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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.
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First among equals Caroline M. Hewins and Anne C. Moore : foundations of library work with children /

Jagusch, Sybille A. January 1990 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maryland at College Park, 1990. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 367-400).
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Naturschau und Naturgefühl in den Romanen der Mrs. Radcliffe und in der zeitgenössischen englischen Reiseliteratur

Moesch, Vasil, January 1924 (has links)
Abhandlung--Zürich. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturnachweis": p. [vii]-xviii.
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Ann Radcliffe a study in achievement /

Keebler, Lee Edward, January 1967 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [354-358]).
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A comparison between the Frayer model of concept attainment and the textbook approach to concept attainment

Peters, Charles W., January 1973 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Transcript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.
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Calling all clowns a creative project and personal journey /

Cripps, Linda Ann Elizabeth. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2007. / Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 16, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-50).
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Drought Indices in Panama Canal / Drought Indices in Panama Canal

Gutiérrez Hernández, Julián Eli January 2015 (has links)
Panama has a warm, wet, tropical climate. Unlike countries that are farther from the equator, Panama does not experience seasons marked by changes in temperature. Instead, Panama's seasons are divided into Wet and Dry. The Dry Season generally begins around mid-December, but this may vary by as much 3 to 4 weeks. Around this time, strong northeasterly winds known as "trade winds" begin to blow and little or no rain may fall for many weeks in a row. Daytime air temperatures increase slightly to around 30-31 Celsius (86-88 Fahrenheit), but nighttime temperatures remain around 22-23 Celsius (72-73 Fahrenheit). Relative humidity drops throughout the season, reaching average values as low as 70 percent. The Wet Season usually begins around May 1, but again this may vary by 1 or 2 weeks. May is often one of the wettest months, especially in the Panama Canal area, so the transition from the very dry conditions at the end of the Dry Season to the beginning of Wet Season can be very dramatic. With the arrival of the rain, temperatures cool down a little during the day and the trade winds disappear. Relative humidity rises quickly and may hover around 90 to 100% throughout the Wet Season. Drought forecasts can be an effective tool for mitigating some of the more adverse consequences of drought. The presented thesis compares forecast of drought indices based on seven different models of artificial neural networks model. The analyzed drought indices are SPI and SPEI-ANN Drought forecast, and was derived for the period of 1985-2014 on Panama Canal basin; I've selected seven of sixty-one Hydro-meteorological networks, existing in the Panama Canal basin. The rainfall is 1784 mm per year. The meteorological data were obtained from the PANAMA CANAL AUTHORITY, Section of Water Resources, and Panama Canal Authority, Panama. The performance of all the models was compared using ME, MAE, RMSE, NS, and PI. The results of drought indices forecast, explained by the values of seven model performance indices, show, that in Panama Canal has problem with the drought. Even though The Panama is generally seen as a wet country, droughts can cause severe problems. Significant drought conditions are observed in the index based on precipitation and potential evaporation found in this thesis; The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), were used to quantify drought in the Panama Canal basin, Panama Canal, at multiple time scales within the period 1985-2014. The results indicate that drought indices based on different variables show the same major drought events. Drought indices based on precipitation and potential evaporation are more variable in time while drought indices based on discharge. Spatial distribution of meteorological drought is uniform over Panama Canal.
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Uso de voltametria de pulso diferencial combinada com quimiometria para determinação simultânea de antioxidantes em amostras de biodiesel

