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Andersson, Erik Olov Mårten. "A Gameful Quest to Make Second Language Acquisition Fun." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-122492.
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This study explores the application of principles from game design, and the motivational psychology it is founded upon, to the domain of second language acquisition. A gameful design process based on playtesting andanalysis with design lenses is adapted and used to iteratively design and develop a system for conversation practice with the goal of creating a motivating and engaging experience.The results indicate effectiveness of the process, but generalizing the results would require further research with bigger sample sizes and studies with varied core activities.
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Bennion, Zina Lenore. "Work is Fun: The Phenomenon of Boys Enjoying Work in a Camp Setting." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1605.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived outcomes of participation in a summer camp that included physical work and service as a major component. A qualitative data analysis approach was used. A convenience sample of 10 male adolescents and 10 parents were selected. The data was analyzed using open, axial, and selective coding. Data analysis was used to ascertain perceived outcomes from the program from both boys and their parents. Analysis of the data showed the emergence of a core theme of boys learning to work and enjoying work. Enjoying work was the term chosen to represent this core theme, and a theory of enjoying work was developed with seven salient attributes. These attributes were that the work was productive and taught skills, provided challenge, was intrinsically rewarding, made a difference for someone else, was done with others, was physical and done outdoors, and took place over an extended period of time.
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Månsson, Josefin, and Meilin Hedén. "Are you sick, poor or just having fun? : A study of drug discourses in the world´s largest cocaine producing country, Colombia." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-88041.
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In this study we explore the present discourses on drugs and drug consumption in Colombia, a country known for its drugs, and foremost its cocaine production. Interviewing and analyzing the statements according to discourse theory made by the professional key actors in the country, the study asserts that three discourses are present in the Colombian context, namely the public health discourse, the deprivation discourse and the pleasure discourse. These discourses, it is demonstrated, view the consumer of psychoactive substances from different perspectives and relate consumption to different causes, consequences and solutions. While the public health discourse is closely connected to viewing the consumer as a sick person, and describes consumption mainly as addiction, the deprivation discourse rather speaks of the consumer as a marginalised person consuming to escape a harsh reality. According to the third perspective, the pleasure discourse, it is focal that the consumption is related to socialising and recreation. In the course of the exploration of this context and its discourses, attention is paid to the fact that the discourses are many times described as being in opposition to one another although the respondents commonly refer to different social classes while describing the consumer and that each discourse this way is related to certain groups in society. This study presents different Colombian perspectives on drug consumption, a so far scarcely researched area in the otherwise so scrutinized drug issue, viewed from a social work perspective.
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Newman, Ken. "An Investigation of Narrative and Role-Playing Activities in Online Communication Environments." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365968.
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This study investigates particular aspects of role-playing and narrative activities in online communication environments, looking particularly at individual predispositions, different communication environments, and responses. It fits broadly into the engagement agenda, and in particular encompasses narrative and game-like activity which are of interest to many areas of the telecommunications and computer games industries. The study arises from field work (The ComeRideWithMe Project 2002) with narrative engagement and online community and begins by describing the questions arising from this field work and how these helped to inform and shape the formal study of this thesis. A substantial body of literature in human cognition suggests that while humans have a species-wide tendency to have fun finding and creating narrative structure, the individual levels of this tendency might vary considerably. This leads to the proposal of the Fun Unification Model, a broad-based measure of Fun which breaks the experience of Fun into three dimensions; Individual Predisposition (Immersive and Narrative tendencies), Activity in Environment (the role-playing, game-like or narrative activity), and Individual Response (Temporal Dissociation, Focused Immersion, Heightened Enjoyment and Narrative Engagement). With the Fun Unification Model articulated and sub-constructs defined, the research question is broken down into two subsidiary questions;
1. To what extent does individual predisposition influence an individual’s experience of role-playing and narrative in online communication and hence fun?
2. To what extent does the communication environment influence an individual’s experience of role-playing and narrative in online communication and hence fun?
From a review of the literature of rich media theory, certain expectations arise as to how the communication environment might best support role-play and the extent to which the environment allows for imaginative participation by the users. The experiments that form the bulk of this study are designed to facilitate a comparison between different communication environments using the Fun Unification Model. The study sets up three experiments where subjects spend a session communicating one to one in real time with a fictitious character (Albert the teddy-bear) using one of three different communication environments. Three environments are selected to represent a broad range of different real-time communication features – they are; a text-based environment, an avatar-based environment, and a video-based environment. In each of these environments the subjects are surveyed regarding their Immersive and Narrative Predispositions and Responses to the activity, allowing correlations to be mapped to the various constructs of the Fun Unification Model. A number of findings emerge from these experiments, most significantly: 1. The Predisposition values in each experiment had significant correlations with Responses which suggests the model is to some degree predictive and 2. The Fun levels are surprisingly consistent across all three experiments suggesting that the differences in communication environments was not a major contributing factor to the overall levels of Fun. While the Fun Model did not find differences in overall Fun levels, there were a number of different behaviors which emerged in the different communication environments – some of which were consistent with known previous studies and some of which were unexpected. The study concludes that predisposition is a significant factor in the experience of role-playing and narrative activities and that although the communication environment has little effect on overall Fun levels, although it was found that certain types of play behaviour tended to be associated with particular types of environment. The suggestion that the Fun-value of an environment is not related to the level of sophistication of the environment challenges established assumptions of the telecommunications and computer games industries. The study reports interest from the games industry and games research representatives in adapting the methodology presented in this study for user testing of games and communication environments. The study concludes by suggesting directions for further studies involving FUN in the fields of game design (such as adapting the FUN model for user testing), informal learning (such as learning about Viking History) and clinical contexts (such as designing role-play activities for sufferers of Social Anxiety Disorders).Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Alencar, Jo?o Carlos Nascimento de. "Toca que o c?rebro tamb?m dan?a: efeito da ritmicidade de tons auditivos sobre par?metros comportamentais e eletrofisiol?gicos da execu??o de uma tarefa de soma aritm?tica." PROGRAMA DE P?S-GRADUA??O EM PSICOBIOLOGIA, 2017. https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/23421.
