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Always liminal, always learning: why community learning is needed, and how to start
No full textThis article sets out the case that there is a conflation of personal and situational liminality in the music industry. The response to this needs to include greater dynamism and development both of musical identities and innovations in the production and business of music. However, the confluence of liminalities produces vulnerabilities and precarities which militate against learning and innovation and lean toward stasis. I offer an alternative way forward, which adopts a different conceptualization of vulnerability and discusses how a situated learning approach can be used to develop socially enabled resilience
'Walter Holding Newborn Bruno' in 'From the Heart: 10 Photographers on the Theme of Love'
No full textThe photographic work 'Walter Holding Newborn Bruno' 100 x 66cm (2014) was reproduced with accompanying text by Billingham. It was part of an eight page feature in the Observer's 'New Review' entitled 'The Look of Love' that featured the photographic works of ten artists Paul Graham, Richard Billingham, Pieter Hugo, Martin Parr, Viviane Sassen, Sophie Green, Niall McDiarmid, Arpita Snah, Neil Libbert and Donavon Smallwood. The ten artists shared their own images on the theme of love and described why they made them
Intrusion detection and prevention system for an IoT environment
Get PDFInternet of Things (IoT) security is the act of securing IoT devices and networks. IoT devices, including industrial machines, smart energy grids, and building automation, are extremely vulnerable. With the goal of shielding network systems from illegal access in cloud servers and IoT systems, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) and Network-based Intrusion Prevention Systems (NBIPSs) are proposed in this study. An intrusion prevention system is proposed to realize NBIPS to safeguard top to bottom engineering. The proposed NBIPS inspects network activity streams to identify and counteract misuse instances. The NBIPS is usually located specifically behind a firewall, and it provides a reciprocal layer of investigation that adversely chooses unsafe substances. Network-based IPS sensors can be installed either in an inline or a passive model. An inline sensor is installed to monitor the traffic passing through it. The sensors are installed to stop attacks by blocking the traffic using an IoT signature-based protocol
Pastorale VI
No full text'Pastorale [pastoral]. A literary, dramatic or musical genre that depicts the characters and scenes of rural life or is expressive of its atmosphere.' (New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
This piece aims to critique and subvert the genre by contrasting lyricism with a more violently assertive element.
For clarinet, cello and percussion.
First performance: King House Composition Expo, Boyle, Roscommon, Ireland, 3 March 2002
A framework for privacy and security requirements analysis and conflict resolution for supporting GDPR compliance through privacy-by-design
Get PDFRequirements elicitation, analysis, and, above all, early detection of conflicts and resolution, are among the most important, strategic, complex and crucial activities for preventing software system failures, and reducing costs related to reengineering/fixing actions. This is especially important when critical Requirements Classes are involved, such as Privacy and Security Requirements. Recently, organisations have been heavily fined for lack of compliance with data protection regulations, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR requires organisations to enforce privacy-by-design activities from the early stages and for the entire software engineering cycle. Accordingly, requirements engineers need methods and tools for systematically identifying privacy and security requirements, detecting and solving related conflicts. Existing techniques support requirements identification without detecting or mitigating conflicts. The framework and tool we propose in this paper, called ConfIs, fills this gap by supporting engineers and organisations in these complex activities, with its systematic and interactive process. We applied ConfIs to a realistic GDPR example from the DEFeND EU Project, and evaluated its supportiveness, with positive results, by involving privacy and security requirements experts (This research is an extension of the study conducted by Alkubaisy et al. [1] – which itself is a continuation of earlier studies [2, 3] and aims to aid the reader in comprehensively grasping the concepts laid out)
Gendered dynamics of international labour migration: migrant women in Greater Beirut, Lebanon
Get PDFThe historical and turbulent migration processes of Lebanon are reflected in a dynamic and composite country demography, including gender and labour features of migration. Currently, the number of migrant workers and refugees are exceptionally high in the country. Most migrants and refugees are women who live and work in unprotected conditions, making them vulnerable to abuses and exploitation. Additionally, women migrants’ situation worsened due to the conjunction of the three crises (the economic, the port blast, COVID-19) that hit the country between 2020 and 2022. Against this framework, this study set out to elaborate a gender-sensitive understanding of women migrant workers in Lebanon, within the framework of a larger multi-country research project ‘Gendered Dynamics of Labour Migration’, also involving Pakistan, Turkey, and KRI. Twenty-one in-depth interviews with migrant women and three interviews with third-sector practitioners in the greater Beirut urban area were conducted. Participants were for the most part low-skilled, aged between 21 and 41 years, migrated from Ethiopia and Syria, and spent in Beirut between 1 and 20 years. The interviews explored participants’ drivers of migration, their living and working conditions, the public access and urban spatial mobility, their agency and coping strategies, and their experiences of the Lebanese triple crisis. Thematic analysis of the interviews indicated that women were willing to leave their country of origin and exhibited high levels of agency in pursuing their migration project. Leaving