This dissertation is an exploration of the relationship of wisdom to salvation history in the book of Psalms. The notional starting point of this thesis is a conviction that there might be a juncture at which the two themes converge because in certain psalms such as Psalm 78, the Israelite concept of salvation appears to have a close relationship with the wisdom theme. In the history of Psalm interpretation so far, the concept of wisdom psalm has not been properly dealt with due to scholastic difficulty in ascertaining the clear criteria of a genre. The process of scrutinizing the history of interpretation showed that the Psalms in their final form were far more purposeful than were previously understood. The major guiding principles of the method employed are: (1) 'the canonical approach' of Brevard Childs; (2) 'the canonical criticism' of James Sanders; (3) 'the canonical process approach' of Bruce Waltke; (4) 'the Christo-canonical approach' of Jerry E. Shepherd; and (5) 'the communito-canonical approach' of deClaissé-Walford. This thesis made use of these methodological principles by attempting to read the Psalter from the beginning to the end, and by focusing mainly on the final stage of the Psalter proposed by B. Waltke as the third stage, or the final and complete Old Testament canon associated with the Second Temple, and by purposefully limiting the scope of our study to around the post-exilic period. Having dealt with the issue of classifying the wisdom psalm, the presence of the wisdom motif in many psalms which do not fall into the wisdom category serves to add a didactic dimension to the entire Psalter. In so doing, we reach a conclusion that what we are dealing with is not merely the wisdom psalms within the Psalms, but 'the wisdom Psalter' as a literary unit. Then, it can be said that the Psalter is not merely an anthology of individual psalms used for cult, but was meant to be read also as a source of min , an instruction. This means that every psalm in the Psalter has pedagogical potential, which may have been the ostensible intent of the editor(s) at the final stage of the formation of the Psalter. On this premise, this study attempts to set up a strategy to read the Psalms from the beginning to the end from book I up to book V as a wisdom Psalter, with a particular focus on how the wisdom motif relates to the salvation history motif. The question did not merely concern their interpretation as disjointed pieces, but also what their presence in the book of Psalter meant in terms of the relationship between wisdom and salvation history. This means that the study is influenced less by a historical and form critical approach, but more from a literary and canonical perspective. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Old Testament))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

This dissertation is an exploration of the relationship of wisdom to salvation history in the book of Psalms. The notional starting point of this thesis is a conviction that there might be a juncture at which the two themes converge because in certain psalms such as Psalm 78, the Israelite concept of salvation appears to have a close relationship with the wisdom theme. In the history of Psalm interpretation so far, the concept of wisdom psalm has not been properly dealt with due to scholastic difficulty in ascertaining the clear criteria of a genre. The process of scrutinizing the history of interpretation showed that the Psalms in their final form were far more purposeful than were previously understood. The major guiding principles of the method employed are: (1) 'the canonical approach' of Brevard Childs; (2) 'the canonical criticism' of James Sanders; (3) 'the canonical process approach' of Bruce Waltke; (4) 'the Christo-canonical approach' of Jerry E. Shepherd; and (5) 'the communito-canonical approach' of deClaissé-Walford. This thesis made use of these methodological principles by attempting to read the Psalter from the beginning to the end, and by focusing mainly on the final stage of the Psalter proposed by B. Waltke as the third stage, or the final and complete Old Testament canon associated with the Second Temple, and by purposefully limiting the scope of our study to around the post-exilic period. Having dealt with the issue of classifying the wisdom psalm, the presence of the wisdom motif in many psalms which do not fall into the wisdom category serves to add a didactic dimension to the entire Psalter. In so doing, we reach a conclusion that what we are dealing with is not merely the wisdom psalms within the Psalms, but 'the wisdom Psalter' as a literary unit. Then, it can be said that the Psalter is not merely an anthology of individual psalms used for cult, but was meant to be read also as a source of min , an instruction. This means that every psalm in the Psalter has pedagogical potential, which may have been the ostensible intent of the editor(s) at the final stage of the formation of the Psalter. On this premise, this study attempts to set up a strategy to read the Psalms from the beginning to the end from book I up to book V as a wisdom Psalter, with a particular focus on how the wisdom motif relates to the salvation history motif. The question did not merely concern their interpretation as disjointed pieces, but also what their presence in the book of Psalter meant in terms of the relationship between wisdom and salvation history. This means that the study is influenced less by a historical and form critical approach, but more from a literary and canonical perspective. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Old Testament))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

In a project called "A Library of a Billion Words" we needed an implementation of the CTS protocol that is capable of handling a text collection containing at least 1 billion words. Because the existing solutions did not work for this scale or were still in development I started an implementation of the CTS protocol using methods that MySQL provides. Last year we published a paper that introduced a prototype with the core functionalities without being compliant with the specifications of CTS (Tiepmar et al., 2013). The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the MySQL based implementa-tion now that it is fulfilling the specifications version 5.0 rc.1 and mark it as finished and ready to use. Fur-ther information, online instances of CTS for all de-scribed datasets and binaries can be accessed via the projects website1. Reference Tiepmar J, Teichmann C, Heyer G, Berti M and Crane G. 2013. A new Implementation for Canonical Text Services. in Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH).

