The Third Side of the Coin is a manuscript of poetry exploring ironic distances, both physical and metaphysical, both slight and significant. It opens with a quote from Agha Shahid Ali who asked, "What then is separation's geography?" The poems in this collection describe the geography of separation between individuals, cultures, ideas, man and nature and the physical and metaphysical realms. As the author travels deserts, oceans, and outer space, she seeks proofs of existence and questions natural laws deemed irrefutable. This questioning is reflected in the book's title, which, on one hand, represents a state of geometric impossibility. And yet, the author contends that every coin has a third side, however narrow, marginal or fleeting it may be. It is the third side that unites diametrical opposites, that permits the coexistence of dark and the light, and that bridges the gravity and weightlessness of our existence.

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Abstract Generational garbage collection is one of the most commonly used dynamic memory management techniques. Copying generational garbage collection can achieve better collection efficiency by compaction via object movement. However, object movement requires more processing overhead during collection time. Non-copying generational garbage collection eliminates the overhead of object movement. In association of with the limited memory traversal technique, it can achieve faster collection runs. But, since no compaction technique is used, poorer collection efficiency us unavoided. In addition, some in-effective design choices can greatly reduce the efficiency of generational garbage collectors. They include poor prediction of object lifetimes, unnecessarily frequent collection runs, and in-effective internal fragmentation reduction within pages, etc. In this research, we designed a user-configurable garbage collection method to improve collection efficiency and performance of current non-copy generational garbage collection method. Dynamically generated objects are characterized into four collection categories according to the usage characteristic as well as this predicted lifetimes of the objects. Our memory allocator will allocate objects to different storage heaps according to their collection categories. The four categories are: (1) short life time objects: allocated in the multiple generations, storage and collect are in the multiple ways of generation . (2) long life time objects: allocated in the single generation, storage and collect are in the single way of generation. (3) permanent life time objects: allocated in the area never been collected, the objects will occupy the space until the program terminate. (4) user-level management objects: allocated in the area never been collected, but the object will be allocated and freed by the user. For different collection categories, we separately incorportes domain-specific knowledge of memory allocation and garbage collection. We plan to restrict each garbage collection activity on its own category heap. Hence, when certain category heap needs to be collected, only a small portion of dynamic data is involved. Category-specific collection timing decision reclamation, re-allocation, and memory allocation methods can be devised for each category heap. In addition, it allows users to apply their knowledge of the program characteristics to suitabley classify the generated object's collection category to improve the collection efficiency. It also allows users to integrate direct-managed collection and automatic collection technique in one program. For performance validation, we carried out a set of performance experiments. The experiments indicate that we can reduce collection overhead and improve the average number of effective memory pages in running cases with different characteristics with our non

In the past, little has been written about the systematic acquisition of faculty papers, which are important sources for documenting not only the faculty members themselves, but also universities and the academic disciplines. This thesis investigates the theoretical and practical issues involved in the appraisal for acquisition and selection of faculty papers. The work of the professor is analyzed in terms of the competences that he exercises in carrying out the functions of the university. Interviews with academics verify the functional analysis, confirm the existence of documents predicted by it, and alert the archivist to professors' attitudes that could affect the acquisition of the faculty papers. The account of the interviews is followed by a discussion of various questions concerning the ownership of faculty papers and the most appropriate repositories for them. To further resolve the problems identified, and to lay the groundwork for an acquisition plan, a report is made on interviews and correspondence with archivists from universities and subject discipline history centers and repositories. These sources illustrate current archival practices. It is concluded that most faculty papers belong in a university archives, although there is an important role for the subject discipline history center and repository. The latter institutions offer a different outlook than can be reached through a documentation plan that is focused on one university. To provide a framework for the acquisition of faculty papers, it is suggested that a university-wide records policy be drafted, as the necessary foundation on which to base an archival mandate, an acquisition policy, and a plan for the appraisal for acquisition of faculty papers. Finally, the appraisal for selection of faculty papers is analyzed and seen to be primarily a process of weeding rather than the elimination of whole series. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate

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Thesis (M. Sc.(Urb. Plan.))--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 296-326).

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A collection of poetry.

This thesis is a collection of poetry written between 1970 and 1975. The quality of the poems is admittedly uneven, but the inclusion of earlier, weaker poems may indicate a progression in the areas of flexibility, control of material, and strength of poetic voice. The poems are arranged into five sections, entitled "Love," "Rabbits," Poetry about Poetry," "Religion and Ancestors," and "Henry. Poems collected here are intended to demonstrate that experimentation with various forms contributes to an increased ability to control poetic material and technique. By confining a poem to particular forms, one is forced to be more creative, imaginative, and exact. Both control and flexibility are important in contemporary poetry, and my hope is that the following poems demonstrate a balance of those qualities.