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Sequ?ncias de est?mulos r?tmicos apresentados na faixa 125-2000ms (0.3-8Hz) podem ter efeitos importantes sobre a percep??o, motricidade e a cogni??o. A "Dynamic Attending" ? uma teoria que pressup?e a exist?ncia de oscila??es atencionais flex?veis ? sincroniza??o com eventos ambientais r?tmicos, fen?meno denominado arrastamento. A percep??o de ritmo tem sido implicada a ?reas classicamente de controle motor, notadamente os n?cleos da base. Estes n?cleos t?m sido atrelados tamb?m ao funcionamento executivo, atrav?s de la?os c?rtico-estriatais-tal?mico-corticais. Considerando as fun??es executivas sediadas no c?rtex pr?-frontal como integrantes desse circuito, o objetivo deste estudo ? caracterizar o efeito de est?mulos auditivos r?tmicos sobre par?metros de comportamento motor, desempenho cognitivo executivo e sinais eletrofisiol?gicos. A amostra (n=24) foi calculada a partir do software G*Power 3.1. Os participantes foram submetidos a tarefas de tempo motor espont?neo e tarefas de processamento executivo (soma sequencial de d?gitos), com ou sem a presen?a de pulsos sonoros isocr?nicos de tr?s diferentes intervalos. Os resultados mostram que h? sincroniza??o do per?odo motor aos pulsos com ISI (Intervalo entre est?mulos, do ingl?s, ?Inter Stimulus Interval?) igual a 500 ms, e que ISI com 350 ms ou 650 ms aumentam a variabilidade das batidas. N?o foi encontrada diferen?a entre as manipula??es experimentais no que concerne ? ativa??o auton?mica, exceto por diminui??o da frequ?ncia card?aca durante a realiza??o da tarefa com som N?o-Sincronizado 350 ms. Com rela??o aos dados eletroencefalogr?ficos, diferentes padr?es de pot?ncia espectral est?o vinculados ao intervalo de estimula??o. O ?ndice de modula??o delta-gama est? negativamente correlacionado ? taxa de acertos na condi??o 350 ms, e positivamente correlacionado na condi??o Sincronizada. O n?mero de acertos est? atrelado ao ISI, mas o Tempo de rea??o parece ter maior modula??o do ISI e do som. Nossos resultados de tempo motor espont?neo sugerem a exist?ncia de uma ?regi?o ?tima de arrastamento?, com centro em 500 ms, no qual h? maior suscetibilidade de sincroniza??o motora involunt?ria. Al?m disso, os dados indicam independ?ncia entre as fun??es executivas ?quentes? e ?frias?, e que o sistema nervoso parece acionar diferentes estrat?gias de processamento para diferentes contextos temporais do ambiente. Isto ? consistente com um modo r?tmico de processamento, que, no entanto, pode implicar em redu??o do desempenho cognitivo mediante de alta exig?ncia por velocidade de processamento.
Sequences of stimuli presented between 125-2000 ms (0.3-8Hz) may impact on perception, motor responses and cognition. Dynamic Attending Theory postulates oscillations of attention, that may synchronize by entrainment to rhythmic events from environment. Rhythm perception has been shown to involve classical motor areas, notably basal ganglia. These sub-cortical nuclei has been also linked to executive functioning, due to existence of cortical-striatum-thalamic-cortical loops. Since executive function is based on prefrontal cortex activity, this work aims to characterize effect of auditory rhythmic stimuli on motor behavior, executive function and electrophysiological responses. Sample (n=24) was previously calculated by G*Power 3.1 software. Participants were submitted to finger tapping and executive tasks (sequential arithmetic sum), while auditory tones were played or not. Our results show motor synchronization for ISI 500 ms, and increased variability for ISI 350 ms and 650 ms. Autonomic electrophysiological responses did not show any changes, except for a decreased heart rate at ISI 350 ms, Non-Synchronized Condition. Delta-Gama Modulation Index is negatively correlated with hitrate for ISI 350 ms, but positively correlated with hitrate at Synchronized Condition. ISI impacts on hitrate, but a larger modulation of both ISI and auditory stimuli over Reaction Time is shown. Our results suggest an ?optimal entrainment range?, centered at 500 ms, and an increased likelihood for involuntary synchronization at this point. Besides, results suggest so-called cold and hot executive functions are independent processes, and also that nervous system may activate different processing ways for different temporal contexts. These findings also corroborate the existence of a rhythmic processing mode, however, with decreased performance through high speed processing request.
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Lee, Wing Bernard. "Fund of funds investing : theory and practice." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420430.
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Cawte, Paul Stephen. "The theory of volume holographic fan-out elements." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283137.
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Brennan, Joseph Carl Linden. "Into the woods: slash manips — theory/practice." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12442.
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Slash manips are visual fan works that layer images of male characters from popular media with gay, and often pornographic, material. Photos are typically remixed by way of image manipulation software (of which the community standard is Adobe Photoshop). Adopting an academic–fan (‘aca–fan’) position and using textual analysis, the thesis argues that slash manips represent an important sub-genre of slash deserving of close reading. The thesis is organised into two parts: theory and practice. Part I involves theorisation on the practice, with particular emphasis on composition and value of the form. The compositional strategies of particular well-known (or ‘Big Name Fan’) slash manip artists are examined. These artists’ works and practices become a means of exploring both the nature of the form — with respect to pornography and art — as well as its value in terms of the questions it raises with respect to: male representations; taboos of the body and its misuse; and the appropriation of character that occurs when popular protagonists are repositioned into pornographic, homosexual embraces. Part II analyses slash manips inspired by the BBC’s Arthurian television series Merlin (2008–2012), which is popular among slash fans. The chapters of Part II attend to different slash pairings and queer possibilities in the cult series, while also commenting on the nature and crafting of slash manips. Queer metaphors of secrecy, armour and masks are used as structuring devices for the chapters of Part II. Slash manips are argued to be of scholarly interest because they have something to tell us about sex and bodies, about the divides we erect within male sexuality, between popular and pornographic, homosocial and homosexual, the implied and the explicit.
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Goodwin, Shane. "Corporate governance and hedge fund activism." Thesis, Oklahoma State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10140676.
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Over the past two decades, hedge fund activism has emerged as a new mechanism of corporate governance that brings about operational, financial and governance reforms to a corporation. Many prominent business executives and legal scholars are convinced that the American economy will suffer unless hedge fund activism with its perceived short-termism agenda is significantly restricted. Shareholder activists and their proponents claim they function as a disciplinary mechanism to monitor management and are instrumental in mitigating the agency conflict between managers and shareholders. I find statistically meaningful empirical evidence to reject the anecdotal conventional wisdom that hedge fund activism is detrimental to the long term interests of companies and their long term shareholders. Moreover, my findings suggest that hedge funds generate substantial long term value for target firms and its long term shareholders when they function as a shareholder advocate to monitor management through active board engagement.
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Crawley, Karen. "Limited ink : interpreting and misinterpreting GÜdel's incompleteness theorem in legal theory." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101814.
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This thesis explores the significance of Godel's Theorem for an understanding of law as rules, and of legal adjudication as rule-following. It argues that Godel's Theorem, read through Wittgenstein's understanding of rules and language as a contextual activity, and through Derrida's account of 'undecidability,' offers an alternative account of the relationship of judging to justice. Instead of providing support for the 'indeterminacy' claim, Godel's Theorem illuminates the predicament of undecidability that structures any interpretation and every legal decision, and which constitutes the opening to justice. The first argument in this thesis examines Godel's proof, Wittgenstein's views on rules, and Derrida's undecidability, as manifestations of a common concern with the limits of what can be formalized. The meta-argument examines their misinterpretation and misappropriation within legal theory as a case study of just what they mean about meaning, context, and justice as necessarily co-implicated.
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Smith, Joshua Lee. "When It Hits the Fan: A Public Relations' Practitioners' Guide to Crisis Communication." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/19.
