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Prabhaker, Sumanth. "Village of cults /." Electronic version (PDF), 2007. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2007-3/prabhakers/sumanthprabhaker.pdf.
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DANIELSSON, JESPER. "Functional Cuts." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17351.
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Our everyday life is becoming more active and the activities we perform influence the way we dress. Due to an increase in activities undertaken in an urban environment, demands are changing and the need for active wear that meets the new demands follow suit. The four characters represented in the research can be seen as a reflection of the functional features needed, including base layer, mid layer/insulation and shell.Despite the increase in activities, most of our clothes are still constructed on static dummies or drafted on a table in 2D and the main developments within the active sportswear field is driven by material innovation. By creating garments on a body in movement, my aim is to develop new functions and expression in active sportswear through construction.Construction methods in active sportswear are examined and understood through observations and reconstructions and constitute the foundation of a study of movement for a design recovery.The movement and features required for leading an active urban life sets the direction of the development of new func- tional garments. A series of trial and error sessions and draping fabric on a live model in movement created the prototypes used in functionality tests to establish their feasibility. The functionality of the fabric and the form needed in urban lifestyle is explored in terms of relationship to a reduced, intuitive construction to challenge the norm of aesthetics in active sportswear. Meeting the demands of the conscious urban inhabitants regarding sustainability and style challenges this further.Program: Modedesignutbildningen
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Bonsma, Paul Simon. "Sparse cuts, matching-cuts and leafy trees in graphs." Enschede : University of Twente [Host], 2006. http://doc.utwente.nl/57117.
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Ripley, Marianne. "Charismatic Cults and Leadership." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/795.
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Graninger, Charles Denver. "Regional cults of Thessaly." [S.l. : s.n.], 2006. http://books.google.com/books?id=wl_XAAAAMAAJ.
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Stafford, Emma Josephine. "Greek cults of deified abstractions." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317665/.
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This dissertation aims to explore the phenomenon of the worship of abstract concepts in personified form and its development in the Archaic and Classical periods. An introductory chapter surveys previous scholarly literature on the subject and covers some general theoretical issues: i) definitions; ii) problems of sources and methodology; iii) the question of the predominantly feminine gender of these figures; iv) ancient and modern theories on deified abstractions as a class. Six chapters then look at a selection of individual cults in roughly chronological sequence, each exemplifying one or more of the general questions raised by such cults. Themis provides a good example of the very "mythological" deified abstractions of the Archaic period and the problems of tracing the origins and early history of personification cults. Nemesis was probably worshipped at Rhamnous from the sixth century, but acquires unique status in the fifth from an association with the battle of Marathon; the cult of the two Nemeseis at Smyrna, I argue, is a fourth-century innovation. Peitho is often associated with rhetoric, but a survey of her cult associations in a variety of locations emphasises her erotic side, an aspect further revealed in vase-painting. These three figures all have roots in archaic literature, whereas Hygieia, though soon mythologised as daughter of Asklepios, does not appear in any medium before her arrival in Athens in 420 BC in the healing god's wake. Her cult particularly raises the question of how seriously personifications could be taken as deities, since the concept which she embodies is so patently a human desideratum. Later innovations are similarly often dismissed as "mere" allegory or propaganda, as is illustrated by the case of Eirene in fourth-century Athens, most famously represented in Kephisodotos' group of Peace holding the child Wealth, her cult introduced in response to quite specific political circumstances. The problems of correlating archaeological and literary sources are particularly acute in the case of the most "abstract", figure to be considered, Eleos, eponymous deity of the Athenian "altar of Pity"; although the altar dates from the late sixth century, its insubstantial god is probably a later development. From these six case studies some provisional conclusions can be offered on the place of deified abstract ideas in Greek religious thought and practice.
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Zhang, Jiaxin. "Power-law Graph Cuts." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1418749967.
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Lenz, Robert W. "A biblical response for a cargo cult society in Irian Jaya Indonesia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Rangos, Spyridon. "Cults of Artemis in Ancient Greece." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244861.
