Dissertations / Theses: 'Represention'

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Emmerson, Shannon. "Negotiating the boundaries of gender, construction and represention of women in the work of Michael Ondaatje." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0003/MQ39917.pdf.

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Emmerson, Shannon. "Negotiating the boundaries of gender construction and represention of women in the work of Michael Ondaatje /." Connect to this title online, 1997. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD%5F0003/MQ39917.pdf.

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Al, homsi Wael. "Continuité des *- représentations et opérateurs de Hankel." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM4755/document.

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Continuité des *-représentations et opérateurs de Hankel Cette thèse est comporte deux parties indépendantes. Dans le première partie de ce travail, nous établissons une condition nécessaire et suffisante pour qu'une *-représentation d'un *-semi-groupe abélien topologique S est continu à l'identité e de S. Les résultats sont obtenus moyennant un théorème de représentation intégrale par rapport à une mesure portée par les semi caractères continus. Nous donnons ensuite diverses applications de ces résultats. La deuxième partie de cette thèse traite les opérateurs de Hankel de symboles anti-méromorphes sur les couronne. Dans un premier lieu on met en place le cadre de la théorie générale des opérateurs de Hankel associée à un espace de Hilbert de fonctions holomorphes A^2(µ) de carré intégrable par rapport à une mesure admettant des moments d'indice relatif. Ensuite, nous montrons que l'espace des polynômes de Laurent est dense dans A^2(µ) cela nous permet de définir de façon claire les opérateurs de Hankel et étudier leurs propriétés spectrales. En particulier, pour de nombreux exemples, nous établissons des conditions nécessaires et suffisantes, en termes des moments, garantissant la continuité, la compacité et l'appartenance aux classes de Schatten de ces opérateurs de Hankel
Continuity of *-representation and Hankel operators This thesis consists of two independent parts. In the first part of this work, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for a *-representation a *-semigroup abelian topological S is continuous at the identity e of S. The results are obtained by means of a theorem of integral representation with respect to a measure supported by continuous semi characters. We then give several applications of these results. The second part of this thesis deals with Hankel operators anti-meromorphic symbols on an annulus. In the first place we put in place the framework of the general theory of Hankel operators associated with a Hilbert space of holomorphic functions A^2(μ) of square integrable with respect to a measure admitting relative index times. Next, we show that the space of Laurent polynomials is dense in A ^ 2 ( μ ) it allows us to clearly define the Hankel operators and study their spectral properties. In particular, many examples, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions, in terms of time, ensuring continuity compactness and Schatten classes of membership of the Hankel operators

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Xydias, Christina V. "Women Representing Women?: Pathways to Substantive Representation." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1269445382.

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Sundström, Andreas. "Representing Performance | Performing Representation : Ontology in accounting practice." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-119958.

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Social studies of accounting have drawn attention to the dubious role of accounting as a representational link between organizational realities and action. Based on five years immersion with performance management and board work in a theatre company, this thesis inquires into the ontological significance of accounting practices. The study takes a praxiographic approach, which emphasizes action and relocates questions of representation towards the practices in which representations are mobilized. The research questions refer specifically to ontological work related to commensurability and distance in accounting practices. Four papers attend to the manners in which the organizational performance of the theatre company is represented in different situations of managing, governing and reporting. The papers demonstrate and analyse different examples of ontological work involved in achieving (or retracting) representational links. In conclusion, the thesis places the organizing of ontological tensions – especially the tension between singular accounting representations and multiple organizational realities – at the core of accounting representation practices. The thesis thus contributes to practical, theoretical and philosophical discussions on the links between accounting practices, accounts and reality.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.

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Fogle, Ashley D. "Resisting representation/representing resistance : "anti-globalization" activism in popular media discourse /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136413.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 259-302). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Hajimichael, Michael. "Representing Cypriots in Britain (1878-1995) : an analysis of culture, representation and power." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343107.

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Harbour, Vanessa. "Problems of representation/representing sex, drugs and alcohol in contempoary British young adult fiction." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548200.

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There is an ongoing debate into whether contentious issues, such as sex, drugs and alcohol, should be contained in young adult fiction (YAF). In this debate, the popular press most often represents the view that children, including young adults (YA), should be protected, and thereby remain innocent, thus characterising the inclusion of sensitive topics in children's fiction (including YAF) as an unacceptable assault on that innocence. Conversely, and as explored in this thesis, there are others, especially authors and academic critics (including myself) who suggest that fiction is an ideal place to explore such issues because of the nature of the vicarious experience it offers. This thesis is presented in two parts. The first is the creative aspect which is a YA novel entitled Ham & Jam. This is the story of four students on a school trip. They embark on a mission to save a young Afghan girl who had been trafficked and was being sold for sex. 'The novel developed out of the research undertaken for the second aspect of this thesis which is a critical exploration into how the contentious issues of sex, drugs and alcohol have been represented within YAF since 1996. Using Melvin Burgess's novel, Junk (1996) as a starting point, and his representation of sex, drugs and alcohol as a benchmark, a selection of British contemporary realist YAFfrom 1996 and for each subsequent year up to, and including, 2010 were compared critically and culturally from the dual perspective of writer and reader. The cultural research involved understanding society's perception of these contentious issues by examining current statistics and government reports. The results of which were used as a form of narrative system, enabling me to critically compare the representation of sex, drugs and alcohol in YAFwith this 'perceived' reality.

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Horppu, Åsa, and Sofia Karlsson. ""Bara den som är helt död kan undvika konflikter": åtta lärares attityder till konfliktsituationer samt deras föreställningar om det egna agerandet vid dessa." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2526.