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This project is designed as an aid to those interested in practicing, researching or teaching crisis communication. For public relations’ practitioners, it offers a comprehensive approach for structuring a crisis communication plan. For researchers, several theoretical frameworks for the study of crisis communication are provided, with the goal of allowing them a more complete foundation for executing future research. Those involved in teaching crisis communication are offered additional resources such as a sample crisis communication plan, media guidelines and a concluding case study for educating future practitioners.
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Domino, Tracie M. "Toward An Integrated Communication Theory For Celebrity Endorsement In Fund Raising." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000149.
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Domingues, Gabriela Bertol. "Essays on incentives and risk-taking in the fund industry." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/437/.
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The first paper of this thesis uses a unique data set to assess the determinants of inflows and outflows in the fund industry. The higher frequency of the data allows to examine whether recent past performance affects the flow-performance relation. I find that the latter is concave for the worst-performing funds and convex for the best-performing funds. This is in stark contrast to previous studies in the literature that document a strict convex relationship. The disaggregation by inflows and outflows further indicates that the concavity is mainly due to outflows, which react much quicker to bad performance than previously assumed, whereas the convexity is driven by inflows. Finally, I also compare how the type of client affects the flow- performance relationship. I show that investors deemed less sophisticated care more about short-term performance than other investors, and more about raw returns than risk-adjusted returns. The second paper investigates how funds shift risk as a function of past performance. In contrast to the literature, I manage to disentangle the implicit incentive generated by the flow-performance relationship from the direct incentive generated by the portfolio manager remuneration contract. Identification is only possible because I focus on funds that pay bonus every six months instead of every year. I show not only that contracts have an asymmetric effect on risk, but also that the tournament within the fund family is the main driver of risk shifting. This is consistent with families actively engaging in the tournament by transferring not only performance, as suggested by the literature, but also risk from their worst- to their best-performing funds. The last paper is joint with Pedro A. Saffi and uses a data set of Brazilian hedge funds holdings to examine the impact of long and short positions on performance. In particular, we test if changes in long/short positions and their risk can forecast future performance. While we find that funds with large increases in the risk of long-only positions risk relative to the previous 24 months underperform by about 3% per year on average, those that increase the risk of short-only positions overperform their peers by about 1% a year on average, net of fees. Neither monthly changes of long nor short positions can forecast next month’s abnormal returns.
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Speck, Michael Aldo. "The Design, Theory, and Development of the Flight Envelope for a Twin-Ducted-Fan Jetpack." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9051.
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In order to improve the flight performance of the Martin Jetpack research was undertaken to investigate the aerodynamic issues that were limiting the P-11A Jetpack's flight envelope. Through research of existing ducted-fan aircraft, a flight model describing the unique aerodynamics of the Martin Jetpack was developed using Matlab®/Simulink® software. The dynamic flight model, which can be ran in real time, includes the reactions from: ducted-fans, aircraft body aerodynamics, control surfaces, gyration and landing gear interactions.
Abstract Numerous experiments were designed to quantify and validate assumptions used in the development of the model equations. The experiments took advantage of the small size of the Jetpack by designing and building test apparatuses that measured reactions directly on the actual aircraft. This avoided scaling issues that are traditionally encountered when employing wind tunnels for aerodynamic measurements.
Abstract Implementing the experimental results into the model led to the modifications of the existing Jetpack airframe to produce the P-11C Jetpack prototype, which significantly improved the performance of the aircraft. The collected flight data was used to validate the model and good agreement was achieved.
Abstract Based on this research a new Jetpack prototype (P-12) was developed that combined the flight performance of the P-11C Jetpack with the ability to carry a man or manned sized payload. The model was used to design the layout and to size the control vanes for the P-12 Jetpack. Further research was performed to design larger rotor and stator blades required for the P-12 Jetpack prototype.
Abstract The developed model allows the user to efficiently evaluate various control methodologies and changes to key aerodynamic features of the aircraft to aid in the design and flying of the Martin Jetpack.
Abstract The outcome of this research is a better understanding of the ducted-fan technology, and via the development of the Jetpack flight model, correctly applying this understanding to improve the Jetpack's flight performance.
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Swanger, William Rodgers Shelly. "Revisiting fund-raising encroachment of public relations in light of the theory of donor relations." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5795.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 5, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Shelly Rodgers, Includes bibliographical references.
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Ba-Sheikh, A. M. "An analysis of the operation of the Saudi industrial development fund." Thesis, University of Kent, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356853.
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Hickey, Nigel A. "On the advanced control of fin roll stabilisers in surface vessels." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326695.
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Braunstein, Juergen. "Explaining sovereign wealth fund variation : the role of domestic politics in small open economies." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3406/.
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The emergence of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) — large state owned investment funds – is attracting increasing attention from academics and policy makers. However, this research begins by pointing out that SWFs can differ considerably. The research question is: What accounts for the establishment of different types of SWFs across and within countries? This research analyses the role of domestic state-society structures in policy-making processes and their effects on policy choices regarding SWFs. It empirically investigates whether and how policy networks affect decisions regarding the types and choices of SWFs. Particular emphasis is placed on SWFs with savings mandates, and SWFs with development mandates. Using process tracing on qualitative data, the research identifies key actors and interests involved in policy processes, and offers causal mechanisms that connect policy networks to decisions about the creation of different types of SWFs. Acknowledging the particular regional and historical contexts helps to account for the effects of networks within countries and across domains, and within domains across countries. Using a case study on the ‘types and choices of SWFs in Hong Kong and Singapore between the late 1960s and 1980s’, this research examines whether domestic policy networks affect national decisions about SWF creation. These are hard cases for theories that emphasise the importance of domestic state-society structures. After all, over this period Hong Kong and Singapore were extremely exposed to international diffusion and economic pressures, and existing research emphasises a set of important factors (e.g. macro-economic characteristics, international economic pressures, diffusion). The present research draws attention to four key findings between the 1960s–1980s: there were external pressures to which Hong Kong and Singapore had to respond and different policy choices were available and discussed; policy networks included and excluded actors that were making these decisions; there were systematic linkages between the type of policy networks and the type of SWFs; these had important implications for actors and created winners and losers. Thereby this research adds to the ongoing debate on whether policy networks matter in explaining policy choices. It is doing that in four ways. To date, policy network approaches provide rather crude hypotheses on the effects of policy networks on a broad set of state strategies and forms of adjustment. These are difficult to verify because they are very broad. The present study offers a critique of policy network literature and develops policy network analysis with regard to causal mechanisms and hypotheses.
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Karlsson, Philip, and Olle Karlsson. "Fondförvaltares riskhantering av företagsobligationer : En kvalitativ studie utifrån den kumulativa prospektteorin." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-137344.
