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Baker, Anthony John. "The NOW Map: consistent, dynamic and contemporary geospatial information." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, 2005. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001409/.

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[Abstract]: Mapping agencies, national and regional, are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain the currency of their suite of map related products and services. These products include topographic maps and the provision of up to date topographic data. The maintenance of this socially important spatial information is at issue through the duplication of effort that presently exists within government agencies at all levels. A dedicated data sharing and topographic maintenance program has the potential to solve all of these issues. The "NOW Map" gives the "map hungry" public the ability to obtain spatially located data and products in time frames and formats of their choosing. This system is capable of delivering consistent, dynamic and contemporary geospatial information. It will be flexible, in response to a modern ever-changing society, and capable of providing up to date topographic maps and data that not only meets current standards, but also continually exceeds them. After the development of initial procedures, a pilot study was conducted to expand and further refine data collection and analysis procedures. This was followed by a final data-gathering research phase. The research used relevant local, interstate and international examples in all areas of the study. The outcomes of the pilot study and analysis of the second research segment demonstrated that maps can be maintained more efficiently through the utilisation of accurate up to date information. These topographically significant updates can be provided incrementally by organisations that maintain data as part of their own core business.
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Lovász, Martin. "Návrh systému Balanced Scorecard v konkrétním podniku." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-142224.

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This thesis deals with designing systém Balanced Scorecard for the company. In the theoretical part is explained in detail system Balanced Scorecard with some of his analyzes. The practical part of the thesis on the base of these findings demonstrates the explanatory power of non-accounting information within the concept of Balanced Scorecard in a company.
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Poff, Boris. "Introducing a New Website for the USA Man and Biosphere Program (MAB)." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296615.

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Louzada, Heloisa Olivi. "Contrastes na cena artística paulistana: MAC USP e MAM SP nos anos 1970." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/93/93131/tde-18112013-173923/.

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A arte brasileira durante a década de 1970 se destacou pelo alto grau de experimentalismo e de contestação aos cânones tanto artísticos como museológicos. As exposições anuais Panorama da Arte Atua Brasileira e Jovem Arte Contemporânea, organizadas respectivamente pelo Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo e pelo Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, se dedicaram a expor e legitimar determinadas tendências da arte dita jovem e atual durante esse período. A análise comparativa proposta por essa pesquisa revela e discute os mecanismos de seleção, organização, premiação e apresentação de obras em ambas as exposições. O foco da pesquisa dá-se no ano de 1972, momento em que a edição da Jovem Arte Contemporânea apresenta grandes inovações, ano de intenso crescimento do mercado de artes paulistano, auge da repressão militar e em que o Panorama discute as categorias escultura e objeto. Buscou-se analisar as exposições dentro desse contexto maior, apontando como referências os encontros internacionais de diretores de museus e outras exposições paradigmáticas para o período realizadas na Europa e na América Latina.
Brazilian art from the 1970s is known for its high degree of experimentation and for challenging both artistic and museological canons. The annual exhibitions Panorama da Arte atual Brasileira and Jovem Arte Contemporânea, organized respectively by the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, are dedicated to exposing and legitimizing certain art trends during this period. The comparative analysis proposed by this research reveals and discusses the mechanisms of selection, organization, and presentation works in both exhibitions. The focus of the research takes place in 1972, when the show Jovem Arte Contemporânea presents major innovations and the Panorama discusses sculpture and object categories, the year is also marked by intense growth of the a São Paulo art market, the increase of military repression. We sought to examine the exhibitions within this larger context, taking as references the discussions that occurred in the international encounters of museums directors, and also other paradigmatic exhibitions for the period held in Europe and Latin America.
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Vallée, Thierry. "Map Theory et Antifondation." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Diderot - Paris VII, 2001. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00001298.

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Map Theory est une extension équationnelle du lambda-calcul non-typé conçue par Klaus Grue pour être une fondation commune de l'informatique et des mathématiques. Elle permet en particulier une interprétation complète du calcul des prédicats et de ZFC+FA, où ZFC est la théorie de Zermelo-Fraenkel, et FA est l'axiome de bonne fondation usuel. Toutes les notions primitives de la logique du premier ordre et de la théorie des ensembles, valeurs de vérité, connecteurs, quantificateurs, appartenance et égalité, y sont traduites par des termes du lambda-calcul enrichi de quelques constantes. De plus, Map Theory permet de représenter les types de données inductifs et de donner un sens calculatoire immédiat à tous les constructeurs ensemblistes usuels. La version initiale de Map Theory par K. Grue ne considère cependant que les ensembles (ou classes) bien-fondée relativement à la relation d'appartenance. Dans le cadre du renouveau d'intérêt pour l'antifondation induit par les developpements récents de l'informatique théorique, nous montrons dans notre thèse qu'il est possible d'élaborer une version antifondée de Map Theory qui prenne en compte l'existence des objets non-bien-fondés, et qui permette de raisonner sur ces objets par co-induction. Ce nouveau système ouvre la possibilité d'une représentation directe des types de données co-inductifs, et de la modèlisation des phènoménes et processus circulaires. Dans une première partie, nous présenterons l'axiomatisation MTA de ce nouveau système, et nous montrerons que ZFC+AFA, où AFA est l'axiome d'Antifondation de Aczel-Forti-Honsell, y est interprétable syntaxiquement. Dans la deuxième partie, nous montrerons la consistance de MTA relativement à ZFC+SI, où SI est l'axiome exprimant l'existence d'un cardinal fortement inaccessible.
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Gomez, Hernandez Maria del Carmen. "Information system for environmental technologies." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/u?/NOD,210.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of New Orleans, 2005.
Title from electronic submission form. "A thesis ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science"--Thesis t.p. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Uhlmann, Jeffrey. "Dynamic map building and localization : new theoretical foundations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298557.

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Kearney, Helen L. "Mapping modernity : the London Postal Map of 1856." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2017. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2813/.