Schaumlöffel, Lívia de Souza January 2017 (has links)
O biodiesel vem se consolidando como combustível alternativo devido às suas vantagens e importância econômica. Conforme seu percentual no diesel comercial cresce, o monitoramento da qualidade se torna cada vez mais importante para uma comercialização segura. No entanto, a estabilidade oxidativa do biodiesel é inferior à do diesel fóssil, assim antioxidantes sintéticos, tais como BHA, BHT, PG e TBHQ, são adicionados para prevenir a degradação do mesmo, evitando danos ao sistema de combustão automotivo. Os métodos para avaliar a estabilidade oxidativa e a quantidade de antioxidantes são em geral demorados, requerem preparação amostral ou equipamentos de alto custo. Com o objetivo de contornar tais problemas, neste trabalho foi aplicada uma metodologia para análise direta de antioxidantes em amostras de biodiesel por meio de voltametria de pulso diferencial. Conjuntamente, foi estudada a viabilidade da associação dessa metodologia com técnicas quimiométricas para a determinação simultânea desses antioxidantes em misturas de antioxidantes em biodiesel. Para permitir uma análise direta, sem extração e pré-concentração dos analitos, o biodiesel foi diluído em meio etanólico. Medidas de voltametria de pulso diferencial para cada antioxidante individualmente mostraram relação linear entre as concentrações dos antioxidantes e a corrente de oxidação. Os limites de detecção individuais obtidos foram de 20,5 mg L-1 para BHA, 32,4 mg L-1 para BHT, 35,5 mg L-1 para PG e 26,5 mg L-1 para TBHQ. A modelagem quimiométrica foi aplicada por meio das ferramentas Mínimos Quadrados Clássico (CLS), Mínimos Quadrados Parciais (PLS), Redes Neuronais Artificiais (ANN), Componentes Principais-Redes Neuronais Artificiais (PC-ANN) e Árvore de Decisão-Redes Neuronais Artificiais (DT-ANN). O modelo construído por PLS se mostrou melhor quando comparado à modelagem por CLS. O modelo construído por ANN’s sem seleção de dados de entrada apresentou erros semelhantes ao PLS. Quando a redução da quantidade de dados de entrada foi aplicada em conjunto com ANN’s através de Análise por Componentes Principais (PCA) e DT, a aplicação de PCA levou a aumento de 10,2% no erro de predição, enquanto que na seleção por DT os erros de predição foram reduzidos em 8,5%. A determinação simultânea dos quatro compostos pelo modelo DT-ANN apresentou precisão satisfatória, com recuperação de 98% para BHA, 97% para BHT, 103% para PG e 100% para TBHQ, o que indica que a técnica analítica e a modelagem quimiométrica são viáveis e promissoras para aplicação no controle de qualidade do biodiesel, bem como em análises de monitoramento nas plantas industriais. / Biodiesel is becoming established as an alternative fuel because its advantages and economic importance. As the levels of biodiesel in commercial diesel grows, quality monitoring becomes increasingly important for safe marketing. However, the oxidative stability of biodiesel is smaller than that of fossil diesel and synthetic antioxidants such as BHA, BHT, PG and TBHQ are added to it in order to prevent its degradation, avoiding damage to the automotive combustion system. Methods for evaluating oxidative stability and the amount of antioxidants are usually time-consuming, require sample preparation or expensive equipment. In order to overcome such problems, in this work a methodology was applied for direct analysis of antioxidants in biodiesel samples by means of differential pulse voltammetry. The viability of associating this methodology with chemometric techniques was studied for the simultaneous determination of these antioxidants in biodiesel. To allow a direct analysis, without extraction and preconcentration of analytes, biodiesel was diluted in ethanolic medium. Differential pulse voltammetric measurements for each antioxidant individually showed a linear relationship between antioxidant concentrations and oxidation current. The individual detection limits were 20,5 mg L-1 for BHA, 32,4 mg L-1 for BHT, 35,5 mg L-1 for PG and 26,5 mg L-1 for TBHQ. The chemometric modeling was applied using the Classical Least Squares (CLS), Partial Least Squares (PLS), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Principal Component-Artificial Neural Networks (PC-ANN) and Decision Tree-Artificial Neural Networks (DT-ANN) techniques. The model constructed by PLS was better than that obtained with CLS. The model constructed by ANN’s without input selection presented similar deviations in comparison to PLS. When amount of input data reduction was applied together with ANNs through Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and DT, the PCA application led to a 10.2% increase in prediction error, whereas in the selection by DT prediction errors were reduced by 8,5%. The simultaneous determination of the four compounds by the DT-ANN model presented satisfactory accuracy with 98% recovery for BHA, 97% for BHT, 103% for PG and 100% for TBHQ, indicating that the analytical technique and the chemometric modeling are feasible and promising for application in biodiesel quality control, as well as in monitoring analyzes in the industrial plants.
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Uso de voltametria de pulso diferencial combinada com quimiometria para determinação simultânea de antioxidantes em amostras de biodiesel

