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1901
The Symbolism of Rebirth in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Published 2017-06-01“…The author demosnstrates that Atwood conveys the Narrator’s spiritual rebirth by the symbolic images of water/, ascent/descent and plunging/resurfacing against the general archetypal pattern of the external/internal journey. …”
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1902
Identification of rheological parameters of Herschel–Bulkley fluids from free surface data
Published 2022-11-01“…Based on a defined least square objective function and a gradient-based minimization method (here steepest-descent method), linearly-independent explicit expressions are derived for sensitivity coefficients which enable us to estimate simultaneously three rheological parameters of Herschel-Bulkley fluids accurately using the transient readings at only one point (sensor). …”
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1903
Stochastic analysis of measurements of the fiveball Bonner spectrometer
Published 2017-12-01“…The practice of minimizing functions with the help of programs based on the principle of gradient descent shows their frequent hanging or avovts arising when an arbitrary choice of the initial values of the variable parameters. …”
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1904
Prediction of the air quality index of Hefei based on an improved ARIMA model
Published 2023-06-01“…There are three primary discoveries: (1) The air quality index of Hefei has obvious periodicity and a trend of descent. (2) The influencing factors of Spring Festival have no significant effect on the air quality index series. (3) The air quality index of Hefei will maintain a fluctuating and descending trend for a period of time. …”
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1905
Handling the Inflation by Syrian Daily Press Content Analysis Study
Published 2017-01-01“…The research also revealed that the headlines topped ranked first among the means of highlighting used in addressing the phenomenon of inflation, and all the pictures published were free of comments and annotations and descent to the source. Research has shown, too, that the sources of published material about inflation are primarily delegates and reporters, officials actually about interpretation and opinion articles in newspapers studied, then the ministries and official departments. …”
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1906
Le choro, musique métisse et originelle : transferts culturels, hybridations et identité culturelle nationale au Brésil (1870-1930)
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1907
’n Interpretasie van Karel Schoeman se roman, ’n Ander land binne die raamwerk van die laat negentiendeeeuse estetisistiese en dekadente literêre tradisie
Published 1993-05-01“…The journey of the dying Versluis to Bloemfontein with its emphasis on intense heat and desolation and its affinities with Dante's Divina Commedia can be seen as a symbolic descent into hell, with the suggestion that Versluis will never reach paradise.…”
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1908
Optimized Regression in Sensor Networks by Integration of Harmony Search and Particle Swarm Optimization
Published 2012-06-01“…Recently, some distributed approaches have been proposed based on gradient descent and Nelder-Mead simplex methods. Although in these methods, the energy consumption is low, but the accuracy is still far from the centralized approach. …”
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1909
OTTOMAN STATE AND TURKEY IN ALEV LYTLE CROUTIER’S HISTORICAL NOVELS
Published 2022-11-01“…It was translated and published in more than twenty languages and countries, making her one of the most published woman writers of Turkish descent. This study seeks to explore how the spacelessness and spaciousness of expatriatism become the locus of multi-cultural space in the works of Alev Lytle Croutier. …”
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1910
A Point Crack Source Location Method without Velocity Information in Anisotropic Plates
Published 2022-11-01“…The objective function is minimized using an iterative method, such as the gradient descent method. As a result of the numerical experiments and PLB testing on a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer plate, the method is accurate within 5% and is stable against noise.…”
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1911
The Contrastive Analysis of Kinship Terminology in Cina Benteng and Hakka (Khek)
Published 2022-12-01“…Kinship terminology is a way of addressing someone who is bound to themselves because of blood, descent, and marriage. Kinship terminology is culturally bounded. …”
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1912
Scheduling of Anaesthesia Operations in Operating Rooms
Published 2021-05-01“…Due to the intractability of its computing time, we circumvent the exact approaches and develop two approximation methods. Then, the steepest descent search is adopted for improving the solutions. …”
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1913
Paralisia periódica tireotóxica.
Published 2005-10-01“…Reported predominantly among individuals of Asian descent, TPP is a rare manifestation of hyperthyroidism in western populations. …”
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1914
Composite inertial subgradient extragradient methods for variational inequalities and fixed point problems
Published 2019-10-01“…The proposed algorithms are based on an inertial subgradient–extragradient method with the line-search process, hybrid steepest-descent methods, viscosity approximation methods and Mann iteration methods. …”
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1915
The Eschatologicality in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
Published 2015-08-01“… Emily Dickinson’s artistic self was an outcome of the Calvinist branch of mainstream Christianity and her intellectual descent from eschatological people, the seventeenth century, New England Puritans. …”
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1916
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Proto-Afrofuturist Short Fiction: «The Comet»
Published 2016-12-01“…Delany and Octavia Butler and becomes a parable in which the supernatural element of the toxic comet allows for interesting speculations on the alienation experienced by people of African descent. …”
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1917
The nature of revelation from Mawlana 's view point
Published 2008-08-01“…Mawlana believes that the revelation is a hidden consciousness that the prophets could grasp it by their intuitions. Hence, the descent of revelation is from the heaven and not from the innate self of the prophet. …”
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1918
Economic Specialisation, Resource Variability, and the Origins of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa
Published 2015-09-01“…This situation may have been exasperated by climatic fluctuations while lineage systems of social organisation encourage the localised marginalisation of politically unified descent groups and the development and expansion of large-scale agricultural works.…”
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1919
MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE FUNCTION ON A SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING
Published 2010-04-01“…Thus we tackle the problem with local search methods: descent method, simulated annealing and threshold acceptance. …”
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1920
treats: A modular R package for simulating trees and traits
Published 2024-04-01“…In evolutionary biology, simulations often involve the need of an evolutionary process where descent with modification is at the core of how the simulated data are generated. …”
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