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Vickers, Andrew J., and Claire Smith. "INCORPORATING DATA FROM DISSERTATIONS IN SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 16, no. 2 (April 2000): 711–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300101278.
Objectives: To determine whether unpublished dissertations are an important source of trials for systematic reviews.Methods: In a review of infant massage, we identified 17 dissertations. We recorded whether each dissertation was included in the review and, if so, whether it contributed data to any analyses.Results: Thirteen dissertations were excluded, 11 because of poor reporting of methodology. Three dissertations were also published as journal papers. The data from the remaining dissertation were not included in any analysis. Reviewing data on the Cochrane Library, only one of 878 reviews included data from a dissertation that might have changed a review's conclusions.Conclusions: Searching for and retrieving unpublished dissertations involves considerable time and effort and appears to influence the conclusions of a review only rarely.
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Cross, John A. "A Half Century of Hazards Dissertation Research in Geography*." International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters 16, no. 2 (August 1998): 199–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/028072709801600204.
Geographic study of hazards has gained considerable prominence in the fifty years since Gilbert White's Human Adjustment to Floods dissertation was published. Over 130 hazards dissertations have been written in the US. and Canada, and hazards articles have gained greater acceptance in major journals. Although White and several of his students served as advisors for nearly a fifth of these dissertations, most hazards dissertations represent efforts by students whose advisors have neither written nor advised a previous hazards dissertation. The majority of hazards dissertation writers obtain employment in positions where they are unable to advise future hazards dissertation writers, thus the production of the next generation of hazards geographers may be in peril.
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Silverman, Stephen, and Mara Manson. "Research on Teaching in Physical Education Doctoral Dissertations: A Detailed Investigation of Focus, Method, and Analysis." Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 22, no. 3 (April 2003): 280–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.22.3.280.
As a part of their doctoral education, students complete a dissertation. Examining these dissertations can provide one analysis of research in a field. The primary purpose of this study was to analyze all physical education dissertations with a teaching focus that were completed between 1985 and 1999. All possible dissertations were examined through the electronic version of Dissertation Abstracts International. For the teaching dissertations (n = 201), each abstract was coded for (a) research type, (b) research focus, (c) student variable measured, (d) observation used, (e) interview used, (f) other methods used, (g) population, (h) general methodology, and (i) statistics reported/used. Most research on teaching dissertations addressed issues related to teacher effectiveness and focused on motor skill learning and attitude. There was an increase in qualitative methods from those reported in a previous study (Silverman, 1987). While there were methodological advances, many dissertations still used methods that were not informed by the research methods literature.
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Çelik, Nur Demirbaş, and Aycem Birand. "Study upon the Postgraduate Dissertations the Subject of which are Family Involvement in Pre-School Education in Turkey." Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives 8, no. 3 (December 29, 2018): 149–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjgc.v8i3.3879.
Planning and implementation of services which shall make the family a part of the process in the construction of pre-school education services which were provided during early childhood that is one of the most critical periods of life are highly important in terms of child’s healthy development. Within this frame, study upon the dissertations about family involvement and family education in pre-school has become necessary. For this purpose, “family involvement” and “family education” indexes in the departments of Pre-school Education, Pre-School Teaching, Child Development and Education; and Primary School which have been carried out in the Institute of Educational Sciences and Institute of Social Sciences at Council of Higher Education Dissertation Centre have been scanned. As a result of this scan, 35 postgraduate dissertations have been found out. These dissertations have been analyzed by content analysis. This content analysis has been carried out according to specific criteria. These criteria include the year in which the dissertation was made; the level, paradigm, research design, target group, group size, data collection tools and the subject of the dissertation. The data obtained from the dissertations which were examined with content analysis were analyzed. 27 of these dissertations are postgraduate dissertations and 8 of them are doctoral dissertations. One of the remarkable findings of the research is that the percentage of the dissertations upon “investigation of the opinions” is 37%. The findings of the research have been discussed within the frame of literature and recommendations have been made for pre-school teachers.
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Woods, Stephen, Kathleen Phillips, and Andrew Dudash. "Dissertations and Theses in Top Nursing Publications: A Bibliometric Study." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 15, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 68–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/eblip29764.
Objective - To investigate the overall prevalence of citations to theses and dissertations, as well as their prevalence in feature articles, editorials, and review articles in top research nursing journals. To evaluate differences between journals and to determine whether there was a change in use over time. Methods - Journals were selected from the Medical Library Association’s Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section’s 2012 Selected List of Nursing Journals. An evaluation was conducted of citations from 3,711 articles published in 2011 and 2018 in 7 top nursing journals. Thesis and dissertation citations were identified and categorized by type of scholarly communication: feature articles, reviews, and editorials. Analysis was conducted for the prevalence of citations for theses and dissertations based on percentage of overall citations and the percentage of articles with a thesis and dissertation citation. Results - Thesis and dissertation citations accounted for 0.41% of all citations. However, 9.43% of the articles contained at least one thesis and dissertation citation. Feature articles contained more thesis and dissertation citations than review articles and editorials. The Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, and the Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences published a higher percentage of articles with at least one thesis and dissertation citation. Conclusion - The overall use of theses and dissertations in nursing scholarship is comparatively low compared to other forms of scholarly communication. However, this unique form of scholarship viewed from its impact on the percentage of scholarly articles in nursing demonstrates that theses and dissertations have made more of a contribution than previously reported. Our research provides libraries and the nursing academy with empirical evidence for the value of theses and dissertations. It provides librarians and the nursing academy justification for continuing efforts to preserve, enhance access through digital repositories, and to continue to explore strategies to promote the use of theses and dissertations in research.
