi qu’un revêtement étanche et résistant à l’aluminium fondu. Une barrière thermique est parfois préconisée.

Pour chacune des architectures, des traitements de surface individuels peuvent être sélectionnés. Un « facteur de performance » permettant de classer les solutions par rapport au problème de la fatigue thermique a été construit (chapitre 4) et discuté dans deux situations :

- Lorsqu’un revêtement est présent, et que les contraintes d’origine thermique (différence de dilatation thermique couche-substrat) menacent de le rompre lors de l’immersion dans un milieu corrosif à haute température. Des essais de corrosion dans de l’aluminium fondu ont été réalisés sur un acier revêtu par du nitrure de chrome dopé à l’aluminium, synthétisé par déposition physique en phase vapeur (chapitre 5 – collaboration :Inasmet).

- Lorsque des variations thermiques rapides menacent de rompre le substrat et la (les) couches. Des essais de fatigue thermique ont été réalisés sur de l’acier à outils pour travail à chaud non traité, boruré ou recouvert d’un multitraitements (zircone yttriée / NiCrAlY / boruration / acier). Le revêtement en zircone yttriée a été obtenu par projection par plasma. L’essai de fatigue thermique a été modélisé et le facteur de performance, discuté (chapitre 6).

Au chapitre 7, les architectures-types ont été introduites dans une méthodologie de sélection des multi-traitements de surface, qui a été appliquée dans deux cas :

- Celui des moules de fonderie, devant résister à la fatigue thermique et à la corrosion par l’aluminium fondu. Le facteur de performance a été extrapolé à d’autres situations qu’aux chapitres 5 et 6. Les solutions habituellement proposées pour résoudre ce problème sont retrouvées.

- Celui de deux pièces en acier frottant l’une contre l’autre en présence d’aluminium fondu.

To select surface treatments, one must account for the required functional properties, the substrate features and the solicitations the substrate must endure. Certain combinations of these parameters make it difficult to select a single surface treatment, a reason why several successive treatments are preferred. To select them, one needs to determine:

- How to divide the several requests into groups and how to stack up these groups from the substrate to the outer surface, so that each treatment deals with one specific group of requests/properties.

- How to select individual layers for each group of properties.

- How to rank the multi-treatments in terms of relevance for a given application.

In this work, one tries to answer the first and the third questions, by studying the case of aluminium foundry, in which the industrial devices frequently face the following solicitations:

- Thermal stress (thermal fatigue, thermal expansion mismatch).

- Presence of corrosive molten metal.

- Sliding wear.

In the literature, several “standard” architectures are proposed (chapter 3), like a diffusion layer reducing superficial fatigue plus a corrosion barrier layer. A thermal barrier coating is also sometimes proposed.

For each of these architectures, one can select individual treatments. To rank them, one devised a “performance index” for thermal stress (chap.4), which is discussed for two cases:

- For large differences between layer and substrate thermal expansion coefficients, when both are put into contact with a high temperature corrosive medium, the layer may be damaged. One discusses this case by examining the corrosion caused by molten aluminium for a steel substrate coated by anticorrosive chromium nitride doped with aluminium. The layer is produced by physical vapour deposition (chap. 5 – cooperation: Inasmet).

- Repeated fast surface temperature transients can also damage the substrate and/or the layer by thermal fatigue. One conducted thermal fatigue tests with samples of hot work tool steel, respectively untreated, simply borided and protected by a multilayer. In the last case, top coat is yttria stabilised zirconia, followed by a nickel superalloy and then a borided layer (undercoat). One synthesized the zirconia coating by plasma spray and one modelled the thermal fatigue (chap. 6).

In chap. 7, architectures from chap. 2 are introduced in a multi-treatment selection routine, which is applied in two cases:

- Foundry moulds for molten aluminium, withstanding both thermal fatigue and corrosion. The devised performance index is extrapolated beyond the tests of chap. 5 and 6 to treatments for this industrial application, thereby quantifying their respective merits.

- A foundry device exposed to molten metal and sliding wear.

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Souza, Valeria de. "A política de Promoção por Mérito na rede de ensino estadual paulista: um processo complexo e multifacetado." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10483.

