Thesis--Auburn University, 2009. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 23).

This thesis is a study of some axioms and theorems, and product spaces.

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The purpose of this monograph is to study the geometry of origami and its applications in Euclidean Geometry as a tool that contributes to the teaching of Geometry in Basic Education. Provide a brief history of origami and its arrival in Brazil and as a result we present the axioms that define the simple movements that can be performed using points and straight lines in a plane. We also study the classic problems of doubling the cube and the trisection of the angle, showing that they are possible to be solved through the Geometry of Origami. We show then the Origami applications for studies of flat Euclidean space, emphasizing the study of Plato polyhedra. We finished the job by showing how we developed the Origami Project - Mathematics and Art in the State College John XXIII . / O objetivo desta monografia é fazer o estudo da Geometria do Origami e de suas aplicações na Geometria Euclidiana como instrumento que contribua para o ensino da Geometria na Educação Básica. Fornecemos um pequeno histórico do Origami e de sua chegada ao Brasil e na sequência apresentamos os axiomas que definem os movimentos simples que podem ser realizados utilizando pontos e retas num plano. Estudamos também os problemas clássicos da duplicação do cubo e da trissecção do ângulo, mostrando que são possíveis de ser resolvidos por meio da Geometria do Origami. Mostramos, então, aplicações do Origami para estudos de Geometria Euclidiana plana e espacial, dando ênfase ao estudo dos poliedros de Platão. Encerramos o trabalho, mostrando como foi desenvolvido o Projeto Origami - Matemática e Arte no Colégio Estadual João XXIII .

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Includes bibliographical references. / by William Waldron Tice. / M.S.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 214-219. / by David Robert Wilson. / Ph.D.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

In my thesis I am dealing with the usage of origami at teaching mathematics. In the first chapters I mention a brief history and kinds of creases such as Huzita axioms etc. In the second part I introduce three chapters concerning folding of structures supported by work-sheets at different difficulty levels. The content of these chapters comprises of conic sections and diameters of trapezoids. The last chapters of the thesis are focused on three kinds of folding: Yoshimura, Miura and modular, which are also used in architecture, house design and astronautics.

Reputation is an important customer choice criterion in banking, a sector characterised by intangible services and limited opportunity for pre-purchase evaluation. It has been shown that while companies may communicate their reputation in a particular way, responses to reputation stimuli are not homogeneous, resulting in calls in the literature to understand sources of variation in customer responses. This study investigated whether an individual’s social axioms, that is, an individual’s general beliefs about the world were such a source of individual difference and influenced corporate reputation and behavioural intention among middle-high income South African banking customers. Conceptualising corporate reputation as customer perceptions (beliefs and attitude) led to adoption of the reasoned action approach as the study’s theoretical basis. Each of the social axioms dimensions, namely, fate control, religiosity, reward for application, social complexity and social cynicism, was hypothesised to influence customers’ beliefs about their bank and behavioural intention. Following a deductive approach and adopting a positivistic paradigm, quantitative data was collected from 636 middle-high income customers of the top five South African retail banks using an online questionnaire. The conceptual model was tested using partial least squares structural equation modelling. The study’s results confirmed that social axioms are a source of individual difference, can explain variances in customers’ beliefs, and are therefore antecedents of corporate reputation. Reward for application has the strongest relationship with customers’ beliefs while the relationship between social cynicism and beliefs was statistically insignificant. Effects of all social axioms dimensions apart from social cynicism were completely mediated in series by beliefs and attitude. Contributions to corporate reputation scholarship include definition of the construct as a collective of beliefs and attitude and expansion of the set of antecedents to beliefs within the reasoned action framework beyond the traditional personality and demographic factors. In practice the findings endorse the view that corporate reputation is to an extent beyond a company’s control and is in part controlled by stakeholders. As a result, it is suggested that bank marketing executives and reputation practitioners consider including social axioms in customer segmentation models to ensure that their offerings resonate with customers’ general beliefs about the world. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / DPhil / Unrestricted