This work presents Quantum Predicative Programming --- a theory ofquantum programming that encompasses many aspects of quantum computation and quantum communication. The theory provides a methodology to specify, implement, and analyse quantum algorithms, the paradigm of quantum non-locality, quantum pseudotelepathy games, computing with mixed states, and quantum communication protocols that use both quantum and classical communication channels.

This work presents Quantum Predicative Programming --- a theory ofquantum programming that encompasses many aspects of quantum computation and quantum communication. The theory provides a methodology to specify, implement, and analyse quantum algorithms, the paradigm of quantum non-locality, quantum pseudotelepathy games, computing with mixed states, and quantum communication protocols that use both quantum and classical communication channels.

A largely overlooked chapter of American history is the struggle of Mexican Americans to achieve equal civil rights and humane working conditions. Although much ink has been spilled on the struggle of African-Americans to achieve civil rights and throw off the yoke of racial oppression, little attention is paid to the similar struggle carried out by Mexican Americans and the similarities and differences between them. It has been my desire to shed light on this forgotten story, because it is still relevant in the current political climate, given the explosive growth of Latinos in the United States today (50 million), their increasingly important role in presidential elections, and given their struggle for comprehensive immigration reform. What Mexican Americans have contributed to America is present in almost every facet of American life. Their presence in this country pre-dates the expansion of the United States from the Atlantic (Florida) to the Pacific (California) and is evident in national holidays, festivals, and our favorite restaurants. However, I have to admit that I was completely unaware of Mexican American history and the Chicano Movement of the 1960s prior to taking on this project. The only things that I knew about Mexican Americans ended around the Texas Revolution in 1836 and the little I learned about my Chávez in my American Religious History class. This thesis has succeeded in correcting stereotypes that I previously held about not only the Mexican American community, but also the critical role that religion played in one of its most important and iconic figures. Religion has been always been an important component of life in America. Christianity has contributed to the way that government in the United States was formed and in the moral values that Americans consider important in leadership. Religion has been the driving force behind many of the most groundbreaking and momentous shifts in this nation from the abolition of slavery to the African American Civil Rights Movement. The Farm Worker’s struggle and larger Chicano Civil Rights Movement are no exception. César Chávez stood out not only as the leader of a secular movement, but a moral guiding light for Mexican Americans within this movement. Chávez's popular legacy within the Mexican American community exalts him as a moral and political leader, but scholarship has until recently painted him and the movement he championed in a secular light. This thesis hopes to help correct this imbalance.

<p>The use of systems development methods are, by many, seen as the way to solve development problems, decrease development time, and improve the quality of software systems. Despite this, little is known about how development methods are actually used in the software industry. The aim of this project is to investigate how a widespread development method is implemented and used in an organisational setting.</p><p>The result of this project is a case study description of how Volvo Information Technology implements, adapts, and uses the commercial development method Rational Unified Process® (RUP®) in combination with other methods. The implementation is centrally administered and done incrementally over several years in order to build competence in the organisation. RUP is also adapted to the specific situation of the organisation, each division, each development project, and even adapted by individual developers.</p>

The effects of neutron displacement damage on materials are sensitive to neutron energy spectra. In controlled neutron damage experiments, a well characterized neutron flux spectrum is critical in determining the equivalent dose for displacement damage. Two techniques were used to characterize the neutron flux spectra in the University of Texas at Austin TRIGA research nuclear reactor. The first technique uses a standard method of measuring the reaction rates of two identical metal foils, one of which was irradiated in a Cd cover, the other of which was irradiated bare. Assuming an analytic form of the neutron spectrum the reaction rates were used to determine an approximate spectrum. The second technique uses the reaction rates measured from a set of activated metal foils along with two spectral unfolding techniques to approximate and then refine the neutron spectrum. A Matlab code was developed which fits radiative capture reaction rates to an approximate spectrum using a least squares approach. The result was used as an initial guess in a second Matlab code which refines the epithermal and fast energy ranges of the spectrum using reaction rates from threshold reactions. Errors in the reaction rates calculated from the resulting spectrum to the measured reaction rates were used to assess the accuracy of the final neutron spectrum. / text

