Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-216).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College, 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-216).

Inaug.-Diss.--Zürich. / Vita. Plate printed on both sides. "Quellen": p. 4-6.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 181 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-130). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept of Technology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-216).

En los últimos años las series televisivas han crecido en calidad de imagen, profundidad de sus argumentos, innovación estética. Han transformado sus estructuras, ritmos y la relación con los autores. ¿Se pueden capitalizar como recursos educativos para chicos, jóvenes y docentes? El concepto “televisión pedagógica” parece indicar que sí.

This thesis is concerned with the function of Alexandra House and the role it has played in the neighbourhood. Special attention has been devoted to the period from 1938, when the agency became a neighbourhood house, to April 1952. In the historical sketch emphasis is placed on programme, staff, and administration of the agency. The social and physical transitions within the neighbourhood are also considered, in relation to their influence on the role of Alexandra House. The material for the study was gained from annual and monthly reports, minutes of staff and Board of Directors' meetings, interviews with agency personnel, surveys made of the area, and other material secured through the co-operation of the agency and the Community Chest. The function of the agency and its services was analyzed on the basis of a series of criteria of neighbourhood-house operation. Comparison of the early non-professional staff with the present professional staff was possible, by analyzing the programmes of the two different periods. The thesis shows that social and economic changes within an area influence the attitudes and the needs of the people; an institution must change appropriately in order to meet the needs of the residents. The study also reveals the necessity of professional staff to perform a qualitative job. However, not only should a neighbourhood house programme evolve from the needs of the community, but the people within the community should assume more and more responsibility for their activities. A quality programme has evolved slowly with the aid of professionally-trained workers. Good leadership emphasizes quality rather than quantity; but it also illustrates that co-operation between all personnel is required for maximum efficiency, and that volunteers and students are able to contribute to the programme more effectively with proper supervision from professional staff. Looking at the future, the study reveals the need for a re-statement of this function, as the changes within the neighbourhood bring changes in the neighbours, and some drastic redevelopment possibilities loom for the district. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

In this thesis, a program, HOUSE, is described that can interpret line sketches of houses and other polyhedral objects. The program is part of the SEE project, a sketch understanding project at the University of British Columbia. In this respect HOUSE is a generalization of MAPSEE, a program that can interpret line sketches of geographic maps. The most important goal of HOUSE is to test the adequacy and efficiency of the program's control structure which is based on a helical metaphor for the perceptual process. Such a helical metaphor is based on a stratified interpretation process with a bottom-up, pass-oriented control structure. HOUSE takes (like MAPSEE) as input a plot program by means of which the sketch can be displayed on a graphical display device. The program subsequently describes the sketch at different levels of representation. These levels can be categorized in two domains: a picture domain consisting of two-dimensional representations of the sketch and a scene domain consisting of three-dimensional representations. Processing in the picture domain is dominated by a segmentation process that results in three different types of representations. In contrast with MAPSEE, HOUSE also maintains different levels of representation in the scene domain. Each of these levels represents the sketch at a different degree of abstraction. The cycle of perception with its four stages serves as a metaphor for describing the interpretation process at each of these levels. Cues are first formed by the segmentation process (cue discovery); these cues (the vertices) suggest possible interpretations for the primitives (the edges) at the lowest level in the interpretation domain (model invocation); these interpretations are taken by a network consistency algorithm that tests the global consistency among these interpretations (model testing and elaboration). Interpretations that are part of a globally consistent description of the sketch then serve as cues for the next higher level where the cycle is repeated. This process continues until the sketch is described at the highest possible level of abstraction. Several examples were run with the program. Apart from a number of desirable features, these tests showed two important weaknesses of the helical metaphor: its inability to account for incomplete line sketches, and its inability to impose top-down constraints. These weaknesses led to the formulation of a more powerful metaphor: the multi-helix. Among other things, this multi-helix allows multiple access to the different levels of representation in both a bottom-up and top-down direction. A comparison of the multi-helix metaphor with several other perceptual processing metaphors argues for the former's superior ability to account for certain characteristics of the perceptual process. Consequently, the multi-helix can be seen as another step towards a theory of machine perception. / Science, Faculty of / Computer Science, Department of / Graduate