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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"sundial"”.
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Logical timestamps in distributed transaction processing systems
… poor performance. In this work, we constructed Sundial, a distributed concurrency control algorithm that applies logical timestamps seaminglessly with a cache protocol, and works in a hybrid fashion where an optimistic approach is combined with lock-based schemes. Sundial tackles the …
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Logical leases : scalable hardware and software systems through time traveling
… up to 92% while reducing aborts by up to 3.3 x. Sundial is a distributed concurrency control protocol, also based on logical leases. Sundial has two salient features. First, it uses a logical-lease-based distributed concurrency control algorithm to achieve high performance and low abort rate for …
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Observation & Light
… is a project for light in which a monumental sundial becomes an amphitheater for the town of Newport, Virginia.
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Tempus Schola: A Proposal for the New Jefferson-Houston School
… to serve a purpose, whether that be creating a sundial to celebrate time passing or creating a black box to shield us from time's presence. In most cases though, time is merely a variable to work with to achieve a higher goal. This thesis looks to reverse this concept and use time and its …
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Multiple, misaligned subjectivities : how representative twentieth century authors resolve the tension between American individualism and femininity.
… (Save Me the Waltz), Shirley Jackson (The Sundial, Hill House, and We Always Lived in a Castle) and Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping and Lila). The analysis examines how the characters experience the conflict, how it arises, and how they resolve the conflict, if, in fact, they can. Each …
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The production of prosodic focus and contour in dialogue
… focus have been implemented as part of the Sundial dialogue system. In this system, discoursal and pragmatic decisions affecting prosody are converted to annotations on a text string, for realisation by a rule-based synthesizer.
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A Dormitory for Architecture Students in Alexandria, Virginia
This thesis is an intimate exploration. A personal journey between here and there: what I left behind, what I always kept close to me and all the new things that I learned and experience during the last four years. I just tried to put myself together as a person as well as an architect; taking from …