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The London Postal Map was introduced in 1856. It drew a boundary around London, and then divided the city into ten districts: EC, WC, N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W and NW. It was a technological innovation that greatly increased the speed and efficiency of the movement of post around London, in a period when the postal service was the primary form of communication. Service became incredibly quick, frequent, and accessible; almost as instantaneous as the internet today. Deliveries began at 7.22am, with deliveries on the hour, every hour throughout the day. Letters posted at 7.30pm in central London would reach outer London suburbs that same evening. This thesis considers a period from 1830 until 1918, corresponding to the period of the beginnings of the Map’s story, to a major change in the Map during the First World War. It describes the origins of the Postal Map, and then explores its effects in the context of a rapidly developing city. It speculates on meanings of mapping the city where new names and boundaries are introduced and visualized. It investigates the development of the city, understanding the post as an essential part of London’s infrastructure. It considers how people experienced a city in which millions of letters, thousands of postmen, and hundreds of mail carts were moving each week. The Postal Map is argued to be one of the causal factors of modernity within London; it meant urban space was linked to a particular temporality – modern, fast-paced, connected. It changed how Londoner’s conceived their city through providing a new framework for labelling places in relation to each other, stating what was east, what was west.   The project uses the extensive archives held by the Postal Museum, which include hundreds of maps, to tell the story of the Postal Map. It combines methodologies from social history, technological and administrative histories, mapping theory, urban planning history, and design history to gain a rich understanding of the full spatial implications of this designed object: the London Postal Map.
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Fors, Martin. "Normal Mapping för Hårda Ytor : Photoshop och Maya Transfer Maps för Normal Mapping av icke-organiska geometri i datorspel." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3103.

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I mitt examensarbete har jag undersökt om det lämpar sig att använda en manuell metod för att skapa normal maps till icke-organiska polygonmodeller avsedda för datorspel. Jag har använt mig av Photoshop för att måla normal maps som jag sedan applicerar på lågdetaljerade modeller jag skapat, för att höja detaljgraden avsevärt.

 

Då icke-organisk modellering inbegriper modeller som ska representera hårda ytor, och därmed inte animeras med deformation, så antog jag att denna metod skulle lämpa sig väldigt väl åt dessa ytor som ofta har extremt mjuka former och precisa vassare kanter.

 

Min metod har varit att studera litteratur om Normal Mapping och hur man använder Photoshop för detta. Jag har sedan utfört praktiskt arbete för att utvärdera hur effektiv metoden är samt vilka fördelar den bidrar med. Jag går igenom teori för normal mapping som jag stödjer med hjälp av faktatexter och instruktions-DVDer i ämnet för att sedan redovisa metoden jag använt i mitt arbete. Jag avslutar sedan med en diskussion kring mitt resultat och redovisar vad jag kommit fram till genom mina experiment.

 

Jag kommer fram till att Normal Mapping med Photoshop är mycket väl lämpat åt hårda ytor och även bidrar med optimeringar i arbetsflödet både vad gäller organisering, tidsåtgång samt kontroll över resultatet. Ytterligare så ges förslag på förbättringar i pluginets funktionalitet för att öka användarvänligheten.

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Hidalgo, Alexander. "The Indian Map Trade in Colonial Oaxaca." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/301765.

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This dissertation analyzes the practice of making indigenous maps and their circulation in Oaxaca from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Indian maps functioned as visual aids to distribute land for agriculture, ranching, subsistence farming, and mining, they served as legal titles to property, and they participated in large-scale royal projects including aqueducts and assessments of human and natural resources. Map production is examined from four distinct vantage points including social networks, materials and technology, authentication, and reproduction. In each case, maestros pintores--native master painters--collaborated with a host of individuals including Spanish officials, scribes, merchants, ranchers, farmers, town councils, caciques and lesser lords, and legal professionals to visually describe the region's geographical environment. Indigenous mapping practices fostered the development of a new epistemology that combined European and Mesoamerican worldviews to negotiate the allocation of natural resources among the region's Spanish, Amerindian, and mixed-race communities. This work stresses the role of Indian painters in the formation of early modern empires highlighting the way mapmakers challenged Spanish ideals of visual representation instead re-envisioning spatial relations according to local and regional concerns.
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Stone, Jennifer Williamson Heath Jo W. Smith Michel. "Non-metric continua that support Whitney maps." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1375.

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Haddad, Nasser. "Non-reference depth map quality evaluation in immersive video applications." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2016. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/809699/.

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Three Dimensional Television (3DTV) and Free Viewpoint Television (FTV) are emerging multimedia applications, which promise to offer a new Quality of Experience (QoE) dimension. In order for such applications to offer an immersive experience for users a large number of viewpoints need to be transmitted, to a point where the high bandwidth utilisation becomes a major concern. One approach to this problem is the utilisation of the so called “depth maps” in Depth Image Based Rendering (DIBR) techniques, where different views, can be reconstructed (rendered) at the receiver side when required, with a fraction of the bandwidth. Therefore the quality and accuracy of the information present in depth maps and its ability to reconstruct the required views has become the subject of much greater scrutiny in multimedia research. Several challenges arise when assessing the quality of depth maps, such as the lack of a proper reference for comparing the available depth maps, especially when it comes to live High Definition (HD) content. The first contribution of this thesis focuses on developing a novel subjective assessment approach, which addresses the presence of disocclusions in rendered views. The goal of this assessment approach is to enable the subjective evaluation of rendered views, to provide results that are more representative of the quality of the depth map utilised in the rendering process. The adopted approach performance has been evaluated through correlating the obtained subjective results with well-established objective metric measurements, such as PSNR, PSPNR, SSIM and VQM. The second contribution of this thesis is concerned with establishing a test data set, which includes different colour sequences together with various depth estimation algorithms and different depth post processing techniques. State of the art depth estimation algorithms were examined such as RSGM, DERS and HRM, in order to obtain a wide range of depth map qualities. The depth map data set is utilised in the DIBR process to generate rendered views, which are in turn subjectively assessed utilising the approach developed in contribution one of this thesis. The assessment is carried out in both a 2D and 3D setup and statistical analysis is utilised to establish observations and conclusions over the depth map performance. The third and final contribution of this thesis is related to a non-reference evaluation approach in assessing the quality of the depth maps utilised. This approach exploits the edges present in the available depth maps and compares that to the edges in the corresponding colour views. Edge pixels in depth maps are then classified into correct and error edge pixels. The obtained results are then correlated with the subjective results obtained in the second contribution. The result analysis of this non-reference model provides clear indications of depth map performance and its dependency on the associated colour sequence selection. The high correlation values with the subjective results were in the range of 75-81%. These correlation values are of more significance when compared to best performing quality metrics (e.g. VQM obtained correlation values of 59%) under the researched scenarios.
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Alfaro, Ricardo. "New metrics on linear codes over Fq [u]/(ut)." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/95073.

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We define new metrics for linear codes over the ring Fq[u]/(ut) via an Fq-module monomorphism on linear codes over Fq. The construction generalizes the Gray map, Gray weight, and Lee weight; and the technique allows us to find some new optimal linear codes and their weight enumerator polynomial.
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Dong, Jingnuo. "Evaluating new approaches to measure and map soil moisture spatial variability." Thesis, Oklahoma State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1542171.

