In recent years, there has been a concern that the Internet has been contributing to a growth in student plagiarism. This paper reports on a study aimed at investigating if there were differences between plagiarism levels in doctoral dissertations submitted by students enrolled at traditional, brick-and-mortar institutions and those by students attending online counterparts. A sample of 368 dis...

I provide a definition of the Banks set, or set of sophisticated voting outcomes, over an infinite policy space and when individual preferences are weak. I also show that the Banks set is a subset of one definition of the uncovered set, but not another. The interpretation of the Banks set in this setting differs from Banks’s original interpretation in the implicit role of the agenda setter. In ...

geboren te Breda. This work was carried out in the ASCI graduate school. ASCI dissertation series number 194.

<The Theses Alive project, conducted at Edinburgh University Library, aimed to produce an E-Theses repository with a view to providing a solution which may be appropriate for other UK higher education institutions to adopt. This paper examines some of the most interesting and involved areas of that project, including what open access and open source meant for it, and how the Edinburgh Research ...

On June 1st, 2015, Jose Manuel Felix defended his PhD thesis on efficient runtime adaptation of contextaware systems by means of dynamic aspect weaving, at the University of Oviedo [1]. He presented his dissertation in a publicly open presentation held in the School of Computer Engineering (Fig. 1). After commenting on every question raised by the assessing committee, he was awarded the highest...

In the thesis literature review, an engineering graduate student is expected to place original research in the context of previous work by other researchers. However, for some students, particularly those for whom English is a second language, the literature review may be a mixture of original writing and verbatim source text appropriated without quotations. Such problematic use of source mater...

Dr. P.W. Verbeek heeft als toegevoegd promotor in belangrijke mate aan de tot-standkoming van het proefschrift bijgedragen. This work was carried out in graduate school ASCI. ASCI dissertation series number 49.

OBJECTIVE This paper describes the Lamar Soutter Library's process and costs associated with digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. METHODOLOGY Project tasks included identifying metadata elements, obtaining and tracking permissions, converting the dissertations to an electronic format, and coor...

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