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No.506 Tarris Webber
No full textTranscript (31 pages) of interview by Erik Solberg with Tarris Webber on March 27, 2008Webber (b. 1981) grew up in Coeur d\u27Alene, Idaho. She discusses her experience with bouldering and climbing and discusses her expertise as a guide. She discusses her views of the impacts of outdoor recreation on environmental preservation. nterview is part of the Outdoor Recreation Oral History Project. Interviewer: Erik Solberg
LitCrit: exploring intentions as a basis for automated feedback on Related Work.
No full textLearning the skill of academic writing is critical for post-graduate (PG) students to
be successful, yet many struggle to master the required standard. Feedback can play a formative role in developing these skills, but many students do not find sufficiently helpful the kinds of feedback available to them. As the Related Work section is known to be particularly difficult for PG students to master that is the focus of this thesis.
To date, models of academic writing have been built on observational studies of
academic articles. In contrast, we carry out a user study to explore what content experts look for in Related Work and how this differs from PG students. We claim that by understanding what experts look for in Related Work and what aspects PG students struggle with, a useful author intention model can be developed to support writing feedback for Related Work sections. Our work demonstrates reliable annotation of the model intentions. Developing on existing algorithms, designed to identify rhetorical intentions in academic writing, we build a supervised machine learning classifier, showing how features focused on Related Work sections improve recognition of content aspects. Carrying out a study to rate the quality of Related Work, we demonstrate that the model is a good proxy for predicting quality, validating the choice of intentions in our model. In addition to recognising author intentions, we automate the generation of feedback based on observations of intentions that are present and missing, taking into account areas that PG students struggle to recognise.
The thesis also contributes a new prototype writing analytic tool, called LitCrit,
that supports visualising the intention narrative of Related Work and presents feedback. We claim this visualisation approach changes the PG student’s perception of Related Work, and demonstrate through a user study that it does draw attention to aspects previously missed bringing PG student responses in line with experts. Finally, we explore the performance of our classifier, originally set within the Computational Linguistics discipline, to that of Computer Graphics. This shows us that while performance may be lower when care is taken to understand those features which are discipline dependent, there is scope for improvement. Also, while a discipline may have the same intentions present in a section, their structural presentation may differ impacting feature choice
Hacktivism: a theoretical and empirical exploration of China’s cyber warriors
No full textChina is frequently reported as the source of many politically motivated cyber-attacks. Yet, there have been very few studies on the people behind such attacks, also known as hacktivists. In this paper, we have taken a step back and studied some of the reasons behind the rise of freelance hacktivism emanating from China. Using various criminological theories, as well as political and sociological approaches, we propose a novel theoretical framework behind Chinese hacktivism. Furthermore, we present an empirical analysis on the membership growth patterns of online Chinese hacktivist forums and use the observed patterns to support our proposed framework
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In situ combustion measurements of CO2 by use of a distributed-feedback diode-laser sensor near 2.0µm
No full textM. E. Webber, S. Kim, S. T. Sanders,
D. S. Baer, and R. K. Hanson are with the High Temperature
Gasdynamics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University. Ikeda is
with the Center for Instrumental Analysis, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Kobe University.High-resolution absorption measurements of CO2 were made in a heated static cell and in the combustion
region above a flat-flame burner for the development of an in situ CO2 combustion diagnostic based on
a distributed-feedback diode laser operating near 2.0 um. Calculated absorption spectra of high temperature
H2O and CO2 were used to find candidate transitions for CO2 detection, and the R(50)
transition at 1.997 um (the v1 + 2v2 + v3 band) was selected on the basis of its line strength and its
isolation from interfering high-temperature water absorption. Measurements of spectroscopic parameters
such as the line strength, the self-broadening coefficient, and the line position were made for the
R(50) transition, and an improved value for the line strength is reported. The combustion-product
populations of CO2 in the combustion region above a flat-flame burner were determined in situ to verify
the measured spectroscopic parameters and to demonstrate the feasibility of the diode-laser sensor.Mechanical Engineerin
Double "D" song [music] /
No full textFor voice and piano.; Caption title.; From: O'Connor's magazine (Lakemba, N.S.W.), vol. 20, no. 29, [1937], p. [2].; Date approximated from the article on cover: "Robert Z. Leonards' 20th year as a director is celebrated by his direction of Rudolph Friml's "The firefly", for a quarter of a century one of the most beloved of all operettas! Leonard directed Mae Murray Pictures in 1917."; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn4832276.O'Connor's magazine. Vol. 20. No. 29
FIGURE 2 in Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia
No full textFIGURE 2. Scyllarinae sp. D. Stage I phyllosoma. (a) ventral surface; (b) antennule and antenna; (c) second maxilla, second maxilliped; (d) abdomen. Horizontal scale = 1 mm; vertical scales = 0.2 mm.Published as part of <i>Coutures, Emmanuel & Webber, Richard, 2005, Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 873</i> on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.873.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10086986">http://zenodo.org/record/10086986</a>
FIGURE 5 in Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia
No full textFIGURE 5. Scyllarinae sp. D. Stage IV phyllosoma. (a) ventral surface; (b) antennule and antenna; (c) second maxilla, second maxilliped; (d) abdomen. Horizontal scale = 1 mm; vertical scales = 0.2 mm.Published as part of <i>Coutures, Emmanuel & Webber, Richard, 2005, Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 873</i> on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.873.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10086986">http://zenodo.org/record/10086986</a>
FIGURE 7 in Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia
No full textFIGURE 7. Scyllarinae sp. D. Stage VI phyllosoma. (a) ventral surface; (b) antennule and antenna; (c) second maxilla, first and second maxilliped; (d) abdomen. Horizontal scale = 1 mm; vertical scales = 0.2 mm.Published as part of <i>Coutures, Emmanuel & Webber, Richard, 2005, Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 873</i> on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.873.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10086986">http://zenodo.org/record/10086986</a>
FIGURE 4 in Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia
No full textFIGURE 4. Scyllarinae sp. D. Stage III phyllosoma. (a) ventral surface; (b) antennule and antenna; (c) second maxilla, second maxilliped; (d) abdomen. Horizontal scale = 1 mm; vertical scales = 0.2 mm.Published as part of <i>Coutures, Emmanuel & Webber, Richard, 2005, Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 873</i> on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.873.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10086986">http://zenodo.org/record/10086986</a>
FIGURE 6 in Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia
No full textFIGURE 6. Scyllarinae sp. D. Stage V phyllosoma. (a) ventral surface; (b) antennule and antenna; (c) second maxilla, first and second maxilliped; (d) abdomen. Horizontal scale = 1 mm; vertical scales = 0.2 mm.Published as part of <i>Coutures, Emmanuel & Webber, Richard, 2005, Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 873</i> on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.873.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10086986">http://zenodo.org/record/10086986</a>
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