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Diploma thesis deals with the evaluation and the comparison of the performance of mutual funds and investment funds with a focus on the real estate sector. The essence and principles of mutual funds, ETF and REIT are presented, and the resulting weaknesses and advantages. According to the selected indicators, the profitability, riskiness and expense of the investment opportunities are examined and investment recommendations for management of an investment company and potential retail investors are established.

This thesis discusses authors Elise Ottesen-Jensen and Elin Cederblom’s texts on sex education in the early 20th century. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how sexuality, women, men and gender are portrayed in the texts and books. The study aims to explore whether the authors texts vary depending on their ideological affiliation which is made visible through intersectional theory. Ottesen-Jensen writes from a working class and socialist perspective whilst Cederblom provides a conservative perspective on the subject. Through a qualitative text analysis, the study examines and compares how sexuality is portrayed and treated in the texts and how the discussion regarding sex education in relation to men, women and gender develops. To give the discussion a greater depth, the method also has a large focus on the authors context and the context of the time where the study takes place which makes connections and patterns more visible. The conclusion of this thesis is that the authors provide different views on sex education.  Ottesen-Jensen is significantly more progressive in her advice and opinions than Cederblom who has a conservative approach. Both authors have a clear view of what tasks a woman should be engaged in and what a man should do. While the man is seen as a figure of the public and working life, the woman has great responsibility at home in the reproduction, upbringing of children and everything else related to it. The source material matches the context of the time and its accepted views. Regardless of the authors' ideological affiliation both Cederblom and Ottesen-Jensen’s material discusses sex education in relation to thoughts and opinions about eugenics and population planning. What is most characteristic of the study's conclusion is the material's mixture of conservative and progressive opinions. Progressive opinions that are still relevant today such as views on abortion and prostitution.

本論文為一冊，三萬餘字，計分十節。旨在探討企業所有權與管理權分離之經濟效果 。第一節介紹相關文獻及本文架構。第二節闡述簡森（Jensen）和海克林（Meckling ）的模式內容要點。第三節對該模式提出檢討及修正。第四節分析資訊不對稱情況下 單期之代理成本。第五節引伸第三、四節的結論，證明多期間效率可以獲得提昇。第 六節說明負債相對權益資金的優越性。第七節導出多主管的消費均衡模式。第八節比 較所有權與管理權分離後主管投資風險誘因之不同。第九節探討監督及取信行動的存 在價值，及其與調薪制度之關聯性。第十節總結本研究的各項論點與文獻互做比較。

In this thesis, the effect of pitch based optimisation was explored for a 80 turbine wind farm. Using a modified Jensen wake model and the Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) model, a pitch optimisation strategy was created for the dominant turbulence and atmospheric condition for the wind farm. As the wake model was based on the FLORIS model developed by P.M.O Gebraad et. al., the wake and power model was compared with the FLORIS model and a -0.090% difference was found. To determine the dynamic predictive capability of the wake model, measurement values across a 10 minute period for a 19 wind turbine array were used and the wake model under predicted the power production by 17.55%. Despite its poor dynamic predictive capability, the wake model was shown to accurately match the AEP production of the wind farm when compared to a CFD simulation done in FarmFlow and only gave a 3.10% over-prediction. When the optimisation model was applied with 150 iterations and particles, the AEP production of the wind farm increased by 0.1052%, proving that the pitch optimisation method works for the examined wind farm. When the iterations and particles used for the optimisation was increased to 250, the power improvement between optimised results improved by 0.1144% at a 222.5% increase in computational time, suggesting that the solution has yet to fully converge. While the solutions did not fully converge, they converged sufficiently and an increase in iterations gave diminishing results. From the results, the pitch optimisation model was found to give a significant increase in power production, especially in wake intensive wind directions. However, the dynamic predictive capabilities will have be improved upon before the control strategy can be applied to an operational wind farm.

Denna studie rör debatten som kulminerade efter publicerandet av romanen Myggor och tigrar, av Maja Lundgren. Studiens fokus ligger i att finna debattens essens, utifrån tidningsartiklar och artikelförfattares positionering gentemot romanen och debattens huvudfrågor, detta är vidare undersökningens huvudsakliga syfte. Huruvida genus har betydelse för debattens utgång och om artikelförfattarnas förhållningssätt påverkas är en central fråga.

<p>Denna studie rör debatten som kulminerade efter publicerandet av romanen Myggor och tigrar, av Maja Lundgren. Studiens fokus ligger i att finna debattens essens, utifrån tidningsartiklar och artikelförfattares positionering gentemot romanen och debattens huvudfrågor, detta är vidare undersökningens huvudsakliga syfte. Huruvida genus har betydelse för debattens utgång och om artikelförfattarnas förhållningssätt påverkas är en central fråga.</p>

This study has determined the historical significance of the James A. Allison Estate as a designed historic landscape and suggested possible guidelines for future development at the site by the current owners, Marian College. Historical evidence indicated that the James A. Allison Estate was designed by noted landscape architect Jens Jensen of Chicago. This was proven through the identification of definable design elements utilized by Jensen in his design work. These included: reliance on native plants, manipulation of space, light and shadow, architectural features (pergolas and bridges), water features, a meadow, and a player's green and formal gardens. National Register Bulletin #18 was then used to determine that the James A. Allison estate could be classified as a designed historic landscape. Suggestions for the future treatment of the site, including guidelines for development, were then created. / Department of Landscape Architecture