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Zunoomy, M. S., and F. H. A. Shibly. "Challenges of Writing Dissertation among University Students: Based on South Eastern University of Sri Lanka." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 9, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 89–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v9i2.4231.
The undergraduates of Bachelor of Arts Honours degree have to write a dissertation in their fields. When they write it, they have been facing challenges. Therefore, this research sought to investigate the challenges of writing a dissertation as a requirement of the specialisation Bachelor Degree in the Arabic Language among those who are speaking Tamil as a mother tongue and who learning Arabic as a foreign language. This research is a qualitative study through the descriptive methodology. The researchers selected 30 dissertations randomly from the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language, the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka and analysed them. The review of the documents focuses on students’ abilities to write dissertations. Also, 25 students who submitted their dissertations were selected randomly to fill the questionnaire to reveal the challenges they faced. Writing a dissertation in a foreign or second language is difficult than writing in a native language. As pointed out in the previous sections, there are challenges in writing dissertations such as the influence of the Tamil language, Lack of knowledge in research writing, Selecting a new topic, Lack of reading, Experience of using the software. At the same time, findings of the review of the dissertations reveal that language fluency and data analysis are the common errors observed in the dissertations.
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Леонтьева, О. Б. "“Protect yourself, sir!”: About the dissertational culture of the scientific community of historians in pre-revolutionary Russia." Диалог со временем, no. 82(82) (April 21, 2023): 357–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.21267/aquilo.2023.82.82.023.
В рецензии анализируется коллективная монография под редакцией Н.Н. Алеврас и Н.В. Гришиной «Диссертационная культура российского историко-научного сообщества: опыт и практики подготовки и защит диссертаций (XIX – начало XX в.)» (2022). Авторы исследуют нормативно-правовые, институциональные, методологические, коммуникативные и коммеморативные аспекты защиты диссертаций по историческим разрядам наук в дореволюционной России, прослеживают становление практик подготовки и защиты диссертации как форм профессиональной культуры ученых-историков. Заслугой авторов является формирование и детальный анализ базы данных о 280 диссертантах и 409 диссертациях по истории. This book review is devoted to the analysis of the collective monograph ed. by N.N. Alevras and N.V. Grishina “Dissertational culture of the Russian historical scientific community: experience and practice of writing and defending dissertations (XIX – early XX c.)” (2022). The authors examine the regulatory, institutional, methodological, communicative and commemorative aspects of the defense of dissertations in historical sciences in the Russian Empire, study the practices for writing and defending dissertationsas forms of the professional culture of historians. The merit of the authors is the formation and detailed analysis of the database, which includes data on 280 scientists and 409 dissertations in history.
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ASLAN, Aydin, and Ömer AÇIKGÖZ. "A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis of the Turkish Doctoral Dissertations Completed in the Fields of Social Sciences and Humanities." Üniversite Araştırmaları Dergisi 6, no. 3 (July 4, 2023): 238–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.32329/uad.1310803.
Dissertations conducted in the fields of social sciences and humanities should provide researchers and decision makers with solutions to the problems in academia and contribute to enhancing society's social and economic welfare. The number of scientific publications extracted from dissertations and citations on them is one way to determine how much dissertations contribute to academia, society, and the quality of doctoral education. Systematic review and bibliometric analysis were implemented to understand the contributions of the dissertations to their fields. Through the systematic review, 142 dissertations, completed at 12 Turkish public universities between 2014 and 2017, in the National Thesis Center database of the Turkish Council of Higher Education were derived. The scientific publications extracted from these dissertations and citations to these publications were searched in the databases CoHE Academic, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ScienceDirect, SCOPUS and Web of Science. Findings of bibliometric analysis indicate that 105 scientific publications were extracted from 142 dissertations, and their citation count was 241. However, these publications were predominantly published and cited in the national low impact factor indexed journals. To understand the reason for this situation, the methods of each dissertation concerning research design, data collection, and data analysis were examined thoroughly. The findings reveal that qualitative research design and secondary data, mostly used in these dissertations, might be the reasons for this issue. Some suggestions were made to reduce the problems identified concerning the quality of the main dissertation outputs.
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K. Weber, Roberta, and Ethan J Allen. "Doctoral Dissertation Topics in Education: Do They Align with Critical Issues?" International Journal of Doctoral Studies 11 (2016): 403–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3609.
