125 research outputs found
Algemene genade : uiteenzetting, vergelijking en beoordeling van de opvattingen van A. Kuyper, K. Schilder en Joh. Calvijn over 'algemene genade'
No full textNewspaper Clipping, Flowers Present Many Pictures, March 23, 1972
No full textThis newspaper clipping provides a list of flowers and what the author, Jochem V. Benson sees when they look at them.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-james-franklin-buchanan/1195/thumbnail.jp
Novel instruments to assess physical function in patients with cancer
No full textThe general aim of this thesis was to investigate whether a patient’s physical function could be estimated more accurately with objective measurements of physical activity and fitness. More specifically, the first aim was to investigate whether measurements of physical activity and fitness in patients with cancer could be improved. Furthermore, the second aim was to identify patients at risk for physical inactivity and low levels of physical fitness. And the third and last aim was to identify predictors for early trial discontinuation in early phase oncology trials and whether smartphone measurements of physical activity and fitness might improve the selection of eligible patients for these trials. Herewith, this thesis provided knowledge on the added value of measuring physical activity and fitness objectively to estimate a patient’s physical function. Chapter 2 presents the results of the analysis of the association between patient-reported outcomes of physical function and objective measurements of physical activity and fitness. Chapter 3 evaluates the agreement between a physical activity questionnaire and accelerometer assessed physical activity. Chapter 4 presents the feasibility, validity and reliability of objective smartphone measurements of physical activity and fitness in patients with cancer. Chapter 5 identifies demographic, clinical and lifestyle-related correlates of low levels of physical activity, fitness and function in newly-diagnosed patients with head and neck cancer. Chapter 6 investigates predictors of early trial discontinuation in patients with cancer participating in phase I clinical trials. Chapter 7 explores whether smartphone measurements of physical activity and fitness are predictive for early trial discontinuation in patients with cancer participating in phase I and II clinical trials. Finally, Chapter 8 summarizes the main findings of this thesis, discusses the methodological considerations and provides clinical implications and directions for future research
Urban Transformation in the Northern Randstad: How Institutions Structure Planning Practice
No full textThis chapter discusses the empirical value of looking at planning practice through institution/pragmatism lenses. The notion of institutions that provide actors with a logic of appropriateness and ideas about planning as a communicative practice set the stage for an analysis of the use of environmental norms in Dutch planning practice. On the basis of three cases it appears that several ways exist of bridging the tensions between the institutional and pragmatist perspective.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Spatial Planning and Strateg
A Service of zbw Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Title: Real Financial Market Exchange Rates and Capital Flows Title: Real Financial Market Exchange Rates and Capital Flows Real Financial Market Exchange Rat
No full textStandard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Title: Real Financial Market Exchange Rates and Capital Flows Author: Maria Gelman, Axel Jochem, Stefan Reitz and Mark P. Taylor Abstract: Foreign exchange rates, asset prices and capital movements are expected to be closely related to each other as international capital markets become more and more integrated. This paper provides new empirical evidence from an index of exchange-rate adjusted cross-country asset price ratios, which may be interpreted as a real effective financial exchange rate. The integrated stock-flow approach reveals that a county's real effective financial exchange rate is co-integrated with international investors' net foreign holding of its assets. The associated error correction equations have useful interpretations against the backdrop of uncovered return parity and investor portfolio rebalancing behavior. This paper provides new empirical evidence from an index of exchange-rate adjusted crosscountry asset price ratios, which may be interpreted as a real effective financial exchange rate. The integrated stock-flow approach reveals that a country's real effective financial exchange rate is cointegrated with international investors' net foreign holdings of its assets. The associated error correction equations have useful interpretations against the backdrop of uncovered return parity and investor portfolio rebalancing behavior. This paper provides new empirical evidence from an index of exchange-rate adjusted crosscountry asset price ratios, which may be interpreted as a real effective financial exchange rate. The integrated stock-flow approach reveals that a country's real effective financial exchange rate is cointegrated with international investors' net foreign holdings of its assets. The associated error correction equations have useful interpretations against the backdrop of uncovered return parity and investor portfolio rebalancing behavior. JEL: F31, G15, E5
