Outline of the Thesis. In this thesis, we will answer the following questions: • Given an authentic, public channel, what is the optimal way to implement advantage distillation and information reconciliation? In Chapter 2, we will first introduce the protocols proposed up to now for advantage distillation and information reconciliation. Then a protocol that combines advantage distillation and information reconciliation is presented so that Xxx gets as little information as possible. • When the public channel is non-authentic, the communications between Xxxxx and Xxx are vulnerable to Xxx’s active attacks, i.e., Xxx may introduce fraud- ulent messages or modify Xxxxx’s or Bob’s messages over the public channel. In the context of privacy amplification, Xxxxx and Xxx share common, though partially secret, strings. If a common string is used as an authentication key, what is the upper bound on Xxx’s information about the common string so that authentication is possible? How do Xxxxx and Xxx use the common string to authenticate messages during the privacy amplification phase? These ques- tions will be answered in Chapter 3. • Privacy amplification is a special case of secret key agreement. In the general context of secret key agreement, Xxxxx and Xxx only have access to some correlated strings. How do Xxxxx and Xxx in this case achieve authenticity to thwart Xxx’s active attacks on their communications over the public channel? In Chapter 4, we will study how Xxxxx and Xxx use their correlated strings obtained during the initialization phase, for authentication. When there is some advantage between Xxxxx and Xxx over Xxx, Xxxxx and Xxx can use this advantage to accomplish authenticity. • Just like in the satellite scenario, quantum key agreement can achieve un- conditional security. However, a quantum channel provides another scenario, namely the quantum transmission session. The information Xxx gets during a quantum transmission session is closely related to the length of the final secret key generated by Xxxxx and Xxx. How much information does Xxx ob- tain during a quantum transmission session? In Chapter 5, we will study how to use some known information, such as the number of errors in Bob’s quan- tum bits, the density of the light pulses, and so on, to derive a probabilistic upper bound on the amount of information Xxx can learn from a quantum transmission session.
Outline of the Thesis. The main problem considered in this thesis is the optimisation of multi-user cogni- tive networks under the assumption of having imperfect/perfect CSI. Depending on a considered scenario, various problems can be defined. The principal contributions are divided in three chapters (Chapters 3, 4, and 5), with respect to assumptions on system setup and channel state information model.
Outline of the Thesis. In June 2002 the Leiden’s TTTS study (XXXXX’ study) was started. The aim of this prospective study was to investigate the short-term and long-term outcome in TTTS treated with fetoscopic laser surgery. With an intense and ongoing collaboration between the obstetric and neonatology depart- ments of the LUMC, several other study projects associated with the patho- genesis, diagnosis and treatment of TTTS were also initiated. The aim of these studies can be summarized as follows:
Outline of the Thesis. In order to answer the research question on faculty’s understanding and practice of research this thesis paper has been organized in the following way: Chapter 1 introduces the reader with the research topic by providing background information on the context of research and identifying the problem statement followed by the purpose of the study, the research question, significance, and benefits of the study. Chapter 2 provides an extensive literature review from three dimensions such as policy, institutional and individual. Policy level comprises the Kazakhstani context, research universities, differences between basic and applied research, and common challenges faced by Kazakhstani researchers. Institutional level covers the influence of the Soviet legacy and international cooperation, while the individual level is focused on the idea of research, different roles faculty perform at university and their motivation to do research.
Outline of the Thesis. The thesis contains six chapters: the introduction, the literature review, the methodology, the findings, the discussion and the conclusion. The first chapter introduces the topic and its context, states the problem, explains the purpose of the study, presents the research questions and explains the significance of the study. The second chapter critically reviews the existing literature on the topic of collaboration at schools. The third chapter elaborates on the chosen method of research and discusses all the aspects associated with it, including ethics. The fourth chapter describes the findings in the order of the research questions. The fifth chapter discusses the research findings and corroborates them with relevant research and scholarly insights. Lastly, the sixth chapter concludes the thesis with answering the research questions, explaining the study’s limitations and giving recommendations to the potential beneficiaries.
Outline of the Thesis. Chapter 1. In this chapter, the statement of the problem is stated and the purpose of the study is discussed. The research questions are also outlined, the terms are defined and the significance of the study clearly presented.
