Dissertations / Theses: 'Schematic'

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Friedrich, Jeff C. "Schematic Priming of Instruments." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1148669164.

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Jones, Raymond W. "Utopia : work of art or totalitarianism schematic? /." Electronic version (PDF), 2005. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2005/jonesr/raymondjones.doc.

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Schwiegerling, James Theodore. "Visual performance prediction using schematic eye models." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187327.

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The goal of visual modeling is to predict the visual performance or a change in performance of an individual from a model of the human visual system. In designing a model of the human visual system, two distinct functions are considered. The first is the production of an image incident on the retina by the optical system of the eye, and the second is the conversion of this image into a perceived image by the retina and brain. The eye optics are evaluated using raytracing techniques familiar to the optical engineer. The effect of the retinal and brain function are combined with the raytracing results by analyzing the modulation of the retinal image. Each of these processes is important far evaluating the performance of the entire visual system. Techniques for converting the abstract system performance measures used by optical engineers into clinically-applicable measures such as visual acuity and contrast sensitivity are developed in this dissertation. Furthermore, a methodology for applying videokeratoscopic height data to the visual model is outlined. These tools are useful in modeling the visual effects of corrective lenses, ocular maladies and refractive surgeries. The modeling techniques are applied to examples of soft contact lenses, keratoconus, radial keratotomy, photorefractive keratectomy and automated lamellar keratoplasty. The modeling tools developed in this dissertation are meant to be general and modular. As improvements to the measurements of the properties and functionality of the various visual components are made, the new information can be incorporated into the visual system model. Furthermore, the examples discussed here represent only a small subset of the applications of the visual model. Additional ocular maladies and emerging refractive surgeries can be modeled as well.

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Mu, Wei. "A Schematic Representation for Cognitive Tool-Using Agents." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04272009-112748/.

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In artificial intelligence (AI) research, embodied systems have received increasing attention since the 1990s. How to bridge the gap between raw sensorimotor data and symbolic representation in a robotic agent is still an open question. The research described in this document is inspired by theories in cognitive science, such as concept theory and embodied realism, as well as work in robotics and AI. The general goal of this research is to build a system capable of acquiring and maintaining semantic knowledge for higher-level reasoning, in particular reasoning about the use of tools, from the embodied experience of a cognitive agent in a simulated environment or in the real world. This research addresses cognitive theories of embodiment, the design of a general computational architecture, and the design and implementation of AI techniques for solving tool-using problems. One of the major contributions of this research is to provide a computational architecture for an embodied agent that can capture semantic relations from its interactions with the world, sufficient to support effective tool use both in short-term predictions and plan generation. As a result, we have implemented an example of this architecture in an Action Schema Generator, or ASG, which can automatically generate production rules and symbolic representations from a simulated agentâs embodied experience without losing the capability of transferring the knowledge backwards to its original numerical sensorimotor format. We have developed pragmatic methods to evaluate the performance of ASG, at the component level and the system level, in simulated and real scenarios, for tasks with and without tools. We also have compared our design with other robotics and cognitive architectures, including behavior-based robotics, Neuroevolution, and psychologically inspired architectures. We believe that our work can provide a general foundation for embodied agents, and should be useful in future research.

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Tushkanova, Elena. "Schematic calculi for the analysis of decision procedures." Phd thesis, Université de Franche-Comté, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01037993.

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In this thesis we address problems related to the verification of software-based systems. We aremostly interested in the (safe) design of decision procedures used in verification. In addition, we alsoconsider a modularity problem for a modeling language used in the Why verification platform.Many verification problems can be reduced to a satisfiability problem modulo theories (SMT). In orderto build satisfiability procedures Armando et al. have proposed in 2001 an approach based on rewriting.This approach uses a general calculus for equational reasoning named paramodulation. In general, afair and exhaustive application of the rules of paramodulation calculus (PC) leads to a semi-decisionprocedure that halts on unsatisfiable inputs (the empty clause is then generated) but may diverge onsatisfiable ones. Fortunately, it may also terminate for some theories of interest in verification, and thusit becomes a decision procedure. To reason on the paramodulation calculus, a schematic paramodulationcalculus (SPC) has been studied, notably to automatically prove decidability of single theories and oftheir combinations. The advantage of SPC is that if it halts for one given abstract input, then PC haltsfor all the corresponding concrete inputs. More generally, SPC is an automated tool to check propertiesof PC like termination, stable infiniteness and deduction completeness.A major contribution of this thesis is a prototyping environment for designing and verifying decisionprocedures. This environment, based on the theoretical studies, is the first implementation of theschematic paramodulation calculus. It has been implemented from scratch on the firm basis provided bythe Maude system based on rewriting logic. We show that this prototype is very useful to derive decidabilityand combinability of theories of practical interest in verification. It helps testing new saturationstrategies and experimenting new extensions of the original (schematic) paramodulation calculus.This environment has been applied for the design of a schematic paramodulation calculus dedicated tothe theory of Integer Offsets. This contribution is the first extension of the notion of schematic paramodulationto a built-in theory. This study has led to new automatic proof techniques that are different fromthose performed manually in the literature. The assumptions to apply our proof techniques are easyto satisfy for equational theories with counting operators. We illustrate our theoretical contribution ontheories representing extensions of classical data structures such as lists and records.We have also addressed the problem of modular specification of generic Java classes and methods.We propose extensions to the Krakatoa Modeling Language, a part of the Why platform for provingthat a Java or C program is a correct implementation of some specification. The key features arethe introduction of parametricity both for types and for theories and an instantiation relation betweentheories. The proposed extensions are illustrated on two significant examples: the specification of thegeneric method for sorting arrays and for generic hash map.Both problems considered in this thesis are related to SMT solvers. Firstly, decision procedures areat the core of SMT solvers. Secondly, the Why platform extracts verification conditions from a sourceprogram annotated by specifications, and then transmits them to SMT solvers or proof assistants to checkthe program correctness.

