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Ramos, Regiane Corrêa de Oliveira. "Amitav ghoshs Sea of poppies (2008): a web of gender, cultural and mythic relations in the nineteenth-century colonial India." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-09082016-093021/.
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This doctoral dissertation focuses on Amitav Ghoshs Sea of Poppies (2008) to investigate, from a postcolonial perspective, the way in which the writer deconstructs gender in the nineteenth-century India. In Chapter I, I analyze men and women within the Indian familial space in the nineteenth century, demonstrating how both are subjected to the disempowering effects of traditional rituals (such as sati), structures of Brahminical morality and patriarchal violence. The main character pair Deeti and Kalua is an example of how the persons are sexually assaulted (rape) and then silenced by an oppressive system. Chapter II, I examine men and women within the British colonial space, indicating how they are effected by the opium cultivation in the Indian hinterland. The peripheral characters peasants, eurasian and convicts are highlighted to show how they are uprooted from homeland and forced to be taken across the seas by the colonial administration to work as indentured labour. In Chapter III, I investigate the gender roles ascribed to Indians by the British colonizers. The secondary character pair Nob Kissin and Taramony shows how Ghosh deconstructs gender with the use of Indian mythology and storytelling. In the conclusion, I point out how Indian mythology is retrieved as an instrument of resistance.Esta tese de doutorado tem como objetivo investigar, sob a luz do questionamento póscolonial, como Amitav Ghosh em Sea of Poppies (2008) desconstrói a narrativa colonial sobre gênero na Índia colonial no século XIX. No Capítulo I, analiso homens e mulheres dentro do espaço familiar indiano, demonstrando como ambos estão sujeitos aos efeitos de desempoderamento dos rituais (como sati), da moralidade bramânica e da violência patriarcal. As personagens Deeti e Kalua exemplificam como os sujeitos, vítimas de violência sexual (estupro), são silenciados pelo sistema opressor. No Capítulo II, examino homens e mulheres dentro do espaço colonial britânico, indicando como os indivíduos são afetados pelo cultivo do ópio na Índia. As personagens periféricas camponeses, anglo-indianos e condenados servem de exemplo para destacar como essas pessoas são arrancadas de seu país e forçadas a migrar para as colônias inglesas. No Capítulo III, investigo como os ingleses inferiorizam os indianos. As personagens secundárias Nob Kissin e Taramony mostram como o conceito de gênero é desconstruído através da mitologia. Concluo argumentando que Amitav Ghosh faz uso da mitologia indiana como um instrumento de resistência.
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Griffke, Matthias. "Der indische Film auf dem Weg zur Internationalisierung." Stuttgart : Fachhochschule Stuttgart, Hochschule der Medien, Digitale Bibliothek, 2003. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11675631.
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Pi, Seungho. "A review and analysis of East Central Indiana School Study Council corporations' web sites." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1263927.
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The Web has become an essential part in the lives of individuals on a global scale. The Web provides information, data, and unprecedented international communicative powers. Because there is so much information available and the information may appear to be fairly anonymous, it is necessary to evaluate what one finds on the Web. How can Web users believe all the information that is available on it? Is the information authoritative, reliable, and trustworthy? And, from the reverse perspective, how can Web developers or providers make Web users confident about the information on the Web?There currently is no research-based Web site evaluation instrument aimed at evaluating school district Web sites. In addition, the problem of this study is to respond to the expressed need of the East Central Indiana School Study Council (ECISSC) school corporations' superintendents for a set of guidelines for developing their Web sites and to develop an evaluation tool for assessing the Web site's effectiveness.The researcher specifically examines the degree of quality of the Web sites using the researcher-developed checklist containing 137 items divided among 10 categories: authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, coverage and intended audience, interaction and transaction features, navigational aids, non-text features, professional development, and recruitment features. Of the 10 Web evaluation categories, navigational aids (50.42%), accuracy (42.06%), and authority (41.8%) are the highest rated components. ECISSC Web contents receiving the lowest ratings include recruitment and retention features (6.74%), interaction and transaction features (8.70%), currency (8.95%), and professional development (9.33%).The findings of this study provide specific guidance to individual school corporations to retain quality Web site components and to further the development and refinement of specific elements in each of the 10 identified Web assessment categories. Individual school corporations and ECISSC school corporations' profiles are presented to assist school officials in their efforts to improve school Web site designs and contents. The 10 Web evaluation categories and 137-checklist items can be used to assess and improve school Web site and can increase their effectiveness and efficiency to promote enhanced school-community relations and understanding among stakeholders.Department of Educational Leadership
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Klauk, Erin Elizabeth. "Design and learning outcomes of web-based instructional resources focused on the impacts of resource development on Native American lands." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/klauk/KlaukE0507.pdf.
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Schoonmaker, Benjamin L. "Clean Indices of Common Rings." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7027.
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Lee and Zhou introduced the clean index of rings in 2004. Motivated by this work, Basnet and Bhattacharyya introduced both the weak clean index of rings and the nil clean index of rings and Cimpean and Danchev introduced the weakly nil clean index of rings. In this work, we calculate each of these indices for the rings ℤ/nℤ and matrix rings with entries in ℤ/nℤ. A generalized index is also introduced.
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Likunama, Michael John. "The influence of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans on wet and dry spells over southern Tanzania." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6487.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-104).Rainfall over Tanzania is highly variable. In recent decades the country has been devastated by floods and droughts. The Tanzanian population relies heavily on seasonal rainfall. Over the northern part of the country, the rainy season occurs in two phases, the short rains (October-December) and the long rains (March - May). Over the southern and the western areas, the rainy season occurs during November - May. This study aims at identifying factors that may playa role in the rainfall variability over the southern region of Tanzania. This study indicates that over the Indian Ocean, the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) over the northeast of Madagascar have a strong relationship with the rainfall in southern Tanzania during the OND rainfall, while the SSTs over the southeast Atlantic have a strong relationship during the JFM rainfall. It has also been revealed that the El Niño/ Southern Oscillation (ENSO) have influence on rainfall variability over the region. The warm/cold ENSO events would impact both a wet or dry year. Such contradiction has imposed a challenge to the forecasters of seasonal rainfall over southern Tanzania.
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Smith, Cameron McPherson. "Social Stratification within a Protohistoric Plankhouse of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Use-wear and Spatial Distribution Analysis of Chipped Lithic Artifacts." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5139.
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The spatial distribution of chipped lithic artifacts excavated at site 35C05, a Chinookan plankhouse of the protohistoric period, was observed to test the hypothesis that a gradient of material culture -- reflecting social status -- should be evident within the plankhouse, ranging from the highest to the lowest social rank. Prior to the spatial analysis, use-wear analysis was used to evaluate the classificatory labels used to describe the assemblage by a previous researcher. The use-wear analysis largely confirmed the functional classification of chipped lithic artifacts used by the previous researcher. The spatial analyses revealed that while most tool types were rather evenly distributed throughout the plankhouse interior (taphonomic factors having been considered), cutting, graving and scraping tools (as well as some characteristics of these tools, such as raw material quality) were significantly unevenly distributed, correlating with the hypothesized gradient of social rank aligned with the long axis of the plankhouse. Further analyses strongly suggested that one or more labor specialists, using high frequencies of graving tools, were inhabitants of the elite portion of the plankhouse. Most domestic activities reflected by the stone tools of this assemblage were engaged in by plankhouse inhabitants of all social ranks. Knowing that this is the case, as well as that in some instances there is compelling evidence for status-determined labor specialization, aids in our understanding of the character of aboriginal social structure on the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Natarajan, Keerthana. "Integrating Machine Learning with Web Application to Predict Diabetes." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627663657558303.
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Nallan, Sreedhar Acharya. "Geospatial and data mining approaches to assess the impact of watershed development in Indian rainfed areas." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1980.
