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Teichmann, Markus. "Expressing Context-Free Tree Languages by Regular Tree Grammars." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-224756.
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In this thesis, three methods are investigated to express context-free tree languages by regular tree grammars. The first method is a characterization. We show restrictions to context-free tree grammars such that, for each restricted context-free tree grammar, a regular tree grammar can be constructed that induces the same tree language. The other two methods are approximations. An arbitrary context-free tree language can be approximated by a regular tree grammar with a restricted pushdown storage. Furthermore, we approximate weighted context-free tree languages, induced by weighted linear nondeleting context-free tree grammars, by showing how to approximate optimal weights for weighted regular tree grammars.
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Gerber, Hein Jaco. "Tree training and managing complexity and yield in fig (Ficus carica L.)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3184.
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Thesis (MscAgric (Horticulture))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Commercial fig production with popular European cultivars, Bourjasotte Noire, Col de Damme Noire and Noire de Caromb, is new to the Western Cape. Little research on fig production has been conducted in South Africa and producers are struggling to implement effective commercial practices. In order to establish practices that will maximise yield of quality fruit, the most productive one-year-old shoot lengths were identified in a phenological study. All shoot length categories evaluated in ‘Bourjasotte Noire’ (10 – 15 cm, 25 – 40 cm, 50 – 65 cm, 75+ cm) yielded fruit and will probably yield well the following season. In ‘Col de Damme Noire’, shoots longer than 60 cm seem to be suited to reproduction, yet they might produce a poor yield the following season. Shoots 10 – 20 cm long in ‘Noire de Caromb’ are productive relative to their length, while shoots 30 – 50 cm and 60 – 80 cm long are also fairly productive. Shoots longer than 100 cm produced suitable shoot lengths for yield the following season. Two experiments were conducted on ‘Bourjasotte Noire’ and ‘Col de Damme Noire’ to establish the type (Experiment 1, different intensity heading cuts) and timing (Experiment 2) of pruning cuts required to stimulate the growth of shoots of the same length as the shoots selected to be optimal for yield in the phenology study, and to reduce the expression of distal branching. In ‘Bourjasotte Noire’, removing one third of the total length of one-year-old shoots on 21 July by heading stimulated the development of more growth and longer current season shoots compared to other treatments, while reducing yield slightly. Heading back to three nodes in ‘Col de Damme Noire’ stimulated the growth of current season shoots of the optimal length established in the phenology study, while heading cuts on 30 June produced the longest average current season shoot length in ‘Col de Damme Noire’. To further address the effects of distal branching (acrotony), an experiment was conducted to establish whether rest breaking agents (RBA’s) in combination with tip-pruning can increase tree complexity by improving bud break, and whether increased complexity would increase yield in all three cultivars. A second experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of timing RBA applications on bud break and harvest scheduling. Lift® increased the number of buds breaking in ‘Bourjasotte Noire’, while in ‘Noire de Caromb’ Dormex® and oil increased bud break. Tip-pruning increased the average shoot length in ‘Bourjasotte Noire’ and ‘Col de Damme Noire’, while causing a reduction in the amount of new growth in ‘Noire de Caromb’. Lift® applied 3 August and Dormex® applied 30 June shortened the number of days to 50% bud break in ‘Bourjasotte Noire’ and ‘Col de Damme Noire’. Both Lift® and Dormex® applied on 30 June decreased the number of days to 50% bud break and 50% harvest of the breba crop in ‘Noire de Caromb’. These treatments increased the number of fruit in both the breba and main crop of ‘Noire de Caromb’, but reduced fruit size. In conclusion, different approaches with regards to pruning needs to be followed for each cultivar to establish or maintain the optimal shoots for reproduction, while RBA’s can be used to force earlier, increased- bud break and harvest of breba fruit.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Kommersiele verbouing van drie Europese vykultivars, Bourjasotte Noire, Col de Damme Noire en Noire de Caromb is nuut tot die Wes-Kaap. Baie min navorsing oor die verbouing van vye is al in Suid-Afrika gedoen, met die gevolg dat produsente sukkel om effektiewe kommersiële verbouingspraktyke te implementeer. ‘n Fenologiese studie van die drie kultivars is uitgevoer om vas te stel wat die mees produktiewe een-jaar-oue lootlengte is, met die doel om die opbrengs van kwaliteit vrugte te maksimeer. Al vier kategorieë wat ge-evalueer is in ‘Bourjasotte Noire’ (10 – 15 cm, 25 – 40 cm, 50 – 65 cm, 75+ cm) is gevind om geskik te wees vir huidige en volgende seisoen opbrengs. Lote langer as 60 cm is geskik vir opbrengs in ‘Col de Damme Noire’ in die huidige seisoen, maar mag in die volgende seisoen swak presteer a.g.v. die gebrekkige lengte van nuwe lote wat daarop ontwikkel. In ‘Noire de Caromb’ is gevind dat lote 10 – 20 cm lank baie produktief is relatief tot hul lengte en dat lote 20 – 50 cm en 60 – 80 cm lank ook relatief produktief is. Lote langer as 100 cm was minder produktief, maar het nuwe lote gelewer wat geskik is vir opbrengs die volgende seisoen. Twee snoei eskperimente is uitgevoer op ‘Bourjasotte Noire’ en ‘Col de Damme Noire’ om vas te stel wat die mees geskikte tipe snoeisnit (Eksperiment 1, verskillende dieptes van topsnitte) en tydstip om te snoei (Eksperiment 2) is met die doel om lote te produseer soortgelyk in lengte aan die wat in die fenologie studie uitgewys is as die produktiefste, en om moontlik die voorkoms van “kaalnekke” te verminder. In ‘Bourjasotte Noire’ is gevind dat die wegsnoei van ‘n derde van die loot op 21 Julie aanleiding gee tot meer groei, langer een-jaar-oue lote en ‘n effense afname in opbrengs. Geskikte lote langer as 60 cm kan in ‘Col de Damme Noire’ verkry word deur lote te top sodat net drie nodes oorbly. Die uitvoer van topsnitte op 30 Junie het langer gemiddelde lootlengtes tot gevolg gehad. Om die probleem van “kaalnekke” (apikale dominansie) verder aan te spreek, is ‘n eksperiment uitgevoer om vas te stel of rusbreekmiddels gekombineerd met tip-snoei gebruik kan word om kompleksiteit te vermeerder deur knopbreek te verhoog, en indien wel, of dit sal aanleiding gee tot verhoogde opbrengs in al drie kultivars. ‘n Tweede eksperiment met verskillende toedieningstye van rusbreekmiddels is uitgevoer om vas te stel of oeste geskeduleer kan word. Lift® het knopbreek verhoog in ‘Bourjasotte Noire’, terwyl Dormex® en olie knopbreek verhoog het in ‘Noire de Caromb’. Tip-snoei het die gemiddelde lootlengtes verhoog in ‘Bourjasotte Noire’ en ‘Col de Damme Noire’, terwyl dit groei verminder het in ‘Noire de Caromb’. Lift® toediening op 3 Augustus en Dormex® toediening op 30 Junie het die aanvang van 50% knopbreek vervroeg in ‘Boujasotte Noire’ en ‘Col de Damme Noire’. Beide Lift® en Dormex® toediening op 30 Junie het die bereiking van 50% knopbreek- en 50% oes vervroeg in ‘Noire de Caromb’. Hierdie behandeling het ook die aantal vrugte van die breba- en hoofoes vermeerder, maar vruggrootte verminder. Verskillende snoeibenaderings behoort dus gevolg te word om vir elke kultivar die regte lootlengtes te genereer of te onderhou, terwyl rusbreekmiddels gebruik kan word om knopbreek te vervroeg en verhoog, en om die breba oes te vervroeg.
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Mesa, Juliani Karen <1982>. "Starch distribution in pear tree organs in relation to training systems, rootstocks and fruit quality." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7158/.
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Starch is the main form in which plants store carbohydrates reserves, both in terms of amounts and distribution among different plant species. Carbohydrates are direct products of photosynthetic activity, and it is well know that yield efficiency and production are directly correlated to the amount of carbohydrates synthesized and how these are distributed among vegetative and reproductive organs. Nowadays, in pear trees, due to the modernization of orchards, through the introduction of new rootstocks and the development of new training systems, the understanding and the development of new approaches regarding the distribution and storage of carbohydrates, are required.
The objective of this research work was to study the behavior of carbohydrate reserves, mainly starch, in different pear tree organs and tissues: i.e., fruits, leaves, woody organs, roots and flower buds, at different physiological stages during the season. Starch in fruit is accumulated at early stages, and reached a maximum concentration during the middle phase of fruit development; after that, its degradation begins with a rise in soluble carbohydrates. Moreover, relationships between fruit starch degradation and different fruit traits, soluble sugars and organic acids were established. In woody organs and roots, an interconversion between starch and soluble carbohydrates was observed during the dormancy period that confirms its main function in supporting the growth and development of new tissues during the following spring. Factors as training systems, rootstocks, types of bearing wood, and their position on the canopy, influenced the concentrations of starch and soluble carbohydrates at different sampling dates. Also, environmental conditions and cultural practices must be considered to better explain these results. Thus, a deeper understanding of the dynamics of carbohydrates reserves within the plant could provide relevant information to improve several management practices to increase crop yield efficiency.
