by Wai-kuen Lai. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Most of the recent efficient algorithms for dependency parsing work by factoring the dependency trees. In most of these approaches, the parser loses much of the contextual information during the process of factorization. There have been approaches to build higher order dependency parsers - second order, [Carreras2007] and third order [Koo and Collins2010]. In the thesis, the approach by Koo and Collins should be further exploited in one or more ways. Possible directions of further exploitation include but are not limited to: investigating possibilities of extension of the approach to non-projective parsing; integrating labeled parsing; joining word-senses during the parsing phase [Eisner2000].

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / Study of the serving brothers of the Order of St John and of the way in which the original idealism of their hostel in Jerusalem was altered by forces of change has been neglected. The ultimate result of these forces was to change the main ideology of the brotherhood into an organisation which was dominated by knights and their desire to defend the Catholic Faith and the Crusader states. The importance of the original brothers and their position within the growth of the Order of St John changed. They became second class citizens in their own Order and this has been largely overlooked. In order to appreciate how this development took place it is necessary to trace the changing circumstances of the serving brothers within the various stages of the history of the Order and the way these affected their caritative service to pilgrims, the poor and the sick. The purpose and ideals which formulated the Hospice of St Mary of the Latins are the essential beginnings of such a study. Following the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, the Hospice launched into a different phase of its history. The number of poor sick pilgrims visiting Jerusalem and being accommodated in the hospice or hospital, eventually forced the Hospital to become independent from its mother monastery. However, this became possible only after Pope Paschal II settled the problems of church and state experienced in the early years of the Kingdom.

<p>The main aim of this essay was to find out what kind of advantages and/or disadvantages giving marks in pupils order and behaviour can cause for their development of knowledge and emotional and social skills. We let teachers answer a questionnaire about giving marks in pupils order and behaviour. We have also interviewed one person that was involved to prepare the latest curriculum in 1994, Lpo 94, and they decided that Swedish teachers do not have the right competence to judge ones order or behaviour. We have also looked at different theories about: mark as motivation, mark as information, mark as control, self-fulfilling prophecy, emotional disorders and gender, with whom we analyse the fact to give marks in order and behaviour.</p><p>What we can establish is that giving marks in pupils order and behaviour seems to bring more disadvantages than advantages. Boys mature later than girls and have there for, in general, not as good behaviour as the girls have in the classroom. Also there is a problem with the fact that every fourth to sixth pupil is having one or another emotional disorder, that means that they have less basic conditions, than "normal" kids, to get a good mark in order and behaviour. Never the less this type of marks could motivate some pupils to behave better, which could effect the climate in classrooms in a positive way for learning and the pupils social and emotional prosperous. But then again, this concerns mainly the pupils that already are motivated and are behaving well. One of the reasons that there is problem children in the Swedish schools, are because they are having problems at home, and start giving marks in there order and behaviour, won’t change that. There is also a risk, because of the theory selffulfilling prophecy, that pupils who gets bad marks in order and behaviour, will also continue to behave bad.</p>

The main aim of this essay was to find out what kind of advantages and/or disadvantages giving marks in pupils order and behaviour can cause for their development of knowledge and emotional and social skills. We let teachers answer a questionnaire about giving marks in pupils order and behaviour. We have also interviewed one person that was involved to prepare the latest curriculum in 1994, Lpo 94, and they decided that Swedish teachers do not have the right competence to judge ones order or behaviour. We have also looked at different theories about: mark as motivation, mark as information, mark as control, self-fulfilling prophecy, emotional disorders and gender, with whom we analyse the fact to give marks in order and behaviour. What we can establish is that giving marks in pupils order and behaviour seems to bring more disadvantages than advantages. Boys mature later than girls and have there for, in general, not as good behaviour as the girls have in the classroom. Also there is a problem with the fact that every fourth to sixth pupil is having one or another emotional disorder, that means that they have less basic conditions, than "normal" kids, to get a good mark in order and behaviour. Never the less this type of marks could motivate some pupils to behave better, which could effect the climate in classrooms in a positive way for learning and the pupils social and emotional prosperous. But then again, this concerns mainly the pupils that already are motivated and are behaving well. One of the reasons that there is problem children in the Swedish schools, are because they are having problems at home, and start giving marks in there order and behaviour, won’t change that. There is also a risk, because of the theory selffulfilling prophecy, that pupils who gets bad marks in order and behaviour, will also continue to behave bad.

Classical elasticity cannot be used to explain effects related to material microstructures due to its lack of a material length scale parameter. To mitigate this deficiency, higher order elasticity theories have been developed. Two simple higher order theories and their applications are studied in this research. One is a modified couple stress theory and the other is a simplified strain gradient theory, each of which contains only one material length scale parameter in addition to the classical elastic constants. Variational formulations are provided for these two theories by using the principle of minimum total potential energy. In both cases, the governing equations and complete boundary conditions are determined simultaneously for the first time. Also, the displacement form is explicitly derived for each theory for the first time. The modified couple stress theory is applied to solve a simple shear problem, to develop a new Bernoulli-Euler beam model, and to derive the constitutive relations for hexagonal honeycomb structures, while the simplified strain gradient theory is used to solve the pressurized thick-walled cylinder problem. All these models/solutions are obtained for the first time and supplement their counterparts in classical elasticity. Numerical results obtained from the newly developed models and derived solutions and their comparisons with their counterpart results in classical elasticity reveal that the higher order theory based models and solutions have the capacity to account for microstructural effects; their counterparts in classical elasticity do not have the same capability. Nevertheless, the former are shown to recover the latter if the microstructural effects are suppressed or ignored.

Make-to-order (MTO) systems have been traditionally popular in manufacturing industries that either seek to provide greater variety to their customers or make products that are unique to their customers. More recently, with shrinking product life cycles, there is an increasing interest in operating as MTO systems. With the tremendous success of revenue management techniques in the service industries over the last three decades, there is a growing interest in applying these techniques in MTO manufacturing industries. In the present work, we consider three problems that apply revenue management (RM) to on-date delivery MTO systems. In the first problem, we assume that all orders completed in advance of their due-dates are stored at third party warehouses and apply RM in computing efficient order acceptance and scheduling policies. We develop an optimal solution scheme, and based on the insights gained on the structural properties of the optimal solution, we develop a stochastic approximation scheme for finding efficient solutions. Through computational studies on simulated problems, we illustrate the potential of RM in improving net profits over popular practices. In our second problem, we extend the RM model to consider presence of a certain amount of first party warehousing capacity for storing the orders completed in advance of their due-dates. We study the conditions under which it is desirable to consider the holding cost aspects in the RM model. In our third problem, we develop a scheme for determining an efficient capacity of the first party warehouse that is used for storing the orders completed in advance of their due-dates at an on-date delivery MTO system. This scheme captures the completed orders storage demand resulting from a RM based order acceptance and scheduling policy. We illustrate that when booking horizon is large, considerable amount of savings in the holding costs can be made with an efficiently sized first party warehouse.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1915.

Thesis (M.A.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 2002. / Committee chair Professor Phillip McMillion. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-209).

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 46 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-44).