We study canonical forms for Hamiltonian and symplectic matrices or pencils under equivalence transformations which keep the class invariant. In contrast to other canonical forms our forms are as close as possible to a triangular structure in the same class. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Hamiltonian and symplectic triangular Jordan, Kronecker and Schur forms. The presented results generalize results of Lin and Ho [17] and simplify the proofs presented there.

In this work, I will describe a new statistical tool: the canonical bicoherence, which is a combination of the canonical coherence and the bicoherence. I will provide its definitions, properties, estimation by multitaper methods and statistics, and estimate the variance of the estimates by the weighted jackknife method. I will discuss its applicability and usefulness in nonlinear quadratic phase coupling detection and analysis for multivariate random processes. Furthermore, I will develop the time-varying canonical bicoherence for the nonlinear analysis of non-stationary random processes. In this thesis, the canonical bicoherence is mainly applied in two types of data: a) three-component geomagnetic field data, and b) high-dimensional brain electroencephalogram data. Both results obtained will be linked with physical or physiological interpretations. In particular, this thesis is the first work where the novel method of ``canonical bicoherence'' is introduced and applied to the nonlinear quadratic phase coupling detection and analysis for multivariate random processes. / Thesis (Ph.D, Mathematics & Statistics) -- Queen's University, 2008-10-31 15:03:57.596

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-06Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:27:37Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 simalmoreira_l_me_guara.pdf: 2039741 bytes, checksum: 40e1e56a7f2c21c69823f17d854f8994 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / A atitude de um satélite artificial representa sua orientação no espaço, de modo que através da atitude pode-se conhecer a orientação espacial do satélite pela relação entre dois sistemas de coordenadas, um dels fixo no corpo do setélite e o outro associado com umsistema de referência inercial. Apesar da atitude ser bem representada por vários conjuntos de variáveis, todos estes apresentam limitações em sua utilização. Focaliza-se neste trabalho um conjunto de variáveis canônicas não singulares, aplicáveis ao movimento racional de satélites artificiais. Estas variáveis são úteis para o caso em que o vetor momento angular de rotação coincide com o maior momento principal de inércia do satélite. As equações dinâmicas do movimento rotacional são deduzidas pelo formalismo hamiltoniano e então integradas para análise do movimento rotacional livre de torques externos. Soluções analíticas aproximadas são obtidas e comparadas com as soluções gerais, representadas em funções elípticas, e com soluções numéricas. A Hamiltoniana média associada ao Torque de Gradiente de Gravidade é também incluida e as equações diferenciais do movimento pertubado são deduzidas em termos das variáveis não singulares. A integração analítica e numérica destas equações permite uma análise qualitativa e quantitativa das variáveis não singulares utilizadas para o movimento rotacional, quando se considera a pertubação provocada pelo Torque da Gradiente de Gravidade. Ao mesmo tempo esta análise aponta para limitações de intervalos de tempo em que algumas soluções devem ser utilizadas. Aplicações são realizadas para satélites com características similares as dos Satélites Brasileirs de Coleta de Dados (SCD1 e SCD2). / The attitude of an artificial satellite represents its orientation in the space, in way that through the attitude can be known the spatial orientation of the satellite for the relation between two systems of coordinates, one of them fixed in the satellite and other associate with an Inertial Referencce System. Many sets of variables are used to represent the satellite attitude, but some of them present limitations in its use. A set of non-singular canonical variables, applicable to the rotational motion of artificial satellites, is focused in this work. Thse variables are useful for the case where the rotational angular momentum vector coincides with the biggest principal moment of inertia of the satellite. The dynamic equations of the rotational motion are deduced by the Hamiltonian formalism and then they are integrated for the analysis of the torque-free rotational motion. Approximated analytical solutions are gotten and compared with the general solutions and numerical solutions. The associated mean Hamiltonian to the Gravity Gradient Torque also enclosed and the differential equations of the motion are deduced for the non-singular variables. The analytical and numeical integration of these equations allow a qualitative and quantitative analysis of these non-singular variables, when the disturbance of the Gravity Gradiente Torque is considered. At the same time this analysis point to limitations of time intervals where some solutions must be used. Applications are done for the satellite with similar characteristics of the Brzilian Satellites of Collection of Data (SCD1 and SCD2).