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Sammanfattning Beteendeekonomi var fram till år 1979 ett forskningsämne som saknade större motsättningar. Sedan 1700-talet var den allmänna uppfattningen att de beslut som individer fattade under risk var baserade på ett rationellt beteende. Daniel Kahneman och Amos Tverskys åsikt var polär mot den tidigare forskningen och baserat på deras kritik mot föregående studier inom beteendeekonomi presenterade de år 1979 prospektteorin, en teori som senare renderade i nobelpriset. Därefter har teorin utvecklats och år 1992 publicerade Tversky och Kahneman den kumulativa prospektteorin. Den kumulativa prospektteorin (1992) baseras på att individer frångår objektiva sannolikheter och istället utgår beslut från subjektiva preferenser och därav ett irrationellt beteende. Kahneman och Tversky ansåg att rationella individer inte alltid fattar beslut baserat på vilket alternativ som genererar den högsta nyttan utan tidigare erfarenheter och upplevelser resulterar i att individer agerar annorlunda. Ett flertal studier har funnit empiriskt bevis för att den kumulativa prospektteorin är applicerbar på investerare, däribland på förvaltare inom fonder samt inom private banking. Denna studies syfte är att med hjälp av tolv kvalitativa intervjuer erhålla en djupare förståelse huruvida den kumulativa prospektteorin är applicerbar på svenska fondförvaltare med inriktning på företagsobligationer. Samtidigt som allmänheten enligt de intervjuade förvaltarna tenderar att ha bristfälliga kunskaper gällande risker associerade till företagsobligationer anser många journalister, bland annat på grund av de förväntade räntehöjningarna, att obligationsmarknaden befinner sig i en bubbla. Detta gör företagsobligationsmarknaden intressant att undersöka. Studiens slutsats är att förvaltarna, i likhet med den kumulativa prospektteorin, agerar irrationellt vid investeringsbeslut. Detta på grund av att förvaltarna ger indikationer på att de inte enbart investerar i de företagsobligationer som genererar den högsta nyttan, det vill säga avkastning, utan tar stor hänsyn till risker kopplade till företagsobligationer. I likhet med teorin tenderar förvaltarna att hantera likviditetsproblematiken och kreditrisken i enlighet med den kumulativa prospektteorin. Vidare är studiens slutsats att förvaltarna, i kontrast till den kumulativa prospektteorin, övervärderar en redan hög sannolikhet för att ränte- och inflationsrisken ska påverka fonderna negativt. Dessutom ges indikationer att förvaltarna, i likhet med teorin, agerar riskavert mot vinster, men i kontrast till teorin, agerar de också riskavert mot förluster. Detta stöds bland annat genom att majoriteten av förvaltarna agerar med en hög grad av försiktighet samt deras bemötande av kreditrisk.
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Björe, David, and Felix Naeve. "Exploring the fund manager-fund investor relationship through the lens of the principal-agent model : Agency conflicts and mitigators in the Swedish mutual fund industry." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448636.
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In this paper, we explore drivers and mitigators of agency conflicts inherent in the fund manager-fund investor relationship through the lens of the principal-agent model. By engaging in abductive qualitative research, we apply both deductive and inductive inquiry to complement and extend previous literature with insights from parties directly involved in the Swedish mutual fund market. Hence, data is collected from eight semi-structured interviews with four senior fund managers, three institutional investors and one fund investment association, all operating in Sweden. The results of the study show that agency conflicts and mitigators found in previous studied principal-agent settings are also in large part found in the fund manager-fund investor setting in Sweden. However, this study has extended previous research by generating knowledge about drivers and mitigators of agency conflict found in the real world, which have been left unexplored in previous studies.
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Humphries, Zachary J. "Racial Bias in Professional Sports: From a Media and Fan Perspective." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1421234904.
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Storm, van's Gravesande Bernd. "Internetbasierte Anwendungen in der FuE-Kooperation : eine empirische Analyse basierend auf der Adaptive Structuration Theory /." Wiesbaden : Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016393720&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Mills, Jeffrey David. "A hedge fund business plan : investment theory, operations, and capital raising for Broadgates Capital Management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90742.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-88).
Launching a start-up hedge fund is a complex, multifaceted endeavor that requires an understanding of the interconnectivity between capital raising, investment strategy, regulation, and fund operations. The purpose of this document is to explore each of these categories and provide a plan for the launch of a hypothetical new fund (Broadgates Capital Management). In doing so, the key challenges of launching a new fund are uncovered, while clearly identifying how I would think about the fund's investment methodology and process. The hedge fund industry is increasingly competitive, with over 1,000 new funds launching every year. In addition to these launches, more than 900 funds are liquidated annually. As investor expectations and regulatory guidelines continue to institutionalize hedge funds, managers are challenged with balancing not only the implementation of a value generating investment strategy, but also ensuring the efficient execution of the fund's operating/regulatory infrastructure. In order to successfully attract investors, all three of these critical elements must be in place. This paper argues that active fund management does in fact add value to investor portfolios and proposes a quantitative portfolio sorting strategy with a value-screen overlay. Broadgates Capital Management hopes to generate high risk adjusted returns by focusing on certain market anomalies while also utilizing traditional, value driven, fundamental analysis. An offshore master feeder fund structure will be utilized with the formation of a limited liability corporation as the management company. Finally, in order to raise between $100 and $150 million of investment capital, a meticulously constructed marketing strategy that articulates exactly why investors should choose Broadgates Capital Management is presented.
by Jeffrey David Mills.
S.M. in Management Studies
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Cherry, Brigid S. G. "The female horror film audience : viewing pleasures and fan practices." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2268.
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What is at stake for female fans and followers of horror cinema? This study explores the pleasures in horror film viewing for female members of the audience. The findings presented here confirm that female viewers of horror do not refuse to look but actively enjoy horror films and read such films in feminine ways. Part 1 of this thesis suggests that questions about the female viewer and her consumption of the horror film cannot be answered solely by a consideration of the text-reader relationship or by theoretical models of spectatorship and identification. A profile of female horror film fans and followers can therefore be developed only through an audience study. Part 2 presents a profile of female horror fans and followers. The participants in the study were largely drawn from the memberships of horror fan groups and from the readerships of a cross-section of professional and fan horror magazines. Qualitative data were collected through focus groups, interviews, open-ended questions included in the questionnaire and through the communication of opinions and experiences in letters and other written material. Part 3 sheds light on the modes of interpretation and attempts to position the female viewers as active consumers of horror films. This study concludes with a model of the female horror film viewer which points towards areas of female horror film spectatorship which require further analysis. The value of investigating the invisible experiences of women with popular culture is demonstrated by the very large proportion of respondents who expressed their delight and thanks in having an opportunity to speak about their experiences. This study of female horror film viewers allows the voice of an otherwise marginalised and invisible audience to be heard, their experiences recorded, the possibilities for resistance explored, and the potentially feminine pleasures of the horror film identified.
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Lahdenperä, Jori, and Shehzad Humayoun. "The International Monetary Fund (IMF) & World BankStructural Adjustment Programs : Review study of adjustment-aid theory." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-9978.
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Monetary funding to developing countries is today accompanied by so called “Structural Adjustment Programs” (SAPs) imposed by the IMF and the World Bank, consisting of economical policy reforms that the countries have to undergo in order to be eligible for loans. The impact of these adjustment loans is widely criticized due to the negative effects observed. Our purpose is to investigate in depth why these adjustment programs have not delivered the expected results. We’ve found that there exist some undesirable consequences following SAP implementation that has a hindering effect on growth. These, combined with the complicate context in which the IMF and World Bank operates can be seen as the explanation for the adversity experienced.