Outline of the Thesis. The outline of the thesis include in to five chapter, they are: the first chapter consist of background of the problem, focus of the problem, the definition of key terms, the formulation of the problem, the aim of the research, the significances of the research, and outline of the thesis. The contents of this chapter was about the problem that faced by students in identifying adjective phrase in descriptive text, the students do not able to identify adjective phrase in descriptive text well, because the students the students do not know about grammar, lack of the knowledge to understanding characteristic adjective phrase in descriptive text and in this chapter found how to solving the problems. The second chapter consist of: the theoretical description, which explain about the definitions of descriptive text, social function of descriptive text, the generic structure of descriptive text, adjective phrase and review of related findings. In this chapter explained clearly what the meaning of descriptive text, social function, generic structure, example of descriptive text and adjective phrase. The third chapter consist of: time and place of the research, research design, source of data, technique of data collection and instruments, technique of data trustworthiness and the last technique of data analysis. The kind of the research was qualitative approach, the research done in SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan, the instrument of collecting data that used by researcher were observation, interview, and test. The fourth chapter consist of findings, discussion and result of the research consist description in identifying adjective phrase in descriptive text, the difficulties of the student in identifying adjective phrase in descriptive text and the effort of teacher to overcome the difficulties. In this chapter about result of the research, the difficulties that faced by students in identifying adjective phrase in descriptive text and, how to overcome the difficulties. The threats of the research, which talking about the threats that researcher found in the process of the research. The fifth chapter consist of conclusion and suggestion. The conclusion include the result of the research, the difficulties that faced by students in identifying adjective phrase in descriptive text, and the efforts by English teacher to overcome the difficulties that faced by students, English teacher, headmaster and the reader.
Outline of the Thesis. The thesis is organized as follows. Some basic concepts of information-theoretic security are introduced in Chapter 2, followed by an overview of the state-of-art signal processing techniques achieving wireless PLS in a variety of wiretap channels, and the recent advances in enhancing PLS for WPCN are summarized. The main contributions are presented in Chapters 3-5. Specifically, in Chapter 3, the potential security issues induced by SWIPT in a three-node SISO fading wiretap channel are discussed and the compromise of information-theoretic security on the system EH requirements is characterized by various trade-offs, such as (secrecy) outage-energy (O-E) trade-off and (secrecy) rate-energy (R-E) trade-off. Chapters 4 and 5, on another front, focus on opportunities gained by WPCN for PLS designs. In Chapter 4, (worst-case robust) SRM problems are considered for a cooperative SWIPT network in the presence of one eavesdropper by exploiting wireless powered CJ, and the AN covariances and AF beamforming are jointly optimized under the perfect and imperfect CSI, respectively, while in Chapter 5, the above model is generalized to a more sophisticated case with multi-AF relays in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers by investigating both wireless powered CJ and CB, and dedicated hybrid PS receiver at each relay is employed. Finally the thesis is concluded and some interesting directions for future studies are pointed out in Chapter 6.
Outline of the Thesis. In Chapter 1 an introduction on the subject is provided. Chapter 2 presents the results of an online questionnaire on the use of analgesia in the Netherlands. Chapter 3 outlines the study protocol of the RAVEL (Remifentanil patient controlled Analgesia Versus Epidural analgesia in Labour) trial as it was published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Chapters 4-5 focus on efficacy and costs while chapters’ 6-8 focus on safety. In Chapter 4 the results of the efficacy analysis of the RAVEL trial are presented, this multicentre randomised controlled equivalence trial investigating remifentanil PCA and epidural analgesia was conducted in 15 centres in the Netherlands. Primary outcome measure was satisfaction with pain relief. In Chapter 5 the results of the economic analysis of the trial are presented. The economic analysis was done from a health care perspective and calculated costs from the start of labour until 10 days postpartum. We looked closer at respiratory complications in women receiving analgesia in the RAVEL cohort. The results of this analysis are described in Chapter 6. After the publication of the RAVEL and STER (Saturation and Temperature in Epidural and Remifentanil) studies a meta-analysis on side effects and maternal parameters was performed, the results are presented in Chapter 7. Because of indications that the use of remifentanil is associated with chronic pain we decided on a post hoc follow up study, the results of which are presented in Chapter 8. The general discussion can be found in Chapter 9. References
Outline of the Thesis. This introduction provided the phenomenological context for this thesis and attempted to motivate the study of compactified string theories as a promising way to address fun- damental shortcomings of the Standard Model. The rest of this thesis is organized as follows. • In chapter 2, we undertake a more detailed exposition of the mathematics of elliptic fibrations. This allows us to give a self-contained formal introduction into F-theory in chapter 3. • Chapter 4 presents an extension of the spectral cover formalism which studies lo- cal properties of subloci of the compactification manifold on which gauge degrees of freedom are present in F-theory. This extension, called the spectral divisor, al- lows one to construct gauge fluxes in a purely local setting. The construction is exemplified on an elliptic fibration with gauge group E6. The exposition follows the associated publication [66]. • In chapter 5, we systematically classify singularities of elliptic fibrations with an additional rational section using Xxxx’x algorithm following [67]. The classification provides us with a list of possible F-theory compactifications with both one abelian and (possibly several) non-abelian gauge symmetries. This list is complete for the low-rank gauge symmetries, and includes fibrations of phenomenological relevance that have not been considered in the literature before. We give concluding remarks and an outline of open research questions building on the work presented here in chapter 6.
