Despite her immense popularity in the nineteenth century, Constance Fenimore Woolson's reputation dwindled substantially in the decades which followed. While her works have been rediscovered over the past thirty years, they are often categorized as regionalist writing or, in the case of her penultimate novel, Jupiter Lights, melodrama. What many fail to consider, however, is that Woolson very much considered herself a realist author, and may have been remembered as such were it not for the influence of William Dean Howells and his peers, whose very narrow parameters for literary realism excluded Woolson, among others. Unfortunately, those parameters are still with us today, and exclude many authors whose realities do not conform to Howells’s original scope. In this thesis, I examine the biographical and historical context for Woolson’s lesser-known works, arguing that they demonstrate a type of empathetic realism which must not be ignored by current scholars of American literature.

Miss Rate Curves (MRCs) for main memory have been proposed as a representation of memory utilization for use in a range of optimizations in the area of memory man- agement. Various techniques exist for their creation; however, all real-world methods of MRC generation must make trade-offs between overhead and accuracy. Proposals for new hardware techniques exist, but have yet to be implemented in actual hardware. We pro- pose the use of the Intel PEBS (Precise Event-Based Sampling) performance monitoring capability for the task of MRC generation on existing commodity hardware. We use PEBS to generate MRCs and compare them against MRCs generated through instrumentation, finding the PEBS MRCs to be good, but imperfect approximations, while keeping average PEBS overheads below 5%. We were unable to show that PEBS is better or worse than existing techniques, but believe we have succeeded in showing the promise of the use of general purpose performance monitoring hardware for this task and in motivating future research and development in this area.

Miss Rate Curves (MRCs) for main memory have been proposed as a representation of memory utilization for use in a range of optimizations in the area of memory man- agement. Various techniques exist for their creation; however, all real-world methods of MRC generation must make trade-offs between overhead and accuracy. Proposals for new hardware techniques exist, but have yet to be implemented in actual hardware. We pro- pose the use of the Intel PEBS (Precise Event-Based Sampling) performance monitoring capability for the task of MRC generation on existing commodity hardware. We use PEBS to generate MRCs and compare them against MRCs generated through instrumentation, finding the PEBS MRCs to be good, but imperfect approximations, while keeping average PEBS overheads below 5%. We were unable to show that PEBS is better or worse than existing techniques, but believe we have succeeded in showing the promise of the use of general purpose performance monitoring hardware for this task and in motivating future research and development in this area.

<p>In present-day situation many libraries use detectors so that they can be able to prevent attempts too take out books without registering them. The university library in Jonkoping is one of the libraries that have such a detector. But unfortunately it doesn’t always work correct and can also react on other things a part from books. This is a big problem since the library staff don’t have time to check all signals that comes from detector. This paper will focus to help the university library in Jonkoping to identify the causes of the false alarms.</p><p>This paper have the purpose to help library staff to decrease the false alarms so they can be able to get more time over to examine the essential signals from the detector. To be able to identify the causes of the false alarms two experiments was implemented. 180 persons participated, they were divided into three subgroups. In the other experiment 400 persons participated, of whom 200 was female and 200 male. Astonishing to see was that the outcome of the experiments showed that the cause of the false alarms wasn’t the detector, instead the results showed that it was two other factors that affected the detector. One factor was the books that were send from other libraries in Sweden, they hadn’t been unimagnetised and the other reason was the self-service machine.</p><p>In the conclusion and discussion two simple recommendations have been given to help the personnel:</p><p>• To inform all other libraries that send books about the problems that the university library in Jonkoping has with books that aren’t unimagnetised. In this way they will be more careful before they send away the books.</p><p>• To write a note with information about the self-service machine so that the students learn how to use this service.</p><p>These simple recommendations will help the library to decrease the false alarm.</p>

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-149, 65-69).

Thesis (D. Ed. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2002. / Includes abstract and vita. "October 2002." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-144).

Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-90).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1999. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-79).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1997. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-187).