American society faces complex educational issues which impact many facets of its national interests. Institutions of higher education are granting doctoral degrees to educational leaders, but it is not known to what extent their dissertation topics are aligned with both longstanding and critical issues in education. Using a theoretical framework synthesizing Paul and Elder’s critical thinking model and Kuhlthau’s information seeking process, this study examines a set of education doctoral dissertation topical selections and categorizes them by general themes in relationship to many of the recognized educational issues in the United States. Investigators categorized dissertations from four departments within the College of Education of their home institution. The dataset, retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, consisted of 231 documents published between 2005 and 2014. Through an inter-rater process examining dissertation titles, abstracts, and keywords, the dissertations were assigned critical issue themes culled from nine editions of a college text, and then categorized under a broader topical scheme situated within a well-used educational research website. Findings indicated that most dissertations concentrated in studies that researched problems and issues within schools. Further, some of the issues considered longstanding were not studied by dissertation authors within the sample. For example, privatization of schools and classroom discipline and justice were not selected for study. Findings also suggest new directions for those responsible for dissertation supervision and topic selection. The study adds to the literature on dissertation topic selection that addresses existing educational issues.
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Hutchison, Paul D., and Ronald J. Daigle. "AIS Dissertations From 1986-2000: An Analysis Of Research Topic And Method." Review of Business Information Systems (RBIS) 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 45–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/rbis.v10i1.5306.
This study identifies and examines accounting information systems (AIS) dissertations from 1986 through 2000 by research topic and method to provide insights into their contribution to accounting knowledge. This examination also identifies key universities where AIS dissertations have been produced by accounting faculty. AIS dissertation data are compared to Samuels and Steinbart (2002), which examines articles in the Journal of Information Systems (JIS) by AIS research topics and methods over the same period, as well as to articles in the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (IJAIS) (formerly Advances in Accounting Information Systems). Results indicate evidence of mirror, lead, and lag effects over the timeframe of study between AIS dissertations and JIS and IJAIS articles with respect to research topics covered and methods utilized. Publication rates for these dissertations in JIS and IJAIS are also provided. Finally, this study presents comparisons to other accounting dissertation studies.
Barton, Matthew D. "Dissertations past, present, and future /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001200.
Dissertations on Asia and Australia's relations with Asia, either completed in 1999 or 2000 or in progress in 2000 in Australian universities. The list was compiled by Robert Elson from information supplied to the Asian Studies Association of Australia. Arranged by regions of Asia: general or comparative; Australia and Asia; East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; West Asia. Description based on contents viewed June 4, 2002; title from home page.
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Gaedke, Martin. "Doctoral Dissertations in Web Engineering and Web Science." Universitätsverlag Chemnitz, 2014. https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A20124.
Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe, die Dissertationen der Professur Verteilte und selbstorganisierende Rechnersysteme beinhaltet. Scientific series containing dissertations of the Professorship Distributed and Self-Organizing Systems.
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Kahu, Sampanna Yashwant. "Figure Extraction from Scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/100113.
The ability to extract figures and tables from scientific documents can solve key use-cases such as their semantic parsing, summarization, or indexing. Although a few methods have been developed to extract figures and tables from scientific documents, their performance on scanned counterparts is considerably lower than on born-digital ones. To facilitate this, we propose methods to effectively extract figures and tables from Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), that out-perform existing methods by a considerable margin. Our contribution towards this goal is three-fold. (a) We propose a system/model for improving the performance of existing methods on scanned scientific documents for figure and table extraction. (b) We release a new dataset containing 10,182 labelled page-images spanning across 70 scanned ETDs with 3.3k manually annotated bounding boxes for figures and tables. (c) Lastly, we release our entire code and the trained model weights to enable further research (https://github.com/SampannaKahu/deepfigures-open). Master of Science Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most popular document formats. However, parsing PDF files is not a trivial task. One use-case of parsing PDF files is the search functionality on websites hosting scholarly documents (i.e., IEEE Xplore, etc.). Having the ability to extract figures and tables from a scholarly document helps this use-case, among others. Methods using deep learning exist which extract figures from scholarly documents. However, a large number of scholarly documents, especially the ones published before the advent of computers, have been scanned from hard paper copies into PDF. In particular, we focus on scanned PDF versions of long documents, such as Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). No experiments have been done yet that evaluate the efficacy of the above-mentioned methods on this scanned corpus. This work explores and attempts to improve the performance of these existing methods on scanned ETDs. A new gold standard dataset is created and released as a part of this work for figure extraction from scanned ETDs. Finally, the entire source code and trained model weights are made open-source to aid further research in this field.
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Shier, Lisa Marie. "The power source of very luminous infrared galaxies." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187129.
