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The three-essay dissertation as an alternative to the current model

Although dissertations are universal for Ph.D.s (unless there is a Ph.D. acquired via coursework-only that I am unaware of), the reasons given for why dissertations are necessary differ. The most standard I've heard is that it accustoms the graduate student to the kind of research they will be doing after finishing the dissertation. So, if most of the research done afterward is in the form of journal entries, would a collection of journal entries not make the most sense?

This is the basis behind the three-essay model of dissertation, opposed to the thesis/treatise model which is a systematic work. The essays are either published directly into journals or reworked to meet publication standards.

Organizations and Markets, an Economics blog, writes about this from that field's POV and summarizes the results of a study evaluating the merits of both. Notably:

Economics PhD graduates who take jobs as academics are more likely to have written essay-style dissertations, while those who take government jobs are more likely to have written a treatise. Finally, most of the evidence suggests that essay-style dissertations enhance economists’ early career research productivity.

If this is in fact true for Economics PhD graduates, I would imagine it's more true for Philosophy PhD graduates, because:

academic jobs are the desired jobs for philosophy PhD graduates

the majority of the professional philosophy being done today is done in journals, or books that rely heavily on journal citations

many graduate-level syllabi have reading lists made entirely of journal publications, which is an indication of their relevance to the field. if dissertations were as relevant, you'd see them in syllabi.

The common criticisms of current dissertation models include:

Few people read the dissertation

Dissertations are almost always not influential works on their own

Time and effort spent doing the dissertation could be more optimally used toward other pursuits

But the three-essay model averts all of these. By writing something you'd publish later you are ensuring that people in your field read it, and by making something than can be turned into journal publications you're directly developing the activity you were going to do after graduation, as opposed to doing some other activity and expecting an indirect carryover.

The Organizations and Markets entry was in May 2013. The Leiter report investigated this two months later :

What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing a PhD 'by published/publishable papers'? An obvious answer might be: "The crucial advantage is having published articles, or articles that are immediately ready to submit to journals." But someone who completes a traditional PhD dissertation can publish during candidature as well. So, I'm curious if there are any further advantages or disadvantages of the 'by publication' route? It might be most helpful to know what people on hiring committees think (even if there may be considerations that members of a hiring committee wouldn't consider relevant when evaluating a job candidate).

Leiter doesn't comment and leaves the comment section open-ended. Some quotes that stood out to me:

My dissertation was not a series of articles, though I wish it had been. In addition to having published/nearly-publishable articles, there is a certain set of skills involved in making a paper publishable (e.g. managing one's burden of proof, black-boxing certain issues that are peripheral to the paper's main thesis, presenting ideas in a "referee-friendly" manner, motivating one's contribution succinctly, etc.) that one hones by writing articles but that are less likely to be developed if one writes a dissertation as a book-length argument.

"Someone who completes a traditional PhD dissertation can publish during candidature as well." Yes, but someone can publish while working as a roughneck on an oil rig. The point is that in dissertations composed of separate papers, the work done to complete the degree coincides much more with work that is required to publish. As a creature of finite means and lifespan, this always struck me as a point in favor of the format, other things being equal.

and of course, this one, by David Chalmers:

To put things sociologically, my sense is that there is a strong correlation between dissertation style and the sort of philosopher one becomes. Those who write PhD by papers more often become the sort of philosophers who publish journal articles and who work broadly and unsystematically on many topics. Those who write PhD by dissertation more often become the sort of philosophers who publish books and who work deeply on a single topic or systematically on multiple topics. Of course some of the correlation is explained by pre-existing dispositions, but my sense is that some of it is causal: that is, the sort of PhD one writes has some effect on the sort of philosopher one becomes.

Anyone making the decision about what sort of PhD to write should take this into account. I don't think either style of philosophy is the "right" sort. At the level of individual philosophers either route may be reasonable. There are clearly some short-term advantages for PhD-by-papers. But from a long-term perspective, even for those who go on to do article-style philosophy, there's a lot to be said for at least starting with a deep and sustained investigation of a topic.

At the level of the whole field, there's clearly been a trend in recent years toward article-style philosophy, with PhD-by-papers playing at least some role in that trend. I think it's good to have both styles of philosophy, but deep and sustained investigations of a topic play a special role in structuring the field. So I'd hate to see things evolve to a state where article-style philosophy became the norm and book-style philosophy became marginal. From this point of view, there's something to be said for regarding the traditional model as the default model, although one to be applied flexibly.

P.S. I should add that it's certainly possible to do "book-style" philosophy in a series of deeply interconnected articles. And likewise, as Julia suggests above, it's possible to do a PhD in the format of a series of papers that nevertheless constitutes a deep and systematic investigation of a topic. This hybrid model isn't always possible, but when it's possible it can end up having the main advantages of both of the other models.

I can think of one reason for writing the three-essay model that may or may not be obvious, but for practical purposes could be enormously important: a systematic dissertation will work off of a single premise, and if your premise is bad or if you find you no longer can support your argument, depending on the degree to which you've erred you may be wiping a year or more from your progress toward completion. If you are publishing three essays, a glaring weakness in a single essay will not hinder the completion of your dissertation in the way that having to revise the totality of a 300-page argument would.

