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Book Discussion : PJ Powers
No full textThe UJ Campus Health Services and the Student Affairs Division in partnership with the UJ Library invite you to meet PJ Powers (Thandeka) the co-author of the book HERE I AM About the book: Here I Am, written with Marianne Thamm, is an intimate and hilarious account of the life and times of one of this country’s most recognisable and enduring performers. From the dizzying heights of international stardom to the dark depths of her struggle with alcohol, this is a must-read to explore the heady mix of politics and music of the time. More than just a story about the personal journey of one of South Africa’s most beloved music icons, this extraordinary memoir of PJ Powers – or Thandeka, as she was affectionately renamed by Soweto crowds – is set against the turbulent backdrop of South Africa’s recent political history. It features a gallery of political leaders and international celebrities, including the likes of Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, Chris Hani, Joaquim Chissano, Queen Elizabeth II, Brenda Fassie, Sharon Stone and Robert De Niro. Facilitator: Prof Alban Burke, Director – PsyCad, University of Johannesburg PJ Powers will also perform a few songs on the day. Date: 27 August 2015 Time: 16:30 for 17:00 Venue: Auditorium (6th Floor), APK Library, University of Johannesburg (corner Kingsway and University Road, Auckland Park) RSVP: By Wednesday, 26 August 2015 to Theodorah Modise on [email protected] / 011 559 226
Book Discussion : PJ Powers
No full textThe UJ Campus Health Services and the Student Affairs Division in partnership with the UJ Library invite you to meet PJ Powers (Thandeka) the co-author of the book HERE I AM About the book: Here I Am, written with Marianne Thamm, is an intimate and hilarious account of the life and times of one of this country’s most recognisable and enduring performers. From the dizzying heights of international stardom to the dark depths of her struggle with alcohol, this is a must-read to explore the heady mix of politics and music of the time. More than just a story about the personal journey of one of South Africa’s most beloved music icons, this extraordinary memoir of PJ Powers – or Thandeka, as she was affectionately renamed by Soweto crowds – is set against the turbulent backdrop of South Africa’s recent political history. It features a gallery of political leaders and international celebrities, including the likes of Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, Chris Hani, Joaquim Chissano, Queen Elizabeth II, Brenda Fassie, Sharon Stone and Robert De Niro. Facilitator: Prof Alban Burke, Director – PsyCad, University of Johannesburg PJ Powers will also perform a few songs on the day. Date: 27 August 2015 Time: 16:30 for 17:00 Venue: Auditorium (6th Floor), APK Library, University of Johannesburg (corner Kingsway and University Road, Auckland Park) RSVP: By Wednesday, 26 August 2015 to Theodorah Modise on [email protected] / 011 559 226
The q-Dixon-Anderson integral and multi-dimensional ψ11 summations
No full textThe Dixon–Anderson integral is a multi-dimensional integral evaluation fundamental to the theory of the Selberg integral. The ψ11 summation is a bilateral generalization of the q-binomial theorem. It is shown that a q-generalization of the Dixon–Anderson integral, due to Evans, and multi-dimensional generalizations of the ψ11 summation, due to Milne and Gustafson, can be viewed as having a common origin in the theory of q-difference equations as expounded by Aomoto. Each is shown to be determined by a q-difference equation of rank 1, and a certain asymptotic behavior. In calculating the latter, essential use is made of the concepts of truncation, regularization and connection formulae
The performance of practice: an alternative approach to attitudinal and behavioural ‘customer segmentation’ for the UK water industry
No full textDeveloping a comprehensive picture of the nature of current water demand is vital to forecasts of future water demand, as well as to inform demand management interventions and water efficiency programs. One way that water companies in the UK are starting to develop this picture is through the use of proxy variables such as demographics that are then used to segment people to explain patterns in people’s water use based on values, attitudes, and behaviours. However, as is the case with many environmental management settings, this current approach to attitudinal or behavioural segmentation fails to take into account the constantly observed value/attitude behaviour gap in water use, and offers little to the idea of intervention beyond a simple provision of technology and information to similarly ‘averaged’ customers. This paper offers an alternative theoretical and methodological perspective to the idea of segmentation based on depth of understanding of everyday practice, and highlights how a change of the unit of analysis from ‘individuals’ to ‘practices’ opens up a wealth of possibility for understanding water demand, and conceptualising forecasting and intervention for the water industry