Seven very luminous galaxies were examined to determine the contribution of active nuclei to their luminosity, the nature of their stellar population, and the validity of previous measurements of their H₂ content. Spectra of the 2.3 μm bands of CO were used to measure the stellar velocity dispersion, and hence the mass in the central regions. The bolometric luminosity, ionizing continuum luminosity, CO index, and 2.2 μm luminosity were also determined. Models of young stellar populations were compared to the observed properties of the galaxies. It was found that four of the seven galaxies have properties which are inconsistent with those of stellar populations. The active nuclei of these four galaxies produce more than half the total light of the galaxies, but less than one-third of the 2.2 μm light. The galaxies containing AGN also have young stellar populations. There is no evidence for the existence of active nuclei in the other three galaxies. The stellar populations that dominate the starlight in the galaxies have a wide range of properties. Stellar populations range in age from 10 to 65 Myr. The timescale for star formation ranges from 5 Myr to 100 Myr. The local initial mass function is ruled out for one of the four galaxies for which stellar population analysis could be done. The molecular gas masses for some very luminous galaxies determined from the ¹²CO J = 1 → 0 line are in error. The previously determined molecular gas masses are larger than the dynamical masses. The I(CO)/M(H₂) conversion factor found for Milky Way giant molecular clouds is evidently not correct for some very luminous infrared galaxies.
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Lewis, Sylvester. "Dissertation: Sociodemographics and Pancreatic Cancer Survival Rate." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5745.
Pancreatic carcinoma or pancreatic cancer (PaCa) is an insidious disease with a prognosis of 6- to 12-month survival time for a late stage diagnosis. This problem has become crucial given that no study to date had been able to establish a definitive association between independent factors (other than a few diseases) and the survival rate of pancreatic cancer. The purpose of this quantitative, cross-sectional study was to determine whether an association exists between the independent, sociodemographic variables (marital status, age, education, income, and employment) and the outcome variable of survival rate. The social cognitive theory was the framework that provided the blueprint throughout the development of this study and helped guide the analysis of the secondary data, which was procured from the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program. The sample of 56,166 participants was collected from 2009 to 2013 and Cox proportional hazard was used to analyze the data and arrive at the answers to the research hypotheses. A Cox proportional hazard model was used to analyze whether an association existed between each of the independent variables and the outcome variable. The analysis showed significant association between age, education, income, and employment and survival rate. It was not the same for marital status. These findings could stimulate social change by allowing stakeholders and other policy makers to become aware of the role that sociodemographic factors can play in health care. In addition, a need exists for effective research to be undertaken in the prevention and intervention of this disease. This could then lead to private and public health innovations and procedures to benefit patients with PaCa.
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Nelli, Debora Kay. "Gender Representations in U.S. Ed.D. Dissertations: A Feminist Content Analysis." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1700.
Educational access, achievement and opportunity for students and educators in U.S. educational institutions is influenced and often limited by gender. Although the U.S. Glass Ceiling Commission reports that the gender equity values, beliefs and commitments of institutional leaders are a key factor in reducing institutional gender inequities (U.S. Dept of Labor, 1995), very little is known about the current preparation or evaluation of educational leadership values, especially at the doctoral level (Hess & Kelly, 2007, Grogan & Andrews, 2002; Levine, 2005; Murphy & Vriesenga, 2004).
This study utilized feminist content analysis as a conceptual framework and research methodology to examine the collective gender equity values, beliefs and commitments of educational leaders represented in a key textual artifact of doctoral study, the Educational Doctorate (Ed.D.) dissertation.
This sequential mixed method content analysis examines 15,014 dissertation titles of Ed.D dissertations completed from 112 U.S. public doctoral granting institutions between 1998-2007 to identify 1185 dissertations indicating gender in their title. A purposeful sample of 177 abstracts was selected from emergent themes for further analysis. The final research phase examined a purposeful sample of 9 complete dissertation texts selected from the analysis of the abstracts. The research focused on two questions, 1.) How prevalent is gender focused inquiry in recent Ed.D. dissertation scholarship, from 1998-2007? 2.) What are the cultural gender beliefs and gender conceptualizations represented in Ed.D. dissertation scholarship from 1998-2007?
The findings indicate gender focused inquiry is not prevalent in Ed.D. dissertation titles, in public doctoral granting institutions from 1998-2007; only 7.4 % indicated any mention of gender. The findings also revealed great institutional variation in the prevalence of gender focused dissertations in the 112 institutions examined.
Three themes also emerged from patterns of representations illuminating problematic gender cultural beliefs, 1,) male leadership and intellectual authority is privileged, 2.) Black males are "othered", 3.) Latinas are silenced. Three additional problematic themes of gender bias are revealed because of scanty representation in the sample, 1.) LGTBIQ issues silenced, 2.) Title IX trivialized and 3.) Feminism marginalized. Each of these three gender focused categories represented less than 1% of the Ed.D. dissertations completed in U.S. public doctoral granting universities between 1998-2007.
The findings have implications for program planning of doctoral Ed. D. programs for the development of gender equity dispositions. The findings also contribute to the discipline by adding to the knowledge of Ed. D. dissertation content. This report includes recommendation for future research and practice.
