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Reading Orientalism And The Crisis Of Epistemology In The Novels Of Lawrence Durrell, James Gifford Jun 1999

Reading Orientalism And The Crisis Of Epistemology In The Novels Of Lawrence Durrell, James Gifford

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "Reading Orientalism and the Crisis of Epistemology in the Novels of Lawrence Durrell," James Gifford argues that Edward Said's Orientalism has had a far reaching impact on the study of literature as well as in Comparative Literature, especially in works which depict the "Eastern Other." However, a question arises in those texts which have completed the philosophical motion from existentialism to epistemological skepticism such as the novels of Lawrence Durrell. For example, in The Avignon Quintet a provisional and even counterfactual form of knowledge becomes central and obvious to the reader. Subsequently, knowledge of the Other becomes …

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Segmenting The Commercial Producer Marketplace For Agricultural Inputs, Brent A. Gloy, Jay Akridge Jun 1999

Segmenting The Commercial Producer Marketplace For Agricultural Inputs, Brent A. Gloy, Jay Akridge

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

A cluster analysis procedure was used to develop a market segmentation of U.S. crop and livestock farms with annual sales in excess of $100,000. The segments were developed based on the importance of six factors that producers evaluate when selecting input suppliers. The results indicate that four distinct segments exist: Convenience buyers, Balance buyers, Price buyers, and Performance buyers. Differences in preferences across these segments have important implications for the marketing strategies of agricultural input suppliers.

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Novel Quantization Schemes For Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding Based On Sample Adaptation, Dong Sik Kim, Ness B. Shroff Jun 1999

Novel Quantization Schemes For Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding Based On Sample Adaptation, Dong Sik Kim, Ness B. Shroff

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In this report, we introduce a novel feed-forward adaptive quantization scheme called SAPQ (sampleadaptive product quantizer) as a structurally constrained vector quantizer. SAPQ is based on a concept of adaptive quantization to the varying samples of the source and is very different, from traditional adaptation techniques for non-stationary sources. SAPQ quantizes each source sample using a sequence of quantizers. Even when using scalar quantization in SAPQ, we can achieve perforrnance comparable to vector quantization (with the complexity still of the order of scalar quantization). We also show that important lattice based vector quantizers can be constructed using scalar quantization in …

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The Innocence Of Children: Effects Of Vulgarity In South Park, Emily Ravenwood Jun 1999

The Innocence Of Children: Effects Of Vulgarity In South Park, Emily Ravenwood

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Emily Ravenwood examines in her article, "The Innocence of Children: Effects of Vulgarity in South Park" the way in which the appropriation of low culture into high art can operate to simultaneously raise and lower the cultural capital of the art in question. Usually, in definitions of high and low art vulgarity is understood as a negative representation. This dismissal is rooted in the linguistic and political relationship between vulgarity and perceived "lower class" realities. In the context of artistic representation, however, vulgarity can be a powerful weapon to enforce attention and awareness of foreign realities in a middle class …

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Poetic Image And Tradition In Western European Modernism, José Manuel Losada Goya Jun 1999

Poetic Image And Tradition In Western European Modernism, José Manuel Losada Goya

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

José Manuel Losada Goya investigates in his article "Poetic Image and Tradition in Western European Modernism: Pound, Lorca, Claudel," aspects of poetic imagery in modernism. The analysis of the changes brought about by modern poetry involves just as much the study of content as it does of form. In the very beginning of modernity, the poet feels the necessity to invent another tradition, distinct in spatial-temporal parameters and in rhetorical procedures. In the article, attention is paid to both the re-modification of the phonological figures (especially in rhyme and rhythm) and the restructuring of lexical levels (especially in metaphor and …

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Some Observations About The Suicide Of The Adulteress In The Modern Novel, Babis Dermitzakis Jun 1999

Some Observations About The Suicide Of The Adulteress In The Modern Novel, Babis Dermitzakis

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Babis Dermitzakis posits in his article "Some Observations about the Suicide of the Adulteress in the Modern Novel" that in three major male-authored European novels -- Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, and Thérèse Raquin -- the protagonists are wives who commit adultery ending in suicide. In contrast, texts by women authors of the period show no similar description and perception of adultery by women. Dermitzakis suspects that the male writers did not simply fictionalize a specific social behavior or condition; rather, they likely imported their own prejudices about women's adultery -- and more generally about women's sexuality -- into their …

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East Central Europe As A Politically Correct Scapegoat: The Case Of Bulgaria, Roumiana Deltcheva Jun 1999

East Central Europe As A Politically Correct Scapegoat: The Case Of Bulgaria, Roumiana Deltcheva

