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Sistemas agroflorestais como estratégia de ocupação agrícola em zonas de amortecimento: um estudo de caso no município de Guapimirim, RJ.
No full textDissertação (Mestrado Profissional em Agricultura Orgânica). Instituto de Agronomia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, 2018. Orientação de Eduardo Francia Campello
Modeling and Control of a Robot Based Rehabilitation System for the Head-Neck Joint
No full textA Master of Science thesis in Mechatronics Engineering by Ismail Tareq Raslan entitled, “Modeling and Control of a Robot Based Rehabilitation System for the Head-Neck Joint”, submitted in June 2024. Thesis advisor is Dr. Lotfi Romdhane and thesis co-advisor is Dr. Mohammad Jaradat. Soft copy is available (Thesis, Completion Certificate, Approval Signatures, and AUS Archives Consent Form).College of EngineeringMultidisciplinary ProgramsMaster of Science in Mechatronics Engineering (MSMTR
The Index Selection Problem with Configurations and Memory Limitation: A Scatter Search approach
No full textWithin the physical designing process of relational databases, the Index Selection Problem aims at finding the subset of indexes to build for accessing the stored information. More precisely, given a database workload, each query must be served by at most one predefined set of indexes (named configuration) to maximize the net gain in terms of time. This gain is made up of the time gain obtained to serve the queries through the configurations minus the fixed time needed to create and maintain those configurations.
The clustering of indexes into configurations and the limited amount of memory available to store the indexes characterize our variant of the problem. At the same time, established approaches in the literature have only considered those two aspects separately.
We model this setting as a generalization of the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem with budget constraint and propose an Integer Linear Programming formulation for it. Then, to find near-optimal solutions in a reasonable computational time, we develop a Scatter Search meta-heuristic exploiting the specific facility location features of the problem. We test our algorithm over a broad set of benchmark instances and compare it with an exact solver and an efficient state-of-the-art heuristic method
YouTube's Most Viewed Videos
No full textAzmyl Yunor and Zan Azlee join Kam Raslan in this episode of A Bit of Culture to dissect and analyse recent events. Azmyl starts off by sharing his frustrations of yet another music venue being raided by the authorities and then wonders whether we should be allowed to vote for our own mayor. Kam then shares his experience going through Youtube’s most viewed videos and how he does not recognise most of them. He then asks whether he should still try to be in touch with recent trends, or ignore them completely. In the second part of the show, Zan gives his thoughts on the new film classifications that were recently released
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Hyphenated Americans’ Experiences in Multicultural Interactions Portrayed in American Fictions
No full textAmerican society cannot be detached from the society’s multiculturalism. The various ethnic groups inevitably may lead into cooperations, frictions, or conflicts in their interaction. Fiction, as one of literary works, is one of the ways in picturing its reality. Most of hyphenated-American writers wrote both their experiences and imagination through fictions which mostly are about those of racial-based. Some fictions such as Sui Sin Far’s In the Land of the Free, Bienvenido Santos’ Immigration Blues, Anzia Yezierska’s Soap and Water depict the unfavorable experiences in their first interaction in America. While, Monfoon Leong’s New Year for Fong Wing and Gish Jen’s In the American Society elaborate the inter-race interaction and their confusion in blending their identity in the new land. It is found that though they can stand living in a multicultural society, most hyphenated Americans still face situation where sometimes they are still regarded as the subordinated class and it leads into fear and uncomfortable life. Racism is still big issue in American life even though it has long been declared that all men are created equal. In the interaction process some of them still had a tight tie to their origins, while others could easily conform to the American culture.
Key words : hyphenated-American, ethnic group, multiculturalism, racism
How artists can protect themselves from AI
No full textAnother week, another exciting episode of A Bit of Culture, this time around with Azmyl Yunor and Matt Armitage. Our host, Kam Raslan kicks off the show by talking about the new Beatles song, which was produced semi-posthumously, and the ethics behind it. Matt follows the topic up by talking about ways artists can protect themselves from AI. In the second half of the show, Azmyl talks about the three subjects that he thinks should be made compulsory in school. Tune in for engaging and thoughtful conversations between the three
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Essays on river mechanics
No full textCER89-90-PYJ-14.Presented by the Graduate Students in CE 717 River Mechanics (Spring 1990).Instructor: P. Y. Julien.Includes bibliographical references.May 1990.Predicting Sediment Yield of a Watershed by Margaret Tauzer -- Particle Entrainment by River Flows by Kathy Chase -- Bed Forms and Resistance to Flow by Yasser Raslan -- An Examination of the Dynamic Loop Rating Curve in Alluvial Rivers by Phil G. Combs -- Scour Downstream of Hydraulic Structures by T. K. Burke -- Distorted Physical Hydraulic Models, Theory and Practice by Fred L. Ogden -- Life Expectancy of Reservoirs by T. G. Anthony Balan
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