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Alternative IDEs for SuperCollider
No full textA comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library. SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with wide-ranging applications across installations, real-time interaction, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. Now in a comprehensively updated new edition, The SuperCollider Book remains the essential reference for beginners and advanced users alike, offering students and professionals a user-friendly guide to the language's design, syntax, and use. Coverage encompasses the basics as well as explorations of advanced and cutting-edge topics including microsound, sonification, spatialization, non-standard synthesis, and machine learning
Irresistible Media City Life: Media Architecture Participates in the Urban Public Spaces and the Construction of Environmental Visual Imagination in China
Get PDFThis research examines the growing incorporation of digital screens into urban public spaces. Digital screens transforms building facades into dynamic media elements that influence public perception and redefine the function of these spaces. This phenomenon, known as media architecture, is explored for its capacity to enhance interaction, urban identity, and visual performance within Chinese urban public spaces. This research employs a mixed-methods approach grounded in the post-positivist paradigm and informed by grounded theory. The study covers 15 Chinese cities, with five key southern Chinese cities selected for detailed analysis. The methodology integrates spatial triad analysis, space syntax, and semi-structured interviews with users, designers, and experts, to explore the expectations and impacts of media architecture.
The findings indicate that media architecture is widely considered to enhance urban public spaces in the future by improving aesthetic appeal, fostering cultural inclusivity, promoting interactivity, and integrating advanced technologies for sustainability and innovation. The research highlights its dual function as both a medium for expressing urban identity, and as a platform for addressing challenges posed by modernisation and social transformation. By synthesising perspectives from urban studies, media studies, and sociology, this study develops and validates a theoretical framework for media architecture. It offers adaptable evaluation criteria tailored to the cultural and economic specificities of diverse urban environments.
Media architecture is a dynamic communication system that unites design, technology, and socio-cultural expression. Practical contributions resulting from the research include specific design strategies aimed at enhancing public engagement, facilitating socio-cultural exchange, and reimagining urban spaces through innovative approaches. After comparing the definition concepts of media architecture and engaging in critical dialogue with relevant theories. The study underscores the role of media architecture in shaping urban modernisation, providing a forward-looking perspective for architects, urban planners, and policymakers.
Although the study centres on large Chinese cites, it lays the groundwork for further research in China and abroad by establishing a foundation for the digital transformation of cities and the integration of architectural innovation. Future research recommendations include broadening the cultural and geographical scope, incorporating quantitative validation, and fostering further interdisciplinary integration to investigate the evolving role of media architecture in urban public spaces worldwide
Intergenerational dialogue and inquiry for collective healing, social justice and communal well-being: a reflection on conceptions, processes and practices
Get PDFThis paper explores how intergenerational dialogue and inquiry (IDI) may help break the silence about past brutality and contribute to collective healing, social justice and communal well-being. The specific historical contexts that it is concerned with are transatlantic slavery and colonisation, and the continued legacies of contemporary racism. Global communities impacted by these tragedies often experience silence between the generations about the trauma resulting from the atrocity, often exacerbated by present day discrimination. In considering the case study of IDI in communities on four continents, this paper further analyses the processes involved in breaking the cycles of silence, and remembering cultural wisdom and place-based resilience. It thus highlights practices such as trust-building, active listening, questioning, re-storying, deep dialogue and co-inquiry across the generations as key to understanding systemic dehumanisation and re-imagining the structural conditions necessary for the flourishing of all
The Effect of Social Media on the Normal Sleeping Patterns of Adolescents (10-19) in the UK: A Systematic Literature Review
Get PDFThis dissertation explores the impact of social media usage on the normal sleeping patterns of adolescents aged 10 to 19 in the United Kingdom through a systematic literature review. With the increasing prevalence of digital media among young people, concerns have emerged regarding its effect on sleep health—an essential component of adolescent development. The primary objective of this study is to critically analyze existing research on how social media influences sleep behaviors, identify key contributing factors, and evaluate associated mental and physical health outcomes.
A systematic review methodology was employed using peer-reviewed studies published between 2014 and 2024. Databases including PubMed, ScienceDirect, and ProQuest were searched using Boolean operators. Ten studies that met specific inclusion criteria—focusing on UK adolescents and measurable sleep-related outcomes—were selected. Thematic analysis was applied to synthesize the findings, and quality assessment was conducted using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) tool.
The findings revealed five core themes: social media usage patterns (frequency, duration, and nighttime use), its direct impact on sleep quality and duration, resulting psychological and physical health consequences (e.g., anxiety, depression, fatigue), the moderating role of parental and environmental factors, and the effectiveness of awareness and intervention strategies such as digital curfews and school-based programs.
