L'impact de l'humour absurde et déjanté proposé par les Monty Python sur le monde de la comédie n'est plus à démontrer. Quarante ans après la formation de la troupe britannique, son humour est toujours actuel et ses héritiers, toujours plus nombreux. Si les influences de la troupe humoristique sur le monde de l'humour sont reconnues, celles qu'elle a eues sur l'univers cinématographique sont plus mitigées. Pourtant, le médium cinématographique, et les outils offerts par la comédie en particulier sont au cœur des préoccupations des Monty Python. Pour ces derniers, le rire n'est pas la finalité de la comédie; il n'est que le début d'une démarche réflexive. Entre leurs mains, le rire devient un moyen plutôt qu'un aboutissement, il renferme différentes fonctions qui ne demandent qu'à être utilisées. Combinées avec une maîtrise des outils énonciatifs offerts par le médium cinématographique, les fonctions du rire offrent aux Monty Python un contrôle et un pouvoir inestimable à la fois sur leur œuvre et sur le spectateur. Ce contrôle, les Monty Python tentent de s'en servir à bon escient en ouvrant toujours la porte de la réflexion et du questionnement. La réflexion proposée par les Monty Python s'inscrit non seulement dans plusieurs thèmes sociaux et politiques, mais aussi à propos de la forme cinématographique elle-même. L'énonciation et les institutions cinématographiques sont tantôt mises à mal, tantôt utilisées dans le respect des règles. Le dépassement des règles et le détournement des normes font partie de l'arsenal pythonesque, le tout ancré dans une réflexion sur le médium cinématographique. Avec les Monty Python, la comédie et le rire qu'elle déclenche ne sont plus une finalité : ils ne sont que le commencement. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : rire, Monty Python, énonciation, distanciation, institution

This thesis focuses on implementing a program, using Python and the symbolic package SymPy, to evaluate balancing of a humanoid robot modelled as inverted pendulums. The balancing algorithm used to evaluate the program is the feedback controller LQR. The program has successfully implemented a working LQR algorithm together with features such as underactuation and a tilting plane as disturbance. We have shown that the energy is conserved for the falling pendulums and that it is possible to predict the behavior for certain parameter values of the pendulums, thus confirming that the program is working correctly. Furthermore we have shown that a fully-actuated system is more controllable than an under-actuated system, and for each actuator that is removed, the system becomes less controllable. Finally we discuss the program performance where some concern is given toward the seemingly poor execution time of the program. The program has been tested for up to five pendulums with successful results. Most of the results however, are revolving around three pendulum systems.

In this thesis, I develop an efficient and user-friendly node-based interface to be used in the creation of a particle system in Autodesk Maya. Maya's interface inconsistencies were identified and solutions were designed based on research in a number of fields related to human-computer interaction (HCI) as well as taking design queues from other highly successful 3D programs that employ a node-based interface. This research was used to guide the design of the interface in terms of organizing the data into logical chunks of information, using color to help the user develop working mental models of the system, and also using simple, easy to identify, graphical representations of a particle system. The result is an easy-to-use and intuitive interface that uses a visual-based approach in creating a particle system in Maya. By following guidelines laid out by previous researchers in the field of HCI, the interface should be a less frustrating to use and more organized version of Maya's current interface.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / Title from PDF file main screen (viewed on Oct. 19, 2009). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Washington State University, August 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-51).

Genom Norden Machinerys förmåga att innovera och skapa har de bland annat lyckats producera maskiner med otroliga kapaciteter. Med det och den höga verkningsgraden maskinerna verkar på har gjort att företaget idag är världsledande inom tubfyllningsindustrin.   Varje maskin som levereras utav Norden har ofta unika kundspecifikationer, detta gör att Nordens elkonstruktionsavdelning behöver tilldela en maskinunik eldokumentation till varje maskin. Detta innebär att IO-konfigurationen är unik och måste då anpassas i maskinens PLC-program. Vid uppstart av maskiner idag måste alla IO-adresser matas in för hand via en operatörspanel. Detta utgör att uppstartsfatsen är både tidskrävande samt att det finns en risk att felaktiga adresser anges.   Denna rapport kommer avhandla och beskriva hur man kan hantera IO-adressering och IO-konfigurering när antalet portar hos en PLC är otillräckliga samt att undersöka möjligheterna till att automatisera den manuella hanteringen utav adresser och IO-konfigurationen.

This thesis presents a domain knowledge based similarity measure for recommender systems, using Systembolaget's open API with product information as input data. The project includes the development of the similarity measure, implementing it in a content based recommender engine as well as evaluating the model and comparing it to an existing model which uses a bag-of-words based approach. The developed similarity measure uses domain knowledge to calculate the similarity of three feature, grapes, wine regions and production year, to attempt to improve the quality of recommendations. The result shows that the bag-of-words based model performs slightly better than the domain knowledge based model, in terms of coverage, diversity and correctness. However, the results are not conclusive enough to discourage from more investigation into using domain knowledge in recommender systems.

PALA, Ondřej. Ability of compilers programming language Python. Brno, 2015. Diploma thesis. Mendel university in Brno. Diploma thesis rate ability of selected compilers programming language Python. First path of thesis is focused to programming language Python and principle of working compilers. Second path is focused to creating testing tasks, defining eva-luation criterias of compilers and testing compilers without testing tasks.