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This work aims to question the current actions of teacher evaluation, specially the policy of Merit-based Promotion, with the objective of analyzing them according to the manifestations of the educational professionals of the Department of Education of the State of São Paulo. The theoretical references include the following authors: Stephen Ball, with his policy cycle approach; Viñao Frago, in order to understand the concept of reform in the perspective of the school culture, the managers culture and the reformers culture; Claude Lessard, to accomplish the analysis of different approaches about teacher evaluation. This research is considered having quantitative and qualitative nature, involving a descriptive-analytical study of proposals, actions and agents that convey ideas about the policy of Merit-based Promotion. In order to do so, we used documental analysis of 67 questionnaires answered by professionals of the educational system of the state of São Paulo (supervisors, directors and teachers) from 04 Boards of Education (from the great ;region of São Paulo and from the countryside of the state), chosen by their profile in the selection process of promotion in 2012. This work, therefore, investigated the policy of Merit-based Promotion, questioning it concerning the ideas, backgrounds, characters, paths, forms and proceedings that form it, focusing them on the perspective of the discourses and actions of the regulators and questioners (context of the influence and the text production), as well as in the perspective of the academic studies (context of the results/effects) and manifestations of educational professionals who work at the public system of the state of São Paulo (context of the practice). Another aim of this investigation was also questioning how the policy strategies are created and recreated, from the regulators and questioners points of view. The main results allowed us to observe, from the analysis of the multiple contexts, how such policy influences careers, practices and conceptions of the professionals of the educational system of the state of São Paulo, acting as a system of control and standardization. It was also possible to confirm the hypothesis that there are many actors who reinterpret and give a new meaning to the policy of Merit-based Promotion; however, the educational professionals are not the most influent actors in this process
Esta investigação problematiza as ações atuais de avaliação docente, em especial a política de Promoção por Mérito, tendo como objetivo analisá-las segundo as manifestações dos profissionais da educação no âmbito da Secretaria Estadual de Educação de São Paulo. O referencial teórico inclui os seguintes autores: Stephen Ball por sua abordagem do ciclo de políticas (policy cycle approach);Viñao Frago para compreender o conceito de reforma na perspectiva da cultura escolar, cultura dos gestores e cultura dos reformadores; Claude Lessard para análise das diferentes abordagens sobre avaliação docente. Trata-se de pesquisa de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa envolvendo um estudo analítico-descritivo de propostas, ações e agentes que veiculam ideias sobre a política de Promoção por Mérito. Para tanto, são utilizadas análises documental e de 67 questionários respondidos por profissionais da rede educacional paulista (supervisores, diretores e professores) de 04 Diretorias de Ensino (da Grande São Paulo e do interior do estado), selecionados por seu perfil em relação ao concurso de promoção realizado em 2012. Esta pesquisa, portanto, investiga a política de Promoção por Mérito, problematizando-a quanto às ideias que a conformam, cenários, personagens, percursos, modalidades e instâncias, focalizando-os na perspectiva dos discursos e ações de regulamentadores e problematizadores (contexto da influência e da produção de texto), bem como na perspectiva dos estudos acadêmicos (contexto dos resultados/efeitos) e manifestações de profissionais da educação que atuam na rede pública estadual de São Paulo (contexto da prática). A investigação procura problematizar também como as estratégias políticas são criadas e recriadas, tanto do ponto de vista dos regulamentadores quanto dos problematizadores. Os principais resultados desta investigação permitem constatar, a partir da análise dos múltiplos contextos, como tal política influencia carreiras, práticas e concepções dos profissionais da educação da rede pública paulista, atuando como mecanismo de controle e padronização. Foi possível confirmar, ainda, a hipótese de que são muitos os atores que ressignificam e reinterpretam a política de Promoção por Mérito, porém, não são os profissionais da educação os atores mais influentes neste processo

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Paroda, Garcia Zeferino. "A modified augmented Lagrangian merit function, and Q-superlinear characterization results for primal-dual Quasi-Newton interior-point method for nonlinear programming." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/19195.

