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Q- sort methodology was used to detect underlying structures in 45 statements that reflect women’s attempts to make themselves feel better after incidents of abuse. Eight dichotomous categories were created as plausible descriptors of the 45 statements within the measure. Graduate and advance undergraduate students used the categories to sort the 45 statements. The individual sorts were input with PQMethod software. The Centroid method was used for data analysis. Three of the eight proposed categories were supported: perspective (i.e. the woman’s thought and perceptions regarding the abusive relationship), health behavior, and social relationship. Data analysis displayed that the 45 “feel better” items are able to be grouped into meaningful categories.

In this dissertation, we focus on the study of the partial sorting (generalized sorting) problem and the initialization problem. The partial sorting problem is to find the first k smallest (or largest) elements among n input elements and to report them in nondecreasing (or nonincreasing). The initialization problem on a multiprocessor system is to assign each of n input elements a unique identification number, from 1 to n. This problem can be regarded as a special case of the sorting problem in which all input elements have the same value. We propose some algorithms for solving these problems. The main result is to give precise analysis for these algorithms. On the traditional model, we modify two algorithms, based on insertion sort and quicksort, to solve the partial sorting problem. Our analysis figures out the whole race between the two partial sorting algorithms and shows that the partial insertion sort algorithm obtains the leading position from k = 1 (the beginning) until k 3 5pn. After that, the partial quicksort algorithm will take the leading position on the way to the end. We also extend the partial sorting problem on the Single-Hop wireless network with collision detection (WNCD) model. The extension fits in with the wireless trend and may be a foundation for studying divide-and-conquer. With the repeat maximum finding scheme, we propose a partial sorting algorithm and prove that its average time complexity is (k + log (n − k)). For the initialization problem on the WNCD model, we can invoke the sorting algorithms directly for solving it. However, those sorting algorithms would not be better than the method of building a partition tree. We show that the partition tree method requires 2.88n time slots in average. After reconstructing and analyzing the method, we improve the result from 2.88n to 2.46n.

Q- sort methodology was used to detect underlying structures in 45 statements that reflect women’s attempts to make themselves feel better after incidents of abuse. Eight dichotomous categories were created as plausible descriptors of the 45 statements within the measure. Graduate and advance undergraduate students used the categories to sort the 45 statements. The individual sorts were input with PQMethod software. The Centroid method was used for data analysis. Three of the eight proposed categories were supported: perspective (i.e. the woman’s thought and perceptions regarding the abusive relationship), health behavior, and social relationship. Data analysis displayed that the 45 “feel better” items are able to be grouped into meaningful categories.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A presente dissertaÃÃo tem por objetivo discutir algumas questÃes a respeito da saÃde e da doenÃa, e suas possÃveis repercussÃes sobre a masculinidade, vistas atravÃs das representaÃÃes de homens portadores de doenÃas na prÃstata. à resultado de uma investigaÃÃo de abordagem qualitativa, centrada na dimensÃo subjetiva do processo de adoecer e sua repercussÃo sobre a definiÃÃo/redefiniÃÃo da identidade do gÃnero masculino. Analisaram-se, em especial, as repercussÃes que a experiÃncia da doenÃa, enquanto estado de fragilidade, podem provocar nos homens, em termos de mudanÃa de comportamento, no sentido de ensejar um processo de cuidado para com a sua saÃde. A investigaÃÃo centrou-se em um grupo de entrevistados, oriundo das classes populares, buscando-se conjugar a dimensÃo simbÃlica das aÃÃes dos sujeitos masculinos com os condicionantes materiais de classe dos mesmos; considerando-se que hà por parte dessas classes um compartilhar de representaÃÃes prÃprias, constitutivas de uma cultura popular. O trabalho de campo foi realizado no perÃodo de agosto a outubro de 1999, num hospital pÃblico filantrÃpico de Fortaleza, utilizando-se entrevistas individuais semi-estruturadas. A anÃlise empreendida partiu da definiÃÃo prÃvia de temas para a elaboraÃÃo do roteiro de entrevista, seguida da identificaÃÃo das categorias emergentes no discurso dos informantes como eixo de codificaÃÃo em nÃcleos temÃticos. Dentre os resultados encontrados podemos destacar: que o trabalho à determinante da qualidade da saÃde dos homens das classes populares, nÃo sendo a doenÃa, portanto, que provoca repercussÃes sobre a masculinidade e sim o trabalho; que a doenÃa nÃo parece representar uma preocupaÃÃo em ralaÃÃo ao exercÃcio das atividades sexuais, pelo menos, nÃo tanto quanto representa em relaÃÃo ao trabalho; que, por nÃo darem muita atenÃÃo Ãs sensaÃÃes doentias e ao prÃprio corpo, os homens tambÃm nÃo percebem a prÃstata com um ÃrgÃo que tem implicaÃÃes no seu desempenho sexual; e, por fim, que a noÃÃo de cuidado com a saÃde està associada aos excessos nas atividades do lazer, sinalizando para uma certa dificuldade em cuidar da saÃde quando se à homem e jovem. / The present dissertation has the goal of discuss some questions about health and illness and their possible repercussions over masculinity, seen through the representations of men porter of illness in the prostate. Itâs the result of an investigation of qualitative approach, centered on the subjective dimension of the process of getting ill and its repercussion over the definition/redefinition of the identity of the male gender. Were specially analyzed the repercussions that the experience of illness, while fragility status, can cause over man, about the behavior change, in the meaning of bringing a process of taking care of their health. The was centered in a group of people who were interviewed, came from the popular classes, searching for joining the symbolic dimension of the actions of the male subjects within their class material conditions, building a popular culture. The camp work was made from august to October, 1999, in a philanthropic public hospital in Fortaleza, using individual interviews semi structured. The analysis made started by the previous definitions of the topics for the elaboration of the interviews schedule, followed by the identification of the emergent categories from the informant speeches as a center of codification in thematic nucleus.Among the found results we can detach: that the work is determinant for health quality of the man in popular classes, itâs not illness therefore, that provokes repercussions over masculinity, but work is determinant, that illness does not represent a preoccupation related to the development of sexual activities, at least, not so much as the work relation represents, that the lack of attention on sickly sensations and on their own body men also donât notice the prostate as an organ that has implication with sexual achievement and, at last, that health care notions is associated with extravagance in entertainment activities signing for a certain difficulty in taking care of health when itâs a young man.

