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Azize, Joseph. "Who wrote the Assyrian King list?" Phd thesis, School of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7154.
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Asimakopulos, Anna. "P.D. James : a moral murder she wrote." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61066.
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This thesis places P. D. James's detective novels within the historical and critical framework of the detective genre, and explores her particular contributions to it. James's awareness of the implications of a police investigation, coupled with her strikingly bleak and moralistic representation of our contemporary world are two of the main reasons she has achieved such widespread critical acclaim. Her novels also have a didactic dimension that ranges from an assertion of morally-correct modes of behaviour in an age without religion, to the constant reminder that, although they provide entertainment, murder mysteries must never be taken too lightly. These signature features of James's fiction have become more pronounced over the years, and reached their apotheosis in such novels as Death of an Expert Witness, A Taste for Death, and Devices and Desires. As a result, these texts are the principal analytic focus of this thesis.
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Kedar, Dorit [Verfasser]. "Who Wrote the Incantation Bowls? / Dorit Kedar." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/118548597X/34.
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Murray, Samuel E. "The Thesis I Wrote Last Night: Procrastination, Self-Regulation, and Self-Efficacy." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1563448474161815.
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Yu, Yi-Lin. "Mother s/he wrote : a poetics of matrilineal narratives in contemporary wo/men's writing." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288963.
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Kurtyka, Faith. "Love, loss, and what I wrote an ethnographic study of personal writing in a textile and apparel management course /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5063.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 30, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Maskell, Katherine Murphy. "Who Wrote Those “Livery Stable Blues”?: Authorship Rights in Jazz and Law as Evidenced in Hart et al. v. Graham." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338343959.
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Swanson, Anna Lynn. "Body of work: everything I wrote while I was supposed to be making films (is actually part of the filmmaking process)." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6298.
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Disciplines arrive at moments of crisis. So do those who labor within and at the margins, intersections, outskirts, and centers of those disciplines. This written thesis draws together these moments of both disciplinary and individual crisis, at the intersection of anthropology, nonfiction filmmaking, and film studies. In response to existential, representational, and ethical anxieties, these writings and videos affirm life, within and between the disciplines, myself, and my collaborators — each of whom has experienced or is recovering from an eating disorder. Through navigating the representation of these experiences, the work interrogates the limits and potentials of representation in nonfiction film and video more broadly, and how it relates to anthropology, activism, and pedagogy. It asks: what is a good (ethical) representation of another individual’s experience, especially of something as seemingly private or vulnerable as an eating disorder and the recovery from it? This thesis approaches this question from technological, methodological, ethical, philosophical, and practical perspectives, and in doing so, aims not so much to resolve these disciplinary and personal crises, but to move through and with them, towards a theory and a practice of embodied ethical representation.
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Åhlin, Josefin. "Has the representation of masculinity and homosocial bonds changed since E.M. Forster wrote Maurice?: : A comparison between Forster’s novel and Jim Grimsley’s Dream Boy." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-15668.
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This essay provides some insight into how the representation of masculinity, homosocial bonds and homosexuality in two novels has changed during the last century. The essay analyzes the novels, Maurice (E.M Forster) and Dream Boy (Jim Grimsley). The main focus lies on how Maurice and Dream Boy handle certain topics; social behavior in private and public among the male protagonists and the role of the father figure. The essay points out similarities and differences between how each topic is being handled in the respective novels. The main theoretical concept focuses on masculinity, homosocial bonds and the perception of homosexuality and how it is constructed in the two novels. The representations of masculinity seem to change over time only to take the same shape as before. The same kinds of masculinities are represented in both Maurice and Dream Boy. The fact that young men have learned that their bodies can be used as instruments of power makes it difficult for them to allow intimacy within homophobic cultures which might threaten their male identities and therefore influence the way their homosocial bonds.
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Andreasson, Karin. "To Write Architecture." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-223225.
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Why does literature make me feel more than architecture does? Can the tools of a writer be used in creating architecture? How come stories of magical realism sometimes tell more about real life than realistic ones does? Through analysing literature I have found that surprise, repetition, contradiction and tempo are cornerstones for a good reading experience. By embodying these I have attempted to make spaces, sequences and details that are evoking. This proposal is a library of fiction, located in the magic meadows between the pillars of three intersecting bridges.
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Manson, Richard. "White Men Write Now." Diss., lmu, 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-58590.
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Tapsell, John Peter. "Direct-Write Digital Holography." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487902.
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Chapter 1 gives a brief history of the field of holography along with an overview of this thesis. A more detailed description of holography is provided in Chapter 2 along with a discussion of digital holography. Chapter 3 examines the design of a one-step monochromatic hologram printer capable producing white-light viewable transmission holograms created with the aid of an LCOS display system and printed in a dot-matrix sequence. The lens system employed includes a microlens array and an afocal relay telescope which are both quantitatively examined in order to maximise the contrast, diffraction efficiency and depth of view of the final hologram image. A brief overview of speckle reduction techniques and their applicability to pulsed digital holography is presented along with experimental results of the use of a microlens array to reduce speckle effects. Chapter 4 presents an analysis of the unwanted side effects of the angular intensity distribution of a hologram pixel, using a case study for analysis. Chapter 5 examines methods for increasing both the printing speed and resolution of the hologram printer. Chapter 6 describes the analysis and design of a temperature-energy feedback system to correct for pulsed laser instabilities arising from mode beating due to temperature variations. Chapter 7 provides a conclusion to the work and discusses possible future developments.
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Carlson, Hedda. "write drunk/edit sober." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-22043.
