Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-167).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236).

Mémoire (M.Ress.Renouv.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1993. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-166). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9948028.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-118).

Thesis (MSc (Applied Mathematics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis provides an introduction to the statistical modeling technique known as graphical models. Since graph theory and probability theory are the two legs of graphical models, these two topics are presented, and then combined to produce two examples of graphical models: Bayesian Networks and Markov Random Fields. Furthermore, the max-sum, sum-product and junction tree algorithms are discussed. The graphical modeling technique is then applied to the specific problem of finding coplanar points in stereo images, taken with an uncalibrated camera. Although it is discovered that graphical models might not be the best method, in terms of speed, to use for this appliation, it does illustrate how to apply this technique in a real-life problem. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis stel die leser voor aan die statistiese modelerings-tegniek genoemd grafiese modelle. Aangesien grafiek teorie en waarskynlikheidsleer die twee bene van grafiese modelle is, word hierdie areas aangespreek en dan gekombineer om twee voorbeelde van grafiese modelle te vind: Bayesian Netwerke en Markov Lukrake Liggaam. Die maks-som, som-produk en aansluitboom algoritmes word ook bestudeer. Nadat die teorie van grafiese modelle en hierdie drie algoritmes afgehandel is, word grafiese modelle dan toegepas op ’n spesifieke probleem— om punte op ’n gemeenskaplike vlak in stereo beelde te vind, wat met ’n ongekalibreerde kamera geneem is. Alhoewel gevind is dat grafiese modelle nie die optimale metode is om punte op ’n gemeenskaplike vlak te vind, in terme van spoed, word die gebruik van grafiese modelle wel ten toongestel met hierdie praktiese voorbeeld. / National Research Foundation (South Africa)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-08-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:55:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_rl_me_sjrp.pdf: 1235564 bytes, checksum: 1596ecf4f6c118cf0248968405f2bb33 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Pensando no tema central da representação da doença no romance naturalista, principalmente no que se refere às moléstias de cunho urbano e de natureza psíquica, e em todas as séries de determinismos fisiológicos, ambientais e sociais, buscamos averiguar em quatro obras de Aluísio Azevedo – O Mulato (1881), O Homem (1887), Casa de Pensão (1884), e O Cortiço (1890) – como o escritor brasileiro incorporou à sua ficção naturalista alguns assuntos patológicos, provenientes, em grande parte, das reflexões sobre as teses cientificistas que inflamaram o final do século XIX. Buscando entender, portanto, como Aluísio Azevedo elaborou artisticamente os temas provenientes da problemática social e das questões médicas em geral, e enfocando as relações entre texto e contexto, temos por objetivo mostrar que, na elaboração desses quatros romances naturalistas, Aluísio Azevedo adotou uma visão artística que enfocou as enfermidades degenerativas da condição humana de seu tempo. Explorando tanto os aspectos das epidemias urbanas como os mecanismos somáticos relacionados à patogenia nervosa, e submetendo seus personagens ao exame social e psíquico minucioso, o romancista aderiu à equação científica, num momento histórico que possibilitou uma aproximação entre ciência e literatura, como alternativa de se aplicar, no campo da ficção, os procedimentos experimentais próprios do método científico / The present work aims to investigate how the Brazilian novelist Aluísio Azevedo has tried and incorporated into his naturalist novels O Mulato (1881), O Homem (1887), Casa de Pensão (1884), and O Cortiço (1890) pathological issues which mostly originate from reflections on the scientificist theses that inflamed the late XIX century. To do so, this research particularly focuses on the representation of the disease in the naturalist novel, precisely on the urban maladies of psychic nature, as well as on all sorts of physiological, environmental and social determinisms. We try and evince how Aluísio Azevedo has artistically elaborated themes concerning the social problematic and medical issues as a whole. Therefore, we aim to ascertain, by laying emphasis on the relations between text and context, that Aluísio Azevedo, has adopted an artistic point of view that focused on the degenerative diseases of the human condition back in his time so as to compose the four novels under scrutiny. By exploring not only aspects of urban epidemies but also the somatic mechanisms related to the nervous pathology, let alone by his submitting the characters to minute social and psychic scrutiny, the novelist adhered to the scientific equation in a historical moment which caused literature to get closer to science. That in turn reveals an attempt to apply the experimental procedures typical of the scientific method to the fictional realm