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Knowledge of soil moisture spatial patterns provides basic but important information in studies of hydrological processes. At the field to subwatershed scale, soil moisture spatial variability is critical to aid in hydrologic modeling, but has not been adequately studied. Two new approaches were taken to contribute to the study of soil moisture spatial variability at this scale. The Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) framework is a more general method than classical geostatistics and has not yet been applied to soil moisture spatial estimation. The recently developed mobile Cosmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS), i.e. COSMOS rover, has a ∼660 m diameter footprint which can potentially be used in field to subwatershed scale soil moisture mapping. The objectives of this research are to compare the effectiveness of BME versus ordinary kriging (OK) for spatial prediction of soil moisture at the field scale, and to calibrate and validate a COSMOS rover for mapping 0 – 5 cm soil moisture at spatial scales suitable for evaluating satellite-based soil moisture estimates. High resolution aerial photography was incorporated into the soil moisture spatial prediction using the BME method. Soil moisture maps based on the BME and the OK frameworks were cross-validated and compared. The BME method showed only slight improvement in the soil moisture mapping accuracy compared to the OK method. The COSMOS rover was calibrated to field average soil moisture measured with impedance probes which were themselves calibrated to 0-5 cm soil moisture measured by soil sampling. The resulting rover calibration was then applied to map soil moisture around the Marena, Oklahoma In Situ Sensor Testbed (MOISST) in north central Oklahoma, USA and in the Little Washita River watershed in southwest, Oklahoma. The maps showed reasonable soil moisture patterns and a clear response to soil wetting by an intervening rainfall. The rover measured field averaged soil moisture with an RMSD of 0.039 cm3 cm-3 relative to the impedance probes which themselves had an RMSE of 0.031 cm3 cm -3 relative to soil moisture measured by soil moisture sampling. The results provide evidence that a COSMOS rover can be used effectively for near surface soil moisture mapping with acceptable accuracy.

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Mountjoy, Daniel Neal. "Perception-Based Development and PerformanceTesting of a Non-Linear Map Display." NCSU, 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20010419-154212.

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The use of non-linear display methodologies has been successfullydemonstrated in a number of text- based and simple, graphic networkapplications; however, most studies have focused on computationalefficiency with very little attention to human perceptual limitations.While the benefits of non-linear displays are purported to be due toadditional context with no loss of required detail, reports of end-userperformance gains have been limited at best. This research entailed thedesign of a non-linear tactical map display, where the distortionparameters were based upon empirical test results of navigation- relatedtasks combining various scales and distortion techniques. A total ofthree experiments were conducted: two to define the non-linear displayparameters, and the third to attempt to validate the display through aperformance test using military participants. Results indicate thatadditional scales can indeed be combined on the same map surface with nosignificant penalty in navigation accuracy. However, there may be aresponse time difference depending on the particular distortion techniqueapplied. A modified fisheye distortion proved to be better suited to thistask environment than a Cartesian bifocal distortion. Performance testingversus a traditional, pan and zoom display interface yielded nodifferences in navigation task accuracy or response times. However, theexpected gain in random event detection (through display of additionalcontext) was not evident.

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Oliveira, Lídia Marina Ferreira. "Aplicação de um value stream map nos serviços após venda automóvel." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15641.

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Mestrado em Engenharia e Gestão Industrial
O projeto desenvolvido tem como objetivo principal a melhoria da eficiência na prestação de serviços de reparação de chapa e pintura na Caetano Auto Colisão, através da aplicação de ferramentas associadas à filosofia Lean. Apesar das ferramentas e técnicas lean estarem bem exploradas nas empresas de produção e manufatura, o mesmo não se verifica em relação às empresas da área dos serviços. O Value Stream Mapping é uma ferramenta lean que consiste no mapeamento do fluxo de materiais e informação necessários para a realização das atividades (que acrescentam e não acrescentam valor), desempenhadas pelos colaboradores, fornecedores e distribuidores, desde a obtenção do pedido do cliente até à entrega final do serviço. Através desta ferramenta é possível identificar as atividades que não acrescentam valor para o processo e propor medidas de melhoria que resultem na eliminação ou redução das mesmas. Com base neste conceito, foi realizado o mapeamento do processo de prestação de serviços de chapa e pintura e identificados os focos de ineficiência. A partir desta análise foram sugeridas melhorias que têm como objetivo atingir o estado futuro proposto assim como tornar o processo mais eficiente. Duas destas melhorias passaram pela implementação dos 5S na sala das tintas e pela elaboração de um relatório A3 para o centro de lavagens. O projeto realizado permitiu o estudo de um problema real numa empresa de serviços, bem como a proposta de um conjunto de melhorias que a médio prazo se espera virem a contribuir para a melhoria da eficiência na prestação de serviços de chapa e pintura.
The scope of this project is to improve the efficiency in the body repair and painting services at Caetano Auto Colisão, by applying tools associated with the Lean philosophy. Although the lean tools and techniques are well explored in the production and manufacturing companies, the same is not true for companies in the services area. The Value Stream Mapping is a lean tool that consists of mapping the flow of materials and information needed to carry out the activities (both value added and non-value added activities), performed by employees, suppliers and distributors, from the customer's request to the final delivery service. With this tool we can identify the activities that don’t add value to the process and suggest improvement measures that result in their reduction or elimination. Based on this concept, the mapping of the process of body repair and painting services has been done and its inefficiencies focus identified. From this analysis, improvements were suggested which aim to achieve the proposed future state as well as make the process more efficient. Two of these improvements have gone through the implementation of 5S in the painting shop and for the preparation of an A3 report to improve the process of vehicles valet washing. This project allowed the study of a real problem in a service business, and the proposal of a set of improvements that in the medium term are expected to contribute to a refined efficiency in the body repair and painting process.
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Pritchard, Katherine. "Incorporating User Opinion into a New Wine Tourism Map for Southwest Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36453.

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Thematic tourist maps provide users with a tangible geographic route to their travel destinations and also may contain a wide variety of additional information to enhance traveler experiences. Unlike other types of maps that focus on accurate topographic representation of an area or on depiction of spatial data, tourist maps should be specifically constructed to appeal directly to the end-user. Toward that end, this research developed and implemented a model to incorporate user opinion on content, levels of detail, and labeling conventions during the process of designing and creating a wine tourism map for southwest Virginia. Over 700 (total) wine tourists completed brief questionnaires during five distinct phases of data collection and map modeling. At each point, we incorporated user input into map design for the preceding phase, and a final assessment surveyed tourist attitude of the finished product. Interestingly, surveys indicated a propensity for users to highly rank the idea of more and more detailed content data, as well as high levels of spatial detail, but when presented with the corresponding maps, they tended to favor a cleaner more simplified display. This finding underscores our conclusion that while user input is critical for developing successful tourist maps, cartographic training and skill is still required to achieve a quality product. Overall, the final map incorporating user input received overwhelmingly positive user reviews when compared to existing regional maps indicating that our iterative method of seeking user input at various stages of map development was successful, and facilitated creation of an improved product.
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Barlow, Peter A. "A non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of temporomandibular joint disorders." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296542.

