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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Hybrid methodology"”.
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Hybrid methodology for Markovian epidemic models
In this thesis, we introduce a hybrid discrete-continuous approach suitable for analysing a wide range of epidemiological models, and an approach for improving parameter estimation from data describing the early stages of an outbreak. We restrict our attention to epidemiological models with …
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Building Detection Using a Hybrid Methodology Applied to High Spatial Resolution Aerial Photographs
… etc.</p> <p>This thesis focuses on applying a hybrid methodology to automatically identify the buildings on digital aerial photographs with high spatial resolution in Bluffton, South Carolina. There are five components in this hybrid methodology, including: Scale-Invariant Feature Transform …
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Establishing a hybrid-methodology model for co-designing behaviour change: within the context of adventure sport participation in Scotland
… to them to solve. Using this approach, a hybrid methodologies model was designed and tested to explore the perceptions and experiences of adventure sport participants, to identify any changes that may be occurring as a result of the experience economy and increased numbers of participants …
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RESOURCE CONSTRAINT COOPERATIVE GAME WITH MONTE CARLO TREE SEARCH
A hybrid methodology of game theory and Monte Carlo Tree Search was developed and the hybrid methodology was tested with various case studies through the nurse scheduling problem to show that it was able to form Pareto front dominance solutions, finding feasible solutions that were optimal and …
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Modelling and matching : a methodology for complex ePlanning systems development
… with the need for a specialiseddevelopment methodology to address the problems peculiar to ePlanning systemdevelopment domain. It is proposed that a combination of some Information SystemDevelopment Methodologies (ISDMs) in terms of characteristics of ePlanningsystems will increase the …
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A survey of human-centered design methodologies for a new hybrid approach in product and experience innovation
… methodologies in each stage to create a new hybrid methodology based on the strengths of each. The new proposed hybrid methodology includes steps from ten popular approaches to design: Jobs-To-Be-Done, Product Design & Development, Experience Design, UX Strategy, Design Thinking, The Lean …
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Numerical-Informational methodology for characterising steel bolted components coupling finite element simulations and soft computing techniques
… In this context, this thesis presents a hybrid methodology to determine the comprehensive force-displacement curve of bolted components: from initial stiffness up to the fracture point. This methodology couples numerical and informational models to predict key parameters of curves, such …
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Settling and Laying Down: A Cultural History of Quakers in Savannah and Statesboro, Georgia
This descriptive cultural history follows a hybrid methodology often applied to ethno-histories. This approach combines archival research, oral history, and ethnography, with reflexive aspects. I explore some similarities and differences between two Quaker meetings in Southeast Georgia, the small …
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Archiving and Advocating for Performance Festivals as Sites of Disciplinary Action
… as sites of disciplinary conviction. Through a hybrid methodology of ethnographic description, in-depth interviews, and autoethnographic reflection, I attempt to both document and bring to life the experience of festival attendees. In particular, I focus on how festivals provide opportunities …
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A multi-attribute approach to conceptual system design decisions based on Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
… Process (AHP), with a customer-focused design methodology, Quality Function Deployment (QFD). The result is a hybrid methodology more complete than either of the two alone, involving synthesis, analysis, and evaluation activities necessary for completing conceptual system design. An indicator …
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The Development of a Hybrid Scoring Key for a Situational Judgment Test Designed for Training Evaluation
… overcome these challenges, an innovative scoring methodology, the Hybrid methodology, is presented. This study provides the detailed description of the Hybrid scoring key creation, and compares the Hybrid scoring key with two traditional scoring keys (Subject Matter Expert (SME) and …
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Running Solo: Indigenous Teacher Identity in Roman Catholic Education
… exist in Roman Catholic education? Following a hybrid methodology that allied critical ethnography and Indigenous methodology, three salient themes emerged: (1) Indigenous teacher identity, (2) systemic barriers and (3) notions of change. Endemic structures of dominance and pressures to colonize …
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Arts-informed interpretative phenomenological analysis: understanding olders men's experiences of ageing through the lens of fashion and clothing
… In this research, I have developed a novel hybrid methodology, Arts-Informed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Rooted in phenomenology and arts, this methodology put to the test the concept of 'making' as a valid way of data analysis, equal to writing. My research process built on …
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Topic Modeling Location-Based Social Media Applications
… a systematic literature review, which followed a hybrid methodology to illustrate various topic-modeling algorithms. The use of design science research methodology and CRISP-DM methodologies resulted in an instantiation artifact being developed. This served to visualize topic-modeling results …
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Integration of Bayesian Decision Theory and Computing with Words: A Novel Approach to Decision Support Using Z-numbers
… in natural language. This work proposes a methodology that integrates Z-numbers and Bayesian decision theory to provide decision support when precise measurements and exact values of parameters and probabilities are not available. The relationships and computing methods required for such …
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Crafting the Self: How participating in coaching conversations can shape a recipient’s learning
… research design with a two-stage process. And a hybrid methodology drawn from Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Dialogical Methods. This approach is beneficial in enabling the complexity of self-other relationships that unfold within coaching conversations to be fully articulated. I …
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Rivers of doing, becoming, being, belonging: exploring occupational therapist identity
… and improved team work (Molyneux, 2001). Using a hybrid methodology of constructionist grounded theory and narrative inquiry, this project sought to identify key traits and factors related to the formation of an occupational therapist professional identity, while using the Kawa model as a novel …
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Metaphor in contemporary British social-policy. A Cognitive Critical Study Of Governmental Discourses On Social Exclusion.
… governmental discourses on ¿social exclusion¿. A hybrid methodology, combining approaches from Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and cognitive theories of metaphor, is used to address how social exclusion and other metaphors are deployed to create an ideologically vested …
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Peer mediation in Massachusetts public middle & high schools: Perceptions of educators
… to provide a finer grain for the analysis.</p><p>Methodology: The method of data collection is a mixed, hybrid methodology of 41 quantitative (closed-end) and quasi-quantitative (open-ended) survey questions. The survey instrument was a 10-page, self-administered on-line questionnaire delivered …
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Aeroacoustic computation of sound radiation from ducts
… radiation from ducts. The solver is based upon a hybrid methodology whereby only the acoustic near-field is solved using the developed numerical solver, with the resultant far-field directivity determined from an integral solution of the Ffowcs Williams - Hawking equation. Particular emphasis has …
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