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Denna undersökning bygger på lärares attityder till konfliktsituationer och deras föreställningar om hur de agerar vid dessa. Det vi i vår undersökning eftersöker är dels om lärarnas agerande skiljer sig mellan år 1 och år 6 och dels om deras utsagor tyder på en bakomliggande teoretisk kunskap. Med hjälp av en kvalitativ ansats görs åtta intervjuer med behöriga lärare, fyra verksamma i år 1 och fyra verksamma i år 6. Analysen av det insamlade materialet visar att varje lärare har skilda sätt att se på konflikter och majoriteten anser att de både har positiva och negativa aspekter. När det gäller sättet att hantera konflikter har vi funnit att en gemensam grundmodell används. Dock har alla lärare sina egna konflikthanteringsstrategier som de använder beroende på situation och ålder på barnen. Trots att lärarna säger sig ha ytterst lite utbildningen om konflikter och konflikthantering tyder deras utsagor på en bakomliggande teoretisk kunskap.

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Garcia, Léo Manoel Lopes da Silva [UNESP]. "Investigação e implementação de ferramentas computacionais para otimização de websites com ênfase na descrição de conteúdo." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/98701.

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Quando fala-se de evolução da Web, poderia realmente ser mais apropriado falar de design inteligente. Com a Web se tornando a principal opção para quem produz e dissemina conteúdo digital, cada vez mais, as pessoas tomam a atenção para esse valioso repositório de conhecimento. Neste ambiente, os mecanismos de busca configuram-se em aplicativos populares, tornando-se intermediários entre os usuários e a miríade de informações, serviços e recursos disponíveis na grande rede. Neste sentido, o Webdesigner pode atuar de forma decisiva, proporcionando uma melhor resposta na classificação dos mecanismos de busca. A correta representação do conhecimento é a chave para a recuperação e para a disseminação efetiva de dados, de informação e de conhecimentos. Este trabalho apresenta um estudo que pode trazer um progresso relevante aos usuários desta grande rede, buscando apresentar uma ferramenta de domínio público que apoie a aplicação de técnicas de descrição semântica de informação na Web. No decorrer da pesquisa investigamos técnicas e metodologias capazes de otimizar a indexação dos Websites pelos mecanismos de busca, enfatizando a descrição do conteúdo nele presente, melhorando sua classificação e consequentemente colaborando com a qualidade na recuperação de informações realizadas por meio de mecanismos de buscas. Tais técnicas foram testadas em alguns Websites, obtendo resultado satisfatório, a partir de então a ferramenta foi implementada e submetida a usuários para sua validação, o resultado desta validação é apresentado demonstrando a viabilidade da ferramenta e enumeração de novas funcionalidades para trabalhos futuros
When we speak of evolution of the Web, it might actually be more appropriate to speak of intelligent design. With the Web becoming the primary choice for those who produce and disseminate digital content , more people take attention to this valuable repository of knowledge. In this environment , search engines are configured in popular, becoming an intermediary between users and the myriad of information, service and resources available on the World Wide Web. In this sense, the Web designer can act decisively, providing a better response in the ranking of search engines. The correct representation of knowledge is the key to recovery and effective dissemination of data, information and knowledge. This paper presents a study that significant progress can bring a large network of users, seeking to present a public domain tool that supports the application of techniques for semantic description of Web information in the course of the research investigated techniques and methodologies that can optimize Website indexing by search engines, emphasizing the description of the content in it, improving your ranking and thus contributing to quality in information retrieval conducted through search engines. These techniques were tested on some websites, obtaining satisfactory results, since then the tool was implemented and submitted to users validation, the result of the validation is present demonstrating the feasibility of the tool and list of new features for future work

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Yilmaz, Fadime. "Architecture, Ideology, Representation: Party Headquarters As A New Mode In Representing Power Since The 1980." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12610762/index.pdf.

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The main objective of this study is to question the potential of architecture as a representational medium of ideology. In order to exemplify this overlapping relationship between ideology and architecture, this study focuses on the headquarters erected by major parties of Turkey since the 1980&rsquo
s. Having a significant position within society and particularly being a part of political system, parties obviously define ideological formations in order to preserve their existence and also strengthen their position within society and the material existence of architecture is manipulated by the parties as an important tool for representation. Thus these headquarters, which are certainly virile tools in the process of aesthetization of ideology, constitute a model to comprehend this relation of architecture and power. All buildings concerned are erected after 1980 which marks another objective of this study. The ongoing period after 1980 under the influence of Neoliberalism offers substantial changes in political, social and economic domains in worldwide scale. Obviously, political agents in Turkey were also forced to experience such significant changes and redefined their ideological formations. Thus, these buildings can be considered as the concrete example of how architecture responded the newly emerging need refined due the neoliberal changes. Departing from that, the aim of this thesis can be defined as to discuss the role of the work of architecture in the representation of ideology, but also to question to what extend the alterations in this potential of representation has initiated by the changes brought by Neoliberalism. Lastly, the study will discuss the results of these changes within the sphere of ideology of architecture in order to map the transformation occurred within. This study will finally question what kind of transformations within the sphere of ideology of architecture has been triggered by the above mentioned changes.

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Seitz, Thorsten. "Representing urban cultural geography in stabilization operations analysis of a social network representation in Pythagoras." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA483609.

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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.
Thesis Advisor(s): Sanchez, Susan M. "June 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on August 21, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-102). Also available in print.

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Garcia, Léo Manoel Lopes da Silva. "Investigação e implementação de ferramentas computacionais para otimização de websites com ênfase na descrição de conteúdo /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/98701.

