On the Truly Noncooperative Game of Island Life: Introducing a Unified Theory of Value & Evolutionarily Stable Island Economic Development Strategy

This discourse offers a solution to The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development on islands. This hypothesis offers a foundational, sub-game solution to The Island Survival Game, a counterintuitive, dominant economic development strategy for ‘islands’ (and relatively insular states). This discourse also tables conceptual building blocks, prerequisite analytical tools, and a guiding principle for The Earth Island Survival Game, a bounded delay supergame which models The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development at the global level. We begin our exploration with an introduction to The Principle of Relative Insularity, a postulate which informs ESS for ‘island’ and ‘continental’ players alike. Next, we model ‘island’ economic development with two bio-geo-politico-economic models and respective strategies: The Mustique Co. Development Plan, and The Prince Edward Island Federal-Provincial Program for Social and Economic Advancement. These diametrically opposed strategies offer an extraordinary comparative study. One island serves as a highly descriptive model for The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development; the other model informs ESS. The Island Survival Game serves as a remarkable learning tool, offering lessons which promote Darwinian fitness, resource holding power, self-sufficiency, and cooperative behaviour, by illuminating the illusive path toward sustainable economic development.Non-cooperative games, evolutionary game theory, relative insularity, islands, tragedy of the commons, sustainable economic development, resource holding power, evolutionarily stable strategy, long distance dispersal

Commemorating Israel, Forgetting Palestine: Representation and Remembering in Dispensational Discourses

In recent decades, significant bodies of research have emerged with regard to understanding (a) Indigenous identities as "glocal" expressions (e.g., Minde 2008; Niezen 2003; Bigenho 2007), (b) Christian Zionism (e.g., Ariel 1991; Spector 2009), and (c) how ideology and power relate to language, society, and cognition (e.g., Van Dijk and Kintsch 1983; Lakoff 1987; Reisigl and Wodak 2001). Yet, research in each area in relation to the others has remained somewhat independent, and the intersection of these themes remains to be fully explored. This work contributes to previous scholarship in these areas by addressing points of contact among these themes with respect to how producers of certain Christian Zionist discourses represent and remember Israel and Palestine. In this thesis I explore the historical, socio-political, and cognitive dynamics of Christian Zionist dispensationalism from a critical discourse analytic perspective. I consider the relationship between dispensational discourses and complex, competing articulations of Indigenous identity by Palestinians and Israelis. I base my analysis on a corpus of 246 dispensational texts that represent various institutions, genres and modalities, and span nearly eight decades (1934-2011). Within the broad field of critical discourse analysis, I utilize methods from the discourse-historical approach (Reisigl and Wodak 2001) and the socio-cognitive approach (Van Dijk 2008b, 2009a) to consider the relationship between rhetorical strategies in dispensational discourses and discursive manipulation through the formation of biased mental models (Van Dijk 2006). By analyzing various texts from these theological - and ideological - paradigms, which themselves realize dispensational discourses, I consider how dispensationalisms discursively represent and remember (or forget) Israel/Israelis and Palestine/Palestinians. With this in mind, I also draw from cultural memory studies, and consider dispensational discourses to be metaphorical "lieux de mémoire" (`sites of memory'; Nora 1989) where commemoration of Israel takes place for nationalistic, ideological, and socio-political purposes. I argue that dispensational discourses reproduce biased mental models of Palestine and Israel through a cultural narrative of commemorating Israel. My analysis suggests that representation and remembering in dispensational discourses relates to a complex framework of othering, which underlies a function of co-articulating Indigenous identity

Zentrale Determinanten sozialer Beeinflussung und wesentliche Wirkungszusammenhänge mit Blick auf konsumentenseitige Wahrnehmungs- und Verhaltensprozesse

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Information Application for Multicriterial Optimum

The management activity does not only include the techniques and methods of programming, organizing and allocation of resources, starting and control of operations, interventions but it also implies a great number of decisions regarding the launching, carrying on, modifying and carrying out of activities or choosing one of the possible variants so as to ensure that the goals should be reached. The activity of choosing one variant from several possible ones is often met with in maintenance management, such as: the selection of an optimum equipment, the choice of a firm for after/sale service, for supplying materials or spare parts which implies taking into account a large number of factors. The choice based on fundamental mathematic methods becomes feasible by using the current automatic data processing devices and this paper presents the “Xomc” application of establishing the multicriterial optimum.maintenance management, multicriterial optimum, fundamental mathematic methods

Semantic Indexing via Knowledge Organization Systems: Applying the CIDOC-CRM to Archaeological Grey Literature

