Keywords: Latent variables, Ordered categorical data, Unordered categorical data, Nonignorable missing data, Maximum likelihood approach, Bayesian approach. / Structural equation models (SEMs) have been widely applied to examine interrelationships among latent and observed variables in behavioral, psychological, and medical research. Motivated by the fact that correlated ordered and unordered categorical variables are frequently encountered in practical applications, a nonlinear SEM that accommodates fixed covariates, mixed continuous, ordered categorical, and unordered categorical variables is proposed. Maximum likelihood methods for estimation and model comparison are discussed. Besides, missing data are frequently encountered in practical researches; a lot of attention has been devoted to analyze various SEMs with missing data. Bayesian analysis, including parameter estimate and model comparison, of a nonlinear SEM with mixed continuous, ordered and unordered categorical variables, and nonignorable missing entries is also considered in the thesis. Simulation studies are conducted to reveal the performance of the proposed methods. Moreover, we apply our methodologies to analyze the real-life data set about cardiovascular disease. As none of the existing SEMs can simultaneously accommodate fixed covariates, mixed continuous, ordered and unordered categorical data, and missing data, this thesis offers a novel SEM to cope with more complex practical problems and develop maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods for obtaining results in estimation and model comparison. / Cai, Jingheng. / Advisers: Sik-Yum Lee; Xin-Yuan Song. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: B, page: 3584. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-82). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

by Lok Tsan-ming. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-75). / Introduction --- p.2 / Chapter 1 --- "Rings, Modules and Categories" --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1 --- "Rings, Subrings and Ideals" --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2 --- Modules and Categories --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3 --- Module Theory --- p.13 / Chapter 2 --- Isomorphisms between Endomorphism rings of Quasiprogener- ators --- p.24 / Chapter 2.1 --- Preliminaries --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Fundamental Theorem --- p.31 / Chapter 2.3 --- Isomorphisms Induced by Semilinear Maps --- p.41 / Chapter 2.4 --- Isomorphisms of General linear groups --- p.46 / Chapter 3 --- Endomorphism ring of projective module --- p.54 / Chapter 3.1 --- Preliminaries --- p.54 / Chapter 3.2 --- Main Theorem --- p.60 / Bibliography --- p.74

Cette thèse consiste en une étude comparée de La Montagne de l’âme de Gao Xingjian et Sur la route de Jack Kerouac ayant « la quête » comme problématique centrale. Bien qu’à première vue les deux œuvres apparaissent fort différentes, selon l’esprit de la littérature comparée, elles méritent une confrontation minutieuse et nous estimons qu’elles possèdent quantité de points communs : Premièrement, il s’agit de deux romans foisonnants qui englobent bon nombre de genres romanesques et semblant relever simultanément de plusieurs catégories : roman autobiographique, roman-géographe, roman de pèlerinage, roman picaresque, roman de mœurs, roman de méditation, et enfin roman « froid » et « sans-isme ». Par leurs différents aspects, ces deux œuvres peuvent satisfaire aux attentes de divers lecteurs. Deuxièmement, au plan stylistique, La Montagne de l’âme et Sur la route sont deux romans insolites. L’innovation de La Montagne de l’âme se manifeste par la pratique d’un mode de narration inédit, la particularité linguistique, la singularité dans la structure, l’hétérogénéité du matériau romanesque, bref par une grande originalité formelle. Quant à Sur la route, sa nouveauté se manifeste d’abord par sa création fondamentale, à savoir la prose spontanée. Elle s’exprime aussi par la particularité de la construction romanesque, l’originalité de l’écriture et la singularité du contenu. Troisième parenté fondamentale : La Montagne de l’âme et Sur la route se présentent comme deux quêtes de l’espace. Montagne, chemin et maison sont trois motifs récurrents communs à ces deux romans qui sont également deux odes aux grands espaces. Les protagonistes relatent les itinéraires parcourus en Amérique et en Chine et l’on peut voir dans ces livres deux odes aux cultures nées dans les grands espaces. À l’intérieur de ces deux œuvres, les paysages romanesques se recommandent par leur caractère pictural et polysensoriel. L’espace typographique du texte est également aménagé avec art : les deux romans sont à la fois découpés et cousus. Enfin, considérés sous l’angle de la spiritualité, La Montagne de l’âme et Sur la route peuvent être dits romans de l’âme : de nombreuses questions spirituelles y sont intégrées, posées et approfondies. L’un et l’autre traitent la quête du sens de la vie, plus précisément, la quête de l’ego (identité, soi), la quête d’un mode de vie (fondé sur le présent, la liberté) et la quête métaphysique (destin, mort, croyance). Ces quatre similitudes correspondent à quatre quêtes que les deux oeuvres déploient à leur façon : la recherche d’un genre romanesque, d’une stylistique originale, d’un espace romanesque et enfin d’un sens de la vie. / The thesis is about the comparative analysis which concern about the main concept of quest where from soul mountain of Gao Xingjian and On the Road of Jack Kerouac. Although these two books seem quite unlike, by the spiritual of comparative literature, they totally worth to be comparative studied carefully, and we think they have quite much in common.First, these two novels are both rich in connotation, they cover many of the novel categories, such as autobiographical novel, geographical novel, pilgrimage novel, picaresque novel, novel of manners, novel of meditation, the “cold” novel and non socialist novel. In different aspects, these two works can meet the needs of different readers.Secondly, in the stylistics, the soul mountain and on the road are two unusual novels. The innovation of the soul mountain is the practice of singularity of narration, the singularity of language characteristic, the singularity of structure, the heterogeneity of the material, the singularity of the form. As for on the road, the creativity of the novel based on many aspects, namely the spontaneous prose, also the singularity of characteristic of the construction, the way of writing, and the uniqueness of content.The third, the soul mountain and on the road two novels both relate as they quest the idea of space. Mountain, road and house are three common recurrent motifs which show up in these two novels, which are also odes of wide open spaces. The protagonists narrate the travel through America and China. We can discover from the two books both contain odes which point to the cultures cultivated from the spaces. In these two works, the narrations about landscapes are both pictorial and also polysensoriel. Spaces typographic of the two novels are also rearranged with art: both cut and sewn. Finally, from the perspective of the spiritual, the soul mountain and on the road can be regarded as novels of the soul: many spiritual questions are quested and thoroughly researched. The two novels both deal with the quest for the sense of life, and more specifically, the pursuit of the ego, (identity, soi), the quest for the way of life (present, liberty), the quest for the metaphysical (destiny, death, religion).These four similarities are corresponding to the four quests of these two novels: the quest of novel categories, stylistics, space, sense of life.

