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Brugnara, Martin. "UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING COMPLEX DATASETS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/337818.

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Nowadays, we are producing and collecting data at an unprecedented rate, measured in the order of petabytes per minute, together with a substantial increase in data volume, complexity, and variety. While tabular and unstructured data still dominate the scene, graphs are becoming ever more prominent, bringing new challenges. The size and complexity of graph datasets have increased, thus renewing the interest in graph databases and distributed graph processing. The current abundance of data and content complicates even simply accessing data. Web users are constantly overwhelmed by the availabili

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Dubrow, Geoffrey Andrew. "Understanding Complex Flavor Percepts using Flavoromics." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1566064562976072.

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Frenken, Koen. "Understanding product innovation using complex systems theory." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2001. http://dare.uva.nl/document/61019.

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McGavin, Philip. "Understanding vortex reconnection in complex fluid flows." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2016. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/cd09ed6d-2195-4f45-9377-836a15a72c15.

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Reconnection of wingtip vortices behind aircrafts is thought to be a cause of wake turbulence, detrimental to air traffic control. We observe the reconnection process for three initial vortex tube set-ups; anti-parallel, orthogonal and anti-parallel with axial flow. From these we are able to identify each of the different reconnection processes observed and discussed for the magnetic reconnection case but not necessarily the vortex reconnection case; of both 2D and 3D reconnection. We use a finite different method to solve the Navier-Stokes equation for a large array of points. We analyse the

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Chohan, Gagandeep Kaur. "Developing a psychological understanding of complex loss." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6914/.

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This thesis was submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Birmingham. The thesis comprises of two volumes. Volume I is concerned with developing a psychological understanding of the psychological impacts and experiences of individuals’ affected by complex grief. It contains three chapters: a meta-ethnography, an empirical paper and a public dissemination document. The meta-ethnography critically reviews qualitative literature of couple’s experiences of a subsequent pregnancy and parenting following a pregnancy loss through miscarriage,

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Mey, Antonia S. J. S. "Trajectory ensemble methods for understanding complex stochastic systems." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13368/.

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This thesis investigates the equilibrium and dynamic properties of stochastic systems of varying complexity. The dynamic properties of lattice models -- the 1-d Ising model and a 3-d protein model -- and equilibrium properties of continuous models -- particles in various potentials -- are presented. Dynamics are studied according to a large deviation formalism, by looking at non-equilibrium ensembles of trajectories, classified according to a dynamical order parameter. The phase structure of the ensembles of trajectories is deduced from the properties of large-deviation functions, representing

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Michailidis, Antonis D. "Understanding complex CI-combustion strategies : an experimental investigation." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10957.

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Within this body of work several series of experiments will investigate the nature of complex combustion in an experimental single-cylinder engine emulating a modern passenger car size compression-ignition (CI) engine. Regimes of single, piloted single and piloted split-main injections will be tested and compared in terms of combustion characteristics, specific emission output and cyclic behaviour to determine how increased injection complexity affects the emissions and output of the modern CI engine. Through these tests, the effect of fuel-line stationary waves will be demonstrated and invest

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Little, Claire. "Machine learning for understanding complex, interlinked social data." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/622001/.

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With the growing availability of 'big' data, increasing computer power, and improved data storage capacities, machine learning techniques are now frequently employed in order to make sense of data. Yet, the social sciences have been slow to adopt these techniques, and there is little evidence of their use in some academic fields. This thesis explores the methods most commonly utilised in social science research, that is, linear regression and null hypothesis significance testing, in order to identify how machine learning methods might complement these more established methods. A case study exp

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Le, Xuan Tuan. "Understanding complex systems through computational modeling and simulation." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLEP003.

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Les approches de simulation classiques ne sont en général pas adaptées pour traiter les aspects de complexité que présentent les systèmes complexes tels que l'émergence ou l'adaptation. Dans cette thèse, l'auteur s'appuie sur ses travaux menés dans le cadre d'un projet de simulation sur l’épidémie de grippe en France associée à des interventions sur une population en considérant le phénomène étudié comme un processus diffusif sur un réseau complexe d'individus, l'originalité réside dans le fait que la population y est considérée comme un système réactif. La modélisation de tels systèmes nécess

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Mueller, Jonas Weylin. "Flexible models for understanding and optimizing complex populations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118097.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152).<br>Data analysis is often driven by the goals of understanding or optimizing some population of interest. The first of these two objectives aims to produce insights regarding characteristics of the underlying population, often to facilitate scientific understanding. Crucially, this requires models which produce results that are highly interpretable to the analyst. On the other han

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Hemminger, Orin L. "Visualizing and Understanding Complex Micro/Nanofluidic Flow Behavior." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275398565.