Extracting LLVM Intermediate Representation from Agda
No full textAgda, a promising dependently typed function language, needs more mainstream adoption. By the process of code extraction, we compile proven Agda code into a popular existing language, allowing smooth integration with existing workflows. Due to Agda’s pluggable nature, this process is relatively straightforward. We implement a solution in Haskell and perform an empirical benchmark analysis. We show that LLVM’s Intermediate Representation language is a usable and promising target, although some optimizations are necessary before broader application. More indirect paths towards LLVM IR appear more suitable, because of the large translation gap.CSE3000 Research ProjectComputer Science and Engineerin
Building a workbench to improve sharing and reproducibility of MOOC experiments
No full textThis thesis improves sharing of code and reproducibility (S&R) in research for massive open online courses (MOOCs). Reproducibility is recreating an experiment by a different researcher. Science in general struggles with repro- ducibility. MOOC experiments often contain useful code that could be used by other researchers, but that code is oftentimes not shared with others. To improve S&R in MOOC research, this thesis first identifies the challenges MOOC sci- entists encounter when trying to share code and when making their experiments reproducible. Then, user interviews are performed to further understand MOOC research and to better understand the challenges identified earlier. A conceptual experimental workflow is designed and implemented in the form of a workbench. The workbench is then evaluated. The identified challenges based on literature with regards to S&R are: (1) Difficulty in selecting the right tools, (2) lack of a standardized workflow that en- ables reprodubility and (3) manual work required to enable reproducibility with- out a clear incentive to perform that work. From the user interviews, researchers indicate experiencing these same challenges. Based on these challenges, I pro- pose an experimental workflow that focuses on making research reproducible and on sharing code. This workflow is implemented in the form of a work- bench, where researchers can create and manage their MOOC experiments. This workbench allows for sharing code between researchers and is evaluated using a real-world data science task by three actual large-scale learning analytics re- searchers and a visiting volunteer researcher. The evaluation finds that the work- bench needs more work to be suitable for actual MOOC research use and that more researcher education is needed to improve sharing and reproducibility in MOOC research
Prediction of the characteristics of a tsunami wave near the Tohoku coastline: Numerical SWASH modelling
No full textTo calculate tsunami forces on coastal structures, the wave type in front of the coast is of great importance. Hence this paper aims to find ways to predict the type of tsunami wave breaking. Based on literature review, video footage, analytical reasoning and numerical modelling (SWASH) it can be concluded that both the continental shelf slope (alpha_2) and the bay geometry (beta) have a significant influence on the transformation of a tsunami wave near the coastline. After conducting 1D and 2DH wave simulations, a distinction is made in three types of tsunami waves; a non-breaking front (surging), a breaking front (plunging) and an undular bore breaking front (spilling). Tsunami waves transform into these three wave types for a steep continental shelf, an intermediate sloped continental shelf, and a gentle sloped continental shelf respectively. A new tsunami breaker parameter (xi_tsunami) is proposed to predict the type of wave at the coastline in a quantitative way. This is a report of a master thesis, where a draft version of a publication is combined with the final report as an appendix
Large deviations analysis for the log-normal distribution
No full textWe inspect the behavior of the probability that a weighted sum of random variables with log-normal tails is greater than its expected value. Under the right conditions for the weights and the variance being set to 1; we were able to bound a suitable transformation of this probability with the upper bound being a fixed factor of the square root of e above the lower bound. Beyond this, we analyse the conditions on the weights and determine a method for letting the weights be random and give an example.We end off by extending our result to general variance, where we see that the deviation between the lower and upper bound as well as the domain for the result are dependant on the variance.Applied Mathematic
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