Websites are today one of the most common ways for humans to interact with each other. Evolving from just static pages for companies to highly dynamic social medias, websites are built upon complex techniques and architectures to meet end-user demands. One of the latest techniques are single page applicationswhich makes use of the web browsers capabililities to execute application code. One drawback is that search engines cannot visit the site, nor can script-disabled web browsers. For a single page application to function on all devices a new concept called isomorphism needs to be considered. The aim of this thesis have been to analyze, design and implement an isomorphic web application using modern technologies. The practical work have been applied using an agile project method, while theoretical works are based on previous knowledge and an internet based research. The implementation went through several iterations of trial and error but was finally completed with Facebook's React framework together with a modified version of the Flux architecture. The resulting application was implemented in both Ember and the proposed isomorphic solution. Benchmarks of both implementations were carried out and compared with each other to see how the thesis' isomorphic solution performed. The results shows an performance increase in the isomorphic solution. In conclusion the full application was not implemented due to time limits, but the most performance critical parts were. While only one framework was compared, it would be of interest to compare with more frameworks to give a better performance overview.

PowerPoint is an excellent tool for creating presentations and people are accustomed to using it. Its only handicap is that it is not installed everywhere and it exists in numerous versions. But there is an application that is installed almost everywhere and that application is the web browser. This work aims to create the PowerPoint presentation viewer for the web browser. With the internet as the environment, it may have a wide range of applications from the content sharing point of view. The solution is a web application that allows to upload the PowerPoint file and then the application displays the content of the file. The application also offers functionality such as navigation between slides and full-screen mode. The rendered slides in the web browser are very similar to the slides in PowerPoint. It does not support advanced features, but it supports displaying text, pictures, video and audio. Further, it supports basic styling options such as colours, margins, position and line height.

Cross-lingual word embeddings are an increasingly important reseource in cross-lingual methods for NLP, particularly for their role in transfer learning and unsupervised machine translation, purportedly opening up the opportunity for NLP applications for low-resource languages.  However, most research in this area implicitly expects the availablility of vast monolingual corpora for training embeddings, a scenario which is not realistic for many of the world's languages.  Moreover, much of the reporting of the performance of cross-lingual word embeddings is based on a fairly narrow set of mostly European language pairs.  Our study examines the performance of cross-lingual alignment across a more diverse set of language pairs; controls for the effect of the corpus size on which the monolingual embedding spaces are trained; and studies the impact of spectral graph properties of the embedding spsace on alignment.  Through our experiments on a more diverse set of language pairs, we find that performance in bilingual lexicon induction is generally poor in heterogeneous pairs, and that even using a gold or heuristically derived dictionary has little impact on the performance on these pairs of languages.  We also find that the performance for these languages only increases slowly with corpus size.  Finally, we find a moderate correlation between the isospectral difference of the source and target embeddings and the performance of bilingual lexicon induction.  We infer that methods other than cross-lingual alignment may be more appropriate in the case of both low resource languages and heterogeneous language pairs.

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Problem statement: The D-optimal design is often used in clinical research. In multi-factor clinical experiments it is natural to restrict the experiment's design space so as not to give a patient the combination of several high dose treatments simultaneously. Under such design space restrictions it is unknown what designs are D-optimal. The goal of the thesis has been to find D-optimal designs for these design spaces. Approach: Two new algorithms for finding D-optimal designs with one, two or three factors with linear models has been developed and implemented in MATLAB. Two restricted design spaces were explored. In cases when the program could not find the D-optimal design an analytic approach was used. Results: Special attention was given to the two factor model with interaction. All of the D-optimal designs for this model, N less or equal to 30, and their permutations have been listed as well as their continous designs. Conclusion: In one of the restricted design regions a simple design pattern appeared for N greater than or equal to 7. In the other restricted design region no obvious pattern was found but its continuous design could be calculated through analysis. It turned out that the number of trials at the lowest dose combination did not change when moving from the full space design to the restricted design regions. / Frågeställning: D-optimala designer är vanliga i kliniska studier. När flera faktorer (läkemedel) prövas samtidigt kan det vara nödvändigt att begränsa försöksrummet så att patienterna undviker att få en hög dos av flera faktorer samtidigt. I sådana begränsade försöksrum är det okänt vilka designer som är D-optimala. Uppsatsens mål har varit att hitta D-optimala designer i begränsade försöksrum. Metod: Två nya algoritmer för att hitta D-optimala designer med en, två eller tre dimensioner och linjära modeller har utvecklats och implementerats i MATLAB. Två begränsade försöksrum har utforskats. I de fall då MATLAB-programmet inte kunde hitta de D-optimala designerna användes analytiska metoder. Resultat: Analys av en tvåfaktormodell med interaktion utforskades särskilt noggrant. Alla D-optimala designer och permutationer av dessa i de båda begränsade försöksrummen har listats för alla N mindre än eller lika med 30, samt även deras kontinuerliga designer. Slutsats: För det ena försöksrummet upptäcktes ett mönster i designen då N är större än eller lika med 7. I det andra försöksrummet upptäcktes inget mönster och det krävdes således analytiska metoder för att finna dess kontinuerliga design. Det visade sig att antalet försök i den lägsta doskombinationen förblev oförändrat då man bytte från det fulla designrummet till de båda begränsade designrummen.