A person who publishes under the three-essay model, in other words, might have a pretty good chance of finishing their dissertation on time or even early, while a person who publishes under the thesis model might find a 5-year commitment turning into a 7-year commitment if their mistakes are bad enough.

I know this isn't a new thing to philosophy, because I've seen "Three Essays" dissertations on the dissertations page of one of the major departments -- in the vein of NYU, Oxford, Rutgers etc., but I forget which one. Certainly if it's that high up it's acceptable at this point, but to what degree I don't know.

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Dissertation Structure

Under the ‘three papers’ model, a PhD thesis consists of three separate papers of “publishable quality".  The papers may not merely represent minor tweaks of a work that would be more appropriately reported in just one or two papers. The papers should be of normal journal article length (say, between 5,000 and 10,000 words). The papers are each free standing (in the sense that each can be read and understood independently) but should form a cohesive body of work that supports a theme that is expressed clearly in the introduction of the dissertation (Chapter 1). In addition, Chapter 1 may contain essential background information. There may also be a general literature review, but this is not necessary. Therefore, the ‘three papers’ PhD thesis looks like this:

• a definition or statement of the problem,
• the importance of the problem, i.e., why it is worth researching, why it matters to the field of MIS, and its potential implications for business and society.
• the philosophical and theoretical foundation (s) supporting the problem/issue,
•  an overview of the important literature (overview, because each article will have its own unique literature review),
• the research questions,
• In the case of co-authorship on any individual chapter within the dissertation, the student must indicate the percentage of effort and a description of the role played by each author in the introductory chapter.
• First paper.
• Second paper.
• Third paper.
• Conclusion and implications and suggestions for further research, including: The conclusion will briefly summarize the dissertation’s major findings, limitations, discussion, and recommendations. The student will also present and discuss linkages (i.e., similarities and differences) between the separate manuscripts that are included in the dissertation, striving as much as possible to present the document as representative of a coherent body of work. The conclusion chapter ‘ties’ everything together and helps the reader see how the various manuscripts, taken together, make a contribution to the knowledge base regarding the problem. The conclusion chapter should present/discuss research imperatives, or knowledge gaps, not visible when each manuscript is considered individually and should articulate an agenda for future research on the issues addressed in the dissertation

The total number of chapters is thus usually five, and the total length approaches 150 type-written pages (a maximum of about 35,000 words). As with the conventional PhD thesis, appendices of unlimited length may be added, but these appendices are commonly appendices to each paper, rather than appendices to the thesis as a whole.

Quality of Papers

The three papers must be of "publishable" quality, which is defined as that which would be accepted for publication by a journal in at least Tier 2 of the Bauer journal list for the MIS area either extant at the time of the dissertation proposal defense or as amended by the time of the dissertation final defense. This quality will be judged by the dissertation committee. However, papers published or accepted for publication by at least a Tier 2 journal serves as prime facieevidence of publishability.

Published Papers

A maximum of one article published or accepted for publication prior to the proposal defense may be included. This article must represent work undertaken while the student is enrolled in the PhD program and be approved by the committee at the time of the student’s proposal defense. This article must be connected to the theme of the dissertation. If a previously published article is approved by the committee, the student will be responsible for securing necessary permissions from the copyright holder and other authors.

Student's Contribution

Students must be the primary contributor on all papers, as determined by the dissertation committee. As primary contributor, students are responsible for development and articulation of a concept or idea for research, development of a proposal to pursue this idea, development of a research design, conducting research and analysis, writing major portions of a manuscript, designing an intervention or assessment (if relevant), and interpreting results.

At least two of the papers should be based on data that are analyzed by the student. If the third article is conceptual in nature, or based on a synthesis of the literature, it must be connected to the theme of the dissertation without overlapping heavily with the contents of either article. Whether the extent of any overlap is excessive will be determined by the student’s dissertation committee. (A certain amount of overlap is acceptable. For example, portions of the literature review may need to be cited in the various papers because it delineates the entire historical background of the study’s focal topic. Redundancy can be carefully reduced by citing one’s own work. However, self-plagiarism - reusing one’s own previously written work or data in a ‘new’ written product without letting the reader know that this material has appeared elsewhere - is prohibited.)

Co-authors must be identified at the student’s proposal defense. The paper and the role of the co-authors must be presented and approved by all members of the dissertation committee. Any changes in co-authorship must be approved by the student’s committee.

Submission of Papers to Journals

Journals to which articles are being submitted must be approved by the dissertation committee. Serving as an “editorial board” for the student, the committee will help select journals that will challenge the student and offer a reasonable chance of publication success.  If a paper is rejected by a journal during the dissertation process, the student may submit to another journal approved by the dissertation committee. In the case of a revise and resubmit during the dissertation process, any changes to the paper must be approved by the dissertation committee. Co-authorship will not be changed for a revise and resubmit.

