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No full textNotice de dictionnaireNotice sur Kay Boyle, in Le dictionnaire des créatrices, M. Calle-Gruber, B. Didier and A. Fouque (dir.), (Paris: Éditions des Femmes-Antoinette, 2013
Mind to screen : the conveyance of disordered mental states in film
No full textThis thesis investigates the way in which film as a specific medium is capable of
communicating a subjectivity that is troubled or otherwise compromised by
mental illness. It is traditionally held that the written word is a far more suitable
medium for communicating interiority than the medium of film, as the word is
characterised as complex, abstract and conceptual, whilst the image is
characterised as straightforward, obvious and concrete. This thesis will argue,
however, that the medium of film is entirely capable of dealing with the abstract
and conceptual, and can in fact construct extremely complex frameworks of
subjectivity due to its multitrack character. Using detailed textual analysis, I will
interrogate the way in which film utilises the multiple channels available to it
(the visual, verbal, and aural) to create complex systems of meaning.
Due to the tendency of filmmakers to appeal to literary sources for guidance
when conveying mental states, the issue of adaptation is crucial to my entry into
this discussion. My corpus primarily consists of films that are based on literary
accounts of troubled subjectivity (either biographical or fictional). My thesis will
compare and contrast filmic and literary conveyances of mental illness to
establish the symbols, metaphors and analogies that communicate complex
interiority. My key case studies are: A Scanner Darkly (dir. Richard Linklater,
2006), Clean, Shaven (dir. Lodge Kerrigan, 1993), A Beautiful Mind (dir. Ron
Howard, 2001), Fight Club (dir. David Fincher, 1999), Secret Window (dir.
David Koepp, 2004), The Hours (dir. Stephen Daldry, 2002), and A Single
Man (dir. Tom Ford, 2008).
This thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge by generating alternative
readings of these films that take into account the multitrack character of the
medium. These readings will highlight the specific techniques and vocabularies
that are drawn on and developed to communicate disordered interiority
Dual Switched Predictive DIR MLSD Receiver for Dynamic Channels
No full text A linear prefilter can be used to reduce the required complexity of a maximum likelihood sequence detector Viterbi algorithm (MLSD-VA) by shortening the overall channel and prefilter impulse response in dynamic communication systems. The combination of channel and prefilter should have the effect of producing a desired impulse response (DIR) at the detector. Falconer and Magee (1973) showed that for a finite length DIR there are a limited number of possible DIRs that are optimal. For a DIR of length two symbols, there are only two optimal DIRs, for a length three DIR there exists a range of possibly optimal DIRs. In this paper, we present a novel receiver architecture in which we use two equalisers and two Viterbi detectors. Each equaliser has a different target DIR. A selection device chooses between the output of the two VAs. It is demonstrated that, using the two optimal length two DIRs can be preferable to both switched triple DIR system and adaptive DIR strategies. It is also demonstrated in this paper that there exists a range of environments where adaptive DIR MLSD-VA receivers fail, however the proposed dual switched DIR MLSD-VA is successful in these environments. The efficacy of the switched dual DIR MLSD-VA is also shown using doubly selective fading channels.</p
Elizabeth Boyle, Deborah Hayden (dir.). Authorities and Adaptations : The Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Sources. Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (School of Celtic Studies), 2014
No full textLambert Pierre-Yves. Elizabeth Boyle, Deborah Hayden (dir.). Authorities and Adaptations : The Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Sources. Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (School of Celtic Studies), 2014. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 42, 2016. pp. 274-277
El Programa de Inclusión y Terminalidad : Avances y desafíos para garantizar el derecho a la educación
No full textTesis[Magister en Administración Pública]--Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2021.Fil: Boyle, Marcelo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigación y Formación en Administración Pública; Argentina.El presente trabajo de tesis aborda la implementación del “Programa Inclusión y Terminalidad de jóvenes de 14 a 17 años” (PIT 14-17). La política fue diseñada el año 2010 por el Ministerio de Educación de la Provincia de Córdoba con el fin de promover la culminación de los estudios de nivel secundario por parte de los alumnos que abandonaron o que no iniciaron sus estudios secundarios, proponiéndose además la construcción de un nuevo formato escolar.
