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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
101

Content based retrieval and navigation of music using melodic pitch contours

Blackburn, Steven George January 2000 (has links)
No description available.
102

Tempering optimistic bias in temporal predictions: The role of psychological distance in the unpacking effect

Moher, Ester 26 July 2012 (has links)
People typically underestimate the time it will take them to complete tasks, even when they are familiar with the process of executing those tasks (the “planning fallacy”; Kahneman & Tversky, 1979; Buehler, Griffin & Ross, 1994). One reason that individuals may show a chronic misprediction of task completion time hinges on an incomplete conception of the steps required for task completion. Support Theory (Tversky & Koehler, 1994) suggests that “unpacking” such steps may help to attenuate the planning fallacy. Indeed, when a task is unpacked into procedural steps, people give longer task completion time estimates, and the planning fallacy is minimized (Kruger & Evans, 2004). Construal level theory (Liberman & Trope, 1998) suggests that a lower-level construal of a task (i.e., a task construed in the near-future) may also foster less optimistic predictions, akin to the underlying mechanism of unpacking a task. It is hypothesized that the effects of unpacking on task completion time will be more pronounced for near-future tasks, because the lower-level construal of such tasks emphasizes details of component steps, making them more readily available to be “unpacked” as part of the prediction process. Conversely, for distant-future events, unpacking effects should be attenuated. Further, these distance-dependent unpacking effects should depend critically on the content of steps unpacked. These hypotheses were tested in five studies. Unpacking effects on completion time estimates are attenuated for distant- relative to near-future tasks, and that this attenuation emerges as a result of an abstract conception of the steps of the task when considered in the distant future.
103

Cognitive and emotional effects of vestibular damage in rats and their medial temporal lobe substrates

Goddard, Matthew John, n/a January 2008 (has links)
Psychiatric disorders and cognitive impairment are increasingly being described in patients with vestibular pathology. Yet frameworks that describe the link between emotion, memory and the vestibular system have yet to reach maturity, partly because studies have not yet provided detailed accounts of behavioral changes in experimental animals, or in man. One of the goals of this thesis was to use experimental psychology to define changes in memory and emotional behaviour in rats given bilateral vestibular deafferentation (BVD, n=18) or sham surgery (Sham, n=17). In an elevated-plus maze task, BVD rats made up to 166% greater open arm entries and spent up to 42% more time in the open arms compared to Sham rats. In an elevated-T maze task, BVD rats failed to develop a normal learned inhibition response to open space. In an open field maze BVD rats consistently showed 50-60% greater movement velocity, spent on average 35% more time in the inner most aversive part of the arena, and failed to show the normal boundary-seeking behaviour (thigmotaxis) typical of untreated or Sham rats. In a social interaction test BVD rats spent up to 34% less time engaged in social contact compared to Sham rats. In a hyponeophagia test, BVD rats� latency to eat was 70% greater than Sham rats at 3-weeks post-op., however this difference disappeared at 3- and 5-months. These findings suggest that BVD treatment may in some cases disrupt normal behavioral inhibition. Memory performance was also affected. In a T-maze task BVD rats achieved 40-60% correct arm entries, compared to 90-100% for Sham controls. In a foraging task carried out in darkness, BVD rats� initial homing angle was random, homing paths were ~70% longer, and reference memory errors were ~56% greater compared to Sham rats. To elucidate possible neurochemical substrates for these behavioral changes, western blot assays on monoamine proteins were carried out on tissue from a naïve set of rats (BVD n=6; Sham n=6). In BVD rats, serotonin transporter protein expression was 39% lower in CA1 hippocampus and 27% lower in the forebrain region, despite forebrain tryptophan hydroxylase expression being 34% upregulated. Tyrosine hydroxylase expression in the forebrain region was 27% lower in BVD rats. Proteins related to synaptogenesis were also investigated. In the dentate gyrus SNAP-25 was 37% upregulated in BVD rats, while in area CA2/3 of the hippocampus neurofilament-L was 13% upregulated. Forebrain and entorhinal cortex drebrin expression was 28% and 38% downregulated in BVD rats. Neurofilament-L was also 31% downregulated in the forebrain region of BVD rats. To test whether any of these behavioral or biochemical changes may have been attributable to chronic physiological stress, a corticosterone assay was carried out at the conclusion of behavioral testing; however, the no significant between treatment differences were found. In conclusion, vestibular information appears to be needed for the acquisition of spatial and reference memory as well as the normal expression of emotional behaviour. The neurochemical changes described herein point toward possible substrates for these behaviors, however their full significance has yet to be determined.
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The dynamics of syllogistic reasoning : an fMRI investigation /

