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Search and Rescue (SAR) operations are necessary during times of natural disaster or when individuals go missing. These missions mobilize individuals, both paid and volunteer, to find lost persons and are often carried out in treacherous areas. It is important for teammates to be focused and prepared. Specifically, the search coordinator's role and the head of command directing their teammates is vital to the outcome of a SAR mission. Their workload is significant, however, inviting the opportunity for autonomy to work in tandem with the search coordinator to ensure optimal, timely decisions are made for task scheduling. There has been a significant amount of investigation into task scheduling for human-autonomy teams, but there is a gap in the ordering methods used. One possible framework to investigate uses Rasmussen's SRK framework to classify individual responses to assigned tasks. There is also a significant body of work on this framework, but very little in a proactive task scheduling context. This thesis proposes a new approach to task scheduling utilizing Rasmussen's SRK framework. Scheduling tasks in this manner allows the characteristics of the tasks themselves to be considered as well as a more streamlined approach to reducing overall cognitive load for SAR teammates. An experimental study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the proposed task scheduling methods based on the SRK framework. Initial results suggest there is an impact on scheduling tasks with respect to SRK, but further investigation is warranted to determine more specific factors. / Master of Science / Search and Rescue (SAR) operations are necessary during times of natural disaster or when individuals go missing. These missions mobilize individuals, both paid and volunteer, to find lost persons and are often carried out in treacherous areas. It is important for teammates to be focused and prepared. Specifically, the search coordinator's role and the head of command directing their teammates is vital to the outcome of a SAR mission. They have a significant number of responsibilities, however, inviting the potential for becoming overloaded with information and decisions. This does, however, suggest a significant opportunity for autonomy to work in tandem with the search coordinator to ensure optimal, timely decisions are made for task scheduling. There has been a significant amount of investigation into task scheduling for human-autonomy teams, but there is a gap in the ordering methods used. One possible framework to use to fill this gap is Rasmussen's Skill-Rule-Knowledge (SRK) framework to categorize and predict how individuals will respond to their assigned tasks. There is also a significant body of work on this framework, but very little in a proactive task scheduling context. This thesis proposes a new approach to task scheduling utilizing Rasmussen's SRK framework. Scheduling tasks in this manner allows the characteristics of the tasks themselves to be considered. In addition, the possibility of overwhelming SAR team members can be reduced by scheduling tasks intelligently. An experimental study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the proposed task scheduling methods based on the SRK framework. Initial results suggest there is an impact on scheduling tasks with respect to SRK, but further investigation is warranted to determine more specific factors.

This thesis seeks to explore how geometry, music, and architecture can all interweave with each other. Music is based on the harmonic ratios of geometry. These relationships can also be used to inform the geometries of architecture. As with the aesthetics of music, architecture, too, is not an exact science that must follow rigid geometric rules. A work of music is made more beautiful when it smartly breaks the rules of order and gracefully bends the rules of harmony. Similarly, architecture can bend and break the rules. This is an academic exploration of creating a building form that starts with the rigid set of rules of harmonic geometry, but bends and breaks them by passing them through a filter of perspective to derive a new set of rules. / Master of Architecture

Yes / Identification of fuzzy rules is an important issue in designing of a fuzzy neural network (FNN). However, there is no systematic design procedure at present. In this paper we present a genetic algorithm (GA) based learning algorithm to make use of the known membership function to identify the fuzzy rules form a large set of all possible rules. The proposed learning algorithm initially considers all possible rules then uses the training data and the fitness function to perform ruleselection. The proposed GA based learning algorithm has been tested with two different sets of training data. The results obtained from the experiments are promising and demonstrate that the proposed GA based learning algorithm can provide a reliable mechanism for fuzzy rule selection.

Political scientists have conducted much work examining a court's decision on the merits of a case. We have concluded that ideology has a strong influence on the outcome on the merits of a decision. Furthermore, courts seek to render a decision that is closest to their own policy preferences. However, federal circuit courts within the judicial hierarchy are constrained by other actors according to the strategic model. There is an abundance of evidence showing that superior actors constrain courts' ideological preferences when such courts render decisions on the merits. However, there is a dearth of scholarship regarding judicial decision making on threshold issues. I argue that federal circuit courts set their judicial agendas by transforming their mandatory appellate jurisdiction into one that is discretionary. They achieve this goal by controlling the type of litigants who gain access to the courts by deciding cases on threshold grounds. I also argue that federal circuit courts are responsive to changes in Congress's ideology because Congress has power to control threshold issues through various mechanisms. I seek to establish that the grounds upon which as case is dismissed -- jurisdictional, justiciable, and procedural -- defines the parameters that constrain federal circuit courts.

