Market prices in the liberalized European electricity system play a crucial role in promoting competition, ensuring grid stability, and maximizing profits for market participants. Accurate electricity price forecasting algorithms have, therefore, become increasingly important in this competitive market. However, existing evaluations of forecasting models primarily focus on overall accuracy, overlooking the underlying causality of the predictions. The thesis explores two state-of-the-art forecasters, the deep neural network (DNN) and the Lasso Estimated AutoRegressive (LEAR) models, in the EPEX-BE and Nord Pool markets. The aim is to understand if their predictions can be trusted in more general settings than the limited context they are trained in. If the models produce poor predictions in extreme conditions or if their predictions are inconsistent with reality, they cannot be relied upon in the real world where these forecasts are used in downstream decision-making activities. The results show that for the EPEX-BE market, the DNN model outperforms the LEAR model in terms of overall accuracy. However, the LEAR model performs better in predicting negative prices, while the DNN model performs better in predicting price spikes. For the Nord Pool market, a simpler DNN model is more accurate for price forecasting. In both markets, the models exhibit behaviours inconsistent with reality, making it challenging to trust the models’ predictions. Overall, the study highlights the importance of understanding the underlying causality of forecasting models and the limitations of relying solely on overall accuracy metrics. / Priserna på den liberaliserade europeiska elmarknaden spelar en avgörande roll för att främja konkurrens, säkerställa stabilitet i elnätet och maximera aktörernas vinster. Exakta prisprognoalgoritmer har därför blivit allt viktigare på denna konkurrensutsatta marknad. Existerande utvärderingar av prognosverktyg fokuserar emellertid på den övergripande noggrannheten och förbiser de underliggande orsakssambanden i prognoserna. Denna rapport utforskar två moderna prognosverktyg, DNN (Deep Neural Network) och LEAR (Lasso Estimated AutoRegressive) på elmarknaderna i Belgien respektive Norden. Målsättningen är att förstå om deras prognoser är pålitliga i mer allmänna sammanhang än det begränsade sammahang som de är tränade i. Om modellerna producerar dåliga prognoser under extrema förhållanden eller om deras prognoser inte överensstämmer med verkligheten så kan man inte förlita sig på dem i den verkliga världen, där prognoserna ligger till grund för beslutsfattande aktiviteter. Resultaten för Belgien visar att DNN-modellen överträffar LEAR-modellen när det gäller övergripande noggrannhet. LEAR-modellen presterar dock bättre när det gäller att förutse negativa priser, medan DNN-modellen presterar bättre när det gäller prisspikar. På den nordiska elmarknaden är en enklare DNN-modell mer noggrann för prisprognoser. På båda marknaden visar modellerna beteenden som inte överensstämmer med verkligheten, vilket gör det utmanande att lita på modellernas prognoser. Sammantaget belyser studien vikten av att förstå de underliggande orsakssambanden i prognosmodellerna och begränsningarna med att enbart förlita sig på övergripande mått på noggrannhet.

