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1	Analysis on the Feasibility of a prototype SOFOS Telescope Module for Optical SETI Fruchtman, Jacob Alexander 29 May 2020 (has links) No description available. Astronomy Physics OSETI SETI Optical SETI PMT aliens SOFOS photomultiplier tube
2	The monuments of Seti I and their historical significance epigraphic, art historical and historical analysis / Brand, Peter James. January 1998 (has links) (PDF) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1998. / Description based on web page; title from title screen (viewed 8 Mar. 2004). Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-[449]).
3	A Configurable Terasample-per-second Imaging System for Optical SETI Mead, Curtis Charles 08 October 2013 (has links) A new instrument for conducting astronomical searches for nanosecond-scale optical pulses has been designed, built, and is now operating at Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, MA. The Advanced All-sky Camera, based on the previous generation ASIC-based design, is implemented using Xilinx Virtex-5 LX110 FPGAs to create a flexible and configurable system. Each FPGA has 32 1.5 Gsps analog-to-digital converters, implemented as 8-level flash ADCs using 256 of the Virtex-5's LVDS input pairs. Thirty-two FPGAs in the system total 1024 ADC channels, each with 8kB of sample memory, for triggering on and recording coincident pulse waveforms from an array of 1024 photomultiplier tube anodes. / Engineering and Applied Sciences Astronomy Electrical engineering adc extraterrestrial flash FPGA optical SETI
4	Exploring the Determinants of Global 'Social Production' of Information and Knowledge: Insights from SETI@home Engelbrecht, Hans-Juergen Unknown Date (has links) Commons-based peer production is an activity that is emerging as a distinct mode of resource allocation and production of information, knowledge and culture ('social production' for short), potentially heralding a new stage in the development of information/knowledge-based economies. This paper presents a cross-country analysis of factors determining the information and knowledge output of the paradigmatic social production project, i.e. SETI@home. The main hypothesis explored is that the level of average subjective well-being in a country is a motivational proxy variable that can help explain the cross-country variation in SETI@home output levels. The hypothesis that trust might be of lesser importance is also explored. I find support for both hypotheses, but only for developed and advanced countries, not poor countries. commons-based peer production information knowledge subjective well-being happiness trust World Values Survey SETI@home
5	Searching for SETI: The Social Construction of Aliens and the Quest for a Technological Mythos Bozeman, John Marvin 21 April 2015 (has links) This dissertation uses Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Stark and Bainbridge's rational choice theory of religion to analyze an established but controversial branch of science and technology, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Of particular interest are the cultural, and sometimes religious, assumptions that its creators have built into it. The purpose of this analysis is not to discredit SETI, but instead to show how SETI, along with other avant-garde scientific projects, is founded, motivated, and propelled by many of the same types of values and visions for the future that motivate the founders of religious groups. I further argue that the utopian zeal found in SETI and similar movements is not aberrant, but instead common, and perhaps necessary, in many early-stage projects, whether technical or spiritual, which lack a clear near-term commercial or social benefit. / Ph. D. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI Actor Network Theory Social Construction of Technology Rational Choice Theory of Religion Transhumanism xenosalvation
6	A System for Cross-matching All-sky Surveys Soodla, Johan January 2019 (has links) This thesis describes the cross-matching software solution lying at thecore of the computational infrastructure for the VASCO project. The VASCO project has a goal to mine historical all-sky surveys to find astronomical anomalies. It aims to give new clues to either SETI research or in theoretical astrophysics, and serves as a starting point for observational followup and/or new theoretical developments. Cross-matching throughout the thesis refers to comparing billions of astronomical objects recorded in the historical USNO and PanSTARRS allskysurveys. This thesis describes how to approach this huge computational challenge using methods of big data and cloud computing. The techniques described in this thesis resulted in a list of about 400 thousand objects which are usable in further analysis in the machine learning tool called ML-Blink. VASCO Big Data Cloud Cross-matching SETI Machine Learning Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi Other Computer and Information Science Annan data- och informationsvetenskap
7	An Egyptian Royal Portrait Head in the Collection of the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University Bryson, Karen Margaret 18 July 2008 (has links) This thesis discusses a small, red granite, Egyptian royal portrait head in the collection of the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. The head is determined to be a fragment from a group depicting the king in front of the monumental figure of a divine animal, probably a ram or baboon. Scholars have attributed the head to the reigns of various New Kingdom pharaohs, including Horemheb and Seti I, but on more careful examination its style demonstrates that it dates to the reign of Ramesses II (1304-1237 B.C.). animal statue animal ancient Egypt Egypt art sculpture royal New Kingdom portrait Horemheb Seti I Ramesses II New Kingdom NK Art and Design

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