The college commencement address is traditionally regarded as the low point of an otherwise auspicious occasion. An ephemeral form of ceremonial oratory, the commencement speech is reviled for its conventional platitudes, its easy piety, and its abstractions on the well-lived life, the sunny future, and the ethics of adulthood. The South may differ, however, in its approach to the commencement speech genre, especially in the years between World War II and the millennium, when one of the South’s most significant assets became the southern writer. Throughout this dissertation, I have tried to situate eight commencement addresses given by such prominent and dissimilar writers as W.J. Cash, William Faulkner, Wendell Berry, Will D. Campbell, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, Maya Angelou, and Fred Chappell, within the context of the times in which they were delivered and within the speakers' written works. Through my analysis of these graduation talks, I discovered that southern writers typically abandon those repetitious conventions that render the commencement address forgettable in favor of the innovative techniques that were already at work in their written works.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Chinese

This thesis is based on two observations. First, that conventional buildings cause two major losses that involve non-human nature – the loss of native biodiversity and the loss of non-human nature experience for the buildings’ human inhabitants – and that these losses both contribute to a perceived separation between humans and the rest of nature. Second, that there appears to be a growing interest in connecting buildings with nature but there is little agreement on what it actually means to ‘design with nature’. As such, the purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to describe the meaning of ‘designing with nature’ in current architectural practice and provide a working definition of nature-based design, and (2) to explore how this can be interpreted to encourage human connectedness with non-human nature, while addressing the two major losses mentioned above. It is thus an attempt to reframe the role of building as one that provides for all inhabitants of a site, both human and non. A framework was developed that captures and summarizes the dominant ways in which design draws on nature. The framework emphasizes the importance of using ecosystems not only as models, but foremost as context. The core concepts of the framework can thus be discussed from the perspective of buildings that act like an ecosystem and that interact with their ecosystem, and are described as: ecological sense of place, regenerative ability, ecosystem health, mutually beneficial relationships, context, appropriate management, functions, ecosystem principles, values, patterns, conditions, and adaptations. Although the concepts presented in the framework are themselves not new, the way in which they are organized does contribute a new perspective on the field of nature-based design. In addition to providing a graphic model that summarizes the essence of an evolving field, the research highlights the role of scale and place in linking building design, native biodiversity, nature experience and connectedness with nature. It thus acts as a backdrop on which to bring a discussion of ecological citizenship into the architectural dialogue.

Dynamic address assignment is one of the most important features in wireless ad hoc networks if nodes should be enabled to join and to work in the network by automatically configuring all necessary settings. Different approaches have been developed throughout the last years to achieve this objective of Dynamic Address Autoconfiguration but research primarily focused on efficiency and correctness, less on security issues. Whereas Duplicate Address Detection has become reliable in commonplace scenarios, it is still relatively easy to suspend the whole network functionality in extraordinary situations within the boundaries of a Dynamic Address Configuration Protocol. In this paper, we therefore want to point out shortcomings and weaknesses in existing protocol solutions which address dynamic IP address assignment. We concentrate on a leader-based approach called ODACP and want to propose several solutions which improve the original protocol in such a way that it is safer against malicious host activities. Finally, we will demonstrate the improvements of our solution in a separate test scenario.

This thesis is based on two observations. First, that conventional buildings cause two major losses that involve non-human nature – the loss of native biodiversity and the loss of non-human nature experience for the buildings’ human inhabitants – and that these losses both contribute to a perceived separation between humans and the rest of nature. Second, that there appears to be a growing interest in connecting buildings with nature but there is little agreement on what it actually means to ‘design with nature’. As such, the purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to describe the meaning of ‘designing with nature’ in current architectural practice and provide a working definition of nature-based design, and (2) to explore how this can be interpreted to encourage human connectedness with non-human nature, while addressing the two major losses mentioned above. It is thus an attempt to reframe the role of building as one that provides for all inhabitants of a site, both human and non. A framework was developed that captures and summarizes the dominant ways in which design draws on nature. The framework emphasizes the importance of using ecosystems not only as models, but foremost as context. The core concepts of the framework can thus be discussed from the perspective of buildings that act like an ecosystem and that interact with their ecosystem, and are described as: ecological sense of place, regenerative ability, ecosystem health, mutually beneficial relationships, context, appropriate management, functions, ecosystem principles, values, patterns, conditions, and adaptations. Although the concepts presented in the framework are themselves not new, the way in which they are organized does contribute a new perspective on the field of nature-based design. In addition to providing a graphic model that summarizes the essence of an evolving field, the research highlights the role of scale and place in linking building design, native biodiversity, nature experience and connectedness with nature. It thus acts as a backdrop on which to bring a discussion of ecological citizenship into the architectural dialogue.

