This report documents the initial inspiration, development, and rewrites that went into the creation of John Gregory Bellina’s screenplay Shut Up and Sing. Furthermore, the following pages trace the evolution of the author’s writing during the entirety of his program experience. / text

A machine learning method for synthesising human images is explored to create new images without relying on 3D modelling. Machine learning allows the creation of new images through prediction from existing data based on the use of training images. In the present study, image synthesis is performed at two levels: contour and pixel. A class of learning-based methods is formulated to create object contours from the training image for the synthetic image that allow pixel synthesis within the contours in the second level. The methods rely on applying robust object descriptions, dynamic learning models after appropriate motion segmentation, and machine learning-based frameworks. Image-based human image synthesis using machine learning is a research focus that has recently gained considerable attention in the field of computer graphics. It makes use of techniques from image/motion analysis in computer vision. The problem lies in the estimation of methods for image-based object configuration (i.e. segmentation, contour outline). Using the results of these analysis methods as bases, the research adopts the machine learning approach, in which human images are synthesised by executing the synthesis of contour and pixels through the learning from training image. Firstly, thesis shows how an accurate silhouette is distilled using developed background subtraction for accuracy and efficiency. The traditional vector machine approach is used to avoid ambiguities within the regression process. Images can be represented as a class of accurate and efficient vectors for single images as well as sequences. Secondly, the framework is explored using a unique view of machine learning methods, i.e., support vector regression (SVR), to obtain the convergence result of vectors for contour allocation. The changing relationship between the synthetic image and the training image is expressed as a vector and represented in functions. Finally, a pixel synthesis is performed based on belief propagation. This thesis proposes a novel image-based rendering method for colour image synthesis using SVR and belief propagation for generalisation to enable the prediction of contour and colour information from input colour images. The methods rely on using appropriately defined and robust input colour images, optimising the input contour images within a sparse SVR framework. Firstly, the thesis shows how contour can effectively and efficiently be predicted from small numbers of input contour images. In addition, the thesis exploits the sparse properties of SVR efficiency, and makes use of SVR to estimate regression function. The image-based rendering method employed in this study enables contour synthesis for the prediction of small numbers of input source images. This procedure avoids the use of complex models and geometry information. Secondly, the method used for human body contour colouring is extended to define eight differently connected pixels, and construct a link distance field via the belief propagation method. The link distance, which acts as the message in propagation, is transformed by improving the low-envelope method in fast distance transform. Finally, the methodology is tested by considering human facial and human body clothing information. The accuracy of the test results for the human body model confirms the efficiency of the proposed method.

The goal of this diploma thesis is to make a strategic analysis of Marie Tumová Company, external and internal anylysis, to reveal the effect of different factors and give some recommendations and describe a appropriate strategy.

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Literature and teaching books about how to make art for games have been accessible but thearea lacked covering of genre-specific game art. Game genres require different solutions forthe art in order to aid playability of the final product. My game project, called DOMAINS was made with an outside team. The project together withmy first art guide about the cinematic platformer genre provided materials for the writing ofthe next game art guide. The old art guide was used as a template for the new guide, whichfocused on the strategy game genre. This report contains the description of the process of making my second art guide, and thewhole The Strategy Game Art Guide itself. It reviews both the successful and less successful implements in the game and will walk thereader through how the prior decisions were made and the consequences. It targets beginnersin the game development world.

Purpose of the Study. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a need in the plastics industries in the State of Utah for plastics education at the area vocational school level. Source of the Data and Method of Study. A list of companies whose major function was plastics processing was obtained from the Directory of Utah Manufacturers. Additional companies were also identified if they were suspect of having any type of plastics processing function within their company. A questionnaire was sent to those companies identified to determine which companies were directly concerned with plastics education. Once these companies were identified, a second questionnaire was sent. This questionnaire was designed to provide knowledge of the functions performed by the plastics industry in the state, the level of skill and knowledge required of the workers performing these functions, and the opportunities available for persons trained in the field of plastics. Findings and Conclusions. Twenty-nine industries were identified as companies being directly concerned with plastics education. Of this number, the majority were found to be in the Salt Lake area. Processes that are representative of the processes performed throughout the nation were found to be performed in the state and all of the major processes were performed. Most companies participating in the study expected growth within the next year and many had worker vaccines at the time of the study. Most companies indicated that personnel with training dealing with plastics could expect higher wages. Their greatest need was for skilled and semi-skilled workers. It was concluded that the number of industries responding to the study represented a large enough need in terms of projected number of employees, types of processes used, and vacancies at present that a program of instruction could be justified at the area vocational level. Also, it was concluded that skills in areas other than those dominating the processing functions on a national level were of greater importance to the companies performing processing functions with plastics in the state of Utah than they are throughout the total industry.