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Resumo: Quando fala-se de evolução da Web, poderia realmente ser mais apropriado falar de design inteligente. Com a Web se tornando a principal opção para quem produz e dissemina conteúdo digital, cada vez mais, as pessoas tomam a atenção para esse valioso repositório de conhecimento. Neste ambiente, os mecanismos de busca configuram-se em aplicativos populares, tornando-se intermediários entre os usuários e a miríade de informações, serviços e recursos disponíveis na grande rede. Neste sentido, o Webdesigner pode atuar de forma decisiva, proporcionando uma melhor resposta na classificação dos mecanismos de busca. A correta representação do conhecimento é a chave para a recuperação e para a disseminação efetiva de dados, de informação e de conhecimentos. Este trabalho apresenta um estudo que pode trazer um progresso relevante aos usuários desta grande rede, buscando apresentar uma ferramenta de domínio público que apoie a aplicação de técnicas de descrição semântica de informação na Web. No decorrer da pesquisa investigamos técnicas e metodologias capazes de otimizar a indexação dos Websites pelos mecanismos de busca, enfatizando a descrição do conteúdo nele presente, melhorando sua classificação e consequentemente colaborando com a qualidade na recuperação de informações realizadas por meio de mecanismos de buscas. Tais técnicas foram testadas em alguns Websites, obtendo resultado satisfatório, a partir de então a ferramenta foi implementada e submetida a usuários para sua validação, o resultado desta validação é apresentado demonstrando a viabilidade da ferramenta e enumeração de novas funcionalidades para trabalhos futuros
Abstract: When we speak of evolution of the Web, it might actually be more appropriate to speak of intelligent design. With the Web becoming the primary choice for those who produce and disseminate digital content , more people take attention to this valuable repository of knowledge. In this environment , search engines are configured in popular, becoming an intermediary between users and the myriad of information, service and resources available on the World Wide Web. In this sense, the Web designer can act decisively, providing a better response in the ranking of search engines. The correct representation of knowledge is the key to recovery and effective dissemination of data, information and knowledge. This paper presents a study that significant progress can bring a large network of users, seeking to present a public domain tool that supports the application of techniques for semantic description of Web information in the course of the research investigated techniques and methodologies that can optimize Website indexing by search engines, emphasizing the description of the content in it, improving your ranking and thus contributing to quality in information retrieval conducted through search engines. These techniques were tested on some websites, obtaining satisfactory results, since then the tool was implemented and submitted to users validation, the result of the validation is present demonstrating the feasibility of the tool and list of new features for future work
Orientador: João Fernando Marar
Coorientador: Ivan Rizzo Guilherme
Banca: Edson Costa de Barros Carvalho Filho
Banca: Antonio Carlos Sementille
Mestre

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Neckyfarow, Karen. "Representing deaf culture in "Through Deaf Eyes" production-level decision making and influences on representation on public television /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6201.

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Blomén, Victoria. "Representing group interests : A study on the substantive representation of women and minority groups in the Jordanian House of Representatives." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-328865.

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In the world today there is a tendency that women and minority groups are under-represented in political decision-making. In order to come to terms with the under-representation of women and minorities many countries are taking measures to increase the number of women and minority representatives. However,there is an ongoing debate on whether increased number of group representatives lead to increased representation of group interests. The question is if women and minority representatives are more responsive to their respective group’s interests compared to other representatives. In this study, I have conducted asurvey with members of the Jordanian House of Representatives in order to investigate whether women and minority representatives are more responsive to their respective group’s interests compared to other representatives. The survey has been designed to capture representatives’ priorities and attitudes towards certain policy areas and issues. The results from the survey show that women and minority representatives to a certain extent are more responsive to their respective group’s interests compared to other representatives, indicating that an increased number of women and minority representatives would lead to increased representation of women and minority interests. Furthermore,this study finds that female representatives are more responsive to women’s interests when it comes to priorities than when it comes to attitudes, whereas representatives from the Christian minority are more responsive to Christian issues when it comes to attitudes than when it comes to priorities. These results indicate that there are differences between different groups when it comes to the representation of their groups’ interests. Thus, research on one group might not be directly transferable to other groups.

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Gill, Lucchesi Emilia. "Representation : Kvinnlig och manlig representation i religionsläromedel." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för kultur-, religions- och utbildningsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-17063.

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This study aims to investigate how women’s and men’s religious and cultural experiences are represented in three religious studies textbooks for the new curriculum GY11. The chapter on Hinduism in each book has been analyzed and subsequently compared to one another. This study focuses on both qualitative and quantitative representation; how much space is given to each sex and what types of experiences are presented. The method used is framing, which means recurring themes and attitudes about said groups have been looked for. The results show that both the quantitative and qualitative representation of Hindu women and men is relatively even, which shows a positive development from textbooks published a decade ago.

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Hermer, Carol A. "Performing our pasts : representing history, representing self /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6426.

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Plate, Tony A. "Holographic reduced representation : distributed representation for cognitive structures /." Stanford, Calif. : CSLI, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/2003043513.html.

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Parkinson, Jon. "Representation learning with a temporally coherent mixed-representation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/representation-learning-with-a-temporally-coherent-mixedrepresentation(ba48bd9e-80ed-4d37-b743-cb149bc498ee).html.

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Guiding a representation towards capturing temporally coherent aspects present invideo improves object identity encoding. Existing models apply temporal coherenceuniformly over all features based on the assumption that optimal encoding of objectidentity only requires temporally stable components. We test the validity of this assumptionby exploring the effects of applying a mixture of temporally coherent invariantfeatures, alongside variable features, in a single 'mixed' representation. Applyingtemporal coherence to different proportions of the available features, we evaluate arange of models on a supervised object classification task. This series of experimentswas tested on three video datasets, each with a different complexity of object shape andmotion. We also investigated whether a mixed-representation improves the capture ofinformation components associated with object position, alongside object identity, ina single representation. Tests were initially applied using a single layer autoencoderas a test bed, followed by subsequent tests investigating whether similar behaviouroccurred in the more abstract features learned by a deep network. A representationapplying temporal coherence in some fashion produced the best results in all tests,on both single layered and deep networks. The majority of tests favoured a mixed representation,especially in cases where the quantity of labelled data available to thesupervised task was plentiful. This work is the first time a mixed-representation hasbeen investigated, and demonstrates its use as a method for representation learning.