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This work starts with a simple question of ; Why not to draw the garment directly on the body since this is the way it will inevitably be worn? Working through steps; wrapping into a fabric and drawing the garment on the body to reveal lines for constructing that is directly based on the body, this work shows an alternative way of constructing a garment; the result that is presented can be seen as a base for further development within the field this method has explored. Further, the work challenges the current norms in archetypical garments with the intention to redefine their expression, where the methods aim is to broaden the field of garment construction, investigating the gap between construction lines and material expectations. The method Write Drunk/ Edit Sober is both discovering the fundamentals of garment construction and questioning the systematic interpretations we place on a garments connection to materials.
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Granati, Gregorio <1992>. "La strategia Buy-Write." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/11507.
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L'analisi condotta nel progetto di tesi ha come oggetto una delle strategie operative con opzioni finanziarie, più interesanti sul mercato
Presupposto della ricerca è la complsessità e la vastita degli strumenti derivati, attraverso i quali si può operare una strategia di covered call writing.
Le opzioni, e in generale tutti i prodotti derivati, sono contratti complessi dalle mille sfaccettature. Occupano una fetta di mercato consistente, e le contrattazioni sembrano in aumento nel futuro prossimo. Regolamentare questa alta percentuale di mercato finanziario è fondamentale tanto quanto impegnativo.
Operare in buy-write implica posizionarsi short su un contratto di opzione call, mantenendo una posizione long sul sottostante. Si vende un'opzione call, incassando un premio, con la sicurezza di essere coperti dall'avere in portafoglio i titoli che potremmo essere poi tenuti a vendere se la quotazione del sottostante raggiungesse lo strike.
Nella ricerca sono state simulate delle riproduzioni di vendita - acquisto simultanee, utilizzando quotazioni reali, prese dalla piattaforma di trading Fineco.
Alle simulazioni sono seguite delle riflessioni sulle varie componenti che influenzano il rendimento della strategia.
L'analisi si è poi spostata sull'interpretazione dei dati storici, esaminando la costruzione e l'andamento dell'indice di mercato di riferimento della strategia, il CBOE Buy Write S&P500 index. L'indice riproduce gli ultimi 40 anni di una ipotetica assidua applicazione della strategia sull'indice S&P500. Ogni ultimo venerdì del mese viene simulata la vendita della call più vicina alla scadenza, con il prezzo just out of the money, incassando così il premio.
Questa preziosa ricostruzione condotta dal professor Whaley, su commissione del Chicago Board Option Exchange, permette di paragonare le performance di mercato.
I risultati della strategia paiono constantemente interessanti soprattutto in momenti di stallo del mercato azionario, incassando extra rendimenti dal premio.
In momenti di trend negativo, la strategia rappresenta un buon antidoto alle perdite, sempre grazie all'incasso preventivo del premio.
L'attenzione, sempre più crescente, degli investitori verso questa strategia è sottolineata dalla creazione in questi anni di prodotti finanziari, come gli Exchange Trade Fund esaminati, sempre più scambiati.
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Cragnolini, Alessandro <1993>. "Write Rhythm - Marketing Report." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/11656.
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Write Rhythm is a tech start-up launched in May 2016 in Denpasar, Indonesia. The mission of the company is to disrupt the music industry by offering a service that matches music producers with record labels worldwide (Ardie, 2017). The start-up focuses on electronic music and aims to service the industry equally at both ends. In brief, Write Rhythm sends the tracks uploaded by producers to labels that are looking for new talents, streamlining and improving the process of demo submission, that is otherwise long, tedious and often ineffective. Since the service offers an advanced filtering system, artists can send their demos to the labels that fit their sound best and, on the other side, labels can receive only the music that is consistent with their particular brand (Write Rhythm 2017).
Currently, Write Rhythm lists more than 350 independent record labels across 80 electronic music sub-genres and is working to gather a larger number of users as well as to extend its genres list. Moreover, the company is entering a crucial time of transition, characterized by major changes such as the launch of the version 2.0 of the platform and a new funding round (Write Rhythm 2017).
In May 2017, I have worked at Write Rhythm as a Marketing Intern. During this placement, my tasks focused on three areas of business:
1. Competition: by analyzing the competitors’ products and the influence of artists and labels on the company’s operations.
2. Customer Acquisition: by formulating new customer acquisition strategies, mostly through mail campaigns.
3. Social Media: by developing the concept of a new sub-brand and creating content for it.
In this context, the main limitation has been time. In fact, although being intense, this experience has been concentrated in only one month. Therefore, I did not have enough time to work on every aspect of the business. However, especially thanks to a continuous and insightful dialogue with Jody Taylor, the company’s founder and CEO, I have had the opportunity to have an overview of what operations are carried out at Write Rhythm and how they are conducted.
For these reasons, in this report, I aim to link this experience with my academic studies by applying some of the marketing theories, models and frameworks I have learned during my master’s. In particular, my analysis takes the stock of the current situation of the company from the standpoint of the competition, the market and the online marketing mix, with the objective of suggesting relevant recommendations.
Consequently, this report takes the form of a marketing report and features the following areas of analysis:
1. Competitive Analysis: by applying Porter’s Five Forces framework, the micro environment as well as the direct competitors’ offers are examined.
2. Market Analysis: by applying the segmenting, targeting and positioning model, the customers’ characteristics and the targeting strategies as well as the positioning of the brand and the product in the mind of consumers are described.
3. Online Marketing Mix Analysis: by applying an online marketing mix analysis, the strategies developed through the website, social media and sub-brands are analyzed.
This report also provides relevant recommendations that could assist the company in facing its future challenges:
1. As a result of the Competitive and Market analyses, the development of a partnership with a company with which there is a high degree of product complementarity is suggested.