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Li, Connie. "Do emotional appeals always work in fund-raising efforts?: an explanation of schema congruity theory and emotion regulation on nonproft and for-profit fund raising." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/225.
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Across three experiments, I demonstrate that when for-profit organizations focus on the emotional aspects of fund-raising appeals, the evaluations of their appeal decline and they are unsuccessful in generating positive donation intentions; however, this is not the case for nonprofit organizations. In particular, experiment 1 reveals that affective, emotional appeals are viewed more favorably by consumers when they are connected with nonprofit organizations; in contrast, rational, unemotional appeals have greater favorability when they are associated with for-profit organizations. This interaction effect is mediated by the processing fluency, in which the nonprofit organization concepts (vs. for-profit concepts) are congruent with the emotional dimensions of the fund-raising content, causing an ease of processing and positive appeal evaluations. In experiment 2, I find converging evidence that people tend to place little weight on their actual emotional responses in making donation decisions when a for-profit organization is involved. Consumers tend to exhibit a donation flatline, displaying equivalent donation behavior regardless of the actual emotional experiences involved. In experiment 3, I further demonstrate that people's memory performance actually becomes impaired when a high-intensity negative emotional appeal is presented by a for-profit organization but not when it is presented by a nonprofit organization, which again reveals that for-profit organizations’ use of emotional appeals to connect with consumers' affective feelings may backfire. I argue that this is because the activation of for-profit concepts (vs. nonprofit concepts) gives rise to the cognitive system (vs. the affective system), leading people to regulate their emotions via suppression in order to conduct a careful assessment of the appeal content; this results in a donation flatline.
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Ali, Saad Ahmad. "A unitary perturbation theory /." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33373.
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The use of ordinary perturbation theory is ubiquitous in modern physics. However, it violates probability conservation, one of the fundamental laws of physics. In this thesis a unitarized perturbation theory is briefly described and its predictions for the behaviour of a number of simple systems are compared with those of ordinary perturbation theory. It is found that the new technique performs just as well as the usual perturbative approach in the regime where the latter is valid and provides improved results where perturbation theory fails. In particular, in the cases studied, the new method is found to reproduce the exact result at resonance.
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Yao, Jian Hua. "Theory of Ostwald ripening." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39401.
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This thesis presents a theoretical approach to Ostwald ripening of droplets in arbitrary dimensions. A mean-field theory is constructed to incorporate screening effects among the competing droplets. The mean-field equations are solved to all orders in the volume fraction to provide analytic expressions for the coarsening rate, the droplet distribution function, and the time-dependent droplet number. These results are in agreement with experiments in three-dimension and with very large scale and extensive numerical studies in both two and three dimensions undertaken in this thesis. The numerical study also provides the time evolution of the structure factors, wherein lengths scale with the average droplet radius. Finally, the mean-field theory is extended to exciton systems and surfactant systems.
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Archibald, Andrew. "Intersection theory on surfaces." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78240.
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This thesis studies intersection theory on projective surfaces with isolated singularities. We review the classical intersection theory on a nonsingular surface, proceed to an overview of types of singularity that may arise, and then discuss the intersection theory of Snapper-Kleiman, that of Reeve-Tyrrell, and a modification of the latter that we propose.The intersection theory of Snapper-Kleiman applies to varieties of any dimension but is restricted to locally principal divisors; that of Reeve-Tyrrell applies to arbitrary divisors but is restricted to surfaces. Our modification has the same domain of application as the theory of Reeve-Tyrrell but simplifies computations: it allows us to prove the theories are all equivalent on normal surfaces. We finish by developing generalizations of the main theorems on nonsingular surfaces.
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Larade, Brian. "Theory of molecular electronics." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38496.
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One of the central problems of molecular electronics is to understand electron conduction properties when a functional molecule is interfaced with external electrodes and put under external bias and gate potentials. These properties are influenced by the molecule-electrode interaction as well as by the structure of the functional region of the device. In this thesis, we investigate from first-principles the transport properties of a number of molecular-scale systems, and try to relate the observed features to both the atomic and electronic structure.We start with a detailed analysis of transport through carbon atomic wires, and find that the equilibrium conductance is sensitive to charge transfer doping, and that the I-V characteristics exhibit negative differential resistance at high bias due to a shift of conduction channels relative to the states of the electrodes.
Using a Sc3N C80 metallofullerene device, we address several general questions about quantum transport through molecular systems and provide strong evidence that transport in such molecular devices is mediated by molecular electronic states which have been renormalized by the device environment.
The possibility of inducing nuclear dynamics in single-molecule Au-C 60-Au transistors via inelastic, resonance-mediated tunneling current is examined using a method based on the combination of a theory of current-triggered dynamics[1] and our nonequilibrium Green's function approach of computing electron transport properties.
We investigate several single molecule field-effect transistors consisting of conjugated molecules in contact with metallic electrodes. The source-drain current is found to be sensitive to the external gate potential and the molecular structure; with modulations of the current as large as several thousand fold.
Given a proposed operation principle, we obtain quantitative results on the rectification properties for an organic molecule rectifying diode. The I-V characteristic shows clear rectification behavior, and is explained from the simple picture of shifting of molecular levels due to substituents and an externally applied bias voltage.
Finally, we report a formulation combining density functional theory with the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function, for calculating quantum mechanical forces under external bias and during electron transport. We present an example force calculation consisting of a single atom point contact.
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Hamilton, Craig S. "Measurements in quantum theory." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2009. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=11885.
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Bladh, Josefin, and Holm Greta. "Considering Tail Events in Hedge Fund Portfolio Optimization." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Produktionsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177375.
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The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), as well as many other large investors, has noted deficiencies the Mean-Variance framework for portfolio management of asset with non-normal characteristics. The main problem apparent in the Mean-Variance framework, when investing in alternative assets such as hedge funds, is the lacking systematic control of the balance between the measurements of risk due normal variation and tail-risk. Hedge funds constitute an asset class distinguished by non-normal characteristics such as negative skewness and heavy excess kurtosis, which suggests normality should not be assumed when optimizing a portfolio of hedge funds. Certain hedge fund strategies aim to be uncorrelated to other hedge funds and the major asset markets and are thus expected to have the capacity to hedge against extreme market events. Hedge fund performance during historically volatile market periods, including heavy losses and liquidations, has however proved this untrue. Outcomes in the tail of hedge fund distributions rather appear to occur in conjunction with increased correlation toward external indicators such as the equity stock market. With the aim to consider tail events in a portfolio of hedge funds and index futures, an optimization model intending to capture the asymmetric covariance between hedge fund assets and the equity market is developed and evaluated. The theory of copulas is applied to estimate the multivariate distribution by separating assumptions regarding univariate characteristics and dependence between assets. The estimated multivariate distribution is thereafter utilized in a scenario-based optimization model applying the Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) measure as a risk measure, to capture events in the left tail of the portfolio distribution. The proposed GARCH-C-Vine-Mean-CVaR model is presented and evaluated against two reference models, a GARCH-C-Vine-Mean-Variance model, and a model assuming a multivariate normal distribution, EWMA-Mean-Variance. The ability to capture realized outcomes is analyzed for all three models, where the proposed GARCH-C-Vine-Mean-CVaR as well as the GARCH-C-Vine-Mean-Variance model show to capture realized outcomes to a further extent than the model assuming a multivariate normal distribution. Further, applying the risk measure CVaR has in this study shown to capture the realized outcomes to the same extent as applying variance as the risk measure. In conclusion, the proposed model manages to capture tail-events in the data analyzed in this study, to a further extent than if assuming multivariate normality. The lack of regulations and bias that denote hedge fund reporting, does however prevent a conclusion on whether the proposed model captures actual realized tail-events of hedge fund returns.
