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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Hardcore"”.
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Learning noisy characters, multiplication codes, and cryptographic hardcore predicates
… for proving that a Boolean predicate is hardcore for a one-way function and apply it to a broad family of functions and predicates, showing new hardcore predicates for well known one-way function candidates such as RSA and discrete-log as well as reproving old results in an entirely …
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Retomando la tragedia : prácticas creativas y sentidos de lo político en el hardcore bogotano
Este trabajo estudia la escena hardcore de la ciudad de Bogotá, con el objetivo de aproximarse a la comprensión de la relación entre las prácticas creativas y los sentidos de lo político que se han presentado en ese espacio, en un período que comprende la década pasada, centrándose en un grupo …
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From hardcore to soft core : reconstructing the image of Times Square and the commodification of place
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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“The New Reality”: Hardcore’s Shifting Authenticities Under Capitalist Realism
This thesis challenges the common assumption that hardcore punk subculture is an eternally subversive and progressive musical movement. Particularly in North America – hardcore’s geographical origin and primary locus of discourse – the subculture’s norms have been reterritorialized alongside …
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Constructing Music of Rebellion in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States
… skinheads, the macho violence of “straight-edge hardcore,” and musical stagnation. Moreover, Ronald Reagan, the symbol of all that punks detested, was no longer president, the Cold War was coming to an end, and the United States was fast becoming the world’s sole superpower. These dilemmas put …
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Classical Commitments to Quantum States
… function family that satisfies the adaptive hardcore bit property first introduced in [Bra+18].
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System level fault diagnosis by testable diagnosis array
… complicated or have inherited the diagnostic hardcore problem or both. In this thesis, an innovative approach to system level fault diagnosis is taken. A diagnosis device implemented by simple hardware is proposed that virtually eliminates the burden of complicated diagnosis algorithm and …
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EXOTIC PHASES IN A SPIN-1 BOSONIC FLUX SYSTEM
… ground state properties of an interacting spin-1 hardcore boson model on a ladder in a transverse magnetic field at zero temperature. At unit filling in the strong-interacting regime, we observe a Mott insulator phase characterised by a charge gap and a periodic exponential decay of the Green’s …
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Bayesian risk management : "Frequency does not make you smarter"
… a framework for BRM based on the two pillars Hardcore-Bayesianism (HCB) and Softcore-Bayesianism (SCB) providing solutions for the claims above. For data analysis we favor Bayesian statistics with its Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation algorithm. It provides a full illustration of …
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Sports and the Future of Streaming Television: A Study of the Value Sports Content Adds to Streaming Services
… Meanwhile, leagues that lacked their own hardcore fanbases provided little to their host services beyond filler for users to watch in between more interesting sports. The results of this study provide valuable information for both the academic and professional worlds. For academia, this …
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Wear That Tape Out: Punk Rock Cassettes, DIY Histories, and Materializing the Self
… Midwest emo revival, and 1980s Washington D.C. Hardcore —that demonstrate the evolving significance of the cassette tape, and illustrate how antiquated technologies continue to live on after their supposed obsolescence. Through my four case studies I examine the significance of the cassette tape …
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Mapeando la cultura Kruda: Hip-Hop, Punk Rock y performances queer latino contemporáneo
… activist Martin Sorrondeguy in his hardcore punk and queercore groups, <i>Los Crudos</i> and <i>Limp Wrist</i>, and a graphic novel entitled, <i>Spit and Passion</i>, by the Cuban-American artist, Cristy C. Road. From a performance studies perspective, this thesis utilized the …
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Design for pre-bond testability in 3D integrated circuits
… and we propose a new design methodology for test hardcore that ensures both pre-bond functionality and post-bond optimality. We present the application of these techniques to the 3D-MAPS test vehicle, which has proven their effectiveness. Second, we extend these DFT techniques to …
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Essays on Applied Game Theory and Public Economics
… group. However, such decision will shrink their hardcore vote base where voters are well informed about the policy. The parties can then allocate the funds between campaigning and personal wealth. Different from the core voters, independent voters can be attracted by advertisements funded by …
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Stochastic Geometry Perspective of Massive MIMO Systems
… sequences throughout the network. Inspired by a hardcore point process known as the random sequential adsorption (RSA) process, we develop a new distributed pilot assignment algorithm that mitigates the effect of pilot contamination by ensuring a minimum distance among the co-pilot users. This …
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Non-equilibrium dynamics in three-dimensional magnetic spin models and molecular motor-inspired one-dimensional exclusion processes
… state properties for the model consisting of hardcore particles hopping on the lattice with variable step sizes. We find that the stationary state gap-distribution exhibits striking peaks around gap sizes that are multiples of the maximum step size, for both open and periodic boundary …
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Exploring Player Frustration: A Comparative Study of One vs. Multi-Level Difficulty in Video Games and the Short-Term Impact on Players
With the rise in popularity of challenging video games such as Elden Ring, belonging to the Souls genre known for its high difficulty level, the question arises regarding the immediate consequences players experience after frustrating encounters. Specifically, this study investigates the short-term …
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Universal Burdens : Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization, and Taqwacore
Zen Buddhists have long given the following advice to attain liberation: “Eat when you’re hungry. Sleep when you’re tired.” In other words: “Freedom” is the “knowledge of necessity” (Hegel, Marx, and Engels). Early Islamic communities dealt with the challenge of internal warfare and tyranny and …