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Roumiana Deltcheva analyzes in her article "East Central Europe as a Politically Correct Scapegoat: The Case of Bulgaria" the mechanisms of image construction of East Central Europe in the West, taking Bulgaria as a case study as seen in literary and filmic texts. A historical overview of literary and theoretical texts which deal with the cultural semiosphere of Bulgaria is presented to demonstrate that contrary to widely held perceptions in North American (US and Canada) "politically correct" scholarship, Europe is not a homogeneous cultural unity. In fact, a clear centre/periphery situation is established and delineated along the geographical axis West/East …

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Comparative Literature In Spain Today: A Review Article Of New Work By Romero, Vega And Carbonell, And Guillén, Pablo Zambrano Jun 1999

Comparative Literature In Spain Today: A Review Article Of New Work By Romero, Vega And Carbonell, And Guillén, Pablo Zambrano

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Entropy Theory And Ras Are Friends, Robert A. Mcdougall May 1999

Entropy Theory And Ras Are Friends, Robert A. Mcdougall

GTAP Working Papers Archive

Recent research in applications of entropy theory to matrix balancing problems in economics has put powerful new tools in the hands of data base developers, but overshadowed some previous findings. We recall earlier findings that the RAS is an entropy-theoretic model. Investigating the properties of a more recently proposed entropy-theoretic model, we find that in general the RAS remains preferable. We show further that the RAS can be obtained also as a generalised cross-entropy model. Finally, we present examples illus-trating how entropy-theoretic techniques can extend the RAS to handle a wider range of problems.

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Asymptotic Behavior Of The Height In A Digital Search Tree And The Longest Phrase Of The Lempel-Ziv Scheme, Charles Knessl, Wojciech Szpankowski May 1999

Asymptotic Behavior Of The Height In A Digital Search Tree And The Longest Phrase Of The Lempel-Ziv Scheme, Charles Knessl, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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An Agent-Based Design For Problem Solving Environments, Dan C. Marinescu May 1999

An Agent-Based Design For Problem Solving Environments, Dan C. Marinescu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Integrated Detection And Estimation Using Multisensor And Distributed Processing, Rangasami L. Kashyap May 1999

Integrated Detection And Estimation Using Multisensor And Distributed Processing, Rangasami L. Kashyap

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

This research deals with the solution of detection and estimation problems encountered in a variety of target tracking problems encountered in a Ballistic Missile Defense environment. We propose five broad classes of problems. The first problem deals with the guidance for interceptors tracking maneuverable targets. We need to forecast the time of intersection and the bearing angle of the target, and have to update them continuously. The second problem is the robust tracking of moving targets, especially with the tracks close to one another. Our approach avoids the data association lacunae of the existing methods. Next we deal with targets …

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Evaluation Of Heuristics In A Distributed Data Staging Network, Noah B. Beck, Mitchell D. Theys, Howard Jay Siegel, Michael Jurczykt May 1999

Evaluation Of Heuristics In A Distributed Data Staging Network, Noah B. Beck, Mitchell D. Theys, Howard Jay Siegel, Michael Jurczykt

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Providing up-to-date input to users' applications is an important data management problem for a distributed computing environment, where each data storage location and intermediate node may have specific data available, storage limitations, and communication links available. Sites in the network request data items and each request has an associated deadline and priority. In a military situation, the data staging problem involves positioning data for facilitating a faster access time when it is needed by programs that will aid in decision making. This work concentrates on solving a basic version of the data staging problem in which all parameter values for …

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Biological Metaphors In He Design Of Complex Software Systems, Dan C. Marinescu, Ladislau Bölöni May 1999

Biological Metaphors In He Design Of Complex Software Systems, Dan C. Marinescu, Ladislau Bölöni

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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A Manifesto For Gender Responsibility And Equality In Every-Day Life, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Apr 1999

A Manifesto For Gender Responsibility And Equality In Every-Day Life, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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The Design Of Software Agents For A Network Of Pde Solvers, Panagiota Tsompanoupoulou, Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C. Marinescu, John R. Rice Apr 1999

The Design Of Software Agents For A Network Of Pde Solvers, Panagiota Tsompanoupoulou, Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C. Marinescu, John R. Rice

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Automated Estimation Of Relaxation Parameters For Interface Relaxation, John R. Rice, P. Tsompanopoulou, E. Vavalis Apr 1999

Automated Estimation Of Relaxation Parameters For Interface Relaxation, John R. Rice, P. Tsompanopoulou, E. Vavalis

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Limit Laws For Heights In Generalized Tries And Patricia Tries, Charles Knessl, Wojciech Szpankowski Apr 1999

Limit Laws For Heights In Generalized Tries And Patricia Tries, Charles Knessl, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Pythia-Ii: A Knowledge/Data Base System For Testing And Recommending Scientific, Elias N. Houstis, Vassilios S. Verykios, Ann C. Caitlin, Naren Ramakrishnan, John R. Rice Apr 1999