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Siddiqui, Affan Ahmed. "A New Inspection Method Based on RGB-D Profiling." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/56959.

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This thesis presents an inspection method based on RGB-D profiling for the rail industry. The proposed approach uses inexpensive RGB-D cameras to generate color and geometrical information of the observations, and stitches each consecutive scan from the sensor to form a map, provided that the two scans contain the information from the same observation. Using a technique known as pairwise registration, the errors between these consecutive scans are minimized using error minimization algorithms such as Iterative Closest Point and Normal Distributions Transform. Once the error between each consecutive scan is minimized, the scans are then converted into a global co-ordinate frame work to form a global map of all the added scans. The proposed approach could be used as a map-based identification technique by comparing the past global map to newly acquired scans while also reducing computation time effectively. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated by developing a system that uses multiple RGB-D cameras to detect railway defects such as spikes. The applicability of the proposed approach to other applications is then evaluated by profiling long lengths of road.
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Benjamin, Wayne. "Design for placement of modified optodes to non-invasively map cerebral function." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1607.

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By using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and by modifying the current Somanetics® optodes being used with the INVOS oximeter, the modified optodes are made to be fairly functional not only across the forehead, but across the hairy regions of the scalp as well. A major problem arises in the positioning of these optodes on the patients scalp and holding them in place while recording data. Another problem arises in the inconsistent repeatability of the trends displayed in the recorded data. A method was developed to facilitate the easy placement of these optodes on the patients scalp keeping in mind thepatient's comfort. The sensitivity of the optodes, too, was improved by incorporating better refined techniques for manufacturing the fiber optic brushes and fixing the same to the optode transmitting and receiving windows. The modified and improved optodes, in the single as well as in the multiplexed modes, were subjected to various tests on different areas of the brain to determine their efficiency and functionality.
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Fedosov, Boris. "Non-Abelian reduction in deformation quantization." Universität Potsdam, 1997. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2510/.

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We consider a G-invariant star-product algebra A on a symplectic manifold (M,ω) obtained by a canonical construction of deformation quantization. Under assumptions of the classical Marsden-Weinstein theorem we define a reduction of the algebra A with respect to the G-action. The reduced algebra turns out to be isomorphic to a canonical star-product algebra on the reduced phase space B. In other words, we show that the reduction commutes with the canonical G-invariant deformation quantization. A similar statement in the framework of geometric quantization is known as the Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture (by now completely proved).
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Cain, James Patrick. "Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of New Ligands for G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Kinases." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/204272.

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Peptidergic G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) play a role in many of the most important biological functions, and the ability to modulate the activity of these critical proteins has tremendous potential to increase our understanding of biology and allow the development of new therapeutics. In some cases this knowledge will point towards the importance of interconnected proteins of the same or different classes, such as kinases, which interact in a complex and dynamic network in vivo. Understanding these systems will be crucial for addressing unmet therapeutic needs, and new chemical structures may be important at every step of the process.Our contribution to this pursuit includes the development of new ligands for the melanocortin receptors based on a bicyclic or tricyclic core structure. These were designed to be peptidomimetics, built from amino acids to leverage the accumulated knowledge of the group but with properties that complement those of peptides. Most of the molecules in this series bind to the melanocortin receptors, and many with significant selectivity. Some are selective for the MC5R, which may allow further study of this widely distributed but largely unexplored subtype. Others bind preferentially to the MC1R, a property which may be useful in the development of imaging agents targeting melanoma.Imaging using fluorescent probes can provide a tremendous amount of information in studies of receptor biology. With this in mind, we have developed new fluorescent ligands which bind to melanocortin receptors. These compounds use the previously discovered bicyclic template and incorporate the small organic fluorophores anthranilate and N-methylanthranilate.While these structures are in a sense bifunctional, as they exhibit both pharmacologic and fluorescent activity, other molecules may instead incorporate two different pharmacophores. We have synthesized designed multiple ligands (DMLs) of this type for the opioid and neurokinin receptors, as well as molecules which target both the opioid receptors and p38 MAP kinase. These structures merged known active ligands, such as fentanyl for the opioid activity, into one bifunctional molecule. In addition we have used our newly developed template to create a novel NK1R antagonist which may be part of the next generation of bifunctional ligands.
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Giboudot, Yoel. "Study of beam dynamics in NS-FFAG EMMA with dynamical map." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5947.

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Dynamical maps for magnetic components are fundamental to studies of beam dynamics in accelerators. However, it is usually not possible to write down maps in closed form for anything other than simplified models of standard accelerator magnets. In the work presented here, the magnetic field is expressed in analytical form obtained from fitting Fourier series to a 3D numerical solution of Maxwell’s equations. Dynamical maps are computed for a particle moving through this field by applying a second order (with the paraxial approximation) explicit symplectic integrator. These techniques are used to study the beam dynamics in the first non-scaling FFAG ever built, EMMA, especially challenging regarding the validity of the paraxial approximation for the large excursion of particle trajectories. The EMMA lattice has four degrees of freedom (strength and transverse position of each of the two quadrupoles in each periodic cell). Dynamical maps, computed for a set of lattice configurations, may be efficiently used to predict the dynamics in any lattice configuration. We interpolate the coefficients of the generating function for the given configuration, ensuring the symplecticity of the solution. An optimisation routine uses this tool to look for a lattice defined by four constraints on the time of flight at different beam energies. This provides a way to determine the tuning of the lattice required to produce a desired variation of time of flight with energy, which is one of the key characteristics for beam acceleration in EMMA. These tools are then benchmarked against data from the recent EMMA commissioning.
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MacDonald, Gavin Eion. "Moving bodies in the inhabitable map : the GPS trace in New Media Art." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.570313.

