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The Flash community:implications for post-conceptualism
No full textComplementing a broader international research paradigm shift, Electronic Literature scholars and practitioners alike have expressed a desire to expand the field to include deep collaborations with other disciplines. In achieving such a goal any original indigenous ideologies and aesthetics may be challenged. This dialectical tension between striving to be niche/identifiable/original in a mixed discipline economy faced with contemporary descriptors of ‘human experience’ such as Baumanr’s Liquid Modernity (2000), Antonelli’s Elasticity (2008) or even Turkle’s "life mix" (2011) remains key to facing this challenge.Using new interviews, emergent theories and archival resources this paper argues that the Flash community has already faced the issue of contemporary homogeneity driven by our on-going context of rapid technological change, and can be regarded as an exemplar of post-conceptual experimentalism. After a comparative analysis between the Flash Community and Electronic Literature the paper goes on to explore other new insights and considers the implications of being post-conceptual as a future opportunity and/or risk for Electronic Literature
The public health specialist and access to public health advice
No full textPublic health specialists can be described as leaders of the ‘upstream health workforce’, concerned with preventing unnecessary and ‘revolving door’ contact with health services. Achieving this requires working to promote good health, improve health services and protect populations from infectious disease and environmental risks. Public health work is based upon the recognition that populations are complex constructions of groups of individuals, who may or may not seek help for health problems or be able effectively to take action to improve their own health. This article will define key areas of public health practice giving specific examples of the role of the public health specialist in the UK, as well as how and why primary care professionals might access specialist advice. The examples demonstrate the great potential for improving population health through the complementary efforts of primary care and public health professionals
Grammatical and Non-grammatical contributions to closed-class word selection.
No full textClosed-class word selection was investigated by focusing on determiner production. Native speakers from three different languages named pictures of objects using determiner plus noun phrases (e.g., in French “la table” [thefeminine table], while ignoring distractor determiners printed on the pictures (e.g., “le” [themasculine]. The target and distractor expressed either shared or different grammatical and nongrammatical features (gender, number, and definiteness). A gender-facilitation effect was observed and attributed to noun processing. Crucially, across five experiments, distractors that shared a feature with the target determiner never resulted in longer naming latencies than distractors that were more different. These results indicate that activating related candidates is not detrimental for determiner retrieval, suggesting a noncompetitive mechanism of closed-class word selection
The information gap in corporate annual reports:evidence from Egypt
No full textThis study explores whether an information gap exists for six typesof corporate disclosure in Egypt, where International Accounting Standards(IAS) apply but penalties for non-compliance are limited. It also investigateswhether low compliance with mandatory disclosure can be explained by lowlevels of demand for this type of information among local financial analysts.The results identify a significant gap between actual disclosure practices ofcompanies for various types of disclosure and market perceptions of thispractice. Our findings also suggest that low compliance with disclosurerequirements in Egypt is not driven by low levels of demand from localfinancial analysts, because these items of information are perceived as usefulfor investment decision making
Engaging multimedia leisure for people with dementia
No full textDementia is the loss of cognitive abilities, particularly the use of working (short-term) memory, usually as a result of Alzheimer’s disease or stroke. Dementia occurs primarily in older people, and while it does not affect all of them, its rate of occurrence rises steeply from about 1 in 5 of people in their 80s to 1 in 3 of those in their 90s. As our population balance shifts towards the older end of the spectrum, the incidence of dementia will continue to increase. The ability to take part in enjoyable activities is a faculty which can decrease markedly with the onset of dementia. And yet having fun is an essential part of life. We have been working on using technology to support activities for people with dementia that make life enjoyable. These include having entertainment, being creative, and enjoying a conversation. We have been developing computer-based multi-media systems to support a person with dementia to continue to enjoy taking part in these activities. The entertainment system supplies engaging content and built-in prompting to keep the user supported and involved. The creative tool allows a person with dementia to compose their own musical sounds, regardless of any musical background. The communication support system restores to the person with dementia the ability to carry out a conversation with a relative or carer, by making use of relatively well-preserved long-term memories. All three systems have been evaluated with people who have dementia, using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. The results show that all three approaches can give positive outcomes, and further work in this field is recommended
In search of transformative practice:a paper developed from a workshop at the 2011 IACD Lisbon conference
No full textTwo-scale convergence forlocally periodic microstructures and homogenization of plywood structures
No full textThe introduced notion of locally periodic two-scale convergence allows one to average a wider range of microstructures, compared to the periodic one. The compactness theorem for locally periodic two-scale convergence and the characterization of the limit for a sequence bounded in H1(O) are proven. The underlying analysis comprises the approximation of functions, with the periodicity with respect to the fast variable being dependent on the slow variable, by locally periodic functions, periodic in subdomains smaller than the considered domain but larger than the size of microscopic structures. The developed theory is applied to derive macroscopic equations for a linear elasticity problem defined in domains with plywood structures
Continuing non-compliance with the Aarhus Convention
No full textBrief note on review of non-compliance report by Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Conventio
Five theories of reasoning:Inter-connections and applications to mathematics
No full textThe last century has seen many disciplines place a greater priority on understanding how people reason in a particular domain, and several illuminating theories of informal logic and argumenta- tion have been developed. Perhaps owing to their diverse backgrounds, there are several connections and overlapping ideas between the theories, which appear to have been overlooked. We focus on Peirce's development of abductive reasoning [3], Toulmin's argumentation layout [5], Lakatos's theory of reasoning in mathematics [2], Pollock's notions of counterexample [4] and argumentation schemes constructed by Walton et al [6], and explore some connections between, as well as within, the theories. For instance, we investigate Peirce's abduction to deal with surprising situations in mathematics, represent Pollock's examples in terms of Toulmin’s layout, discuss connections between Toulmin's layout and Walton’s argu- mentation schemes, and suggest new argumentation schemes to cover the sort of reasoning that Lakatos describes, in which arguments may be accepted as faulty, but revised, rather than being accepted or rejected. We also consider how such theories may apply to reasoning in mathematics: in particular, we aim to build on ideas such as Dove's [1], which help to show ways in which the work of Lakatos fits into the informal reasoning community.[1] I. J. Dove. On mathematical proofs and arguments: Johnson and Lakatos. In F. H. Van Eemeren and B. Garssen, editors, Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, volume 1, pages 346–351. Sic Sat, Amsterdam, 2007.[2] I. Lakatos. Proofs and Refutations. CUP, Cambridge, UK, 1976.[3] C. S. Peirce. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1931–58. Eight Volumes.[4] J. Pollock. Cognitive Carpentry. The MIT press, Cambridge, MA., 1995.[5] S. Toulmin. The uses of argument. CUP, Cambridge, 1958.[6] D. Walton, C. Reed, and F. Macagno. Argumentation Schemes. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 2008.<br/
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