617 research outputs found
Review of Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey & Michelle Cahill
No full textReview of Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey & Michelle Cahill.
Also included is a response to the review by Adam Aitken
Accelerating Google PageRank by applying Aitken Extrapolation and Quadratic Extrapolation
No full textGoogle PageRank is an algorithm incorporated by Google to rank websites, using the amount of links a website has as well as the importance of each link. This process can be calculated using the power method. As the amount of websites grows it is essential to speed up this process. Two extrapolation methods, Aitken Extrapolation and Quadratic Extrapolation, have been researched to see if they can speed up the power method and if they are always applicable.Applied MathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
The lesser names : the teachers of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and other aspects of Scottish mathematics, 1867–1946
No full textThe Edinburgh Mathematical Society started out in 1883 as a society with a large proportion of teachers. Today, the member base is mainly academical and there are only a few teachers left. This thesis explores how and when this change came about, and discusses what this meant for the Society.
It argues that the exit of the teachers is related to the rising standard of mathematics, but even more to a change in the Society’s printing policy in the 1920s, that turned the Society’s Proceedings into a pure research publication and led to the death of the ‘teacher journal’, the Mathematical Notes. The thesis also argues that this change, drastic as it may seem, does not represent a change in the Society’s nature.
For this aim, the role of the teachers within the Society has been studied and compared to that of the academics, from 1883 to 1946. The mathematical contribution of the teachers to the Proceedings is studied in some detail, in particular the papers by John Watt Butters.
A paper in the Mathematical Notes by A. C. Aitken on the Bell numbers is considered in connection with a series of letters on the same topic from 1938–39. These letters, written by Aitken, Sir D’Arcy Thompson, another EMS member, and the Cambridge mathematician G. T. Bennett, explores the relation between the three and gives valuable insight into the status of the Notes.
Finally, the role of the first women in the Society is studied. The first woman joined without any official university education, but had received the necessary mathematical background from her studies under the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women. The final chapter is largely an assessment of this Association’s mathematical classes
Review of Eighth Habitation: New Poems by Adam Aitken
No full textReview of Eighth Habitation: New Poems by Adam Aitke
Art Practices & The Housing Crisis
No full textThe Institute of Urban Dreaming (IUD) is hosting a one-day symposium examining how contemporary art practices engage with the current housing crisis. The event will consist of a series of talks and round table discussions. It aims to consider the encounter between art and housing in a critical, trans-disciplinary way. It will consider housing and art practice before & beyond the current trend for socially engaged art. It will also debate the ethics and politics of practices that relate to gentrification and displacement.
Speakers
1. Daniel Russell - Daniel an artist who often works with social housing providers and their residents. One such project is the Social Housing Arts Network, a project that aims to establish, by doing, a touring network for socially engaged artists working on process led projects. He lives in Manchester and share a studio at Islington Mill in Salford.
http://www.socialhousingartsnetwork.org.uk
2. Sarah Glynn - Sarah is an architect, academic and activist. She has written extensively on 'regeneration' and has played a central role in anti-demolition campaigns. She was editor, and main author, of Where the Other Half Lives: Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World (Pluto Press, 2009), and author of Byker (Categorical, 2015), as well as of numerous articles. She has also written on immigrant political mobilisation and on 'welfare reform', and is an organiser with the Scottish Unemployed Workers' Network. She has been a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh and a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of Scotland. She currently works as a freelance architect.
http://www.sarahglynn.net/
3. David Roberts - David is part of collaborative art practice Fugitive Images and of architecture collective Involve, Architectural History & Theory Tutor and Research Ethics Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He uses poetry and performance to explore the relation between people and place. His research, art and cultural activist practice engages community groups whose homes and livelihoods are under threat from urban policy. He co-wrote and co-produced the documentary/fiction film, Estate, a Reverie; co-curated the exhibition Real Estates around issues of spatial justice; and coordinated the successful campaign to list Balfron Tower at Grade II*. He has exhibited, lectured and published work related to public housing, architecture, critical methodologies and site-specific practice.