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Geographers and social scientists have argued that geospatial technologies are contributing to new understandings of space as relational and of cartography as processual, performative and embodied rather than representational. These new understandings are developing through practices as well as in academic debate, in a widely acknowledged proliferation of vernacular, activist and artistic mappings. There is a fundamental tension in the fact that these new understandings of space and cartography are being facilitated by a technology underpinned by an absolute understanding of space. This thesis investigates the use of GPS by artists, and the role art has in producing these new spatial understandings. It looks at the work of four practitioners (Esther Polak, Jen Southern, Christian Nold and Daniel Belasco Rogers) who have made a significant engagement with the mapped trace of movement, through detailed biographical case studies which track their involvement with GPS across different projects over the last decade. The case study subjects have all been associated with the locative media genre, a label for new media art practices involving mobile and context-aware devices which emerged in the early part of the last decade. The mapped trace of movement has been identified as an inadequate capture of spatial practices. This position – most influentially articulated by Michel de Certeau – is associated with a tradition of thought that privileges time as the dimension of dynamism and denigrates space as the dimension of stasis and fixity. This denigrated space is the absolute space of cartography as it has been traditionally understood. This thesis uses the art practices of the four case study subjects to explore different relational understandings of space in which movement is primary, taken from the work of Gilles Deleuze (and Felix Guattari), Tim Ingold, Bruno Latour and Nigel Thrift. By looking at the different ways in which my case study subjects have addressed or exploited the tension between the absolute spatiality of cartography and the relational spatiality of movement in their art, it seeks to find a way past seeing these different conceptions of space in such starkly oppositional terms.
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Galt, Rosalind. "Redrawing the map of Europe space, history and spectacle in new European cinema /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=kV9ZAAAAMAAJ.

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Altenbuchner, J. "Towards inclusive GIS in the Congo Basin : an exploration of digital map creation and an evaluation of map understanding by non-literate hunter-gatherers." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10047142/.

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Sustainable and socially just natural resource management is one of the fundamental development challenges humanity is facing today. Communities living in remote areas possess unique insights about their natural resources. While this knowledge is critical to climate change, it is difficult for them to engage in environmental protection. Geographic Information Science (GIS) plays a central role in resource management, as it is utilised in spatial decision making processes. However, the literature argues that its use is too challenging for marginalised communities. Working with indigenous hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin without prior exposure to technology or maps, this research moves towards enabling them to become active stakeholders in decision making so that they understand how to capture environmental knowledge and gain power through ownership. (Participatory) GIS, Human Computer Interaction, Action Research and Citizen Science concepts are adapted to the local context to address the lack of mapping of these areas, and the increased understanding of if and how digital, high resolution orthographic maps incorporated in digital mapping tools can be understood by people with no prior exposure to maps and technology. Different set-ups of low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and consumer grade cameras were tested and evaluated for suitability to generate high-resolution maps in-situ for previously unmapped and disconnected contexts. Applying a computer log analysis approach to overcome local obstacles, three experiments were carried out to test whether the resulting aerial orthophotos are understood as a representation of familiar geographical landscapes. For each of the experiments, a bespoke app functioning without an internet connection was developed. The research shows that the majority of the 136 participants could find as well as edit known features on the map and all participating groups were able to utilise a map for a Treasure Hunt game. Additionally, a number of methodological amendments are proposed to allow standardised research methods to be applied in a context where usability experiments are significantly challenged.
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Ríos-Bustamante, Antonio. "Tierra No Mas Incognita: The Atlas of Mexican American History." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/218872.

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Mann, David. "Determining Optimal Locations for New Wind Energy Development in Iowa." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/683.

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The purpose of this research is to generate the most accurate model possible for predicting locations most suitable for new wind energy development using a case study of Iowa. With the United States poised for significant growth in electricity generation from wind and other renewable resources, this research can help developers, transmission planners, landowners, as well as academics in predicting optimal locations for development. Iowa currently has the second greatest installed wind energy capacity and highest percentage of energy generated from wind of all the states, and has excellent resources and central location for a high level of continued development. This research employs a variety of methods including traditional constraint mapping techniques, logistic regression, and a hybrid of both approaches in attempting to produce the best predictive model possible. The best performing logistic regression model with 11 variables correctly predicts 90.1% of overall observations. A variety of output maps are produced and analyzed, and many suggestions for future research in this area are presented.
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Sekhon, Harbuksh S. "The creation of T cell hybridomas to map human GAD65 epitopes in NOD mice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0009/MQ34413.pdf.

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Li, Yim Cheung. "Comparison of iterative MAP and SOVA receivers for the frequency non-selective fading channel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0003/MQ45085.pdf.

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Gibson, Kristina E. "Running off the map: Mobility, street kids and street outreach in New York City." Connect to online resource, 2007. 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:3273681.

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Biswas, Joydeep. "Vector Map-Based, Non-Markov Localization for Long-Term Deployment of Autonomous Mobile Robots." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2014. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/459.

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As robots become increasingly available and capable, there has been an increased interest in having robots continue to perform autonomously over time despite changes in their environment. This thesis introduces several algorithms for localization of autonomous mobile robots in real human environments with the goal of having them autonomously deployed over extended periods of time. Monte Carlo Localization with Sampling-Importance Resampling (MCL-SIR) is commonly used for indoor mobile robot localization, with the frequently prescribed suggestion of increasing the number of particles to increase accuracy or robustness. Furthermore, most variants of MCL-SIR sample from the odometry model of a robot, which are far less accurate than modern range sensors. We address both these challenges by introducing Corrective Gradient Refinement (CGR), which, instead of relying on more particles, does more with fewer particles. In particular, it uses the analytically computed state space derivatives of the observation likelihood function to refine the proposal distribution, thus improving the accuracy as well as robustness while requiring fewer particles than MCL-SIR. For robots equipped only with inexpensive depth cameras, we introduce the Fast Sampling Plane Filtering algorithm to extract dominant planar features from observed depth images, to use with CGR. Going beyond MCL, we recognize that human environments have objects that are either permanent, like walls, movable, like tables and chairs, or moving, like humans. We introduce Episodic non-Markov Localization, which reasons about the nature of such observations, and accounts for correlations between observations even if they are of unmapped objects, to provide location estimates that are accurate globally with respect to the long-term features, as well as locally, with respect to the short-term features. By examining the short-term features detected by the robot over multiple deployments, the robot is further able to build a Model-Instance map of its environment, reasoning about the shapes or models of common movable objects separately from the specific occurrences or instances. We extensively demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the localization algorithms introduced in this thesis over a “1000km Challenge”: to deploy a team of robots, over multiple floors of multiple buildings, spanning a duration of a few years. We present quantitative and qualitative results from the 1000km Challenge, and the data collected in the process.
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Guerreri, Sara. "Mongodb tra i database non relazionali - focus su Map-Reduce e gestione della memoria." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8809/.

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Planchard, David. "MAP Kinases et protéines de réparation dans les cancers pulmonaires non à petites cellules." Paris 11, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA11T113.

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Koroglu, Muhammed Taha. "Multiple Hypothesis Testing Approach to Pedestrian Inertial Navigation with Non-recursive Bayesian Map-matching." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1577135195323298.

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Grassmick, John D. "The old man and the new man a study in Pauline theology /." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2000. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/978/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2000.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow, 2000. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Aliyev, Denis Aliyevich. "Visualization and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition in Multidimensional Data Using a New Heuristic for Linear Data Ordering." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479420043962505.

