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Abbas, Ahmed Khodair Abbas. "A dynamic planner for object assembly tasks based learning the spatial relationships of its parts from a single demonstration." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207935/1/Ahmed%20Khodair%20Abbas_Abbas_Thesis.pdf.
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The main application of collaborative robots is helping workers during assembly tasks.
Most assembly task robots are limited to fixed scenarios that do not require reasoning.
To address the current limitations, this thesis introduces a goal-directed dynamic AI system that enables robots to help workers during assembly tasks. After observing an object being assembled, our AI system can induce a 3D model of the assembled object.
This induced model encodes the spatial relationships between the components of the object and allows a dynamic planner to repair assembly plans when the worker deviate from the initial plan.
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Pike, A. R. "The parts are greater than the sum of the whole : exploring the process of change in a pain management programme using single case study design." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1449080/.
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This three-part thesis reviews the effectiveness of psychological interventions for chronic non-cancer pain on healthcare use and sick leave from work, and explores the process of change in a pain management programme using single case methods. Part 1 is a meta-analysis of 16 randomised controlled trials of psychological interventions in a chronic pain population. Small to moderate effect sizes were found for reduced healthcare use but no significant benefit for sick leave. Part 2 is a study using single case design methodology to explore trajectories of change in 8 patients attending a CBT-based chronic pain management programme. Baseline, intervention and bi-weekly follow-up self-report of catastrophic thinking, mood, self-efficacy, and goal attainment, and of process variables of working alliance and adherence, were supplemented by a post treatment change telephone interview which was qualitatively analysed. Detailed examination of change for each participant provided rich data: three participants improved significantly over the course of the programme, three deteriorated, and all improved in at least one goal. Therapeutic alliance was high and participants rated central elements of the programme, explanations of their pain, and peer support/group membership as important. Part 3 is a critical appraisal of the study and the review, contrasting the approaches, and concluding with a personal reflection on the process.
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Ulla, Heidi Emberland. "Greene's resource theory of single party dominance." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31305.
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Single-party dominance (SPD) is a phenomenon that has puzzled many scholars within the field of political science, as it does not fit into the standard dichotomy of democracy versus dictatorship. Kenneth Greene’s Resource Theory seeks to explain prolonged electoral dominance in these systems by looking at resource asymmetries between the governing party and the opposition. Greene applies his theory to democratic and non-democratic SPD systems alike. In order to expand knowledge in the field of SPD research, this thesis has provided a critical analysis of Greene’s theory using South Africa under the ANC within the timeframe of 1994 to February 2018 as an illustrative case. The thesis concluded that the Resource Theory could not be used for explaining ANC dominance, and indicated that resources have a limited power to explain SPD. As such, the aim of the thesis is to uncover theoretical weaknesses of the theory. Firstly, it is argued that the theory is weakened by the use of subjective and sometimes arbitrary concepts which hamper testability. The main theoretical flaw identified is Greene’s assumptions of the nature of such systems, in which he sees the dominant party as one unit. I argue in this research that this assumption renders the theory unable to predict the consequences of factionalisation within the dominant party. Three main factors are identified to justify why resources have limited explanatory power. Firstly, factionalisation leads to intra-party competition for state resources, and these factions become dependent on a steady stream of resources to sustain themselves. This competition can become so fierce that the economy suffers. When resources become less available, these conflicts intensify. Consequently, the dominant party starts deteriorating from within and misconduct can no longer be concealed from the public. As the government becomes less responsive in terms of providing public goods in combination with increased public awareness, voter dissatisfaction also intensifies. This eventually leads citizens to abandon their allegiance to the party. The research study shows that resources are not independent from external and internal environments, indicating that asymmetric resource advantages alone cannot explain why these systems exist over longer periods of time.
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Hennad, Mohamed. "The experience of the single-party system in Algeria." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316412.
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Josefsson, Rasmus. "Multi party-anpassning av lagen om skiljeförfarande : reflektioner utifrån ett multi party-single contract-perspektiv." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-109409.
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Whitehead, Richard. "Single-Party Rule in a Multiparty Age: Tanzania in Comparative Perspective." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/58538.
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As international pressure for multiparty reforms swept Africa during the early 1990s, long-time incumbent, such as UNIP in Zambia, KANU in Kenya, and the MCP in Malawi, were simultaneously challenged by widespread domestic demands for multiparty reforms. Only ten years later, after succumbing to reform demands, many long-time incumbents were out of office after holding competitive multiparty elections. My research seeks an explanation for why this pattern did not emerge in Tanzanian, where the domestic push for multiparty change was weak, and, despite the occurrence of three multiparty elections, the CCM continues to win with sizable election margins. As identified in research on semi-authoritarian rule, the post-reform pattern for incumbency maintenance in countries like Togo, Gabon, and Cameroon included strong doses of repression, manipulation and patronage as tactics for surviving in office under to multiparty elections. Comparatively speaking however, governance by the CCM did not fit the typical post-Cold-War semi-authoritarian pattern of governance either. In Tanzania, coercion and manipulation appears less rampant, while patronage, as a constant across nearly every African regime, cannot explain the overwhelming mass support the CCM continues to enjoy today. Rather than relying on explanations based on repression and patronage alone, I locate the basis of post-reform CCM dominance in a historical process whereby a particularly unique array of social and economic policies promulgated during single-party rule culminated in comparatively affable social relations at the onset of multiparty reform. In Tanzania, this post-independence policy mix included stemming the growth of vast regional wealth differentials, a rejection of ethnicity as a basis for organizing collective action, and the construction of a relatively coherent national identity. By contrast, in most other African cases, policies under single-party rule acted to reinforce many of those economic and ethnic divisions inherited at independence. These divisions in turn, acted as material and moral capital for organizing dissent against incumbency, and the consolidation of opposition parties following political reform.
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Všelko, Miroslav. "Považské vojnové múzeum." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226514.
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The Master’s thesis solves a design of the modern War Museum of the Považie Region. The building is situated in the centre of Považská Bystrica town. It is the representative four-storey building with flat single roofs, intended for general public use. The object is divided into two main parts. There are museum part and administration part. The museum part is a monolithic reinforced-concrete skeleton with light single facade. The administration part is a masonry construction system and it will serves especially for employees. The thesis containes a project of executive documentation including construction details and other assessments.
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Yamout, Ghina M. "Applications of single party and multiple party decision making under risk and uncertainty to water resources allocation problems." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0012147.
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Dasgupta, Aditya. "The Puzzle of Democratic Monopolies: Single Party Dominance and Decline in India." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493515.
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How to explain political monopolies in democratic institutional settings? Dominant parties in countries with robust formal democratic institutions are surprisingly frequent, yet poorly understood. Existing theories explain away the puzzle by characterizing dominant parties as `catch-all' parties that survive on the basis of historically imbued mass voter legitimacy. This dissertation develops a theory of how dominant parties in fact routinely win free and fair elections despite counter-majoritarian policy biases and why they decline, utilizing the uneven decline of single-party dominance across regions and localities of India as a historical natural experiment.
The puzzle in the Indian case is that the Congress party was able to monopolize power in a poor and rural society for over four decades after independence despite a counter-majoritarian urban bias and free and fair elections. The dissertation develops a political economy model that rationalizes this --- showing how extensive but implicit ties of patronage enable dominant parties to maintain power and counter-majoritarian policies in conditions of formal democratic institutions. The theory generates two new empirical implications about why dominant parties decline and how this reshapes distributive politics --- which are tested through sub-national comparative historical analysis, quantitative analysis of historical data, and in-depth fieldwork.
First, the theory suggests that dominant parties do not simply fade away with the passage of time or societal modernization, but decline as a result of protracted distributive conflict with rising but politically excluded economic interests. In the Indian context, I provide evidence that this took the form of political mobilization by agricultural producers in the aftermath of the green revolution. Exploiting exogenous variation in the diffusion of high-yielding variety crops, the first empirical chapter provides evidence that economic growth in the politically excluded agricultural sector intensified rural-urban distributive conflict, accounting for the rise of agrarian opposition parties and half of the Congress party's long-run decline.
Second, the theory suggests that the decline of single-party dominance democratizes distributive politics, in two ways. One is that policies shift in favor of the rising but previously politically excluded economic interests. Another more complex channel is that in an effort to regain lost political ground, dominant parties strategically reinvent themselves as pro-poor parties, initiating a process of competitive credit claiming for social policy. The second empirical chapter applies a structural break methodology to estimate the timing of dominant party decline across Indian states, and utilizes this variation to show that the decline of single-party dominance led to the rise of agriculture-favoring policies and social spending. Through fieldwork in two states as well as analysis of the electoral effects of India's largest contemporary social program, the third empirical chapter provides micro-level evidence that the emergence of a nascent welfare state is driven by a logic of competitive credit-claiming.
In contrast to existing theories, the case of India suggests that dominant party decline in democratic settings bears a resemblance to the decline of political monopolies generally, representing a process of de facto democratization in de jure democratic institutional settings. I show that the argument can help to explain trajectories of dominant party decline and distributive politics in a number of other cases, including Japan, Italy, Mexico and the American South.Government
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Noé, Estelle. "3D layered articulated object from a single 2D drawing." Thesis, KTH, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-216943.
