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Maintaining the size of LZ77 on semi-dynamic strings
Get PDFWe consider the problem of maintaining the size of the LZ77 factorization of a string S of length at most n under the following operations: (a) appending a given letter to S and (b) deleting the first letter of S. Our main result is an algorithm for this problem with amortized update time Õ(√n). As a corollary, we obtain an Õ(n√n)-time algorithm for computing the most LZ77-compressible rotation of a length-n string - a naive approach for this problem would compute the LZ77 factorization of each possible rotation and would thus take quadratic time in the worst case. We also show an Ω(√n) lower bound for the additive sensitivity of LZ77 with respect to the rotation operation. Our algorithm employs dynamic trees to maintain the longest-previous-factor array information and depends on periodicity-based arguments that bound the number of the required updates and enable their efficient computation
Work-related smartphone use during off-job hours and work-life conflict: a scoping review
Get PDFOver recent decades the use of smartphones for work purposes has burgeoned both within and beyond working hours. The aim of the study was to conduct a scoping review to explore the association between the use of smartphone technology for work purposes in off-job hours with employees’ self-reported work-life conflict. Arksey and O’Malley’s methodological framework was adopted. Searches were conducted in PsycINFO, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Academic Search Complete, ProQuest Central, Web of Science, ProQuest Theses, Emerald, Business Source Complete, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Google Scholar. Articles were eligible that reported on a sample of workers, were published in English between 1st January 2012 and 29th November 2023. The review was conducted and reported using a quality assessment checklist and PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews). Data charting and synthesis was undertaken narratively, using the framework approach and thematic analysis. Twenty-three studies were identified, conducted in nine countries. Nineteen studies (83%) showed a significant association between increased use of smartphone for work purposes in off job-hours and increased work-life conflict, with small-to-moderate effect sizes. This relationship was mediated by psychological detachment from work, and communication about family demands with one’s supervisor. Moderators either strengthened or attenuated the relationship between use of smartphone for work purposes in off job-hours and increased work-life conflict. Findings suggest that smartphone use during off-job hours is likely to impact negatively on work-life conflict, which has implications for employee wellbeing. Managers could play a key role in clarifying expectations about after-hours availability, reduced job pressure, advocating psychological detachment from work in off-job hours where it is appropriate, and create a workplace culture where communication about the interplay between work and home life is encouraged. The protocol is registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF) (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WFZU6)
The challenge of Kosovo
Get PDFThis essay offers a reflection on the vexed position of the pre-modern visual arts in Kosovo which sees medieval monuments under continuing armed guard. The violence which led to this state of affairs is sadly familiar, but this enduring phenomenon attracts little attention. The essay concentrates on the fate of the Serbian royal foundations in the region and suggests that it has important implications for the discipline of art history, whose established tools risk failing to find purchase on the polarised sectarian readings that have been forced on these monuments. The veneration of some of these nominally Christian sites by Muslims of varying ethnicities was well attested in the former Yugoslavia but has not been integrated into their historical study. This paper proposes that the neglect of this experience, which is itself receding into an elusive past, raises questions about art history’s methods and scope
Parent-mediated intervention in infants with an elevated likelihood for autism reduces dwell time during a gaze following task
Get PDFCognitive markers may in theory be more sensitive to the effects of intervention than overt behavioral measures. The current study tests the impact of the Intervention with the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings—Video Interaction for Promoting Positive Parenting (iBASIS-VIPP) on an eye-tracking measure of social attention: dwell time to the referred object in a gaze following task. The original two-site, two-arm, assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial (RCT) of this intervention to increase parental awareness, and responsiveness to their infant, was run with infants who have an elevated familial likelihood for autism (EL). Fifty-four EL infants (28 iBASIS-VIPP intervention, 26 no intervention) were enrolled, and the intervention took place between 9 months (baseline) and 15 months (endpoint), with gaze following behavior measured at 15 months. Secondary intention to treat (ITT) analysis showed that the intervention was associated with significantly reduced dwell time to the referent of another person's gaze (β = −0.32, SE = 0.14, p = 0.03) at 15-month treatment endpoint. Given the established link between gaze following and language, the results are considered in the context of a previously reported, non-significant and transient trend toward lower language scores at the treatment endpoint (Green et al. (2015) The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(2), 133–140). Future intervention trials should aim to include experimental cognitive measures, alongside behavioral measures, to investigate mechanisms associated with intervention effects
