I personally think the biggest consideration is how often the term or symbol is used. The reader then knows where to look if they're unsure of the meaning rather than having to find the first place it's used, and it would be ridiculous to keep defining it every time you use it. The question then is where to draw the line at what point does a rarely used term become common enough to warrant being included in the nomenclature section? this is, i think, becomes a matter of preference. Personally, if a term were used in more than one section, i'd define it at the start. Though, if it really is only used twice, perhaps an in place definition and a recall that we define. publications predominantly for theses in the sciences provides a list of the author's publications which directly relate to the research work for the dissertation.

list of tables/figures/illustrations summary/abstract summarises the research undertaken in order to provide an overview of the project and its scholarly significance nomenclature/notation generally a requirement in the sciences defines all notation and symbols used in the text of the dissertation. declaration or statement of authorship declares that the material has not been used for other awards from other institutions, and that all sources are acknowledged. acknowledgements recognises the help given by supervisors, technical staff, family and anyone else who offered support or advice. Provides a clear statement of the topic/problem under investigation and provides the general context for the research sometimes giving details of the methodology and the theoretical background and usually outlining applications of the research.

It usually concludes with a chapter by chapter outline of the content of the dissertation. literature review presents a critical review of relevant previous studies in the research field. This chapter shows how knowledge has been built up in the research field and, by clearly demonstrating the achievements but also the limitations of the previous research, it presents a well argued justification for the research to be undertaken. sequential chapters present a detailed description of the experimental or theoretical work undertaken, the results and a discussion of the significance of these results. Each chapter usually has a brief introduction which states the aim of the chapter and an outline of its structure, as well as a short summary to highlight the significant findings of the chapter. conclusions and recommendations for future research presents the major conclusions which can be drawn from the findings of the research.

references/bibliography records all works that have been referred to in the text of the dissertation. Contain any information which is too detailed to include in the body of the dissertation such as additional graphs and tables of detailed data, mathematical proofs, and statistical analyses, interview transcripts, coding procedures etc. Copies of published papers based on the research reported in the dissertation are often included in an appendix. Showing result 1 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the word nomenclature. Traditional classification heavily rested on a few cardinal characters, primarily ascoma structure and spore morphology, but the delimitation of polyblastia was problematic.

Acta universitatis upsaliensis a latex thesis template that was tweaked over a few years and condensed to a class file. Table of contents instructions on creating a new latex document, start the document with \documentclass. When writing the main body of your document, the macro \startpreamble can be called to generate the title page and switch page numbering to roman numerals. You can then create sections with \section <> for preamble content such as acknowledgements, abstracts and table of contents.

When declaring an end to the preamble, call the macro \stoppreamble to change page numbering back to arabic numerals. The thesis class imports the natbib package thus giving the option of paragraph citations \citep<> and text citations \citet<> . The class also provides shortcuts for declaring real numbers with \r.

Normal distributions with \n and probabilities with \p or \p value . Optional document parameters the \documentclass options supports a number of options including the following: 11pt for 11pt size text. Draftfigs to use placeholders for figures for faster compilation with the draft argument for graphicx . Font support the following fonts are supported and can be enabled using the corresponding documentclass option: didot to use the gfs didot serif font.

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Garamond to use the urw garamond serif font note that this is not installed by default and is now considered a non free font. Nomenclature support nomenclature is supported with the nomencl package see ctan . New nomenclature can be defined as follows: to compile the list of nomenclature, open up a terminal/command prompt session and run: if the thesis file is something other than mythesis. Then mythesis should be replaced in the above with the name of the master thesis file. The nomenclature section contains the following preamble: a list of the variables and notation used in this thesis is defined below. The definitions and conventions set here will be observed throughout unless otherwise stated.

Should acronyms be detected by detecting the presence of filename.acr , then the preamble will be appended with: for a list of acronyms, please consult page acronym support acronyms are supported with the glossaries package see ctan . New acronyms can be defined as follows: within the document, the commands \gls. These commands correspond with the lowercase singular, sentence case singular, lowercase plural and sentence case plural forms, respectively. Latex will automatically expand the acronym on the first instance and use the abbreviated form thereafter.

Using the macro \printglossaries will create a new chapter and write appendix items after they have been compiled. To compile the list of acronyms, open up a terminal/command prompt session and run: if the thesis file is something other than mythesis. It may be desirable to override the default behaviour in which case, the following commands can be used. Expanded and acronym form words are made plural by simply appending s to the end of an acronym or its expanded form. Some words do not conform to this generalisation and may require the long plural form to be redefined using: floats such as figures and algorithms can span multiple pages with the included caption package for tables, i recommend using the longtable environment described below.