Mobile apps are very popular and widely used to collect data. However, traditional web development tools like .Net and J2EE take a generic approach to such applications that leads to high code complexity and poor quality assurance. At the same time, Business Intelligence (BI) portals and dashboards provide interactive reports that allow one to flexibly explore, analyze, and visualize data. However, they are usually defined independently of the applications which are the source of the data. As a result, complex ETL (Extract, Transfer, and Load data) processes are required to integrate and transform data for reporting. We propose an application framework that flexibly integrates mobile apps and BI dashboards. We implemented three different versions of the framework and conducted case studies using two different health care applications to evaluate the framework. They demonstrated the potential to develop BI applications that integrate mobile forms data with less effort, less complexity, more consistency, and better ease of use. More importantly, the application framework provided the ability to seamlessly integrate data collection and reporting in a single mobile app. The final version of the application framework, QuickForms 3.0, is now published as an open source project, and a growing community of developers are now using the framework to build a wide variety of mobile apps.

This paper shall be mostly concerned with the development and the properties of three quadratic polynomials. The primary interest will by with n-ary quadratic polynomials, called forms.

Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of IsiZulu Namagugu At the University of Zululand, 2007. / Indigenous people today are seeking to transcend the history of pain and loss that began with the coming of Europeans into our world. In the past 500 years, our people have suffered murderous onslaughts of greed and disease. Even as history's shadow lengthens to mark the passing of that brutfal age, the Western compulsion to control remains strong. To preserve what is left of our cultures and lands, is a constant fight. Some indigenous people believe the statements of regret and promises of reconciliation spoken by our oppressors. Some have come to trust and accept the world that has been created through colonization ... But those who find sincerity and comfort in the oppressor, who bind themselves to recent promises, must yield to the assimilationist demands of the mainstream and abandon any meaningful attainment to an indigenous cultural and political reality. Thankfully, those who accept the colonization of their nations are a small minority. Most people continue to participate in, or at least support, the struggle to gain recognition and respect for their right to exist as peoples, unencumbered by the demands, controls and false identities imposed on them by others. Amid the seemingly perpetual conflict that comes with defending our ideals, there is confusion, division, and sometimes despair. Sometimes it seems we have lost our way, and then the confusion, division and despair threaten to overwhelm us again. Distracted from our goal, we wander a forest of frustration living inauthentic lives that make us easy prey for those who would enslave us. Such times constitute crises, and we are in the midst of one today.... '

This research was conducted to study the effects of supplemental L-Methionine (L-Met) and DL-Methionine (DL-Met) on nutrient metabolism, muscle gene expression, and growth performance of pigs. Twenty crossbred young barrows (initial Body Weight (BW) 21.2 ± 2.7 kg) were randomly assigned to 2 treatments. Crystalline L-Met and DL- Met were supplemented to the diets in Treatment 1 and 2 (both at 0.13%, ased basis), respectively. After 4 weeks of an ad libitum feeding trial, BW and feed intake were measured to calculate Average Daily Gain, Average Daily Feed Intake, and Gain: Feed. The blood samples were collected from the jugular vein for analyses of plasma AA and metabolite concentrations. The longissimus dorsi muscle samples were collected for analysis of myogenesis gene expression. The findings from this study (from gene expression to animal growth performance) suggest that the bioefficacy of L-Met is the same as for DL-Met, indicating the highly efficient conversion of D-Met to L-Met in young growing barrows.

The thesis investigates how ambiguity - created through a smooth, continuous building envelope- can be used to alter the perception and understanding of discrete typological or primitive forms with a focus on material expression. The use of basic, primitive forms is tied to a contemporary discourse of discreteness. Contemporary practitioners are exhausted with the seductive, smooth, continuous envelopes from the 90s digital project. As a result, they have turned to generating form through loosely associated, blocky parts. However, the thesis proves - through a vast series of investigations - that there is still room to explore smooth envelopes and gradients from the 90s project - as it relates to the creation of ambiguity - with the discrete, primitive forms of contemporary discourse in order to propose an alternative way of generating form through loosely associated, blocky parts. Furthermore, by deploying basic, primitive forms, the task of analysis and interpretation is open to a larger audience. The ambiguous techniques that the thesis explores serve to challenge the typical viewer's perception of the familiar, primitive forms. By challenging their perceptions, the thesis asks for their participation and reinterpretation of the basic volumes. As a result of this participation from multiple audiences, the discipline of architecture becomes open to more people and ideas. / Master of Architecture / The thesis investigates how a continuous and ambiguous building envelope can be used to alter the perception and understanding of individual, familiar forms with a focus on material expression. Contemporary practitioners are focusing on how to generate form through individual, basic geometric objects - cubes, cylinders, cones, etc. However, the thesis proves - through a vast series of investigations - that there is room to explore continuous, smooth building envelopes with the contemporary discrete, basic objects in order to propose an alternative way of generating form through individual, basic parts. Furthermore, by deploying basic objects, the task of analysis and interpretation is open to a larger audience. The ambiguous techniques that the thesis explores serve to challenge the typical viewer's perception of the familiar objects. By challenging their perceptions, the thesis asks for their participation and reinterpretation of the volumes. As a result of this participation from multiple audiences, the discipline of architecture becomes open to more people and ideas.

Ramanujan introduced his now celebrated mock theta functions in 1920, grouping them into families parameterized by an integer called the order. In 2010 Bringmann and Ono discovered generalizations of Ramanujan's mock theta functions for any order relatively prime to 6; this result was later strengthened by Garvan in 2016. It was also shown that by adding suitable nonholomorphic completion terms to the mock theta functions the family of mock theta functions corresponding to a given order constitute a complex vector space which is closed under the action of the modular group. We strengthen the Bringmann, Ono, and Garvan result by constructing a vector-valued modular form of weight 1/2 transforming according the Weil representation for orders greater than 3 by introducing an algorithm which simultaneously numerically constructs the form and proves its transformation laws. We also explicitly construct the 7th order form and prove analytically that it has the proper modular transformations. It is conjectured the same method will apply for other orders.

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In this thesis, we define differential operators for Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermitian modular forms over the Gaussian number field Q(i). In particular, we construct Rankin-Cohen brackets for such spaces of Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermitian modular forms. As an application, we extend Rankin's method to the case of Hermitian Jacobi forms. Finally we compute Fourier series coefficients of Hermitian modular forms, which allow us to give an example of the first Rankin-Cohen bracket of two Hermitian modular forms. In the appendix, we provide tables of Fourier series coefficients of Hermitian modular forms and also the computer source code that we used to compute such Fourier coefficients.

This thesis is concerned with the calculus of alternating differential forms on a manifold. It establishes that this calculus is of a purely algebraic nature by developing its precise analogue for an arbitrary commutative algebra with unit over a field. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)