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Artemis was a cruel and wild goddess. Her mythological apparatus was replete with blood and death. Her cults displayed awe-inspiring elements of primitivism. Together with Dionysus, to whom she is mythologically and ritually related, she presents a riddle for the student who tries to understand her place in the Greek pantheon. In accordance with the modern alertness to the dangers of oversimplification lurking behind sweeping general accounts, I have chosen six particular Artemisian cults in three places of mainland Greece (at Sparta, Athens and Patras) upon which to focus my attention. In the aetiological legends of their foundations the Spartan and Athenian cults share a common origin (located by ancient writers in the distant Black Sea), the supervising deity being identified as Artemis Taurike. They also display remarkable signs of remote antiquity or, as has been proposed, of an archaizing process. Cruel rituals and beliefs associated with primitive magic are conspicuous in these cults but also feature prominently in the two cults in Achaia. The cult of Artemis Ortheia is comprehensively studied. All the existing ancient evidence, both literary and archaeological, is taken into account in an attempt to give a unified picture of the goddess without neglecting the di versity of disperse elements. By contrast, in the exploration of the three Attic cults selectivity prevails. Here again the emphasis is on what was common among the rituals enacted and the aetiological myths of their foundation, but not all ancient testimonies are considered to be of equal value. Consequently some sources are omitted and others overlooked in the discussion, for the additional reason that the Attic cults have been satisfactorily explored in recent publications. From the aforementioned local cults the focus is then shifted to the Homeric epics. The distinctive feature of Homeric religion is found in the endowment of divine powers with precise Forms and in the understanding of divine forms in anthropomorphic terms of Beauty. The contrast with the Artemisian cults at Patras is striking. There are of course signs in Homer showing that the gods are conceived as Powers, but the heroic epic tradition seems to have opted for the adoration of beauty as an indication of Excellence. How are we to combine the adorable divine maiden of the Homeric epics with the wild power manifested in local cults? Artemis vacillates between virginity conceived as maidenly exquisiteness and celibacy symbolizing natural wilderness. My hypothesis is that in the eyes of the Greeks, virginity, far from being 'absence' or lack of sexuality (as has often been supposed), was indeed the precondition of fertility. The dynamism of procreation was considered to reside in virginity; hence the strengthening of virginity was regarded as the intensification of procreative power, in much the same way as, in an image drawn from applied physics, the energy to be gathered from a water-stream is enhanced by the use of a dam that arrests the stream's natural course. Such a hypothesis may well be supported by the ancient evidence, and may also account for the second characteristic trait of the Archaic Artemis, namely her wildness. For in wildness, symbolically crystallized in 'forests' and 'hunting-activities', the ancient mind saw, rather than merely a stage antecedent to, and indispensable for, 'civilization' (as the most popular theory assumes), awe-inspiring powerfulness and mighty detachment calling for religious veneration. In the diptych of the complementary Contrariety between the Heavenly and the Earthly, the local cults, with their special emphasis on ritual enactment, stressed the maternal side of existence, whereas the Homeric m.vthology chose to emphasize the masculine principle that is operative in the world. This latter principle when applied to a pre-existing feminine deity, assumes the form of potential fecundity, hence of virginity, as opposed to the actual fertility of motherhood. The most recent theory on Artemis is that of 1.-P. Vernant (and his so-called Paris School). The French scholar claims that Artemis is a goddess of marginality, a deity at home where ambivalence, ambiguity and liminality prevail. This, however, relates more to the modern milieu where marginality and the concomitant ambiguity are conceptual missiles of great heuristic value than to the goddess herself. Artemis was primarily manifested as natural Dynamism. Given the amoral character of natural dynamism she could be munificent or malevolent depending on the circumstances of her manifestation (implied intervention orfully-fIedged epiphany). But such a duality does not entitle us to speak of marginality in her case, because in the eyes of the worshippers themselves her being was perfectly well circumscribed and very clearly defined. In contrast to the modern deeply-felt insecurity vis-a.-vis the clarity of beings, a distinctive feature of ancient polytheism was the clear-cut delineation of the beings aspiring to the divine order.
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Norris, Kelly J. "Cults, ritualistic abuse, and false memories /." View online, 1993. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998759422.pdf.
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Hamrawi, Hussam. "Type-2 fuzzy alpha-cuts." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/5137.
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Systems that utilise type-2 fuzzy sets to handle uncertainty have not been implemented in real world applications unlike the astonishing number of applications involving standard fuzzy sets. The main reason behind this is the complex mathematical nature of type-2 fuzzy sets which is the source of two major problems. On one hand, it is difficult to mathematically manipulate type-2 fuzzy sets, and on the other, the computational cost of processing and performing operations using these sets is very high. Most of the current research carried out on type-2 fuzzy logic concentrates on finding mathematical means to overcome these obstacles. One way of accomplishing the first task is to develop a meaningful mathematical representation of type-2 fuzzy sets that allows functions and operations to be extended from well known mathematical forms to type-2 fuzzy sets. To this end, this thesis presents a novel alpha-cut representation theorem to be this meaningful mathematical representation. It is the decomposition of a type-2 fuzzy set in to a number of classical sets. The alpha-cut representation theorem is the main contribution of this thesis. This dissertation also presents a methodology to allow functions and operations to be extended directly from classical sets to type-2 fuzzy sets. A novel alpha-cut extension principle is presented in this thesis and used to define uncertainty measures and arithmetic operations for type-2 fuzzy sets. Throughout this investigation, a plethora of concepts and definitions have been developed for the first time in order to make the manipulation of type-2 fuzzy sets a simple and straight forward task. Worked examples are used to demonstrate the usefulness of these theorems and methods. Finally, the crisp alpha-cuts of this fundamental decomposition theorem are by definition independent of each other. This dissertation shows that operations on type-2 fuzzy sets using the alpha-cut extension principle can be processed in parallel. This feature is found to be extremely powerful, especially if performing computation on the massively parallel graphical processing units. This thesis explores this capability and shows through different experiments the achievement of significant reduction in processing time.