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Modeling articulated objects made of rigid layered parts used to populate 3D scenes in video games or movie production is a complex and time-consuming task for digital artists. This work proposes a sketch-based approach to efficiently model 3D layered articulated objects, such as animals with rigid shells and armors, in annotating a single 2D photo manually, and eventually fabricate it from automatically computed 2D patterns. In considering symmetrical objects seen under a 3/4 view, and an- notating salient features such as extremities of the rigid articulated parts as a mix of circular and Bézier curve, this approach is able to retrieve depth information, hidden parts, and rotation-articulated structure. The resulting shape consists of a set of quadrangulated polygons that may be flattened in 2D. Details such as ears, tails, and legs were further models using dedicated annotations. The accuracy of the reconstruction has been validated on synthetic cylindrical examples, and its ro- bustness in reconstructing a 3D model of armor, armadillo, and shrimp. The latter was finally fabricated using paper.Att modellera artikulerade objekt gjorda av styva delar lagda i lager som används till att fylla 3D-scener i datorspel och filmskapande är en komplex och tidsödande uppgift för digitala konstnärer. Den här undersökningen föreslår ett skiss-baserat tillvägagångssätt att effektivt modellera artikulerade 3D-objekt lagda i lager, såsom djur med styva skal och rustning, i att annotera ett 2D-foto manuellt, och eventuellt skapa det från automatiskt beräknade 2D-mönster. Hänsyn är tagen till symmetriska objekt sedda under en 3/4 vy, och annotera framträdande egenskapersåsom extremiteter av de styva artikulerade delarna som en blandning avcirkulära och Bézier-kurvor, kan det här tillvägagångssättet hämta information om djup, gömda delar och rotations-artikulerade strukturer. Den slutliga formen består av ett set av fyrsidiga polygoner som kan bli tillplattade i 2D. Detaljer såsom öron, svansar och ben där framtida modeller använder dedikerade annotationer. Noggrannheten av rekonstruktionen har blivit validerad på syntetiska cylindriska exempeloch dess robusthet i att rekonstruera en 3D-modell av en rustning, ett bältdjur och en räka. Den senare skapades slutligen med hjälp av papper.
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Wang, Xufeng Materials Science & Engineering Faculty of Science UNSW. "Application of single-part adhesives as healing agent in self-healing composites." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Materials Science and Engineering, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/32233.
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The aim of this study was to develop a new single-part healing system for self-healing composites. The self-healing approach to composite repair has been developed in the last two decades and means that a damaged area can be repaired by material already housed within the structure. The background and development of self-healing has been reviewed. The two main self-healing mechanisms are discussed. To date only two part self healing systems have been examined. These require diffusion of the separate constituents to a single location in order to effect cure and restore strength. Single part adhesives do not have this disadvantage and are therefore very attractive. Several candidate single-part adhesive or resin systems were considered and discussed according to the critical requirements of a self-healing system. A series of experiments was undertaken to evaluate the possibility of candidate adhesive systems being effective for self-healing by focusing on the determination of storage stability and bonding efficiency. The results of storage stability testing showed that the stability of cyanoacrylate and polyurethane adhesives was poor. However silane and polystyrene cements showed good storage stability. Very low bonding efficiency was achieved with polystyrene cement but a 22% strength recovery was obtained with the silane 3-[tris(trimethylsiloxy)silyl]-propylamine. Suggestions for further research into single-part healing systems are also given.
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Rausch, Mitchell T. "Condition based maintenance of a single system under spare part inventory constraints." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2014.
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The problem of effectively integrating condition based maintenance and spare part inventory control is studied and a solution methodology demonstrated. Degradation modeling, Bayesian analysis, and optimization techniques are utilized to define a condition based maintenance model for a single production system under spare part inventory constraints. Specifically, the gamma process is used to model the degradation process for a system that has a monotonically increasing degradation behavior. The initial gamma process parameters are inferred during product testing and utilized to define a spare part optimization model. This optimization model is used to ascertain the stockout probability to support the system. To address the uncertainty in parameter estimates, the gamma process parameters are updated through a Bayesian updating technique as more degradation data is collected over time for a real time remaining useful life prediction of the component. Finally, condition based maintenance and spare part inventory control are tied together into a overall production decision model. The production decision model generates an optimal degradation limit maintenance policy which provides a means to make component replacement decisions while addressing the relationship among outstanding orders, the number of spares, and the degradation state. One can see that the methodology developed in this thesis effectively ties together condition based maintenance, production, and spare parts inventory control. This body of work is important in the area of reliability and maintenance engineering since it provides a way of
controlling spare parts in conjunction with condition based maintenance and production. This concept addresses a relationship which is not well developed in the literature, yet has a significant practical value.Thesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, College of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
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Rausch, Mitchell T. Liao Haitao. "Condition based maintenance of a single system under spare part inventory constraints." A link to full text of this thesis in SOAR, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2014.
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Ete, Hatem. "The Legal, Political And Sociological Roots Of Tutelary Regime In Single-party Period." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614557/index.pdf.
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This dissertation examines the political regime during the single party rule in Turkey between the years of 1923-1950 in relation to the concept of tutelage. The main argument supported in this work is that tutelary tendencies, contrary to the assumptions of Kemalist historicization, do not serve as segue to democracy, but rather make consolidation of democracy difficult, even impossible. In support, this dissertation provides a close examination of the Kemalist nation building process beginning from the Ottoman modernization process extending to the demographic engineering projects of the Republic.
The examination reveals that tutelary tendencies are a reflection of the savior mission undertaken by the elite during the Ottoman-Republican modernization process. The political elite, in their mission to save and build the nation, not only ignored the political and social fabric of the time, but they insisted on radical interventions to the demographic fabric of the society in order to transform it to the nation they envisioned. During the execution of the nation-building project increasingly more authoritarian measures were legitimized by declared target of democracy. The social resistance to the radical interventions was suppressed by more authoritarian measures that were perceived as the cost of achieving democracy.
The elite perceived themselves uniquely fit for deciding what is in the best interest of the people. Whether the aim of democratization was reached or not was also decided by the tutelary elite. Not wanting to let go of the power, they continuously invented new prerequisites to democracy. This cycle resulted in the persistence of the authoritarian regime. In the final analysis, this dissertation reveals that the tutelary tendencies of the avant-garde elite are the biggest obstacle on the path to democracy.
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Avent, Glenn James. "Representing revolution: The Mexican Congress and the originsof single-party rule, 1916-1934." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280671.
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This dissertation provides an institutional history of the Mexican Congress, exploring the origins of single-party rule in Mexico. The investigation offers a revised interpretation of the evolution of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, originally known as the National Revolutionary Party, or PNR), the development of executive power over the legislative branch, and the emergence of a new political elite. The research demonstrates that, contrary to conventional explanations, the official revolutionary party did not result from a momentary crisis provoked by the 1928 assassination of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon. Instead, it evolved over the previous decade through a process of development occurring within and around the Congress. Alliances between political parties and congressional blocs negotiated during the formative era of the 1920s created the foundation for the later emergence of the official revolutionary party. The rapid spread of the PNR, and its overwhelming success in the 1930 elections, occurred because the party was built upon these pre-existing structures. The study also demonstrates that Presidential dominance of the Congress, or "Presidentialism," did not derive entirely from law or the structure of the republican system of government, as has often been argued, but rather developed incrementally in conjunction with the evolution of party organization. In effect, the party became the mechanism for executive dominance. The investigation concludes with an examination of the role of honour and extra-legal privilege in the creation and definition of a new political elite.
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Rey, Camille. "Cytosolic bacterial subversions of mucosal immunity : a study of microfold (M) cell and enterocyte infections by S. flexneri and L. monocytogenes." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. https://theses.md.univ-paris-diderot.fr/Rey_camille_1_va_20180321.pdf.
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Les pathogènes bactériens cytosoliques S. flexneri et L. monocytogenes échappent à l'immunité extracellulaire de la muqueuse en induisant leur entrée et leur mode de vie intracellulaire dans l'épithélium intestinal. Dans leur cellule hôte, ils peuvent rapidement s’échapper de leur vacuole d'internalisation, envahir le cytosol et éviter l’élimination par la dégradation cellulaire en se propageant directement de cellule à cellule.Afin d’initier l’invasion intestinale, ces deux pathogènes ciblent les cellules M préleveusesd'antigènes qui recouvrent les sites d'induction immunitaire. Toutefois le mode de vie de ces pathogènes dans les cellules M, le mécanisme de propagation de l'infection à partir de ce pointd’entrée vers les entérocytes voisins ainsi que le mécanisme d'évasion de l'induction de l'immunité adaptative sont très peu caractérisés. Dans cette étude, nous présentons un nouveau modèle physiologique d'infection apicale par S. flexneri de cellules M humaines in vitro, qui récapitule les étapes précoces de l'invasion de l’épithelium intestinal par le pathogène. Nous montrons qu'une population de S. flexneri est rapidement transcytosée, en 15 minutes, à travers les cellules M. Nous amenons une nouvelle approche microscopie en temps réel de l'infection des cellules M, qui révèle qu'une deuxième sous-population de bactéries induit son entrée plus tardivement dans les cellules M, accompagnée de projections membranaires apicales, suivie par une rupture vacuolaire et l’initiation de la réplication cytosoliique des bactéries dans les cellules M. Nous découvrons que S.flexneri a également la capacité de se propager des cellules M aux cellules voisines par la motilité liéeà l'actine, qui constitue la voie principale de propagation basolatérale de l'infection. En étendant notre étude à L. monocytogenes, nous observons qu’à la différence de S. flexneri, cette bactérie détourne le processus de transcytose à travers les cellules M en utilisant le facteur de virulence ActA. Cependant, nous notons que L. monocytogenes se propage dans l'épithélium exclusivement par la motilité liée à l'actine, de façon similaire à S. flexneri. Nous proposons que la subversion de la voie de transcytose au travers des cellules M et l'évitement des tissus immunitaires sous-jacents sont des caractéristiques partagées par les pathogènes cytosoliques, leur permettant d'échapper à l'induction de l'immunité adaptative.Par ailleurs, nous présentons une approche de tri basée sur la fluorescence d’entérocytes individuels aux stades successifs de l'infection par S. flexneri, combinée avec une analyse transcriptomique parPCR quantitative en multiplex. Cette méthode révèle la production de réponses distinctes chez les entérocytes hôtes en fonction de la localisation subcellulaire du pathogène. Nous observons la production d'une réponse bystander forte, impliquant de multiples voies de signalisation corrélées chez les enterocytes non infectés. De plus nous détectons la production de profils de réponses distincts chez l’hôte en fonction de la localisation vacuolaire ou cytosolique de la bactérie chez les entérocytes infectés. Nous montrons que le facteur de virulence OspF contribue à atténuer les réponses des entérocytes infectés et à perturber des voies de signalisation autrement corrélées chez l’hôte.En conclusion, nos études exposent de nouvelles stratégies de subversion immunitaire liées aux modes de vie intracellulaires de bactéries entériques cytosoliques, soulignant l'importance des cellules M dans la propagation bactérienne initiale et le détournement de l'immunité adaptative, ainsi que l'organisation et la perturbation des réponses immunitaires innées chez les entérocytes au cours de l’infectionCytosolic bacterial pathogens S. flexneri and L. monocytogenes subvert extracellular mucosal immunity by inducing their uptake and intracellular lifestyle in the intestinal epithelium. Within the host, they are able to rapidly escape their internalization vacuole, invade the cytosol and escape cellular degradation by spreading from cell-to-cell. Antigen sampling M cells overlying immune induction sites are targeted by these pathogens to initiate intestinal invasion. However, the intracellular lifestyle of these pathogens within M cells, the mechanism of spread of the infection toneigh boring enterocytes from this entry point and the mechanism of S. flexneri evasion of adaptive immunity is poorly characterized. We present a novel physiologic model of apical S. flexneri infection of human in vitro M cells which recapitulates the early steps of epithelial invasion. We show that a subset of S. flexneri is rapidly transcytosed, within 15 minutes, through M cells. We establish a newtime-lapse imaging approach of M cell infections, which reveals that another subset of bacteriainduces apical ruffling upon entry, vacuolar rupture and replicates within the M cells at later timepoints. Remarkably, these bacteria are able to spread from M cells to neighboring cells by actinbased-motility, which we show constitutes the main route of basolateral spreading of the infection.As we extend our study to L. monocytogenes, we observe that unlike S. flexneri, the bacterium diverts M cell transcytosis via the virulence factor ActA. However, we discover that L. monocytogenes spreads within the epithelium exclusively by actin-based motility, similar to S. flexneri. We propose that subversion of M cell transcytosis and avoidance of underlying immune tissues are features shared by cytosolic pathogens, allowing their escape from induction of adaptive immunity.In addition, we submit a pipeline of fluorescence-based single cell sorting of enterocytes atsuccessive stages of infection combined with transcriptional analysis by multiplex qPCR. This methodreveals the production of distinct responses in host enterocytes according to subcellular pathogen localizations. We observe the production of a strong bystander response involving multiplecorrelated host pathways in non-infected enterocytes. Moreover, we detect the output of distinct host response patterns according to vacuolar or cytosolic bacterial localizations in infectedenterocytes. We further show that the virulence effector OspF contributes to dampen infected host responses and disrupt otherwise correlated host signaling pathways. To conclude, our studies expose new immune subversion strategies linked to the intracellular life styles of cytosolic enteric bacteria, highlighting the importance of M cells in initial bacterial dissemination and diversion of adaptive immunity, and the organization and disruption of innate immune responses provoked in enterocytes during infection
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Olofio, Ben O. "Single party and national integration in Africa the case of the MPR in Zaire." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1987. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3252.
