Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1995. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: B, page: 6918. Adviser: A. N. Hrymak.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1995. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: B, page: 6715. Adviser: W. W. Chan.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1995. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-03, Section: B, page: 2130. Adviser: B. W. Baetz.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1996. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-10, Section: B, page: 6525. Adviser: H. A. ElMaraghy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1996. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-06, Section: B, page: 3229. Adviser: J. Litva.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2007. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: B, page: 1231. Adviser: Katherine T. Faber.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2007. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: B, page: 1956. Adviser: David Uttal.

Psychology, Personality. Psychology, Physiological.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Alabama, 2007. , (UMI)AAI3286156. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: B, page: 7015. Adviser: Philip A. Bishop.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2006. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: B, page: 1596. Adviser: Prem Kumar.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Freiburg (Breisgau). , Erscheinungsjahr an der Haupttitelstelle: 2002.

Medizin

Thesis / Dissertation ETD

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2006. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-10, Section: B, page: 5570. Adviser: Zhou Wang.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1988. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-08, Section: B, page: 3416. Supervisor: G. O. Wesolowsky.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1990. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-01, Section: B, page: 0586. Supervisor: L. R. Brooks.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 2006. , Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-12, Section: B, page: 7040.

Health Studies

Using a grounded theory methodology, this research sought to describe the occupational change process Indian women experience as they settle in a new environment, with a focus on how they sustain their sense of self and well-being. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with eight women of Indian origin who had immigrated to New Zealand within the past five years in an attempt to generate theory about the processes that these immigrants' experience. A constant comparative analysis revea...

fractional integration

This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of UK unemployment. However, instead of using traditional approaches based on I(0) stationary or I(1) (integrated and/or cointegrated) models, we use the fractional integration framework. In doing so, we allow for a more careful study of the low frequency dynamics underlying the series. The conclusions suggest that the UK unemployment may be explained in terms of lagged values of the real oil prices and the real interest rate, with the order o...

Wirtschaft

The general framework of decision emergence (Güth, 2000a) is applied to the specific decision task of a proposer in ultimatum bargaining, i.e. to choosing how much the responder should be offered. For this purpose the "Master Module" as well as its submodules "New Problem Solver", "Adaptation Procedure", and "Learning" have to be specified for the task at hand. This illustrates the applicability of the general framework of boundedly rational decision emerg...

real oil prices

In this article we model the log of the U.S. and the U.K. real oil prices in terms of fractionally integrated processes with a mean shift. We use different versions of the tests of Robinson (1994), which have standard null and local limit distributions. The results indicate that if we model the series without a mean shift, they are both nonstationary I(1). However, allowing for a mean shift during the oil crises, they become fractionally integrated with an order of integration smaller than one a...

This thesis is the first and only investigation, academic or otherwise, of the oeuvre of the internationally recognised Australian Outsider Artist Anthony Mannix (1953- ). Virtually unknown as a writer, it is this aspect of his practice that will be the focus of this thesis. The central argument of this thesis is that, whilst Mannix’s writing displays the extreme level of idiosyncratic thinking commonly associated with the work of Outsider Artists, it retains many traces of the literary, artisti...

Natural products had been indispensably used by many cultures and traditions in folklore medicines for thousands of years. These traditional medicines cater to about 85% of the world population for their primary health care needs. Natural products have been intensively explored also for their bioactive pharmacophores by modern pharmaceutical companies. In fact they are the skeletal framework of about 60% of the modern drugs that are available today. Of these, about 80% of antibacterial drugs and...

Education

Physical inactivity has been considered a major public health issue among adolescents because of its high prevalence and its association with numerous adverse health outcomes during adolescence which may carry over to adulthood. A key to addressing this issue has been to identify the determinants that may influence an adolescent's decision to be physically active. A determinant that has been hypothesised is the level of proficiency of the motor skills used to participate in physical activity...

In this thesis I draw on data from semi-structured interviews with eleven young people living in economically disadvantaged circumstances in Sydney, Australia to explore how these young people make a life and negotiate the discourses that operate to support and regulate them. Drawing on Foucault’s (1991) discussion of “governmentality” I develop a new analytical matrix (the matrix of regulated citizenship) to map the relationships between neo-liberal notions of individual responsible citizenship...

This thesis explores a cultural history of cinema-going in the Illawarra region of New South Wales over the first half of the twentieth century through oral history interviews with cinema-goers of the period. The research was originally intended to explore the Australian cinema industry from a regional perspective. However, while the interviews contained fascinating details and stories of cinema-going in this period, they did not fit seamlessly into existing academic discussions about cinema whi...

Objective The primary aim of this study was to explore the relationship between key accommodation and support characteristics and the needs of mental health consumers in high support accommodation. The second aim was to ascertain whether consumers in these settings had levels of need and functioning commensurate with the high levels of support being provided. Method A sample of consumers accessing high support, very high support and residential rehabilitation services (as defined by NSW Health, ...