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Cavaniglia, Consuelo. "Open cuts: spaces, surfaces, shadows." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16317.
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The project evolves out of an interest in understanding how we can relate to space – personal, psychological, architectural, environmental. And how this relationship might be based on definition and delineation of these spaces. If space were somehow destabilised then it would follow that we would have to alter our understanding of it and thus our relationship to it would also change. The works produced for this project aimed at creating a disruption in space through the use of mild visual illusions. This paper traces the journey of the research project, focusing on a series of key works executed during the candidacy that marked important achievements or shifts in my practice. The paper charts the practical and conceptual development of the work locating it within the practice and theory of art, film and architecture.
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DeBusk, James Robert. "Christians preparing to witness to the cults." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Butz, Martin J. "An inquiry into the paradox of aberrant Christian churches orthodoxy without orthopraxy /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Lewis, James. "New religions and the struggle for legitimacy." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683299.
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Müller, Irene. "Corner cuts and corner cut polytopes." Zurich : [ETH Zurich, Department of Mathematics], 2001. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=dipl&nr=26.
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Li, Nan. "AIG Rewriting Using 5-Input Cuts." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-37227.
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Rewriting is a common approach to logic optimization based on local transformations. Most commercially available logic synthesis tools include a rewriting engine that may be used multiple times on the same netlist during optimization. This thesis presents an And-Inverter graph based rewriting algorithm using 5-input cuts. The best circuits are pre-computed for a subset of NPN classes of 5-variable functions. Cut enumeration and Boolean matching are used to identify replacement candidates. The presented approach is expected to complement existing rewriting approaches which are usually based on 4-input cuts. The experimental results show that, by adding the new rewriting algorithm to ABC synthesis tool, we can further reduce the area of heavily optimized large circuits by 5.57% on average.
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Tewari, Gaurav. "Centralized packaging of retail meat cuts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0022/NQ51672.pdf.
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Zekavat, Mahdi S. Mohammad. "Orderings, cuts and formal power series." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ63973.pdf.
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Peters, Thomas A. "Appealing cults in central Africa a scriptural perspective /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Purday, K. M. "Minor healing cults within Athens and its environs." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379312.
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Piroyansky, Danna. "Cults of political martyrs in late medieval England." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2005. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1873.
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A number of prominent men who lost their lives during political struggles were posthumously venerated as martyrs in later medieval England. This dissertation aims to recreate some of the context - religious and cultural as well as political - in which these cults developed, and to chronicle and evaluate the activities and representations which they produced. It will be argued that political martyrdom formed part of a distinctive religious culture in which suffering for a cause could be highly valued as a form of martyrdom. The three cases studied here bring us in contact with different aspects of late medieval English society. Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (d. 1322) was regarded posthumously as Christi miles, and represented ideas linked to knighthood and chivalry, treason and betrayal. Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York (d. 1405), was portrayed in contemporary hagiographic sources as pastor populi, representing the ideal ecclesiastical shepherd, dedicated to justice in both religious and political affairs. King Henry VI (d. 1471) was seen as a pious victim already in his lifetime, represented in the hagiography as an innocent, Job-like, child-martyr. Cults of political martyrs formed an organic part of late medieval lives, which were commnunal and private, local and regional, devotional and social. They demonstrate the flexibility with which religious symbols - chastity, martyrdom, virtue - formed part of political language, and were available to people at different levels of society, and with different degrees of access to liturgy, clerical assistance and power of patronage. These cults - created rather than imported - offer us an insight into fourteenth and fifteenth century English society, its modes of thoughts, belief, worship, as well as political culture and language.
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Schenck, Catherine Alexandria, and Catherine Alexandria Schenck. "Serving the Gods Together: Gender in Roman Cults." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625282.