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The aim of this study was to determine whether or not the Mouvement Populaire de la Revolution (MPR) as a single political party in Zaire has brought about national integration in the country. The Charter of the Party, herein referred to as the Nsele Manifesto, states that "the MPR intends to restore the state authority and the union of the Zaireans for the sake and the grandeur of the Republic." Carried out from a historical materialist perspective, the study comes up with three major findings. First, from a behavioral standpoint the MPR has implemented a vertical integration in Zaire as opposed to horizontal integration. Second, from a materialist viewpoint the MPR, in its relations to the means of production with the environment, has become a major factor in the class structure in Zaire. Third, the issue of ethnicization of power which, as of late has become one of great interest to social scientists in general and to students of Zairean politics in particular, has been given enough attention in this study. However, this research takes the position that scholars should be cautious in their effort to apprehend the processes of power diffusion on the one hand, and the dialectics of class and ethnicity on the other hand. Indeed, to overemphasize one aspect such as ethnicization of power leads to an obscurantist explanation of a socio-political reality as complex as contemporary African politics dictates. Moreover, for scholars interested in qualitative social change, such an approach fails to comprehend contradictions underlying the political make up of Zaire. Only a thorough analysis of these contradictions can enable one to seize the essential significance concealed behind the party slogan of "MPR=SERVIR."
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Bai, X., and Stanley B. Gershwin. "Scheduling Manufacturing Systems With Work-in-Process Inventory Control: Single-Part-Type Systems." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5362.
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In this paper, a real-time feedback control algorithm is developed for scheduling single-part-type production lines in which there are three important classes of activities: operations, failures, and starvation or blockage. The scheduling objectives are to keep the actual production as close to the demand as possible, and to keep the level of work-in-process inventory as low as possible. By relating the starvation and blockage to the system capacity, the buffer sizes and the target buffer levels are chosen according to the demands and machine parameters. The processing time for each operation is deterministic. Failure and repair times are random. Whenever a machine fails or is starved or blocked, the scheduling system recalculates short term production rates. To begin with, we study a very simple case, a two machine and one part type system, to get insight into the buffer effects and production control policies. Using the relationship between system capacity and starvation or blockage, we find desirable buffer levels and buffer sizes. The production control policy is determined to meet the system performance requirements concerning low WIP inventory and tardiness. The results from the simple case are extended to N-machine, one-part-type systems.
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Farghal, Ahmed M. S. "Co(II) Based Magnetic Systems. Part I Spin Crossover Systems and Dendritic Frameworks. Part II Co(II) Single Molecule Magnets." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20689.
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This work comprises two main parts. The first part outlines our efforts to expand on the recent work of Gütlich et.al. by synthesizing Co(II) based spin crossover systems within a dendritic framework. We wanted to investigate the possibility of synthesizing different first generation, triazole containing dendrimers using “click” type reactions and their coordination ability with Co(II) ions. To this end we have had limited success mainly due to the numerous challenges in synthesizing a pure dendrimer product.
The second part details our efforts in the synthesis of a mononuclear Co(II) based single molecule magnet. This comes as an extension to recent reports by Chang and Long where they have successfully obtained mononuclear Fe(II) single molecule magnets by inducing structural distortions within the complexes to amplify the spin-orbit coupling. We postulated that the use of Co(II) in conjunction with a bulky ligand framework would lead to desirable magnetic properties. We chose the known bis(imino)pyridine ligand scaffold due to its rich chemistry and its interesting and unexpected coordination behaviour, as we have seen in previous research efforts by our lab. To this end we were successful in isolating and characterizing 4 compounds, and we have carried out detailed magnetic measurements on the two most magnetically interesting species.
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Liu, Tsung-Wei. "The effects of electoral laws on party competition in Taiwan 1989-1998, with particular reference to the single non-transferable vote (SNTV)." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369370.
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Austin, Victoria. "The Violent Overthrow of Personalist Regimes Compared to the Peaceful Collapse of Single Party Regimes." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1551.
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Personalist regimes tend to be violently overthrown while single party states tend to nonviolently collapse from within. This paper analyzes Libya under Qaddafi as a personalist regime,
and USSR under Gorbachev as a single party state, and seeks to ascertain through case studies and process tracing the reasons for the violent overthrow of personalist regimes compared to the peaceful collapse of single party regimes. Both regime types create the problems that result in their downfall, and both kinds of downfall are accelerated by the public appearance of weakness.B.A.
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Barelli, Riccardo. "Megalithic Automation – Exploring the architectural potential of a single part structurally-aware construction system." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24798/.
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Questa tesi vuole esplorare le capacità architettoniche di un sistema costruttivo dotato di coerenza strutturale intrinseca, pensato per un processo di costruzione automatizzato. Il sistema si basa su un singolo elemento modulare costruito con pannelli di CLT (Cross Laminated Timber). A partire dallo studio della geometria e connettività dell’elemento, si esplorano le qualità spaziali emergenti che l’assemblaggio può descrivere, guidato da procedure e criteri che ne regolano crescita e limiti all’interno di un sistema algoritmico sviluppato ad-hoc. L‘assemblaggio è guidato da regole locali che determinano i modi in cui gli elementi possono collegarsi l’uno con l’altro e da criteri di scelta del punto di crescita e della regola da applicare. I criteri tengono conto anche della coerenza strutturale, valutando iterativamente lo stato di deformazione del sistema, e spostando il punto di crescita nelle zone in cui la deformazione è massima. Il sistema non segue uno schema spaziale predefinito ma genera spazi attraverso il proprio processo di crescita; tali spazi possono essere mappati quali effetti di regole e criteri che il sistema ha adottato per crescere, filtrandole opportunamente in iterazioni successive in modo da poter indirizzare il sistema a convergere verso particolari organizzazioni spaziali. Si indagano quindi le proprietà emergenti che il sistema può esibire in ambito architettonico inserendo la coerenza strutturale come criterio filtrante intrinseco in un processo di assemblaggio.
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Hadji, Moradlou Sara. "Early child grammars." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2019. https://theses.md.univ-paris-diderot.fr/HADJI_MORADLOU_Sara_va2.pdf.
