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A Compositional Semantic Structure for Multi-Agent Systems Dynamics
No full textBrazier, J. [Promotor
Waterville Mayor Thomas J. Brazier was indicted on embezzlement charges just ove
No full textWaterville Mayor Thomas J. Brazier was indicted on embezzlement charges just over a week ago, the latest in a series of events that residents of the city would like to put behind them. Brazier, 64, a financial planner, allegedly took more $70,000 from American Glass Co., which had hired him to handle its finances. Brazier, who won a three-way race by fewer than 100 votes, had been active in the Democratic City Committee and had worked as the city\u27s auditor. Details
Formal Specification of Multi-Agent Systems
No full textIn this paper the framework DESIRE, originally designed for formal specification of complex reasoning systems is used to specify a real-world multi-agent application on a conceptual level. Some extensions to DESIRE are introduced to obtain a useful formal specification framework for multi-agent systems
The Anatomy of Design: Foundations, Models and Applications
No full textBrazier, F.M.T. [Promotor]Treur, J. [Promotor
Brazier, Bernis (Bud) Eugene, 1908-1967
No full textBiographical information for architect Bernis (Bud) Eugene Brazier. Includes photos of the Medical Center, U of U campus; and the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital, both in Salt Lake City, Utah
DESIRE: Modelling Multi-Agent Systems in a Compositional Formal Framework
No full textThis paper discusses an example of the application of a high-level modelling framework which enables both the specification and implementation of a system's conceptual design. This framework, DESIRE (framework for DEsign and Specification of Interacting REasoning components), explicitly models the knowledge, interaction, and coordination of complex tasks and reasoning capabilities in agent systems. For the application domain addressed in this paper, an operational multi-agent system which manages an electricity transportation network for a Spanish electricity utility, a comprehensible specification is presented
Perspectives cybernétiques en psychophysiologie, (W.R. Ashby, W. Grey Walter, M.A.B. Brazier, W. Russel Brain) P.U.F., 1951
No full textL. J. Perspectives cybernétiques en psychophysiologie, (W.R. Ashby, W. Grey Walter, M.A.B. Brazier, W. Russel Brain) P.U.F., 1951. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 5 n°4, 1952. p. 253
The making of Gertrude Stein: reading, writing, and Radcliffe
No full textThis dissertation proposes three interwoven arguments concerning Gertrude Stein’s undergraduate education at Radcliffe College in the late 19th century. First, that Stein’s Sophomore writing course in 1894-1895 – English 22, Daily Themes – played a larger role
in the course of her writing life than has been understood in the fields of Modernism and
American literature. Second, that the first women of Radcliffe College, and before Radcliffe’s founding, of the Harvard Annex, were more integral to late 19th century growth in English and Composition at Harvard College than has been understood in the fields of
Rhetoric and Composition. Finally, that we cannot understand the expansion of Harvard College to Harvard University, the implementation of the elective system, or the founding of Radcliffe without integrating the various roles of Special Students – of which Gertrude Stein was one – in the broadening mission of the Cambridge institution. Following these threads, and focusing on Stein as an emblematic – though
idiosyncratic – student, I provide a history of Harvard-Radcliffe during the 1870s-1890s, a period of unprecedented change, the decades before and during Stein’s attendance from 1893-1898. I examine the role of female students in the origins of English Composition, a history which has previously focused heavily on male education as it emanated from Harvard and reverberated throughout higher education into the 20th century. I focus on Stein as a student of the pedagogy of Daily Themes practiced by Barrett Wendell. In providing these institutional, historical, and pedagogical contexts, I aim to connect Stein,
the student writer, to the adult innovator, to form a trajectory from her English 22 course into her adult writing life. My goal is for us to understand “The Making of Gertrude Stein” as a consequence, in part, of her reading and writing at Radcliffe. This is an educational
history of one of America’s great modernist writers embedded in the institutional history of her alma mater.
In order to help further research on Gertrude Stein’s undergraduate writing, my dissertation includes in its appendices the digitized images of Stein’s Daily Themes for English 22 at Radcliffe and my annotated transcription of the Themes including professorial comments.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Michelle J. Brazie
La pie de Palaiseau, et le chien de Montargis, ou, Le Crime aux prises avec la vertu : parade en un acte, mêlée de couplets, ornée d'un ballet de pies et de chiens / Par MM. *** et ****. Ballet de M. Hullin : Représentée pour la première fois sur le théâtre de la Gaîté, le 20 juin 1815.
No full textAttributed to J.B. Dubois and Charles François Jean Baptiste Moreau. Cf. Barbier. Variously attributed to Dubois and Brazier
The SF-36: a simple, effective measure of mobility disability for epidemiological studies
No full textBackgroundMobility disability is a major problem in older people. Numerous scales exist for the measurement of disability but often these do not permit comparisons between study groups. The physical functioning (PF) domain of the established and widely used Short Form-36 (SF-36) questionnaire asks about limitations on ten mobility activities.ObjectivesTo describe prevalence of mobility disability in an elderly population, investigate the validity of the SF-36 PF score as a measure of mobility disability, and to establish age and sex specific norms for the PF score.MethodsWe explored relationships between the SF-36 PF score and objectively measured physical performance variables among 349 men and 280 women, 59-72 years of age, who participated in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS). Normative data were derived from the Health Survey for England (HSE) 1996.Results32% of men and 46% of women had at least some limitation in PF scale items. Poor SF-36 PF scores (lowest fifth of the gender-specific distribution) were related to: lower grip strength; longer timed-up-and-go, 3m walk, and chair rises test times in men and women; and lower quadriceps peak torque in women but not men. HSE normative data showed that median PF scores declined with increasing age in men and women.ConclusionOur results are consistent with the SF-36 PF score being a valid measure of mobility disability in epidemiological studies. This approach might be a first step towards enabling simple comparisons of prevalence of mobility disability between different studies of older people. The SF-36 PF score could usefully complement existing detailed schemes for classification of disability and it now requires validation against them
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