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Watershed development programs in India have played a significant role in improving the livelihoods of the rural communities living in rainfed areas. Current assessments are limited in assessing interrelated impacts as the watershed development is influenced by multi domain areas. Few studies have reported on the novel ICT techniques being used for watershed assessment with actual watershed data or examined the spatial or temporal variations in the watershed.
The objective of the research was to study current novel geospatial and data mining methods used in hydrological assessments of watershed development and to apply the identified novel methods on a real-time watershed data. The following major research question has been addressed by the research study: “Can novel geospatial and data mining methods be effectively used to assess the hydrological impacts of watershed development? In order to answer this question, the research was carried out in a number of phases to examine existing ICT techniques utilised for impact assessment of the watershed area.
The research methodology used in this study was a mixed method approach based on case study, diagnostic research and quantitative approach. Two contiguous watersheds in rainfed region of Andhra Pradesh, India was chosen as study area. Data sets were sourced from a number of Government and NGO agencies and field visits. Data representing sixteen parameters of hydrological, environmental and social factors which were known to influence watersheds were chosen for the study. The data consisted of both spatial and spatio-temporal data. A grid of 2880 cells covering the study area was developed. Data for the period 2006 to 2008 in two seasons (pre-monsoon and post-monsoon) were collected, compiled, classified and assigned to the grid network database. The study area was divided into three zones viz., upstream, midstream and downstream. The data underwent preprocessing in order to make it suitable for further data analysis. This included watershed delineation, creating grid network, handling point data, line data and polygon data, and formatting data into unified format. The data was converted into nominal classes to be utilised for data mining.
The watershed data set was analysed using descriptive statistics, geospatial and data mining approach. The first analysis used descriptive statistics based on univariate analysis using pivot tables wizard. This analysis used all sixteen watershed parameters. A series of different scenarios for soils, ground water levels, landuse and checkdams were examined. The second approach was a geospatial analysis which used optimised hot spot analysis. The analysis used NDVI, ground water levels data as the input parameters. The data was examined in relation to landuse and location of checkdams. The third approach employed spatial data mining techniques by using DBSCAN clustering and Apriori rule based association rule mining techniques on watershed data. The analysis used fourteen spatio-temporal parameters. The output from the analysis was visualised using a GIS environment.
A comparison of the results from the three approaches showed that all the three approaches provided some insight into the understanding of factors influencing the watershed development. The descriptive statistics provided a simple analysis of trends of the parameters. It was limited in its ability to show the interrelationships between parameters. The geospatial analysis of the watershed area was useful in understanding the spatial and temporal trends across the watershed area. This analysis can only be used for spatial data with numeric values. The data mining analysis of the watershed area was useful in understanding previously hidden relationships between the parameters influencing the watershed area. This analysis could be used for both spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis. The results obtained through each analysis approach require some expertise to interrogate the effects of changes in the watershed area. The relationships are complex and interrelationships are influencing the effects of parameters. Variation was found in the granularity of the outputs of each approach. It is evident that a combination of the approaches provided the capability to investigate these from general data trends to complex data analysis.
Validation of the approaches was made with a similar study carried out by ACIAR funded project. Some validation could be made of the findings from this thesis with the ACIAR based studies. The importance of factors such as groundwater level, watershed zone and rainfall was noted in both studies. Although the ACIAR research was conducted in similar study area, it was limited in its analysis of the effects of upstream/downstream interactions and did not study on the integration of multiple parameters in a robust manner.
The research was considered novel in the integration of three different approaches for watershed impact assessment utilising hydrological, socio and environmental parameters for a contiguous watershed data with a spatial and temporal analysis. It was also novel in that it proposed hybrid method of utilising Geospatial analysis and data mining methods together and visualising the output of data mining in a GIS environment.
This research proposed a novel integrated technology based framework for impact assessment which comprises datasets, processing, analysis and results components. This framework could be used to develop it as a decision support tool to assess the impacts of watershed development to assist researchers and planners to provide unbiased assessment of the impact of the watershed development from a range of perspectives. The framework can be used at different spatial and temporal scales.
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Nanaumi, Yumiko. "Women of rice, women of millet : a comparison of female participation in wet and dry cultivation in Tamil Nadu, South India." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23233.
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Women's status in Indian agrarian communities has been discussed in terms of cultural and agricultural practices, which affect women adversely in the northwestern wheat region and favourably in the southern rice region. The correlation is tested by the female farm labour participation (FLP) rate and the juvenile sex ratio (JSR).I examine the correlation between women's contribution to agriculture and their status in wet paddy and dry millet regions in Tamil Nadu. Compared to northwestern India, the JSRs are more balanced and FLPs are high in both regions, yet the implications of high FLPs differ. Thanjavur shows a high female labour participation in peak seasons, but year-round underemployment. In Kongu, the cultivation of garden crops requires both male and female labour throughout the year.
The contrasts originate from varied factors such as ecology and irrigation, cropping system, the distribution of land wealth, and on- and off-farm employment opportunities.
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Delort, Jean-Yves. "Modèles de navigation sur le Web basés sur le contenu." Paris 6, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA066396.
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Kujat, Christopher Norman. "Can the Subaltern Tweet? A Netnography of India’s Subaltern Voices Entering the Public via Social Media." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23976.
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This netnography depicts the notions of India’s subaltern voices entering the public via social media. The study puts an emphasis on feminists and caste critics, divided into two case studies. The study witnessed dynamics of Twitter use between sociality and activism as well as the notions of performance and identity of these two intersecting, yet polarised groups.Privilege remains a governing factor, which regulates access, accessibility and the use of the subaltern sphere and makes it exclusive for a privileged group of the subaltern. The main benefits of Twitter in the subaltern sphere, as the study suggests, is the factor of sociality and networking around causes, which leads to peer dialogue in the public sphere and increases visibility. This eventually leads to more attention for certain causes in the public discourse and to the countering of mainstream media narratives, for example in the case study of the Dalit Lives Matter Movement and its ad hoc fame, which evolved after the suicide of the Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula.Further, while online activism is present, its impact remains hard to measure. The main benefits of the space are the plurality of voices that inhabit it. Also, the unleashing of the counternarratives towards the mainstream media that are even more controlled by the state than the new media landscape, is an important benefit.
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Sanchez, Virginie. "L'acte de modification de pages de sites internet ou "déface" : des indices objectifs aux traces/marques psychologiques de la délinquance informatique." Toulouse 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOU20101.
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Sebastianis, Stefania. "La construction de l'indianité dans l'art populaire d'Ayacucho, Pérou : de l'indigénisme aux sites web." Paris, EHESS, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EHES0200.
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Cette recherche examine la construction de l'indianité à travers les expressions artistiques de la population indigène d'Ayacucho (Pérou), natamment les retablos, la céramique et les tapis. La démarche a été de montrer comment cet catégorie exogène a été "construite" au fil du temps de façon contrastée et "resémantisée" en fonction de l'idéologie soutenant les relations de pouvoir au sein de la société péruvienne. Dans ce contexte on a considéré la transformation subie par l'art indigène, produite dans le département d'Ayacucho comme dans la barriada de Lima, depuis le contexte traditionnel magico rituel jusqu'au marché urbain et touristique, en passant par son emploi pendant et à la fin de l'époque de la violence des années quatre-vingt, pour se conclure avec les processus migratoires internationaux qui impriment de nouvelles intentionnalités aux oeuvres. Le travail du terrain a mis à jour les stratégies emploies dans les projets de l'authenticité des objets et la mise en scène de l'identité des producteurs dans le marche en ligne de cet art. L'art a été analysé en tenant compte des réflexions élaborées par Alfred Gell, en la considérant non seulement comme un instrument supportant des significations culturelles, mais aussi en tant que moyen d'action (agency) agissant dans le contexte des rapports sociaux comme une "extention de l'artiste"This study examines the creation of the identity through the art and craftwork of the native people of Ayacucho (Peru), especially with regard to the retablos, ceramic ware and carpets. The objective of the study was to show haw this exogenous category has been "created" over the years in a contrasting way and how it can be assigned a new meaning depending on the ideology underlying the power relations in Peruvian society. In this context, we have examined how the native art of the Ayacucho district and the barriadas of Lima has changes in the traditional magical ritual environment as well as in the urban and tourist market, considering its use during and at the end of the period of violence that the country experienced in the Eighties and, ending with the internationalmigration processes which add a new purpose to the art works. Field research has emphasized the strategies adopted bythe peojects for the development of the artesania to make this production more market-oriented, as well as the construction of the authenticity of the objects and haw the indian identity has been given more exposure in the online market for this type of art. The art has been analyzed in the light of the thought of Alfred Gell and therefore considered not only as an instrument supporting cultural meanings, but also as an agent acting in the context of social relations as an "extension of the artist"
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Eppink, Joseph A. "The effect of web-based portfolio assessment strategies on the attitudes and self-perceived growth in music learning of non-music elementary general classroom educators in a basics of music course." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1239210.
