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‘The Music of the Band’: music and mental wellbeing in the nineteenth century
No full textThis paper explores the notion of music as a therapy within the psychiatric institutions that dominated mental health care in nineteenth-century Britain. It opens with some key background and questions around the ‘power’ of music, as well as the ways in which music was utilised in insane asylums during the period. At the core of the paper is a poem by poet John Reid Adam, or ‘Iram’ (), ‘Song – Music a Mental Medicine’, which depicts a man within one of the asylums whose melancholy is lifted by the experience of the dance. The poem not only contrasts the grief and woe of the man prior to the dance with his uplifted spirits and revitalised behaviour; it also hints at a longer-term beneficial effect. I will conclude the paper with reflections on the ways in which the impact of music portrayed in the poem are echoed in modern-day contexts
A Bibliometric Review of Pedagogical Innovations and Future Directions for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science Education
No full textThis chapter provides a bibliometric review of research on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) in Computer Science (CS) education over the past decade. A total of 582 documents been catalogued in Scopus for the period of 2014-2024 was used. The publications were analyzed using Biblioshiny for Bibliometrix and the results were used to identify gaps in the literature and guide future research directions on GAI's impact in education. The findings revealed the surge in publications and citations post 2020 can be attributed to large language models and AI coding assistants. Thematic and keyword analyses show that GAI has been applied primarily in programming education, intelligent tutoring, personalized learning, and assessment. These applications yield outcomes such as enhanced efficiency, student engagement, and scalability, yet also raise concerns about academic integrity, over-reliance, and algorithmic bias. GAI research is spearheaded by developed nations which poses fairness concerns, and simultaneously fosters advancement and moral quandaries in computer science pedagogy
Co-Adaptive Velocity and Position Control of 3-DoFs Prosthesis via Incremental Learning
Full text linkUpper-limb prosthesis control remains challenging in achieving natural and intuitive movements, especially for devices with multiple actuated degrees of freedom (DoFs), often demanding high cognitive effort. Machine learning aids in mapping phantom limb muscle patterns to prosthetic movements, but is limited by the instability of electromyographic signals over time. This study investigates two simultaneous and proportional myocontrol strategies, based on position and velocity, using incremental learning for a 3-DoFs prosthesis, allowing co-adaptation between the system and the user. Six able-bodied and five limb-difference participants performed Target Achievement Control tests over four sessions per control strategy, assessing performance, usability, workload, simultaneity, and proportionality. Results indicate that velocity control consistently outperforms position control in both populations, yielding lower errors, higher success rates and path efficiency, and lower workload. Notably, both control strategies showed significant improvement over time in the able-bodied group, while only position control improved significantly in the limb-difference group. Interestingly, no significant difference in usability was observed between the two strategies in either group. Position control promoted greater simultaneous actuation of multi-DoFs. However, the overall findings support the use of velocity-based control as a means to improve prosthetic performance and user satisfactio
Reading Lilong: a postcolonial approach to typology
No full textAs a distinctive housing form that emerged during China’s semi-colonial period (1840–1949), Lilong inherited architectural features of the traditional Chinese courtyard house while undergoing profound transformation driven by the commercialisation of housing—an important mechanism of Western economic colonisation. A comparable trajectory can be traced between Shanghai’s Lilong and the Victorian terraced house, reflecting the universal force of capitalism. This universality, grounded in political economy, provides a common analytical ground between East and West for a structural analysis of architecture in which cultural specificities can also be accommodated. Such a structural approach resonates with both architectural typology and the humanistic trajectory of postcolonial theory.
This thesis develops a postcolonial approach to typology as a method for exploring colonial architectures and for revealing the confrontational power relations between colonisers and colonised embedded in the built environment. While existing scholarship has not fully examined the typological transformation of Lilong through the lens of political economy, this study positions Lilong housing as a case through which to articulate this postcolonial approach. Whereas postcolonialism seeks to construct new architectural frameworks incorporating non-Western discourses, type and typology have remained largely confined within Western architectural thought. This research aims to move beyond that constraint by rethinking type and typology in a Chinese context, and by using these reconceptualised notions to investigate how Lilong housing was produced and transformed in Shanghai’s semi-colonial confrontation between China and the West.
