alla mia famiglia a Iris " You will learn to lose everything; we are temporary arrangements. " Alanis Morissette Acknowledgments A substantial part of the thesis work has been carried on in the D-MIR lab, TU Delft (Delft, The Netherlands) under the supervision of Prof.

partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Technology (Honours) in 2009, is an authentic record of the work carried out by Sushil Subramanian under my guidance and supervision. In my opinion, this work fulfills the requirement for which it has been submitted. This thesis has not been submitted to any other university or institution for any degree or diploma.

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract and to classify rigid designators in text such as proper names, biological species, and temporal expressions. There has been growing interest in this field of research since the early 1990s. In this thesis, we document a trend moving away from handcrafted rules, and towards machine learning approaches. Still, recent machine learning approaches have...

Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful for the support of many people that helped me during these last months while I worked on this project. A special thank you to.... • Dipl. Stat. Nora Fenske for her excellent supervision, her accurate proofreading , her support, her commitment and her patience. I also want to thank her for making all her R code about quantile regression available to me. • Pr...

[Purpose] This study examined the contents of supervision needed by novice therapists to develop clinical abilities, focusing on their clinical experience and using an original evaluation table. [Subjects and Methods] An evaluation of clinical abilities basic attitudes, therapeutic skills, and clinical practice-related thoughts was conducted in 29, 21, and 9 therapists with clinical experience ...

The rapid growth in the number of behavior analysts and aspiring behavior analysts creates an imperative for effective and efficient supervisory practices. Many behavior analysts receive little to no explicit instruction and mentoring in supervision practices while they are in training themselves. Those behavior analysts may then be expected to provide supervision for a range of individuals soo...

This is a summary of the author’s PhD thesis, defended on 8 October 2007 at the University of Luxembourg and the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, under the joint supervision of Raymond Bisdorff and Marc Pirlot. The thesis is written in English and is available from the author upon request. The work is situated in the field of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). It mostly deals with what w...

National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela (Deemed University) and is an authentic work carried out by him under my supervision and guidance. To the best of my knowledge, the matter embodied in the thesis has not been submitted to any other university / institute for the award of any Degree or Diploma. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is a pleasure to thank many people who made this thesis possible. I would...