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1	Scar-Lip, Sky-Walker, and Mischief-Monger the norse god Loki as trickster / Krause-Loner, Shawn Christopher. January 2003 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Comparative Religion, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains 72 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-72).
2	Exploiting tightly-coupled cores Bates, Daniel January 2014 (has links) As we move steadily through the multicore era, and the number of processing cores on each chip continues to rise, parallel computation becomes increasingly important. However, parallelising an application is often difficult because of dependencies between different regions of code which require cores to communicate. Communication is usually slow compared to computation, and so restricts the opportunities for profitable parallelisation. In this work, I explore the opportunities provided when communication between cores has a very low latency and low energy cost. I observe that there are many different ways in which multiple cores can be used to execute a program, allowing more parallelism to be exploited in more situations, and also providing energy savings in some cases. Individual cores can be made very simple and efficient because they do not need to exploit parallelism internally. The communication patterns between cores can be updated frequently to reflect the parallelism available at the time, allowing better utilisation than specialised hardware which is used infrequently. In this dissertation I introduce Loki: a homogeneous, tiled architecture made up of many simple, tightly-coupled cores. I demonstrate the benefits in both performance and energy consumption which can be achieved with this arrangement and observe that it is also likely to have lower design and validation costs and be easier to optimise. I then determine exactly where the performance bottlenecks of the design are, and where the energy is consumed, and look into some more-advanced optimisations which can make parallelism even more profitable. 004.2
3	Linkage Analysis of Quantitative Traits for Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemia on the Island of Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia Shmulewitz, Dvora, Heath, Simon C., Blundell, Maude L., Han, Zhihua, Sharma, Ratnendra, Salit, Jacqueline, Auerbach, Steven B., Signorini, Stefano, Breslow, Jan L., Stoffel, Markus, Friedman, Jeffrey M. 07 March 2006 (has links) Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease are highly heritable conditions that in aggregate are the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the developed world and are growing problems in developing countries. To map the causal genes, we conducted a population screen for these conditions on the Pacific Island of Kosrae. Family history and genetic data were used to construct a pedigree for the island. Analysis of the pedigree showed highly significant heritability for the metabolic traits under study. DNA samples from 2,188 participants were genotyped with 405 microsatellite markers with an average intermarker distance of 11 cM. A protocol using LOKI, a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling method, was developed to analyze the Kosraen pedigree for height, a model quantitative trait. Robust quantitative trait loci for height were found on 10q21 and 1p31. This protocol was used to map a set of metabolic traits, including plasma leptin to chromosome region 5q35; systolic blood pressure to 20p12; total cholesterol to 19p13, 12q24, and 16qter; hip circumference to 10q25 and 4q23; body mass index to 18p11 and 20q13; apolipoprotein B to 2p24-25; weight to 18q21; and fasting blood sugar to 1q31-1q43. Several of these same chromosomal regions have been identified in previous studies validating the use of LOKI. These studies add information about the genetics of the metabolic syndrome and establish an analytical approach for linkage analysis of complex pedigrees. These results also lay the foundation for whole genome scans with dense sets of SNPs aimed to identifying causal genes. LOKI quantitative trait locus Syndrome X
4	Scar-Lip, Sky-Walker, and Mischief-Monger: The Norse God Loki as Trickster Krause-Loner, Shawn Christopher 15 September 2003 (has links) No description available. Religion, General Folklore Loki Norse Mythology Trickster