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This study examined the effect of web-based portfolio assessment strategies on the attitudes and self-perceived growth in music learning of non-music elementary general classroom educators in a basics of music course. The study is based upon research and literature in regards to constructivism, alternative assessment strategies including portfolio assessment, and computer technology.The study employed both quantitative and qualitative research. The study was quasi-experimental and utilized a pretest and posttest survey and a final discussion interview between the student and the researcher. Students participating were enrolled in the Basic Music for Elementary Classroom Teachers course during the Spring 2002 academic semester. There total number of students involved in the study was 88 (n=88). Two classes served as the control group (n=41) and two classes served as the treatment groups (n=47). Students in the control group were evaluated through traditional methods including paper-pencil exams. Students in the treatment group were assessed through alternative assessment strategies including rubrics, reflective thinking, peer review, and the construction of a web-based portfolio. Students in both groups participated in the four main projects of the semester and completed the pre-post survey, Music in My Life.Quantitative data analysis was calculated using SPSS. Information obtained through the data collection from the pre-post survey was analyzed and interpreted with the ANCOVA test at an alpha level of .05. Qualitative data was collected from the individual discussion sessions. These interviews were transcribed and coded.Quantitative analysis found significant differences in two of the questions on the pre-post survey in regards to music as a subject. No significant difference was found regarding the attitudes about music growth between the groups from the pre-post survey. However, qualitative data collected illustrated that students in the treatment groups were better able to use music vocabulary, discuss connections between the projects while viewing the semester as a whole, and discussing their growth over the period of an academic semester. These students were also able to discuss the web-based portfolio in terms of the website showing their growth over the academic semester.School of Music
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Ovadia, Micah. "An examination of credibility perceptions among Ball State University undergraduate students of news reports appearing in newspapers, television, and the World Wide Web." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1045624.
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This baseline study sought to evaluate Ball State University (BSU) undergraduate students' credibility perceptions of news reports gleaned from the World Wide Web (WWW). A random selection of 378 BSU undergraduate students were phoned and administered a questionnaire,which included newspaper and television news credibility questions for comparative purposes.Among WWW users and non-WWW users combined, credibility perceptions of newspaper and television news were not found to differ significantly, with the majority of respondents ranking newspapers and television medium in credibility. Television held a statistically significant lead over newspapers as the most believable news source in the event of conflicting reports of the same news story appearing in both media.WWW users rated the WWW medium in credibility and felt television to be more believable than newspapers and the WWW in the event of conflicting reports appearing in all three media.Department of Journalism
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Kashyap, Arunima. "Use wear and starch grain analysis an integrated approach to understanding the transition from hunting gathering to food production at Bagor, Rajasthan, India /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2006.
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McCann, Jennifer Laura. "Comparing Indices of Diet Quality and Nutrient Intakes in Patients with Varying Stages of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Utilizing a Web-based 90-day Food Frequency Questionnaire." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555421355382894.
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Burianec, Dominik. "Testování efektivnosti kapitálového trhu v evropských ekonomikách." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205612.
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This master´s thesis deals with testing the efficiency of capital markets. The subject to verification of the stock markets of Austria, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, Czech Republic and Poland during the 2006-2016Q1. The aim of this work is to test the weak formo f efficiency in these markets. The hypothesis was tested using the ACF test ADF and KPSS tests, variance ratio test, run test and test of January effect.
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George, Stephen J. "Community of Inquiry Meets Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): A CDA of Asynchronous Computer-Conference Discourse with Seminary Students in India." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011816/.
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The purpose of this study was to better understand student learning in asynchronous computer-conference discourse (ASD) for non-native speakers of English in India through the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework. The study looked at ASD from an online course taught in the fall of 2015 to 25 students in a seminary in South India. All but one of the students were non-native speakers of English. The class consisted of 22 men and 3 women. Eight students spoke languages from the Dravidian family of languages (Malayalam, Tamil, Telegu and Kannada). Eight students were from the Northeastern states of Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura, where most languages are from the Sino-Tibetan family. Three students were native speakers of Indo-Aryan languages (Odiya and Assamese). Five students were from Myanmar representing several Sino-Tibetan languages. The COI is a framework used to understand learning in ASD, often used in online learning. To study the ASD of this group, critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used with the COI to capture the unique socio-cultural and linguistic conditions of this group.
The study revealed that non-native speakers of English often reach the Exploration phase of learning but rarely show evidence of reaching the Resolution phase. This phenomenon was also observed in native English speakers as reported in the literature. Also, the structure of ASD showed that students took an examination approach to discussion shaped in part by their epistemology. This examination approach shaped how knowledge was constructed. CDA also showed that the discourse acquired an instructor-centered structure in which Resolution and Repair were initiated and finalized by the instructor.
The study advances the COI framework by undergirding it with a theory of asynchronous discourse using critical discourse analysis and capturing cognitive, social and teaching presence phenomena for non-native speakers that were not observed through the traditional COI framework. These phenomena were driven by cultural, epistemological, and linguistic forces and require a rethinking of the COI for contexts outside of North America. The study also demonstrates that learning for non-native speakers in ASD is challenged by these very same forces. Therefore, design for online learning should account for these phenomena.
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Guilpart, Etienne. "Etude de la composition isotopique (deutérium et oxygène 18) de la vapeur d'eau dans l'atmosphère sur l'île de La Réunion : apport à la compréhension des processus humides atmosphériques en région tropicale." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLV002/document.