Schaumlöffel, Lívia de Souza January 2017 (has links)
O biodiesel vem se consolidando como combustível alternativo devido às suas vantagens e importância econômica. Conforme seu percentual no diesel comercial cresce, o monitoramento da qualidade se torna cada vez mais importante para uma comercialização segura. No entanto, a estabilidade oxidativa do biodiesel é inferior à do diesel fóssil, assim antioxidantes sintéticos, tais como BHA, BHT, PG e TBHQ, são adicionados para prevenir a degradação do mesmo, evitando danos ao sistema de combustão automotivo. Os métodos para avaliar a estabilidade oxidativa e a quantidade de antioxidantes são em geral demorados, requerem preparação amostral ou equipamentos de alto custo. Com o objetivo de contornar tais problemas, neste trabalho foi aplicada uma metodologia para análise direta de antioxidantes em amostras de biodiesel por meio de voltametria de pulso diferencial. Conjuntamente, foi estudada a viabilidade da associação dessa metodologia com técnicas quimiométricas para a determinação simultânea desses antioxidantes em misturas de antioxidantes em biodiesel. Para permitir uma análise direta, sem extração e pré-concentração dos analitos, o biodiesel foi diluído em meio etanólico. Medidas de voltametria de pulso diferencial para cada antioxidante individualmente mostraram relação linear entre as concentrações dos antioxidantes e a corrente de oxidação. Os limites de detecção individuais obtidos foram de 20,5 mg L-1 para BHA, 32,4 mg L-1 para BHT, 35,5 mg L-1 para PG e 26,5 mg L-1 para TBHQ. A modelagem quimiométrica foi aplicada por meio das ferramentas Mínimos Quadrados Clássico (CLS), Mínimos Quadrados Parciais (PLS), Redes Neuronais Artificiais (ANN), Componentes Principais-Redes Neuronais Artificiais (PC-ANN) e Árvore de Decisão-Redes Neuronais Artificiais (DT-ANN). O modelo construído por PLS se mostrou melhor quando comparado à modelagem por CLS. O modelo construído por ANN’s sem seleção de dados de entrada apresentou erros semelhantes ao PLS. Quando a redução da quantidade de dados de entrada foi aplicada em conjunto com ANN’s através de Análise por Componentes Principais (PCA) e DT, a aplicação de PCA levou a aumento de 10,2% no erro de predição, enquanto que na seleção por DT os erros de predição foram reduzidos em 8,5%. A determinação simultânea dos quatro compostos pelo modelo DT-ANN apresentou precisão satisfatória, com recuperação de 98% para BHA, 97% para BHT, 103% para PG e 100% para TBHQ, o que indica que a técnica analítica e a modelagem quimiométrica são viáveis e promissoras para aplicação no controle de qualidade do biodiesel, bem como em análises de monitoramento nas plantas industriais. / Biodiesel is becoming established as an alternative fuel because its advantages and economic importance. As the levels of biodiesel in commercial diesel grows, quality monitoring becomes increasingly important for safe marketing. However, the oxidative stability of biodiesel is smaller than that of fossil diesel and synthetic antioxidants such as BHA, BHT, PG and TBHQ are added to it in order to prevent its degradation, avoiding damage to the automotive combustion system. Methods for evaluating oxidative stability and the amount of antioxidants are usually time-consuming, require sample preparation or expensive equipment. In order to overcome such problems, in this work a methodology was applied for direct analysis of antioxidants in biodiesel samples by means of differential pulse voltammetry. The viability of associating this methodology with chemometric techniques was studied for the simultaneous determination of these antioxidants in biodiesel. To allow a direct analysis, without extraction and preconcentration of analytes, biodiesel was diluted in ethanolic medium. Differential pulse voltammetric measurements for each antioxidant individually showed a linear relationship between antioxidant concentrations and oxidation current. The individual detection limits were 20,5 mg L-1 for BHA, 32,4 mg L-1 for BHT, 35,5 mg L-1 for PG and 26,5 mg L-1 for TBHQ. The chemometric modeling was applied using the Classical Least Squares (CLS), Partial Least Squares (PLS), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Principal Component-Artificial Neural Networks (PC-ANN) and Decision Tree-Artificial Neural Networks (DT-ANN) techniques. The model constructed by PLS was better than that obtained with CLS. The model constructed by ANN’s without input selection presented similar deviations in comparison to PLS. When amount of input data reduction was applied together with ANNs through Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and DT, the PCA application led to a 10.2% increase in prediction error, whereas in the selection by DT prediction errors were reduced by 8,5%. The simultaneous determination of the four compounds by the DT-ANN model presented satisfactory accuracy with 98% recovery for BHA, 97% for BHT, 103% for PG and 100% for TBHQ, indicating that the analytical technique and the chemometric modeling are feasible and promising for application in biodiesel quality control, as well as in monitoring analyzes in the industrial plants.
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ANN som en metod för att göra urval i spel / ANN as a method for making selections in games

