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Cutting Into ReliefBass, Matthew L. 20 March 2013 (has links)
The following is an examination of the ideas and decisions that went into an art exhibition held in gallery 303 of the Harris Fine Art Center February 1-13, 2013. The exhibition explores the relationships of the artwork, artist, viewer, and space. The catalyst for the above mentioned exploration is a process of making art using linoleum relief printing. The subject of the artwork is an in-depth examination of the material and printing process. It is my contention that such a close look at the art making process reveals the attitudes and decisions that we make with any human endeavor.
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A cognitive-behavioural therapeutic approach to anger management in adolescent malesMahoney, Janine, N/A January 1993 (has links)
The present investigation evaluated the efficacy of a Cognitive-Behavioural
Therapeutic Approach for the anger management of three adolescent males. The study
is noteworthy because it utilised essential features of Beck's Cognitive Therapy in the
cognitive restructuring phase of treatment. Previous studies have commonly employed
Rational Emotive Therapy's disputation of irrational beliefs for this phase. For this
reason it is considered to be an original contribution to the literature.
A multiple (three) single-case study research design was employed. The three
adolescents, aged 13 to 17 years, attended seven to nine one-hour counselling
sessions over a two to three month period. Pre-, post-treatment and long-term followup
psychometric measures of aggression and anecdotal reports of anger-control were
obtained from parents and teachers. Self-reports in the affective and cognitive domain,
progress in therapy, psychometric measures (aggressive behaviour subscale of the
Child Behaviour Checklist, Adapted Novaco Anger Inventory and Piers-Harris
Children's Self-Concept Scale) and continuous (including pre-, post-treatment and
long-term follow-up) assessments of the frequency of angry outbursts were obtained.
Counsellor assessments of cognitive homework and behaviour in therapy were also
made.
Results reveal marked reductions in the average daily frequencies of angry
outbursts in all cases by post-treatment and treatment effects were maintained
throughout the three-month follow-up period.
It was concluded that the cognitive-behavioural therapeutic approach warrants
further investigation as it is proposed that it is a comprehensive and efficacious
treatment for male adolescent anger problems.
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Islam - ett hot mot samhället? : en studie av Förbundet Humanisternas bild av islamLehtonen, Sofia January 2008 (has links)
<p>Denna uppsats syftar till att ge en bild av förbundet Humanisternas debatt och porträttering av islam och muslimer. Detta med hjälp av utländska ateister som även förekommit i förbundets egen tidskrift <em>Humanisten</em>. Mina frågeställningar är: Hur framställs islam och muslimer av media och av förbundet Humanisterna? Vilken kritik har framförts av Humanisterna angående islam och muslimer? Bidrar förbundet till en ökad schablonisering av islam och muslimer? För att nämna kortfattat vad jag kommit fram till kan det sägas att Humanisterna, när de skriver om islam eller muslimer, delvis är intoleranta i sin retorik. Den kritik som framförts mot förbundet är bland annat att de vill tvinga på en sekulär livsåskådning och att de tror dig ha ett slags monopol på sanningen. Eftersom den mediebild som redan existerar av islam och muslimer är negativt laddad, så hjälper Humanisterna till att öka den bild av islam som finns som den ”onda, mörka” religionen i vår tid, det vill säga, man bidrar till redan existerande schablonisering av muslimer.</p>
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Une approche hybride de l'extraction d'information : sous-langages et lexique-grammaireWatrin, Patrick 25 October 2006 (has links)
L'extraction d'information consiste habituellement à remplir, au départ d'un ensemble de documents, les champs d'un formulaire préalablement établi et articulé autour d'un scénario précis. Dans ce travail, nous cherchons à étudier la pertinence des bases de données syntaxiques du lexique-grammaire afin de répondre aux questions et enjeux posés par ce domaine d'application (adaptabilité, performance,...).
La phrase élémentaire (couple <prédicat, compléments essentiels>) est l'unité significative minimale de cette théorie linguistique (M. Gross, 1975) qui réunit lexique et syntaxe en un unique formalisme. Chacune de ces phrases dessine le sens d'un prédicat au moyen de critères tant distributionnels que transformationnels. Dans un cadre générique, on ne peut malheureusement pas prétendre caractériser davantage ces phrases. Il convient en effet que l'analyse syntaxico-sémantique qui dérive de l'utilisation du formalisme s'adapte à toute situation d'énonciation. Toutefois, si on limite l'analyse dont il est question à un contexte ou sous-langage particulier, celui d'un scénario d'extraction par exemple, en d'autres termes, si nous bornons la situation d'énonciation, il est envisageable de préciser la sémantique du prédicat et de ses compléments essentiels. Les phrases élémentaires peuvent ainsi être appréhendées comme autant de motifs d'extraction.
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The contribution of temperament to children's happinessKlassen, Andrea Nicole 11 1900 (has links)
The relation between temperament and happiness in children aged 8-12 was
examined. Participants included 311 students in Grades 4-6 and their parents, recruited from
public and private schools in the Central Okanagan. Parents rated their children’s
temperament using the Emotionality, Activity, and Sociability (EAS) Temperament Survey
(Buss & Plomin, 1984) and rated their children’s happiness using a single-item measure.