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Littlecott, Hannah. "From complex interventions to complex systems : towards a better understanding of school health improvement." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/100889/.

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Interventions to improve young peoples’ health are commonly delivered via schools. Challenges in changing the functioning of complex school systems are commonly underestimated and recognition is growing that interventions cannot be described in isolation from the contexts they attempt to alter. However, school health research has typically paid less attention to understanding schools’ current orientations toward health improvement than to attempts to introduce change. This thesis analyses data from a survey of schools to explore variability in their responses to school-level health needs data

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Reta, Mañeru Daniel. "Understanding and predicting magnetic coupling in complex systems: from inorganic complexes to organic polyradicals." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/380161.

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This thesis presents a theoretical and computational approach to the accurate description of magnetic exchange interactions in a variety of complex systems. These include two main families of compounds. The first family is formed by inorganic coordination complexes, presenting localized magnetic centres and well-defined crystal structures. The second family consists of purely organic, π−conjugated odd alternant neutral polyradicals, which display a much larger structural flexibility and greater delocalization of the unpaired electrons over the π system. The thesis has two main parts. The fi

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White, Richard James. "Understanding the process and complex dynamics of mutual aid." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30413.

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In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest and commitment from both academic and wider policy-making circles in the meso and micro-levels of production and exchange in society. To this end, theoretical and empirical research has led to a more penetrative understanding of the cultural and social embeddedness of economic spaces. By bringing into focus the informal economic sphere, this in turn has placed activities conducted through mutual aid firmly under the academic and policy-making spotlight. From an academic perspective however, it is clear that comparatively little is known

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Horsburgh, Joanna. "Becoming a medical educator : understanding a complex professional identity." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/becoming-a-medical-educator(2a6eba2a-9ba9-4bbd-9271-615370f8755e).html.

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In the last 10-15 years there has been a significant increase in the number of medical doctors completing Master’s level qualifications in education. This Research Based Thesis (RBT) aims to explore the professional identity development of these individuals who work across the differing communities of practices (Wenger, 1998) of medicine and education. This thesis explores the diverse nature of both the medical and educational practices that these participants engage in and how this impacts on their identities as medical educators. In particular, it aims to explore the similarities and differe

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Kim, Joanne. "Towards a New Understanding: Complex Familial Constructs of Autism." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/ces_dissertations/5.

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The focus of this dissertation was to gain a better understanding of how families construct autism. Studies have overwhelmingly used the medical model or the institutional narrative to interpret how autism is understood in families. More recently, a counter-narrative has emerged resisting this medical model. Both narratives, however, simplify the intricate nature of the disability construct within families. Additionally, the term “family” has been used euphemistically to refer to mothers, fathers or siblings of children who have autism. This study explored the constructs of the whole family th

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Benfield, Ian Lindsay. "Our complex world : understanding it, living in it, sustaining it." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53546.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We live in a complex world. We have questions and face problems that defy conventional reductionist approaches to finding answers and solutions. This is because we find ourselves dealing with complex systems that are dynamic, self-organizing and adaptive, while maintaining a balance between static order and chaotic change. The Earth, or Gaia, is such a system. So is the biosphere, and so is an ecosystem, an economy, a business and any living organism, including homo sapiens. By concentrating on the connections and inte

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Bjaalie, Lars Gunnar Tangen. "Understanding and engineering two-dimensional electron gases in complex oxides." Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10103606.

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<p> The next generation of electronic devices faces the challenge of adequately containing and controlling extremely high charge densities within structures of nanometer dimensions. Atomic-scale transistors must be thin and be able to control extremely high charge densities (>10e13/cm</p><p>2). Silicon devicestypically have two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) densities around 10e12/cm</p><p>2.Nitride-based devices can sustain densities an order of magnitude higher. The "complex oxides" have recently emerged as an attractive materials system to support these developments. The demonstration of a

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Gilligan, Christine. "Understanding sustainable development in the voluntary sector : a complex problem." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2013. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/9712/.

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Sustainable development, a concept that emerged as we began to understand the negative impacts of environmental challenges, such as pollution and climate change, on human prosperity and social equality, was seen as offering a way of preserving the natural systems that sustain human life on Earth whilst continuing to support economic and social development. As a concept, however, it presents many challenges, both in its interpretation and in its application and one of the challenges is the requirement for behaviour change from all sectors of society, including the voluntary sector. There is an

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Lym, Youngbin. "Three essays on unveiling complex urban phenomena: toward improved understanding." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595283291505878.

