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Representing silk design: Nicholas Joubert de L'Hiberderie and Le dessinateur pour les etoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie (Paris, 1765)
No full textLe Dessinateur pour les étoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie was published in Paris in 1765 depite the reservations of the silk-weaving guild of Lyons, receiving a good response in the Enlightenment press. As the first description on French of the trade of silk designer to appear in the public domain, it has become an important work on which much subsequent history has been based, often rather uncritically. This article delves into the representation of design offered by this text, evaluating it against the personal experience of its author, the literary and manufacturing heritage on which he drew, and the readership for women it was intended. The analysis is based on the form and content of the book, the structure, vocabulary and illustrations. Comparative data are drawn from two other important publications on silk manufacture, the relevant sections of Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie and Jean Paulet's L'Art du fabriquant
Marketing communications plan for L.E. Jones company Menominee, Michigan
Get PDFThe author researched the feasibility of improving marketing communications for L.E. Jones Company of Menominee, Michigan. Based on career experience and scholarship gained through the Cardinal Stritch Master of Business Administration program, the author was able to identify the problems facing the firm, analyze the marketing communications needs, recommend various alternatives, assist in the selection of alternatives, and create the actual advertising and sales support materials. These improvements in marketing communications will permit the firm to more confidently pursue new business in an increasingly competitive market
On Sense, Tone, and Accompanying Thoughts
No full textThe paper deals with Frege's distinction between sense and colouring or tone as applied both to proper names and to compound sentences. It argues that Frege's way of drawing this distinction is unsatisfactory, much for the same reasons as Grice's theory of conventional implicature is a non starter. The author suggests that tone may contributes to assertoric content depending on contextually specified circumstances. The phenomenon of linguistic underdetermination is very widespread, and tone is only the tip of an iceberg that we need to explore more fully.
The paper deals with Frege's notions of sense and tone within the framework of recent theories of contextualism, literalism and multi-dimensionalism. Dummett's account of Frege's account of sense is reviewed and extended. The author suggests that tone differs from sense only as regards a higher degree of undeterdeterminationa and occasion sensitivity. Tone contributes to assertoric content, and differs from conventional implicatures, as described by Paul Grice and his followers
Wiring the Binocular Visual Pathways
Get PDFAuthor Contributions: Conceptualization, V.M.-B. and L.E.; writing—original draft preparation, V.M.-B. and L.E.; writing—review and editing, V.M.-B. and L.E.; visualization, V.M.-B. Funding: V.M.-B. holds a postdoctoral contract from the Generalitat Valenciana (APOSTD/2016/017).Peer reviewe
Decision Analysis Science Modeling for Application and Fielding Selection Applied to Equipment Dismantlement Technologies
No full textThe dismantlement of radioactively contaminated process equipment is a major concern during the D and D process. As buildings undergo the D and D process, metallic equipment contaminated with radionuclides such as uranium and plutonium must be dismantled before final disposal.The primary objective for equipment dismantlement is to reduce the potential for personnel and environmental exposure to contaminants during the decommissioning of the nuclear facility. The selection of the appropriate technologies to meet the dismantlement objectives for a given site is a difficult process in the absence of comprehensive and comparable data. Choosing the wrong technology could result in increased exposure of personnel to contaminants and an increase in D and D project costs. Innovative technologies are being developed with the goal of providing safer and more cost-effective alternatives that generate less secondary waste, thereby decreasing the operating costs for dismantlement. During the development and implementation process, performance indicators for the success of these technologies must be reviewed to ensure that these aims are being met. This project provides a mechanism for the assessment of innovative and commercially available nuclear and non-nuclear technologies for equipment dismantlement
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Decision Analysis Science Modeling for Application and Fielding Selection Applied to Equipment Dismantlement Technologies
