The Steeple and the Palm-Wine Shack: Wole Soyinka and Crossing the Inter-cultural Fence

The opening pages of the text of Wole Soyinka\u27s play The Rooif are taken up with several projects of introduction, offering the reader alternative ways into the work\u27s mysteries. There is a note Tor the Producer\u27 explaining the mask-idiom of the Agemo cult which is this work\u27s central ritual model. There is \u27Alagemo\u27, a poem also centering on the \u27Agemo\u27 cult. Thirdly, there is a detailed description of the work\u27s stage geography. I want to begin this paper by noting this de-scription exactly

Categorizing Non-Functional Requirements Using a Hierarchy in UML.

Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are a subset of requirements, the means by which software system developers and clients communicate about the functionality of the system to be built. This paper has three main parts: first, an overview of how non-functional requirements relate to software engineering is given, along with a survey of NFRs in the software engineering literature. Second, a collection of 161 NFRs is diagrammed using the Unified Modelling Language, forming a tool with which developers may more easily identify and write additional NFRs. Third, a lesson plan is presented, a learning module intended for an undergraduate software engineering curriculum. The results of presenting this learning module to a class in Spring, 2003 is presented

Legal Research--Computer Retrieval of Statutory Law and Decisional Law

Legal research presently involves a considerable amount of any lawyer\u27s time and efforts largely because it is a slow and tedious process. Searching for a pertinent legal point can prove to be time-consuming and often fruitless. Moreover, it is here that chance plays one of its largest roles in the law.\u27 An important legal point may exist,yet the researcher may fail to find it although he exercises a great degree of diligence. All lawyers must recognize this problem and the fact that it is becoming more acute with the passage of time. Something needs to be done to facilitate legal research in order to preserve the efficient development and administration of law by the courts, legislatures and, more importantly, by the lawyers in their day-to-day practice

Microprocessor-Based Systems Control for the Rigidized Inflatable Get-Away-Special Experiment

As the demand for space based communications and faster data throughput increase, satellites are becoming larger. Larger satellite antennas help to provide the needed gain to increase communications in space. Compounding the performance and size trade-offs are the payload weight and size limit imposed by the launch vehicles. Inflatable structures offer a cost saving opportunity since the structure is significantly lighter and has a reduced storage volume. This allows for smaller launch vehicles and for increased performance capabilities. Inflatable structures offer possibilities for increased satellite lifetimes, increased communications capacity, and reduce launch costs. This thesis develops and implements the computer control system and power system to support the Rigidized Inflatable Get-Away-Experiment. The autonomous computer system controls the flow of the experiment while at the same time collecting and recording temperature, pressure, vibration, and image data. The computer system consists of two processors, one for experiment control and sensor data collection and the second for image data collection. These two systems can work simultaneously to control the flow of the experiment and meet the experiment objectives. Examples of the data collection include heating curves, pressure, tube transfer function plots and images. This thesis also develops the Matlab® tools required to analyze the data collected by the computers for post-flight data processing. This thesis lays the groundwork for a microprocessor-based architecture for autonomous space experiments. This pioneering effort has been selected for flight testing on-board the U.S. Space Shuttle