The study proposes and tests a model of consumer bank choice behavior in a south eastern city in the USA, based on the economics of information theory. The model expands the domain of inquiry beyond the initial level attributes to the first-order latent construct and the second-order (composite) levels. Results suggest that consumer bank choice behavior can be represented as a global construct with three viable components (search, credence and experience) and provide implications for bank managers.

In the past few years society has become more digitized. As a result of this the schools are using more digital tools in education and searching information online has become the norm. The purpose of this essay is to investigate what research has been made on how digital sources and information searches online are used in history education and how this affects the students. It will also investigate how teachers should approach information searches and digital sources in history education. The material that has been used in this essay has been found through the databases SwePub, Education Research Complete (ERC) and ERIC via EBSCO. All the material has been reviewed by the authors of this essay to make sure they were relevant to the questions asked. The results of the essay are that due to the digitization in society the Swedish school system should revise their school documents to have a more extended view on source criticism. The results are also that using information searches and digital sources can have a positive effect on the students but for this to happen the teacher has to support the students during their work. Further research can be conducted on what the teachers' opinions on digitization in history education is and a comparison between the older methods of source criticism and the newer, more digitized source criticism.

This legal research study identified Supreme Court cases relating to search and seizure generally, and Supreme Court, federal and state court cases relating specifically to search and seizure in education. The purpose of this study was to identify those concepts, doctrines and principles of law governing searches and seizures in order to inform administrators of their legal responsibilities. Concepts, doctrines and principles of law governing searches and seizures are summarized in the following statements: (1) Students have a right to privacy, but this right must be balanced against the school's interests and the rights of others. (2) Searches must be reasonably related to a legitimate school purpose. General, exploratory, blanket and indiscriminate searches will not be sustained by courts. (3) School officials have an affirmative obligation to maintain order and discipline for the health and safety of students. (4) Searches must be based on concrete, articulable facts. Mere suspicion is not acceptable to the courts. (5) Elementary and secondary school officials, acting in loco parentis, are generally held to the lesser standard of reasonable cause to believe. However, the more intrusive the search, the higher the standard to be applied. (6) Colleges and universities cannot condition attendance upon a waiver of a student's constitutional rights. (7) Police initiated searches are subject to the higher standard of probable cause. (8) In cases where exigent circumstances existed, such as the destruction of evidence or harm to another, administrative officials have an affirmative obligation to act immediately and they are not subject to the warIant requirement (9) Contraband seen in plain view is subject to seizure without a warrant. / Ed. D.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Dourado de Oliveira.pdf: 868094 bytes, checksum: 9e2df71478c056c256db4584696fe653 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-29 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This investigation had the purpose to accomplish a view of dissertations about the first series produced from 1994 to 2008, at PUC/SP, emphasizing, specially contents, methodologies and/or methodological proceedings and main results. The defined methodology has bibliographycal feature and, for the labours´ selection, it was utilized the site of the Postgraduate Studies Program in Mathematical Education, following a predetermined beginning, establishing in the total reading, fingerprinting and works analysis. The analysis of documents was established to locate, in dissertations, evidences of typical activities of search proposed by Romberg (1992). Then, the results have shown that the preference of the searches, was by contents explored in the classroom by the student view point among several, most searchers chose like theme numbers and operations. So, the similarities found, consist of methodology and/or methodological proceedings, main considerations and theoretical fundamentation by the psychology view. However, there were some divergences in the theoretical indicators related to the search theme. Besides, every authors were worried to create situations that helped the development of meanings to the Math contents chosen. At last, It´s considered that the search mentioned could provide assistance for future investigations / Esta investigação teve como objetivo realizar um panorama das dissertações sobre séries iniciais produzidas no período de 1994 a 2008, na PUC/SP, focando, sobretudo conteúdos, metodologias e/ou procedimentos metodológicos e principais resultados. A metodologia definida tem caráter bibliográfico e, para a seleção dos trabalhos, utilizou-se o sítio do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação Matemática, obedecendo a princípios pré-determinados, baseandose, para isso, na leitura integral, fichamento e análise das obras. A análise dos documentos consistiu em localizar, nas dissertações, evidências das atividades características de pesquisa propostas por Romberg (1992). Logo, os resultados indicaram que a preferência das pesquisas foi por conteúdos trabalhados em sala de aula - sob ponto de vista do aluno dentre os quais a maioria dos pesquisadores escolheu como tema números e operações. Assim sendo, as similaridades encontradas constam da metodologia e/ou procedimentos metodológicos, principais considerações e fundamentação teórica sob o enfoque da Psicologia. No entanto, ocorreram divergências nos referenciais teóricos relacionados ao tema de pesquisa. Além disso, todos os autores preocuparam-se em criar situações que favorecessem ao desenvolvimento de significados para os conteúdos matemáticos escolhidos. Por fim, considera-se que a pesquisa em questão poderá proporcionar subsídios para futuras investigações

