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No full text1. Walls of rectangles (M. Chrobak)
2. Plane embeddings (M. Chrobak)
3. Cubic Hamiltonian graphs (M. Chrobak)
4. Jump number problem - 1 (M. Habib)
5. Domino covers in square chessboards (P. John, H. Sachs and H. Zernitz)
6. Interiors of uniform size in Steinitz's Theorem (J. R. Reay)
7. Area of lattice polygons - the $ 10 problem (J. R. Reay)
8. Regular graphs (G. Sierksma)
9. Jump number problem - 2 (M. M. Sysło)
10. Hamiltonian cycles in G² (T. Traczyk)
11. Thickness of graphs (W. Wessel
The problem of magical realism in Polish literature for children
No full textAkademia Pedagogiczna im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie. Wydział Humanistyczny. Praca doktorska powstała pod kierunkiem naukowym Prof. zw. dr hab. Alicji Baluch.Rozprawa dotyczy problemu realizmu magicznego w polskiej literaturze dla dzieci, zagadnienia dotąd nie podejmowanego przez rodzimych literaturoznawców. Przedstawia źródła i dzieje nurtu zwanego realizmem magicznym w europejskiej i latynoamerykańskiej prozie XX wieku. Autorka zwraca uwagę na malarskie początki nurtu, trudności w zdefiniowaniu pojęcia realizm magiczny, związki z innymi nurtami artystycznymi, a także na istnienie wielu odmian realizmu magicznego. Proponowana w rozprawie koncepcja realizmu magicznego w polskich utworach dla młodych czytelników wskazuje: 1) na niewątpliwe pokrewieństwa z "dorosłymi" odmianami realizmu magicznego (europejskimi oraz iberoamerykańskimi), 2) na zależność od ogólnych przemian prozy realistycznej w XX wieku, 3) na wpływy tendencji z obcych literatur dziecięcych (np. angielskiej, niemieckiej czy skandynawskiej). M. Chrobak udowadnia tezę o silnych związkach tendencji realistyczno-magicznych w prozie dla dzieci i nastolatków ze współczesnymi przemianami baśni literackiej i fantastyki baśniowej, z którą realizm magiczny jest silnie spokrewniony. W teoretycznoliterackiej części pracy autorka zajmuje się najpierw kategorią cudowności - kluczową w proponowanym tu ujęciu realizmu magicznego, wskazuje na różnice między fantastyką a cudownością opierając się m.in. na badaniach francuskiej teoretyk I. Bessiere, bada następnie ewolucje dziecięco-młodzieżowej prozy realistycznej XIX i XX wieku. Rozważania poszerza o zagadnienia dotyczące psychologii i wyobraźni dziecka oraz psychologii odbioru dzieła literackiego.
W dalszej części rozprawy M. Chrobak analizuje utwory m.in. D. Terakowskiej, A. Osieckiej, M. Tomaszewskiej, Z. Domolewskiego, w których pojawiają się zjawiska realistyczno-magiczne. Na ich podstawie wyróżnia cechy znamienne dla "dziecięcej" odmiany realizmu magicznego, jak np. tworzenie jednolitej realistyczno-magicznej rzeczywistości w utworze, poszukiwanie magii w zwyczajnym otoczeniu, obecność motywów fantastycznych o trudnej do ustalenia kwalifikacji czy specyficzne techniki opisu codzienności, pokazywanej jakby była magiczna. Autorka rozprawy traktuje realizm magiczny w literaturze dla młodych czytelników jako jedną z odmian realizmu, obok baśniowego czy też poetyckiego. Przedstawia też różnice dzielące go od realizmu magicznego w literaturze dla dorosłych czytelników. Poszukując początków tendencji badaczka wskazuje na prozę z okresu międzywojnia, "ojców" zjawiska upatruje natomiast w twórcach niemieckiej baśni romantycznej.The dissertation is concerned with the problem of magical realism in Polish literature for children, the question which has not been undertaken by native literature specialists so far. It presents the origins and the history of the movement called magical realism in European and Latin American prose of the twentieth century. The author emphasizes its artistic origins (rooted in painting), difficulties in defining the notion of magical realism, its connections with other artistic trends and also the existence of various types of magical realism. The concept of magical realism in Polish literary works for young readers which is adopted in the dissertation leads to the following conclusions: 1) there is an undoubtedly close relationship between this type of magical realism and its "adult" forms; 2) the type of magical realism analyzed is dependent on overall transitions in the realistic prose of the twentieth century; 3) the tendencies present in foregin literature for children had an effect on magical realism in Polish literature for children.