No / April 2008 saw the introduction of a new Public Law Outline (PLO) that aims to improve judicial case management of Public Law Children Act cases. The PLO is a response to concerns about the rising number of care proceedings, associated costs, and the difficulties of achieving case resolution given this volume. Based on an ethos that care proceedings should be avoided wherever possible, the new approach to case management, which places significant emphasis on pre-proceedings work and the effective engagement of parents, can be seen to reinforce the ‘no order principle’ enshrined in the Children Act (CA) 1989. Focusing specifically on relationships between parents and professionals, this paper provides a critical discussion of the potential of the PLO to further promote consensual practices with parents. Discussion traces the introduction of the concept of partnership within the CA 1989, provides a review of the evidence to-date of effective partnership working, before considering the prospects for the PLO with respect to parental engagement. A number of key contextual obstacles are highlighted that will inevitably undermine the aspirations of the new outline, and a more general observation is drawn about the limits of procedure in effecting change in complex social issues.

This paper sets out a particular concept of intellectual history for discussion and debate concerning the guidelines for our project for the International Dictionary of Intellectual Historians. First let me advance the idea that intellectual history is written everywhere, not only in West European countries, where it emerged, but in East European countries, too, and second that it really is a concept that applies not just to Europe alone but to the whole world, although this suggestion will vastly complicate our notions of intellectual history.

Il s'agit d'une recherche développement double, c’est-à-dire qu’elle propose des développements à la fois théoriques et pratiques. Son principal apport est le développement d'une théorie didactique interdisciplinaire de littérature et musique comparées répondant à un manque théorique en ce domaine. / Au collégial, les enseignants en littérature font face à un défi de complémentarité entre compétence et culture. Notre projet vise à permettre un élargissement culturel par l’enseignement de la littérature et de la musique comparées selon une approche de résolution de problèmes. Cependant, la théorie didactique permettant l’établissement d’une telle matière scolaire interdisciplinaire est inexistante. Notre recherche développement propose une didactique propre à une telle approche par un volet théorique et un volet pratique. Pour répondre à notre objectif de recherche, le chapitre deux présente le volet théorique qui fonde une didactique de littérature et musique comparées par une analyse de type conceptuel (Van der Maren, 2004). Nous y développons un Référentiel composé de trois parties : la première, épistémologique, fait ressortir certains enjeux de l’interdisciplinarité. Ensuite, sous l’angle didactique, nous traitons des paramètres des processus de transformations et de transpositions apportées aux savoirs dans un contexte scolaire interdisciplinaire. Enfin, la troisième partie, basée sur les deux précédentes, propose des balises d’arrimage interdisciplinaires des contenus entre littérature et musique. Ensuite, pour élaborer notre objet de recherche, le chapitre trois explicite le volet pratique. En nous appuyant sur les développements de notre Référentiel, nous y présentons nos trois devis de production : le devis des connaissances, le devis pédagogique et le devis médiatique, selon la méthodologie de recherche développement proposée par Loiselle et Harvey (2009). Ces devis mènent à la réalisation de notre objet de recherche : un exemple de plan de cours de littérature et musique comparées. Ce plan de cours propose trois étapes: 1) présentation des contenus généraux de littérature et musique afin de différencier les deux arts, 2) exploration des liens interdisciplinaires à partir des sons, voyelles et consonnes jusqu'à l'espace et la temporalité du récit, et 3) production qui permet aux élèves de plonger dans un travail final de littérature et musique comparées à partir d'œuvres littéraires concrètes et complètes. Pour terminer ce chapitre méthodologique, nous traitons des conditions relatives à l’évaluation de cette recherche développement par un panel de répondants tiers experts, en vue de discuter des résultats obtenus. Ce panel d'experts est composé d'un professeur d'université, d'une chercheure de l'ordre collégial et d'une conseillère pédagogique au collégial. Selon l'évaluation des experts, notre recherche développement présente un haut degré de pertinence et de nouveauté sur le plan théorique. Elle répond au manque de théorie didactique interdisciplinaire en littérature et musique comparées. De plus, sur le plan pratique, notre exemple de plan de cours s'avère fonctionnel, consultable, adaptable et transférable, et peut servir d'exemple pour tout gabarit de plan de cours institutionnel ou pour des séquences didactiques visant un élargissement culturel interdisciplinaire. / At the collegial level, literature professors face the challenge of competence and culture’s complementarily. This project is designed to foster cultural development through the teaching of comparative literature and music based on a problem-solving approach. However, there is no theory of instruction that lends itself to the establishment of such interdisciplinary course material. This research-development intends to develop a didactics theory appropriate to such an approach through a theoretical component and a practical one. To address the purpose of the research, the second chapter presents the theoretical component, which establishes a theory for teaching comparative literature and music through a conceptual analysis (Van der Maren, 2004). In this section, a reference document composed of three parts is developed. The first is epistemological and emphasizes certain issues regarding interdisciplinarity. Didactic in nature, the second deals with the parameters of the processes of transformation and of transpositions applied to knowledge in the context of interdisciplinary education. The third and final part is based on the two that precede it, suggesting points where elements of interdisciplinary content intersect to link literature and music. The third chapter then describes the practical component in detail in order to develop the research product. Building on the developments of the reference document, this section presents the three product specification documents: the knowledge specifications, the pedagogical specifications and the media specifications, according to a research-development methodology proposed Loiselle et Harvey (2009). These documents lead to the concrete realization of the research product: a sample outline for a comparative literature and music course. This outline is divided into three phases: 1) a presentation of general content regarding literature and music to differentiate the two arts, 2) an exploration of interdisciplinary links from sounds, vowels and consonants to the space and temporality of the story, and 3) a written work that requires students to delve into a final comparative literature and music assignment based on concrete and complete literary works. Completing this methodological chapter is an examination of the conditions related to the evaluation of this research-development by a panel of third-party expert respondents for the purpose of discussing the results obtained. This panel of experts includes a university professor, a college-level researcher and an educational consultant at the college level. According to the experts’ assessment, this research-development exhibits a high degree of relevance and innovation from a theoretical perspective. It addresses the lack of an interdisciplinary theory of instruction in comparative literature and music. Moreover, from the practical perspective, the sample outline has proved to be functional, consultable, adaptable and transferable, and it may be used as an example for any institutional course outline template or for teaching sequences aimed at interdisciplinary cultural development.