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Cette thèse combine le travail sur corpus, la spécification formelle et l'investigation expérimentale, pour caractériser les étapes initiales de l'apprentissage des langues - l'étape mono-mot. Dans la première moitié de cette thèse, nous développons une taxonomie des énoncés d'un mot en nous inspirant de travaux sur les Énoncés non phrastiques des adultes et d'études antérieures sur la pragmatique du langage des jeunes enfants. Nous fournissons des descriptions formelles pour les types de notre taxonomie qui permettent de représenter le contenu sémantique des énoncés d'un seul mot en utilisant les mêmes outils que ceux utilisés dans les grammaires pour adultes. Comme dans les énoncés non phrastiques de l'adulte, la signification des énoncés d'un seul mot de l'enfant repose fortement sur des éléments contextuels. Dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, nous examinons de plus près les interactions questions--réponses. Nous décrivons la structure dialogique de ces interactions parent-enfant et donnons une théorie sur la façon dont le sens des questions peut être appris de façon interactive. Nous comparons ensuite l'émergence des réponses aux questions partielles (wh-questions en anglais: où, quoi, qui, etc.) et questions totales (polar questions en anglais, les questions dont la réponse est oui ou non), à l'aide d'études de corpus et d'expériences de lecture de livres partagés en allemand et en mandarin. Nous montrons qu'une sous-catégorie de questions partielles émerge (en tant que réponses) avant les questions totales, et discutons des facteurs contribuant à cette conclusion contre-intuitive, à la lumière de nos propositions antérieures fortement dépendantes du contexte sur la façon dont les significations des questions sont acquisesThis thesis combines corpus work, formal specification, and experimental investigation, to characterize the beginning stages of language learning---the single-word stage. In the first half of this thesis, we develop a taxonomy of one word utterances drawing inspiration from work on adult non-sentential utterances, and previous studies of early child language pragmatics. We provide formal descriptions for the types in our taxonomy that allow representation of semantic content of single-word utterances using the same tools employed in adult grammars. As in adult non-sentential utterances, meaning in children's one-word utterances relies heavily on contextual elements. In the second half of the thesis, we take a closer look at question--answer interactions. We describe the dialogical structure of such parent--child interactions, and provide a theory of how question meanings might be learned interactively. We then compare emergence of answers to wh- and polar questions, using corpus studies, and shared book reading experiments in German and Mandarin. We show that a subclass of wh-questions emerge (as answerable) before polar questions, and discuss factors contributing to this counter-intuitive finding, in light of our earlier heavily context-dependent proposals for how question meanings are acquired
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Ruggiero, Lígia de Oliveira. "Estudo da presença de pares de Cu+ - OCN- e Cu+ - CN- no cristal de KCl." Universidade de São Paulo, 1989. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/54/54131/tde-06022014-101453/.
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O presente trabalho mostra um estudo sobre a presença de pares de íons de CN- - Cu+ e OCN- -Cu+, em cristais de KCl, usando técnicas de medidas de corrente de despolarização termoestimulada (I.T.C.) e Absorção óptica. A detecção destes pares foi feita através de um estudo sistemática de correlação entre as diferentes amostras aqui usadas: KCl + 1% KCN; KCl + 1% CuCl; KCl + 1% KOCN; KCl + 1% KOCN + 1% CuCl e KCl + 1% KCN + 1% CuCl. Deve ser ressaltado que a última amostra apresenta um tipo de impureza não intencional OCN- , cuja associação com o íon Cu+ também é observada. Na absorção ótica observamos bandas à temperatura ambiente em 210, 228, 242, 252, 260 e 290 nm para o cristal de KCl + 1% CuCl + 1% KCN, sendo que para o cristal de KCl + 1% KOCN + 1% CuCl não foi observado o último pico. As diferentes bandas são atribuídas às possíveis interações entre Cu+ e CN-, bem como Cu+ e OCN-. Quanto à técnica de ITC, as curvas obtidas por esta, para os três últimos cirstais citados acima, foram melhor ajustadas pela somatória de duas curvas singulares de ITC, cujas temperaturas de pico estão nas posições de 53 e 55 K; 54,3 e 56,6 K; 53,3 e 56,1 K, respectivamente. Em KCl + 1% KOCN a curva de mais baixa temperatura (curva 1) de ITC é atribuída à molécula (16O12C14N-) e a curva de mais alta temperatura (curva 2) é atribuída à molécula isotrópica (18O12C14N-). Para as amostras de KCl + 1% KOCN + 1% CuCl a curva 1 foi atribuída ao OCN- isolado e a curva 2 ao Cu+ perturbado pela presença do OCN-. Quanto ao cristal de KCl + 1% KCN + 1% CuCl, as duas técnicas propostas não foram suficientes para identificar a presença de pares Cu+ - CN-, necessitando, desta maneira, da utilização de outra técnica experimental, como por exemplo a da luminescência. A correlação dos resultados experimentais foi feita através dos parâmetros determinados do momento de dipolo (p), energia de ativação (Ea∗) e a temperatura de pico (Tm∗)The present work gives a study on CN- - Cu+ and OCN- -Cu+ coupled pairs doped KCl single crystal, by using Ionic Thermal Current (I.T.C.) and Optical absorption techniques. These pairs were detected through a systematic correlation study between different samples: KCl + 1% KCN; KCl + 1% CuCl; KCl + 1% KOCN; KCl + 1% KOCN + 1% CuCl and KCl + 1% KCN + 1% CuCl, were the last sample shows unporposely doping OCN-, compled with Cu+. The observed optical absorption bands, at room temperature, were in 210, 228, 242, 252, 260 and 290 nm for KCl + 1% CuCl + 1% KCN crystal. Only the last absorption band was not seen in KCl + 1% KOCN + 1% CuCl samples. Diferent bands are associated with possible interactions between Cu+ and CN-, as also Cu+ with OCN-. The ITC curves for the last three crystals were better fitted with two single ITC´s curves, whose temperature peaks are at 53 and 55 K; 54,3 and 56,6 K; 53,3 and 56,1 K, respectively. The lowest temperature ITC band (curve 1) in KCl + 1% KOCN is attributed to the (16O12C14N-) molecule and the highest temperature ITC band (curve 2) is due to the (18O12C14N-) isotropic molecule. For KCl + 1% KOCN + 1% CuCl samples curve 1 was associated with isolated OCN- and curve 2 with Cu+ perturbed with OCN-. With KCl + 1% KCN + 1% CuCl, the two techniques were not good enough to identify Cu+ - CN-, compling, it should be necessary to apply another type of techniques, like luminescence. The correlations of the experimental results were done through the determination electric dipole moment (p), activation energy (Ea∗) and temperature peak (Tm∗) parameters
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Afonso, Daniel Gil. "Industrial applicability of single point incremental forming : functional and energetic approach." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/21534.
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Doutoramento em Engenharia MecânicaIncremental sheet forming processes like single point incremental forming have been majorly studied since the beginning of the 2000's. Besides the applications in the prototyping eld, ISF processes can also be used to the manufacture of unique parts and small batches. This possibility has a great potential for speed up new product development and to make products in smaller series economically viable. Also, this capability leads to a new business possibilities, enable the development of exclusive or custom products. However, mainly due to its novelty, SPIF industrial operation is still very apprehensive with just a few examples of application. The main purpose of the present work is to create tools that can be used for the SPIF process management and present examples of usage in di erent industrial elds. The SPIF process is studied using the SPIF-A machine design and built at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro. Despite being a free form manufacture process, SPIF has some geometric limitations, manly due to the forming mechanics and formability limit of the materials. The possible part con gurations and the design orientation are settled, allowing a suitable part development. The hardware to perform incremental forming operations is outlined and the forming process is described, presenting alternative solutions both based on experimental work and state of the art review. A group of parts are developed and manufactured using SPIF as examples of industrial application. Parts are developed and evaluated to meet design and development requirements. New applications using SPIF as a rapid tooling process, typically exclusive form additive manufacturing technologies, are developed. The parity between SPIF and AM processes encounter industrial applications not only in prototyping or part manufacturing but also in tool development and fabrication. This novelty allows to decrease the time to market, decrease tooling cost and increase tooling complexity and consequential part design freedom in sheet metal moulds. The concept is developed and proof for a variety of thermoplastic and composite materials processing technologies.
Os processos de estampagem incremental de chapa, como a estampagem incremental por ponto unico, t^em sido estudados em profundidade desde o in cio dos anos 2000. Para al em da aplica c~ao no desenvolvimento de prot otipos, os processo de estampagem incremental apresentam potencial de aplica c~ao no fabrico de produto unicos ou pequenos lotes. Esta possibilidade oferece vantagens ao permitir acelerar o processo de design e desenvolvimento de produto e ao tornar economicamente vi avel a produ c~ao de pequenas s eries. Para al em disso, esta possibilidade permite a cria c~ao de novas tipologias de neg ocio, possibilitando o desenvolvimento e fabrico de produtos exclusivos ou customizados. No entanto, principalmente devido a novidade do processo, a estampagem incremental ainda n~ao tem muitos exemplos de aplica c~ao em empresas. O principal objetivo do trabalho apresentado e desenvolver ferramentas que possam ser utilizadas para a industrializa c~ao do processo de estampagem incremental por ponto unico e apresentar exemplos de aplica c~oes em diferentes areas industriais. A m aquina SPIF-A desenvolvida no Departamento de Engenharia Mec^anica da Universidade de Aveiro e utilizada para o estudo do processo de estampagem incremental. Apesar do potencial do processo de estampagem para fabricar superf cies de forma livre, existem algumas limita c~oes. Estas devem-se maioritariamente ao comportamento do material e ao processo e par^ametros de estampagem. S~ao de nidas linhas orientadoras para o design de pe cas, bem como as poss veis con gura c~oes, de forma a possibilitar o desenvolvimento de pe cas fact veis. O equipamento necess ario para a realiza c~ao de trabalhos de estampagem incremental e os par^ametros de trabalho s~ao estudados com recurso a an alise de estado da arte e a trabalho experimental. Como exemplo de aplica c~ao industrial da estampagem incremental, s~ao desenvolvidas e fabricadas pe cas. Os produtos s~ao desenvolvidos e avaliados de forma a garantir o cumprimento dos requisitos de nidos. S~ao propostas novas aplica c~oes para a utiliza c~ao de estampagem incremental para o fabrico r apido de ferramentas, tipicamente exclusivo do processos de fabrico aditivo. A analogia entre a estampagem incremental e o fabrico aditivo permite encontrar aplica c~oes industriais para al em da prototipagem, com grande potencial para o desenvolvimento e fabrico de ferramentas. Esta novidade contribui para a redu c~ao do tempo de comercializa c~ao, reduzindo custos e permitindo uma maior exibilidade do desenho de um produto. O conceito de fabrico de moldes em chapa para diversos materiais termopl asticos e comp ositos e desenvolvido e analisado.