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DeGomez, Tom. "Training and Pruning Newly Planted Decidous Fruit Trees." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/559564.
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6 pp.Training and pruning newly-planted deciduous fruit trees is one of the most important steps in developing trees with a strong framework (scaffold branches). Trees with a good framework of branches can support heavy crops without limb breakage and will help to bring the young tree into production at an early age. Selection and arrangement of these branches determines the type of development and growth in later years. The goal of pruning and training is to balance vegetative and fruiting wood growth.
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Belzer, Jessica A. "Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the National Airspace System: Establishing Equivalencyin Safety and Training Through a Fault Tree Analysis Approach." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492778505498031.
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Prince, Jared. "Exploring the Effect of Different Numbers of Convolutional Filters and Training Loops on the Performance of AlphaZero." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3087.
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In this work, the algorithm used by AlphaZero is adapted for dots and boxes, a two-player game. This algorithm is explored using different numbers of convolutional filters and training loops, in order to better understand the effect these parameters have on the learning of the player. Different board sizes are also tested to compare these parameters in relation to game complexity. AlphaZero originated as a Go player using an algorithm which combines Monte Carlo tree search and convolutional neural networks. This novel approach, integrating a reinforcement learning method previously applied to Go (MCTS) with a supervised learning method (neural networks) led to a player which beat all its competitors.
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Dietze, Toni [Verfasser], Heiko [Akademischer Betreuer] Vogler, and Johanna [Gutachter] Björklund. "A Formal View on Training of Weighted Tree Automata by Likelihood-Driven State Splitting and Merging / Toni Dietze ; Gutachter: Johanna Björklund ; Betreuer: Heiko Vogler." Dresden : Technische Universität Dresden, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1226899870/34.
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Xia, Tian. "Learning to Rank Algorithms and Their Application in Machine Translation." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1451610555.
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Davison, Elisabeth, and Tom DeGomez. "Pruning Deciduous Shade Trees." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/560971.
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The pruning principles discussed in this publication have proven to provide the best possible out comes including tree longevity and safety. Although trees may live for years following improper pruning their life span and safety may be severely reduced. We encourage proper pruning so that the trees we care for may bring us pleasure for many years.
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Castellanos, de Varona Maria Elena. "Cross-cultural training program." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.108-0017.
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Madrigali, Andrea. "Analysis of Local Search Methods for 3D Data." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016.
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In questa tesi sono stati analizzati alcuni metodi di ricerca per dati 3D. Viene illustrata una panoramica generale sul campo della Computer Vision, sullo stato dell’arte dei sensori per l’acquisizione e su alcuni dei formati utilizzati per la descrizione di dati 3D. In seguito è stato fatto un approfondimento sulla 3D Object Recognition dove, oltre ad essere descritto l’intero processo di matching tra Local Features, è stata fatta una focalizzazione sulla fase di detection dei punti salienti. In particolare è stato analizzato un Learned Keypoint detector, basato su tecniche di apprendimento di machine learning. Quest ultimo viene illustrato con l’implementazione di due algoritmi di ricerca di vicini: uno esauriente (K-d tree) e uno approssimato (Radial Search). Sono state riportate infine alcune valutazioni sperimentali in termini di efficienza e velocità del detector implementato con diversi metodi di ricerca, mostrando l’effettivo miglioramento di performance senza una considerabile perdita di accuratezza con la ricerca approssimata.
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Mirza, Qublai K. A. "A Cloud-Based Intelligent and Energy Efficient Malware Detection Framework. A Framework for Cloud-Based, Energy Efficient, and Reliable Malware Detection in Real-Time Based on Training SVM, Decision Tree, and Boosting using Specified Heuristics Anomalies of Portable Executable Files." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16043.
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The continuity in the financial and other related losses due to cyber-attacks prove the substantial growth of malware and their lethal proliferation techniques. Every successful malware attack highlights the weaknesses in the defence mechanisms responsible for securing the targeted computer or a network. The recent cyber-attacks reveal the presence of sophistication and intelligence in malware behaviour having the ability to conceal their code and operate within the system autonomously. The conventional detection mechanisms not only possess the scarcity in malware detection capabilities, they consume a large amount of resources while scanning for malicious entities in the system. Many recent reports have highlighted this issue along with the challenges faced by the alternate solutions and studies conducted in the same area. There is an unprecedented need of a resilient and autonomous solution that takes proactive approach against modern malware with stealth behaviour. This thesis proposes a multi-aspect solution comprising of an intelligent malware detection framework and an energy efficient hosting model. The malware detection framework is a combination of conventional and novel malware detection techniques. The proposed framework incorporates comprehensive feature heuristics of files generated by a bespoke static feature extraction tool. These comprehensive heuristics are used to train the machine learning algorithms; Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, and Boosting to differentiate between clean and malicious files. Both these techniques; feature heuristics and machine learning are combined to form a two-factor detection mechanism. This thesis also presents a cloud-based energy efficient and scalable hosting model, which combines multiple infrastructure components of Amazon Web Services to host the malware detection framework. This hosting model presents a client-server architecture, where client is a lightweight service running on the host machine and server is based on the cloud. The proposed framework and the hosting model were evaluated individually and combined by specifically designed experiments using separate repositories of clean and malicious files. The experiments were designed to evaluate the malware detection capabilities and energy efficiency while operating within a system. The proposed malware detection framework and the hosting model showed significant improvement in malware detection while consuming quite low CPU resources during the operation.
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Balmer, John M. "Nonformal pastoral ministry training in the majority world four case studies /." Columbia, SC : Columbia Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.023-0215.
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Clement, Daniel Joseph. "Evaluation of Campus Crusade for Christ's missionary training program in Romania." Columbia, SC : Columbia Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.023-0218.
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Lee, Ren-Jye. "Training lay-leader in expository preaching in a Chinese Christian Church." Deerfield, IL : Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.006-1600.
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Schramm, Mark J. "Supervision across cultures directions for ministry supervision during the SVD crosscultural training program /." Chicago, IL : Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.033-0837.
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Backert, B. Marlene King. "The integration of household financial management training with premarital counseling, a case study." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.074-0075.
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Kim, Yong Seok. "Developing a training program for producing young adult leaders through the education of mentoring." Fort Worth, TX : Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.049-0496.
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Rogers, David W. "The development and implementation of missions and evangelism training for students participating in NE-1 in northeast England." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.085-0023.
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Nethercott, Nancy L. "Developing a scripture reader training workshop for Christians in the Arts Network (CAN) worship seminar in Tokyo, Japan." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.089-0082.
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Simons, Murray Vaughan. "Identifying the True Military Factor in RNZAF Training." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Education, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1591.
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This thesis seeks to identify both the existence and cost of the military factor in
RNZAF training. In the past, educational evaluation teams have had difficulty in
assessing the efficiency of RNZAF training because no clear definition has
existed for this uniquely military element. This thesis attempts to define the term
by dissecting the popular use of the phrase into three separate parts: the true
military factor, the corporate factor and inefficiencies. The true military factor is
defined as the component of RNZAF training that inculcates the military culture
in students during formal training. This culture is further refined to focus on the
teaching of institutional values. The corporate factor however, refers to the
selected methods and standards employed by a training provider. Instead of the
military factor, it was hypothesised that the corporate factor represented the
greatest cause for the cost difference between the RNZAF and civilian training
providers. Based on the findings of overseas research, the thesis goes on to
consider the possibility that the military factor may in fact be self-selected, rather
than inculcated. To investigate this hypothesis, the study uses an established
instrument to assess student attitudes of loyalty. To test whether the RNZAF
self-selects pro-military attitudes, the study compared the scores of new recruits
with the scores of serving personnel. To test whether the RNZAF inculcates promilitary
attitudes during formal courses, the study compared students' pre- and
post-course scores. The study found that only minimal increases in attitudes
were evident as a result of formal courses and that no significant difference was
found between recruits and serving personnel. In addition to those two
investigations the thesis goes on to develop a spreadsheet model for optimising
corporate factors and minimising inefficiencies. Although this model is
functional in its present form, future developments will further enhance its
potential. The study concludes that the RNZAF self-selects pro-military attitudes
and, with the exception of recruit courses, does not teach them. The thesis
argues that the military factor represents only a minimal part of RNZAF training.
