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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 389-415. / by Zmarak M. Shalizi. / Ph.D.

Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Engineering. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Sam M. Goldwasser. / M.S.

Cette thèse est dédiée au traitement de la morphosyntaxe lors des premières étapes de l’acquisition du polonais en L2, avec une attention spécifique portée au rôle de l’input et des techniques de sollicitation. La structure cible considérée ici est l’opposition morphosyntaxique entre le nominatif et l’accusatifs, qui correspondent respectivement aux fonctions sujet et objet.90 apprenant(e)s adultes répartis équitablement entre cinq groupes de L1 ont pris part à un cours d’initiation au polonais d’une durée de quatorze heures. Les participants n’ayant jamais été exposés au polonais ou à une autre langue slave, l’expérience porte sur le tout premier contact avec une langue cible totalement nouvelle. L’expérience a été menée sous des conditions d’input rigoureusement contrôlées : l’apport a été planifié, enregistré et transcrit afin de pouvoir le mettre en corrélation rigoureuse avec l’output de l’apprenant.Cette étude conclut que tandis que plusieurs apprenant(e)s ont été capable de traiter la morphologie flexionnelle dans un exercice structuré quelques heures seulement après la première exposition à l’input, beaucoup moins ont su en faire autant dans un contexte d’interaction spontanée. Pour ce dernier exercice, ils se sont appuyés sur des principes sémantiques et liés au contexte de la phrase. Ce travail a ainsi permis de souligner des points méthodologiques sensibles quant au rôle de la sémantique dans la détermination de la morphosyntaxe d’une part, et quant aux effets des techniques de sollicitation sur les stratégies observables du traitement morphosyntaxique, d’autre part. / This thesis is devoted to the processing of morphosyntax in the earliest stages of the acquisition of Polish L2, with special attention to the role of input and to elicitation techniques. The target structure taken into consideration is the morphosyntactic opposition between the nominative and accusative case, respectively corresponding to the subject and object function. 90 adult learners evenly distributed among five L1 groups took part in a first-exposure 14-hour Polish course taught by a specially trained native speaker. As participants had never been exposed to Polish or other Slavic languages, the experiment portrays the very first contact with a completely new target language. The experiment was carried out under strictly controlled input conditions: specifically, input was planned, recorded and transcribed, in order to thoroughly correlate it to learner output.The study concludes that while several learners proved able to process inflectional morphology in a structured test after only a few hours of exposure to the input, much fewer could do the same in the context of spontaneous interaction, in which they relied on semantic and phrasal principles. Although this conclusion may be seen in itself as a significant contribution to the debate regarding the initial stages of L2 acquisition, we believe that this work highlighted sensitive methodological points regarding the role of semantics in determining morphosyntax, on the one hand, and the effect of elicitation technique on the observable strategies of morphosyntactic processing, on the other hand.

Tan Xuesong. / "June 2004." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

by Yen-Hui Hung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-78). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Background ® / Chapter 2.1 --- Multilingual Information Processing --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Codesets --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Converters --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Collations --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Internationalization and Localization --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- OBST --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- Related Work --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Sybase --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Oracle --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- COBASE --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- SQL92 Standard --- p.15 / Chapter 3 --- Defects of Existing Systems and Proposed Language Extensions --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Defects of Existing Methods - Locale Model --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2 --- Defects of SQL92 --- p.22 / Chapter 3.3 --- Proposed Language Extensions --- p.24 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Inserting tuples --- p.24 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Updating tuples --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Querying (Retrieving tuples) --- p.26 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- String matching --- p.26 / Chapter 3.3.5 --- Performing Joins --- p.28 / Chapter 3.3.6 --- Sorting and Indexing --- p.30 / Chapter 4 --- DBMS Design and Implementation --- p.32 / Chapter 4.1 --- System Architecture --- p.34 / Chapter 4.2 --- Lexical Analyzer and Parser --- p.36 / Chapter 4.3 --- Database Objects --- p.37 / Chapter 4.4 --- Data Dictionary --- p.39 / Chapter 4.5 --- Character Objects Related Facilities --- p.41 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Codesets --- p.42 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Collations --- p.46 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Converters --- p.48 / Chapter 4.6 --- Indexing --- p.50 / Chapter 4.7 --- Query Processor --- p.52 / Chapter 4.7.1 --- Join --- p.54 / Chapter 4.7.2 --- Sorting tuples - the order by clause --- p.54 / Chapter 4.7.3 --- "Group Structure, Aggregate Functions and Projection" --- p.55 / Chapter 4.8 --- Scalar and Conditional Expressions --- p.56 / Chapter 4.8.1 --- Representation of Scalar and Condition Expressions --- p.57 / Chapter 4.8.2 --- Implementations --- p.58 / Chapter 4.9 --- User Interface --- p.59 / Chapter 5 --- Case Study - A Bookshop --- p.62 / Chapter 5.1 --- Creating tables and inserting tuples --- p.62 / Chapter 5.2 --- Updating Tuples --- p.65 / Chapter 5.3 --- Querying --- p.65 / Chapter 5.4 --- String Matching --- p.66 / Chapter 5.5 --- Performing Joins --- p.67 / Chapter 5.6 --- Ordering Display --- p.68 / Chapter 5.7 --- Indexing --- p.70 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.73 / Bibliography --- p.76 / Chapter A --- Grammer Rules --- p.79 / Chapter A.1 --- Data Definition Language --- p.79 / Chapter A.2 --- Data Manipulation Language --- p.82 / Chapter A.3 --- Condition Expressions --- p.83 / Chapter A.4 --- Scalar Expressions --- p.84 / Chapter A.5 --- Data Type --- p.85 / Chapter A.6 --- Names and Identifiers --- p.87 / Chapter A.7 --- Lexical Element --- p.88 / Chapter B --- Programmers' Guide --- p.90 / Chapter B.l --- Charset.obst --- p.92 / Chapter B.2 --- Table.obst --- p.95 / Chapter B.3 --- dbSchema.obst --- p.101 / Chapter B.4 --- dbEnv.obst --- p.103 / Chapter B.5 --- Query.obst --- p.104 / Chapter B.6 --- Misc.obst and External.obst --- p.117 / Chapter B.7 --- Main --- p.118 / Chapter B.8 --- RPC interfaces --- p.120 / Chapter C --- Installation Manual --- p.122 / Chapter C.l --- Steps to install the DBMS server --- p.123 / Chapter C.2 --- Steps to install the WWW client --- p.124 / Chapter D --- User Manual --- p.125 / Chapter D.l --- User Interface Layout --- p.125 / Chapter D.2 --- Steps in Performing Database Operations --- p.128 / Chapter D.2.1 --- Creating new tables --- p.129 / Chapter D.2.2 --- Browsing existing tables --- p.131 / Chapter D.2.3 --- Inserting new records --- p.131 / Chapter D.2.4 --- Deleting records --- p.132 / Chapter D.2.5 --- Creating indexes --- p.132 / Chapter D.2.6 --- Showing existing schemas and tables --- p.133

