15 research outputs found
Ogden's lemma for random permitting and forbidding context picture languages and table-driven context-free picture languages
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. Johannesburg, February 16, 2015.Random context picture grammars are used to generate pictures through successive refinement.
There are three important subclasses of random context picture grammars, namely random permitting
context picture grammars, random forbidding context picture grammars and table-driven
context-free picture grammars. These grammars generate the random permitting context picture
languages, random forbidding context picture languages and table-driven context-free picture
languages, respectively. Theorems exist which provide necessary conditions that have to be
satisfied by a language before it can be classified under a particular subclass. Some of these
theorems include the pumping and shrinking lemmas, which have been developed for random
permitting context picture languages and random forbidding context picture languages respectively.
Two characterization theorems were developed for the table-driven context-free picture
languages.
This dissertation examines these existing theorems for picture languages, i.e., the pumping
and shrinking lemmas and the two characterisation theorems, and attempts to prove theorems,
which will provide an alternative to the existing theorems and thus provide new tools for identifying
languages that do not belong to the various classes. This will be done by adapting Ogden’s
idea of marking parts of a word which was done for the string case. Our theorems essentially involve
marking parts of a picture such that the pumping operation increases the number of marked
symbols and the shrinking operation reduces it
Violent Exceptions
Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to do with the needs of children at risk. Wendy S. Hesford shows how the figure of the child-in-peril is predicated on racial division, which, she argues, is central to both conservative and liberal logics, especially at times of crisis when politicians leverage humanitarian storytelling as a political weapon. Through iconic images and stories of child migrants, child refugees, undocumented children, child soldiers, and children who are victims of war, terrorism, and state violence, Violent Exceptions illustrates how humanitarian rhetoric turns public attention away from systemic violations against children’s human rights and reframes this violence as exceptional—erasing more gradual forms of violence and minimizing human rights potential to counteract these violations and the precarious conditions from which they arise
University of Windsor Undergraduate Calendar 2001-2002
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Play Among Books
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books
Factors Influencing Customer Satisfaction towards E-shopping in Malaysia
Online shopping or e-shopping has changed the world of business and quite a few people have
decided to work with these features. What their primary concerns precisely and the responses from
the globalisation are the competency of incorporation while doing their businesses. E-shopping has
also increased substantially in Malaysia in recent years. The rapid increase in the e-commerce
industry in Malaysia has created the demand to emphasize on how to increase customer satisfaction
while operating in the e-retailing environment. It is very important that customers are satisfied with
the website, or else, they would not return. Therefore, a crucial fact to look into is that companies
must ensure that their customers are satisfied with their purchases that are really essential from the ecommerce’s
point of view. With is in mind, this study aimed at investigating customer satisfaction
towards e-shopping in Malaysia. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed among students
randomly selected from various public and private universities located within Klang valley area.
Total 369 questionnaires were returned, out of which 341 questionnaires were found usable for
further analysis. Finally, SEM was employed to test the hypotheses. This study found that customer
satisfaction towards e-shopping in Malaysia is to a great extent influenced by ease of use, trust,
design of the website, online security and e-service quality. Finally, recommendations and future
study direction is provided.
Keywords: E-shopping, Customer satisfaction, Trust, Online security, E-service quality, Malaysia
Play Among Books
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books