2. In the light of the Competitive and Market analyses as well as of the previous recommendation, the introduction of a new pricing strategy is suggested.
3. On the basis of the Market and Online Marketing Mix analyses, an extension of the sub-brand line in growing segments of the electronic music industry is suggested.
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Braxton, David Harvey. "Write it right: Learning how to write an essay about literature through technology." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1075.
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Moore, Dashiell. ""Our write-to-write": A Poetics of Encounter Across Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23760.
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Encounter narratives are often associated with the accounts of first contact between Europeans and the Indigenous inhabitants of New Worlds. However, they are also the means by which writers assert their self-determination from the coloniser. Notable examples can be found in the works of Martinique scholar Edouard Glissant, the late Barbados poet and scholar Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Yoogum and Kudjela poet Lionel Fogarty, and Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. Each poet validates the encountered figure's right to refuse the reader's comprehension, a shared signature demonstrating their commitment to resist the self-Other tradition of Western metaphysics. This dissertation is the first scholarly effort to examine their works together and one of the first comparative studies of Aboriginal and Caribbean poetry; drawing out formal, conceptual, and historical affinities between these poets' projects. Aboriginal and Caribbean writings on the encounter are commonly framed by an overarching structural opposition between Caribbean rootlessness and Aboriginal rootedness. More provocatively, I suggest that a range of Aboriginal and Caribbean writers themselves affirm this structural opposition by portraying one another in obverse terms. In doing so, I resituate these poets in a host of new theoretical figurations that challenge the given cultural or political groupings with which their poetic extrapolations of the encounter are read, most notably the rootlessness of Caribbean literature and the rootedness of Aboriginal literature. Having shown that the rootless-rooted binary limits our understanding of the relational complexities of these poets' projects, I upend this opposition by reading from an inverted theoretical perspective: Brathwaite and Glissant as the forbears of an Indigenous literature, Fogarty and Eckermann as mobile writers in a planetary context.
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Liberg, Caroline. "Learning to read and write." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 1990. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-251889.
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Hedeman, Walter R. Jr. "WRITE NOISE IN MAGNETIC RECORDING." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/615733.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1985 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada<br>A novel source of noise is identified and described in this study. If a continuous recording medium is less than perfectly uniform, a given quantity may be recorded differently at different locations in the medium. Inadvertent “encoding” occurs, embedding noise in the signal. Symmetrical sideband noise power results from amplitude and phase modulation of the signal stream by the nonuniform recording medium. “Write noise”, so-called because writing is required, is correlated in amplitude with signal amplitude, and its mean frequency is the signal frequency. It is the dominant noise source for the current generation of recorders and tapes; its power spectrum is almost the same as the power spectrum of the signal. The ratio of standard deviation to mean value of the signal envelope when recording cw signals is an absolute measure of tape quality independent of record level, tape speed, and track width, and establishes an available signal-to-noise ratio which cannot be exceeded. It is assumed that the recorder output has a normal amplitude distribution about its mean value. Theory is confirmed by experiment, within experimental error, for cw and digital recording.
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Baker, Cynthia Joanne. "Motivating Secondary Students to Write." UNF Digital Commons, 1989. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/45.
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This is a study which examines motivation and its implications for the secondary student writer. Included in the study is a synthesization of writing research with a multi-faceted curriculum. The study concludes by challenging teachers to acquire a theory of teaching writing based upon knowledge of research and instructional practices related to that theory.
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Salom, Leo. "How to write a building." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33687.
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The following pages contain the imagination for a library to be built in the manner of a sestina. The question that titles the book and the work within has preoccupied me for a while and at this moment, it would be an error to say that a conclusion has been reached; ultimately, solutions only propel echoes, foretelling of the blind fold before our eyes, ignorance. There is only a hope that the images here are to you, the reader, as crystalline as they were to me, the dreamer.<br>Master of Architecture
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Phillips, Laura J. "The Write Way to Act." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1433594247.
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Shotthafer, Susan M. "Motivating underachieving students to write." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1053.
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Harris, Sally. "If women write in milk, do children write in snot? : children's voices in documented drama." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2011. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8858/.
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Nagpal, Radhika. "Store Buffers : implementing single cycle store instructions in write-through, write-back and set associative caches." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36678.
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Thesis (B.S. and M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 87).<br>This thesis proposes a new mechanism, called Store Buffers, for implementing single cycle store instructions in a pipelined processor. Single cycle store instructions are difficult to implement because in most cases the tag check must be performed before the data can be written into the data cache. Store buffers allow a store instruction to read the cache tag as it. passes through the pipe while keeping the store instruction data buffered in a backup register until the data cache is free. This strategy guarantees single cycle store execution without increasing the hit access time or degrading the performance of the data cache for simple direct-mapped caches, as well as for more complex set associative and write-back caches. As larger caches are incorporated on-chip, the speed of store instructions becomes an increasingly important part of the overall performance. The first part of the thesis describes the design and implementation of store buffers in write through, write-back, direct-mapped and set associative caches. The second part describes the implementation and simulation of store buffers in a 6-stage pipeline with a direct mapped write-through pipelined cache. The performance of this method is compared to other cache write techniques. Preliminary results show that store buffers perform better than other store strategies under high IO latencies and cache thrashing. With as few as three buffers, they significantly reduce the number of cycles per instruction.<br>by Radhika Nagpal.<br>B.S.and M.S.
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Hildenbrand, Stefan. "Performance tradeoffs in write-optimized databases." Zurich : ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Systems Group, 2008. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=dipl&nr=430.
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Carson, Johnny. "How to write comedy for radio." [Lincoln, Neb.] : University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/theaterstudent/1/.
