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No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1996.

Studies show that software developers spend about 19% of their development time in web surfing. While collecting necessary information using traditional web search, they face several practical challenges. First, it does not consider context (i.e., surroundings, circumstances) of the programming problems during search unless the developers do so in search query formulation, and forces the developers to frequently switch between their working environment (e.g., IDE) and the web browser. Second, technical details (e.g., stack trace) of an encountered exception often contain a lot of information, and they cannot be directly used as a search query given that the traditional search engines do not support long queries. Third, traditional search generally returns hundreds of search results, and the developers need to manually analyze the result pages one by one in order to extract a working solution. Both manual analysis of a page for content relevant to the encountered exception (and its context) and working an appropriate solution out are non-trivial tasks. Traditional code search engines share the same set of limitations of the web search ones, and they also do not help much in collecting the code examples that can be used for handling the encountered exceptions. In this thesis, we present a context-aware and IDE-based approach that helps one overcome those four challenges above. In our first study, we propose and evaluate a context-aware meta search engine for programming errors and exceptions. The meta search collects results for any encountered exception in the IDE from three popular search engines- Google, Bing and Yahoo and one programming Q & A site- StackOverflow, refines and ranks the results against the detailed context of the encountered exception, and then recommends them within the IDE. From this study, we not only explore the potential of the context-aware and meta search based approach but also realize the significance of appropriate search queries in searching for programming solutions. In the second study, we propose and evaluate an automated query recommendation approach that exploits the technical details of an encountered exception, and recommends a ranked list of search queries. We found the recommended queries quite promising and comparable to the queries suggested by experts. We also note that the support for the developers can be further complemented by post-search content analysis. In the third study, we propose and evaluate an IDE-based context-aware content recommendation approach that identifies and recommends sections of a web page that are relevant to the encountered exception in the IDE. The idea is to reduce the cognitive effort of the developers in searching for content of interest (i.e., relevance) in the page, and we found the approach quite effective through extensive experiments and a limited user study. In our fourth study, we propose and evaluate a context-aware code search engine that collects code examples from a number of code repositories of GitHub, and the examples contain high quality handlers for the exception of interest. We validate the performance of each of our proposed approaches against existing relevant literature and also through several mini user studies. Finally, in order to further validate the applicability of our approaches, we integrate them into an Eclipse plug in prototype--ExcClipse. We then conduct a task-oriented user study with six participants, and report the findings which are significantly promising.

In our attempt to construct a semantic filter for satellite image content, we have built a software that allows user to indicate a few number of image regions that contains a specific geographical object, such as, a bridge, and to retrieve similar objects on the same satellite image. We are particularly interested in performing a data analysis approach based on user interaction. User can guide the classification procedure by interaction and visual observation of the results. We have applied a two step procedure for this and preliminary results show that we eliminate many true negatives while keeping most of the true positives.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Abdel-Hamid, Tarek. "December 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 24, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73). Also available in print.

The aim of this thesis is to create an educational material for creating graphical user interfaces in MATLAB. The reader will learn the basic procedures of the GUI creation, get to know the various graphic objects and learn about the GUIDE environment, which is intended for the actual application development. Text is supplemented by practical examples of source code fragments as much as possible. All material is accompanied by two functional sample applications with their source code.

The aim of the thesis is to create a set of examples from mathematics using MS Excel spreadsheet, which could be used for teaching mathematics in primary schools. Pupils practice their work from this spreadsheet calculator and also enrich their knowledge of mathematics for its practical use. This set will be used to practice graphs, functions, financial mathematics, patterns, probability, and another. All these examples will be tested in educational practice.

The main goal of this thesis is a description of facts, which lead to make the extraordinary financial statements, and making model examples. These facts, including liquidation and mergers, are described from accounting, tax and legal fields.

