323,889 research outputs found
Modeling approaches to the dynamics of hydrogel swelling
No full text1 online resource (PDF, 26 pages, includes illustrations)Calderer, M. Carme; Chabaud, B.; Lyu, S.; Zhang, Hang. (2008). Modeling approaches to the dynamics of hydrogel swelling. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/179784
Au nom du père
No full text« Égalité parentale », « justice sexiste ! ». Régulièrement, des hommes se perchent en haut de monuments pour brandir, quelques heures durant, des pancartes affichant ces slogans. Ces mobilisations, visibles un peu partout dans le monde, s’élèvent contre une justice familiale qui serait défavorable aux hommes du fait qu’elle organiserait massivement la résidence des enfants chez leurs mères, après la séparation des parents. En quoi ces mobilisations peuvent-elles nous éclairer sur les enjeux contemporains des transformations familiales et plus précisément sur la régulation judiciaire de la parentalité post-conjugale ? À la lumière d’une enquête de terrain au sein de groupes de pères séparés, Aurélie Fillod-Chabaud montre combien ces mobilisations peuvent s’inscrire dans une mouvance réactionnaire et antiféministe, critiquant par essence la « féminisation » de la société et des grands corps de l’État. Cet ouvrage, issu d’une thèse de doctorat en sociologie, propose une analyse inédite des mobilisations de pères séparés, dans une perspective comparative (France-Québec), grâce à une enquête de terrain menée durant plusieurs années auprès de groupes de pères séparés. Il montre de manière implacable l’ancrage réactionnaire et antiféministe du mouvement des pères séparés.“Parental equality”, “sexist justice!”. Regularly, men perch on top of monuments to hold up, for a few hours, signs displaying these slogans. These mobilizations, which can be seen all over the world, are protesting against a family justice system that would be unfavorable to men because it would massively organize the residence of children with their mothers, after the parents' separation. How can these mobilizations shed light on contemporary issues of family transformation and, more specifically, on the judicial regulation of post-marital parenthood? In the light of a field study among groups of separated fathers, Aurélie Fillod-Chabaud shows how much these mobilizations can be part of a reactionary and antifeminist movement, criticizing in essence the “feminization” of society and of the major State bodies. This book, based on a doctoral thesis in sociology, offers an analysis of the mobilisations of separated fathers from a comparative perspective (France-Quebec) for an academic, associative, and activist readership
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Nonlinearities of S-boxes
No full textAbstractWe introduce an indicator of the non-balancedness of functions defined over Abelian groups, and deduce a new indicator, denoted by NB, of the nonlinearity of such functions. We prove an inequality relating NB and the classical indicator NL, introduced by Nyberg and studied by Chabaud and Vaudenay, of the nonlinearity of S-boxes. This inequality results in an upper bound on NL which unifies Sidelnikov–Chabaud–Vaudenay's bound and the covering radius bound. We also deduce from bounds on linear codes three new bounds on NL that improve upon Sidelnikov–Chabaud–Vaudenay's bound and the covering radius bound in many cases
Paraspiralatus sakeri n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Spiruroidea, Spirocercidae) from saker falcons, Falco cherrug in Saudi Arabia and the first report of larvae from the subcutaneous tissues of houbara bustards, Chlamydotis undulata macqueeni in Pakistan
No full textA new nematode genus and species, Paraspiralatus sakeri, is described from the stomach of a wild-caught, female saker falcon in Saudi Arabia. This spirurid differs from the nearest genus and species Spiralatus baeri Chabaud, Brygoo & Durette, 1963 in the shape of the pseudolabia, shape of the buccal capsule and absence of a large cephalic vesicle. In addition, third stage spirurid larvae were recovered for the first time from subcutaneous tissues of two houbara bustards. These had died in the Rahim Yar Khan Rehabilitation Center (Houbara Foundation International, Lahore, Pakistan) in Pakistan and were examined at the National Avian Research Center in the United Arab Emirates. The morphology of the larvae and host pathology are described. Comparative studies with the adult spirurids from the saker falcon showed each to have similar cephalic and pharyngeal morphological features to the adults described indicating they are probably the same species. Spirurid nematodes of the suborder Spirurina normally have an arthropod intermediate host. In view of the host, the site from which the larvae were recovered and the fact that this is a rare occurrence, the houbara bustard is considered to be a paratenic host
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Author's address:
No full textCan archives of audiovisual TV interviews be used to make authors more visible to students, and thereby reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers in college classes? We examined students in a college course who learned about one scholar's ideas through watching an audiovisual TV interview (i.e., visible author format) and about another scholar's ideas through reading a formal text description (i.e., invisible author format). For the invisible author, native language speakers scored significantly higher than the non-native language speakers on a corresponding exam question (i.e., a cognitive measure), generated more words on the exam question (i.e., a motivational measure), and mentioned the author's name more often in answering the exam question (i.e., an affective measure). For the visible author, the groups did not differ on any of these measures. These findings provide evidence for the idea that making the author visible through audiovisual TV interviews can eliminate the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers. 3 Universities around the world serve students who are non-native speakers of th
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
- …