The study concludes that excessive and poorly regulated social media use significantly disrupts adolescents’ sleep, posing long-term health risks. Parental involvement, digital literacy education, and policy-level interventions are recommended to mitigate these effects. Future research should focus on longitudinal studies and the role of emerging digital trends in adolescent sleep behavior
Argument for the expansion of philosophy of religion. A commentary of Afro-Brazilian Religions by José Eduardo Porcher
Get PDFAfrican-derived religions have been studied by anthropologists for decades but overlooked elsewhere. This article reflects on a new publication within philosophy of religion that uses Afro-Brazilian religions as template
From Threats to Scars: Who does HR go to? Understanding Workplace Violence Towards HR Professionals
Get PDFPurpose:
This dissertation will focus on understanding and exploring workplace violence towards HR professionals and evaluate current safeguarding measures to identify its adequacy, following the rise of violence towards HR professionals. The research will also explore the implications experiencing workplace violence towards mental health. This was undertaken following the identified gaps in literature supporting this topic. Therefore, the following research question was formulated:
“Is safeguarding adequate within the private HR sector when experiencing Workplace Violence?”.
Methodology:
Mixed-methods research was used to explore this research. The participant data used for the analysis was collected through both closed and open-ended surveys. Data collected from participants was analysed using content and descriptive statistics analysis.
Key Findings:
Based on the review of findings, the researcher can demonstrate that there is a prevalence of WPV towards HR professionals in the private sector. From the 19 participants that partook in the survey, the findings indicated that HR professionals who experience WPV, exist in a microcosm of organisational culture. Additionally, safeguarding measures within the HR private sector is not adequate to safeguard HR professionals, rendering them vulnerable.
Implications:
This study raises awareness and outlines workplace violence towards HR professionals and addresses a literature review gap that was identified. The existing literature and collected data suggest a need for viable business changes to adequately safeguard HR professionals.
These recommendations consist of workplace violence policies, implementation of workplace violence and manager training, increase employee engagement and build organisation trust and finally, implement mental health and wellbeing support systems for HR professionals to engage with, following workplace violence incidences.
Conclusion:
The research question to answer was “Is safeguarding adequate within the private HR sector when experiencing Workplace Violence?”. The answer based on this study is no, safeguarding is not adequate within the private sector to safeguard HR professionals. Although WPV is prevalent within the HR sector, more research is needed within this field for a definitive answer as there is a lack of research and literature gaps
Concordans gwaith Beirdd y Tywysogion / Concordance of the poetry of the Poets of the Princes (c.1100-c.1282)
No full textMae'r ffeil destun yn cynnwys concordas (a grëwyd â'r Oxford University Concordance Program, nad yw bellach ar gael) yn rhestru geiriau o farddoniaeth Beirdd y Tywysogion, gan ddefnyddio testunau orgraff ddiweddar y testunau a gyhoeddwyd yng nghyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion (Gwasg Prifysgol Cyrmu). Lluniwyd y concordans gan Ann Parry Owen, tua 1995.
The text file contains a concordance (produced through the now unavailable Oxford University Concordance Program) sorting words from the Poetry of the Princes, using the modernized orthography texts published in the Poetry of the Princes Series (University of Wales Press). The concordance was produced by Ann Parry Owen, around 1995
(Re)translation and Reception of Li Qingzhao’s Works in the Anglophone West
Get PDFAs the most renowned Chinese female poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1156 CE) has received extensive attention from Chinese scholars, evidenced by thousands of academic publications. In contrast, the number of her English (re)translations both in mainland China and the Anglophone West, remains under a hundred, resulting in limited scholarly studies typically focusing on the limited number of existing translators and translations. This leads to a lack of comprehensive examination of the (re)translation and reception of her works, a gap this project aims to fill.
This project builds on Cadera and Walsh’s (2022) theory that a reciprocal connection exists between retranslation and reception. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, the project triangulates bibliographical data of the English (re)translations of Li Qingzhao’s work from 1918 to 2021 with paratextual materials and textual criticism to build a comprehensive diachronic dataset. The project examines her (re)translations contextually, textually and peritextually, to provide a systematic (re)translation and reception history of Li Qingzhao’s works in the Anglophone world.
Taking (re)translations as a primary and collective act among (re)translators, editors and publishers, the contextual investigation charts Li Qingzhao’s complete (re)translation trajectory over the past 100 years. The findings suggest that (re)translations and reception might be related to diverse contextual factors, highlighting her increasing prominence in the Anglophone literary scene and wider reception of her work despite the early marginalization and underrepresentation of her literary diversity, especially in anthologies.