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Parsons, David. "Run time reusability in object-oriented schematic capture." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 1999. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/2451/.

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Object-orientation provides for reusability through encapsulation, inheritence and aggregation. Reusable elements such as classes and components can support extensible systems that enable the addition of new types of object. One context where extensibility can be applied is electronic circuit design, where systems can usefully enable the design and simulation of new electronic components. A useful tool in this domain is the graphical schematic capture interface that allows a circuit designer to place and connect together the symbolic representations of electronic components. The resulting circuit schematic may then be 'captured' and converted to code form for simulation or synthesis. An extensible schematic capture system for VHDL-AMS mixed mode (analogue and digital) code generation has been built using an object-oriented design based on a reflective architecture. It shields the circuit designer from complexity in the underlying hardware description language while enabling new component types to be created with the maximum reuse of existing objects. Polymorphism, a defining feature of object-oriented systems, is used to provide this flexibility and power, not only in design pattersn and code mechanisms but also as a conceptual approach. The system has been specifically designd to allow for extensibility at run time, so that new types of component can be modelled, integrated into circuit schematics and included in the code generation phase as one seamless process. The definition of new components is largely automated via a visual programming interface with only some behavioural definitions required using VHDL-AMS code. This functionality is supported by a reflective architecture that removes the need for code rebuilding, thus overcoming problems such as tool dependency, code bloat and time required for recompilation. Component objects represented this way are semantically polymorphic in their external behaviours, both visually and in their code representation, without relying on a traditional single classification hierarchy. This use of polymorphism as a conceptual approach rather than simply as an aspect of implementation provides a schematic capture interface of great flexibility and transparency.

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Liebson, David M. (David Michael). "A schematic editor and netlist extractor in Java." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43509.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 91).
by David M. Liebson.
M.Eng.

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Crosby-Grayson, Nicola Jane. "Schematic and symbolic hypotyposis in Kant's critical works." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/579550/.

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Studies into schematic and symbolic hypotyposis in Kant’s Critical works rarely set out how different types of concept and idea are realised comprehensively. As a consequence, it is difficult to compare the two types of exhibition in respect to how they differ and relate to one another. There are numerous reasons why these two modes have not been set out with clarity, I will focus on three. The first pertains to the nature of the subject matter itself as the schematism chapter is notoriously dense. Attempts to render Kant’s account coherent consistently fail to acknowledge the schema he addresses in the Architectonic of Pure Reason and as a result they cannot be considered comprehensive or exhaustive. Secondly, the realisation of practical ideas is rarely addressed, referred to or included for comparison in works that address schemata and symbols. Consequently, one cannot gain a comprehensive view of Kant’s account of exhibition. The practical schemata (if one may call them that) prove interesting as they challenge the distinction between direct and indirect exhibition that Kant sets out so confidently in § 59 of the Third Critique (5:352). Thirdly, attempts to present Kant’s account of the symbol with clarity either seek to reduce the symbol to a mode of schematic exhibition (in line with schema from the Architectonic of Pure Reason), or, they fail to distinguish between the examples Kant gives and consequently make claims about one type of symbol based upon their understanding of another, all of which results in further confusion and complications. This thesis will present a clarification of Kant’s account of exhibition with respect to the use of symbols, schemata, and analogy to establish the extent to which philosophy must appropriate art to communicate ideas and concepts. It will draw out the rhetorical connotations affiliated with the term hypotyposis and present the consequences of this in respect to philosophical methodology.

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Yawny, Patricia E. "Examination of a schematic explanation of the negativity effect." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq38340.pdf.

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Pendlebury, Martyn C. "Techniques and strategies to improve conceptual and schematic design." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2000. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/13726.

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This research has investigated the management of the concept and schematic design stages with particular reference to brief development, the exchange of design and cost information between the client and designers, and the impact of early design decisions on construction. A critical review of current practice by both literature review and case study revealed that early stage design often failed to meet the expectation of clients leading to frequent redesign and inaccurate cost advice. Poor communication of information between all parties was primarily to blame. This led to the research combining the three elements, design, cost, and risk and developing a Scheme Design Process Model (SDPM) based on ADePT principles to provide designers for the first time the opportunity to: • Accurately and systematically, plan ahead for the work required during the scheme design stage. • Identify conflicts that lead to iterative problems. • Mitigate iterative problems by identifying and recording the design risks source. • Qualify the accuracy of the cost advice based on the progress of the design. • Ensure closer cross-disciplinary cooperation. • Reduce overall project timescale. The research identified that a generic programme of work can now be produced that includes all major elements for the multi-disciplinary design team. The research provides a contribution to the design-modelling database by introducing and demonstrating flexibility between design stages. In addition to the SDPM the research has also addressed accountability within the decision making process by demonstrating QFD techniques that can be applied at various stages of early design.

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Carragher, Margaret Finch. "Innovations in multi-modal, schematic transit mapping: an exploratory survey." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47671.

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Cities like New York and Chicago have comprehensive heavy rail networks that provide not only high frequency service, but also reach popular destinations and employment centers. Although many other cities strive for similar transit infrastructure, acquiring the financial backing and/or right-of-way to develop these transit systems can take years. To develop transit systems in a more timely and cost-effective manner, cities are using alternative transportation modes such as light rail, streetcars, bus rapid transit (BRT), and frequent local buses. As cities become more multi-modal, their system maps become more confusing. Historically, systems have provided separate transit maps for each transit mode they provide. However, integration of these new modes requires integration of system maps. Experts in the field of transit mapping have been calling for frequent transit maps, which highlight routes that provide frequent service or reach important destinations, regardless of mode. Some cities have implemented these multi-modal maps successfully, but to date, there is no documented guidance to assist agencies in creating these maps. Using Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority (MARTA) in Atlanta as a case study, the research team created multiple maps that include three transit modes throughout the city and tested them through surveys on transit riders and non-riders. Each map adds BRT and local bus routes that meet specific frequency and/or location criteria to the existing rail map. This project examines reactions of transit riders and non-riders to these new multi-modal, schematic maps. Through surveys targeting individuals with different transit ridership habits, this project explores the potential to affect ridership on these alternative modes and enhance system understanding beyond the rail map. The results of these surveys demonstrate the need to simplify system maps, the public desire for frequency mapping, and the potential to increase ridership on alternative modes. These results build on previous work that schematic maps affect rider spatial understanding of the system and route or mode decisions. Including more modes on the map in an efficient and visually pleasing way, results of this project found that both riders and non-riders would take transit more and better understand how all of the modes interact together to form a comprehensive transit network.