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La composition isotopique de l’eau (dO18 et dD) est couramment utilisée pour étudier le cycle de l’eau actuel et passé ainsi que ses variations. Alors que dans les zones polaires, cet outil géochimique représente les fondements de la reconstitution des climats polaires passés, de multiples questions demeurent quant aux facteurs pilotant la composition isotopique de l’eau dans les tropiques.Afin de répondre à ces questions, le présent travail de thèse a porté sur la réalisation de mesures en continu de la composition isotopique de la vapeur d’eau sur l’île de La Réunion (océan Indien), ainsi que sur l’évaluation du potentiel de ces mesures pour la compréhension des processus atmosphériques humides prévalant sur cette zone géographique. L’implantation d’un spectromètre laser à l’Observatoire Atmosphérique du Maïdo nous a permis d’obtenir une chronique de trois ans de mesures.Dans un premier temps, les différentes variabilités temporelles que présentent nos mesures ont été étudiées. Les enregistrements ne montrent aucune cyclicité saisonnière sur la composition isotopique de la vapeur d’eau. Elles indiquent en revanche une forte cyclicité diurne, ainsi qu’une variabilité synoptique associée à des évènements cycloniques.Dans un second temps, nous montrons que cette cyclicité diurne résulte de phénomènes de mouvement de couche limite atmosphérique, avec une vapeur marine qui atteint l’Observatoire durant la journée, alors que des masses d’air en provenance de la troposphère libre y parviennent durant la nuit. La présence de certaines nuits significativement plus appauvries en dO18 et dD reflète (1) une modification de la circulation atmosphérique régionale avec un renforcement des subsidences au niveau de La Réunion, lié à la position du Jet Subtropical durant l’hiver austral, et (2) tantôt une intensification de la subsidence au niveau de La Réunion, tantôt des processus de condensation locaux ou régionaux durant l’été austral.Enfin, l’étude des phénomènes cycloniques indique qu’au cours de ces périodes, un fort appauvrissement de la composition isotopique de la vapeur est observé. Celui-ci survient 2 à 3 jours avant et perdure jusqu’à 3 jours après le passage du système. Durant cette période, l’évolution de la composition isotopique de la vapeur d’eau présente une sous-structure. On note (1) un appauvrissement isotopique qui est fonction de la distance au centre du système, (2) un enrichissement isotopique au niveau du mur du système, et (3) des évolutions abruptes de la composition isotopique de la vapeur d’eau dans les bandes précipitantes dues à des processus de mélange, de condensation et/ou de rechargeThe isotopic composition of water vapor (dO18 and dD) is commonly used to study present and past water cycle and its varations. If this geochemical tool has been widely used to study past polar climates, many questions remain about the factors governing the isotopic composition of water in the tropics.The goal of this thesis is (1) to monitor the isotopic composition of water vapor in Reunion island (Indian Ocean), and (2) to evaluate the potential of theses measurements for understanding humid climate processes. We have set up a laser spectrometer at the Maïdo Atmospheric Observatory, allowing us to obtain a three-year chronicle of measurements.First, we analyze the temporal variability in our measurements. The isotopic composition of water vapor does not record any seasonal cyclicity. On the other hand, a strong diurnal cycle is visible, as well as a synoptic variability associated with cyclonic events.We then focus on the diurnal cycle. We show that it results from atmospheric boundary layer motions, with a marine vapor reaching the Observatory during the day, and air masses originating from the free troposphere reaching the Observatory during the night. During some nights, vapor is significantly more depleted in dO18 and dD. During the austral winter, this phenomenon is due to a modification of the regional atmospheric circulation causing a reinforcement of subsidences at Reunion Island, related to the position of the Subtropical Jet. During the austral summer, this phenomenon is sometimes due to an intensification of the subsidence at Reunion Island, and at other times to local or regional condensation processes.Finally, we focus on cyclonic events. During these periods, a strong isotopic depletion of the vapor is observed. We show that this depletion occurs 2 to 3 days before the system and continues until 3 days after. During this period, the evolution of the isotopic composition of the water vapor has a substructure. We note (1) an isotopic depletion that is a function of the distance to the center of the system, (2) an isotopic enrichment at the system wall, and (3) an abrupt evolutions of the isotopic composition of the water vapor in the rainbands due to mixing, condensation and/or recycling processes
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Baquero, Bernal Astrid. "Interannual climate variability in the tropical Indian Ocean : a study with a hierarchy of coupled general circulation models = Interannuale Klimavariabilität im tropischen Indischen Ozean : eine Untersuchung mit einer Hierarchie von globalen gekoppelten Ozean-Atmosphären-Modellen /." Hamburg : Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, 2004. http://mpimet.mpg.de/de/web/download.php?src=max_erdsystem&file=pdfupload&id=15&filename=BzE_8.pdf.
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Ottosson, Hans Jorgen. "Considering Social Impact when Engineering for Global Development." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9158.
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Every manufactured product has an environmental impact, a social impact, and an economic impact. As engineers, we should do our best to understand how our design decisions influence these impacts (the three pillars of sustainability), and at the same time make decisions that collectively lead to maximum positive impacts, or minimum negative impacts on the economy, environment, and society. Many times, engineers show interest and want to design for all three pillars of sustainability but are often constrained to focus on the environmental and economic aspects, leaving out social sustainability due to lack of understanding and resources. In practice, this leaves the social dimension of sustainability out of sight and reach for many engineers. So to assist engineers to consider and improve the social impacts of their products, we have created two methods. The first method is focused on meeting customers' unmet needs through the use of collaborative products (a product created by temporarily combining physical components from two or more products to perform new tasks) and the second method is to be used throughout the product development process in order to increase the potential social impacts of the product being designed. It will assist engineers to become aware of social impact categories sometimes overlooked, especially when designing for global engineering. If engineers are able to focus on all three pillars of sustainability early in the design process, including social sustainability, they can add social impact indicators along with technical performance measurements during the product development process and design a product that better meets the requirements for environment, economic, and social sustainability. This is why it is important for engineers to know how to handle the complexity and uncertainty associated with design parameters when creating products for social impacts aimed at global development. In this dissertation, the two methods are outlined and explained. The demonstration of the first method showed that by using the method of collaborative product design to create a brick press, the task-per-cost ratio was improved by 30%. The demonstration of the second method showed that a redesign of the cup seal in the India Mark II/III hand pump system (a product used by approximately 10% of the world's population) could extend the service interval with 12% by replacing the cup seals. Lastly, conclusions related to improving social impacts when engineering for global development and suggestions for future research are outlined.
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Henzlová, Pavla. "Testování teorie efektivních trhů." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-202049.
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This thesis is focused on testing the weak effectiveness of the US, Japanese, German and Czech market in the period 1995 - 2015. The first part contains a theoretical basis for the theory of efficient markets, the conditions, characteristics and models. Further test methods of weak market efficiency are presented and semistrong and strong effectiveness mentioned. The practical part deals with the introduction of tested stock exchange indices and by testing the weak effectiveness of these markets through tests of randomness, variance ratio test and serial correlation.
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Biehl, Paul. "How may we explain Nepal’s foreign policy behavior and strategy? The case of a weak and small state in the international system and its foreign policy behavior and strategy." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23488.
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This paper focuses on the foreign policy behavior and strategy of weak and small states in the international system. Further, it explains the behavior and strategies employed by those states by examining several concepts and theories and applying them on the case of Nepal. In a realist world and among states that are most interested in their own integrity and survival, and partly in maximizing their power, weak and small states like Nepal try to keep a neutral position between all actors, try to maintain and extend bilateral relations to the immediate neighbors and other actors in the international system, and further integrate themselves into regional and international frameworks to secure their survival. Because they are the most vulnerable actors, the study of those states and their behavior and strategies is both interesting and compelling. Methodologically, this paper employs interviews as the main source of data and additionally peruses the foreign policy reports of Nepal from the last five years (2015-2019). The data is being analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. After studying the case and its implications, the author suggests that especially geographic patterns are important to understand the foreign policy of weak and small states, and further neutrality and bilateral as well as multilateral relations are indispensable for those actors to secure their integrity and survival in the international system.
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Hogfors, Hedvig. "Summer cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea - implications for copepod recruitment." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Systemekologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-81680.
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During summer, the Baltic Sea is subjected to the world’s largest cyanobacterial blooms. These blooms are linked to eutrophication and raise many questions concerning their effects on the ecosystem. To understand their impacts on the food web dynamics, it is essential to assess growth responses of grazers to these cyanobacteria. In the northern Baltic proper, copepods are the most important herbivores providing an essential link between the primary producers and higher trophic levels. In this Thesis, Papers I & II evaluate methods to estimate copepod growth in response to feeding conditions in situ. The most conspicuous diazotrophic filamentous cyanobacterium in the Baltic Sea is Nodularia spumigena, a producer of nodularin which is highly toxic to vertebrates, yet its ecological role is largely unknown. In Paper III, reciprocal interactions between cyanobacteria, sympatric algae and copepods are studied. The results suggest that nodularin is likely involved in allelopathic interactions, but it is not an inducible defense against grazers. Furthermore, the results of Papers IV & V, indicate that natural assemblages of N. spumigena and Anabaena spp. may support copepod reproduction and that total diazotrophic filamentous cyanobacteria appear to provide a beneficial feeding environment for the feeding stages of copepod nauplii, most probably by stimulating the microbial communities that nauplii feed upon. Since cyanobacterial blooms are projected to increase due to global climate change, the combined effects of toxic cyanobacteria, ocean acidification and global warming predicted for year 2100 are further investigated on copepods in Paper IV. Taken together, these studies indicate that filamentous diazotrophic cyanobacteria contribute to sustaining secondary productivity and have potential implications of management practices with respect to combating eutrophication, global climate change and sustaining fish feeding conditions.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Manuscript. Paper 5: Manuscript.