The peritextual examination of Li’s ten English collections reveals the effects of elements such as book titles, covers, blurbs, presentations and notes on the poet’s reception. The micro-investigation examines the textual features of early French to English (re)translations to uncover their possible impact of indirect translation on readers. Beyond the (re)translation dataset, creative responses to Li Qingzhao and her works by Anglophone artists are recognized as an alternative type of reception
Establishing Business Model Innovation Framework for Business Sustainability: A Case Study on ICT Reseller SMEs in Malaysia
Get PDFIn today’s digital age, businesses are compelled to adapt through digital transformation and innovation, particularly in the ICT industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for businesses, including ICT resellers, to innovate their business models to stay competitive. In Malaysia, ICT reseller SMEs play a crucial role in supplying technology to end customers, yet they face challenges from market competition, technological disruptions, and evolving customer needs. Despite extensive research on business models and innovation, the specific challenges and sustainability needs of ICT reseller SMEs in Malaysia remain underexplored, highlighting a critical gap in understanding how these middle-layer channels can adapt and thrive. This study aims to develop a BMI framework tailored to ICT reseller SMEs in Malaysia by identifying the challenges they face, the fundamental elements of BMI contributing to business sustainability, and providing a strategic framework for redefining what helps the companies create, deliver, and capture value in their operations. Using a qualitative multiple case study approach, this research gathered insights from ICT reseller SMEs headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, all of which had been operating since before the 2019 pandemic and had successfully navigated its challenges. Data was collected through face-to-face, semi-structured interviews and supplemented by a review of literature, news, and reports. The interviews were transcribed verbatim, and the data was analysed using Atlas.ti 9.0 to identify key themes related to business sustainability. The findings reveal the key challenges and various business sustainability initiatives linked to market dynamics and competition, technological trends, evolving customer and market needs, and operational inefficiencies. Through a deeper analysis, four key elements emerge as crucial for sustaining business growth: resource management, stakeholder management, strategic innovation and dynamic capabilities. The study also examined how SMEs apply dynamic capabilities-recognising opportunities, revitalising capabilities, and responding with agility, growth, and resilience—to adapt to an ever-changing business environment. The proposed BMI framework emphasises a structured approach integrating resource and stakeholder management with strategic innovation and dynamic capabilities. It highlights the importance of aligning resources with stakeholder management to ensure sustained growth. Strategic innovation keeps business competitive, while stakeholder management fosters value creation and long-term partnerships. Together, these elements create a responsive model that adapts to current market needs. This study aims to provide practical strategic decision-making guidance for ICT reseller SMEs and expands the BMI literature. The findings offer valuable insights for policymakers, industry leaders, SME owners, and stakeholders in fostering long-term sustainable growth. Future research is recommended to validate the framework through quantitative methods and explore its applicability in different industries
Chinese Web Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Customer Engagement and Value Co-Creation From the Perspective of S-D Login in the Age of Digitization
Get PDFThis study explores customer engagement (CE) and value co-creation within Chinese web fiction communities, a rapidly growing cultural phenomenon that has attracted millions of readers both in China and globally.
Using S-D logic-informed customer engagement as a theoretical framework, the research examines how these digital communities, characterized by high interactivity and strong customer-producer relationships, foster engagement and co-creation. Adopting a constructivist research paradigm and utilizing abductive reasoning, the study employs an embedded case study strategy. Data were collected through purposive sampling, involving 21 participants, including 8 in-depth interviews and 2 focus groups, and analysed using thematic analysis. Ethical considerations ensured participant confidentiality and methodological rigor.
The research reveals CE's dynamic nature. Three key drivers of customer engagement are identified: self - motivated labour, co - creation infrastructure, and brand - centric interpretive communities. The outcomes of CE are categorized into three dimensions: Positive Transformation Value (PTV), Emotional Resonance Value (ERV), and Constituent Co - Creative Value (CCV), highlighting the platform's roles in personal growth, community engagement, and cultural expression. A customer typology (Transformation Seekers, Emotional Connectors, Co - creators, and Integrated Value Seekers) is developed, and cultural factors like ‘Collective Participation’, ‘Striving Spirit’, and ‘the Pursuit of Moral and Educational Enrichment’ significantly shape engagement.
Theoretically, this study enriches S - D logic by integrating cultural elements into the CE framework, offering a multi - dimensional view that challenges unidimensional models. Practically, it provides actionable strategies for platform managers. They can enhance user participation by leveraging key themes and understanding cultural factors, tailoring content to boost platform performance.
However, limitations include a focus on educated participants and lack of cross - cultural exploration. The model emphasizes positive value, overlooking potential negatives. Future research should address these aspects. Overall, this study offers valuable insights for digital community management and engagement strategies
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