If the journal reviewers suggest modifications to any of the 3 submitted manuscripts prior to the dissertation defense, your plan for addressing those suggestions should be shared with your dissertation committee members and approved by all of them before you enact the changes. Changes can be made to any of the 3 manuscripts provided that the dissertation committee members are aware of and agree to the changes being made and their rationale. Students may opt to defer changes requested by a journal to which they have submitted an article until their dissertation has been successfully defended.

If a paper is rejected by a journal after the successful completion and defense of the dissertation, co-authorship decisions that were made during the dissertation process will no longer be in effect. Submission to a new journal will be at the sole discretion of the PhD graduate. Also after the successful dissertation defense, any new submission or resubmission, including changes in the authorship or article content, will be at the discretion of the PhD graduate.

Switch from Traditional to 3 Paper Format & Vice Versa

Students should decide as early as possible, in concert with their dissertation chair, whether to pursue the 3-disseration format. However, they may switch from one format to the other at any time provided that their dissertation committee approves the switch.

Dissertation Proposal

The dissertation proposal must include

• definition or statement of the problem,
• the importance of the problem, i.e., why it is worth researching, why it matters to the field of MIS.
• the theoretical foundation (s) supporting the problem/issue,
• the research questions.
• Copies of any completed articles, whether published or not.
• An outline of any articles in progress.
• A list of proposed journals.
• A timeline for completion of the work. The defense of the dissertation proposal is expected to parallel the proposal defense for a traditional dissertation. The three article dissertation alters the format, but not the content, expected in the dissertation research.

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1. Introduction

This short guide introduces the idea of a PhD thesis consisting of ‘three papers’ as an alternative format for writing-up the results of three years’ PhD research. It compares and contrasts the conventional PhD thesis with the ‘three papers’ model, highlighting the main differences between them. It then suggests a rough timetable for producing a ‘three papers’ thesis in three years. Finally, it provides answers to some frequently asked questions.

2. The conventional PhD thesis

The conventional PhD thesis has (typically) the following elements:

For further information on the conventional thesis please consult the dedicated section (paragraphs 3.1 and 3.2)

3. The ‘three papers’ model

Under the ‘three papers’ model, a PhD thesis consists of three separate, publishable, papers. The papers should be of normal journal article length (say, between 5,000 and 10,000 words), depending on the editorial norms of the journal chosen jointly with the project leader (who is also the main supervisor). The three papers are each free standing (in the sense that each can be read and understood independently) but should be on related themes. The three papers are normally preceded in the thesis by a short introduction to the overall topic, which may contain essential background information. There may also be a general literature review.

Therefore, the ‘three papers’ PhD thesis looks like this:

• Cover page: All in English, setting out the name of the institution, the title of the thesis, the year of enrolment, the first name(s) and family name of the national tutor and the two foreign supervisors, the name of the candidate and the academic year in which it is to be presented. The model to be used is available at: http://www2.europhd.net/modalities-delivery-final-thesis-and-short-article
• Acknowledgment to any sponsor(s) of the research contained in the paper, along with grant number(s) and eventual disclaimer
• I.P.R. Agreement
• Outline: Containing the content of the thesis in chapters and paragraphs with the corresponding page numbers. The thesis must be divided into chapters and paragraphs (and if necessary into sub-paragraphs), all of which must be enumerated in the following sequential fashion: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2; 1.2, 1.2.1, 1,2.2; 2,2.1, etc.
• Abstract: Containing a brief description (Max. 2 pages) of the objectives and the results of the research and acknowledgements that may be due.
• Keywords: four to five keywords should be listed below the abstract
• Introduction and background to the general topic area.
• First paper.
• Second paper.
• Third paper.
• Conclusion and implications for policy and/or further research
• Bibliography: Containing a complete list of works consulted and referred to in the text as set out in point 2.6 of the following page: http://www2.europhd.net/typologies-and-conventional-book-format-thesis
• Appendices (where relevant): Containing detailed information of the various aspects of the empirical research and how it was compiled (e.g. a copy of the instructions and explanations relating to the research participants, the materials and/or the methodology of the experiment, the questionnaire or weighting method employed, tables with raw data, transcriptions of audio material and or video recordings etc.)

The total number of chapters is thus usually five, and the total length approaches 150 pages of A4 (a maximum of about 35,000 words). As with the conventional PhD thesis, appendices of unlimited length may be added, but these appendices are commonly appendices to each paper, rather than appendices to the thesis as a whole.

Regardless on the format chosen - conventional or three-paper model - a short version of the thesis should be submitted by the same deadline indicated for the full thesis.

