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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s of Dissertations December 2014 Exit Assessment Exercise A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF FIBRINOLYSIS TREATMENT TO ST EVATING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN A HONG KONG REGIONAL HOSPITAL Dr Kong Chun Cheong, Department of Medicine, Tseung Kwan O Hospital (December 2014 Cardiology Exit Assessment Exercise) Objective Acute myocardial infarction is one the leading causes of death in Hong Kong and modern soci...

Background The birth of stereotactic functional neurosurgery in 1947 was to a great extent dependent on the development of ventriculography. The last decades have witnessed a renaissance of functional stereotactic neurosurgery in the treatment of patients with movement disorders. Initially, these procedures were largely based on the same imaging technique that had been used since the birth of t...