725 research outputs found
Cricket, Class and Culture Presentation.pptx
No full textThese are the slides from a talk delivered at Harlaxton College, University of Evansville on 16th November 2015. It provides a broad introduction to the history of cricket in England, with a specific focus on the sport's interaction with issues of class. It concludes by pondering the sport's decline in recent years and asks whether a re-imagining of leisure and work in the twenty-first century may help to revive the game. N.B. The photos on slides 18 and 21 are copyright and all rights reserved, Christopher Daley. </div
A robust optimised multi-material 3D inkjet printed elastic metamaterial
No full textThis paper presents and validates a novel elastic metamaterial design, that is optimised for broadband robust vibration control of a structure in the presence of uncertainties, and realised using multi-material additive manufacturing. A novel concept resonator design that allows the resonance frequency to be flexibly tuned via both geometrical and material property modifications is presented and characterised. A unit cell consisting of 12 of these resonators is then proposed. The resonance frequencies and damping ratios of this elastic metamaterial unit cell when attached to a parametrically uncertain example structure are then optimised using a Particle Swarm Optimisation to maximise the mean attenuation in kinetic energy of a structure with parametric uncertainties, based on an analytical model of the system. The performance of the optimised metamaterial is then validated experimentally, and it is shown that the realised metamaterial design is able to achieve a mean of 3.5 dB of broadband attenuation in the presence of uncertainties in the structure. In addition, in the presence of structural uncertainties the robustly optimised design achieves 0.5 dB greater mean attenuation than a design optimised on the nominal structural response alone, and reduced variation in attenuation for different levels of uncertainty
Saint Augustine's Critical Judgment of the Pagan Writers
No full textThe following is an attempt to study Saint Augustine’s attitude toward the Greek and Latin pagan writers. An effort has been made to record all of the direct quotations of the pagan authors used by Saint Augustine in the twenty-two books of his Be Civitate Dei. |I have undertaken to emphasize the fact that the number of times an author has been quoted and the manner in which each author has been described somewhat emphasizes Augustine’s judgment of them. |Therefore, with the chart containing the above mentioned information, I have included short commentaries and recordings of those quotations to indicate Augustine’s appraisal of those who were responsible for them.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Reclaiming Our Democracy: Challenging Global Poverty and Climate Change through Civic Action
No full textThe Center for Global Education\u27s Global Topics Series Fall 2013 Lecture was delivered by Sam Daley-Harris, global activist, author and microfinance trailblazer. His work on the international Microcredit Summit Campaign has brought global microloans to over 100 million impoverished families, and has helped bring issues of climate change into the national spotlight. A close collaborator of Nobel Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and recent TED Talks presenter, Daley-Harris has pioneered a brand of activism that inspires ordinary citizen to effectively engage the political and media establishements in order to make their voices and causes heard -- and heeded
Balancing budgets: tough choices we need
No full textThis report argues that a reform package could add about 60 billion in today’s terms, within a decade.Tough choices cannot be put off indefinitely. Deficits impose heavy costs on the next generation in terms of debt and high interest payments. Government budgets cannot simply grow out of trouble, and the next decade may well be economically more difficult than the last.History shows that governments that successfully repair their budgets make the public case for reform, and start early on the hard work of cutting expenditure and raising taxes. They design a package of measures that share the burden of reform fairly across the community.This report surveys all realistic proposals that could contribute 37 billion a year to the federal budget. It would broaden the GST to include fresh food and private spending on health and education; raise the age of access to superannuation and the Age Pension; remove the exemption for owner-occupied housing from the assets test for the Age Pension; and limit tax concessions on superannuation contributions. The burden of these changes would be spread across rich and poor, workers and retirees. While all these reforms are unlikely to occur at once, it will be hard to close the looming budget gap without tackling any of them.Structural reform of benefits and tax exemptions for older Australians offer many of the best opportunities for budget reform. They are the least-well targeted parts of our tax and welfare system, with some benefits going to people that don’t need them.Substantial budget repair almost always involves tax reform. Increasing fuel excise in line with inflation would raise significant revenue, although it hits those with low incomes particularly hard. Higher rates of existing taxes could raise large revenues. Raising the GST and municipal rates would slow economic growth less than other tax increases.Plausible reductions in spending on transport infrastructure, industry support, school class sizes, higher education subsidies, pharmaceuticals, health services, and defence could collectively improve budget positions by $23 billion per year. But the execution risks are high – there would be unacceptable economic and social effects unless the cuts were executed unusually well. By contrast, the oft-cited cuts to the public service and ‘middle class welfare’ can do relatively little to improve budget balances.Sustainable budgets depend on governments making tough choices. None will be politically easy, but making some of them is vital to Australia’s prosperity
The influences of children's self-report trait anxiety and depression on visual search for emotional faces
No full textBackground: this study presents two experiments that investigated the relationship between7- and 10-year-olds' levels of self-report trait anxiety and depression and their visual search for threatening (angry faces) and non-threatening (happy and neutral faces) stimuli.Method: in both experiments a visual search paradigm was used to measure participants' reaction times to detect the presence or absence of angry, happy or neutral schematic faces (Experiment 1) or cartoon drawings (Experiment 2). On target present trials, a target face was displayed alongside three, five or seven distractor items. On target absent trials all items were distractors.Results: both experiments demonstrated that on target absent (but not present) trials, increased levels of anxiety produced significantly faster search times in the angry face condition, but not in the neutral condition. In Experiment 2 there was some trend towards significance between anxiety and searches for happy faces in absent trials. There were no effects of depression on search times in any condition.Conclusion: the results support previous work highlighting a specific link between anxiety and attention to threat in childhood
From Helmut Jürgensen’s former students: The game of informatics
No full textPersonal reflections are given on being students of Helmut Jürgensen. Then, we attempt
to address his hypothesis that informatics follows trend-like behaviours through the
use of a content analysis of university job advertisements, and then via simulation
techniques from the area of quantitative economics
An Analysis of and Conductor\u27s Guide to Eleanor Daley\u27s Requiem
No full textThis study provides a thorough analysis of and conductor\u27s guide to Eleanor Daley\u27s Requiem. It includes a theoretical analysis, a textual analysis, an analysis of performance and conducting considerations, a list of compositions by the composer, and a discography. Additionally, it includes score corrections, the composer\u27s biography, a brief history of the Requiem Mass and Christian funeral music, and historical connections to other Requiems, including a chapter dedicated to the Requiem of Herbert Howells.
The study was informed by numerous correspondences and multiple interviews with the composer, as well as singing under her direction. It is the author\u27s hope that this study will encourage and equip future conductors to program this exceptional composition, and encourage greater exploration of other accessible modern works
UA68/8/3/1 The Student Researcher, Vol. I, No. I
No full textPublication of the Eta-Pi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. This issue includes: Baird, Nancy. Kentucky and the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 Belcher, Christopher. Schopenhauer in History--Sources, Characteristics, Influences Daley, Ronald. Norwegians in North Dakota: Immigration and Early Settlement O\u27Sullivan, Mary. Public Opinion, the Press, and the Dreyfus Affair Baird, Nancy. Horse Boots: A Nineteenth Century Kentucky Industr
Diffusivity of all-pass arrays
No full textThe diffuse properties of an all-pass loudspeaker line array were tested and compared to theoretically predicted results. The qualities and benefits of a diffuse loudspeaker array are first presented. Then, an exhaustive search method for determining optimal arrays is explored. It was found that computer optimized all-pass arrays can be easily constructed and prove to be diffuse sources as defined in this paper
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