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Mims, Pamela J., Angel Lee, and Diana D. Browder. "Access Language Arts: WRITE iPad Application." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/320.
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A researched and standards-based approach for secondary students practicing reading and writing skills
Product Features: Prompts students to write grade-aligned opinion paragraphs for nonfiction and fiction Improves reading comprehension and vocabulary development Use as a complement to Teaching to Standards: English Language Arts or a stand-alone program Also available as the Access Language Arts: WRITE iPad App
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Sharp, L. Kathryn. "Ready, Set, Write: Supporting Young Writers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4274.
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Archibald, William Charles. "Myth-making and motivation to write." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/483.
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Tan, Alvin Thong Lip. "Direct-write assembly of colloidal materials." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123620.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2019<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-108).<br>Colloidal assembly, which is the spontaneous organization of nano- and micro- sized particles, is an attractive means to create materials with properties that can be engineered via hierarchy of particle composition, size, ordering, and macroscopic form. However, while there are well-established methods for assembling colloidal crystals as films and patterns on substrates, it has not been previously possible to build freeform colloidal crystal structures. Macroscale, freeform colloidal crystals could enable the development of novel composites, photonics, electronics, and new studies of crystallization in three-dimensions. This thesis describes the development of direct-write assembly, a process combining the bottom-up principle of colloidal self-assembly with the versatility of direct-write 3-D printing. Direct-write assembly is performed by precision dispense of a colloidal suspension from a fine needle into a temperature-controlled environment.<br>Using polystyrene particles suspended in water as a model system, we derive a scaling law that governs the rate of assembly. Moreover, by high resolution motion control of the substrate, the trajectory of crystal growth, and therefore the shape of the crystal, can be controlled in freeform. We show how to prevent cracking in these free-standing colloidal crystals, and demonstrate the emergence of structural color tunable by particle size. We also explore in-plane direct-write as a means for fabricating colloidal crystals patterned by a digital template. The kinetics of crystal growth can be modelled by the Dimitrov-Nagayama equation for convective assembly, which allows us to develop an operational phase diagram to serve as a practical guide for high-throughput assembly. Moreover, we develop a means of rapidly characterizing grain structure from the optical diffractive properties of the colloidal crystal.<br>By sequentially sintering and overlapping passes, in-plane direct-write can potentially build up to 3-D structures. Finally, we consider the scaling of forces in the direct-write assembly process and demonstrate that direct-write can be extended to various particle systems. In particular, we demonstrate application of direct-write to the assembly of colloidal silica, gold, and iron oxide supercrystals.<br>"This research was supported by the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (CMMI- 1346638, to A.J.H.) and by the MIT-Skoltech Next Generation Program ... the Singapore Defence Science Organisation for a postgraduate scholarship"--Page 4<br>by Alvin Thong Lip Tan.<br>Ph. D.<br>Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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Wener, Abby. "Who's the 'write' girl? : a poetic inquiry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62502.
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This dissertation closely examines my own experiences as a creative writing facilitator, program coordinator, poet, feminist, and confidante at a creative writing non-profit organization in Vancouver, B.C. Write It . Write It was created specifically to support young women between the ages of 13 and 19 who have been labeled as ‘at-risk.’ I ground the dissertation in Foucauldian theory and situate this work within the field of Girls’ Studies. I braid this critical feminist educational work with the generative area of poetic inquiry to explore the multiple and differing ways the young women who were enrolled in the program have been understood and how the labels of ‘at-risk,’ ‘troubled,’ and ‘in-crisis’ have shaped them.
I explore through poetic inquiry my interpretation of how each of the young women in differing ways shaped their own identities and experiences. The original poems were grounded in the detailed journal entries I kept while I was involved in the program. Through poetry I endeavor to represent the various experiences, impressions, understandings, and a witnessing of the young women at Write It. Inquiring poetically enables the exploration of the complexity, contradictions, and poignancy of the program, the young women, and the multiple roles I occupied. We need to get rid of the ‘fixing’ and ‘reformation’ discourses of youth. What needs to be done is to work to advance creativity and self-awareness. The poetic explorations provide effective theoretical, practical, and pedagogical approaches for ‘at-risk’ young women and contributes to the expansive and the fields of Girls’ Studies and poetic inquiry research.<br>Education, Faculty of<br>Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of<br>Graduate
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Reed, Sharon Faith Levin. "Teaching young students with autism to write." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5538.
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Young students with autism and other developmental delays face specific challenges when learning to complete academic tasks, including writing. Through a single subject study, the author examined the use of multiple methods in teaching one kindergarten student with autism and one first grader with autism to write the letters in their names in capital letters without a model. Students were evaluated on letter use and letter legibility. One student was taught to build and identify letters with Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) (Olsen, 2008) sticks, use the HWT magnetic writing board, trace lines, trace their name, write their name with a model and write their name without a model. The other student was taught to write trace their name, write their name with a model and write their name without a model via video modeling.
Both live and video modeling methods were found to be useful in advancing a student to more complex handwriting tasks. Both students in the study advanced – the student utilizing a live modeling method advanced two tasks and the student using a video modeling method advanced one. Both students showed improvement from initial baseline to post-test.<br>Thesis (M.A.T.)--Wichita State University, College of Education, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction
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Swart, Susanna Maria. "Beyong the veil : Muslim women write back." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37291.
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This thesis sets out to provide what is perceived as the nature of Islam and background
that inform the interpretation of the two novels ofMariama Ba as well as that of selected
works by fellow Muslim writer, N awal El-Saadawi. Although the question of gender is
carefully addressed, the principal viewpoint is Islamic theocratic rather than purely
feminist.