Technologically mediated learning: The future of training in Australia
No full textHosie, PJ ORCiD: 0000-0003-2585-024XFollowing a review of the economic imperatives currently facing Australia,
the future directions training will take are examined. Related training issues are considered; such as multiskilling, on-the-job training and legal issues. The author predicts that technologically mediated learning (TML),
especially interactive multimedia, will gain ascendancy as the predominant mode of delivery for training
Investigação do uso do Internet Banking PJ por clientes pessoa jurídica do Banco Alfa de Santiago-RS
No full textO presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal investigar como a ferramenta Internet Banking PJ está sendo utilizada pelos clientes pessoa jurídica do Banco Alfa de Santiago-RS. A pesquisa baseia-se em uma abordagem quantitativa, classificada como conclusiva e com utilização do método survey. Foi elaborado questionário com seis questões fechadas e uma aberta com o intuito de buscar os objetivos do presente trabalho. Para apuração dos resultados, esta pesquisa contou com uma amostra de 92 empresas clientes do Banco que possuem contrato de adesão para utilização da ferramenta e realmente fazem seu uso. Para elaboração do estudo, com vistas a dar legitimidade científica, buscou-se conhecimento através do referencial teórico. Com os resultados obtidos pode-se entender como a ferramenta está sendo utilizada e avaliada pelos clientes da agência de Santiago-RS do Banco Alfa, em determinado momento, não podendo haver generalizações. Assim, é intuito deste trabalho servir de orientação na busca por melhores índices de adesão e utilização da ferramenta Internet Banking PJ, bem como a busca pela melhoria deste ca
A 0.7-V 0.43-pJ/cycle Wakeup Timer based on a Bang-bang Digital-Intensive frequency-Locked-Loop for IoT Applications
No full textA 40-nm CMOS wakeup timer employing a bang-bang digital-intensive frequency-locked loop for Internet-of-Things applications is presented. A self-biased ΣΔ digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is locked to an RC time constant via a single-bit chopped comparator and a digital loop filter. Such highly digitized architecture fully exploits the advantages of advanced CMOS processes, thus enabling operation down to 0.7 V and a small area (0.07 mm 2 ). Most circuitry operates at 32× lower frequency than the DCO in order to reduce the total power consumption down to 181 nW. High frequency accuracy and a 10× enhancement of long-term stability is achieved by the adoption of chopping to reduce the effect of comparator offset and 1/f noise and by the use of ΣΔ modulation to improve the DCO resolution. The proposed timer achieves the best energy efficiency (0.43 pJ/cycle at 417 kHz) over prior art while keeping excellent on-par long-term stability (Allan deviation floor <;20 ppm) and temperature stability (106 ppm/°C).Accepted Author Manuscript(OLD)Applied Quantum Architecture
Relationships among structural computing and other fields
No full textWe describe the field of structural computing as it relates to a number of other pursuits. By doing this, we hope to accomplish several goals. First, we identify issues that are under- or misrepresented in other research areas––issues that we feel may form the beginnings of a core research agenda for structural computing. Second, we identify points of the structural computing agenda that are as of yet unclear or not yet fully articulated. Third, we point to natural academic allies of the structural computing field––people and ideas who can inform our work, and with whom we may be able to share our ideas
Stabilising and sustaining Indigenous leadership in Australian universities
No full textThis chapter examines the impact of UNDRIP on supporting the acceleration of Indigenous participation in Australia’s universities. We problematise the concept of the leadership pipeline for accelerating employment of Indigenous people in Australia’s universities, exploring senior leadership and professional and academic roles in Australian universities from the perspective of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees. We argue that conventional organisational approaches practised by universities that assume a proper functioning ‘pipeline’ are unable to achieve the espoused Australian government targets for Indigenous employment growth to parity. More important, such approaches fall short of ever being able to address the aspirations of Indigenous People because the required institutional reforms envisaged by such mechanisms as UNDRIP cannot be achieved by the traditional pipeline approach. This chapter canvasses a number of key elements that will allow a more detailed examination of how quickly an Indigenous university cohort can develop for the purpose of accelerating Indigenous leadership in Australian universities.No Full Tex
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