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Ching, Yu-Hui Grabowski Barbara Louise Hopkins. "The effects of computer-based video strategy training for problem representation and self-explanation on undergraduate students representing and solving ill-structured problems." [University Park, Pa.] : Pennsylvania State University, 2009. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-4706/index.html.

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Jennings, Victoria. "Representing Aesop." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406985.

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Leon, Mark. "Representing experience." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302218.

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Hopkins, Robert David. "Pictorial representation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309099.

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Albahari, Steven W. "Photographic representation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71053.

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Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Bibliography: leaves 51-52.
by Steven W. Albahari.
M.S.V.S.

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Openshaw, James Michael. "Singular representation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a411d1e-e7fb-410d-ada0-a24f39056670.

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This thesis is a study of aboutness. It defends the claim that we have singular thoughts about ordinary objects and argues that an essential part of how we do so is by maintaining singular representations. This proposal allows us to avoid traditional, unsatisfying conceptions of the scope of singular thought while restoring the sense in which such thought is a distinctively epistemic achievement. Reconnecting the study of aboutness with epistemology promises to alleviate the sense of directionlessness in the contemporary literature, offering a firmer grip on the phenomenon along with new, systematic resources for its investigation. Chapters 1-2 explore the effects of contextualist machinery on orthodox views about singular thought. It is widely thought that if there is to be a plausible connection between the truth of a de re attitude report about a subject and that subject's possession of a singular thought, then there can be no acquaintance requirement(s) on singular thought. Chapter 1 shows that this view rests on a faulty picture of how we talk about attitudes. Indeed, the truth of a de re attitude report cannot be taken to track the singular/non-singular distinction without collapsing it. A new, contextualist picture is needed. That there must be a distinction between singular and non-singular intentionality is emphasized in Chapter 2, where a key explanatory role for singular thought - brought out by a thought experiment due to Strawson - is examined. I show that the role does not call for any distinctive kind of mental content. Once we abandon the two widespread views questioned in Chapters 1-2, our grip on the phenomenon of singular aboutness is loosened: it is not constitutively tied to the kinds of attitude-reporting data or mental content by which it is often assumed to be revealed. Where are we to look for insight? What makes something the object of a singular thought? According to Russell, it is a datum of intuition that singular thought involves a kind of knowledge; a theory of aboutness will precisify the intuitive notion of 'knowing which thing one is thinking about' in order to capture this demand in a philosophically revealing way. If Russell is right, teasing out this connection to knowledge will allow us to see what it takes for a particular thing to be the immediate subject matter of thought. Chapter 3 discusses Evans's theory of this kind. Chapter 4 examines recent work by Dickie. While serious concerns emerge in each case, insights recovered are used to precisify Russell's requirement, leading to a novel picture of singular representation and the epistemic character of this achievement. While the chapters follow a narrative, providing an extended rationale for the proposal in Chapter 4, each may be read in isolation by those familiar with the philosophical issues. For those who are not, the Introduction provides sufficient background.

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Wadham, Jack. "Representation rectified." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6792/.

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This abstract is a little involved and technical. Those looking for a more leisurely, thematic overview of the thesis can turn to the Introduction, which follows shortly. In the first chapter of the thesis, I examine Andy Clark’s argument for the extended mind thesis (EM henceforth). As Clark acknowledges, his argument for EM relies on a brand of functionalism developed by Frank Jackson and David Braddon-Mitchell. Mark Sprevak claims to have developed a reductio not only of Clark’s argument of EM, but of the functionalist position that Clark’s argument presupposes. I show that this reductio can be blocked, because it rests on an optional presupposition (a presupposition that is anyway implausible). But by rejecting this presupposition, we end up blocking Clark’s argument for EM as well as Sprevak’s reductio of that argument. This result is bad news for Clark, but rather better news for the functionalists on whose work Clark’s argument relies. In chapters 2 and 3, I develop and apply a model-based theory of mental representation. The basic idea is there is a type of mental representation (what I call ‘s-representation’) which is best understood by analogy with scientific models. In chapter 2, I develop a theory of content for s-representations, improving on the work of writers who have attempted to do so in the past. The theory of content I develop makes use of theoretical resources provided by those functionalist writers whose position I defended from Sprevak’s reductio in chapter 1. In chapter 3, I give reasons for thinking that s-representations are biologically ubiquitous and cognitively significant. I then show how my theory of s-representation differs from similar rival accounts in the literature. Finally, I argue that my account has the resources to deal with certain sceptical challenges raised by anti-representationalists (those sceptical of the claim that a certain class of mental capacities can be explained in representational terms). In Part II (chapters 4, 5 and 6), I apply the lessons learned from the first half of the thesis to develop some distinctive claims about the nature of visual perception. I do so by using Alva Noë’s theory of perception as a spring-board. I argue that many of Noë’s most notorious claims are false, but that there are still valuable resources to be gleaned from his theory. I then borrow and redeploy what is valuable in his theory (i.e. certain aspects of his ‘virtual content’ thesis and some of his claims about perspectival content). I do so, in part, by drawing on the s-representation story developed in Part I. I argue, in line with similar claims made by Rick Grush, that Noë’s notion of ‘sensorimotor knowledge’ can usefully be treated as a form of s-representation. With a fully reconstructed version of Noë’s theory in place, I show how it can make sense of some otherwise puzzling findings made by psychologists of perception.

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Henrysson, Anders. "Procedural Media Representation." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1220.