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Holmborn, Towe. "Zooplankton growth and trophic linkages : Implications for fish feeding conditions in the Baltic Sea." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Systemekologiska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-29485.
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The aim of this Thesis was to improve our understanding and assessment of feeding conditions for zooplanktivorous fish in the Baltic Sea. We investigated (papers I, II) the usefulness of biochemical proxies for assessments of growth and metabolic rates in the dominant Baltic copepod Acartia bifilosa. A predictive model (paper I) for egg production rate (EPR), based on body size, RNA content, and water temperature, was established using females of different geographical origin. This model demonstrates the usefulness of RNA content as a proxy for growth in zooplankton and, together with abundance data, it could be used to evaluate fish feeding conditions. Further (paper II), using A. bifilosa exposed to a food gradient, we evaluated responses of physiological rates and other biochemical proxies for growth and established correlations between physiological and biochemical variables. EPR and ingestion rate were most significantly correlated with RNA content. As assayed variables saturated at different food concentrations, food availability may affect assessments of physiological rates using proxies. In paper III, we explored the effect of high EPR and ingestion rate on astaxanthin content in A. bifilosa. We found that the astaxanthin content decreased at high feeding rates, most likely due to decreased assimilation efficiency. This may impact the quality of zooplankton as prey. The invasion of Cercopagis pengoi, a zooplanktivorous cladoceran, has altered the trophic linkages in the Baltic Sea food web. In paper IV, we evaluated the feeding of zooplanktivorous fish on C. pengoi and found that irrespective of size both herring and sprat feed on it, with large herring being more selective. In turn, C. pengoi feeds mainly on older copepods (paper V), which are acknowledged important in fish nutrition. These results indicate that C. pengoi may compete with fish due to the diet overlap.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: In progress. Paper 3: Submitted
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Oliveira, Sara Galleni de. "Desenvolvimento de um sistema web para a notificação e vigilância epidemiológica de trauma com monitorização e análise de indicadores de qualidade do atendimento." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/82/82131/tde-03102017-083524/.
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O trauma é uma das principais causas de morte no mundo. Estima-se que mais de cinco milhões de pessoas morrem anualmente por algum tipo de trauma e que outras milhões que sobrevivem aos ferimentos ficam com sequelas temporárias ou permanentes, o que implica em custos diretos e indiretos de bilhões de reais. Desta forma, o problema do trauma envolve questões de ordem epidemiológica, social, assistencial, financeira e de gestão. Uma das maneiras de minimizar este problema é avaliar as fases do atendimento por meio de programas de melhoria de qualidade. O Comitê de Trauma do Colégio Americano de Cirurgiões criou uma base de dados única de registros de traumas de diversos centros nos Estados Unidos e Canadá na base de dados única do National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB). Após coletados, os dados são processados e transformados em relatórios anuais com indicadores que fornecem uma visão da situação geral do atendimento ao trauma em todo o país. Muitos países investem recursos para construir registros de trauma ou base de dados regionais, que são importantes fontes de dados para construção de indicadores de qualidade. No Brasil não existe a notificação sistemática dos pacientes traumatizados nos serviços de saúde. O presente estudo tem por finalidade desenvolver um software com módulo de notificação e vigilância epidemiológica dos traumas associado à monitorização e análise dos dados consolidados utilizando indicadores de qualidade. Para teste do software foi utilizado o banco de dados de pacientes traumatizados atendidos na Unidade de Emergência do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo (UE-HCFMRP/USP) no período de 2006 a 2014. No software desenvolvido há duas maneiras de inserir dados de trauma: manualmente por meio do preenchimento do formulário eletrônico de notificação ou por meio da importação direta de arquivo Excel com a mesma sequência de dados. Desta forma, os indicadores são gerados automaticamente e podem ser visualizados em gráficos e tabelas. Os resultados obtidos através do uso da ferramenta foram utilizados para analisar a situação da assistência ao trauma na região de Ribeirão Preto. A análise destes resultados também foi essencial para verificar a capacidade da ferramenta em prover informações relevantes para a gestão hospitalar. A partir da análise dos resultados obtidos, concluímos que a ferramenta pode auxiliar a avaliação da qualidade do atendimento ao trauma. Uma possibilidade de expansão do sistema é incluir novos indicadores e coletar dados de outras instituições para permitir benchmarking externo.Trauma is a leading cause of death worldwide. It is estimated that more than five million people die annually from some sort of trauma and millions more who survive their injuries are left with temporary or permanent sequelae, which leads to billions of Reais in direct and indirect costs. Thus, the question of trauma involves epidemiological, social, healthcare, financial and management issues. One way to lessen such problems is to evaluate the phases of medical care through quality improvement programs. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma has created a unique aggregation of trauma registry data from several centers in the United States and Canada in a single database, the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB). After collected, the data are processed into annual reports with indicators that provide a view of the overall situation of trauma care nationwide. Many countries invest resources on gathering trauma registries or building regional databases, which are important sources of data for generating care quality indicators. In Brazil there is no systematic notification of trauma patients in health services. The present study aims to develop a software with a trauma notification and epidemiological surveillance module associated with the monitoring and analysis of the consolidated data using care quality indicators. To test the software we used the database of trauma patients treated at the Emergency Unit of the Clinics Hospital at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School - University of São Paulo (UE HCFMRP/USP) from 2006 to 2014. There are two ways to feed the software with the trauma data: manually, by completing an electronic notification form or by directly importing an Excel file with the same data stream. The indicators are then generated automatically and can be viewed in charts and tables. The results yielded from the software were used to assess the situation of trauma healthcare in the Ribeirão Preto region. The analysis of such results was also crucial to determine the software capacity to provide relevant information for hospital management. The results analysis led us to conclude that the software can help assess the quality of trauma healthcare. A possibility of system expansion is to include new indicators and collect data from other institutions to allow external benchmarking.
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Fanti, Laura. "La fonction des récipients céramiques dans les sociétés du Néolitique moyen B (4500-4000 cal BC) en Sardaigne centre-occidentale (Italie) : Indices fonctionnels, économiques, interculturels à partir de l’analyse des caractéristiques morphométriques, des résidus organiques et des traces d’usure des poteries." Thesis, Nice, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015NICE2024.