Les processus de formage incr emental de t^ole, come formage incr emental un point, sont etudi es en profondeur d es le d ebut des ann ees 2000. Les processus ont son application dans le d eveloppement des prototypes et pr esentent aussi du vrai potentiel dans la fabrication des produits uniques et dans des petits lots. Cette possibilit e o re des avantages parce que permit d'acc el erer le processus de design et d eveloppement de produit et de faire le projet des petites s eries economiquement viables. En plus, formage incr emental possibilit e la cr eation des nouvelles typologies de a aires a cause de ca contribution dans la fabrication des produits personnalis es et exclusives. Malgr e ca et comme celui est un processus tr es r ecent, pour l'instant, le formage incr emental n'a pas beaucoup de utilisation industrielle. L'objectif principal du travail pr esent e est de d evelopper des moyens que peut ^etre utilis es pour auxili e l'industrialisation do processus de formage incr emental un point et pr esenter des exemples pour des distinctes applications industrielles. La machine SPIF-A d evelopp e dans le D epartement de Ing enierie M ecanique de l'Universit e d'Aveiro est utilis ee pour l' etude du processus de formage incr emental. Nonobstant le potentiel du processus de formage incr emental pour fabriquer des surfaces de forme libre il y a quelques limitations g eom etriques. C a d epend du comportement du mat eriel et les param etres de travail. Les con gurations g eom etriques possibles et les lignes directrices de conception sont d e nies de fa con a possibilit e le dessein des pi eces faisables. L'Equipment n ecessaire pour la r ealisation des travaux de formage incr ementa et les param etres de travail sont etudi es en utilisant l'analyse de l' etat de l'art et des travaux exp erimentaux. Comme exemple des applications industrielles du formage incr emental, sont d evelopp ees et fabriqu es des pi eces. Les produits sont d evelopp es et avalis es de fa con a assurer qu'il respecte les exigences d e nis.
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Asplund, Emilia. "Val med föremål och bilder hos barn i Tanzania med cerebral pares : En interventionsstudie." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-69219.
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Previous research has shown that children with multiple disabilities have been able to learn to make choices. Practising choice making is a good way to introduce an intervention using Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC). Choice making with objects should then be trainded before choice making with pictures. The present study is a single subject experimental design and was accomplished at a center for children with disabilities in Tanzania during 12 weeks. The primary purpose was to examine if the number of choices made by two boys with cerebral palsy increased after communicationintervention with objects and pictures. The participants were trained to make choices over two intervention phases and the staff were given lectures on two occasions and through tuitions. The number of choices made by the participants as well as the choices offered by the staff, were measured continuously at predetermined activities. The results show that the number of choices with objects and pictures increased in both participants. It was also observed that the interaction between the children and the staff increased. Aspects that are discussed are whether the staff’s ability to offer choices affects the result and that the factors which separate what a “none-choice” is could be defined more clearly.
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Torstensson, Maja, and Elin Vinblad. "Intervention med responsiva talakter inom AKK hos två deltagare med cerebral pares i Tanzania : en single subject design-studie." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-78991.
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I många utvecklingsländer finns en begränsad tillgång på utvecklade AKK-system (Alant, 1999) och ofta även en okunskap kring möjligheterna att arbeta med kommunikationsproblem (Marshall, 1997). I föreliggande studie genomförs intervention i alternativ och kompletterande kommunikation (AKK) för två deltagare med cerebral pares på ett dagcenter i Kilimanjaroregionen, Tanzania. Syftet i föreliggande interventionsstudie är att genom intervention studera och utveckla de i mätsituationerna responsiva talakterna att påkalla uppmärksamhet för att inleda interaktion, acceptera och avfärda samt upprätthålla och avsluta interaktion. Detta sker med hjälp av begreppen ja och nej för att acceptera och avfärda, liksom mer och mindre för att upprätthålla och avsluta interaktion. Studien följer en single subjekt design och insatsen utgörs av två interventionsperioder, bestående av direkt intervention med deltagarna samt utbildning och fortlöpande handledning av personal. Resultaten visar att deltagarna i varierande grad lärde sig att påkalla uppmärksamhet för att inleda interaktion, acceptera och avfärda samt upprätthålla och avsluta interaktion. Det observerades även att deltagarna i högre grad utförde performativa talakter utanför den styrda testsituationen. Områden som vidare diskuteras är bland annat deltagarnas kommunikativa handlingar utifrån The Communication Matrix där en utveckling från prelingvistiska uttrycksätt till användandet av abstrakta symboler synliggjordes hos deltagarna.In several developing countries there are a limited supply of developed AAC systems (Alant, 1999) whereas a lack of knowledge about the possibilities of working with communication problems (Marshall, 1997). The present study is an intervention study about the introduction of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for two participants with cerebral palsy at a day-care centre in the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. The purpose of the intervention study was to develop responsive speech acts to attract attention to initiate interaction, accept and reject interaction, as well as maintain and terminate interaction. This was done using the terms yes and no to accept and reject, and more and less to continue and terminate interaction. The study followed a single subject design consisting of two intervention periods, where direct intervention with the participants and continuing training and guidance for the staff occurred. The results show that the participants in varying degrees, has learned to attract attention to initiate interaction, accept and reject interaction as well as to maintain and terminate interaction. It was also observed that the participants learned to use the performative speech acts outside the controlled test situation. An area further discussed is the participants’ communicative acts as shown in The Communication Matrix, which displayed a development from pre linguistic models of expression to use the abstract symbols.
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Almeida, Priscilla Silva Rosa de. "POLIMORFISMO DO GENE TP53 EM SARCOMAS DE PARTES MOLES NO ADULTO." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2008. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/2412.
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Previous issue date: 2008-07-21Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are tumors with mesodermical origin, comprising about 1% of all adult neoplasms. Because of its effect on the p53 protein coding sequence, and its association with an increased risk for some cancer types, TP53 codon 72 polymorphism has been investigated in several studies. TP53 codon 72 codes for either Arginine (p53Arg), or Proline (p53Pro) at the p53 protein primary sequence. It was demonstrated that such amino acid change affects p53 biochemical and biological properties, and several studies have been developed in order to associate TP53 codon 72 polymorphisms as a risk, and as a prognostic factor for different cancer types. Any published study on the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism in adult soft tissue sarcomas was found in the literature. The present study aimed to investigate TP53Arg/Pro polymorphism as a potential prognostic factor in 100 adult subjects with STS. Patients were assisted at the Hospital Araújo Jorge of the Associação de Combate ao Câncer em Goiás in Goiânia, Brazil. DNA from patients was obtained from formaldehyde-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue samples stored at the Pathology Department of the institution. Control group included 85 healthy donors randomly selected from Goiânia s population and, for this group, DNA extraction was performed from peripheral blood. Polymorphism genotyping was achieved by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with specific primer sets for each polymorphic variant. Statistical analysis was performed by using GenePop Ò web version 3.4 software. In this study, TP53 allelic and genotypic frequencies were investigated for subjects and controls, however, any statistical difference between the two groups was found. Our study supports the evidence that p53Arg is the most frequent allele in Latin American population, but worldwide genic and genetic frequency data are conflicting because of ethnical differences among the studied populations. According to the results, no significant association was demonstrated between TP53 codon 72 polymorphism and clinocopathological characteristics such as gender, age, tumor localization, histology, tumor size, stage, grade, node status, and distant metastasis. The five-year overall survival for the study group was 48.1%. Tumors with p53Pro/Pro genotype demonstrated a reduced survival rate (30%) when compared to p53Arg/Arg (45%), and p53Arg/Pro group (54.9%), but this association was not statistically significant (p = 0.444). In the present study, the p53Arg variant was not statistically associated with a more favorable prognosis in adult STS patients.
Os sarcomas de partes moles (SPM) são tumores de origem mesodérmica, representando cerca de 1% do total das neoplasias em adultos. O polimorfismo do códon 72 do gene TP53 é extensivamente estudado por causar impacto na seqüência codificadora do gene, além de estar associado ao maior risco para o desenvolvimento de alguns tipos de câncer. Este polimorfismo resulta na expressão de arginina (p53Arg) e/ou prolina (p53Pro) na posição 72 da proteína p53. As formas polimórficas de TP53, em relação ao polimorfismo do códon 72, apresentam propriedades bioquímicas e biológicas diferentes, e por esta razão, vários estudos foram conduzidos na tentativa de associar tais formas polimórficas como fator de risco e prognóstico para inúmeras neoplasias. Entretanto, a literatura não relata nenhum estudo que associe este polimorfismo aos sarcomas de partes moles do adulto. Neste contexto, o objetivo do presente estudo foi avaliar o polimorfismo p53Arg/Pro como potencial fator de risco e/ou prognóstico em 100 casos de SPMs em adultos atendidos no Hospital Araújo Jorge da Associação de Combate ao Câncer em Goiás. O grupo controle incluiu 85 indivíduos saudáveis selecionados aleatoriamente da população da cidade de Goiânia. As amostras dos casos constituíram de tecidos fixados em formol e incluídos em parafina e, para a extração de DNA, os tecidos foram previamente desparafinizados. A extração de DNA do grupo controle foi realizada a partir de sangue periférico. Para a genotipagem do polimorfismo, a reação em cadeia da polimerase (PCR) foi realizada utilizando conjuntos de primers específicos para cada variante polimórfica. Após a análise dos dados obtidos, verificou-se que as freqüências alélicas e genotípicas não apresentaram diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre os casos e os controles. Nosso estudo corrobora com as evidências de que o alelo p53Arg é o mais comum em populações latinoamericanas. Entretanto, os dados sobre as freqüências gênicas e genotípicas da literatura mundial são conflitantes, fato que pode ser atribuído às diferenças étnicas descritas entre as populações estudadas. Nenhuma relação estatisticamente significativa foi encontrada entre o polimorfismo do códon 72 de TP53 e as características clínico-patológicas estudadas, como sexo, idade agrupada, localização, histologia, tamanho e grau histológico tumoral, estadiamento e presença de mestástases. A sobrevida global em cinco anos para o grupo estudado foi de 48,1%. As análises de sobrevida em relação ao polimorfismo de TP53 revelaram que os pacientes cujos tumores apresentaram o genótipo p53Pro/Pro tiveram sobrevida inferior (30%), quando comparados ao grupo de pacientes com os genótipos p53Arg/Arg (45%) e p53Arg/Pro (54,9%). Entretanto, essa diferença não foi estatisticamente significativa (p = 0,444). Sabese que a isoforma p53Arg apresenta função apoptótica mais marcante. Esta característica pode conferir ao paciente um melhor prognóstico da doença. No presente trabalho, contudo, não pudemos verificar que esta variante esteve associada a um prognóstico mais favorável em pacientes adultos com SPMs.
