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Gereb, Emmi. "Attrahera, främja och behålla kvinnorna i IT-branschen : En studie om det kvinnliga nätverket Geek Girl Meetup." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-5701.
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The aim of this study is to examine the conditions for participation in women's networks for the members of the Geek Girl Meetup network, to expose the members' perceptions of the IT industry and to highlight the network's impact on women's situation in the IT industry. The empirical material consists of interviews and a survey. The interviews were carried out with the network leaders for a better understanding of the network structure and why it exists. The survey completed by the members illuminates how the members perceive the networks function in the IT industry and what kind of an impact the network has on the members and if it has any at all. The result of the study shows that participation in networks like Geek Girl Meetup can be a model for promoting gender equality and improving conditions for women in the IT industry. However, the study does not clearly show whether being a member of the Geek Girl Meetup network has any effect on other women to start training or career in IT, or that this would promote a certain influx of women into IT-related occupations. The essay concludes that a direct impact of the women's network Geek Girl Meetup on IT industry can not be verified but it has a positive impact on the members
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Price, Jamie H., Aimee Govett, Misty Davis, Robyn Ivester, Teresa Howard, and Lisa Messimer. "PBL Meets PBL: Project-Based Learning Meets Planet-Based Learning." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6025.
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Project-based learning (PBL) is centred on a challenging, yet meaningful, driving question and culminates in a product that students create or do to showcase their learning to a public audience. Other essential elements of a true PBL experience include: sustained inquiry, authentic tasks, opportunities for students to make decisions about their culminating product, reflection, critique, and revision (Hallermann, Larmer, & Mergendoller, 2011). A well-designed PBL combines curriculum and instructional activities to cultivate 21st century skills in students to prepare them for future success in the workforce. Two teams of Year five teachers designed a week-long PBL unit for students organised around the characteristics of the planets, which integrated science, mathematics, and English. The teachers implemented the PBL with six classes of Year five students, documenting their thoughts on planning and implementation to reflect upon the experience.
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Seifert, Hans-Ulrich. "Dewey meets Krünitz." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200500700.
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Hans-Ulrich Seifert von der UB Trier stellte mit dem von der DFG geförderten Projekt Krünitz ein in jeder Hinsicht außergewöhnliches Digitalisierungsvorhaben vor. Es geht um die 140.000 Druckseiten der in 242 Bänden vorliegenden Oekonomisch-Technologischen Encyklopädie von Johann Georg Krünitz, die zwischen 1773 und 1858 entstand. Die Digitalisierung der 140.000 Druckseiten ist inzwischen erfolgt; als problematisch erwies sich gleichwohl, daß allein der lange Erscheinungszeitraum das seinige dazu tat, daß inhaltlich zusammengehörige Sachverhalte an vielerlei Alphabetstellen auftauchen. Hier setzen die Trierer Fachleute die DDC zur Klassifizierung aller Lemmata und Bilder ein und erreichen eine sachliche Gliederung und eine Gesamtschau, die in der Papierausgabe nicht zu erreichen war. Ein Beispiel: Das Suchwort Bier ergab 2.558 Treffer. Mehr hierzu unter
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Faria, Fabio Coura de. "Shakespeare meets rock." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2016. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/174689.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2016.Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-11T04:12:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 344852.pdf: 1618921 bytes, checksum: 8a92dc48d5bf529c6a1c7d164cdd1cd0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016
Esta dissertação investiga a adaptação da peça A Tempestade, de William Shakespeare, para o álbum Aqua, lançado em 2010 pela banda brasileira de heavy metal Angra. A trajetória histórica da peça nos últimos séculos sofreu impactos políticos e teóricos com a ascensão do pós-colonialismo. Em 1950, Octave Mannoni desencadeou, em Psychologie de la colonization, crescente atenção à peça Shakespeareana em cenários onde ideologias anticoloniais estavam por emergir, como a África e o Caribe. De forma análoga, George Lamming apropriou Shakespeare a perspectivas pós-coloniais com sua coleção de ensaios intitulada The Pleasures of Exile (1960), com sua (re)interpretação dos personagens Próspero e Caliban. O álbum Aqua, através do uso de mecanismos de adaptação específicos, tais como elementos melódicos, letras e material paratextual, aborda diferentes temas, personagens e situações da peça, ao mesmo tempo em que adentra questões pós-coloniais. A adaptação musical desenvolve, na canção "A Monster in Her Eyes", uma releitura da relação entre Próspero e Caliban, que ressoa com a teoria crítica pós-colonial, subvertendo a representação de Caliban como um monstro e resguardando sua soberania nativa. Relações dialógicas entre a peça e o álbum são traçadas com o suporte de A Theory of Adaptation, de Linda Hutcheon, no intuito de analisar os meios de expressão por trás do fenômeno de adaptação musical, que apropria obras adaptadas para diferentes públicos e contextos espaciotemporais.
Abstract : The present thesis investigates the adaptation of William Shakespeare?s The Tempest into the music album entitled Aqua, released by the Brazilian heavy metal band Angra in 2010. The historical trajectory of the The Tempest throughout the last centuries underwent political and theoretical impacts with the rise of postcolonialism. In 1950, Octave Mannoni unleashed, with Psychologie de la colonization, the sparkle for an increasing attention to the play in places where anticolonial ideologies would soon emerge, noticeably Africa and the Caribbean. Similarly, George Lamming approached Shakespeare in the light of postcolonial perspectives with his collection of essays entitled The Pleasures of Exile (1960), a (re)interpretation of The Tempest that focuses on its characters Prospero and Caliban. Angra?s music album Aqua, through the usage of its specific adaptation apparatuses such as melodic elements, lyrics, and paratextual material, addresses different themes, characters, and situations from The Tempest while bringing a postcolonial perspective to the fore. Moreover, the musical adaptation provides, with the song ?A Monster in Her Eyes?, a reinterpretation of the relationship between Prospero and Caliban which resonates with postcolonial critical theory, subverting the depiction of Caliban as a monster and giving voice to his claim as a native sovereign. This theoretical interplay is analyzed under the light of Linda Hutcheon?s A Theory of Adaptation as a means to observe the means of expression behind the musical adaptation phenomenon, channeling the adapted works to alternative publics, settings, and temporal contexts.
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Balcells, Nicholas M. "Reality Meets Fiction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/403.