[pt] Este trabalho consiste em uma caracterização inicial das habilidades de processamento presentes nas crianças que adquirem o sistema de número gramatical em português. Foi realizada uma coleta longitudinal de dados de produção durante 4 meses com 2 crianças de 24-28 meses e 21-25 meses, cujo objetivo foi obter dados de produção lingüística semi-espontânea que permitissem identificar exemplos de produção de formas flexionadas em número. Realizaram-se também 3 experimentos de reconhecimento de imagens, com crianças de 18 a 28 meses e 30 a 42 meses, os quais visavam a verificar (i) se a criança distingue nome flexionado em número de nome não-flexionado; (ii) se a criança percebe onde se localiza a marca de número no português em palavras de seu vocabulário e em pseudo- palavras que remetem a objetos inventados; e, por fim, contrastar dados de experimentos semelhantes relativos a gênero gramatical, de modo a averiguar se crianças processam concordância de número no DP. A hipótese de trabalho que orienta esta dissertação é a de que a informação relativa a número contida nos elementos que formam a categoria funcional Determinante (D) é crucial para a identificação do sistema de número no português. Os valores relativos a número identificados nos elementos da categoria D como marcado/não marcado são interpretados semanticamente como singular e plural por meio do mecanismo da concordância, sendo a identificação do número gramatical mais custosa do que a do gênero gramatical em virtude de o número ser um traço opcional e de este traço veicular informação semântica a ser associada a classes morfofonológicas identificadas no Det e no Nome. O modelo de língua assumido nesse estudo é o sugerido pelo Programa Minimalista (Chomsky, 1995). / [en] This work is concerned with the acquisition of the Portuguese number system. Longitudinal production data of two children (24-28 months and 21-25 months) were collected for 4 months in order to verify whether there is evidence of the use of number inflected forms. 3 picture- identification experiments were carried out with children ranging from 18 to 28 months and 30 to 42 months, whose aim was to verify (i) whether children would distinguish number inflected from number uninflected nouns (ii) whether they would process number agreement in the DP and the extent to which they would perceive number incongruence and ungrammaticality as far as number agreement in the DP is concerned. Both nouns from children`s vocabulary and pseudo- nouns were used. The latter was indented to constraint semantic information to the number affix. These data were contrasted with the results on gender (Name, 2002), which suggest that young children (mean age 24 months) perceive gender incongruence between D and N in the processing of a DP. The working hypothesis of this study is that children identify morphological information concerning number and gender within the closed class of determiners. The fact that number is basically an optional feature, which can be expressed in the Noun, would nevertheless, make the acquisition of grammatical number to be relatively more demanding than the identification of grammatical gender. The linguistic framework assumed here is the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995).