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Ayata, Asude. "(Re)imagining Turkey : Bureaucratic relations in the creation of a national identity during the Kemalist single-party regime 1932-1951." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194625.
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This study is an exploration of the social engineering of the single-party era through the lenses of state officials in their work of propagating the nationalist state ideology. It aims to bring the state officials, in their (re)production of the beliefs and values as products and as the (re)producers of the state ideology, to the forefront. More specifically, it studies the negotiations and the contestations between state officials in regards to three main social structures which are (ethno)nationalism, womanhood, and laicism. A fourth social structure is the hierarchical relations within the state bureaucracy. A deeper understanding of the social engineering through the lenses of state officials is provided through a discursive close reading of the archival data regarding the activities of Halkevleri (People’s Houses), which were state institutions through which the state ideology was propagated to the people.
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Monteiro, André Viveiros. "Electrohisterografia dinâmica intra-parto: contribuição para o desenvolvimento de um protótipo." Master's thesis, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/806.
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O objecto do presente trabalho é a avaliação da actividade muscular uterina na gravidez, nomeadamente durante o trabalho de parto, através do estudo de sinais bioeléctricos do útero e do coração materno e fetal. Para o efeito foi construído um protótipo de um aparelho de monitorização não invasiva, o Electrohisterógrafo dinâmico (dEHG), que se destina a caracterizar não só a amplitude e a duração das contracções uterinas como a sua progressão permitindo uma melhor compreensão da fisiologia e fisiopatologia do trabalho de parto e da consequente resposta adaptativa fetal e materna.
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Caillier, Pascal. "Rôle de la substance noire pars reticulata dans les comportements d'orientation visuellement déclenchés chez le singe." Paris 6, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA066455.
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Caillier, Pascal. "Rôle de la substance noire pars reticulata dans les comportements d'orientation visuellement déclenchés chez le Singe." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37596214r.
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Karlsson, Joel. "Issues of Complex Hierarchical Data and Multilevel Analysis : Applications in Empirical Economics." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-18569.
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This thesis consists of four individual essays and an introduction chapter. The essays are in the field of multilevel analysis of economic data. The first essay estimates capitalisation effects of farm attributes, with a particular focus on single farm payments (SFP), into the price of farms. Using a sample of Swedish farm transactions sold all across the country, the results from a spatial multiple-membership model suggests that the local effect of SFP is negative while there is a positive between-region effect of SFP, on farm prices. The second essay investigates the extent to which differences in the probability to exit from part-time unemployment to a full-time job can be accounted for by spatial contextual factors and individual characteristics. To correctly incorporate contextual effects, a multilevel analysis was applied to explore whether contextual factors account for differences in the probability of transition to full-time employment between individuals with different characteristics. The results indicate that there is a contextual effect and that there are some spatial spill-over effects from neighbouring municipalities. The third essay investigates the determinants of educational attainment for third-generation immigrants and natives in Sweden. Using a mixed-effects model that includes unobserved family heterogeneity, for linked register data, the main result is that the effect of parent’s educational attainment is mainly due to the between-parental education effect of family income. The fourth and last essay presents a new robust strategy for performance evaluation in the case of panel data that is based on routinely collected variables or indicators. The suggested strategy applies a cross-classified, mixed-effect model. The strategy is implemented in two illustrative empirical examples, and the robustness is investigated in a Monte Carlo study.
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Hax, Lucas Teixeira. "Efeito de polimorfismos no receptor do hormônio do crescimento (GHR) e no fator de crescimento semelhante à insulina tipo 1 (IGF-I) no intervalo parto-concepção e produção de leite de vacas da raça Holandês." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2013. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/1214.
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Previous issue date: 2013-02-27The genes of the somatotropic axis, which act regulating the metabolism and physiology of the mammals, present polymorphism associated to some characteristics of economical interest, such as reproductive performance and milk production. Such factors may be influenced by the mutation on only one nucleotide in the base sequence of the gene of the growth hormone receptor (GHR), which may alter the density of GHR on the hepatic tissue. Changes in the coupling of the growth hormone (GH) in the hepatic tissue alter the serum concentration of the insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-I), as IGF-I is produced mainly by the liver when it is stimulated by the growth hormone. Different studies have evaluated the effect of polymorphisms in the gene responsible for encoding IGF-I on the reproductive performance and milk production of high production dairy cows. Among other functions, the IGF-I mediates the effects of gonadotropins on the follicular cells, stimulating the growth and differentiation of theca and granulosa follicular cells, playing also a significant role on the final growth and maturation of the dominant follicle. Furthermore, high serum IGF-I concentrations are associated with a earlier return to cyclicity post partum in high yield dairy cows. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluated the relevance of the mutations in GHR and IGF-I on the calving conception interval, number of inseminations per pregnancy and milk production in Holstein cows. One hundred and fifty five Holstein cows, submitted to a semi extensive management system, subjected to fixed-time artificial insemination (TAI) that got pregnant up to 250 days in milk in 2011, were selected. Among the animals tested, 29% presented GHR AluI (+ / +), 57.5% AluI (+ / -) and 13.5% AluI (- / -) genotype. 34.9% presented IGF-I SnaBI (+ / +), 45.8% SnaBI (+ / -) and 19.3% SnaBI (- / -) genotype. No association was observed between GHR AluI and IGF-I SnaBI genotypes and calving conception interval, number of inseminations per pregnancy and milk yield (P> 0.05). Likewise, there was no association between the interaction of GHR AluI and IGF-I SnaBI genotypes and calving conception interval, number of inseminations per pregnancy and milk yield (P> 0.05). Finally, further studies are necessary to better understand the relevance of GHR AluI and IGF-I SnaBI genotypes to the calving conception interval number of inseminations per pregnancy and milk production in Holstein cows.
Os genes do eixo somatotrópico, que atuam na regulação do metabolismo e fisiologia dos mamíferos, apresentam polimorfismos associados a algumas características de interesse econômico, como desempenho reprodutivo e produção de leite. Tais fatores podem ser influenciados por mutações de apenas um nucleotídeo na sequência de bases do gene do receptor do hormônio do crescimento (GHR), que podem alterar a expressão do GHR no tecido hepático. Mudanças no acoplamento do hormônio do crescimento (GH) no tecido hepático alteram a concentração sérica de fator de crescimento semelhante à insulina tipo1 (IGF-I), visto que o IGF-I tem sua produção endócrina principalmente no fígado mediante estimulação do hormônio do crescimento. Diversos trabalhos têm estudado o efeito de polimorfismos no gene que codifica para IGF-I no desempenho reprodutivo e produção de leite de vacas leiteiras de alta produção. Entre outras funções, o IGF-I atua como mediador dos efeitos das gonadotrofinas nas células foliculares, estimulando o crescimento e diferenciação das células da teca e da granulosa foliculares, apresentando também um importante papel no crescimento final e na maturação do folículo dominante. As altas concentrações sanguíneas de IGF-I estão também associadas a um retorno à ciclicidade mais precoce de vacas leiteiras pós-parto de alta produção. Dessa forma, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a importância de mutações no GHR e IGF-I no desempenho zootécnico, IPC, número de inseminações por prenhez e produção de leite em vacas da raça Holandês. Foram avaliadas 155 vacas da raça Holandês em sistema semi extensivo submetidas à inseminação artificial em tempo fixo (IATF) e que conceberam até 250 dias em lactação no ano de 2011. Entre os animais analisados, 29% apresentaram o genótipo GHR AluI, (+/+), 57,5% AluI (+/-) e 13,5% AluI (-/-). Já para o IGF-I SnaBI 34,9% apresentaram o genótipo IGF-I SnaBI (+/+), 45,8% SnaBI (+/-) e 19,3% SnaBI (-/-). Não foi observada associação entre os genótipos GHR AluI e IGF-I SnaBI e o intervalo parto-concepção, número de inseminações por prenhez e produção de leite (P>0,05). Da mesma forma, não houve associação entre a interação dos genótipos de GHR AluI e IGF-I SnaBI e o intervalo parto-concepção, número de inseminações por prenhez e produção de leite (P>0,05). Finalmente, novos estudos avaliando uma maior população de animais são necessários para elucidar a importância dos genótipos de GHR AluI e IGF-I SnaBI no intervalo parto-concepção, número de inseminações por prenhez e produção de leite.
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Wongkhan, Kittiya. "Synthesis and applications of palladium complexes : Part I. The synthesis, single crystal structures and liquid crystalline phase behavior of alkoxy substituted Tolans; Part II. Palladium-complexes of thioureas and phosphine sulfides." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2139/.