This study surveys the struggle of these two women writers to claim public space in a
dominant patriarchal society. It examines the socio-political conditions affecting women
in the Arab peninsula before the rise of Islam, also called Jahiliyyah, from Islam's
inception (622 AD). It notes that the principle of equality of all the believers was
established by the injunction in the Qur'an, and endorsed by Muhammad, the Prophet,
after whose death, manipulation of the sacred texts, especially of the Hadiths, took place.
This led to opposition to gender equality; while fitna (civil war) in Medina, led the Prophet to re-institute the hijablveil, in order to protect women from being sexually
harassed. The significance of the hijab is then explored, and Fatima Mernissi's text Women and
Islam (1987; 1992) is used as seminal to the argument that the hijab was not instituted
to put a barrier between men and women. The question of how the Islamic tradition
succeeded in transforming the Muslim woman into a submissive, marginal creature, one
who once buried herself behind a veil, is considered in the light of feminist theory and practice in both the Third and Arab worlds as well as in terms of the postcolonial notion
of 'writing back'.
The works of Ba and El-Saadawi, chosen for discussion in this thesis, examine these
common issues, and underscore the entitlement of women to equality. The proposition,
that Muslim women talk/write back, is epitomized in Ramatoulaye's forceful wordsuttered
after thirty years of silence and harassment: 'This time I shall speak out' (So Long
a Letter, 1980; 1989: 58).
This study also shows that both Ba and El-Saadawi (by employing the journalisme-verite
approach) move beyond gender and cultural issues to explore the universal nature of man
and woman, and that in accordance with Muslim theocracy, these writers ultimately
advocate the notion of redemption through humanity, coincidentally expressed in the
Wolofproverb: 'Man, man is his own remedy!' (Scarlet Song, 1981; 1994: 165). Furthermore, within the context of these concerns, a few speculative remarks on the likely
future ofMuslim women in the Arab and African world are made, arguing that had Ba's
life not been cut short so tragically, it is reasonable to suppose that she would, like ElSaadawi,
have continued to advocate a holistic, healthy Muslim society, in which the
humane treatment of women would prevail.
Finally, in terms of the title Beyond the veil: Muslim women write back, an attempt has
been made to show how both Ba and El-Saadawi strive by 'writing back' to move 'beyond'
the veil, speaking out on behalf of fellow Muslim women in Africa.<br>Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 1999.<br>gm2014<br>English<br>unrestricted
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Lockard, Louise. "Navajo literacy: Stories of learning to write." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186342.
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This study examines the history of Navajo literacy and its meaning in the lives and teaching practices of three Native American Indian bilingual teachers. The autobiographies of the teachers were recorded in the form of life history interviews and analyzed in relation to an historical account of Navajo education which integrates public documents, archival materials, research in literacy in multi-ethnic communities, and Navajo children's literature. This study includes a bibliography of Navajo language literature from 1940-1990 which has been categorized by title, date, publisher, and curriculum topic.
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Kiser, Charlene. "To Write or Not to Write: A Look at Faculty Use of Writing at a Small Liberal Arts College." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28035.
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Although it may not seem possible that a student could graduate from an Ivy League institution without basic writing skills, a 2003 Chronicle of Higher Education article concluded that it is not only possible, but that it does happen. Some students are actually suing colleges and universities because they do not believe they have been taught the skills necessary to succeed in the area of written communication. This deficiency reflects poorly on universities, and even small liberal arts colleges are not exempt from this problem.
This dissertation was driven by a desire to learn how professors at one small liberal arts college viewed the use of writing in their courses. The professors were interviewed to determine how they viewed writing, how they viewed their students" writing, how familiar they were with writing-across-the-curriculum practices, and how much writing was assigned in their courses.
The study results indicated that many professors use writing extensively in their courses, and that they considered their assignments appropriate and successful in achieving their goals. The study also revealed that some professors use little or no writing, and their reasons for doing so were varied. The most common explanation was a lack of time to create assignments and to read and assess written assignments. Some professors also concurred that they felt uncomfortable using writing because their own writing skills were lacking. Other professors were discouraged by poor student writing and had given up on using additional writing assignments.
The most surprising result from this study was the professors" lack of knowledge concerning the use of writing as a learning and thinking tool. Most were comfortable with the standard research paper, case study type of writing assignments, but few used writing-across-the-curriculum methods or practices. Writing prompts, journals, and non-graded pieces were not part of their teaching repertoire. Even professors in the field of education reported that they have not adopted the newer teaching strategies. The concluding chapter addressed faculty concerns and provided suggestions for overcoming these concerns.<br>Ph. D.
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Jarva, H. (Henry). "Essays on accounting conservatism and goodwill write-offs." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2010. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514262593.
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One of the major features of financial reporting is conservatism. Accounting conservatism is traditionally defined by the adage “anticipate no profit, but anticipate all losses.” Accounting conservatism is manifested in two general but distinct ways. First, conservatism can be unconditional, meaning that the book value of net assets is understated due to predetermined accounting practices (e.g. immediate expensing of research and development expenditures as incurred). Second, conservatism can be conditional, meaning that the book value of assets is written down under sufficiently adverse circumstances, but not up under favorable circumstances (e.g. goodwill impairment rules). This dissertation focuses only on conditional conservatism.
The purpose of this dissertation is to increase our understanding of conditional conservatism through three inter-related essays. These essays seek to answer the following research questions: (1) Are standard measures of conditional conservatism affected by the asymmetry in cash flows? (2) How does “bad news” contribute to the persistence of accruals and cash flows? (3) Do firms manage fair value based goodwill write-offs under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142 (SFAS 142)? (4) What are the economic consequences of SFAS 142 goodwill write-offs?