On ne trouve pas la racine du mot adab dans le Coran. Dans la littérature pré-islamique, ainsi que dans les hadiths, son utilisation est limitée exclusivement au sens d'« invitation à un banquet », « éducation », « correction » et « punition » (addaba, ta'dīb). Après une période au cours de laquelle les chercheurs n'ont pas considéré l'avis des linguistes et des penseurs musulmans concernant l'étymologie de adab de l'« invitation au banquet de Dieu (ma'dubat Allāh) », des études plus récentes ont remis positivement en question cette opinion. En fait, dans l'histoire des civilisations antiques, la notion de banquet cérémoniel divin ou sacré est très répandue, trouvant son origine dans l'archétype du « Banquet Divin » ou de « L'Hospitalité Divine », qui a exercé une forte influence sur le contexte religieux et culturel d'un certain nombre de différentes civilisations. Cependant, depuis le début du 9é siècle, la littérature religieuse islamique a également commencé à utiliser le terme adab avec un nouvel usage, que l'on pourrait appeler « technique ». La source de cet enrichissement sémantique doit être attribuée aux secrétaires de la cour, les kuttāb, les mawālī persans, les célèbres traducteurs et transmetteurs du patrimoine étatique et culturel persan. En plus d'influencer l'imaginaire culturel de la littérature d'adab classique, l'imagerie de la cour sassanide influencera également la terminologie technique, ainsi que la pratique du soufisme, en engendrant un genre de la littérature soufie, la littérature des ādāb al-ṣūfiyya. / The root of the word adab is not found in the Qur'ān. In pre-Islamic literature as well as in the hadith, its use is limited exclusively to the sense of “invitation to a banquet”, “education”, “correction” and “punishment” (addaba, ta'dīb). After a period in which scholars did not taken seriously the opinion of Muslim linguists and thinkers concerning the etymology of adab from the “invitation to the Banquet of God (ma'dubat Allāh)”, more recent scholarship has questioned this opinion. In fact, the notion of a divine or sacred ceremonial banquet in the history of ancient civilizations is quite widespread, finding its origin in the archetype of the “Divine Banquet” or “Divine Hospitality”, which had a strong influence on the religious and cultural contexts of a number of different civilizations. However, from the beginning of the 9th century CE Islamic religious literature also began to use the term adab in a new usage, that one might call “technical”. The source of this semantic enrichment should be traced to the court secretaries, the kuttāb, the Persian mawālī who were well-known translators and transmitters of Persian state and cultural heritage. In addition to influencing the cultural imaginary of classical adab literature, the Sasanian court imagery will also influence the technical terminology, as well as the practice in Sufism, producing a genre of the Sufi literature, the ādāb al-ṣūfiyya literature.

The growth of service industry enhances the importance of emotion issues in organizations. In the light of increasing interest in organizational emotions, previous studies focused on how front line staffs work. However, employees who play mediating role perform more emotional labor. As Arvey, Renz and Watson (1998) suggested, it is valuable to investigate the possible moderating or mediating roles valuable. By interviewing fifteen advertising account people, this article discusses the emotional labor of advertising account people who mostly play mediating role at work. Analyzing transcriptions in a qualitative approach, this research explores the emotional rules of mediating role and how they are socialized.

Didėjantis duomenų kiekis šiuolaikinėse informacinėse sistemose verčia ieškoti geresnių ir patogesnių priemonių ir metodų šių duomenų analizei. Esant dideliam duomenų kiekiui žmogus nebegali aprėpti informacijos įvairovės, atrasti logines sąsajas tampa sudėtinga, todėl reikalingos priemonės, kurios palengvintų, automatizuotų ir intelektualizuotų duomenų analizę. Šiame darbe nagrinėjamas verslo taisyklių pritaikymas intelektualizuotai duomenų analizei. Darbe pasiūlomas metodas leidžiantis verslo taisykles, užrašytas XML kalba, transformuoti iki daugiamatės duomenų analizės instrukcijų programų sistemoje. Pasiūlytas metodas grindžiamas metamodelių transformacijomis. Darbe siūlomas metodas patikrintas eksperimentu, be to jis realizuotas programų sistemos prototipe. / Rising amount of data in information system require to search better and usable tools and methods for this data analysis. When is large data amount, then people can’t see diverseness of information, there is complicated to find logical links, therefore required tools, which can make data analysis usual, automation and intelligent. The paper describes business rule using for intelligent data analysis and offers a method for transformation of a business rule, described in XML language, into the multidimensional data analysis rules in the program system. The method based on metamodel transformations. There is offered method, which is validated by experiment and implemented in prototype of software system.