The short version of the thesis in Article Format is aimed at presenting the concise summary of the whole thesis and must be understandable without references to the extended version of the thesis (both conventional or three-paper model) 

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Format and Requirements

Although the format of the three-article dissertation is different, the expectations for a final and approved dissertation remain the same. Additionally, the format should align with the most current APA guidelines. The following outline provides a guide for developing the three-article dissertation:

Format for a Three-Article Dissertation

Front Matter, as in a traditional dissertation format, to include:

• Copyright page (if applicable)
• Dedication (optional)
• Acknowledgements (Optional)
• Abstract (synthesizing three articles and work as a whole)
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables (if applicable) 
• List of Figures (if applicable)
• Introduction to overarching topic
• Theoretical framework and its application to the topic
• Executive summary of the three studies
• Statement of the problem
• Definition of terms
• Subsections of article (Introduction, Review of Literature, Method, Findings, Conclusion)
• Reference List
• Appendices (if applicable)
•  Chapter/Article 3, to include:
• Summary of key findings
• Discussion/Implications – Integration of key findings from the three articles
• Implications for future research to include informing one’s own future research agenda and recommendations for others
•  References for chapters 1 and 5

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• A three-article dissertation will consist of an introduction, a methodology chapter, three published/publishable articles, and a conclusion chapter.
• The introduction chapter should be substantially more detailed than one that is typically expected in a traditional dissertation and should demonstrate that the three articles each makes a distinct contribution and collectively form a coherent body of work. It should include, at the minimum, a definition and illustration of the problem, a justification of the problem’s importance, a description of the theoretical framework(s) to be used to address the problem, an overview of the key literature (overview only, as each article will have its own literature review), and a discussion of the original contribution of the dissertation.
• A rigorous methodology chapter similar to one expected in a traditional dissertation should be included.
• The three articles should be arranged in a logical order. One article may be a conceptual paper or a critical literature review, but at least two articles should be empirical.
• A substantial conclusion chapter should be included. In addition to summarizing and discussing the dissertation’s major findings, limitations, and implications, this chapter should also present and discuss linkages between the three articles and help the reader see how they collectively make a useful contribution to the knowledge base regarding the problem.

Committee approval

• Students should articulate in writing the rationale for the decision to adopt the three-article dissertation format to the whole committee before the dissertation proposal defense meeting, and the committee will approve or decline this decision at the proposal defense meeting. Committee approval is required to change the dissertation format once an agreed decision is made.
• The student must be the sole author of at least one of the three articles and must be the first and corresponding author of the other two.

Publication requirement

• No articles published prior to enrollment should be included.
• Only peer-reviewed, full-length journal articles can be used. The three articles should not be invited and should not form part of a special issue.
• The committee should advise students about appropriate journals. At least one article should be published in or accepted by a top-tier journal in the field; the other two articles should be judged to be of publishable quality by the committee and should be at least under external review with (not merely submitted to) highly regarded journals by defense time.

Copyright issues

• Prior to submitting an article to a journal for review, students should confirm that the journal will allow them to use the article in the dissertation. Students must secure copyright permission to include their published work in the dissertation.
• Some redundancy is to be expected, but self-plagiarism is not permitted.

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Prize-Winning Thesis and Dissertation Examples

Published on September 9, 2022 by Tegan George . Revised on July 18, 2023.

It can be difficult to know where to start when writing your thesis or dissertation . One way to come up with some ideas or maybe even combat writer’s block is to check out previous work done by other students on a similar thesis or dissertation topic to yours.

This article collects a list of undergraduate, master’s, and PhD theses and dissertations that have won prizes for their high-quality research.

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University : University of Pennsylvania Faculty : History Author : Suchait Kahlon Award : 2021 Hilary Conroy Prize for Best Honors Thesis in World History Title : “Abolition, Africans, and Abstraction: the Influence of the “Noble Savage” on British and French Antislavery Thought, 1787-1807”

University : Columbia University Faculty : History Author : Julien Saint Reiman Award : 2018 Charles A. Beard Senior Thesis Prize Title : “A Starving Man Helping Another Starving Man”: UNRRA, India, and the Genesis of Global Relief, 1943-1947

University: University College London Faculty: Geography Author: Anna Knowles-Smith Award:  2017 Royal Geographical Society Undergraduate Dissertation Prize Title:  Refugees and theatre: an exploration of the basis of self-representation

University: University of Washington Faculty:  Computer Science & Engineering Author: Nick J. Martindell Award: 2014 Best Senior Thesis Award Title:  DCDN: Distributed content delivery for the modern web

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University:  University of Edinburgh Faculty:  Informatics Author:  Christopher Sipola Award:  2018 Social Responsibility & Sustainability Dissertation Prize Title:  Summarizing electricity usage with a neural network

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty:  Education Author:  Matthew Brillinger Award:  2017 Commission on Graduate Studies in the Humanities Prize Title:  Educational Park Planning in Berkeley, California, 1965-1968

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty: Social Sciences Author:  Heather Martin Award:  2015 Joseph De Koninck Prize Title:  An Analysis of Sexual Assault Support Services for Women who have a Developmental Disability

University : University of Ottawa Faculty : Physics Author : Guillaume Thekkadath Award : 2017 Commission on Graduate Studies in the Sciences Prize Title : Joint measurements of complementary properties of quantum systems

University:  London School of Economics Faculty: International Development Author: Lajos Kossuth Award:  2016 Winner of the Prize for Best Overall Performance Title:  Shiny Happy People: A study of the effects income relative to a reference group exerts on life satisfaction

