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Holmberg, Mette. "The Open Method of Coordination -An innovative tool of European governance?" Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2336.
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In the light of the debate on the future of the European Union, a debate on new and better governance has started. One of the subjects of this debate is the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). It was initiated at the Lisbon European Council in 2000 as one of the ways to reach the strategic goals set for the EU at the same summit. Policy coordination was however applied in European policy- making before the Lisbon European Council. In the area of employment these activities had been operating for some years, and the OMC was created with the European Employment Strategy (EES) as a model. Now the OMC is also operating in the area of social inclusion policy, and a number of other policy areas. As its use is being extended, scholars as well as practitioners are studying it to determine its role and functions in EU governance.
This thesis aims at examining the open method of coordination, in an effort to position it in the European governance structure and discuss if it can be a sign of an emerging new mode of European governance.
Using a comparative approach, this thesis combines three methodologies; documentation analysis, interviews and case-studies. The analytical framework consists of existing modes of governance, as defined by Helen Wallace (2000). These are complemented with one more mode of governance. A discussion on governance in general and European governance in particular is also part of the analytical framework.
The OMC is studied by its definition and is further discussed from the view of the different European institutions. Finally a case study of its application in employment policy and social inclusion policy is presented. These findings are then set in relation to the governance modes in the analytical framework, in order to define and explain the OMC. A discussion of the notions of democracy and legitimacy is also held. The conclusions hold that the OMC is an interesting mix of multi-level governance, intensive transgovernmentalism and policy coordination and benchmarking. It also has interesting features of the innovative mode of network governance. This concludes that the OMC does not only build on innovative governance, but is an interesting balance between multi-level and intergovernmental governance. It is also based on notions of legitimacy rather than democracy.
Based on the findings in this thesis, the OMC should be seen as a sign of a new way of thinking about European governance. Its role should however not be exaggerated as most actors are very clear on it not being an alternative to ordinary Community action, and it should be seen as a complement rather than a substitute. The fact that the Convention on the future of Europe did not include the OMC into the draft constitutional treaty shows a somewhat ambivalent position towards it. It is concluded that the specific mix of governance features in the OMC is best served outside the treaty at this point.
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Büchs, Milena. "New governance in European social policy : the open method of coordination /." Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007022506-b.html.
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Ahmed, Tasneem. "The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) and its future in Europe." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-open-method-of-coordination-omc-and-its-future-in-europe(9f835e04-b4ad-463c-966f-f7acd2f675d0).html.
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This thesis will begin with the presumption that the classical integration theories such as dual intergovernmental/supranational paradigms have lost their strength as they fail to understand the EU in its own right, and do not possess the ability to explain the phenomena of governance structures (namely the modes of governance) requiring the need for a new governance paradigm. Instead of utilising the European Parliament the turn to governance was accredited by the White Paper on Governance. The Paper advocated for the adoption of the principles of openness, accountability and participation, for civil actors to become directly involved in the decision-making process. However methods such as the OMC have threatened the overall level of general political input and democratic oversight into its procedures. Therefore this thesis will argue for the ways that procedurally new governance mechanisms could be reformed through the development of the governance paradigm in which governance structures such as comitology, agencies, networks may be utilised and through the combined interaction of soft (OMC) and hard laws (directive).The thesis will aim to propose a governance paradigm in healthcare (through agencies, networks and comitology) which could be utilised rather than the OMC. The suggestion is to employ other experimental modes of governance as the OMC healthcare did not develop extensively unlike the OMC SPSI. The reason for this was that the OMC health and long-term care was not adopted until 2004 and then more or less immediately streamlined in 2005 to the Social OMC which contained the three strands namely pensions, social inclusion and protection and healthcare. Hence the thesis will consider the three strands under the umbrella Social OMC and provide suggestions for reform. This left a gap for healthcare governance in the EU, which the thesis suggests could be filled through the governance paradigm. The thesis will suggest that as the new modes employed through the governance paradigm have their limitations, the way forward for the OMC is through combined governance. Combined governance requires a hybrid interaction between hard and soft law and further the new modes of governance can be fused together and allow hybrid interactions. This notion will be represented substantively through the Organs Directive as the collaboration of the directive and action plan presents a hybrid format (combined governance). Secondly my proposal of the ‘integrated model’ may be utilised when applying the Organs Directive. The integrated model presents a fusion of the three governance structures the OMC, comitology and agencies. In the case of the Organs Directive it presents a ‘hybrid within a hybrid’.
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Mattocks, Kathleen. "Intergovernmental cultural policy coordination in the European Union : the open method of coordination and the 2011-2014 work plan for culture." Thesis, City, University of London, 2017. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17104/.
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This thesis examines the European Union’s Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the field of cultural policy. The OMC, a method of intergovernmental policy coordination that is centrally coordinated by the European Commission, was introduced in the cultural field in 2008. Using a case study of Policy Priority A in the 2011-2014 Work Plan for Culture, this thesis examines how the OMC operates as well as what outcomes it produces. It does so using a sociological institutionalism theoretical framework, supplemented with insights from the literatures on multi-level governance and policy learning. It uses a combination of research methods including document analysis, interviews with key actors, and participant observation, ultimately leading to new insights into the processes and practices of EU policy coordination. Findings on the processes of coordination reveal insights into the EU’s inter-institutional dynamics and demonstrate that the European Commission is a key player in the culture OMC. They also indicate considerable heterogeneity in how Member States ‘approach’ participation in the OMC and indicate that ultimately there is a weak connection between the OMC and national-level politics. Findings also show that the outcomes of coordination are multifaceted; while few examples of direct political and programmatic change were found, there is a complex set of other outcomes, including increased vertical coordination, socialisation and networking, and heuristic learning and concept usage. The thesis’ findings make contributions to several multi-disciplinary areas of academic research. They add most directly to the literatures on EU cultural policy, specifically on the processes and outcomes of policy coordination in the field, and contribute a new sectoral case study to the existing literature on the Open Method of Coordination as well. They also make broader contributions to the study of cultural policy (in particular cultural policy approached from a political science/public policy perspective), policy learning, and European governance and integration.
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Deganis, Isabelle. "A dialogue across paradigms : the European Commission's autonomous power within the open method of coordination." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a7f66cca-a998-4981-8c9c-cb295c27dcd7.
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This research project seeks to gauge the autonomous power of the European Commission within the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), a new mode of governance coined at the Lisbon European Council in March 2000 and based on the principle of the voluntary cooperation of Member States. Two cases form the basis of this inquiry, namely, quality in work, a policy issue addressed under the banner of the European Employment Strategy, and child poverty and social exclusion, a key item on the agenda of the OMC for Social Inclusion. A primary impetus at the heart of this project is one of ontological pluralism. Rejecting a zero-sum interpretation of the rationalist/constructivist debate, this study constitutes a plea for a conversation across paradigms. The domain-of-application model employed here works by preserving the integrity of individual theories while specifying a particular scope condition under which constructivist and rationalist insights are likely to prevail. Selecting two cases on the basis of the critical scope condition of issue sensitivity, a central postulate informing this integrative research design is that high issue sensitivity (quality in work) invites strategic interaction among pre-constituted social actors driven by a behavioural logic of utility-maximization, while low issue sensitivity (child poverty and social exclusion) allows for a fundamentally norm-guided behaviour. Concretely, in effecting this theoretical dialogue, two sets of causal hypotheses are examined. On the one hand, rational choice institutionalism (principal-agent theory) offers a number of suppositions about the Commission’s institutional power, that is, its ability to transform the conditions of action of self-seeking national governments. On the other hand, sociological institutionalism conceptualizes the Commission’s productive power (i.e. its power to constitute the interests and identities of individual agents) through the lens of discourse analysis. Testing theoretical predictions against collected data makes plain the superior explanatory value of independent variables and causal mechanisms of rationalist lineage in capturing the essence of the Commission’s autonomous power in the case of quality in work and the congruity of sociological institutionalism’s original conjectures in the area of child poverty and social exclusion. Crucially, this strict correspondence corroborates the pertinence of the critical scope condition of issue sensitivity in delineating the explanatory ambit of both theories and attests to the co-existence of different forms of autonomous power wielded by the Commission within the framework of the OMC.
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Drachenberg, Ralf. "Accounting for the open method of coordination : can 'old' theories on European integration explain 'new' forms of integrations." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4084.
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Since the European Council in Lisbon, the use of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) and OMC-type processes have become widespread across policy areas of the European Union, and also spilled over to non-governmental actors. This PhD thesis will compare and contrast two examples of OMC-like governance in the field of Education and Training which so far have been under-researched, namely the Open Method of Coordination in E&T and the Framework of Actions on the lifelong development of competencies and qualifications by the European social partners. In order to explain the creation, functioning and impact of these forms of governance, different European integration theories are tested on how they explain the results. It is expected that different theoretical approaches can explain certain aspects better than others. To fully understand all of these aspects of OMC-type governance, the combined use of rationalist and constructivist approaches is promoted. The results will show that OMC-type governance is a third way between intergovernmental and supranational policy-making and significantly contributed to the deepening of E&T policy at EU level, while at the same time guaranteeing national sovereignty, leading to a new form of integration. This thesis argues that OMC-like tools are able to serve diverse interests with respect to speed and nature of European integration. By being soft and flexible policy-tools, OMC-like tools are ideal for sensitive policy areas with very diverse national situations and represent rather a complementary form of policy-making than an alternative to the Community Method. Consequently, European integration theories need to adapt to the possibility of EU policy-making methods that are neither purely intergovernmental nor fully supranational and lead to new types of integration. OMC-like tools also illustrate the need to return to the ambition of grand theories i.e. explaining the whole picture, without relying only on one theory but rather using various approaches in a complementary fashion.
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Petersson, Kenneth, Ulf Olsson, and John B. Krejsler. "Governing Europe by comparison, peer pressure & self-interest : On the Bologna Stocktaking Process as operator of national education policy." 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科 技術・職業教育学研究室, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/17027.
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Lindquist, Olle, and Anton Östebo. "Den EU-fierade skolan : Hur EU har påverkat Sveriges utbildningssystem." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-163859.
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This literature study aims to review previous research to examine in what manner the European Union (EU) affects the Swedish educational system. The literature study presents how a communal educational policy for the EU was formed by the acceptance of the Lisbon Strategy in the year 2000. The strategy also marks the start of an intensified cooperation between the EU and its member states. The preferred tool of the EU used to influence the individual member states is, according to the reviewed research, the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). Several researchers also point out that the EU has presented various policies which have influenced the member states curriculums, as well as the Swedish curriculum. The terms life-long learning and entrepreneurship are examples of terms presented by the EU and has since been included in the Swedish curriculum. At the time of collection of research material, the focus was placed on the methods and tools as well as treaties and strategies, as they have been highlighted as factors for influencing member states educational systems. The selected and reviewed research has then been analyzed in order to answer the objective and questions of the literary study concerning how the EU influences its member states by these methods and tools.
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Ragkousis, Mihalis. "The Open Method of Coordination on social inclusion : analysing the participation of British and Greek stakeholders and its impact on their expectations, political activities and loyalties." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7134.
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This research focuses on the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) on social inclusion over a period of ten years. It analyses the participation of people who experience poverty and/or social exclusion and anti-poverty associations in the OMC. The main objective is to explore whether such participation triggers the redirection of participants’ expectations, political activities and loyalties from the national to the EU level. The research focuses on participation at domestic and EU level. It identifies the core responses (or non-responses) of British and Greek governmental and non-governmental actors to the EU pressures for participation. National responses to EU pressures help understand the participation of the above mentioned stakeholders in the domestic policy-making process. Additionally, by focusing on the participation of British and Greek delegates to the European Meetings of People Experiencing Poverty, this research seeks to understand whether participation through the OMC, at EU level, influences expectations, political activities and loyalties. The empirical findings of the research show that participation in the OMC indeed influences redirection of expectations, political activities and loyalties. However, the differences between the UK and Greece, and the differences between participation domestically and at EU level were found to be significant. This research contributes to existing theory by analysing the effects of participation of wider numbers of citizens in EU processes. It addresses the lack of empirical data regarding the participation of non-traditional stakeholders.
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Cihan, Gizem. "National Social Dialogue Structures And The European Employment Strategy: Comparing Greece And Ireland." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612782/index.pdf.
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The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the impact of European Employment Strategy (EES) on social partnership at national level. Increasing the participation of trade unions, employer organisations and other social partners in policy formulation and implementation is one of the EES objectives. A comparative study has been conducted on Ireland and Greece in order to analyse to what extent this objective has been achieved through EES, which is an Open Method of Coordination. Historical institutionalism provides the theoretical framework for this thesis. The impact of EES is demonstrated at two levels. First level change indicates change in discourse. Second level shows change in social partners
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Radestock, Matthias. "Coordination in adaptive open distributed systems." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325238.
