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The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Improving interoperability in distributed and physical union catalogues through co-ordination of cataloguing and indexing policies : report for work package B of the JISC CC-interop project
No full textThis report addresses section 7.2.4 (Guidelines and Strategy for Cataloguing and Indexing Standards) of the CC-interop project plan and fulfills deliverable B3 of work
package B
jDHBenelux Author Template
No full textThis repository contains the latest official GitHub hosted versions of the LaTeX template that authors are required to use when they finalize their contribtions to the DH Benelux Journal. The repository synchronises with the corresponding easy-to-use and well-documented Overleaf Template that provides authors with a low threshold environment for writing LaTeX – but can be used with any LaTeX compiler.
About this Release: Apart from some minor changes to the .cls, v2.0 introduces a number of new files to improve open source development with git and GitHub, including a README, a CC-BY 4.0 License, and a .gitignore file. It also prepares the repository for synchronisation with Zenodo, to improve sustainability.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/DHBenelux/jDHBenelux-author-template/compare/v1.1...v2.
Incorporation of a highly luminescent semiconductor quantum dot in ZrO2-SiO2 hybrid sol-gel glass film
No full textIn this paper we describe a method for transferring semiconductor quantum dots, produced in non-polar solvents by an organometallic approach, into sol–gel matrices. ZrO2–SiO2 hybrid sol–gel glass films have been homogeneously doped with different semiconductor quantum dots (CdSe, CdSe@CdS and CdSe@ZnS). Both the absorption and the emission properties of the semiconductor nanocrystals are only slightly affected by the incorporation into the sol–gel matrix. The doped films showed sufficiently high refractive index for the realization of planar waveguides
Scalar soliton quantization with generic moduli
No full textThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credArticle funded by SCOAP3. CP is
a Royal Society Research Fellow and partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
under grants DOE-SC0010008, DOE-ARRA-SC0003883 and DOE-DE-SC0007897. ABR
is supported by the Mitchell Family Foundation. We would like to thank the Mitchell
Institute at Texas A&M and the NHETC at Rutgers University respectively for hospitality
during the course of this work. We would also like to acknowledge the Aspen Center
for Physics and NSF grant 1066293 for a stimulating research environment which led to
questions addressed in this paper
SENSORIA Patterns: Augmenting Service Engineering with Formal Analysis, Transformation and Dynamicity
No full textThe IST-FET Integrated Project Sensoria is developing a novel comprehensive approach to the engineering of service-oriented software systems where foundational theories, techniques and methods are fully integrated into pragmatic software engineering processes. The techniques and tools of Sensoria encompass the whole software development cycle, from business and architectural design, to quantitative and qualitative analysis of system properties, and to transformation and code generation. The Sensoria approach takes also into account reconfiguration of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and re-engineering of legacy systems.
In this paper we give first a short overview of Sensoria and then present a pattern language for augmenting service engineering with formal analysis, transformation and dynamicity. The patterns are designed to help software developers choose appropriate tools and techniques to develop service-oriented systems with support from formal methods. They support the whole development process, from the modelling stage to deployment activities and give an overview of many of the research areas pursued in the Sensoria project
Nel piano di ammortamento “alla francese” stilato in base al regime finanziario della capitalizzazione composta (CC) le quote interessi sono calcolate secondo il regime della capitalizzazione semplice (CS) oppure della capitalizzazione composta (CC)?Una risposta scientifica al problema mediante una verifica numerica e una dimostrazione algebrica
No full textSi riportano di seguito alcune sentenze nelle quali (in forma diretta o indiretta) viene affermato (in carenza di dimostrazione algebrica, più precisamente: viene congetturato) che nel piano di ammortamento “alla francese”, stilato in base al regime finanziario della capitalizzazione composta, le quote interessi sono calcolate secondo il regime della capitalizzazione semplice.
Si rammenta che il regime finanziario della capitalizzazione composta è caratterizzato da leggi scindibili, che comportano la capitalizzazione degli interessi precedentemente maturati, mentre il regime finanziario della capitalizzazione semplice è caratterizzato da leggi additive, che comportano la non capitalizzazione di tali precedenti interessi.
Dall’esame dei precedenti piani di ammortamento e degli algoritmi di riferimento risulta evidente, a nostro avviso, quanto segue:
• essendo chiaro che, poiché l’affermazione algebricamente corretta dovrebbe essere “nell’ammortamento di un prestito ‘alla francese’ stilato secondo le leggi del regime finanziario della capitalizzazione composta, anche le quote interessi debbono essere conseguentemente calcolate secondo tale regime finanziario (CC/CC)”, risulta evidente che un’affermazione algebricamente errata del tipo “nell’ammortamento di un prestito ‘alla francese’ stilato secondo le leggi del regime finanziario della capitalizzazione composta, le quote interessi sono calcolate secondo il regime finanziario della capitalizzazione semplice (CC/CS)” costituisce il presupposto di conseguenti determinazioni e decisioni errate dal punto di vista logico e comunque opposte a quelle alle quali si sarebbe potuto giungere con considerazioni suffragate da dimostrazioni matematiche.
