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The Uninsured Drivers’ Agreement 2015 as a Legitimate Source of Authority
No full textIn the UK, motor vehicle insurance is governed by national and EU law. In respect of the EU requirement that member states establish a guarantee fund from which the victims of negligent uninsured or untraced drivers may obtain compensation, the UK entered into a series of agreements with the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB). In 2015, the MIB established the Uninsured Drivers’ Agreement (UDA). This agreement implements (with the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Untraced Drivers’ Agreement 2003) aspects of the Motor Vehicle Insurance Directives (MVID). The UDA 2015 establishes clauses and procedural arrangements which, we argue, have largely removed legal certainty for policyholders and for the victims of negligent uninsured drivers. As such, the fundamental goals of the MVID and the free movement principles upon which they are based are undermined in the UK. This article offers a critique of the substantive breaches of the MVID through the UDA 2015’s exclusions and procedural arrangements, and identifies the current state of unpredictability and uncertainty when the two sources of law are compare
Learner Identity and Transition; an Ethnographic Exploration of Undergraduate Trajectories
Get PDFThis paper considers ethnographic data collected during undergraduate students’ transition to Higher Education (H.E.) Drawing on Lave and Wenger’s (1991) Communities of Practice theory the research focuses on the psychological process of identity as a trajectory, considering how reconciliation and negotiation of identities across and between communities influences transition. We aimed to explore the academic practices which construct the transition experience, to analyse those practices in terms of student identity and participation and to explore some of the psychological mechanisms which underpin transition to H.E. The data sources included observations, informal social interactions, one to one interviews and document analysis. Data collection took place over the first term of an undergraduate course. A theoretical thematic analysis was undertaken investigating the ways in which identity shaped participation, the practices that influenced participation and how participation subsequently influenced learner identity. We argue that the reconciliation of past, present and future identities is psychologically challenging for students during educational transition and this influences individual trajectories. Some practices assumed an already autonomous learner rather than enabling development of autonomy. Inability to participate in valued (and often implicit) academic practice was seen to negatively influence learner identities, delaying full participation. The focus for transition research could therefore consider enabling systems and practices which acknowledge differences and fully support successful changes in learner identity
Towards a measure of kindness: An Exploration of a Neglected Interpersonal Trait
Get PDFAlthough a growing number of studies indicate the psychological benefits of Kindness no clear
definition or distinct measure of Kindness is available. A framework for considering kindness
was therefore developed and a 40 item self-report questionnaire (the kindness measure) produced
from it. This was completed by a sample of 165 people differing in age, gender and occupation.
Responses varied enough to indicate the measure is discriminating between people. Multivariate
analysis indicated three distinct aspects of kindness: Benign Tolerance (BT), Empathetic
Responsivity (ER), and Principled Proaction (PP). Central to these, a more fundamental form of
Kindness was also identified, that we propose to call Core Kindness (CK), that contrasts with
Psychopathy, as an important aspect of personality. Differences between men and women and
younger and older people lend external validity to the kindness scales and bode well for future
more detailed studies. Directions for future research are proposed
A new model of psychopathy
No full textThe concept of psychopathy has long been of interest within the criminal justice
system, often presented as the causal antecedent to serial violent and sexual offences. Despite
this, psychopathy has remained difficult to assess, with research in the area compromised by
the absence of an established definition of the disorder. The first comprehensive
conceptualisation of psychopathy was proposed by Hervey Cleckley in 1941. Cleckley
suggested the prototypical psychopath to be characterised by the following 16 traits:
superficial charm, absence of delusions, absence of “nervousness”, unreliability,
untruthfulness, lack of remorse and shame, antisocial behaviour, poor judgement and failure
to learn by experience, pathological egocentricity, poverty in affective reactions, loss of
insight, unresponsiveness in interpersonal relations, fantastic and uninviting behaviour,
suicide rarely carried out, impersonal sex life, and failure to follow any life plan
Distribution of SDTV and HDTV using VLC Techniques for Domestic Applications
No full textThis paper presents a visible light communication system that enables flat-panel TVs to receive DVB terrestrial, cable and satellite digital content wirelessly. The benefits of VLC over Wi-Fi and power-line networking based solutions are discussed, and the physical requirements of the system are defined. The paper also discusses how the MPEG transport stream of a set-top-box can be re-encoded for transmission over a free-space optical channel using a novel PPM modulation scheme
Design and Evaluation of Small-Large Outer Joins in Cloud Computing Environments