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McLeod, Kim Katris. "Near-infrared properties of quasar and Seyfert host galaxies." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186821.
We present near-infrared images of nearly 100 host galaxies of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Our quasar sample is comprised of the 50 quasars from the Palomar Green Bright Quasar Survey with redshifts z ≤ 0.3. We have restricted the redshift range to ensure adequate spatial resolution, galaxy detectability, and minimal distance-dependent effects, while still giving a large sample of objects. For lower-luminosity AGN we have chosen to image the CfA Seyfert sample. This sample is composed of 48 Seyferts, roughly equally divided among types 1, 1.5-1.9, and 2. This sample was spectroscopically selected, and, therefore, is not biased towards Seyferts with significant star formation. Taken together, these samples allow a statistical look at the continuity of host galaxy properties over a factor of 10,000 in nuclear luminosity. We find the near-infrared light to be a good tracer of luminous mass in these galaxies. The Seyferts are found in galaxies of type S0 to Sc. The radio quiet quasars live in similar kinds of galaxies spanning the same range of mass centered around L*. However, for the most luminous quasars, there is a correlation between the minimum host galaxy mass and the luminosity of the active nucleus. Radio-loud quasars are generally found in hosts more massive than an L* galaxy. We also detect a population of low mass host galaxies with very low luminosity Seyfert nuclei. The low luminosity quasars and the Seyferts both tend to lie in host galaxies seen preferentially face-on, which suggests there is a substantial amount of obscuration coplanar with the galaxian disk. The obscuration must be geometrically thick (thickness-to-radius ∼ 1) and must cover a significant fraction of the narrow line region (r >100 pc). We have examined our images for signs of perturbations that could drive fuel toward the galaxy nucleus, but there are none we can identify at a significant level. The critical element for fueling is evidently not reflected clearly in the large scale distribution of luminous mass in the galaxy. We also present an infrared image of the jet of 3C 273 and compare it to optical and radio images from the literature.
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Gibot, Sébastien. "Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 : implications diagnostiques et thérapeutiques au cours du sepsis." Nancy 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004NAN11307.
Au cours du sepsis, l'expression membranaire du Triggering Receptor Expressed on myeloid cells (TREM)-1 ainsi que la production de sa forme soluble (sTREM-1) sont fortement majorées tant chez la souris que chez l'homme. Ces phénomènes dépendent de la présence de ligands bactériens, ne sont pas reliés à la production de TNF-alpha et découlent d'un mécanisme impliquant P13K. STREM atténue la production de cytokines chez la souris. La modulation de la voie de TREM-1 réduit mais sans totalement l'inhiber la production de cytokines et protège l'animal du décès. L'utilisation d'un peptide modulateur pourrait constituer une thérapeutique intéressante.
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Barque-Duran, A. "Dissertations on decision-making : similarity, constructive judgements, morality and social dilemmas." Thesis, City, University of London, 2017. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17404/.
The present thesis (mostly) concerns the application of alternative mathematical methods to understand patterns in human cognition and to model them. The different chapters presented in this thesis show research that concerns the application of quantum probability (QP) theory in the modeling of human decision-making. Quantum probability (QP) theory is a theory for how to assign probabilities to events. QP theory can be thought of as the probability rules from quantum mechanics, without any of the physics. This work is not about the application of quantum physics to brain physiology. Rather, we are interested in QP theory as a mathematical framework for cognitive modelling. This theory is potentially relevant in any behavioural situation that involves uncertainty. QP theory is analogous to classical probability theory, though QP theory and classical probability (CP) theory are founded from different sets of axioms (the Kolmogorov and Dirac/von Neumann axioms respectively) and so are subject to alternative constraints. In this thesis we show that especially over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in decision-making and cognitive models using a quantum probabilistic (QP) framework. We see how this development encompasses publications in major journals (see Pothos and Busemeyer, 2013; Wang et al., 2014; and Yearsley and Pothos, 2014; among others), special issues, and dedicated workshops, as well as several comprehensive books (Busemeyer and Bruza, 2012; Khrennikov, 2010; and Haven and Khrennikov, 2010). However, uncertainty itself is neither ethical nor unethical – yet it is inherent to most situations in which, for instance, moral judgments and decisions have to be made. For a descriptive understanding of judgment and decisions in moral situations, it is an important lesson to acknowledge both the cognitive side (bounded rationality) and the environment (ecological rationality) – and thus the uncertainty of the world and how the mind deals with it. This thesis also shows significant interest in moral and social psychology. Specifically, we consider present technologies that suggest a need for evaluating alternative contexts for ethical decision-making. How the research on human-machine interaction feeds back into humans’ understanding of themselves as moral agents? This key question ultimately relates to the nature of ethical theory itself. Overall, this dissertation presents and addresses not only standard aspects of decision- making processes, such as similarity judgments (Chapters 1 to 4) or the constructive role of articulating impressions (Chapter 5), but also standard aspects of social psychology, such as moral judgments (Chapters 6 and 7) and game theory (Chapter 8). As stated in the Declarations section, the present thesis is a combination of a standard and a publication- based dissertation.