The purpose of this thesis is to generalize the growing theory of iterated function systems (IFSs). Earlier, hyperbolic IFSs with finitely many functions have been studied extensively. Also, hyperbolic IFSs with infinitely many functions have been studied. In this thesis, more general IFSs are studied. The Hausdorff pseudometric is studied. This is a generalization of the Hausdorff metric. Wide and narrow limit sets are studied. These are two types of limits of sequences of sets in a complete pseudometric space. Stable Iterated Function Systems, a kind of generalization of hyperbolic IFSs, are defined. Some different, but closely related, types of stability for the IFSs are considered. It is proved that the IFSs with the most general type of stability have unique attractors. Also, invariant sets, addressing, and periodic points for stable IFSs are studied. Hutchinson’s metric (also called Vaserhstein’s metric) is generalized from being defined on a space of probability measures, into a class of norms, the £-norms, on a space of real measures (on certain metric spaces). Under rather general conditions, it is proved that these norms, when they are restricted to positive measures, give rise to complete metric spaces with the metric topology coinciding with the weak*-topology. Then, IFSs with probabilities (IFSPs) are studied, in particular, stable IFSPs. The £-norm-results are used to prove that, as in the case of hyperbolic IFSPs, IFSPs with the most general kind of stability have unique invariant measures. These measures are ”attractive”. Also, an invariant measure is constructed by first ”lifting” the IFSP to the code space. Finally, it is proved that the Random Iteration Algorithm in a sense will ”work” for some stable IFSPs. / <p>Diss. Umeå : Umeå universitet, 1992</p> / digitalisering@umu

This research investigates the differences between how men and women greet and take leave of someone of the same sex in Saudi Arabia, a gender segregated society. Age, social status, relationship between participants, and setting were also tested to see if they have any effect on how Saudis greet and take leave of each other.A total of 237 participants: 127 males and 110 females were recorded in naturally occurring conversations. The participants were from all social classes and included three age groups: 18-30, 31-50, and over 50. Relationship between participants included close friends, relatives, acquaintances, and strangers. Data was collected in social and family gatherings, work, school, and the hospital. The data was analyzed in light of Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory. Variables like formulaic expressions, length, and hyperbole were also tested.The results of the study indicate that age had a significant affect on how Saudis greet, take leave/reply to a leave-taking of someone of the same sex. Based on my corpus, social status had no significant affect on how Saudis greet/reply and take leave/reply of someone of the same sex. The relationship between participants showed a significant correlation with how Saudis greet/reply and take leave/reply of someone of the same sex. Setting had no significant affect of how Saudis greet and take leave of someone of the same sex. But it did show a significant affect of how Saudis reply to greetings and leave-takings of someone of the same sex. Gender did not on any significant affect on how Saudis greet and reply to greetings of someone of the same sex. Whereas, gender showed a significant correlation with how Saudis take leave and reply to a leave-taking.Results of the study indicate that women consistently took longer to greet and take leave of someone of their own sex, regardless of age, social status, relationship between participants, or setting. Women also used more metaphors and superlatives while greeting or taking leave of someone of their own sex. Women were found to repeat their greetings and leave-takings more than men. / Department of English

The rise of large data sets, or "Big Data'', has coincided with the rise of clusters with large amounts of memory and GPU accelerators that can be used to process rapidly growing data footprints. However, the complexity and performance limitations of sharing memory and accelerators in a cluster limits the options for efficient management and allocation of resources for applications. The global address space model (GAS), and specifically hardware-supported GAS, is proposed as a means to provide a high-performance resource management platform upon which resource sharing between nodes and resource aggregation across nodes can take place. This thesis builds on the initial concept of GAS with a model that is matched to "Big Data'' computing and its data transfer requirements. The proposed model, Dynamic Partitioned Global Address Spaces (DPGAS), is implemented using a commodity converged interconnect, HyperTransport over Ethernet (HToE), and a software framework, the Oncilla runtime and API. The DPGAS model and associated hardware and software components are used to investigate two application spaces, resource sharing for time-varying workloads and resource aggregation for GPU-accelerated data warehousing applications. This work demonstrates that hardware-supported GAS can be used improve the performance and power consumption of memory-intensive applications, and that it can be used to simplify host and accelerator resource management in the data center.

