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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"World Systems"”.
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Belief-Space Planning for Real-World Systems: Efficient SLAM-Based Belief Propagation and Continuous-Time Safety
… goal in robotics. By enabling autonomous systems to explicitly reason about their own uncertainty, desirable behaviors that increase observability and ensure robust constraint satisfaction arise naturally from high-level optimization specifications. For partially-observable and …
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Depression-Era Coloma: A World-Systems Study of Mining and Daily Life Experiences in a Reoccupied Montana Ghost Town
… The data is then used as the foundation for a World-Systems perspective on the site, which, in turn, connects this mining camp to the world at large during the 1930s.
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Depression-Era Coloma: A World-Systems Study of Mining and Daily Life Experiences in a Reoccupied Montana Ghost Town
… The data is then used as the foundation for a World-Systems perspective on the site, which, in turn, connects this mining camp to the world at large during the 1930s.
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Integrating Gradient Boosting and Generative Models: Hybrid Approach to Address Class Imbalance and Evaluation Gaps in Real-World Systems
… and the need to regulate false positives in realworld settings at scale. This thesis introduces Tail-end FPR Max Recall, a business-aware evaluation framework designed for such constrained environments. Using this framework, we benchmark LightGBM—a gradient boosting method known for its …
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In What Ways Do Data-Driven AI Algorithms Impact Complex Real-World Systems and Decision-Making? [In Che Modo Gli Algoritmi di IA Basati sui Dati Impattano i Sistemi Complessi del Mondo Reale e il Processo Decisionale ?]
Nel campo in rapida evoluzione delle applicazioni basate sui dati, questa tesi di dottorato fa progressi nel settore degli algoritmi di intelligenza artificiale (IA) progettati per elaborare grandi dataset in vari domini applicativi. I dati giocano un ruolo critico in questo contesto, poiché …
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Systems at Play: The Construction of International Systems in Social Impact Games
… of and navigate the intersection between digital systems and real world systems by asking, how can social impact game designers shape procedural rhetoric to effectively address complex real world systems with digital systems? By examining three game case studies, I reach four significant findings …
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The structural organization of higher-order networks: Measures, algorithms and software for hypergraphs
… have revealed important properties of real-world systems, including small-world and clustering organization. Yet, they often face limitations in capturing the full complexity of real-world systems. Over the years, researchers have devoted a lot of attention to expanding the set of frameworks …
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The Military, Economy and the State: A New International System Analysis
… I outline a theoretical justification for a new world systems analysis in order to understand economic development and underdevelopment, and stratification systems that emerge within nation states because of their global social location. I present my detailed case for amending Wallerstein's …
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O Brasil na semiperiferia: análise do setor agrícola, sob a perspectiva dos Sistemas-Mundo
During post-II World War, Brazil received investments from Core countries, considering World-Systems perspective. Those investments were key to Brazil develop agricultural industrialization and modernization. From Periphery to Semiperiphery, Brazil is now an investor at others South American and …
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… in the constitution of the colonial-capitalist world system from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. World systems and postcolonial approaches to colonial expansion have often reduced questions of theology to a discursive feature of producing difference through the binary frame of …
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Optimization for stochastic, partially observed systems using a sampling-based approach to learn switched policies
… essentially unreachable for even small real-world systems of interest. For this reason, we restrict the policies we learn to the class of switched belief-feedback policies in a manner that allows us to introduce domain expert knowledge into the planning process. This approach has worked well …
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A framework for non-intrusive load monitoring and diagnostics
… use of electrical and electromechanical systems places increasing demands on monitoring and diagnostic techniques. The non-intrusive load monitor (NILM) provides a low-cost, low-maintenance way to perform this monitoring and diagnostics from a centralized location. This work critically …
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Implementation and application of the fundamental theorem of probability
… inference on (possibly) incompletely specified systems of discrete events is reviewed and implemented. Developed by Myers, Freund, and Kaufman, it is a tractable reformulation of the computational approach implicit to the Fundamental Theorem of Probability as stated by De Finetti and extended by …
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A constant in an ever-changing world: Washington's pursuit of its interests through regime change after 1989
… support for the Marxist and World-Systems Theory perspectives. The elaboration of the various ontological and epistemological assumptions that critical realism shares with the Marxist and World Systems Theory outlooks takes on is significant given that these outlooks served as …
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The Casta paintings of Colonial Mexico : the politics of constructing social order through art
… between the Casta paintings and Old World systems of measuring and diagramming social differences. The fourth chapter places the Casta paintings within a political debate about the control of art, and argues that this genre can be seen as part of a larger political process of the …
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Analyzing Thabo Mbeki's policy of 'quiet diplomacy' in the Zimbabwean crisis
… and in particular Immanuel Wallerstein's World Systems Theory to characterise South Africa as a prototypical semi-peripheral state, with a dual-contradictory role in international relations. It argues that post- apartheid South Africa's failure to make genuine progress in terms primarily …
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Keeping Up Appearances: Cosmetics in Sulphur, Nevada
… identity. In the context of gender theory and world systems theory, cosmetics provide insight into how Sulphur residents responded to and connected with the larger world. The cosmetics discovered at Sulphur demonstrate that Sulphur residents were aware of and participated with the outside …
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Efficient Community Detection for Large Scale Networks via Sub-sampling
Many real-world systems can be represented as network-graphs. Some of the networks have an inherent community structure based on interactions. The problem of identifying this grouping structure given a graph is termed as community detection problem which has certain existing algorithms. This thesis …
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The Relations of Terror and Immigration: Preventive Solutions
… been impacted by its global regulating. Using World Systems Theory, I propose the U.S. will find more preventive solutions to immigration and terrorism if it allows a theory of connections to influence its international policy.
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Stochastic Search and Fuzzy Modelling for Real World Complex Systems
The modelling of real-world complex systems is an area of ongoing interest for the research community. Real-world systems present a variety of challenges not least of which is the problem of uncertainty inherent in their operation. In this research the problem of inventory management was chosen, …
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