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Showing 1 to 20 of 265 for “"Theoretical Foundations"”.
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Functional parallelism: Theoretical foundations and implementation
Thus far, parallelism at the loop level (or data-parallelism) has been almost exclusively the main target of parallelizing compilers. The variety of new parallel architectures and recent progress in interprocedural dependence analysis suggest new directions for the exploitation of parallelism …
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Scaling Bayesian inference : theoretical foundations and practical methods
Bayesian statistical modeling and inference allow scientists, engineers, and companies to learn from data while incorporating prior knowledge, sharing power across experiments via hierarchical models, quantifying their uncertainty about what they have learned, and making predictions about an …
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Theoretical Foundations for Learning in Games and Dynamic Environments
… The objective of this thesis is to develop theoretical foundations for the computational aspects of such decision-making problems: e.g., How do we efficiently compute equilibria in large games?, and: How can we efficiently learn near-optimal policies in complex environments? Some highlights …
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Code-Based Digital Signature Schemes: Construction, Cryptanalysis and Theoretical Foundations
In recent decades, numerous code-based digital signature schemes following the hash&sign paradigm have been proposed, often turning out to be insecure and demonstrating that the cryptographic community still seems far from a satisfactory solution in this area. The first major question we pose in …
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The healthcare goods logistics innovation evaluation: theoretical foundations and practical applications
… the purpose of the first article is to present a theoretical framework of the healthcare goods logistics process and its innovation within hospitals, that is, the process which includes all the activities from receiving healthcare goods until their delivery to patients. In contrast to other …
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Revisiting the Theoretical Foundations of International Organisations in Public International Law
… organizations. Despite the emergence of newer theoretical approaches over the years, scholars continue to operate on a rough premise of state anthropomorphism. According to this popular, though dated notion, the state can be analogized to the individual human being. Modelling the state as a …
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Theoretical Foundations of Flow-based Methods for Sampling and Generative Modeling
… success in practical applications, their theoretical underpinnings remain largely unexplored. In this thesis, we provide a theoretical foundation for flow-based methods for sampling and generative modeling, and a unified view of both continuous and discrete-time approaches. In the first …
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Advances in Telecentric Digital Holographic Microscopy: From Theoretical Foundations to Biomedical Applications
This thesis investigates the enhancements in telecentric digital holographic microscopy (TDHM), focusing on optimizing off-axis configurations for biomedical applications. Through a holistic approach combining hardware innovations and algorithmicadvancements, this work addresses fundamental …
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Theoretical foundations of meta-aggregation: insights from Husserlian phenomenology and American pragmatism
… pragmatism; 2) to develop an explicit coherent theoretical foundation for the Joanna Briggs Institute’s approach to the meta-aggregation of qualitative studies based on insights from Husserlian phenomenology and American pragmatism. The philosophical/theoretical perspective of the thesis was …
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Goal-oriented inference : theoretical foundations and application to carbon capture and storage
Many important engineering problems require computation of prediction output quantities of interest that depend on unknown distributed parameters of the governing partial differential equations. Examples include prediction of concentration levels in critical areas for contamination events in urban …
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An input output table for the Central America Common Market: theoretical foundations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. M.C.P.
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Theoretical foundations for finite-time transient stability and sensitivity analysis of power systems
… in nature. In this thesis, we discover theoretical foundations for the short-term transient stability analysis of power systems, based on the theory of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds and finite time Lyapunov exponents, adopted from geometric theory of dynamical systems. The …
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Patterns of intra-industry competition: A dynamic analysis of theoretical foundations of strategic groups
Strategic group research has progressed over the last two decades to the point where the creation of intra-industry groupings is no longer a significant contribution to management in and of itself. The research to date has not, however addressed questions of why these structures emerge in the first …
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Security of Cyber-Physical Systems with Human Actors: Theoretical Foundations, Game Theory, and Bounded Rationality
… fool-proof defense strategies founded on novel theoretical frameworks which integrate the engineering principles of CPSs with the mathematical concepts of game theory and human behavioral models. Towards realizing this overarching goal, this dissertation presents a number of key contributions …
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Enhancing spatiotemporal resolution in probabilistic risk assessment of nuclear power plants: theoretical foundations and methodological developments
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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A perspective on the theoretical foundations and pedagogical applications in computer adaptive testing of second and foreign language writing proficiency
The present study investigates the degree to which differences exist between paper-and-pencil writing of single, timed essays and computer revising of multiple, non-timed essays. Of central focus along the way are the following conundrums inherent in particular to writing instruction and …
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An investigation into the theoretical foundations of library cataloguing and a critical analysis of the cataloguing of the South African national bibliography, 1981-1983
This thesis proposes that the foundations of the library catalogue are not rooted in a coherent, encompassing and comprehensive theoretical structure. Instead, it shows that it rests upon a number of principles that evolved during the nineteenth century from the work done by cataloguing experts …
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Marketing legal services to medium-sized companies
… in the context of medium-sized companies from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The theoretical foundations for the market of legal services are laid by studying the particularities of services and their intrinsic challenges for marketing. Different ways to segment the legal market are …
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An examination of the relationship between public participation in constitution making processes and the objective to write a democratic constitution : the case of Zimbabwe's 2010-13 constitution making exercise
… challenges relate to the shortcomings of the theoretical foundations of public participation in constitution making. Such theoretical foundations include the doctrine of popular sovereignty and the doctrine of nation building and national reconciliation.
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Systém pro zvolení vhodného dopravního řešení pro vybranou společnost
… connected terms. It consists of 3 main parts. Theoretical Foundations, where important terms and the transport methods themselves are introduced. Current Situation Analysis which includes the selected company's background, details on currently used transport methods and important conditions and …
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