The technology of machine vision is board applied in many aspects such as industrial inspection, medical image processing, remote sensing and nanotechnology. It recovers useful information about a scene from its two-dimension projections. This recovery requires the inversion of a many-to-one mapping. But we usually lose some important data for not exactly correct mapping. It might occur from lens distortion, rotation and perspective distortion, and non-ideal vision systems. Camera calibration can compensate for these ill-conditions. In this thesis I present an active calibration technique derived from Song¡¦s research (1996) for calibrating the camera intrinsic parameters. It requires no reference object and directly uses the images of the environment. We only have to control the camera acting a series translational motion by the XYZ 3-D table.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa möjligheter och begränsningar med olika tekniska system för att identifiera kontakter på stridsfältet, främst med avseende på att minska risken för vådabekämpningar. Uppsatsen skall också belysa om införande av tekniska system för identifiering av kontakter är den enskilt bästa metoden för att undvika vådabekämpningar. Syftet är att läsaren skall uppnå en förståelse för vad olika typer av system för identifiering kan bidra med för att minska risken för vådabekämpningar. Utöver detta belyses andra nackdelar och fördelar med de olika tekniska systemen förutom just inom området identifiering. Uppsatsen beskriver olika händelser där vådabekämpningar skett och kopplar dessa mot hur olika tekniska system eventuellt hade kunnat minska risken för att vådabekämpningen skulle ha skett. Uppsatsen beskriver också ett antal olika tekniska system för identifiering av kontakter på stridsfältet. / The purpose of this essay is to shed light on possibilities and limitations regarding different systems for identification of contacts on the battlefield, mainly for the purpose of reducing fratricide. The essay will also shed light on if the introduction of systems for identification on the battlefield is the best one single method that will reduce fratricide. The purpose is that the reader will achieve an understanding of how different systems for target identification will reduce the risk for fratricide. In addition the possibilities and limitations of other systems in the field of combat identification will also be addressed. The essay describes different events where fratricide has occurred and connects these events with the possibilities and limitations of the identification systems described and how these systems could have reduced the risk for fratricide. The essay also describes different systems for target identification and combat identification.

Ondas internas são movimentos ondulatórios que ocorrem no interior da coluna de água, associadas à estratificação de densidade. Ondas internas cuja frequência de oscilação se assemelha à das marés são chamadas marés internas. Estas ocasionam escoamentos intensos que influenciam a dinâmica de sedimentos, os processos de mistura e a produtividade primária. Em um ambiente energético como a Plataforma Continental Amazônica (PCA), localizada na costa norte brasileira, a estratificação varia consideravelmente, tanto espacial quanto temporalmente, de acordo com o balanço entre as diversas forçantes presentes. Na região da PCA alguns autores sugerem a presença de marés internas, entretanto, estudos específicos acerca do tema não figuram na literatura. Dessa forma, desenvolvemos neste trabalho um estudo da maré interna na região da PCA. Como objetivo, procuramos comprovar a ocorrência de marés internas na PCA, caracterizar seu comportamento e verificar sua intermitência. Para tal foram realizadas análises de dados provenientes do programa AMASSedS (A Multidisciplinary Amazon Shelf Sediment Study). Para caracterizar as marés internas, aplicamos dois métodos distintos para obtenção do campo baroclínico. O primeiro foi fundamentado no estabelecimento de uma corrente barotrópica préviamente obtida atráves de simulações numéricas. O segundo método empregado embasou-se na aplicação das funções empíricas ortogonais para a separação em modos estatísticos. Verificamos que as ondas internas na PCA estão ligadas à vazão do Rio Amazonas e são observadas, principalmente, na frequência semi-diurna. Aparentemente, as marés internas semi-diurnas influenciam não somente a hidrodinâmica da PCA como também são responsáveis por parte da variabilidade da salinidade próximo à superfície. / Internal waves are oscillatory motions that occur within the density stratified ocean. The ones with tidal frequency are then called internal tides or baroclinic tides, and are, on several locations around the planet, responsible for strong fluxes that affect several processes, like sediment transport, mixing processes and primary production. In such a strong environment as the Amazon Continental Shelf (ACS), located at the northern brazilian coast, it\'s stratification changes considerably with time and space, accordingly with the balance between the several forcing variables present. In this region, some authors suggest that internal tides occur, however, none research have been made about it on the ACS. That being said, we propose a study on internal tides on the ACS. As we hypothesize that internal tides occur, we look forward to characterize it\'s behavior and verify it\'s intermittency on the ACS. To do so, the data collected during the AMASSedS project (A Multidisciplinary Amazon Shelf Sediment Study) is going to be analyzed. In order to characterize it, two different method were applied to obtain the baroclinic field. The first method was the definition of a modeled-based barotropic current of the ACS obtained on the literature. The second method was the application of Empirical Orthogonal Functions in order to split the field on statistical modes of variability and analyze them separately. Our results indicate that internal tides on the ACS occur preferentially on the semi-diurnal frequency and it\'s generation is intimately connected to river discharge. Also, the analysis of the salinity anomaly field indicates that internal tides are responsible for part of the variability of the later on the surface on mid-shelf.

