In a pioneering work, Bechhofer (1954) introduced the concept of indifference-zone formulation and formulated some methodologies in the case of the problem of selecting the best normal population. In statistical literature, many vector-at-a time and unbalanced methodologies are available for the selecting the best normal population. However, the literature is not that rich for the partition problem. In this thesis, an unbalanced methodology of sampling along the lines of Mukhopadhyay and Solanky (2002) is introduced for the partition problem. A two-stage and a purely sequential procedure are introduced which take c observations from the control population from the control population for each observation from each of the non-control population. The theoretical second-order asymptotics of the two introduced procedures are derived and studied for small to moderate sample sizes via Monte Carlo simulations. The robustness of various already known procedures in the statistical literature and the ones proposed in this thesis are studied via simulation studies. An attempt has also been made to determine the optimal choice of the value of c.

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Yes / To investigate the heat partition on a vehicle disc brake, a small scale test rig with one contact interface was used. This allowed the disc/pad contact temperatures to be measured with fast-response foil thermocouples and a rubbing thermocouple. Based on the experimental conditions a 3D symmetric disc brake FE model has been created. Frictional heat generation was modelled using the ABAQUS finite element analysis software. The interface tribo-layer which affects heat partitioning was modelled using an equivalent thermal conductance value obtained from the authors¿ previous work. A 10 second drag braking was simulated and the history and distribution of temperature, heat flux multiplied by the nodal contact area, heat flux leaving the surface and contact pressure was recorded. Test rig and FE model temperatures were compared to evaluate the two methods. Results show that heat partitioning varies in space and time, and at the same time contact interface temperatures do not match. It is affected by the instantaneous contact pressure distribution, which tends to be higher on the pad leading edge at the inner radius side. They are also affected by the thermal contact resistance at the components contact interface. / IMechE

This work sets out to chronicle the predicament which the state of Hyderabad under Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan found itself as the British prepared to partition the Indian subcontinent in 1947. With the intent to understand fully the place of Hyderabad before the partition, it offers a glimpse into the Nizam’s relationship with the British Empire throughout its history, especially focusing on the period of Mir Oman’s reign, while also comparing Hyderabad to states, Travancore and Kashmir, which faced similar difficulties after partition. Although the Nizam had legal right to maintain Hyderabad’s independence in post-partition India, India never accepted the idea of a sovereign state in its center and with the onset of partition violence and subsequent issues with Pakistan involving Kashmir, increasingly prepared to bring Hyderabad into accession in whatever way needed. By tracing the negotiations which took place between the Nizam and India, as well as the situation on the ground both in and around Hyderabad during the 1946-1948, this work elucidates the issues which ultimately led to the downfall of the Nizam’s regime in Hyderabad while offering a view into the further effects which partition had on the princely states in India. / text

Ce travail entreprend de dresser un portrait de l’acte nuisible à la vie en société. Pour ce faire, il part du postulat suivant : dans le silence de la loi, la société est un espace autonormé, au sein duquel trouvent à se déployer des exigences minimales et réciproques de civilité, qui régulent les relations interpersonnelles. Ces exigences, qui sont le fait de la société, permettent aux individus qui composent le corps social de vivre ensemble au sein des espaces publics. À l’inverse, l’acte nuisible à la vie en société empêche le vivre-ensemble en contrevenant de manière répétée aux exigences de civilité. Le consensus qui c’était alors formé autour d’un comportement laisse place au dissensus, entrainant un dysfonctionnement au sein de la société, sans que l’ordre public matériel et extérieur ne soit pour autant troublé. L’État se trouve alors dans une posture ambivalente : soit il fait le choix d’intervenir pour réguler la nuisance sociale, au risque de réduire la liberté d’agir au sein de la société, soit il laisse à cette dernière le soin de s’autoréguler, au risque de perdre la cohésion sociale. Ce modèle peut être transposé au droit positif français contemporain. En effet, l’État français, confronté à la recrudescence d’actes inciviques, s’est trouvé obligé de pénaliser certains comportements qui appartenaient initialement au domaine de l’infra-légalité. L’interdiction de la dissimulation du visage dans l’espace public fait figure d’exemple de cette tendance. Mais ce constat ne va pas sans conséquences : entre la protection du vivre-ensemble et la pénalisation des comportements inciviques, la liberté de l’individu social semble se contracter, rendant les frontières de l’espace politique et de l’espace social poreuses. À travers le portrait de l’acte nuisible à la vie sociale, c’est aussi le déplacement de ce curseur – entre respect de règles objectives et protections des droits subjectifs – qui est interrogé. / The goal of this thesis is to depict the act is detrimental to life in society. This work is therefore based on the following assumption: in the silence of law, society is a self-regulated space, where both minimal and reciprocal demand of civility –wich regulate interpersonal relations– may be found and developped. These demands, wich are the doing of society, allow for individuals who are part of the social body to live together in public spaces. On the contrary, the act detrimental to life in society prevents good cohabitation by repeatedly breaking demands of civility. Therefore, the consensus that had arisen paves the wayfor dissensus, in turn creating a dysfunction in society, without disrupting either the material or the exterior public order. As a result, the State finds itself in an ambivalent situation: it either intervenes in order to regulate social disturbances, at the risk of losing social cohesion. This pattern can be transposed into contemporary French positive law. Faced with an increase in uncivil acts, the French State had to penalize some behaviors that were originally infralegal matters. Prohibiting concealment of the face in public space is one example of this tendency. But this observation is not without consequences: between protecting good cohabitation and penalizing uncivil behaviors, the liberty of the social individual recedes, rendering the frontier between political and social space porous. Through the depiction of the act that is detrimental to social life, the partition in judicial space –between compliance with objectives rules and protections of subjective rights– will also be called into question.

