The Fool-Saint and the Fat Lady: an Exploration of Freaks and Saints in Robertson Davies's The Deptford Trilogy

In The Deptford Trilogy, Robertson Davies uses the circus freaks and the Roman Catholic Saints who influence the main characters to illustrate the duality inherent in all human beings

Montana Kaimin, May 25, 1984

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/8673/thumbnail.jp

Monotonic measures in knowledge engineering: an application in the production rule formalism

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1984 S54Master of ScienceChemical Engineerin

Modeling joint kinetics in the Tkatchev release move

This study developed a three-dimensional computer simulation model of the Tkatchev release move on the men\u27s horizontal bar. The model used the Hanavan human body model and the inverse dynamics approach to predict resultant forces and torques at the joints during performance. The model was used to determine aspects of the performance that contribute to the risk of injury and to determine strength and flexibility requirements for the skill;This study was done in two parts. In Part 1, kinetic parameters were calculated from actual performances of Tkatchevs. Two college-level male gymnasts each performed 9-10 Tkatchevs during a single videotaping session to provide data for developing the model. Videotape of selected performances was digitized and analyses were done to determine joint forces and torques. The high bar was instrumented with strain gages to provide data on reaction forces at the bar;Joint forces of more than 5 times the gymnast\u27s body weight were found, with peak forces occurring at the shoulders and back. Peak torques of up to 670 N-m were found with the highest peaks occurring at the shoulders and upper back;In part 2, the computer simulation model was developed. The joint angles and initial conditions from experimental calculations were used as the initial input for the model. The model was validated using experimental data, then the data were modified and the joint forces and torques were calculated under various conditions;It was found that the force and torque patterns in the simulation closely followed those in the analysis, with minor problems in the giant swing portion. The differences noted could be attributed to the errors involved in the Hanavan body model, in the analysis method, and in the method used to compute the center of gravity trajectory;Several simulations were run to demonstrate the model. The effects of the changes on the angular velocity of the mid-trunk, the forces at the shoulders and the forces at the lower back were summarized to demonstrate the use of the model

Schubert, Valses sentimentales, D. 779, no. 13, Waltz in A major: A Collection of Readings

Ninety analyses of the anomalous A-major waltz in Schubert's collection Valses sentimentales, D. 779 (1825). Readings are based on published sources for methodology, are reproduced from publications of mine, are recompositions, or are presented as narratives

Multispace & Multistructure. Neutrosophic Transdisciplinarity (100 Collected Papers of Sciences), Vol. IV

The fourth volume, in my book series of “Collected Papers”, includes 100 published and unpublished articles, notes, (preliminary) drafts containing just ideas to be further investigated, scientific souvenirs, scientific blogs, project proposals, small experiments, solved and unsolved problems and conjectures, updated or alternative versions of previous papers, short or long humanistic essays, letters to the editors - all collected in the previous three decades (1980-2010) – but most of them are from the last decade (2000-2010), some of them being lost and found, yet others are extended, diversified, improved versions. This is an eclectic tome of 800 pages with papers in various fields of sciences, alphabetically listed, such as: astronomy, biology, calculus, chemistry, computer programming codification, economics and business and politics, education and administration, game theory, geometry, graph theory, information fusion, neutrosophic logic and set, non-Euclidean geometry, number theory, paradoxes, philosophy of science, psychology, quantum physics, scientific research methods, and statistics. It was my preoccupation and collaboration as author, co-author, translator, or cotranslator, and editor with many scientists from around the world for long time. Many topics from this book are incipient and need to be expanded in future explorations

1898 - History of California, Volume 4, Theodore Henry Hittell

Author Hittell wrote about the lives and times during the tenures of the California governors during the second half of the eighteen hundreds including: Peter H. Burnett; John McDougal; John Bigler; John Neely Johnson; John B.. Weller; Milton S. Latham; John G. Downey; Leland Stanford; Frederick F. Low; Henry Huntly Haight; Newton Booth; Romualdo Pacheco; William Irwin; George Clement Perkins; George Stoneman; Washington Bartlett; Robert W. Waterman; Henry Markham; and James Budd. Hittell also wrote about the Pacific Railroads and Second Constitutional Convention. The book also contains an index (141 pages) that includes the contents of Volumes 1-4 of the History of California.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hornbeck_usa_3_d/1098/thumbnail.jp

Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion. Collected Works, Volume 5

This fifth volume on Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion collects theoretical and applied contributions of researchers working in different fields of applications and in mathematics, and is available in open-access. The collected contributions of this volume have either been published or presented after disseminating the fourth volume in 2015 in international conferences, seminars, workshops and journals, or they are new. The contributions of each part of this volume are chronologically ordered. First Part of this book presents some theoretical advances on DSmT, dealing mainly with modified Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules (PCR) of combination with degree of intersection, coarsening techniques, interval calculus for PCR thanks to set inversion via interval analysis (SIVIA), rough set classifiers, canonical decomposition of dichotomous belief functions, fast PCR fusion, fast inter-criteria analysis with PCR, and improved PCR5 and PCR6 rules preserving the (quasi-)neutrality of (quasi-)vacuous belief assignment in the fusion of sources of evidence with their Matlab codes. Because more applications of DSmT have emerged in the past years since the apparition of the fourth book of DSmT in 2015, the second part of this volume is about selected applications of DSmT mainly in building change detection, object recognition, quality of data association in tracking, perception in robotics, risk assessment for torrent protection and multi-criteria decision-making, multi-modal image fusion, coarsening techniques, recommender system, levee characterization and assessment, human heading perception, trust assessment, robotics, biometrics, failure detection, GPS systems, inter-criteria analysis, group decision, human activity recognition, storm prediction, data association for autonomous vehicles, identification of maritime vessels, fusion of support vector machines (SVM), Silx-Furtif RUST code library for information fusion including PCR rules, and network for ship classification. Finally, the third part presents interesting contributions related to belief functions in general published or presented along the years since 2015. These contributions are related with decision-making under uncertainty, belief approximations, probability transformations, new distances between belief functions, non-classical multi-criteria decision-making problems with belief functions, generalization of Bayes theorem, image processing, data association, entropy and cross-entropy measures, fuzzy evidence numbers, negator of belief mass, human activity recognition, information fusion for breast cancer therapy, imbalanced data classification, and hybrid techniques mixing deep learning with belief functions as well