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 174-180. / by William H. Crown. / Ph.D.

A reorganização econômica, caracterizada pelo processo de globalização, provocou alterações nas estruturas produtivas da economia brasileira e, conseqüentemente, mudanças no mercado de trabalho. Essas mudanças refletiram-se nas características setoriais de emprego, trazendo uma grande preocupação quanto às relações de trabalho e à crescente taxa de desemprego. A reorientação do modelo de desenvolvimento, que transitava de proteção ao setor industrial para uma economia aberta e a consolidação da moeda, a partir de 1990, originou profundas mudanças no mercado de trabalho brasileiro. Os postos de trabalho dos setores primário e secundário foram reduzidos, enquanto que, no setor terciário, houve aumento dos empregos, mas não suficiente para absorver todos os trabalhadores liberados dos demais setores. A participação dos trabalhadores no mercado informal no ano de 2003 representava cerca de 52%. Dessa forma, a questão de empregos no Brasil nos últimos anos tem se tornado cada vez mais discutida e questionada quanto à capacidade de gerar novos empregos e qual a qualidade desses empregos. O trabalho pretende discutir as características e evolução do pessoal ocupado procurando analisar a relação setorial entre os empregos formais e informais, a partir de 1990, sob a ótica do modelo Insumo-Produto. Os principais resultados apontam que houve uma redução da capacidade de gerar empregos para cada um milhão de reais da produção. Os dados mostram que apesar da proporção de trabalhadores informais na economia ser superior aos trabalhadores na formalidade, o setor formal foi o responsável por cerca de 60% dos empregos gerados no período estudado. / The reorganization of the Brazilian economy, in the globalization process, has brought out changes in its productive structure, and, consequently, changes in the job market. These changes had impact on the employment at the sectoral level, with great concerns related to the labor relations and to the growing unemployment rates. In the 1990s, the change in the focus of the development strategy, from a closed protected economy to an open economy with monetary control, has originated deep changes in the labor market. The number of employed persons in the primary and secondary sector was reduced, while in the tertiary sector there was an increase in the number of jobs, but not enough to absorb all the employees released from the previous two sectors. The share of informal jobs in the Brazilian economy was around 52% in 2003. In this way, the question of employment generated by the economic sectors, in number and quality, has become a crucial issue. The goal of this work is to study the characteristics and the evolution of the occupied persons, and to relate it with the formal and informal job market, as well as the economy productive structure, using for that input-output matrices constructed for the Brazilian economy. The main results show that there was a reduction in the capacity of the economy to generate employment for every million of Reais produced in a given sector. The data also shows that despite the ratio of informal workers in the economy being superior to the workers in the formality, the formal sector was responsible for about 60% of the jobs generated in the period of analysis.

This study investigates the potential drivers of growth and employment in Mpumalanga’s economy using input-output (I-O) analysis as a contribution to industrial policy research and development for the province. Since 1995 to 2011, the Mpumalanga economy has been dominated by the tertiary sector (Quantec, 2011). Mohamed (2010) argues that in South Africa, while there had been growth in services, this growth has generally not been in productive services but instead has been driven by acceleration in debt-driven consumption, outsourcing and growth in private security services. The unemployment rate in the province was at 30.9 percent and labour absorption 52.0 percent in 2011, which made Mpumulanga the 6th largest contributor to the unemployment rate in the country that year (Quantec, 2011). The fifth iteration of the Industrial Policy Action Plan, 2013/14 – 2015/16 aims to promote a labour absorbing industrialisation path, with the emphasis on the systematic building of economic linkages that create employment. While being aware of potential weaknesses associated with this method, I-O analysis is one of the tools used frequently in the literature for identifying sectors to be supported in the industrial policy. The results of this study shows that the manufacturing sector in the province has a stronger stimulatory power to directly stimulate output in most sectors and drive industrial development, provided that local imports and available skills can be used appropriately to fill the existing gaps. This study forms the basis for the Mpumalanga Province’s policymakers to further conduct sector analysis through other refined supplementary methods such as value chain analysis with the purpose to confirm linkages of the sectors and determine key sectors that have the potential to drive industrialisation in the province.

Tese de doutoramento. Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2009