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Les mutations économiques induites par la mondialisation et la concurrence des pays émergents ont entraîné, en 2004, le lancement par l'Etat d'une politique industrielle articulée autour des pôles de compétitivité. Contrairement à la finalité redistributive de l'aménagement du territoire, les pôles de compétitivité n'ont pas été choisis selon une logique de type «aménagement volontaire de l'espace », ni déterminés par rapport à une vision qui irait dans le sens d'un rééquilibrage des potentiels de recherche sur le territoire national. La politique des pôles de compétitivité porte directement sur des projets et non plus sur l'aménagement global du territoire. Les activités de R&D menées en partenariat par les acteurs du Pôle imposent néanmoins un cadre juridique permettant d'identifier et d'intéresser chaque partenaire aux résultats en fonction des règles ou des critères définis par eux. Il n'est cependant pas exclu que les conflits puissent provenir de la normalisation. En effet, les pôles de compétitivité devraient être prêts à consentir des redevances sur leurs brevets à prix coûtant sous peine d'être sanctionnés, pour abus de position dominante. Le financement des pôles de compétitivité étant limité par la réglementation européenne des aides d'Etat, il importe de trouver, comme aux Etats-Unis et au Japon, d'autres sources de financement privé de l'innovation, notamment le recours au capital-risque. Mais les pôles de compétitivité seraient-ils de nature à proposer et à créer des produits innovants prometteurs susceptibles d'encourager la prise de risques par les investisseurs ? / The global economic transformations driven by globalization and competition from emerging countries led, in 2004, the launching by the Government of an industrial policy built around the competitiveness clusters. Contrary to the redistributive purpose of the territory planning, the competitiveness clusters were not chosen according to a logical type « voluntary spatial planning», or determined by reference to a vision that goes in the direction of a rebalancing of research potential in the country. Policy of competitiveness clusters bears directly on projects and not on the overall territory planning. The R & D conducted in partnership with actors of competitiveness clusters impose a legal framework to identify and interest each partner in the results according to the rules or criteria defined by them. However, it is possible that conflicts may arise from standardization. Indeed, the competitiveness clusters should grant royalties on their patents at cost. If not, they should be punished for abuse of dominant position. The financing of competitiveness clusters is limited by European’s regulation on state aid. It leads the need to find, as in the United States and Japan, other sources of private financing of innovation, including the use of venture capital. But would the competitiveness clusters propose and create promising innovative products that encourage risk-taking by investors ?

Este trabalho é um estudo sobre a reserva indígena de Serrinha-RS, localizada no Norte do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, que abrange parte do território dos municípios de Constantina, Engenho Velho, Três Palmeiras e Ronda Alta. No passado foi terra de índios, habitada mais tarde (por volta de 1930) por colonos, originando a expulsão de seus antigos moradores. A Constituição Federal de 1988 devolveu o direito de posse dessas terras aos indígenas e, a partir de 1996, se iniciou o processo de retirada dos colonos da área da reserva. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a origem dos conflitos no campo entre colonos e indígenas pela posse da terra. Busca-se também estudar a relação do índio com o território, transformado pelo colono, e de identificar se ocorreram transformações culturais e se estas foram relevantes para os indígenas. Além disso, pretende-se mostrar como todas as mudanças ou transformações culturais vêm sendo articuladas no contexto da reserva e qual a sua repercussão nos aspectos da cultura “tradicional” por eles ainda mantida. A metodologia utilizada para a realização deste trabalho contou com um embasamento teórico sobre o processo histórico do conflito, sobre os aspectos culturais Kaingang e sobre os conceitos de cultura, paisagem, território e identidade, pertinentes a esta discussão. A pesquisa de campo junto à comunidade Kaingang foi realizada através da elaboração de entrevistas semidiretivas, de coleta de histórias de vida e de diários de campo. Uma das conclusões considerada mais relevante para esta pesquisa refere-se à importância do território para a manutenção da vida e da cultura Kaingang. Somente após a reconquista do território é que os indígenas conseguiram revitalizar sua cultura. / This work is a study on the Serrinha indigenous reservation, located in the northern part of Rio Grande do Sul state, that includes part of the territory of the municipal districts of Constantina, Engenho Velho, Três Palmeiras and Ronda Alta. In the past it was Indian land. Later (about 1930), it was inhabited by settlers, resulting in its former residents' banishment. The Federal Constitution of 1988 returned the ownership right of those lands to the natives and, starting from 1996, the process of settlers´ withdrawal from the reservation areas began. This study aims to analyze the origin of the field conflicts between settlers and Indians over the ownership of the land. It also seeks to study the relationship of the Indians with the territory transformed by the settlers, and to identify whether there were cultural transformations and if those were relevant to the natives. Besides, it intends to show how all the changes or cultural transformations have been articulated in the context of the reservation and what are their repercussions in some aspects of the "traditional" culture still kept by them. The methodology for the accomplishment of this work relied on a theoretical basis on the historical process of the conflict, on the Kaingang cultural aspects, and on the concepts of culture, landscape, territory and identity, pertinent to this discussion. The field research on the Kaingang community was conducted through the elaboration of semi-directing interviews, the collection of life histories and the writing of field journals. One of the most relevant results of this research refers to the importance of territory for the maintenance of Kaingang life and culture. It was only after the natives were given back their territory that they got to revitalize their culture.