Approved for public release; distribution in unlimited. / In this thesis, a new fictitious play (FP) procedure is presented to solve two-person zero-sum (TPZS) Blotto games. The FP solution procedure solves TPZS games by assuming that the two players take turns selecting optimal responses to the opponent's strategy observed so far. It is known that FP converges to an optimal solution, and it may be the only realistic approach to solve large games. The algorithm uses dynamic programming (DP) to solve FP subproblems. Efficiency is obtained by limiting the growth of the DP state space. Blotto games are frequently used to solve simple missile defense problems. While it may be unlikely that the models presented in this paper can be used directly to solve realistic offense and defense problems, it is hoped that they will provide insight into the basic structure of optimal and near-optimal solutions to these important, large games, and provide a foundation for solution of more realistic, and more complex, problems. / Captain, Republic of Korea Air Force

Nous étudions dans ce travail une méthode de type éléments finis dans le but de simuler le mouvement de particules rigides immergées. La méthode développée ici est une méthode de type domaine fictif. L'idée est de chercher un prolongement régulier de la solution exacte à tout le domaine fictif afin d'obtenir une solution régulière sur tout le domaine et retrouver l'ordre optimal de l'erreur avec des éléments d'ordre 1. Le prolongement régulier est cherché en minimisant une fonctionnelle dont le gradient est donné par la solution d'un nouveau problème fluide faisant intervenir une distribution simple couche dans le second membre. Nous faisons une analyse numérique, dans le cas scalaire, de l'approximation de cette distribution par une combinaison de masse de Dirac. Un des avantages de cette méthode est de pouvoir utiliser des solveurs rapides sur maillages cartésiens tout en conservant l'ordre optimal de l'erreur. Un autre avantage de la méthode vient du fait que les opérateurs ne sont pas modifiés, seul les seconds membres dépendent de la géométrie du domaine initial. Nous avons de plus écrit un code C++ parallèle en deux et trois dimensions, permettant de simuler des écoulements fluide/particules rigides avec cette méthode. Nous présentons ainsi une description des principales composantes de ce code. / In this work, we study a finite element method in order to simulate the motion of immersed rigid bodies. This method is of the fictitious domain type. The idea is to look for a smooth extension in the whole domain of the exact solution and to recover the optimal order obtain with a conformal mesh. This smooth extension is sought by minimizing a functional whose gradient is the solution of another fluid problem with a single layer distribution as a right hand side. We make the numerical analysis, in the scalar case, of the approximation of this distribution by a sum of Dirac masses. One of the advantage of this method is to be able to use fast solvers on cartesian mesh while recovering the optimal order of the error. Another advantage of this method is that the operators are not modified at all. Only the right hand side depends on the geometry of the original problem. We write a parallel C++ code in two and three dimensions that simulate fluid/rigid bodies flows with this method. We present the core blocks of this code to show how it works.

Este trabalho investiga a adequação científica das teorias monetárias e financeiras marxistas em face à nova realidade do pós-1971, tendo como ponto de partida a introdução lógica da forma dinheiro inconversível. A primeira parte, composta pelos dois primeiros capítulos, discute as duas maiores heranças que Marx recebeu - Hegel e o pensamento monetário inglês do século XIX -, para aí evidenciarmos tanto suas potencialidades quanto suas inevitáveis limitações. Quando passamos à segunda parte, constituída pelos dois últimos capítulos, o foco recai sobre a tentativa de fazer as categorias marxistas se adequarem ao nosso hodierno sistema financeiro e monetário; com um ponto claro: mostrar a ligação necessária entre o dinheiro inconversível e a atual formação de capital fictício. Momento no qual os derivativos financeiros se revelarão objetos contraditórios e, mais do que instrumentos, produtores de suas próprias pressuposições - em especial, o risco abstrato. Dessa forma estaremos aptos a analisar em toda sua profundidade o ciclo do moderno capital fictício - da mercadoria-capital, do capital que retorna como capital ao seu predicado lógico inicial. O resultado deste movimento será o engendramento de um novo capital abstrato, para o qual os swaps são seu veículo. / Departing from the logical introduction of the inconvertible money form this dissertation investigates the scientific adequateness of the monetary and financial Marxist theories to the new post-1971 reality. The first part, constituted by the first two chapters, discusses the two main heritages that Marx received - Hegel and the English monetary thought from the 19th century - to then make evident both its potentialities and its inevitable limitations. Moreover, with the clear objective of disclosing the necessary connection between inconvertible money and the present formation of fictitious capital, the second part, composed by the last two chapters, will focus on the attempt to adequate Marxist categories to our hodiern financial and monetary system. Moment to which financial derivatives will reveal themselves as contradictory objects and, more than just hedge devices, as producers of their own presuppositions - in special, abstract risk. In this way, we will be capable to analyze in all its profoundness the circuit of the modern fictitious capital - capital-commodity, capital that returned as capital to its first logical predicate. The outcome of this movement is the yield of an abstract capital, to which swaps are its vehicle.

In James Joyce’s Ulysses, I believe that Stephen Dedalus enacts a heteroglossic discourse in episode 15, “Circe,” that critiques both English imperialism and the nationalist bourgeois of Ireland. Moreover, Stephen engages not only in an aesthetic and political rebellion through the style of his discourse, but he also engages in the only anticolonial violence in Ulysses against the British soldier Private Carr. Thus, I believe that Stephen separates himself from the ideology of the colonizer and from the bourgeois nationalists through aesthetic, political, and violent means. I will conduct my examination of Stephen as a revolutionary colonial intellectual in three parts using the work of three respective theorists: Mikhail Bakhtin, Frantz Fanon, and Benedict Anderson. Ultimately, I intend to show that Stephen can be read as a gateway through which Joyce represents a new heterogeneous, anticolonial, and antinational community in Ireland. / Department of English

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-72). / iv, 72 leaves, bound ports. 29 cm

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-154). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Heidelberg, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-406) and index.

Thèse (M.A.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2005. / Bibliogr.: f. 39-40. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Heidelberg, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-406) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1903.