Svärd, Simon January 2017 (has links)
I detta arbete som fokuserar på hur neurala nätverk kan appliceras på och hur väl de presterar i en spelmiljö undersöks två nätverksarkitekturer applicerat på en simulation av ett så kallat urvalsbaserat spel. I arbetet så är ett urvalsbaserat spel ett spel som går ut på att en spelare skall göra en mängd val innan spelet börjar, och de två nätverksarkitekturerna som utvärderas är Feed Forward och NEAT. Experimenten låter nätverken skapa lag för en förenklad version av spelet Pokemon och kommer sedan att låta dessa lag tävla emot varandra i en deterministisk testmiljö för att bedöma hur bra nätverken presterar.
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Modularitet i artificiella neurala robotstyrsystem: : En jämförelse av beteendebaserade och självlärda system

Karlsson, Viktor January 2002 (has links)
Forskning angående styrsystem inom evolutionär robotik fokuserar ofta på vad som går att uträtta med självlärda styrsystem, men inte vad beteendebaserade styrsystem klarar av. I detta projekt utförs systematiska tester för att jämföra beteendebaserade och självlärda styrsystem inom evolutionär robotik. Benämningen beteendebaserade styrsystem används för styrsystem som består av flera underliggande moduler, där robotens övergrippande beteende är uppdelat i flera moduler och där respektive modul har ansvar för ett specifikt beteende eller funktion. Självlärt styrsystem referar i detta sammanhang till styrsystem som inte explicit består av moduler som har åstakommits eller bestämts i förväg. Från resultaten framgår det att både självlärda och beteendebaserade styrsystem klarar av att lösa problemen de ställs inför. För beteendebaserade styrsystem krävs dock större ansvar från experimentatorn, vars inflytande ökar på grund av att det är flera moduler som skall skapas och koordineras. De beteendebaserade styrsystemen i projektet använder en beslutsenhet för att hantera när och vilken modul som ska aktiveras och tar bort detta ansvar från experimentatorn. Beslutsenheten ger styrsystemet en mer smidig övergång mellan de olika modulerna och hittar en lämplig användning av modulerna än utan en beslutsenhet. Från resultatet av projektet framgår det att fler systematiska tester angånde beteendebaserade och självlärda styrsystem behövs för att få en bättre förståelse över när och hur de olika styrsystemen bör användas.

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