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Three series of alkoxy substituted tolans p-X-C(_6)H(_4)-C≡C-C(_6)H(_4)-p-OC(_n)H(_2n+1) [X = H (series 1), CH(_3) (series 2), OCH(_3) (series 3)] with varying chain length were synthesized by Pd/Cu-catalysed Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions of terminal alkynes and iodoarenes, crystal structures and phase behavior of three series of tolans. Twenty-eight of the tolans were structurally characterised by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Their phase behavior was characterised by tplm; only the tolans in series 3 show liquid crystalline phases. The melting points of the tolans decrease with increasing chain length due to a higher degree of flexibility of the terminal chain. An odd-even effect is clearly observed for the clearing point of the nematic phase upon both heating and cooling, with the higher temperature for even and low temperature for odd number carbon chains for series 3.Monomeric and dimeric palladium dichloride complexes containing the monodentate thioureas, tetramethyl thiourea (tmtu) and a chiral C(_2) symmetric thiourea were synthesized. Their structures were obtained from single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structures of the mono-palladium complexes are the trans-isomers, whereas the dimer complexes present cis-configurations, and are also the first examples of palladium complexes with sulfur-bridging thiourea ligands. NMR studies of the monomeric and dimeric complexes with tmtu reveal that, in solution, the dimeric complexes are interconverting with mono-palladium complexes, which suggests that the systems are labile. A dynamic equilibrium in solution was also observed between the rac- and meso-dipalladium complexes with the C(_2)-symmetric ligand. The energy barrier to exchange was obtained from a variable temperature NMR study. It is proposed that this equilibrium results from the monomer-dimer interconversion. S,N-bidentate ß-dimethyl and ß-monomethyl oxazoline thiourea ligands and α-isoquinoline thiourea ligands and their palladium complexes have been obtained. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses allow us to distinguish between some of their atropoisomers and diastereomers. Most of the Pd complexes were shown to be monomers in the solid state, although one ligand with a cyclohexyl group formed exclusively dimers, and one formed a trimer, as well as a monomer, depending on the solvent mixture that the crystals were grown from. The ligands were found to coordinate through their S and N atoms. All of the mono-palladium complexes and most of the dimers have cis-configurations at the Pd centers; however, we also found a trans-configuration in the trimer and the dimer of one of the palladium complex of the ß-monomethyl ligands. The structures show that the ß- monomethyl oxazoline and a-isoquinoline thiourea complexes appear to be more weakly coordinated than the ß-dimethyl oxazoline ones which may be responsible for their lower stabilities in solution. The structure of the ligands (in particular the 'up' or 'down' conformation of the atropoisomers) is intimately related to their enatioselectivities in bis(methoxycarbonylation) reactions of styrene using palladium complexes. The ß-dimethyl ligands were, in general, found to be more selective in this reaction than the ß -monomethyl oxazoline ones, with palladium complexes of the latter generally found to be less stable in NMR studies. Several bis(phosphine) monosulfide and disulfide ligands and their palladium complexes have been synthesized and analyzed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The reaction with 1:1 molar ratios of Pd source to monosulfide ligands were found to produce monomeric palladium complexes with chelating ligands, apart from the reaction with is(diphenylphosphino)butane monosulfide, which was found to result in a dimer being formed. The reactions with 1:2 molar ratios of Pd source to monosulfide ligand gave complexes which were coordinated only through the phosphine groups, except for that with bis(diphenylphosphino)methane monosulfides which formed cafionic palladium complexes with two chelating ligands. Analogous reactions with the disulfide ligands and the Pd source [Pd(CH(_3)CN)(_4)](BF(_4))(_2) also resulted in cationic Pd complexes incorporating two chelating ligands. In some cases, in solution, the complexes showed dynamic equilibria between cis- and trans- isomers which suggests that the phosphine sulfide ligands are labile. The Pd-S-P angles in the complexes were found to be variable but, since there are none less than 90, it is unlikely that there is any ƞ(^2)-π bonding involving the P=S bond. Preliminary results show that the activities of phosphine sulfide palladium complexes in the oxidative homo-coupling of phenylacetylene are comparable to that of the commonly used pre-catalyst, PdCl(_2)(PPh(_3))(_2).
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Arshad, Saad. "Single Point Incremental Forming : A study of Forming Parameters, Forming limits and Part accuracy of Aluminium 2024, 6061 and 7475 alloys." Thesis, KTH, Industriell produktion, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-103006.
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Nowadays there is an increasingly demanding need for the development of agile manufacturing techniques that can easily be adaptable to a constant introduction of new products in the market. Single point incremental forming (SPIF) is a new innovative and feasible solution for the rapid prototyping and the manufacturing of small batch sheet parts. The process is carried out at room temperature (cold forming) and requires a CNC machining centre, a spherical tip tool and a simple support to fix the sheet being formed. This work studied the effects of step size, angle, spindle speed, and feed rate on the forming limits of Aluminium alloys namely AA 2024, AA 6061 and AA 7475 in soft annealed condition. The Study also includes measuring the strain path and determination of maximum forming limit angles for the above mentioned alloys. This thesis provides a better understanding of the influence of rotating tool in the occurrence of fracture without previous necking or fracture following previous necking. Surface and geometric accuracy of the parts manufactured was also studied and comparisons were made between the CAD files and the actual manufactured parts and then corrections were made accordingly. The main contribution of this thesis to Single stage SPIF was the successful manufacturing of a Cone shaped parts with almost vertical walls.
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Staněk, Michal. "Návrh tvářecího stroje pro výrobu nerezového kalíšku postupovým nástrojem." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-230630.
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My dissertation describes the procedure and results of designing a single-purpose machine, which is designed for forming a stainless metal product from an initial semi-finished product. This semi-finished product is a 0.28mm-thick stainless-steel plate. The introduction of my dissertation outlines the evolution of the pulling technology in the Czech Republic and abroad and describes its further details. This research part also includes an overview of individual machines according to the CSN. The practical part is then further dedicated to the exploration of individual issues and requirements for designing the machine itself as well as designing the machine according to the requirements of the final pulled product.
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Ibragic, Vanessa, and Sepanta Sharafuddin. "So tell me, how do I look? : A study of how voters perceive the political brand image of the Sweden Democrats." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-15630.
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There has been a growing interest in applying concepts and strategies of brand management in the political sphere. However, it has been argued that the phenomenon of political brand image has been given little attention. Therefore the purpose of this study is to explore the political brand image of the Sweden Democrats from voters’ perspective. The choice of exploring the Sweden Democrats opposed to other parties is that it has tried to rebrand itself from its previous racist ideologies and from being a single-party issue party. The study is based on different theories about brand image. Three dimensions will be used, brand awareness, perceived brand quality and brand associations, in order to cover the phenomenon political brand image. This study is conducted as a qualitative case study with a realistic approach. The analysis and findings show that participants still have perceptions related to the party’s history and that it still to a large extent is perceived as a single-issue party. However, it has also appeared that the Sweden Democrats to some extent are on the right way to stop being associated with racism. Limitations within this study are, time restriction and lack of knowledge whether participants sympathize with the Sweden Democrats or not. The practical implication is that this study could be of use both of the Sweden Democrats and other parties who seek to explore political brand image. The original value of the study is that it acknowledges the three dimensions when exploring political brand image.
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Bush, Alexander Graham. "Part A: Design of new camphor-based hydrazide organocatalysts and their applications to enantioselective Friedel-Crafts alkylations Part B: The development of the palladium catalyzed addition of organoborates to alkynyl esters: Synthesis of trisubstituted olefins as single isomers." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28272.
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Part A. Asymmetric synthesis is a growing field in synthetic and medicinal chemistry. Investigations into the use of organocatalysts to engender chirality into organic molecules is of particular interest. Herein we present the study of the efficiency of camphor-based hydrazide organocatalysts in the asymmetric Friedel-Crafts alkylations of N-methylindole with alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes. In addition, the applicability of newly designed second-generation camphor-based hydrazide catalysts will be examined.*
Part B. The synthesis of trisubstituted olefins represents an intriguing target in organic chemistry. However, the stereocontrolled synthesis of trisubstituted olefins can prove to be difficult, as mixtures of isomers are often obtained. A new methodology is presented herein that allows for the synthesis of single isomer trisubstituted olefins by a palladium catalyzed reaction of alkynyl esters with aryl and vinyl boronic acids under mild reaction conditions by using the simple phosphine ligand Et3P. The process provides alpha,beta-unsaturated esters with complete control of the stereochemistry and regiochemistry at the newly formed the double bond.*
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Josefsson, Ågren Fredrik, and Oscar Järpehult. "Characterizing the Third-Party Authentication Landscape : A Longitudinal Study of how Identity Providers are Used in Modern Websites." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-178035.
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Third-party authentication services are becoming more common since it eases the login procedure by not forcing users to create a new login for every website thatuses authentication. Even though it simplifies the login procedure the users still have to be conscious about what data is being shared between the identity provider (IDP) and the relying party (RP). This thesis presents a tool for collecting data about third-party authentication that outperforms previously made tools with regards to accuracy, precision and recall. The developed tool was used to collect information about third-party authentication on a set of websites. The collected data revealed that third-party login services offered by Facebook and Google are most common and that Twitters login service is significantly less common. Twitter's login service shares the most data about the users to the RPs and often gives the RPs permissions to perform write actions on the users Twitter account. In addition to our large-scale automatic data collection, three manual data collections were performed and compared to previously made manual data collections from a nine-year period. The longitudinal comparison showed that over the nine-year period the login services offered by Facebook and Google have been dominant.It is clear that less information about the users are being shared today compared to earlier years for Apple, Facebook and Google. The Twitter login service is the only IDP that have not changed their permission policies. This could be the reason why the usage of the Twitter login service on websites have decreased. The results presented in this thesis helps provide a better understanding of what personal information is exchanged by IDPs which can guide users to make well educated decisions on the web.
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Miyahara, Hiroko, Kimiaki Masuda, Kentaro Nagaya, Yasushi Muraki, and Toshio Nakamura. "Radiocarbon content in single-year tree rings of Japanese cedar(Proceedings of the 19^ Symposium on Chronological Studies at the Nagoya University Center for Chronological Research in 2006,Part1)." 名古屋大学年代測定資料研究センター, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/13679.
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第19回名古屋大学年代測定総合研究センターシンポジウム平成18(2006)年度報告<第1部> Proceedings of the 19th symposiumon on Chronological Studies at the Nagoya University Center for Chronological Research
in 2006 日時:平成19 (2007)年1月15日(月)～17日(水) 会場:名古屋大学シンポジオン Date:January15th-17th, 2007 Venue:Nagoya Uhiversity Symposion Hall
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Waghorn, Alana. "“Turns out I was a single man, in his pants, sitting in his flat” : Finding a more fitting genre than Travel Writing for Danny Wallace’s Yes Man." Thesis, Växjö universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-5613.