In recent years, we have witnessed a massive acquisition of data and increasing need to support multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) queries efficiently. Pareto-optimal also known as skyline queries is a popular class of MCDS queries and has received a lot of attention resulting in a flurry of efficient skyline algorithms. The vast majority of such algorithms focus entirely on the input being a single data set. In this work, we provide an adaptive query evaluation technique --- AdaptiveSky that is able to reason at different levels of abstraction thereby effectively minimizing the two primary costs, namely the cost of generating join results and the cost of dominance comparisons to compute the final skyline of the join results. Our approach hinges on two key principles. First, in the input space -- we determine the abstraction levels dynamically at run time instead of assigning a static one at compile time that may or may not work for different data distributions. This is achieved by adaptively partitioning the input data as intermediate results are being generated thereby eliminating the need to access vast majority of the input tuples. Second, we incrementally build the output space, containing the final skyline, without generating a single join result. Our approach is able to reason about the final result space and selectively drill into regions in the output space that show promise in generating result tuples to avoid generation of results that do not contribute to the query result. In this effort, we propose two alternate strategies for reasoning, namely the Euclidean Distance method and the cost-benefit driven Dominance Potential method for reasoning. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that AdaptiveSky shows superior performance over state-of-the-art techniques over benchmark data sets.

Thesis, Dijon, 1911 / Bibliography

In the age of deep submicron VLSI, we can design various system applications in a single chip. On this system-on-chip design, there are ASIC circuitry, processor core together with software components, and hardware modules. During system design, we need to select the forms of execution for kinds of system functions.It is called hardware/software partitioning. Different hardware/software partitioning, affect the achievable cost and performance of the accordingly elaborated system chip designs. In this research, we explore research and software design issues of an estimation method for hardware/software partitioning. It consists of these tasks: ¡Esoftware scheduling ¡Ehardware/software co-scheduling ¡Ecost and performance estimation for hardware/software partitioning For a system description, given a chosen hardware/software partitioning and a set of allocated resources, we can perform the corresponding cost and performance estimation task that can be utilized directly by system designs or can be called by a hardware/software partitioning optimization program. We designed the experimental software for this estimation method. We also carried out a set of experiments based upon real and synthesized design cases.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

This report explores the reasons why the Pakistan tribal areas have become a haven and hotbed of radicalism and the steps being taken to reestablish control and to promote peace and stability in the region. It begins with a brief overview of the recent history (1893 to Partition) of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, followed by the political and cultural ramifications in the area due to the creation of Pakistan. Religion, tribal customs, socio-economic development and the unique political relationship between the FATA and the central government must be considered when forming policy recommendations and planning future engagements. The article concludes with an examination of recent initiatives by the U.S. and Pakistan to pacify the area, to include short term and long term strategies, and describes the ramifications of failure. / text