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Maintaining the pax deorum through worshipping the gods was essential for the survival and continuation of the Roman state. While many aspects of public, political, and social life were performed by elite men, religion offered the opportunity for all men and women, regardless of class and status to interact and contribute the welfare of their community. This thesis explores gender dynamics in three cults: the cult of Bacchus, the cult of the Magna Mater, and Paul's concept of Christianity in Corinth. While each cult is vastly different, they provide insight into the ways in which men and women could worship the gods together and the tensions and anxieties that arise in mix-gendered groups. In the case of the cult of Bacchus, gender was at the fulcrum of its suppression in 186 BCE, during which the Senate attempted to curb male participation in cultic worship but reaffirmed the authority of female participants. Moreover, the reaction to the presence of the galli, the eunuch priests of the Magna Mater, highlights Roman hostility towards non-gendered individuals, for whom there was not place in the binary gendered world of Rome. Finally, in Paul's in first letter to the Corinthians, the signifiers of gender, sexuality, and morality are at the forefront of his treatment of marriage, virginity, and veiling. In each case study, the issue of gender is the utmost importance and can even highlight the distribution of authority in cultic worship.
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Cornelsen, Sabine. "Drawing families of cuts in a graph." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=967110165.
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English, Carol. "Visual temporal masking at video scene cuts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ26916.pdf.
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Ikram, Salima. "Choice cuts : meat production in Ancient Egypt." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272370.
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Kulkarni, Mayuresh. "Image and video segmentation using graph cuts." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5190.
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Ebrahim, Rafee E. "Fuzzy logic programming based on alpha-cuts." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/13274.
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English, Carol (Carol Anne Rachel) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "Visual temporal masking at video scene cuts." Ottawa, 1997.
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Lindström, Alfred Minh. "Cutting and Destroying Graphs using k-cuts." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Analys och sannolikhetsteori, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-395663.
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Shterin, Marat. "'Cult controveries' in contemporary England and Russia : a sociological comparison." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271152.
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Glowski, Janice M. "Living goddess as incarnate image : the Kumārī Cult of Nepal /." Connect to this title online, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1105391104.
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Clark, Jeffrey L. "From cults to Christianity : continuity and change in Takuru /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc593.pdf.
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Mai, Cuong T. "Visualization apocrypha and the making of Buddhist deity cults in early medieval China with special reference to the cults of Amitabha, Maitreya, and Samantabhadra /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380107.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Religious Studies, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 14, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4722. Adviser: John R. McRae.
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Serrano, Musalem Felipe. "Some experiments on separation with multi-row cuts." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2013. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/114463.
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Magíster en Gestión de OperacionesIngeniero Civil Industrial
Since Andersen et al. there has been a lot of interest in multi-row cuts. However, computational study has been limited. Most research consider multi-row cuts deduced from only 2 rows and they use bounds on none or only on one type of variables, always relaxing integrality of non-basic variables when bounds are taken into account. Also, most applications aim to exact separation as well as using fixed convex lattice free bodies to separate. In this work we try a numerical approach that allows us to look into more complex relaxations and we introduce an approximated separation hoping for a practical implementation to be possible. Extensively numerical analysis has been done to ensure numerical stability and minimize the creation of false cuts. Also, we incorporate some simple forms of taking advantage of integrality of non basic variables. Once the rows of a tableau are obtained we search for a ``deep cut'' which we understand as a cut ($\alpha x \ge 1$) that minimizes $\norm{\alpha}$. To find it, we solve the dual using a column generation approach. We tested both, $\l^1-$norm and $\l^2-$norm, where the latter one is treated using Ben-Tal and Nemirovsky approximation of the second order cone. In order to speed up the process we seek for violated representations of fixed points. Different criteria for row selection is tested: random selection, largest dot product and smallest dot product. To give a more complete idea about the strength of multi-rows cuts, we also generated all possible cuts using all combination of rows, but without aggregation of rows. We compare this to Balas computations of the split closure. As for the experiments done in this work, we analyze the impact in the root node of the procedure (using various rounds) over MIPLIB3. Also, we select a good configuration and test its performance in branch and bound.
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Trillos, Nicolás Garcia. "Variational Limits of Graph Cuts on Point Clouds." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2015. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/518.