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Weiße, Carsten, and Rene Stöckel. "Quake II meets Java." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200500863.
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Brook, Mark N. "Cosmology meets condensed matter." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11250/.
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This thesis is concerned with the interface of cosmology and condensed matter. Although at either end of the scale spectrum, the two disciplines have more in common than one might think. Condensed matter theorists and high-energy field theorists study, usually independently, phenomena embedded in the structure of a quantum field theory. It would appear at first glance that these phenomena are disjoint, and this has often led to the two fields developing their own procedures and strategies, and adopting their own nomenclature. We will look at some concepts that have helped bridge the gap between the two subjects, enabling progress in both, before incorporating condensed matter techniques to our own cosmological model. By considering ideas from cosmological high-energy field theory, we then critically examine other models of astrophysical condensed matter phenomena. In Chapter 1, we introduce the current cosmological paradigm, and present a somewhat historical overview of the interplay between cosmology and condensed matter. Many concepts are introduced here that later chapters will follow up on, and we give some examples in which condensed matter physics has had a very real effect on informing cosmology. We also reflect on the most recent incarnations of the condensed matter / cosmology interplay, and the future of these developments. Chapter 2 presents the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system of equations and their non-relativistic and nonlinear counterparts, the Schrodinger-Poisson, and nonlinear Schrodinger (Gross Pitaevskii)-Poisson systems. We give a more technical overview of the various applications of these systems of equations, as well as discussing the role and interpretation of condensates in the field of cosmology. In Chapter 3 we discuss more qualitatively the fluid-mechanical methods used in a wave-mechanical approach to structure formation, and in formulations of condensed matter models. Taking a lead from the condensed matter side, we look at some of the details of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, particularly with regard to quantum vortices, and then put this quantum-mechanical system into a cosmological environment by coupling it to the Poisson equation, in an effort to pin down some of the parameters that may be consistent with the existence of vortices in a cosmological Bose-Einstein condensate. In Chapter 4 we turn to high-energy field theory and elucidate further some of the relationships with condensed matter physics that are present. We also critically examine a Bose-Einstein dark matter model in light of these considerations. Chapter 5 rounds off with a discussion and suggestions for further work based upon models we have discussed, as well as some ideas for models that have not yet been mentioned. An appendix discusses techniques for moving from the relativistic Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations to the Schrodinger-Poisson system.
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Kühle, Gerrit, Edith Reschke, and Matti Stöhr. "Open Access meets Saxony!" SLUB Dresden, 2017. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A7936.
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Open Access steht für den freien Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Publikationen über das Internet. Die Open-Access-Tage, kurz OA-Tage, sind die zentrale jährliche Konferenz zu diesem Thema im deutschsprachigen Raum. In diesem Jahr findet die Tagung erstmals in Dresden statt.
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Jordan, Anne Michael. "Where learning meets dwelling." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42810.
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If a city is to undergo a re-birth then why not start from the beginning of life: childhood. This project explores the place of the child in the city and how a re-urbanizing area can benefit from the presence of the child. The thesis also looks at the home and what makes a good urban dwelling for a family.
The program for the thesis evolved as a reaction to these queries as a mixed use urban center that brings together family residence towers with private yards, and a school that incorporates day care and teaches pre-school through fifth grade.Master of Architecture
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Herrmann, Felix J. "Seismology meets compressive sampling." Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics. University of California, Los Angeles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/603.
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Abrahamsson, Henrik, and Anders Nilsson. "Meetia : Framtiden för utbyte av digital information." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-4749.
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I dagens affärssamhälle är utbytet av vanliga visitkort i papper enormt. Det är utan tvekan det ledande sättet för människor som träffas första gången att utbyta information i en affärsrelation. Det finns brister gällande uppföljning och hantering av vanliga visitkort och projektgruppen började då fundera på alternativ till pappersvisitkorten.
I dagens samhälle flyttas alltmer teknik till mobiltelefoner. En mobiltelefon kan idag användas till allt från att göra bankärenden till att läsa tidningen på nätet, vilket för 15 år sedan skulle låta helt orimligt. Det dyker dagligen upp nya mobilapplikationer som ska underlätta och effektivisera vardagen på något sätt och marknaden är enorm. På denna snabbt växande marknad har projektgruppen valt att ta fram ett koncept som de kallar Meetia.
Meetia är i huvudsak en mobilapplikation framtagen för att trådlöst utbyta digitala visitkort och förenkla bokning av möten genom att synka användarnas kalendrar. Applikationen har även funktioner som låter användaren enkelt och snabbt skapa nya visitkort direkt i telefonen.
Projektgruppen har även tagit fram en kompletterande hemsida till mobilapplikationen där användare har möjlighet att lagra och hantera de digitala visitkort som mottagits, för att sedan genom smarta sökfunktioner enkelt hitta de visitkort man söker.
Meetia kommer vara ett optimalt verktyg för att skapa nya kontakter då hela vägen från första kontakt till möte eller lagring av visitkort enkelt sköts med konceptet Meetia. Meetia kommer framför allt inrikta sig mot mässor där visitkort är vanligt förekommande och mängder affärskontakter skapas. För att nå ut till de stora mässorna i Sverige kommer applikationen finnas med mässfunktioner.
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Montesino, Hammarskjöld Teresa. "Crafting-design : Tuft meets Embroidery." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-24034.
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This project combines industrial tuft with handmade embroidery in order to explore various combinations of textured surfaces, materials and colors. The purpose is to investigate a meeting between craft and design by focusing on the encounter between the compact and the loose, the assembly of materials, as well as variations in levels and heights. The works are mainly based on recycled materials. Three textiles pieces were designed: a First Piece focuses on the meeting between craft and design; the Second Piece relates to different textures and the Third Piece addresses growth. The combination of hand embroidery and tufting create diversity and nuances in expressions, forms and textures. The small-scale of hand-embroidery permits the use of materials difficult or impossible to handle in machines and thus break the monotony of tuft. Through the tufting technique, larger compact pieces are produced that have depth and are sound-absorbent. This project aims to create a bridge between craft and design in the field of textile design.
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Herce, Clarita M. "Claritas where light meets form /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4578.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--George Mason University, 2009.Vita: p. 72. Thesis director: Paula Crawford. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Art and Visual Technology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 71). Also issued in print.