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La Sardaigne, en raison de sa position géographique au cœur de la Méditerranée occidentale, constitue une zone clé pour la compréhension de la diffusion du Néolithique dans le domaine nord-tyrrhénien. La deuxième moitié du Ve millénaire cal BC marque l’essor et l’aboutissement du processus de diffusion de l’économie néolithique dans l’île, sous l’égide des groupes humains « San Ciriaco ». Des fouilles récentes dans la Sardaigne centre-occidentale, zone cruciale pour cette entité culturelle régionale, ont décelé des contextes inédits dont l’étude est fondamentale pour la connaissance de ces sociétés. Cette thèse se propose d’explorer le rôle des poteries dans les systèmes techniques et les comportements symboliques des groupes humains San Ciriaco en Sardaigne centre-occidentale, afin d’obtenir des indices économiques sur les stratégies de gestion des ressources et sur les modes de vie de ces populations. L’approche interdisciplinaire suivie combine l’analyse morphométrique des récipients, l’observation des traces d’usure et l’analyse chimique des résidus organiques (en CPG et CPG/SM) piégés dans la matrice céramique. Les résultats révèlent une structuration des assemblages céramiques en plusieurs gammes fonctionnelles, variablement représentées sur des sites à destination différente (habitat, sépultures, « dépôts » de vases). Des comportements techniques et symboliques liés à la gestion des récipients tout au long de leur cycle d’utilisation sont mis en lumière. Ces résultats offrent une première contribution à la plus large problématique de l’évolution de la fonction des poteries, tout au long du Néolithique, au sein du domaine méditerranéen occidental.zone cruciale pour cette entité culturelle régionale originale, ont décelé des contextes inédits dont l’étude s’avère être fondamentale pour la connaissance de ces sociétés. Cette thèse se propose d’explorer le rôle des poteries dans les systèmes techniques et les comportements symboliques des groupes humains San Ciriaco en Sardaigne centre-occidentale, afin d’obtenir des indices économiques sur les stratégies de gestion des ressources et sur les modes de vie de ces populations. L’approche interdisciplinaire suivie combine l’analyse morphométrique des récipients, l’observation des traces d’usure et l’analyse chimique des résidus organiques (en chromatographie en phase gazeuse et chromatographie en phase gazeuse couplée à la spectrométrie de masse), piégés dans la matrice céramique. Les résultats obtenus révèlent une structuration des assemblages céramiques en plusieurs gammes fonctionnelles distinctes et variablement représentées sur des sites à destination fonctionnelle différente (habitat, sépultures, « dépôts » de vases). Des comportements techniques et symboliques liés à la gestion des récipients tout au long de leur cycle d’utilisation sont également mis en lumière. Ces résultats offrent une première contribution à la plus large problématique de l’évolution de la fonction des poteries, tout au long du Néolithique, au sein du domaine méditerranéen occidentalThe isle of Sardinia (Italy) is a key zone in understanding the spread and the diffusion of the Neolithic in North Tyrrhenian region, due to its position in the middle of western Mediterranean Sea. Here, the rise and culmination of Neolithic economy is carried by San Ciriaco populations in the second half of V millennium cal BC. Recent archaeological excavations in central-western Sardinia revealed new contexts the study of which is fundamental in increasing our knowledge of these Neolithic societies.The aim of this work is to investigate the role of pottery in technical systems and symbolical behaviours of San Ciriaco societies in central-western Sardinia, in order to find evidence of strategies of use and explore their way(s) of life. The interdisciplinary approach in this study combines morphometrical analysis of vessels, use-wear observation and GC / GC-MS chemical analysis of organic residues absorbed in pottery.This research revealed a structuration of pottery assemblages into several functional categories which are differently represented in sites with a different function (settlements, burials, vessels “deposits”). The results contribute to highlight technical and symbolical behaviors linked to the use of pottery during its life cycle phases. These data offer a contribution to the issue of the evolution of pottery function during the Neolithic period in Western Mediterranean
La Sardegna, in virtù della sua posizione centrale nel Mediterraneo occidentale, rappresenta una zona cruciale per la comprensione del processo di propagazione del Neolitico e della sua evoluzione nell’area nord-tirrenica. Il pieno sviluppo dell’economia neolitica nell’isola è segnato dalla formazione e diffusione di un’entità culturale regionale originale, denominata “cultura di San Ciriaco”, durante la seconda metà del V millennio cal BC (Neolitico Medio B). Alcuni recenti scavi nella Sardegna centro-occidentale, scenario fondamentale nello sviluppo di tale entità culturale, hanno portato alla luce dei contesti inediti, il cui studio si rivela essenziale per la conoscenza di queste società neolitiche.L’obiettivo di questa ricerca è specificamente quello di indagare il ruolo dei recipienti ceramici nei sistemi tecnici e nei comportamenti simbolici dei gruppi umani San Ciriaco della Sardegna centro-occidentale, nell’intento di acquisire degli indizi sulle strategie di gestione delle risorse naturali e sulle modalità di sussistenza delle popolazioni durante il Neolitico medio B.L’approccio interdisciplinare seguito associa l’analisi morfometrica dei recipienti all’osservazione delle tracce d’uso e all’analisi chimica dei residui organici assorbiti nella matrice ceramica, mediante la tecnica della gascromatografia (GC) e della gascromatografia/spettrometria di massa (GC/MS).I risultati ottenuti rivelano una strutturazione delle collezioni ceramiche in molteplici gamme funzionali distinte e variabilmente rappresentate in siti con destinazione funzionale differente (abitato, sepolture, “depositi” di recipienti). L’analisi di tali contesti ha permesso di evidenziare alcuni specifici comportamenti tecnici e simbolici legati alla gestione dei recipienti durante tutto il loro ciclo d’utilizzo.L’interpretazione storica dei dati acquisiti con questa ricerca offre un contributo alla più vasta questione dell’evoluzione della funzione dei recipienti ceramici, nel corso del Neolitico, nell’area del Mediterraneo occidentale
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Muley, Pragati, and 帕格蒂. "Accessible Web Page of Indian Tourist Spots." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21471281424180371022.
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In today’s super-fast changing world, internet technology become ineluctable in almost every section of society. We live in an environment where internet and its associated services are accessible and immediate. Government, public and private sectors are equally interconnected and can communicate with each other instantly through World Wide Web (WWW). Accessibility of this WWW is depend upon the web developing techniques. Keeping the web open and accessible for everyone is the key for technological advancement and innovation in the future. Therefore, I have tried to create a web site which is loaded with more accessibilities. The Web is here to stay, and with the potential of HTML5 and other modern tools, we can build powerful applications that improve our day-to-day lives, as well as applications that revolutionize our lives. There is grandeur in this view, but without idealism and relentless pursue of universal accessibility, the full potential of the open web might never be reached. In this work, I have introduced the Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5) speciation as well as several related techniques for modern web development. It provides very good reference for developing website by using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and JavaScript. This webpage contains many images, one video and information of famous top fifteen Indian tourist’s spots. Several new features such as responsive image slider, accessible video, CSS3 image gallery with sound effect and Polaroid image gallery are created with lots of accessibility. I have followed Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0(WCAG 2.0) requirements for creating this web site. Users can easily operate this websites not only on personal computers and laptops but also on android and iPhone too. The website have full support all modern browsers.
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Robbins, William S. "Alternative school education : using Web-based curriculum programs to assist at-risk students with high school credit recovery in select east central Indiana schools." 2011. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1660956.
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We know that education can be an arduous process. Countries use different approaches based on societal acceptances, but effective education always requires enormous efforts. Whether success is achieved, depends on the development of a rigorous and progressive curriculum, while at the same time providing all students the opportunity to learn” (Ravitch, 2010, p. 225).
The purpose of this study was to analyze the success at which web-based curriculum is being utilized to meet the needs of at-risk students by providing them with the opportunity to recover lost credit as a means to keep them on the path to high school graduation. The institutions studied were select institutions that are identified by the Indiana Department of Education as recognized alternative education providers as well as select known public school corporations, in East Central Indiana, who are using web-based curriculum credit recovery programs. This researcher investigated the effectiveness of this credit recovery strategy as a tool to improve academic achievement and ultimately high school graduation. Additional information was sought on the challenges experienced in terms of support from the key stakeholders in breaking way from a traditional school setting when addressing the needs of students who are in jeopardy of failing to graduate. Data was obtained from the Indiana Department of Education and looked at graduation rates, dropout rates, as well as End of Course Assessment results.
A survey was distributed to the survey population in an effort to gather a deeper understanding of the successes and failures schools were experiencing in an effort to break away from the status quo, leverage the advances of modern technology in an effort to provide students with multiple opportunities to realize academic success.