behind discriminating gender norms and/or gender-based violence, poverty and other conflict-related hardships was perceived as emancipatory and empowering by participants. Financial independence and being able to help their families were a source of pride for the migrant domestic workers under the kafala system and the undocumented sex workers, who all perceived their stay in Lebanon as temporary. The hope to return home, staying in regular contact with their families, and seeking support from local charities were some of the coping strategies identified. The five Syrian professional migrants were instead permanently integrated in the Lebanese society, but as second-tier citizens, suffering from structural discrimination. While they were well educated, had a good job, built a life full of activities and hobbies – that the triple crisis heavily impacted – these women described being victims of forms of institutional racism. Despite the fact that Lebanon continues to be an important destination in South-South migration circuits, its legal and societal unpreparedness to respect and protect the rights of female migrant workers and refugees, and to cater for their support needs, urgently calls for improved policies, legal tools, and international and local services of assistance
Millennials’ lived experience of navigating having a voice in a collective country: a hermeneutic phenomenological approach
Get PDFA key facet of authenticity in many conceptualizations is true self-expression. In fact, it has gained the modern reputation in recent times for being almost synonymous with being true to one self. Existing research has questioned if this is solely a Western ideal as this seems to contradict with the collectivistic values that Eastern cultures hold. Even though findings have shown that people in collectivistic cultures equally value authenticity, a question remains. Does non self-expression or silence necessarily mean one is being inauthentic? This project is the first study to explore the way people in an Asian culture are striving towards authenticity. It applies Van Manen’s hermeneutic phenomenological lifeworld approach and explicates four themes: “Barriers and Boundaries”, “Being Invisible”, “Striving to be More” and “Breaking Point”. Findings reveal that authenticity is for everyone, but it may be experienced in different ways. The millennials in this study choose to not let their voices be witnessed in certain settings or with specific others. A understanding of the participants’ lifeworld allows one to appreciate the ambivalence and complexity of their voluntary silence. Silence, as much as true self-expression, could equally be an act of authenticity. This research makes one question the impact of seeing authenticity through dualistic lens which has implications for the therapy profession
Expanded Landscapes
No full textExpanded Landscapes is a performance installation for the environs of Canary Wharf made in collaboration with Nathaniel Rackowe. The work synthesises movement/ dance with architectural forms constructed from materials resonant of the built or urban environment. One of the themes that emerges is the notion of transience as populations filter through the landscape. This is supported by the current questions of evolution as historically expressed through the drive to build more and consume, and which now need
adjusting in the shadow of the climate emergency. We see the performance as an engine that tries to resist collapse but inevitably burns itself out. We address the formal questions of energy through expansion of the space, through repetition, through waves of activity, through gravity and stillness, through meeting and re-forming. The audience will be free to move and view this from multiple perspectives. The quality of light and colour will change over the passing of the day.
Dancers: Alice Labant and Vanio Papadelli.
Commissioned by Canary Wharf PLC for Summer Lights 202
Mind the gap? A critical analysis of the recognition and enforcement of cross-border consumer ODR outcomes in the EU
Get PDFThe EU ODR platform was created with the objective of offering better access to justice for the consumer, especially for cross-border disputes. The recognition and enforcement of cross-border ODR outcomes in the EU is however a complex procedure, and not always possible under the current EU legal framework. This article therefore questions whether a digitalised ESCP procedure is a better alternative to the enforcement of consumer redress for cross-border electronic-based small claims procedures
Visualization for epidemiological modelling: challenges, solutions, reflections and recommendations
No full textWe report on an ongoing collaboration between epidemiological modellers and visualization researchers by documenting and reflecting upon knowledge constructs—a series of ideas, approaches and methods taken from existing visualization research and practice—deployed and developed to support modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Structured independent commentary on these efforts is synthesized through iterative reflection to develop: evidence of the effectiveness and value of visualization in this context; open problems upon which the research communities may focus; guidance for future activity of this type and recommendations to safeguard the achievements and promote, advance, secure and prepare for future collaborations of this kind. In describing and comparing a series of related projects that were undertaken in unprecedented conditions, our hope is that this unique report, and its rich interactive supplementary materials, will guide the scientific community in embracing visualization in its observation, analysis and modelling of data as well as in disseminating findings. Equally we hope to encourage the visualization community to engage with impactful science in addressing its emerging data challenges. If we are successful, this showcase of activity may stimulate mutually beneficial engagement between communities with complementary expertise to address problems of significance in epidemiology and beyond. See https://ramp-vis.github.io/RAMPVIS-PhilTransA-Supplement/.
This article is part of the theme issue ‘Technical challenges of modelling real-life epidemics and examples of overcoming these’