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VEGA, KATIA FABIOLA CANEPA. "TREG: A GAME FOR TRAINING IN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=29096@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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TREG é um jogo para o treinamento em Engenharia de Requisitos, especificamente na técnica de Workshops. Foi criado no Second Life, usando suas possibilidades de modelagem 3D e programação. Este trabalho apresenta uma experiência de exploração num processo de prototipação e técnicas para o desenvolvimento do jogo. O ciclo de desenvolvimento do TREG utiliza o processo de prototipação baseado no livro Effective Prototyping for Software Makers, que descreve um processo iterativo que foi customizado para a criação do jogo educacional neste mundo virtual. Branching Stories é um género de simulações que dá uma visão geral de todos os caminhos possíveis do jogador no TREG. A técnica de Cenários é utilizada para a especificação das simulações modeladas no gráfico de Branching Stories. O desenho do TREG utiliza especificações feitas usando a técnica de Cenários para a modelagem de diferentes perspectivas de software. As maquinas de Estados modelam o comportamento dinâmico dos elementos de software, o diagrama de classes representa os objetos criados no Second Life e o diagrama de comunicação mostra as relações e a passagem de mensagens entre os objetos. Além disso, este trabalho apresenta os resultados dos testes de usabilidade e as dificuldades apresentadas pelos participantes para a utilização desta ferramenta.
TREG is a game for training in Requirements Engineering, specifically in the Workshops technique. It was created in Second Life using its building and scripting possibilities. This works presents an exploration in the use of a prototyping process and techniques for developing the game. The prototyping process of the book Effective Prototyping for Software Makers is an iterative process which was customized for the development of the game in this virtual world. Branching Stories is a simulation genre that gives an overview of all the possible paths the player can take in TREG. Scenario is a Requirements Engineering technique used for the specification of the simulations modeled in the Branching Stories graph. The design of TREG used the Scenarios specifications for modeling the software perspectives. The state machine diagrams shows the dynamic behavior of the TREG objects, a class diagram represents the objects created in Second Life and the communication diagrams shows the relationships and the flow of messages between objects. This work also shows the results of the evaluation made and the difficulties presented by the participants whereas TREG was used.
TREG es un juego para el entrenamiento en Ingeniería de Requisitos específicamente en la técnica de Workshops. Fue creado en Second Life, usando las posibilidades de modelamiento 3D y programación en este ambiente. Este trabajo presenta una experiencia de exploración en un proceso de prototipación y técnicas para desarrollar el juego. El ciclo de desarrollo de TREG utiliza el proceso de prototipación basado en el libro Effective Prototyping for Software Makers, este es un proceso iterativo que fue personalizado para la creación del juego educacional en este mundo virtual. Branching Stories es un género de simulaciones que da una visión global de todos los caminos posibles del jugador en TREG. La técnica de Escenarios es usada para la especificación de las simulaciones modeladas en el grafo de Branching Stories. El diseno de TREG utiliza las especificaciones realizadas con la técnica de escenarios para modelar diversas perspectivas del software. Las Maquinas de Estados modelan el comportamiento dinámico de los elementos del software, el diagrama de clases representa los objetos creados en Second Life y el diagrama de comunicación muestra las relaciones y paso de mensajes entre los objetos. Además, este trabajo muestra los resultados de la evaluación realizada así como las dificultades presentadas por los participantes al utilizar esta herramienta.
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Rodriguez, Joan Neylo da Cruz. "Análise geoestatística multi-pontos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/45/45133/tde-20092013-113449/.
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Estimativa e simulação baseados na estatística de dois pontos têm sido usadas desde a década de 1960 na análise geoestatístico. Esses métodos dependem do modelo de correlação espacial derivado da bem conhecida função semivariograma. Entretanto, a função semivariograma não pode descrever a heterogeneidade geológica encontrada em depósitos minerais e reservatórios de petróleo. Assim, ao invés de usar a estatística de dois pontos, a geoestatística multi-pontos, baseada em distribuições de probabilidade de múltiplo pontos, tem sido considerada uma alternativa confiável para descrição da heterogeneidade geológica. Nessa tese, o algoritmo multi-ponto é revisado e uma nova solução é proposta. Essa solução é muito melhor que a original, pois evita usar as probabilidades marginais quando um evento que nunca ocorre é encontrado no template. Além disso, para cada realização a zona de incerteza é ressaltada. Uma base de dados sintética foi gerada e usada como imagem de treinamento. A partir dessa base de dados completa, uma amostra com 25 pontos foi extraída. Os resultados mostram que a aproximação proposta proporciona realizações mais confiáveis com zonas de incerteza menores.Estimation and simulation based on two-point statistics have been used since 1960\'s in geostatistical analysis. These methods depend on the spatial correlation model derived from the well known semivariogram function. However, the semivariogram function cannot describe the geological heterogeneity found in mineral deposits and oil reservoirs. Thus, instead of using two-point statistics, multiple-point geostatistics based on probability distributions of multiple-points has been considered as a reliable alternative for describing the geological heterogeneity. In this thesis, the multiple-point algorithm is revisited and a new solution is proposed. This solution is much better than the former one because it avoids using marginal probabilities when a never occurring event is found in a template. Moreover, for each realization the uncertainty zone is highlighted. A synthetic data base was generated and used as training image. From this exhaustive data set, a sample with 25 points was drawn. Results show that the proposed approach provides more reliable realizations with smaller uncertainty zones.
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Huggler, Ronald R. "Team building for army chaplains at the installation level." Due West, SC : Erskine Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.064-0131.
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Spreyer, Kathrin. "Does it have to be trees? : Data-driven dependency parsing with incomplete and noisy training data." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/5749/.
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We present a novel approach to training data-driven dependency parsers on incomplete annotations. Our parsers are simple modifications of two well-known dependency parsers, the transition-based Malt parser and the graph-based MST parser. While previous work on parsing with incomplete data has typically couched the task in frameworks of unsupervised or semi-supervised machine learning, we essentially treat it as a supervised problem. In particular, we propose what we call agnostic parsers which hide all fragmentation in the training data from their supervised components.
We present experimental results with training data that was obtained by means of annotation projection. Annotation projection is a resource-lean technique which allows us to transfer annotations from one language to another within a parallel corpus. However, the output tends to be noisy and incomplete due to cross-lingual non-parallelism and error-prone word alignments. This makes the projected annotations a suitable test bed for our fragment parsers. Our results show that (i) dependency parsers trained on large amounts of projected annotations achieve higher accuracy than the direct projections, and that (ii) our agnostic fragment parsers perform roughly on a par with the original parsers which are trained only on strictly filtered, complete trees. Finally, (iii) when our fragment parsers are trained on artificially fragmented but otherwise gold standard dependencies, the performance loss is moderate even with up to 50% of all edges removed.Wir präsentieren eine neuartige Herangehensweise an das Trainieren von daten-gesteuerten Dependenzparsern auf unvollständigen Annotationen. Unsere Parser sind einfache Varianten von zwei bekannten Dependenzparsern, nämlich des transitions-basierten Malt-Parsers sowie des graph-basierten MST-Parsers. Während frühere Arbeiten zum Parsing mit unvollständigen Daten die Aufgabe meist in Frameworks für unüberwachtes oder schwach überwachtes maschinelles Lernen gebettet haben, behandeln wir sie im Wesentlichen mit überwachten Lernverfahren. Insbesondere schlagen wir "agnostische" Parser vor, die jegliche Fragmentierung der Trainingsdaten vor ihren daten-gesteuerten Lernkomponenten verbergen. Wir stellen Versuchsergebnisse mit Trainingsdaten vor, die mithilfe von Annotationsprojektion gewonnen wurden. Annotationsprojektion ist ein Verfahren, das es uns erlaubt, innerhalb eines Parallelkorpus Annotationen von einer Sprache auf eine andere zu übertragen. Bedingt durch begrenzten crosslingualen Parallelismus und fehleranfällige Wortalinierung ist die Ausgabe des Projektionsschrittes jedoch üblicherweise verrauscht und unvollständig. Gerade dies macht projizierte Annotationen zu einer angemessenen Testumgebung für unsere fragment-fähigen Parser. Unsere Ergebnisse belegen, dass (i) Dependenzparser, die auf großen Mengen von projizierten Annotationen trainiert wurden, größere Genauigkeit erzielen als die zugrundeliegenden direkten Projektionen, und dass (ii) die Genauigkeit unserer agnostischen, fragment-fähigen Parser der Genauigkeit der Originalparser (trainiert auf streng gefilterten, komplett projizierten Bäumen) annähernd gleichgestellt ist. Schließlich zeigen wir mit künstlich fragmentierten Gold-Standard-Daten, dass (iii) der Verlust an Genauigkeit selbst dann bescheiden bleibt, wenn bis zu 50% aller Kanten in den Trainingsdaten fehlen.
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Lee, Esther J. (Esther Jung Mi) 1974. "Does training matter? : construction quality for a new start transit system : the case of Tren Urbano." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68387.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-104).