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Aguiar, Fernando Soares de. "Estudo do mapa de Bethe-Peierls." Universidade de São Paulo, 1992. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/54/54131/tde-08122014-142247/.

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Nesta tese estudamos o mapa de Bethe-Peierls (B. P.). Esse mapa racional é a transformação do grupo de renormalização do modelo de Potts na rede de Bethe. Ele é parametrizado pela temperatura, pelo campo magnético, pelo número de coordenação Υ e pelo número de estados p do spin de Potts. Foram feitos cálculos para determinar as regiões no espaço de parâmetros onde existe caos. Para Υ par não existe órbita periódica com período maior que dois. Para Υ = 3 vários resultados analíticos são obtidos, pois o mapa é de grau três. Uma transformação recém descoberta nos permite restringir p ao intervalo p ∈ (1,2). Para p = 1 o mapa de B. P. torna-se um mapa polinomial de grau Υ. p = 2 é um ponto fixo da transformação. Novas famílias de vidros de spins de McKay-Berker-Kirkpatrick são encontrados pela determinação do valor crítico pc(Υ) [pc(3) ≅ 1.51]. Abaixo desse valor existe bastante frustração de modo que o mapa exibirá uma fase caótica a baixa temperatura. Mostra-se também que um entendimento completo desse mapa requer a extensão da temperatura a valores complexos. Utilizando um método mais simples desenvolvido por Cristiano e Goulart Rosa foi generalizada a relação de recorrência obtida por Thompson para a magnetização local do modelo de Ising na árvore de Cayley. Seguindo seu procedimento obtivemos o funcional da energia livre do modelo de Potts na aproximação de Bethe-Peierls em termos atratores do mapa de B.P. A partir desse funcional obtivemos as demais grandezas termodinâmicas. Foi mostrada também a importância do sinal do campo superficial na ordem de transição de fase do modelo de Potts e na estabilidade das fases de baixas temperaturas
In this thesis we study the Bethe-Peierls map. This rational map is the renormalization group transformation of the Potts model on the Bethe lattice. It is parametrized by the temperature, by the magnetic field, by the coordination number Υ and by the number of state p of the Potts spin. Calculations were carried out to determine the regions in the parameters space where there is chaos. For even Υ there is no periodic orbit with period greater than two. For Υ = 3 several analytical results are obtained since the map is of degree three. A newly discovered transformation allows us to restrict p to the interval p ∈ (1,2). For p = 1 the B. P. map becomes a polynomial map of degree Υ. p= 2 is a fixed point of the transformation. New families of Mckay-Berker-Kirkpatrick spin-glasses are found by determining the critical value pc(Υ)[pc(3) ≅ 1.51]. Bellow this value there is enough frustration such that the map will display a chaotic phase at low temperature. We also shown that a complete understanding of this map requires to extend the temperature to complex values. By using a more simple method developed by Christiano e Goulart Rosa it was generalized the recurrence relation obtained by Thompson for the local magnetization of the Ising model on the Cayley tree. Following his procedure we obtained the functional of the free energy in terms of the attractors of the B.P. map. From this functional we obtained the others thermodynamics functions. It was showed also the importance of the boundary field on the phase transition order of the Potts model and on the stability of the phase at low temperatures
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Fortuna, Kevin. "The Dunning Man." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1387.

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Korhonen, Pasi. "Accelerated failure time models for non-ignorable non-compliance in randomized studies." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2000. http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/mat/rolfn/vk/korhonen/.

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Broadhurst, Simon John. "Non-man-entry sewer renovation robot characteristics." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2000. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19398/.

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The reported work lies in the area of automation in the construction industry, and involves multi-disciplinary engineering studies. In particular, sewer renovation methods, computer vision (CV) and robotics are all included. More specifically, the key objective of the research programme was to investigate the characteristics of retrofit components suited to mounting on an industrial / proprietary sewer tractor. The overall aim was the provision of a non-man-entry (NME) sewer renovation robot to undertake reconnection of lateral junctions, following a cured-in-place (CIP) relining process. The programme primarily involved theoretical studies of the requisite sensory and kinematic components, incorporation of a novel computer vision sensing system and production of a chainage measurement system and robotic drill task arm. The theory was supported by laboratory testing using a modified proprietary tractor, with emphasis placed on promoting applications of information technology driven systems (i.e. CV) to construction-industry tasks within hazardous environments involving significant health issues. The use of such techniques in the construction industry is rare. Chapter 1 reviews the context and history of sewer maintenance/dereliction in the UK. NME sewers are the most common type and are, by definition, difficult to maintain. Renovation, typically employing CIP liners, is therefore a cost-effective alternative to replacement. Lateral connections are, inevitably, blocked off during the relining process; it is suggested that application of a robust robotic system to the task of reconnecting them is novel and offers clear potential within such a hazardous environment. Chapters 2 and 3 develop the underlying theoretical models of the CV and kinematic systems respectively. The novel CV work (provided by third party specialists employing the TINA CV research environment) was incorporated by the author to provide detection and classification of lateral junctions, crucially noting the particular properties of direct and reflected illumination. Classification aspects include estimation of lateral/NME intersection angle and closure-to-target distance from the robot. The author proposes a separate procedure for estimating lateral diameter. A chainage measurement system, using a rotary encoder and inclinometer, was developed to determine invert path distance travelled. This allows for the inevitable wander and thereby gives the system robustness. The novel application of GRASP (a robotic modelling and simulation design tool) to NME environments, provided the ability to model arm designs without the need for the production of more than one expensive physical prototype. A mathematical solution for determining the requisite arm kinematics is presented. Chapter 4 details the hardware requirements of the robotic system components, whilst Chapters 5 and 6 present the laboratory evaluation results for the kinematic and CV systems respectively. The abilities of the CV system qualitatively to detect laterals under reflected illumination, and to provide quantitative classification data, are demonstrated. The chainage measurement system is assessed under a variety of initialisation conditions to determine suitability to task, and the ability of the robotic arm to physically simulate lateral reconnection is investigated. Chapter 7 discusses the specification for an industrially-applicable prototype, based on the findings herein. Appropriate comparisons with the pre-prototype system are made, including cost. Finally, Chapter 8 draws conclusions and makes suggestions for further work. Supporting documentation is provided in Chapter 9 and the Appendices.
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Kodewitz, Andreas. "Methods for large volume image analysis : applied to early detection of Alzheimer's disease by analysis of FDG-PET scans." Thesis, Evry-Val d'Essonne, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EVRY0005/document.