The major purpose of this study was to address the instructional needs of proof-type geometry problem solving. It was designed to address two research questions: (Q1). What are the predictive indicators of successful proof-type geometry problem solving? (Q2). Based on needs with an emphasis on formative evaluation, what is one design solution to support students solving proof-type problems in geometry? The overall study focused on a learning need assessment in the first phase of the study (Study...

Forensic entomology applies the study of arthropods associated with carrion, in terms of species succession and development rates, to determine the minimum time since death, or postmortem interval (PMI). Correct species identification is crucial, as the rate of larval development can vary substantially between species. The identification of forensically important blowflies of the genus Chrysomya (Diptera: Calliphoridae) may be hampered by their close morphological similarities, especially as imm...

Deregulation of the Australian electricity supply industry is being accompanied by state regulator requirements for explicit statements on quality of supply backed up with field survey results. The continuous monitoring and storage of every voltage waveform at a selection of key sites will add significant expenses to the associated costs in managing the electricity industry while demanding an enormous quantity of information to be processed. This thesis gives a less comprehensive approach which ...

Wirtschaft

MM*STAT ist ein flexibel einsetzbares Tool für Einführungskurse in Statistik im Grundstudium. Folgende konzeptionelle Überlegungen waren dabei von besonderer Bedeutung: Erstens muss die Lehrveranstaltung »Statistik« für Studenten jeder Fachrichtung ein breites Spektrum konkreter Anwendungsmöglichkeiten statistischer Techniken vermitteln. Eine rein theoretische Darlegung wird von den Studenten üblicherweise als ›langweilig‹ empfunden. Weil die statistische Analyse in der Praxis nie ohne Computera...

euro area money demand

The concept of integrated stochastic processes is widely used in empirical macroeconomics; and cointegration analysis is an important framework to analyze economic time series both in single equation and in system approaches. This framework is not only suited to study the relationships between variables that are integrated of order one, denoted by I(1), but also to analyze variables that are integrated of higher order. However, in the literature the analysis of I(1) models is much more popular t...

Wirtschaft

Many consumption prices are highly volatile. It would certainly overburden our cognitive system to fully adjust to all these changes. Households therefore often rely on simple heuristics when deciding what to consume, e.g. in the form of a constant budget share for a specific consumption commodity, like a vacation, or of a constant consumption amount for lowcost commodities as food items. Using utility functions we can measure the welfare loss, caused by such heuristics, and to what extent this ...

Wirtschaft

Trajectory Hypothesis

Background: Studies from several countries have shown that self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality. However, no empirical evidence exists for Germany so far. We investigate the effectiveness of (i) self-ratings of health by individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as predictors of mortality for Germany. Methods: A sub-sample of 3,096 respondents, aged 50 years and over, is drawn from the annual collections of data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), bet...

260104 Sedimentology

A history of soil erosion, alluvial and colluvial deposition is presented for a small catchment in NW Greece. The role of climatic events, tectonics and human , disturbance of the landscape are examined. , A major valley aggradation, named the Syndendron alluvium, was deposited in the valley floor during the close of the last glaciation. The 15,000 – 10,000 cal yr BP period was a time of dramatic climate fluctuations and associated changes in vegetation, fluctuating between steppe and oak woodla...

300302 Plant Growth and Development

Orchard profitability and sustainability are largely dependent on the proportion of crop that can be marketed as first quality (pack-out). While pack-out is directly related to average fruit quality, the visual components of quality, i.e. colour, size and skin finish, predominantly determine whether a premium price is achieved. Fruit quality is the result of a complex interaction of management and environmental factors. By understanding the impact of environment, culture, harvesting, handling an...

270704 Landscape Ecology

In order to understand the ecology of species, it is important to know how animals use their environment. This information can be determined at a range of spatial and temporal scales, and results may vary accordingly. The habitats that animals use determine resources available to them for different purposes (e.g. feeding and resting), and risks of predation to which they are exposed. Consequently, patterns of behaviour in relation to the environment are likely to influence survival and fitness. ...

380100 Psychology

The majority of child sex offender (CSO) typologies lack a theoretical basis which limits their applications in treatment and risk assessment. In contrast, it has been argued that the Self-Regulation model of the sex offence process (Ward & Hudson, 1998a, 2000a) offers a typology that may have considerable practical benefits. The Self-Regulation model classifies CSOs based on offence goal (Approach/Avoidant) and strategy employed to achieve that goal (Active/Passive). Utilising an Australian...