Ondas internas são movimentos ondulatórios que ocorrem no interior da coluna de água, associadas à estratificação de densidade. Ondas internas cuja frequência de oscilação se assemelha à das marés são chamadas marés internas. Estas ocasionam escoamentos intensos que influenciam a dinâmica de sedimentos, os processos de mistura e a produtividade primária. Em um ambiente energético como a Plataforma Continental Amazônica (PCA), localizada na costa norte brasileira, a estratificação varia consideravelmente, tanto espacial quanto temporalmente, de acordo com o balanço entre as diversas forçantes presentes. Na região da PCA alguns autores sugerem a presença de marés internas, entretanto, estudos específicos acerca do tema não figuram na literatura. Dessa forma, desenvolvemos neste trabalho um estudo da maré interna na região da PCA. Como objetivo, procuramos comprovar a ocorrência de marés internas na PCA, caracterizar seu comportamento e verificar sua intermitência. Para tal foram realizadas análises de dados provenientes do programa AMASSedS (A Multidisciplinary Amazon Shelf Sediment Study). Para caracterizar as marés internas, aplicamos dois métodos distintos para obtenção do campo baroclínico. O primeiro foi fundamentado no estabelecimento de uma corrente barotrópica préviamente obtida atráves de simulações numéricas. O segundo método empregado embasou-se na aplicação das funções empíricas ortogonais para a separação em modos estatísticos. Verificamos que as ondas internas na PCA estão ligadas à vazão do Rio Amazonas e são observadas, principalmente, na frequência semi-diurna. Aparentemente, as marés internas semi-diurnas influenciam não somente a hidrodinâmica da PCA como também são responsáveis por parte da variabilidade da salinidade próximo à superfície. / Internal waves are oscillatory motions that occur within the density stratified ocean. The ones with tidal frequency are then called internal tides or baroclinic tides, and are, on several locations around the planet, responsible for strong fluxes that affect several processes, like sediment transport, mixing processes and primary production. In such a strong environment as the Amazon Continental Shelf (ACS), located at the northern brazilian coast, it\'s stratification changes considerably with time and space, accordingly with the balance between the several forcing variables present. In this region, some authors suggest that internal tides occur, however, none research have been made about it on the ACS. That being said, we propose a study on internal tides on the ACS. As we hypothesize that internal tides occur, we look forward to characterize it\'s behavior and verify it\'s intermittency on the ACS. To do so, the data collected during the AMASSedS project (A Multidisciplinary Amazon Shelf Sediment Study) is going to be analyzed. In order to characterize it, two different method were applied to obtain the baroclinic field. The first method was the definition of a modeled-based barotropic current of the ACS obtained on the literature. The second method was the application of Empirical Orthogonal Functions in order to split the field on statistical modes of variability and analyze them separately. Our results indicate that internal tides on the ACS occur preferentially on the semi-diurnal frequency and it\'s generation is intimately connected to river discharge. Also, the analysis of the salinity anomaly field indicates that internal tides are responsible for part of the variability of the later on the surface on mid-shelf.