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Two classes of primal-dual interior-point methods for nonlinear programming are studied. The first class corresponds to a path-following Newton method formulated in terms of the nonnegative variables rather than all primal and dual variables. The centrality condition is a relaxation of the perturbed Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition and primarily forces feasibility in the constraints. In order to globalize the method using a linesearch strategy, a modified augmented Lagrangian merit function is defined in terms of the centrality condition. The second class is the Quasi-Newton interior-point methods. In this class the well known Boggs-Tolle-Wang characterization of Q-superlinear convergence for Quasi-Newton method for equality constrained optimization is extended. Critical issues in this extension are; the choice of the centering parameter, the choice of the steplength parameter, and the choice of the primary variables.

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Books on the topic "Merit points"

Silverstein, Adam J. Conclusions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797227.003.0009.

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Having zoomed-in on a number of examples of the interaction between Esther and Islamic cultures throughout the book, in this chapter we defocus our gaze, zoom out and consider the wider ramifications of the study, as a whole, to “Islamic studies”, “biblical studies”, and “Jewish studies”, respectively. In doing this, the main points made in the book are summarized and reviewed according to contributions made to each of these scholarly fields. Moreover, it is argued that there is merit in adopting a comparative approach to certain topics in the fields of Near and Middle Eastern studies, despite the recent trend towards specializing within these fields. In particular, it is suggested that future study of the “Persian” books of the Bible might benefit from recourse to Islamic-era Persian materials.

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Miano, Daniele. Fortuna and the Republic. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786566.003.0005.

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This chapter studies all the public temples of Fortuna at Rome in the Republican period. The main focal points of the chapter are the precise historical circumstances for the vow, construction, and dedication of each temple, and the connection between these circumstances and the epithets attributed to the goddess. One of the main points made by this chapter is that there is a very solid connection between Republican temples of Fortuna and the plebeian aristocracy, which suggests that Fortuna was characterized as a deity closely associated with the plebs. Another point concerns Fortuna Publica, a deity that during the Roman conquest of the Greek East was associated with Roman imperialism through her translation as Tyche, following a debate on the merits of Roman conquest of which we can read traces in Polybius.

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Hrushovski, Ehud, and François Loeser. Continuity of homotopies. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161686.003.0010.

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This chapter includes some additional material on homotopies. In particular, for a smooth variety V, there exists an “inflation” homotopy, taking a simple point to the generic type of a small neighborhood of that point. This homotopy has an image that is properly a subset of unit vector V, and cannot be understood directly in terms of definable subsets of V. The image of this homotopy retraction has the merit of being contained in unit vector U for any dense Zariski open subset U of V. The chapter also proves the continuity of functions and homotopies using continuity criteria and constructs inflation homotopies before proving GAGA type results for connectedness. Additional results regarding the Zariski topology are given.

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Kostadinova, Viktorija. Usage problems in American English. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808206.003.0010.

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This chapter explores the complexity of attitudes to the usage problems ain’t, literally, and like in American English, from the point of view of both prescriptivist discourse found in usage guides and speakers’ ideas about these usage problems. I argue that the stakes for speakers involved in using certain usage problems are different in different contexts, and that these usage problems merit more serious sociolinguistic attention. I pay particular attention to how the attitudes of speakers towards the usage problems considered in this chapter differ from those expressed in usage guides. One of the conclusions of this analysis is that different usage problems have different social implications for different speakers. Grammatical usage problems in particular seem to be more closely associated with education, although regional and language context sensitivity play a role as well.

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Dino, Kritsiotis. Part III Regimes and Doctrines, Ch.33 Theorizing International Law on Force and Intervention. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198701958.003.0034.

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This chapter makes its analysis of force and intervention through the art and craft of making legal justifications. It asks why legal justifications are made at all, giving some sense of the circumstances in which these justifications take their essential shape and form. Then, the chapter considers how these justifications alert us to some of the unspoken assumptions about force and intervention in international law — what can be taken away from an analysis of the practice of justifications other than an engagement with the merits of their respective substance, which so consistently occupies much of the existing literature in this field. Finally, the chapter attempts to connect these points to a broader set of issues theorizing the purpose or function of force in today’s world.

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Väyrynen, Pekka. Reasons and Moral Principles. Edited by Daniel Star. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199657889.013.37.

