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1	Traveling Through the Iris: Re-producing Whiteness in Stargate SG-1 Parrent, Kim Louise January 2010 (has links) This study analyses how Stargate SG-1 perpetuates dominant representations of whiteness, and how whiteness is used as a marker of racial identity in American popular culture. The popular science fiction television show Stargate SG-1 continually uses the nonwhite alien to juxtapose the seeming superiority of the white human, with white Americans acting as trusted gatekeepers for the entire planet. Whiteness becomes almost invisible and normative as the alien “other” requires assistance or containment enacted through SG-1’s adventures “off-world”. I also examine the representation of superior white aliens as an extension of these dominant white discourses. It is through the study of the constructed nature of “race” that whiteness is made visible. As represented in Stargate SG-1 whiteness discourses contribute to and reflect “common sense” constructions of race within U.S. society. This examination of Stargate SG-1 illuminates how negotiations of whiteness are constructed within United States dominant cultural discourses as a means to exclude the “other”. Whiteness Stargate Blackness American Science Fiction Alien Other
2	A Platform for Research on Localization and Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks Rupanagudi, Sai Kiran 27 March 2006 (has links) This research proposed the integration of wireless sensor networks, a mobile platform and a fixed station for the development of a test bed system to conduct research on localization, tracking, navigation and network mapping. The overall integrated system acts as a basis for future research on localization of wireless nodes in an indoor environment. The system enables the transfer of information from the sensor node on the platform to a distant computer through wireless communication. In addition, a robotic platform is proposed that uses the developed integrated system as well as other potential applications. The user interface to the system was developed using MATLAB and provides for tracking of the mobile platform. The application also possessed an option to simulate the output of Trilateration when using a setup similar to the one implemented for this research. robotic platforms crickets stargate mapping trilateration American Studies Arts and Humanities Electrical and Computer Engineering
3	L'Atlantide dans la série Stargate Atlantis (2004-2009) : un mythe remodelé par les valeurs spirituelles contemporaines Lachance, Élisa 18 April 2018 (has links) Depuis Platon, l'Atlantide n'a pas cessé de fasciner et a toujours représenté un terrain fertile pour l'imaginaire. Le mythe a été repris, recomposé et remodelé de multiples manières, de la théosophie de Mme Blavatsky jusqu'aux spiritualités contemporaines. Ce n'est donc pas un hasard si la télésérie Stargate Atlantis s'en inspire directement en l'adaptant à la mentalité d'aujourd'hui. On y raconte qu'il y a 10 000 ans, les Anciens auraient quitté l'Atlantide pour revenir sur Terre. La menace d'un ennemi en surnombre les aurait forcés à submerger la Cité et à quitter la planète sur laquelle elle se trouvait. Cette série constitue bien plus qu'une histoire de science-fiction. Le thème de l'Atlantide s'y trouve transformé, complètement remodelé, pour être en mesure de véhiculer des valeurs spirituelles qui sont celles de tous ceux qui sont à nouveau fascinés par les aventures extraordinaires des héros de cette série. BR 20.5 UL 2011 L132 Atlantide (Lieu imaginaire) Mythe Spiritualité
4	Cartography of chemical space / Cartographie de l'espace chimique Gaspar, Héléna Alexandra 29 September 2015 (has links) Cette thèse est consacrée à la cartographie de l’espace chimique ; son but est d’établir les bases d’un outil donnant une vision d’ensemble d’un jeu de données, comprenant prédiction d’activité, visualisation, et comparaison de grandes librairies. Dans cet ouvrage, nous introduisons des modèles prédictifs QSAR (relations quantitatives structure à activité) avec de nouvelles définitions de domaines d’applicabilité, basés sur la méthode GTM (generative topographic mapping), introduite par C. Bishop et al. Une partie de cette thèse concerne l’étude de grandes librairies de composés chimiques grâce à la méthode GTM incrémentale. Nous introduisons également une nouvelle méthode « Stargate GTM », ou S-GTM, permettant de passer de l’espace des descripteurs chimiques à celui des activités et vice versa, appliquée à la prédiction de profils d’activité ou aux QSAR inverses. / This thesis is dedicated to the cartography of chemical space; our goal is to establish the foundations of a tool offering a complete overview of a chemical dataset, including visualization, activity prediction, and comparison of very large datasets. In this work, we introduce new QSAR models (quantitative structure-activity relationship) based on the GTM method (generative topographic mapping), introduced by C. Bishop et al. A part of this thesis is dedicated to the visualization and analysis of large chemical libraries using the incremental version of GTM. We also introduce a new method coined “Stargate GTM” or S-GTM, which allows us to travel from the space of chemical descriptors to activity space and vice versa; this approach was applied to activity profile prediction and inverse QSAR. Visualisation Espace chimique QSAR Inverse QSAR Domaine d’applicabilité Stargate GTM Données massives Apprentissage automatique Visualization Chemical space QSAR Inverse QSAR Applicability domain Stargate GTM Big data Machine learning 540.12
5	The attraction of sloppy nonsense: resolving cognitive estrangement in Stargate through the technologising of mythology Whitelaw, Sandra January 2007 (has links) The thesis consists of the novel, Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis (Whitelaw and Christensen, 2006a) and an accompanying exegesis. The novel is a stand-alone tie-in novel based on the television series Stargate Atlantis (Wright and Glassner), a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1 (Wright and Cooper) derived from the movie Stargate (Devlin and Emmerich, 1994). Set towards the end of the second season, Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis begins with the discovery of life pods containing the original builders of Atlantis, the Ancients. The mind of one of these Ancients, Ea, escapes the pod and possesses Dr. Carson Beckett. After learning what has transpired in the 10,000 years since her confinement, the traumatised Ea releases an exogenesis machine to destroy Atlantis. Ea dies, leaving Beckett with sufficient of her memories to reveal that a second machine, on the planet Polrusso, could counter the effects of the first device. When the Atlantis team travel to Polrusso, what they discover has staggering implications not only for the future of Atlantis but for all life in the Pegasus Galaxy. The exegesis argues that both science and science fiction narrate the dissolution of ontological structures, resulting in cognitive estrangement. Fallacy writers engage in the same process and use the same themes and tools as science fiction writers to resolve cognitive estrangement: they technologise mythology. Consequently, the distinction between fact and fiction, history and myth, is blurred. The exegesis discusses cognitive estrangement, mythology, the process of technologising mythology and its function as a novum that facilitates the resolution of cognitive estrangement in both fallacy and science fiction narratives. These concepts are then considered in three Stargate tie-in novels, with particular reference to the creative work, Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis. technologising mythology cognitive estrangement verisimilitude fallacy ontology Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis media tie-ins media novels mythology science fiction television SF genre television alien gods extraterrestrial gods cults familiarisation defamiliarisation refamiliarisation Lovecraft Velikovsky Hubbard von Daniken Sitchin Campbell Devlin Emmerich

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