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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
111

Dynamics of methane migration in marine hydrate systems examples from the Guaymas Transform, Blake Ridge, and Storegga landslide /

Nealon, Jeffrey W. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wyoming, 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 16, 2008). Includes bibliographical references.
112

"Contemporary approaches to natural resource management: Collaborative management and reforestation activities in the municipality of El Castillo, Rio San Juan, Nicaragua" /

Ortega-Alarie, Gioconda, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-133). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.
113

Pricing policies for the natural gas industry in Mexico

Yepez Garcia, Rigoberto Ariel. January 1995 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-92).
114

Joint models for concept-to-text generation

Konstas, Ioannis January 2014 (has links)
Much of the data found on the world wide web is in numeric, tabular, or other nontextual format (e.g., weather forecast tables, stock market charts, live sensor feeds), and thus inaccessible to non-experts or laypersons. However, most conventional search engines and natural language processing tools (e.g., summarisers) can only handle textual input. As a result, data in non-textual form remains largely inaccessible. Concept-to-text generation refers to the task of automatically producing textual output from non-linguistic input, and holds promise for rendering non-linguistic data widely accessible. Several successful generation systems have been produced in the past twenty years. They mostly rely on human-crafted rules or expert-driven grammars, implement a pipeline architecture, and usually operate in a single domain. In this thesis, we present several novel statistical models that take as input a set of database records and generate a description of them in natural language text. Our unique idea is to combine the processes of structuring a document (document planning), deciding what to say (content selection) and choosing the specific words and syntactic constructs specifying how to say it (lexicalisation and surface realisation), in a uniform joint manner. Rather than breaking up the generation process into a sequence of local decisions, we define a probabilistic context-free grammar that globally describes the inherent structure of the input (a corpus of database records and text describing some of them). This joint representation allows individual processes (i.e., document planning, content selection, and surface realisation) to communicate and influence each other naturally. We recast generation as the task of finding the best derivation tree for a set of input database records and our grammar, and describe several algorithms for decoding in this framework that allows to intersect the grammar with additional information capturing fluency and syntactic well-formedness constraints. We implement our generators using the hypergraph framework. Contrary to traditional systems, we learn all the necessary document, structural and linguistic knowledge from unannotated data. Additionally, we explore a discriminative reranking approach on the hypergraph representation of our model, by including more refined content selection features. Central to our approach is the idea of porting our models to various domains; we experimented on four widely different domains, namely sportscasting, weather forecast generation, booking flights, and troubleshooting guides. The performance of our systems is competitive and often superior compared to state-of-the-art systems that use domain specific constraints, explicit feature engineering or labelled data.
115

Design of a vehicular liquefied natural gas fuel storage vessel

Iuzzolino, Gregory. 10 April 2008 (has links)
No description available.
116

Análisis de la habilitación de redes de polietileno por derivación para el abastecimiento de gas natural

Salazar Montero, Elvis January 2016 (has links)
Publicación a texto completo no autorizada por el autor / Analiza los parámetros principales que gobiernan el flujo de gas natural, en la instalación de derivaciones de redes de polietileno. Las redes de polietileno pertenecen al grupo de redes de baja presión, ya que su presión máxima de operación es de 5 bar, establecido por la Concesionaria Gas Natural de Lima y Callao, Cálidda. / Trabajo de suficiencia profesional
117

Aspectos do processamento de interfaces em linguagem natural. / Sem título em inglês.

Camargo Júnior, João Batista 05 September 1989 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta alguns formalismos usados no tratamento computacional de linguagens naturais, bem como uma proposta de método de processamento para as mesmas, envolvendo as fases de tradução, planejamento e execução. A etapa de tradução consiste da análise, interpretação e determinação do escopo de sentenças interrogativas. Esta etapa traduz sentenças em linguagem natural para uma forma lógica que representa sua semântica. Na etapa de planejamento, a forma lógica, obtida na etapa de tradução, é convertida em uma regra Prolog a se interpretada durante a etapa de execução. A principal etapa no processamento de linguagem natural é a etapa de tradução. Alguns formalismos, tais como a Gramática de Cláusulas Definidas - DCG, e a Gramática de Extraposição - XG, são discutidos em detalhe, para ilustrar os processos usados durante a tradução. Em seguida é apresentado um protótipo que implementa o interfaceamento de uma base de dados em linguagem natural, no caso um sub-conjunto restrito da língua portuguesa. Finalmente são feitos alguns comentários sobre a perspectiva da utilização da linguagem natural em diversos campos da computação, tais como entendimento de texto, programação automática e engenharia de software. / This work presents a methodology and some formalisms to be used in natural language processing. The present proposal manipulates natural languages by appling three processing steps translation, planning and execution. The translation step consists of parsing, interpreting, and determining the scope of the sentences. This step maps natural language sentences into some logical form that represents its semantics. In the planning step the logical form, obtained in the translation step, is converted into a Prolog rule to be interpreted during the execution step. The most important phase of natural language processing is the translation step. Some formalisms, like Definitive Clause Grammar - DCG and Extraposition Grammar - XG are discussed in detail to illustrate the methods used by the translation step. Next, is presented a prototype that implements a natural language interface to a database, by using a restrict subset of Portuguese language. Finally, some comments are made about the perspectives of using natural language in some fields of computation, such as text understanding, automatic programming and software engineering .
118

