Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 963 for “"Exchanges"”.
-
Soft exchanges for interaction design
… to experience our own world differently. Soft Exchanges are created through the design and development of a camera like instrument implementing the Bactograph protocol developed in 2005 by Jeffrey Tabor, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. Of the many advances in Synthetic …
-
The Nordic Seas circulation and exchanges.
… An understanding of the circulation and exchanges of this region is vital for any consideration of the implications of high latitude climate change to variability in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation and consequences for regional (European) climate.<br/>This thesis makes use of a …
-
Competition and Yield Optimization in Ad Exchanges
Ad Exchanges are emerging Internet markets where advertisers may purchase display ad placements, in real-time and based on specific viewer information, directly from publishers via a simple auction mechanism. The presence of such channels presents a host of new strategic and tactical questions for …
-
Just Exchanges, Just Markets: Effective Consent Driven Proceduralism
… arise from markets that solely protect voluntary exchanges. Currently, the global free market system values mere voluntarism as the gold standard of maintaining justice in market interactions. However, I posit that, while voluntarism is necessary, it remains insufficient for meeting the strict …
-
Prediction and Measurement of Thermal Exchanges within Pyranometers
… in these data is due to parasitic thermal exchanges within the instrument [Haeffelin et al., 1999]. Thermal radiation absorbed and emitted by the filters, as well as that reflected and re-reflected among the internal surfaces, influences the net radiation at the detector surface and …
-
Ionic exchanges between glass ionomers and demineralised dentine
Glass-ionomer cement has been used in the Atraumatic Restorative Technique (ART) for stabilisation of carious lesions. The infected layer or fully demineralised dentine is removed by dental hand instruments only and glass-ionomer cement is placed to restore the lesion leaving the affected layer or …
-
A place for exchanges : a winery in Piedmont
… of dichotomies; thus the title "a place for exchanges". A winery is the vehicle for exploring the issues raised above. The site is a two hectare vineyard that includes an abandoned villa in Piedmont, Italy. The goal for this thesis is for the design process to contribute partial answers to …
-
The space in-between - representing transcultural exchanges through architecture
… The Space In-between: Representing Transcultural Exchanges through Architecture, explores possible ways of negotiating cultural exchanges within cities. The project raises the awareness of the potential for cultural space within the built environment as a place for cultural engagement. The …
-
Towards Robust Exchanges: Evaluating Ecological Compensation in New Zealand
… were investigated based on the ecological exchanges approved in 110 consents. The key implementation issues were (1) equivalency, (2) spatial proximity, (3) additionality, (4) timing, (5) duration and compliance, and (6) currencies and ratios. Most exchanges approved under the RMA were …
-
Health Insurance Exchanges: A Panacea or a Band-Aid?
… reforms in the ACA, the state health insurance exchanges. The author finds theoretical and empirical evidence to support the exchanges' potential (in conjunction with other relevant ACA reforms) to increase access, decrease insurers' excess profits and shift health care costs away from those …
-
The Influence of Risk and Regret on Marketing Exchanges
Risk is conceptualized in this dissertation as subjective expectation of loss, the more certain one is of that potential loss, the more risk associated with a contemplated exchange. Defining risk this way leads, logically, to the development of regret, defined as the expectation of loss from not …
-
The Urban Oasis - [RE]-Generating Centurion Lake Through Resource Exchanges
A global attitude shift occurred during the 15th century that changed the relationship between man and its natural environment. This shift was brought by the Renaissance world view, where man is superior to nature and all that makes up natural systems. Only the aspects of nature that proves useful …
-
Implications of the Dense City Centre to Surface-Atmosphere Exchanges
… (3.5 years) dataset of surface-atmosphere energy exchanges in London. The focus is on the controls on radiation, anthropogenic heat and the turbulent latent and sensible heat fluxes. The impact of the composition and three-dimensional structure of the urban surface, plus the associated …
-
Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
This dissertation argues that the Manchu conquest of China in the mid-seventeenth century transformed several ostensibly “European” sciences in the early modern period. The “Tartar war” between the weakened Ming dynasty (1368-1644), peasant rebels, and the Manchus—a semi-nomadic population from …
-
Matteo Ricci’s contribution to the history of Sino-Western musical exchanges
… century's Sino-Western global and local musical exchanges. My study has four principal research sections: musical texts, historical soundscapes, musical experiments, and a conclusion framed within a glocal musicology perspective. In Chapter 2, pertaining to the analysis of the musical text …
-
Essays on stock exchanges speed competition, designs and high-frequency trading
… first chapter shows that a key driver of stock exchanges' competition on order-processing speeds is the Order Protection Rule, which requires an exchange to route its customers' orders to other exchanges with better prices. Faster exchanges attract more price-improving limit orders because the …
-
Bilateral exchanges in social networks and the design of public institutions
In this thesis, I study bilateral exchanges in social networks. I integrate the market based approach in economics and network based approach in sociology. I also give a joint model of externalities and peer pressure in networks and propose mechanisms to control externalities in networked …
-
Effective design of online intercultural exchanges among successful EFL teachers in Slovakia
… challenges, and use of online intercultural exchanges (OIEs) among Slovak English as foreign language (EFL) teachers in order to maximize the potential of OIEs for English language learning. The study collected data from an online survey, semi-structured interviews, and artifact analysis. The …
-
The Arts and Crafts movement: exchanges between Greece and Britain (1876-1930)
This thesis discusses exchanges between Britain and Greece as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement which took shape in England in the 1880s. It had an impact throughout Europe; its influence was especially significant on newly emergent nation states. Two important elements were the use of the past …
Page 1 of 49