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The impact of audience age and familiarity on children’s drawings of themselves in contrasting affective states.
No full textThe present study was designed to investigate the impact of familiarity and audience age on children’s self presentation in self drawings of happy, sad and neutral figures. Two hundred children (100 girls and 100 boys) with the average age of 8 yrs 2 months, ranging from 6 yrs 3 months to 10 yrs 1 month, formed two age groups and five conditions (n=20). All children completed two counterbalanced sessions. Session 1 consisted of drawing a neutral figure followed by a sad and happy figure in counterbalanced order. The drawing instructions specified the age of the audience (adult Vs. child) and familiarity (familiar Vs. unfamiliar) differently for each condition. Measures of colour preference were taken in Session 2. Certain drawing strategies, such as waving and smiling varied as a function of audience age and familiarity whilst others, such as colour use, did not. The results are discussed in terms of cue dependency and framework theories of children’s drawings and the need to be aware of specific characteristics of who children are drawing for
Adding critical accounting voices to migration studies
No full textThe field of migration study is continually evolving and frequently controversial. Although scholars in many disciplines have actively contributed to migration research, accounting scholars have been less actively engaged, despite migration’s use of concepts so closely aligned with accounting: costs, benefits, risk, and control. This paper considers how accounting researchers may contribute to the study of migration, highlighting the potential for critical researchers to re-define terrains of discourse. Migration theories are introduced, illustrating the complexities and interconnectedness of the role of globalization, poverty, state functioning, and the social sciences. We integrate previous research of accounting, revealing the discipline as part of the language and neoliberal agenda imbued in migration issues, and its participation in co-creating precarious boundaries and myopic concepts defining the debates. We provide a case analysis, illustrating accounting’s calculative practices and rhetoric as obscuring social issues in migration. We reveal accounting’s role in simplifying reality, ignoring the complex interdependencies and powerful forces at play in migration arenas. The work’s originality is contained in its unique framing of migration discourse, revealing the skewed and shadowy assumptions of its traditional discourse, and examining how critical research expands possibilities for promoting social justice in the migration landscape
A model for dynamic reconfiguration in service-oriented architectures
No full textThe importance of modelling the dynamic characteristics of the architecture of software systems has long been recognised. However, the nature of the dynamics of service-oriented applications goes beyond what is currently addressed by architecture description languages (ADLs). At the heart of the service-oriented approach is the logical separation between the service need and the need-fulfillment mechanism, i.e., the provision of the service: the binding between the requester and the provider is deferred to run time and established at the instance level, i.e., each time the need for the service arises. As a consequence, computation in the context of service-oriented architectures transforms not only the states of the components that implement applications but also the configurations of those applications. In this paper, we present a model for dynamic reconfiguration that is general enough to support the definition of ADLs that are able to address the full dynamics of service-oriented applications. As an instance of the model, we present a simple service-oriented ADL derived from the modelling language srml that we developed in the Sensoria project. © 2012 Springer-Verlag
PDA Models Presenation
No full textPresentation given at the E-BASS25 End of Project Briefing on the four PDA models investigated during the project
Work Package 6 - Systems Integration Guidelines
Get PDFThis work package forms part of the E-book Acquisition as a Shared Service in M25 investigation which seeks to examine possibilities for the consortial purchasing of e-books, in particular through patron driven acquisition methods (PDA). Four potential acquisitions models have been under consideration, these are outlined in Appendix 1. This work package aims to illustrate some of the systems and procedural considerations which might arise through the implementation of such a programme of patron driven e-book acquisition, and has taken as its basis conversations with technical services librarians about current practice1 . It also relies on responses from e-book providers who engaged with JISC Collections in their work on this E-BASS 25 project2 ‘Consortium’ and ‘patron driven acquisition’, the two elements which define this project, both cause issues from a systems perspective. Efficiency in shared services is difficult to ensure, where one might have a variety of systems underpinning those services across the consortium. Where cross-consortium user activity is the determinant of purchases, it is also important to ensure parity across systems provision. For example a delay in the publication of records for candidate material at an institution could result in the users at that institution not receiving equal access to the collection and the opportunity for purchases beneficial to that user group being missed. When this is combined with relatively novel approaches which patron driven acquisition prompts, such as considering some of your e-book collection as temporary, the problem is magnified. This is not the only adjustment in thinking which one has to make, in the coming report terminology such as ‘ordering’ is used. However vital it may be to create a trail for auditing from one’s vendor to one’s financial systems terming this an ‘order’ when in many instances the acquisition of content will already have been completed, perhaps indicates how constrained one is by processes not designed for these purposes. . The piece focuses, in the main, on the issues of user discovery of content and financial management. It does not claim to completeness with elements such as virtual learning environment integration falling outside its scope. It is also worth stipulating that the library management system (LMS) market is undergoing significant change and new approaches for the management of patron driven programmes are likely to emerge
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