Children rated their own temperament using the EAS Temperament Survey and the Piers-
Harris Self Concept Scale for Children, Second Edition (Piers-Harris 2) (Piers & Herzberg,
2002). Children also rated their own happiness using a single-item measure, the Oxford
Happiness Scale, Short Form (Hills & Arygle, 2002), and the Subjective Happiness Scale
(Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999). Confirmatory factor analyses established that parent and
child ratings on the EAS Temperament Survey conformed to the four-factor structure
proposed by Buss and Plomin (1984). Multiple regression analyses revealed that
temperament accounted for between 9-29% of the variance in children’s happiness
depending on the rater (i.e., parents vs. children) and the measure of happiness. Individual
temperament variables that predicted a unique amount of the variance of children’s happiness
over and above the combined effect of all temperament variables varied with the rater of
children’s temperament (i.e., parents vs. children) and with the measure of happiness.
Children who were more social, less shy, less emotional, and more free from anxiety rated
themselves, and were rated by others, as happier. Children who scored higher on the activity
temperament rated themselves, and were rated by others, as happier. The results of the
current study parallel results of research investigating the relation between happiness and
personality in adults. It establishes a strong relation between temperament and happiness, and
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supports the use of self-reports with children. Implications and suggestions for future
research are discussed.
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Islam - ett hot mot samhället? : en studie av Förbundet Humanisternas bild av islamLehtonen, Sofia January 2008 (has links)
Denna uppsats syftar till att ge en bild av förbundet Humanisternas debatt och porträttering av islam och muslimer. Detta med hjälp av utländska ateister som även förekommit i förbundets egen tidskrift Humanisten. Mina frågeställningar är: Hur framställs islam och muslimer av media och av förbundet Humanisterna? Vilken kritik har framförts av Humanisterna angående islam och muslimer? Bidrar förbundet till en ökad schablonisering av islam och muslimer? För att nämna kortfattat vad jag kommit fram till kan det sägas att Humanisterna, när de skriver om islam eller muslimer, delvis är intoleranta i sin retorik. Den kritik som framförts mot förbundet är bland annat att de vill tvinga på en sekulär livsåskådning och att de tror dig ha ett slags monopol på sanningen. Eftersom den mediebild som redan existerar av islam och muslimer är negativt laddad, så hjälper Humanisterna till att öka den bild av islam som finns som den ”onda, mörka” religionen i vår tid, det vill säga, man bidrar till redan existerande schablonisering av muslimer.
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Constructing Panoramic Scenes From Aerial VideosErdem, Elif 01 December 2007 (has links) (PDF)
In this thesis, we address the problem of panoramic scene construction in which a single image covering the entire visible area of the scene is constructed from an aerial image video.
In the literature, there are several algorithms developed for construction of panoramic scene of a video sequence. These algorithms can be categorized as feature based and featureless algorithms. In this thesis, we concentrate on the feature based algorithms and comparison of these algorithms is performed for aerial videos. The comparison is performed on video sequences captured by non-stationary cameras, whose optical axis does not have to be the same. In addition, the matching and tracking performances of the algorithms are separately analyzed, their advantages-disadvantages are presented and several modifications are proposed.
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Camera Motion Blur And Its Effect On Feature DetectorsUzer, Ferit 01 September 2010 (has links) (PDF)
Perception, hence the usage of visual sensors is indispensable in mobile and autonomous
robotics. Visual sensors such as cameras, rigidly mounted on a robot frame are the most
common usage scenario. In this case, the motion of the camera due to the motion of the
moving platform as well as the resulting shocks or vibrations causes a number of distortions
on video frame sequences. Two most important ones are the frame-to-frame changes of the
line-of-sight (LOS) and the presence of motion blur in individual frames. The latter of these
two, namely motion blur plays a particularly dominant role in determining the performance of
many vision algorithms used in mobile robotics. It is caused by the relative motion between
the vision sensor and the scene during the exposure time of the frame. Motion blur is clearly
an undesirable phenomenon in computer vision not only because it degrades the quality of
images but also causes other feature extraction procedures to degrade or fail. Although there
are many studies on feature based tracking, navigation, object recognition algorithms in the
computer vision and robotics literature, there is no comprehensive work on the effects of
motion blur on different image features and their extraction.
In this thesis, a survey of existing models of motion blur and approaches to motion deblurring is presented. We review recent literature on motion blur and deblurring and we focus our
attention on motion blur induced degradation of a number of popular feature detectors. We
investigate and characterize this degradation using video sequences captured by the vision
system of a mobile legged robot platform. Harris Corner detector, Canny Edge detector and
Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) are chosen as the popular feature detectors that are
most commonly used for mobile robotics applications. The performance degradation of these
feature detectors due to motion blur are categorized to analyze the effect of legged locomotion
on feature performance for perception. These analysis results are obtained as a first step
towards the stabilization and restoration of video sequences captured by our experimental
legged robotic platform and towards the development of motion blur robust vision system.
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How could this happen? a constructivist analysis of reactive state terrorism at Ruby Ridge /Alexander, Deanna W. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jan. 31, 2007). Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-85).
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HIV incidence estimates and HIV/AIDS concurrent diagnosis in Houston/Harris County.Yang, Biru. Wolverton, Marcia Lynn, Chan, Shirley Kim-Ying Pang, Chan, Wenyaw, Risser, Jan Mary Hale, January 2009 (has links)
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-03, Section: B, page: 1574. Adviser: Lu-Yu Hwang. Includes bibliographical references.
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