Simmons, J. S. G., and G. P. M. Walker. University theses in Russian, Soviet and East European studies, 1907-2006: A centennial bibliography of research in the British Isles. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2008.
Robinson, Thomas. "Dissertations." In Popular Music Theory and Analysis, 121–24. New York ; London : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge music bibliographies: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315465296-4.
Lovitts, Barbara E. "Judging Dissertations." In Making the Implicit Explicit, 3–18. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003445876-2.
Lammasniemi, Laura. "Introduction." In Law Dissertations, 1–5. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315282855-1.
Lammasniemi, Laura. "Processing literature." In Law Dissertations, 101–14. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315282855-10.
Lammasniemi, Laura. "Literature review." In Law Dissertations, 115–23. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315282855-11.
Lammasniemi, Laura. "Writing the dissertation." In Law Dissertations, 124–39. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315282855-12.
Lammasniemi, Laura. "Referencing." In Law Dissertations, 140–54. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315282855-13.
Lammasniemi, Laura. "Structuring the dissertation." In Law Dissertations, 155–66. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315282855-14.
Тези доповідей конференцій з теми "Dissertations":
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Ozan Aksöz, Emre, İpek Itir Can, and Ervin Mihelj. "BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF POSTGRADUATE DISSERTATIONS PUBLISHED ON THE SUBJECT OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TOURISM: A COMPARISON OF TURKEY, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." In Tourism in Southern and Eastern Europe 2021: ToSEE – Smart, Experience, Excellence & ToFEEL – Feelings, Excitement, Education, Leisure. University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20867/tosee.06.1.
The study aims to examine postgraduate dissertations in the areas of social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship in tourism and entrepreneurship in tourism published in Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States through bibliometric analysis. For this purpose, a total of 126 doctoral dissertations published between 2015-2020 were reached through Proquest Dissertations, YÖK National Dissertations Center, EThOS British Library and EBSCO Dissertations databases. The obtained dissertations were discussed in line with parameters of country where the dissertations were prepared, type of the dissertations, publication year of the dissertations, title of the dissertation’s supervisor, university where the dissertations were prepared, field of study of the dissertations, and research method used in the dissertations. In conclusion, it was found that Turkey was behind the United Kingdom and the United States in terms of quantity of doctoral dissertations published about social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in tourism. Social entrepreneurship in tourism has been found to be a current issue that needs to be researched and has a large literature gap for all three countries.
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C Coker, David. "A Thematic Analysis of the Structure of Delimitations in the Dissertation." In InSITE 2023: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences. Informing Science Institute, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/5093.
Aim/Purpose The purpose of the research was to examine the function and application of delimitations—what the researcher includes and excludes in a study—in the dissertation process. The aim was to map the delimitations process to improve research, rigor and relevance of findings, and doctoral completion rates using a formalized and standardized approach applied flexibly. Background All research is bounded whether formally defined or not. Unlike limitations, which are issues which the researcher addressed after the completion of a study and cannot control, delimitations are what a researcher includes and excludes to make a project manageable and focused on the research question. Yet, there was no research identified which specifically discussed delimitations. Researching the structure and utility of delimitations in educational administration dissertations provided a systematic analysis of the formation of the scope and boundary of research in doctoral studies. Methodology The structure of delimitations in dissertations were examined using descriptive quantitative statistics and a qualitative thematic analysis from 28 universities. The first stage included delimitations from 30 dissertations. Triangulation was conducted using the findings with a training set of delimitations in 15 dissertations with a rubric generated from the primary sample. Contribution The thematic analysis presented a description and interpretation of the nature of delimitations and a systematic framework to improve the research process in dissertations. Mapping the delimitations process gave a detailed portrait of internal and external characteristics which could aid doctoral students in completing the dissertation. Doctoral attrition rates, poorly completed dissertations, and lack of relevance or applicability of results need remedied. Furthermore, the delimitations rubric provided a systematic method to focus communities of learners around a common goal. Findings Findings suggested doctoral students used delimitations haphazardly and lacked a systematic application to research. Three major themes emerged from the delimitations sections: rituals, equifinality, and pragmatism. Topics within delimitations sections centered around two axes: the internal topics of sampling procedures and factors/variables and external topics of research design and conceptual/theoretical framework. Recommendations for Practitioners Poorly understood and developed delimitations negatively impacted findings in dissertations, completion rates, and future research skills of doctoral students. By applying delimitations to a design of research framework in a community of learners, doctoral students and dissertation chairs could improve the dissertation completion process and improve research results using a Delimitations Evaluation Rubric. Recommendations for Researchers Developing a rules-based process with a formalized and standardized process could give researchers a way to evaluate and plan the dissertation process. Developing and applying rubrics to delimitations could serve as a conduit to effective mentoring, feedback, and empowerment. Impact on Society Improving doctoral completion rates in a timely manner would be beneficial to students’ long-term and personal interests. A well-defined delimitations process could improve the dissertation, and strengthened dissertations could add to the research base. Future Research Delimitations are listed in one section, but the scope and boundaries are often fragmented and disjointed throughout a dissertation. By examining complete dissertations for delimitations, there could be further insight. Expanding rubrics as a tool to build a community of learners could develop a holistic approach to doctoral education.