Entre os principais problemas na execução de túneis metroviários e rodoviários estão a manutenção da posição (coordenadas) de pontos de uma poligonal aberta (sem pontos de controle), o monitoramento do alinhamento da escavação, o transporte da posição da superfície para níveis subterrâneos, a locação das cambotas e, como ferramenta para tudo isso, o controle de qualidade dos equipamentos, em especial a estação total na operação da medição de direções. Por isso, a presente pesquisa voltou-se para os métodos e procedimentos para a execução de poligonais subterrâneas, destinadas a escavação de túneis metroviários, rodoviários e assemelhados, focando a precisão e acurácia na medição de direções. Para conseguir o objetivo, foi estudada a precisão de diversas estações totais, na operação de medir direções. Foram feitas diversas campanhas e foi estabelecido um campo de provas que permite avaliar a precisão e acurácia dos equipamentos. Além disso, visando simular as condições de campo, os problemas e as precisões possíveis, implantou-se uma poligonal referente a um projeto geométrico de túnel na Raia Olímpica da USP com características semelhantes a um projeto metroviário. A Base Multipilar existente foi utilizada para o controle da poligonal ao longo do túnel simulado para verificar a precisão efetivamente alcançada com os equipamentos e metodologias. Outra contribuição foi o estabelecimento de um quadrilátero de controle, com ângulos conhecidos com desvio-padrão na ordem de 0,36\", servindo para verificar a precisão dos equipamentos (conjunto operador, equipamento e acessórios). Dos experimentos com diversos equipamentos surgiram propostas para serem incorporadas à norma de controle de qualidade da medição de direção. / Among the main problems in the implementation of subway and road tunnels are the maintenance of the correct position (coordinates) of points of an open traverse (without control points), the monitoring of the excavation alignment, the connection of the surface network with the points underground, the location of crankshafts and, as a tool for all this, the equipment quality control, particularly the total station in the direction measurement operation. Therefore, the current study is based on methods and procedures to implement underground traverse, intended to the excavation of subway and road tunnels and similar structures, focusing on the precision and accuracy in the measurement of directions. In order to achieve its aim, the precision of several total stations was studied in the operation of measuring directions. Several campaigns were made and a test field work was established allowing the assessment of the precision and accuracy of the equipment. Moreover, aiming to simulate the field conditions, the problems and possible precisions, a traverse was implemented referring to a tunnel geometrical project located at the University of São Paulo with similar characteristics to a subway project. The existing Multi-pillar Base was used to control the polygon along the simulated tunnel in order to verify the precision effectively reached with the equipment and methodology. Another contribution was the establishment of a control quadrangle, which the angles standard deviation is 0,36\", and it was used to verify the equipment precision. By testing several equipments some proposals arose to be incorporated to the direction measurement quality control.