A classificação isomorfa dos espaços de Banach separáveis C(K) é devida a Milutin no caso em que K são não enumeráveis e a Bessaga e Pelczynski no caso em que K são enumeráveis. Neste trabalho apresentamos uma extensão vetorial dessa classificação e tiramos várias consequências, por exemplo, considerando o espaço métrico compacto infinito K e Y um espaço de Banach: &nbsp; &nbsp; 1. Sendo 1 < p < &infin; e &Gamma; um conjunto infinito, classificamos, a menos de isomorfismo, os espaços de Banach C(K, Y &oplus; lp(&Gamma;)), quando o dual de Y contém uma cópia de lq, onde 1/p+ 1/q =1. &nbsp; &nbsp; 2. Classificamos os espaços de Banach C(K, Y &oplus; l&infin;(&Gamma;)), quando a densidade de Y é estritamente menor que 2|&Gamma;|. &nbsp; &nbsp; 3. Classificamos os espaços de Banach C(K &times;(S&oplus; &beta;&Gamma;)) e C(S &oplus; (K&times; &beta;&Gamma;)), onde S é um compacto disperso de Hausdorff arbitrário e &beta;&Gamma; é a compactificação de Stone-Cech de &Gamma;. Obtemos, também, algumas leis de cancelamento para espaços de Banach da forma C(K1,X)&oplus; C(K2,Y), onde K1 e K2 são espaços compactos métricos infinitos de Hausdorff e X, Y espaços de Banach satisfazendo condições adequadas. Estabelecemos também um teorema de quase-dicotomia envolvendo os espaços C(K,X), onde X tem cotipo finito. Finalmente, apresentamos algumas majorações nas distorções de isomorfismos positivos de C([0,&omega;k]) em C([0,&omega;]) e também de C([0,&omega;]) em C([0,&omega;k]), k&isin; N, k &ge; 2. / The isomorphic classification of separable Banach spaces C(K) is due Milutin in the case when K are uncountable and to Bessaga and Pelczynski in the case when K are countable. In this work we prove a vectorial extention of this classification and provide several consequences, for example considering the infinite metric compact space K and Y a Banach space: &nbsp; &nbsp; 1. Let 1 < p < &infin; and &Gamma; a infinite set, we classify, up to an isomorphism, the Banach spaces C(K, Y &oplus; lp(&Gamma;)), in the case where the dual of Y contains no copy of lq, where 1/p+ 1/q =1. &nbsp; &nbsp; 2. We classify the Banach spaces C(K, Y &oplus; l&infin;(&Gamma;)), when the density character of Y is strictly less that 2|&Gamma;|. &nbsp; &nbsp; 3. We classify the Banach spaces C(K &times;(S&oplus; &beta;&Gamma;)) and C(S &oplus; (K&times; &beta;&Gamma;)) where S is an arbitrary dispersed compact and &beta;&Gamma; is the Stone-Cech compactification of &Gamma;. We obtain also some cancellation laws for Banach spaces in the form C(K1,X)&oplus; C(K2,Y), where K1 and K2 are metric compact Hausdorff spaces and X, Y Banach spaces satisfying appropriate conditions. We established also a quasi-dichotomy theorem envolving the C(K,X) spaces, where X is of finite cotype. Finally, we present some upper bounds of distortions of positive isomorphisms of C([0,&omega;k]) on C([0,&omega;]) and also of C([0,&omega;]) on C([0,&omega;k]), k&isin; N, k &ge; 2.