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Capuzzo, Nicoletta E. M. "A schematic conceptualization of alexithymia : implications for survivors of trauma." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362602.

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Silbiger, Jason Stahl. "Schematic design of distributed mass damping systems for tall buildings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89868.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2014.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-77).
As new high-rises grow taller and more slender, the design of tall buildings becomes heavily constrained by the control of lateral displacements and accelerations due to dynamic excitations. This has led to the development of motion control devices, such as the Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) and Tuned Liquid Column Damper (TLCD). Contemporary designs implement devices where the dynamic response is the greatest, often at the top of buildings, occupying entire floors and inhibiting the sale of valuable real estate. Conversely, distributed damping is the concept of dividing the dampers into smaller devices that are placed on several floors throughout the building. Although a greater total mass is required, implementing smaller dampers and using less valuable floor area may be advantageous for buildings with a substantial cost variation between floors. This study presents a methodology where the optimal vertical distribution of TMDs and TLCDs is determined based on the footprint and relative cost of each damping scheme. To perform this analysis, the governing equations for a distributed damping system are developed and its response is derived assuming a periodic excitation. Given the structural properties and performance requirements of the building, a one TMD system is designed using the conventional approach. Ranging through several distribution schemes, the damper mass required for each distribution to meet the same acceleration performance as the one TMD system is determined. This mass is used to calculate the damper footprint for TMD and TLCD systems. From the cost distribution of the building, the relative cost of each scheme may be calculated and compared. Depending on the objective of the designer, the minimum damper footprint or minimum cost scheme may be selected as the optimal distribution. The methodology was demonstrated for 60, 80, 100, and 120-story buildings. It was observed that buildings with approximately half of the floors installed with dampers correspond to the minimum footprint scheme, while the minimum cost scheme was dependent on the building's size constraints and cost distribution. For buildings with significant cost variation in upper floors, distributed damping is not only the least cost solution, but also leads to conveniently small devices.
by Jason Stahl Silbiger.
M. Eng.

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Mwaka, Lusala Lona. "Schematic priming and the teaching of EFL reading in Zaire." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1992. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020195/.

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Hickey, Blair Bowen. "The self-schematic processing of adolescents diagnosed with depressive disorders /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008351.

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Chivers, Daniel. "Improving automated layout techniques for the production of schematic diagrams." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/50750/.

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This thesis explores techniques for the automated production of schematic diagrams, in particular those in the style of metro maps. Metro map style schematics are used across the world, typically to depict public transport networks, and therefore benefit from an innate level of user familiarity not found with most other data visualisation styles. Currently, this style of schematic is used infrequently due to the difficulties involved with creating an effective layout – there are no software tools to aid with the positioning of nodes and other features, resulting in schematics being produced by hand at great expense of time and effort. Automated schematic layout has been an active area of research for the past decade, and part of our work extends upon an effective current technique – multi-criteria hill climbing. We have implemented additional layout criteria and clustering techniques, as well as performance optimisations to improve the final results. Additionally, we ran a series of layouts whilst varying algorithm parameters in an attempt to identify patterns specific to map characteristics. This layout algorithm has been implemented into a custom-written piece of software running on the Android operating system. The software is targeted at tablet devices, using their touch-sensitive screens with a gesture recognition system to allow users to construct complex schematics using sequences of simple gestures. Following on from this, we present our work on a modified force-directed layout method capable of producing fast, high-quality, angular schematic layouts. Our method produces superior results to the previous octilinear force-directed layout method, and is capable of producing results comparable to many of the much slower current approaches. Using our force-directed layout method we then implemented a novel mental map preservation technique which aims to preserve node proximity relations during optimisation; we believe this approach provides a number of benefits over the the more common method of preserving absolute node positions. Finally, we performed a user study on our method to test the effect of varying levels of mental map preservation on diagram comprehension.

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Saadia, Aasma. "An investigation into the formalization of software design schemata." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323380.

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Guo, Chenjuan. "Inferring information about correspondences between data sources for dataspaces." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/inferring-information-about-correspondences-between-data-sources-for-dataspaces(db744fc9-a87d-425c-be80-60a1313869b2).html.

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Traditional data integration offers high quality services for managing and querying interrelated but heterogeneous data sources but at a high cost. This is because a significant amount of manual effort is required to help specify precise relationships between the data sources in order to set up a data integration system. The recent proposed vision of dataspaces aims to reduce the upfront effort required to set up the system. A possible solution to approaching this aim is to infer schematic correspondences between the data sources, thus enabling the development of automated means for bootstrapping dataspaces. In this thesis, we discuss a two-step research programme to automatically infer schematic correspondences between data sources. In the first step, we investigate the effectiveness of existing schema matching approaches for inferring schematic correspondences and contribute a benchmark, called MatchBench, to achieve this aim. In the second step, we contribute an evolutionary search method to identify the set of entity-level relationships (ELRs) between data sources that qualify as entity-level schematic correspondences. Specifically, we model the requirements using a vector space model. For each resulting ELR we further identify a set of attribute-level relationships (ALRs) that qualify as attribute-level schematic correspondences. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the contributed inference technique using both MatchBench scenarios and real world scenarios.