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Potter, Elizabeth A. "Fund-raising systems in children's museums: An analysis of fund-raising behavior and philanthropic income trends." ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/483.
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The problem under investigation. This dissertation analyzed philanthropic donations and fund-raising behavior in children's museums. The research embodies a descriptive, inductive, and deductive study which infers that philanthropic donations increase gradually and are influenced by an organization's fund-raising behavior.
The subjects. A stratified random sample of 15 small, 47 medium, and 20 large U.S. children's museums were surveyed; operating budgets determined museum size.
The methodology. Time-series statistical techniques and economic data measures calculated the change in children's museum philanthropic donations from 1990-1994. Correlation coefficients determined the relationships between the income variables. The fund-raising behavior variables, nominal data, were calculated in percentage/frequency tables. The chi-square test statistic checked for dependency between the behavioral variables and museum size.
The findings. This analysis showed the complex relationships between fund-raising systems and their philanthropic environment. The results demonstrate the strong tie between philanthropy and fund-raising. They illustrate that fund-raising cannot be an isolated management function. The data indicate how fund-raising behavior, donor attitudes, and economic conditions influence giving fluctuations. It discloses organizational donor preferences, and the control those donors might have over internal management decisions. The effects of donor networks, political lobbying, and geographic location were also detected in the figures.
Conclusions. This study affirmed that persistent organizational funding requires diversified, balanced relationships between nonprofit organizations and the philanthropic sector. Children's museums need a fund-raising philosophy; voluntary giving must become a core institutional value. This philosophy must be espoused by the Chief Executive Officer who works with and through a Board President and Board of Directors who embrace the same fund-raising rationale. The organizations also need trained personnel to administer the philosophy.
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Adams, Mark Richard. "Unpacking the industrial, cultural and historical contexts of Doctor Who's fan-producers." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14609.
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The approach that emphasises the active audience, and the subversive potential of audience encounters with texts, has greatly influenced the study of media fandom which has tended to see media fans, and the cultures they produce, as set in opposition to writers and producers. My thesis challenges this view of the relationships between fans and producers by examining fan-producers in contemporary television. This research challenges the influential theoretical models that see authorship as a major source of social control and thus sees audiences that 'poach' meanings from texts as engaged in rebellion. The approach that perceives fandom as in opposition to the meanings of production falls short in representing the complexity of fan and producer interactions and thus curtails our understanding of these relationships. My thesis moves beyond the untenable opposition between fans and producers and, in doing so, paves the way for an understanding of fan studies more suitable for the contemporary, and still developing, climate of audience interactions. I believe that the practices of fandom demonstrate that consumption and authorship are more closely linked than previous tendencies to divide them would suggest. Previous works have served to both underestimate fandom, as powerless rebels or dupes, or exaggerate its position as a force of political or cultural resistance. My research engages with the contemporary developments within fan culture, and emphasises the importance of deconstructing monolithic ideas of the media industry in order to better understand the influences and pressures placed on the figure of the fan-producer. I argue that the media industries are not as homogeneous as previously implied, and that the fan-producer is forced to negotiate the complex and often conflicting relationships within the worlds of both fandom and official production.
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Rostami, Alexander Mazyar. "Evaluating SEB Investment Strategy´s Recommended Mutual Fund Portfolios." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Institutionen för matematik och fysik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-9750.
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Preview: SEB Investment Strategy is the function in SEB that supports business units SEB Private Banking and SEB Retail with investment philosophy and investment process. The framework of SEB Investment Strategy encompasses to manage a structured investment philosophy and process to produce a range of investment options and portfolios for different target groups. From January 2006 to October 2009 forty “Proposal for fund portfolios” were produced each containing writing on market condition and expectations plus portfolio recommendations. Each time four portfolios consisting of six mutual funds was recommended, Fund Portfolio 30, 50, 70 and 100. Fund Portfolio 30 (FP30) contained 30% equity fund and 70% fixed-income funds. By same reasoning FP50 contains 50/50 equity- and fixed-income funds, FP70, 70% equity funds and 30% fixed-income funds and FP100 only equity funds. Purpose: The aim of this work is to evaluate these SEB Investment Strategy recommended portfolios for private SEB Retail clients from January 2006 to December 2009. Evaluation is done by comparing the performance of recommended portfolios with portfolios produced by applying Vasicek´s Technique and simplified optimization technique. Method: To allow work with Vasicek´s Technique in which we are dependent on a market portfolio, I have created an Index which includes SEB Mutual Funds and their share of the Index is determined from each fund´s total assets in relation to the sum of the total assets under management of all funds inclusive in the Index. Index consists of 40 mutual funds 2002-2007 and 37 mutual funds 2008 and 2009. The total supply of funds has been reduced to the above numbers by the following criteria: Clients must be able to invest in funds through conventional SEB Fund Account. No initiation fees or sales charges. Minimum historical Net Asset Value prices (NAV-prices) from 2nd January 2002. Daily trading and at least 300 million SEK in assets under management. No Fund-in-Fund products. Only SEB or SEB Choice funds. The closing daily NAV-prices (time series) of these funds have been obtained from seb.se/fonder from 2nd January 2002 to 28th December 2009. With prices daily returns are calculated and used for estimation of historical and average values of variables needed for computing forecasted Alphas and Betas according to Vasicek´s Technique. Mutual funds are then ranked with respect to excess return over forecasted Beta given risk free rate equal to Swedish government 1 month treasury-bill (SSVX1M) at time for optimisation. Top six ranked funds are included in the optimization process. The first optimized portfolio given actual T-bill is then compared to FP100 recommended by SEB Investment Strategy. In order to find optimized solutions to other recommended portfolios premiums are added to actual T-bill rate.
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Hopf, Craig. "Exchange traded horserace betting fund with deterministic payoff – a mathematical analysis of a profitable deterministic horserace betting model." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366832.
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The horserace betting market is a subset of the financial market space, and wagering typically inherits a defined return – to – risk trade-off. For horserace betting input into institutional portfolio to be plausible, the payoff – to – risk trade-off from betting must be acceptable for the fund when compared with the return – risk trade-off from the existing mainstream assets included in portfolio investment.
