An analysis of the manuals of five fifth and sixth grade history textbook series.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Historia y mito en Yo, el supremo de Augusto Roa Bastos

Yo el supremo (1974), la segunda novela de Augusto Roa Bastos. Se presenta como un tejido de elementos provenientes de diversos escritos de diferente origen: míticos, bíblicos, históricos y literarios. La riqueza de este texto múltiple ha posibilitado un importante cúmulo de estudios que subrayan, su contenido histórico, ideológico, político, intertextual y carnavalesco. Sin embargo, algunas de esas interpretaciones son literales y no penetran en el universo latente y profundo que el texto sugiere. La novela ofrece varios niveles de lectura porque además de lo lingüístico y lo histórico está lo legendario y folklórico, lo actual, lo mítico y lo simbólico. Este trabajo se plantea como una lectura desde los presupuestos de la psicología profunda, limitándose, dentro de este inmenso y prolífico campo, al análisis de los elementos arquetípicos vinculados con el tema del la búsqueda de la identidad y los mitos del héroe y del renacimiento. Las características oníricas, las distorsiones y condensaciones que comparte con el mundo de los sueños y de los mitos, la eliminación del tiempo y del espacio son elementos presentes en la novela que justifican el abordaje elegido. Así se analizan en el texto las imágenes y símbolos vinculados a los ritos de iniciación, la aventura del héroe, los estadios del proceso de individuación de Jung y el patrón del héroe de Campbell y el mito de Osiris.Fil: Dapaz Strout, Lilia. Universidad de Puerto Rico. Recinto Universitario de Mayagüe

Casamiento ritual y el mito del hermafrodita en «Omnibus», de Cortázar.

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A Fast and Scalable Graph Coloring Algorithm for Multi-core and Many-core Architectures

Irregular computations on unstructured data are an important class of problems for parallel programming. Graph coloring is often an important preprocessing step, e.g. as a way to perform dependency analysis for safe parallel execution. The total run time of a coloring algorithm adds to the overall parallel overhead of the application whereas the number of colors used determines the amount of exposed parallelism. A fast and scalable coloring algorithm using as few colors as possible is vital for the overall parallel performance and scalability of many irregular applications that depend upon runtime dependency analysis. Catalyurek et al. have proposed a graph coloring algorithm which relies on speculative, local assignment of colors. In this paper we present an improved version which runs even more optimistically with less thread synchronization and reduced number of conflicts compared to Catalyurek et al.'s algorithm. We show that the new technique scales better on multi-core and many-core systems and performs up to 1.5x faster than its predecessor on graphs with high-degree vertices, while keeping the number of colors at the same near-optimal levels.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of Euro Par 201

Sympiler: Transforming Sparse Matrix Codes by Decoupling Symbolic Analysis

Sympiler is a domain-specific code generator that optimizes sparse matrix computations by decoupling the symbolic analysis phase from the numerical manipulation stage in sparse codes. The computation patterns in sparse numerical methods are guided by the input sparsity structure and the sparse algorithm itself. In many real-world simulations, the sparsity pattern changes little or not at all. Sympiler takes advantage of these properties to symbolically analyze sparse codes at compile-time and to apply inspector-guided transformations that enable applying low-level transformations to sparse codes. As a result, the Sympiler-generated code outperforms highly-optimized matrix factorization codes from commonly-used specialized libraries, obtaining average speedups over Eigen and CHOLMOD of 3.8X and 1.5X respectively.Comment: 12 page

Theoretical infra-red, Raman, and Optical spectra of the B36N36 cage

The B36N36 fullerene-like cage structure was proposed as candidate structure for the single-shell boron-nitride cages observed in electron-beam irradiation experiment. We have performed all electron density functional calculations, with large polarized Gaussian basis sets, on the B36N36 cage. We show that the cage is energetically and vibrationally stable. The infra-red, Raman and optical spectra are calculated. The predicted spectra, in combination with experimentally measured spectra, will be useful in conclusive assignment of the proposed B36N36 cage. The vertical and adiabatic ionization potentials as well as static dipole polarizability are also reported.Comment: RevTex, 4 pages, 4 figures (TO appear in Physical Review A (Breif Report)