http://www.davidjamesroberts.com/
4. Dale Lately - Dale is an author, cultural critic and raconteur. He blogs about social media for the Huffington Post, has written for The Guardian, VICE, Slate, New Internationalist and many others. His series for the Baffler was mentioned in the New York Times. Critical commentary focuses on contemporary urban expressions of austerity and neoliberalism, social media, gentrification and literature amongst others. He brings a fresh opinionated contemporary take to the familiar housing and gentrification debate.
http://dalelately.blogspot.co.uk/
5. Glassball - Are an arts collective, formed in 2002 by artists Cora Glasser and David Ball, and since then has worked with a variety of creatives and organisations nationally. Since 2007 they have completed various public art projects co-creating artworks with places and houses condemned for demolition or being built, working with residents, exploring places that have become private, and witnessing the often opaque process of transfer between the public and private. They have directly encountered through their collaborative practice some of the decision making and changes used in creating and removing housing, that have contributed to the housing crisis.
David Ball is an artist who makes pictures through painting and photography in an attempt to establish an understanding of place. Cora Glasser creates works using video and photography capturing glimpses both in the present and in memory, to reimagine them through her artworks.
https://www.glassball.uk/
6. Dr Paul Watt - Paul is an urbanist whose research interests span geography, sociology and social policy. His over-arching research focus is the inter-relationship between social inequalities, space and place, especially in global cities and their hinterlands. This includes the following themes: social housing and urban regeneration, neighbourhoods and communities, the 2012 London Olympics and the regeneration of East London’s urbanisation and the suburbs, residential mobility, housing and belonging in the London.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/geds/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/watt
7. Anthony Iles - Anthony is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Art & Design, Middlesex University, a contributing editor with Mute / Metamute. He is the author, with Josephine Berry-Slater, of the book, No Room to Move: Art and the Regenerate City (Mute Books, London 2011), editor of the recent publication, Anguish Language: writing and crisis (Archive Books, Berlin, 2015), and contributor to Brave New Work: A Reader on Harun Farocki’s Film A New Product. Recent essays have been published in Radical Philosophy, Rab-Rab: Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Art and Logos
http://metamute.org
8. Brigida Campbell - Based in Brazil, Brigida is a member of the art collective Poro (www.poro.redezero.org) and a founding partner of EXA – Experimental Space of Art in Belo Horizonte (www.exa.art.br). Her book “Interval, Breathing and Small Displacements – Poro’s poetic actions” (2010) was awarded the Contemporary Art Publications in Foreign Language Prize by the São Paulo Biennial Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, Brazil. She received the FUNARTE - National Arts Foundation Prize for Visual Arts Production in 2014 and in 2015 published Art for a Sensitive City. Brigida is professor of Graphic Arts at the Federal University Minais Geras and Doctoral Candidate in the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paolo.
https://arteparaumacidadesensivel.wordpress.com/
The symposium is part of IUD’s public events series for their exhibition Promising Home at PHM. The exhibition includes over 12 years of documentation (site writing, photography, moving images etc) of a housing development project on an estate in Salford, Greater Manchester, which has resulted in the privatisation of many council homes. In addition to the conference there will be other events and a publication to be launched in January.
