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 19 of 19 for “"Heuristic methodology"”.
-
Development of a heuristic methodology for designing measurement networks for precise metal accounting
This thesis investigates the development of a heuristic based methodology for designing measurement networks with application to the precise accounting of metal flows in mineral beneficiation operations. The term 'measurement network' is used to refer to the 'system of sampling and weight …
-
Theatre as transformative practice : a heuristic exploration of the psychosomatic dynamics of self-expressive theatre practices
… of theatre-based practices was undertaken using heuristic methodology (Moustakas, 1990). Twenty-two practitioners, some working independently, others working collaboratively, were interviewed about their approaches, focusing on their experiences of self-expressive performance as a way to work on …
-
Identity and mothering: the second generation of Ghanaian migrants
… giving voice to their experiences. A reflexive heuristic methodology was applied and Van Kaam’s modified method of analysis was utilised. The findings revealed that ‘identity’ is a complex phenomenon. Rather than remaining defined by their racial, intergenerational or cultural group …
-
CONK
… The resulting destabilization, this breakdown of heuristic methodology, creates situations that resist understanding and renders uncanny previously mundane images.
-
An Art-Based Heuristic Study: How a Male Student with Asperger’s Syndrome Completed an Art Therapy Master’s Program
<p>This qualitative art-based study utilised heuristic methodology to investigate the relationship between a practice of visual journaling and artmaking and the success of a male individual with Asperger’s Syndrome in an art therapy Master’s program. Supporting the heuristic process, data was …
-
Visit the Imprisoned: A Heuristic Inquiry into the Experiences of Catholic Detention Ministry Volunteers
… detention ministry volunteers. Through a heuristic methodology and with the theoretical underpinnings of Critical Pedagogy, Catholic Social Teaching, Liberation Theology, and Restorative Justice, I gathered data–the reflections, testimonies, and stories–from other volunteers who served as …
-
Provable Instantiations of Correlation Intractability and the Fiat-Shamir Heuristic
… and Shamir (1986) proposed (and Blum extended) a heuristic methodology for removing interaction from a huge class of interactive proofs. This methodology is ubiquitous and essential for practical applications, but for over thirty years, we had no proof of its security, even for a single …
-
The professional is personal: an evaluative inquiry into the experience of setting up and managing a university counselling service
… and analysis of interviews were informed by heuristic methodology. The focus of this project is to establish a structure of experience and learning drawn from reflections, self-process, motivations and subsequent actions of the researcher and ten participants from other student counselling …
-
The problem of pain: a heuristic and structural existential analysis of unexplained physical pain
… understood and difficult to treat. Applying a heuristic methodology, an in-depth exploration was conducted into the author’s personal experience of recovery and participants (N=8) who had recovered from chronic pain were interviewed. The results indicate: • Chronic pain is a multi-dimensional …
-
An áit ina bhfuil t-anam is ann a thógas do chosa tú (your feet will always take you to the place of your soul): A study of transformation through indigenous ways of knowing in a County Kerry Community
… performances. This study uses an arts-based, heuristic methodology to illuminate their process of transformation. These illuminations in image, dvd and cd formats, are further amplified through the inclusion of the learners’ thoughts and reflections throughout the process. Transformation …
-
An Approach to Real Time Adaptive Decision Making in Dynamic Distributed Systems
… As a consequence, the decision process is heuristic in nature. The optimal decision can be determined only after the fact, once the uncertainty is removed. For some types of dynamic systems, the heuristic approach can be very effective. The basic premise is that the future values of control …
-
Mothers’ living experience of relationship breakdown and divorce: a heuristic inquiry
… effects of single motherhood on children. This heuristic study, grounded in the researcher’s autobiographical experience, explores the tacit, unspoken dimensions of mothers’ experiences of relationship dissolution. Employing Moustakas’ heuristic methodology (1990),14 mothers (ages 35–50) …
-
Design of wide-area electric transmission networks under uncertainty : methods for dimensionality reduction
… framework. Approximate Dynamic Programming is a heuristic methodology which combines Monte Carlo methods with a reduced order model of the value function to solve high dimensionality optimization problems. All three approaches are demonstrated on an illustrative interconnection-wide case study …
-
A Combined Inventory-Location Model for Distribution Network Design
… problems together and investigates different heuristic methods for solving a combined inventory-location model. We begin by presenting the background and formulation for each problem. These formulations are then combined to show how the two problems can be mathematically formulated together. …
-
A Periodic Table of Movements: Two Reference Frameworks for Quantifiable Emotion, A Practice Based Investigation of Human Expressive Movement and Gesture
… on phenomenological interpretative inquiry and heuristic methodology, whole-body emotive expressions are documented and analysed from multiple perspectives: body, expressiveness, time, space volume and their correlations. <br/><br/>The first part contains information related to video data …
-
The Experience of Regular Exercise Participation for Women Moving into their Middle Years: Its Nature, Meaning and its Benefits
… as they arose from the interactive context. The heuristic methodology utilised in the analysis and presentation of the data offered a holistic, person-centred and reflective perspective on the nature, meaning and benefits of exercise (Moustakas, 1990). Individual and exemplary portraits depicted …
-
Unpacking the Syrian Academics’ Experience of Exile and Their Potential Role in the Future of Syrian Higher Education
… personal experience of exile, I have employed a heuristic phenomenological framework that has guided all aspects of the research. Heuristic research does not exclude the researcher from the study; the self is present throughout the process, allowing for self-exploration, self-discovery, and …
-
Poetry from the Glass Closet: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Pk-12 Educators as They Manage Their Sexual Orientation Identity Within a Teaching Role
… identities within a teaching role?</p> <p>Heuristics was the qualitative methodology best suited to address this question. Heuristics is a process, which combines personal passions and inquiry to illuminate larger universal significance. For this study, I used a three interview protocol, …