As with many other large-scale infrastructure projects, the construction of a transit project is potentially vulnerable to quality failures, which can lead to completion delays and cost overruns. Especially with technologically advanced, new-start transit projects, a limitation or lack of skilled labor can exacerbate those risks. This thesis examines the case of Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a rapid rail project currently being constructed in an area with limited on-island experience in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of such a technologically sophisticated transit system. The motivating question for this thesis is, does training matter for construction quality? The research findings of this thesis show that the multiple prime contractors operating under similar contractual arrangements and resource conditions in San Juan exhibit variations in the quality of construction. Research findings also reveal variations in the type of training programs established by the contractors. A limited conclusion is drawn that although training of inexperienced labor does not single-handedly insure high quality of construction, it nevertheless is important to the successful implementation of project design. Thus, this thesis argues that in order to maximize the quality of construction in a new transit system, the client-owners should create an appropriate strategy which carefully assesses and matches three factors: 1) procurement strategy, whether the conventional design-bid-build or innovative design-build arrangement, 2) contractor competence and experience, and 3) the existent local labor skill level or training capacity. A successful procurement strategy for the construction of future extensions to Tren Urbano should therefore consider: 1) choosing best-value bids over low bids, where the contractor has exhibited expertise and 2) training a broad range of skill sets, that includes explicit attention paid to the construction laborers and monitoring inspectors crucial for the quality of construction. Successful training should be tailored to pre-empt potential breakdowns of a particular procurement strategy. Furthermore, the training should also be an intentional, collaborative effort between the public education sector, the private construction sector, and an expanded labor union presence, and should fit within an overall industrial development policy of the government. An important theoretical contribution of this thesis is the expansion of the technology transfer discourse from a focus on an educated managerial class to include the ramping-up of skills for low-skilled, often uneducated, labor in order to expand the labor market for economic development while improving the profitability of the private sector ventures utilizing local labor.
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Falcone, John Paul. "Creative, Critical, and True: Training Students to Improvise Responsibly with Biblical Text: A Pragmatist, Spirit-led Model." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104536.
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Thesis advisor: Theresa A. O'KeefeIn this dissertation, I argue that Bible education is best understood as training students to improvise responsibly with Scripture. I explore this pedagogical model by reflecting on my experience as a Bible instructor at Cristo Rey New York High School, an inner city Catholic school. The goal of a Cristo Rey education is the integral liberation of students. In the language of liberation theology, to be "integrally liberated" is to survive and to thrive on all levels - material, cultural, psychosocial, and spiritual. Learning to improvise responsibly with Scripture helps students to grow in integral liberation. It helps them develop the capacity to perceive and to act with greater freedom, discernment, and commitment. It helps them to handle and interpret the Bible in ways that are creative, critical, and true. Here being true means more than being factually accurate; it means being true to the text, being true to the needs of one's interpreting community, and being true to the inner promptings of God's Holy Spirit. Responsible improvisation connects Biblical interpretation with artistry, with problem-solving, and with the construction of counter-cultural spaces. The dissertation supports a pedagogy for improvising responsibly with Scripture in several different ways. In the first chapter, I explain my proposal and the teaching experiences on which it is based. The first half of the chapter introduces the Cristo Rey setting within which I developed the Biblical pedagogy theorized and refined in this project. The second half begins to locate and unpack that pedagogy in terms of academic disciplines and relevant terms. I explain more concretely what I mean by "training students to improvise responsibly with Scripture." I also describe what I mean by "integral liberation," and by "interpretations that are creative, critical, and true." Chapter Two answers the question: "Why consider teaching a program of training?" I use the theory of Situated Learning to outline the religion classroom as a place of training, where students learn to master different interpretive practices in the midst of intersecting communities. I show how my model accurately reflects the teaching and learning dynamics of high school classrooms. A situated learning perspective helps educators identify specific areas where their interventions can help students become better, more responsible Scriptural improvisers. Chapter Three answers the question, "How can you train students for improvisation?" In this chapter, I correlate my educational model with the popular educational technique known as Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). TO brings together critical pedagogy and creative expression to help participants improvise artful and liberating social actions; it has proven both powerful and enduring in a broad range of class and cultural settings. I use TO as a generative metaphor to help teachers imagine more deeply and richly what training students for responsible improvisation might look like. Chapter Four steps back to take in a broader perspective. It answers the question, "Is this pedagogical model coherent? How does it all hang together?" In this chapter, I use the Pragmatist theology of Donald Gelpi, SJ as an overarching framework. I relate the concepts of "interpretation," "creativity," "responsibility," and "norms" with each other, and with a theology of God's Holy Spirit. Using Gelpi's semiotic realism as a conceptual framework shows how my pedagogy is not only conceptually coherent, but also convincingly rooted in the Christian intellectual tradition. Chapter Five presents a detailed example of teaching the Bible for responsible improvisation. It outlines the process of preparing and teaching a chapter from the Gospel of Matthew - specifically, Mt 13, the "Parables Discourse." This chapter argues that a warrant for improvising responsibly with Scripture can be derived from the Gospel itself. In short, I argue that "training students to improvise responsibly with Scripture" is a justice-grounded, empirically accurate, pedagogically compelling, intellectually coherent, and eminently Christian approach to teaching the Bible in Catholic schools. I conclude by discussing the implications of such a model in the context of Catholic educational ministry and ministerial training
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry
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Ullberg, Oskar. "Styrketräning av tårnas flexormuskulatur vid plantar fasciit : Tre Single-Case studier." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-31432.
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Bakgrund: Hälsmärta drabbar en av 10 individer någon gång i livet, i cirka 80 procent av fallen är orsaken plantar fasciit. Läkningstiden för plantar fasciit kan bli mycket lång, i vissa fall upp till två år. Följsamhet till träningsprogram är av stor betydelse för utfallet vid fysioterapeutiska behandling. Syfte: Att undersöka hur styrketräning av tårnas flexormuskulatur, med fokus på excentrisk belastning, påverkar tilltro till aktivitetsnivå (rask promenad) och symtom vid plantar fasciit. Vidare är syftet att utifrån socialkognitiv teori undersöka faktorer av betydelse för följsamhet till träning, samt hur deltagarna upplever träningen. Metod: Studien har en A-B-A Singel-Case Design. Patienter tillfrågandes löpande på en privat fysioterapimottagning. Tre deltagare inkluderades i studien. Baslinjemätningen under två veckor (A1) följdes av sex veckor intervention med avslutande baslinjemätning under två veckor (A2). Data samlades in genom självrapporterade skattningar av variabler av intresse i en träningsdagbok. Visuell avläsning har gjorts utifrån trend och lutning. Resultat: Deltagare A visade på förbättring, B och C har kvarstående eller något ökade symtom. Samtliga deltagare visade på hög self-efficacy för utförande av övningen. Deltagare A och B visade på hög följsamhet och C på lägre följsamhet till träningsprogrammet. Slutsats: Författarens slutsats är att träningsupplägget är genomförbart för patienter med plantar fasciit. För eventuell gruppstudie kunde inklusions- och exklusionskriterier föreslås baserat på resultat av denna studie.Background: Heel pain affects 1 in 10 individuals at some point in life, in about 80% of the cases, the cause is plantar fasciitis. The healing time for plantar fasciitis can be very long, in some cases up to two years. Adherence to treatment is of great importance for the outcome in physiotherapy. Aim: To investigate how the strength of the toe flexor, focusing on the eccentric load, affecting self-efficacy for activity (power walking) and symptoms of plantar fasciitis. Further to investigate and examine factors affecting adherence to exercise, and how participants feel the workout, based of social cognitive theory. Methods: The study has an A-B-A Single-Case Design. Patients asked to participate at a private physiotherapy clinic in Sweden. Three participants were included in the study. Baseline measurements was collected for two weeks (A1) that was followed by six weeks of intervention with ending baseline measurements for two weeks (A2). Data were collected through self-reported estimates of the variables of interest in a diary. Visual reading was made based on the trend and slope. Results: Participants A showed improvement, B and C have persistent or increased symptoms. All participants showed high self-efficacy for performing the exercise. Participant A and B showed high adherence and C showed lower adherence to the exercise program. Conclusions:. The author's conclusion is that the exercise program is feasible for patients with plantar fasciitis. For a future group study the inclusion and exclusion criteria are proposed to be based on the results of this study.
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Broberg, Yvonne. "Yrkeslärares erfarenheter - styrkor och svagheter : En studie om identitetsskapande inom tre olika arenor." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3714.