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Udzir, Nur Izura. "Capability-based coordination for open distributed systems." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434161.
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Jančiukaitė, Edita. "AKM diegimo galimybės mažinant socialinę atskirtį Lietuvoje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20140623_174415-80375.
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AKM DIEGIMO GALIMYBĖS MAŽINANT SOCIALINĘ ATSKIRTĮ LIETUVOJE SANTRAUKA Lietuvos viešoji politika, skirta socialinei atskirčiai mažinti, yra neefektyvi. Žemą Lietuvos socialinės politikos efektyvumą įtakoja nedideli finansiniai ištekliai, kuriuos LR Vyriausybė skiria socialinės politikos įgyvendinimui. Taip pat šios politikos neefektyvumą patvirtina savivaldybių socialinės veiklos statistinių rodiklių analizė. Remiantis šia analize patvirtinama, kad egzistuoja ryškūs skirtumai tarp savivaldybių, jų vykdoma socialinė politika yra deharmonizuota, vykdoma nekryptingai. Socialinės politikos efektyvumą mažina ir tai, kad Lietuvoje reglamentuota socialinių paslaugų vykdymo tvarka įtakoja regioninių skirtumų atsiradimą ir gilėjimą. Remiantis kitų ES šalių patirtimi, socialinės politikos efektyvumą gali pagerinti AKM diegimas. Siekiant mažinti socialinės politikos ydingus požymius, Lietuvoje taikoma AKM principai: geros patirties sklaida, decentralizacija, visų suinteresuotųjų įtraukimas į socialinės politikos procesus ir kt. Remiantis šiuo metodu galima apibendrintai ir tiksliai apžvelgti, efektyviai įvertinti, planuoti ir įgyvendinti valdžios institucijų ir kitų socialinės politikos dalyvių vykdomą socialinę politiką, skatinti valdžios institucijų ir bendruomenės narių bendradarbiavimą sprendžiant socialinės atskirties mažinimo klausimus ir kt. Šie AKM principai taikomi projektuose „Socialinis žemėlapis“ bei „Lietuva be atskirties ir skurdo“ (LabAS).THE POSSIBILITIES OF OMC IN DECREASING SOCIAL EXCLUSION: THE CASE OF LITHUANIA SUMMARY Lithuanian public policy, intended to decrease social exclusion, is not effective. The effectiveness of social policy is low because Lithuanian Government intends not enough financial reservoir for implementation of social exclusion. Analyses of municipality social work indicators prove that Lithuanian social policy is not effective. This analysis confirms, that exist pronounced differences between municipalities and social policy is disharmonized and implemented in unfocussed way. Effectiveness of social policy is low because the order of pursuing social policy, regulated in Lithuania, influences increase of regional differences. On the strength of EU nation experience, implementation of OMC can improve effectiveness of social policy. On purpose to decrease flawy features of social policy, Lithuania implements principles of OMC, for instance, good practice, decentralization and cooperation of all interested parties in processes of social policy etc. On the strength of OMC, it is possible to rightly review, effectively rate, plan and implement social policy, promote collaboration between governance and community. Following principles of OMC are using in projects “Social map” and “Lithuania without exclusion and poverty” (LabAS).
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Chatziangelidou, Kalliopi. "The implementation of the Lisbon strategy in an heterogeneous Europe : the case of the southern countries concerning the education and training systems." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1102/document.
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L'objet de la présente thèse est d'analyser l'incidence des politiques menées dans le cadre des systèmes d'éducation et de formation grec et italien afin de se conformer aux exigences de la stratégie de Lisbonne 2000. Le niveau d'influence de la politique de l'UE sur les structures des deux pays et ses effets sur les réformes nationales sont liés à la relation, entre structures nationales et internationales en ce qui concerne les politiques d'éducation et de formation. Les réformes ne sont pas nécessairement le résultat de la politique de l'Union européenne ; elles peuvent également être le résultat de la voie nationale suivie et intervenir indépendamment des politiques européennes. Cela permet de se demander si le changement de la politique nationale est lié aux directives internationales ou s'il est le résultat indépendant de l'évolution de l'ÉtatThe present thesis attempts a policy impact analysis through the Greek and Italian education and training policies undertaken to respond to the Lisbon's Strategy 2000 requirements. The level of influence of the EU policy within the domestic structure of both countries and its dynamic on national reforms is related to the relationship, - level of influence-, between national and international structure as concerns the educational and training policies. Reforms are not necessarily results of the European's Community policy, but they can be results of the national pathway and they would have taken place in any case. The above hypothesis leads to the query if national policy change is linked to the international directives or it is the independent result of the State's development
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Franks, Henry P. W. "Supporting cooperation and coordination in open multi-agent systems." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57550/.
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Cooperation and coordination between agents are fundamental processes for increasing aggregate and individual benefit in open Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The increased ubiquity, size, and complexity of open MAS in the modern world has prompted significant research interest in the mechanisms that underlie cooperative and coordinated behaviour. In open MAS, in which agents join and leave freely, we can assume the following properties: (i) there are no centralised authorities, (ii) agent authority is uniform, (iii) agents may be heterogeneously owned and designed, and may consequently have con icting intentions and inconsistent capabilities, and (iv) agents are constrained in interactions by a complex connecting network topology. Developing mechanisms to support cooperative and coordinated behaviour that remain effective under these assumptions remains an open research problem. Two of the major mechanisms by which cooperative and coordinated behaviour can be achieved are (i) trust and reputation, and (ii) norms and conventions. Trust and reputation, which support cooperative and coordinated behaviour through notions of reciprocity, are effective in protecting agents from malicious or selfish individuals, but their capabilities can be affected by a lack of information about potential partners and the impact of the underlying network structure. Regarding conventions and norms, there are still a wide variety of open research problems, including: (i) manipulating which convention or norm a population adopts, (ii) how to exploit knowledge of the underlying network structure to improve mechanism efficacy, and (iii) how conventions might be manipulated in the middle and latter stages of their lifecycle, when they have become established and stable. In this thesis, we address these issues and propose a number of techniques and theoretical advancements that help ensure the robustness and efficiency of these mechanisms in the context of open MAS, and demonstrate new techniques for manipulating convention emergence in large, distributed populations. Specfically, we (i) show that gossiping of reputation information can mitigate the detrimental effects of incomplete information on trust and reputation and reduce the impact of network structure, (ii) propose a new model of conventions that accounts for limitations in existing theories, (iii) show how to manipulate convention emergence using small groups of agents inserted by interested parties, (iv) demonstrate how to learn which locations in a network have the greatest capacity to in uence which convention a population adopts, and (v) show how conventions can be manipulated in the middle and latter stages of the convention lifecycle.