Rodriguez Moreno, Diana V. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, August, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references ( leaves 263-276).
105

On checking the temporal consistency of data /

Tong, Chi-fai. January 1993 (has links)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-101).
106

Temporal streams programming abstractions for distributed live stream analysis applications /

Hilley, David B. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Ramachandran, Umakishore; Committee Member: Clark, Nathan; Committee Member: Haskin, Roger; Committee Member: Pu, Calton; Committee Member: Rehg, James. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Estudo da epileptogênese

Capella, Heraldo Macuco January 2000 (has links)
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-17T16:58:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2014-09-25T18:12:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 171632.pdf: 4662277 bytes, checksum: 2ffbc331001bde4f66133b9516a532a5 (MD5) / Estudo do processo de epileptogênese, utilizando o modelo de epilepsia mesial temporal, induzido pela pilocarpina em ratos, avaliando os efeitos da carbamazepina e do valproato, administrados durante o período silencioso do modelo e o efeito agudo do L-deprenil sobre a indução de crises pela pilocarpina no período agudo do modelo.A carbamazepina e o valproato não impediram o desenvolvimento da epileptogênese, mas minimizaram a sua expressão. O L-deprenil, na dose de 5 mg/kg apresentou efeito anticonvulsivante.
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Estudo da potenciação de longa duração em fatias de hipocampo de ratos com períodos distintos de epilepsia do lobo temporal induzida pela pilocarpina

Frison, Thirza Baptista January 2003 (has links)
A potenciação longa duração (do inglês: long-term potentiation, ou LTP) na região de CA1 do hipocampo é considerada como um dos exemplos de plasticidade cerebral mais estudados, e provável base celular do aprendizado e da memória. Mecanismos morfofisiológicos em comum, entretanto, parecem ser compartilhados pela LTP e pela epilepsia experimental. Estes referem-se, basicamente, à necessidade de uma estimulação de alta freqüência, ao envolvimento de uma transmissão sináptica glutamatérgica, ao aumento do íon Ca2+ no meio intracelular, à expressão gênica, à síntese de proteínas, e à ativação de receptores metabotrópicos glutamatérgicos. Desse modo, alguns autores sugerem que a LTP tem um importante papel no desenvolvimento das crises epilépticas, havendo uma continuidade entre os fenômenos plásticos e patologia. O presente estudo buscou investigar, num modelo experimental de Epilepsia de Lobo Temporal (ELT) induzido pela pilocarpina (um agonista colinérgico muscarínico), em ratos, a existência de plasticidade neuronal em distintos tempos de epilepsia (30 dias, 60 dias e 90 dias), utilizando como medida a potenciação de longa duração (LTP) nas sinapses entre os axônios da via colateral de Schaffer e as células piramidais de CA1, em fatias hipocampais. Além disso, verificou-se a presença de brotamento neuronal (“sprouting”), um correlato de plasticidade cerebral estrutural concomitante à cronicidade da ELT, em um campo próximo de CA1, o giro denteado hipocampal. A análise da amplitude dos potenciais pós-sinápticos excitatórios (PEPS) de campo mostrou que somente a presença de epilepsia, nesse modelo, interferiu negativamente com a indução da LTP, o que foi atribuído a efeitos de excitotoxicidade, à condição permanente de epileptogênese, à perda neuronal progressiva, a anormalidades dendríticas do corpo neuronal e de axônios decorrentes da injeção de pilocarpina. As chances de ocorrência da LTP para os animais controles foi de 4 a 10 vezes maior do que a dos animais epilépticos. A inclinação do PEPS, uma medida correspondente à eficiência sináptica, demonstrou sofrer influência do tempo de epilepsia. Um decaimento nessa medida ocorreu no grupo de animais que permaneceu durante mais tempo com o quadro de crises recorrentes, ou seja, com 90 dias de ELT. Além disso, observou-se também um comprometimento desta nos animais controle de 90 dias, após o período de 60 minutos da estimulação. Assim, animais saudáveis com mais idade também não mantiveram uma eficiência sináptica aumentada e estável por mais de 30 minutos após a estimulação. Mecanismos moleculares tais com excitabilidade neuronal e aumento na eficiência da transmissão sináptica encontram-se mais preservadas em animais saudáveis e de menos idade. A presença de brotamento neuronal, por sua vez, foi identificada em quase 100% das amostras de tecido hipocampal de animais epilépticos, não sendo observado em nenhum animal controle, o que nos serviu como um indicador do comprometimento hipocampal associado a crises epilépticas recorrentes.
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Modelos de variabilidade estocástica e deformação temporal