While the dark matter has so far only revealed itself through the gravitational influence it exerts on its surroundings, there are good reasons to believe it is made up by WIMPs – a hypothetical class of heavy elementary particles not encompassed by the Standard Model of particle physics. The Inert Doublet Model constitutes a simple extension of the Standard Model Higgs sector. The model provides a new set of scalar particles, denoted inert scalars because of their lack of direct coupling to matter, of which the lightest is a WIMP dark matter candidate. Another popular Standard Model extension is that of supersymmetry. In the most minimal scenario the particle content is roughly doubled, and the lightest of the new supersymmetric particles, which typically is a neutralino, is a WIMP dark matter candidate. In this thesis the phenomenology of inert scalar and supersymmetric dark matter is studied. Relic density calculations are performed, and experimental signatures in indirect detection experiments and accelerator searches are derived. The Inert Doublet Model shows promising prospects for indirect detection of dark matter annihilations into monochromatic photons. It is also constrained by the old LEP II accelerator data. Some phenomenological differences between the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and a slight extension, the Beyond the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, can be found. Also, supersymmetric dark matter models can be detected already within the early LHC accelerator data.

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2006--Dresden.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: Maxwell B. Stinchcombe and R. Preston McAfee. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

English Version: When humans started looking out at a starry night, astronomy was born. Photons emitted by stars travel up to sometimes billions of light years to reach our eyes, and by studying the properties of this photon flux we are able to infer properties of the star itself. Instead of photons, the IceCube Observatory, located at South Pole, aims at detecting neutrinos and hopes to shed some light on the still unsolved mystery of cosmic-ray acceleration and production mechanisms, and on the most energetic phenomena of the Universe. At the time of this writing, IceCube has proven the existence of an astrophysical neutrino flux with a significance exceeding seven sigmas. Nevertheless, the observed astrophysical neutrino flux shows no significant directional clustering nor a clear association with any known source class so far. Also the latest results given by IceCube’s point source analysis show no significant clustering as well. It is therefore important to widen the search to different source topologies to maximize the discovery potential. In the first part of this work we present an extended source analysis with seven years of IceCube data, adding three years of data to the previous published work and implementing a novel likelihood formulation. Since the extensions of any potential sources are not known a priori, five different extensions have been considered, from 1° to 5°. No significant clustering is observed in any of the maps. The ability of IceCube to establish neutrino astronomy by finding neutrino sources is limited by the number of cosmic neutrinos measured. Despite the aforementioned discovery of an astrophysical flux, detailed spectral studies and searches for specific source locations in this signal remain a challenge with the event sample sizes available from the IceCube instrument. Therefore, a considerable expansion of the current detector, IceCube Gen2, is promoted, which includes the instrumentation of a 10 km3 volume, able to deliver substantial increases in the astrophysical neutrino sample for all flavors. Not only the hardware will be upgraded, but many systems will undergo improvements, such as communications and timing infrastructures. A new communication system has been investigated and is presented in the second part of this document. Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK), the simplest digital modulation technique, has been studied as possible communication technique for IceCube Gen2. / French Version: Quand les humains ont commencé à regarder le ciel étoilé, l’astronomie est née. Les photons émis par les étoiles voyagent parfois des milliards d’années lumière avant d’atteindre nos yeux, et c’est grâce à l’étude de ce flux de photons que l’on peut déduire les propriétés des étoiles mêmes. Au lieu des photons, l’Observatoire IceCube, situé au Pôle Sud, a pour but de détecter des neutrinos :il espère éclairer le mystère encore non résolu de l’accéleration et des mécanismes de production des rayons cosmiques, ainsi que des phénomènes les plus énergétiques de l’Univers. Au moment où ce document a été rédigé, IceCube a démontré l’existence d’un flux de neutrinos astrophysiques avec une signification statistique excédant sept sigmas. Cependant, le flux de neutrinos astrophysiques observé ne montre aucun regroupement directionnel significatif ni une évidence d’association avec aucune source connue à l’heure actuelle. De plus, les derniers résultats fournis par les