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Sapiyan, Mohammad. "Computer-based support for the development of schematic knowledge of mechanics." Thesis, Keele University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320250.

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Metzger, A. Susanne. "Assurance of Indoor Environmental Quality through Building Diagnostics at Schematic Design." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31057.

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With increasing knowledge about the indoor climate in recent years, preventive methods to avoid health problems caused by deficient building performance may become preferable to reactive methods. Benefits from preventive actions have been suggested for late building design phases, construction, and building operations, however, few data are available that demonstrate the benefits of preventive actions in early planning phases.

In a case study, expected building performance in respect to indoor air quality and thermal conditions in a large judicial facility in North America was evaluated retrospectively at the end of the schematic design and substantial completion phases. A process for evaluation of building performance at schematic design is developed from existing procedures for building diagnostics in operating buildings. Criteria for evaluation of expected building environmental quality at schematic design as available from standards and guidelines are presented.

The results of the study show that building diagnostics at schematic design can be an effective mean of prevention of occupant health problems. Further findings indicate that the assurance of indoor environmental quality can be improved, if the criteria for expected building performance are defined and complied with from early on. It is concluded that implementation of building diagnostics in early project phases can reduce the likelihood of adverse health effects in operating buildings.
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Hedges-Muncy, Ariana M. "Effect of Schematic Congruence on Mnemonic Discrimination in the Hippocampal Subregions." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8995.

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Two experiments are presented in this dissertation to investigate the effect a schema may have on mnemonic discrimination. We developed stimuli composed of a foreground item on a background that was either schematically congruent or incongruent. For the encoding phase of both experiments, these stimuli were presented to 98 participants, who were tasked with determining the congruency of each foreground-background pair. Next, the two experiments diverged for the retrieval phase, where participants were presented with either the same object as before (Target) or one that was similar (Lure). Forty-six participants in Experiment 1 saw stimuli with the same background as initially presented during the retrieval phase. For Experiment 2, fifty-two participants saw the foreground item presented only on a white background. Behavioral, eye tracking, and whole-brain, high-resolution fMRI data were acquired for both experiments and both phases of the task. We found memory discriminability (d-prime) scores were larger for incongruent stimuli when target-lure pairs were less similar and only when the background was present during retrieval. Critically, we found evidence of recognition in the hippocampal subregions as opposed to lure detection. These findings support the notion of a congruency benefit due to the "generate-and-recognize" model and an incongruency benefit due to increased initial attention.

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White, Elaine K. "Modelling ocular monochromatic aberrations using schematic eyes with homogeneous optical media." Thesis, Aston University, 1993. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/14599/.

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Previous research has indicated that schematic eyes incorporating aspheric surfaces but lacking gradient index are unable to model ocular spherical aberration and peripheral astigmatism simultaneously. This limits their use as wide-angle schematic eyes. This thesis challenges this assumption by investigating the flexibility of schematic eyes comprising aspheric optical surfaces and homogeneous optical media. The full variation of ocular component dimensions found in human eyes was established from the literature. Schematic eye parameter variants were limited to these dimensions. The levels of spherical aberration and peripheral astigmatism modelled by these schematic eyes were compared to the range of measured levels. These were also established from the literature. To simplify comparison of modelled and measured data, single value parameters were introduced; the spherical aberration function (SAF), and peripheral astigmatism function (PAF). Some ocular components variations produced a wide range of aberrations without exceeding the limits of human ocular components. The effect of ocular component variations on coma was also investigated, but no comparison could be made as no empirical data exists. It was demonstrated that by combined manipulation of a number of parameters in the schematic eyes it was possible to model all levels of ocular spherical aberration and peripheral astigmatism. However, the unique parameters of a human eye could not be obtained in this way, as a number of models could be used to produce the same spherical aberration and peripheral astigmatism, while giving very different coma levels. It was concluded that these schematic eyes are flexible enough to model the monochromatic aberrations tested, the absence of gradient index being compensated for by altering the asphericity of one or more surfaces.

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Mandelblit, Nili. "Grammatical blending : creative and schematic aspects in sentence processing and translation /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9808987.

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Pindi, Makaya ma Kimvwela. "Schematic structure and the modulation of propositions in economics forecasting text." Thesis, Online version, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.3821053.

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Edwards, Lindsey C. "An investigation of cognitive processes in chronic pain." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1992. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1348982/.

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This thesis examines information-processing in chronic pain. "Schematic" processing is investigated selective memory for pain-related information is explored in depressed and non-depressed chronic pain patients, depressed non pain-patients and controls. A memory bias for sensory adjectives is found in the non depressed chronic pain group, while a tendency to over-recall both sensory and affective compared to neutral information is found in the depressed chronic pain group. No memory bias is observed in an acute pain group, and the implications of this are discussed. A possible cognitive avoidance mechanism is identified in depression. A questionnaire assessing beliefs about pain ("conceptual" processing) is developed and validated, and shown to differentiate between chronic pain patients and controls. The impact of two interventions for chronic pain (surgery and cognitive-behavioural management) on schematic and conceptual processing is investigated prospectively. In general the endorsement of organic beliefs decreases while the emphasis on psychological beliefs increases post-intervention. Evidence is found to suggest that surgery, but not cognitive-behavioural treatment, reverses pain-related memory biases. This is discussed in relation to changes in pain intensity. Evidence is provided to suggest that beliefs are causally related to several pain-related measures including anxiety, depression, health locus of control, cognitive coping strategies and activity levels. A word completion paradigm is employed to explore further the role of schematic processing in chronic pain, and finally, a lexical decision task is used to assess the role of word frequency effects in information-processing in chronic pain. These results suggest that memory biases in chronic pain cannot be explained by frequency effects, hence addressing the validity of the memory biases described earlier in the thesis.