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Mohyuddin, Imran, and Jesus Mascareño. "Coordination Dynamics in Open-SourceBased Platforms : “The Symbian Foundation Case”." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-64664.
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Industry platforms, particularly open-source based platforms are emerging as the tippingpoint of a new trend of interoganizational relationships among firms. They are characterizedby a large number of actors with different objectives that come and go. However in order toreap the benefits of network effects, reduce fragmentation and get access to a large pool ofresources, coordination dynamics within the different actors to create and innovate theplatform are needed. As opposed to traditional literature where a single firm leads the evolution of the platform,a more democratic approach based on the institutionalization of coordination, the implementationof coordination processes and mechanisms is proposed. A study in the form ofinterviews and interactive forums was carried in the Symbian Platform, specifically in theSymbian Foundation to identify the main coordination dynamics. The results showed that in the case of the Symbian Platform, firms´ first step towards coordinationwas to establish the formal structure of coordination, in this case the SymbianFoundation. Consequently the Symbian Foundation established the processes and coordinationmechanisms by which all of the actors participate and access to a pool of resources. Thestudy describes the evolution from democratic coordination to an increasing selfcoordinationpromoted by the Symbian Foundation within its members.
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Barberio, Vitaliano Andrea <1977>. "Evolutionary dynamics of coordination-communication networks in open source development." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1740/.
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Garnier, Delphine. "Open-shell Coordination Compounds based on Cyanide and Scorpionate Ligands." Thesis, Paris 6, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA066296/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur la synthèse et la caractérisation de complexes octaédrique de fer(II) et fer(III) coordinés par un ligand tridente de type scorpionate (symétrie fac) et par trois ligands cyanures. Leur utilisation en tant que metalloligand face à des ions métalliques partiellement bloqués est étudiée. Les ligands cyanures, de par leur caractère ambidente, permettent un accès facile aux espèces hétérobimétalliques. De plus, ces ligands sont connus pour transmettre efficacement l'interaction d'échange magnétique et donc pour favoriser la communication électronique intramoléculaire entre les ions métalliques qu'ils relient. La fonctionalisation des ligands scorpionates permet de contrôler les propriétés électroniques intrinsèques des complexes précurseurs de fer, et donc de moduler les propriétés des espèces polynucléaires obtenues à partir de ces dernières par auto-assemblage. Dans cette thèse, un intérêt particulier est porté aux systèmes {FeCo} en raison de leur capacité à présenter une bistabilité électronique (propriétés photomagnétiques ou de molécules/chaines aimants). Les systèmes cyanuré {FeCo} sont particulièrement adaptés pour l'observation de réarrangements électroniques thermo- et/ou photo-induit, comme en témoignent le nombre important de composés cyanurés photomagnétiques dans la littératureThe work presented in this PhD dissertation focuses on the synthesis and the characterisation of octahedral iron(II) and iron(III) complexes coordinated by a tridentate ligand of the scorpionate family (fac- geometry) and three cyanide ligands. Their use as metalloligands in respect to partially blocked metal ions is studied. Because of their ambidentate character, cyanide ligands open the door to facile synthesis of heterobimetallic species. Moreover, these ligands are known to be efficient magnetic exchange interaction transmitter, thus favouring intramolecular electronic communication between the metal ions they are bridging. The functionalisation of scorpionate ligands allows control over the intrinsic electronic properties of the iron precursor complexes, thus allows to tune the properties of the obtained polynuclear species from the latter by self-assembly. In this PhD dissertation, a particular interest was taken in {FeCo} systems because of their potential ability to exhibit electronic bistability (photomagnetic properties or SMM/SCM behaviour). Cyanide-bridged {FeCo} systems are particularly suitable for the observation of thermally or light-induced electron rearrangements, as testified by the wide range of photomagnetic cyanide-bridged compounds in the literature
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Mohyddin, Imran, and Jesus Mascareño. "Coordination Dynamics in Open-Source Based Platforms : “The Symbian Foundation Case”." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-62270.
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Industry platforms, particularly open-source based platforms are emerging as the tipping point of a new trend of interoganizational relationships among firms. They are characterized by a large number of actors with different objectives that come and go. However in order to reap the benefits of network effects, reduce fragmentation and get access to a large pool of resources, coordination dynamics within the different actors to create and innovate the platform are needed. As opposed to traditional literature where a single firm leads the evolution of the platform, a more democratic approach based on the institutionalization of coordination, the implementation of coordination processes and mechanisms is proposed. A study in the form of interviews and interactive forums was carried in the Symbian Platform, specifically in the Symbian Foundation to identify the main coordination dynamics. The results showed that in the case of the Symbian Platform, firms´ first step towards coordination was to establish the formal structure of coordination, in this case the Symbian Foundation. Consequently the Symbian Foundation established the processes and coordination mechanisms by which all of the actors participate and access to a pool of resources. The study describes the evolution from democratic coordination to an increasing selfcoordination promoted by the Symbian Foundation within its members.
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Bessems, Petrus Johannes Maria Joannes. "The cryosurgical open-cone-spray method." [Maastricht : Maastricht : Rijksuniversiteit Limburg] ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1989. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=5517.
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Persson, Lars. "Environmental policy and transboundary externalities : coordination and commitment in open economies." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Department of Economics, Umeå University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1917.
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Pflueger, John C. (John Christian). "A design method for cross-disciplinary coordination and innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13258.
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Shi, H. (Henglin). "A GQM-based open research data technology evalution method in open research context." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201605221853.
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Open Research Data is gaining popularity nowadays, and various research units and individuals are interested to join this trend. However, due to variety of Open Research Data technologies, they have found it is difficult to select proper ones for their specific requirements. Thus, a method for evaluating of Open Research Data related technologies is developed in this study for researchers to select proper ones.
Firstly, the theoretical knowledge of research data sharing and reusing barriers is resulted from a structured literature review. As a result, from the 19 primary studies, 96 instances of existing barriers are identified and classified to seven categories, where four of them are research data sharing barriers and rest of them are reusing barriers. This knowledge is regarded as an important resource for understanding researchers’ requirements on Open Research Data technologies, and utilized to develop the technology evaluation method.