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Moral particularism and generalism are families of views united by their denial or affirmation (respectively) that general moral principles play some fundamental role in morality. In this survey of the generalism/particularism debate, I distinguish between contributory and overall moral principles and between two distinct roles, standards and guides, which either sort of principles might be claimed to play. Next I describe three different forms which particularist opposition to any of these kinds of principles can take. I then survey debates about whether moral principles play a fundamental role either as standards or as guides. Throughout I pay particular attention to issues and arguments which involve claims about normative reasons that favor or justify things or explanatory reasons that explain their moral features. I also note some broader implications of these arguments for both moral theory and the theory of reasons, and point to questions that merit further work.

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Eggers, Daniel. Religious Conflict and Moral Consensus. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803409.003.0015.

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This chapter is devoted to Hobbes’s attempt to set up the moral theory that grounds his political argument in a way that makes it equally acceptable to proponents of quite different religious and ideological views. The purpose of the chapter is, first, to demonstrate that Hobbes does in fact pursue this strategy and appeal to a consensus omnium at various points of his derivation of the state of war and his doctrine of natural law and natural right; secondly, to systematically describe Hobbes’s underlying approach as an example of ‘extra-moral justification’ and contrast it with John Rawls’s appeal to an ‘overlapping consensus’ as an example of ‘intra-moral justification’; and thirdly, to assess the respective merits of the two types of moral justification with regard to the challenge of religious pluralism.

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Shafir, Michael. What Comes After Communism? Edited by Dan Stone. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560981.013.0026.

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Was it communism or socialism that succumbed in 1989? Was communism dead in 1989, when the ‘Sinatra Doctrine’ (‘each does it his own way’) replaced the Brezhnev Doctrine in East Central Europe? Or did the patient agonise until the official dismemberment of the Soviet Union in 1991? Twenty-seven countries share a communist past in Europe and Asia. Of the surviving five, not all would pass the ‘Leninist test’. Which legacies affect post-communist systems has been an issue under debate since shortly after the fall of the Old Regimes. Claus Offe pointed out that post-communist regimes are faced with a ‘dilemma of simultaneity’, amounting to a ‘triple transition’: the process of having to cope concomitantly with unconsolidated borders, democratisation, and property redistribution. While other authors have often wondered which legacies ‘count’ in post-communism (those of communism itself or the ante-communist heritage), it is Herbert Kitschelt's merit to have pointed out that the modes of communist rule have been in turn influenced by historical antecedents.

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Lippert, Amy K. DeFalco. Visual Desire: Love, Lust, and Virtual Reality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190268978.003.0006.

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In nineteenth-century urban America, visual culture intertwined with and amplified a thriving sex industry. Long before the escapades of Civil War soldiers, the “wide-open” climate of gold rush California was prompting lawmakers to debate the merits of measures to suppress obscene pictures and texts. Forty years before the widespread application of the passport system, the first photographic archive of prospective immigrants was composed of Chinese women in the West. Before Anthony Comstock became a household name, San Francisco’s Custom House, police, and courts were struggling to suppress and prosecute a flood of “indecent materials” pouring through the port town from far-flung points like China, Japan, and France. Although San Francisco’s female population steadily increased from the late 1850s onward, commodified images and spectacles catering to male consumers’ lust—and female consumers’ curiosity, if not also lust—only became more popular and numerous in its urban culture.

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Raimondi, Guido. Introductory Note. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190848194.003.0030.

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In 2015 the Strasbourg Court decided many cases of legal significance. The most important were given by the Court’s Grand Chamber of the Court, which issued a total of nineteen judgments on the merits during the year. The article lists all the Grand Chamber judgments published in 2015 and mentions the relevant subject matters. The following four cases established important points of European human rights law. 1) Lambert v. France had already attained a very high media profile when it was filed with the Court in mid-2014, concerning the right to life and the end of life. 2) Perinçek v. Switzerland brought before the Court a difficult question about the limits of freedom of expression, concerning in particular freedom of expression and the denial of genocide. 3) Chiragov and Others v. Armenia, and Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan concerned the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Grand Chamber decided to hear these cases in parallel considering in particular: (i) the extraterritorial jurisdiction—Armenian jurisdiction over Azen territory and (ii) the presumption of jurisdiction over the entire national territory.