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We present a concept for using procedural techniques to represent media. Procedural methods allow us to represent digital media (2D images, 3D environments etc.) with very little information and to render it photo realistically. Since not all kind of content can be created procedurally, traditional media representations (bitmaps, polygons etc.) must be used as well. We have adopted an object-based media representation where an object can be represented either with a procedure or with its traditional representation. Since the objects are created on the client the procedures can be adapted to its properties such as screen resolution and rendering performance. To keep the application as small and flexible as possible, each procedure is implemented as a library which is only loaded when needed. The media representation iswritten in XML to make it human readable and easy editable. The application is document driven where the content of the XML document determines which libraries to be loaded. The media objects resulting from the procedures is composited into the media representation preferred by the renderer together with the non-procedural objects. The parameters in the XML document are relative to parameters determined by the system properties (resolution, performance etc.) and hence adapt the procedures to the client. By mapping objects to individual libraries, the architecture is easy to make multi threaded and/or distributed.

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Navarro, Daniel. "Representing stimulus similarity." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phn322.pdf.

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Bibliography: p. 209-233. Over the last 50 years, psychologists have developed a range of frameworks for similarity modelling, along with a large number of numerical techniques for extracting mental representations from empirical data. This thesis is concerned with the psychological theories used to account for similarity judgements, as well as the mathematical and statistical issues that surround the numerical problem of finding appropriate representations. It discusses, evaluates, and further develops three widely-adopted approaches to similarity modelling: spatial, featural and tree representation.

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Pérez, Carballo Alejandro. "Rationality without representation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68519.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-109).
This dissertation is about whether and how non-representational attitudes could play a role in our theories of rationality. In Chapter 1 ('Negation, expressivism, and intentionality') I argue that the best explanation for why two mental states are inconsistent need not presuppose that such states are representational-that they have, in the jargon, truth-conditions. I use this to provide a solution to the 'negation problem' for metaethical expressivism. In Chapter 2 ('Structuring logical space') I sketch an account of mathematical practice along non-representational lines. I show how it can do justice to the applicability of mathematics, and propose ways in which one's epistemic goals can impose substantial constraints on which mathematical theories to accept. Chapter 3 ('Good questions') provides a general account of the way in which rationality constrains changes in our hypothesis space. In particular, I show how some such changes can be better than others by placing the discussion within a general framework of rational dynamics, on which rational epistemic change involves maximizing expected epistemic utility.
by Alejandro Perez Carballo.
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Horowitz, Damon Matthew. "Representing musical knowledge." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61530.

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Giannaroudis, Konstantinos. "Presence and representation." Thesis, University of East London, 2012. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1873/.

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The act of representation is, to an extent, a sine qua non condition within the artistic process and always acquires its meaning in relation to a presence. Presence acts as an internal or external stimulus, and re-presentation is the effect of a presence. From this perspective, I have examined the work of Francis Bacon, Susan Hiller, Giorgio Morandi, Gerhard Richter, Iannis Xenakis, and, among others, the theories of Giorgio Agamben, Benjamin Buchloch, Daniel Chandler, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Hal Foster and Henri Lefebvre. Within the frame of this enquiry, I have created a series of polyptychs exploring different possibilities, correlations and aspects of my topic. The internal or external stimulus for the creation of these series varies: from recorded video stills of London’s urban scenery to a one-wave loop videotaped at a Greek coast, and from a specific architectural site to various landscapes – all painted in situ or from photographs. Although this variety calls for dissimilar creative strategies for each polyptych, all of them are connected with each other, as they share the following properties: • the openness, which practically relativizes the beginning and the end of the artwork, the part and the whole, the real space–time and the imagery space–time, • the rhythm (practically, its simplified form is repetition), as the element that makes the synthesis and unification of different states of presence possible – through the function of consonance, • the pictorial language (i.e., colour, line, shape, etc.), as the intermediate between the individual and the collective evaluation of the artwork. In the context of my semisite-specific practice, I reactivate the notion of topicality to approximate the foundation of a stable and real ground where the artwork forms and develops. By exploring the act of representation, I discuss the poetic metaphor from and to the real, the constitution of the real and its consequences on how we value art. I argue that, both practically and theoretically, rhythm is identified through the principle of presence, and I examine rhythm as the methodological tool whose vibration penetrates practical experimentation and whose contents are susceptible to theoretical exploration. Odysseas Elytis’ poem eloquently describes the experience that artists relish during the creative process – the poetic point of view. By the same token, art practice repulses a well established methodology, thus maintaining an entropy, or an openness. I put forward the hypothesis that rhythm can offer a sustainable methodological tool for art practice-based areas of study. In my research, I explore the structure and limits of visual/pictorial language, that are simultaneously historical and physical. Practically, this exploration is correlated with a quest for the proper (proportion, colour, gesture, etc.) within my compositions – i.e., a search on artistic manipulation and its criteria of evalutation. Finally, I investigate the theoretical context of Presence and Representation, its relation to the real and how different comprehensions correspond with and influence different viewpoints and theses, which, in turn, have personal and social consequences. As Daniel Chandler (1994) indicates, it is unavoidable to ask ‘whose realities are privileged in particular representations’, a recognition which eschews a retreat to mere subjectivism, as it ‘pays due tribute to the unequal distribution of power in the social world.’

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Carvalho, Micael. "Deep representation spaces." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUS292.

