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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Postman"”.
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Public sector vehicle routing : the Chinese postman problem.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1970. M.S.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice: Neil Postman's Views on Education are Relevant Again in the 21st Century Classroom
… classroom through the lens of Neil Postman, a 20<sup>th</sup>century media ecologist whose fears about television may finally be realized with the advent of the personal digital device and its impact on the educational sphere. First the past narratives that guided the American school …
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Contributions to Multiple Postmen Problems
… problems, where the aim is to find a set of postman tours (each starting and ending at a post office) for k >= 2 postmen. We consider the Min-Max k-Chinese Postman Problem (MM k-CPP) where, given a street network, the objective is to cover each street by at least one postman tour while …
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… the discrepancy between the stance of Neil Postman in <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business</em> and Don DeLillo in <em>White Noise</em> in situating the visions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley within the context of the new media age. In <em>Amusing …
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The Use of Brightest Cluster Galaxies as Standard Candles Since z~1
… a distance indicator that was investigated by Postman and Lauer (1995). They useda relationship discovered by Hoessel (1980) that compares the metric luminosity, withinthe inner 10 h<sup>-1</sup> kpc, of a brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) to the logarithmic slope of itssurface brightness profile …
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Developing a Mobile Recommendation System using Collaborative Filtering
… unit tests και τεστ σε επίπεδο API με χρήση Postman.
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Analysis and Improvement of Cross-dock Operations in Less-than-Truckload Freight Transportation Industry
… freight sequencing problem is modeled as a Rural Postman Problem (RPP). A Balance and Connect Algorithm (BCA) and an Assign First and Route Second Algorithm (AFRSA) are investigated and compared to Balanced Trailer-at-a-Time (BTAAT), Balanced Trailer-at-a-Time with Offloading (BTAATWO), and …
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Matchings, Connectivity, and Eigenvalues in Regular Graphs
… for regular graphs, including the Chinese postman problem, the path cover number, the average edge-connectivity, and the number of perfect matchings. In Chapter 5, we study an $r$-dynamic coloring problem and give the relationship between the $r$-dynamic chromatic number and the chromatic …
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The Megaphone of the Soul: Resistance of Fraudulent Technological Idolization by Recognizing the Power of Human Choice in Media Ecology
… scholarship by Arendt, Burke, Ellul, Mumford, Postman, and Ricoeur. Social media scholarship has often focused on the tool and how it affects humanity. However, a phenomenological approach is necessary, as humans communicate with or without these tools. This approach will follow multiple steps. …
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The Postmodern Turn in Higher Education: Incorporating Narrative Literacy into the Discipline of Communication
… of professor, and the concerns of Bok (1982), Postman (1985), Nussbaum (1997) and Putnam (2000) for a lack of civic engagement in today's society. This work address these problems by forming an additive argument to Walter Fisher's (1984; 1987) narrative paradigm through discussing the …
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Route Optimization for Automated Bridge Inspection with Genetic Algorithm
… task maps well to the NP-Hard Min-Max k-Chinese Postman Problem (MM k-CPP), which is part of the family of Arc Routing Problems (ARPs). These represent a broad class of problems wherein the goal is to traverse every edge of a graph in the most optimal fashion, under some set of constraints. Some …
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Bodies of Correspondence in Contemporary Quebec: from Gabrielle Roy to le vrai Gab Roy
… in Québec as it moves from the postcard and the postman to an epistolary afterlife in philosophical letter fiction from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, especially Madeleine Gagnon’s La lettre infinie and Denis Thériault’s Le facteur émotif. My final chapter, “Yetis and Trolls: The Monstrum …
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Wireless sensor network aided search and rescue in trails
… are developed based on solving Chinese Postman problems. Next, we present extensive experimental results to compare the performances of different methods and examine the accuracy of the mathematical models. A very fast heuristic method, divide-merge, is shown to outperform all others and …
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Polyhedra and algorithms for the General Routing Problem
… Verallgemeinerung des besser bekannten Rural Postman Problem (siehe z.B. Garey & Johnson 1979), zu dem es tatsächlich sowohl theoretisch als auch was die praktische Lösung betrifft äquivalent ist. Der Unterschied in der Namensgebung ist nur historisch bedingt. Ein erfolgreicher Ansatz, um …
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Webový editor prezentací
Cieľom tejto práce je implementácia webovej aplikácie s tlstým klientom pre spravovanie prezentácií s obsahom typu Markdown, ktorý sa následne prezentuje pomocou prezentačného rámca(framework) Reveal.js. Frontend aplikácie je vytvorený pomocou Vue.js s nadstavbou Nuxt.js, backend pomocou Express.js …
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Environmental journalism curriculum as an imperative of democracy: A philosophical exploration.
… and education with Carey's ritual model and Postman's restoration of storytelling. I then summarize existing major academic programs and suggest a new interdisciplinary curriculum for environmental journalism, a specialty well suited to experimental, democracy-centered education. The …
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When Humanity Meets Technology: Contemplating Neil Postman's Critique of Advertising
<p>This project aims to contemplate Postman’s critique of advertising and offer insights to understand Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) in today’s mediated environment. As an essential component of IMC, the history of advertising demonstrates and documents that the medium of communication …