1,354,153 research outputs found
Professor Adrianus van Seims
No full textProfessor Adrianus van Seims
An eulogy in honour of the late Professor A van Seims (1906-1984), who filled the chair of Semitic Languages at the University of Pretoria from 1948 to 1971. It is an introduction to Volume 41, 2 (1985) of the Hervormie Teologiese Studies?, journal of the Faculty of Theology (Section A) at the University of Pretoria. The specific Number is entitled Dedicata Adrianus van Seims. The articles concerned are contributions of some of his postgraduated students who lecture Semitic Languages or Old and New Testament at South African universities. The eulogy contains a review of the life and work of Professor Van Seims as well as a complete list of his publications
’n Voordrag van Adrianus van Seims oor hermeneutiek
No full textA lecture on hermeneutics by Adrianus van Seims
This article is the content of a lecture on hermeneutics given by A van Seims. After a few opening words on the introduction to the lecture and its content, the presentation is reproduced in its entirety. Van Seims considers that hermeneutics is concerned not only with interpreting God’s revelation to mankind, but also with expressing man’s repentance and obedience to God. As regards the exegesis of The Scriptures, the schema of ‘promise-fulfillment’, typoplogy, allegory and interpretation through grammar and history are discussed. Van Seims calls the method he follows ‘functional hermeneutics’, implying that the interpretation given should perform, in circumstances of present-day readers, the function that it did originally. Jeremiah 28 is used as example
’n Voordrag van Adrianus van Seims oor hermeneutiek
No full textA lecture on hermeneutics by Adrianus van Seims This article is the content of a lecture on hermeneutics given by A van Seims. After a few opening words on the introduction to the lecture and its content, the presentation is reproduced in its entirety. Van Seims considers that hermeneutics is concerned not only with interpreting God’s revelation to mankind, but also with expressing man’s repentance and obedience to God. As regards the exegesis of The Scriptures, the schema of ‘promise-fulfillment’, typoplogy, allegory and interpretation through grammar and history are discussed. VanSeims calls the method he follows ‘functional hermeneutics’, implying that the interpretation given should perform, in circumstances of present-day readers, thefunction that it did originally. Jeremiah 28 is used as example
Three simple rules for successful development aid investments in family planning
No full textSara Seims lays out three rules that, if followed, may well improve the delivery of family planning initiatives to the developing world. These entail: a careful weighing of the costs and benefits of various options; the formulation of a specific and sophisticated measurement target; and a reaffirmation of donors’ values and philosophies
SEIMS: a Spatially-Explicit Integrated Modeling System for agricultural watershed
No full textIrrigation and drainage engineering changes natural water flow pathways in agricultural watershed, which have not been well characterized in existing hydrological models. This research developed a Spatially-Explicit Integrated Modeling System (SEIMS) for agricultural watershed to represent the water and nutrient migration processes at a fine scale. First, a vector-based data model was proposed to represent spatial simulation units and the flow relationships among them. Polygons were used as simulation units for farmland and ponds considering their irregular shapes, and regular quadrates were used for natural land covers such as forest and grassland. Lines were used to represent irrigation canals and natural rivers. Both static and dynamic flow relationships among simulation units were considered. Static flow relationship was driven by gravity and extracted from elevation. Dynamic flow relationship was driven by irrigation and drainage operations. Both the direction and condition of water movement were expressed. Based on the simulation units and flow relationships among them, a modular modeling framework was designed. Each module implements a specific algorithm for one process (e.g. infiltration). Currently there has been over 30 modules covering hydrological, crop growth and nutrient migration/transformation processes. For a given simulation scenario, related modules would be selected and combined by workflow engine to form a customized watershed model. Taking a rice watershed in South China as example, this system was used for streamflow and non-point source pollution simulation. The results showed that SEIMS was effective and flexible for agricultural watershed modeling
Mount Lowe Railway car on circular bridge, 1915
No full textPhotograph of Mount Lowe Railway car on circular bridge, 1915. At center, a railway car in the shape of a trolley can be seen moving on a circular track curving to the right. Several people can be seen seated in the trolley, with a single man standing at the head of the car. Several wooden poles can be seen to the right of the track supporting rows of wires above the car. A metal arm extending from the roof of the car can be seen attached to one of the wires. To the left of the car, a steep drop can be seen. Wooden beams support a small section of the track below. In the extreme background, large mountains and a large view of a city can be seen at left. Photoprint reads: "Gift of Charles G. Seims, 685 East Las Flores Dr., Altadena, Calif"
A Study of Dempster-Shafer\u27s Theory of Evidence in Comparison to Classical Probability Combination
No full textABSTRACT
A Study of Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence in Comparison to Classical Probability Combination
Scott J. Seims
This thesis is an assessment on the effectiveness of Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence in comparison to Classical Probabilistic Combination as it applies to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). A three feature based classifier (peaks, corners and edges) ATR system is presented. These classifiers are assumed to be independent. The results of both the weight-based Maximum Likelihood and Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence data fusion techniques are presented.
Using Dempster-Shafer an accuracy of 77.50 percent is obtained, which is less than the 86.25 percent accuracy of target-specific weight-based Maximum Likelihood[6]. Inagaki’s Unified Combination Rule is implemented as a means to increase SAR ATR accuracy and explore further modifications of Dempster-Shafer. Inagaki’s Unified Combination Rule contains Yager’s and Dempster’s Combination Rules as well as Inagaki’s Extra Rule[17][10]. The maximum accuracy achieved using Inagaki’s Unified Combination Rule was 75.00 percent.
It was concluded that this application lends itself better to classical probabilistic combination. Due to the single sensor (SAR) and the quasi-independence of the three feature based classifiers, Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence can not be utilized to its full potential.
This thesis is a continuation of Hausdorff Probabilistic Feature Analysis in SAR Image Recognition by Chessa Guilas[6]. Thesis research is directed by Dr. John A. Saghri and sponsored by Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems, El Segundo, California
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
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
- …
