31 research outputs found
Optimasi Level of Detail dan Occlusion Culling dalam Game Aaron Lost in the Jungle
No full textThis research analyzes the effectiveness of Culling Occlusion optimization techniques andLevel of Detail (LOD) optimization techniques in improving the performance of non-optimized 3D games.optimized. Using quantitative research methods with an experimental approach.experimental approach. Culling Occlusion is a technique that hides objects that are not visible to the player.that are not visible to the player, while LOD is a technique thatLOD is a technique that displays a version of the object with reduced detail based on the distanceThe results show that by using the LOD technique managed to increase the FPS by 107%, while using theOcclusion Culling technique only marginally improved by 19%. This finding indicates that while both techniques are effective in optimizing performance, the LOD technique provides aboth techniques are effective in optimizing performance, the LOD technique provides a more significant improvementmore significant.Penelitian ini menganalisis efektivitas teknik optimasi Culling Occlusion danLevel of Detail (LOD) dalam meningkatkan performa game 3D yang tidakoptimal. Menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif dengan pendekataneksperimental. Culling Occlusion adalah teknik yang menyembunyikan objekyang tidak terlihat oleh pemain, sementara LOD adalah teknik yangmenampilkan versi objek dengan detail yang berkurang berdasarkan jarakantara pemain dan objek.Hasil menunjukkan bahwa dengan menggunakanteknik LOD berhasil meningkatkan FPS sebesar 107%,sementara denganteknik Occlusion Culling hanya meningkatkan secara marginal yaitu19%.Temuan ini mengindikasikan bahwa meskipun kedua teknik efektifdalam mengoptimalkan performa, teknik LOD memberikan peningkatan yanglebih signifikan
The evolution of trade treaties and trade creation : lessons for Latin America
No full textThe author examines the main distinction between trade liberalization under the General Agreement on Tariffs andTrade (GATT) and under regional trading agreements. Under the GATT, trade liberalization is based on the most-favored-nation principle. Under regional trade agreements, it is based on preferential trade. Establishing regional trade agreements does not necessarily lead to greater regional integration. The European Economic Community has been an exception, and with greater integration, regional trade has grown steadily. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been a weak association, but trade among ASEAN members has increased rapidly because member countries have undertaken multilateral trade liberalization. The efforts of Latin American countries to create regional trade associations in the 1960s, based on protectionist policies, reduced trade not only regionally, but with the rest of the world. In contrast, the Latin American regional trading agreements of the 1980s and 1990s have liberalized trade among the groups. Proper regional trading agreements must conform to Article XXIV of the GATT, but nearly all the countries that have created regional integration schemes have not followed it. These regional trading agreements have not increased protection, but neither has there been across-the-board trade liberalization. Regional trading agreements carry with them the danger of trade diversion (when imports that used to come from third countries at lower prices become costlier because of preferential access granted to a higher-cost regional source). How can Latin American countries reduce trade diversion in their regional trading agreements? : 1) keep protection low in the first place; 2) have open regional trade associations (so that it is easy for new partners to join); 3) continue liberalizing trade with the rest of the world, following the most-favored-nation principle; 4) establish common markets rather than free trade areas (because rules of origin create new barriers, including bureaucracies); 5) coordinate regulatory and competition policies (eliminate laws that limit competition and adopt common external tariffs); and 6) improve roads, ports, and means of communications.TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Trade and Regional Integration,Trade Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies
Incomprehension or resistance? : the Markan disciples and the narrative logic of Mark 4:1—8:30
No full textThe characterization of the Markan disciples has been and continues to be the object of much scholarly reflection and speculation. For many, the Markan author’s presentation of Jesus’ disciples holds a key, if not the key, to unlocking the purpose and function of the gospel as a whole. Commentators differ as to whether the Markan disciples ultimately serve a pedagogical or polemical function, yet they are generally agreed that the disciples in Mark come off rather badly, especially when compared to their literary counterparts in Matthew, Luke, and John.
This narrative-critical study considers the characterization of the Markan disciples within the Sea Crossing movement (Mark 4:1–8:30). While commentators have, on the whole, interpreted the disciples’ negative characterization in this movement in terms of lack of faith and/or incomprehension, neither of these, nor a combination of the two, fully accounts for the severity of language leveled against the disciples by the narrator (6:52) and Jesus (8:17–18). Taking as its starting point an argument by Jeffrey B. Gibson (1986) that the harshness of Jesus’ rebuke in Mark 8:14–21 is occasioned not by the disciples’ lack of faith or incomprehension but by their active resistance to his Gentile mission, this investigation uncovers additional examples of the disciples’ resistance to Gentile mission, offering a better account of their negative portrayal within the Sea Crossing movement and helping explain many of their other failures.