Magister Artium - MA / This thesis will critically analyse two theatrical adaptations of J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986). Primarily, this thesis will be seeking to understand the complex relationship of the primary text to its adaptations more closely, regarding them not only as second-order versions or interpretations of the novel, but also to consider the way they may retrospectively construct new readings and understandings of the source text. This thesis will not only consider the way in which Foe is used in the adaptations but also how Robinson Crusoe (1719) influenced the adaptors and adaptive process. Theories of adaptation will be discussed, drawing extensively on work by Linda Hutcheon (2006) and Robert Stam (2005). One of the key ideas in adaptation theory is that adaptive fidelity to the source text is neither possible nor desirable, but that adaptation is a more complex, multi-layered intertextual and intermedial interplay of fictional material. One of the aims of this thesis is to ask whether or not Foe can be successfully transposed to the stage. This thesis will serve as a close analysis of the two theatrical adaptations, focusing on the beginning and endings of the respective adaptations. This research will contribute a new approach to Coetzee studies and to Foe in particular by exploring how these texts can lead to a broader understanding of Coetzee's work and the way it crosses into different media.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom en intertextuell analys identifiera vilka kopplingar som finns mellan Robinson Crusoe och Mr Foe och hur man skulle kunna använda verken i en undervisningskontext utifrån Edward W. Saïds teori om orientalism och intertextuellt perspektiv. Analysen utgår från Edward W. Saïds teori om dikotomier och hur fördomar kan accepteras som sanningar, samt Martha C. Nussbaums teori om beskrivande chauvinism och romantik. I analysen framkommer det att kopplingarna i Mr Foe främst anspelade på Crusoes romantiska bild av ön där han är härskare och Fredag är hans tjänare. Genom att diskutera Fredags olika roller i verken menar jag att man kan föra en diskussion i klassrummet där eleverna får öva sig i att se maktförhållandet i västerländsk syn på utomeuropeisk kultur.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom en intertextuell analys identifiera vilka kopplingar som finns mellan Robinson Crusoe och Mr Foe och hur man skulle kunna använda verken i en undervisningskontext utifrån Edward W. Saïds teori om orientalism och intertextuellt perspektiv. Analysen utgår från Edward W. Saïds teori om dikotomier och hur fördomar kan accepteras som sanningar, samt Martha C. Nussbaums teori om beskrivande chauvinism och romantik. I analysen framkommer det att kopplingarna i Mr Foe främst anspelade på Crusoes romantiska bild av ön där han är härskare och Fredag är hans tjänare. Genom att diskutera Fredags olika roller i verken menar jag att man kan föra en diskussion i klassrummet där eleverna får öva sig i att se maktförhållandet i västerländsk syn på utomeuropeisk kultur.

1 The aim of the thesis is the reconstruction of the linguistic image of "Friend and foe" category on the basis of the selected hip-hop texts. The theoretical part of the work will be devoted to the basic aspects of the linguistic image of the world theory and also the history of the hip hop music genre of in Poland. Material for the analytical part of the thesis will be texts of selected artists of the older (e.g. Stare Miasto, Kaliber 44, Liroy, Wzgórze Ya-Pa 3), and also the younger Polish hip-hop generation (e.g. O.S.T.R., Donatan, Małpa, Taco Hemingway). Using their content analysis, the author tries to reconstruct the "Friend and foe" category image based on subcategories, such as "My place", "My person", "My life ideals" as well as "internal enemy" and "external enemy". Texts from different time periods will be analysed, which will allow to answer the question of how and whether the reconstructed image changes over time.

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<p>Much of the critical discourse on J.M. Coetzee’s <em>Foe</em> does not fully investigate its relationship with Daniel Defoe’s texts, despite <em>Foe</em>’s intimate relation with them. This thesis offers a postcolonial reading of Coetzee’s Susan Barton, Cruso and Friday against Daniel Defoe’s original characters Roxana, Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Chapter one discusses Roxana-as-feminist, female colonizer, representative of her sex and Amazon and compares her to Barton. It reveals the tendency of critical discourse to attempt to ‘know’ Barton as they ‘know’ Roxana, by categorizing her, and reveals how Coetzee’s character frustrates attempts to define her. The second chapter addresses eighteenth-century knowledge of race and how it differs from present day, which offers an alternate reading of <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> and complicates its use as a colonial handbook. I also discuss masculinity in Defoe’s <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> as an individual characteristic Coetzee alters into something that can be appropriated. His characters are not masculine but can wield phallic symbols such as the pen and the knife to reveal power as systemic rather than individualistic. The final chapter offers an in depth postcolonial reading of Friday and interrogates critical discourse’s tendency to read him as representative of ‘the colonized,’ or as a colonial trope.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)