Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-304).

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-69).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006. / Thesis directed by Glenn Hendler for the Department of English. "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-182).

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2004--Darmstadt.

Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In South Africa, black-back jackal (BBJ) predation of sheep causes heavy losses to sheep farmers. Different control measures such as shooting, gin-traps and poisoning have been used to control the jackal population; however, these techniques also kill many harmless animals, as they fail to differentiate between BBJ and harmless animals. In this project, a system is implemented to detect black-backed jackal faces in images. The system was implemented using the Viola-Jones object detection algorithm. This algorithm was originally developed to detect human faces, but can also be used to detect a variety of other objects. The three important key features of the Viola-Jones algorithm are the representation of an image as a so-called ”integral image”, the use of the Adaboost boosting algorithm for feature selection, and the use of a cascade of classifiers to reduce false alarms. In this project, Python code has been developed to extract the Haar-features from BBJ images by acting as a classifier to distinguish between a BBJ and the background. Furthermore, the feature selection is done using the Asymboost instead of the Adaboost algorithm so as to achieve a high detection rate and low false positive rate. A cascade of strong classifiers is trained using a cascade learning algorithm. The inclusion of a special fifth feature Haar feature, adapted to the relative spacing of the jackal’s eyes, improves accuracy further. The final system detects 78% of the jackal faces, while only 0.006% of other image frames are wrongly identified as faces. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Swartrugjakkalse veroorsaak swaar vee-verliese in Suid Afrika. Teenmaatreels soos jag, slagysters en vergiftiging word algemeen gebruik, maar is nie selektief genoeg nie en dood dus ook vele nie-teiken spesies. In hierdie projek is ’n stelsel ontwikkel om swartrugjakkals gesigte te vind op statiese beelde. Die Viola-Jones deteksie algoritme, aanvanklik ontwikkel vir die deteksie van mens-gesigte, is hiervoor gebruik. Drie sleutel-aspekte van hierdie algoritme is die voorstelling van ’n beeld deur middel van ’n sogenaamde integraalbeeld, die gebruik van die ”Adaboost” algoritme om gepaste kenmerke te selekteer, en die gebruik van ’n kaskade van klassifiseerders om vals-alarm tempos te verlaag. In hierdie projek is Python kode ontwikkel om die nuttigste ”Haar”-kenmerke vir die deteksie van dié jakkalse te onttrek. Eksperimente is gedoen om die nuttigheid van die ”Asymboost” algoritme met die van die ”Adaboost” algoritme te kontrasteer. ’n Kaskade van klassifiseerders is vir beide van hierdie tegnieke afgerig en vergelyk. Die resultate toon dat die kenmerke wat die ”Asymboost” algoritme oplewer, tot laer vals-alarm tempos lei. Die byvoeging van ’n spesiale vyfde tipe Haar-kenmerk, wat aangepas is by die relatiewe spasieëring van die jakkals se oë, verhoog die akkuraatheid verder. Die uiteindelike stelsel vind 78% van die gesigte terwyl slegs 0.006% ander beeld-raampies verkeerdelik as gesigte geklassifiseer word.

Studien motiveras av införandet av obligatorisk byrårotation i Sverige genom EU:s revisionspaket. Studien undersöker sambandet mellan audit-firm tenure (längden på en revisionsbyrås uppdrag hos ett företag) och revisionskvalitet. Som proxy för revisionskvalitet används mått på absoluta diskreta periodiseringar. För att genomföra studien görs en regressionsanalys och ett korrelationstest. Urvalet baseras på svenska företag noterade på Nasdaq Stockholm Large- och Mid Cap och det slutliga antalet företagsår som studeras är 383 stycken. I kontrast till stor del av tidigare studier finner denna studie att revisionskvaliteten är högre vid kort audit-firm tenure, tre år eller kortare, jämfört med lång audit-firm tenure, fyra år eller längre. Resultatet kan säkerställas på en signifikansnivå på 10 %. Studien bidrar med underlag till debatten om obligatorisk byrårotation.