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The focus of this study is to identify important factors affect, how teachers' professional identity and role are shaped and changed during and after teacher training. Study's focus is to identify important factors bearing on how teachers' professional identity and role are shaped and changed during and after a teacher training. Respondents included in study are all teachers in vocational subject in upper secondary school. They also have experience from at practical profession before they began to work as teachers and started the teacher training. Method used in this study is the life stories of narrative nature. The questions revolved around the nature of studies and professional lives. It’s found that teachers experience a noticeable difference between the learning in the former profession and learning in academic studies. By participating in different groups during their training, partly with students in other categories partly with those with similar background. In this context the former professional exercise got a different and more important meaning. The conclusion is that institutional learning is of an entirely different character than learning to a practical profession can be, and this will require time for reflection. The question is whether the gap that seems to exist can be overcome if students' professional experiences are procured in a manner that does not neglect scientific fact.
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Wadagbalkar, Pushkar. "Real-time prediction of projectile penetration to laminates by training machine learning models with finite element solver as the trainer." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592169428128864.
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Pang, Suk Man. ""To save life and spread the true light" : the Hackett Medical College for Women in China (1899-1936)." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1998. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/151.
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Spreyer, Kathrin [Verfasser], and Jonas [Akademischer Betreuer] Kuhn. "Does it have to be trees? : Data-driven dependency parsing with incomplete and noisy training data [[Elektronische Ressource]] / Kathrin Spreyer. Betreuer: Jonas Kuhn." Potsdam : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1019254262/34.
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Andersson, Andreas. "Tre musikinstrument - En röst : En självstudie om omställningsprocesser mellan träblåsinstrument." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för konstnärliga studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-56754.
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Tre musikinstrument – En röst. En studie om omställningsprocessen mellan ett träblåsinstrument till ett annat. Detta område omfattar tvärflöjt- oboe- och altsaxofonspel. Arbetet bygger på observationer av en sex veckor lång instuderingsprocess, sett i relation till ett urval av tidigare forskning och högskoleuppsatser inom området. Studien har i syfte att utforska omställningsprocessen när jag byter från det ena blåsinstrumentet till det andra. Detta för att ge en djupare inblick i en multiinstrumentalists vardag och belysa de fenomen som ligger till grund för spelet för respektive instrument och som sedan tas med i omställningsprocessen. Denna kvalitativa studie utgår från ett livsvärldsperspektiv och metod är loggboksskrivande samt videodokumentation. Resultatet bärs upp av två teman: Inre röst och instrumentbyte-muskelbyte som står för mentala respektive fysiska handlingar. Efter resultatet följer en diskussion som sätts i förhållande till litteratur och tidigare forskning inom området. Arbetet avslutas med tankar om dess betydelse samt möjligheter till framtida forskning.Three musical instruments – One voice. A study of the conversion process between a woodwind instrument to another. This area includes the flute, oboe and the alto saxophone. This study is based on observations of a six-week rehearsal process in relation to a sample of previous research and academic papers in the field. The study is aimed to explore the conversion process when I switch from one wind instrument to the other. This is to provide a deeper insight into a multiinstrumentalists everyday life and highlight all the phenomena that form the basis of the play for each instrument and then be included in the conversion process. This qualitative study is based on a life-world perspective and method logbook writing and video documentation. The result is supported by two themes: Inner voice and change of instrument-muscle change representing mental and physical actions. After the result is a discussion that is related to the literature and previous research in the area. The work concludes with thoughts about its importance as well as opportunities for future research.
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Illera, Dominguez Victor. "Respuestas musculares agudas y crónicas del tren inferior al entrenamiento iso-inercial." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671590.
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El objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es el de identificar y caracterizar las respuestas agudas y crónicas del tren inferior ante sesiones de entrenamiento iso-inercial utilizando el ejercicio de media sentadilla. El documento está compuesto por cuatro estudios consecutivos.
El Estudio 1 valora la validez de un codificador de fricción contra una medida criterio para proporcionar valores de fuerza, velocidad y potencia en el dispositivo de entrenamiento iso-inercial. Los resultados sugieren que el codificador de fricción proporciona medidas válidas de velocidad, fuerza y potencia. Este dispositivo es una solución para el control de sesiones de entrenamiento que permite proporcionar retroalimentación en vivo a los atletas día a día.
El estudio 2 investiga los efectos agudos de una sesión de entrenamiento iso- inercial en diferentes indicadores de rendimiento, incluyendo sprint y salto, y la capacidad de generación de fuerza isométrica. La respuesta entre los participantes fue muy heterogénea, y algunos participantes mostraron signos de daño muscular moderado, que afectaron el rendimiento funcional hasta 72 horas después del ejercicio. Estos resultados destacan la necesidad de pruebas específicas para evaluar la disponibilidad y la recuperación tras las sesiones.
El estudio 3 investiga los efectos crónicos de un programa estructurado de entrenamiento iso-inercial de 4 semanas sobre la función muscular y la hipertrofia (volumen total) medido por resonancia magnética. Los participantes mostraron grandes aumentos de volumen en el cuádriceps después de dos (+
5.5%) y cuatro (+ 8.6%) semanas de entrenamiento. Estos resultados se acompañaron de aumentos en la fuerza (≈ 30% en cuatro semanas) y la potencia (≈ 50% en cuatro semanas) en la media sentadilla. También se observaron aumentos en la fuerza en el ejercicio de extensión de rodilla (+ 28%) después de cuatro semanas, pero no se observaron cambios en el ejercicio de flexión de rodilla. Este estudio reporta del inicio más temprano de hipertrofia de músculo completo documentado hasta la fecha (5 sesiones / 14 días).
Finalmente, el Estudio 4 investiga el efecto protector conferido por las sesiones de entrenamiento iso-inercial contra el daño muscular causado por el ejercicio intenso. Los parámetros evaluados incluyen: fuerza isométrica, altura de salto vertical, dolor muscular y marcadores bioquímicos sanguíneos de daño muscular (p. Ej., Creatina quinasa, creatina quinasa mitocondrial sarcomérica, creatina quinasa isoforma MB, aspartato aminotransferasa, alanina aminotransferasa, titina y troponina cardíaca I). A pesar de realizar cargas de trabajo mucho más altas después del período de entrenamiento (+ 38.9%, + 21.0% y + 65.3% de producción de fuerza concéntrica, velocidad y potencia, respectivamente), todos los marcadores de daño muscular se atenuaron y los procesos de recuperación fueron más rápidos (El índice de protección varió del 75.4% al 79.7% para los parámetros de función muscular, del 52.5% al 85.5% para los marcadores bioquímicos sanguíneos y fue del 48.0% para el dolor muscular).In this doctoral thesis, I aim to identify and characterise the acute and chronic responses of the lower limbs to iso-inertial training sessions using the half-squat exercise. The document is composed of four consecutive studies. Study 1 investigates the validity of a friction encoder against a criterion measure at providing force, velocity and power measures on the iso-inertial resistance training device. The results suggest that the friction encoder provides valid measures of velocity, force and power on flywheel exercise devices. Such a device is a solution for the control of training sessions which can provide athletes with live-augmented feedback on a day by day basis. Study 2 investigates the acute effects of an iso-inertial training session on different indicators of performance. These indicators include sprint and jump performance, and isometric force generating capacity. The response of the participants was highly heterogeneous, with some showing signs of moderate muscle damage that affected functional performance until 72 hours post exercise. These results highlight the need for specific tests for assessing readiness and recovery after sessions. Study 3 investigates the chronic effects of a structured 4-week iso-inertial training programme on muscle function and hypertrophy (total volume) measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Participants showed great increases in quadriceps volume after two (+ 5.5%) and four (+ 8.6%) weeks of training. These results were accompanied by increases in half-squat force (≈ 30% over four weeks) and power (≈ 50% over four weeks). Increases in strength were also seen in knee extensor exercise (+ 28%) after four weeks, but no changes were seen in knee flexor exercise. This study reports the earliest onset of whole-muscle hypertrophy documented to date (5 sessions / 14 days). Finally, Study 4 investigates the protective effect conferred by iso-inertial training sessions against muscle damage from intense exercise. The parameters assessed include: isometric force, vertical jump height, muscle soreness, and blood biochemical markers of muscle damage (Creatine kinase, sarcomeric mitochondrial creatine kinase, creatine kinase MB isoform, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, titin, and cardiac troponin I). Despite performing much higher workloads after the training period (+38.9%, +21.0%, and +65.3% in production of concentric force, velocity, and power, respectively), all markers of muscle damage were attenuated, and the recovery processes were faster (the index of protection ranged from 75.4% to 79.7% for the muscle function parameters and from 52.5% to 85.5% for blood biochemical markers: and was 48.0% for muscle soreness).
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Lööf, Maja, and Erika Svensson. "Uttalsträning i svenska för tre personer med thai som förstaspråk : En single subject design-studie." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Logopedi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-93998.