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Mao, Lu. "The manipulation of schematic correspondences with the quantification of uncertainty in dataspaces." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-manipulation-of-schematic-correspondences-with-the-quantification-of-uncertainty-in-dataspaces(c845ddb6-0cd3-4526-83de-2284f49160fb).html.

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Dataspaces aim to remove upfront cost in the generation of the schema mappings that reconcile schematic heterogeneities, and to incrementally improve the generated mappings based on user feedback. The reconciliation of schematic heterogeneities is a crucial step for translating queries between a mediating schema and data sources. The generation of schema mappings depends on the elicitation of conceptually equivalent schema constructs and information on schematic heterogeneities. Furthermore, many dataspace operations manipulate associations between schemas, for example for generating a global schema to mediate user queries. With a view to minimizing upfront costs associated with understanding the relationships between schemas, many schema matching algorithms and tools have been developed for postulating equivalent schema constructs. However, they derive simple associations between schema constructs, and do not provide rich information on schematic heterogeneities. Without manual refinement, the elicitation of conceptually equivalent schema constructs and schematic heterogeneities may create uncertainties that must be managed.The schematic correspondences captures a wide range of one-to-one and many-to-many schematic heterogeneities. This thesis investigates the use of schematic correspondences as a central component in a dataspace management system. To support query evaluation in a dataspace in which relationships between schemas are represented using schematic correspondences, we propose a mechanism for automatically generating schema mappings from the schematic correspondences. We then characterise model management operators, which can underpin the bootstraping and maintenance of dataspaces, over schematic correspondences. To support the management of uncertainty in dataspaces, we propose techniques for quantifying uncertainty in the equivalence of schema constructs from evidence in the form of similarity scores and user feedback, and provide a flexible framework for incrementally updating the uncertainties in the light of new evidence.

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Vandiver, Beverly J. "A schematic reconceptualization of Gottfredson's theory : the development of a compromise measure." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/862286.

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Gottfredson's theory of circumscription and compromise provides a framework for the application of a cognitive perspective in redefining the integration of career development and choice. A schematic reconceptualization of Gottfredson's theory was proposed to reconcile the conflicting findings of the circumscription and compromise process. The current methods in measuring circumscription and compromise, however, were not adequate to measure them schematically. So the purpose of the present study was to develop a schema-based vocational scale to measure Gottfredson's compromise process.Two goals guided the development of the Vocational Schema Compromise Scale (VSCS), the establishment of an acceptable level of reliability and the establishment of construct validity. Goal 2, the establishment of construct validity, included the following four hypotheses: Hypothesis 1 - four factors similar to Gottfredson's dimensions, masculine and feminine sex type, prestige, and interest, would emerge from factor analyses; Hypothesis 2 - the VSCS would have convergent validity with another career measure, the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI); Hypothesis 3 - the VSCS would have discriminant validity with a generalized locus of control measure; and hypothesis 4 - the VSCS was not a measure of socially desirable responding.Eight hundred and eighty-two undergraduate male and female students participated in the study. The findings of the study indicated that the goals of the study were partially accomplished and two of the four hypotheses were supported. For goal 1, reliability was establishedat an acceptable level on 11 of the 12 VSCS subscales. For goal 2, construct validity was partially accomplished. Hypothesis 1 was partially supported; internal construct validity was established for two of the three VSCS scales with four factors emerging on each scale. Hypothesis 2 was not supported; there was only a small relationship between the VSCS and the VPI, indicating that the VSCS may not really be measuring the dimensions of sex type, prestige, and interest or may be measuring them differently than the VPI. Hypothesis 3 was supported; the VSCS did not measure a generalized locus of control. Hypothesis 4 was also supported; the VSCS did not substantially measure social desirability. Limitations and implications for future research of the VSCS are discussed.
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Tarkiainen, J. (Juho). "Mixed-signal verification of analog IP using Schematic Model Generator and SystemVerilog." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201805181834.

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Verification is one of the most important aspects of designing an integrated circuit. However, the verification by simulating the device level netlist has become problematic as the mixed-signal circuits have become more complex during the years and therefore, the simulation has become very time consuming. This has been alleviated by creating models of the circuits that represent their behaviour. Sometimes the designer may be responsible for the model creation. If the project schedule is tight, there is a danger that the model is either not maintained well enough or even not created. This may compromise the whole verification process. Cadence Design Systems introduced Schematic Model Generator (SMG) tool to help in creating SystemVerilog Real Number Models (RNM) in a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The tool provides a way for engineers with little or no coding experience to create abstract models of their designs. In this thesis, the possibility of using SMG to create SystemVerilog-RN (Real-Number) models of analog blocks for mixed-signal verification is investigated. The thesis covers examples of the model creation and verification process for two different analog Intellectual Properties (IP). The aim was to create models which offer enough abstraction of the analog behaviour by utilizing real value numbers to represent electrical variables. Also, the interoperability with SPICE netlist and compatibility with Mentor Graphics Questa environment was examined. The models were successfully created but some limitations of SMG were noticed, which led to the use of mixing-and-matching handwritten SystemVerilog with the SMG generated code. Nevertheless, SystemVerilog proved to be a decent option for creating mixed-signal models to simulate the effects of both analog and digital worlds in an abstract manner
Verifioiminen on tärkeä osa integroitujen sekasignaalipiirien suunnittelua. Simuloiminen komponenttitason kuvausta käyttämällä on usein ongelmallista piirien monimutkaisuuden ja simulaatioaikojen takia. Tätä ongelmaa on pyritty ratkaisemaan luomalla malleja, jotka kuvaavat piirin toimintaa abstraktilla tasolla. Tällaisen mallin tekeminen voi joskus olla suunnitteluinsinöörin vastuulla. Projektiaikataulun ollessa tiukka, tehty malli voi jäädä päivittämättä tai sitä ei luoda ollenkaan, mikä voi pahimmassa tapauksessa vaarantaa koko piirin verifiointiprosessin. Cadence Design Systems on kehittänyt Schematic Model Generator (SMG) työkalun, jolla voidaan luoda SystemVerilog RNM -malleja (Real Number Models) käyttäen GUI:ta (Graphical User Interface). Työkalun avulla insinöörit, joilla on vain vähän tai ei yhtään ohjelmointitaitoa, kykenevät itse luomaan abstrakteja malleja piireistään. Tässä diplomityössä käydään läpi mahdollisuutta käyttää SMG:tä korkean tason SystemVerilog-RN (Real Number) käyttäytymismallien luomiseksi. Diplomityössä käydään läpi mallin tekeminen ja verifiointi kahden erillisen esimerkin avulla. Työn tarkoituksena oli luoda mallit, jotka esittäisivät analogia-IP:eiden (Intellectual Property) toiminnan sopivan abstraktilla tasolla käyttämällä reaalilukuja sähköisten suureiden esittämiseksi. Mallien toiminta testattiin myös SPICE-komponenttitason kuvauksen kanssa sekä Mentor Graphicsin Questan simulaatioympäristössä. Mallit luotiin onnistuneesti, mutta SMG:ssä havaittiin joitain puutteita mallien tekovaiheessa, mikä johti itse tehdyn SystemVerilog-koodin sekoittamiseen SMG:llä luodun koodin sekaan. Siitä huolimatta SystemVerilog osoittautui varteenotettavaksi vaihtoehdoksi sekasignaalimallien luomiseen

