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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"ORACLES"”.
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Aristophanic Oracles
… Aristophanic comedies contain, or refer to, oracles (Knights, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata). This thesis aims (a) to discuss Aristophanes’ stance toward oracles and oracle-collections; (b) to comment on each oracle in these four plays in chronological order, and to reach conclusions regarding …
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Essays on Smart Contracts and Oracles
The thesis is composed of two essays related to smart contract systems on public permission-less blockchains. Firstly, the thesis presents EDSC, a novel smart contract platform design based on the event-driven execution model as opposed to the traditionally employed transaction-driven execution …
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Formulating test oracles via anomaly detection techniques
Developments in the automation of test data generation have greatly improved efficiency of the software testing process but the so-called "oracle problem" (deciding the pass or fail outcome of a test execution) is still primarily an expensive and error-prone manual activity. This thesis presents an …
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Stochastic optimization with biased oracles and hidden convexity
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Bridging the gap between testing and debugging through explainable deep oracles
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Topics in Computing with Quantum Oracles and Higher-Dimensional Many-Body Systems
… of quantum computers involving quantum oracles and classically-simulatable quantum circuits. In Part I I study the notion of black-box unitary operations, and procedures for effecting the inverse operation. Part II looks at how quantum oracles can be used to test properties of …
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The use of Isaiah in the Sibylline Oracles, Qumran literature and Romans (a source-influence study)
… influence of the Book of Isaiah on the Sibylline Oracles, (some of) the Qumran sectarian writings and Romans. Equal time and energy have been devoted to studying the use of Isaiah by Paul and some of his kinspeople such as the Jewish Sibyls who are responsible for the Jewish material in Sibylline …
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‘The Oracular Tale’ and the Oracles of the Greeks: Storytelling, Conjecture, and Oracular Ambiguity in Herodotus’ Histories and its Historical and Cultural Context
… I study how the ancient Greeks used oracles, like those of the famous oracle at Delphi, to make their past, present, and future knowable. I analyze the stories about oracles from Herodotus’ Histories as well as Thucydides and the corpus of Greek inscriptions using a theory of …
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Oracular prophecy and psychology in Ancient Greek warfare.
… in warfare especially the influence of the major oracles at Delphi, Dodona,Olympia,Didyma and Ammon on the foreign policies and military strategies of poleis and their psychological preparation for war as well as the effect of oracular prophecies on a commander's decision making and tactics on the …
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PrologPF: Parallel Logic and Functions on the Delphi Machine
… in a similar manner to standard Prolog, but uses oracles in one of two modes. An oracle represents the sequence of clauses used to reach a given point in the problem search tree, and the same PrologPF executable can be used to build oracles, or follow oracles previously generated. The …
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Magical Rhetoric and Anti-Witchcraft Motifs in Jeremiah: A Comparative Analysis with the Mesopotamian Maqlû Ritual
… the ritualized rhetoric embedded in Jeremiah’s oracles of doom, particularly its connections to Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals, has received insufficient attention. This oversight persists amid a surge of interest in ritual references within ancient Near Eastern treaty-making, notably in …
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The Presence of the Covenant Motif in Amos 1:2-2:16
… this issue through an exegetical study of the "Oracles Against the Nations" of Amos 1:2-2:16. This pericope of Amos was chosen because it has played a central role in the argumentation that denies the existence of any notion of covenant in the book.</p> <p>Chapter 1 introduces the controversy …
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The topos of divine testimony in Luke-Acts.
… utterances (both direct speech and through oracles), other sounds and/or visible emanations from the heavens (such as fire), the presence and flight of birds, portents on the earth, and dreams and visions. A survey of ancient speeches and treatises demonstrates that all of these elements …
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On the Complexity of Nonconvex-Strongly-Concave Smooth Minimax Optimization Using First-Order Methods
… a lower bound of Ω ( √ 𝜅𝜖⁻²) for deterministic oracles, where 𝜖 defines the level of approximate stationarity and 𝜅 is the condition number, which matches the existing upper bound achieved in (Lin et al., 2020b) up to logarithmic factors. For stochastic oracles, we provide a lower bound of Ω (︀√ …
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Deniable Ring Signatures
… initial scheme assumed the existence of random oracles, in 2005 a scheme was developed that does not use random oracles and meets the strongest security definitions known in the literature. We argue that this scheme is not deniable, meaning if someone signs a message with respect to a ring of …
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Techniques for handling nonsymmetric cones in interior point algorithms
… stable and computationally fast barrier oracles for interior point methods. We begin this thesis by describing the interior point algorithm we implement in the solver Hypatia for exotic cones. The exotic cones are a broad class of cones (including symmetric and nonsymmetric cones) that …
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Satisfiability Algorithms and Connections between Algorithms and Circuit Lower Bounds
… give new results in the following three areas: Oracles and Algorithmic Methods for Proving Lower Bounds: We give an equivalence between relativizing circuit lower bounds (circuit lower bounds which hold with respect to all oracles) and the existence of uniform circuits for a problem we call the …
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Ezekiel 26 as a Case Study for Interpreting Problematic Prophecy
… of how various scholars have interpreted the oracles against foreign nations in the Hebrew Bible. Next, I catalogue various solutions which scholars have presented to reconcile the discrepancy between what Ezekiel prophesies in chapter 26 and his concession in chapter 29. Third, I examine key …
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The formation of Mic 1-3 : from the eighth century to the exile.
… referred to as the Book of the Four. The Micah oracles were preserved from the eighth century to the exile by tradents who first preserved the oracles in the Shephelah because of opposition from the Jerusalem elite. Following Sennacherib's 701 BCE campaign, tradents in Jerusalem added the second …
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