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Morris, James Alexander, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "The metaphysician's free lunch." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2001, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/120.

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In this paper, I begin to develop a theory called Paradise on the Cheap - in so doing, I intend to provide a rival to David Lewis' modal realism. Paradise on the Cheap grounds possibilia in the features of the actual world; and so, it does not require realist commitments to the existence of non-actual worlds and individuals. I explain modality, conterfactuals, content, and properties in terms of recombinations of actual-world features, second-order mathematical schemata, and the similarity relations which hold between these things and parts of the actual world. Because the ontology of Paradise

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Morris, James Alexander. "The metaphysician's free lunch." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq61043.pdf.

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Everitt, Tom. "Universal Induction and Optimisation: No Free Lunch." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Matematiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-112785.

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Marchini, Katlyn Michelle. "FREE LUNCH: HEALTHFULNESS AND SUSTAINABILITY OF FREE MEALS PROVIDED IN THE TECH WORKPLACE." Scholarly Commons, 2017. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3126.

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Food programs that provide employees free meals have become increasingly popular at tech companies. Through the use of multiple research methods including photo documentation, observations, and interviews, this thesis will explore the foodscape created by Airbnb’s food program. This thesis seeks to understand the ways in which a company can promote health, sustainability, and commensality in a food program and avoid inadvertently causing negative health outcomes. The research presented here will help offer insights into how offering free meals can affect the culture of the workplace and th

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Martin, Jean-Noel. "No Free Lunch et recherche de solutions structurantes en coloration." Phd thesis, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00607481.

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Nous présentons d'abord les théorèmes du No Free Lunch en nous basant sur le papier de D.H. Wolpert et W.G. Macready (version IEEE 1997) mais aussi les multiples réactions que ces résultats ont provoquées dans la communauté de l'optimisation. Convaincus dès lors de l'intérêt d'une approche globale des problèmes et de la nécessité de la recherche de propriétés générales - et spécialement des invariances par symétries -, nous tentons ensuite de mettre en oeuvre cette méthode dans le cadre de la coloration de graphes simples et non orientés. Ce champ est retenu en raison de son intérêt propre, ma

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ANDRADEE, MOISES SHALIMAY DE SOUZA. "NO FREE LUNCH FOR FISCAL INFLATIONS: A FISCAL-INDUCED STAGFLATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=29379@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Expansões fiscais têm sido propostas como soluçao para economias passando por fortes recesseções e episódios de deflação. Mostramos em uma arcabouço fiscalista que um aumento dos deficits pode iniciar uma estagflação por afetar negativamente a intermediação de recursos para investimentos. Intermediários financeiros coletam depósitos para comprar títulos do governo e realizar empréstimos através de contratos nominais de longo-prazo. Quando intermediários enfrentam fricções fina

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Martin, Jean-Noël. "No Free Lunch et recherche de solutions structurantes en coloration." Belfort-Montbéliard, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00607481/fr/.

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Nous présentons d'abord les théorèmes du No Free Lunch en nous basant sur le papier de D. H. Wolpert et W. G. Macready (version IEEE 1997) mais aussi les multiples réactions que ces résultats ont provoquées dans la communauté de l'optimisation. Convaincus dès lors de l'intérêt d'une approche globale des problèmes et de la nécessité de la recherche de propriétés générales - et spécialement des invariances par symétries -, nous tentons ensuite de mettre en oeuvre cette méthode dans le cadre de la coloration de graphes simples et non orientés. Ce champ est retenu en raison de son intérêt propre,

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Monson, Christopher Kenneth. "No Free Lunch, Bayesian Inference, and Utility: A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Optimization." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1292.pdf.

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Randles, Anthony Michael. "The Association Between the Consumer Nutrition Environments and Free and Reduced School Lunch Rates." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26734.

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This study examined the relationships between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES), measured by free and reduced school lunch rates, the nutrition environment. In the first part of this study trained surveyors used the Nutrition Environment Measure Survey-Stores (NEMS-S) to document availability of healthy food items in sixty retail food stores (96% of total community retail food stores) categorized as `ethnic grocery', `supermarkets', and `convenience'. Community neighborhoods were divided by elementary school district, allowing neighborhood SES to be determined by the percentage of free a

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Kiran, Manthri Bala, and Tanneeru Kiran Sai. "Developmental Encodings in Neuroevolution - No Free Lunch but a Peak at the Menu is Allowed." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för information och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37734.

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NeuroEvolution besides deep learning is considered the most promising method to train and optimize neural networks. Neuroevolution uses genetic algorithms to train the controller of an agent performing various tasks. Traditionally, the controller of an agent will be encoded in a genome which will be directly translated into the neural network of the controller. All weights and the connections will be described by their elements in the genome of the agent. Direct Encoding – states if there is a single change in the genome it directly affects a change in the brain. Over time, different forms of

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Caballero, Monteso Ricard Josep. "Teoremes de No Free Lunch en el continu i el model del Pont Brownià en optimització." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/382825.

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Aquesta tesi consta principalment de dues parts. A la primera part, es generalitza a variable contínua un famós teorema en l'àmbit tèoric de l'optimització: El No-Free-Lunch Theorem, el qual diu que tots els algorismes són igual de bons quan es fa la mitjana de la seva eficiència sobre totes les possibles funcions a optimitzar. Aquesta generalització utilitza de manera molt natural la teoria de processos estocàstics, i arriba a la conclusió que no hi ha teoremes de No-Free-Lunch en el continu, excepte en determinats casos extrems de poca importància pràctica. A la segona part, s'ha consid

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Loverus, Anna, and Paulina Tellebo. "There ain ́t no such thing as a free lunch : What consumers think about personal data collection online." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-315656.

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This study examines how consumers reason and their opinions about personal data collection online. Its focus is to investigate whether consumers consider online data collection as an issue with moral implications, and if these are unethical. This focus is partly motivated by the contradiction between consumers’ stated opinions and actual behavior, which differ. To meet its purpose, the study poses the research question How is personal data collection and its prevalence online perceived and motivated by consumers?. The theoretical framework consists of the Issue-Contingent Model of Ethical Deci

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Njie, Sjögren Felicia. "The Chinese way of a free lunch? : En analys av sino-afrikanska förbindelser och mänskliga rättigheter i afrikanska stater." Thesis, Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, Högskolan för mänskliga rättigheter, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-1067.

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China's relations with African states have attracted much attention in recent years. Between the 1990s and today, China has developed into one of the most important players in the world system. During this period China has also grown to be the largest trading partner for all African states. There are diverging opinions as to whether China, in pursuit of natural resources, is taking advantage of the need for investments and infrastructure in African states, or if they are enabling possibilities of realistic and equitable development in African states. This study examines the compatibility of Si

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Montanez, George D. "Why Machine Learning Works." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2017. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/1114.

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To better understand why machine learning works, we cast learning problems as searches and characterize what makes searches successful. We prove that any search algorithm can only perform well on a narrow subset of problems, and show the effects of dependence on raising the probability of success for searches. We examine two popular ways of understanding what makes machine learning work, empirical risk minimization and compression, and show how they fit within our search frame-work. Leveraging the “dependence-first” view of learning, we apply this knowledge to areas of unsupervised time-series

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Krumpe, Norman Joseph. "A COMPARISON OF SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES IN SOLVING SINGLE-OBJECTIVE, CONSTRAINED, DISCRETE VARIABLE PROBLEMS." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1129749397.

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Valenzuela, Michael Lawrence. "Machine Learning, Optimization, and Anti-Training with Sacrificial Data." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605111.

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Traditionally the machine learning community has viewed the No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems for search and optimization as a limitation. I review, analyze, and unify the NFL theorem with the many frameworks to arrive at necessary conditions for improving black-box optimization, model selection, and machine learning in general. I review meta-learning literature to determine when and how meta-learning can benefit machine learning. We generalize meta-learning, in context of the NFL theorems, to arrive at a novel technique called Anti-Training with Sacrificial Data (ATSD). My technique applies at the

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Rossi, Kirstin A. "Early Strategies of Kindergarten Teachers and Administrators to Lessen the Literacy Gap." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4678.

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Proficiency in literacy is paramount during a child's education. Lacking proficiency can have lasting effects. At both the state and local level, continuing gaps in student achievement in literacy have been documented. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to focus on kindergarten teachers and administrators' early literacy strategies, specifically current practices in early literacy skills and possible resources needed in early literacy to lessen the gap between White students and ethnic minority and students who qualify for free/reduced meals. The constructivist framework was the pl

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Southerland, Jodi L., Taylor M. Dula, W. T. Dalton, Karen E. Schetzina, and Deborah L. Slawson. "The National School Lunch Program in Rural Appalachian Tennessee – or Why Implementation of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 was Met with Challenges: A Brief Report." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5115.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate challenges faced by high schools in rural Appalachia in implementing the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA). Methodology: We used qualitative, secondary analysis to analyze a collection of thirteen focus groups and 22 interviews conducted in 2013-14 among parents, teachers, and high school students in six counties in rural Appalachian Tennessee (n=98). Results: Five basic themes were identified during the thematic analysis: poor food quality prior to implementation of the HHFKA school nutrition reforms; students’ preference

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Cline, Terry Lee. "An Evaluation of the School Choice Plan in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and its Perceived Effects on Academic Achievement for all Students." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29106.

