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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
Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
Manuscript: Robert B. Carnahan, Pittsburg May 1896
No full textTyped document, 2 pages, Carnahan, Pittsburg May '9
Secondary Literacy Across the Curriculum
No full textThis paper discusses the challenges and possibilities attendant upon successfully implementing literacy across the curriculum initiatives – or ‘school language policies’ as they have come to be known – particularly at the secondary or high school level. It provides a theoretical background to these issues, exploring previous academic discussions of school language policies, and highlights key areas of concern as well as opportunity with respect to school implementation of such policies. As such, it provides a necessary conceptual background to the subsequent papers in this special issue, which focus upon the Secondary Schools’ Literacy Initiative (SSLI) – a New Zealand funded programme that aims to establish cross-curricular language and literacy policies in secondary schools
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
GPU SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURE COMPARISONS FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
No full textThis paper will show a comparison between the Kepler, Maxwell and Pascal
GPU architectures using CUDA-Fortran, with and without dynamic calls, to efficiently solve partial
differential equations. The target is to show the possibility of using affordable hardware, such as
the GTX 670, GTX 970 and GTX 1080 NVIDIA GPU s, which are commonly found in personal
and portable computers, for scientific applications. For simplicity we consider a standard
wave equation where we use a second order finite difference method for the spatial and time
discretizations to obtain the numerical solution. We found that, as we increase the spatial
resolution of the domain we also increase the performance difference between the
GPU and the Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Correspondence from George B. Spencer to Ellen Spencer Clawson, 1865-1888
No full textScans of letters from George B. Spencer to his sister, Ellen Spencer Clawson and others, 1865-1888: (1) Letter (incomplete) by George B. Spencer to Ellen Clawson (first page missing); (2) Letter dated 12 January 1866 at Rebstein by George B. Spencer to Ellen Clawson, probably at Salt Lake City, Utah (4 pages); (3) Letter dated 6 April 1866 at Rebstein by George B. Spencer to Ellen Clawson, probably at Salt Lake City, Utah (4 pages, third page missing); (4) Letter dated 13 August 1866 at Liverpool, England, by George B. Spencer to Ellen Clawson, probably at Salt Lake City, Utah (4 pages); (5) Letter dated 8 October 1866 at Geneva, Switzerland, by George B. Spencer to his brother-in-law, Hiram B. Clawson at Salt Lake City, Utah (2 pages); (6) Letter dated 5 April 1868 at St. Thomas, Arizona (a short-lived Mormon settlement later part of Nevada), to his sisters, including Ellen Clawson (2 pages, incomplete, remaining pages missing); (7) Letter dated 13 November 1875 at Paris, Idaho, by George B. Spencer to Ellen Clawson (2 pages); (8) Letter dated 12 April 1882 at Paris, Idaho, by George B. Spencer to Ellen Clawson (1 page); (9) Letter dated 27 May 1888 at Paris, Idaho, by George B. Spencer to Ellen Clawson (2 pages
To a miniature [music] : song from the album "Song pictures" /
No full textB. 829 (Publisher number). For voice and piano.; No. 1 in B-flat.; Publisher's no.: B. 829.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an5863649; MUS: N, MUSM 72280 ; A, MUSM 114023/745
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