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Fischer, Thomas, and Björn Lundell. "Swedish Dissertations." In International Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2523429.2523450.
Ali, Azad, Shardul Pandya, and UMESH C VARMA. "Into the Challenges of Aligning Key Sections of Doctoral Dissertation: Cognitive Analysis, Pedagogical Tools, and Applied Exercises." In InSITE 2023: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences. Informing Science Institute, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/5116.
Aim/Purpose. The purpose of this study is to introduce an instrument that contains a set of exercises intended to help doctoral students align the key sections of their dissertation document. The exercises are developed after providing cognitive analysis of the factors that make aligning these key sections challenging to many, and after discussing pedagogical tools that can be used to address these challenges. Background. Writing doctoral dissertations is a formidable endeavor for numerous students. Among the myriad challenges that are faced is the issue of aligning key sections of the dissertation document. Students often struggle with conceptualizing the alignment among different sections of the various chapters of their dissertation. In this study, we introduce here an instrument that includes a set of exercises to help address the challenges of alignment in chapter one, before the issues spiral and addressing them becomes complicated. Completion of Methodology. This paper reviews literature that discusses the underlying challenges that face the writing of doctoral dissertations in general and the alignment of the key sections in particular. It analyzes the cognitive factors that contribute to the challenges and examines the pedagogical tools that can be used to address these challenges. The review of the literature, the analysis of the cognitive, and the examination of pedagogical tools lead to the introduction of an instrument that is designed to help address the challenges of aligning the key sections of doctoral dissertations. Contribution. This paper presents an instrument with a set of exercises that are intended to help students align key sections of their doctoral dissertation document. This alignment step is crucial to the successful completion of dissertation documents and is best tackled early in the writing. Delaying alignment or worse, ignoring alignment altogether, can complicate the issue and lead to numerous extra steps and delays. Our developed instrument here can be used to tackle this issue of alignment from the beginning and throughout the writing and completion status of dissertation documents. Findings. Students are often faced with challenges when aligning the key sections of a doctoral dissertation. They struggle with conceptualizing the alignment process. They often write each section separately, and independently of other sections of a chapter and a dissertation. However, sections of the dissertation document are interrelated, and each section affects the writing of other sections. For the successful completion of the dissertation, the sections need to be aligned, and it would be best if these issues are tackled from the beginning of the writing and throughout the writing of the dissertation. Recommendations for Practitioners. A methodological approach to aligning the sections of a doctoral dissertation is crucial for the resulting treatise to be coherent and present a unified purpose that threads through each chapter consistently. Recommendations for Researchers. We recommend that doctoral students follow the exercises we introduced in the instrument provided in this paper or take other similar approaches. Without such an approach, aligning the key sections of a doctoral dissertation will be challenging, the dissertation writing process will be more complicated, and the time necessary to complete it will lengthen. Impact on Society. The findings of this research will help doctoral mentors/advisors as they guide students in aligning key sections of their doctoral dissertations.
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Леонова, Ю. В. "ON THE RELATIONS IN SCIENCE BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE ANALYSIS OF DISSERTATIONS." In Сборник трудов XVIII Российской конференции "РАСПРЕДЕЛЕННЫЕ ИНФОРМАЦИОННО-ВЫЧИСЛИТЕЛЬНЫЕ РЕСУРСЫ". Crossref, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.25743/dir.2022.93.45.023.
С использованием базы данных авторефератов диссертаций была проанализирована динамика развития связей между персонами, выступающими в качестве соискателей и научных руководителей (консультантов) диссертаций с целью изучения структуры научных связей ученого (научное окружение ученого), структуры и динамики развития научных коллективов и научных школ. Using the database of dissertation abstracts, the dynamics of the development of relations between persons acting as applicants and scientific supervisors (consultants) of dissertations was analyzed in order to study the structure of scientific relations of a scientist (scientific environment of a scientist), the structure and dynamics of the development of research teams and scientific schools.
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Ali, Azad, Shardul Pandya, and UMESH C VARMA. "Writing Doctoral Dissertation Literature Review: Identifying the Prerequisites, Corequisites and the Iterative Process for Writing the Literature." In InSITE 2022: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences. Informing Science Institute, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4962.