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Dans cette thèse, nous explorons de nouvelles méthodes d’analyse d’images pour la détection précoce des changements métaboliques cérébraux causés par la maladie d’Alzheimer. Nous introduisons deux apports méthodologiques que nous appliquons à un ensemble de données réelles. Le premier est basé sur l’apprentissage automatique afin de créer une carte des informations pertinentes pour la classification d'un ensemble d’images. Pour cela nous échantillonnons des blocs de Voxels selon un algorithme de Monte-Carlo. La mise en œuvre d’une classification basée sur ces patchs 3d a pour conséquence la réduction significative du volume de patchs à traiter et l’extraction de caractéristiques dont l’importance est statistiquement quantifiable. Cette méthode s’applique à différentes caractéristiques et est adaptée à des types d’images variés. La résolution des cartes produites par cette méthode peut être affinée à volonté et leur contenu informatif est cohérent avec des résultats antérieurs obtenus dans la littérature. Le second apport méthodologique porte sur la conception d’un nouvel algorithme de décomposition de tenseur d’ordre important, adapté à notre application. Cet algorithme permet de réduire considérablement la consommation de mémoire et donc en évite la surcharge. Il autorise la décomposition rapide de tenseurs, y compris ceux de dimensions très déséquilibrées. Nous appliquons cet algorithme en tant que méthode d’extraction de caractéristiques dans une situation où le clinicien doit diagnostiquer des stades précoces de la maladie d'Alzheimer en utilisant la TEP-FDG seule. Les taux de classification obtenus sont souvent au-dessus des niveaux de l’état de l’art
In this thesis we want to explore novel image analysis methods for the early detection of metabolic changes in the human brain caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD). We will present two methodological contributions and present their application to a real life data set. We present a machine learning based method to create a map of local distribution of classification relevant information in an image set. The presented method can be applied using different image characteristics which makes it possible to adapt the method to many kinds of images. The maps generated by this method are very localized and fully consistent with prior findings based on Voxel wise statistics. Further we preset an algorithm to draw a sample of patches according to a distribution presented by means of a map. Implementing a patch based classification procedure using the presented algorithm for data reduction we were able to significantly reduce the amount of patches that has to be analyzed in order to obtain good classification results. We present a novel non-negative tensor factorization (NTF) algorithm for the decomposition of large higher order tensors. This algorithm considerably reduces memory consumption and avoids memory overhead. This allows the fast decomposition even of tensors with very unbalanced dimensions. We apply this algorithm as feature extraction method in a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme, designed to recognize early-stage ad and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) using fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) scans only. We achieve state of the art classification rates
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Mesch, Linnéa. "God nog för våra ensamkommande barn?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-180559.

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McOwen, Lisa Kathryn 1968. "The Brock canyon volcanic complex, Grant County, New Mexico: volcanic evolution, alteration, and mineralization." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558223.

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Wueste, Edward A. "An analysis of the old man-new man imagery in Ephesians and Colossians." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Filippelli, Ernesto Francesco. "Analyse non destructive de la sous-structuration des grains individuels dans un polycrystal d’aluminium deformé en traction uniaxiale." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSEM001/document.

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Ce travail vise à améliorer la compréhension des mécanismes et de la dynamique de sous-structuration des grains pendant la deformation des matériaux polycristallins. Pour cela, des experience in situ en synchrotron et des acquisitions EBSD ont été menées afin d’étudier les comportements des grains individuels d’un polycrystal d’Aluminium déformé plastiquement. Une éprouvette d’un alliage Al-0.1%Mn a été déformée en traction in situ et analysée par microscopie 3D par diffraction des Rayons-X (3DXRD). Une nouvelle méthode de dépouillement a été développée pour determiner les axes de désorientation intragranulaires et les distributions d’orientation, grâce à l’analyse de l’élargissement azimutal des taches de diffraction. La technique EBSD a été appliquée pour obtenir des cartographies de désorientation des grains individuels d’une éprouvette déformée en traction. Trois acquisitions ont été réalisées sur la même région d’intérêt à l’état non déformé et après l’application des deformations 1% et 5%. Ces résultats permettent une meilleure comprehension de la formation et de l’évolution des gradients d’orientations intragranulaires, et son ten bon accord avec les modèles théoriques pré-existants. Aussi, la caractérisation de la sous-structuration des grains et de la deformation intragranulaire a été réalisée grâce à la technique K-map. La deformation était très hétérogène avec des valeurs élevées de compression et de traction à l’intérieur des grains et en proximité de deux joints de grains, respectivement. La distribution de la norme des vecteurs de diffraction a montré que les dislocations sont à l’origine de la deformation
This work aims to improve the understanding of grain sub-structuration mechanisms and dynamics during deformation of polycrystals. For this purpose, in situ synchrotron experiments and EBSD acquisitions were coupled to study the response of single grains of an Al-0.1%wt.Mn polycrystal during tensile deformation. The specimen deformed in situ at the synchrotron was analyzed by 3DXRD. A new method provided a grain-by-grain analysis of the intragranular misorientation axes and their orientation distribution, through the investigation of the azimuthal broadening of diffraction spots. The 3DXRD results were cross-checked by classical EBSD analysis. Three acquisitions were carried out over the same region of interest at the undeformed state and after the application of 1% and 5% strain. Thanks to the available spatial resolution, the EBSD results allow for a better comprehension of the creation and dynamics of intragranular orientation gradients, and are in good agreement with pre-existing theoretical models. In addition, the characterization of grain sub-structuration and intragranular strain was performed through a novel X-Ray scanning technique, the K-map. The strain was found to be very heterogeneous with high compressive and tensile values in the grain interior and near two grain boundaries, respectively. Dislocations were found to be at the origin of deformation
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Pfeifer, Gert. "A new Internet Naming System." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-24701.