Get PDFLarge-scale analytics is a key application area for data processing and parallel computing research. One of the most common (and challenging) operations in this domain is the join. Though inner join approaches have been extensively evaluated in parallel and distributed systems, there is little published work providing analysis of outer joins, especially in the extremely popular cloud computing environments. A common type of outer join is the small-large outer join, where one relation is relatively small and the other is large. Conventional implementations on this condition, such as one based on hash redistribution, often incur significant network communication, while the duplication-based approaches are complex and inefficient. In this work, we present a new method called DDR (duplication and direct redistribution), which aims to enable efficient small-large outer joins in cloud computing environments while being easy to implement using existing predicates in data processing frameworks. We present the detailed implementation of our approach and evaluate its performance through extensive experiments over the widely used MapReduce and Spark platforms. We show that the proposed method is scalable and can achieve significant performance improvements over the conventional approaches. Compared to the state-of-art method, the DDR algorithm is shown to be easier to implement and can achieve very similar or better performance under different outer join workloads, and thus, can be considered as a new option for current data analysis applications. Moreover, our detailed experimental results also have provided insights of current small-large outer join implementations, thereby allowing system developers to make a more informed choice for their data analysis applications
Cyber Threats Facing Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: Future Challenges
No full textVehicles are currently being developed and sold with increasing levels of connectivity and automation. As with all networked computing devices, increased connectivity often results in a heightened risk of a cyber security attack. Furthermore, increased automation exacerbates any risk by increasing the opportunities for the adversary to implement a successful attack. In this paper, a large volume of publicly accessible literature is reviewed and compartmentalised based on the vulnerabilities identified and mitigation techniques developed. This review highlighted that the majority of research is reactive and vulnerabilities are often discovered by friendly adversaries (white-hat hackers). Many gaps in the knowledge base were identified. Priority should be given to address these knowledge gaps to minimise future cyber security risks in the connected and autonomous vehicle sector
The effect of temperature on bubble lattice formation in copper under in situ He ion irradiation
Get PDFIn situ ion irradiation in a transmission electron microscope was used to investigate the effects of temperature on radiation-induced bubble lattice formation in Cu by low energy (12 keV) helium ions. Bubble lattices were observed to form between − 100 and 100 °C, but at 200 °C lattice formation was impeded by continued growth and agglomeration of bubbles. Both nucleation of bubbles, and to a lesser extent bubble lattice formation, are observed at lower fluences as temperature increases, which we suggest is due to increased point defect mobility. Previous work on point defect concentrations in irradiated copper is considered when interpreting these results
Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe
Get PDFImportant gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient DNA. It seems clear that farming was introduced into central, northern, and eastern Europe from the south by pioneer colonization. It is often argued that these dispersals originated in the Near East, where the potential source genetic pool resembles that of the early European farmers, but clear ancient DNA evidence from Mediterranean Europe is lacking, and there are suggestions that Mediterranean Europe may have resembled the Near East more than the rest of Europe in the Mesolithic. Here, we test this proposal by dating mitogenome founder lineages from the Near East in different regions of Europe. We find that whereas the lineages date mainly to the Neolithic in central Europe and Iberia, they largely date to the Late Glacial period in central/eastern Mediterranean Europe. This supports a scenario in which the genetic pool of Mediterranean Europe was partly a result of Late Glacial expansions from a Near Eastern refuge, and that this formed an important source pool for subsequent Neolithic expansions into the rest of Europ
Let’s change history! Community histories and the co-production of historical knowledge
No full textUnderstanding people’s lives, emotions and intellectual reasoning is crucial to exploring the history of communities and identities. ‘The co-production of historical knowledge’ provides an approach or methodology that allows for a deeper comprehension of people’s self and community identities by encouraging a diverse range of people to participate in the research process to uncover the complexities and nuances of historical experience. Yet as Steven High has argued, ‘there has been remarkably little discussion of the public’s place in the research process: how, when, and if authority should be shared between university based researchers and community members.’ This chapter argues that ‘sharing authority’ needs to be expanded beyond oral history, in which participants contribute to the creation of primary sources, to a sustained and collaborative effort to develop new ways of knowing about the past by drawing on perspectives outside of universities to produce new knowledge. A blurring of the boundaries between academic historians and communities in exploring history enables multiple voices to be heard in the historiographical record
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