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Enkin, Elizabeth Bella. "Novel lexical item decoding in L2 reading acquisition a socio-schematic approach /." Connect to this title, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/207/.

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Mackert, Marc. "Conductivity for schematic conversion : a new conceptualization for resistance to organizational change /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3025637.

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Brierley, J. D. "The stories of four young children's schematic explorations within their lived experience." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4970/.

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Recent UK Government policy means more and more two-year-old children will be entitlement to free places in a variety of funded settings in the future (DfE, 2013a). Understanding and knowledge of how two year old children’s cognition develops continues to remains an under researched area. A key achievement of this thesis is its contribution to the understanding of how two-year-old children use schemas to construct knowledge from their lived experiences This thesis contributes new knowledge through the detailed written and photographic illustrations, which portray how through day-to-day experiences four two-year-old children’s schemas are constructed and co-ordinated. This thesis also identifies what kinds of environments and pedagogy can support two-year old children’s schematic explorations and development. The thesis first reviews the literature highlighting the “preciousness” (Atherton, 2013: 6) of experiences children gain in their first few years of childhood. Followed by a critical examination of how recent research findings have intertwined to influence the evolving early years landscape. Methodological and ethical issues are identified and discussed. The thesis presents four case studies written as narrative stories of the children’s day-to-day experiences at nursery and home. Drawing mainly from Atherton, (2013); Nutbrown (2011); Athey (2007) and the various work of Piaget (1953, 1959) the stories are analysed to suggest a viable schematic interpretation of the possible developing cognitive patterns. The findings acknowledge and recognise supporting young children’s schematic motivations provides children with the space to become social actors in their own learning.

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Ki, Wing-yee Winnie. "Differences in schematic patterns of survivors of physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29760781.

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Johnson, Sandra Mary. "Reviewing Lownveld [sic] : the schematic development of children in the twenty first century." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8633.

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When children discover the ability to make marks, a journey of exploration begins that is both fascinating and inevitable. One could almost believe that they have attended inter-uterine art instruction. According to Viktor Lowenfeld the intentional, spontaneous drawing of children follows a typical development that appears structured and predictable. The understanding of these developmental stages has formed an important part of the training of primary school art teachers at the Cape Town College of Education for decades, and is currently still used in teacher-training in the Cape Technikon Education Faculty. Schirrmaker states that there are a number of theories of artistic development of children, which may fall into physical, emotional, perceptual, cognitive, general developmental or cognitive developmental categories. These theories equip us with an understanding of the child's development, offer appropriate expectations, assist in the planning of the art programme, and give a framework for assessment and evaluation. Viktor Lowenfeld offered a series of stages that belong to the category of General Development. Art teachers are provided with a visual record of the child's cognitive, emotional, creative and physical development, and are thus able to create meaningful learning experiences. The beginnings of abstract understanding are given visual form. Children show developing awarenesses of selves in a world that is challenging and strange. Awarenesses of human relationships are set out in complicated array against a simple white ground. These spontaneous drawings are children's attempts to communicate the meaning that they are in the process of making of their worlds. If we asked children to verbalise these understandings of their worlds, they would be limited to their own vocabularies, and would struggle to include the variety, the detail and the rich information contained in their spontaneous drawings. They would also not be able to tell us that they have reached the stage where they can begin to understand abstract relationships, and are therefore ready to learn to read. They would not be able to include that their perceptions of themselves have changed sufficiently to enable them to understand that they form part of the world, part of society, and are therefore ready to start formal schooling. As they grow, they would not be able to impart the way they feel about their worlds any more eloquently than their drawings tell us. As children develop physically and intellectually, their development is revealed in their drawings. In 1947, these creative stages of development were recognised, named and recorded by Viktor Lowenfeld, an art educator working in America. Since then, they have become a guide for art educators in the Western Cape, and are used as a basis for curriculum planning. In South Africa, a new curriculum is currently being introduced into schools, and is still in its infancy. It seems an ideal time to test the theories of Lowenfeld against the drawings of children who will be the first learners of Transformative Outcomes-Based Education.

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Gillingham, Amy E. "Cultivating Perception: Bridging Schematic Patterns and Audience in Franz Joseph Haydn's Violoncello Concertos." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275919165.

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Purchase, Helen Christine. "The use of an educational computer system embodying a schematic method of knowledge representation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241135.