Pythia-Ii: A Knowledge/Data Base System For Testing And Recommending Scientific, Elias N. Houstis, Vassilios S. Verykios, Ann C. Caitlin, Naren Ramakrishnan, John R. Rice

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Interactive Traffic Signal System Laboratory At Purdue, Darcy Bullock Mar 1999

Interactive Traffic Signal System Laboratory At Purdue, Darcy Bullock

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

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Unofficial Detours : Guidelines For Lpa's, James K. Ude, Glenda M. Seal Mar 1999

Unofficial Detours : Guidelines For Lpa's, James K. Ude, Glenda M. Seal

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

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A Tiered Approach To Neighborhood Traffic Management, Nazir Lalani, Thomas Mericle Mar 1999

A Tiered Approach To Neighborhood Traffic Management, Nazir Lalani, Thomas Mericle

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

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What's Past Is Prologue: Imagining The Socialist Nation In Cuba And In Hungary, Patricia D. Fox Mar 1999

What's Past Is Prologue: Imagining The Socialist Nation In Cuba And In Hungary, Patricia D. Fox

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Patricia D. Fox's article, "What's Past is Prologue: Imagining the Socialist Nation in Cuba and in Hungary," examines the symbolic mooring of Cuban and Hungarian identity, recuperated Caliban from William Shakespeare's The Tempest and an ever conflicted Faustus/Adam from Imre Madách's Az ember tragédiája, respectively. Despite serial cosmological fragmentations and political upheaval, the present analysis holds that production and reproduction of these founding figures in the process of imagining the socialist nation represent an ongoing litigation of meaning. This process then conserves a marked thematic continuity through temporal conceptions, totality of exegesis, the mix of rational and mythical, and the …

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Very Low-Complexity Digital Filters Based On Computational Redundancy Reduction, Khurram Muhammad, Kaushik Roy Mar 1999

Very Low-Complexity Digital Filters Based On Computational Redundancy Reduction, Khurram Muhammad, Kaushik Roy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

We present computation reduction t,echniques which can be used to obtain multiplierless implementations of finite impulse response (FIR.) digital filters. The ideas presented in this work are also applicable to infinite i~!pulsere sponse (IIR) digital filters. The main idea is to remove computational redundancy by reordering computation. Hence, the frequency response of the desired filter is unaltered. Various approaches are presented which consider normal, diflerential and hybrid coefficients. It is shown that the reordering prl2blem can be formulated using a graph in which vertices represent the coefficients and edges represent resources required in a computation involving the coefficient. We present …

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A Computational Redundancy Reduction Approach For High Performaice And Low Power Dsp Algorithm Implementation, Khurram Muhammad, Kaushik Roy Mar 1999

A Computational Redundancy Reduction Approach For High Performaice And Low Power Dsp Algorithm Implementation, Khurram Muhammad, Kaushik Roy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In this paper, we present a general approach which specifically targets reduction of redundant computation in common d'igital signal processing (DSP) tasks such as filtering and matrix multiplication. The main idea presented in this work is to show that such tasks can be expressed as multiplication of vectors by scalars and fast multiplication can be achieved by sharing computation in such operations. The multiplication schemes considerably reduce redundant computation by decomposing the vectors in a manner which results in maximal computation sharing, thereby, resulting in a faster and potentially low-power implementation. Two decomposition approaches are presented, one based on a …

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Selected And Annotated Bibliography Of German-Canadian Literature And Criticism, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 1999

Selected And Annotated Bibliography Of German-Canadian Literature And Criticism, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Evaluation Of The Indiana Child Care Financing Initiative, Douglas R. Powell, Fiona Innes, Amanda Wilcox-Herzog Mar 1999

Evaluation Of The Indiana Child Care Financing Initiative, Douglas R. Powell, Fiona Innes, Amanda Wilcox-Herzog

Center for Families Publications

A research report evaluating the results of the Indiana Child Care Financing Initiative, a statewide effort to improve child care in Indiana. The report summarizes results in the areas of improving capacity, quality, and community awareness of child care issues, as well as the role of 69 local projects in initiating or expanding local partnerships focused on child care.

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Contents Of Purdue University Press Clcweb Library Series, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 1999

Contents Of Purdue University Press Clcweb Library Series, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Aims & Scope Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 1999

Aims & Scope Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

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The Comparative Method And The Study Of Literature, Aldo Nemesio Mar 1999

The Comparative Method And The Study Of Literature, Aldo Nemesio

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Aldo Nemesio argues in his article "The Comparative Method and the Study of Literature" for the comparative method as follows. Contemporary literary research is based on parameters and methods which do not appear to have evolved similar to other fields of inquiry. If the study of literature is concerned with literary behavior, for instance, the object of study cannot limit itself to a single author or to a limited number of authors and what surrounds them closely. Also, national boundaries are too narrow: what happens within the boundaries of a culture can be understood only if we relate it to …

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