Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-63). / The personal computer. as an intermediary between mass communications systems and the individual viewer, can filter incoming news, eliminating irrelevant and redundant stories and highlighting items of interest. However, important information can be lost by removing an article from the context of its original publication. Knowing the identity of the source helps the viewer judge the reliability and objectivity of the account. Seeing the article as originally presented among a number of other stories indicates to the viewer the significance of the story and its relationship to other current events. A program has been designed and implemented which presents news articles within the context of their original publication. It provides a uniform interface to a number of electronically distributed publications, both text and video. A two level display accommodates both casual browsing and attentive viewing. The first level, which shows several articles simultaneously , preserves the information encoded in the original layout. The second level. which displays a single article, is designed to provide the best environment for viewing that article. The program can be used to create special interest compilations. Topics of interest may be defined by marking keywords. All available sources are searched for pertinent articles. These are collected in a "synthetic" journal. The same interface is used to peruse ·an original publication and a user-specified synthetic journal. / by Judith S. Donath. / M.S.V.S.

Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 1982. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-105). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur barns språk främjas och utvecklas hos förskolans yngsta barn och på vilket sätt detta genomförs i praktiken på förskolan. Studien genomförs med fokus på innehållet i samlingar. Samlingarnas innehåll analyseras med Vygotskijs teori i åtanke genom att intervjua förskollärare och observera samlingar med fokus på de tre teoretiska begreppen involvering, delaktighet och autonomi. Resultatet visar att förskollärarna använder sig av principerna involvering, delaktighet och autonomi genom samlingarnas olika återkommande aktiviteter såsom upprop, högläsning, ramsa, sånglek och avslutning. Studien visar även att förskollärarna följer två olika modeller som består av Bornholmsmodellen och förskollärarnas egen modell. Samlingens grundläggande funktion visar sig vara att barnen involveras i den sociala gemenskapen. Det framkommer även att samlingarna har en blandad status hos de intervjuade förskollärarna då det råder olika åsikter om samlingens funktion och relevans för barns språkutveckling bland förskollärarna. Under studien visar sig även att samlingar som följer Bornholmsmodellen är mer innehållsrik än samlingar som genomförs enligt förskollärarnas egen modell. Om detta beror på den blandade status som samlingar har bland de intervjuade förskollärarna eller om det är planeringsbrist skulle vara en bra utgångspunkt för framtida forskning. / The aim of this essay is to examine how children’s language is supported and developed at the kindergarten and how it is done in reality. This study has its focus on gatherings. The content of the gatherings is analyzed with the Vygotskij’s theory in mind by interviewing kindergarten teachers and observing gatherings while focusing on the three theoretical expressions involvement, participation and autonomy. The result shows that teacher use the principles of involvement, participation and autonomy by activities like reading, songs etc. The study shows even that kindergarten teachers follow two different models consisting of the Bornholmsmodel and an own model. The main function of a gathering is to involve children into a social society. It shows that gatherings have a mixed status amongst kindergarten teachers because of having different opinions about gathering’s function and relevance for developing children’s language skills. It shows that gatherings using the Bornholmsmodel do have more content than gatherings done by kindergarten teachers with their own model. To examine if this occurs because of the mixed status or because of planning-issues would be a good start to begin with in future research.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 279-296). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

When performing web searches, users manually open a web browser, direct it to a search engine, input keywords, and finally manually filter and select relevant results. This repetitive task can negatively impact the user's experience, something the automation and personalization of web search can address. This thesis presents PALTask, an Instant Messaging (IM) application that exploits context of both the user and their conversation in order to automate and personalize related web tasks such as web searches relevant to the conversation. PALTask dynamically gathers context and provides feedback from the user and the system at runtime including keywords from the conversation and running them through various search services such as YouTube and Google to retrieve relevant results. This thesis also explores various natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as keyword extraction, sentiment analysis, and stemming. These NLP tasks help in the collection of dynamic context at runtime, identifying personalized context, and analyzing it to improve the user's experience. We also present our keyword ranking algorithm which aims to improve accuracy when retrieving web resources. / Graduate

Information gathering from sources outside the company plays a critical role in most innovation projects. Particularly, it seems promising to approach external market experts to develop an indepth understanding of current use problems, changing customer needs and trends for new product solutions. When planning expert interviews, firms are confronted with the question whether knowledge is distributed rather homogeneously or heterogeneously ("scattered") among a pool of experts. This issue strongly determines how many experts need to be interviewed in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of a given search field for innovation. In the present paper we analyse expert interviews that were conducted in the context of an innovation project in the field of surgical hygiene products. We find high heterogeneity of expert knowledge: Market experts in our sample vary in terms of market information they provide for the particular product field. We argue that this finding is in alignment with the concept of "bounded rationality" and the theory of "contextual development of knowledge". Our findings have implications for the management of external information gathering and the identification of market experts.(author's abstract)

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 1994. / Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, 1994. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

Thesis (Doctoral)--Stockholm Universiy, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-312) and index.

Diss.--Göttingen. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 166-180.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Division of Religion. / Bibliography: leaves 251-256.