University : Stanford University Faculty : English Author : Nathan Wainstein Award : 2021 Alden Prize Title : “Unformed Art: Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel”

University : University of Massachusetts at Amherst Faculty : Molecular and Cellular Biology Author : Nils Pilotte Award : 2021 Byron Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation Title : “Improved Molecular Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Molecular Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Helminths”

University:  Utrecht University Faculty:  Linguistics Author:  Hans Rutger Bosker Award: 2014 AVT/Anéla Dissertation Prize Title:  The processing and evaluation of fluency in native and non-native speech

University: California Institute of Technology Faculty: Physics Author: Michael P. Mendenhall Award: 2015 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics Title: Measurement of the neutron beta decay asymmetry using ultracold neutrons

University:  Stanford University Faculty: Management Science and Engineering Author:  Shayan O. Gharan Award:  Doctoral Dissertation Award 2013 Title:   New Rounding Techniques for the Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms

University: University of Minnesota Faculty: Chemical Engineering Author: Eric A. Vandre Award:  2014 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics Title: Onset of Dynamics Wetting Failure: The Mechanics of High-speed Fluid Displacement

University: Erasmus University Rotterdam Faculty: Marketing Author: Ezgi Akpinar Award: McKinsey Marketing Dissertation Award 2014 Title: Consumer Information Sharing: Understanding Psychological Drivers of Social Transmission

University: University of Washington Faculty: Computer Science & Engineering Author: Keith N. Snavely Award:  2009 Doctoral Dissertation Award Title: Scene Reconstruction and Visualization from Internet Photo Collections

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty:  Social Work Author:  Susannah Taylor Award: 2018 Joseph De Koninck Prize Title:  Effacing and Obscuring Autonomy: the Effects of Structural Violence on the Transition to Adulthood of Street Involved Youth

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Need some inspiration for your study? You’ve come to the right place. Here we showcase a collection of dissertation and thesis   examples to help you get started. All of these are real-world studies from actual degrees (typically PhD and Master’s-level).

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Title: Interaction Among Supply Chains: Consumers, Firms and Policymakers Author: Yuanchen Li Year: 2020

This PhD thesis examines the dynamics of supply chain relationships across three levels: the interactions between firms and consumers, suppliers and buyers, and firms and governments. The research aims to provide insights into the complexities of supply chain dynamics and their implications for various stakeholders.

Title: Essays in Firm-Level Patenting Activities and Financial Outcomes Author: Michael J Woeppel Year: 2020

This doctoral dissertation explores financial dynamics in two key areas: investment valuation and the performance of small innovative firms. The first chapter introduces a new metric, PI q, which incorporates the replacement cost of patent capital into the traditional Tobin’s q calculation. The second chapter examines small innovative firms, finding that they achieve higher returns for up to five years compared to non-innovators.

Title: Analysis of Design Artifacts in Platform-Based Markets Author: Vandith Pamuru Subramanya Rama Year: 2020

This dissertation investigates design issues within digital platform-based markets through three essays. The first essay explores the economic impact of augmented-reality games like Pokémon Go on local businesses, specifically restaurants. The second essay delves into the sponsored search ad-market, examining the effects of market frictions on bidding behaviors in auctions. The third essay examines user-generated content platforms, focusing on how the loss of elite status affects user contributions.

Title: Gaming the IRS’s Third-Party Reporting System: Evidence From Pari-Mutuel Wagering Author: Victor Charles Ferguson Year: 2020

This dissertation investigates if taxpayers deliberately avoid IRS third-party reporting mechanisms, focusing on an IRS amendment in 2017 that changed how gambling winnings are reported. Specifically, it looks at the impact on thoroughbred racing wagers in the US, using Canadian tracks as a control.

Title: Essays on Product Innovation and Failures Author: Moonsik Shin Year: 2020

This dissertation delves into how strategic decisions made by firms can lead to innovation failures, a relatively underexplored area compared to studies on successful innovations. The research is structured into three essays. The first explores how inter-organisational relationships, specifically investments from venture capitalists, can influence innovation failures due to pressures such as time constraints imposed on portfolio companies. The second essay examines the role of acquisitions in innovation failures, suggesting that challenges like adverse selection and integration issues post-acquisition can significantly hinder a firm’s innovation outcomes. The third essay looks at how incremental product development can lead to failures if new products are too dependent on existing technologies, which may themselves be flawed.

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This research develops and validates the Instrumental Support Inventory for Spouses (ISI-s), a new tool to measure the practical support received from a romantic partner. The study involved two phases: initially, 372 married individuals helped refine the 39-item inventory across five categories through exploratory factor analysis, assessing reliability and validity. The second phase tested the inventory with 298 parents and their partners, using a longitudinal design, confirming its reliability and validity further.

Title: Dysfunctional Individuation, Spiritual Struggle and Identity in Emerging Adults: A Developmental Approach Author: Katheryn J. Klukow Kelley Year: 2020

This study investigates why emerging adults are participating less in organised religion, yet showing increased spirituality, attributing this shift to the process of religious identity development. The research involved a longitudinal survey of 788 students at a religious university, using structural equation models to analyse data collected at four points over an academic year.