The purpose of this research is to identify the selection criteria used by the management professors when they interview the candidates for MBA entrance examination in Taiwan. Seven famous graduate schools of business management were chosen for this study. With Q-method and survey, this study ranks and classifies the selection criteria of each graduate school. The samples include professors of those graduate schools and students who have gone through the selection interview. By using factor analysis, the research found the different types of professors with different selection criteria. The finding can be very useful for the graduate schools to know what students their faculty really wants. In addition, it is also informational to those applicants who want to enter the MBA program through selection channel to choose an appropriate graduate school. The findings of this research indicated: 1.These seven graduate schools used different selection criteria. 2.Most of all professors agree that the analyzing ability and foreign language are the two most important criteria. 3.Comparing the ¡§my own view¡¨ and ¡§perception of colleagues¡¦ view¡¨, the research did find some significant differences. 4.Higher consensus exists among the professors at Cheng-chi, Yuan Ze and FuJen Catholic University. The professors of Sun Yat-sen University, Cheng-Kung University and Taiwan University were more diversified. 5.Attitude towards selection criteria is not the same among the professors from different countries where they were educated. 6.Five types of Professors can be distinguished is terms of the selection criteria used.

In this thesis, various designs of VLSI sorter architectures are proposed. This thesis first presents a baseline serial sorter architecture built on a central memory module equipped with a single compare-and-swap (C&S) functional unit. A dedicated low-cost address generation circuit which controls the order of data accesses and C&S operation in order to support sorting of data sequences with any length is proposed. By exploring the bit-permutation technique to create the access orders suitable for different C&S steps, the address generator can be built by only two adders and three shifters plus some control circuits, and consumes only about 1K gates. Next, this thesis also proposes a two-bank memory architecture to reduce the required memory ports from four to two such that the sorter memory can be realized by on-chip SRAM blocks. Our experimental results show that the overall silicon cost can be reduced by more than 56% for the sorter circuit which can sort the data sequence of length up to 1024. In addition to the serial sorter architecture, this thesis further proposes three possible parallel sorter architectures including the pipeline sorter, cascade sorter, and block sorter. Among these three architectures, the pipeline sorter can deliver the best throughput although it can be used only for fixed-length data sequences. On the other hand, the block sorter is the most flexible design suitable for sequences with variable length. It is designed based on the block-level even-odd merge sort algorithm. It significantly outperforms the previous block sorter design by using more efficient algorithm, architectural pipelining, and better block C&S(BC&S) unit which can realize separate pre-sort and merge processes efficiently. Our implementation results show that by using the 0.18um technology, the core size of the proposed sorter with block-size of four is about 0.509mm2, and can sorting a 1024-point sequence within 32.84us.