In short, this study argues that in Mark 4:1–8:26, the disciples are characterized as resistant to Jesus’ Gentile mission and to their participation in that mission, the chief consequence being that they are rendered incapable of recognizing Jesus’ vocational identity as Israel’s Messiah (Thesis A). This leads to a secondary thesis, namely, that in Mark 8:27–30, Peter’s recognition of Jesus’ messianic identity indicates that the disciples have finally come to accept Jesus’ Gentile mission and their participation in it (Thesis B).
“Chapter One: Introduction” offers a selective review of scholarly treatments of the Markan disciples, which shows that few scholars attribute resistance, let alone purposeful resistance, to the disciples.
“Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Repetition” introduces the methodological tools, concepts, and perspectives employed in the study. It includes a section on narrative criticism, which focuses upon the story-as-discoursed and the implied author and reader, and a section on Construction Grammar, a branch of cognitive linguistics founded by Charles Fillmore and further developed by Paul Danove, which focuses upon semantic and narrative frames and case frame analysis.
“Chapter Three: The Sea Crossing Movement, Mark 4:1–8:30” addresses the question of Markan structure and argues that Mark 4:1–8:30 comprises a single, unified, narrative movement, whose action and plot is oriented to the Sea of Galilee and whose most distinctive feature is the network of sea crossings that transport Jesus and his disciples back and forth between Jewish and Gentile geopolitical spaces.
Following William Freedman, “Chapter Four: The Literary Motif” introduces two criteria (frequency and avoidability) for determining objectively what constitutes a literary motif and provides the methodological basis and starting point for the analyses performed in chapters five and six.
“Chapter Five: The Sea Crossing Motif” establishes and then carries out a lengthy narrative analysis of the Sea Crossing motif, which is oriented around Mark’s use of θάλασσα (thalassa) and πλοῖον (ploion), and “Chapter Six: The Loaves Motif” does the same for The Loaves motif, oriented around Mark’s use of ἄρτος (artos).
Finally, “Chapter Seven: The Narrative Logic of the Disciples (In)comprehension” draws together all narrative, linguistic, and exegetical insights of the previous chapters and offers a single coherent reading of the Sea Crossing movement that establishes Theses A and B.
Encouraging vegetable intake in children : the role of parental strategies, cognitive development and properties of food
No full textBackground Despite the health benefits, children’s fruit and vegetable intake is below that recommended. This thesis focuses on the role of parental strategies, children’s cognitive development and properties of food in order to develop new approaches to increase fruit and vegetable preferences and intake in 4 to 12-year-old children. Methods First, we conducted a qualitative study (N=28) with three age groups representing different cognitive developmental stages, and a parental survey study (N=242). These studies indicated that texture was more important for 4-5-year-old children’s food preferences than for 11-12-year olds and that the parental strategy of ‘Choice’ was positively related to both children’s fruit and vegetable intake. Subsequently, in three intervention studies, the focus was on vegetables only, because previous approaches have been less effective for vegetable intake than for fruit intake. We investigated three approaches for their effectiveness in increasing children’s vegetable acceptance: 1. Varying the preparation method (4-12y; N=94): Carrots and French beans were prepared in six ways: mashed, boiled, steamed, grilled, stir-fried and deep-fried. 2. Flavour-nutrient learning (7-8y; N=19): During a 14-day learning period, vegetable flavours were combined with energy (maltodextrin) or without energy in a drink. 3. Choice-offering (4-6y; N=303): Children had no choice, a choice before a meal, or a choice during a meal regarding which vegetable out of two they were going to eat. Results Varying the preparation method demonstrated that steamed and boiled were preferred over the other preparations (p liking were a uniform surface, the typical vegetable taste and crunchiness, whereas brown colouring and a granular texture negatively predicted liking. Due to insufficient consumption of the vegetable drinks (≈3 grams of 150 grams), flavour-nutrient learning could not take place. The pure vegetable taste was too intense. In the choice-offering study, the children appreciated a choice before the meal, but the three conditions did not differ for vegetable liking (p=0.43) or intake (≈52 gram; p=0.54). In the no-choice condition, high reactant children consumed less vegetables than low reactant children (Δ=28 grams; p=0.04). Conclusion To encourage children’s vegetable liking and intake, the following approaches may be most promising: 1) serve vegetables as crunchy as possible without brown colouring or a granular texture; 2) provide children with choice during vegetable eating; 3) stimulate a positive vegetable-eating context. Finally, serving vegetables in mixed dishes is a good way to facilitate flavour-flavour and flavournutrient learning, but the effectiveness of flavour-nutrient learning for increasing children’s vegetable acceptance needs to be determined in future research. <br/