Grounded in political economy, the study applies typological methods to analyse the physical forms and spatial organisations of Lilong, while also drawing on archival research to examine the colonial context of modern Shanghai, the production of Lilong projects, and everyday life in Lilong neighbourhoods. Through both diachronic comparison across categories of Lilong and synchronic comparison between Lilong and the English terraced house, the thesis delineates a typological trajectory of colonial architecture propelled by capitalism’s universal force. In doing so, it advances a concept of type beyond Western discourse — one that captures structural commonalities between China and the West through the lens of political economy — and develops a corresponding typology that makes visible the confrontations inscribed in colonial architectures. Ultimately, the research contributes to understanding the socio-spatial production of Chinese domestic space, proposes a new postcolonial approach to typology, and helps articulate a plural architectural framework bridging East and West
Research Spotlight: Exploring students’ experiences of racially inclusive assessment practices in online distance learning. Developing a best practice model.
No full textHave you heard about the idea of a ‘hidden curriculum’ in education?
The hidden curriculum refers to the unintended lessons, values, and norms that students learn through social interactions and the overall environment of the school, rather than through formal teaching from an agreed curriculum.
This research project, funded by PRAXIS Scholarship, explores how the Campbell and Duke’s Racially Inclusive Practice (RIPIAG) framework (Campbell and Duke, 2023) can be used to support university students who enrol in distance learning. The framework has been designed to address the hidden curriculum of assessment and uneven levels of assessment preparation in studying that has been found to most impact racially minoritised students
Calibrating Mid-infrared Emission Features as Diagnostics of Star Formation in Infrared-luminous Galaxies via Radiative Transfer Modeling
Full text linkLuminous infrared (IR) galaxies are key sites of obscured stellar mass assembly at z > 0.5. Their star formation rates (SFRs) are often estimated using the luminosities of the 6.2 and 11.2 μm polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features or those of the [Ne ii] and [Ne iii] fine-structure lines, as they are minimally affected by obscuration. It is uncertain whether the calibration of these features as SFR tracers depends on the starburst bolometric luminosity or the level of active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity. We here investigate the relationship between the luminosities of PAH and neon lines with SFR for highly luminous objects using radiative transfer modeling and archival observations of 42 local ultraluminous (≥1012L⊙) IR galaxies (ULIRGs). We find that PAH and [Ne ii] features arise mainly in star-forming regions, with small contributions from the AGN or host, but that the [Ne iii] line has a mixed contribution from both star formation and AGN activity. We present relations between LPAH and L[Ne II], and both starburst luminosity and SFR. We find relations for lower-luminosity (LIR ≃ 1010–1012L⊙) systems underestimate the SFRs in local ULIRGs by up to ∼1 dex. The 6.2 and 11.2 μm PAH features, and the [Ne ii] line, are thus good tracers of SFR in ULIRGs. We do not find that a more luminous AGN affects the relationship between SFR and PAH or neon luminosity but that it can make PAH emission harder to discern. Our results and derived relations are relevant to studies of star-forming and composite galaxies at z < 3 with the James Webb Space Telescope
[Book Review] <i>Réseaux et académies d'art au siècle des Lumières en province</i>. Edited by AnnePerrin Khelissa and ÉmilieRoffidal. Paris: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte/Centre Allemand d'histoire de l'art. 2024.
No full textWhat is Netnography and how it is done in the age of AI generated social media content?
No full textResearchers are actively debating how, when, and when not to use AI for their academic work. There is now a growing body of guidelines, opinion pieces, reflective blogs, and even conferences exploring the ethical implications of generative AI in academic work (including writing, peer reviewing, publishing, and teaching)