There is national attention and concern from industry leaders, educators and politicians that the United States will not be able to maintain its competitive edge due to the lack of students prepared for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) (Hurtado et al., 2008; Kuenzi et al., 2006; Kuenzi, 2008; Laursen et al., 2010). Student-faculty research, such as is done during an undergraduate research experience (URE), has been shown to be a high impact activity leading to greater student interest in STEM careers. A closer look is needed to get an idea of what types of experiences during UREs impact a student’s interest in persisting into a STEM field career and to understand what are the key mechanisms of the experience that make it meaningful. The findings in this study add to the literature by exploring participants views of the undergraduate research experience at non-doctoral-granting universities and by supporting the idea that UREs can be effective in these settings as well. Further, this study puts forward a theoretical explanation about how and why UREs promote a student’s interest in persisting to a STEM field career. The purpose of this qualitative study using critical incidents was to identify experiences during a URE that students perceived to encourage or deter their interest in pursuing a STEM field career following graduation and to identify causal mechanisms for why these experiences made a difference in their interest. This study was designed to use a qualitative approach consisting of individual interviews and a focus group with a total of 31 participants from three institutions to identify and come to a more complex, multi-layered understanding of the undergraduate research experience. A card sorting technique where participants assigned each card to the encouraged an interest, deterred an interest, neither encouraged nor deterred an interest, or did not experience category was used initially to generate a conversation about what individual experiences that students perceive encourage or deter them from pursuing a STEM field career following graduation. Follow-up interview questions guided the participant in explaining the incident and how and why it impacted their interest in a STEM field career following graduation. Findings of the study indicate that all participants began their URE with an interest in science. No one set of critical incidents was identified to encourage or deter an interest as the same incident could have positive and negative outcomes. Because of the initial strong interest in science, incidents identified in the literature as deterring an interest in STEM often served to help participants refine the field or topic in STEM they wanted to pursue rather than causing them to leave STEM altogether. The individual critical incidents during the URE in totality, not individually, had an impact on participants’ interest in pursuing a STEM field career. It is a combination of multiple experiences or events that help students gain a greater sense of self and to refine career and research opportunities. The main contribution of this study is a theoretical model of the mechanisms by which a variety of incidents during a URE can impact an interest in STEM. This model identifies underlying causal mechanisms on how UREs can promote an interest in STEM. The model is similar to a grounded theory model in that it highlights student characteristics, contextual factors, mechanisms, and outcomes that help to refine STEM field career interest. The URE incidents in totality provide mechanisms resulting in outcomes that refine a career interest in STEM. As all participants were still involved in their URE, this study is limited in that we do not know with any certainty if the participants will enter a STEM field career. Future research designed with a longitudinal time frame could follow participants throughout the URE then into their career thus allowing greater understanding as to why some students may choose to leave the STEM pipeline. In-depth case studies would allow for testing of the conceptual model to identify turning points in an interest in a STEM field career and how interests in a STEM field career are refined. Further, case studies would allow researchers to compare the conceptual model in different settings. The goals of UREs can be advanced in settings where there is a central organizing office on campus that makes visible that the institution values research and STEM and creates opportunities where students can to connect to a wider community of researchers. Faculty mentors guiding UREs can advance a commitment to pursue science by continually articulating the importance and wider social significance of the research. Further, faculty mentors play an invaluable role by providing information about the range of opportunities to pursue research, connect students with other research, and encourage URE student attendance at professional conferences in order to begin identification with a wider community of like-minded individuals. / Ph. D. / Educators, industry leaders and politicians are concerned about the lack of students prepared for STEM field careers and the United States being able to maintain its competitive edge globally. One opportunity to prepare students for STEM field careers is through student-faculty research, such as is done during an undergraduate research experience (URE). This study was designed to identify and understand critical incidents in undergraduate research experiences that students perceive to encourage or deter their interest in pursuing a STEM field career following graduation and to identify why these experiences made a difference in their interest. An incident sorting process was used to identify individual experiences that students perceive encourage or deter them from pursuing a STEM field career following graduation. Participant interviews and a focus group were conducted to understand how and why the identified experiences had a bearing on the student deciding to pursue a STEM field career following graduation. Findings of the study indicate that incidents during the URE combined, not individually, had an impact on participants’ interest in pursuing a STEM field career.

Data från positioneringssystem som GPS är alltmer vanlig, men är svårhanterlig i traditionella datalagringssystem. Sådan data består av spatiala och temporala attribut och representeras i vissa fall i JSON-format. Sortering av JSON objekt sker via inbyggda sorteringsfunktioner, vilka kräver att hela JSON objektet finns avserialiserat i minnet. Om datan strömmas måste hela datamängden tas emot innan sortering kan ske. För att förebygga detta krävs att en utvecklare utvecklar metoder för sortering av strömmad data medans strömmen pågår. Den här studien identifierar tre lämpliga sorteringsalgoritmer, och jämför dessa på hur snabbt de sorterar den strömmade datan samt deras minnesanvändning. En klientapplikation och en serverapplikation jämfördes även för att se om sortering på servern genererade bättre resultat. De slutsatser som drogs av experimentets resultat var att merge sort var snabbast men använde mest minne, medans heap sort var långsammast men hade lägst minesanvändning. Klientapplikationens sorteringstider var något snabbare än serverapplikationens.

Ce mémoire présente la construction d'un outil d'évaluation abordant le processus d'attachement d'un enfant confié à une famille d'accueil. S'appuyant à la fois sur la théorie de l'attachement et sur une méthode d'évaluation qualitative, un questionnaire de type Q-Sort a été élaboré. Un échantillon de 18 répondantes, issues du réseau du Centre jeunesse de l'Estrie, a par la suite complété le Q-sort de 40 énoncés. Les résultats mettent en évidence 3 regroupements distincts de répondantes. Le premier facteur accorde une grande importance aux habiletés spécifiques des parents d'accueil. Les répondantes du second facteur priorisent plutôt une centration sur la relation entre l'adulte et l'enfant. Quant au dernier regroupement, celui-ci présente un profil partagé entre les compétences et caractéristiques du parent d'accueil et celles des enfants dans le processus d'attachement. Les résultats présentent plusieurs avenues de développement de la recherche pour le futur.