Additionally, the Open Research Data Technology Evaluation Method (ORDTEM) is developed basing on the Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) approach and resulted research data sharing and reusing barriers. To develop this method, the GQM approach is adopted as the main skeleton to transform these barriers to measurable criterion. Consequently, the ORDTEM, which is consisting of six GQM evaluation questions and 14 metrics, is developed for researchers to evaluate Open Research Data technologies.
Furthermore, to validate the GQM-based ORDTEM, a focus groups study is conducted in a workshop. In the workshop, nine researchers who has the need to participate Open Research Data related activities are recruited to form a focus group to discuss the resulted ORDTEM. And by analysing the content of the discussion, 16 critical opinions are addressed which resulted eight improvements including one refinement on an existing metric and seven new metrics to ORDTEM.
Lastly, a testing process of applying ORDTEM to evaluate four selected Open Research Data technologies is implemented also for validating whether it can be used in solving real-world evaluation tasks. And more than the validation, this experiment also results the materials about usage of ORDTEM, which is useful for future adopters.
However, more than developing the solution to eliminate the difficulty of selecting technologies for participating Open Research Data movements, this study also provides two additional contributions. For one thing, resulted research data sharing and reusing barriers also direct the future effort to prompt Open Research Data and Open Science. Moreover, the experience of utilizing the GQM approach to transform existing requirements to evaluation criterion is possible to be studied for developing other requirement-specific evaluation.
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Chauhan, Muhammad Aufeef. "Evolvability Analysis Method for Open Source Software Systems." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-11851.
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Software systems evolve over the life span to accommodate changes in order to meet technical and business requirements. Evolution of open source software (OSS) is challenging because of involvement from a large number of independent teams and developers who make modifications in the systems according to their own requirements. It is required to evaluate these changes as these are being incorporated into the system against the long term evolvability objectives. This paper presents the analysis of the Hackystat, an OSS framework; against analyzability, changeability, extensibility, testability domain specific quality attributes. The analysis of the processes used during the development of the OSS systems is also discussed. On the basis of the analysis and the early research conducted to evaluate software evolvability, an evolvability analysis method for OSS evolution is presented in this report. Guidelines of the model suggest that the requirements identification and analysis, identification of the system components that are to be affected as a result of the change, identification and prioritization of the potential solutions, evaluation of the potential solutions with respect to evolvability characteristics, use of test driven development and automated build tools are the important steps that should be performed to evaluate system changes. Evolvability analysis model also suggests that the team which is responsible to for system overall architecture (project control group) should also evaluate changes submitted by different teams. A case study to modify a service oriented architecture bases system into software as a service cloud model following the guidelines of evolvability analysis model is also presented.
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Masmoudi, Héla. "La résolution distribuée dans les communautés Open Source : propriétés organisationnelles et modes de coordination." Paris 9, 2011. http://basepub.dauphine.fr/xmlui/handle/123456789/10709.
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Frisinger, Ann. "A generic security evaluation method for open distributed systems /." Stockholm, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3093.
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Boehm, Josef. "A study of the open gradient magnetic separation method." Thesis, University of Salford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.291728.
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Volbeda, Jeroen [Verfasser]. "The coordination chemistry of edge-bridged open indenyl and imidazolin-2-imine ligands / Jeroen Volbeda." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1058284908/34.
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Frey, Katherine Elizabeth. "The Emergence of Open Cup Drinking: Influences of Cup Design on Hand and Jaw Coordination." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303047821.
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Lesmeister, Micah, and Theodore Elhourani. "AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE AND MIDDLEWARE FOR COLLECTIVE ROBOT TEAMS." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605783.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-21, 2004 / Town & Country Resort, San Diego, CaliforniaIn this paper we propose an open multi-robot architecture that dramatically reduces the time to deployment and increases the utility value to the mainstream non-technical user. We describe a multi-robot behavior-based coordination architecture and argue its suitability in the context of general-purpose robot teams operating in dynamic and unpredictable environments. We then formalize and describe a command fusion module for the coordination of high-level behaviors of the system. The command fusion module is interfaced to our middle-ware/compiler that generates behavior selection tips from a user specified abstract description of a scenario. Finally, we utilize an example search and rescue scenario to illustrate the overall process and give preliminary results of the experiments performed on actual robots.
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Rossouw, Emile Francois. "A georeferencing method for an open-pit mine surveying radar." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6907.
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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ground-based mobile mine survey radars are much more common now than they were a few years ago. Their ever growing popularity instigated the need for streamlining their operating procedures. One such a procedure is that of georeferencing the radar within the mine coordinate frame. Mine surveying radars have traditionally been georeferenced using a triangulation technique called survey resectioning, a time consuming process where both models are placed within the common coordinate frame by tying the models together with known targets or beacons. Survey resectioning requires surveying knowledge as well as access to a theodolite, an expensive high precision optical instrument used for measuring horizontal and vertical angles to the known targets. It is also sometimes necessary for this procedure to be performed in extreme weather conditions. Due to the limitations mentioned, this alignment method is not always practical or accurate if not performed correctly by the operator. In this thesis we investigate a new georeferencing scheme for ground-based mobile mine surveying radar, using a software-implementable three-dimensional model alignment. The scheme considers alignment complexity of four degrees of freedom and requires only an estimated radar position for complete convergence. The new scheme is tested on data previously georeferenced using the existing method.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die gewildheid van grondgebaseerde mobiele myn-radars is vinnig wˆereldwyd aan die toeneem. Hulle word veral in oopgroef-myne aangetref. Hierdie snelgroeiende gewildheid het dit genoodsaak om hul roetiene-gebruiksprosedures te vereenvoudig. ’n Voorbeeld van ’n vereenvoudigde prosedure is om die radar makliker binne die myn-ko¨ordinaatstelsel te posisioneer. Dit is van uiterste belang dat hierdie prosedure so vinnig en akkuraat as moontlik moet geskied. Voorheen is hierdie radar-eenhede deur middel van ’n omslagtige driehoeksmetingstegniek geposisioneer (dikwels in ongunstige weersomstandighede). Hierdie tegniek (genoem landmetingskorrelasie), is ’n proses waar die radar-eenheid in die myn se ko¨ordinaatstelsel geposisioneer word deur middel van bekende punte of bakens. Landmetingskorrelasie vereis boonop van die gebruiker om landmetingskennis te hˆe asook om duur en ingewikkelde toerusting soos ’n teodoliet te gebruik. ’n Teodoliet word algemeen gebruik vir die opmeting van horisontale- en vertikale hoeke na bekende punte. Bogenoemde beperkinge van landmetingskorrelasie het tot gevolg dat die moontlikheid van verkeerde posisionering bestaan indien die oprerateur onervare is. Die proses kan ook lank neem. In hierdie studie word ’n nuwe radarposisioneringsproses ondersoek wat deur middel van drie-dimensionele modelbelyning geimplementeer word as ’n rekenaarprogram. Die proses neem vier grade van vryheid in ag, en benodig slegs ’n benaderde posisie van die radar-eenheid vir konvergensie. Die nuwe proses is getoets op bestaande data wat deur middel van die landmetingskorrelasie-metode belyn was.
