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171	Shift Arnold, Amanda Suzanne 03 August 2007 (has links) The following is a collection of original poetry. The manuscript consists of an introduction explaining influences and style, and four chapters of poems categorized by subject matter: object/nature, writing/creativity, relationships, and family/figures. INDEX WORDS: Poetry, Poem Giving Thanks Transportation 1:43 a.m. Our Heavenly Father Silver Lining Old Neighbor Halves December 1982 Medicate Friend Home Economics Missing Keeper Passing Dream Tango Lesson Words Edge Untitled Poem Get-away Poem If You Stay Puppy Moon Winter Pine Loneliness The Truth Bone Potato Slip Sad Kentucky Old Shirt Isolation Cleaning the Sink Manhattan Root Posture Keep How it is Personal Business Gun One and the Other Sestina Poets Snow Globe The Romantics Idea The Black Dot Dissection English Language and Literature
172	Organisation administrative du bureau de l'agriculture d'Umma à l'époque de la Troisième Dynastie d'Ur Vanderroost, Nicolas 10 December 2012 (has links) L’objectif de l’étude consiste en l’analyse de l’organisation administrative du bureau de l’agriculture de la province d’Umma à l’époque de la Troisième Dynastie d’Ur. La comparaison avec la situation qui prévaut dans la province méridionale de Girsu-Lagaš montre que le secteur agricole d’Umma est environ cinq fois moins important que de sa voisine.<p>L’étude identifie les districts agricoles de la province d’Umma et leurs responsables. Elle définit en outre le nombre de charrues utilisées pour cultiver les terres arables de l’état ainsi que leur répartition par district.<p>Elle propose enfin dans un deuxième volume une prosopographie des administrateurs de domaines agricoles et des laboureurs. / Doctorat en Langues et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished Sciences humaines Langues et littératures Sumerian language -- Texts Prosopography -- Sources -- Iraq Sumérien (Langue) -- Textes Prosopographie -- Sources -- Irak Ur (Extinct city) -- History -- Sources Iraq -- History -- Sources -- To 634 Agriculture Prosopographie Administration Mésopotamie Ur III Umma
173	Mary, Summa Contemplatrix in Denis the Carthusian Maroney, Fr. Simon Mary of the Cross, M. Carm. 25 May 2021 (has links) No description available. Ancient Languages Bible Biblical Studies Classical Studies Clergy Clerical Studies Cultural Anthropology European History European Studies Foreign Language Germanic Literature History Medieval History Medieval Literature Middle Ages Religion Religious Congregations Religious History Religious Education Social Research Spirituality Theology Mary Blessed Virgin Our Lady Denis the Carthusian Carthusian Order monasticism spirituality contemplation contemplative life mysticism union with God prayer extraordinary graces Mother of God Immaculate Conception Assumption monk cloister
174	Distributed Support Vector Machine With Graphics Processing Units Zhang, Hang 06 August 2009 (has links) Training a Support Vector Machine (SVM) requires the solution of a very large quadratic programming (QP) optimization problem. Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) is a decomposition-based algorithm which breaks this large QP problem into a series of smallest possible QP problems. However, it still costs O(n2) computation time. In our SVM implementation, we can do training with huge data sets in a distributed manner (by breaking the dataset into chunks, then using Message Passing Interface (MPI) to distribute each chunk to a different machine and processing SVM training within each chunk). In addition, we moved the kernel calculation part in SVM classification to a graphics processing unit (GPU) which has zero scheduling overhead to create concurrent threads. In this thesis, we will take advantage of this GPU architecture to improve the classification performance of SVM.
175	Ancestral Narratives in History and Fiction: Transforming Identities Habel, Chad Sean, chad.habel@gmail.com January 2006 (has links) This thesis is an exploration of ancestral narratives in the fiction of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch. Initially, ancestry in literature creates an historical relationship which articulates the link between the past and the present. In this sense ancestry functions as a type of cultural memory where various issues of inheritance can be negotiated. However, the real value of ancestral narratives lies in their power to aid in the construction of both personal and communal identities. They have the potential to transform these identities, to transgress natural boundaries and to reshape conventional identities in the light of historical experience. For Keneally, ancestral narratives depict national forbears who narrate the nation into being. His earlier fictions present ancestors of the nation within a mythic and symbolic framework to outline Australian national identity. This identity is static, oppositional, and characterized by the delineation of boundaries which set nations apart from one another. However, Keneallys more recent work transforms this conventional construction of national identity. It depicts an Irish-Australian diasporic identity which is hyphenated and transgressive: it transcends the conventional notion of nations as separate entities pitted against one another. In this way Keneallys ancestral narratives enact the potential for transforming identity through ancestral narrative. On the other hand, Kochs work is primarily concerned with the intergenerational trauma causes by losing or forgetting ones ancestral narrative. His novels are concerned with male gender identity and the fragmentation which characterizes a self-destructive idea of maleness. While Keneallys characters recover their lost ancestries in an effort to reshape their idea of what it is to be Australian, Kochs main protagonist lives in ignorance of his ancestors life. He is thus unable to take the opportunity to transform his masculinity due to the pervasive cultural amnesia surrounding his family history and its role in Tasmanias past. While Keneally and Koch depict different outcomes in their fictional ancestral narratives they are both deeply concerned with the potential to transform national and gender identities through ancestry. Chad Sean Habel Flinders University Robert Phiddian Richard Hosking John McLaren Peter Pierce ancestry ancestral ancestors genealogy genealogical literature cultural memory amnesia history social history family history historical fiction adventure fiction Australian Studies Cultural Studies fiction novels historical novels Australia Ireland Irish-Australian migration diaspora roots rhizomes Thomas Keneally Bring Larks and Heroes The Playmaker Bettany's Book Schindler's Ark Our Republic Homebush Boy Christopher Koch Out of Ireland Highways to a War Boys in the Island Crossing the Gap The Doubleman Across the Sea Wall convicts Tasmania the Stain identity identification nation nationalism national identity gender gender identity masculinity male male-ness transformation reconciliation post-colonial post-colonialism anti-colonial literary criticism
