We describe the design, algorithm, implementation and experiments with ClosetStylist – an Android app that helps users digitize their clothing inventory for better usage, manage outfit worn history, laundry bags, and last but not least, suggest what to wear based on occasion and weather. The app utilizes a variety of off-the-shelf services such as location and weather services, combining with our own clothes matching algorithm to recommend the most suitable outfit to users. In addition to the main features, ClosetStylist offers a friendly user interface that enables smooth navigation and keeps users engaged. The app was tested under different mock weather conditions with two sets of wardrobe, specifically a male closet of 24 items and a female closet of 86 items. The recommended outfits were displayed on the screen within three seconds of the moment the user initiated the options from the main menu. The app recommended satisfying results which we would hand-pick as our daily outfits. / text

Designingenjörsstudenten Matilda Kälström har på Tibroköks uppdrag utvecklat ett sortiment för walk-in-closets där målgruppen för projektet är företagets befintliga kundkrets. Under projektets gång har en grundläggande förstudie gjorts för att bland annat ta reda på projektets förutsättningar, kartlägga konkurrenter och ta reda på vad kunder har för krav och önskemål. Exempel på krav och önskemål från kundernas sida var att produkten skall ge en överblick över innehållet och samla all klädvård på ett gemensamt ställe.  En litteraturstudie gjordes där det lästes om förvaring, människans relation till hemmet och om arkitektur. Information som framkom var bland annat att det är väldigt viktigt för människan att kunna utforma sitt hem efter egna behov och en bra riktlinje att strukturera förvaring på är efter var på kroppen kläderna används. En central del i projektet är Kansei Engineering, vilket är ett koncept för att koppla människor uppfattningar till produkters utformning. Det har använts i enkäter för att ta reda på vad kunder vill uppleva, det har använts till idégenerering och för att sedan ta reda på om resultatet gav de uppfattningar som eftersträvades. I enkäterna framkom det att det bland annat är önskvärt att en walk-in-closet är lyxig, klassisk, stilren och bekväm. Dessa ords betydelser togs fram från Nationalencyklopedin och användes för att göra mood boards som sedan användes till idégenerering. Idégenereringen skedde i tre olika idéstadier som byggde både på olika metoder och på varandra. Efter varje idéstadie utvärderades koncepten och resultaten följde med till nästa idéstadie. Metoder som användes var bland annat personas, scenarion, funktionsträd och morfologisk tabell. Utvärderingarna gjordes tillsammans med företaget och till hjälp användes metoden PNI och en viktningmatris. Resultatet blev ett sortiment bestående av tolv moduler som kunderna kan kombinera ihop till sina egna walk-in-closets. Fyra olika skåpsmoduler, två olika förvaringsöar, två sittplatser, ett sminkbord, en smyckesbyrå, en skohylla och en spegelhylla. För att till sist ta reda på om resultatet ger de uppfattningar och upplevelser som det strävats efter under projektets gång så gjordes en utvärdering med tolv personer, främst studenter på Högskolan i Skövde. Två olika montage av modulerna i form av en ”kvinnlig” och en ”manlig” walk-in-closets visades för deltagarna och de fick med egna ord beskriva vad de fick för intryck av bilderna och berätta vad de tyckte att dessa walk-in-closets har för egenskaper. Deltagarnas svar stärkte projektets resultat och bekräftade att det gav de uppfattningar och upplevelser som var önskvärda. / The Design Engineering student Matilda Kälström has developed a range of storage solutions for walk-in closets where the target group for the project is the company’s existing customer base. During the project a basic feasibility study was done to determine the project requirements, identify competitors and find out what demands and requests the customers have. Example of demand was that the product should provide an overview of the content of the walk-in-closet. A literature study was done to gather information about storage, man's relationship to its home and architecture. Identified information was that it's very important for the human to be able to design their home according to their needs and a good guideline to structure storage is to place the clothes according to where on the body they are used. A central part of the project is Kansei engineering, which is a concept of connecting peoples’ perceptions to products' design. It has been used in surveys to find out what the customers want to experience, it has been used for idea generation and it has been used to find out if the results gave desirable experiences. The survey results revealed that desirable experiences of a walk-in closet is luxurious, classic, stylish and comfortable. The meaning of these words were used from the National Encyclopedia to make mood boards which then were used to generate ideas. The development of ideas were made in three stages with different methods. After each stages the concepts were evaluated and the results were used in the next stage. The methods that were used was for example personas, scenarios, function trees and morphological table. The evaluations was performed with the company, the method PNI and a weighting matrix. The result is a collection of twelve modules that customers can combine in their own way of walk-in closets. Four different cabinet modules, two different “storage islands”, two seats, a dressing table, a chest of drawers for jewelries, a shoe rack and a mirror shelf. To finally find out if the result gives the perceptions and experiences that is desirable an evaluation was done with twelve people, mostly students at the University of Skövde. Two different mounting of the modules in the form of a "female" and "male" walk-in-closets were shown. With their own words they were about to describe what impressions they had of the pictures and tell what they thought of these walk-in-closets. The participants' response strengthened the project's results and confirmed that the impressions and experiences were desirable.

ASSIS NETO, Pedro Vicente de. O sujeito no armário em face do "abjeto" objeto de desejo: a dinâmica do outing na "narrativa de revelação" de uma telenovela global. 2017. 118f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2017. / Submitted by Pós-graduação em Sociologia (posgrads@ufc.br) on 2017-11-21T12:22:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_pvaneto.pdf: 963877 bytes, checksum: c81bc6c41356f2ecfebb9d55a9395858 (MD5) / Rejected by Maria Josineide Góis (josineide@ufc.br), reason: Bom dia, Socorro. Favor localize o aluno PEDRO VICENTE DE ASSIS NETO e solicite que o aluno normalize o arquivo de acordo com o Guia de Normalização da UFC que está disponível no sitio http://www.biblioteca.ufc.br/images/arquivos/documentos_tecnicos/guia_normalizacao_trabalhos_ufc_2013.pdf. 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Biblioteca de Ciências Humanas (BCH) 33667659 on 2017-11-21T13:17:11Z (GMT) / Submitted by Pós-graduação em Sociologia (posgrads@ufc.br) on 2017-11-23T11:30:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_pvaneto.pdf: 1029530 bytes, checksum: 6b1bb8e7e80ba50cff84e44bd67ac4b0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-11-24T10:51:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_pvaneto.pdf: 1029530 bytes, checksum: 6b1bb8e7e80ba50cff84e44bd67ac4b0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-24T10:51:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_pvaneto.pdf: 1029530 bytes, checksum: 6b1bb8e7e80ba50cff84e44bd67ac4b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / This research have its central issue on the matter of visibility conferred to gay characters of soap operas that find themselves "coming out of the closet", that is, when they open to the public their sexual orientation. It is placed at a television context, where performances of homo-oriented relations were, historically, marginalized and had to adjust to a society marked by heteronormativity. To this disciplinary and hierarchical model of sexes and genders, some thoughts are considered, without losing sight of them as discourses that seek to criminalize, moralize, pathologize, and make these dissident masculinities invisible. Therefore it is yet to be investigated if the so-called "narratives of revelation" and their representations that emerge from brazilian television shows are positive and creative affirmations of their own identity positions or are reinforcing clichés based on a series of stigmas and prejudices about them. The soap opera "Babylon" is taken as the case of study, analyzing the discourses produced for its scenes and dialogues that are focused on the characters of Ivan and Sergio, in order to reconfigure the path that leads from subjectivity, condensed by the closet entity, to the reinvention of oneself. Based on the encounter of these two characters mentioned throughout the narrative, there will be taken in account markers of social, economic, ethnic and generation differences. By inciting those matters, this research uses "depth hermeneutics" as it's method, since it is a "three-phase procedure", which contemplates the conditions of production, construction and reception of the messages that are being sent by the discourses produced over these characters. Hence it matters how much, in this particular context, this gay couple was crossed by outer effects towards its creation and also, to what price they could express in words and through body language what they felt for each other amid censorship tactics from the tv show author and amid boycotts from part of the audience. / Tendo como sua problemática central a questão da visibilidade conferida aos personagens gays de telenovelas, que se encontram “saindo do armário”, em outing, ou seja, quando se assumem e tornam pública a sua orientação sexual, a pesquisa se localiza num contexto televisivo, onde as performances das relações homo-direcionadas foram, historicamente, marginalizadas e tiveram de se ajustar a uma sociedade marcada pela heteronorma. A esse modelo disciplinador e hierárquico de sexos e gêneros, colocam-se algumas reflexões, sem que se percam de vista as formações discursivas que procuram criminalizar, moralizar, patologizar, invisibilizar essas masculinidades dissidentes. De igual modo, resta saber se as chamadas “narrativas de revelação” e as formas simbólicas imbricadas emergem na teledramaturgia brasileira no sentido de afirmar criativa e positivamente a sua posição identitária ou re-inscrever clichês baseados em uma série de estigmas e preconceitos a seu respeito. Toma-se a telenovela “Babilônia” como estudo de caso e analisa-se a produção discursiva em torno das cenas e diálogos centrados nos personagens Ivan e Sérgio, a fim de se restituir o movimento que leva da sujeição, condensada pela figura do armário, à reinvenção de si mesmo. Através do encontro promovido entre esses dois sujeitos no decorrer da narrativa, tenta-se contemplar suas experiências de vida, modos de existência e seus marcadores de diferença sócio- econômico, étnico-racial e geracional. Ao se incitar por essas questões, a pesquisa adota a “hermenêutica de profundidade” como referencial metodológico, a partir do seu “enfoque tríplice”, que engloba os campos das condições de produção, da construção das mensagens e da recepção e apropriação dos discursos atinentes a esses personagens. Daí se importe saber até que ponto, nesse contexto particular, o casal gay foi atravessado por usos e efeitos exteriores à sua produção e a que preço os personagens puderam expressar revelando, discursiva e corporalmente, o que sentiam um pelo outro, em meio a táticas e censuras da autoria e boicotes de parte da audiência.

My dissertation, "Renovating the Closet : Nineteenth-Century Closet Drama Written by Women as a Stage for Social Critique," contributes to a new understanding about nineteenth-century closet drama through three distinct and innovative texts: George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy (1868), Michael Field's Stephania (1892), and Augusta Webster's A Woman Sold (1867). I contend that these three women writers employed the closet drama, a genre written in dramatic form but intended to be privately read or performed, to critique the social, cultural, and ideological limitations placed upon women of their time. In their symbolic use of the genre and innovative experiments with form, Eliot, Field, and Webster created a new stage on which their female protagonists challenge belief systems, institutions, and conventions that confine their gender roles, sexual identity, and social power. My chapter, "'Angel of the Homeless Tribe' : The Legacy of The Spanish Gypsy," shows how George Eliot melds the conventions of epic narrative with those of Victorian closet drama and reveals a dynamic connection between the character development and genre. Eliot's canonical novels are famous for their indictment of the limited roles Victorian culture offered to women. Equally famous are the tragic destinies of her rebellious heroines: they end up dead, unfulfilled, or virtually imprisoned. But scholars have failed to notice that in her experiment with The Spanish Gypsy, Eliot created a female epic: Fedalma, a woman of fifteenth-century Spain, becomes the leader of her "Gypsy" nation, sung into the future by an admiring bard. Eliot's formal experiment makes The Spanish Gypsy an important text for understanding how genre shaped gender representation in Eliot's canon, and in Victorian literature generally. My chapter, "'Something of His Manhood Falls' : Stephania as Critique of Victorian Male Aesthetics and Masculinity," offers Stephania as Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper's commentary on the predominantly-male Aesthetic and Decadent movements of the 1890s. Through the pseudonym Michael Field, Bradley and Cooper wrote their way into, and claimed their own space inside, a very exclusive males-only closet. The chapter demonstrates how Stephania, set in Rome 1002 A.D., reclaims agency for a Victorian artistic "sisterhood" adulterated and exiled by a "brotherhood" of male Decadents (who saw woman as a nemesis to social order, personal salvation, and creative production), both through its form, and its cast of three: Stephania, Emperor Otho, and his old tutor Gerbert. Stephania, a former Empress turned courtesan bent on revenge for her husband's murder, challenges homosocial exclusivity and ultimately triumphs as a symbolic queen and emperor. Successful in her plan to bring down Otho through her seduction and manipulation of both men, Stephania is redeemed and saved; she has restored social order. In its resistance of the boundaries and expectations of the closet drama genre, Stephania projects a new ideology for Victorian womanhood and female authorship. My last chapter, "'I Could Be Tempted' : The Ev(e)olution of the Angel in the House in A Woman Sold," presents A Woman Sold as an early example of Augusta Webster's strategic social rhetoric, as her use of the closet drama acts as a structural metaphor for the sociomythological confinement of the nineteenth-century middle class woman. I investigate how A Woman Sold exposes the notion that marriage for nineteenth-century middle class women symbolized a closet of social and cultural paralysis, as grown from a history of socially and culturally institutionalized gender expectations. At the same time, I demonstrate how Webster employs irony through a nexus of genre, narrative, and form to support and advocate for opportunities outside marriage that encourage female agency to develop. Essentially, the fundamental argument in this dissertation hinges on the ways in which Eliot, Field, and Webster revised the conventional closet drama to renovate and, in turn, reveal the metaphorical and literal closets that confined social and cultural possibilities for nineteenth-century women. / text

Coming out of the closet and sharing a disclosure narrative is considered an essential act to becoming gay (Jagose 1996; Meeks 2006). Although coming out experiences vary by time and place, sexuality scholars note the assumed difficulties when claiming a non-heteronormative identity, including stress, isolation, and rejection (Chauncey 1994; Faderman 1991; Herdt 1993; 1996; Savin-Williams and Ream 2003). In the late 1990s, a post-closet framework emerged arguing that coming out of the closet has become more common and less difficult; “American homosexuals have normalized and routinized their homosexuality to a degree where the closet plays a lesser role in their lives” (Seidman Meeks and Traschen 1999:19). Moreover, post- gay activists and writers such as James Collard (1998) contended that being and doing gay “authentically” involves moving past oppression and despair and living an openly gay life. In light of such arguments, this dissertation research was constructed to explore coming out experiences. I collected 60 narratives from self- identified lesbians and gay men living in Atlanta, New York, and Miami and analyzed these narratives using an intersectional framework. Intersectionality highlights the ways in which multiple dimensions of socially constructed relationships and categories interact, shaping simultaneous levels of social inequality (Crenshaw 1989; 1995). Through the multiple and sometimes complicated intersections of race, class, gender, capital, place, religion, and the body, my analysis exposes institutional and interactional dimensions of power, privilege, and oppression in coming out narratives. Indeed, the kind of "American" or "routinized" homosexuality described by post-closet scholars privileges white, non-gender conforming, middle-class individuals, most often male and urban. Coming out stories that express or embody elements of non-normativity are marginalized and marked as different. In conclusion, intersectionality exposes how privilege functions as a dimension to coming out stories, leading to marginalization and oppression amongst already discriminated identities.

This study intends to analyse the terms camp and closet in Alan Hollinghurst&rsquo / s fiction, since all four of his novels - The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1993), The Spell (1998), and The Line of Beauty (2004) - investigate the gay male experience throughout the late-twentieth century The point in analysing these terms in Hollinghurst&rsquo / s work is to find out whether the author writes from the margin or in the centre to recreate the origin. Gay subjectivities are of great concern to this study, yet it does not mean that it will be a product of identity politics. Identity politics does regard gender, race, or ethnicities, which are nothing but social constructions, as fixed or biologically determined traits. Thus, identity politics, while trying to recentre the decentred and marginalised identities, re-establishes the binary structure of the Western thought. This study analyses how Hollinghurst, by camping and closeting the gay male, re-produces homosexuality as a distinct identity with a subculture of its own.

Upon the enactment by the United States Congress of the 1992 Energy Policy Act, it became mandatory that all water closets in residential and commercial settings reduce the volume of water that they consume per flush. In 1994, after installations began of the new low-flush or low-flow water closets that used less than half the water that their predecessors used, many owners of the new plumbing fixtures began to complain that their performance was sub par. Many complained about plumbing backups and of complete bowl clearance problems. There have been studies conducted to evaluate the new water closets’ bowl evacuation properties. This study focuses on what happens to the solid waste that is flushed through the water closet after leaving the bowl, namely how far the solid media is transported down waste piping. The main focus of this study is to compare the performance of the low-flush, 1.6 gallons (6 liters) per flush water closets with the performance of the formerly standard flush 3.5 gallons (13 liters) per flush in regards to how far they transport solid waste through waste lines. It was found that the media flushed through the high volume water closets traveled significantly farther that the media flushed through the low-flush water closets. It was often more than double the average distance. It was also found that media traveled farther down pipes composed of PVC than those composed of cast iron and also traveled farther down three inch pipes than four inch pipes.

Over the years, an increasing number of scholars have argued that a "coming out imperative" characterizes Western society, urging those who harbor hidden identities to make those identities visible for the greater good. A number of sources repeatedly remind queer-identified individuals, for example, that coming out of the closet results in crucial visibility that, among other things, can help lead to political advances for the GLBTQ community. Yet, the call to make the invisible visible also valorizes the gender and sexual binary system that queer theory seeks to dismantle. How might we view the closet--a location that we find ourselves in repeatedly over time, regardless of any and all coming out events--in queer terms? How might we queer common conceptualizations of its construction and its utility? While he does not technically identify as gay, the popular culture stalwart known as Superman provides a useful exemplar for engaging in such a task. Since his first appearance in the pages of comic books more than seventy years ago, consumers and critics have continually inscribed Superman with meanings other than those presumably intended by his authors, thus attesting to the figure's polysemy. These subtextual layers enable consumers to recognize aspects of his texts that they find especially salient, including cues that speak to queer experiences. For example, because Superman's identity is in constant flux, with Superman always masking Clark Kent and vice versa, queer audiences may view Superman as especially relatable given their own experiences with a sexual- and gender-based closet. Superman does not adhere to the "coming out imperative," though, since he constantly relies on his closet in order to perform his super-job efficiently and effectively. His narrative, by its very nature, valorizes some measure of invisibility as a viable approach to managing a life with difference, however super or terrestrial that difference may be. This project analyzes four Superman texts--the television series Smallville, the motion picture Superman Returns, and the animated films Superman: Brainiac Attacks! and Superman: Doomsday--to ponder a closet that may offer opportunity rather than blanket oppression. Through his own identity negotiation, Superman struggles with his difference in ways that are similar to his queer human counterparts, and his eventual embrace of that identity, costume and all, suggests that he achieves some measure of pride in that difference. Yet, his closet remains intact. He may not always appreciate its limitations, but he understands the opportunities it bestows, and I believe we can learn from him. In other words, rampant heteronormativity and heterosexist presumption ensure that we must live with our queer closets everyday. This project seeks to reclaim that space for its practical and critical utility.

Cyberqueer Techno-practices: Digital Space-Making and Networking by Swedish Gay Men     This study aims to highlight intersections of queer experiences and new media, by focusing on the use of digital platforms and communication practices among Swedish gay men. This is being carried out using a netnographic approach including an online survey and in-depth interviews among the target group, as well as field observations on gay catering online forums and GPS application software. Special attention is paid to the blur between online and offline, increasingly underpinned by innovations such as smartphones, tablet computers and GPS techniques, and how it may challenge and reconfigure concepts of public and private in relation to sexuality and sexual identity. Using a rich combination of queer theory and media and communication theory, the study intends to illuminate the underdeveloped potential of cross-fertilization between the fields. The concept of space has a central position, as the cyberqueer practices performed by gay men are argued to produce queer space that extends their social scope in a heteronormative environment. The interviews and the survey indicate that the use of digital media among gay men fulfill group specific purposes, for aspects such as social and sexual networking, as well as senses of community. Further, the possibility to visit digital spaces seems to have a particular significance during “coming-out processes”, since most of the informants have been dealing with their sexual identity and/or practice online, long before doing so offline. This is valid for individuals from both urban and rural areas, as the queer spaces online also are prioritized over offline alternatives when available.

Data mining is proving itself to be a very important field as the data available is increasing exponentially, thanks to first computerization and now internetization. On the other hand, cluster computing systems made up of commodity hardware are becoming widespread, along with the multicore processor architectures. This high computing power is synthesized with data mining to process huge amounts of data and to reach information and knowledge. Frequent itemset mining is a special subtopic of data mining because it is an integral part of many types of data mining tasks. Often this task is a prerequisite for many other data mining algorithms, most notably algorithms in the association rule mining area. For this reason, it is studied heavily in the literature. In this thesis, a parallel implementation of CLOSET+, a frequent closed itemset mining algorithm, is presented. The CLOSET+ algorithm has been modified to run on multiple processors simultaneously, in order to obtain results faster. Open MPI and Boost libraries have been used for the communication between different processes and the program has been tested on different inputs and parameters. Experimental results show that the algorithm exhibits high speedup and eficiency for dense data when the support value is higher than a determined value. Proposed parallel algorithm could prove to be useful for application areas where fast response is needed for low to medium number of frequent closed itemsets. A particular application area is the Web where online applications have similar requirements.