The literature review compiled research on the current opinions for the utilization of web-based curriculum programs, the national attention being directed at public education as a key element in the economic slump of the American economy, and the economic impact on local and national economies for students who do not complete high school.
Student achievement data collected from the survey population revealed positive trends on graduation rates, dropout rates, and performance on the Algebra I and English 10 End of Course Assessment. Recommendations for positive implementation of web-based credit recovery programming were discussed. Future research on this subject was recommended and ideas included a possible longitudinal study on a select group of at-risk students to identify strengths and weaknesses of this type of program.Department of Educational Leadership
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Lin, Wen-Kai, and 林文凱. "The Study of the Audit Indices of the Web Site." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64767788971817831933.
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ABSTRACT As e-commerce becomes more important, World Wide Web has become a widely used marketing tool. This study investigates the characteristics of the audit indices of the web site and develops the rules applied to varied web sites. The audit indices are collected from the third-party companies and analyzed by MCA. The results show that the current indices can measure the capabilities of web site on extension of customers, retention of customers, mass market, and target market. Moreover, we provide rules for choosing indices based on the types of web site. Key word：Audit Indices of the Web Site, Internet Marketing, Multiple Correspondence Analysis
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Ratan, Ram. "Changes In The Duration-Depth Characteristics Of Indian Monsoon Rainfall During 1951-2000." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/941.
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Several previous studies have found that various characteristics of the Indian monsoon rainfall have shown secular changes over the past century. In this study, using a gridded (1degree) daily rainfall dataset, we analyse the spatio-temporal characteristics of the intensity and duration of monsoon (June through September) rainfall for secular changes over the last 50 years. The characteristics of the duration of rain events are described by wet and dry spells. A wet/dry spell is defined as a period of consecutive days with rainfall above/below a particular threshold. We choose to use a threshold that is a function of the local climatological mean, given the spatial heterogeneity of mean monsoon rainfall. The wet and dry spells are then divided into three categories: short [1 to 7 days], moderate [8 to 10 days], long [11 and more days] and analysed for changes over the past 50 years [19512000]. We find that while the number of short duration wet spells show a significant increase over the last 50 years (~15% change), the number of long duration wet spells show a significant decrease (~25%). Furthermore, while the numbers of short duration dry periods have shown a significant increase, the moderate and long duration dry spells do not shown an appreciable change. This increase and decrease in the short and long duration wet spells offset each other and consequently the total number of rainy days during the season has not shown any significant change over the past 50 years. In addition to the duration of wet and dry spells, we also analysed for changes in the accumulated rainfall of the short, medium and long duration wet spells. Our analysis suggests that while the depth of accumulated rainfall in short duration wet spells has shown a significant increase (~20%), the depth of rain in the long duration spells has shown a significant decrease (~30%) in the past fifty years.
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Iyer, Samantha. "Match fixing in India: where tradition marries technology." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-05-143.
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They say marriages are made in heaven, but in today’s digital, wired world, they are increasingly made online. But they still have to be solemnized in the offline world, especially in India, where the entire extended family is involved in the sacred process. It is this echoing sentiment in the Indian cultural code that is driving singles to matrimonial Web sites – creating a concept where tradition marries technology.
And despite the constant evolution of these sites that include membership fees and increased risk of the misuse of personal information displayed in members’ profiles, there are more users now than ever before.text
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Chen, Ti-Yang, and 陳帝仰. "Exploring the Relation between Client-Side Functions of theTravel Web Site and Performance Indices for eCRM." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30979480792014521883.
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碩士長庚大學
企業管理研究所
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Travel web site in Asia has great grow in recently. Few years ago, a famous travel site in American (Priceline .com) failed to get into Taiwan travel market. With the changing environment of e-commerce in Taiwan, the local travel web site was survival and success, like eztravel.com & ezfly.com. Because the big growing in the on line travel industry, many traditional travel agencies want to share the online travel market in recently years. However most of them were not done well, so this thesis tried to understand which components or operations in the front of CRM of travel web site will affect web site and travel agencies’ performance that can afford some suggestions to the travel agencies whom want to get into the online travel market. Base the reasons and purposes; first from the literature we can develop six Client-Side components for CRM of travel web site that may be effect the performance. The six client-side components for CRM of travel web included members’ Base Date, Cash Flow, Logistic, Information Flow, Superiority Certification and Safety. From the six components and operations we develop the web site Observe Table. Then we also found measurement of performance from the literature. We also found two dimensions of performance about the travel agencies web site. One is direct performance which was direct effected by the site include the whole web site’s information, web site satisfaction, and web site loyalty. The other is indirect performance which was indirect effected by the site- we develop the questionnaire by 「Balance Score Card」. The Observe Table aims at the Travel web site in Taipei. The direct questionnaire responses are aim at the Internet users and the indirect questionnaire responses are aim at the travel web site’s managers. Adopting the method of quota sampling for 395 valid direct questionnaires and 14 valid indirect questionnaires and 18 valid web site observe table. To confirm the accuracy of the conclusion we used the discriminal analysis, factor analysis, the Krushal-Wallis H test, and Chi-square test, ANOVA, Spearman degree of correlative test and Kendall degree of correlative test. We summaries the conclusions as follow： 1.When travel agencies want to build a travel web site, we suggest that they can build form the Cash Flow, Superiority Certification, Information Flow and Safety items in orders but Logistic is not significant. 2. For different operational models of travel web site, we suggest that the traditional involvement travel agency group can build form the Safety and Cash Flow items in orders, the online travel web site group can built from the Information Flow and Cash Flow items in orders but Logistic is not significant. However sample of web site was too much less, the supplier of online travel agency group cannot do some suggestions. 3.We can distinguish the group of the online users of travel web site between had bought and had not bought of travel product from the high education, the income was more than 20000 NT per month and browsed the travel web site in recently. 4. We also found the direct and indirect performance has low relationship that can prove our research hypothesis and give a suggestion to the travel agency or future research who want to measure the performance in travel web site. From the conclusions we can give the travel agency or future researchers some suggestions in building and evaluating the web site and developing some marketing strategy.
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Mazen, Ahmed Z., Nejat Rahmanian, Iqbal M. Mujtaba, and A. Hassanpour. "Prediction of Penetration Rate for PDC Bits Using Indices of Rock Drillability, Cuttings Removal, and Bit Wear." 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18242.
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noPredicting rate of penetration (ROP) has gained considerable interest in the drilling industry because it is the most-effective way to improve the efficiency of drilling and reduce the operating costs. One way to enhance the drilling performance is to optimize the drilling parameters using real-time data. The optimization of the drilling parameters stands on the fact that drilling parameters are interrelated; that is, corrections in one factor affect all the others, positively or negatively. Analysis of the available models in the literature showed that they did not take into account all factors, and therefore, they might underestimate the ROP. To improve the accuracy of predicting the bit efficiency, a new ROP model is developed to preplan and lower the drilling costs. This approach introduces three parts of the process that were developed to describe the challenge of predicting ROP: aggressiveness or drillability, hole cleaning, and cutters wear, which are interrelated to each other. The approach discusses each process individually, and then the influence of all three factors on ROP is assessed. Taking into account the drilling parameters and formation properties, ROP1 is estimated by use a new equation. Then, lifting the produced cutting to the surface and evaluating how that affects the bit performance is proposed in the second part of the process (hole cleaning). Finally, wear index is introduced in the third part (wear condition) to predict the reduction of ROP2 caused by cutter/rock friction. The approach serves and could be considered as a baseline to identify all factors that can affect the bit performance. The developed model equations are applied to estimate ROP in three vertical oil wells with different bit sizes and lithology descriptions in Libya. The results indicate that the driven model provides an effective tool to predict the bit performance. The results are found in good agreement with the actual ROP values and achieve an enhancement of approximately 40% as compared to the previous models.