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Hendrickson, Brian S. (Brian Scott). "A lightweight method for improving coordination in distributed, high-variability product companies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73410.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Product companies face new challenges as they continue to expand their international footprints. Whereas globalization initially sought savings by outsourcing production to low-cost regions, emerging markets now present new sales opportunities with unique customer demands. Companies increasingly must be sensitive to local expectations at the same time that products are becoming more technology rich and with shorter life cycles. Improved coordination that enables greater speed, flexibility, and multi-market effectiveness is particularly important as companies shift engineering and commercial responsibilities to formerly production-only centers. This study develops and demonstrates an approach to one domain of coordination-the flow of material and related information between globally distributed sites-based on lessons from engineer-to- order (ETO) operating models. By examining contemporary trends in ETO and identifying several generalizable tensions, this study outlines key parameters that distinguish dynamic coordination needs from those embedded in conventional process improvement frameworks. The five-step approach developed in this paper takes a dynamic systems perspective on organizational interfaces and seeks to build feedback mechanisms at multiple levels. It targets the knowledge-transfer, business planning, and execution levels of material management while also addressing the behavioral and practical components of implementation. In doing so, the approach recognizes that uneven process maturity and uncertain external demands must be accommodated. It argues that traditional approaches to coordination have had limited success, because they are slow to adapt and encourage circumvention. Whereas these past methods have exchanged reduced process "waste" for greatly increased rigidity and process housekeeping, the proposed method seeks reinforcing loops that align stakeholders without exhaustive process definition or significant maintenance. A detailed case study at a global ETO business group illustrates the method and its initial results in an environment of limited patience for formal process development. The resulting portfolio of change initiatives, which includes inter-site service level commitments, local forecast sharing, service parts forecasting, and reverse logistics, demonstrates an integrative approach to business site interfaces that attempts to tie local short-term performance with global long-term success.
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Kim, Jinhan. "J-model : an open and social ensemble learning architecture for classification." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7672.
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Ensemble learning is a promising direction of research in machine learning, in which an ensemble classifier gives better predictive and more robust performance for classification problems by combining other learners. Meanwhile agent-based systems provide frameworks to share knowledge from multiple agents in an open context. This thesis combines multi-agent knowledge sharing with ensemble methods to produce a new style of learning system for open environments. We now are surrounded by many smart objects such as wireless sensors, ambient communication devices, mobile medical devices and even information supplied via other humans. When we coordinate smart objects properly, we can produce a form of collective intelligence from their collaboration. Traditional ensemble methods and agent-based systems have complementary advantages and disadvantages in this context. Traditional ensemble methods show better classification performance, while agent-based systems might not guarantee their performance for classification. Traditional ensemble methods work as closed and centralised systems (so they cannot handle classifiers in an open context), while agent-based systems are natural vehicles for classifiers in an open context. We designed an open and social ensemble learning architecture, named J-model, to merge the conflicting benefits of the two research domains. The J-model architecture is based on a service choreography approach for coordinating classifiers. Coordination protocols are defined by interaction models that describe how classifiers will interact with one another in a peer-to-peer manner. The peer ranking algorithm recommends more appropriate classifiers to participate in an interaction model to boost the success rate of results of their interactions. Coordinated participant classifiers who are recommended by the peer ranking algorithm become an ensemble classifier within J-model. We evaluated J-model’s classification performance with 13 UCI machine learning benchmark data sets and a virtual screening problem as a realistic classification problem. J-model showed better performance of accuracy, for 9 benchmark sets out of 13 data sets, than 8 other representative traditional ensemble methods. J-model gave better results of specificity for 7 benchmark sets. In the virtual screening problem, J-model gave better results for 12 out of 16 bioassays than already published results. We defined different interaction models for each specific classification task and the peer ranking algorithm was used across all the interaction models. Our research contributions to knowledge are as follows. First, we showed that service choreography can be an effective ensemble coordination method for classifiers in an open context. Second, we used interaction models that implement task specific coordinations of classifiers to solve a variety of representative classification problems. Third, we designed the peer ranking algorithm which is generally and independently applicable to the task of recommending appropriate member classifiers from a classifier pool based on an open pool of interaction models and classifiers.
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Balik, Hasan Huseyin. "Passive open planar microwave circuit analysis by enhanced spectral domain method." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/3b619722-649b-483b-a806-6a3494f942ce.
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Culioli, Jean-Christophe. "Algorithmes de decomposition/coordination en optimisation stochastique." Paris, ENMP, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987ENMP0059.
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Les systemes consideres, souvent complexes a modeliser et/ou optimiser peuvent etre constitues de sous-systemes heterogenes pour lesquels une technique globale de resolution n'est pas necessairement appropriee ou possible, meme s'ils sont equivalents et peu nombreux
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Albrecht, Stefano Vittorino. "Utilising policy types for effective ad hoc coordination in multiagent systems." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/16199.