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Rydzewska, Joanna. "East meets West meets Auteur : transnational encounters with imagined identities in British and Polish cinema." Thesis, Swansea University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678569.
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Pratt, Keeley Lamson Angela. "Medical Family Therapy Meets Childhood Obesity." [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2793.
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Galati, Gabriela. "Duchamp meets Turing : art, modernism, posthuman." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/6609.
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In her book How We Became Posthuman (1999), Katherine Hayles analysed the process through which the conception of the liberal humanist subject led the way to the posthuman subject, a subject who lives in complete entwinement with the digital. This process, however, was not innocuous: it made the (fallacious) perception that information could do without material instantiation pervasive within many fields of knowledge, a process that Hayles contends originates in the Macy Conferences and the evolution of cybernetic theory. This research identifies an analogous process within the artistic realm: when Clement Greenberg delineated the concepts of opticality and colour field as the main characteristics that “defined” Modernist painting, he conceived of these in a purely disembodied subject (Krauss 1993). In this context, this work proposes to consider that the actual overcoming of modernism comes along with the advent of the posthuman, tracing its origin to Marcel Duchamp and his invention of the readymade, and not with postmodernism, the theoretical consistency of which, at least in the artistic field, this research will question. A first aim of this work will be to unify the main concepts and theories of the artistic field with those of cybernetics, to bring together ‘Turing land’ and ‘Duchamp land’ (Manovich 1996). For achieving this, digitalisation processes are not to be understood as representations of some material reality, but rather as ontological repetitions through which difference is conveyed. This is why the consideration of the temporal dimension of the archive as event is fundamental for understanding that the archive can only exist in its change, in its movement, in its action, in its metamorphosis, and thus the relevance of digitalisation processes in this regard becomes evident. Therefore, the archive is not only an issue of memory, but also a question yet to come, of conformation both of the future and subjectivities (Derrida 1967b, 1995). In this context, the present work advances the emergence of a digital subject with the emergence of new media, and theorises that the constitution of this subject happens by assuming a ‘point of view’ (Deleuze 1988) in the technological unconscious (Vaccari 1979). Reflecting upon the effects of digitalisation and actualisation (Deleuze 1968) on the subject, on how the digitised artwork and event affects, and changes, the subject observing and interacting with it, the present research will demonstrate that it is pertinent to talk about a subject who is embodied in the digital. In this sense, if the digitised artwork in the archive needs a subject to be actualised, this process also has its consequences for the subject. Therefore, the digital subject is the possibility of actualisation of the archive, and at the same time changes with it: she assumes an always-different ‘point of view’ constituted for her by the floating signifier in the technological unconscious. All these theories, which are part of the posthuman, are presented as the actual overcoming of modernism to show that the readymade as medium is, at the same time, both one of the points of rupture and the key link to bring back new media and art theory as art at large.
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Bolton, Sylvia. "When dyspraxia meets dyslexia at 11+." Thesis, n.p, 2001. http://dart.open.ac.uk/abstracts/page.php?thesisid=106.
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Chen, Lijie S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Fine-grained complexity meets communication complexity." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122754.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229).
Fine-grained complexity aims to understand the exact exponent of the running time of fundamental problems in P. Basing on several important conjectures such as Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH), All-Pair Shortest Path Conjecture, and the 3-Sum Conjecture, tight conditional lower bounds are proved for numerous exact problems from all fields of computer science, showing that many text-book algorithms are in fact optimal. For many natural problems, a fast approximation algorithm would be as important as fast exact algorithms. So it would be interesting to show hardness for approximation algorithms as well. But we had few techniques to prove tight hardness for approximation problems in P--In particular, the celebrated PCP Theorem, which proves similar approximation hardness in the world of NP-completeness, is not fine-grained enough to yield interesting conditional lower bounds for approximation problems in P.
In 2017, a breakthrough work of Abboud, Rubinstein and Williams [12] established a framework called "Distributed PCP", and applied that to show conditional hardness (under SETH) for several fundamental approximation problems in P. The most interesting aspect of their work is a connection between fine-grained complexity and communication complexity, which shows Merlin-Arther communication protocols can be utilized to give fine-grained reductions between exact and approximation problems. In this thesis, we further explore the connection between fine-grained complexity and communication complexity. More specifically, we have two sets of results. In the first set of results, we consider communication protocols other than Merlin-Arther protocols in [12] and show that they can be used to construct other fine-grained reductions between problems. [sigma]₂ Protocols and An Equivalence Class for Orthogonal Vectors (OV).
First, we observe that efficient [sigma]₂[superscripts cc] protocols for a function imply fine-grained reductions from a certain related problem to OV. Together with other techniques including locality-sensitive hashing, we establish an equivalence class for OV with O(log n) dimensions, including Max-IP/Min-IP, approximate Max-IP/Min-IP, and approximate bichromatic closest/further pair. · NP · UPP Protocols and Hardness for Computational Geometry Problems in 2⁰([superscript log*n]) Dimensions. Second, we consider NP · UPP protocols which are the relaxation of Merlin-Arther protocols such that Alice and Bob only need to be convinced with probability > 1/2 instead of > 2/3.
We observe that NP · UPP protocols are closely connected to Z-Max-IP problem in very small dimensions, and show that Z-Max-IP, l₂₋-Furthest Pair and Bichromatic l₂-Closest Pair in 2⁰[superscript (log* n)] dimensions requires n²⁻⁰[superscript (1)] time under SETH, by constructing an efficient NP - UPP protocol for the Set-Disjointness problem. This improves on the previous hardness result for these problems in w(log² log n) dimensions by Williams [172]. · IP Protocols and Hardness for Approximation Problems Under Stronger Conjectures. Third, building on the connection between IP[superscript cc] protocols and a certain alternating product problem observed by Abboud and Rubinstein [11] and the classical IP = PSPACE theorem [123, 155]. We show that several finegrained problems are hard under conjectures much stronger than SETH (e.g., the satisfiability of n⁰[superscript (1)]-depth circuits requires 2(¹⁻⁰[superscript (1)n] time).