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In this essay I look at the issue of literary genre and style in relation to Danny Wallace’s Yes Man. I argue that this book is not travel literature as it has thus far been defined but that it in fact belongs to the genre of humour due to the evidence that proposes it is written in the style of a parody. I support this line of reasoning by firstly giving definitions of the terms ‘genre’ and ‘parody’ and by then introducing a background to the subject of genre in relation to the novel. This will consist of how genre is used in both sociological and commercial settings, as well as how readers use genre both knowingly and unknowingly. It is also noted whether writers consciously use genre as a foundation for their works or whether it emerges during the writing or publishing process. I then use this background to discuss how Yes Man came to be included with travel writing and what other genres it could possibly belong to. This paper concludes that all of these factors ultimately lead to the confirmation that Yes Man belongs to the genre of humorous literature.
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Liu, Guiping. "China's popular TV dramas & their role in the Party's political communication since 2001." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2014. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/970w6/china-s-popular-tv-dramas-their-role-in-the-party-s-political-communication-since-2001.
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This thesis is one of the very few studies that have examined how Chinese Communist Party (or the Party) used its media to appropriate traditional Chinese cultural values for political purposes. It focuses on the TV dramas that have won the top Feitian Awards (China’s top official TV drama awards) from 2002 to 2011, a total of 35 TV dramas. Drawing on the insights offered by framing theory and Lévi-Strauss’s binary opposition theory in their study of media content/messages and based on framing theory, the thesis proposes and elaborates a theoretical framework—network framing—to explain the cultural appropriation in the selected TV dramas. It has proposed that traditional Chinese cultural values have been woven into network patterned TV dramas as the central organizing ideas to promote the Party-desired messages/agendas. The thesis adopts mainly a qualitative methodology, combining textual narrative analysis and contextual secondary data analysis with the former as the major research method. The results of the narrative analyses of five case-studied dramas largely confirm the relevance of the proposed network framing: all five dramas are network patterned and are organized /framed around traditional Chinese cultural values, most of which are Confucianism-based, to promote the Party-desired messages/agendas; the traditional Chinese cultural values used as the central organizing ideas and the messages/agendas promoted by the Party vary with different dramas depending on the issues/ problems covered. These network-patterned traditional-Chinese-culture-framed stories contrast sharply with the binary-oppositionally-structured class-based stories of the cultural works of the pre-reform Maoist era. Comparing the former with the latter and discussing the transition from the latter to the former, the thesis argues that the Party’s political communication since 2001 has undergone significant changes: once as the dominant concepts in the Party’s ideology in the Maoist era, class and class struggle have now been dropped out of the Party’s ideology while traditional Chinese cultural values particularly Confucianism-based ones, which for long have been rejected and condemned by the Party, have now become part of the Party’s ideology; the way the Party communicates its messages/agendas has changed from crudity and over- simplicity in pre-reform Maoist era towards refinement, subtlety and sophistication in the current post-reform era. The thesis also argues with the results of the secondary data analysis that the production of TV dramas in the current post-reform era involves various political actors such as the Party-state, its representatives such as the former SARFT, and the commercial market (or the Chinese audience) and that the textual subtlety and sophistication in communicating the Party’s messages/agendas result from the combined sophisticated influences from these different political actors. In conclusion, the Party’s cultural appropriation through TV dramas for political purposes demonstrates that the Party’s political communication has developed toward sophistication.
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Clarke, Suzanna. "Being Isadora." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15797/.
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Being Isadora is a story of possession. Isadora Duncan, the founder of modern dance, was an intensely creative, free-spirited woman. Her life experiences early last century were as fascinating and tragic as her achievements.
In New York in 1985, Isadora's last surviving pupil and adopted daughter, ninety-year old Anna Duncan, is searching for a way to fulfill a long held promise. Isadora wished to control the way she was remembered and had made Anna promise that any remaining film of her dancing would be destroyed. But one film survives and Anna is running out of time to find it.
A young Australian journalist, Tamsin Doyle, attends a dance class at the Isadora Duncan Studio and meets Anna, unknowingly becoming part of the quest.
Initially the stories of Isadora and Tamsin run parallel, then as Tamsin gets to know Anna, she becomes immersed in a dream world of dramatic incidents from Isadora's life. The dreams become waking experiences and she fears her will is gradually being taken over. She ends up in places - in fact other countries - that she had no intention of being, pursuing an agenda that is not her own.
In the second part of the book, she finds herself in Russia, where Isadora lived after the Revolution. She meets and falls in love with Vladimir, the grandson of Isadora's former dance collaborator. Unable to prevent herself being possessed while visiting the school Isadora founded, Tamsin is arrested by the authorities. A Russian KGB officer has his own plans and abducts her, keeping her prisoner in a dacha outside Moscow. He shows her a film of herself dancing and then the surviving film of Isadora. The two are almost identical and a dramatic climax ensues.
Themes in the book explore the nature of memory and how it is influenced by photographic and filmic record, love and loss and the way patterns repeat in people's lives in an attempt to change outcomes.
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Craig, Douglas William. "Effect of vortex circulation on injectant from a single film-cooling hole and a row of film-cooling holes in a turbulent boundary layer: part 1: injection beneath the vortex downwash." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27010.
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Wolfe, Christian J. "Clinging to Power: Authoritarian Leaders and Coercive Effectiveness." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1629981480039829.
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Ryšavý, Jan. "Systém řízení výroby." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-231988.
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The goal of this diploma thesis is to describe the proposal for integrating production control system in the growing manufacturing company with custom-made production. Initially the research of applicable methods and operations suitable for the company management will be done. Next step will be to apply these procedures in the company and eventually to provide a range of adjustments. As a result, not only an optimal production control system eliminating possible mistakes stemming from the insufficient control management is implemented, but also the company is prepared for further profitable growth.
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Kauzlaričová, Eva. "Zařízení s ústavní péčí o seniory." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227852.
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Subject of the project is new building of medical equipment with institutional care for seniors. Building is located in Brno, in city part Brno-centre. Objective was to elaborate the project documentation for realization of the medical equipment with institutional care. Capacity of the equipment is maximum 28 patients. Building is situated in sloping terrain. Building has three aboveground floors and one underground floor. Bed part is designed as the masonry construction; dining part is the skeletal construction. Skeletal construction consists of reinforced concrete prefabricated panels; bricked part is of the type system THERM. Both parts are thermally insulated. The roof is designed as the flat single-layer structure.
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Abreu, Natália Costa Leite. "EXTRAÇÃO DE SINAIS DE VOZ EM AMBIENTES RUIDOSOS POR DECOMPOSIÇÃO EM FUNÇÕES BASES ESTATISTICAMENTE INDEPENDENTES." Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2003. http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/369.
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Previous issue date: 2003-12-11The constant search for the improvement and strengthening of the relationship between humans and machines turning it more natural is common place. Consequently, the recognition of speech will turn, easier and practical the handling of equipments supplied with the capacity to understand the human speech. In this sense and with the use of the available knowledge information in the literature as how the human brain processes informations, some suggested methods try to simulate this ability in the computer, especially devoted to the extraction of a speech signal of mixed sounds, attempting, for example to increase the recognition and comprehension rate. The extraction of speech can be obtained by measures of a single-channel or multiple the channels. In order to extract the speech in a single channel, it is proposed here to use the speech characteristics introducing the concept of efficient codification, that tries to imitate the way the auditory cortex gets information using the method of Independent Component Analysis (ICA), getting the basis functions of the input signals and retrieving the estimated signal even when we add interferences to it. Our simulations also prove the efficiency of our method against reverberation effects and the recovery of speech signal by the handling of basis function of other speech signals. This technique can be used efficiently both to extract a single speech, as well as highlighting new ways of approaching the speech/speaker recognition problem.
A constante busca para aperfeiçoar e estreitar o relacionamento entre homens e máquinas, tornando-o mais natural, não é nenhuma novidade. Conseqüentemente, o reconhecimento da voz possibilitará uma manipulação mais fácil e prática de equipamentos dotados com a capacidade de compreender a fala humana. Neste sentido e utilizando-se dos conhecimentos disponíveis na literatura de como o cérebro humano processa informações, alguns métodos propostos procuram simular computacionalmente essa habilidade, voltados principalmente à extração de um sinal de voz de uma mistura de sons, na tentativa de, por exemplo, aumentar a taxa de reconhecimento e inteligibilidade. A extração da voz pode ser obtida usando medidas de um único ou múltiplos canais. Para extrair uma voz em um único canal, propomos usar as características da voz pelo conceito de codificação eficiente, que procura imitar o modo como o córtex auditivo trata as informações, utilizando-se da técnica de Análise de Componentes Independentes (ICA), obtendo as funções bases dos sinais de entrada e recuperando o sinal estimado, mesmo quando são adicionadas interferências. Através de simulações comprovamos também a eficiência da técnica usada, primeiro, na recuperação de um sinal de voz com a utilização das funções bases de outro sinal e, segundo, frente a efeitos de reverberação. Esta técnica pode ser usada para extrair uma única fala eficazmente, como também prenuncia um modo novo de chegar ao problema de reconhecimento da fala/orador.
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Brown, Kevin John. "The development of the drum set in steel drum music| A guide for integrating the standard steel drum band percussion section into a single drum set part as applied to Andy Narell's composition "The Last Word"." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10150596.
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The Panorama competition held in Trinidad each year is the global epicenter of steel drum music, showcasing the greatest performers and composers while shaping steel drum world-wide. However, music written for the standard Panorama ensemble of 120 players offers up a challenge for smaller, less experienced ensembles to preserve the spirit and energy of the original composition, especially when the drum set is the only member of the percussion rhythm section. My interest in this endeavor was spirited by the challenge of combining the typical percussion section consisting of congas, maracas, guiros, cowbells irons, and drum set into an individual part while maintaining key elements of the original composition. This paper addresses the concepts and approaches I employed for my recital performance of The Last Word; composed by American steel drum virtuoso, Andy Narell.