The last decade has seen the scope of digital library usage extend from data warehousing and other common library services to building quality collections of electronic resources and providing web-based information retrieval mechanisms for distributed learning. This is clear from the number of ongoing research initiatives aiming to provide dynamic learning environments. A major task in providing learning environments is to define a resource model (learning object). The flexibility of the learning object model determines the quality of the learning environment. Further, dynamic environments can be realized by changing the contents and structure of the learning object, i.e. make it mutable. Most existing models are immutable after creation and require the library to support operations that help in creating these environments. This leaves the learning object at the mercy of the parent library's functionality. This thesis work is an extension of an existing model and allows a learning object to function independent of the operational constraints of a digital library by equipping learning objects with software components called methods that influence their operation and structure even after being deployed. It provides a reference implementation of an aggregate, intelligent, self-sufficient, object-oriented, platform-independent learning object model, which is conformant to popular digital library standards. It also presents a Java-based development tool for creating and modifying smart objects. It is capable of performing content aggregation, metadata harvesting and user repository maintenance operations, in addition to supporting the addition/removal of methods to a smart object. The current smart object implementation and the development tool have been deployed successfully on two platforms (Windows and Linux) where their operation was found to be satisfactory. / Master of Science

Spatial dependency is commonly measured and tested with Moran's I statistic. The question to be answered is, whether far-off objects affect this statistic and influence the test. Far-off objects are observations that are far apart from all other objects in the dataset, i.e. they do not have spatial links to other design points. In the paper different possibilities of treating such objects are discussed, and their influence on Moran's I and the corresponding spatial autocorrelation test is analysed. (author's abstract) / Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics

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My research explores the intimate relationship between object, language and perception in Shakespeare's plays. Using an analytical approach inspired by basic principles of phenomenology, I consider how Shakespeare's language influences our perception of real and non-present stage properties and set: how he imbues imaginary objects with an almost palpable sense of presence, and engineers our perception of onstage objects, subtly shaping and augmenting visual stimuli with verbal imagery. Through close reading centred on five plays, I explore how Shakespeare's fusion of word and object is engineered to evince a vividly visceral response to what we see, hear and imagine. My research poses the following questions: how does Shakespeare prepare the mind of a watching and listening audience to perceive more than may actually appear on stage? How far can illusion, created by language and imagination, supplement what an audience might see? How is language used to blur the boundaries between subject and object, transcending the mere exchange of characteristics? Textual examples have been selected from Shakespeare's tragedies and histories. My study does not encompass Shakespeare's comedies, for − though they offer rich opportunity for analysis − such work would require a separate approach, geared to this very different genre.

Chan, Pak On = 星體震動的分析方法 / 陳柏安. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chan, Pak On = Xing ti zhen dong de fen xi fang fa / Chen Boan. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Outline of the Content --- p.3 / Chapter 2 --- Preliminaries --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Einstein Equation --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Hydrostatic Equilibrium --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Linearized Stellar Pulsation --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Gravitational Radiation --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Classification of Modes --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Fundamental Mode --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Pressure Modes --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Gravity Modes --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3 --- Relativistic Cowling Approximation --- p.15 / Chapter 3 --- Stellar Structure of Quark Stars --- p.19 / Chapter 3.1 --- Ordinary Quark Stars --- p.19 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Stellar Profile --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Radius and Mass --- p.27 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Moment of Inertia --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2 --- Effects of Finite Strange Quark Mass and Finite Temperature --- p.32 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Sommerfeld's Expansions --- p.33 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Static EOS for Quark Matter --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Corrections to Ordinary Quark Stars --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Induced Buoyancy under Adiabaticity --- p.40 / Chapter 3.2.5 --- Induced Buoyancy under Fixed Composition --- p.45 / Chapter 3.3 --- Addition of Nuclear Crust --- p.47 / Chapter 4 --- Pressure Modes --- p.52 / Chapter 4.1 --- Sturm-Liouville Equation for p-modes --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2 --- Asymptotic Expansion --- p.54 / Chapter 4.3 --- "P""modes for Quark Stars" --- p.57 / Chapter 4.4 --- p-modes for Neutron Stars --- p.62 / Chapter 4.5 --- p-modes for Hybrid Stars --- p.65 / Chapter 5 --- Gravity Modes --- p.74 / Chapter 5.1 --- Sturm-Liouville Equation for modes --- p.74 / Chapter 5.2 --- Asymptotic Expansion --- p.76 / Chapter 5.3 --- g-modes for Quark Stars --- p.78 / Chapter 5.4 --- modes for Hybrid Stars --- p.83 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conditions on the modes --- p.88 / Chapter 6 --- Fundamental Mode --- p.93 / Chapter 6.1 --- Overview of the f-mode Universalities --- p.93 / Chapter 6.2 --- Relation between Real Part and Imaginary Part of Mwf --- p.95 / Chapter 6.3 --- New Universalities of f-mode --- p.96 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusions and Remarks --- p.104 / Chapter A --- Scattering Approximation --- p.106 / Chapter B --- Series Solution to Stellar Profile of Quark Stars --- p.108 / Chapter C --- AAKAS Formalism under Cowling Approximation --- p.113 / Chapter D --- Series Solutions to the Spectra of p-modes and g-modes --- p.114 / Bibliography --- p.117

Bibliography: leaves 191-202. 1. Introduction -- 2. Instrumentation and calibration -- 3. A radio monitoring program for southern blazars -- 4. Analysis of long-term blazar radio variability -- 5. Probing microarcsecond-scale structure using interstellar scintillation -- 6. The rapid scintillator, PKS 1257-326 -- 7. Conclusions and scope for further work.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references.

In The Memory of Things, I begin by posing the question, what if memory were not merely a human characteristic but also a thingly one. I aproach this thought through the work of Walter Benjamin, for whom things and memories are often juxtaposed, and whose writing of modernity is concerned particularly with the intersection of material traces and memory. I access these questions by means of various theories, among which are psychoanalysis, object-oriented ontology, thing theory, and phenomenology, and, more briefly, through the history of geological science. At their cores, the questions of modernity, of things and people, of trauma and politics, of aura and its decay, of memory and forgetting, of weight are questions of ethics. I demonstrate in the dissertation to follow, objects bear the weight of human memory and ethics. Furthermore, I demonstrate that Benjamin's eclectic writings, most especially his writings on aura, provide the tools we need to re-think objects and our relations to them.

In The Memory of Things, I begin by posing the question, what if memory were not merely a human characteristic but also a thingly one. I aproach this thought through the work of Walter Benjamin, for whom things and memories are often juxtaposed, and whose writing of modernity is concerned particularly with the intersection of material traces and memory. I access these questions by means of various theories, among which are psychoanalysis, object-oriented ontology, thing theory, and phenomenology, and, more briefly, through the history of geological science. At their cores, the questions of modernity, of things and people, of trauma and politics, of aura and its decay, of memory and forgetting, of weight are questions of ethics. I demonstrate in the dissertation to follow, objects bear the weight of human memory and ethics. Furthermore, I demonstrate that Benjamin's eclectic writings, most especially his writings on aura, provide the tools we need to re-think objects and our relations to them.