Title: Depression Dynamics across a Decade: Density in Daily Depressive Affect and Yearly Depressive Symptoms Author: Raquael J. Joiner Year: 2020

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This dissertation explores the challenges that parents face when both they and their children exhibit symptoms of ADHD, as well as oppositional defiant and aggressive behaviours. It investigates how these symptoms in mothers and adolescents may influence parenting discipline, focusing specifically on the roles of maternal emotion dysregulation and stress in shaping disciplinary practices. The study employs a process-oriented approach to better understand these complex dynamics.

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This research aims to explore the roles outdoor education can play in Singapore, by conducting a case study of one school’s programme. Employing interviews, participant observations, and document analysis with tools like NVivo software, the study uses a grounded theory framework to interpret findings. It also incorporates Gert Biesta’s educational functions to assess outdoor education within Singapore’s specific context.

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This study examines the impact of the rapid internationalisation of higher education on the School of Nursing and Midwifery at La Trobe University, Australia. It explores how global trends and policies, particularly the shift from ‘Aid to Trade’, have influenced educational practices within the school. The research uses a case study approach, incorporating document analysis and interviews with 15 university staff experienced in international education.

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This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the field of environmental and energy economics. While each essay addresses different questions, they all contribute to the understanding of environment or energy economics related to energy demand using empirical analyses. The first two papers focus on domestic energy demand modeling and forecasting; one highlights the importance of appliance adoption with income growth, and the other estimates the impact of climate change on electricity consumption in China.

The trend of energy demand growth applies to not only China but also the developing countries in the Southeast Asia region. To meet the rapid increase in energy demand, most countries built coal-fired power plants though cleaner options such as solar and wind technologies are getting cheaper. The involvement of Chinese finance into coal-fired power plants is controversial and often leads to concerns on environmental outcomes and carbon footprints. Hence, in the third paper, I examine the environmental impact of coal-fired power plants China financed overseas.

The first paper (“Chinese residential electricity consumption estimation and forecast using micro-data”, with Jing Cao, Mun Sing Ho, Richard G. Newell, and William A. Pizer) was published in Resource and Energy Economics in 2017. Based on econometric estimation using data from the Chinese Urban Household Survey, we develop a preferred forecast range of 85 to 143 percent growth in residential per capita electricity demand over 2009 to 2025. Our analysis suggests that per capita income growth drives a 43% increase, with the remainder due to an unexplained time trend. Roughly one-third of the income-driven demand comes from increases in the stock of specific major appliances, particularly AC units. The other two-thirds comes from non-specific sources of income-driven growth and is based on an estimated income elasticity that falls from 0.28 to 0.14 as income rises. While the stock of refrigerators is not projected to increase, we find that they contribute nearly 20 percent of household electricity demand. Alternative plausible time trend assumptions are responsible for the wide range of 85 to 143 percent. Meanwhile we estimate a price elasticity of demand of -0.7. These estimates point to carbon pricing and appliance efficiency policies that could substantially reduce demand.

The second paper turns attention from income growth to climate change. Estimating the impacts of climate change on energy use across the globe is essential for analysis of both mitigation and adaptation policies. Yet existing empirical estimates are concentrated in western countries, especially the United States. In the second paper (“Climate change and residential electricity consumption in the Yangtze River Delta, China”, with William A. Pizer and Libo Wu), we use daily data on household electricity demand to estimate how electricity demand would change in Shanghai in the context of climate change. For colder days below 7 degree C, a 1 degree C increase in daily temperature reduces electricity demand by 2.8%. On warm days above 25 degree C, a 1 degree C increase in daily temperatures leads to a 14.5% increase in electricity consumption. As income increases, households’ weather sensitivity remains the same for hotter days in the summer but increases during the winter.

We use this estimated behavior in conjunction with a collection of downscaled global climate models (GCMs) to construct a relationship between future annual global mean surface temperature (GMST) changes and annual residential electricity demand. We find that annual electricity demand increases by 9.3% per +1 degree C in annual GMST. In comparison, peak daily electricity use increases by as much as 36.3% per +1 degree C in annual GMST, almost four times the average electricity increase. Though most accurate for Shanghai, our findings could be most credibly extended to the urban areas in the Yangtze River Delta, covering roughly one-fifth of China’s urban population and one-fourth of GDP. The second paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) in 2018.

While the first two papers focus on domestic energy demand in China and use micro data sets, the third paper (“Environmental Impact of overseas coal-fired power plants financed by China”) examines the infrastructure support to energy consumption, i.e. power plants, and their environmental outcomes. Using satellite measures, we first show that the SO2 increased substantially after the operation of the power plants. We further compared the performance of coal plants financed by China with the rest of coal plants in the region. Due to the small number of Chinese-financed plants that started operating during the period of 2006-2016, we have only limited results from our comparison of Chinese and non-Chinese financed plants. We find no significant difference in SO2 impact in general, but observe higher SO2 increase after operation for the ones financed by China among the plants using subcritical technologies and lower for those using supercritical technologies, though not significantly different from the rest. Among plants larger than 500 MW, the percentage of supercritical power plants among Chinese financed coal plants is higher than the rest.

