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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"Structural Complexity"”.
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A Method for Visualizing the Structural Complexity of Organizational Architectures
… systems must become increasingly complex. While complexity management traditionally focuses on a product’s components and their interconnectedness, organizational representation in complexity analysis is just as essential. This thesis addresses this organizational aspect of complexity through an …
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New hydrogel forming thermo-responsive block copolymers of increasing structural complexity
This work describes the synthesis and characterization of stimuli-responsive polymers made by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization and the investigation of their self-assembly into “smart” hydrogels. In particular the hydrogels were designed to swell at low …
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Multi-trophic Biodiversity Increases with Increasing Structural Complexity of Forest Canopy
<p>Understanding the effects of forest canopy structural complexity on multi-trophic diversity is critical for conserving biodiversity and managing land sustainably. But multi-trophic diversity is often ignored when making decisions about land management due to lack of cost- and time-effective …
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Structural complexity and its implications for design of cyber-physical systems
… in terms of schedule and cost performance. The complexity of technical systems depends on the quantity of different elements and their connectivity, i.e., complexity means a measurable system characteristic. There are three main dimensions of complexity that emerged in the context of system …
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Quantifying stand structural complexity in woodland and dry sclerophyll forest, South-Eastern Australia
… for developing a stand scale index of structural complexity. If properly designed such an index can act as a summary variable for a larger set of stand structural attributes, providing a means of ranking stands in terms of their structural complexity, and by association, their …
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Quantifying stand structural complexity in woodland and dry sclerophyll forest, South-Eastern Australia
… for developing a stand scale index of structural complexity. If properly designed such an index can act as a summary variable for a larger set of stand structural attributes, providing a means of ranking stands in terms of their structural complexity, and by association, their …
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Effects of an intermediate-scale wind event on forest composition, structure, and structural complexity
… at the gap and intermediate scale increase structural complexity and intra-stand heterogeneity. On 20 April 2011 in Lawrence County, AL, an EF1 tornado tracked 5 km, leaving a patchwork mosaic of disturbed areas. To analyze the intra-stand spatial patterns of tree morality and biological …
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Structural complexity in service-oriented systems and its effects on system evolution and performance : a multi-cases study
… This research explores the effects of the structural complexity of composition of services on their performances and capacity to evolve. It does it by conducting a multi-case study on a set of web services responsible for complex tasks in a large and complex system. Drawing from the …
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Algebraic closures in complexity theory
… and structures which are derived from these in complexity theory. We classify problems with Boolean circuits and Boolean constraints according to their complexity. We transfer algebraic structures to structural complexity. We use the generation problem to classify important complexity classes.
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The Effects of Environmental Complexity on Community Structure in Woodland Centipedes
… of western North Carolina is related to the structural complexity of these microhabitats.
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Memory limitations in sentence comprehension
… model that derives offline and online complexity profiles in terms of a top-down parser for minimalist grammars (Stabler, 2011). The complexity metric reflects the amount of time an item is stored in memory. The presented architecture links grammatical representations stored in memory …
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Ecological aspects of the macroinvertebrates associated with two submersed macrophytes in Lake Kariba
… of Sanyati Basin, Lake Kariba. Lagarosiphon is structurally more complex than Vallisneria. This study considered the macroinvertebrate assemblages associated with the two plant species with respect to (i) differences in structural complexity, (ii) predator-prey interactions and (iii) water …
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Relative Invertebrate Availability in Nebraska's Conservation Reserve Management Access Program
… source for pheasant chicks and increasing the structural complexity of vegetation. This study compares invertebrate biomass and structural complexity of vegetation in treated (disked and interseeded with legumes) and idle portions of CRP-MAP fields to determine the success of the program in …
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Computational verification of published human mutations
… human sequence variations are characterized by structural complexity and, are hence, associated with abnormal functional dynamics. This thesis covers the assembly of a computational platform for verifying these variations, based on accurate, published, experimental data.
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Oil Palm’s Sustainable Future: The influence of within-plantation management practices on yield and pollinator diversity in oil palm
… This is because it can develop significant structural complexity and relatively high levels of biodiversity over its 25–30-year lifespan. In this thesis, I assess the impacts of management practices on structural complexity, biodiversity, associated ecosystem services and yield in oil palm, …
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APPLICATIONS OF GEDI LIDAR FOR REMOTE SENSING OF FOREST STRUCTURE AND BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS
… health as indicated by forest structure and structural diversity and improve our ability to monitor biodiversity using forest structure as a proxy. First, I introduce the application of GEDI lidar for differentiating between forest types by examining structural differences between native …
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Structural competition in grammar
… (and meaning) of [phi]' of [phi]' and [phi]' are structurally related (in particular, if [phi]' is no more complex than [phi]' (3) Simpler is better: if 0 is strictly more complex than [phi]', and if the two are equally good otherwise, q will be blocked by [phi]' The first claim is the most …
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Relating college students' learning approach to their quality of learning outcome
… with the quality of learning outcome (structural complexity and depth of cognitive performance). Rotter's Locus of Control Scale (Rotter, 1966), Biggs's Study Process Questionnaire (SPQ) (Biggs, 1988b), and Tobias's Assessment of Metacognition (Tobias, Everson, Hartman and Gourgey, …
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The extent, impact and stability of cognitive functioning in adult congenital heart disease
… ii) compare cognitive performance across structural complexity groups, iii) identify factors associated with cognition in ACHD. The follow-up study aimed to evaluate the stability of cognitive functioning over time and identify predictors of change. Three hundred and ten ACHD patients from …
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Engineering non-immunoglobulin binding proteins for in vitro diagnostic Tests
… to clone, long developmental timelines, and structural complexity.
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