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Ces dernières années, les techniques d’apprentissage profond ont fondamentalement transformé l'état de l'art de nombreuses applications de l'apprentissage automatique, devenant la nouvelle approche standard pour plusieurs d’entre elles. Les architectures provenant de ces techniques ont été utilisées pour l'apprentissage par transfert, ce qui a élargi la puissance des modèles profonds à des tâches qui ne disposaient pas de suffisamment de données pour les entraîner à partir de zéro. Le sujet d'étude de cette thèse couvre les espaces de représentation créés par les architectures profondes. Dans un premier temps, nous étudions les propriétés de leurs espaces, en prêtant un intérêt particulier à la redondance des dimensions et la précision numérique de leurs représentations. Nos résultats démontrent un fort degré de robustesse, pointant vers des schémas de compression simples et puissants. Ensuite, nous nous concentrons sur le l'affinement de ces représentations. Nous choisissons d'adopter un problème multi-tâches intermodal et de concevoir une fonction de coût capable de tirer parti des données de plusieurs modalités, tout en tenant compte des différentes tâches associées au même ensemble de données. Afin d'équilibrer correctement ces coûts, nous développons également un nouveau processus d'échantillonnage qui ne prend en compte que des exemples contribuant à la phase d'apprentissage, c'est-à-dire ceux ayant un coût positif. Enfin, nous testons notre approche sur un ensemble de données à grande échelle de recettes de cuisine et d'images associées. Notre méthode améliore de 5 fois l'état de l'art sur cette tâche, et nous montrons que l'aspect multitâche de notre approche favorise l'organisation sémantique de l'espace de représentation, lui permettant d'effectuer des sous-tâches jamais vues pendant l'entraînement, comme l'exclusion et la sélection d’ingrédients. Les résultats que nous présentons dans cette thèse ouvrent de nombreuses possibilités, y compris la compression de caractéristiques pour les applications distantes, l'apprentissage multi-modal et multitâche robuste et l'affinement de l'espace des caractéristiques. Pour l'application dans le contexte de la cuisine, beaucoup de nos résultats sont directement applicables dans une situation réelle, en particulier pour la détection d'allergènes, la recherche de recettes alternatives en raison de restrictions alimentaires et la planification de menus
In recent years, Deep Learning techniques have swept the state-of-the-art of many applications of Machine Learning, becoming the new standard approach for them. The architectures issued from these techniques have been used for transfer learning, which extended the power of deep models to tasks that did not have enough data to fully train them from scratch. This thesis' subject of study is the representation spaces created by deep architectures. First, we study properties inherent to them, with particular interest in dimensionality redundancy and precision of their features. Our findings reveal a strong degree of robustness, pointing the path to simple and powerful compression schemes. Then, we focus on refining these representations. We choose to adopt a cross-modal multi-task problem, and design a loss function capable of taking advantage of data coming from multiple modalities, while also taking into account different tasks associated to the same dataset. In order to correctly balance these losses, we also we develop a new sampling scheme that only takes into account examples contributing to the learning phase, i.e. those having a positive loss. Finally, we test our approach in a large-scale dataset of cooking recipes and associated pictures. Our method achieves a 5-fold improvement over the state-of-the-art, and we show that the multi-task aspect of our approach promotes a semantically meaningful organization of the representation space, allowing it to perform subtasks never seen during training, like ingredient exclusion and selection. The results we present in this thesis open many possibilities, including feature compression for remote applications, robust multi-modal and multi-task learning, and feature space refinement. For the cooking application, in particular, many of our findings are directly applicable in a real-world context, especially for the detection of allergens, finding alternative recipes due to dietary restrictions, and menu planning

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Engel, Claude. "Image et representation." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989STR20027.

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Teff, Nicholas James. "The Hessenberg Representation." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4919.

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The Hessenberg representation is a representation of the symmetric group afforded on the cohomology ring of a regular semisimple Hessenberg variety. We study this representation via a combinatorial presentation called GKM Theory. This presentation allows for the study of the representation entirely from a graph. The thesis derives a combinatorial construction of a basis of the equivariant cohomology as a free module over a polynomial ring. This generalizes classical constructions of Schubert classes and divided difference operators for the equivariant cohomology of the flag variety.

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Radu, Ion. "Stone's representation theorem." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3087.

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The thesis analyzes some aspects of the theory of distributive lattices, particularly two representation theorems: Birkhoff's representation theorem for finite distributive lattices and Stone's representation theorem for infinite distributive lattices.

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Porkert, Franziska. "The CHY Representation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teoretisk fysik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-401860.

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Schmidt, Renate Anneliese. "Algebraic terminological representation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22147.

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This thesis investigates terminological representation languages, as used in KL-ONE-type knowledge representation systems, from an algebraic point of view. Terminological representation languages are based on two primitive syntactic types, called concepts and roles, which are usually interpreted model-theoretically as sets and relations, respectively. I propose an algebraic rather than a model-theoretic approach. I show that terminological representations can be naturally accommodated in equational algebras of sets interacting with relations, and I use equational logic as a vehicle for reasoning about concepts interacting with roles.

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Kim, Jeongjin. "Mandatory representation designs /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487776210795313.

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Mc, Neill Rebecka. "Nästa generation utan representation : En fallstudie av ungas representation i Sundsvalls Kommun." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36790.

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IntroductionRepresentation in politics has been a major debate in political science with various groups being underrepresented in the decision-making assembles, one of these groups has been the youth which is strongly underrepresented. This essay aims to examine youth representation at a municipal level. Few studies have conducted about youth representation but there is widespread study about representation. The already elected politicians are in many ways key factor in order for the youth to even be able get their representation since they possess the power to let them inside the political room. It will be this gap inside political science that is going to be investigated in this essay. MethodThis essay methodology is qualitative case study of Sundsvall municipality's politicians approach to youth representation. Four politicians with different backgrounds and party belong have been interviewed and afterwards have a thematic analysis been conducted from their answers. With made it possible to find patterns and connections that are related to research within representation and youth. ResultsThe essay concluded that youth representation is much based on the parties and their structured way how to influence society and henceforth complexed to be represented in any other way. Everything that the politicians acts on is what the political parties want with mean the can never express their own agenda and feel like they represent the party voters and ideology more than Sundsvall city. The parties hold a lot of power because aside the mandate in the municipal council they appoint all the positions in various committees and municipal companies that the votes never choose between. Which means that the youth relies on parties including them to grant them these positions. The biggest issue with this is that studies have shown that youth are going away from becoming member of political parties which here becomes issue with young representation with this essay concur. Based on the Hanna Fenichel Pitkin approach to representation the politicians express that they think substantive representation are most important then descriptive representation but with deeper analysis shows more than both are combined rather than separate. The few elected youth can in many ways through symbolic representation developed becoming a symbol for youth represented as a group. The essay found that young politicians argued that they do not consider descriptive as most important but that they themselves had received votes because there are youths and experienced duty to manage youth opinion, which here may drew the conclusion about when a group are underrepresented the descriptive representation became more important and puts more pressure on those who is to belong to their group to represent that particular group. Youth representation in Sundsvall was able to examine by the LUPP resulted there the youth express that I high and much high level want to influence the municipality policy, but few believe that they can actually do it. The politics said that this is an issue but note that they want to know if this only applies to youth or everybody. All politician was, to some extent self-critical and meant that they themselves needed to get better at including youth and not having them on the sideline.