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Laber, Micaela. "The Politics of Biosimilars: Understanding Stakeholder Influence Over Complex Policy Problems." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1815.

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The health care industry’s involvement with biosimilar policies suggests that building coalitions and reducing opposition are critical factors for interest group success. As government decision-makers wrestle with how to handle a perplexing category of prescription drugs, companies and patient groups alike receive ample opportunities to contribute to the policymaking process. When stakeholders in the biosimilar arena – including manufacturers, physicians, and patients – unite, we see that the United States government takes steps toward fixing the policy problem. This occurred most recently wit

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Kaufman, David R. "Conceptual understanding of complex biomedical concepts : cardiac output and its regulation." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39495.

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The application of scientific principles in diverse science domains is widely regarded as a hallmark of expertise. However, the role of basic science knowledge and principles in clinical medicine is the subject of considerable controversy. The study examined the understanding of complex biomedical concepts related to cardiovascular physiology. Subjects at various levels of expertise were presented with questions and problems pertaining to the concepts of cardiac output and venous return. The experiment employed the combined methods of a cognitive science approach to problem-solving with a focu

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Kirk, Jacob Daniel. "Understanding the roles of the Smc5/6 complex on meiotic recombination." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/68211/.

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During meiotic cell division, the formation of chiasmata is required for the segregation of homologous chromosomes. This involves the formation of a programmed series of double strand breaks and repair by homologous recombination to form crossovers within the chromosomes. This process is highly regulated to ensure the timely formation of interhomolog linkages, which are normally repressed by the mitotic repair pathways. A protein complex of particular interest here is Smc5/6, which is closely related to two complexes with a fundamental role controlling chromosome structure (cohesin and condens

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Himmelstein, Daniel S. "The hetnet awakens| understanding complex diseases through data integration andopen science." Thesis, University of California, San Francisco, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10133408.

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<p> Human disease is complex. However, the explosion of biomedical data is providing new opportunities to improve our understanding. My dissertation focused on how to harness the biodata revolution. Broadly, I addressed three questions: how to integrate data, how to extract insights from data, and how to make science more open. </p><p> To integrate data, we pioneered the hetnet—a network with multiple node and relationship types. After several preludes, we released Hetionet v1.0, which contains 2,250,197 relationships of 24 types. Hetionet encodes the collective knowledge produced by m

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Cambe, Jordan. "Understanding the complex dynamics of social systems with diverse formal tools." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSEN043/document.

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Au cours des deux dernières décennies les objets connectés ont révolutionné la traçabilité des phénomènes sociaux. Les trajectoires sociales laissent aujourd'hui des traces numériques, qui peuvent être analysées pour obtenir une compréhension plus profonde des comportements collectifs. L'essor de grands réseaux sociaux (comme Facebook, Twitter et plus généralement les réseaux de communication mobile) et d'infrastructures connectées (comme les réseaux de transports publiques et les plate-formes en ligne géolocalisées) ont permis la constitution de grands jeux de données temporelles. Ces nouveau

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Lucchini, Lorenzo. "The Impact Of Innovators’ Behaviour: a study on attractiveness and coordination." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/264841.

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Innovation is defined as the introduction of new things or methods. In the history of human society, progress and cultural evolution occurred as a consequence of innovation processes. Typically changes proposed by a restricted number of peoples became widely adopted innovations as soon as a broad consensus formed around their adoption. In this thesis, we explore the role of innovators as potentially influential individuals in our society. Studying their behaviour is crucial to understand what are the factors that drove their decision in the process of becoming influential. In particular, her

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Lucchini, Lorenzo. "The Impact Of Innovators’ Behaviour: a study on attractiveness and coordination." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/264841.

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Innovation is defined as the introduction of new things or methods. In the history of human society, progress and cultural evolution occurred as a consequence of innovation processes. Typically changes proposed by a restricted number of peoples became widely adopted innovations as soon as a broad consensus formed around their adoption. In this thesis, we explore the role of innovators as potentially influential individuals in our society. Studying their behaviour is crucial to understand what are the factors that drove their decision in the process of becoming influential. In particular, here

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Bou, Alameda María Elena. "Through the Looking Glass: Understanding a Complex Relationship between Knowledge and Action." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/9175.

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Drawing on the study of knowledge and action as a reference, this thesis explores how practitioners in two different firms perform their practice, 'knowing' and 'acting' simultaneously. It argues that types of knowledge, activities, individuals and context are interwoven at the moment of acting. However, this relationship is not static. <br/>The empirical work in a local labour placement company and in a multinational consultancy firm shows that practitioners resort to a host of different expressions of knowledge (or bundle of knowledge) when acting. Therefore, the prevailing role of explicit

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Thies, Anna. "Understanding Complex Problems in Healthcare : By Applying a Free-Flowing Design Practice." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-129710.