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Book chapters on the topic "Merit points"

Jaafar, Nur Huda, Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad, and Azhana Ahmad. "Task Transfer in Software Agent Community with Sincerity Merit Point." In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 180–88. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6463-0_16.

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Nellaiappan, Subramanian, and Uma Maheswari Krishnan. "CHAPTER 14. Existing Point-of-care Diagnostics: Merits and Demerits." In Disposable Electrochemical Sensors for Healthcare Monitoring, 410–31. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781839163364-00410.

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Steinberg, Michael K., and Kent Mathewson. "Landscapes of Drugs and War : Intersections of Political Ecology and Global Conflict." In The Geography of War and Peace. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195162080.003.0018.

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The maxim of the moment and for the new millennium (at least for now) is that “after 9/11 the world changed.” Focused, amplified, and projected by the media, the September 2001 events have echoed with an apparent immensity and a rending of the global geopolitical fabric that merit comparison with Waterloo in June 1815 and Sarajevo in June 1914. In each case, an epoch is said to have ended, the first by conventional battle in concert with peace conventions that ended several decades of global conflict, the latter two with acts of terrorism that precipitated global wars of vastly differing intensities and probable durations. Each of these turning points in global history has, of course, its own character, dynamics, and contexts, which largely transcend the narrower episodes and scenes that constitute the intersections of drugs, war, and peace. Nevertheless, one of the persistent and little-noticed elements in the history and geography of warfare during the past half millennium has been the role played by psychoactive substances. With the exception of the Sino-British Opium Wars (1830s–1840s), drugs as aids or obstacles, let alone causal factors, of war have been largely overlooked. Yet even a cursory overview, as presented here, should establish the contours of a topic that merits in-depth attention. Here we have only the space to point to some key instances and promising case studies. Future researchers may find these useful points of departure. The three pivotal events noted earlier, plus October 1492 as the antecedent and fourth key moment, mark a fivefold periodization that provides a convenient way of framing the differing historical relations between drugs and warfare. Prior to Europe’s transatlantic expansion and the coeval eruption of capitalism across the globe, the varying articulations between drugs and war were largely local, individual, and particular. With the rise of long-distance trade networks structured by mercantile capitalism, prime commodities such as sugar and tropical spices launched European-based empires and provoked wars from the East Indies to the West Indies, as well as points north and south.

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Paviera, Milo, and Mahmoud Khalik. "Theoretical Aspects on Bottom of the Pyramid in Emerging Economies." In Socio-Economic Development, 67–89. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch005.

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Despite the growing body of literature on the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP), much remains unclear and more research is needed in a number of areas as this chapter will highlight. Firstly, the broad literature is reviewed which includes looking at definitions and different strands of research undertaken in the field. The chapter then presents three key sectors that the authors believe have the most potential to aid poverty alleviation, while proposing that other types of studies can be conducted for other sectors that are more likely to lead to consumer satisfaction. Points of departure are offered, before discussing microfinance and then latterly in the context of Latin America. The chapter uses secondary data to show key countries and institutions serving the BoP, and to highlight important aspects that merit further attention. Implications for policy makers and practitioners are offered, and this is followed by a number of directions for future research.

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Paviera, Milo, and Mahmoud Khalik. "Theoretical Aspects on Bottom of the Pyramid in Emerging Economies." In Business Development Opportunities and Market Entry Challenges in Latin America, 1–29. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8820-9.ch001.

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Metelits, Michael D. "Conclusions." In The Arthur Crawford Scandal, 205–15. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199498611.003.0010.

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Chapter 10 explores some hanging questions. The issue of Crawford’s guilt or innocence is essentially moot today, but a number of points that never arose before the special commission merit consideration. The chapter comments on the practical difficulties that the Indian Penal Code of 1860 imposed on the task of successful prosecution of official corruption back in the colonial past. Beyond comments on the Penal Code of 1860, Chapter 10 also explores the relationship between decision making at various levels of governance, and certain qualities of the British imperial rule in the Bombay Presidency. This discussion stems from the facts that (1) the Crawford Tribunal found Crawford innocent of all counts of corruption, (2) the secretary of state for India concurred with the tribunal’s finding, and (3) even though Crawford was found innocent of bribery, mamlatdars were condemned as guilty. Guilty of what? Guilty of bribery. Bribery of whom? The presumption was that money had been paid for favours, but the tribunal found that Crawford had received none of it, and Crawford was found not to have done the mamlatdars any favours, so had bribery taken place at all?