The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs: Tools, Processes, Outcomes. CEPS Working Document No. 303, September 2008
No full textThis working document offers a conceptual framework for understanding the processes underpinning the external dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs (ED-JHA). Practically, it defines how the export of JHA principles and norms inform the geopolitical ambitions of the EU, i.e. the use of space for political purposes, or the control and management of people, objects and movement. The author begins by investigating how the ENP reconfigures the ED-JHA, and then goes on to discuss various conceptual stances on governance, specifically institutionalism, constructivism, and policy instruments. To conclude he traces the evolution of this external dimension, emphasising, whenever possible, its continuities and bifurcations. Overall, the aim is to ascertain the extent to which conceptual designs clarify or advance our knowledge of the contents and rationales of the ED-JHA
The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs: Tools, Processes, Outcomes
No full textThis working document offers a conceptual framework for understanding the processes underpinning the external dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs (ED-JHA). Practically, it defines how the export of JHA principles and norms inform the geopolitical ambitions of the EU, i.e. the use of space for political purposes, or the control and management of people, objects and movement. The author begins by investigating how the ENP reconfigures the ED-JHA, and then goes on to discuss various conceptual stances on governance, specifically institutionalism, constructivism, and policy instruments. To conclude he traces the evolution of this external dimension, emphasising, whenever possible, its continuities and bifurcations. Overall, the aim is to ascertain the extent to which conceptual designs clarify or advance our knowledge of the contents and rationales of the ED-JHA.neighbourhood policy, international politics, geopolitics, migration,immigration, European security, policy instruments, governance, Security and Justice,Justice and Home Affairs
John's apologetic christology : legitimation and development in Johannine christology.
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Society and the inquisition in Malta 1743-1798
No full textThe thesis falls into two main sections. It endeavours to analyse the major aspects of Maltese society in the second half of the eighteenth century as they emerge from a close scrutiny of the Archives of the Inquisition in Malta. The approach is mainly that of the ethnologist, a social history written 'from below'. The ultimate purpose was to try to arrive at as clear and accurate a picture of the Maltese mentalite as the archives permitted. Unfortunately, the Archives of the Inquisition in Malta have hardly ever been seriously studied by the social historian. Their richness and diversity not only cast enormous insight into the mental habits and frame of mind of a wide cross-section of Maltese society; they even shed sufficient light on a wide range of the social life of the Maltese. The subject is also approached from the point of view of the legal historian. The Inquisition was a Tribunal of Faith set up to stop the onslaught of Protestantism, as well as to reform the superstitious accretions to popular religion practised by the remaining part of the Catholic Church. The thesis examines the events leading to the charge and possibly arrest of the accused. Most of the reports were self-accusations and those arrested were taken into custody only after much deliberation. If the Inquisitors did make use of torture the accused was assisted by the defence counsel and produced his own witnesses. No instance of death sentences are encountered with in the second half of the eighteenth century and those found guilty were kindly dealt with, the Inquisitors being only after their conversion
The Impact of Blockholders on Information Signalling, Productivity, and Managerial Disciplining.
No full textIt has recently been acknowledged that all over the world, large shareholders control important parts of publicly traded companies. This dissertation tries to contribute to the existing literature by exploring particular aspects of large shareholders in market economies as well as transition economies. The first part is devoted to exploring the impact of different types of blockholders on market reaction to directors' dealings (insider trading) in the U.K. The second part analyzes the restructuring activities pushed forward by new private owners in voucher-privatized firms in the Czech republic shortly after the transfer of ownership.