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The main goal of this thesis is to develop tools that enable us to study the convergence of minimizers of functionals defined on point clouds towards minimizers of equivalent functionals in the continuum; the point clouds we consider are samples of a ground-truth distribution. In particular, we investigate approaches to clustering based on minimizing objective functionals defined on proximity graphs of the given sample. Our focus is on functionals based on graph cuts like the Cheeger and ratio cuts. We show that minimizers of these cuts converge as the sample size increases to a minimizer of a corresponding continuum cut (which partitions the ground-truth distribution). Moreover, we obtain sharp conditions on how the connectivity radius can be scaled with respect to the number of sample points for the consistency to hold. We provide results for two-way and for multi-way cuts. The results are obtained by using the notion of Γ-convergence and an appropriate choice of metric which allows us to compare functions defined on point clouds with functions defined on continuous domains.
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OLIVEIRA, CARLOS VINICIUS SOUSA DE. "DISPARITY MAPS USING GRAPH CUTS WITH MULTI-RESOLUTION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16430@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROReconstruir a informação 3D de uma cena é uma tarefa bastante comum em Visão Computacional. Uma das técnicas mais utilizadas para realizar esta tarefa é a correspondência por estéreo, que consiste basicamente em, dadas duas imagens referentes a uma mesma cena vista de pontos diferentes, determinar os pontos correspondentes entre essas duas imagens e armazenar essa informação em um mapa de disparidades. Até hoje diversos métodos foram propostos para resolver o problema de estéreo com esforço computacional viável e mantendo a qualidade dos resultados. Essa, entretanto, é uma tarefa bastante árdua e que difícilmente alcança resultados precisos com pouco esforço computacional. Nesse âmbito, uma técnica que tem sido muito estudada são os Cortes de Grafo (Graph Cuts), que almeja resolver o problema de minimização de energia em tempo polinomial. Nesse caso o problema de estéreo é mapeado como um problema de minimização de energia e desta forma solucionado utilizando cortes de grafo. Neste trabalho estudamos as técnicas de cortes de grafo mais recentes e eficientes e propomos um método para a determinação de correspondências entre duas imagens num contexto de multi-resolução, no qual uma pirâmide Gaussiana para as imagens é construída e a técnica de cortes de grafo é aplicada em níveis menores, otimizando a performance e obtendo resultados mais precisos através da utilização do algoritmo de expansão-alfa. São revisadas as técnicas de cortes de grafo e de multi-resolução e os resultados obtidos são apresentados e avaliados em relação a métodos semelhantes.
Reconstructing the 3D information of a scene is a common task in Computer Vision. Stereo matching is one of the most investigated techniques used to perform this task, which basically consists of, given two images of a scene seen from different view points, determining corresponding pixels in these two images and store this information in a disparity map. Several methods have been proposed to solve the stereo problem keeping good performance and giving good quality results. This is however a very arduos task which hardly achieves precise results with low computational power. In this context, the Graph Cuts method has been very much considered, which aims to solve the energy minimization problem in polinomial time. In this case the stereo problem can be modelled as an energy minimization problem and, thus solved using the Graph Cuts technique. In this work we investigate the most recent and efficient Graph Cuts methods and propose a method for establishing the correspondences between two images in the context of multi-resolution, in which a Gaussian pyramid for the input images is built and the Graph Cuts methods is applied in coarser levels, optimizing the performance and getting more precise results through the use of the alfa-expansion algorithm. The Graph Cuts and multi-resolution techniques are reviewed and the results of the proposed method are presented and evaluated compared to similar methods.
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López, Martínez Andrés. "Parallel Minimum Cuts : An improved CREW PRAM algorithm." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-287962.