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In this thesis I describe my research activities and results of the last 4 years. I also provide an outlook and guidelines on how to proceed with our project, that we named SEDNS - Security-Enhanced Domain Name System. This project’s ambitions are to complement DNS, the Domain Name System, in a way that allows us to keep using it in the future. The main reason for this strategy is, that it has proven to be difficult to change any part of the Internet infrastructure, such as parts of the protocols stack or well established Internet authorities, like ICANN or IANA. The main problems of DNS are twofold. (1) The DNS protocol does not contain any measures to prevent data from being tampered with. (2) Furthermore, it is difficult to configure DNS correctly since most of the configuration is done within the DNS data itself, e.g., delegating authority. It is well known that DNS problems lead to reduced availability of Internet-based services in many different ways. In this thesis, I present four main results. All of them contribute to improvements and deeper understanding of DNS’ dependability issues. First, I discuss, how well established cryptographic tools can be used to enhance DNS’ security without getting into the same problems that prevent DNSSEC from being globally deployed. These problems are explained as well. This is an important topic for the Internet and DNS community, since at the moment most of the protocol improvements are connected to DNSSEC. Second, I thoroughly discuss the technique that was used in the recent years to overcome any problems related to client-server architectures, i.e., peer-to-peer systems. Such solutions have been proposed to improve DNS’ availability and reduce configuration effort. I show, that those systems do not keep up with the expectations, neither as client side tools nor as server infrastructure replacement. To reach this conclusion, a novel DHT scheme has been developed. The evaluation of it is shown as well. Third, results of our DNS data mining show that it is useful to improve the quality of DNS data and therefore, to protect clients from malicious or erroneous information. And fourth, an outlook is presented, which combines all the results of the first three points to suggest an architecture that indeed can improve our supply with DNS data, omitting the shortcomings of the classical client-server-architecture and its peer-to-peer replacements. Note, that although the development of future DNS standards and protocols is subject to political struggle, e.g., on whether or not an international organization should maintain the root zone instead of the USA, this thesis focuses only on technical aspects
In dieser Dissertation beschreibe ich meine Forschungsaktivitäten und Ergebnisse der letzten 4 Jahre. Ich gebe auch einen Ausblick und Hinweise, wie unser Project, das wir SEDNS - Security-Enhanced Domain Name System genannt haben, fortgesetzt werden sollte. Die Ambitionen dieses Projektes sind, DNS, das Domain Name System, zu in einer Art und Weise zu erweitern, die es uns erlauben soll, dieses System auch in der Zukunft weiter zu benutzen. Der Hauptgrund für diese Strategie ist, dass es sich in der Vergangenheit als schwierig erwiesen hat, Teile der Internet-Infrastruktur, wie zum Beispiel Teile des Protokollstapels oder gut etablierte Internet-Behörden wie ICANN oder IANA, zu ändern bzw. auszutauschen. Daher wollen wir nicht versuchen, DNS komplett zu ersetzen. DNS hat zwei Hauptprobleme: (1) Das DNS Protokoll bietet keinerlei Möglichkeiten, Daten vor Verfälschung zu schützen, und (2) es ist schwierig, DNS korrekt zu konfigurieren, weil ein Großteil der Konfiguration direkt innerhalb der DNS Daten selbst stattfindet, wie zum Beispiel die Delegation von Verantwortungsbereichen, und diese oft nicht global konsistent und korrekt sind. Diese Probleme sind umso bedeutender, weil es allgemein bekannt ist, dass DNS Probleme auf verschiedene Art und Weisen zu reduzierter Verfügbarkeit von wichtigen Internet-basierten Diensten führen. In dieser Arbeit präsentiere ich vier Hauptergebnisse. Zuerst diskutiere ich, wie gut etablierte kryptographische Werkzeuge benutzt werden können um die Sicherheit von DNS zu verbessern, ohne dabei auf dieselben Probleme zu stoßen, die DNSSEC davon abhalten, weltweit benutzt zu werden. Diese Probleme werden dabei erläutert. Es handelt sich dabei um ein wichtiges Thema für die Internet- und DNS-Community, weil im Moment die meisten Weiterentwicklungen des DNS Protokolls mit DNSSEC zusammenhängen. Als zweites diskutiere ich im Detail die Technik, die in den vergangenen Jahren benutzt wurde um Probleme beliebiger Client-Server Anwendungen zu überwinden: Peer-to-Peer Systeme. Derartige Lösungen wurden vorgeschlagen, um DNS' Verfügbarkeit zu verbessern und Konfigurationsaufwand zu reduzieren. Ich zeige allerdings, dass solche Lösungen nicht die in sie gesetzten Erwartungen erfüllen, weder als Client-seitige Tools noch als Ersatz für die Server-Infrastruktur. Um diesen Schluss zu ziehen, wurde ein neues, auf die Bedürfnisse von DNS zugeschnittenes DHT Schema entwickelt und evaluiert im Vergleich zu DNS und existierenden Systemen. Als drittes werden DNS Data Mining Ergebnisse präsentiert, die zeigen, wie sinnvoll es ist, die Qualität der DNS Daten zu verbessern, und somit Clients vor bösartigen oder fehlerhaften Informationen zu schützen. Als viertes wird ein Ausblick präsentiert, der die Ergebnisse der vorherigen drei Punkte kombiniert und eine Architektur vorschlägt, die unsere Versorgung mit DNS Daten tatsächlich verbessern kann und die Nachteile der klassischen Client-Server-Architektur und ihrer Peer-to-Peer Nachfolger vermeidet. Zu beachten ist, dass obwohl die Entwicklung zukünftiger DNS Standards und Protokolle Gegenstand politischer Konflikte ist, z.B. darüber ob anstelle der USA eine internationale Organisation die Root-Zone verwalten sollte, diese Arbeit nur auf die technischen Aspekte ausgerichtet ist
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Hartl, Maximilian. "Design and implementation of an automated workflow to provide a zoomable web mapping application using artistic styles." Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-185179.

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Although proprietary and free web map applications have become an important part of daily life, individual map styling has been neglected for a fairly long time. With the latest possibilities of custom adjustment provided by many services and some interesting artistic experiments, this is about to change. In the context of artistic cartography and custom map styling, this work explores the possibilities of employing an automated process for the generation of WMTS compatible map tiles with an artistic styling. Web mapping standards and techniques of non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) are considered as well as traditional cartographic representations. Furthermore, existing vector- and raster-based processes are analyzed including an interactive workflow with the open-source image editing software GIMP, which is examined with respect to its drawing capabilities. Based on this, a concept for an automated rendering process is developed and influencing factors along with input parameters are discussed. An experimental automated processing is implemented using GIMP and its Python scripting interface to create single maps and seamless map tiles for the use in a WMTS application. Different drawing techniques of GIMP, such as brushes, dynamics and masks are applied during the rendering process. Geodata is taken from the freely available OpenStreetMap project and it is stored in a geodatabase. Furthermore, the GIS capabilities of the database are used to implement custom query procedures for the creation of seamless tiles, feature simplification and generalization that makes a preprocessing of the data unnecessary. Additionally randomization methods for the estrangement and abstraction of the SVG vector graphics geometry to emulate a hand-drawn appearance are created based on non-photorealistic rendering techniques. As a result, various rendering and abstraction processes are evaluated and discussed regarding their contribution to an artistic appearance. Map tiles are created using these stylings which are WMTS compatible and can be presented in a web mapping application.
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Hoag, Corolla K. 1960. "Stratigraphic and structural controls on carbonate-hosted base metal occurrences, central Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558168.

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Canas, Simoes Mariana. "Molecular genetic and phenotypic analysis of a new C. elegans MAB mutant, mab-29." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670160.

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