862 research outputs found
Design methods in the aerospace industry : looking for evidence of set-based practices
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology and Policy Program, 1998.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-211).by Joshua I. Bernstein.M.S
A Pleasant conceited Comedie : Wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good Wife from a bad. /
No full textLabel pasted on front end-paper reads: ... How a man may choose a good wife from a bad. Date of the earliest known edition, c. 1602 Reproduced in facsimile [Tudor facsimile texts] 1912.A ms. note on t.-p. ascribes the play to Joshua Cooke. "Joshua" may or may not be a mistaken reading of Jo. (i. e. John) Cooke. cf. Pref., Tudor facsimile texts.Mode of access: Internet
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
Nur-i-Afshan V.69 no.07 March 1941
No full textContents: Lut̤f-i k̲h̲idmat Ayāz kya jāne [Poetry] by Rasā, Alāʼs Dās - Aiḍīṭoriyal - Imān kī achī kushtī laṛ us hameshah kī zindagī par qabẓah kar le jis ke liʼe tu bulāyā gayā thā aur bahut se gavāhon̲ ke sāmne achā iqrār kiya thā [Article] - ʻUqāb [Story] - Masīḥī shādī aur mak̲h̲lūt̤ nikāḥ [Article] - Masīḥī k̲h̲abrain̲ : bashārtī haftah kī ḵẖidmāt Jagrāʼon̲ men [News] - Maz̲hab [Article] by Salons, Jī - Ishtihār Dāk̲hlā [News] - Hindī Masīḥī ilāhīyāt [Article] - Rīviyū - Sī- Eī- Kamp [News] - Muk̲h̲talif k̲h̲abrain̲ [News] - In ko ẓarūr paṛheṉ [News] - Kriscan hā’ī skūl kharaṛ Z̤ilaʻ Ambālah [News] - Kutab barā’e ahl-i Islām [News]
In this issue poetry emphasizes the qualities of God and His compassion. Article ahead discusses issues of sectarianism between Christian churches. Followed by an article which is based upon a verse from Letter of Timothy which encourages believers to remain steadfast in faith, enjoy the life in faith and share it with others. Further articles give comparison of a eagle and encourages people to be like eagle and aim higher, issue of Christian Marriage and legislation associated with it for religious guidance on this issue author consults Book of Ruth, Ezra and Nehemiah. News about Evangelization week and traitors among Christians is shared too. Another article discusses about different dynamics of religion and also focuses on its development and implication. Next articles discuss that true faith is always communicated to others by handful of faithful believers as Jews in Israel, development of theological studies in context of Indian Christians, its future goals and prospective dimensions. Issue also had reviews list which included reviews on India, Palestine and Quaid-E-Azam. News about C. E. Camp” which could be not arranged due to unsuccessful alliance between Christian Endure Convention and Imsal Christian High School was published too. There were different national and international news and advertisement for different religious books, Islamic books and Christian High School (Kharar). This volume of Nur-i-Afshan published bi-weekly, on alternate Fridays from Kharar District Ambala
Behaviorism and literary modernity, 1913-2009
No full text“Behaviorism and Literary Modernity, 1913-2009”constructs a history of twentieth-century literature by examining how writers incorporated behaviorism’s arguments against consciousness into discussions of aesthetics, subjectivity, and empire. Skeptical of introspective knowledge, behaviorist thinkers argued that only external behaviors—and not mental states—could be known empirically. This paradigm not only dominated twentieth-centurypsychology and philosophy but also made crucial, if unrecognized, contributions to modern literature. Examining how behaviorism circulated and competed against other psychological doctrines,this dissertation substantially alters the idea of modernism as a “turn inward.” Instead, I argue that modernism comprised an intense debate about the nature of such interiority and about the relationship of internal mental states to external aesthetic forms. Where some modernists saidthat literary forms offered unique access to mental states, others came to understand form itself as a behavior with no necessary ties to consciousness. Competing with explanations offered by psychoanalysis, structuralism, and cognitive science, behaviorism was at the heart of this debate—as well as others about the nature of subjectivity, agency, and language. Writers skeptical of depth psychology found through behaviorism new modelsof aesthetic formand political action that seemingly circumvented the problems of self-knowledge and other minds. Bringing together analysesof the New Critics, Samuel Beckett, Djuna Barnes, Bertolt Brecht, Richard Wright and JM Coetzee, this dissertationdemonstrateshowbehaviorism changed literary thinking across the globe and allows new insights into the psychological dimensions of aesthetic form, critical interpretation, and globalization.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Joshua Gan
Vertex Isoperimetry and Independent Set Stability for Tensor Powers of Cliques
No full textThe tensor power of the clique on t vertices (denoted by K_t^n) is the graph on vertex set {1, ..., t}^n such that two vertices x, y in {1, ..., t}^n are connected if and only if x_i != y_i for all i in {1, ..., n}. Let the density of a subset S of K_t^n to be mu(S) := |S|/t^n. Also let the vertex boundary of a set S to be the vertices of the graph, including those of S, which are incident to some vertex of S. We investigate two similar problems on such graphs.
First, we study the vertex isoperimetry problem. Given a density nu in [0, 1] what is the smallest possible density of the vertex boundary of a subset of K_t^n of density nu? Let Phi_t(nu) be the infimum of these minimum densities as n -> infinity. We find a recursive relation allows one to compute Phi_t(nu) in time polynomial to the number of desired bits of precision.
