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AEMS News and Reviews: Fall 2009 (Issue: #33)
No full textThis fall’s film selections center on a theme of performance. Most obviously, Vanaja and the Larry Reed DVDs deal directly with the performing arts: the former tells the fictional story of a young Indian girl’s desire to become a classical dancer, despite the limitations of caste; and the latter negotiate the tensions between tradition and change, insiders and outsiders, in the performance of Balinese shadow puppetry. A different kind of theatre is at the heart of The Great Happiness Space, the performance of love for paying customers—is it deception, or a twisted kind of art? To a lesser degree, even Up the Yangtze touches on the issue, as “China” is performed for Western cruise boat passengers, a portrayal in stark contrast to the much colder reality on the river’s shores.Center for East Asian and Pacific Studie
AEMS News and Reviews: Winter 2014 (Issue: #51)
No full textIn this issue of News and Reviews, we offer two reviews of films about Korea and two about China. The Korean films, both reviewed by Hosu Kim, address a topic that has gained growing attention over the past few decades: the foreign (especially U.S.) adoption of Korean children. At first glance, this subject may seem primarily of interest to Asian American studies, but as Professor Kim shows, these films also explore the impact of adoption on Korean women, families, and society, offering valuable insights for students learning about Korea. The two films on China, by contrast, are markedly different from one another. "To the Light," reviewed by Shelley Chan, chronicles the lives of Chinese coal miners and their efforts to build better futures for their children—a narrative that may resonate with the historical experience of U.S. Appalachian miners. The other film, "Down: Indie Rock in the PRC," reviewed by Maddie Wilcox, turns the documentary lens on young urban Chinese expressing themselves through music in a culture that does not readily embrace this form of free expression.Center for East Asian and Pacific Studie
Public Libraries, Digital Equity Coalitions, and the Public Good
No full textIn this presentation to the American Library Association Digital Inclusion Working Group, I present findings from my recent journal article, with the same title, published in Public Library Quarterly. The research seeks to address a gap in the literature on the role of public libraries in digital equity coalitions
Technology and identity in the public library: An audio diary study of workers with underrepresented identities
Get PDFWorkplace technology has significantly changed the nature of work, including where and when work is performed and what tasks a worker is responsible for. Less is known, however, about the impact of these technologies on the identities of workers—particularly the ways in which technology threatens these identities. Through an analysis of audio diaries from 22 public library workers, this study considered the impact of technology in public libraries on the identities of library workers. Findings revealed several ways in which library workers perceive technology as threatening to the competency-based, value-based, and authenticity-based self-esteem they derived from their role, group, and personal identities
Retracted HRAlit paper in retraction watch
No full textThe Human Reference Atlas (HRA), developed by HuBMAP in close collaboration with other consortia, is underpinned by a vast body of literature, including the HRAlit dataset, which compiles relevant publications. Given the significant impact of retractions on medical sciences, our study aims to identify retracted publications within HRAlit, to assess the quality and risks associated with published research in HRAlit. By cross-referencing the Retraction Watch database, we identified 4,690 retracted publications in HRAlit. We then analyzed these publications in terms of time lag between publication and retraction, discipline, journal, country, and retraction reasons. Additionally, we developed a classification of retraction reasons to distinguish whether this publication is suspected of research misconduct, of which 8 types are suspected research misconduct reasons, and the other 8 types do not directly indicate suspected research misconduct. Through this study, we aim to provide recommendations for research management and the promotion of scientific integrity, ultimately supporting the construction and utilization of the HRA using peer-reviewed, high-quality scientific papers
Protecting Indigenous Cultural Heritage Across Borders: A Delphi Study of International Traditional Cultural Expression Laws
No full textWIPO has been struggling with issues surrounding how to protect TCEs on an international level since the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore (IGC) was established in the year 2000. While many iterations of legal principles for the international protection of TCEs have been drafted, commented on by member states, and revised, no binding treaty has been enacted. The purpose of this study is to gather a group of international legal experts with experience in the area of the protection of TCEs to determine the areas of consensus using the Delphi impirical method. The data reveals areas of national law that are adequately protecting TCEs within the borders of a particular nation, as well as national laws that could use some additional areas of protection or enforcement. The research team seeks to accurately summarize and report on the areas of agreement among the international experts involved in this research to further explore areas for progress in protecting TCEs internationally across borders.Campus Research Board, Center for Global Studie
The use of MRI for early prevention of Alzheimer's disease
No full textAlzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects the cells in the brain which results in dementia. AD is caused by the accumulation of Amyloid Beta (A)peptides made from protein forms an accumulation in the brain that leads to plaques and tangles that affects the medial temporal lobes and neocortical structures. Early detection of AD is very important for intervention and early treatment to prevent the further progression of the disease in individuals. Magnetic ResonanceImaging (MRI) is a neuroimaging tool that can be used to help study brain changes. MRI can help to detect biomarkers that are associated with AD which could be white matter hyperintensities, hippocampal volume loss, and tau phosphorylation. Tau phosphorylation is due to cerebral atrophy which leads to neurodegeneration. The application of MRI in the early detection ofAD could help in the progressive treatment and preventative methods for individuals who have AD or are at risk of developing the disease. This paper will discuss the use of neuroimaging, specifically MRI on the early detection of Alzheimer's in people which can be used in clinical settings and lead to better prevention methods
A Multiprocessor Cache Performance Metric
No full textThis paper proposes a cache performance metric for multiprocessor computers.
Real parallel memory traces drive a simulator that produces statistics to support this new
metric. The performance of single processor computers generally is related directly to
cache miss ratio. Thus, cache miss ratio is a good performance metric for uniprocessors.
This is not true of multiprocessors. This paper shows that miss ration is a poor
performance metric for multiprocessors. For multiprocessors, the service times of many
cache misses can be overlapped so that some misses cause little or no performance
penalty. Misses that occur closer together can be overlapped more than misses that occur
further apart. This paper proposes that the standard deviation of the time between misses,
normalized with miss ration, is a good measure of how much miss service times can be
overlapped, and thus is a good performance metric.National Science Foundation U.S. NSF-MIO-84 10110, US DOE-DE-FG02-85ER2500