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Fernandez, Marilyn. "Merit and Gender Diversity." In The New Frontier, 246–81. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199479498.003.0005.

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Despite gendered leakage in the engineering and general education pipelines, there is much progress in gender diversity or numerical parity in Indian IT. Gender parity in Indian IT has been achieved through gender neutral merit, even if privileged, and opportunities; Indian IT women professionals were as meritorious as men, equal to men on the streamlined pure merit metrics. But, significant hurdles exist in transforming the IT workspace into a gender inclusive one that makes room for family-work conflicts, systemic gendered glass ceiling and personal obstacles. The intersectionality of caste, family, and gender in dominant caste women’s access to IT networks through their strong family ties, has rendered gender inequality and equality more readily accessible and amenable for discussion, analyses, and redress than caste (in)equalities. The assessment of gender diversity progress in Indian IT offered a contrast point to the resistance to caste diversity.

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Hood, Clifton. "Conclusion." In In Pursuit of Privilege. Columbia University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231172165.003.0009.

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In June 2010, 18-year old Justin Hudson used his delivery of the graduating speech at Hunter College High School to challenge admissions standards there that had resulted in declining numbers of African-American and Latino students. In his speech, Hudson questioned the very idea of merit that had emerged in the 1970s, an understanding that rested on the two pillars of achievement and diversity that were the foundation of anti-elitism. In pinpointing the social and economic basis of hereditary meritocracy, Hudson attacked the legitimacy of the anti-elitist elite. He identified the central flaw with the present-day understanding of merit by condemning elites for distorting and privileging merit to the point that it reinforced instead of democratizing hierarchies. Ironically, anti-elitism had become the basis of a new upper class.

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Sperber, Daniel. "Public Buildings." In The City in Roman Palestine. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195098822.003.0010.

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Around the central market forum area, every Roman town with pride and pretensions to importance developed a number of public buildings that made up a standard set, the components of which we can glean not only from the remains themselves but also from Vitruvius’ architectural treatise. In Book 5 he sets out “the arrangement of public places” (publicorum locorum dispositiones), listing almost exactly the buildings to be found in any Greek and Roman city: forum, basilica, treasury, prison and councilhouse, theater with adjoining porticoes, baths, palaestra, and harbor and shipyards. We have already discussed the prominent nature of the bathhouse, the palaestra is specifically admitted by Vitruvius not to be a usual thing in Italy, and harbors and shipyards are obviously dependent on specific geographic location. Of the other buildings, the treasury and prison, although necessary, were probably of minor importance and therefore do not merit much attention in the sources, while the council and senate-houses are expected features in a society in which a self administering community was the standard form of political life. The one building that stands out as peculiarly Roman is the basilica, a large covered hall that performed the functions of the ubiquitous stoas of Hellenistic architecture, and is obviously loosely related to them, but had a form that appears to lack any clear parallel in the Greek world. We shall discuss and describe some of these focal points of the urban center, beginning with the most prominent, the basilica. The basilica is often identified with the courts of justice. However, this identification is by no means clear. Indeed, it served either as a court of law and seat of the magistracy or as a place of meeting for merchants and men of business. These two uses were so mixed that it is not always easy to state which was the principal. The basilica at Fanum, of which Vitruvius was the architect (5.1.6-10), was entirely devoted to business, and the courts were held in a small building attached to it—the temple of Augustus. In Pompeii the basilica was situated next to the public granaries (horrea), indicating its commercial functions.

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Geyh, Charles Gardner. "A Short and Pointed History of Judicial Selection." In Who is to Judge?, 24–43. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887148.003.0002.

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Chapter 2 places the current state of affairs in context, with a short history of judicial selection in the United States, touching on the five distinct methods of judicial selection that have evolved over time. It begins by discussing colonial rule and gubernatorial appointments, then moves to early statehood and legislative appointments. The Age of Jackson is then examined, in particular Jacksonian democracy and its aftermath, which saw the rise of partisan judicial elections. The chapter then discusses how the Populist-Progressive era ushered in the advent of nonpartisan and recall elections. Finally, it describes the merit selection movement in the twentieth century before concluding that in the modern era, the American judiciary has undergone a political transformation that has placed increasing emphasis on constraining independence and enhancing political control.

