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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 for “"Rigour"”.
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Mathematical warrants, objects and actions in higher school mathematics
… at this level is characterised by moves to (1) rigour in justification,(2) abstraction in content and (3) fluency in symbolic manipulation. This thesis investigates these three transitions - towards rigour, abstraction, and tluencyusing philosophical method: for each of the three transitions a …
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An examination of liquidity risk and liquidity risk measures
Liquidity risk represents a vacuum of rigour in the otherwise well-researched area of risk management. In both practice and theory most of finance is silent regarding its scope and effect. This is principally due to a lack of consensus regarding its definition and measurement. Current liquidity …
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Managing economic value and uncertainty on software projects : an empirical study with the CASSE framework
… which are still non-integrated, requiring rigour to embrace overall economic value and uncertainty management. In this study. a complex Adaptive Software Engineering Framework which uses the Actor objective Dependency Analysis (AOD) technique is proposed as a feasible option. It is aimed at …
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Theorem proving with the real numbers
… relevant for attempts to inject more rigour into computer algebra systems. Our work is conducted in a version of the HOL theorem prover. We describe the rigorous definitional construction of the real numbers, using a new version of Cantor's method, and the formalization of a …
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The Human Rights Act 1998 in Constitutional Context: The Common Law, The Rule of Law, and Human Rights
… width, that the enforcement mechanisms lack rigour compared to s 3 HRA and the proportionality principle, and that they are vulnerable to legislative override. Therefore, a loss of the HRA would be a loss for the legal protection of rights. This thesis disputes the conclusion stated in the …
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An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
… practical considerations with theoretical rigour. Each chapter includes extensive bibliographic notes that survey recent advances. We hope this textbook will equip the reader with a workable mental model for navigating modern RL research.
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Recycling the City: The Impact of Urban Change on the Informal Waste-Recovery Trade in Hanoi, Vietnam
… problematic because it compromises the academic rigour of this field and impedes the reliability of researchers’ policy recommendations as well as to initiate a dialogue with the aim of improving methodological rigour in waste-recovery literature. Paper II examines urbanization processes in …
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Felt/felt
… disposition and navigating between asserting rigour and relinquishing control to develop form. The geometries that arise have a certain minimal formal austerity while embracing felts subtle yet irrepressible unruliness. There is a conversation between material, form, and experience in each of …
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An impact assessment of alternative access roads to the Mohale Dam, Lesotho
… To this end it aims to demonstrate analytical rigour and an understanding of the theoretical basis of the study.
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Need experienced by persons with late stage aids
… design and methods were employed to impose rigour on this event. Once the needs of persons with late stage AIDS had been made explicit, these were collated with services rendered or planned through state and welfare structures in the Richards Bay area in an effort to identify salient …
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Discrete optimization of upgrade scheduling
… that such an approach does exist. Mathematical rigour confirms the alternative hypothesis (with assumptions). Computational simulations reject the null hypothesis. The overall average of cost savings within satiable constraints (a subset of generated constraints in proportion to upgrade costs) …
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Exploring Experiences and Perceptions of NCR Offences
… on increased sample sizes to improve academic rigour.
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Landscape evaluation of the Liesbeeck and Black River confluence area : a strategic planning framework
… that reason aims for a balance between academic rigour and the concise, pragmatic style of a report. It should also be noted that this study is almost wholly contingent on a baseline document prepared between January and March 1994 by the 1993/94 M. Phil class. That document identified the …
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Legitimacy and decision making in developmental local government : participative MCDA in Stellenbosch
… that we both address the issue of quantitative rigour in resource allocation methods and that we look beyond and explore too the mechanics of effective participatory methods. The approach of developmental local government adopted by the new South African government post apartheid, places this …
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A critical review of the current portrayal of Metamorphosia captured in print
… license than applied scientific/clinical rigour. This said, an emergent grounded theory surfaced implying that quantification of distortion can coexist with the qualitative expression of metamorphopsia via pictorial depiction creation, potentially leading to greater insights into viewing …
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Livability and quality of life indexes in planning for sustainable communities
… but few do so with any real sense of theoretical rigour or clarity of purpose. An examination of the relevant terms follows, and workable definitions are proposed. An examination of existing indexes highlights many of the potential issues which must be addressed in the development of an index. …
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What's At Hand: Improvisation, Group Facilitation, and 'Agreement' Among Strangers
… environment, while still encouraging the rigour and risk inherent in live performance. This support paper contextualizes the performance project with reference to literature on self--‐ reflective teaching and participatory improvisatory performance praxis, examined through the lens of …
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The pragmatic constructions of Deleuze, Guattari and Miles Davis
… to approach Deleuze and Guattari with sufficent rigour and care, resulting in the perpetuation of so many misunderstandings regarding their work. Secondly, the project will seek to redress some of these misunderstandings by recourse to a pragmatic embodiment of Deleuze and Guattari's concepts and …
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An Evolutionary Algorithms Approach to Physical Modelling of Vocal Synthesis
… performing experiments emphasising statistical rigour and the ASECP framework for facilitating the processing are both presented. Then experiments comparing numerous fitness function designs and algorithm configurations are executed. Additionally, multi-model experiments ascertain the generality …
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Compassion and burnout in community mental health work
… and role perception. Poor methodological rigour restricts the conclusions drawn from the reviewed papers, however a number of organisational factors were found to be of importance. The empirical paper considers the process behind the loss and maintenance of compassion in community mental …
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