Collectively, the empirical results of this dissertation further our understanding of the determinants and implications of conditional conservatism. The first essay demonstrates that the asymmetry in cash flows biases standard measures of conditional conservatism. The second and third essays are one of the first to assess conservatism using an individual accrual account, namely, SFAS 142 goodwill write-offs. The second essay examines the reliability of goodwill write-offs, while the third essay provides evidence on the economic consequences of goodwill write-offs. The findings of these two essays are important for the debate on whether fair value measurements in financial statements are appropriate.
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Koefoed, Blair. "The question of learning to read and write." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/1709.
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This thesis is an investigation into learning to read and write. It is also an investigation into how learning to read and write is investigated. THE PRESENTING PROBLEM Despite literacy being highly valued by every member of a modern society and the immense personal and social effort directed towards bringing it within the grasp of all, its universal occurrence, it remains an elusive goal. INVESTIGATING LITERACY As with many other valued human endeavours, science, with its refined and disciplined way of looking, is enlisted to help improve the achievement of ends, and research is designed and undertaken with the aim of increasing our control over its manifestation in the world. Yet it is the claim of this thesis that by leaving uninvestigated the nature of learning to read and write itself the gains will never be complete. PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS To open different lines of investigation, into things themselves, questioning must free itself of socially driven exigencies and the patterns of the established disciplines of thought and become self-reflexive. Self-referential questioning is traditionally and essentially philosophical and insight is sought from three well known modern representatives of the field. - Heidegger offers reflections on the importance of how questioning is undertaken, and, with his discussions on the nature of truth and how with 'revealing' comes 'concealing' hints at the darker side of literacy as a activity that 'opens' the world. - Wittgenstein's intense thought on language/world relationships potentially clarifies the dissension so characteristic of literacy acquisition research and provides a construct of language that would allow misrepresentations of literacy to occur. - Foucault's historical analyses provide concepts useful when considering the origins of literacy, and 'power' becomes a better explanation for the literacy fervour than the production of finer human beings. THE FINAL QUESTION Finally their amalgamated insights are used to discuss the phenomenon of illiteracy as it is portrayed in a recent novel by Bernard Schlink, The Reader. In this study of post-war Germany, the way literacy is deeply entwined into our social structures becomes clear, but more crucially we learn this about illiteracy - the highly destructive, exaggerated, and excessive reaction to its occurrence has no ready explanation.
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Jin, Di. "Phase-shifting techniques for laser direct write systems." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24165.pdf.
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Walter, Sarah. "Parallel read/write system for optical data storage." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/colorado/fullcit?p1425767.
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Close, Francoise Y. "'For whom do you write?' : reading Montaigne's subtext." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386007.
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SILVA, ANDERSON LUIZ DA. "READ (HIMSELF) AND WRITE (HIMSELF) (IN) THE OTHER." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9575@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir, na prosa de ficção
brasileira da
década de 1990, a presença de estratégias discursivas que
revelam processos
complexos de abordagem do confronto entre o eu e o outro.
Trata-se da
presença de instâncias narrativas impregnadas de discursos
sobre a
alteridade, o que se evidencia em contos e romances cujos
enredos pautamse
no confronto de subjetividades, etnias e culturas. Para
discutir essa
questão, procuramos identificar, nas narrativas
analisadas, o que
denominamos como a presença de vozes etnográficas, a
partir de
aproximações entre o campo da literatura e da
antropologia, considerando
que o procedimento de leitura e escrita do outro faz-se
presente tanto no
trabalho do etnógrafo quanto do ficcionista. Tal
procedimento leva-nos,
enfim, a considerar a polifonia como um traço fundamental
do processo de
escrita e leitura da alteridade em nossa ficção
contemporânea.<br>The objective of this study is to discuss the presence, in
1990´s
Brazilian prose fiction, of discursive strategies that
reveal complex
processes of approaching the confrontation between the I
and the Other. We
deal with the presence of narrative instances impregnated
with speeches on
alterity, what is evidenced in stories and romances whose
plots are based on
the confrontation of subjectivities, ethnic groups and
cultures. In order to
discuss this subject, we tried to identify, in the
narratives analyzed, what we
denominate the presence of ethnographic voices, starting
with
approximations among the literary and the anthropologic
fields, considering
that procedures of the other´s reading and writing are
made present as much
in the ethnographer s as in the fictionist´s work. Such
procedure lets us,
finally, consider the polyphony as a fundamental feature
of the alterity´s
writing and reading process in our contemporary fiction.
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Talbot, Jennifer. "Write errors in exchange coupled Bit Patterned Media." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/write-errors-in-exchange-coupled-bit-patterned-media(9d44443e-270d-460f-b82e-27f551bf3b47).html.
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The fabrication of Bit Patterned Media has become highly developed, with samples fabricated of over 1.5 Tb/in2. However, writing BPM presents significant challenges and for a system to be developed studies must be made into writing. This work has investigated a number of effects on the writing of Bit Pattterned Media (BPM). Magnetostatic interactions between islands have been used to investigate the effect of patterns of magnetisation on the write-window of a BPM system. A method of acquiring a distribution of patterns was determined and used to vary the probability of a target island switching. This showed that magnetostatic interactions between islands could be modelled as a variation in the anisotropy field. The relationship between island parameter distributions, the write-window and error rates was also explored. The effect of non-Gaussian distributions on the error in a BPM system was studied. It was concluded that tails of island parameter distributions have a significant effect on errors occurring in the write process of a BPM system. Therefore an accurate distribution of island parameters must be known and the necessary accuracy of such a distribution was established. Furthermore a model of BPM writing where the shape of the head field is approximated from the value at the maximum head field gradient will not account for switching in the tail of a real head field. This led onto a study of the ideal write point in BPM. In conventional recording theory the medium is designed to switch when the applied head field is at the position of its maximum gradient, which produces sharp transitions between magnetisation regions. A natural assumption in BPM is that the system could be optimised by setting the island switching field in a similar manner. This strategy of optimisation was investigated to see what gives the minimum error, or maximum write-window. It was concluded that optimisation could not be solely based on the maximum head field gradient, furthermore assuming the shape of the head field from this point will not produce an accurate estimation of the error in a BPM system.