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I föreliggande single subject designstudie har tre personer med thai som modersmål och svenska som andraspråk tränats specifikt i svenskt uttal. Syftet med föreliggande studie var därför att utforma samt genomföra en uttalsintervention vilken delades in i en suprasegmentell och en segmentell modul. Syftet var vidare att undersöka hur suprasegmentella och segmentella förändringar i uttalet påverkade uttalets förståelighet. Uttalsträningen utfördes 14 gånger under en fem-veckors period. Interventionen delades upp i två moduler, en med suprasegmentellt fokus (B1) och en med segmentellt fokus (B2). I den suprasegmentella modulen ingick medvetandegörelse av stavelseuppbyggnad samt träning i svenska betoningsmönster. Den segmentella modulen innefattade träning av konsonantförbindelser, [ɧ] samt /r/. Efter varje tillfälle fick deltagarna repetera 50 ord som valts ut innan studiens början. Dessa ord analyserades utifrån deltagarnas förmåga att korrekt producera suprasegmentella och segmentella aspekter och utgjorde studiens mätpunkter. De suprasegmentella aspekterna bedömdes utifrån uppsatta bedömningskriterier och de segmentella aspekterna bedömdes med hjälp av Percentage Phonemes Correct (PPC). Efter genomförd intervention fick tre utomstående lyssnare skatta förståelighet för att undersöka om samband kunde ses mellan deras skattningar och de valda bedömningsverktygen. Enskilda ord ur ordlistorna valdes ut för att bedömningsverktygen även skulle jämföras mot akustiska mätningar. Resultaten i föreliggande studie visade på att samband kunde ses mellan specifik uttalsträning med segmentellt fokus och förbättrat uttal både vad gäller segmentella och suprasegmentella aspekter. Samma resultat visade den suprasegmentella uttalsträningen ge. Vidare kunde samband ses mellan bedömningen av de segmentella aspekterna utifrån mätpunkternas beräknade PPC och förståelighetsskattningarna. När PPC ökade förbättrades också förståeligheten. Då uttalsträning bör ha som fokus att uppnå god förståelighet hos andraspråksinläraren (Pennington, 1996; Levis, 2005) föreslås att segmentella aspekter bör ingå i uttalsträning. Mellan förbättringarna av suprasegmentella aspekter och förståelighet har inte liknande samband kunnat ses vilket dock kan bero på studiens design. Författarna till föreliggande studie anser därför att suprasegmentella aspekter i uttalsträning inte bör bortprioriteras.Three native Thai speakers with Swedish as their second language have received special training in Swedish pronunciation in the current single-subject design study. The aim of the current study was therefore to devise and implement a set of pronunciation training exercises, divided into suprasegmental and segmental modules. The aim was also to examine how suprasegmental and segmental changes in pronunciation affected the intelligibility of the pronunciation. The pronunciation training consisted of 14 training sessions during a five-week period. The exercises were divided into two modules, one with focus on suprasegmental aspects (B1) and one with focus on segmental aspects (B2). The suprasegmental module included acquainting subjects with the syllabic structure of the Swedish language as well as training of the Swedish language stress pattern. The segmental module contained training of consonant clusters, the Swedish speech sound [ɧ] and /r/. At the end of each session the participants were asked to repeat 50 words chosen before the start of the study. These words constituted the measuring points of the study and were analyzed according to the participants' ability to produce suprasegmental and segmental aspects correctly. The suprasegmental aspects were assessed according to fixed criteria and the segmental aspects were rated by means of Percentage Phonemes Correct (PPC). After completion of the final training session, three independent listeners estimated intelligibility to determine if relationship existed between these and the chosen assessment tools. Single words were selected in order to compare their criteria-based and PPC-ratings with acoustic correlates. The results of the present study indicate that a relationship can be observed between specific pronunciation training with focus on segmental aspects and improved pronunciation in terms of segmental and suprasegmental aspects. The pronunciation training with suprasegmental focus indicated the same conclusion. Further, a relationship can be seen between the judgment of the segmental aspects based on the measuring points' PPC-rating and the ratings of intelligibility. The intelligibility improved when the PPC increased. The focus of pronunciation training should be to achieve good intelligibility (Pennington, 1996; Levis, 2005); therefore it is suggested that segmental aspects should be included in pronunciation training for native Thai speakers when learning Swedish as a second language. No similar relations have been discovered between the suprasegmental aspects and intelligibility, which, however, may be due to limitations in the design of the study. Therefore suprasegmental aspects should not be neglected in pronunciation training.
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Boshoff, Wiehan. "Use of Adaptive Mobile Applications to Improve Mindfulness." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1527174546252577.
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Nygren, Ingegerd. "Det tror jag är väldigt stort och viktigt - praktiken... : En kvalitativ undersökning där tre omsorgsassistenter får beskriva sina uppfattningar från omvårdnadsutbildningen och deras första år i yrket." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1324.
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This essay is an investigation where I try to gain an increased knowledge of the three assistants’ (in the mentally disability profession) opinion about their education and their first years in their profession. I have also tried to answer the questions whether the course mentally disability/functional gives the students a good start in their profession, if there are any flaws or if something is missing in the course or if they can think of any improvements to make the course better.
This investigation is performed as a qualitative interview study where three women were interviewed about their education and their first years as assistants’ (in the mentally disability profession). All the interviewed women have been working in the care activity for two or three years since they graduated. The investigation shows that there is a great need for practical training for students on the mentally disability/functional disability course, since it leads to a better start in their profession. Since working as a assistant in the mentally disability is a profession which could be difficult to get accustomed to, the instructor plays an important role since the student really needs to learn how to take responsibility and participate as much as possible in the daily work which concerns mentally disabled people during their practical training.
Keyword: Vocational training, socialization* transition* that’s combine with care assistant, care nurse, practical nurse, secondary nurse, mental health and nurse assistant.
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Denna uppsats är en undersökning där jag vill få en ökad förståelse kring tre omsorgsassistenters uppfattningar om utbildningen på omvårdnadsprogrammet och deras första tid i yrket. Jag har även försökt besvara frågorna om kursen utvecklingsstörning/funktionshinder ger studenterna en god start i yrket, om det finns några brister eller om något saknas samt om studenterna kan ge förslag på förbättringar som kan göra kursen bättre.
Denna undersökning är utförd som en kvalitativ intervjustudie där tre kvinnor intervjuas kring utbildningen och vidare ut i yrkeslivet. Samtliga av de intervjuade kvinnorna har arbetat i omsorgsverksamheten under två till tre år sedan slutförd utbildning. Undersökningen visar att det finns ett stort behov av praktik för studenter som väljer kursen med inriktningen utvecklingsstörning/funktionshinder, eftersom det leder till en god start i yrket. Då yrket som omsorgsassistent kan vara svårt att komma in i så har även handledaren en viktig roll, studenten behöver verkligen få lära sig att ta ansvar och delta så mycket som möjligt i det dagliga arbetet med utvecklingsstörda under sin praktik.
Nyckelord: Yrkesutbildning, socialization* transition* vilket kombinerats med care assistant, care nurse, practical nurse, secondary nurse, mental health och nurse assistant.
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Narmack, Kirilll. "Dynamic Speed Adaptation for Curves using Machine Learning." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-233545.
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The vehicles of tomorrow will be more sophisticated, intelligent and safe than the vehicles of today. The future is leaning towards fully autonomous vehicles. This degree project provides a data driven solution for a speed adaptation system that can be used to compute a vehicle speed for curves, suitable for the underlying driving style of the driver, road properties and weather conditions. A speed adaptation system for curves aims to compute a vehicle speed suitable for curves that can be used in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) or in Autonomous Driving (AD) applications. This degree project was carried out at Volvo Car Corporation. Literature in the field of speed adaptation systems and factors affecting the vehicle speed in curves was reviewed. Naturalistic driving data was both collected by driving and extracted from Volvo's data base and further processed. A novel speed adaptation system for curves was invented, implemented and evaluated. This speed adaptation system is able to compute a vehicle speed suitable for the underlying driving style of the driver, road properties and weather conditions. Two different artificial neural networks and two mathematical models were used to compute the desired vehicle speed in curves. These methods were compared and evaluated.Morgondagens fordon kommer att vara mer sofistikerade, intelligenta och säkra än dagens fordon. Framtiden lutar mot fullständigt autonoma fordon. Detta examensarbete tillhandahåller en datadriven lösning för ett hastighetsanpassningssystem som kan beräkna ett fordons hastighet i kurvor som är lämpligt för förarens körstil, vägens egenskaper och rådande väder. Ett hastighetsanpassningssystem för kurvor har som mål att beräkna en fordonshastighet för kurvor som kan användas i Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) eller Autonomous Driving (AD) applikationer. Detta examensarbete utfördes på Volvo Car Corporation. Litteratur kring hastighetsanpassningssystem samt faktorer som påverkar ett fordons hastighet i kurvor studerades. Naturalistisk bilkörningsdata samlades genom att köra bil samt extraherades från Volvos databas och bearbetades. Ett nytt hastighetsanpassningssystem uppfanns, implementerades samt utvärderades. Hastighetsanpassningssystemet visade sig vara kapabelt till att beräkna en lämplig fordonshastighet för förarens körstil under rådande väderförhållanden och vägens egenskaper. Två olika artificiella neuronnätverk samt två matematiska modeller användes för att beräkna fordonets hastighet. Dessa metoder jämfördes och utvärderades.