analyses de sources ponctuelles de la collaboration IceCube ne montrent non plus aucun regroupement. Il est donc important d’étendre ces recherches vers des typologies de sources différentes pour maximiser le potentiel de son découverte. Dans la première partie de ce travail nous présentons une analyse de source étendue basée sur sept années de données d’IceCube, ce qui rajoute trois ans de données au travail précédemment publié tout en mettant en oeuvre une nouvelle formulation de maximum de vraisem- blance. Comme les extensions de sources potentielles ne sont pas connues à priori, cinq extensions différentes ont été considérées, de 1° à 5°. Aucun regroupement significatif n’a été observé sur aucune des cartes. La capacité d’IceCube de consolider l’astronomie neutrino en découvrant des sources de neutrinos est limitée par le nombre de neutrinos cosmiques mesuré. Malgré la découverte susmentionnée d’un flux astrophysique, les études détaillées de spectre ainsi que les recherches de sources spécifiques pour ce type de signal demeurent un défi, à cause de la limitation de taille disponible des échantillons avec l’instrument IceCube. Par conséquent, une expansion considérable du détecteur actuel, IceCube Gen2, est promue :elle inclut l’instrumentation d’un volume de 10 km3, apte à fournir une augmentation importante des échantillons de neutrinos de toutes les saveurs. Non seulement le hardware sera mis à niveau, mais de nombreux autres systèmes subiront des améliorations, comme les infrastructures de communication et de timing. Un nouveau système de communication a été étudié et est présenté dans la deuxième partie de ce document. Le Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK), la technique de modulation numérique la plus simple, a été étudiée comme technique potentielle pour IceCube Gen2. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This exploratory research is the first one among occupational information seeking behavior studies that focuses on information seeking behaviors of the crime scene investigators. The data used in this dissertation were gathered via a self-administrated survey instrument from 29 cities in Turkey. Findings obtained from the data analyses show that there is a strongly positive relationship between the experience of the crime scene investigators and the use of personal knowledge and experience as a primary information source (experience is operationalized with age, service years in policing, and service years in crime scene investigation units). The findings also suggest that increasing of the level of education is negatively related to relying on immediate colleagues as an information source among the crime scene investigators. These findings are consistent with related literature and theory. The data analysis shows that crime scene investigators work in cities with higher population rates have more complaint scores than those who work in cities with lower population rates across Turkey. The findings from the data analysis may suggest valuable implications to defeat the barriers between crime scene investigators and information sources. The researcher drew a proposed theoretical framework of an information behavior concept in the context of crime scene investigation that may help those who are interested in the phenomenon and its applications to other contexts.

Students’ and teachers’ own choices and actions – their agency – are an integral part of language education, yet we know little about agency in specific classroom contexts. One such context is when students search for information online as part of their foreign language education. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore the agency enacted through the choices and actions of six upper secondary Spanish students and their teacher. Their choices and actions take place while they are working with a task that asks the students to read authentic web sites with text originally written in Spanish for a native Spanish speaking audience. Using a sociocultural perspective on the process of language learning in this task, the research question is: Through what choices, actions and reports do the students and the teacher exercise and express their agency? The study was carried out in two student groups in their second year at upper secondary school. Primary data were collected during the first lesson of a theme and consist of multiple sources, including computer screen recordings, sound and video uptake along with prompted interviews performed with both students and teacher. The main findings suggest that student and teacher choices and actions did not cohere, due to different objects of their respective activity system. The data shows that when students search for information online as a part of their language studies, they: Act as producers at the same time as consumers Multitask Translanguage Focus on end product more than the learning process Divide their work between them rather than work collaboratively Finding “third spaces” – where students’ home practices are not easily applied to student or teacher objects of the activity systems, leads to a discussion concerning language view and language learning through the use of the Internet.