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Magnéli, Johan. "Write or Perish : How Screenwriters Author their Careers." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-123092.
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The aim of the present study was to investigate how the impermanence of contract work affects working lives, self-perceptions and the career strategies of Swedish screenwriters of finding and keeping work. Furthermore, it also explored how screenwriters experience their abilities to exercise authorial leverage over media content. Introducing the concept of “career authoring” to cover different aspects of the professional lives of screenwriters such as managing a career, establishing authorship and contractual negotiations, the study was able to embrace various mind-sets and strategies for career success. Combining ethnographical studies and textual analyses the study was able to ascertain that the contingency of the Swedish film and television industries necessitates strategies to cultivate reputations, industrial visibility, consciously receive writing credits and conform to a traditional division of labour. Moreover, the study illuminated the importance of contractual negotiations for career success in terms of both retaining and wavering rights to their work. Strategies for exercise increased authorial leverage were not only confined to the script, but extended beyond the page, where the latter accentuated processes of reconfiguring traditional conceptions of screenwriters’ abilities to influence media content.
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Chan, Lily. "Children learn to read and write Chinese analytically." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018446/.
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Recent progress in psycholinguistic research on written Chinese allows us to develop a new approach to investigate the Chinese reading acquisition process. We hypothesized that Chinese children, much like children learning an alphabetic script, do not simply learn written words by rote. As they are taught words to be learned by rote, they develop an implicit understanding of the formal and functional characteristics of written Chinese. The formal characteristics refer to the graphic structure and the positioning of the stroke-patterns, and the functional characteristics refer to the semantic and phonological information conveyed in the stroke-patterns. The studies reported were designed to investigate the nature of children's learning of written Chinese. In two series of studies, a total of 236 children from Hong Kong, aged four to nine, created and decoded novel Chinese compound words. Results showed that young Chinese children attended to both the formal and functional constraints in reading and writing tasks. In the judging task, 4-year-olds were able to identify the type of orthographic elements - the stroke-patterns, but they could not place them in legitimate positions. The 6-years-olds were able to refer both to the position and the correct type of orthographic elements in differentiating pseudowords from nonwords. In the writing and reading tasks, four and five-year-olds were unable to utilize the semantic radicals to represent meaning, nor could they use the phonological components for pronunciation; six-year-olds could use the semantic radicals to represent meaning and only nine-year-olds could both use semantic radicals correctly and systematically referred to the phonological components for pronunciation. A significant age difference was found in all the experiments. The studies provide strong evidence that learning compound words in Chinese is not a simple matter of memorizing but involves the understanding of formal and functional constraints in the script. A possible application of these findings lies in the new direction offered for reading instruction where the non-generative, rote view of learning to read and write in Chinese can be safely abandoned.
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Li, Yi. "Direct write printed flexible electronic devices on fabrics." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/363098/.
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This thesis describes direct write printing methods to achieve flexible electronic devices on fabrics by investigating, low temperature process; and functional conductor, insulator and semiconductor inks. The objective is to print flexible electronic devices onto fabrics solely by inkjet printing or pneumatic dispenser printing. Antennas and capacitors, as intermediate inkjet printed electronic devices, are addressed before transistor fabrication. There are many publications that report inkjet printed flexible electronic devices. However, none of the reported methods use fabrics as the target substrate or are processed under a sufficiently low temperature (≤150 oC) to enable fabrics to survive. The target substrate in this research, standard 65/35 polyester cotton fabric, has a maximum thermal curing condition of 180 oC for 15 minutes and 150 oC for 45 minutes. Therefore the total effective curing time is best below 150 oC within 30 minutes to minimise any potential degradation of the fabric substrate. This thesis reports on an inkjet printed flexible half wavelength fabric dipole antenna, an inkjet printed fabric patch antenna, an all inkjet printed SU-8 capacitor, an all inkjet printed fabric capacitor and an inkjet printed transistor on a silicon dioxide coated silicon wafer. The measured fabric dipole antenna peak operating frequency is 1.897 GHz with 74.1 % efficiency and 3.6 dBi gain. The measured fabric patch antenna peak operating frequency is around 2.48 GHz with efficiency up to 57 % and 5.09 dBi gain. The measured capacitance of the printed capacitor is 48.5 pF (2.47 pF/mm2) at 100 Hz using the inkjet printed SU-8. The capacitance of an all inkjet printed flexible fabric capacitor is 163 pF (23.1 pF/mm2) at 100Hz with the UV curable PVP dielectric ink developed as part of this work.
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Hawkins, Jill Suzanne. "SOUNDS WRITE: EMBRACING MULTIMODAL TEXTS AS LITERATE COMPOSITION." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1317006310.
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Imbler, Angenette Cox. "Teaching Second-Grade Students to Write Expository Text." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8728.