x, 81 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / We give an exposition of Deligne's tensor category Rep(St) where t is not necessarily an integer. Thereafter, we give a complete description of the blocks in Rep(St) for arbitrary t. Finally, we use our result on blocks to decompose tensor products and classify tensor ideals in Rep(St). / Committee in charge: Victor Ostrik, Chairperson, Mathematics; Daniel Dugger, Member, Mathematics; Jonathan Brundan, Member, Mathematics; Alexander Kleshchev, Member, Mathematics; Michael Kellman, Outside Member, Chemistry

This thesis constructs tilting bundles obtained from full strong exceptional collections of line bundles on all smooth toric Fano fourfolds. The tilting bundles lead to a large class of explicit Calabi-Yau-5 algebras, obtained as the corresponding rolled-up helix algebra. We provide two different methods to show that a collection of line bundles is full, whilst the strong exceptional condition is checked using the package QuiversToricVarieties for the computer algebra system Macaulay2, written by the author. A database of the full strong exceptional collections can also be found in this package.

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Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-05-13T16:47:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ThaisDomenicaMinghelli.pdf: 2621220 bytes, checksum: e0ed0ebf9841f8f189fc10e599159d71 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T16:47:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ThaisDomenicaMinghelli.pdf: 2621220 bytes, checksum: e0ed0ebf9841f8f189fc10e599159d71 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-22 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Tendo em vista a demanda por sistemas computacionais cada vez mais eficazes no que tange à recuperação da informação, bem como o grande número de sites jurídicos, ontologias têm se revelado úteis neste sentido. Diante deste cenário, o presente trabalho objetiva investigar o papel da relação de meronímia como uma relação organizadora do conteúdo da área do Direito Processual Penal, especialmente do procedimento do tribunal do júri, a fim de inseri-los em uma ontologia jurídica linguística. Para tanto, recorre-se à ontologia LRI-core, inspirando-se nela para a criação de categorias nucleares embasadoras da pesquisa e estruturadoras da modelagem do domínio. Fundamenta-se a pesquisa na semântica lexical e na classificação de tipos de merônimos de Winston et. al. (1987). Valendo-se do Código de Processo Penal como principal corpus de consulta, selecionam-se e analisam-se suas expressões sob a perspectiva parte-todo. Por fim, ilustra-se no editor de ontologias Protégé a forma como os dados podem ser representados. O resultado desta investigação mostra que a relação de meronímia exerce um importante papel como uma relação organizadora do conteúdo da área do Direito Processual Penal, sendo, assim, relevante para a representação do conhecimento e sua recuperação por meio de ontologias. / According to the demand for more efficient computer systems when it comes to information retrieval, as well as the large number of legal sites, ontologies have proved to be useful in this regard. Based on this scenario, this work aims to investigate the role of meronymy relationship to organize the content of Criminal Procedural Law, especially the procedure of trial by jury in order to place them in a legal linguistic ontology. For this, LRI-core ontology is studied, getting inspiration from it to create core categories to base the research and structure the domain modeling. The research is based in lexical semantics and the meronymy classification of Winston et. al. (1987). Relying on the Code of Criminal Procedure as the main research corpus, linguistic expressions are selected and analyzed under the part-whole perspective. Finally, there are illustrations abouthow data can be represented on the ontology editor Protégé. The result of this investigation shows that the meronymy relationship plays an important role as an organizing relationship of the content area of criminal procedural law, and thus it is relevant to knowledge representation and its recovery by means of ontologies.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-05-28T15:41:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney Luiz Mayer.pdf: 1509608 bytes, checksum: 62178963256c9550bb65a125c0dbe024 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-28T15:41:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney Luiz Mayer.pdf: 1509608 bytes, checksum: 62178963256c9550bb65a125c0dbe024 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Nenhuma / O presente trabalho reconstitui o processo de formação do projeto missionário jesuítico para o Maranhão português da segunda metade do século XVII. Trajetória tomada em sua dinâmica própria, isto é, na tensão entre a continuidade e a descontinuidade de seu ser processo. Em outra forma, a presença jesuítica considerada e justificada no trânsito entre as suas principais determinantes: a experiência de missionariedade e as categorias de pensamento pelas quais aquela tomou forma. Este estudo preocupa-se com as circunstâncias da atividade jesuítica na Amazônia seiscentista, nas quais a realidade da Colônia foi experimentada segundo o sistema do pensamento escolástico ibérico, do qual os jesuítas eram os principais representantes. Esta processualidade aparece na análise de dois momentos distintos e complementares da História da Missão jesuítica no norte da América portuguesa: na transição entre a fase fundacional e a fase denominada de expansão, período no qual se destacou a intervenção conflituosa do Padre Antônio Vieira na constante defesa da liberdade dos índios e, posteriormente, na análise da transição do período vieirino à fase de consolidação, obtida pela reestruturação organizacional da Missão e adoção de uma posição conciliatória da parte do Padre João Felipe Bettendorff junto aos colonos portugueses. / The present work reorganizes the Jesuit missionary project for Portuguese Mara- nhão in the second half of the seventeenth century. The course taken in its own dynamic, that is, in the tension between the ongoing continuity and the irruptions of its being process. In another manner, the Jesuit presence, considered after careful thought, and justified in the transit between its determinants: the experience of missionarity and the category of thought, through which it took shape. Drawing out this study, it offers a worrisome feeling that deals with the circumstances of Jesuit activities in the sixteenth century in Amazonia in which the colonial reality that has been tested according to the Iberian scholastic system of thought for which Jesuit were the leading point. That dealing shows in an analysis of two distinct and complementary moments of the Jesuit mission's History in the north of Portuguese American: in the transition between the foundation phase and the phase called enlargement period in which there was on outreaching and conflicting intervention of Father Antonio Vieira in the continuous support of the Indian' freedom, and later on, in the analysis in the "vieirian" period to the consolidation phase, gained by the setting up a new structure of the mission and, as well as the adoption of a friendly position obtained by Father João Filipe Bettendorff towards Portuguese colonial settlements.

