Buried in Polyester is a collection of essays in three parts loosely connected around the theme of the loss of my mother. Much like JoAnn Beard's The Boys of My My Youth, the essays hold up pieces of my life for inspection and puts them down again, not always with a sense of resolution. The subtext of the piece revolves around the search to put together the pieces of what my life was before and after my mother, and the transition from girlhood to adulthood with the absence of my mother. I hope also to explore how the self splits after a traumatic death, and the desperate attempt at recreation that takes the place of genuine mourning. The final three pieces are a trilogy exploring my father's deteriorating health and my attempts to connect with him while somehow recapturing the self that I lost. / Department of English

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Thesis (M.T.S.)--Trinity Western Seminary, 1995. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-132).

Thesis (M.T.S.)--Trinity Western Seminary, 1995. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-132).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1943. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-112).

Thesis (M.T.S.)--Trinity Western Seminary, 1995. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-132).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by Danielle Karla Martins Silva (danielle.martins@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-12T12:39:08Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertacao Luis Gustavo.pdf: 741015 bytes, checksum: 4440a3bf4f752a7b808ba89edf97abcf (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-12T12:39:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertacao Luis Gustavo.pdf: 741015 bytes, checksum: 4440a3bf4f752a7b808ba89edf97abcf (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Apresentamos resultados novos sobre a classe de distribuições obtidas pela composição de uma distribuição contínua qualquer com a distribuição de Harris, a qual está relacionada a um processo de ramificação. A nova classe, denominadaHarris-G, contémtodas as famílias obtidas pelo método proposto por Marshall e Olkin em 1997. Entre os resultados obtidos destacamos a decomposição da função densidade de probabilidade das novas famílias em combinação linear de densidades exponencializadas, expressões para momentos, funções geradoras, entropias e caracterização por máxima entropia. Duas novas famílias da classe Harris-G são apresentadas nesse trabalho com exemplos de aplicações práticas para motivar o uso das mesmas.

In this thesis, we have evaluated the memory characteristics and parallel behaviour of the SUSAN (Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus) and Harris corner detection algorithms. Our purpose is understanding how the memory affects the predictability of these algorithms and furthermore how we can use multi-core machines to improve the execution time of such algorithms. By investigating the execution pattern of the SUSAN and Harris corner detection algorithms, we were able of breaking down the algorithms into parallelizable parts and non-parallelizable parts. We implemented a fork-join model on the parallelizable parts of these two algorithms and we were able to achieve a 7.9--8 times speedup on the two corner detection algorithms using an 8-core P4080 machine. For the sake of a wider study, we also executed these parallel adaptations on 4 different Intel platforms which generated similar results. The parallelized algorithms are also subjects for further improvement. We therefore investigated the memory characteristics of L1 data and instruction cache misses, cycles waiting for L2 cache miss loads, and TLB store misses. In these measurements, we found a strong correlation between L1 data cache replacement and the execution time. To encounter this memory issue, we implemented loop tiling techniques which were adjusted according to the L1 cache size of our test systems. Our tests of the tiling techniques exhibit a less fluctuating memory behaviour, which however comes at the cost of an increase in the execution time.

The influence of the pre-Civil War Southwestern humorists on the work of William Faulkner has long been hypothesized. But it has received scant critical attention, much of it erroneous or so general as to be almost meaningless. While Faulkner's total vision is more than merely humorous, humor is a significant part of that vision. And the importance of frontier humor to Faulkner's art is further substantiated by the fact that many of his grotesque passages derive from elements of this humor. Frontier humor flourished from I830 to I860, and while a large group of men then flooded American newspapers with contributions, it now survives in anthologies and the book-length collections of its most prominent writers — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Joseph Glover Baldwin, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and George Washington Harris. Their writings illustrate the genre's growth from mere regionalism in eighteenth century diction to the robust and masculine humor in the frontiersman's own language. Harris is the best of these humorists because he has a better sense of incongruity and consistently tells his stories in the earthy vernacular of the frontiersman; and Faulkner himself admires Sut Lovingood, principle character-cum-raconteur of Harris's best work. Therefore, in this thesis I focus on Harris's Sut Lovingood in relation to the Snopes trilogy of Faulkner — his longest unified work and a "chronicle” of Yoknapatawpha County with much frontier humor in it. A major parallel between Faulkner and Harris is their similar use of the story-within-a-story device and their similar technical rendering of the highly figurative and even in Harris's time somewhat stylized language of the frontier. Their common Southern heritage and the lack of change in the post-bellum Southern backwoodsman conduces to a similar milieu. Harris's and Faulkner's recurrent theme of retribution derives from the frontiersman's individualism and from his concern for at least the rudiments of society. Both authors create a large number of frontier characters at and their principal frontier characters are at once superb story tellers and epitomize the best ideals of the American frontier. The purpose of this thesis, then, is to examine the ways in which Faulkner parallels Harris's frontier humor. Having established Harris as the best writer in his group, I discuss the two authors' structures and techniques, their milieus and themes, and their characters. The trilogy's similarities with and deviations from Harris's Sut Lovingood help to illuminate Faulkner's artistry as well as to suggest the strength of Harris's influence on Faulkner. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate