257 research outputs found
L’exception du Bade-Würtemberg
No full textLe Bade-Würtemberg est le seul Land allemand à ne pas avoir confié la formation des enseignants aux universités en 1994. Il a préféré maintenir les Pädagogische Hochschulen en leur attribuant le statut d’université autonome et en les rattachant directement au ministère de l’Éducation du Bade-Würtemberg. La solution adoptée est, d’après l’auteur, source d’un certain nombre d’inconvénients auxquels il serait souhaitable de remédier.Bade-Würtemberg is the only Land which did not hand over teacher training to universities in 1994. It preferred to keep the Pädagogische Hochschulen, giving them the status of autonomous universities and linking them directly to the Bade- Würtemberg Ministry of Education. According to the author, the solution adopted has a certain number of drawbacks which need to be put right
Josse Bade: auteur van 'dit is der zotten ende der narren scip' (1500)
No full textThe book Dit is der zotten ende der narren scip was printed in 1500 in Paris by Guide Coopman as the colophon says. Who the author is, is revealed by neither the colophon, nor the title page. It will be argued that it is Josse Bade, the famous humanist, who wrote the book. The book’s language corresponds to Bade’s Flemish in Jouennaux & Bade (1508). The content is consonant with Bade’s literary and annotative Latin products
New bounding volume approach for detecting collision in computer animation
No full textThis paper presents a method for fast-approximate collision detection between 3D models S undergoing rigid body motion known as oriented convex polyhedra R(S). By enclosing 3D models tightly, the fineness of detected collision can be enhanced. It is known that the large number of void areas which belongs to any 3D bounding volumes B(S) can affect the accuracy of collision detection system. Therefore, a way to compute R(S) using intersection of a set of halfspaces is described. The directions of these halfspaces are generated from calculating covariance matrix. To develop the tightest R(S), the quality of abutting corners by implementing Tribox Bounds method is improved. To detect collision between R(S), a straightforward approach by simply checking its interval pairs in local space system is performed. The proposed approach was implemented and a number of comparisons in terms of time and recorded collision with other B(S) were performed. From the conducted tests, R(S) performs well and might be a possible choice for detecting collision of 3D models undergoing rigid body motion
Primitives penetration depth computation using Dynamic Pivot Point technique
No full textComputing penetration depth between two or more polygons commonly
described by most researchers as one of the high computational cost process. Major
implementation required numbers of pre-processing function just to find the minimum
penetrating depth between those penetrated objects or polygons. In this paper, we proposed a
technique that manipulates the advantages of Dynamic Pivot Point into computing penetration
depth between two or more objects. Comparing our proposed technique (DyOP-PD) with the
well-known Lin-Canny technique, the conducted experiments proved that our proposed
technique has achieved better efficiency. Overall time for DyOP-PD technique to compute
penetration depth was significantly faster than the Lin-Canny PD technique (refer Figure 6.9).
Our technique was faster than the prominent technique where the computational time
significantly reduced, solved a larger fraction of problems, and produced better paths of
penetration depth. The lowest results recorded from our simulation was in average at 10.22
milliseconds for DyOP-PD and 21.33 milliseconds for Lin-Canny PD technique. The findings
proved that DyOP-PD technique is robust to handle efficient, nearly accurate, and fast
penetration depth detection compared to Lin-Canny-PD technique
Sphere encapsulated oriented-discrete orientation polytopes (s-dop) collision culling for multi-, rigid body dynamic
No full textThis paper discusses on sphere encapsulated oriented-discrete orientation polytopes (therefore will be referred to as S-Dop) collision culling for multiple rigid body simulation. In order to improve performance of the whole simulation system, there are available options in sacrificing the accuracy over speed by using certain approximation techniques. The aim of this research is to achieve excellent performance through implementation of suitable culling technique, without jeopardizing the resulting behavior so that the simulation will still be physically plausible. The basic idea is to identify the highly probable pairs to collide and test the pair with a more accurate collision test in broad-phase collision
detection, before the pair is passed to a more costly stage. Results from the experiments showed that there are a number of ways to implement the sphere encapsulated or-Dops (S-Dop) collision culling on a multiple rigid body simulation depending on the level of performance needed
Ill-Fire
No full textx, 35 p.The author introduces an original collection of poems by reflecting on the K experience and influential poems, and writes ”My SIP in its current state is a different creature than what I imagined and envisioned it would be when writing my proposal. Nevertheless, the process of it has been wonderfully cathartic and enlightening to me. My original title when I submitted my proposal was The Vibrance In Between, which sounds really ostentatious in retrospect and not what the collection evolved into. In the context of a collection about the nonbinariness of life and people, I think it would be a great title, but that is too flashy for the images of crusted ash, warmed glue, and clattering bones that fuel Ill-Fire. My SIP advisor, Scott Bade, offered that up as a possible title for the collection because he really liked the phrase in ‘to be set on,’ which was originally named ‘on ill-fire.’ I loved that phrase, a play on ill-will, but I didn’t want that poem to be as entangled with the title of the collection as I thought it would be if they had the same/very similar titles. I think the title of the poem being ‘to be set on’ also benefits that poem by adding another layer of unjust violence, as if the poem is being attacked out of nowhere without cause: mimicking, also, the violence against queer/trans folks. When looking back at the questions I raised in my SIP proposal, I do feel that I answered them- what does it mean for something to burn, what does it mean to burn for someone or something, what causes it, what does it do to a mind and how is that any different from what it does to a forest, how do we cope with burning, how do we revel in it. I think I answered them in a different way than I had imagined. And I think that is because I let myself think more like a poet and less like a scholar.
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No full textBig Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: the 2014 LibTech Anti-talk?
No full textThe desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in general and “Big data” in particular. Along with those who wield them, these can be seen as functioning together as a “mechanical muse” of sorts – surprisingly alluring – and, like a physical automaton can serve as a symbol – a microcosm – of what the MSTM sees (at the very least in practice) as the cosmic machine, our “final frontier”. And yet, individuals who unreflectively participate in these things – giving themselves over to them and seeking the powers afforded by the technology apart from technology’s rightful purposes – in fact yield to the same pragmatism and reductionism those wielding them are captive to. Thus, they ultimately nullify themselves philosophically, politically, and economically – their value increasingly being only the data concerning their persons, and its perceived usefulness. Likewise libraries, the time-honored place of, and symbol for, the intellectual flowering of the individual, will, insofar as they spurn the classical liberal arts (with the idea that things are intrinsically good, and in the case of humans, special as well) in favor of the alluring embrace of MSTM-driven “information technology” and Big data - unwittingly contribute to their irrelevance and demise as they find themselves increasingly less needed, valued, wanted. Likewise for the liberal arts as a whole, and in fact history itself, if the acid of a “science” untethered from what is, in fact, good (intrinsically), continues to gain strengt
W E. B. Dubois post-1934 thought, 1977
No full textThis thesis traces W. E. B. DuBois evolution of thought after he split with the integrationist-oriented NAACP in 1934. First, his plans for a segregated black economy are examined. In Chapter II the tensions, dilemmas and contradictions in DuBois1 political and social thought are discussed. The third chapter deals with the "American Creed" and the manner in which DuBois uncovered and expounded upon the disparity between promises implicit in that creed and the actual degree to which those promises are fulfilled (which often depends on racial considerations). It must be determined whether DuBois possessed the traditional American spirit of optimism in relation to the ability and willingness of the American social structure to handle problems such as race. In Chapter IV DuBois conceptions of Marxian Socialism and Communism as they related to racial and international affairs are discussed. Early in his career DuBois was concerned almost exclusively with conditions in the United States,But as he confronted Marxian Socialism and its implications (both theoretical and real), his interests broadened to include all of the "colored" world as well as Europe and Asia. Chapter V talks about DuBois, Communism and the American Negro. DuBois was personally involved in many events evolving from the rise of Communism (such as the McCarthy era). In the final chapter. Chapter VI, the Marxian Socialism in DuBois1 ideas and values as well as their implications and manifestations will be reviewed. Many questions are encountered here, not the least of which revolves around whether or not DuBois was, in the final analysis, a "real, dedicated Communist." The paper concludes with a summary of Chapters I through VI and with final remarks about W. E. B. DuBois' contributions to American political and social thought and to the black struggle in this country
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