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Anand, Suchith. "Automatic derivation of schematic maps from large scale digital geographic datasets for mobile GIS." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2006. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/automatic-derivation-of-schematic-maps-from-large-scale-digital-geographic-datasets-for-mobile-gis(653b12bb-7e0c-41a9-aada-e8cf361064a3).html.

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"Mapping is a way of visualizing parts of the world and maps are largely diagrammatic and two dimensional. There is usually a one-to-one correspondence between places in the world and places on the map, but while there are limitless aspects to the world, the cartographer can only select a few to map" Daniel Dorling, 1996 Map generalization is the process by which small scale maps are derived from large scale maps. This requires the application of operations such as simplification, selection, displacement and amalgamation to map features subsequent to scale reduction. The work is concerned with the problem of effective rendering of large scale datasets on small display devices by developing appropriate map generalization techniques for generating schematic maps. With the advent of high-end miniature technology and large scale digital geographic data products it is essential to devise proper methodologies and techniques for the automated generation of schematic maps specifically tailored for mobile GIS applications. Schematic maps are diagrammatic representation based on linear abstractions of networks. Transportation networks are the key candidates for applying schematization to help ease the interpretation of information by the process of cartographic abstraction. This study looks at how simulated annealing optimisation technique can be successfully applied for automated generation of schematic maps from large scale digital geographic datasets tailored specifically for mobile GIS applications. The software developed makes use of a simulated annealing based schematic map generator algorithm to generate route maps from OSCAR® dataset corresponding to a series of user defined start and end points. The generated schematic route maps are displayed and tested on mobile handheld devices shows promising results for mobile GIS applications. This work concentrates on the automatic generation of schematic maps, which, in the context of mobile mapping, are seen as being a particularly useful means of displaying routes for way finding type and utility network applications.

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Clark, Julia Rosa. "Classroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic means." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8006.

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Bibliography: leaves 78-83.
I had just turned thirteen and it was the summer before high school started. My mother and I went over to the Roberts' house. Ruby had just matriculated from the same school and was handing down her faded old checked uniforms. To my amazement, there in the lounge bathed in afternoon January sunlight, was her father Billy, kneeling, deeply absorbed in a large strange chart that had been laid out on the floor. It was a school timetable and it was his task, as vice principle, to organise the day-to-day workings of the year ahead. The timetable was scattered with various coloured shapes that he shuffled back and forth across the gridded surface, trying to make a coherent system. This anecdote is important to my body of work for three reasons. The first is that Mr. Roberts' challenging activity that day is not unlike the process of sorting and reordering that is central to my work. The appearance of the chart is mimicked in the schemata-like quality of many of my pieces, as is its conceptual framework - an urge to order a set of already existing pieces into a new, meaningful and functional relationship. Ruby's uniforms are also important. I cherished these second-hand dresses precisely because of the qualities they acquired through having been worn already. These dresses were softer to touch, had a better fit and more beauty in colour --soft pink checks as opposed to harsh maroon-- than other girls' crisp new sacks.

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Taulbee, Gregor M. "A common syntax and a common semantics for constructing a class of schematic notations /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487681788253285.

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Haldavnekar, Nikhil. "An algorithm and implementation for extracting schematic and semantic knowledge from relational database systems." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000541.

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Tscharn, Robert [Verfasser], and Jörn [Gutachter] Hurtienne. "Innovative And Age-Inclusive Interaction Design with Image-Schematic Metaphors / Robert Tscharn ; Gutachter: Jörn Hurtienne." Würzburg : Universität Würzburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1179695887/34.

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Süssenbach, Philipp [Verfasser]. "Schematic effects of rape myth acceptance / Philipp Süssenbach. Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft - Abteilung für Psychologie." Bielefeld : Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, Hochschulschriften, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1021937932/34.

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Nutbrown, Cathy. "A case study of the development and implementation of a nursery curriculum based on schematic theory." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281656.

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Jo, Seung-Koo. "An analysis and schematic review of circulation and open space on central Kansas State University campus." Kansas State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/36102.

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Gotham, Nicholas. "Form and freedom : the marriage of musical systems and intuition." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7636.

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This thesis includes an Introduction, which explains some of the ideas and procedures involved in a series of compositions I produced during the period from October, 2008 through November, 2011, a discussion of the works themselves individually and in roughly the same chronological order in which they were composed, and a summary of Conclusions which may be drawn. Included as an Appendix are texts for reference while listening to the vocal works. Complete scores of the works with representative recordings make up the main body of the thesis, except in the case of the solo piano suite Equilibria, where the score is included but the work remained unrecorded at the time of submission. Ideas discussed include some which unite or distinguish the processes of musical improvisation with/from more methodical modes of composition. Also the theme of musical collaboration is considered in contrast to the notion of the composer who works – or appears to work – in isolation. Research into traditions of music is regarded as important to compositional practice overall. Among the Conclusions is that my own orientation to these ideas places me in the category of post-minimalist composers. Throughout this discussion I have involved commentary from other relevant and important thinkers, critics and composers.

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Kyriakidou-Christofidou, Athina. "Teaching addition and subtraction operations with schematic place-value learning aids & the impact on arithmetic competency." Thesis, Saint Louis University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10109214.

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The present mixed-methods quasi-experimental study (embedding a case study and a mixed factorial within-between ANOVA test), conducted in a private English school in Limassol, Cyprus, investigated how the use of the schematic learning aids (researcher-made color-coded flash-cards and grids) influence year-2 children's ability to read, write and represent Hindu-Arabic numerals and how these number representations affect their arithmetic competency. This was achieved by comparing an intervention group (n=16) and a control group (n=17) before and after the 2-week intervention.