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This thesis considers the minimum cut problem in undirected, weighted graphs. We present a simple randomized CREW PRAM algorithm to find the minimum cut in a graph G with n nodes and m edges, based on Karger’s celebrated randomized near-linear time min-cut algorithm [STOC’96]. It has near-linear work O(m log2 n + n log6 n) and low depth O(log3 n), and returns the correct result with high probability. This is the first improvement to the best previous O(m log4 n) work and O(log3 n) depth CREW PRAM min-cut algorithm by Geissmann and Gianinazzi [SPAA’18]. For his randomized near-linear min-cut algorithm, Karger used a connection between minimum cuts and maximum packings of spanning trees to reduce the min-cut problem into two subproblems: (i) compute an approximate maximum tree packing S, and (ii) find the minimum cut of the graph G that cuts at most two edges from some tree in S—this is referred to as the 2-respecting min-cut problem. To achieve our main result, we give parallel algorithms for both subproblems. More precisely, we present the following. An O(m log n + n log5 n) work and O(log2 n) depth CREW PRAM algorithm for the 2-respecting min-cut problem. This is obtained from parallelizing a recent sequential algorithm by Mukhopadhay and Nanongkai [STOC’20] that improves on Karger’s original result. An O(m log2 n + n log4 n) work and O(log3 n) depth EREW PRAM algorithm to find an approximate maximum tree packing. This improves in a log n factor the work of the previously best known bound claimed by Karger [STOC’96] and used by Geissmann and Gianinazzi [SPAA’18]. In addition, we develop the following independent results: A parallel implementation of the range tree data structure in two dimensions: given a set of n weighted points in the plane, it can be constructed using O(n log n) work and O(log2 n) depth on an EREW PRAM. In the CREW PRAM model, it supports the range counting, range reporting, and range sum queries work-optimally with O(log n) depth. An O(log2 n+t log n)-time sequential algorithm to answer a 2-dimensional weighted range sampling query in a range tree on n weighted points. The query is defined as follows: given an integer t, sample t points independently from a query range, where each point is selected with probability proportional to its weight. In the CREW PRAM model, we show how to support this query work-optimally with O(log n) depth.Denna avhandling behandlar minsta-snittproblemet i oriktade, viktade grafer. För att hitta det minsta snittet i en graf G med n noder och m kanter presenterar vi en enkel slumpbaserad CREW PRAM algoritm som är baserad på Kargers berömda, slumpbaserade, minsta-snittalgoritm med nära-linjär körtid [STOC’96]. Vår algoritm kräver nära-linjärt arbete O(m log2 n + n log6 n) och lågt djup O(log3 n), och är korrekt med hög sannolikhet. Detta är den första förbättringen till den tidigare bästa CREW PRAM minsta-snittalgoritmen av Geissmann och Gianinazzi [SPAA’18] som kräver O(m log4 n) arbete och har O(log3 n) djup. I sin slumpbaserade och nära-linjära minsta-snittalgoritm använder sig Karger av ett samband mellan minsta snitt och maximala packningar av uppspännande träd vilket förminskar problemet till två delproblem: (i) beräkna en approximativ maximal packning av uppspännande träd S, och (ii) hitta minsta snittet av grafen G som har som mest två kanter i något träd i S—känt som det 2- respekterande minsta-snittproblemet. För att åstadkomma vårt huvudresultat ger vi parallella algoritmer för båda delproblemen. Mer specifikt så presenterar vi följande. En CREW PRAM algoritm för det 2-respekterande minsta-snittproblemet som kräver O (m log n+n log5 n) arbete och vars djup är O(log2 n). Vi erhåller detta från att parallellisera en ny sekventiell algoritm av Mukhopadhay och Nanongkai [STOC’20] vilken i sig förbättrar Kargers ursprungliga resultat. En EREW PRAM algoritm för att beräkna en approximtiv maximal packning av uppspännande träd som kräver O (m log2 n + n log4 n) arbete och vars djup är O (log3 n). Detta förbättrar den tidigare bästa gränsen för minsta arbete med en faktor log n, hävdad av Karger [STOC 96], och som används av Geissmann och Gianinazzi [SPAA 18]. Utöver detta utvecklar vi följande självständiga resultat: En parallell implementation av ett värdemängdsträd i två dimensioner: givet en mängd av n viktade punkter i planet så kan den konstrueras genom O(n log n) arbete och med O(log2 n) djup genom en EREW PRAM algoritm. I CREW PRAM modellen så stödjer den värdemängdsräkning, värdemängdsrapportering, och förfrågor om värdemängdssummationer optimalt med avseende på arbetet och med O(log n) djup. En sekventiell algoritm med O(log2 n + t log n) körtid för att besvara en förfrågan av ett 2-dimensionellt viktat värdemängdsstickprov i ett värdemängdsträd på n viktade punkter. Förfrågan definieras som följande: givet ett heltal t, välj slumpmässigt oberoende t punkter ur en värdetalsmängd. Varje punkt väljs med sannolikhet proportionell till sin vikt. I CREW PRAM modellen visar vi hur man kan stödja förfrågan optimalt med avseende på arbetet och med O(log n) djup.
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collins, jacqueline Avery. "the moon cuts like pye, but not cherry." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4902.
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In our work we prefer asking questions to telling stories.
As a means to invigorate and cross-examine our current reality, our hystories, and our definitions of ‘self’ we peer through a disparate lens cultivating pockets: compartments longing to be filled, gaping holes between maybes, masked, and bound to their binding. We relate these pockets anatomically to that of the
sublingual space or potential space. It is here, at the tip of digestion, where transmogrification ensues. This evolution manifests as a series of states of possible beings and territories through live scenario. Traversing the possibilities of potentiality: the intermediary that rejects binary distinctions;
a space for kindling queer questing, celestial spaces, vulnerable and vital spaces where our yes- and no-oriented brains shake hands in corners with their opposites.
