398 research outputs found
In Defence of "the Lesser Cousin of History": An Interview with Rohan Wilson
No full textFew branches of postcolonial literature are as contested \ud
as the historical fiction of settler societies. This interview with the Australian historical novelist Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party (2011) and To Name Those Lost (2014), explores the intersections between truth, accuracy, and existential authenticity in his fictional accounts of nineteenth-century Tasmania. Wilson offers \ud
a nuanced yet robust defence of fiction’s role in narrating colonial history. He explains his intentions in writing two linked yet distinctive novels of the frontier—one that focuses on the “Black War” of the 1820s and 1830s, and another that explores how racial violence is refracted by capitalism in subsequent decades
Shape optimization of channels for incompressible flows
No full textNázev práce: Optimalizace tvaru kanálu v úlohách nestlačitelného proudění Autor: Zuzana Záhorová Katedra: Katedra numerické matematiky Vedoucí diplomové práce: Doc. Dr. Ing. Eduard Rohan e-mail vedoucího: [email protected] Abstrakt: V předložené práci studujeme problém tvarové optimalizace pro úlohy vnitřního proudění ve 3D. Uvažováno je laminární, nestlačitelné, stacionární proudění popsané Navier- Stokesovými rovnicemi. Jsou popsány stabilizace Navier-Stokesových rovnic potřebné pro řešení úloh s nízkou viskozitou. Předloženy jsou teoretické poznatky týkající se problému tvarové optimalizace včetně důkazu existence řešení. Je popsána adjungovaná metoda pro řešení optimalizační úlohy. Odvozena je analytická analýza citlivosti. Představujeme postupy využité při výpočtech a numerický software pro řešení optimalizačních úloh. Jsou prezentovány výsledky pro stabilizované i nestabilizované řešení Navier-Stokesových rovnic. Představíme výsledky zahrnující lineární omezení geometrie oblasti. Klíčová slova: Nestlačitelné Navier-Stokesovy rovnice, SUPG/PSPG stabilizace, Adjun- govaná metoda, Analýza citlivosti Title: Shape optimization of channels for incompressible flows Author: Zuzana Záhorová Department:..
Data and Code for "Universal Constraints on Protein Evolution in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli"
No full textinput data files are located in the data/ directory.
source code is located in the src/ directory.
code and data for the LTEE 60,000 generation metagenomics dataset are located in the LTEE-metagenomic-repo/ directory.
results from running the source code are located in the results/ directory.
for all inquiries: contact the author at rohan dot maddamsetti at duke dot ed
KŌDA ROHAN\nTsuyu Dandan and Nineteenth Century English Literature
No full textpdfKōda Rohan recorded explanatory notes for Tsuyu Dandan (1889) as follows. "One: The ineptitude of the writing aside, to say that my literary devices are quite something and that Edward George Bulwer Lytton and William Makepeace Thackeray are really nothing is a big lie, for in fact I indulge in mere magic tricks. The discerning reader will quickly penetrate them."
Here with the coyness of a neophyte author, a self-assertive attitude which emphasizes the use of as a narrative technique can be seen. This study will deal with four questions.
① What function did Kōda Rohan think that narrative technique had in Edo popular fiction? I will first investigate the topology of , clarifying this technique which overflows the boundaries of , , in connection with Lytton and Thackeray. Naturally, this will result in ③ an investigation as to whether or not Lytton and Thackeray were borrowed from Tsubouchi Shōyō's Shōsetsu shinzui, Tō sei shosei katagi, or translations. If so,④ the question of why it was not George Eliot or Charles Dickens naturally arises. Through questions ② to④ I would like to clarify the relationship between Koda Rohan and nineteenth century English literature and to capture anew the stratifications of Rohan's literature.conference pape
'Nicely Boiled and Scraped': Medicine, Radicalism, and the "Useful Body" in a Lloyd Penny Blood
No full textThe publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in waysthat have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloydshaped the modern popular press: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other ’penny dreadfuls’, which became bestsellers. Lloyd’s publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens’s novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music
Metrics for analytics and visualization of big data with applications to activity recognition
No full textActivity recognition systems detect the hidden actions of an agent from sensor measurements made on the agents' actions and the environmental conditions. For such systems, metrics are important for both performance evaluation and visualization purposes. In this thesis, such metrics are developed and illustrated. For human activity recognition datasets, a reporting structure is described to visualize the metrics in a systematic manner. The other contribution of this thesis is to describe a visualization tool for estimating the orientation (attitude) of a rigid body from streaming motion sensor (accelerometer and gyroscope) data. A feedback particle filter (FPF) is implemented algorithmically to solve the estimation problem.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Rohan Arora, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-25 at 10:47.The student, Rohan Arora, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-25 at 10:48.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-27 at 15:05.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9459 on 2016-07-07 at 14:17:57Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T21:18:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Adaptive scheduling in Spark
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 33).Because most data processing systems are distributed in nature, data must be transferred between machines. Currently, Spark, a prominent such system, predetermines the strategies for shuffling this data, but in certain situations, different shuffle strategies would improve performance. We add functionality to track metrics about the data during the job and appropriately adapt the shuffle strategy. We show improvements in ShuffledRDD performance, joins using Spark's RDD interface, and joins in Spark SQL.by Rohan Mahajan.M. Eng
If you want to sell design, don’t sell design - A qualitative study on effectively communicating the value of design to investors and business managers