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Does ethnicity of the student prevent equal levels of learning at an equal pace? Are schools required to teach all children effectively, no matter what their socio-economic status, gender, or ethnicity? Educators and researchers have longed for the answers to these questions. For years, educators have been looking for ways to teach children in schools that are racially identifiable and have the highest percentages of children on free and reduced lunch. School districts that have choice as a way of assigning students are increasing the number of racially identifiable schools. In Charlotte-Meckl

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Shroff, Siddhi Lalit. "IMPACT OF THE HEALTHY HUNGER-FREE KIDS ACT ON CHANGES IN THE PHYTOCHEMICAL CONTENT OF SCHOOL LUNCH MENUS AND IMPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE-BASED NUTRITION EDUCATION ON PROMOTING STUDENT IDENTIFICATION OF FOODS HIGH IN PHYTOCHEMICALS." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hes_etds/33.

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Concern that youth do not have enough fruit and vegetable intake lead to two strategies implemented to influence intake in the school environment: the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) and Fighting with Food: Battling Chemical Toxicity with Good Nutrition program (FF), which could influence phytochemical content and knowledge regarding phytochemicals, respectively. Individual food logs (n=468) were assessed upon completion of FF curriculum to determine whether students were able to correctly apply their nutrition knowledge regarding FF. Menus from one district were analyzed pre-HHFKA and po

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Blåfield, Ida. "A time travel for school meals in United Kingdom : Ideas and opinions about school meals in UK-media between 2000 and 2014." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kostvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-113329.

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Bakgrund Från och med september 2014, är alla barn i åldern fyra till sju berättigade till gratis skolmat i Storbritannien, för att öka hälsosamt ätande och minska fetma. Syfte Att undersöka hur skolmåltider (speciellt skolluncher) avbildats i olika tidningar i Storbritannien, från och med 2000 till 2014, då gratis skolmåltider introducerades. Metod Fyra tidningar i Storbritannien, under tiden 2000 till 2014, valdes ut för undersökning. Totalt 616 artiklar hittades, varav 426 texter analyserades. En kombination av kvalitativ och kvantitativ innehållsanalys gjordes i flera steg på artiklar och

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La, Cava Gonzalo. "A Study of the Relationship Between Second-Order Change Leadership Behaviors of Principals and School Grades of Florida Title I Elementary Schools." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2424.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between second-order change leadership behaviors and the grade assigned to schools in large urban districts by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE). A total of 101 Title I elementary school principals from large urban school districts with 60+% students on Free and Reduced School Lunch participated in the study. Specifically, this study analyzed 7 of the 21 second-order change factor responsibilities. They include (a) knowledge of curriculum, instruction, assessment, (b) optimizer, (c) intellectual stimulation, (d) change agent

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Cloud, David. "A Study of Associations between Third Grade Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program Scores and Subsequent Scores in a Rural Tennessee School District." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1087.

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This study was designed to examine the associations and differences that exist in the NCE scores of students on the TerraNova portion of the Tennessee Comprehensive Exam, as well as the possible influence of variables such as initial scores, grade level, gender, and free or reduced lunch status. The population consisted of a stable group of 49 students enrolled in a rural Tennessee school district reported to have taken the annual assessment at the same school as they progressed from 3rd to 8th grade during the 1999 to 2004 school years. The study focused on the performance of students over a

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Wright, Jennifer Lynn. "Examining the influence of the leader in me on school grades." UNF Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/910.

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School leaders face increasing demands related to student achievement. These demands involve annual data reporting related to overall student, school, and district success. In Florida, this accountability and transparency requirement is addressed through an annual school grading system. It is essential that leaders utilize successful programs that directly influence positive student outcomes and demonstrate high quality education. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of a youth leadership development program, specifically The Leader in Me (TLIM) program, on school grades. Bas

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Nhlapo, Nthabiseng. "Hygiene and nutritional content of the National School Nutrition Programme in Bloemfontein, South Africa." Thesis, [Bloemfontein?] : Central University of Technology, Free State, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/180.