With one seed still steeping in our current reality, we wonder of this manifestation of could:
How do we actualize domains with the capacity for continuous becoming?
How do we voice such tempestuous exaltation?
In our work we recognize these striving spheres as a live scenario: environments enacted by formidable humyns, all parts of one entity and breathing a singular breath.
Performers, linked through laborious action devoted to the amalgamation of the whole, indwell para-lingual states.
Multifaceted, interconnected, inclusive, and fluid, these transmutable bodies exist within a space of alienation. Critical to its existence, these spaces are sensorially immersive, smells of yeasts, fruits, fruits of labor, of perspiration,
allow visitors to take part in transference. Thus, generating an autogenous system that challenges the social and physiological structures igniting our mistrust for the noxious macrocosm we inhabit.
A space terrified of becoming the sun, instead, basking under the moon.
In its magical orientation, night allows for these arcane spaces to both veil and reveal; un-locatable in time,
absent of gender distinction, and seizing neither a future nor past. Rather, digging within parts lost, suppressed, gaseous, and misunderstood discovering and depicting the things we cannot see.
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Souto, Gonçalves De Abreu Samuel François. "Cuts, discontinuities and the coproduct of Feynman diagrams." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14173.
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We study the relations among unitarity cuts of a Feynman integral computed via diagrammatic cutting rules, the discontinuity across the corresponding branch cut, and the coproduct of the integral. For single unitarity cuts, these relations are familiar, and we show that they can be generalized to cuts in internal masses and sequences of cuts in different channels and/or internal masses. We develop techniques for computing the cuts of Feynman integrals in real kinematics. Using concrete one- and two-loop scalar integral examples we demonstrate that it is possible to reconstruct a Feynman integral from either single or double unitarity cuts. We then formulate a new set of complex kinematics cutting rules generalising the ones defined in real kinematics, which allows us to define and compute cuts of general one-loop graphs, with any number of cut propagators. With these rules, which are consistent with the complex kinematic cuts used in the framework of generalised unitarity, we can describe more of the analytic structure of Feynman diagrams. We use them to compute new results for maximal cuts of box diagrams with different mass configurations as well as the maximal cut of the massless pentagon. Finally, we construct a purely graphical coproduct of one-loop scalar Feynman diagrams. In this construction, the only ingredients are the diagram under consideration, the diagrams obtained by contracting some of its propagators, and the diagram itself with some of its propagators cut. Using our new definition of cut, we map the graphical coproduct to the coproduct acting on the functions Feynman diagrams and their cuts evaluate to. We finish by examining the consequences of the graphical coproduct in the study of discontinuities and differential equations of Feynman integrals.
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Asmar, Ghazi H. "Stress analysis of anisotropic plates containing rectangular cuts /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901214.
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Naoum, Danai-Christina. "The Hellenisation of Isis and the spread of the cults." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490806.
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The current research attempts to identify the image and activity of the Egyptian goddess Isis predominantly in Greece and also in Egypt. All these areas were in receipt of major cultural, political and religious developments, from the beginning of the Classical epoch throughout the Hellenistic time, the latter being characterised as possessing a very crucial, complicated and fluid time span. In terms of epigraphic and iconographical evidence, recent studies have been occupied with Isis' cults, mainly by French scholars, such as Dunand, Bricault, Leclant and Tran Tam Tinh, who have developed geographical patterns of her cuItic activity, as well as focussing on religious subjects and art history. English scholars, like Griffiths, Lloyd, Fraser, Witt, Thompson, Walters, \Valker have produced valuable studies of Isis' representations and assimilations in portraiture, in ancient sources and provided with reliable information about the history of the Late Period. German scholars such as HOlb1 have dealt also with the Ptolemaic history, religion and iconography, finally Greek and Italian scholars, whose studies are limited but very important overall, as they have been producing exemplary catalogues of the artefacts. As I mentioned earlier, following the introduction of the goddess Isis in the Aegean, since the early Hellenistic period, she received remarkable admiration and attracted large groups of worshippers into her cult by Greeks living in Greece, Greeks overseas and most probably by Egyptian immigrants, travellers and merchants. The transformation of a pure Egyptian goddess into a Hellenistic semi-mortal figure as far as her iconographical representations reveal, and the vast spread of her appearance in the form of official texts, ex-votos or other dedications, prelude the begi~ng of a new religious regime. Although, there has been good scholarly work on individual aspects of the goddess Isis, this study explores the cults of Isis in all its aspects by highlighting certain areas where previous work has been much rare, due to an absolute lack of a proper knitting together the epigraphic, iconographical and historical material, which are discussed in the following chapters. Chapter I lays out briefly the features and the cultic activity of the goddess Isis in the pre-hellenistic period and the later religious activity that are strongly connected with the development of Isis' family myth, cuItic interaction and iconography in the Mediterannean. The