Submitted by Jailda Nascimento (jmnascimento@pucsp.br) on 2016-09-22T18:53:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcella Ferrari Martins.pdf: 2274777 bytes, checksum: ffb7363fd5e6f074935a2d873f556cd3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-22T18:53:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcella Ferrari Martins.pdf: 2274777 bytes, checksum: ffb7363fd5e6f074935a2d873f556cd3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Objective: To analyze and discuss comparatively the perception of parents and audiologists - therapists and programmers, for the hearing and language skills in children with cochlear implants, satisfaction with perceived this development and the factors responsible for it. Method: The subjects of this research 50 children under fifteen years of age, cochlear implant users, who underwent surgery at least six months of the first ear. With this, their parents and audiologists were also subject of this research. Results: Ace language categories compared to parents and respondents and non-respondents therapists there was a statistically significant association (p = 0.143). In both groups the majority of children are category 5 language, but in children of non-respondents parents observed a higher number of children in categories 1, 2 and 3. Since the hearing categories, there was also no statistically significant association (p = 0.099) between parents and respondents and non-respondents therapists, however there is a greater number of children in the categories 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the non-respondents parents. The vast majority of study participants demonstrated satisfied with the performance of children. Conclusion: The results seem to indicate that the clinical markers - language categories and hearing has the potential to strengthen the partnership between parents and audiologists (therapists and developers) and we can highlight the common factors of parents and speech therapists related to meeting the communicative performance, audibility / IC, academic performance and involvement of the parties involved / Objetivo: Analisar e discutir comparativamente a percepção de pais e fonoaudiólogos – terapeutas e programadores, quanto às habilidades auditivas e de linguagem em crianças usuárias de implante coclear, a satisfação com esse desenvolvimento percebido e os fatores responsáveis por isso. Método: Foram sujeitos dessa pesquisa 50 crianças até quinze anos de idade, usuárias de Implante coclear, que realizaram a cirurgia a no mínimo seis meses do primeiro ouvido. Com isso, seus respectivos pais e fonoaudiólogos também foram sujeitos desta pesquisa. Resultados: Ás categorias de linguagem comparadas aos pais e terapeutas respondentes e não respondentes não houve uma associação estatisticamente significativa (p=0,143). Nos dois grupos a maior parte das crianças apresentam categoria 5 de linguagem, porém nas crianças dos pais não respondentes observa-se um maior número de crianças nas categorias 1,2 e 3. Já nas categorias de audição, também não houve uma associação estatisticamente significativa (p=0,099) entre pais e terapeutas respondentes e não respondentes, porém observa-se um maior número de crianças nas categorias 1,2, 3 e 4 dos pais não respondentes. A grande maioria dos participantes do estudo demostraram satisfeitos com o desempenho das crianças. Conclusão: Os resultados parecem apontar que os marcadores clínicos - categorias de linguagem e audição tem potencial para fortalecer a parceria entre pais e fonoaudiólogos (terapeutas e programadores) e podemos destacar que os fatores em comum de pais e fonoaudiólogos relacionados à satisfação o desempenho comunicativo, audibilidade/ IC, desempenho escolar e envolvimento das partes envolvidas