Diploma thesis deals with design and implementation of solution for monitoring servers and services over the Internet in combination with application for monitoring, Nagios. Common solutions are presented and evaluated first and serve as basis for design and implementation of a custom solution. Some of existing solutions were used, eg. HTTP protocol, others were developed, eg. scripts to automatically change Nagios configuration. Alternative solution for monitoring servers and services is the result of this diploma thesis.

MAGALHÃES, M. L. Modelagem e simulação do processo de secagem convectiva utilizando modelo diferencial difusivo-convectivo resolvido pelo método numérico dos volumes finitos. 2016. 61 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia Química) – Centro de Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2016. / Submitted by Hohana Sanders (hohanasanders@hotmail.com) on 2016-04-25T16:57:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_mlmagalhães.pdf: 2353845 bytes, checksum: d32bdbf3f41c742fa6c9686af861b2ab (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marlene Sousa (mmarlene@ufc.br) on 2016-04-29T17:27:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_mlmagalhães.pdf: 2353845 bytes, checksum: d32bdbf3f41c742fa6c9686af861b2ab (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T17:27:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_mlmagalhães.pdf: 2353845 bytes, checksum: d32bdbf3f41c742fa6c9686af861b2ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-22 / The consumption of energy is a main factor that determines the viability of any industrial process. Thermal dehydration is responsible for a high consumption of energy. In developed countries, 9 to 25% of the energy consumption of the national industry is attached to thermal dehydration. Thus, studying the dehydration process shows itself very promisor. In biological products, dehydration has a specific importance, the product conservation. The organic matter of the product and its water create a propitious medium for microorganisms proliferation that will deteriorate the product, making the product inappropriate for consumption. In this work, the modeling and simulation of a convective dehydration process using a diffusive-convective differential model solved by the finite volumes numeric method for predicting the behavior of the mean moisture content during the dehydration, defining molecular mass transfer and convective coefficients, and drawing moisture profiles of the interior of the solid. To evaluate the influence of internal and external resistances, the mass transfer Biot number was obtained. The implementation of the models of this work were made in Python® using its scientific models for solving differential equations. This tool has been utilized because it is open source, has simple implementation when compared to other programming languages and has performance when performing simulations. As study of cases, experimental data of assisted convective dehydration by ultrasound of apple (Malus domestica L. var Royal Gala) cubes with 8 mm under the following operation conditions: 1, 2, 3 and 5 m/s for dehydration velocities, air flow temperature of 45ºC and 60ºC, presence and absence of ultrasound during the dehydration process and presence and absence of the pre-treatment with ultrasounds. The apple cubes of the experiments have 25 ±1g of mass. The dehydration has been performed until the removal of 80% of the initial mass of the cubes. The parameters, diffusivity and mass transfer coefficient, have been adjusted by Levenberg-Marquardt non-linear regression method. The results obtained in the simulations showed that the implemented model is very promisor, because it represents accurately the process. The values for diffusivity and mass transfer coefficient herein obtained were plausible. The influence of the air flow velocity, temperature and ultrasounds assistance and ultrasounds pre-treatments have been analyzed. / O consumo de energia é um fator determinante na viabilidade de qualquer processo industrial. A desidratação térmica é responsável por um alto consumo de energia térmica. Em países desenvolvidos, o consumo da energia da indústria nacional é atribuído, em média, entre 9-25% a desidratação térmica. Assim, o estudo do processo de secagem se mostra bastante promissor. Em produtos biológicos, a secagem tem uma importância específica, a conservação do produto, pois a matéria orgânica do produto e a água presente nele torna este um local propício para a proliferação de micro-organismos que irão deteriorar o produto, tornando-o inapropriado para consumo. Neste trabalho, realizou-se a modelagem e simulação do processo de secagem convectiva utilizando modelo diferencial difusivo-convectivo resolvido pelo método numérico dos volumes finitos para predizer o comportamento do conteúdo de umidade médio durante a secagem de cubos, definir os coeficientes de transferência de massa molecular e convectivo e encontrar os perfis do conteúdo de umidade no interior do sólido. Para avaliar a influência das resistências interna e externa, o número de Biot de Massa foi obtido. A implementação dos modelos deste trabalho foi realizada na ferramenta livre Python® utilizando seus módulos científicos de resolução de equações diferenciais. Esta ferramenta foi utilizada porque é livre, implementação simples, quando comparada com outras linguagens e possui alta performance nas simulações. Como estudos de caso, utilizaram-se dados experimentais da secagem convectiva assistida por ultrassom de cubos de maçã (Malus domestica L. var Royal Gala) com 8 mm de aresta nas seguintes condições operacionais: velocidades de secagem: 1, 2, 3 e 5 m/s; temperatura do ar de secagem: 45 °C e 60 °C; presença e ausência de ultrassom durante a secagem; presença e ausência de etapa de pré-tratamento com ultrassom. Os cubos de maçã dos experimentos tinham, em média, 25±1 g. A secagem foi realizada até que as amostras perdessem 80% da massa inicial. Os parâmetros, difusividade e coeficiente de transferência de massa, foram ajustados por regressão não linear pelo método de Levenberg-Marquardt. Os resultados obtidos nas simulações mostraram que o modelo implementado é promissor, pois representa bem o processo. Os valores obtidos da difusividade e coeficiente de transferência de massa foram plausíveis. Analisou-se a influência da velocidade do ar de secagem, da temperatura, da assistência do ultrassom no processo e da utilização de uma etapa de pré-tratamento com ultrassom no processo de secagem.