Neurological diseases in newborns are usually first revealed by seizures, which are characterised by a synchronous discharge of a large number of neurons. Failure to control seizures may lead to brain damage or even death. The importance of this problem prompted many researchers to look for accurate automatic methods for seizure detection. Nonstationarity and multicomponent behaviour of newborn EEG signals made this task very challenging. The significant overlap in the characteristic of background and seizure activities in newborn EEG signals added to the difficulty of seizure detection. This research uses time-frequency based methods for automatic seizure detection. Since time-frequency signal analysis methods use joint representation in both time and frequency domains, they proved to be very suitable for analysis and processing of nonstationary and multicomponent signals such as newborn EEG. Before using any seizure detector, the EEG data is pre-processed in order to reduce the noise effects using a time-frequency based technique. The proposed method is based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) technique applied to the matrix representing the time-frequency distribution (TFD) of the EEG signal. It has been shown that by appropriately filtering the singular vectors associated with the TFD, one can effectively enhance the desired information embedded in the signal. Neonatal EEG seizures can have signatures in both low frequency (lower than 10 Hz) and high frequency (higher than 70 Hz) areas. The seizure detection techniques proposed in the literature concentrated on using either low frequency or high frequency signatures but not both simultaneously. These methods tend to miss the seizures that reveal themselves only in one of the two frequency areas. In this research, we propose a detection method that uses seizure features in both low and high frequency areas. To detect EEG seizures using the low frequency signatures, an SVD-based technique is employed. The technique uses the estimated distribution function of the singular vectors associated with the time-frequency distribution of EEG epochs to discriminate between seizure and nonseizure patterns. The high frequency signatures of seizures are mostly the result of spike events in the EEG signals. To detect these spike events, the signal is mapped into the TF domain. The high instantaneous energy of spikes is reflected as a localised energy in the high frequency area of the TF domain. Consequently, a spike can be seen as a ridge in this area of the TF domain. It has been shown that during seizure activity there is regularity in the distribution of the interspike intervals. This feature has been used as the basis for discriminating between seizure and nonseizure patterns. The performance results obtained by applying the proposed methods on EEG signals extracted from a number of newborns show the superiority of these methods over the existing ones.

Orientador: Antonio Evaldo Klar / Banca: Raimundo Leite Cruz / Banca: Dinival Martins / Banca: João Antonio Galbiatti / Banca: Jarbad Honório de Miranda / Resumo: No Estado do Ceará muitos projetos de irrigação tem sido desenvolvidos utilizando estimativas da evapotranspiração de referência baseados apenas em dados de temperatura, sem avaliar a eficácia do método. O estudo teve como objetivo verificar a precisão dos métodos de estimativas da evapotranspiração de referência (ETo), propostos por Hargreaves, Thornthwaite, Linacre, Jensen-Haise, Makking, Priestley & Taylor, Benavides & Lopez, Hargreaves-Samani, Camargo, Kharrufa, Hamon, Radiação (FAO-24, Organização das Nações Unidas para Alimentação e Agricultura) e Blaney-Criddle (FREVET et., 1983), para o Estado Ceará; aplicando a equação de Penman-Monteith (FAO-56), como padrão em comparação com os métodos propostos. Foram utilizados dados de temperatura, umidade relativa, insolação e velocidade do vento de postos meteorológicos de 16 municípios, a partir de uma série histórica iniciada em 1958 e concluída em 1999 por entidades distintas, sendo que não foi possível manter o mesmo intervalo de tempo em cada localidade, que possuem informações necessários para aplicação da metodologia FAO-56. Na análise dos resultados, foi aplicado estudo estatístico por meio de regressão linear e correlação entre as variáveis estudadas. Em função dos resultados da análise estatística, traçou-se o mapa das isolinhas com os dados médios de evapotranspiração de referência medidos na estação do ano de maior demanda de água no processo de evapotranspiração. Foram determinadas as demandas hídricas potenciais das ...(Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract : Reference evapotranspiration based only on temperature data, without evaluating of the effectiveness method. The present study had as objective verifies the precision of the methods of estimates of the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) proposed by Hargreves, Thornwaite, Linacre, Jensen-Haise, Makking, Priestley & Taylor, Benavides & Lopez, Hargreaves-Samani, Camargo, Kharrufa, Hamon, Radiation (FAO-24, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) and Blaney-Criddle (FREVET et al., 1983) in the State of Ceará; applying the equation of Penman-Monteith (FAO-56), as pattern in the comparison of the proposed method Climatic data of temperature were used, humid relative, heatstroke and wind speed from meteorological stations of 16 municipal districts in the State of Ceará, from a historical series began in 1958 and completed in 1999 by different entities, and it was not possible to maintain the same interval of time in each location, they have got necessary data for methodology application FAO-56. In the analysis of the results a statistic study was applied through the linear regression and correlation among the several ones studied. In function of the results of the statistical analysis, the map of the isolinhas was traced with the medium data of measured reference evapotranspiration process. They were certain the demands for potential hidricas of the main fruit cultures in their more significant irrigation poles. The statistics studies reveal that the method of Blaney-Criddle, presented statistics results more significant in relation to the other methods when compared with the method... / Doutor