nÃo hà / Trata da biografia do padre Osvaldo Carneiro Chaves, sacerdote nascido no municÃpio da Granja no ano de 1923 e que, durante quase trÃs dÃcadas, foi professor no SeminÃrio da BetÃnia e no ColÃgio Sobralense, em Sobral, CearÃ. Aborda a trajetÃria docente do padre Osvaldo, entre os anos de 1952 e 1980, quando o mesmo se aposentou como professor. ConstruÃdo a partir de entrevistas e depoimentos do padre Osvaldo e dos seus ex-alunos, traÃa um perfil da docÃncia desse personagem, buscando entender quem era esse professor, como era a sua sala de aula, e que ensinamentos a sua trajetÃria pode trazer para os professores de hoje e para os alunos dos cursos de formaÃÃo de professores, futuros professores. Embora reconstitua toda a trajetÃria do padre Osvaldo, desde a sua infÃncia, suas primeiras experiÃncias escolares, sua entrada no seminÃrio atà a sua ordenaÃÃo e o desenrolar do seu trabalho pastoral atà os dias de hoje, a preocupaÃÃo central do trabalho à com a trajetÃria docente do padre Osvaldo, esse perÃodo compreendido entre os anos de 1952 e 1980. Partindo da trajetÃria do padre Osvaldo apresentada por ele prÃprio em vÃrias entrevistas faz, a seguir, um recorte para a sua trajetÃria docente, onde as falas do professor sÃo postas em diÃlogo com as falas dos seus ex-alunos. A partir daÃ, explora as contradiÃÃes entre as falas, procurando as contradiÃÃes e o que elas refletem do biografado, para depois buscar, na sua trajetÃria como professor, a âexemplaridade educativaâ, tentando entender o que esse professor tem a dizer aos professores de hoje e aos alunos dos cursos de formaÃÃo de professores.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-07-19T17:46:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 rafaeladominguescosta.pdf: 9722437 bytes, checksum: b36e3a69cc20942105f6d3e9d3df9cd8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-08-09T11:53:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 rafaeladominguescosta.pdf: 9722437 bytes, checksum: b36e3a69cc20942105f6d3e9d3df9cd8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-09T11:53:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rafaeladominguescosta.pdf: 9722437 bytes, checksum: b36e3a69cc20942105f6d3e9d3df9cd8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-08 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Os estudos em torno de por exemplo, inicialmente, revelaram que esse objeto caracterizava-se pela função de conector apositivo, interligando unidade base e unidade apositiva. Essa função despertou o nosso interesse para a pesquisa e nos levou a averiguar, sincronicamente, as possíveis funções e comportamentos de por exemplo. Assim, durante as investigações dos dados, encontramos ocorrências de por exemplo apositivo e por exemplo não-apositivo, ambos apresentando uma característica extremamente peculiar: a mobilidade. Sendo assim, quando apositivo, por exemplo ocorre em a) posição inicial, encabeçando unidade apositiva; b) em posição medial, após sintagma (nominal, preposicionado ou adverbial) introdutor de aposição, incidindo em fronteiras de constituintes "...sujeito" e sujeito-verbo. E, ainda, e) nas fronteiras de constituintes (verbo-complemento e fronteira final) que, além de realizar a função focalizadora, apresenta as características simbólicas da aposição, como a relação semântica geral-específico e a correferencialidade parcial. Já em ocorrências não-apositivas, por exemplo é encontrado em fronteiras de constituintes ("...- sujeito", sujeito-verbo, verbo-complemento e, ainda, em fronteira final), desempenhando apenas função focalizadora, isto é, ressaltando anaforicamente ou cataforicamente (dependendo da posição do sintagma preposicionado) uma informação nova. Motivados pela multifuncionalidade desse fenômeno, buscamos também examinar, em âmbito diacrônico, sua origem e trajetória, a fim de legitimar tal diversidade funcional sincrônica apresentada nesse trabalho. Para que alcançássemos tal objetivo de pesquisa, baseamos-nos, principalmente, nos parâmetros de estratificação, divergência, especialização, persistência e decategorização, postulados por Hopper (1991), no pressuposto de unidirecionalidade de Heine et alli (1991), em que itens lexicais básicos ao se gramaticalizarem tornam-se abstratos. E, ainda, na gramaticalização como processo metafórico orientada por estágios, sugerido por Heine (1993). E, foi com base nesses pressupostos, que se procurou apresentar os aspectos da mudança desse fenômeno e indicar a hierarquização de seus usos. Para a realização de tal investigação, utilizaram-se corpora sincrônicos relacionados à língua falada dos projetos: "Fala Mineira", "Corpus de Conceição de Ibitipoca" e dados do "Projeto PROCON". Selecionamos também, como amostras de língua escrita, as seções de entrevista da Revista Cláudia, as páginas amarelas da Revista Veja/ Roberto Pompeu e artigos da Revista Veredas. Quanto aos corpora diacrônicos, contamos com o Corpus Diacrônico do Português, no entanto, tivemos acesso a apenas os séculos XIII, XIV, XV, XVII E XX. Examinamos, também, o Corpus Informatizado do Português Medieval, séculos XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII e XX; e, ainda, elegemos alguns textos avulsos dos séculos XVI, XVIII E XIX. Tais dados foram submetidos ao programa estatístico GOLDVARB (2001), cujos resultados foram extremamente significantes para comprovar as diversas funções atribuídas ao por exemplo. / Studies around "for example", initially, showed that this object characterized by the function of appositive connector, linking base unit and appositive unit. This function awakened our interest to the research and led us to investigate, synchronically, the possible functions and behaviors of "for example". Thus, during the investigations of our data, find occurrences of such appositive and such non-appositive, both presenting an extremely peculiar characteristic: mobility. So when appositive, "for example" occurs in a) starting position, introducing appositive unit b) in the medial position, after words (nominal, propositioned or adverbial) introducer of affixing, and c) the border of constituents (subject - verb, verb-completion and final frontier), which, in addition to perform the focus function, has the characteristics of affixing symbolic, as the relationship-specific and general semantics partial correfereciality. In instances non-appositives, "for example" is found in borders of constituents ("...- subject", subject-verb, verb-complement, supplement, complement, and in the final frontier), playing only :focus function, ie emphasizing anaphorically or cataphorically (depending's position propositioned words) a new information. Driven by the multifunctionality of this phenomenon, we sought also examine, in part diachronic, its origins and trajectory, in order to legitimize such functional diversity synchronous presented in this work. To reach the objective of this research, base ourselves, mainly on the principles of stratification, divergence, expertise, persistence and decategorizacao, postulates by Hopper (1991), on the assumption unidirecionalidade of Heine (1991), in which the basic lexical items if gramaticalizarem become abstract. And yet, in the grammaticalization as metaphoric process guided by stages, suggested by Heine (1993). And, it was based on these assumptions, which sought present aspects of the change of this phenomenon and indicate the hierarchy of its uses. For the achievement of such research, used up corpora synchronous related to the language of the projects: "Speech Mining", "Corpus of Conception of Ibitipoca" and data of the "Project PROCON." Also selected as samples of written language, the sections of the Magazine interview Claudia, the yellow pages of Revista Veja / Roberto Pompeu and of the journal Veredas. For diachronic corporate, count on the Corpus Diacronico do Portugues, however, have access to only the centuries XIII, XIV, XV, XVII and XX. Looked, too, the Corpus Informatizado do Portugues Medieval, centuries XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII and XX; and elected a brief avulses texts to the centuries XVI, XVII and XIX. These data were submitted to the statistical programme GOLDVARB (2001), whose results were very significant to demonstrate the various tasks assigned to eg.