A link to their website https://iudblog.org/
Information about the show: http://www.phm.org.uk/whatson/promising-home
Improving the success and effectiveness of software developer training
No full textKeeping software developers up-to-date with the latest technologies, methods, and tools, and training new developers on the fundamentals of software development is an important task for managers of software developers and the software developers themselves. The planning and choice of what training courses to take, when to take them, and how to take them, is much more important than just "using up an annual training budget." This experience report explains what the author (a trainer with over seventeen years exerience) has seen that does work and what doesn't work with regards to getting software developers trained (and keeping them trained). this report will suggest what trainng managers and software developers should do (and what they shouldn't do) to improve the success and effectiveness of their training and to ge the most from their training budget. It considers, for example, just-in-time and just-enough training, intensive versus extended training, and many other aspects of instructor-led training (including the responsibilities of those attending the training before, during, and after the training sessions)
North: Volume One
No full textA region. A route. A response. — Welcome to the first edition of North; a new publication produced by students and staff from the Photography Department at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. North is intended to be a showcase of photographic activity from North West England and a decisive challenge to the traditional degree show model that relies on gallery display as a default. At UCLan we pride ourselves on offering an open environment for early career practitioners to explore topics and approaches to visual communication however they choose. Our resistance to pursuing a ‘UCLan Style’ can be seen in the eclectic range of work featured in North produced by final year undergraduate students.This approach is only possible through the community of practice that has been developed by the combined efforts and diverse interests of an active and committed team of staff. Technical expertise, research informed teaching and contemporary industry links support the work of all students whilst simultaneously generating original work, as can be seen here in the portfolios of John Van Aitken and Brian J Morrison .Preston may not be top of the list of recognised photography cities ,yet it is precisely this anonymity that can give people the space to engage with photography and develop their personal voice with the medium. Jamie Hawkesworth and Ayesha Jones are two recent alumni that used their time of study to work out what it is they wanted to do with photography and are now recognised at an international level. Thank you for joining us; North is just the starting point of an archive of the future
Mythology of Tubuai
No full textContains legends in the language spoken on Tubuai with English translations. Aitken wrote in 1930: "The modern Tubuai language is almost entirely the Tahitian dialect of today."This paper is a portion of the complete report on the Ethnology of Tubuai, submitted to the Trustees of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, at the conclusion of the services of the author as Research Associate in Ethnology, in March, 1923, and is based on the field work done for that Institution by the author during the years 1920, 1921, and 1922.M.A
The Planning of Socialist Urbanity: The New City of Kukës in Albania.
No full textThis paper titled "The Planning of Socialist Urbanity: The New City of Kukës in Albania" has been submitted in March 2022 (abstract submission) to the “Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings: 39th Annual SAHANZ Conference and 16th Australasian UHPH Conference" hosted at the Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, New Zealand, in 25-27 November 2022 (hybrid online/in situ format). This paper has been peer-reviewed and it has been accepted for publication in December 2022, and published in July 2023 in the Annual Conferences Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), “Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings”, Volume 39, edited by Julia Gatley and Elizabeth Aitken Rose, Auckland: SAHANZ 2023. ISBN: 978-0-646-88028-0 (ISSN 2653-4789 - online).
More info on the SAHANZ/UHPH Joint Conference can be found here: https://www.sahanz.net/events/nga-putahitanga-crossings-a-joint-conference-of-sahanz-and-the-australasian-uhph-group/
Conference contributions are available online at the following link: https://www.sahanz.net/publications/annual-proceedings/?session=3709
The final paper written by Dr Pompejano can be also accessed and downloaded here: https://www.sahanz.net/wp-content/uploads/Pompejano_2022_SAHANZ.pdf
The paper should be cited as follows:
Federica Pompejano, “The Planning of Socialist Urbanity: The New City of Kukës in Albania.” In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 39, Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings, ed. Julia Gatley and Elizabeth Aitken Rose, 379-87. Auckland: SAHANZ, 2023. Accepted for publication December 1, 2022. DOI: 10.55939/a5035pmg1tThis paper should be cited as follows:
Federica Pompejano, "The Planning of Socialist Urbanity: The New City of Kukës in Albania." In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 39, Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings, ed. Julia Gatley and Elizabeth Aitken Rose, 379-87. Auckland: SAHANZ, 2023. Accepted for publication December 1, 2022. DOI: 10.55939/a5035pmg1t
Acknowledgement: This article originates from the scientific work conducted by the author during the implementation of the research project "Materializing Modernity – Socialist and Postsocialist Rural Legacy in Contemporary Albania (MaMo)" which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 896925 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/896925). This contribution reflects only the author's view, and the EU Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains
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