No full textEffectively communicating the value of design has been a long-standing challenge for designers, design managers and design consultants. The need to understand and measure how design can create value in organizations is also increasing in the management domain. Multiple studies have been conducted both from design and business, for effectively communicating design value with varying results from, tools and indexes built on existing business frameworks, to positioning design to distinct roles according to the cultures and practices of business managers. Even though a plethora of research exists, design agencies are still in need of finding new and more effective ways to communicate this value. This study aims to find ways to effectively communicate the value of design to investors and business managers. The perspective of taking investors and business managers as the stakeholders comes from Pentagon Design, Helsinki as the partner for this thesis. In Pentagon’s view a new investment in a company can act as a catalyst for bringing in new services, this period of change can accelerate the implementation of design at an early stage of the investment by effectively communicating design value to investors and business managers. Further, this thesis, through its approach and findings, argues that limiting the stakeholders to investors and business managers produces a more valid outcome than attempting to communicate the value of design universally. This is due to the impact of professional role, practices and culture of investors and business managers on their perception of design, and its implications on effectively communicating the value of design.
The thesis draws upon literature on why the value of design should be measured and the challenges faced in implementing design, further through the literature, the study shows the impact of cultures, attitudes and perceptions of management professionals and their impact on communicating design, and a few studies done on communicating the understandable value of design. For data collection two rounds of interviews were conducted, first round of open-structured interviews to gain understanding of the world of investing and management with six participants, and then second round of semi –structured interviews with ten participants from investors with different investment strategies and board managers.
Based on the findings the thesis abductively and deductively proposes three core themes 1) the current perceptions of design and design value for investors and business managers, built on the discrepancies due to their professional roles and practices, (2) what investors and business managers value during an investment, and how positioning design as a value creator in these practices can improve its perception and understanding, and finally (3) methods and best practices that can be used to communicate the value of design to investors and business managers. The thesis identifies challenges and enablers associated with the professional practices and preferences of investors and business managers and their implications on communicating the value of design: Ambiguity of design terms, lack of measurability and granularity, lack of understanding and participation from the board, need for relevant references, positioning as a value creator, translating design terms and processes to understandable business terms, aligning design as part of the investment criteria, honesty through activity, and storytelling as a method to communicate a service. Thus, the thesis proposes a story-telling framework for effectively communicating the value of design, which acts as an integrator of the enablers and navigates the hindrances by aligning them according to a script. The script compromises of 1) Foundational elements that act as background and create guidelines for the story telling framework, (2) Actionable insights that align the script according to the interests of the investors and business managers based on relevant references from the industry, and (3) The Premeditated outcomes and implications that are intended from the storytelling script. Through the framework, the thesis aims to educate the investors and business managers by creating their own conviction of the role, function, and value of design
The Pagoda
No full textThis novel is a landmark in Japanese literature, widely known, read, and beloved. Sometimes known as “The Five-Story Pagoda,” it tells the story of Jubei, a carpenter and craftsman, who dreams of building a pagoda for the Abbot of the Kannoji Temple. Despite his poverty, low station, and poor reputation—he is known as “the slouch”— Jubei’s determined and uncompromising allegiance to his own vision bring him the possibility of raising a great work for the ages … but will it stand against the howling demons of a tropical typhoon?
Rohan Kōda’s The Pagoda (Gojūnotō, 五重塔) first appeared in installments in 1891-1892. This first English translation was published in 1909. Sakae Shioya, the translator, was the author of When I Was a Boy in Japan (1906).
doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1321https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1121/thumbnail.jp
Viability and performance of indoor mapping using the Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR
No full textThere is a growing demand for performing high precision tasks in indoor environments. Using a LiDAR to map the environment alongside a SLAM algorithm called LOAM, developed by Dr. Zhang from CMU, environments can be mapped with low computational complexity. The use of this algorithm and sensor is tested in indoor environments to assess the performance and viability of indoor mapping with the Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR. The experiment is tailored so that it mimics certain behaviors of a mobile robot in the hopes that the conclusion of this experiment can be generalized to mobile robots. Results of this experiment produced highly accurate clouds that were replicas to the real-world environment with an accuracy as high as 99.71%. Large indoor environments were also mapped (above 100 meters in length) with drift less than 1 meter in the best scenario. These results verify that accurate point cloud generation in indoor environments is viable and can be useful for mobile robots.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Rohan R. Palej
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