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Crippa, Philippe. "Une étude de la représentation : la représentation du temps chez Claude Simon." Nice, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997NICE2009.

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L'attraction simonienne pour le phénomène temporel passe par un éventail de représentations individuelles exaltant à la fois la sensation-perception du monde extérieur et son interprétation par le biais d'une intimité prégnante. Ainsi, l'interrogation de l'origine oscille entre la fascination du cosmos et l'attachement à la lignée familiale, entre l'énigme du commencement et celle de la cyclicité. Cette appréhension, située au confluent de l'H(h)istoire, est prolongée par le va-et-vient d'un flux mémoriel permettant le rapprochement de temps et de lieux épars. Enfin, dans cette actualisation de l'en-dehors, se pose, en tant que coordonnée temporelle fondamentale, la problématique de la réalité accordée ou non au monde observé. La particularité de ces différentes représentations est la déstructuration déroutante dont elles sont l'objet : émiettement de l'agencement chronologique mettant en péril la linéarité référentielle et structurelle du roman, coexistence de temporelles apparemment antithétiques, déchronologie engendrée par le mouvement mémoriel, pervertissement de la cohérence du sens de l'histoire. Il en résulte alors non pas un temps mais plusieurs temporalités qui se lisent les unes dans les autres, délivrant une multitude d'effets et de reflets. L'acceptation d'une telle situation réside dans une pratique scripturale livrée à son travail instituant la mise sous tutelle du passé par le présent de l'écriture, lequel s'érige comme le seul moyen producteur de s'accorder avec le temps

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Clark, Christopher Jude. "Unpacking descriptive representation: examining race and electoral representation in the American states." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/478.

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This research aims to understand how black descriptive representation comes about and why black descriptive representation matters, at the state level. What distinguishes this research from previous works is its simultaneous analysis of different forms of descriptive representation at the subnational level, rather than in Congress or at the local level. This research argues black descriptive representation can take four different forms: dyadic, collective, parity and caucus. An important and understudied mechanism for black descriptive representation is the formation of state legislative black caucuses and their potential to influence policy and behavior. Subnational descriptive representation need not have negative tradeoffs for black substantive policy representation, as has been found with minority representation in Congress (Lublin 1997). Black representation is akin to a diamond, and looking at it from only one perspective is similar to judging a diamond only by its color, instead of also judging it by its hardness and fluorescence, as well as its clarity, shape, and size. In short, this work recognizes the multifaceted nature of black representation in the states. This research defines a theory of black descriptive representation as taking four different forms: dyadic, collective, parity, and caucus. Dyadic descriptive representation is the one-to-one relationship between a legislator and a voter, and heretofore it has received the most scholarly attention. This one-to-one relationship may occur between a minority citizen and their elected representation in Congress, in the state legislature, or in local government (Bobo and Gilliam 1990; Barreto, Segura, and Woods 2004), but this work focuses on dyadic descriptive representation in Congress. Although some argue that dyadic descriptive representation leads to better policy outcomes for blacks (Whitby 1997; Hutchings, McClerking, and Charles 2004), and encourages blacks to engage in politics (Gay 2001; Gay 2002; Tate 2003; Banducci, Donovan, and Karp 2004; Griffin and Keane 2006), others argue that dyadic descriptive representation is not only unnecessary to implement policies beneficial to blacks (Swain 1993), but also that it may actually lead to poorer policy outcomes for the group (Lublin 1997). That is, there is a tradeoff between increasing the number of black representatives (descriptive representation) and passing policies beneficial to the group (substantive representation). Collective descriptive representation is the relationship that an individual has with elected officials with whom they share a group identity. For blacks, collective descriptive representation may include the percentage of black lawmakers in the state legislature or Congress. An argument developed in this research is that collective descriptive representation in the state legislature, a topic rarely studied by scholars of race and ethnicity, may maximize both descriptive and substantive representation, and as a result, it may encourage black political behavior and lead to better policy outcomes for the group. Both parity and caucus descriptive representation are extensions of collective descriptive representation in the state legislature. Parity descriptive representation examines the extent to which the percentage of blacks in the state legislature is equal to a state's black population and is a measure of racial equity in electoral representation. Caucus descriptive representation is the formal organization of black lawmakers within a state legislature. Almost no published research has empirically studied legislative black caucuses in the states (for an exception see King-Meadows and Schaller 2006). Since the four forms of descriptive representation are distinct, the expectation is that they be caused by different factors. Moreover, this research builds on previous work by measuring and defining collective descriptive representation in all fifty states and is the first research to argue that state legislative black caucuses shape political behavior.

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Lebram, Mikael. "Grafisk representation av ljud." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-894.

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De senaste decennierna har en rad streckkodstekniker utvecklats för att grafiskt representera digital information. Gemensamt för dessa är en strävan efter hög densitet, det vill säga kapacitet att lagra mycket data på en liten yta. Densiteten begränsas emellertid av kravet på precision vid tolkning av den digitala datan, eftersom felaktigheter i digital data kan resultera i omfattande informationsförlust.