In the second set of results, we utilize communication protocols to construct new algorithms. · BQP[superscript cc] Protocols and Approximate Counting Algorithms. Our first connection is that a fast BQP[superscript cc] protocol for a function f implies a fast deterministic additive approximate counting algorithm for a related pair counting problem. Applying known BQP[superscript cc] protocols, we get fast deterministic additive approximate counting algorithms for Count-OV (#OV), Sparse Count-OV and Formula of SYM circuits. · AM[superscript cc]/PH[superscript cc] Protocols and Efficient SAT Algorithms. Our second connection is that a fast AM[superscript cc] (or PH[superscript cc]) protocol for a function f implies a faster-than-bruteforce algorithm for a related problem.
In particular, we show that if the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem admits a fast (computationally efficient) PH[superscript cc] protocol (polylog(n) complexity), then polynomial-size Formula-SAT admits a 2[superscript n-n][superscript 1-[delta]] time algorithm for any constant [delta] > 0, which is conjectured to be unlikely by a recent work of Abboud and Bringmann [6].
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S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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McWilliam, Kelly. "Girl Meets Girl: Lesbian Romantic Comedies." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/12503/1/12503.pdf.
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Six decades after the romantic comedy emerged as a Hollywood genre in 1934, the first romantic comedies with a central lesbian couple, including Marita Giovanni’s Bar Girls and Rose Troche’s Go Fish, were released in 1994. This study argues that Bar Girls and Go Fish represent the first in a group of films whose numbers and similarities enable their consideration as a romantic comedy sub-genre, namely the ‘lesbian romantic comedy’. This study identifies and analyses this sub-genre. It contends that these films have emerged as the predominant (and perhaps only) form of mainstream lesbian feature film in the United States of America in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s. Yet, despite their relative prominence for more than a decade, they remain vastly under-examined areas in scholarship on both film genre and lesbian culture. This project aims to contribute to these areas by producing the first full-length survey of the sub-genre and the first study of any length to focus exclusively on it.
This study concentrates on ten lesbian romantic comedies: Bar Girls (1994), Go Fish (1994), Maria Maggenti’s The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love (1995), Kelli Herd’s It’s in the Water (1996), Julia Dyer’s Late Bloomers (1996), Emma-Kate Croghan’s Love and Other Catastrophes (1996), Heidi Arnesen’s Some Prefer Cake (1997), Anne Wheeler’s Better than Chocolate (1999), Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), and Helen Lesnick’s A Family Affair (2001). While this project employs textual analysis as its primary methodology to examine these films, these analyses take place more broadly within a public sphere framework. Consistent with a wider shift in analyses of lesbian and gay cultural products, this framework allows a consideration of the larger public stakes of lesbian romantic comedies and, in particular, their introduction of lesbian content into a heterocentric genre. Specifically, this project argues that the introduction of lesbian content—or the replacement of ‘boy meets girl’ with ‘girl meets girl’—destabilises the genre in significant ways, but that the genre itself equally restricts the representation of lesbianism possible within it. Ultimately, this project proposes a reading of lesbian romantic comedies as conservative and progressive, conventional and subversive, but as nonetheless complex texts that offer a range of pleasures and readings to their audiences and a range of challenges to the genre itself. Such a reading reveals the complexity and negotiation inherent in these films’ position as independent films presenting culturally and politically marginal content in a mainstream genre.
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Hirbli, Toufic. "Palm oil traceability : blockchain meets supply chain." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117800.
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Thesis: M. Eng. in Supply Chain Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Supply Chain Management Program, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged student-submitted from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38).
There is a current lack of visibility in the transfer of goods from farmers to oil mills, to manufacturers, to retail outlets and finally to the consumer in the palm oil industry. While leading brands have pledged to commit to a 100% sustainable certification, only 19% of global palm oil production is certified as sustainable. Emerging technologies, such as blockchain, a distributed ledger, can transform supply chain traceability as we know it and bring more transparency through the value chain, creating value to stakeholders. From a process perspective, the proposed solution leverages the mass balance, and book and claim traceability models that RSPO has defined. From a technology perspective, the proposed solution leverages blockchain, geospatial imagery classification, and IoT technologies to keep track of the flow of physical goods and sustainable palm oil certificates. From a people perspective, the proposed solution includes a set of incentive models that could be utilized in easing change management efforts.
by Toufic Hirbli.
M. Eng. in Supply Chain Management
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Yang, Ming. "When Decision Meets Estimation: Theory and Applications." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2007. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/627.
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In many practical problems, both decision and estimation are involved. This dissertation intends to study the relationship between decision and estimation in these problems, so that more accurate inference methods can be developed. Hybrid estimation is an important formulation that deals with state estimation and model structure identification simultaneously. Multiple-model (MM) methods are the most widelyused tool for hybrid estimation. A novel approach to predict the Internet end-to-end delay using MM methods is proposed. Based on preliminary analysis of the collected end-to-end delay data, we propose an off-line model set design procedure using vector quantization (VQ) and short-term time series analysis so that MM methods can be applied to predict on-line measurement data. Experimental results show that the proposed MM predictor outperforms two widely used adaptive filters in terms of prediction accuracy and robustness. Although hybrid estimation can identify model structure, it mainly focuses on the estimation part. When decision and estimation are of (nearly) equal importance, a joint solution is preferred. By noticing the resemblance, a new Bayes risk is generalized from those of decision and estimation, respectively. Based on this generalized Bayes risk, a novel, integrated solution to decision and estimation is introduced. Our study tries to give a more systematic view on the joint decision and estimation (JDE) problem, which we believe the work in various fields, such as target tracking, communications, time series modeling, will benefit greatly from. We apply this integrated Bayes solution to joint target tracking and classification, a very important topic in target inference, with simplified measurement models. The results of this new approach are compared with two conventional strategies. At last, a surveillance testbed is being built for such purposes as algorithm development and performance evaluation. We try to use the testbed to bridge the gap between theory and practice. In the dissertation, an overview as well as the architecture of the testbed is given and one case study is presented. The testbed is capable to serve the tasks with decision and/or estimation aspects, and is helpful for the development of the JDE algorithms.
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Hornik, Kurt, Christian Buchta, and Achim Zeileis. "Open-Source Machine Learning: R Meets Weka." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2007. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1188/1/document.pdf.
