Doctoral dissertation abstracts

Dissertations abstracted are: Study of Governmental Accounting in China: With Special Reference to the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) by Philip Yuen-Ko Fu; An Analysis of the Development and Nature of Accounting Principles in Japan ( by Yukio Fujita; The Evolution of Selected Annual Corporate Financial Reporting Practices in Canada: 1900-1970 ) by George Joseph Murphy;The Evolution of Accounting in Canada by Harvey Mann; A History of the CPA Profession in Colorado by John Matthew Hunthausen; A Study of the Development of the Certified Public Accounting Profession in Kansas by Eldon Curtis Lewis;The Development of the CPA Profession in Mississippi by James Wilbu

Doctoral dissertation abstracts

Dissertations abstracted are: The Development of Accounting Principles for Business Combinations, 1932-1973 by Wesley Andrews; Government Regulations and Professional Pronouncements: A Study of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants from 1934 Through 1974 by William Coffey; The Rise of An Independent Major: The Sun Oil Company, 1876-1945 by August Giebelhaus; An Analysis of The Professional Aspects of Public Accountancy by Michael Groner; An Historical Analysis of the Events Leading to the Establishment of the Cost Accounting Standards Board by Owen Moseley; An Analysis of the Evolution of Municipal Accounting to 1935With Primary Emphasis on Developments in The United States by James Potts; The Origin of Modern Industry in the United States: The Mechanization of Shoe and Sewing Machine Production by Ross Thomson

2014 – 2015 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP

Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the Indiana University School of Philanthropy will offer a one year doctoral dissertation fellowship of $22,000 for the academic year 2014-2015. This doctoral dissertation fellowship will be given to a scholar whose primary research focus is in the area of religion and philanthropy or faith and giving. The fellowship is intended to support the final year of dissertation writing. The fellowship stipend will be paid in three installments:$10,000 at the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year; $10,000 at the mid-point of the 2014-2015 academic year;$2,000 upon the successful completion of the dissertation

A Proposal for a Doctoral Dissertation

This is a proposal for a doctoral dissertaion in the Department of Comparative Literature of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This proposal was accepted 19 May 1970

Doctoral Dissertation Progress

Writing a doctoral dissertation in the Thomas Jefferson University School of Business is conceived to be a complicated but linear and sequential endeavor within a well-structured and orderly context. The implication of this is that progress is made by completing a list of measurable goals based on the structure of a dissertation such as a literature review or description of research methodology. These goals are listed by doctoral candidates at the start of each semester in which writing takes place, then assessed by the faculty advisor at the end. According to the Graduate Student Handbook, failure to meet the goals during the term will result in the student receiving a failing grade and subject them to the probation policy. I argue that absent from this mode of thinking is that the context for writing a doctoral dissertation may be volatile, complex, non-linear, and poorly structured. I also argue that because contexts vary, writing a doctoral dissertation is better conceived as a challenge that is both complicated and complex. Assessment of progress, consequently, should include methods and tools that enable faculty advisors and students to describe and discuss not only quantitative but also qualitative progress such as improved conceptual integration and synthesis. This is intended to help students, faculty, and the institution to reframe how writing doctoral dissertations may be conceived, how an expanded meaning of progress may be appreciated and assessed, and how heutagogical learning in a research-based doctoral degree may be developed

The Doctoral Dissertation: Observations, Perspectives, Protean Nature?

Dissertations represent different doctoral cultures as well as artifacts of research achievement. Beyond general contours identifiable as contribution to knowledge, the dissertation is as much symbol as acculturation within disciplinary cultures. Each dissertation represents training, discovery, unique contribution, as well as the acculturative properties inherent to the dissertation’s liminal process and raison d\u27être. This exploratory presentation challenges us to consider what the dissertation is and how it may vary in purpose and form. Closing keynote address at the Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) at Purdue University on May 23, 2019

Competent Program Evolution, Doctoral Dissertation, December 2006

Heuristic optimization methods are adaptive when they sample problem solutions based on knowledge of the search space gathered from past sampling. Recently, competent evolutionary optimization methods have been developed that adapt via probabilistic modeling of the search space. However, their effectiveness requires the existence of a compact problem decomposition in terms of prespecified solution parameters. How can we use these techniques to effectively and reliably solve program learning problems, given that program spaces will rarely have compact decompositions? One method is to manually build a problem-specific representation that is more tractable than the general space. But can this process be automated? My thesis is that the properties of programs and program spaces can be leveraged as inductive bias to reduce the burden of manual representation-building, leading to competent program evolution. The central contributions of this dissertation are a synthesis of the requirements for competent program evolution, and the design of a procedure, meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search (MOSES), that meets these requirements. In support of my thesis, experimental results are provided to analyze and verify the effectiveness of MOSES, demonstrating scalability and real-world applicability

Systematic Metaphors in Norwegian Doctoral Dissertation Acknowledgements

© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.This article investigates patterns of systematic metaphors used to characterize various aspects of the doctoral education period, based on analysis of dissertation acknowledgements (DAs) from doctoral dissertations across academic disciplines and written by researchers from four PhD programs offered by a Norwegian university. The primary research question addressed here asks which metaphors doctoral researchers in Norway use to describe their educational experience as a whole, as well as the assistance they received during their doctoral period. A discourse dynamics approach is applied to the data, allowing for the identification of metaphors employed about these topics followed by the categorization of the identified metaphors into broader categories. The resulting overview of the systematic metaphorical patterns in DAs provides empirical evidence concerning how doctoral researchers view their experiences, useful in mentoring situations as a starting point for addressing attitudes, beliefs and values about the various challenges and rewards involved in doctoral trajectories.publishedVersio

How to find and understand development problems and learning challenges in organic vegetable farming?

Laura Seppänen's doctoral dissertation in agroecology, using an approach derived from cultural historical activity theory, examines the developmental problems and learning challenges in organic vegetable farming