Orientador: Maria Cecília F. P. S. Zanardi / Banca: Rodolpho Vilhena de Moraes / Banca: Sandro da Silva Fernandes / Resumo: A atitude de um satélite artificial representa sua orientação no espaço, de modo que através da atitude pode-se conhecer a orientação espacial do satélite pela relação entre dois sistemas de coordenadas, um dels fixo no corpo do setélite e o outro associado com umsistema de referência inercial. Apesar da atitude ser bem representada por vários conjuntos de variáveis, todos estes apresentam limitações em sua utilização. Focaliza-se neste trabalho um conjunto de variáveis canônicas não singulares, aplicáveis ao movimento racional de satélites artificiais. Estas variáveis são úteis para o caso em que o vetor momento angular de rotação coincide com o maior momento principal de inércia do satélite. As equações dinâmicas do movimento rotacional são deduzidas pelo formalismo hamiltoniano e então integradas para análise do movimento rotacional livre de torques externos. Soluções analíticas aproximadas são obtidas e comparadas com as soluções gerais, representadas em funções elípticas, e com soluções numéricas. A Hamiltoniana média associada ao Torque de Gradiente de Gravidade é também incluida e as equações diferenciais do movimento pertubado são deduzidas em termos das variáveis não singulares. A integração analítica e numérica destas equações permite uma análise qualitativa e quantitativa das variáveis não singulares utilizadas para o movimento rotacional, quando se considera a pertubação provocada pelo Torque da Gradiente de Gravidade. Ao mesmo tempo esta análise aponta para limitações de intervalos de tempo em que algumas soluções devem ser utilizadas. Aplicações são realizadas para satélites com características similares as dos Satélites Brasileirs de Coleta de Dados (SCD1 e SCD2). / Abstract: The attitude of an artificial satellite represents its orientation in the space, in way that through the attitude can be known the spatial orientation of the satellite for the relation between two systems of coordinates, one of them fixed in the satellite and other associate with an Inertial Referencce System. Many sets of variables are used to represent the satellite attitude, but some of them present limitations in its use. A set of non-singular canonical variables, applicable to the rotational motion of artificial satellites, is focused in this work. Thse variables are useful for the case where the rotational angular momentum vector coincides with the biggest principal moment of inertia of the satellite. The dynamic equations of the rotational motion are deduced by the Hamiltonian formalism and then they are integrated for the analysis of the torque-free rotational motion. Approximated analytical solutions are gotten and compared with the general solutions and numerical solutions. The associated mean Hamiltonian to the Gravity Gradient Torque also enclosed and the differential equations of the motion are deduced for the non-singular variables. The analytical and numeical integration of these equations allow a qualitative and quantitative analysis of these non-singular variables, when the disturbance of the Gravity Gradiente Torque is considered. At the same time this analysis point to limitations of time intervals where some solutions must be used. Applications are done for the satellite with similar characteristics of the Brzilian Satellites of Collection of Data (SCD1 and SCD2). / Mestre

In a project called "A Library of a Billion Words" we needed an implementation of the CTS protocol that is capable of handling a text collection containing at least 1 billion words. Because the existing solutions did not work for this scale or were still in development I started an implementation of the CTS protocol using methods that MySQL provides. Last year we published a paper that introduced a prototype with the core functionalities without being compliant with the specifications of CTS (Tiepmar et al., 2013). The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the MySQL based implementa-tion now that it is fulfilling the specifications version 5.0 rc.1 and mark it as finished and ready to use. Fur-ther information, online instances of CTS for all de-scribed datasets and binaries can be accessed via the projects website1. Reference Tiepmar J, Teichmann C, Heyer G, Berti M and Crane G. 2013. A new Implementation for Canonical Text Services. in Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH).

We study canonical forms for Hamiltonian and symplectic matrices or pencils under equivalence transformations which keep the class invariant. In contrast to other canonical forms our forms are as close as possible to a triangular structure in the same class. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Hamiltonian and symplectic triangular Jordan, Kronecker and Schur forms. The presented results generalize results of Lin and Ho [17] and simplify the proofs presented there.

Multi-view datasets arise naturally in statistical genetics when the genetic and trait profile of an individual is portrayed by two feature vectors. A motivating problem concerning the Skin Intrinsic Fluorescence (SIF) study on the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) subjects is presented. A widely applied quantitative method to explore the correlation structure between two domains of a multi-view dataset is the Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), which seeks the canonical loading vectors such that the transformed canonical covariates are maximally correlated. In the high dimensional case, regularization of the dataset is required before CCA can be applied. Furthermore, the nature of genetic research suggests that sparse output is more desirable. In this thesis, two regularized CCA (rCCA) methods and a sparse CCA (sCCA) method are presented. When correlation sub-structure exists, stand-alone CCA method will not perform well. To tackle this limitation, a mixture of local CCA models can be employed. In this thesis, I review a correlation clustering algorithm proposed by Fern, Brodley and Friedl (2005), which seeks to group subjects into clusters such that features are identically correlated within each cluster. An evaluation study is performed to assess the effectiveness of CCA and correlation clustering algorithms using artificial multi-view datasets. Both sCCA and sCCA-based correlation clustering exhibited superior performance compare to the rCCA and rCCA-based correlation clustering. The sCCA and the sCCA-clustering are applied to the multi-view dataset consisted of PrediXcan imputed gene expression and SIF measurements of DCCT subjects. The stand-alone sparse CCA method identified 193 among 11538 genes being correlated with SIF#7. Further investigation of these 193 genes with simple linear regression and t-test revealed that only two genes, ENSG00000100281.9 and ENSG00000112787.8, were significance in association with SIF#7. No plausible clustering scheme was detected by the sCCA based correlation clustering method. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)