Stretchable music : a graphically rich, interactive composition system

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-122).by Peter W. Rice, Jr.S.M

Mosaics of the self : Kantian objects and female subjects in the work of Claire Goll and Paula Ludwig

In this thesis, I use poetic texts by two German women Expressionist authors, Claire Gull and Paula Ludwig, to examine questions of selfhood, aesthetics and sexual difference within a Kantian philosophical frame. The thesis is structured in two parts. In Part One, I situate the project via a critical examination of Lyotard's reworking of the Kanlian sublime. I argue that Lyotard closes down the gaps within Kant's system that feminist philosophy could usefully exploit and explore. I then position German Expressionism as an alternative mode of post-Kantianism. I argue that although the male Expressionist poets break down the Kantian subject-object distinction, they continue to position woman as the "other". There follows a brief bridging section, in which I outline work by some of the key women Expressionists, and argue that the theoretical frameworks used in Expressionist scholarship are inherently gendered. In Part Two of the thesis, I explore texts by both Go!! and Ludwig in detail. I argue that whilst the male Expressionists are concerned with dissolving male subjecthood, these writers can be read as subverting Kantian space-time to produce alternative modes of female selfhood and of the sublime. In chapter 4,! examine Goll's disruptive exploration of a mode of embodied selfhood generated through productive play and movements of relationality. Chapters 5 and 6 extend the theme of relationally generated selfhood by tracing the subversive use of neoplatonic and Orphic elements in a short story by Goll. In chapter 7, I show how Ludwig radically reconfigures the limits of\ud both body and self to produce identities no longer constructed via oppositional boundaries in the manner of the Kantian subject. I conclude by arguing that the work of these authors provides feminist philosophy with productive models for rethinking immanent transcendence and relationally generated selfhood which can incorporate both difference and change

Third International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation TENOR 2017

The third International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation seeks to focus on a set of specific research issues associated with Music Notation that were elaborated at the first two editions of TENOR in Paris and Cambridge. The theme of the conference is vocal music, whereas the pre-conference workshops focus on innovative technological approaches to music notation

Les bateleurs-jongleurs : word-lists in narrative, with special reference to 'La vie mode d'emploi' by Georges Perec.

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DX207007 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Stability Analysis of Plates and Shells

This special publication contains the papers presented at the special sessions honoring Dr. Manuel Stein during the 38th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference held in Kissimmee, Florida, Apdl 7-10, 1997. This volume, and the SDM special sessions, are dedicated to the memory of Dr. Manuel Stein, a major pioneer in structural mechanics, plate and shell buckling, and composite structures. Many of the papers presented are the work of Manny's colleagues and co-workers and are a result, directly or indirectly, of his influence. Dr. Stein earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1958. He worked in the Structural Mechanics Branch at the NASA Langley Research Center from 1943 until 1989. Following his retirement, Dr. Stein continued his involvement with NASA as a Distinguished Research Associate

Monologue Overgrown: Revising The World With Speech In Franz Kafka, Robert Walser And Thomas Bernhard

My dissertation focuses on unstable, chronically unpublished prose texts by three key 20th century prose writers, quasi-novelistic texts whose material instability indicates a deep discomfort with the establishment of narrative authority qua narrative violence. I argue that Franz Kafka, Robert Walser and Thomas Bernhard, radically refunctionalized the device of interpolated "character monologue," turning characters' speech from a narrative function, into a site where a text can be rewritten from within. In the Bildungsroman tradition, extended oral interpolations serve as an engine for the expansion and exposition of the plotted work, deepening the epic narrative world and exhaustively presenting a perspective that will be incorporated into biographical trajectory. I locate an estrangement of this practice: moments when oral monologues of fictional interlocutors "overgrow," becoming an interventionary force that doubles, disrupts and re-frames the narrative discourse out of which it first sprouted. In showing how the labor of 'world-making' is split and spread across different competing layers of these texts, my dissertation contributes to the study of the narrative phenomenon of metalepsis. Chapter One examines the determinations and contestations of social ties occurring across the many mutually embedded monologues in Kafka's early novella Beschreibung eines Kampfes. Chapter Two examines Walser's Räuber-Roman, focusing on the translation of affects into social hierarchies, a process brought to light in protagonist's monologic declarations of sovereignty. Chapter Three examines the parasitic takeover and revision of a young proletarian protagonist's biography by an elderly paternal "mad genius" figure, in an early, unpublished novel by Thomas Bernhard

New Constructions and Bounds for Winkler's Hat Game

Hat problems have recently become a popular topic in combinatorics and discrete mathematics. These have been shown to be strongly related to coding theory, network coding, and auctions. We consider the following version of the hat game, introduced by Winkler and studied by Butler et al. A team is composed of several players; each player is assigned a hat of a given color; they do not see their own color but can see some other hats, according to a directed graph. The team wins if they have a strategy such that, for any possible assignment of colors to their hats, at least one player guesses their own hat color correctly. In this paper, we discover some new classes of graphs which allow a winning strategy, thus answering some of the open questions of Butler et al. We also derive upper bounds on the maximal number of possible hat colors that allow for a winning strategy for a given graph

Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-sixth Congress : Report of the Secretary of War, 1879

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Hayes. 1 Dec. HED 1, 46-2, v1-12, 9328p. [1902-1913] Regulation of uncivilized tribes in Alaska; Ute and Apache hostilities; the Indian policy of the government, involving education, allotment. and disposal of unused reservation lands; suggests that Indian Territory may be opened to settlers; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1903-1908); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serials 1910-1912); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1910); annual report of the CIA (Serial 1910), including reports of Supts., agents, and schools; etc

Large-Scale Linear Programming

During the week of June 2-6, 1980, the System and Decision Sciences Area of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis organized a workshop on large-scale linear programming in collaboration with the Systems Optimization Laboratory (SOL) of Stanford University, and co-sponsored by the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS). The participants in the meeting were invited from amongst those who actively contribute to research in large-scale linear programming methodology (including development of algorithms and software). The first volume of the Proceedings contains five chapters. The first is an historical review by George B. Dantzig of his own and related research in time-staged linear programming problems. Chapter 2 contains five papers which address various techniques for exploiting sparsity and degeneracy in the now standard LU decomposition of the basis used with the simplex algorithm for standard (unstructured) problems. The six papers of Chapter 3 concern aspects of variants of the simplex method which take into account through basis factorization the specific block-angular structure of constraint matrices generated by dynamic and/or stochastic linear programs. In Chapter 4, five papers address extensions of the original Dantzig-Wolfe procedure for utilizing the structure of planning problems by decomposing the original LP into LP subproblems coordinated by a relatively simple LP master problem of a certain type. Chapter 5 contains four papers which constitute a mini-symposium on the now famous Shor-Khachian ellipsoidal method applied to both real and integer linear programs. The first chapter of Volume 2 contains three papers on non-simplex methods for linear programming. The remaining chapters of Volume 2 concern topics of present interest in the field. A bibliography a large-scale linear programming research completes Volume 2