En esta Tesis Doctoral, se aborda la aplicación de metodologías de análisis de datos de múltiples vías, a datos tridimensionales de fluorescencia molecular de excitación-emisión obtenidos a lo largo de una reacción, para obtener de forma rápida información de interés en el desarrollo de técnicas basadas en procesos de eliminación oxidativa de contaminantes orgánicos. Se afrontan dos casos en particular: la foto-degradación de una mezcla de hidrocarburos policíclicos aromáticos (benzo[a]antraceno, benzo[a]pireno, benzo[k]fluoranteno, dibenzo[a,h]antraceno)y la foto-catálisis del fenol. Los espectros de fluorescencia de excitación y emisión registrados para cada muestra analizada constituyen una matriz o datos de segundo orden. Información cualitativa y cuantitativa acerca de las especies que participan en los procesos en estudio se ha extraido trabajando con métodos de análisis multivariante, que permiten analizar datos de múltiples vías como son el método de resolución de curvas basado en el análisis de factores paralelo (PARAFAC)yelbasadoenlaoptimizaciónpormínimoscuadrados(M CR -ALS),asícomoel método de calibración multivariante en mínimos cuadrados parciales para datos de múltiples vías (N -PLS). En la Tesis doctoral se realiza un análisis comparativo de los resultados encontrados por lo diferentes métodos de análisis multivariante. Los resultados encontrados fueron validados al comparar los resultados con los obtenidos cuando el seguimiento cuantitativo se realizaba mediante cromatografía líquida de alta resolución (H PLC), considerada como técnica de referencia para el seguimiento de este tipo de reacciones. La rapidez que aportan estas metodologías es una característica valiosa en estudios de optimización de dichos procesos. En esta Tesis empleando estas metodologías para el cálculo de constantes cinéticas se ha abordado el análisis simultáneo, empleando técnicas de diseño de experimentos, de variables de interés en el desarrollo de los procesos de foto-degradación. Del estudio realizado se derivan los siguientes resultados: *En la foto-degradación de una mezcla de hidrocarburos poli cíclicos aromáticos se evidenció la interacción de las variables experimentales y la importancia del análisis conjunto de sus efectos sobre el proceso para la selección de las condiciones óptimas de trabajo. En el dominio experimental en estudio, se encontró que la degradación es más rápida cuando se trabaja a pH ácido utilizando etanol como solvente e irradiando con una lámpara de baja presión de mercurio. *Tanto al aplicar PARAFAC como M CR -ALS el número de factores significativos fue de cuatro, uno por cada analito presente en la muestra. La bondad de los espectros recuperados en ambos casos fue evaluada calculando el coeficiente de similitud que resultó tener valor superior a 0.98 en todas las situaciones. Cuando los valores de concentración obtenidosenelprocesodedegradaciónmediantePARAFACoM CR -ALSaplicadosadatos EEM fueron representados frente a los obtenidos mediante H PLC se obtuvo una línea de regresión mediante mínimos cuadrados, con pendiente próxima a 1 e intercesión en el origen próxima a 0. El test conjunto de la pendiente y la ordenada en el origen para corroborar la ausencia de sesgo fue superado para todos los analitos. *En la determinación del fenol y sus dihidroxiderivados el error de predicción global tanto para PARAFAC como para M CR -ALS, era admisible y de ello se concluye que es posible realizar un seguimiento rápido y cuantitativo de la concentración del fenol y de la concentración de sus intermediarios, catecol, resorcinol e hidroquinona en un proceso de foto-degradación a partir de sus espectros fluorescentes de excitación-emisión. *El fenol y la hidroquinona se resuelven perfectamente y se obtienen errores bajos a los diferentes niveles de concentración analizados, mientras que catecol y el resorcinol que están fuertemente solapados presentan errores significativamente mayores. * Con el propósito de analizar si los errores encontrados fundamentalmente para el catecol y resorcinol eran susceptibles de mejora, se trabajó con mínimos cuadrados parciales para datos de múltiples vías (N -PLS), en particular tri-PLS1. Los valores encontrados de aplicar este método y los anteriormente descritos a un nuevo conjunto de mezclas representativas del proceso en estudio fueron comparados en términos del error global cometido. *El análisis de los efectos de las variables implicadas en el proceso de degradación en estudio:tipo de catalizador, pH del medio y concentración del sustrato en la constante de velocidad de la reacción permitió concluir que todas ellas interaccionan entre sí y la importancia de sus efectos resultó significativa a un nivel de confianza del 95% cuando se realizó un test estadístico A N O V A . A partir de los resultados encontrados en el desarrollo de esta Tesis, hemos corroborado que la utilización conjunta de la espectrofluorimetría de EEM y la aplicación de diferentes métodos de análisis de datos de múltiples vías, es una opción válida y atractiva para la monitorización cuantitativa de la foto-degradación de una mezcla de hidrocarburos policíclicos aromáticos y de la evolución de la degradación foto-catalítica del fenol y sus intermediarios, así como para el análisis cinético de los procesos estudiados .