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Two of the prime open-source environments available for machine/statistical learning in data mining and knowledge discovery are the software packages Weka and R which have emerged from the machine learning and statistics communities, respectively. To make the different sets of tools from both environments available in a single unified system, an R package RWeka is suggested which interfaces Weka's functionality to R. With only a thin layer of (mostly R) code, a set of general interface generators is provided which can set up interface functions with the usual "R look and feel", re-using Weka's standardized interface of learner classes (including classifiers, clusterers, associators, filters, loaders, savers, and stemmers) with associated methods.Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics
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Terry, B. R., Gayatri Jaishankar, Jennifer Gibson, and Debra Q. Mills. "Retinal Hemorrhage: More Than Meets the Eye." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8864.
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Kwinana, Zukhanye N. "Email meets issue-tracking: a prototype implementation." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005644.
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The use of electronic mail (email) has evolved from sending simple messages to task delegation and management. Most mail clients, however, have not kept up with the evolution and as a result have limited task management features available. On the other hand, while issue tracking systems offer useful task management functionality, they are not as widespread as emails and also have a few drawbacks. This thesis reports on the exploration of the integration of the ubiquitous nature of email with the task management features of issue-tracking systems. We explore this using simple ad-hoc as well as semi-automated tasks. With these two working together, tasks can be delegated from email clients without needing to switch between the two environments. It brings some of the benefits of issue tracking systems closer to our email users.The system is developed using Microsoft VisuaI Studio.NET. with the code written in C#. The eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology was used during the development of the proof-of-concept prototype that demonstrates the integration of the two environments, as we were faced at first with vague requirements bound to change, as we better understood the problem domain through our development. XP allowed us to skip an extended and comprehensive initial design process and incrementally develop the system, making refinements and extensions as we encountered the need for them. This alleviated the need to make upfront decisions that were based on minimal knowledge of what to expect during development. This thesis describes the implementation of the prototype and the decisions made with each step taken towards developing an email-based issue tracking system. With the two environments working together, we can now easily track issues from our email clients without needing to switch to another system.KMBT_363
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Müller, Meinard, Thomas Prätzlich, and Christian Dittmar. "Freischütz Digital: When Computer Science Meets Musicology." Allitera Verlag, 2016. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A23347.
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Toyoda, Mitsuyo. "Approaches to Nature Aesthetics: East Meets West." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3305/.
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Nature aesthetics is examined as an approach to environmental ethics. The characteristics of proper nature appreciation show that every landscape can be appreciated impartially in light of the dynamic processes of nature. However, it is often claimed that natural beauty decreases if humans interfere into nature. This claim leads to the separation of human culture and nature, and limits the number of landscapes which can be protected in terms of aesthetic value. As a solution to this separation, a non-dualistic Japanese aesthetics is examined as a basis for the achievement of the coexistence of culture and nature. Ecological interrelationships between human culture and nature are possible by means of an aesthetic consciousness in terms of non-hierarchical attitudes.
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Yang, Mengting, and Fan Zhang. "Development of an Electronic Business Card system - The Meetia system." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (IDE), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5106.
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First and foremost, we would like to thank to our supervisor Wagner Ourique de Moraisfor his valuable guidance and suggestions during the whole time of the thesis work. Hemotivated us contributed to our project and inspired us greatly.Furthermore, we would like to thank Anders Nilsson and Henrik Abrahamsson who arebusiness students at Halmstad University for the project idea. They gave us an opportunity toparticipate and learn from each other.Finally, we would like to thank you our friends for helping us this project.
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Mauro, Jacopo <1984>. "Constraints meet concurrency." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/4341/.
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We investigate the benefits that emerge when the fields of constraint programming and concurrency meet.
On one hand, constraints can be use in concurrency theory to increase the conciseness and the expressive power of concurrent languages from a pragmatic point of view. On the other hand, problems modeled by using constraints can be solved faster and more efficiently using a concurrent system.
We explore both directions providing two separate lines of contribution. Firstly we study the expressive power of a concurrent language, namely Constraint Handling Rules, that supports constraints as a primitive construct. We show what features of this language make it Turing powerful. Then we propose a framework to solve constraint problems that is intended to be deployed on a concurrent system. For the development of this framework we used the concurrent language Jolie following the Service Oriented paradigm. Based on this experience, we also propose an extension to Service Oriented Languages to overcome some of their limitations and to improve the development of concurrent applications.
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Myrsell, Emil. "Meet and Make." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-135519.
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Weiss, Katherine. "Meet Your Professors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2253.
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Telford, Wendy L. "Feminism meets self-care in social change work." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ40345.pdf.
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Lieberworth, Audrey L. "Seattle's Orchards: A Historic Legacy Meets Modern Sustainability." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/25.
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European immigrants introduced orchards to the U.S. in the early 1600s. As they began to establish settlements and migrate west, they brought orchard cultivation with them, creating an extensive network of orchards spread across the U.S. However, over time many of these orchards were lost due to urban development, which is what makes Seattle’s historic orchards significant. Early Seattle settlers planted orchards in the 1800s and early 1900s, and their remnants still exist today, despite urban development. Over the years, many of the orchards have been incorporated onto City Department-owned land, but they have not been maintained to the extent that they could or should be. In the past few years, there has been an interest in rejuvenating Seattle’s historic orchards and planting new ones in order to contribute to the growing local urban agriculture movement. This piece of work is framed around a discussion of the significance of Seattle’s orchards, their significance to the surrounding communities, and how the work accomplished at these sites can become sustainable.
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Schröter, Carolin. "AVWS »meets« LRS : Erfahrungen aus der therapeutischen Praxis." Universität Potsdam, 2013. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6852/.
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1 Einleitung
2 Zusammenhänge zwischen zentral-auditiven Wahrnehmungs- und Verarbeitungsstörungen (AVWS) und Beeinträchtigungen im Lesen und Schreiben
3 Therapeutische Möglichkeiten zur Behandlung von komorbiden Störungen im Lesen und Schreiben bei Kindern mit AVWS
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Hashemi, Aghchehbody Alireza. "Trust in others: Where game theory meets neuroscience." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114389.