It is concluded that the use of the place-value learning aids facilitates numeration system conceptual understanding , reading, writing and representing numbers (in canonical and non-canonical form) by thinking in terms of "100s", "10s" and "1s" (or in terms of color-coded cards). Students visually relate the face-value of the digits (e.g. "3" and "5") of the number (e.g. "35") with the number of flash-cards to be used for the canonical representation (three orange cards and five blue cards). Children also understand how "53" differs from "35" or "503". It is further concluded that the use of the learning aids facilitates addition and subtraction performance in terms of "hundreds", "tens" and "ones" (rather than just "ones") either mentally or by constructing canonical and non-canonical representations with the use of the flash-cards and grids or by constructing abstract representations on paper. Students realize that ten cards of one color can be exchanged with one card of another color (or vice versa). Students further understand how "35-2" differs from "35-20" and how "51-32" differs from "52-31".

Quantitative data are in agreement with qualitative data, suggesting that children's arithmetic competency is enhanced when taught how to represent numbers, additions and subtractions with the use of the learning aids. The control group mean score increase from before to after intervention was 1,24 marks, compared to an increase of 11,06 marks for the intervention class. The medium to large Cohen's d effect sizes of 0,51 (comparing the intervention group score increase to the control group score increase) or 0,57 (comparing the intervention group score from before to after) indicate strong practical significance.

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Kelly, Jasmine Baucom Donald H. "Do you read me? investigating support elicitation strategies and relationship-schematic processing among couples facing breast cancer /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2318.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in the Department of Psychology." Discipline: Psychology; Department/School: Psychology.

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Barch, Jon Craig. "On Measuring Student-Teacher Relationships: Sorting Out Predictors, Outcomes, And Schematic Structure Of Students’ Internal Relationship Representations." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1950.

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Student-teacher relationships have been studied by numerous researchers from a variety of perspectives. Evidence consistently suggests that the quality of student-teacher relationships can have a profound impact on children’s social and cognitive development. Although researchers seem to agree on this point, their theoretical conceptualizations of the relationships and how they measure them are often quite different. This study provides empirical insights for both measurement integration and theory integration regarding students’ internal relationship representations. Items from 14 different student-teacher relationship instruments were systematically combined and administered as a composite instrument to 628 college students. The participants responded to all items in reference to a single, recent relationship with a high school instructor. This allowed comparative examination of the original 14 scales independently for internal consistency and predictive validity. The study also examined a hypothesized multidimensional structural model of students’ internal representation of their relationship with a teacher based off relational schema theory. An alternative, more parsimonious model was examined as well. The hypothesized model was not supported by the data. The study demonstrated that multiple measurement models of various items could produce acceptable fit. The study provided evidence as to which of the 170 items from the 14 original scales most closely measure the core of student-teacher relationship quality. The study exemplified the method effect dangers of negative item wording. Finally, the study provided strong evidence for conceptualizing student-teacher relationships as a single, global relationship quality construct.

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Silva, Cesar Augusto Alves da. "Esquematismo da produção industrial e formação do indivíduo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47131/tde-05082016-154853/.

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Esta tese tem como objetivo analisar a possibilidade de formação do indivíduo na sociedade industrial com base naquilo que se configurou como uma determinação importante, a saber, a produção em série que, para se realizar, demanda um esquema produtivo previamente estabelecido, um planejamento rigorosamente calculado, racionalmente construído de acordo com uma razão que expressa os interesses lucrativos do modo de produção capitalista. Objetivamos discutir o modo de produção capitalista industrial que se torna ideologia de si mesmo, como uma metafísica que se torna real por meio dessa produção. Ação real produtiva e esquema metafísico se autodeterminam mediados, ou determinados, pelo lucro. É um sistema que traz em si um modelo de racionalidade técnica e tecnológica que se tornam meio da imposição do esquematismo da produção sobre os indivíduos e em direta relação de correspondência à pseudoformação causadora do obscurecimento da subjetividade. Investiga-se a esquematização que a indústria cultural realiza na produção cultural. Tal esquematização atua já no campo da produção da cultura, determinando minuciosamente a elaboração dos objetos culturais. Analisam-se as condições de possibilidade da individualidade construir-se ou não no período contemporâneo. A infantilização e a obnubilação do desenvolvimento humano aparecem como resultado do processo do modo de produção capitalista industrial. O eu é derrotado antes mesmo de constituir-se, porque o diferente nunca é produzido em série. Conclui-se, então, que, no modo de produção capitalista industrial, os obstáculos para a formação do indivíduo e sua pseudoformação socializada não estão apenas no consumo dos produtos culturais mercantilizados. Tais limites já se originam concretamente na produção por meio do esquematismo alienado dos homens e imposto a eles
This thesis aims to analyze the possibility of formation of the individual in industrial society from what was configured as an important determination, namely the production series, to take place, demand a previously productive scheme, a carefully calculated plan rationally constructed according to a ratio expressing the profit interests of the capitalist mode of production. This paper discusses the industrial capitalist mode of production that becomes ideology of himself as a \"metaphysical\" that becomes real through this production. Productive real action and \"metaphysical\" consider themselves scheme mediated or determined by profit. It is a system which brings a technical and technological rationality model that make it through the schematic of the levy production on individuals and in direct relation matching the pseudoformação causing the subjectivity obscuration. The layout is investigated that the culture industry performs in cultural production. Such a layout is already active in the field of crop production, carefully determining the development of cultural objects. They analyze the conditions of possibility of individuality build up or not in the contemporary period. The infantilization and numbness of the human development process appear as a result of the industrial capitalist mode of production. The ego is defeated before even be created, because the other is never produced in series. It follows, then, that the industrial capitalist mode of production, the obstacles to the formation of the individual and his socialized pseudoformation are not only the consumption of commodified cultural products. These limits already originate specifically in production through the schematic alienated men and imposed on them

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Henderson, Caroline J. "Illness is in the mind : the schematic nature of illness representations and coping in the common sense model." Thesis, University of Essex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438259.

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Turner, Jaime A. J. "Applying psychological research to facial compositing : featural and configural approaches, schematic faces, and feature saliency in E-FIT construction." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434386.

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