Aim/Purpose: Identify the prerequisites, the corequisites, and the iteration processes in organizing and writing the literature review chapter of doctoral dissertations. Background: Writing the literature review chapter of doctoral dissertations presents unique challenges. Students waste a lot of time identifying material to write, and the experience is generally that of frustration and time delay. Methodology: Paper reviews literature to identify levels of information helpful for writing the literature review chapter: prerequisites, corequisites, and iteration process. Contribution: Paper identifies and explains the prerequisites, the corequisites, and iteration steps that go into organizing the reviewed literature and suggests putting them into use when starting the literature review chapter of a doctoral dissertation. Findings: Writing a doctoral dissertation literature review is long and complicated be-cause some delve into the writing without much preparation. By identifying what is helpful prior to commencing and during the writing as well as being cognizant of the repetitive steps, this paper sheds light on what goes on during the preparation for writing the literature review. Recommendations for Practitioners: Before delving into the writing of the literature review, it will be helpful to identify the prerequisites, the corequisites, and the iteration process that goes into the writing of literature review. Recommendations for Researchers: More research is needed to give detailed suggestions on what to do during the writing of the literature review. Impact on Society: The findings of this research will help doctoral mentors/advisors guide students in completing the chapter on literature review.
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Gossett, Kathie. "Designing an archive for born-digital dissertations." In SIGDOC '15: The 33rd ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775481.
Kasozi, Joseph Amooti, and Mmabaledi Seeletso. "Developing an Indigenous Graduate Research Supervision Culture in an Open and Distance e-Learning Environment. Lessons from an ODeL Programme." In Tenth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Commonwealth of Learning, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.425.
Most students in the Master’s in Education- Educational Leadership (MEdEL) at a medium sized Open and distance e-learning institution have successfully completed their programme within the stipulated five years with the average being two to three years. It is postulated that this could be because the supervision of their research is anchored on the philosophy of ubuntu which is an indigenous education philosophy that is gaining traction among African scholars. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the philosophy of ubuntu guides MEdEL students and supervisors in developing the research dissertation. The research objectives were; an analysis the extent to which MEdEL students and supervisors are aware of Ubuntu as an educational philosophy, the extent to which MEdEL research supervisors adhere to the guiding principles of ubuntu when they supervise student dissertations and, recommendations on how ubuntu principles can be incorporated in the research supervision of graduate students in an Open and Distance electronic Learning (ODeL) environment. A mixed methods approach was used in the design, collection and analysis of data using an online questionnaire for students and supervisees, face to face and written interviews of supervisors, and the analysis of literature and key documents associated with the supervision of dissertations. Key data sources included graduate and current students of the MEdEL; research supervisors and literature on ubuntu as an educational philosophy.
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Rahnama, Mohadese, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hasheminejad, and Jalal A. Nasiri. "Automatic Metadata Extraction From Iranian Theses And Dissertations." In 2020 6th Iranian Conference on Signal Processing and Intelligent Systems (ICSPIS). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icspis51611.2020.9349570.
Ferrer Juan, Aurora, Rubén Comas Forgas, Antoni Cerdà Navarro, and Martín García Parra. "FINAL MASTER THESIS DISSERTATIONS OUTSOURCING THROUGH DIGITAL MARKETPLACES." In 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2021.0089.
Zankovsky, Sergey S., and Petr P. Battakhov. DISSERTATION LAW: REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, PRACTICE AND CUSTOMS IN RUSSIA. DOI CODE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/1556-4590-7677-88654.
The article considers the normative and practical aspects of the dissertation law, work of dissertation councils and certain elements of the procedures for defending dissertations. The importance of thorough preparation for the defense is emphasized and its directions are defined. Special attention is paid to the quality of the provisions submitted for defense. The analysis of typical errors in the formulation of such provisions is given.
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Aldrich, Matthew. Bridging study and work with service-learning dissertations. Bristol, UK: The Economics Network, September 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.53593/n3337a.
Nelli, Debora. Gender Representations in U.S. Ed.D. Dissertations: A Feminist Content Analysis. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1699.
Weiler, C. S. Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography: Dialog II. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada628937.
Weiler, C. S. Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography: DIALOG V and VI. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada628381.
Weiler, C. S. Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography: DIALOG III and IV. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, August 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada628541.
Weiler, C. S. Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography: DIALOG III and IV. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada630390.
Oliveira, Hugo, and Jorge Bonito. Practical work in science education: A systematic literature review. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2023.1.0023.
Review question / Objective: Main question: What is the current state of the art, on practical work, in science teaching at the pre-university level? Subquestions: a) What aspects are integrated into the concept of practical work? b) What are the advantages attributed to the development of practical work in science teaching? c) What types/strategies of assessment are carried out in the development of practical work? d) What are the disadvantages attributed to the development of practical work in science teaching? Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria: Complete and Open Access documents; Peer-reviewed studies; Studies developed on the teaching of science in pre-university teaching establishments; Publications written in English. Exclusion criteria: Systematic literature reviews; Graduation dissertations; Master's dissertations; Publications prior to 2011.
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Walcott, R. Characteristics of citations in geoscience dissertations accepted by academic institutions in the United States 1981-1985. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/193948.