Un completamento di quanto sopra esposto può realizzarsi, effettuando i precedenti sviluppi con riguardo a piani di ammortamento stilati nel regime della capitalizzazione semplice, con epoca di equivalenza finanziaria fissata al tempo finale del periodo di ammortamento (riferimenti bibliografici [5], [4]: “Rivisitazione del modello di calcolo dell’ammortamento di un mutuo ‘alla francese’ in capitalizzazione semplice” e relativi “Complementi”)
Confrontando i piani 1, 2, 3 stilati in CC con i piani 4, 5, 6 stilati in CS e considerando le condizioni di chiusura con riferimento ai casi modificati (che costituiscono esemplificazioni dei rispettivi casi generali), si può concludere che:
• in un piano di ammortamento ‘alla francese’, stilato secondo le leggi del regime finanziario della capitalizzazione composta, le quote interessi sono necessariamente calcolate in base a tale regime finanziario (CC/CC),
• in un piano di ammortamento ‘alla francese’, stilato secondo le leggi del regime finanziario della capitalizzazione semplice, le quote interessi sono necessariamente calcolate, in termini attualizzati, in base a tale regime finanziario (CS/CS),
• l’affermazione che “in un piano di ammortamento ‘alla francese’ stilato secondo le leggi del regime finanziario della capitalizzazione composta, le quote interessi sono calcolate in base al regime finanziario della capitalizzazione semplice (CC/CS)” è errata dal punto di vista algebrico e finanziario e sono quindi inconsistenti tutte le determinazioni e decisioni, che ne possono conseguire,
• i soli piani di ammortamento algebricamente corretti sono: il piano 1:CC/CC (in conseguenza della non accettabilità del piano 1:CC/CS, per la mancata chiusura del piano modificato 2:CC/CS, di cui il piano 1:CC/CS ne costituisce un caso particolare) e il piano 4:CS/CS (in conseguenza della non accettabilità del piano 4:CS/CC, per la mancata chiusura del piano modificato 5:CS/CC, di cui il piano 4:CS/CC ne costituisce un caso particolare
Faktor odjeka geoinformatičkih CC-časopisa
No full textCC journals are an abbreviation for journals included into the Current Contents (CC) bibliographic base. CC is the most popular bibliographic database in Croatia. Its popularity is due to relatively strict criteria of journal selection, coverage of all scientific fields, frequent updates, paper abstracts/summaries, author addresses, publisher names and addresses, possibility to review content of journal issues, and additional key words which facilitate searches (On line databases, Manual, http://www.online-baze.hr/ob/novosti; link on the right side of the title page).CC-časopisi je skraćeni naziv za časopise uvrštene u bibliografsku bazu Current Contents (CC). CC je u Hrvatskoj najpopularnija bibliografska baza. Razlozi njezine popularnosti relativno su visoki kriteriji odabira časopisa, pokrivenost svih područja znanosti, učestalost ažuriranja, sažetak rada, adrese autora, nazivi i adrese izdavača, mogućnost pregleda sadržaja pojedinog broja časopisa, te dodatne ključne riječi koje unapređuju pretraživanje (On line baze podataka, Priručnik, http://www.onlinebaze. hr/ob/novosti; poveznica na desnoj strani naslovne stranice)
Open Access to Research: Changing Researcher Behavior Through University and Funder Mandates
No full textThe primary target of the worldwide Open Access initiative is the 2.5 million articles published every year in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed research journals across all scholarly and scientific fields. Without exception, every one of these articles is an author give-away, written, not for royalty income, but solely to be used, applied and built upon by other researchers. The optimal and inevitable solution for this give-away research is that it should be made freely accessible to all its would-be users online and not only to those whose institutions can afford subscription access to the journal in which it happens to be published. Yet this optimal and inevitable solution, already fully within the reach of the global research community for at least two decades now, has been taking a remarkably long time to be grasped. The problem is not particularly an instance of "eDemocracy" one way or the other; it is an instance of inaction because of widespread misconceptions (reminiscent of Zeno's Paradox). The solution is for the world's research institutions and funders to (1) extend their existing "publish or perish" mandates so as to (2) require their employees and fundees to maximize the usage and impact of the research they are employed and funded to conduct and publish by (3) depositing their final drafts in their Open Access (OA) Institutional Repositories immediately upon acceptance for publication in order to (4) make their findings freely accessible to all their potential users webwide. OA metrics can then be used to measure and reward research progress and impact; and multiple layers of links, tags, commentary and discussion can be built upon and integrated with the primary research
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