Thesis (M.Sc. (Computer Science))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

Thesis (M.Sc. (Computer Science))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

This study investigates the potential of learning stories to provide a means to incorporate Indigenous perspectives and transform the educational status quo by working with locally based early childcare educators to knead the learning story approach into something community specific. This is an action research project grounded in Indigenous methods and methodologies embedded in processes of transformative education informed by post-colonial discourse and de-colonial theory. The study found that learning stories provide a medium through which children can see themselves as part of a world that includes Inuit knowledge(s) and practices. These stories provide a place through which identities grounded in Inuit knowledge(s) and language can be formed. By creating learning stories, the work of the educator and children together becomes visible to children, parents, and the educator’s colleagues. The process of creating learning stories and planning for them strengthens connections with Elders, who become through the process recognized for their role as valuable transmitters of cultural knowledge. / Graduate

Preliminary reading and research with Anishanaabe Maamwaye Aki Kiigayewin and the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation (MNCFN) indicated that integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Practices into existing social innovation strategies is not always sufficient to provide useful tools for Indigenous innovation process. However, it became clear that social innovation shares common ground with the Indigenous resurgence movement and, when considered along with critical indigenist research strategies, can provide direction for Indigenous innovations at multiple scales. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a preliminary exploration of social innovation from a critical indigenist perspective to increase its utility in Indigenous contexts. Together with Anishanaabe Maamwaye Aki Kiigayewin and MNCFN, and following Indigenous scholars, I have strived to implement
critical indigenist methodologies by linking critical and Indigenous methodologies through action-oriented research to address the asserted
needs and interests of Indigenous partners. Through this critical indigenist approach, I have strived to implement participant observation, reflexivity, and settler storytelling to fulfill my research objectives. Through a discussion of current initiatives undertaken by Anishanaabe Maamwaye Aki Kiigayewin, I demonstrate that major themes and strategies of social innovation are useful in supporting the resurgence of Indigenous Knowledge and Practices. This discussion results in the conclusion that Indigenous innovation is a unique type of social innovation informed by Indigenous Knowledge to promote the resurgence of Indigenous Knowledge and Practices. From this position, I propose a conceptual model for Indigenous innovation that links resilience, social innovation, Indigenous resurgence, and critical indigenist research strategies with the intent to lay a foundation for further development of a historicized, culturally appropriate model that promotes the resurgence of Indigenous Knowledge and Practice. I demonstrate the utility of this model by using it to organize a description of current initiatives underway in MNCFN and then using it to speculate on future initiatives that may foster successful innovation(s) in MNCFN Traditional Territory. In conclusion, articulating Indigenous innovation as a unique type of social innovation may lead to developing approaches to relationship building and knowledge integration that are culturally appropriate and ultimately more useful for Indigenous innovators looking to implement them.