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Thesis (M. Tech. (Environmental Health)) -- Central University of technology, Free State, 2013<br>Malnutrition and concomitant infections are major contributing factors to child morbidity and mortality in developing countries such as South Africa. Globally, children benefiting from school feeding programmes are generally from communities with low socio-economic statuses. The meals provided through feeding schemes, such as the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in South Africa, are aimed at significantly supplementing the beneficiaries’ daily energy and nutrient requirements. The possi

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Bodlander, Gabriella, and Jennifer Simonsson. "Framtagning av en ergonomisk produkt för servering av dryck på flygplan : Fallstudie hos August Lundh." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-30964.

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To prevent damage to the cabin crew an optimal coffee- and teapot in a number of aspects in airline catering was developed, so called “SAS-kannan”. It was launched in 1980 and has been manufactured in over 300 000 copies, which has worn out the mold and it is in need of replacement. The mold is advanced and it will be expensive to manufacture a new one. August Lundh who is the manufacture of “SAS-kannan” today, want to develop a new product for serving drinks with a cost-effective manufacturing. It should involve the positive qualities on the “SAS-kannan” and be adapted to today's airline cate

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Carroll, James Lamond. "A Bayesian Decision Theoretical Approach to Supervised Learning, Selective Sampling, and Empirical Function Optimization." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3413.pdf.

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江沛. "Free Lunch on the Discrete Lipschitz Class." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45353429451701691592.

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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>資訊科學與工程研究所<br>97<br>The No-Free-Lunch theorem states that all algorithms have the identical performance on average over all functions and there is no algorithm able to outperform others on all problems. However, such a result does not imply that search heuristics or optimization algorithms are futile if we are more cautious with the applicability of these methods and the search space. In this paper, within the No-Free-Lunch framework, we firstly introduce the discrete Lipschitz class by transferring the Lipschitz functions, i.e., functions with bounded slope, as a measure to fu

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CHIN, YU FEI, and 游斐靖. "The Research of the Free Nourishment Lunch." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99500951025083360052.

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碩士<br>中華大學<br>行政管理學系(所)<br>96<br>UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) declares that poverty eradication should be an overriding theme of sustainable development for the coming years. It is one of the fundamental goals of the international community and of the entire United Nations system.Hsinchu City ranked secondly for 2 years as the most sustainable development city, announced by the Common Wealth Weekly, 2007. Is Hsinchu a sustainable development city? According to the Hsinchu Local Government Development Budget in Education for the year 2007, the estimated annual budget f

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Offwood, Theresa Maria. "No free lunch and risk measures on Orlicz spaces." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/11942.

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The importance of Orlicz spaces in the study of mathematics of nance came to the for in the 2000's when Frittelli and his collaborators connected the theory of utility functions to Orlicz spaces. In this thesis, we look at how Orlicz spaces play a role in nancial mathematics. After giving an overview of scalar-valued Orlicz spaces, we look at the rst fundamental theorem of asset pricing in an Orlicz space setting. We then give a brief summary of scalar risk measures, followed by the representation result for convex risk measures on Orlicz hearts. As an example of a risk measure, we t

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Smith, Marisa B. "A no free lunch result for optimization and its implications." 2009. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,112394.

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Chen, Hsiu-Tzu, and 陳秀子. "The study of Free nutritional lunch at elementary School：For one of counties in Kaohsiung example." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04236019057209049604.

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碩士<br>義守大學<br>公共政策與管理學系碩士班<br>99<br>The main objective of this study is to clarify the nutrition meal for the primary school in Taiwan. The main focus of the study is one of the elementary schools in Kaohsiung. There are two steps for collecting data: the first step comprised an open-ended questionnaire interview including homeroom teachers, school administrative staffs, parents and students. We try to explore their attitudes about the current change and difficulty of nutrition meal. For the second step, we analyze the current variation of different groups for the subsidy of nutrition meal by

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Lockett, Alan Justin. "General-purpose optimization through information maximization." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5459.

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The primary goal of artificial intelligence research is to develop a machine capable of learning to solve disparate real-world tasks autonomously, without relying on specialized problem-specific inputs. This dissertation suggests that such machines are realistic: If No Free Lunch theorems were to apply to all real-world problems, then the world would be utterly unpredictable. In response, the dissertation proposes the information-maximization principle, which claims that the optimal optimization methods make the best use of the information available to them. This principle results in

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