Algorithmic transformation techniques for efficient exploration of alternative application instances

Author(s):  
T. Stefanov ◽  
B. Kienhuis ◽  
E. Deprettere
Author(s):  
Helena Hansen

How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? This book provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black and Latino neighborhoods in the U.S. mainland. The book melds cultural anthropology and psychiatry. Through the stories of ministry converts, the book examines key elements of Pentecostalism: mysticism, ascetic practice, and the idea of other-worldliness. It then reconstructs the ministries' strategies of spiritual victory over addiction: transformation techniques to build spiritual strength and authority through pain and discipline; cultivation of alternative masculinities based on male converts' reclamation of domestic space; and radical rupture from a post-industrial “culture of disposability.” By contrasting the ministries' logic of addiction with that of biomedicine, the book rethinks roads to recovery, discovering unexpected convergences with biomedicine while revealing the allure of street corner ministries.


1994 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 271-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
FLORIN BALASA ◽  
FRANK H.M. FRANSSEN ◽  
FRANCKY V.M. CATTHOOR ◽  
HUGO J. DE MAN

For multi-dimensional (M-D) signal and data processing systems, transformation of algorithmic specifications is a major instrument both in code optimization and code generation for parallelizing compilers and in control flow optimization as a preprocessor for architecture synthesis. State-of-the-art transformation techniques are limited to affine index expressions. This is however not sufficient for many important applications in image, speech and numerical processing. In this paper, a novel transformation method is introduced, oriented to the subclass of algorithm specifications that contains modulo expressions of affine functions to index M-D signals. The method employs extensively the concept of Hermite normal form. The transformation method can be carried out in polynomial time, applying only integer arithmetic.


1979 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-236
Author(s):  
R. R. Little ◽  
D. D. Raftopoulos

abstract An analytical expression describing the three-dimensional vertical soil-structure interaction effects is developed using Laplace and Hankel transformation techniques. Utilizing these transformation techniques and normal mode theory of vibration, an N-mass structural model is coupled to an elastic half-space representing the earth. The resulting interaction equation is solved by numerical iteration techniques for a model of a nuclear power plant subjected to actual earthquake ground excitation. The effects of the soil-structure interaction are evaluated by comparing free-field acceleration spectrum response curves with similar curves determined from the foundation motion. These effects are found to be significant for structures typical of modern nuclear power plants subjected to seismic ground motions.


1970 ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
J. R. Branfield ◽  
A. W. Bell

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