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Virtually every interaction in life involves trust, i.e., the notion that we believe that another person will honor an agreement. Indeed, it would be impossible to formally enforce all but a fraction of agreements within relationships we have in everyday life. This concept, in economics, is captured by the notion of an incomplete contract, which is pervasive in most relationships. For example, imagine that you contract with a builder to renovate your house. Any homeowner knows that such a project involves hundreds of decisions unanticipated at the start of the project, many of which add to its cost. From defense contracting, to high-tech startups, to inter-familial relationships, such contracts are a fact of life. The simplest model of such an incomplete contract is a trust game, in which a trustor sends money to a trustee, anticipating that the trustee will share the gains of this trust. In this paper I explore the determinants of the evaluation of trustworthiness by a trustor. I combine behavioral data in an economics experiment with physiological and psychological information to refine our knowledge regarding the decision to trust another person. My thesis is the first to combine this wide-ranging information for this question, and lays the foundation for future studies that will explore the role of biology in trust.Quasiment toutes les interactions humaines impliquent de faire confiance, c'est-à-dire de croire qu'une autre personne honorera un accord. En effet, il serait impossible de faire respecter formellement tous les accords qui existent implicitement au sein des relations que nous avons dans la vie quotidienne. Ce concept, en économie, est capturé par la notion d'un contrat incomplet, qui est omniprésent dans la plupart des relations. Par exemple, imaginez que vous passez un contrat avec un constructeur pour rénover votre maison. Tout propriétaire de maison sait qu'un tel projet implique des centaines de décisions imprévues au début du projet, dont beaucoup ajoutent à son coût. Que ce soit pour des contrats de défense, des startups, ou des relations interfamiliales, ces contrats se retrouvent partout. Le modèle le plus simple d'un tel contrat incomplet est le 'jeu de confiance', dans lequel une personne donne de l'argent à une autre, en anticipant que le récipiendaire partagera les gains de cette confiance. Dans cet article, j'explore ce qui détermine chez une personne la fiabilité du récipiendaire potentiel. Je combine les données comportementales d'une expérience d'économie et des informations psycho-physiologiques afin de compléter nos connaissances concernant les décisions de faire confiance à autrui. Mon manuscrit est le premier à combiner des informations d'une telle envergure pour explorer cette question, et jette les bases pour de futures études qui permettront d'étudier le rôle de la biologie dans les décisions de confiance.
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Hardie, Michael John. "Logo meets KidPix : a programming language for children." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Computer Science, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9418.
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The use of computers has changed as a result of the shift in emphasis from centralised computer systems to the personal computer. Users are no longer dependent on someone else to supply their information needs, as they can retrieve the information themselves. Rather than making programming a redundant skill, this has meant that more people require programming skills, albeit at a lower level. The personal computer can now be found in many homes, but its use is mainly for the playing of games, rather than using it to learn the fundamentals of programming-sequencing, selection, and iteration. In order to get children interested in learning the concepts of programming, a skill that can be used in later life, an environment needs to be created in which not only are these skills learnt, but the user has fun learning them.
This thesis introduces sLogo, an icon driven turtle graphics programming environment that incorporates sound and animation to provide an exciting environment in which to program. Within sLogo, direct manipulation is used to insert and delete commands, control execution, and to create procedures and repeat statements. Audio feedback is given on all mouse operations, and turtle movement. Rather than just watching the turtle move across the screen, the user gets to hear it as it zooms along and turns its corners.
We describe some of the problems that children have been observed having when using Logo, and some suggested solutions of those problem. We describe various computer environments designed for use by children are examined, such as KidPix, a drawing program that uses audio feedback, and LogoMation, a Logo-like programming language that supports the use of colour, sound, and animation. The design of sLogo is discussed, and the techniques used to correct some of the problems in Logo when used by young children. SLogo was tested by twenty seven 12- and 8-yearold children from a local primary school. Their use of sLogo, and the observations from this testing are recorded.
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Kopf, Julia. "Model-based recursive partitioning meets item response theory." Diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-164348.
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The aim of this thesis is to develop new statistical methods for the evaluation of assumptions that are crucial for reliably assessing group-differences in complex studies in the field of psychological and educational testing. The framework of item response theory (IRT) includes a variety of psychometric models for scaling latent traits such as the widely-used Rasch model. The Rasch model ensures objective measures and fair comparisons between groups of subjects. However, this important property holds only if the underlying assumptions are met. One essential assumption is the invariance property. Its violation is extensively discussed in the literature and termed differential item functioning (DIF). This thesis focuses on the methodology of DIF detection. Existing methods for DIF detection are briefly discussed and new statistical methods for DIF detection are introduced together with new anchor methods. The methods introduced in this thesis allow to classify items with and without DIF more accurately and, thus, to improve the evaluation of the invariance assumption in the Rasch model. This thesis, thereby, provides a contribution to the construction of objective and fair tests in psychology and educational testing.
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Nieh, Tai-Wei. "Leadership theory and practice: where East meets West." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26040.
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RYBALOWSKI, TATIANA MESSER. "DIFFERENTIATED FASHION PRODUCT MANAGEMENT: HANDICRAFT MEETS APPAREL INDUSTRY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13059@1.
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Dentre as diferentes formas que a moda tem para se manifestar, uma das mais
expressivas é a indústria de vestuário. A despeito de sua essência mutável que
busca constantemente a novidade, o produto de moda não tem conseguido ser
diferente a ponto de revelar sua identidade através de seus atributos físicos. A
partir da percepção de certa homogeneização do produto de moda, este trabalho
busca trazer subsídios ao desenvolvimento de produtos diferenciados de moda
através da criação de atributos físicos que reforcem a identidade do produto.
Dentre vários recursos que podem ser utilizados, podem-se destacar os processos
que inserem o artesanal na confecção industrial, resultando em peças únicas e
construindo um contraponto ao excesso de industrialização, impessoalidade e
repetição de modelos produzidos em escala unicamente industrial. Como uma
ferramenta estratégica para a manutenção da competitividade através da
diferenciação, a Gestão de Design utiliza as competências, conhecimentos e
experiências da empresa a fim de possibilitar a contínua reinvenção de produtos e
processos que coloquem a empresa numa posição de destaque no mercado.Apparel is one of fashion`s most expressive resources, and yet, in spite of its ever changing nature, the fashion product has not managed to achieve differentiation in a way that makes its physical attributes reveal its identity. Departing from a perception of a growing homogenization of fashion products, this study brings some insights for the development of differentiated fashion products through the use of physical attributes that reinforce a product`s identity. Among the several strategies to achieve this aim, we may emphasize the processes that promote the merging of handicraft production and apparel industry, thus yielding unique items and disrupting the pattern of excessively industrialized, repetitive and impersonal products. As a strategic tool to maintain competitive advantage through differentiation, Design Management exploits a company`s competence, knowledge and experience to continuously reinvent products and processes to achieve competitive positioning.