Para el análisis de la política, recurrimos a perspectiva analítica denominada “Mesonivel del análisis sociopolítico” (Carranza, A. y equipo; 2006 y 2008) con el objetivo de analizar los límites y posibilidades del PIT 14/17, y al mismo tiempo caracterizar el estado de situación de los derechos educativos de quienes asisten al mismo. Esta perspectiva permitió articular un estudio de la macropolítica, reconstruyendo su arquitectura normativa y la visión de quienes la ejecutan y, al mismo tiempo, atender al sentido micropolítico, o sea analizar el accionar concreto y situado de los diferentes actores en su devenir diario, evidenciando cómo reinterpretan dicha política hacia el interior de las instituciones. Finalmente, basándonos en la metodología de análisis de las capacidades estatales (Oszlak, O., 2007), profundizamos en el estudio de la burocracia provincial, evidenciando los condicionamientos endógenos y exógenos que determinan las condiciones de posibilidad de ejecutar efectiva y eficientemente una política pública.Fil: Boyle, Marcelo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigación y Formación en Administración Pública; Argentina
Comparison between neuroscience- and DIR/Floortime™-informed approaches within music therapy: a descriptive case study
No full text2021 Fall.Includes bibliographical references.The purpose of this study was to examine the differences of client and therapist behaviors between a neuroscience-informed approach and a DIR/Floortime™-informed approach for one child involved in music therapy. There are no current studies comparing how the two approaches differently facilitate social skills. The author examined five videos from a neuroscience-informed approach and five videos from a DIR/Floortime™-informed approach and coded seven non-musical social skill behaviors, four musical social skill behaviors, and seven therapist behaviors. The author observed how a music therapist assisted in skill development, responded to and interacted with their client, and utilized the music between approaches and how those changes between approaches affected client social skill behaviors. In the neuroscience approach, there was a higher prevalence of six of the client behaviors and three of the therapist behaviors. In the DIR approach, there was a higher prevalence of five of the client behaviors and four of the therapist behaviors. Descriptive statistics and visual analysis indicated that multiple client behaviors were similar between approaches while the therapist behaviors had more differences between the two approaches. The author discusses why the differences may have been observed and clinical implications for working the client and using each approach within treatment. Further studies are needed to explore these different approaches
Australian Health Research Alliance: national priorities in data-driven health care improvement
No full textAbstract not available.Helena J Teede, Alison Johnson, Jim Buttery, Cheryl A Jones, Douglas IR Boyle, Garry LR Jennings, Tim Sha
Copyright, contratto e accesso alla conoscenza: un’analisi comparata = Copyright, contract and access to knowledge: a comparative analysis.
No full textIl processo di digitalizzazione e lo sviluppo dei media, stravolgendo il paradigma tradizionale del copyright/diritto d’autore conducono a reazioni opposte. Da un lato, estendendo in vario modo l’ampiezza dell’esclusiva autorale favoriscono l’adozione di regole restrittive di accesso e uso dei contenuti; dall’altro, alimentano le logiche di condivisione, specie in alcune aree di produzione del sapere.
Il contratto, pur mutata la propria natura nella dimensione digitale, rappresenta la prima leva per l’affermazione di tali divergenti dinamiche, che, in entrambe le direzioni, riguardano anche la circolazione della conoscenza scientifica. Nel senso dell’apertura, lo strumento negoziale consente di perseguire i principi affermati dal movimento dell’Open Access (OA), abbattendo le barriere economiche e giuridiche all’accesso e utilizzo dei contenuti.
Dal deposito e pubblicazione su archivi istituzionali e disciplinari di opere transitate già attraverso i canali editoriali convenzionali, comunemente definita green road, alla pubblicazione su riviste ad accesso aperto, gold road, il fenomeno si sviluppa dal basso verso l’alto grazie alle dichiarazioni di principio e alle norme informali che hanno sin ora guidato le comunità accademiche nell’affermazione dell’OA. Di recente, tuttavia, i principi dell’OA sono oggetto di attenzione da parte del decisore pubblico che, pur timidamente, ne “impone” l’attuazione a tutte le comunità accademiche. Eppure, il diritto formale non sembra da solo sufficiente: è soltanto il primo tassello di una disciplina organica tesa a definire regole e incentivi per la produzione e la disseminazione della conoscenza scientifica, allo scopo di bilanciare la libertà “accademica” con il diritto di accesso alla conoscenza. = ENGLISH VERSION = Along with a comparative perspective that takes account of the U.S. and Italian law, this work aims to explore the interface between copyright and contract lae in publishing process.
In the current publishing environment, contracts and technology play a dominant role in the exploitation of copyrighted works. Publishers are granted by assignment of all copyright rights to reproduce and publish the work, but also to exercise control over its contents through technological protection measures. At the same time, mass digitization allows libraries and other organizations to make contents available online, which it entails a redefinition of the traditional publishing process and introduces new players to the scene (e.g., Google Books).
Hence, technology proves to be a powerful instrument for the spread of knowledge and it is on this pattern that Open Access (OA) is rapidly gaining ground.