5	Sounding Rocket Redesign And Optimization For Payload Expansion And In Flight Telemetry Transmittal Huffman, Matthew 01 January 2005 (has links) Due to renewed interest in the sub orbital rocket program of the Florida Space Authority and a surplus of Super Loki Sounding Rockets, an effort to improve the usefulness of this surplus is herein undertaken. Currently, the capacity of the payload compartment in the upper stage of the Super Loki system is very limited. A redesign of the upper stage will allow larger and more versatile payloads to be carried, assuming the appropriate design parameters are met. It has therefore been undertaken to create a design procedure that is comprehensive in scope in order to affect this redesign. This procedure includes five major components. These are the separation of the upper and lower stages, the stability of the vehicle, the altitude and velocity of the rocket, the mechanical loading and finally the aerodynamic heating. Semi-empirical methods were used whenever possible to allow comparison with experimental data. This procedure revealed that larger diameter upper stages might be used up to a reasonable maximum of four inches. The four-inch modification is found to be stable as were the smaller modifications considered. The altitude and velocity of the rocket were found via a simple Eulerian time stepping scheme resulting in an estimate of approximately 148,000ft for the four-inch dart. The mechanical loading analysis allowed for the material selection for the rocket components. Reinforced steel fins and carbon fiber tubing, for the payload section, are adequate to meet expected mechanical loads, those being, 16000psi for the fin section due to launcher forces, 22800psi for compressive plus torsion forces on the composite section and 18000psi for the ejection stresses. An ablative coating is considered necessary to counteract the 760ºF temperatures along the composite tube. Sounding Rocket Aerodynamic Heating Super Loki Aerospace Engineering Engineering
6	A comparative analysis of log management solutions: ELK stack versus PLG stack Eriksson, Joakim, Karavek, Anawil January 2023 (has links) Managing and analyzing large volumes of logs can be challenging, and a log management solution can effectively address this issue. However, selecting the right log management solution can be a daunting task, considering various factors such as desired features and the solution's efficiency in terms of storage and resource usage. This thesis addressed the problem of choosing between two log management solutions: ELK and PLG. We compared their tailing agents, log storage and visualization capabilities to provide an analysis of their pros and cons. To compare the two log management solutions we conducted two types of evaluations: performance and functional evaluation. Together these two evaluations provide a comprehensive picture of each tool's capabilities. The study found that PLG is more resource-efficient in terms of CPU and memory compared to ELK, and requires less disk space to store logs. ELK, however, performs better in terms of query request time. ELK has a more user-friendly interface and requires minimal configuration, while PLG requires more configuration but provides more control for experienced users. With this study, we hope to provide organizations and individuals with a summary of the pros and cons of ELK and PLG that can help when choosing a log management solution. ELK PLG Log management Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana Promtail Loki Grafana Computer Sciences Datavetenskap (datalogi)
7	Exploring Game Design Pitfalls through patterns : Experiences when making our first game / Undersökning av fallgropar inom speldesign genom design mönster : erfarenheter från första spelprojektet Hedenskog, Jens January 2012 (has links) The purpose of this report is to analyze what went wrong with the adventure game project called Fairytale, I started together with 4 of my fellow university students at Gotland University, spring 2007. My ambition with this report is to enlighten problems in game design that arose during the game development process in order to prevent others from making the same mistakes. The problems are analyzed according to game design patterns defined by Björk, S. and Holopainen, J. (2005). Patterns in Game Design. Boston, Massachusetts. Jenifer Niles. The game was exhibited to the public at Gotland Game Awards 2007, Leipzig Game Developers Conference 2007, Tekniska Museet 2007, Almedalsveckan 2008 and Gotland Game Awards 2008. The results of the report show that redesigning already finished game features means a lot of troubles in relation to its dependency on other game elements. The key abilities of the main character were vaguely defined since the beginning of the project which caused problems with earlier designed levels whenever a new item was introduced. The terrain of the prior levels didn’t match the abilities of the new items, which forced changes to be made. The biggest mistake with this project was that finished game elements never were considered final. My role in the project was the solo game programmer and co-designer. I shared the designing tasks together with Annika Fogelgren who also was the producer of our team. Albertina Sparrhult, Emma Johansson and Marie Viberg were our core graphic artists. Together, we created the Fairytale game. fairytale project game games game project new game first game game development first game project kids game adventure rpg big game project game manual Lyra Loki Jens Hedenskog fairytale projekt spel spel projekt nytt spelprojekt första spelet första spelprojektet spelutveckling barnspel äventyr rpg rollspel spel manual saga Lyra Loke Jens Hedenskog Design Design Human Computer Interaction Interaction Technologies Interaktionsteknik

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