Egyptian influences in Greece during the Ptolemaic period and the official amval of the most prominent Egyptian deities, Isis and Sarapis changed the religious significance in the area. Also, this study shows evidence and suggests possibilities of the goddess' early development in Greece in relation to inscriptions within a flexible chronological framework, along with sculpture monuments and small scale finds that are related to her worship in Chapter II. A number of areas, some of them previously unknown for their importance in terms of Egyptian influence, show a religious continuity since the early stages of the Hellenistic period. In Chapter III, the relations of the Ptolemaic kingship with Isis' cults are described, where further on in Chapter N, an extended analysis of Isis' representations in statuary in connection to royal Ptolemaic portraiture leads to the hypothesis for a possible distinction between the identification of representations of Isis and those of Ptolemaic queens and their identities in statuary, which have been long the subject of confusion and debate. Furthermore, in Chapter V, issues of religious matters are raised concerning Egyptian cults, indicating those of Isis alone or with deities and the rulers, in a mixed Greco-Egyptian environment and its complications in the cuitic function of the cults, which are represented in ancient texts and in the archaeological record. Finally, I believe that this research deserves a fair consideration due to its nature of assembling the most recent evidence that was possible, taking into ~ccount my effort to collect and translate an enormous corpus of foreign literature, which treats with care very delicate issues that have been long established, some of which remained either unfamiliar or have received limited attention in previous studies.
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Hudson, Alison. "Æthelwold's circle, saints' cults, and monastic reform, c.956-1006." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669730.
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Mooney, Annabelle Nell. "Terms of use and abuse : the recruiting rhetoric of cults." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6411/.
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Cults are negatively regarded. The way in which they persuade people to join their movements is particularly criticised by, for example, the anti-cult movement. Cults do use language in specific ways to recruit new members. There are, however, other groups who use language similarly, for recruitment purposes, but without stigmatisation. A new framework for rhetorical analysis, incorporating both classical tradition and contemporary work in text analysis, is particularly useful at demonstrating this. This thesis develops such a framework and uses it to analyse the rhetoric of three cults, Scientology, The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Children of God, showing that cults' distinctive negative profile in society is not matched by a linguistic typology. Indeed, this negative profile seems to rest on the semantics and application of the term 'cult' itself. Not only does this analysis increase our understanding of rhetoric, it paves the way for new questions to be asked about the pejoration of cults.
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Wahlberg, Nina May. "Goddess cults in Egypt between 1070 BC and 332 BC." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289446.
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Smith, Justin T. "Cult films and film cults in British cinema 1968-86." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429782.
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Garland, Lisa Margaret. "Aspects of Welsh saints' cults and pilgrimage c. 1066-1530." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/aspects-of-welsh-saints-cults-and-pilgrimage-c-10661530(92aa8513-28c6-44e0-b1d7-20c27d3265a5).html.
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Kader, Ariz. "Cults of Martyrdom : Exploring Rebel Cohesion Using Identity Fusion Theory." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445194.
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The literature on rebel cohesion/fragmentation currently presents valid macro-level explanations for rebel group cohesion/fragmentation, yet no model currently exists exploring non-utility-based motivations regulating pro-group behaviour. This thesis tests the assumptions of a novel social psychological framework – Identity Fusion Theory – on rebel cohesion. Using a primarily quantitative approach applying a logistic regression model to primary data gathered on the Syrian Civil War, and a smaller qualitative element comparing groups with “fused” and “non-fused” memberships during the war, the thesis tests the hypothesis that “groups with highly fused memberships will be less likely to fragment during the course of a civil war than groups with non-fused memberships”. The results of the analysis show a strong, positive relationship between fused memberships and rebel cohesion. The results of the thesis are to some extent limited by potential omitted variable bias (suggested by high R2 values) and the use of Syria as the only population from which to sample. Nevertheless, the relatively large number of observations in the dataset (63) as well as heterogenous nature of groups involved suggest the findings are generalisable. In conclusion, we did find a positive relationship between fusion and rebel group cohesion. The main implications of this thesis being that future academic research may benefit from focusing on social psychological factors when examining rebel dynamics while policymakers potentially shape better responses to insurgencies and rebellions.
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Lathrop, Benjamin A. "Cult films and film cults : the evil dead to Titanic /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1090934488.
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Baumbach, Jens David. "The significance of votive offerings in selected Hera sanctuaries in the Peloponnese, Ionia and western Greece." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248843.
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