Analog information, exempelvis ljud, är däremot inte beroende av exakthet hos underliggande data i samma utsträckning. En analog ljudsignal kan beskrivas och återges approximativt, och ändå tolkas korrekt av en lyssnare. Detta faktum gör att det finns fördelar med att representera ett ljud utifrån dess analoga egenskaper. Exempelvis medför det sänkta kravet på absolut precision att densiteten hos representationen kan vara högre än hos konventionella streckkoder. I detta arbete utvecklas och utvärderas en grafisk representationsteknik som drar nytta av de analoga egenskaperna hos ljud – DAG (Dynamic Audio Graph). Ett flertal användningsområden för en sådan teknik har identifierats, bland annat musikdistribution via trycksaker, långtidsarkivering av ljud och illustration av ljud för upphovsrättsskydd.

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Turner, M. K., of Western Sydney Nepean University, and School of Contemporary Arts. "Representation and womens art." THESIS_XXX_CAR_Turner_M.xml, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/732.

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The thesis contains a discussion of surrealism and the work of Meret Oppenheim and Leonora Carrington. In the thesis I also distinguish three groups of paintings in essays and describe my work and the way in which theory and practice have recommended one another. 'Salience and Surrealism' discusses how the features of collaboration, play and partnership involve women artists within the surrealist movement, and how their ideas of the feminine principle evolve and change. I also discuss the changing attitudes to imagination, creative inspiration and activity, and the understanding brought about by the meeting between surrealism and psychology. The salience of surrealism as an introverted urge and instinct toward individuation, is suggested by Kenneth Wack 'as the source of surrealism's most abiding success.' The contemporary use of salience applies to features, characteristics, and from architecture as protrusions or fortifications. The dictionary definition begins with extroverted examples like dancig, leaping about and jetting forth. The archaic meaning is origin or first beginning, hence in old medicine salience applies to the heart when it first shows in the embryo. In salience the anagram of, a silence, gave heed to the atmosphere of silence from creativity and in paintings. A silence, also corresponds with the middle part of Meret Oppenheim's life when she experienced an artisitc crisis and depression. This essay looks back fifty years of self-expression from this artist and finds prominent features to suggest the essential dichotomies which mark the artwork. Meret Oppenheim's ouevre includes painting, sculpture, poetry, books, and theatre costume and apparal. Her multiple talents in the arts and literature are like those of Leonora Carrington who has published several books and plays, in the visual arts she sculpted and painted. The salience of their creative and intellectual endeavours found realisation in the wisdom of the feminine, of animal spirits and of natural worlds. The principles of alchemy also inspired and informed their attitudes to creativity which emerges from the unification of opposites. Both artists called for a new alliance between male and female principles, and evolve concepts of androgyny, which for them lift creation to higher levels. These women as artists found a field of the arts that furnished them with both physical life and spiritual life
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Howard, Martin V. "Usefulness in representation design /." Linköping : Univ, 2002. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2002/tek753s.pdf.

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Turner, M. K. "Representation and womens art." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030916.113709/index.html.

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Chintala, Venkatram Reddy. "Digital image data representation." Ohio : Ohio University, 1986. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1183128563.

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Tomanek, Debra J. "Patterns of content representation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185540.

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This study was conducted to track content as representations in the experienced curriculum of a secondary environmental science class. The qualitative analyses involved both the identification and the tracking of pieces of content within and across curriculum occasions. Curriculum and instructional features were found to exist as patterns as content was represented in curriculum occasions. The patterns included an evolution from one or few representations to multiple representations. This evolution was commonly facilitated by the teacher during discourse episodes in which students' comments and questions were utilized in order to introduce alternative or different representations of pieces of content. Patterns also existed in the ways in which the teacher's knowledge of the students, the content, and the curriculum were related to representations of content. The findings suggest that content, embedded in the curriculum occasions in which it is represented, can be studied in an ecologically valid manner. Also, the close association found to exist between teacher knowledge and content representation suggests that arbitrary separations of the two in classroom inquiries may be inappropriate.

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Frigg, Roman. "Re-presenting scientific representation." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2003. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1730/.

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It is now part and parcel of the official philosophical wisdom that models are essential to the acquisition and organisation of scientific knowledge. It is also generally accepted that most models represent their target systems in one way or another. But what does it mean for a model to represent its target system. Surprisingly, this issue has hardly been recognised, much less seriously discussed. In the first part, I introduce the problem of scientific representation and argue for its importance. In the second part, I provide a critique of the current orthodoxy, the semantic view of theories. Though writers in this tradition do not explicitly address the issue of scientific representation, the semantic view implies that a model represents by being isomorphic or, in another version, similar to its target. I argue that this view faces insurmountable problems because both isomorphism and similarity are notions too weak to endow a model with representational power. In the third part, I develop a theory of representation that overcomes the shortcomings of the semantic view. The leading idea consists in taking representation to be explained in terms of three relations: denotation, display and designation. A model denotes its target system in roughly the same way in which a name denotes its bearer. At the same time it displays certain aspects, that is, it possesses these aspects and a user of the model thematises them. Finally, an aspect of the model designates an aspect of the target if the former stands for the latter and a specification of how exactly the two relate is provided.

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Yeung, Yuk-ngan, and 楊玉顔. "Gender representation in films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953773.

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Pihlström, Max. "Visual representation by triangulation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-264109.

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n this thesis the triangulation is treated as a general-purpose visual representation by investigation of various domain-specific methods such as triangulation interpolation, mesh flows, vertex neighborhood feature measures and re-triangulation for spatial transformations. Suggested new methods include an effective cost for image interpolation based on work by Sederberg et al. and a ridge-edge measure related to the Harris edge detector.

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