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Teichmann, Markus. "Expressing Context-Free Tree Languages by Regular Tree Grammars." Doctoral thesis, 2016. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A30325.
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In this thesis, three methods are investigated to express context-free tree languages by regular tree grammars. The first method is a characterization. We show restrictions to context-free tree grammars such that, for each restricted context-free tree grammar, a regular tree grammar can be constructed that induces the same tree language. The other two methods are approximations. An arbitrary context-free tree language can be approximated by a regular tree grammar with a restricted pushdown storage. Furthermore, we approximate weighted context-free tree languages, induced by weighted linear nondeleting context-free tree grammars, by showing how to approximate optimal weights for weighted regular tree grammars.
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CHEN, CHIOU-TING, and 陳秋婷. "A Study of a Multivariate Decision Tree for Imbalanced Training Sets." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04289291908319260523.
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碩士國立臺南大學
資訊教育研究所碩士班
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As the rapid growth of the information, people place more and more importance on data processing. Therefore, it has become a major research topic to analysis and to discovery useful knowledge from huge information. Data Mining, an important technique to knowledge discovery in database, has attracted a lot attention in recent years. However, the proposed decision tree algorithms were unable to accurately classify imbalanced dataset, which has different proportion of the positive and the negative records. In other words, most decision tree algorithms can’t generalize rules completely and correctly for minority data in database. However, in the practical application, we sometimes focus on minority but very important data in highly imbalanced dataset. In this thesis, we propose a hierarchical decision tree algorithm, called His-Tree (Hierarchical Shrinking Decision Tree) algorithm to solve this problem. This algorithm not only can handle the dataset with category attributes but can get high accuracy for imbalanced dataset. Further, we consider about the misclassification situation, which will raise classified accuracy, to improve the accuracy of His-Tree algorithm. Finally, as shown in the experiment, His-Tree not only can accurately classify imbalanced dataset, but also has high accuracy for balanced one.
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Chen, Ying-Jun, and 陳盈鈞. "Applying Decision Tree Classification on Exercise Movement Training with Multiple Accelerometer." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p23xhr.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
資訊工程學系研究所
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This thesis proposed and analyzed a movement training system aiming to classify motions for physical education is proposed and analyzed. Traditional physical education requires an instructor teaching exercise movement individually. Teaching every student in a big class demands considerable time and efforts. Computer assisted instruction (CAI) is able to decrease workload. However, CAI is often confined in literal course such as mathematics, language courses. It is necessary to develop a motion training system for physical education. This thesis develops a low-cost motion capture with Wii Remote Control (Wiimote) for training movement exercise, such as tennis and baseball. Each Wiimote is attached to the limb, and then send back the acceleration information to the computer via Bluetooth wireless link. Thus the computer recognizes the motion and classifies the motion to several correct and incorrect categories. As a result, it is able to provide the appropriate advice to the students. The system applies a modified ID3 inductive learning to generate a decision tree with continuous-valued attributes. This thesis develops an easy-to-use GUI interface for coaches. The results show that the average accuracy of classification is 83%. The system reduces the workload of the coach and improves teaching and learning performance.
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Fong, Pui Kuen. "Privacy preservation for training datasets in database: application to decision tree learning." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1291.
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Privacy preservation is important for machine learning and datamining, but measures
designed to protect private information sometimes result in a trade off: reduced utility of the training samples. This thesis introduces a privacy preserving approach that can be applied to decision-tree learning, without concomitant loss of accuracy. It describes an approach to the preservation of privacy of collected data samples in cases when information of the sample database has been partially lost. This approach converts the original sample datasets into a group of unreal datasets, where an original sample cannot be reconstructed without the entire group of unreal datasets. This approach does not
perform well for sample datasets with low frequency, or when there is low variance in the distribution of all samples. However, this problem can be solved through a modified
implementation of the approach introduced later in this thesis, by using some extra storage.
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Chen, Wei-Chen, and 陳威辰. "Opportunistic Tree Search for Beamforming Training in Millimeter Wave Wireless Communication Systems." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p8gh62.
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碩士國立交通大學
電信工程研究所
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In this thesis, we propose two search methods for finding beam directions in mmWave communication system, namely opportunistic one-threshold algorithm and opportunistic twothreshold algorithm. In conventional codebook based beamforming training algorithm, we utilize binary search which means we need to measure signals twice with different codewords. In the first proposed search method, opportunistic one-threshold method, we reduce the search time into half of the original time which binary search requires. More specifically, we only measure the signal one time. Although we reduce the search time, the success rate dose not decay dramatically. In the second proposed search method, opportunistic two-threshold method, we could control the search time, setting it 50% to 100% of the binary search time. Due to the controllable search time, there is a trade-off between search time and success rate. In other words, the longer search time results in the higher success rate.
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Dietze, Toni. "A Formal View on Training of Weighted Tree Automata by Likelihood-Driven State Splitting and Merging." 2018. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34110.
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The use of computers and algorithms to deal with human language, in both spoken and written form, is summarized by the term natural language processing (nlp). Modeling language in a way that is suitable for computers plays an important role in nlp. One idea is to use formalisms from theoretical computer science for that purpose. For example, one can try to find an automaton to capture the valid written sentences of a language. Finding such an automaton by way of examples is called training.
In this work, we also consider the structure of sentences by making use of trees. We use weighted tree automata (wta) in order to deal with such tree structures. Those devices assign weights to trees in order to, for example, distinguish between good and bad structures. The well-known expectation-maximization algorithm can be used to train the weights for a wta while the state behavior stays fixed. As a way to adapt the state behavior of a wta, state splitting, i.e. dividing a state into several new states, and state merging, i.e. replacing several states by a single new state, can be used. State splitting, state merging, and the expectation maximization algorithm already were combined into the state splitting and merging algorithm, which was successfully applied in practice. In our work, we formalized this approach in order to show properties of the algorithm. We also examined a new approach – the count-based state merging algorithm – which exclusively relies on state merging.
When dealing with trees, another important tool is binarization. A binarization is a strategy to code arbitrary trees by binary trees. For each of three different binarizations we showed that wta together with the binarization are as powerful as weighted unranked tree automata (wuta). We also showed that this is still true if only probabilistic wta and probabilistic wuta are considered.:How to Read This Thesis
1. Introduction
1.1. The Contributions and the Structure of This Work
2. Preliminaries
2.1. Sets, Relations, Functions, Families, and Extrema
2.2. Algebraic Structures
2.3. Formal Languages
3. Language Formalisms
3.1. Context-Free Grammars (CFGs)
3.2. Context-Free Grammars with Latent Annotations (CFG-LAs)
3.3. Weighted Tree Automata (WTAs)
3.4. Equivalences of WCFG-LAs and WTAs
4. Training of WTAs
4.1. Probability Distributions
4.2. Maximum Likelihood Estimation
4.3. Probabilities and WTAs
4.4. The EM Algorithm for WTAs
4.5. Inside and Outside Weights
4.6. Adaption of the Estimation of Corazza and Satta [CS07] to WTAs
5. State Splitting and Merging
5.1. State Splitting and Merging for Weighted Tree Automata
5.1.1. Splitting Weights and Probabilities
5.1.2. Merging Probabilities
5.2. The State Splitting and Merging Algorithm
5.2.1. Finding a Good π-Distributor
5.2.2. Notes About the Berkeley Parser
5.3. Conclusion and Further Research
6. Count-Based State Merging
6.1. Preliminaries
6.2. The Likelihood of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate and Its Behavior While Merging
6.3. The Count-Based State Merging Algorithm
6.3.1. Further Adjustments for Practical Implementations
6.4. Implementation of Count-Based State Merging
6.5. Experiments with Artificial Automata and Corpora
6.5.1. The Artificial Automata
6.5.2. Results
6.6. Experiments with the Penn Treebank
6.7. Comparison to the Approach of Carrasco, Oncina, and Calera-Rubio [COC01]
6.8. Conclusion and Further Research
7. Binarization
7.1. Preliminaries
7.2. Relating WSTAs and WUTAs via Binarizations
7.2.1. Left-Branching Binarization
7.2.2. Right-Branching Binarization
7.2.3. Mixed Binarization
7.3. The Probabilistic Case
7.3.1. Additional Preliminaries About WSAs
7.3.2. Constructing an Out-Probabilistic WSA from a Converging WSA
7.3.3. Binarization and Probabilistic Tree Automata
7.4. Connection to the Training Methods in Previous Chapters
7.5. Conclusion and Further Research
A. Proofs for Preliminaries
B. Proofs for Training of WTAs
C. Proofs for State Splitting and Merging
D. Proofs for Count-Based State Merging
Bibliography
List of Algorithms
List of Figures
List of Tables
Index
Table of Variable Names
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Luckett, Meghan. "The Process and Consequences of the Diffusion of Avocado and Drumstick Trees into the Lives of Rural Women in Hazaribag, India after an Agricultural and Nutrition Training Program." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149364.