Get PDFThe dismantlement of radioactively contaminated process equipment is a major concern during the D and D process. As buildings undergo the D and D process, metallic equipment contaminated with radionuclides such as uranium and plutonium must be dismantled before final disposal.The primary objective for equipment dismantlement is to reduce the potential for personnel and environmental exposure to contaminants during the decommissioning of the nuclear facility. The selection of the appropriate technologies to meet the dismantlement objectives for a given site is a difficult process in the absence of comprehensive and comparable data. Choosing the wrong technology could result in increased exposure of personnel to contaminants and an increase in D and D project costs. Innovative technologies are being developed with the goal of providing safer and more cost-effective alternatives that generate less secondary waste, thereby decreasing the operating costs for dismantlement. During the development and implementation process, performance indicators for the success of these technologies must be reviewed to ensure that these aims are being met. This project provides a mechanism for the assessment of innovative and commercially available nuclear and non-nuclear technologies for equipment dismantlement
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Evaluation of Coating Removal and Aggressive Surface Removal Surface Technologies Applied to Concrete Walls, Brick Walls, and Concrete Ceilings
Get PDFThe purpose of this investigation was to test and evaluate innovative and commercially available technologies for the surface decontamination of walls and ceilings. This investigation supports the DOE's objectives of reducing risks to human health and the environment through its restoration projects at FEMP and MEMP. This project was performed at the Hemispheric Center for Environmental Technology (HCET) at Florida International University (FIU), where one innovative and four commercially available decontamination technologies were evaluated under standard, non-nuclear testing conditions. The performance data generated by this project will assist DOE site managers in the selection of the safest, most efficient, and most cost-effective decontamination technologies to accomplish their remediation objectives
Optimizing stakes in simultaneous bets
No full textWe want to find the convex combination S of iid Bernoulli random variables that maximizes P(S ≥ t) for a given threshold t. Endre Csóka conjectured that such an S is an average if t ≥ p, where p is the success probability of the Bernoulli random variables. We prove this conjecture for a range of p and tGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Applied Probabilit
Met Markov ketens op zoek naar de Zero Variance Importance Sampling verdeling
No full textStandaard Monte Carlo is niet geschikt voor het analyseren van Rare Events. We laten zien dat we bij dit soort problemen Importance Sampling kunnen toepassen en hoe we de Zero Variance verdeling kunnen vinden. Deze verdeling hangt echter af van constanten waar we de waarde niet van weten, maar door deze constanten te benaderen krijgen we een benadering van de verdeling. We passen deze methode toe op een eenvoudig (bonimiaal) Credit Risk model. Door de Zero Variance verdeling beter te benaderen, kunnen we een grotere variantie reductie realiseren. We hebben daarom een nieuwe methode ontwikkeld die na elke iteratie een betere benadering van deze verdeling geeft. De variantie reductie bij het gebruik van deze methode is aanzienlijk maar de methode is niet eenvoudig te implementeren.Applied MathematicsDelft Institute of Applied MathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Maximally Adaptive Nonparametric Importance Sampling
No full textNowadays, Monte Carlo integration is a popular tool for estimating high-dimensional, complex integrals. Its scope of application can be widened if ways can be found to produce estimates with smaller variance at the same computational cost. Variance reduction techniques aim to accomplish this. In particular, using importance sampling with the so-called zero-variance distribution would result in a simulation procedure with variance zero. Unfortunately the zero-variance distribution cannot be constructed in practice, as it requires knowledge of the value to be estimated. In this thesis we look at how iterative approximation of the zero-variance distribution can be exploited to yield more efficient Monte Carlo simulations, a technique called adaptive importance sampling. We will explore the characteristics of existing methods for adaptive importance sampling, and prove some generic limit theorems for such methods. Based on the methods by Ping Zhang, which use kernel density estimation to approximate the zero-variance distribution, we then propose Maximally Adaptive Nonparametric Importance Sampling. This variation aims to make better use of the information available by updating its approximation to the zero-variance distribution after every generated sample. We will show that the method (when using n samples) yields an estimator with an asymptotic variance of O(ln(n)n^{-7/6}), faster than methods (eventually) based on i.i.d. replicates. We illustrate the empirical convergence of the method with a simulation experiment, and briefly discuss the issues and considerations related to application of the method in practice.ProbabilityApplied mathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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