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(8800853), Yash S. Gugale. "EXPLORING ECOSYSTEMS IN INDIANA’S EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT USING A DATA VISUALIZATION DASHBOARD." Thesis, 2020.
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Large datasets related to Indiana’s Education and Workforce development are used by various demographics such as stakeholders and decision makers in education and government, parents, teachers and employees of various companies to find trends and patterns in the data to better guide decision-making through statistical analysis. However, most of this data is scattered, textual and available in the form of excel sheets which makes it harder to look at the data from different perspectives, drill down and roll up the data and find trends and patterns in the data. Such data representation does not take into account the inherent characteristics of the user which can affect how well the user understands, perceives and interprets the data.
Information dashboards used to view and navigate between visualizations of different datasets, provide a coherent, central access to all data, and make it easy to view different aspects of the system. The purpose of this research is to create a new data visualization dashboard for visualizing education and workforce data and find which design principles are applicable while designing such a dashboard for the target demographic in the education and workforce domain. This study also aims at assessing how the introduction of such a data dashboard affects the work processes and decision making of stakeholders involved in education and workforce development in the state of Indiana.
User studies consisting of usability testing and semi-structured interviews with the stakeholders in education and workforce development in the state of Indiana is conducted to test the effectiveness of the dashboard. Finally, this research proposes how a regional map-based dashboard can be used as an effective method to design a data dashboard for education and workforce data for other states and other domains as well.
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Chen, Yu-chi, and 陳毓麒. "An Explorative Study on Constructing Indices for Web Television Viewing:Dialoging with New Communication Technology and Media Usage Behaviors." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71167252606589406270.
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傳播研究所(含博士班)
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The fast-growing communication technology has made the rise of Web television an irresistible new medium, which has led to a "multichannel" viewing environment. Traditionally, assessments of television viewing behaviors have always been dominated by quantitative approaches, such as rating survey, and yet numerous criticisms toward the approaches pointed out that the actual quality of viewing has been rather neglected. To supplement the traditional rating research, a number of nations, such as the U. K.; the U. S., and France, started to gauge alternative methods to qualitatively assess audiences' viewing behaviors; the most noticeable is the Quality Rating Survey (QRS). Despite that the main purpose of QRS is to complement traditional rating survey, there has been a regret that no commonly agreed or implementable to evaluate television program qualities has been constructed in the television industry. To offset the deficiency, this study intends to review and refer to related research literature for an appropriate theoretical basis, and to further construct a feasible set of index for quality measurement of Web television viewing. This study argues that "interactivity" marks the main characteristics of Internet use, and suggests that the concept of "intertextuality" in media uses provides a view point for the Web TV audience. The study further points out that research on viewing behaviors in the new media environment has to take the relation between "media users" and "media contents" into account. In addition, through adapting the conceptual foundation from the domains of philosophy of art and management, the current study proposes that "appreciation" should be taken as the core value for quality rating assessment on Web television. Techniques of“Text mining”and“Single source”were employed to extract the dimensions of appreciation, and in-depth interviews; experts' validity, and online rating survey were conducted to develop measureable constructs to include in the "appreciation index." Finally, in order to ensure the empirical value and applicability of the instrument, the study tested the appreciation index on two major but easily neglected television genres: variety/entertainment shows and dramatic programs, and thus complements the line of quality rating research on Web television.
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Fu-JouLai and 賴福柔. "A new algorithm to identify cooperative transcription factor pairs and developing performance indices and web tools to expedite prediction performance evaluation and comparison." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47714751638617313836.
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工程科學系
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Transcriptional regulation of gene expression is known to be highly connected through the networks of cooperative transcription factors (TFs) based on genome-wide location analysis in yeast. A small number of cooperative TFs can set up very complex spatial and temporal patterns of gene expression to accomplish combinatorial regulation of a gene simultaneously or under different conditions. Identifying cooperativity among transcription factors helps understand the biological relevance of the TFs under investigation. In the recent decade, various types of TF-TF interactions which contribute to positive or negative synergy in regulating gene expression have been studied and modeled, and many algorithms have been proposed to identify cooperative TF pairs using one or several experimental data including ChIP-chip, TF binding site (TFBS), gene expression, TF knockout and protein-protein interaction (PPI). However, the nucleosome occupancy data has not yet been used for this research topic despite that several researches have revealed the association between nucleosomes and TFBSs. Furthermore, although many algorithms have been proposed, it is still difficult to conduct a comprehensive and objective performance comparison of different algorithms due to lack of sufficient performance indices and adequate overall performance scores. In the first part of the dissertation, we develop a novel method to infer the cooperativity between two TFs by integrating the TF-gene documented regulation, TFBS and nucleosome occupancy data. The results show that many of our predictions are validated by the literature and the method outperforms 11 existing methods, suggesting that the method is effective in identifying cooperative TF pairs in yeast. In the second part of the dissertation, we adopt/propose eight performance indices and design two overall performance scores to compare the performance of the existing algorithms for predicting cooperative TF pairs. The performance comparison framework can be applied to comprehensively and objectively evaluate the performance of a newly developed algorithm. Nevertheless, to use the framework, researchers have to put a lot of efforts to construct it first, including collecting and processing multiple genome-wide datasets from the public domain, collecting the lists of the predicted cooperative TF pairs from existing algorithms in the literature, and writing a lot of codes to implement the eight performance indices. In order to save researchers time and effort, in the third part of the dissertation, we further develop a web tool to implement the performance comparison framework, featuring fast data processing, a comprehensive performance comparison and an easy-to-use web interface. Besides, we also construct a database web site at that given a TF, its cooperative TFs documented in the literature can be obtained and each cooperative TF is provided with validating information retrieved from public databases. These support data for the TF-TF pair include literature supports, physical or genetic protein-protein interactions, gene co-citations, common gene ontology (GO) terms and common target genes. With the help of the framework, the web tool and the web database we develop, researchers who conduct cooperative TF pair prediction can expedite the research progress by early investigating literature-support data and evaluating the prediction performance.
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Myatt, Emily Laura. "Effect of Learning Preference on Performance in an Online Learning Environment among Nutrition Professionals." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5516.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Background: Online courses in healthcare programs like Dietetics have increased in availability and popularity. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the connections between online learning environments and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) dimensions among Nutrition Professionals. This research will add to the knowledge base of educators responsible for the design and development of online nutrition courses and will enhance Nutrition Professionals’ academic and professional outcomes. Design: Semi-experimental study design. Subjects/Setting: Thirty-one Nutrition Professionals with mean age of 29 years old. All elements of the study were done online. Statistical Analysis: MBTI dimension summaries were done for descriptive statistics. Fisher’s Exact Test was used to compare frequency of MBTI dimensions in the learning modules (LM) and to analyze learning modality preference based on MBTI dimensions. Two-Sample T-Tests compared test scores for LM groups and test scores for extraverts and introverts. Paired T-Test assessed improvement in test scores related to LM preference. Chi-Square Test compared preferences for the second learning module for both LM groups. Results: The majority of participants’ MBTIs were ESFJ at 35% or ISFJ at 19%. There were more extraverts (71%) compared to introverts (29%). Both LM groups had similar MBTI dimensions. Extraverts and introverts had similar improvements in scores and LM preferences. LM groups performed similarly and in general participants preferred the second learning module they were assigned. Preference for the second LM could be because participants enjoyed the first LM and wanted to learn more information. Both LM groups significantly improved their scores (P=<.0001) in their first and second learning modules regardless of learning module design. Participants were highly motivated to learn as evidenced by their enrollment in this study and completion of 10 hours of learning modules. Motivation to learn may have been the strongest reason performance significantly improved. Conclusion: LM groups significantly improved their LM scores and learned similar amounts. MBTI dimensions extravert and introvert and preferred learning modality had limited impact on performance for this sample of Nutrition Professionals. These results indicate that motivation may be the key to increasing performance in online nutrition courses.