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The rural poor of Hazaribag suffer from vitamin A and iron deficiencies from meals containing rice (200-400g) and limited (25-50g) slow-cooked vegetables with potatoes. This causes undernourishment in 50% of children and 40% of women. The two main causes are lack of access to nutritious foods, and lack of knowledge about nutrition.
Through extension, 24 women were taught and quantitatively assessed about growing avocado and drumstick trees, and proper nutrition. Participants were monitored for four months using persistent observation to qualitatively evaluate the adoption process of four behaviors (eating and feeding avocados to children; increasing consumption of drumstick leaves/pods; caring for grafted avocado trees, and planting avocado seeds) and their consequences.
From the assessment of knowledge gained and retained, results indicate a statistically significant difference among all test scores, T1 and T2 (p = .001, t = -5.58), T1 and T3 (p = .001, t = -6.98), T2 and T3 (p = .038, t = -2.20), and T4 perceptions of knowledge before/after training (p = .001, t = -16.32). Qualitative studies show the women did adopt a majority of the behaviors, with 100% eating or feeding avocados to children; 60% eating more drumstick leaves/pods; 90% caring for avocado trees and 50% planting seeds. A number of consequences were associated with the adoption of the behaviors. Many of the women reported perceptions of improved health and expressed that children were falling sick less often due to the avocados and drumstick leaves/pods. The MUAC test showed that children who ate avocados weekly had increases in their mid-upper-arm circumference. And, people outside the study became interested in avocados because the participants shared their new knowledge.
Most extension programs result in knowledge gains, but this study showed that with continued engagement and interaction, the participants were able to retain and gain additional knowledge about agriculture and proper nutrition. From the data collected, it is clear that the women learned and adopted the behaviors to improve their nutrition resulting in positive changes. Ultimately, there is a connection between extension, knowledge gains, and behavior adoption. This could be a powerful tool to address malnutrition in Hazaribag.
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Hsieh, Ning-Ching, and 謝寧靜. "An Auto-Regressive Model with Variable Size and Quad-Tree Structure Training Windows for Frame Rate Up-Conversion." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99444689028208265499.
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碩士國立交通大學
多媒體工程研究所
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In numerous issues for video compression processing, a frame rate up-conversion is discussed all the time. An auto-regressive model with variable size and quad-tree structure training windows is presented in this thesis for frame rate up-conversion. In conventional auto-regressive model, fixed training window size is adopted within a video sequence. Therefore, it may result in worse interpolated frames. This thesis proposed a scheme which selects the best training window sizes in the encoder side, encodes the best training window sizes to binary file and transfers the binary file to the decoder side. When the decoder side performs frame-rate up conversion, this binary file provides better training window sizes to improve the quality of the interpolated frame. The experiments show that, with variable training window size, auto-regression model can achieve better interpolated frame quality thought it has more computational time in the encoder side.
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Gebhardt, Kilian. "Induction, Training, and Parsing Strategies beyond Context-free Grammars." 2019. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A71398.
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This thesis considers the problem of assigning a sentence its syntactic structure, which may be discontinuous. It proposes a class of models based on probabilistic grammars that are obtained by the automatic refinement of a given grammar. Different strategies for parsing with a refined grammar are developed. The induction, refinement, and application of two types of grammars (linear context-free rewriting systems and hybrid grammars) are evaluated empirically on two German and one Dutch corpus.
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McNellis, Ryan Thomas. "Training Decision Trees for Optimal Decision-Making." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-7zzq-gx78.
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Many analytics problems in Operations Research and the Management Sciences can be framed as decision-making problems containing uncertain input parameters to be estimated from data. For example, inventory optimization problems often require forecasts of future demand, and product recommendation systems (e.g., movies, sporting goods) depend on models for predicting customer responses to the feasible recommendations. Therefore, a question central to many analytics problems is how to optimally build models from data which estimate the uncertain inputs for the decision problems of interest. We argue that most common approaches for this task either (a) focus on the wrong objectives in training the models for the decision problem, or (b) focus on the right objectives but only study how to do so with prohibitively simple machine learning models (e.g. linear and logistic regression).
In this work, we study how to train decision tree models for predicting uncertain parameters for analytical decision-making problems. Unlike other machine learning models such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees are both nonparameteric and interpretable, allowing them the capability of modeling highly complex relationships between data and predictions while also being easily visualized and interpreted. We propose tractable algorithms for decision tree training in the context of three problem domains relevant to Operations Research. First, we study how to train decision trees for delivering real-time personalized recommendations of products in settings where little prior data is available for training purposes. This problem is known in the literature as the contextual bandit problem and requires careful navigation of the so-called "exploration-exploitation trade-off" in utilizing the decision tree models. Second, we propose a new framework which we call Market Segmentation Trees (MSTs) for training decision tree models for the purposes of market segmentation and personalization. We explore several applications of MSTs relevant to personalized advertising, including recommending hotels to Expedia users as a function of their search queries and segmenting ad auctions according to the distribution of bids that they receive. Finally, we propose a general framework for training decision tree models for uncertain optimization problems which we call "SPO Trees" (SPOTs). In contrast to the typical objective of maximizing predictive accuracy, the SPOT framework trains decision trees to maximize the quality of the solutions found in the uncertain optimization problem, therefore yielding better decisions in several analytics problems of interest.
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Schabram, Kira. "To thine own self be true : authentic leadership and managerial training." Thesis, 2009. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/976672/1/MR67298.pdf.
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Authentic Leadership (AL), a second generation member of the neocharismatic leadership paradigms, has re-emerged in the last six years in response to corporate managerial corruption. Early empirical work has demonstrated the promising effects of AL on performance, motivation, and well-being. Naturally, the question arises of whether AL can be influenced by a formal training protocol; similarly, with the increasing cost of training programs, identifying candidates most likely to benefit from such interventions would be critical. Through a longitudinal design comprised of a three week training intervention, and pre- and post-intervention surveys, this study tested the effect of a transformational leadership (TFL) training protocol, and pre-training TFL self-ratings, on manager post-training self-ratings of AL and its four subconstructs ( self-awareness, internalized moral perspective, balanced processing, and relational transparency). Results suggested that AL perception did change over time but that this change was not related to the training intervention. Instead, I speculate that the historic economic recession may have constituted one of the 'life events' touted in the literature as influential on authentic leadership change. Support for this argument, implications for future research and practical application, as well as study limitations are discussed.
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Dorsis, Teferi Bizuayehu. "The dialectics of global imperatives and local identities in Ethiopian teacher education." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20011.
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The dialectics of globalization and multiculturalism is encountered everywhere and is an inescapable world reality. It has also become a major factor affecting teacher education. As a meeting ground and intercept for educational programs, teacher education provides an interface for both global imperatives and local identities. Ethiopia has pronounced achievements in most education programs at all levels, although official documents indicate variance in the quality of attainment across the levels (ESDP IV, 2011). Local studies (Ambisa, 2008; Amaliraj, 2008) also found that teacher education suffers from a lack of relevance and poor quality. Moreover, the demand for qualified teachers who are competent to shape the young generation through balancing the glocal context is increasing. This study investigated how local identities and global imperatives are integrated in contemporary Ethiopian teacher education at all levels. Critical theory was employed as the paradigm for the study. This epistemological view underpinned a discussion of the effect of globalization and multiculturalism on the world’s functioning. The research approach in the empirical study was qualitative and an interpretive case study method was employed. The units of analysis were literatures, such as The Lexus vs. the Olive Tree; McWorld vs. Jihad; The Clash of Civilization: The West vs. the Rest; and Demonstrating Common World Culture of Education (CWCE) or Locating A Globally Structured Agenda for Education (GSAE); and the contemporary Ethiopian teacher education programs (the PGDT and TESO programs). Data collection tools were basic dialectical questions under Eemeren’s (1986) established ‘system of norms’, observation, interviews and focus group discussions. Confidentiality, anonymity, informed consent, resolution of conflict of interest and intellectual ownership were considered in the study. The dialectical analysis investigated the four quadrant glocal relationships model and described the role players in each quadrant where nations may locate themselves. Moreover, the comparative analysis indicated that globalization has not yet become an issue in contemporary Ethiopian teacher education, while multicultural practices are fragmented and are addressed only in response to ethnic demands for accommodation. To this end, Ethiopian teacher education should redefine its programs in order to adjust to global understanding in an endeavor to produce competent teachers for the global market.Curriculum and Instructional Studies
D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)