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Conference papers on the topic "Merit points"

Gold, Christian H., and Stephen J. Derby. "The Optimal Design of Mechanisms Employing a Synthesis Based Merit Function." In ASME 1992 Design Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc1992-0349.

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Abstract A method of implementing three-precision point synthesis into the merit function of kinematic optimization problems was developed. The addition of synthesis reduced the order of the merit function from eight to four. The new merit function was tested on three optimization methods and compared to the standard non-synthesis optimization merit function. It was discovered that the performance of the new synthesis merit function depended heavily upon which of the three precision points were selected for use in the synthesis calculations. Subsequently, a method of pre-optimization selection of synthesis points was developed. It was found that when a favorable selection method was employed, the synthesis based merit function performed well, optimizing to a comparable merit function value in about 50 percent fewer function evaluations.

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Marinescu, Oana, and Florian Bociort. "Saddle points in the merit function landscape of lithographic objectives." In Optical Systems Design 2005, edited by Laurent Mazuray and Rolf Wartmann. SPIE, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.624864.

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Bociort, Florian, and Maarten van Turnhout. "Generating saddle points in the merit function landscape of optical systems." In Optical Systems Design 2005, edited by Laurent Mazuray and Rolf Wartmann. SPIE, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.624867.

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Bociort, Florian, Alexander Serebriakov, and Maarten van Turnhout. "Saddle points in the merit function landscape of systems of thin lenses in contact." In Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, edited by Pantazis Z. Mouroulis, Warren J. Smith, and R. Barry Johnson. SPIE, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.559638.

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Baqersad, Javad, Peyman Poozesh, Christopher Niezrecki, and Peter Avitabile. "Full-Field Strain Monitoring of a Wind Turbine Using Very Limited Set of Displacements Measured With Three-Dimensional Point Tracking." In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-47413.

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In the current work, the optical three-dimensional point-tracking (3DPT) measurement approach is used in conjunction with a recently developed modal expansion technique. These two approaches (empirical and analytical) complement each other and enable the prediction of the full-field dynamic response on the surface of the structure as well as within the interior points. The practical merit of the approach was verified using a non-spinning and spinning wind turbine rotor. The three-bladed wind turbine rotator was subjected to different loading scenarios and the displacement of optical targets located on the blades was measured using 3DPT. The measured displacement was expanded and applied to the finite element model of the turbine to extract full-field strain on the turbine. The sensitivity of the proposed approach to the number of optical targets was studied in this paper. It is shown the approach can accurately predict the strain even with very few set of measurement points.

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Zhan, Xueying, Huan Liu, Qing Li, and Antoni B. Chan. "A Comparative Survey: Benchmarking for Pool-based Active Learning." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/634.

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Active learning (AL) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which a learning algorithm aims to achieve good accuracy with fewer training samples by interactively querying the oracles to label new data points. Pool-based AL is well-motivated in many ML tasks, where unlabeled data is abundant, but their labels are hard or costly to obtain. Although many pool-based AL methods have been developed, some important questions remain unanswered such as how to: 1) determine the current state-of-the-art technique; 2) evaluate the relative benefit of new methods for various properties of the dataset; 3) understand what specific problems merit greater attention; and 4) measure the progress of the field over time. In this paper, we survey and compare various AL strategies used in both recently proposed and classic highly-cited methods. We propose to benchmark pool-based AL methods with a variety of datasets and quantitative metric, and draw insights from the comparative empirical results.

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Zhu, Jianke. "Image Gradient-based Joint Direct Visual Odometry for Stereo Camera." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/636.

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Visual odometry is an important research problem for computer vision and robotics. In general, the feature-based visual odometry methods heavily rely on the accurate correspondences between local salient points, while the direct approaches could make full use of whole image and perform dense 3D reconstruction simultaneously. However, the direct visual odometry usually suffers from the drawback of getting stuck at local optimum especially with large displacement, which may lead to the inferior results. To tackle this critical problem, we propose a novel scheme for stereo odometry in this paper, which is able to improve the convergence with more accurate pose. The key of our approach is a dual Jacobian optimization that is fused into a multi-scale pyramid scheme. Moreover, we introduce a gradient-based feature representation, which enjoys the merit of being robust to illumination changes. Furthermore, a joint direct odometry approach is proposed to incorporate the information from the last frame and previous keyframes. We have conducted the experimental evaluation on the challenging KITTI odometry benchmark, whose promising results show that the proposed algorithm is very effective for stereo visual odometry.