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Baca, Del Rosario Mariana Cristina. "Television meets Facebook : social networking through consumer electronics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46578.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-95).
This thesis explores how the merging of ubiquitous consumer electronics and the sociable web improve the user experience of these devices, increase the functionality of both, and help distribute content in a more sociable way. The project will consist of one well fleshed out principal application: a digital video recorder (manufactured by Motorola, running OCAP) connected to the Facebook social network. By connecting these two technologies, the user can now automatically watch the shows her friends like and are willing to report to the social network; in return, the user transmits her viewing data back to the social network.
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Mroueh, Youssef. "From bits to information : learning meets compressive sensing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97809.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-182).
A quantization approach to supervised learning, compressive sensing, and phase retrieval is presented in this thesis. We introduce a set of common techniques that allow us, in those three settings, to represent high dimensional data using the order statistics of linear and non linear measurements. We introduce new algorithms for signals classification in the multiclass and the multimodal settings, as well as algorithms for signals representation and recovery from quantized linear and quadratic measurements. We analyze the statistical consistency of our algorithms and prove their robustness to different sources of perturbation, as well as their computational efficiency. We present and analyze applications of our theoretical results in realistic setups, such as computer vision classification tasks, Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition, lossy image compression and retrieval via locality sensitive hashing, locally linear estimation in large scale learning and Fourier sampling for phase retrieval - of particular interest in X-ray crystallography and super-resolution diffraction imaging applications. Our analysis of quantization based algorithms highlights interesting tradeoffs between memory complexity, sample complexity, and time complexity in algorithms design.
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Evans, Ryan George. "LogBoy meets FilterGirl--a toolkit for multivariant movies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29073.
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Zheng, Chunfang, Eric Chen, Victor Albert, Eric Lyons, and David Sankoff. "Ancient eudicot hexaploidy meets ancestral eurosid gene order." BioMed Central, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610022.
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BACKGROUND:A hexaploidization event over 125 Mya underlies the evolutionary lineage of the majority of flowering plants, including very many species of agricultural importance. Half of these belong to the rosid subgrouping, containing severals whose genome sequences have been published. Although most duplicate and triplicate genes have been lost in all descendants, clear traces of the original chromosome triples can be discerned, their internal contiguity highly conserved in some genomes and very fragmented in others. To understand the particular evolutionary patterns of plant genomes, there is a need to systematically survey the fate of the subgenomes of polyploids, including the retention of a small proportion of the duplicate and triplicate genes and the reconstruction of putative ancestral intermediates between the original hexaploid and modern species, in this case the ancestor of the eurosid clade.RESULTS:We quantitatively trace the fate of gene triples originating in the hexaploidy across seven core eudicot flowering plants, and fit this to a two-stage model, pre- and post-radiation. We also measure the simultaneous dynamics of duplicate orthologous gene loss in three rosids, as influenced by biological functional class. We propose a new protocol for reconstructing ancestral gene order using only gene adjacency data from pairwise genomic analyses, based on repeating MAXIMUM WEIGHT MATCHING at two levels of resolution, an approach designed to transcend limitations on reconstructed contig size, while still avoiding the ambiguities of a multiplicity of solutions. Applied to three high-quality rosid genomes without subsequent polyploidy events, our automated procedure reconstructs the ancestor of the eurosid clade.CONCLUSIONS:The gene loss analysis and the ancestor reconstruction present complementary assessments of post-hexaploidization evolution, the first at the level of individual gene families within and across sister genomes and the second at the chromosome level. Despite the loss of more than 95% of gene duplicates and triplicates, and despite major structural rearrangement, our reconstructed eurosid ancestor clearly identifies the three regions corresponding to each of the seven original chromosomes of the earlier pre-hexaploid ancestor. Functional analysis confirmed trends reported for more recent plant polyploidy events: genes involved with regulation and responses were retained in multiple copies, while genes involved with metabolic processes were lost.
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Oneto, Alessandro. "Waring-type problems for polynomials : Algebra meets Geometry." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Matematiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-129019.
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In the present thesis we analyze different types of additive decompositions of homogeneous polynomials. These problems are usually called Waring-type problems and their story go back to the mid-19th century and, recently, they received the attention of a large community of mathematicians and engineers due to several applications. At the same time, they are related to branches of Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. The classical Waring problem investigates decompositions of homogeneous polynomials as sums of powers of linear forms. Via Apolarity Theory, the study of these decompositions for a given polynomial F is related to the study of configuration of points apolar to F, namely, configurations of points whose defining ideal is contained in the ``perp'' ideal associated to F. In particular, we analyze which kind of minimal set of points can be apolar to some given polynomial in cases with small degrees and small number of variables. This let us introduce the concept of Waring loci of homogeneous polynomials. From a geometric point of view, questions about additive decompositions of polynomials can be described in terms of secant varieties of projective varieties. In particular, we are interested in the dimensions of such varieties. By using an old result due to Terracini, we can compute these dimensions by looking at the Hilbert series of homogeneous ideal. Hilbert series are very important algebraic invariants associated to homogeneous ideals. In the case of classical Waring problem, we have to look at power ideals, i.e., ideals generated by powers of linear forms. Via Apolarity Theory, their Hilbert series are related to Hilbert series of ideals of fat points, i.e., ideals of configurations of points with some multiplicity. In this thesis, we consider some special configuration of fat points. In general, Hilbert series of ideals of fat points is a very active field of research. We explain how it is related to the famous Fröberg's conjecture about Hilbert series of generic ideals. Moreover, we use Fröberg's conjecture to deduce the dimensions of several secant varieties of particular projective varieties and, then, to deduce results regarding some particular Waring-type problems for polynomials. In this thesis, we mostly work over the complex numbers. However, we also analyze the case of classical Waring decompositions for monomials over the real numbers. In particular, we classify for which monomials the minimal length of a decomposition in sum of powers of linear forms is independent from choosing the ground field as the field of complex or real numbers.
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Bangia, Anshu. "A city's edge: where the land meets water." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53365.
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The Edge of a City is a philosophical region, where City and Natural Landscape overlap, existing without choice or expectation.'