By examining the critical comment of some of the best known critics, who fall roughly into two groups, the philosophical or psychological on the one hand, and the realistic on the other, I have endeavored to gather the ideas they have advanced in regard to the motives of them main characters from three of Shakespeare's tragedies--Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. It is evident that the discussion of motives has not been the main consideration of any one of them, though the problem has naturally arisen in the analyses of characters and explanations of plot and dramatic art. Consequently it will be my purpose to study these plays from the standpoint of the motivation of the characters, having in mind two objects: the determination of which motives Shakespeare took from the sources of the plays and which ones he himself attributed to the characters, and the determination of which group of critics, the psychological or the realistic, is more nearly correct in their contentions in regard to the motivation of characters in Shakespeare's plays.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Marques Granato.pdf: 1246024 bytes, checksum: a72edaae43263f88c7f64c66a141f42e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation has as its aim to retrieve the concept of the nonsense genre with the purpose of testing the hypothesis of a possible dialogue between texts from two literary works of different characteristics and of different times: Viagem numa peneira, by Edward Lear (1846), and Quatro-olhos, by Renato Pompeu (1976). The studies carried out were able to ascertain that, among the analyzed texts, there are traces that make possible not only to bring the two closer together, but also to do a reinterpretation of the nonsense genre in the context of the literary contemporaneity. In order to develop this proposal, we have elected a few authors that give support to the analysis of the fictional works, such as: Aristotle (2011) and Croce (1995), on genre; Sewell (1952), Stewart (1978), Ede (1987) and Tigges (1988), on nonsense; Huizinga (2010), on game; Watt (2010) and Lukács (2009) on novel; Nikolayeva (2011), on illustration; Pignatari (2011) and Huxley (1948), on poetry; and Agamben (2009), on the contemporaneity. Departing from a historic conceptual recover, our attention is drawn to the perspective of confirmation of the hypothesis about the nonsense literary genre, its connection to the Victorian ages and the reverberations that the referred genre has brought to our contemporaneity, and specially to the novel by Renato Pompeu, leaving as credit the tendency for the fragmentation of the narrative / Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo resgatar o conceito do gênero nonsense com a finalidade de testar a hipótese de um possível diálogo entre textos de duas obras de características e épocas distintas: Viagem numa peneira, de Edward Lear (1846) e Quatro-olhos, de Renato Pompeu (1976). Os estudos realizados permitem comprovar que, entre os textos analisados, existem traços que possibilitam não apenas aproximá-los, mas também realizar uma reinterpretação do gênero nonsense no contexto da contemporaneidade literária. Para o desenvolvimento do trabalho, elegemos alguns teóricos que dão suporte à análise das obras ficcionais, são eles: Aristóteles (2011) e Croce (1995), sobre gênero; Sewell (1952), Stewart (1978), Ede (1987) e Tigges (1988), sobre nonsense; Huizinga (2010), sobre o lúdico e o jogo; Watt (2010) e Lukács (2009), sobre a teoria do romance; Nikolayeva (2011), sobre a ilustração; Pignatari (2011) e Huxley (1948), sobre a poesia; e Agamben (2009), sobre o contemporâneo. A partir de uma retomada histórico-conceitual, nossa atenção volta-se para a perspectiva de comprovação da hipótese sobre o gênero nonsense, sua ligação com a era vitoriana e as reverberações que o referido gênero traz para a nossa contemporaneidade e, em especial, para o romance de Renato Pompeu, deixando como saldo a tendência para a fragmentação narrativa

“Thank God It’s Only Maneuvers!:” Tennessee and the Road to War offers the reader a comprehensive explanation of the importance of the Tennessee Maneuvers of June 1941 to American preparation for World War II. Beginning with pre-war changes in the infantry, followed by the inception of the Armored Force, and continuing through the testing of both during the 1941 Maneuvers, the reader will gain an appreciation of the significance of these actions to overall American preparation before and during the Second World War. This work also presents a look at how these extensive combat actions influenced the people of the State of Tennessee throughout their existence.

This thesis is an examination of reader or audience response to Shakespeare’s tragedies. Primarily, it identifies key pleasures that Shakespeare’s King Lear and Othello offer. The complementary nature of these two plays is such that the analysis of their various pleasures allows for an in-depth treatment of the topic and also reflects the diversity of emotional response elicited by Shakespeare’s tragedies. The kinds of pleasure addressed in this study are catharsis as explained by Aristotle, the delight of violent passion as advocated by DuBos, pleasure from details in the work, satisfaction from the coherence of the tragedy, and pleasure in the idealization of tragedy.