Ziegelmann, Flavio Augusto January 1996 (has links)
Estimar e prever a volatilidade de um ativo é uma tarefa mui to importante em mercados fina nceiros. Nosso objetivo neste t rabalho é cobrir os modelos de vari ância condicional estocástica mais utilizados e propor o conceito de deformação temporal neste contexto. A idéia é que o mercado modifica-se com a chegada de novas informações, e não com o decorrer do tempo de calendário. Nós também estimamos a volat ilidade dos retornos do IBOVESPA, aplicando Modelos de Volatilidade Estocástica sem e com Deformação Temporal. / Estimating and forecasting volatility of an asset is a very important task in financiai markets. Our aim in this work is to cover the most used stochastic condi t ional variance modeb a nel to propose the concept of time deformation in this context. The idea is that the market does not change as calendar time goes by, but as new information a rrives. vVe also estimate the volatility of IBOVESPA returns, applying Stochastic Volatility tviodels both without anel with T ime Deformation.
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Sustentabilidade fiscal do Estado do Ceará no período de 2002 a 2011

Magalhães, Tony Coelho January 2013 (has links)
MAGALHÃES, Tony Coelho. Sustentabilidade fiscal do Estado do Ceará no período de 2002 a 2011. 2013. 35 f. Dissertação (Mestrado Profissional) - Programa de Pós Graduação em Economia, CAEN, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza-CE, 2013. / Submitted by Mônica Correia Aquino (monicacorreiaaquino@gmail.com) on 2013-10-29T16:53:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dissert_tcmagalhaes.pdf: 693382 bytes, checksum: 37cfb687f2326e78052841a102985afc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Mônica Correia Aquino(monicacorreiaaquino@gmail.com) on 2013-10-29T16:53:11Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dissert_tcmagalhaes.pdf: 693382 bytes, checksum: 37cfb687f2326e78052841a102985afc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-29T16:53:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dissert_tcmagalhaes.pdf: 693382 bytes, checksum: 37cfb687f2326e78052841a102985afc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Considering the government's intertemporal budget constraint is fulfilled, this work analyzes the solvency of contractual public debt in the state of Ceará using the Bohn's (1998) approach. In this context, the debt is considered sustainable if the government demonstrates concern to increases in the debt/GDP ratio with increases in primary surpluses. For the empirical exercise, cointegration tests are performed based on the reaction function over the fiscal monthly data for the period 2002-2011. They found evidences that the government has not reacted to the increasing of debt level recorded in the period, despite its explosive behavior (non-stationary), evidenced by unit root tests. / Considerando o atendimento à restrição orçamentária intertemporal do governo, analisa-se a solvência da dívida pública contratual no Estado do Ceará a partir da proposta de Bohn(1998). Nesse contexto, a dívida é considerada sustentável se o governo demostrar uma preocupação em reagir a aumentos da relação dívida/PIB com incrementos nos superávits primários. Para o exercício empírico, são realizados testes de cointegração baseadas na função de resposta fiscal do governo sobre os dados mensais do período de 2002 a 2011. Constatam-se indícios de que o governo não tem reagido ao aumento no nível de endividamento verificado no período, apesar da dívida apresentar um comportamento explosivo (não-estacionário), constatado por meio do teste de raiz unitária.

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