Steven Holl
The interaction across boundaries sets up a dialogue that is highly complex and ambiguous. The periphery of a modern city presents itself as an erratic composition of fragments having little or no relationship to the existing fabric of the city. The mediating ground between natural landscape and a built—up environment, the city's edge is an opportunity for a new synthesis of urban life and form. But more often than not it is treated as 'leftover' space with the only reminder of its urbanity being its proximity to the maze of curvilinear superhighways. This 'leftover' edge condition becomes more acute when the natural boundary is water.
Ignoring fundamental aspects in designing waterfront environments has resulted in an architecture and urban development that is visually chaotic and disorganized, reflecting a lack of harmony with self and surrounding urban landscape.
The development of urban waterfronts has always been one of the ways to enhance the urban environment. Besides contributing to the economic, recreational, cultural and industrial development of the place, the architectural character has always adapted itself to the maritime context maintaining a continuous dialogue between the urban edge and the water.
Historically employed as a means of transport and trade, it is only now that the potential of river or sea in relation to waterfront land is being recognized for its recreational and cultural aspects.
Decreasing waterborne cargo and passenger travel has left a large section of waterfronts unused or underused. It is the effective and appropriate reuse of these sites that poses a challenge towards urban land use, and establishment of an identity, and environmental quality of a city.Master of Architecture
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Baker, Joseph O. "Sasquatch: Cultural Mythology Meets the Culture of Science." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/488.
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Madden, Andrew Stephen. "Nanoscience Meets Geochemistry: Size-Dependent Reactivity of Hematite." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28033.
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Recent studies have demonstrated that nanoscale crystalline iron oxide minerals are common in natural systems. The discipline of nanoscience suggests that these particles in the size range of approximately 1-50 nm will have properties that deviate from the bulk properties of the same material and that these properties will change as a function of particle size. This study begins to fill the void of corresponding experimental investigations that apply the principles of nanoscience to the geochemical reactivity of nanominerals.
The rate of Mn²⁺(aq) oxidation on hematite with average diameters of 7.3 nm and 37 nm was measured in the presence of O₂(aq). In the pH range of 7-8, the surface area normalized rate was one to two orders of magnitude greater on the 7.3 nm average diameter particles. Based on the application of electron transfer theory, it is hypothesized that the particles with diameters less than approximately 10 nm have surface crystal chemical environments which distort the symmetry of the MnMn²⁺ surface complex, reducing the energy required to reorganize the coordinated ligands after oxidation to Mn³⁺.
Cu²⁺, an analog for Mn³⁺, was used to probe for the presence and nature of the proposed changes in surface structure. Cu²⁺ and Mn³⁺ show similar electronic structure changes in response to the surrounding crystal field due to their d-electron configurations and Jahn-Teller coordinative distortions. Batch sorption experiments on hematite nanoparticles revealed a shift in the pH-dependent adsorption of Cu²⁺(aq). Specifically, an affinity sequence of 7 nm > 25 nm = 88 nm was determined based on the shift of the 7 nm sorption edge to approximately 0.8 pH units lower than that for the 25 nm and 88 nm samples. These data support the hypothesis that unique binding sites exist on the 7 nm nanoparticles that are not significantly present on the larger particles.
The National Nanotechnology Initiative stresses the need to address the broader societal impacts of nanoscale research. This dissertation embraces this viewpoint through the development and inclusion of "Nano2Earth: Introducing Nanotechnology Through Investigations of Groundwater," a curriculum which combines nanoscience with the Earth sciences for high school students.Ph. D.
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Hall, Kenneth Estes. "The Kansas Cattle Towns: Where Trail Meets Rail." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/588.
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Beckett, Christine. "Business process management: when management discipline meets pastoral power." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/19491.
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Business Process Management (BPM) is management technique which seeks to constantly innovate business processes to improve customer service while reducing costs. It is introduced into organisations alongside software called Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). BPM monitors and measures processes to find opportunities for improvement of these processes. The system enables the capture of business processes by rendering them as process models; these are used to link to information, to deliver this information to staff, to automate tasks where possible, and to turn tasks into work flows which appear on manager's and staff's desktops as 'to do' lists. This thesis presents a case study of the implementation of BPM and a BPMS into a large insurance company in New Zealand. The initial research objective was to identify critical success factors (CSF's) for BPM and use Action Research (AR) in conjunction with ethnography to track the presence of the CSF's and to develop strategies to compensate for any lack in CSF's. The pilot BPM project in the organisation was successful, although it did require radical change in the business unit. However, the BPM project failed to embed BPM techniques in the rest of the organisation and was ultimately cancelled. At this point the research objective shifted to understanding the forms of power and resistance that had emerged over the course of the implementation. To understand these, a theoretical framework was developed with Rescherian process philosophy as its ontological foundation and Foucauldian concepts of power/knowledge as its epistemological foundation. The axiological foundation is that the self-formed in this processual reality is formed in the grid of power relations in which it is situated. The key findings of the research are that the concepts of culture and values are not sufficient to explain the forms of resistance that emerge when BPM and its associated Information Systems (IS) are implemented. Instead, a processual analysis using Foucauldian concepts of power and resistance proved to be a richer and more explanatory framework. This analysis found that the insurance industry is a technique of bio-power. This form of power relies on techniques of pastoral power to produce ethical, self-regulating, risk-managing subjects, both consumers and suppliers of risk mitigation products. These subjects are seen as self-governing, guided by conscience, and capable of unique responses to situations so that the manager is primarily a coach. BPM, on the other hand, is a technique of disciplinary power which produces disciplined, docile, utile subjects. These subjects are seen as requiring the three elements of hierarchical observation, normalising judgment and examination to ensure productivity and quality so that the manager is primarily an enforcer. These two forms of managerial subjectivity are opposed so that the introduction of the form of disciplinary power relations required by BPM generated resistance from the existing predominant forms of pastoral power. Ultimately this predominant form of power successfully resisted the introduction of disciplinary power. I suggest that this framework may prove useful for predicting resistance in future BPM projects.
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Mack, Rüdiger [Verfasser]. "Quantum Mechanics meets the Riemann-Zeta Function / Rüdiger Mack." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1010446622/34.
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Harris, Sarah Lucia. "More than meets the eye, visual medium for ministry." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0026/NQ48812.pdf.
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