By looking at the world inhabited by those characters who partake of the dramatic action in King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and the relationship of these characters to their world, or universe, it is hoped to establish how certain factors affect the genesis, development and resolution of the tragedies in which they play their roles. This will be done by an examination of what Shakespeare sometimes called the "Bonds," which, as we shall see, derive from the mediaeval concepts of Nature, Law and Grace that were current in his time. This thesis does not claim to offer a complete or exclusive solution to the problem of the critical interpretation of these three tragedies: one of the dangers of Literary criticism has always appeared to the writer to be that of maintaining that the approach adopted is the only one and of attempting to demonstrate that the theory coincides at every point with the work - admitting of no inconsistencies or alternatives, and thereby making nonsense of a theory that does have considerable validiity. Similarly, it is with considerable hesitation that names have been given to the various Bonds discussed. Once one names them and applies a certain range of definitions to these names, it is difficult to stress that the names and definitions are not static or rigid. The Bond of Nature, for example, although it has a central core of meaning common to all three tragedies, is not treated from the same viewpoint in King Lear as it is in Antony and Cleopatra or Macbeth. Three considerations have prompted the writer to select this subject for the theme of a thesis. Firstly , the hypothesis that some failure, violation, misunderstanding or inadequacy of the Bonds lies at the heart of the tragic movement does appear to augment existing concepts of the nature of tragedy and help us better to understand the Why? How? and When? of the tragic process. Secondly, the concept of the principles of Nature, Law and Grace as determinants of the Bonds, which occurs so frequently in Elizabethan thinking, does seem to offer us a unified approach to their treatment of man and the world he inhabits at any particular point in history. By quoting from a wide range of sources dealing with this subject, the writer hopes to demonstrate that such a concept did exist, and that it was relatively consistent and generally accepted by Shakespeare and many of his contemporaries. It is, moreover, a system of thought that can embrace within its ambit such diverse materials as the great chain of being; the microcosm and the macrocosm; the nature of the soul; the structure of the family, the clan or the nation; the concepts of sin, damnation and life everlasting; the four elements; and the humours - and assign to these and many others a proper nature, place and function in the overall scheme. Thirdly, the writer was prompted to select this subject for a thesis because no critical writing to date appears to have dealt fully with the subject of the Bonds and their relationship to these principles of Nature, Law and Grace in Shakespearean tragedy . There have, it is true, been critics who have dealt with facets of these principles, and there have been critics who have commented on the violation, misunderstanding or inadequacy of various Bonds, but none of them seems to have dealt with the subject as a whole. Preface, p. iv-vi.

This diploma thesis deals with electronic information system for recording and tracking service calls on pressing and cutting tools, the injection molds and assembly machines and assembly lines in manufacturing plant of Lear Corporation Czech Republic, s. r. o. in Vyškov.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間・環境学) / 甲第21167号 / 人博第839号 / 新制||人||202(附属図書館) / 29||人博||839(吉田南総合図書館) / 京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生文明学専攻 / (主査)教授 水野 眞理, 教授 髙谷 修, 准教授 桒山 智成, 教授 丸橋 良雄 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human and Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DGAM

This is a linguistic study that will apply theories as a way of understanding the contexts of aspects of the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, as they relate to the possession, and exercise of power. It focuses on targeting and exploring the language of the play and how it impacts characters’ behaviour to gain or sustain power. To do this, specific theoretical frameworks have been applied, including semantics and pragmatics in the analysis of a passage. Examples from the opening scene of King Lear are displayed in order to answer three research questions. Among the findings are differences in the selection of nouns and pronouns with references to authority such as when females tend to overuse “I”, “love” and “lord” when conversing. This research discovered that semantic approaches therefore can be used to explain how Shakespeare portrays, for example, gender differences between the characters by his selection of words, metaphors, and metonymic expressions. Since Lear does not speak in the same manner as his later self as he would have done when at the heights of his power, his linguistic shift mirrors his shift in status following abdication. The analysis also draws certain conclusions with regard to implicatures that are derived from the use of vagueness and ambiguity as outlined in the field of pragmatics, including Speech Act Theory, Deixis and Grice´s Cooperative Principle. However, this essay argues that Grice´s Theory of Implicature and his Maxims can be insightful when analysing Shakespearean dramas, especially floutings and violations of the Maxim of Manner. By applying approaches from the fields of semantics and pragmatics this study concludes that the findings relate to Shakespearean works in general and other works from that period and genre.

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