The Rev. Edmund Jones (1702-1793), the 'Old Prophet' of the Transh, Pontypool, is a fascinating character for many reasons, not least of which is his writing on apparitions, spirits, fairies, and magic in his Geographical, Historical, and Religious Account of the Parish of Aberystruth (1779) and Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the Principality of Wales (1780). These works were not merely written for an antiquarian purpose, but rather present a defence of Jones's deep-seated belief in these spirits' existence. On the surface, such a belief, professed so late in the eighteenth century, may seem 'unenlightened' or atavistic, but far from it, Jones's belief was consistent with his overarching cultural worldview which was set within and influenced by the environment in which he lived. This study examines that environment in an attempt to understand the contexts and formation of Jones beliefs and writings. It begins by examining the socio-economic changes occurring in eighteenth-century north-western Monmouthshire, focusing on changes in transport and communication, industry and social composition, literacy and the availability of printed word, the medical industry, and systems of charity and welfare; and the impact of these different social elements on the way in which the supernatural was conceptualized in local culture. The second section focuses on Jones's role as a religious figure involved in the eighteenth-century religious Revival and the state of religion in the area before turning to Jones's theology and how this impacted on his conceptualization of spirits and their interaction with the mundane realm. The study then turns to the intellectual environment in which Jones wrote and how his works fit with contemporary intellectual trends. Finally, the thesis examines the folkloric content of Jones's works and the ways in which all of the disparate environmental elements discussed throughout demonstrate themselves in his writings.

Submitted by Roberth Novaes (roberth.novaes@live.com) on 2018-07-11T15:23:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AS GRANDES ESPERANÇAS DO SR. PIP - UM ESTUDO INTERTEXTUAL (DISSERTAÇÃO COMPLETA).pdf: 742350 bytes, checksum: 180153cce3b278388400fd09dfe773eb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Setor de Periódicos (per_macedocosta@ufba.br) on 2018-07-11T16:52:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AS GRANDES ESPERANÇAS DO SR. PIP - UM ESTUDO INTERTEXTUAL (DISSERTAÇÃO COMPLETA).pdf: 742350 bytes, checksum: 180153cce3b278388400fd09dfe773eb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-11T16:52:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AS GRANDES ESPERANÇAS DO SR. PIP - UM ESTUDO INTERTEXTUAL (DISSERTAÇÃO COMPLETA).pdf: 742350 bytes, checksum: 180153cce3b278388400fd09dfe773eb (MD5) / FAPESB / Esta dissertação busca identificar e analisar os diversos vínculos intertextuais presentes no romance neozelandês O Sr. Pip (2007), de Lloyd Jones, em especial aqueles estabelecidos com o romance vitoriano Grandes Esperanças, escrito por Charles Dickens, em 1861. A pesquisa desenvolve-se orientada pelo conceito de intertextualidade, derivado dos estudos do filósofo russo Mikhail Bakhtin e cunhado por Julia Kristeva, por volta de 1960, na França. Nessa direção, a noção de texto se expande para abrigar não só o texto literário, mas também os variados discursos sociais que definem o contexto de produção de uma obra, como política, religião e a própria língua falada. Evidencia-se, por conseguinte, a teia de diálogo e remissões que se tece no âmbito textual, possibilitando a problematização de conceitos mais tradicionalistas como originalidade e autenticidade. Além disso, a pesquisa debruça-se sobre a acentuada marca da tradição oral na narrativa de O Sr. Pip, apontado pelo próprio autor como fio condutor de sua narrativa. Assim, com base em referenciais teóricos da área de estudos de oralidade como Walter Ong (1998), Erick Havelock (1996) e Paul Zumthor (1993; 2014), busca-se compreender como se opera o discurso oral e de que forma a narrativa de O Sr. Pip, bem como a de Grandes Esperanças se constrói com elementos deste discurso. Vista como um dos intertextos presentes entre os dois romances, a oralidade torna-se um elemento importante na medida em que desloca a narrativa canônica do texto dickensiano, baseada na leitura de livros, para uma contação de histórias, recriando assim o romance inglês em um movimento desconstrutor, possibilitando a problematização da noção de cânone literário. / This study aims at identifying and analysing the various intertexts found in the New Zealand novel Mr. Pip (2007) by Lloyd Jones, especially those that refer to the Victorian novel Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens in 1861. This research is guided by the concept of intertextuality derived from Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s studies and further developed by Julia Kristeva, around 1960, in France. Thus, the notion of text broadens in order to refer not only to the literary text but also to other social discourses as politics, religion and the spoken language itself. Consequently, the whole network of dialogue and references that operates at the textual level becomes clearer, questioning more conservative concepts such as originality and authenticity. Plus, this research addresses the theme of orality within the narrative of Mr. Pip, which Jones himself affirms to be central to his novel. Therefore, guided by the study of scholars from within the field of Orality and Literacy such as Walter Ong (1998), Erick Havelock (1996) and Paul Zumthor (1993; 2014), this work seeks to understand how the oral discourse operates and how the narratives of Mr. Pip as well as of Great Expectations are shaped by oral features. The oral language, considered here as one of the intertexts between these two novels, becomes then an important element as it transposes the canonical narrative of the Dickensian text, based on the reading of books, into an environment of story-telling, recreating the English novel in a deconstructive movement and questioning the notion of literary canon.