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Η ύπαρξη Διαδικτύου παρέχει την δυνατότητα μεταφοράς δομημένης πληροφορίας, μέσω πολλών διαφορετικών εφαρμογών. Μια από τις πλέον χρησιμοποιούμενες εφαρμογές αποτελεί το ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο, το οποίο υπάρχει από την αρχή κιόλας του Διαδικτύου. Τα τελευταία χρόνια έχει κάνει την εμφάνιση της μια νέα σημαντική εφαρμογή η τηλεϊατρική, η οποία περιλαμβάνει μηχανισμούς παρόμοιους με το ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο. Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζονται τα πρωτόκολλα μορφοποίησης μηνυμάτων Διαδικτύου RFC 822, RFC 2822, RFC 2045 της κατηγορίας MIME καθώς και το RFC 2231. Αποτελούν κάποια από τα βασικότερα πρωτόκολλα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου και κατ’επέκταση την βάση για την ανάπτυξη της τηλειατρικής. Ταυτόχρονα γίνεται μια εκτενής αναφορά στα βασικότερα πρωτόκολλα καθορισμού δομής μορφότυπων που χρησιμοποιούνται στην ιατρική πληροφορική. Πιο συγκεκριμένα στο κεφάλαιο 1 παρουσιάζεται το πρωτόκολλο RFC 822 το οποίο καθορίζει το μορφότυπο και τη σημασιολογία των περιεχόμενων του μηνύματος ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου. Το συγκεκριμένο πρότυπο ενώ είναι ικανοποιητικό για αποστολή μηνυμάτων κειμένου ASCII δεν είναι επαρκές για μεταφορά μορφών κειμένου μη –ASCII. Στο κεφάλαιο 2 γίνεται εκτενής αναφορά στο πρωτόκολλο RFC 2822, το οποίο αποτελεί μια πιο ενημερωμένη έκδοση του RFC 822 ώστε να απεικονίζει την τρέχουσα πρακτική. Καθορίζει αυστηρά την δομή περιεχομένων μηνυμάτων κειμένου ASCII, ενώ ταυτόχρονα δεν λαμβάνει κανένα μέτρο για αποστολή μηνυμάτων πολυμέσων. Στο κεφάλαιο 3 παρουσιάζεται το RFC 2045 της κατηγορίας MIME, το οποίο είναι μια ανεξάρτητη προδιαγραφή που απλά συμπληρώνει το RFC 822. Το πρωτόκολλο αυτό ορίζει τις απαραίτητες πρόσθετες κεφαλίδες στο μήνυμα, ώστε να μπορέσει να σταλεί περιεχόμενο διαφορετικό από κείμενο ASCII. Χρησιμοποιώντας πεδία ετικέτας "MIME- Version", "Content-Type" και "Content-Transfer-Encoding", είναι δυνατό να περιλαμβάνονται με έναν τυποποιημένο τρόπο, αυθαίρετοι τύποι δεδομένων με συμμορφούμενα RFC 822 μηνύματα ταχυδρομείου. Έτσι κανένας περιορισμός που επιβάλλεται από το RFC 822 δεν παραβιάζεται. Στο κεφάλαιο 4 περιγράφεται το πρότυπο RFC 2231, το οποίο καθορίζει τις επεκτάσεις που εξετάζουν διαφόρους περιορισμούς που προκύπτουν από την χρήση παραμέτρων MIME σε πεδία ετικέτας τύπου περιεχομένου και διάθεσης στο Internet. Όλες αυτές οι επεκτάσεις εφαρμόζονται σε ένα μοντέλο που είναι απόλυτα συμβατό σε συντακτικό επίπεδο με υπαρκτές MIME εφαρμογές. Τέλος στο πέμπτο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζονται τα βασικά πρωτόκολλα καθορισμού δομής μορφοτύπων που χρησιμοποιούνται στον τομέα της τηλειατρικής. Αναλύονται οι λειτουργικές προδιαγραφές της υπηρεσίας WADO. Παρουσιάζεται το IHE XDS σχεδιάγραμμα ολοκλήρωσης, που επιλαμβάνεται του προβλήματος της διαλειτουργικότητας του ΗΑΥΠ. (Hλεκτρονικό Aρχείο Yγειονομικής Περίθαλψης - ΗΑΥΠ -Electronic Healthcare Record – EHR). Το ΗΑΥΠ αποτελεί έναν βασικό ερευνητικό τομέα στην ιατρική πληροφορική. / The existence of the Internet provides the possibility to transfer structured information through many different applications.One of the most used applications is the e-mail, which exists from the very beginning of the Internet. Recently a new important application, the telemedicine, appears which includes operations similar to e-mail.In this diploma thesis the protocols for the format of Internet messages RFC 822, RFC 2822, the RFC 2045 of the category of MIME and also the RFC 2231 are presented. These are some of the most basic e-mail protocols and thus the basis for the development of telemedicine. Simultaneously there is a comprehensive reference to the basic protocols that establish a structure format and are used in Medical Informatics.Specifically, Chapter 1presents the protocol RFC 822, which defines the format and semantics of the contents of the e-mail. Atlhough this protocol is sufficient for ASCII text messages sending, it’s not for non-ASCII text messages.In Chapter 2 there is reference to protocol RFC 2822, which is a more updated version of RFC 822, in order to reflect current practice. It strictly defines the structure of contents of text messages while it makes no provision for the transmission of multimedia messages. In Chapter 3 we present the RFC 2045 of the category MIME which is an independent specification that complements RFC 822.This protocol provides the necessary additional header in the mail in order to sent content of non-ASCII text. By using header fields "MIME- Version","Content-Type"and"Content-Transfer-Encoding ", it’s possible arbitrary data types with compliant mail messages to be included in a standard way. Because of this any restriction imposed by RFC 822, is being violated. In Chapter 4 , we describe the standard RFC 2231 which defines the extensions considering different restrictions that arise from the use of MIME parameters in content type and content-disposition header fields in Internet e-mail.All these extensions are applicable to a model which is completely compatible in syntax level with already existing applications. Finally in Chapter 5 we present the basic protocols that determine structure formats and are used in telemedicine. Also the functional specifications of the WADO are analyzed here.The IHE XDS layout integration is presented that address the problem of interoperability of HER. The HER is a key research field in medical informatics.