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This thesis is concerned with the ad hoc coordination problem. Therein, the goal is to design an autonomous agent which can achieve high flexibility and efficiency in a multiagent system that admits no prior coordination between the designed agent and the other agents. Flexibility describes the agent’s ability to solve its task with a variety of other agents in the system; efficiency is the relation between the agent’s payoffs and time needed to solve the task; and no prior coordination means that the agent does not a priori know how the other agents behave. This problem is relevant for a number of practical applications, including human-machine interaction tasks, such as adaptive user interfaces, robotic elderly care, and automated trading agents. Motivated by this problem, the central idea studied in this thesis is to utilise a set of policies, or types, to characterise the behaviour of other agents. Specifically, the idea is to reduce the complexity of the interaction problem by assuming that the other agents draw their latent type from some known or hypothesised space of types, and that the assignment of types is governed by an unknown distribution. Based on the current interaction history, we can form posterior beliefs about the relative likelihood of types. These beliefs, combined with the future predictions of the types, can then be used in a planning procedure to compute optimal responses. The aim of this thesis is to study the potential and limitations of this idea in the context of ad hoc coordination. We formulate the ad hoc coordination problem using a game-theoretic model called the stochastic Bayesian game. Based on this model, we derive a canonical algorithmic description of the idea outlined above, called Harsanyi-Bellman Ad Hoc Coordination (HBA). The practical potential of HBA is demonstrated in two case studies, including a human-machine experiment and a simulated logistics domain. We formulate basic ways to incorporate evidence (i.e. observed actions) into posterior beliefs and analyse the conditions under which the posterior beliefs converge to the true distribution of types. Furthermore, we study the impact of prior beliefs over types (that is, before any actions are observed) on the long-term performance of HBA, and show empirically that automatic methods can compute prior beliefs with consistent performance effects. For hypothesised (i.e. “guessed”) type spaces, we analyse the relations between hypothesised and true type spaces under which HBA is still guaranteed to solve its task, despite inaccuracies in hypothesised types. Finally, we show how HBA can perform an automatic statistical analysis to decide whether to reject its behavioural hypothesis, i.e. the combination of posterior beliefs and types.
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Rigard, Sarah. "Critique of a Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Method Applied to Residential Open Space." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/643.
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To this date, little research has been done evaluating the quality of wildlife habitat provided by open space in residential areas. Quality wildlife habitat for the purposes of this study is defined as those areas which contain the physical and biological characteristics necessary to support native wildlife species of the region. This thesis critiqued a wildlife habitat assessment method used in a nationwide study of residential open space for the purpose of better understanding the research conducted by the study and to inform similar, future habitat evaluations of landscapes altered by human activity to accommodate residential land use. The methodology critiqued was a low resolution, habitat based, rapid assessment. The methodology provided information on the ecological function of the open space in each development and related that information to individual wildlife species needs to provide an estimation of habitat quality. However, an increase in sampling frequency and additional data collection would have improved the assessment.
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Hatzitaki, Vassilia. "Power flow analysis as a method to document coordination disabilities observed in Parkinson's disease." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61122.
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The purpose of the present study was to establish the use of the power flow analysis and the subsequent phase breakdown of the movement pattern as an objective and reliable tool to document in detail movement disabilities observed in Parkinson's disease. Movement was reflected in a series of functional phases responsible for detailed muscle function around the joint as the result of the kinematic output.The results revealed the importance of the power flow analysis as a sensitive tool for describing coordination disabilities. Similar muscle phenomena were reflected through the functional movement phases of both ability groups. However, the variability in the number of phases increased as a function of the task complexity. The statistical comparison of selected kinematic and dynamic parameters revealed significantly higher peaks for the able-bodied movement profiles. The analysis also demonstrated that the movement deficiencies observed in Parkinson's Disease cannot simply be attributed to the pure force production by the joint musculature. It seems that there is also a problem in managing and organizing the active and passive forces acting at the joint. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Yeh, Ding-Horng. "Sequential bottleneck decomposition and the QNET method for some open multiclass queueing networks." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21677.
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Fitzmaurice, Michael G. "A new finite-difference time-domain method applied to an open waveguide structure." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7950.
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The study makes use of a variation of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method as first proposed by Yee to simulate electromagnetic field distribution and propagation in an open waveguide structure. In order to prove that this new method is valid, a reflection coefficient is calculated with simulation data and compared to measurements. The agreement between measurement and simulation data, while not exact, is enough to establish the veracity of the new method. This study contains a detailed discussion of the discrepancies which were observed. Also presented are colour images of the simulation which give the reader an idea as to the nature and level of detail of the information which can be obtained from the simulation.
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shah, Syed Mehr Ali. "Usability assessment Method of the open source applications Case Study of OpenOffice.Org 3.0." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3085.
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Open-source software is becoming a gradually more popular as a software development method; some of the most successful softwares are for example: the Linux operating system, Mozilla, Apache web server and openoffice.org. Open source softwares viewed by many as being very good in terms of their usage, reliability, performance and market share. Mostly open source software developer focus on functionality and different feature of the software; on the other hand they ignore the user centric design requirement. In this thesis the importance of the usability in Open source applications, such as Openoffice.org are described and how usability can be measured by assessing user performance such as, satisfaction, effectiveness and acceptability. Openoffice.org is a freely available office suite in different operating system and with different languages. The OpenOffice.org 3.0 feature set is similar to the feature set of Microsoft Office 2003. It has word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications all together within a common suite. But still this application suite is not much familiar among common users that cause a major usability threat for usability studies. The basic purposed of this thesis was to find out the issues and users satisfaction regarding this Openoffice.org. Empirical method of usability assessment such as thinks aloud, Questionnaires and interviews were used.Folkparkvagen 20 Lag 10 Ronneby 37240 Sweden Mobile number 0046-700183591
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Akman, Mehmet Nazim. "Analysis Of Thin Walled Open Section Tapered Beams Using Hybrid Stress Finite Element Method." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12609246/index.pdf.
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In this thesis, hybrid stress finite element is formulated for the analysis of the isotropic, thin walled, open section beams with variable cross sections. The beam element has two nodes each having seven degrees of freedom. Assumption of stress field is sufficient to determine the element stiffness matrix. Axial, flexural and torsional effects are taken into account in the analysis. The methodology can be applied both to the tapered and the uniform beams. Throughout this study, firstly element cross-sectional properties are computed using the flow analogy of the inter-connected elements which may have different thicknesses. Then another computer program calculates the displacements and stresses at the nodes along the beam. The results obtained are compared to the results taken from literature and commercial FEM program Nastran.
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Calderon, Giron L. Rodolfo (Luis Rodolfo). "Short-term coordination and fast-recoordination of hydrothermal systems : a new approach using the continuation method." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74007.
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Röijezon, Ulrik. "Sensorimotor function in chronic neck pain : objective assessments and a novel method for neck coordination exercise." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Sjukgymnastik, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-22674.
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Chronic neck pain is a widespread problem that causes individual suffering as well as large costs for the society. The knowledge about the pathophysiology is poor and therefore specific diagnosis and causal treatment are rare. Important knowledge for characterization of the disorders has been gained from research on sensorimotor functions in people with neck pain. Moreover, rehabilitation regimes including sensorimotor exercises indicate promising results. The main objectives of this thesis were to extend the knowledge on sensorimotor dysfunctions in chronic neck pain, and to develop a new exercise method for improving sensorimotor functions of the neck. The studies focused on aspects of postural control and movements of the arm and neck. These are vital functions for many activities of daily living. People with chronic (>3 months) neck pain were compared to healthy controls (CON). Neck pain related to trauma was referred to as whiplash associated disorders (WAD), while neck pain without association to trauma was referred to as non-specific (NS). Arm-functioning was assessed in a pointing task. WAD and NS had reduced pointing precision compared to CON. The reduced precision was associated with self-rated difficulties performing neck movements, physical functioning, and in WAD, also pain and balance disturbances. Postural control was assessed in quiet standing on a force platform without vision. The center of pressure signal was decomposed into it’s slow and fast components. WAD and NS were compared to CON. The results revealed an effect of age on the magnitude of the fast sway component, but no effect of group. The magnitude of the slow component was elevated in both WAD and NS. This increase was associated with self-rated balance disturbance, arm-functioning, difficulties to run and sensory alterations in WAD, while in NS, the increase in the slow sway component was associated with concurrent low back pain. Neck movements were assessed in a cervical axial rotation test with maximal speed. In total 8 variables representing basic kinematics, including variables reflecting movement smoothness and conjunct motions were calculated. NS were compared to CON. Linear discriminant modelling indicated Peak Speed and conjunct motions as significant classification variables that together had a sensitivity of 76.3% and specificity of 77.6%. Retest reliability was good for Peak Speed but poor for the measure of conjunct motions. Peak Speed was slower in NS compared to CON, and even slower in a sub-group of NS with concurrent low back pain. Reduced Peak Speed was associated with self-rated difficulties performing neck movements, car driving, running, sleeping disturbances and pain. The clinical applicability of a novel method for neck coordination exercise was assessed in a pilot study on persons with NS. The results supported the applicability and indicated positive effects of the exercise: reduced postural sway in quiet standing and increased smoothness in cervical rotations. Indications on improvement in self-rated disability and fear of movement were seen at six months follow up. In conclusion, sensorimotor functions can be altered in chronic neck pain, particularly in neck disorders with concurrent low back pain and WAD. The discriminative ability and clinical validity displayed in pointing precision, postural sway and cervical axial rotation speed imply that such tests can be valuable tools in the assessment of chronic neck pain patients, and for selecting and evaluating treatment interventions. Indications of improvements seen in the pilot-study support a future RCT.
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WAI, THWE AUNG. "DEVELOPMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL THEORY ON UNSTEADY OPEN CHANNEL FLOWS." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/244536.
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Sharp, Jacqueline Emily U'Ren. "Applicability of the Mathews Stability Method to Open Stope Stability Assessment at Olympic Dam Mine." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5520.
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Olympic Dam underground mine is located in South Australia approximately 520km north-north-west of Adelaide. The copper-gold-uranium deposit is extracted by open stope mining. The empirical Mathews stability method has been applied to open stope stability forecasting at Olympic Dam for the more than 20 years. This method adjusts the rock tunneling quality index (Q’) to allow for a rock stress factor, the orientation of any discontinuity and the orientation of the geometric surface formed by the excavation.
The applicability of the Mathews stability method at Olympic Dam was analysed by assessing the volume of over break outside the stope design profile. It was found that 41% of all stope surface predictions were correct, and that 59% (by difference) of all predictions were therefore incorrect. This was found to be primarily due to the method as applied at Olympic Dam, rather than the inherent errors of the Mathews stability method. However there are a number of weaknesses in the Mathews stability method including the inability to identify structural weaknesses in the rock mass, to allow for different stress concentrations around irregular shaped stopes and to account for stope relaxation.
A high resolution non-linear, Hoek Brown, numerical model is capable of providing displacement, velocity and strain rates for points within a rock mass. Velocity is the modelled rate of displacement of the points within the rock mass relative to the stope profile. An existing numerical model of this sort at Olympic Dam was used to investigate the relationship of the velocity of points moving toward a stope, and the probability of them becoming over break. It was found that with increasing rates of velocity the probability of a point becoming over break increased.
The identified limitations of the application of the Mathews stability method are not enough to justify removing the method from the stope design process at Olympic Dam. With the implementation of recommended improvements such as, increasing the frequency of window mapping collection, live stress measurements and detailed post-mining assessment of stopes, an increase in the methods reliability can be expected. These improvements should be incorporated in conjunction with the continued trial of velocity as a stope performance indicator at Olympic Dam.
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Howison, James. "Alone together a socio-technical theory of motivation, coordination and collaboration technologies in organizing for free and open source software development /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Goodwin, David R. "The open-to-buy system and retail inventory method : the impact on accurate performance measurement /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phg656.pdf.
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Kalb, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph). "An open-loop method for reduction of torque ripple and an associated thermal-management technique." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42595.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 202-204).
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Kara, Sibel. "Numerical simulation of flow in open-channels with hydraulic structures." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54033.
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Extreme hydrological events associated with global warming are likely to produce an increasing number of flooding scenarios resulting in significant bridge inundation and associated damages. During large floods, the presence of a bridge in an open channel triggers a highly turbulent flow field including 3D complex coherent structures around bridge structures. These turbulence structures are highly energetic and possess high sediment entrainment capacity which increases scouring around the bridge foundation and consequently lead to structural stability problems or even failure of the structure. Hence, understanding the complex turbulent flow field for these extreme flow conditions is crucial to estimate the failure risks for existing bridges and better design of future bridges.
This research employs the method Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to predict accurately the 3D turbulent flow around bridge structures. The LES code is refined with a novel free surface algorithm based on the Level Set Method (LSM) to determine the complex water surface profiles. The code is used to analyze the hydrodynamics of compound channel flow with deep and shallow overbanks, free flow around a bridge abutment, pressure flow with a partially submerged bridge deck and bridge overtopping flow. All simulations are validated with data from complementary physical model tests under analogous geometrical and flow conditions. Primary velocity, bed shear stress, turbulence characteristics and 3D coherent flow structures are examined thoroughly for each of the flow cases to explain the hydrodynamics of these complex turbulent flows.