Mostly based on a bottom-up approach that is on soft law, institutional policies and contracts, OA designs a new legal environment targeting the objectives of free accessibility, further distribution, and proper archiving of publications. These aims can be achieved through the creation of new open access business models to publish on OA journals (gold road) or to self-archive in institutional or disciplinary repositories works that have been originally published in conventional journals (green road).
However, in order for OA to be fully developed it is necessary to devise a principled and feasible approach to the dissemination of scholarly works against the current social, economic and legal background.
Indeed, the importance of OA is steadily recognized by legislators who integrate OA provisions into their legal system. This is an innovation of great significance, which was first fostered in the USA, and then extended in some European countries such as Italy and Germany in the European framework. Nevertheless, considering the different law systems, the formal law need to be combined with national strategies and institutional policies providing adequate incentives to the authors, while also promoting academic freedom and the right to knowledge access
Beyond the digital diva: women on the World Wide Web
No full textIn the year 2000, American researchers reported that women constituted 51 percent of Internet users. This was a significant discovery, as throughout the medium's history, women were outnumbered by men as both users and builders of sites. This thesis probes not only this historical moment of change, but how women are mobilising the World Wide Web in their work, leisure and lives.
Not considered in the '51% of American women now online' headline is the lack of women engaged in Web building rather than Web shopping. In technical fields relating to the Web, women are outnumbered and marginalized, being poorly represented in computer-related college and university courses, in careers in computer science and computer programming, and also in digital policy. This thesis identifies the causes for the low number of women in these spheres. I consider the social and cultural reasons for their exclusion and explore the discourses which operate to discourage women's participation.
My original contribution to knowledge is forged as much through how this thesis is written as by the words and footnotes that graze these pages. With strong attention to methodology in Web-based research, I gather a plurality of women's voices and experiences of under-confidence, humiliation and fear. Continuing the initiatives of Dale Spender's Nattering on the Net, I research women's use of the Web in placing a voice behind the statistics. I also offer strategies for digital intervention, without easy platitudes to the 'potential' for women in the knowledge economy or through Creative Industries strategies.
The chapters of this thesis examine the contexts in which exclusionary attitudes are created and perpetuated. No technology is self-standing: we gain information about 'new' technologies from the old. I investigate representations and mediations of women's relationship to the Web in fields including the media, the workplace, fiction, the Creative Industries and educational institutions. For example, the media is complicit in causing women to doubt their technological capabilities. The images and ideologies of women in film, newspapers and magazines that present computer and Web usage are often discriminatory and derogatory. I also found in educational institutions that patriarchal attitudes privilege men, and discourage female students' interest in digital technologies. I interviewed high school and university students and found that the cultural values embedded within curricula discriminate against women. Limitations in Web-based learning were also discovered.
In discussing the cultural and social foundations for women's absence or under-confidence in technological fields, I engage with many theories from a prominent digital academic: Dale Spender. In her book Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace, Spender's outlook is admonitory. She believes that unless women acquire a level of technological capital equal to their male counterparts, women will continue to be marginalised as new political and social ideologies develop. She believes women's digital education must occur as soon as possible. While I welcome her arguments, I also found that Spender did not address the confluence between the analogue and the digital. She did not explore how the old media is shaping the new. While Spender's research focused on the Internet, I ponder her theses in the context of the World Wide Web.
In order to intervene in the patriarchal paradigm, to move women beyond digital shoppers and into builders of the digital world, I have created a website (included on CD-ROM) to accompany this thesis's arguments. It presents links to many sites on the Web to demonstrate how women are challenging the masculine inscriptions of digital technology. Although the website is created to interact directly with Chapter Three, its content is applicable to all parts of the thesis.
This thesis is situated between cultural studies and internet studies. This interdisciplinary dialogue has proved beneficial, allowing socio-technical research to resonate with wider political applications. The importance of intervention - and the need for change - has guided my words. Throughout the research and writing process of this thesis, organisations have released reports claiming gender equity on the Web. My task is to capture the voice, views and fears of the women behind these statistics
Compte rendu de : Myriam Dennehy et Charles Ramond (dir.), La philosophie naturelle de Robert Boyle, Paris, Vrin, 2009
No full textL'objectif de l'ouvrage est d'offrir, à la suite du colloque qui s'est tenu en mars 2005 à l'université de Bordeaux III, une présentation en langue française des diverses facettes de l'œuvre de Robert Boyle. Compte tenu du faible nombre d'ouvrages consacrés au physicien et chimiste anglais accessibles au lecteur francophone, l'entreprise de Myriam Dennehy et Charles Ramond comble une lacune et les dix-huit communications qui composent le livre, classées en trois parties (« Sources, contexte, ..
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