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 37 No 1 - April 2002)
No full textEditorial - 7 / Articles: Paradise Lost: Reading the Former Prophets by the Rivers of Babylon by Arie C. Leder - 9 / Rahab of Canaan and Israel: The Meaning of Joshua 2 by John H. Stek - 28 / Preaching Texts of Terror in the Book of Judges: How Does the History of Interpretation Help? by John L. Thompson - 49 / Reading Samuel to Hear God by Stanley D. Walters - 62 / The Former Prophets and the Practice of Christian Worship by John D. Witvliet - 82 / Scholia et Homiletica: Vengeance and the Fair Trial Venue: A Sermon on Joshua 20 by William T. Koopmans - 95 / Guile and Grief in Gideon\u27s Gold: A Sermon on Judges 8:27 by William T. Koopmans - 99 / The Costly Gift: A Monologue Sermon on 2 Samuel 24 by Stanley D. Walters - 103 / A Response to John Bolt\u27s Common Grace and the Christian Reformed Synod of Kalamazoo (1924) by Harry Boonstra - 113 / A Reply to Harry Boonstra by John Bolt - 117 / Book Reviews - Scripture and Interpretation: Hengel, Martin, The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Investigation of the Collection and Origin of the Canonical Gospels, reviewed by David Crump - 120 / McGrath, Alister E., In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 122 / McNutt, Paula M., Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel, reviewed by Simon J. DeVries - 124 / Mazar, Amihai, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E.; Stern, Ephraim, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods (732-332 B.C.E.), reviewed by Neal Bierling - 128 / Watts, Rikki E., Isaiah\u27s New Exodus in Mark, reviewed by Nick Overduin - 131 / Theology and History: Armstrong, Regis J., J. Wayne Hellmann, and William J. Short, Francis of Assisi: Early Documents. Vol. 2: The Founder, reviewed by Frans van Liere - 133 / Boice, James Montgomery, Whatever Happened to the Gospel of Grace?, reviewed by Michael Wittmer - 134 / Bolt, John, A Free Church, a Holy Nation: Abraham Kuyper\u27s American Public Theology, reviewed by James W. Skillen - 135 / Hughes, Richard T., How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind, reviewed by Michael Wittmer - 138 / Keener, Craig S., Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 140 / Lambert, Frank, Inventing the Great Awakening , reviewed by T. Chris Crain - 141 / McInerny, Ralph, Characters in Search of Their Author: The Gifford Lectures, 1999-2000, reviewed by Arvin Vos - 142 / McKim, Donald K., Introducing the Reformed Faith: Biblical Revelation, Christian Tradition, Contemporary Significance, reviewed by Scott Hoezee - 146 / Muller, Richard A., The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition, reviewed by I. John Hesselink - 148 / O\u27Malley, John W., Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era, reviewed by John L. Thompson - 150 / Pinnock, Clark H., Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God\u27s Openness, reviewed by Michael Wittmer - 152 / Slater, T. R., and Gervase Rosser, The Church in the Medieval Town, reviewed by Frans van Liere - 154 / Sproul, R. C., The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts That Shaped Our World, reviewed by Edwin Walhout - 155 / Stewart-Sykes, Alistair, trans., Melito of Sardis: On Pascha, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 156 / van Asselt, Willem J., and Eef Dekker, eds., Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical Enterprise, reviewed by Donald Sinnema - 157 / Webb, Stephen H., Taking Religion to School: Christian Theology and Secular Education, reviewed by D. G. Hart - 160 / Wilson, Jonathan R., God So Loved the World: A Christology for Disciples, reviewed by Wayne Brouwer - 164 / Zuckert, Michael P., The Natural Rights Republic: Studies in the Foundation of the American Political Tradition, reviewed by David T. Koyzis - 165 / Church and Mission: Anderson, Ray S., The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis, reviewed by Clayton Libolt - 167 / Beck, James R., and Craig L. Blomberg, eds., Two Views on Women in Ministry, reviewed by Wayne Brouwer - 170 / Behr-Sigel, Elisabeth, and Kallistos Ware, The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 172 / Conn, Harvie M., and Manuel Ortiz, Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City, and the People of God, reviewed by Mark R. Gornik - 174 / Craddock, Fred B., The Cherry Log Sermons, reviewed by Roger Van Harn - 176 / Hasan, Asma Gull, American Muslims: The New Generation, reviewed by Bassam Michael Madany - 179 / Koffeman, Leo J., and Henk Witte, eds., Of All Times and of All Places: Protestants and Catholics on the Church Local and Universal, reviewed by Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC - 182 / Larsen, David L., Biblical Spirituality: Discovering the Real Connection Between the Bible and Life, reviewed by Tom Schwanda - 184 / Tripp, Diane Karay, comp. and ed., Prayers from the Reformed Tradition: In the Company of a Great Cloud of Witnesses, reviewed by Tom Schwanda - 185https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/ctj/1072/thumbnail.jp
