This thesis examines how the concept of 'self-determination' has featured in high-level international discourse at key moments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The exact language of 'self-determination' was internationalised in 1918 by Woodrow Wilson in the political context of the First World War, and in reaction to Lenin’s earlier references to the concept, which he had developed between.
Doctoral Thesis University of Trento School of Social Sciences Doctoral School of Economics and Management Switching Behavior: An Experimental Approach to Equilibrium Selection A dissertation submitted to the Doctoral School in Economics and Management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Economics and Management by Mariia Andrushchenko April, 2016.
The aim of this thesis is to critically evaluate the existing theorisations of the informal economy and their applicability to Ukrainian society in order to start to enable a move towards developing policy solutions for tackling the informal economy. To achieve this aim, a mixed methods approach is adopted in this thesis. The survey.
The present thesis focuses on an evolutionary algorithm, Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES), which has become a standard powerful tool for continuous black-box optimization. We present several state-of-the-art algorithms, derived from CMA-ES, for solving single- and multi-objective black-box optimization problems.
Concerts. Introduction to An Evening with Zhenya. An Evening with Zhenya was the last concert I gave for the LDS (Mormon) Church. It was presented at the request of the Ventura Stake Relief Society president to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the LDS Relief Society by Emma Smith, wife of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Mormon Church, on March 17, 1842.
In this thesis, we follow the same line of research and propose a new approach to the design of balance pre-serving whole body motion controllers. The key idea is to leverage the advantages of whole body and approximate models by mixing them within a single predictive control problem with strictly prioritized objectives. Balance preservation is one of the primary concerns in the control of.
Doctoral theses are based on extensive research and advanced theoretical or empirical knowledge within the field of communication. Doctoral students who undertake research-creation theses include a practical component of creation or innovative production along with a written component demonstrating how the work advances knowledge in the field.