This study examines the first group of largely preliterate refugees resettled in Tasmania after the 1975 Communist takeover of Laos. Hill tribe people, the Tasmanian Hmong left Laos and spent years in Thai refugee camps. This thesis examines the possible reasons for their secondary migration to various locations in Queensland. Their departure from Tasmania raised questions about why this apparently well-settled community left the island. For example, many people assumed it was because of Tasmani...

asymptotic tolerance

We study the average behaviour of the well-known greedy algorithms for the one-dimensional knapsack problem with Boolean variables when the number of variables n tends to infinity. It is supposed that the right-hand side b of the constraint depends linearly on n, i.e., b = λ n. It is shown that if λ > 1/2 - t/3 , then the primal and the dual greedy algorithms have an asymptotical tolerance t.

Runge-Kutta method

Asymptotic properties of solutions of general linear differential-algebraic equations (DAE's) and those of their numerical counterparts are discussed. New results on the asymptotic stability in the sense of Lyapunov as well as on contractive index-2 DAE's are given. The behaviour of BDF, IRK, and PIRK applied to such systems is investigated. In particular, we clarify the significance of certain subspaces closely related to the geometry of the DAE. Asymptotic properties like A-stability a...

fundamental estimate

The aim of the present paper is to extent the well known fundamental estimates (w.r.t. the $L^2$-norm) for weak solutions of a linear elliptic system with constant coefficients: \[ \sum_{ j= 1}^ N \sum_{\mid \alpha\mid,\mid \beta\mid = m} D^\alpha (A_{ij}^{\alpha\beta} D^\beta u^j)=0 \quad \mbox{in}\;\; \Omega\quad(i=1,\ldots,N), \] where $\nu_\circ\!\parallel\!\! \xi\!\!\parallel^2 \leq A_{ij}^{\alpha\beta}\xi_\alpha^i \xi_\beta^j \leq c_\circ \parallel\!\! \xi\!\!\parallel^2\;\forall\xi\in \R^...

Sobolev classes

We consider density pointwise estimation and look for best attainable asymptotic rates of convergence. The problem is adaptive, which means that the regularity parameter, β, describing the class of densities, varies in a set B. We shall consider, successively, two classes of densities, issued from a generalization of L2 Sobolev classes: W (β, p, L) and M (β, p, L).

Wirtschaft

We propose a method of adaptive estimation of a regression function and which is near optimal in the classical sense of the mean integrated error. At the same time, the estimator is shown to be very sensitive to discontinuities or change-points of the underlying function f or its derivatives. For instance, in the case of a jump of a regression function, beyond the interval of length (in order) n-1 log n around change-points the quality of estimation is essentially the same as if locations of jum...

Wirtschaft

Search for an unknown set A,Card(A) = s, of significant variables of a linear model with random IID discrete binary carriers and finitely supported IID noise is studied. Two statistics T1, Ts, based on maximization of Shannon Information (SI) of the corresponding classes of joint empirical input-output distributions, are proposed inspired by the related study in Csiszar and Körner (1981). The first one compares sequences of values of each variable and of the output separately. The second one exp...

Threshold Model

In this paper we study nonparametric estimation and hypothesis testing procedures for the functional coefficient AR (FAR) models of the form Xt = f1(Xt-d)Xt-1 +…+ fp(Xt-d)Xt-p +εt, first proposed by Chen and Tsay (1993). As a direct generalization of the linear AR model, the FAR model is a rich class of models that includes many successful parametric nonlinear time series models such as the threshold AR models of Tong (1983), exponential AR models of Haggan and Ozaki (1978) and many others. We p...

curve estimation

A recipe is provided for producing, from a sequence of procedures in the Gaussian regression model, an asymptotically equivalent sequence in the density estimation model with i. i. d. observations. The recipe is, to put it roughly, to calculate square roots of normalised frequencies over certain intervals, add a small random distortion, and pretend these to be observations from a Gaussian discrete regression model.

Wirtschaft

We propose a nonparametric test for checking parametric hypotheses about the stationary density of weakly dependent observations. The test statistic is based on the L2-distance between a nonparametric and a smoothed version of a parametric estimate of the stationary density. It can be shown that this statistic behaves asymptotically as in the case of independent observations. Accordingly, we propose an i.i.d.-type bootstrap to determine the critical value for the test.

group norms, audiences, social identities, moral judgment

Traditionally, it has been the cognitive-developmental approach that has dominated moral judgment research. Specifically, it has been Kohlberg’s theory of moral development (1969, 1986) that has provided the theoretical framework for much of the research in the field. According to the Kohlbergian perspective, individuals are rational agents who engage in conscious deliberation in order to reach a moral judgment or decision. In contrast to this, the social intuitionist model of moral judgment (Ha...

value, commoditisation, art, exchange, authenticity

This thesis is an examination of processes of the dealership regarding Aboriginal art and artists. I take the approach that the art dealership is situated at a nexus of relationships that contest and negotiate culturally informed values and categories of fine art, Aboriginality and commodities. I argue that dealers in Aboriginal art mediate categories of value through their particular practices of representation of the art and through the social relationships they foster with artists and buyers....