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Writing is necessary to participate in public discourse. Much of today's communication is based on information, yet many students do not adequately learn how to write expository text. Learning to write is difficult, but expository text can be especially difficult as it requires knowledge of both a subject and special text structures. The purpose of this study was to give teachers a research-proven method for teaching students to write expository text and to give more information on how to evaluate students' writing. In this quasi-experimental quantitative research design, the expository writing of students before and after receiving a new science and literacy integrated curriculum combined with specific expository writing instruction was compared. Participants included 71 second-grade students and 3 teachers from a suburban public elementary school in a Mountain West state. Students came from diverse socioeconomic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Measures included a holistic rubric that measured statement of purpose/focus and organization and conventions/editing, and an analytic rubric that measured introductions, facts on the topic, conclusions, word count, and the language mechanics of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. A paired-samples t test of total scores from the holistic rubric showed statistically significant improvement pre-instruction to post-instruction (p < .001, two tailed). A paired-samples t test of total weighted scores from the analytic rubric also showed statistically significant improvement between pre-instruction and post-instruction (p < .001, two tailed). Wilcoxon signed-ranks tests were used to examine the individual elements of each rubric. All rubric elements showed statistically significant improvement except for three elements of the analytic rubric: topic introduction (p = .664), concluding statement (p = .916), and spelling (p = .299). Findings indicated that teachers could use the instruction to successfully teach students to develop content knowledge about an expository topic and write expository text based on that knowledge. The ranks of scores for each rubric were also examined to see how the scores varied based on which rubric was used. The holistic rubric had fewer positive and negative ranks than the analytic rubric, and the holistic rubric had more tied ranks than the analytic rubric. It was therefore determined that the rubrics did not score similarly. Holistic rubrics give an overall impression while analytic rubrics allow the scorer to see the areas in which students excel and the areas which need improvement. Therefore, teachers and researchers should consider their purpose for scoring writing and use the rubric that will appropriately meet that purpose.
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Ibanez, Luis Daniel. "Towards a read/write web of linked data." Nantes, 2015. http://archive.bu.univ-nantes.fr/pollux/show.action?id=9089939a-874b-44e1-a049-86a4c5c5d0e6.
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L’initiative «Web des données» a mis en disponibilité des millions des données pour leur interrogation par une fédération de participants autonomes. Néanmoins, le Web des Données a des problèmes de hétérogénéité et qualité. Nous considérons le problème de hétérogèneité comme une médiation «Local-as-View» (LAV). Malheureusement, LAV peut avoir besoin d’exécuter un certain nombre de « reformulations » exponentiel dans le nombre de sous-objectifs d’une requête. Nous proposons l’algorithme «Graph-Union» (GUN) pour maximiser les résultats obtenus á partir d’un sous-ensemble de reformulations. GUN réduit le temps d’exécution et maximise les résultats en échange d’une utilisation de la mémoire plus élevée. Pour permettre aux participants d’améliorer la qualité des données, il est nécessaire de faire évoluer le Web des Données vers Lecture-Écriture, par contre, l’écriture mutuelle des données entre participants autonomes pose des problèmes de cohérence. Nous modélisons le Web des Données en Lecture -Écriture comme un réseau social où les acteurs copient les données que leur intéressent, les corrigent et publient les mises à jour pour les échanger. Nous proposons deux algorithmes pour supporter cet échange : SU-Set, qui garantit la Cohérence Inéluctable Forte (CIF), et Col-Graph, qui garantit la Cohérence des Fragments, plus forte que CIF. Nous étudions les complexités des deux algorithmes et nous estimons expérimentalement le cas moyen de Col-Graph, les résultats suggèrant qu'il est faisable pour des topologies sociales<br>The Linked Data initiative has made available millions of pieces of data for querying through a federation of autonomous participants. However, the Web of Linked data suffers of problems of data heterogeneity and quality. We cast the problem of integrating heterogeneous data sources as a Local-as-View mediation (LAV) problem, unfortunately, LAV may require the execution of a number of “rewritings” exponential on the number of query subgoals. We propose the Graph-Union (GUN) strategy to maximise the results obtained from a subset of rewritings. Compared to traditional rewriting execution strategies, GUN improves execution time and number of results obtained in exchange of higher memory consumption. Once data can be queried data consumers can detect quality issues, but to resolve them they need to write on the data of the sources, i. E. , to evolve Linked Data from Read/Only to Read-Write. However, writing among autonomous participants raises consistency issues. We model the Read-Write Linked Data as a social network where actors copy the data they are interested into, update it and publish updates to exchange with others. We propose two algorithms for update exchange: SU-Set, that achieves Strong Eventual Consistency (SEC) and Col-Graph, that achieves Fragment Consistency, stronger than SEC. We analyze the worst and best case complexities of both algorithms and estimate experimentally the average complexity of Col-Graph, results suggest that is feasible for social network topologies
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Chan, Mau Yuen. "Conformal inkjet direct write electronics on aerospace components." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681499.
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There is a growing need for ever more complex electronic systems as manufacturers aim to increase the functionality of their manufactured components. Direct write manufacturing is a technology that can provide a means to multi-functional components providing enhanced integration and automation in the manufacture of electronic systems An inkjet deposition system was used to fabricate electrical interconnects using dielectric and silver nanoparticie inks. To prevent thermal damage to the underlying substrate these inks were functionalised using localised post-process methods instead of conventional oven process routes. To improve on the electrical conduction of the printed components a localised electroplating system was devised. Durability of the printed components is essential to all applications. The inks were tailored to improve the robustness and were found to have passed preliminary aerospace durability and environmental testing. This direct write system was used to fabricate direct write electronics on an aerospace helmet shell. This was a proof-of-concept demonstrator and successfully shows that conformal electronic interconnects can be fabricated onto existing components.