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Owoyele, Opeoluwa, and Pinaki Pal. "A Novel Active Optimization Approach for Rapid and Efficient Design Space Exploration Using Ensemble Machine Learning." In ASME 2019 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icef2019-7237.

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Abstract In this work, a novel design optimization technique based on active learning, which involves dynamic exploration and exploitation of the design space of interest using an ensemble of machine learning algorithms, is presented. In this approach, a hybrid methodology incorporating an explorative weak learner (regularized basis function model) which fits high-level information about the response surface, and an exploitative strong learner (based on committee machine) that fits finer details around promising regions identified by the weak learner, is employed. For each design iteration, an aristocratic approach is used to select a set of nominees, where points that meet a threshold merit value as predicted by the weak learner are selected to be evaluated using expensive function evaluation. In addition to these points, the global optimum as predicted by the strong learner is also evaluated to enable rapid convergence to the actual global optimum once the most promising region has been identified by the optimizer. This methodology is first tested by applying it to the optimization of a two-dimensional multi-modal surface. The performance of the new active learning approach is compared with traditional global optimization methods, namely micro-genetic algorithm (μGA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). It is demonstrated that the new optimizer is able to reach the global optimum much faster, with a significantly fewer number of function evaluations. Subsequently, the new optimizer is also applied to a complex internal combustion (IC) engine combustion optimization case with nine control parameters related to fuel injection, initial thermodynamic conditions, and in-cylinder flow. It is again found that the new approach significantly lowers the number of function evaluations that are needed to reach the optimum design configuration (by up to 80%) when compared to particle swarm and genetic algorithm-based optimization techniques.

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Dechamps, P. J. "The Optimization of Combined Cycle HRSGs as a Function of the Plant Load Duty." In ASME 1996 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/96-gt-497.

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Natural gas fired combined cycle power plants now take a substantial share of the power generation market, mainly because they can be delivering power with a remarkable efficiency shortly after the decision to install is taken, and because they are a relatively low capital cost option. The power generation markets becoming more and more competitive in terms of the cost of electricity, the trend is to go for high performance equipments, notably as far as the gas turbine and the heat recovery steam generator are concerned. The heat recovery steam generator is the essential link in the combined cycle plant, and should be optimized with respect to the cost of electricity. This asks for a techno-economic optimization with an objective function which comprises both the plant efficiency and the initial investment. This paper applies on an example the incremental cost method, which allows to optimize parameters like the pinch points and the superheat temperatures. The influence of the plant load duty on this optimization is emphasized. This is essential, because the load factor will not usually remain constant during the plant life-time. The example which is presented shows the influence of the load factor, which is important, as the plant goes down in merit order with time, following the introduction of more modern, more efficient power plants on the same grid.

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Uemura, H. "Merit and important point of Near Infrared (NIR) Thermography." In 2019 Quantitative InfraRed Thermographapy Asia. QIRT Council, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21611/qirt.2019.034.

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McKay, Tasseli, Megan Comfort, Justin Landwehr, Erin Kennedy, and Oliver Williams. Partner Violence After Reentry from Prison: Putting the Problem in Context. RTI Press, March 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2020.pb.0022.2004.

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Advocates have long raised concerns about the potential for partner violence after a spouse’s or partner’s return from prison, but few programs or policies exist to prevent it. In an era in which experiences of incarceration and reentry—and by extension, experiences of a partner’s or coparent’s incarceration and reentry—are commonplace in low-income urban communities, the safety of families reuniting after a prison stay merits serious attention. The current study examines qualitative data from 167 reentering men and their partners to identify contextual influences on post-prison partner violence. Insights from the data offer a valuable starting point for future research and for considering how prevention could effectively target economic, physical, social, and cognitive conditions at multiple social-ecological levels.

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