Redução de assimetria de informação na revisão tarifária da distribuição de gás canalizado no Brasil: proposta de uma metodologia baseada na análise da geração de valor / Reduction of Asymmetry of Information in the Tariff Revision in the Brazilian Pipeline Gas Distribution: Proposal for a Methodology through Value Generation Analysis

Marques, Fernando Mario Rodrigues 19 June 2009 (has links)
A tarefa de regular um mercado estruturado sob a forma de monopólio natural, como no caso da distribuição de gás canalizado no Brasil, implica assegurar o equilíbrio econômicofinanceiro das firmas reguladas, garantindo, ao mesmo tempo, modicidade tarifária e nível de excelência na qualidade dos serviços prestados. Para isso, a questão da formação de preços é crítica, pois envolve aspectos do excedente e sua distribuição. Por esta razão, dentre as atribuições do órgão regulador, destaca-se o estabelecimento de regras tarifárias que conciliem os interesses dos consumidores e da empresa regulada. Entretanto, a tarefa de desenhar tarifas justas é afetada pela assimetria de informações entre o órgão regulador e a firma regulada, em favor da última. Este trabalho sugere a incorporação da metodologia do Economic Value Added EVA® no processo de revisão tarifária. Tal incorporação, conforme demonstrado, permite ao regulador avaliar a geração de valor do setor e reduzir a assimetria informacional entre concessionárias e agência reguladora. Além disso, facilita o repasse de eventuais excessos de geração de valor aos consumidores, em benefício da sociedade. Palavras-chaves: Assimetria de informação, Economic value added (EVA®), gás canalizado, gás natural, geração de valor, revisão tarifária. / Regulating a structured market under natural monopoly such as the Brazilian pipeline gas distribution implies in assuring an economic and financial equilibrium of the regulated firms as well as guaranteeing the tariff moderateness and service quality excellence. In order to achieve this pricing is crucial, for it encompasses surplus and surplus distribution. Therefore, the role of setting tariff rules of the regulator agency, stands out so that these rules conciliate the interests of both consumers and the regulated companies. However, outlining fair tariffs is impacted by asymmetrical information between regulator agency and regulated firms in favor of the latter. This study suggests incorporating the Economic Value Added methodology in tariff revision process. This incorporation allows the regulator to evaluate the value generation in the sector and to reduce asymmetrical information between companies regulated and the regulator. In addition to this, it makes it easier to allocate the possible value generation surplus to the consumers in favor of the society. Key words: Asymmetrical information, economics regulation, tariff revision, value generation, economic value added (EVA®), natural gas, and pipeline gas.
119

Aspectos do processamento de interfaces em linguagem natural. / Sem título em inglês.

João Batista Camargo Júnior 05 September 1989 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta alguns formalismos usados no tratamento computacional de linguagens naturais, bem como uma proposta de método de processamento para as mesmas, envolvendo as fases de tradução, planejamento e execução. A etapa de tradução consiste da análise, interpretação e determinação do escopo de sentenças interrogativas. Esta etapa traduz sentenças em linguagem natural para uma forma lógica que representa sua semântica. Na etapa de planejamento, a forma lógica, obtida na etapa de tradução, é convertida em uma regra Prolog a se interpretada durante a etapa de execução. A principal etapa no processamento de linguagem natural é a etapa de tradução. Alguns formalismos, tais como a Gramática de Cláusulas Definidas - DCG, e a Gramática de Extraposição - XG, são discutidos em detalhe, para ilustrar os processos usados durante a tradução. Em seguida é apresentado um protótipo que implementa o interfaceamento de uma base de dados em linguagem natural, no caso um sub-conjunto restrito da língua portuguesa. Finalmente são feitos alguns comentários sobre a perspectiva da utilização da linguagem natural em diversos campos da computação, tais como entendimento de texto, programação automática e engenharia de software. / This work presents a methodology and some formalisms to be used in natural language processing. The present proposal manipulates natural languages by appling three processing steps translation, planning and execution. The translation step consists of parsing, interpreting, and determining the scope of the sentences. This step maps natural language sentences into some logical form that represents its semantics. In the planning step the logical form, obtained in the translation step, is converted into a Prolog rule to be interpreted during the execution step. The most important phase of natural language processing is the translation step. Some formalisms, like Definitive Clause Grammar - DCG and Extraposition Grammar - XG are discussed in detail to illustrate the methods used by the translation step. Next, is presented a prototype that implements a natural language interface to a database, by using a restrict subset of Portuguese language. Finally, some comments are made about the perspectives of using natural language in some fields of computation, such as text understanding, automatic programming and software engineering .
120

Study of natural gas vehicles (NGV) during the fast fill process

Shipley, Eric. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 135 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-135).

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