The Anxiety of Prestige in Stephen King's Stylistics
Get PDFThis paper introduces a term, "the anxiety of prestige", to examine thematic or stylistic textual commentaries by generally considered ``popular'' fiction authors on issues of literary prestige, with Stephen King as a case study. While, thematically, an anxiety of prestige has been obvious in many of King's works for decades, we suggest a novel approach: unearthing latent evidence of an anxiety of prestige in King's stylistics, through corpus query of specific stylistic features suggested by King's own writing advice book, namely adverbs, the passive voice, and ``Swifties''. Through close and distant reading, we interpret these stylistic features as evidence of King's textual responses to perceptions of `low' and `high' literature, and suggest that the anxiety of prestige can be investigated in larger popular fiction corpora in future work
Conservation and coexistence at a crossroads
Get PDFConservationists wrestle with antithetical urges towards universality and diversity. A quest for blueprints for saving biodiversity exists sympatrically with acknowledgment of the plurality of ways of living in the natural world. Acknowleding deep diversity and complexity in nature and human societies, coexistence offers visions for conservation additional to enumerating biodiversity decline and defending protected areas, or seeking general blueprints for saving Nature
Comparing energy transitions in the Global South and Global North
No full textThis chapter investigates the energy transition from a fossil fuel-dependent system to a zero-carbon economy within the context of climate justice. It discusses the challenges faced by the Global North and South, represented respectively by the EU and China and Mauritius, in mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. The paper argues for a ‘just transition’ that considers distributional and procedural justice while comprehensively addressing environmental, social, and economic impacts across energy value chains.
Catalina , Xiaojing Lv, Priscila Carvalho, Manta Devi Nowbuth, and Nadia Amel
Afterword. Concluding perception: seeing and seeming, unseeing and unseeming in the fog
No full textBook synopsis: How do past and present technologies affect how we perceive the world and see things?
Addresses the threats posed by mediated forms of seeing and processing as well as the potential for robotic visions to help reframe our human perspective and experience of the world.
Offers a multidisciplinary approach including contributions written from art historical, design history and critical image theory perspectives through sociological insights.
Includes several case studies including the use of social robots, robotic vision within virtual reality programmes, head-mounted displays and mapping tools such as Google Earth.
Contributes to scholarship on robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies from arts, media theory, and science and technology studies perspectives.
As the symbiotic relationship between human and machine unfolds, robotic vision facilitates a reshaping and reconstitution of our perception of the world. This edited collection explores ways in which this is taking place and the implictions for these new ways of seeing ethically, politically, culturally and socially from an art and design perspective and through a critical theoretical lens.
The contributors converge on the intersection of New Materialism, Media Studies and Cultural Theory and offer speculative approaches combining creative writing and visual interludes from artists and designers, all of which address the question: are we on the cusp of new ways of seeing
Law and friendship: principles, projections and paradoxes
Get PDFProponents of an expansive family law – one that starts from an understanding of the complex connections in lived embodied lives – have remarked on the failure of law to recognise friendship. Indeed, friendship has been a site of troubling the very definition of families and complicating arguments about the intertwined functions of the family and the state.
This paper aims to identify and distinguish the arguments made by proponents for reform, in order to identify the underlying ideological, pragmatic and emotional roots of the claims. It endeavours to bring the literature on friendship into dialogue with empirical research, critiques of anti-normativity frameworks and critical thinking about ‘care’, ‘Christianity’ and uses and limits of ‘equality’. In troubling the claims for legal recognition it seeks to provoke conversations about the inherent paradoxes of the desires and discursive projections placed on friendship and the role of family la
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