176	Residential Solar Energy Adoption in a Community Context: Perceptions and Characteristics of Potential Adopters in a West Toronto Neighbourhood Sherk, Theodore January 2012 (has links) In the summer of 2007, a single neighbourhood in downtown Toronto contributed at least 13 percent of all residential grid???tie solar photovoltaic (PV) systems sold in the Canadian province of Ontario. On average, PV purchaser households produced 37 percent as much electricity as they consumed. This research investigates solar energy adoption in a community case study. Specifically, it investigates why some residents who sign up for a solar resource assessment through a community solar energy initiative (CSEI) decide to purchase, and others decide not to purchase in the short???term. Characteristics and perceptions of potential adopters are analyzed to better understand their motivations and barriers to adoption. Community energy projects became an official public policy goal in Ontario, with the passing of the Green Energy and Green Economy Act in 2009. Approximately 80 percent of Ontario???s anticipated generation capacity will need to be built, replaced or refurbished within 15 years. In this context, the Ontario Ministry of Energy, Ontario Power Authority, and Deloitte (one of Canada???s leading professional services firms), have partnered with a ???green benefit??? fund, the Community Power Fund, to help local community groups access resources to develop and establish renewable energy projects. Understanding solar energy adoption in a community context is therefore important to improve the effectiveness of such policies, including the disbursement of multi???million dollar grant funds. Differences between purchasers and non???purchasers in respect of adoption behaviour were found in this study to cluster around two general themes. The first theme concerns differences in compatibility of both the concept of solar energy systems, and their physical attributes, with characteristics of potential adopter households. Some compatibility issues are straightforward, e.g. availability of roof space with a southern orientation. Others are more complex, involving several interrelated perceptual and socio???demographic factors. For instance, while both purchasers and non???purchasers rated cost as a very important barrier, purchasers rated the motivation of solar energy systems to reduce climate change higher relative to the barrier of high financial costs than did non???purchasers. Purchasers were also more likely to possess a graduate degree, while non???purchasers were more likely to hold a professional degree. The second general theme relates to potential adopters??? trust and stake in the ability of the community???based initiative to reduce barriers in the adoption process. Since two types of solar energy systems are considered in the case study???PV and thermal (hot water)???differences are explored between each of three respondent groups: solar PV purchasers, solar hot water (SHW) purchasers, and non???purchasers. iv Surveys were used to gather data on adopter perceptions and characteristics. A participatory research design helped identify the research topic. Two main bodies of literature???community???based social marketing (CBSM) and diffusion of innovations theory???were drawn upon to conceptualize the adoption process and interpret the survey findings. These include five models of human behaviour that can be used to guide the design of CBSM campaigns. Diffusion theory was used as a basis for discussing ???perceived innovation attributes???. The study takes an integrated approach by considering both social and technical aspects of solar energy adoption, together with the issues of fuel substitution and household electricity demand. community solar energy diffusion of innovations toronto integrated social technical sustainable energy renewable energy community-based social marketing CBSM diffusion of innovations theory DOI integrated research integrated management participatory research mixed methods quantitative qualitative residential solar energy photovoltaic photovoltaics solar hot water domestic solar hot water systems residential solar PV community energy community power ecological reform case study Ontario Greater Toronto Area feed-in tariff renewable energy standard offer program RESOP electrical utility data Our Power Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative electricity system distributed energy distributed renewable energy
177	Měření vlastností polarizovaného světla na výstupu optovláknového senzoru / Measurement of polarized light properties on the opticla fiber sensor output Velič, Ladislav January 2020 (has links) birefringance, degreeofpolarization, polarization, Stokesvectors, Poincarésphere, state of polarization, optical power, sensoric fibre, polarization-maintaining fiber, polaroid, poalrimeter
178	Circadian blood pressure within young adults in Viet Nam : An exploratory study comparing a normal blood pressure group and a prehypertension group Zahirovic, Rezak, Ekman, Scott January 2015 (has links) Hypertension is a global disease that many effected people in developing countries is not aware of. Hypertension is linked with cardiovascular disease. Prehypertension is not a disease but if not correctly treated, it could develop into hypertension. The aim of the study was to investigate if there are any differences in circadian blood pressure between two study groups, one group with normal blood pressure and one group with prehypertension. This study was a explorative study and its design is based on measurements of blood pressure values and a questionnaire was used to help get the data collection. 51 students volunteered to have their blood pressure taken from them and out of these 51, 24 where selected into two groups of 12 each for the Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. hese 24 students would be a part of our study and an ambulatory (Schiller-102 plus) blood pressure monitor was used to collect the data. The prevalence of prehypertension findings in the clinical testing phase was 37% of the population. There was a variation between the groups during the day (systolic) but there was not a significant difference during the night. Prehypertension ambulatory blood pressure Blood pressure
179	Tvorba metodiky plánování procesního řízení výroby / Creation of Methodology of Planning of Process Control of Production Kvítek, Adam January 2018 (has links) Planning, optimalization, production management, process management, production, ERP
180	Slovinské národní divadlo v Lublani / Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana Hýl, Petr January 2009 (has links) SLOVENE NATIONAL THEATRE IN LJUBLJANA Author Report Of The Diploma Work Author: Bc. Petr Hýl Supervisor: doc. ing. arch. Zdeněk Makovský

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