A new paradigm for horserace betting modelling and investing is acclaimed in this thesis, as premiss for betting input into institutional portfolio. An exchange traded betting fund is developed in the thesis that is able to generate pre-race (and within-race) investment arbitrage that offers an acceptable, defined return – risk trade-off for the risk averse investor. The extensive former horserace betting market stochastic modelling theory that forecasts racer expected outcomes and payoff, is today succeeded by this research that develops a deterministic horserace betting model (and algorithm) that generates defined payoff for the fund. This deterministic betting model challenges the existing semi-strong efficient market hypothesis toward horserace betting that no betting strategy consistently outperforms the financial market’s benchmark return. Subsequently, the primary research (alternative) hypothesis tested is H_a: profitable exchange traded horserace betting fund with deterministic payoff exists for acceptable institutional portfolio investment.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Griffith School of Environment
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WIRKIERMAN, ARIEL LUIS. "PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS FROM A CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVE: THEORY OF MEASUREMENT AND MEASUREMENT OF THEORY." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1269.
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La presente tesi studia la nozione di produttività dal punto di vista Classico. In primo luogo, si connette la distinzione tra produttività (productivity) e profittabilità (productiveness) a quella tra il lato della spesa e quello del valore aggiunto dell'economia, vista come un flusso circolare. In secondo luogo, si collegano vari schemi teorici alle strutture empiriche del sistema di contabilità nazionale. Si calcolano quindi sia degli indicatori dei cambiamenti della produttività fisica, utilizzando come unità dell'analisi i subsistemi in crescita, che delle misure del grado di capacità delle singole industrie di generare sovrappiú. Si ottengono ed utilizzano regole di aggregazione e procedure di riduzione al fine di tenere correttamente conto dell'eterogeneità dei mezzi di produzione prodotti. In tutta la tesi, i risultati analitici ottenuti sono corredati da applicazioni empiriche. In larga misura, tale lavoro empirico concerne l'economia italiana (1999-2007); tuttavia, alcuni risultati riguardano un insieme di paesi industrializzati (Germania, Francia, Italia, Giappone, GB e USA) nel decennio 1995-2005.This is a study on the notion of productivity, viewed from a Classical perspective. First, the distinction between physical productivity and productiveness (i.e. profitability) is connected to the distinction between the expenditure side and value added side of the economy, seen as a circular flow. Second, a mapping of some theoretical frameworks into empirical structures of the System of National Accounts is advanced. Then, indicators of physical productivity changes with the (growing) subsystem as a unit of analysis are obtained, together with measures reflecting the degree of surplus generating capacity at the level of individual industries. Aggregation rules and reduction procedures are devised and applied to deal with the heterogeneous nature of produced means of production. All throughout the study, empirical applications of the analytical results are provided. For the most part, empirical work is referred to the case of Italy (1999-2007), though some results concern a set of advanced industrial economies (Germany, France, Italy, Japan, UK and the US) during the 1995-2005 decade.
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Baker, Lucy. "What Does Gender Mean in Regendered Characters." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380299.
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This thesis examines the ways regendering, or ‘genderswapping’, is performed as an adaptational creative choice for fans and creators. Regendered works, such as the TV series Elementary, illustrate the complexity of representation, and the ongoing imbalanced landscape of media. I develop a more cohesive understanding of the fannish counterpublic and its complex approaches to creativity and gender by grounding the research and data collection in fan studies, gender studies, and literary theory. This thesis uses interviews, surveys, and observations of fannish communities, and close readings of regendered texts and media, to develop two theories of regendered effects. One: the position of regendered work within fannish counterpublics is one centred on the conflicts and tensions between lived experiences and the media landscape, performed through the creative forms that characterise their communities. Fannish experiences of gender and sexuality influence their reception of those works, and how they practice regendering as a creative process. Two: these works then reinforce that counterpublic by correcting the gender imbalance of the initial work, and re-othering the expectations of that work. I then apply these theories to specific fanfic texts, revealing the interplay between the fan, the audience, the canon, and gendered expectations of behaviour and sexuality.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc
Arts, Education and Law
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Aiyadurai, Janusa, and Mathias Brenckert. "A Comparative Study on Green Mutual Equity Fund’s Financial Performance : International vs Domestic Fund Composition." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172469.
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In this thesis the relationship between regional composition and risk-adjusted performance is evaluated concerning Swedish issued green mutual equity funds. By using three different indices; Sharpe, Jensen and Treynor, a relationship has been able to establish. The study finds no strong relationship between geographic composition and performance concerning any of the indices and thus the impact of diversifying one's portfolio has little impact. By using the Modern Portfolio Theory, Stewardship Theory, Home Bias Theory and Behavioral Finance Theory a theoretical discussion has been established in order to further examine and analyze the fundamental dynamics of this relationship. Lastly, model risk and other variables impact on performance has been investigated. Our study finds a potential model risk since our three indices results disparate. Further, ESG related factors and Morningstar ratings seem to impact performance greater than regional composition.
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Rodier, Dominique. "Prosodic domains in optimality theory." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35933.
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Cross-linguistically, the notion 'minimal word' has proved fruitful grounds for explanatory accounts of requirements imposed on morphological and phonological constituents. Word minimality requires that a lexical word includes the main-stressed foot of the language. As a result, subminimal words are augmented to a bimoraic foot through diverse strategies like vowel lengthening, syllable addition, etc. Even languages with numerous monomoraic lexical words may impose a minimality requirement on derived words that would otherwise be smaller than a well-formed foot. In addition, the minimal word has been argued to play a central role in characterizing a prosodic base within some morpho-prosodic constituent for the application of processes such as reduplication and infixation.The goal of this thesis is to offer an explanation as to why and in which contexts grammars may prefer a prosodic constituent which may not be reducible to a bimoraic foot. I provide explanatory accounts for a number of cases where the prosodic structure of morphological or phonological constituents cannot be defined as coextensive with the main stressed foot of the language. To this end, I propose to add to the theory of Prosodic Structure (Chen 1987; Selkirk 1984, 1986, 1989, 1995; Selkirk and Shen 1990) within an optimality-theoretic framework by providing evidence for a new level within the Prosodic Hierarchy, that of the Prosodic Stem (PrStem).
An important aspect of the model of prosodic structure proposed here is a notion of headship which follows directly from the Prosodic Hierarchy itself and from the metrical grouping of prosodic constituents. A theory of prosodic heads is developed which assumes that structural constraints can impose well-formedness requirements on the prosodic shape and the distribution of heads within morphological and phonological constituents.
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Zhao, Jiabin. "Natural theory of nonlinear shells." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40299.
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This thesis is devoted to the analysis of nonlinear shell problems. First, using the tangential differential calculus and the oriented boundary distance function, we derive two intrinsic nonlinear models for thin/shallow shells made up of a Saint Venant-Kirchhoff material or a homogeneous, isotropic, elastic material. The models extend the natural theory of plates to thin/shallow shells. Next, we prove the regularity property for the solutions of the linear model, and differentiability of the nonlinear operators associated with the nonlinear models in the given spaces. Finally, we prove existence and uniqueness theorems for the solution of the two nonlinear models using the inverse function theorem. Moreover, we discuss the Love-Kirchhoff theory and the Naghdi's and Koiter's conditions for nonlinear shells.
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Čubrić, Djordje. "Results in categorical proof theory." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41272.