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Futurity after the End of History: Chronotopes of Contemporary German Literature, Film, and Music

Wagner, Nathaniel Ross

This dissertation deploys theories of spatiotemporal experience and organization, most prominently Mikhail Bakhtin’s “chronotope,” to set contemporary literature, film, and music into dialogue with theories of post-Wende social and political experiences and possibility that speak, with Francis Fukuyama, as the contemporary as the “End of History.” Where these interlocutors of Fukuyama generally affirm or intensify his view of the contemporary as a time where historical progress slows to a halt, historical memory recedes from view, and the conditions of subjecthood are rephrased from participation in a struggle for progress to mindless consumption and technocratic tinkering, I engage contemporary artwork to flesh out and ultimately peer beyond the boundaries of the real and the possible these social theories articulate. Through a series of close readings of German films, music albums, and novels published between 1995 and 2021, I examine how German authors, filmmakers, and musicians pursue depictions of the malaises of the End of History while also resolutely pointing to the fissures in liberal capitalist hegemony where history—its past and its future—again becomes visible. Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of the chronotope, a text’s unified expression of space and time, is central to my method of analysis. In tracing the chronotopic contours of contemporary works of music, film, and literature, I argue, we—as readers, viewers, and listeners—are engaged to think and act alongside the forms and figures that populate the worlds their authors create. In doing so, we ultimately uncover forceful accusations, resolute alternatives, and even hopeful antidotes to the deficiencies of our present that help us both to soberly contemplate the implications the pessimistic formulations of contemporary theory have on our lives, communities, and futures but also to formulate possibilities for them that lie beyond their analytical purview.In a series of close readings of my literary, filmic, and musical primary texts, I engage theorists of the post-Cold War, post-Wende contemporary who write about the political order and social conditions emerging out of the triumph of neoliberalism and market capitalism over socialist, communist, and fascist alternatives. The dissertation begins by establishing a wide view of the contemporary, tracing in its first chapter chronotopic resonances of Hartmut Rosa’s “social acceleration” thesis—which locates the aimlessness and alienation of contemporary society within the accelerationist logic of market capitalist modes of production—across the full temporal arc of the contemporary. Pairing Christian Kracht’s Faserland (1995) with Fatma Aydemir's Ellbogen (2017), I argue that the futilities and frustrations of the modern subject, as foretold in Fukuyama’s “End of History” essay and fleshed out in Rosa’s writings on social acceleration, find resonance not only in the wealthy, educated, white protagonist of Faserland’s 1990s, but also in the impoverished, undereducated, Turkish-Kurdish protagonist of Ellbogen some twenty years later. What connects these two accounts across decades and differences in identities, I demonstrate, is not merely a shared sense of alienation and despair, but a shared, underlying chronotopic characterization of the contemporary. These commonalities appear, I demonstrate, when we connect Rosa’s “social acceleration” thesis to diegetic chronotopes of perpetual motion that depict modern subjects’ inability to avail themselves of the ostensibly liberatory potential of liberal capitalism’s accelerated lifeworld. Chapter 2 then considers Byung-Chul Han’s theory of auto-exploitation and the dilemma of the music novel at a time where the rebellion of punk against social integration has been thoroughly incorporated into capitalism. Reading Marc Degens’ Fuckin Sushi (2015), I examine the novel’s concept of “Abrentnern” as a model for personal and communal fulfillment for those who turn to art as a means self-determination in the age of auto-exploitation. Unlike Kracht and Aydemir, however, Degens sees the closing off of historical possibilities for the good life enjoyed by his punk forbears—here, self-determination through transgressive artistic praxis—not as the contemporary subject’s damnation to cyclical patterns of despair but as a challenge to conceive of the good life anew. Working humorously through its hapless protagonist Niels’ repeated attempts to escape the seemingly inevitable for-profit co-option of his sincere artistic efforts, the novel serves to unveil the persistence of blind spots in this regime of totalizing exploitation. What results is an account of the double-edged logic of capitalist productivity’s ostensible totalization of labor-time. Capitalism, Niels unwittingly discovers, is a logic of production so overwhelming that it continuously drives subjects towards the discovery of new alterities that, for a brief time at least, allow subjects once again to slip between the cracks. The third chapter explores a similar phenomenon of halting resistance to the conditions of the capitalist present through the lens of futurity. Here, I push back against Mark Fisher’s theory of the dominance of “Capitalist Realism” in the contemporary aesthetic imagination, identifying and developing the notion of “subtle futurity”—the modest, yet resolute rephrasing of future possibility beyond the “way things are” of the present—in Leif Randt’s Schimmernder Dunst über CobyCounty (2011) In this light, I argue, Randt’s gestures towards a different future, however halting, mark a significant effort to imagine a benevolent form of future possibility within the context of an era often suspected to have been exhausted of its utopian sentiment. The final two chapters turn to past-minded works that more forcefully repudiate notions of the present as static or closed off from the movement of history. Chapter Four considers W.G. Sebald’s 1995 novel, Die Ringe des Saturn, and The Caretaker’s 2012 album, Patience (After Sebald), developing an account of the chronotopic means by which these works revisit materials of the past within the present. Chronotopic motifs of paraphrase—techniques of sampling in The Caretaker and narrative polyphony in Sebald—come together within macro-level chronotopic frameworks of peripatetic movement—looping repetition in The Caretaker and the retracing of bygone journeys in Sebald—to testify to the unanswered questions and unfinished work of history over and against notions of the present as a time where the past has been relegated to mere museum content or nostalgia for bygone ways of living. Where Chapter Four speaks primarily to the formal mechanisms by which the present rediscovers the past, Chapter Five examines two specific chronotopic innovations for thematically engaging constellations of past-present inter-temporality. Both Sharon Dodua Otoo’s 2021 novel, Adas Raum, and Christian Petzold’s 2018 film, Transit, develop chronotopes wherein past and present are intermingled in increasingly inseparable ways. Adas Raum, I demonstrate, is organized spatiotemporally as a nexus of coiled loops—pasts and presents intertwine, heaven and earth are tangled together, and the fates of human beings and even non-human objects follow spatial and temporal trajectories that weave in and out of conventional linear understandings of space and time. In similar fashion, past and present become inseparable in Petzold’s film, an adaptation of the Anna Seghers’ 1944 novel of the same name, through thematic and formal approaches of blurring that blend the plight of refugees of Seghers’ era with those of Petzold’s present day. History, then, appears remarkably robust in these texts, unfolding accounts of how human beings living through their present might take guidance from the generations that preceded them in the struggle for a better world.