Second, we study given an independent set I of K_t^n of density mu(I) = (1-epsilon)/t, how close it is to a maximum-sized independent set J of density 1/t. We show that this deviation (measured by mu(I\J)) is at most 4 epsilon^{(log t)/(log t - log(t-1))} as long as epsilon < 1 - 3/t + 2/t^2. This substantially improves on results of Alon, Dinur, Friedgut, and Sudakov (2004) and Ghandehari and Hatami (2008) which had an O(epsilon) upper bound. We also show the exponent (log t)/(log t - log(t-1)) is optimal assuming n tending to infinity and epsilon tending to 0. The methods have similarity to recent work by Ellis, Keller, and Lifshitz (2016) in the context of Kneser graphs and other settings.
The author hopes that these results have potential applications in hardness of approximation, particularly in approximate graph coloring and independent set problems
Codebook for Exploratory Study into Contracts from the Australian Society of Authors Archive
No full textThis is a codebook used for an exploratory content analysis of Australian book publishing contracts as set out in Joshua Yuvaraj and Rebecca Giblin, 'Are Contracts Enough? An Empirical Study of Author Rights in Australian Publishing Agreements' (2020) 44(1) <i>Melbourne University Law Review </i>(forthcoming).<div><br></div><div>The codebook contains instructions for the coding of contract clauses. These instructions were given to an external coder for the purposes of testing the reliability of the coding. Changes to the codebook made since the reliability test for clarity and commentary on the results have been written in bold. </div>
Verifiable Code Generation from Abstract I/O Automata Models for Distributed Computing
No full textI/O Automata Models for Distributed Computing Submitted by: Joshua A. Tauber NE43-369 (Signature of author) Cambridge, MA 02139 Date of submission: March 21, 2001 Expected Date of Completion: May 2002 Laboratory where thesis will be done: Laboratory for Computer Science Brief Statement of the Problem: Reasoning about and building distributed systems is notoriously dicult. I/O automata provide a simple mathematical basis for formally modeling and understanding distributed systems. Using a rich set of proof techniques, I/O automata have been used to verify a wide variety of distributed systems and algorithms and to express and prove several impossibility results. IOA is a formal language for describing I/O automata that has been introduced to promote I/O automata-based techniques and to support an integrated software development environment for distributed systems. This environment, the IOA toolset, will support algorithm design, development, testing, and formal veri cation using automated tools. The toolset connects I/O automata together with both lightweight (syntax checkers, simulators, model checkers) and heavyweight (theorem provers) tools
Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters
No full text1.Introduction to this CollectionBy Joshua Tanenbaum2. Author and Editor BiosSection I – Introduction to the History and Theory of NVC for VWs3.Basics of Nonverbal Communication in the Physical WorldBy Joshua Tanenbaum, Michael Nixon, and Magy Seif El-Nasr4.Basics of Nonverbal Communication in Virtual WorldsBy Joshua Tanenbaum, Michael Nixon, and Magy Seif El-NasrSection II – Identity and Communication in Virtual Worlds5. Our Empathic Experience of Believable CharactersBy Leslie Bishko6.Virtual Gaze: The Communicative Energy Between Avatar FacesBy Jeffrey Ventrella7.Avatar Appearance as Prima Facie Non-Verbal CommunicationBy Jacquelyn Ford Mori8.TimeTraveller™: First Nations Nonverbal Communication in Second LifeBy Elizabeth LaPensée and Jason Edward LewisSection III – Virtual Performance and Theater9. Lessons from the Arts: What the Performing Arts Literature Can TeachUs About Creating Expressive Character MovementBy Michael Neff10. Theater as Virtual RealityBy Jim R. Parker11. Animation Principles and Laban Movement Analysis: Movement Frameworks for Creating Empathic Character PerformancesBy Leslie Bishko12. Loss of Agency as Expression in Avatar PerformanceBy Ben Unterman and Jeremy Owen TurnerSection IV – Animating and Puppeteering13. Empathy in virtual worlds: Making characters believablewith Laban Movement AnalysisBy Leslie Bishko14. Avatar Puppeteering: Direct Manipulation of Avatar Jointsfor Spontaneous Body LanguageBy Jeffrey Ventrella15. Automation of Avatar BehaviorBy Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson16.Synthesizing Virtual Character Behaviors fromInteractive Digital PuppetryBy Elena Erbiceanu, Daniel Mapes, and Charles E. HughesSection V –Studying Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds17. A Few Choice Animations: Nonverbal Communication Through Production and Consumption in Second LifeBy Jennifer Martin18.A Microsociological Perspective on Non-Verbal Communicative Strategies in MMORPGsBy David Kirschner and J. Patrick Williams19.The Uncanny Valley and Nonverbal Communication in Virtual CharactersBy Angela Tinwell, Mark Grimshaw, and Debbie Abdel-NabiSection VI – New Directions for NVC in VWs20.The Future of Avatar Expression: Body Language Evolves on the InternetBy Jeffrey Ventrella21.Challenges and Opportunities for the Ongoing Study of Nonverbal Communication in Virtual WorldsBy Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael NixonView Video FIgures, referenced in the text.</p
Fragmented: A BFA Thesis in Photography
No full textabstract: Abstract Fragmented: A BFA Thesis in Photography Joshua C. Hendrix I propose that one detailed, coherent thought is a conglomeration of smaller, incomplete shards of ideas. The ways that these ideas take shape is completely dependent on our current perceptions and the circumstances preceding and surrounding the formulation of the idea. This theory can also be applied to our interpretations of artwork, particularly art that is abstract or abstracted. While abstract photography is sometimes dismissed because photographs are supposed to capture the real world, I would argue that our individual perceptions and perspectives influence our responses to even realistic photographs. For this reason, I believe that abstract photography certainly does have unique value. My photographs are presented in five groups of four, and like thought fragments, though individually significant, they are much stronger when perceived in a group as a composite whole
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