600 research outputs found
Beeston Rock and Castle
No full text'BEESTON ROCK & CASTLE, Cheshire. 'Engrav'd by J. Storer from a drawing by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. for the Beauties of England & Wales. London: Publish'd by Vernor & Hood, Poultry, Apl. 1. 1802.
Some of my memories of and about Uley until about 1930
No full textThe Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies was gathered together by John Burnett, David Vincent and David Mayall whilst compiling their three volumes annotated bibliography, "The Autobiography of the Working Class" (Harvester Press, 1984-1989). This book includes descriptions of unpublished autobiographies and indicates their locations. Excerpts from some of the autobiographies have been published in "Destiny obscure: autobiographies of childhood, education, and family from the1820s to the 1920s", edited by John Burnett (Routledge 1994 and A. Lane, 1982). The authors "sought to identify not only the large numbers of printed works scattered in various local history libraries and record offices, but also extant private memoirs, many of which remain hidden in family attics, known only to the author and a handful of relatives" (Introduction to vol.1, p. xxix). The criteria for inclusion were: the writers were working class for at least part of their lives; they wrote in English; and they lived for some time in England, Scotland or Wales between 1790 and 1945. John Burnett was professor of social history at Brunel University from 1972 to 1990.Memoirs of Reg Beeston, born in Stinchcombe (1905). Describes growing up in Uley, Cotswolds. Beeston also outlines village life pre-1930, which includes descriptions of folk songs, two murders, a suicide, popular leisure time activities and gypsies
Testing times: exploring staged responses and the impact of blame management strategies in two examination fiasco cases
No full textThis article examines the responses of ministers facing high levels of blame in the press after serious failures in the public exam system for school-leavers in Scotland in 2000 and England in 2002. It develops a method for systematic analysis and comparison of the behaviour of officeholders facing blame, tests the hypothesis that ministers will accept personal culpability only after other ways of handling blame have been exhausted and uses time series intervention models to show how one can estimate the impact of strategies on the next day's blame level. The basic sequencing hypothesis is partially upheld by the observed behaviour in these cases, though many other kinds of blame responses do not display a clear sequence. The intervention analysis also raises questions about the claimed effectiveness of presentational strategies for managing blame
Hamara Healthy Living Centre - an evaluation
No full textHamara is a Healthy Living Centre which aims to improve health and well-being through providing a range of culturally appropriate activities and services. Hamara has a vision of 'bringing communities together' and since it was established in 2004, the Centre has provided a valuable community resource in South Leeds. Partnership work between Hamara and Leeds Met goes back to 2002. In 2007, the Centre for Health Promotion Research carried out an evaluation of Hamara in partnership with Hamara staff and Leeds Met Community Partnerships and Volunteering. This was followed by a highly successful community cohesion conference 'One Community' which was held at Hamara on 10th October 2008, and was supported through a Leeds Met public engagement grant. The event attracted over a hundred people from diverse communities and organisations across Leeds. A packed audience heard Hilary Benn, local MP and Patron of Hamara, talk about the importance of working in collaboration around community cohesion. Jane South, Centre for Health Promotion Research, presented the main evaluation results and set out the some challenges for the future. The proceedings concluded with the presentation of awards to a number of for local community champions who work to bring people together and make a real difference in the city of Leeds
Environmental Archaeology of the Peckforton Hills
No full textReport of a project integrating magnetic minerals analysis and pollen studies of two Cheshire meres. Landuse reconstructions for the Peckforton Hills district from the third millenium B.C to the 18th century A.D. explain the apparant lack of archaeological remains of populations related to the Bronze and Iron Age occupations of Beeston Castle and Maiden Castle hillforts. 35 p. Research results summarized in Schoenwetter, J., 1982, "Environmental Archaeology of the Peckforton Hills," "Cheshire Archaeological Bulletin." 8:10-11
SHARP: Sustainable Hardware Acceleration for Rapidly-evolving Pre-existing systems.
No full textThe goal of this research is to present a framework to accelerate the execution of software
legacy systems without having to redesign them or limit future changes. The speedup is
accomplished through hardware acceleration, based on a semi-automatic infrastructure which
supports design decisions and simulate their impact.
Many programs are available for translating code written in C into VHDL (Very High Speed
Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language). What is missing is simpler and more
direct strategies to incorporate encapsulatable portions of the code, translate them to VHDL
and to allow the VHDL code and the C code to communicate through a flexible interface.
SHARP is a streamlined, easily understood infrastructure which facilitates this process in
two phases. In the first part, the SHARP GUI (An interactive Graphical User Interface)
is used to load a program written in a high level general purpose programming language,
to scan the code for SHARP POINTs (Portions Only Including Non-interscoping Types)
based on user defined constraints, and then automatically translate such POINTs to a HDL.
Finally the infrastructure needed to co-execute the updated program is generated. SHARP
POINTs have a clearly defined interface and can be used by the SHARP scheduler.
In the second part, the SHARP scheduler allows the SHARP POINTs to run on the chosen
reconfigurable hardware, here an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and to commu-
nicate cleanly with the original processor (for the software).
The resulting system will be a good (though not necessarily optimal) acceleration of the
original software application, that is easily maintained as the code continues to develop and
evolve.Graduat
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