An 'Anglo Welsh' writer who emerged in the 1930s to considerable acclaim in Wales and London, Glyn Jones was a contemporary and friend of Dylan Thomas. An innovative Welsh Modernist, he found the genres of poetry and the short story best suited to the exhibition of his concise, imagist and often grotesque experimentalism. Unlike Thomas, he wrote two novels, was a 'gentle' satirist of Welsh culture, and was deeply embroiled in the 'post-colonial' cultural conflicts of his nation. Jones struggled to find expression between two languages and worked insistently (often antagonistically) in the Welsh literary scene throughout its most controversial century, when it fought to save the Welsh language and resolve its conflicting cultural factions into a consolidated national identity. Jones was, to adopt the rubric of Bhabha, stranded in the cultural margins at the intersection of the English and Welsh languages, and this thesis situates itself accordingly. The first of six chapters examines the ways in which the Welshlanguage culture of Wales engaged Glyn Jones, and explores how a liminal voice can establish its cultural validity via rewriting autobiography into a 'mythical' history. The second chapter adopts Harold Bloom, the concept of intertext and psychological notions of the 'other', to address Jones's conflicted relationship with Dylan Thomas. The third attempts to analyse his twentieth-century dialogue with Dafydd ap Gwilym as he seeks affirmation from his fourteenth-century double. The fourth continues this 'othering' of Welsh ancients and considers how Wales is refracted in some of his work through the literary excavation of Llywarch Hen, tenth-century defender of his princedom, but willing forfeiter of his sons. The fifth chapter considers how Jones inherited but re-invented the role of the cyfarwydd (storyteller), and the sixth explores how Hen Benillion (Welsh folk poetry) fostered his peculiarly Welsh Modernism.

The area of computer vision has been making big improvements in the latest decades, equally so has the area of electronics and small computers improved. These areas together have made it more available to build small, standalone systems for object detection in live video. This project's main objective is to examine whether a small device, e.g. Raspberry Pi 3, can manage an implementation of an object detection algorithm, called Viola-Jones, to count the occupancy of sitting people in a room with a camera. This study is done by creating an application with the library OpenCV, together with the language C+ +, and then test if the application can run on the small device. Whether or not the application will detect people depends on the models used, therefore three are tested: Haar Face, Haar Upper body and Haar Upper body MCS. The library's object detection function takes some parameters that works like settings for the detection algorithm. With that, the parameters needs to be tailored for each model and use case, for an optimal performance. A function was created to find the accuracy of different parameters by brute-force. The test showed that the Haar Face model was the most accurate. All the models, with their most optimal parameters, are then speed-tested with a FPS test on the raspberry pi. The result shows whether or not the raspberry pi can manage the application with the models. All models could be run and the Haar face model was fastest. As the system uses cameras, some ethical aspects are discussed about what people might think of top-corner cameras.