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Healthcare in Sweden is in need of a transformation. The increase of chronic conditions poses a great challenge to the organisational structure of healthcare, which still largely remains based on acute, rather than chronic care. Development in the healthcare realm is commonly conducted in fragmented processes and from the professions', rather than the patients', perspective. A new type of design methodology has in recent years entered the field of healthcare development and innovation. It has progressively been used to enable the reorganisation of the healthcare system itself rather than solel

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Sheffield, Robert James. "Understanding the complex organisational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2012. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16576/.

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This study looks at the topics of creativity and innovation and how they are experienced as ordinary, everyday work. In business publications there is much hype and hope around the words “creativity” and “innovation”, but there is also a limited understanding of how creativity and innovation are enacted in organisations. Consequently, academics have stressed the need for ‘opening the black box’ of the firm and understanding how innovation really works (Birdi et al, 2003). This research uses the Complex Responsive Processes approach to understand the ordinary, everyday experiences of people inv

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LaMar, Michelle Marie. "Models for understanding student thinking using data from complex computerized science tasks." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3686374.

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<p> The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013) define performance targets which will require assessment tasks that can integrate discipline knowledge and cross-cutting ideas with the practices of science. Complex computerized tasks will likely play a large role in assessing these standards, but many questions remain about how best to make use of such tasks within a psychometric framework (National Research Council, 2014). This dissertation explores the use of a more extensive cognitive modeling approach, driven by the extra information contained in action data collected wh

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Rogers, Bradley W. (Bradley Warren). "Understanding, modeling and improving the development of complex products : method and study." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49780.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 90).<br>Development of new aerostructure designs frequently occurs through a complex process that is difficult to understand and control. Tight requirements for weight, cost, strength, and aerodynamic behavior create many interdependencies in the product design, which translate through to the design process. An increa

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Gette, Cody. "Exploring the Complex Relationships among Reasoning, Content Understanding, and Intuition in Physics." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28878.

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Physics education research over the past few decades has made significant advances toward improving instructional practices and developing effective instructional materials for physics classrooms. In some contexts, however, after multiple instructional refinements difficulties can remain persistent. Recent findings in PER suggest that many of these difficulties are consistent with reasoning paths accounted for by dual process theories of reasoning. Students often appear to be able to employ correct conceptual understanding in one context, but neglect to demonstrate the same understanding in an

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Suggs, Brittany Z. "Understanding the role of the FACT complex during development in C. elegans." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1512092327321986.

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Cooks, Jennifer A. "Understanding Social Media and the Complex Interplay Between Use and Depressive Symptoms." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595180501387867.

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Riachi, Melissa. "Understanding the molecular and genetic basis of complex syndromes of diabetes mellitus." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1572481/.

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Stronge, Aideen Joyce. "Understanding the Role of Planning in the Performance of Complex Prospective Memory Tasks." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/11560.

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Prospective memory also known as remembering to remember is the process of remembering to carry out future actions. The present study investigated age-related differences in the performance of two complex prospective memory tasks for 30 younger adults (M = 19.43, SD = 2.10) and 30 older adults (M = 66.87, SD = 3.25). The two tasks had the same constraints, but were framed within different contexts (i.e., taking medications or scheduling groups). Participants performed the tasks within a simulated week based on activities they perform as part of their weekly routine, and they w

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Espinosa, Jennifer Anne. "Understanding the Complexity of Product Returns Management: A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Perspective." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6233.

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The core essence of a marketing transaction is the exchange of value between two parties. Quite often, the exchange of value describes a customer purchasing a product from a company. When purchasing products, the exchange of value can often fail due to product defects or customer dissatisfaction. When the marketing exchange fails, customers often desire an avenue for recourse to right the exchange imbalance. Accepting and quickly processing product returns represents a strategic tool companies can leverage to maintain healthy relationships with customers, despite an exchange failure. Effective

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Leduc, Nathaniel. "Understanding Collaboration in the Context of Loosely- and Tightly-Coupled Complex Adaptive Systems." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37087.

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Many of the technological and social systems our society has come to depend on can be classified as complex adaptive systems (CAS). These systems are made of many individual parts that self-organize to respond and adapt to changing outside and inside influences affecting the system and its actors. These CAS can be placed on a spectrum ranging from loosely- to tightly-coupled, depending on the degree of interrelatedness and interdependence between system components. This research has explored how the process of collaboration occurs in both a loosely- and tightly-coupled setting using one exempl

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Hambrick, David Z. "Understanding proficiency in a complex cognitive domain : the case of crossword puzzle solving." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28622.