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This thesis focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of organoclays. X-ray diffraction has been used to study the changes in the basal spacings of montmorillonite clay and surfactant-intercalated organoclays. Variation in the d-spacing was found to be a step function of the surfactant concentration. Three different molecular environments for surfactant octadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (ODTMA) within the surface-modified montmorillonite are proposed upon the basis of their different decomposition temperatures. High-resolution thermogravimetric analysis (HRTG) shows that the thermal decomposition of montmorillonite modified with ODTMA takes place in four steps attributing to dehydration of adsorbed water, dehydration of water hydrating metal cations, loss of surfactant and the loss of OH units respectively. In addition, it has shown that the decomposition procedure of DODMA and TOMA modified clays are very different from that of ODTMA modified ones. The surfactant decomposition takes place in several steps in the DODMA and TOMA modified clays while for ODTMA modified clays, it shows only one step for the decomposition of surfactant. Also TG was proved to be a useful tool to estimate the amount of surfactant within the organoclays. A model is proposed in which, up to 0.4 CEC, a surfactant monolayer is formed between the montmorillonite clay layers; up to 0.8 CEC, a lateral-bilayer arrangement is formed; and above 1.5 CEC, a pseudotrimolecular layer is formed, with excess surfactant adsorbed on the clay surface. While for dimethyldioctadecylammonium bromide (DODMA) and trioctadecylmethylammonium bromide (TOMA) modified clays, since the larger sizes of the surfactants, some layers of montmorillonite are kept unaltered because of steric effects. The configurations of surfactant within these organoclays usually take paraffin type layers. Thermal analysis also provides an indication of the thermal stability of the organoclay as shown by different starting decomposition temperatures. FTIR was used as a guide to determine the phase state of the organoclay interlayers as determined from the CH asymmetric stretching vibration of the surfactants to provide more information on surfactant configurations. It was used to study the changes in the spectra of the surfactant ODTMA upon intercalation into a sodium montmorillonite. Surfaces of montmorillonites were modified using ultrasonic and hydrothermal methods through the intercalation and adsorption of the cationic surfactant ODTMA. Changes in the surfaces and structure were characterized using electron microscopy. The ultrasonic preparation method results in a higher surfactant concentration within the montmorillonite interlayer when compared with that from the hydrothermal method. Both XRD patterns and TEM images demonstrate that SWy-2-Namontmorillonite contains superlayers. TEM images of organoclays prepared at high surfactant concentrations show alternate basal spacings between neighboring layers. SEM images show that modification with surfactant will reduce the clay particle aggregation. Organoclays prepared at low surfactant concentration display curved flakes, whereas they become flat with increasing intercalated surfactant. Fundamentally this thesis has increased the knowledge base of the structural and morphological properties of organo-montmorillonite clays. The configurations of surfactant in the organoclays have been further investigated and three different molecular environments for surfactant ODTMA within the surface-modified montmorillonite are proposed upon the basis of their different decomposition temperatures. Changes in the spectra of the surfactant upon intercalation into clay have been investigated in details. Novel surfactant-modified montmorillonite results in the formation of new nanophases with the potential for the removal of organic contaminants from aqueous media and for the removal of hydrocarbon spills on roads.

A classificação isomorfa dos espaços de Banach separáveis C(K) é devida a Milutin no caso em que K são não enumeráveis e a Bessaga e Pelczynski no caso em que K são enumeráveis. Neste trabalho apresentamos uma extensão vetorial dessa classificação e tiramos várias consequências, por exemplo, considerando o espaço métrico compacto infinito K e Y um espaço de Banach: &nbsp; &nbsp; 1. Sendo 1 < p < &infin; e &Gamma; um conjunto infinito, classificamos, a menos de isomorfismo, os espaços de Banach C(K, Y &oplus; lp(&Gamma;)), quando o dual de Y contém uma cópia de lq, onde 1/p+ 1/q =1. &nbsp; &nbsp; 2. Classificamos os espaços de Banach C(K, Y &oplus; l&infin;(&Gamma;)), quando a densidade de Y é estritamente menor que 2|&Gamma;|. &nbsp; &nbsp; 3. Classificamos os espaços de Banach C(K &times;(S&oplus; &beta;&Gamma;)) e C(S &oplus; (K&times; &beta;&Gamma;)), onde S é um compacto disperso de Hausdorff arbitrário e &beta;&Gamma; é a compactificação de Stone-Cech de &Gamma;. Obtemos, também, algumas leis de cancelamento para espaços de Banach da forma C(K1,X)&oplus; C(K2,Y), onde K1 e K2 são espaços compactos métricos infinitos de Hausdorff e X, Y espaços de Banach satisfazendo condições adequadas. Estabelecemos também um teorema de quase-dicotomia envolvendo os espaços C(K,X), onde X tem cotipo finito. Finalmente, apresentamos algumas majorações nas distorções de isomorfismos positivos de C([0,&omega;k]) em C([0,&omega;]) e também de C([0,&omega;]) em C([0,&omega;k]), k&isin; N, k &ge; 2. / The isomorphic classification of separable Banach spaces C(K) is due Milutin in the case when K are uncountable and to Bessaga and Pelczynski in the case when K are countable. In this work we prove a vectorial extention of this classification and provide several consequences, for example considering the infinite metric compact space K and Y a Banach space: &nbsp; &nbsp; 1. Let 1 < p < &infin; and &Gamma; a infinite set, we classify, up to an isomorphism, the Banach spaces C(K, Y &oplus; lp(&Gamma;)), in the case where the dual of Y contains no copy of lq, where 1/p+ 1/q =1. &nbsp; &nbsp; 2. We classify the Banach spaces C(K, Y &oplus; l&infin;(&Gamma;)), when the density character of Y is strictly less that 2|&Gamma;|. &nbsp; &nbsp; 3. We classify the Banach spaces C(K &times;(S&oplus; &beta;&Gamma;)) and C(S &oplus; (K&times; &beta;&Gamma;)) where S is an arbitrary dispersed compact and &beta;&Gamma; is the Stone-Cech compactification of &Gamma;. We obtain also some cancellation laws for Banach spaces in the form C(K1,X)&oplus; C(K2,Y), where K1 and K2 are metric compact Hausdorff spaces and X, Y Banach spaces satisfying appropriate conditions. We established also a quasi-dichotomy theorem envolving the C(K,X) spaces, where X is of finite cotype. Finally, we present some upper bounds of distortions of positive isomorphisms of C([0,&omega;k]) on C([0,&omega;]) and also of C([0,&omega;]) on C([0,&omega;k]), k&isin; N, k &ge; 2.

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