Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt einen Architekturansatz, der im Rahmen einer Machbarkeitsstudie bei IBM entwickelt wurde. Dadurch wird der IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator als eine Data-Warehouse-Appliance dazu in die Lage versetzt, über angepasste Schnittstellen Data-Mining-Modelle über entsprechende Algorithmen direkt auf dem Accelerator zu erstellen. Neben dieser Beschreibung wird die bisherige Verwendung des DB2 Analytics Accelerators sowie das zugehörige Umfeld von Datenbanksystemen bis zum System z Mainframe vorgestellt. Darauf aufbauend werden praxisnahe Anwendungsfälle präsentiert, die unter Anwendung von intelligenten Methoden auf gespeicherten Kundendaten statistische Modelle erstellen. Für diesen Prozess wird die Datengrundlage zuerst vorbereitet und angepasst, um sie dann in dem zentralen Data-Mining-Schritt nach neuen Zusammenhängen zu durchsuchen.

There is no legislation in Sweden that forces municipalities to implement democracy-developing measures. Municipalities and regions are thus given a great deal of personal responsibility to implement this type of measure. Previous research shows that there are great variations in the number of democray-developing measuers between Sweden's municipalities. This means that inequality is introduced between residents in different municipalities in terms of the impact on local policy.The ambition of this study was thus to find out why this variation prevails. The question for the study is • What factors can explain the variation in the prevalence of democracy-developing work in Swedish municipalities and what proportion of the variation can these factors explain?By quantitatively testing three different factors that could have an impact on the number of democracy-developing measures, an answer to the question of the study can be obtained. The three factors were economy, political ideology and its stability and geographical network. After compiling statistics from these three factors in relation to the number of democracy-developing measures in the Swedish municipalities, results from the statistics program SPSS could be analyzed. This shows that these three factors together account for an explanatory degree between 8.7 to 33.4 percent of the variance.

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本論文之研究目的是在探討今日電子、紡織、機械三種製造業所採用的製造策略類型 和其所表現的財務績效之間的關係，並深入研究其原因。 本論文所參考的文獻總共約有三十篇（含國內文獻和國外文獻），依其內容可以分為 三部份。第一部份探討各種製造策略的型態；第二部份探討各種製造策略型態和其績 效的關係；第三部份則探討目前我國電子、紡織、機械三種產業之現狀。 研究所使用的方法是先以問卷隨機抽樣調查上述三種產業的廠商，以得知他們在製造 方面的作法，所抽取的樣本計有電子業２１３家，回收３４家，機械３２０家，回收 ２８家，紡織３３０家，回收３６家。其次再使用集群分析法，將樣本以各項製造決 策為依據，區分為若干策略群。最後，將每一策略群視為某一母體的代表，以變異數 分析法，檢定各策略在各項財務績效上之表現有無顯著差異。所使用的套裝軟體有Ｓ ＰＳＳ＋（使用其中的集群分析法）和ＳＡＳ（使用其中的變異數分析法）。 所選用的自變數是各項製造策略變數，包括製程設備、產能、廠址、產品、垂直整合 、組織、供應商管理、存貨、員工領導與激勵、生產控制、品管、和生產主管角色。 自變數包括銷貨成長率、投資報酬率、利潤率、固定資產報酬率、產品品質。 根據回收樣本的資料顯示，以電子業為例，電子業皆製造策略大約可以分為四群（將 其命名為第一、第二、第三、第四策略群），這四種製造策略在銷貨額成長率和利潤 率這兩項財務績效上的表現有顯著的差異，在銷貨額成長率方面，第四群的表現最佳 ，第一群最差；在利潤率方面，則以第二群最佳，第一群最差。

Statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) has seen improvements over recent years, especially in terms of intelligibility. Synthetic speech is often clear and understandable, but it can also be bland and monotonous. Proper generation of natural speech prosody is still a largely unsolved problem. This is relevant especially in the context of expressive audiobook speech synthesis, where speech is expected to be fluid and captivating. In general, prosody can be seen as a layer that is superimposed on the segmental (phone) sequence. Listeners can perceive the same melody or rhythm in different utterances, and the same segmental sequence can be uttered with a different prosodic layer to convey a different message. For this reason, prosody is commonly accepted to be inherently suprasegmental. It is governed by longer units within the utterance (e.g. syllables, words, phrases) and beyond the utterance (e.g. discourse). However, common techniques for the modeling of speech prosody - and speech in general - operate mainly on very short intervals, either at the state or frame level, in both hidden Markov model (HMM) and deep neural network (DNN) based speech synthesis. This thesis presents contributions supporting the claim that stronger representations of suprasegmental variation are essential for the natural generation of fundamental frequency for statistical parametric speech synthesis. We conceptualize the problem by dividing it into three sub-problems: (1) representations of acoustic signals, (2) representations of linguistic contexts, and (3) the mapping of one representation to another. The contributions of this thesis provide novel methods and insights relating to these three sub-problems. In terms of sub-problem 1, we propose a multi-level representation of f0 using the continuous wavelet transform and the discrete cosine transform, as well as a wavelet-based decomposition strategy that is linguistically and perceptually motivated. In terms of sub-problem 2, we investigate additional linguistic features such as text-derived word embeddings and syllable bag-of-phones and we propose a novel method for learning word vector representations based on acoustic counts. Finally, considering sub-problem 3, insights are given regarding hierarchical models such as parallel and cascaded deep neural networks.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria da Conceicao de Oliveira Malaspina.pdf: 2306045 bytes, checksum: 84a5df81fa1b298e1b3d2d212661d47e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-02 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The purpose of this dissertation was to do an interventionist study for the introduction of the fraction concept to 2nd graders. The study proposed to answer the following research question: What are the effects that each of the four meanings of the fraction (part-whole, quotient, multiplicative operator and measurement) bring to the initial learning of 2nd graders about this concept? For such, a study with 61 students was done, coming from two classes of a state public school of the Santo André zone, which composed two groups, one of the groups passed through a planned intervention of teaching about the fraction theme Experimental Group (GE) and the other group did not pass though any intervention about the theme, and because of that, it was called Control Group (GC). Both groups have never had contact, from the formal view of the school, with the fraction object. The theoretical foundation of the research counted with the Theory of Conceptual Fields proposed by Vergnaud (1988; 2001) and the theoretical ideas from Nunes et al. (2003) with relation to the different meanings of fractions. The methodology counted with a near-experimental study divided into two steps: the first one, denominated step ��, referred to the collective application of three diagnostic tests (pre, intermediate and pos test) for both students from GE and GC that answered individually. The second one, called step ��, turned itself to the intervention phase, moment in which the students from the GE and the GC were divided into 4 subgroups in which two meanings of fractions were taught. The data were analyzed inside these two moments, one turned to the quantitative analysis in which was tried to relate the percentage of right answers, with help from the SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) The second moment referred to the analysis of the data from a qualitative point of view, aiming at identifying kind of mistakes made by the students, as well as to analyze its strategies in the resolution. The results showed that each of the meanings had an important role in the learning of the fraction by the students and they all brought contributions to the beginning of the appropriation of this object. Thus, it was possible to find distinct effects in the initial learning of fraction, depending on the meaning that was used to introduce this concept / A presente dissertação teve por objetivo realizar um estudo intervencionista para introdução do conceito de fração com alunos da 2ª série do Ensino Fundamental. O estudo propôs-se a responder à seguinte questão de pesquisa: Quais os efeitos que cada um dos quatro significados para fração (parte-todo, quociente, operador multiplicativo e medida) traz para a aprendizagem inicial dos alunos do 1º ciclo (2ª série) do Ensino Fundamental sobre esse conceito? Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo com 61 alunos, advindos de duas turmas de uma escola pública estadual da região de Santo André, que compuseram dois grupos; um dos grupos passou por uma intervenção planejada de ensino sobre o tema fração Grupo Experimental (GE) e o outro grupo não passou por qualquer intervenção sobre o tema, e por isso, foi chamado de Grupo Controle (GC). Ambos os grupos, nunca tiveram contato, do ponto de vista formal da escola, com o objeto fração. A fundamentação teórica da pesquisa contou com a Teoria dos Campos Conceituais proposta por Vergnaud (1988; 2001) e as idéias teóricas de Nunes et al. (2003) com relação aos diferentes significados da fração. A metodologia constou de um estudo quase-experimental dividido em duas etapas: a primeira, denominada etapa ��, referiu-se a aplicação coletiva dos três testes-diagnóstico (pré, intermediário e pós-teste) tanto aos alunos do GE quanto GC que responderam individualmente. A segunda, chamada de etapa ��, voltou-se para fase de intervenção, momento em que dividimos aos alunos do GE em quatro subgrupos nos quais foram ensinados dois significados da fração.Os dados foram analisados dentro de dois momentos: um voltado à análise quantitativa em que se buscou relacionar os percentuais de acerto, com ajuda a do pacote estatístico SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciene). O segundo momento referiu-se a análise dos dados do ponto de vista qualitativo, visando identificar os tipos de erros cometidos pelos alunos, bem como analisar suas estratégias na resolução. Os resultados mostraram que cada um dos significados teve papel importante na aprendizagem da fração pelos alunos e todos trouxeram contribuições para o início da apropriação desse objeto. Dessa forma, foi possível encontrar efeitos distintos na aprendizagem inicial de fração, dependendo do significado que se utilizou para introduzir esse conceito

