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Imagining the Worst: Ladislav Fuks' Contributions to Holocaust Fiction
… He is a valuable contributor not only to the Holocaust Literature genre, but also to film and literature in general. His two English-translated works, Mr. Theodore Mundstock and The Cremator, as well as the film adaptation of The Cremator, examine the role imagination can play in art that …
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Why Pluralism About Epistemic Justification is the Worst of Both Worlds
Epistemologists often debate whether we ought to be internalists or externalists about epistemic justification. Internalists say that whether an agent's belief is justified depends on facts internally accessible to the agent, and externalists deny this. But what if internalists and externalists …
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Strategies and mechanisms to eradicate the worst forms of child labour in Nigeria
Children are the future of a nation and the hope for a better tomorrow. For a country to develop, the rights of a child should be of paramount concern to the government of the nation. These rights include, but are not limited to, the right to adequate standard of living, health care, education, …
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An Efficient Knapsack-Based Approach for Calculating the Worst-Case Demand of AVR Tasks
… tasks are real-time tasks that are released when the crankshaft arrives at certain positions in its path of rotation. This makes the rate of release of these jobs a function of the crankshaft's angular speed and acceleration. In addition, several properties of the engine triggered tasks like the …
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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: 3 Years of Experiments In Graduate Lighting
<p> This thesis seeks to chronicle the author's journey from novice to mastery in the study of Lighting Design. Through the examination and thorough analysis of several large scale design projects, the author intends to gain a greater depth of understanding about his own process as a designer and …
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The application of genetic algorithms to identify the worst credible states in a bulk power system
"This research project presents the application of the genetic algorithm to identify the worst credible states in a bulk power system which is very important to engineers who are planning and operating the system. Contingency analysis which is the classical method is applied to analyze all possible …
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The best of times, the worst of times: A bio-cultural analysis of the Ferguson District, 1892-1909
This study concerns an analysis of the Ferguson District, a late 19th-early 20th century gold mining district in southeastern Lincoln County, Nevada. Historical events are reconstructed for the boom years between 1892-1909 and critical bio-cultural variables investigated. The hypothesis that …
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A Comparative Pentadic Analysis of Mediated Presidential Discourse During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
… George W. Bush was confronted with one of the worst national attacks in United States history: the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001. Through the devastation, however, President Bush triumphed in unifying and guiding this nation during what would become the height of his rhetorical …
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Distributed architectures and databases for personal communications networks and services
The objective of Personal Communications Services (PCS) is to enable subscribers to establish or receive calls at any user-network access point, independent of geographic location. A hierarchical, distributed database architecture has been developed to perform those mobility management functions …
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Design And Analysis Of Time-Predicatable Single-Core And Multi-Core Processors
Time predictability is one of the most important design considerations for real-time systems. In this dissertation, time predictability of the instruction cache is studied on both single core processors and multi-core processors. It is observed that many features in modern microprocessor …
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DM EMI Noise Analysis for Single Channel and Interleaved Boost PFC in Critical Conduction Mode
The critical conduction mode (CRM) power factor correction converters (PFC) are widely used in industry for low power offline switching mode power supplies. For the CRM PFC, the main advantage is to reduce turn-on loss of the main switch. However, the large inductor current ripple in CRM PFC …
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ΧΕΙΡΟΤΕΡΗ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΣΗ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΑ ΠΑΡΑΛΛΗΛΩΝ ΑΛΓΟΡΙΘΜΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΓΡΑΦΩΝ
IN THIS THESIS FAST, OPTIMAL AND/OR EFFICIENT PARALLEL ALGORITHMS ARE DEVELOPEDFOR MANY IMPORTANT GRAPH PROBLEMS WHICH IMPROVE SIGNIFICANTLY THE COMPLEXITIESOF THE BEST PREVIOUS KNOWN PARALLEL ALGORITHMS ON THE SAME PROBLEMS. MORE PRECISELY WE INVESTIGATE, (I) THE WORST-CASE PARALLEL COMPLEXITY …
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A Low-Power, Variable-Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converter
… (ADCs) are used to convert analog signals to the digital domain in digital communications systems. An ADC used in wireless communications should meet the necessary requirements for the worst-case channel condition. However, the worst-case scenario rarely occurs. As a consequence, a …
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Designing a Quantitative Videofluoroscopic Analysis Approach in Infants with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1
… Recent FDA approval of disease-modifying therapies have led to improvements in survival and motor function; however, their effects on bulbar physiology remains unclear. In this study, we aimed to establish a videofluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS) analysis method that optimizes analysis …
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Perfect hashing and related problems
One of the most common tasks in many computer applications is the maintenance of a dictionary of words. The three most basic operations on the dictionary are find, insert, and delete. An important data structure that supports these operations is a hash table. On a hash table, a basic operation …
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Learned Interpolation for Better Streaming Quantiles with Worst Case Guarantees
… sketch over a stream of n inputs approximates the rank of any query point q—that is, the number of input points less than q—up to an additive error of εn, generally with some probability of at least 1−1/ poly(n), while consuming o(n) space. While the celebrated KLL sketch of Karnin, Lang, and …
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Characterisation of local properties and prediction in chaotic dynamical systems
… that allow statements about future states or the predictability. This is done using two kinds of local exponents as well as ensemble studies. In conservative systems with trapping, the distribution of finite-time Lyapunov exponents (FTLE) has multiple maxima. These can be attributed to pieces …
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State Super-Maximum Security Policies: An Examination of Admission Characteristics, Classification Reviews, Mental Health Amenities, and Inmate Privileges
… for correctional agencies attempting to control the “worst of the worst” inmates. Federal courts and researchers have examined the detrimental effects supermax isolation has on inmates’ mental health. This analysis examines forty-two state supermax policies to determine how states admit inmates …
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