M.Chrobak confirms the thesis statement that there is a strong bias towards magical realism in the prose for children and teenagers, whitch is connected with modem transitions affecting literary tales and fairy-tale fiction, to whom magical realism is closely related. In the part of the paper dealing with literary theory the author concentrates on the category of wonderment - the key one in the adopted approach to magical realism, focuses on the differences between fantasy and wonderment, which is based on the research by I. Bessiere, a French theorist, and finally she analyses the evolution in the nineteenth and twentieth century realistic prose for children and teenagers. The analysis is broadened to cover the question related to psychology, children's imagination and the psychology of literary reception. Further in the dissertation M. Chrobak analyses works by various authors, e.g. D. Terakowska, A. Osiecka, M. Tomaszewska, Z. Domolewski, who included magical and realistic phenomena in their fiction. On these grounds she distinguishes the features typical for children's type of magical realism such as creating a uniform magical reality, looking for magic in ordinary surroundings, the presence of fantastic motives difficult to categorize and specific techniques for describing everyday life when shown as if it was magical. The author of the dissertation approaches magical realism in the literature for young readers as a variation of realism beside the fairy-tale or poetic type. She also shows how different it is in comparison with magical realism in literature for adult readers. Her research into the origins of the literary movement leads M.Chrobak to the conclusion that magical realism in children's fiction dates back to the prose of the period between the two World Wars. As for "the forefathers" of the phenomenon, she sees them in the writers of German romantic tale
Paths Among Points Inside a Simple Polygon (Extended Abstract)
No full text) Marek Chrobak Gopalakrishnan Sundaram y Abstract In this paper we consider two problems in finding paths among a set X of points inside a simple polygon P . First, given two distinguished points s; t 2 X, we provide an algorithm which finds a simple path from s to t with vertices in X that does not intersect P in O(m 2 n(m+ n)) time, where jP j = m and jXj = n. We also show that finding simple paths among arbitrary obstacles is NP-Complete. Secondly, we consider the problem of finding a hamiltonian traversal in X. We show that finding an arbitrary traversal is NP-Complete. Also, we provide a O(n 4 (n + m)) algorithm for finding a traversal in a spiral polygon. 1 Definitions and Notations Let P be a simple polygon and X a finite set of points in the interior of P . Let s; t 2 X . We say that L is a (s; X; t)-path in P if it starts at s, ends at t, all vertices of L belong X and L is entirely contained in P . If X and P are understood from context, we will call L a path fro..
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Translation for two : a case study
No full textUsing the examples drawn from the modern history of literary translation in Poland and from personal experience, the author considers the reasons for translators of the same nationality to work in pair, as well as their working methods and their results. She studies three cases: W. Wirpsza and M. Kurecka, co-translators of Doctor Faustus by T. Mann ; C. Marrodán Casas and B. Fabjańska-Potapczuk/K. Okrasko, co-translators of bestselling novels by C. Ruiz Zafón ; the author and M. Pawłowska, co-translators of Vlad by C. Fuentes. The most common motivations appear to be the following : pleasure of co-working, complementary competencies and sensibilities, deadlines; sometimes personal preference counts, too.À partir des exemples tirés de l’histoire moderne de la traduction littéraire en Pologne et de son expérience personnelle, l’auteure réflechit sur les motifs des traducteurs de la même nationalité s’associant pour traduire un texte, sur leurs modes de travail et sur leurs résultats. Trois cas de figures sont analysés : W. Wirpsza et M. Kurecka (Doctor Faustus de T. Mann), C. Marrodán Casas et B. Fabjańska-Potapczuk/K. Okrasko (romans de C. Ruiz Zafón), l’auteure et M. Pawłowska (la nouvelle Vlad de C. Fuentes). Les motifs les plus fréquents s’avèrent être : le plaisir de travailler en commun, la complémentarité des compétences et des sensibilités, le souci de la rapidité ; parfois les goûts particuliers des traducteurs jouent un rôle important
Normal forms for unary probabilistic automata
No full textWe investigate the possibility of extending Chrobak normal form to the probabilistic case.
While in the nondeterministic case a unary automaton can be simulated by an automaton in Chrobak normal form without increasing the number of the states in the cycles, we show that in the probabilistic case the simulation is not possible by keeping the same number of ergodic states. This negative result is proved by considering the natural extension to the probabilistic case of Chrobak normal form, obtained by replacing nondeterministic choices with probabilistic choices.
We then propose a different kind of normal form, the cyclic normal form, which does not suffer from the same problem: we prove that each unary probabilistic automaton can be simulated by a probabilistic automaton in cyclic normal form, with at most the same number of ergodic states. In the nondeterminstic case there are trivial simulations between Chrobak normal form and cyclic normal form, preserving the total number of the states in the automata and in their cycles
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