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Household tasks and parent expectations for employment
No full textResearch has found that transition-aged youth (i.e., ages 14-21) with severe disabilities who engage in household tasks have increased odds of employment after exiting school. Moreover, the odds of youth being employed increase when parents expected that their children would have paying jobs after high school. However, research has not identified the extent that youth with severe disabilities, including intellectual disability (ID), participate in household tasks and how their participation relates to parent expectations for employment. This cross-sectional survey study had two primary purposes. It sought to determine the extent that parents reported their transition-aged youth with intellectual disability participated in household tasks and the level of support their youth required to participate in tasks. Additionally, this study aimed to examine the relationship between youth involvement in household tasks and parent expectations for post-school employment. Parents of 118 transition-aged youth with intellectual disabilities from 28 states participated in the study. Descriptive statistics revealed that youth with intellectual disability had low overall levels of participation in household tasks and often required assistance to participate in tasks. A significant, positive relation was found between increased youth household task participation and high parent expectations for employment. Additionally, correlates of youth household task participation were identified. Specifically, youth with profound ID (versus youth with mild and moderate ID) were significantly less likely to participate in household tasks. Youth with increased engagement in community-based activities and previously paid employment experiences had increased participation in household tasks. Implications for research and practice research are discussed based on the study’s findings.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01The student, Kimberly Patton, accepted the attached license on 2020-08-18 at 16:08.The student, Kimberly Patton, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-08-18 at 16:14.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-08-25 at 09:56.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15775 on 2021-03-04 at 16:18:28Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:40:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Statistical inference on the reliability performance index for electric power generation systems
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 101-106)A primary objective of this research is to analytically develop a probability density function for the "Loss of Load, " a widely used index in power systems reliability evaluation. The equations to compute the parameters of this distribution for any given load cycle are derived. The forced outage rate (F.O.R.) for a generating unit is instrumental in the computation of reliability indices. This research also suggests a method for obtaining a statistically consistent estimator of F.O.R. using a decision theoretic approach. In order to develop the theoretical structure for the problem stated, classical and decision theoretic (Bayesian) statistical inferences are used as major tools along with the univariate and multivariate asymptotic theory. Consequently, an approximate numerical multiple integration scheme is employed to compute the parameters of the asymptotic pobability density function. The author believes that this statistical approach offers a more realistic alternative to the conventional calculation of an averaged value for the Loss of Load index where deterministic outage data are used
Change of word characteristics in 20th-century Turkish literature: a statistical analysis
No full textThis article provides a century-wide quantitative analysis of the Turkish literature using 40 novels of 40 authors. We divide the century into four eras or quarter-centuries; allocate 10 novels to each era, and partition each novel into equal-sized blocks. Using cross-validation-based discriminant analysis, with the most frequent words as discriminators, we achieve a classification rate with a relatively high accuracy when the novel blocks are classified according to their eras. We show that, by using statistical stylistic methods, the author gender of Turkish texts can be accurately identified. We also study the gender differences regarding the use of most frequent words. Using weighted least squares regression and a sliding window approach we show that as time passes, words, both in terms of tokens (in text) and types (in vocabulary), have become longer. The findings of this work have implications for the historical linguistic analysis of the Turkish language. © 2010 Taylor & Francis
Commentary on Issues on potential growth measurement and comparison: how structural is the production function approach?
No full textEconomic development ; Economic conditions ; Econometric models
A Detailed Stylometric Investigation of the İnce
No full textWe analyze four İnce Memed novels of Yaşar Kemal using six style markers: “most frequent words,” “syllable counts, ” “word type-or part of speech- information, ” “sentence length in terms of words, ” “word length in text, ” and “word length in vocabulary. ” For analysis we divide each novel into five thousand word text blocks and count the frequencies of each style marker in these blocks. The principal component analysis results show clear separation between the first two and the last two volumes; the blocks of the first two novels are also distinguishable from each other. The blocks of the last two volumes are intermixed. This parallels the fact that the author planned the last two volumes as three separate novels, but later condensed them into two. The style markers showing the best separation are “most frequent words ” and “sentence length”. We use stepwise discriminant analysis to determine the best discriminators of each style marker and then use them in cross validation. The related results concur with the principal component analysis results. For example, the cross validation results obtained by “most frequent words ” and “sentence length, ” respectively, provide 87 % and 81 % correct classification of the text blocks to their corresponding volumes. Further investigation based on multiple analysis of variance (MANOVA) reveals how the attributes of each style marker group distinguish among the volumes
Annual Commencement Program
No full textCommencement address by Jerry FlorenceDigitized by WSU Libraries Technical Services; Master file: pdf; Access file: optimized pdfConferring of degrees: Eugene M. Hughes, President, Wichita State University, and Bobby R. Patton, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wichita State University; Assisted by Michael C. Vincent, Dean of the WSU Graduate School; and the Doctoral Dissertation Faculty AdvisorsColleges: W. Frank Barton School of Business, presented by Dean Gerald H. Graham; College of Education, presented by Dean Jon M. Engelhardt; College of Engineering, presented by Dean William J. Wilhelm; College of Fine Arts, presented by Dean Walter J. Myers; College of Health Professions, presented by Interim Deans Stephen C. Qadhart and Bonnie J. Holaday; Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, presented by Dean David C. Glenn-Lewin; University College, presented by Dean James W. Kelley; Graduate School, presented by Dean Michael C. Vincen
Authors' attitudes to, and awareness and use of, a university institutional repository.
No full textThis article reports the findings of an author study at Cranfield University. The study investigated authors' publishing behaviours, attitudes, concerns, and their awareness and use of their institutional repository (IR), Cranfield QUEprints. The findings suggest that despite a reasonable amount of advocacy many authors had not heard of QUEprints and were not aware of its purpose. Once explained, all authors saw at least one benefit to depositing a copy of their work to QUEprints, but many were unsure how to deposit, preferring to depend on the Library to do the work. The authors voiced few concerns or conditions regarding the inclusion of their work in QUEprints, but felt that it would be an extra, inconvenient step in their workload. This research led to the development of the Embed Project which is investigating how to embed the IR into the research process and thereby encourage more authors to deposit their work
Anatomies of the subject: Spinoza and Deleuze
No full textPhDThis thesis centres on an examination of Gilles Deleuze's non-subject centred
philosophy and the influence of the earlier (seventeenth century) work of Benedict
Spinoza, whom Deleuze describes as one of an "alternative" tradition of philosophers,
and whom he claims as an antecedent.
Historically, the subject has always appeared as a question, or as in question,
as a problem around which concepts cluster. The focus here is on Deleuze's approach
to the problem of subjectivity, his treatment of it and his attempt to configure an "antisubject"
based on his own transformations of Spinozist concepts, which he takes up
and modifies for his own purposes. The proposal is that Spinoza provides a key or a
way into Deleuzean concepts, and at the same time that Deleuze's readings of
Spinoza's theories reinvigorate them.
What unites Spinoza and Deleuze, and is a recurring theme of this thesis, is
that they both conduct their critiques and elaborate models from within a conceptual
framework of a radical immanence that opposes all transcendence, and especially the'
transcendent subject of consciousness. It is on the basis of Spinoza's radical
immanence and his non-analogical approach to Being/beings that Deleuze constructs
a theory of becoming - as "de-individualising" process - that will be his alternative to
models of the subject based on identity
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