The volume of archaeological reports being produced since the introduction of PG161 has significantly increased, as a result of the increased volume of archaeological investigations conducted by academic and commercial archaeology. It is highly desirable to be able to search effectively within and across such reports in order to find information that promotes quality research. A potential dissemination of information via semantic technologies offers the opportunity to improve archaeological practice, not only by enabling access to information but also by changing how information is structured and the way research is conducted. This thesis presents a method for automatic semantic indexing of archaeological greyliterature reports using rule-based Information Extraction techniques in combination with domain-specific ontological and terminological resources. This semantic annotation of contextual abstractions from archaeological grey-literature is driven by Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques which are used to identify “rich” meaningful pieces of text, thus overcoming barriers in document indexing and retrieval imposed by the use of natural language. The semantic annotation system (OPTIMA) performs the NLP tasks of Named Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction, Negation Detection and Word Sense disambiguation using hand-crafted rules and terminological resources for associating contextual abstractions with classes of the ISO Standard (ISO 21127:2006) CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) for cultural heritage and its archaeological extension, CRM-EH, together with concepts from English Heritage thesauri and glossaries. The results demonstrate that the techniques can deliver semantic annotations of archaeological grey literature documents with respect to the domain conceptual models. Such semantic annotations have proven capable of supporting semantic query, document study and cross-searching via web based applications. The research outcomes have provided semantic annotations for the Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources (STAR) project, which explored the potential of semantic technologies in the integration of archaeological digital resources. The thesis represents the first discussion on the employment of CIDOC CRM and CRM-EH in semantic annotation of grey-literature documents using rule-based Information Extraction techniques driven by a supplementary exploitation of domain-specific ontological and terminological resources. It is anticipated that the methods can be generalised in the future to the broader field of Digital Humanities

Turing-Completeness as Medium: Art, Computers and Intentionality

This PhD is a practice-based study of how the computer functions in art practice, which takes on the notion of a fine art computing “medium”. Current research, while sometimes referencing the computer as a potential art medium, mostly defines it non-explicitly as a type of “hybrid” media device or some sort of “multimedia” machine. These terms leave the existence of a specific computing medium in art practice undefined and have historically led the analysis of artworks that employ computers to rely on critical frameworks that were either developed for earlier physical media, or have no structural similarities to computers. Such approaches can fail to examine unique ontological issues that arise - especially at a structural level - when using a computer to produce art. To achieve a formal description of a hitherto loosely defined (or non-defined) art medium, the research employs a range of critical and theoretical material from fields outside art practice, chiefly among them Alan Turing’s definition of a "a(utomatic)-machine", (nowadays called a “Turing machine”) from his 1936 paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". Turing described a machine which can “simulate” any other computing machine including all modern computers. His machine is here used to propose a ‘Turing-complete medium’ of art, of which every computer is a computationally equivalent member. Using this perspective/definition, the research undertook an investigation of a ‘Turing-complete medium’ by developing creative practice in the form of individual works that explored specific aspects of computing systems. The research then engaged in a written analysis of the practice, again employing the concept of a ‘Turing-complete medium’, working towards the development of medium-specific critique of any art made with any computer. In foregrounding the nature and functions of computing machines, the research explores how these elements can be made intrinsic to our interpretations of computer-based art while also being aware of the limitations of medium-specific critique as exposed within the modernist tradition

Southern Accent September 1979 - July 1980

Southern Adventist University\u27s newspaper, Southern Accent, for the academic year of 1979-1980.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/southern_accent/1055/thumbnail.jp

On the Truly Noncooperative Game of Island Life: Introducing a Unified Theory of Value & Evolutionarily Stable Island Economic Development Strategy

This discourse offers a solution to The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development on islands. This hypothesis offers a foundational, sub-game solution to The Island Survival Game, a counterintuitive, dominant economic development strategy for ‘islands’ (and relatively insular states). This discourse also tables conceptual building blocks, prerequisite analytical tools, and a guiding principle for The Earth Island Survival Game, a bounded delay supergame which models The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development at the global level. We begin our exploration with an introduction to The Principle of Relative Insularity, a postulate which informs ESS for ‘island’ and ‘continental’ players alike. Next, we model ‘island’ economic development with two bio-geo-politico-economic models and respective strategies: The Mustique Co. Development Plan, and The Prince Edward Island Federal-Provincial Program for Social and Economic Advancement. These diametrically opposed strategies offer an extraordinary comparative study. One island serves as a highly descriptive model for The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development; the other model informs ESS. The Island Survival Game serves as a remarkable learning tool, offering lessons which promote Darwinian fitness, resource holding power, self-sufficiency, and cooperative behaviour, by illuminating the illusive path toward sustainable economic development