Urban sprawl is the uncontrolled and uncoordinated outgrowth of towns and cities. Noting the various studies, the pattern of urban sprawl is characterised by using spatial metrics based on the extent of paved surface or built-up areas. The process of urban sprawl can be described by change in pattern over time, like proportional increase in built-up surface to population leading to rapid urban spatial expansion. With an understanding of the patterns, processes and causes of urban sprawl, the consequences of sprawl can be explored which are reflected by the patterns, thus eventually aiding in the design of spatial planning support system. Following the sequence of patterns, process, causes and consequence, sets the research agenda as the framework for this research. The current research addresses the issue of urban sprawl in the context of Bangalore, India. We propose a theoretical framework to analyse the interaction of planning and governance on the extent of outgrowth and level of services. Reviewing the different indicator frameworks, we also propose urban sprawl indicators and operationalise the same for Bangalore. The indicators comprise spatial metrics (derived from temporal satellite remote sensing data) and other metrics obtained from a house-hold survey. The interaction of different indicators with respect to the core city and the outgrowth is determined by multidimensional scaling. The analyses reveal the underlying patterns -similarities (and dissimilarities) that relate with the different governance structures that prevail here. Subsequently, we attempt to understand the process of sprawl. This might help one to understand the dynamics that lead to such outgrowths. An attempt was made to capture the dynamics using systems approach and finally the insights gained were translated into agent-based land-use model. Noting the evolution of spatial planning support system (SPSS), the consequences of sprawl are explored. The SPSS developed on an agent-based modelling environment, is essentially a process-based land-use model. We highlight the need for an integrated SPSS, illustrating its development and evaluation. The policy analysis carried out using the SPSS offers insights into areas of concern. It is concluded by noting the drawbacks and challenges for future research for managing urban sprawl. In the present context, with the escalating problem of urban sprawl, the evolution of a SPSS in the form of the BangaloreSim model is the first step in this direction. The SPSS aids in undertaking policy analysis for certain policy measures and its consequences on urban land-use. The research concludes outlining the challenges in addressing urban sprawl while ensuring adequate level of services that planning and governance have to ensure towards achieving sustainable urbanisation.

ABSTRACT DIFFERENTIATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTERFEIT AND REAL COINS BY APPLYING STATISTICAL METHODS Tansel, I&ccedil / ten M.Sc, Archaeometry Graduate Program Supervisor : Assist. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Isil Kalaylioglu Co-Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Sahinde Demirci June 2012, 105 pages In this study, forty coins which were obtained from Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (MAC) in Ankara were investigated. Some of those coins were real (twenty two coins) and the remaining ones (eighteen coins) were fake coins. Forty coins were Greek coins which were dated back to middle of the fifth century BCE and reign of Alexander the Great (323 &ndash / 336 BCE). The major aims of this study can be summarized as follow

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-87). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.