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Pym, Alexander Stephen. "Understanding attenuation in drug-resistant and vaccine strains of the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425695.

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Maloo, Akshay. "Dynamic Behavior Visualizer: A Dynamic Visual Analytics Framework for Understanding Complex Networked Models." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25296.

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Dynamic Behavior Visualizer (DBV) is a visual analytics environment to visualize the spatial and temporal movements and behavioral changes of an individual or a group, e.g. family within a realistic urban environment. DBV is specifically designed to visualize the adaptive behavioral changes, as they pertain to the interactions with multiple inter-dependent infrastructures, in the aftermath of a large crisis, e.g. hurricane or the detonation of an improvised nuclear device. DBV is web-enabled and thus is easily accessible to any user with access to a web browser. A novel aspect of the system is

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Tao, Li. "Understanding the performance of healthcare services: a data-driven complex systems modeling approach." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/89.

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Healthcare is of critical importance in maintaining people’s health and wellness. It has attracted policy makers, researchers, and practitioners around the world to .nd better ways to improve the performance of healthcare services. One of the key indicators for assessing that performance is to show how accessible and timely the services will be to speci.c groups of people in distinct geographic locations and in di.erent seasons, which is commonly re.ected in the so-called wait times of services. Wait times involve multiple related impact factors, called predictors, such as demographic characte

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Yasar, Muhammet Murat. "A Complex Systems Model for Understanding the Causes of Corruption: Case Study - Turkey." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4827/.

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It is attempted with this dissertation to draw an explanatory interdisciplinary framework to clarify the causes of systemic corruption. Following an intense review of political sciences, economics, and sociology literatures on the issue, a complex systems theoretical model is constructed. A political system consists of five main components: Society, interest aggregators, legislative, executive and private sector, and the human actors in these domains. It is hypothesized that when the legitimacy level of the system is low and morality of the systemic actors is flawed, selected political, social

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Schramm, Heather Elizabeth. "Development of mapping by admixture linkage disequilibrium for understanding human complex genetic diseases /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2003. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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White, Keith Laurence. "Understanding how the Army's Informal Leader Bonds Formal Leadership and the Complex Environment." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3849.

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Bullying and toxic leadership in the U. S. Army disrupt bonding processes between leaders and subordinates, which may jeopardize military operations, threaten resiliency initiatives, inhibit leader development, and stifle innovation. Little research, however, has looked at the role of informal leaders who operate outside the formal power structure in military environments. Using social exchange theory as the foundation, the purpose of this case study was to explore the activities of informal leaders who mediated the normal and disrupted leadership bonding processes in an Illinois Army National

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Alexander, James. "Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks." Thesis, Curtin University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1187.

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Despite a growing wealth of experience and knowledge concerning projects they experience cost overruns. Answering a call from leading academics for new research perspectives on projects, this thesis examines project cost overruns using a systemic modelling perspective and a case study design. The findings suggest that feedback dynamics involving loss of client trust; delay triggers such as design changes; and contextual conditions such as human resource policies, form a complex system that can induce overruns.

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Egle, Caron. "Understanding complex change in a federal policing environment through a post-conventional lens." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/236609/1/Caron_Egle_Thesis.pdf.

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This qualitative study explored how six post-conventional police leaders in the Australian Federal Police (AFP) understand complex change. It identified the challenges facing policing organisations with the increasing complexity of the global environment, the increasing sophistication of criminality, as well as cultural legacy issues. The results show that these post-conventional leaders hold an acute and insightful understanding of the intricacies and interconnectedness of the complexities facing the AFP, while holding deep empathy, compassion, and commitment to growth as leaders. This study

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Chen, Ying-Hsin. "UNDERSTANDING MECHANISMS THAT COUPLE TRANSLATION ELONGATION AND MRNA DECAY." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1522684403630693.

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Huang, Renhui. "Understanding Complex Rules and Regulations with the help of IT : The Case of UNDP." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-150824.

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UNDP is facing the problem today of how to communicate complex rules and regulations to their employees. The aim of this report is to improve efficiency and enable employees to quickly familiarize themselves with the rules and regulations that apply to them. It looks into the problem by performing interviews and questionnaires among members of Human Resources at the BES team located in Copenhagen and also staff members of UN distributed all over the world. The analytical framework comes from research within the field of CSCW and CSCL in order to understand how learning within large organizatio

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