• Motion pictures, German
• Germans--Music
• Capitalism in literature
• Social integration
• Neoliberalism
• Twenty-first century
• Future, The, in literature
• Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001
• Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975
• Petzold, Christian, 1960-
• Fukuyama, Francis
• Kracht, Christian, 1966-
• Rosa, Hartmut, 1965-
• Ringe des Saturn (Sebald, W. G.)
• End of history and the last man (Fukuyama, Francis)

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Ccds outstanding phd thesis award 2024, congratulations to the following phd graduates for their achievement, for contributions to building generalizable solutions that can enhance the capabilities and applicability of aiot systems..

Dr XU Huatao  Building Generalizable Deep Learning Solutions for Mobile Sensing

This thesis signifies a significant leap in mobile sensing with deep learning. It introduces LIMU-BERT, a pioneering sensor foundation model adaptable to various applications, and integrates it into UniHAR, a universal learning framework that trains models across domains using physics-informed data augmentation. A notable innovation is 'Penetrative AI,' the first-ever application of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for processing IoT sensor signals. This breakthrough enables LLMs to interact with the physical world, laying the groundwork for generalizable IoT solutions. The thesis's excellence is recognized by the SenSys 2021 best paper runner-up award and the GetMobile 2022 research highlight. Its models have gained nationwide adoption in Eleme, China's second-largest food delivery service. It also has sparked widespread discussion on social media. Altogether, this work substantially enriches the mobile sensing field, expanding both the scope and effectiveness of AIoT systems in practical applications. 

for contributions to advancing graph deep learning through innovative benchmarks, neural network architectures, and scalable frameworks

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This thesis marks a significant advancement in deep learning for graph-structured data which are ubiquitous in domains such as drug discovery, social networks, medicine and transportation. Addressing the inadequacies of traditional deep learning approaches for such data, the thesis introduces comprehensive benchmarks for assessing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) across varied domains. A key contribution is the extension of Transformer networks, fundamental to ChatGPT, to graph domains, integrating graph-based inductive biases and positional encodings, thereby enhancing expressivity and generalization. His work also proposes novel techniques for learning distinct structural and positional representations in GNNs, boosting model capacities. Further, he develops scalable Graph Transformers that can adapt to massive graphs with billions of edge connections, employing efficient local and global graph representations and fast neighborhood sampling. Overall, this thesis paves the way for the application of GNNs in complex real-world relational data scenarios, significantly contributing to the field of graph representation learning.

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Emerging ML technologies have empowered transformative applications, such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion. These breakthroughs heavily rely on advanced system support, encompassing training frameworks and cluster schedulers.  However, as ML workloads proliferate and billion-scale models surface, current systems fail to handle them efficiently. Qinghao’s thesis focuses on addressing efficiency and practicality issues with ML-tailored system designs. His research expands along two lines: (1) Efficiency. He pioneers system optimizations for both cluster and job levels. His ground-breaking work is the first to facilitate hyperparameter tuning for large models such as GPT-3. Through novel model scaling, fusion, and interleaving, he achieves two orders of magnitude acceleration. (2) Practicality. Most existing work targets excellent system performance while ignoring its complexity and usability. Qinghao first attains the state-of-the-art performance under the non-intrusive design principle in cluster scheduling systems. Besides, he crafts a unified framework to achieve transparent, performant and lightweight systems.

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