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We prove a completeness result for the equivalence of proofs in the positive fragment (T, $ Lambda, rightarrow$) of intuitionistic propositional logic with respect to sets. We also show that proofs in the full intuitionistic propositional logic factor through interpolants--in this way we prove a stronger interpolation property than the usual one which gives only the existence of interpolants.Translating that to categorical terms, we give a representation theroem for free Cartesian closed categories (Theorem 3.16) in the category of sets and we show that pushouts of biCartesian closed categories have the interpolation property (Theorem 4.47).
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Heggie, Murray. "Tensor products in homotopy theory." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72792.
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Lefcoe, Andrew. "Kuhn's paradigm in music theory." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21231.
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Thomas Kuhn's essay The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has had an overwhelming impact upon academics from various fields, creating a virtual paradigm industry. Authors have frequently had recourse to Kuhn's book, applying insights into the structure and development of the sciences to nonscientific fields. This essay presents a critical review of Kuhn citation in the music-theoretic literature, first reviewing similar citation analyses in the humanities and the social sciences for comparison. While much of the Kuhn citation is problematic, music scholars are found to sin less broadly than those in other fields. After reviewing some of the salient distinctions between scientific and nonscientific endeavors, some of Kuhn's insights into science are found to clarify an issue in the history of music theory, namely the nature of the succession from figured-bass theory to the formulations of J. P. Rameau.
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Diener, Glendon. "Formal languages in music theory." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59610.
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In this paper, the mathematical theory of languages is used to investigate and develop computer systems for music analysis, composition, and performance. Four prominent research projects in the field are critically reviewed. An original grammar-type for the computer representation of music is introduced, and a computer system for music composition and performance based on that grammar is described. A user's manual for the system is provided as an appendix.
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Campana, Mark. "A movement theory of ergativity." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39511.
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In this thesis, I propose a theory of ergativity in which NP arguments are checked for Case by moving to projections of agreement at LF. The Case-marking pattern of an ergative language arises when transitive subjects move to the projection of agreement usually associated with objects (AGR.o), while transitive objects and intransitive subjects move to the projection of subject agreement (AGR.s). While this proposal assigns the same underlying structure to clauses in an ergative language (unlike Marantz, 1984), it does have distinctive syntactic effects. In this it contrasts with a purely morphological approach to ergativity, such as that of Anderson (1976).Arguments can move to the specifier position of agreement, or adjoin to its maximal projection. Movement cannot take place across the same kind of position as the landing site, which leads us to predict that transitive subjects cannot undergo grammatical extraction in an ergative language. This prediction turns out to be correct in a number of languages, including Chamorro, Mam, and other members of the Mayan group. Our theory also allows for a plausible account of split ergativity--non-canonical patterns in an otherwise ergative language where transitive and intransitive subjects are marked the same, but behave differently under extraction.
The proposal that NPs are not checked for Case until LF entails that they remain in their base positions at S-structure. Evidence for this claim is adduced from the distribution of empty pronoun arguments whose contents must be identified. Our prediction is that transitive subjects in an ergative language will interfere in the identification of an empty object pronoun, since it is closer to the pronoun than its legitimate identifier, AGR.s. This is also shown to be the case.
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Sung, Tine Han, and 宋天瀚. "On The Chang Hsueh-ch''eng''s Fun-chi Theory and Fun-chi Hsueh." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12598541890635442713.
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You, Chia-wei, and 游家緯. "On fun theory approach to product design and user behavior change." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69528117629330695368.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
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This study aims to investigate whether products designed through the Fun Theory approach can really cause a behavior change on it users. This paper firstly reviewed the literature about Behaviral Change and theories about Humorous Design and Game Design, then analyzed 8 award-winning products claiming to have used the Fun Theory in their design. Bazed on the review and analysis, the basic dimensions and elements of Fun Theory could be thus summariezed as follows. A Fun Theory product, in the first stage, i.e., the behaviral change stage, by providing the product users actual benefits, funny visual/audial feedbacks, opportunities of engaging in games, etc., the product builds a physical interaction with its users. In the second stage, should possess in its form a humorous semantic content which can arouse a feeling of fun. In order to verify the assumption obtained from the previous study, two bike racks were developed with the objective of arousing the interest of the users, so as to increase the use rate of the bike racks, and a comparison is formed by other six existing racks, validating user''s feeling of fun by the semantic differential method and the willingness of use. the results reveals that subjects felt an emotion of interesting with the fun theory based racks ,in the dimension of parking willingness change, the new model have a higher using intention compared to the existing racks. In the results of the semantic differential analysis, users considered not only the importance of fun, but also practical using problems. Still other factor bring the defference with willing of use, such as the type of bicycle riding.
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Sun, Ming-Hung, and 孫銘宏. "Theory and Application of Enterprise Evaluation : A Case Study On E-Fun Technology." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xrahkq.
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Ting, Hsiu-Hui, and 丁綉慧. "Academic Studying or Fun and Recreation?Using the Cusp Model of Catastrophe Theory to Explore Junior High School Students’ Lifestyle Choices." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96846490747937385408.
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碩士國立屏東大學
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The initial intention of the education reform movement in Taiwan was to give students a happy learning experience in the course of their growth and development. However, junior high school students, who are at a crucial phase of identity crisis and under the impact of heavy academic stress whether physically and mentally, often show unexpected reactions and behaviors in the adjustment process. Other than parents who are left at a loss about what to do, frontline educators have strived to understand students’ process of thinking and behavioral patterns, so as to help the growth and development of adolescents. Most studies on adolescents under academic stress present single and linear results, and indicate that they choose to respond to academic stress either in a positive manner or with negative sloth and leisure. This study adopts a non-linear perspective, and uses the catastrophe theory developed by the French mathematician Rene Thom in 1972 to analyze and examine junior high school students’ lifestyle choices. It uses the impacts of academic stress, the level of involvement, and switching costs to understand whether discontinuous changes appear in junior high school students’ behaviors of lifestyle choices. The results indicated that junior high school student’ behaviors of choosing between the two lifestyles: academic studying or fun and recreation appear to show the following five features of catastrophe theory: (1)Divergence: Junior high school students have no particular preferences for academic studying or fun and recreation. Changes in switching costs result in high school students’ apparent preferred choices. (2)Threshold: Junior high school students have particular preferences for a lifestyle. However, the impacts of academic stress and other numerous factors result in students’ suddenly changed choices. (3)Hysteresis: After changing the initial choice suddenly, junior high school students eventually do not get the original lifestyle back. (4)Inaccessibility: The status of junior high school students’ choices between the two lifestyles is unknown. (5)Bimodality: Junior high school students consider both academic studying and fun and recreation acceptable lifestyles. In addition, when junior high school students perceive an old lifestyle’s higher switching costs, i.e. feel reminiscent of friends or a sense of achievement in the old lifestyle or feel anxious and stressed due to the changed lifestyle, their behaviors of choices would experience discontinuous changes. Continuing to increase academic stress to junior high school students may not necessarily achieve expected education results. Non-linear features are present at numerous issues and phenomena in everyday life. This study used the five features in catastrophe theory as the starting point, in order to understand the dynamic process of thinking behind junior high school students’ complex behaviors when they experience academic stress. The findings lay a foundation for adaptive tutoring and counseling afterwards and provide a reference for relevant organizations in the future.