28,412 research outputs found
Huw T. Edwards: British Labour and Welsh Socialism
No full textThis book is the first full-length biography in English of Huw T. Edwards (1929–70), a key figure in the Welsh labour movement who was known in the 1950s as the “unofficial Prime Minister of Wales.” Paul Ward explores Edwards’s working-class origins, his growing involvement with trade unions and other political activities, and his eventual place in the high reaches of the Welsh establishment, which included a role as Welsh representative to the BBC, a seat on the Welsh Tourist Board, and the presidency of the Welsh Language Society
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
Language Change and SA-OT: The case of sentential negation
No full textSimulated Annealing for Optimality Theory (SA-OT) updates Optimality Theory by adding a model of performance to a theory of linguistic competence. Our aim is to show that SA-OT can contribute to language change simulations. Performance "errors" are considered to be one of the causes of variation and change. We have chosen to model the evolution of sentential negation (SN). The descriptive background adopts Jespersen's Cycle, according to which the evolution of sentential negation follows three main stages (1. pre-verbal, 2. discontinuous, and 3. post-verbal). Therefore, we advance a novel model for SN, based on SA-OT. It reproduces the three pure and the two observed mixed stages, whereas it correctly predicts the lack of an intermediate stage between 3 and 1. The success of the approach corroborates the computational, performance-based approach to the data. Finally, we employ the iterated learning paradigm to reproduce historical changes in a "simulated corpus study". This enterprise turns out to be more difficult than one would naively believe.Appeared open access as: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal (CLIN), vol. 1 (2011), pp. 21-40, and is available at http://www.clinjournal.org/sites/default/files/Lopopolo.pdfA. Lopopolo and Biró, T., “Language Change and SA-OT. The case of sentential negation”, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, vol. 1, pp. 21-40, 2011.Peer Reviewe
Onuphis Audouin & Milne-Edwards 1833
No full textGenus Onuphis Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833 Onuphis eremita Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA. LITERATURE RECORDS: Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Požar-Domac 1994; Vaccarella et al. 1998; Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al. 2005; Boscolo et al. 2006; Colosio et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; La Porta et al. 2011.Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24466
Taking into Account the Variations of Neighbourhood Sizes in the Mean-Field Approximation of the Threshold Model on a Random Network
No full textWe compare the individual-based \'threshold model\' of innovation diffusion in the version which has been studied by Young (1998), with an aggregate model we derived from it. This model allows us to formalise and test hypotheses on the influence of individual characteristics upon global evolution. The classical threshold model supposes that an individual adopts a behaviour according to a trade-off between a social pressure and a personal interest. Our study considers only the case where all have the same threshold. We present an aggregated model, which takes into account variations of the neighbourhood sizes, whereas previous work assumed this size fixed (Edwards et al. 2003a). The comparison between the aggregated models (the first one assuming a neighbourhood size and the second one, a variable one) points out an improvement of the approximation in most of the value of parameter space. This proves that the average degree of connectivity (first aggregated model) is not sufficient for characterising the evolution, and that the node degree variability has an impact on the diffusion dynamics. Remaining differences between both models give us some clues about the specific ability of individual-based model to maintain a minority behaviour which becomes a majority by an addition of stochastic effects.Aggregate; Individual-Based Model; Innovation Diffusion; Mean Field Approximation; Model Comparison; Social Network Effect
Sigalion Audouin & Milne Edwards
No full textGenus Sigalion Audouin & Milne Edwards in Cuvier, 1830 Sigalion mathildae Audouin & Milne Edwards in Cuvier, 1830 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA. LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1938; Vatova 1940 a; Laubier 1962; Katzmann 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Cognetti- Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Požar-Domac 1994; Pranovi et al. 1998; Alcaro et al. 2002; Barnich & Fiege 2003; Colosio et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008. Sigalion squamosus Delle Chiaje, 1830 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA. LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1940; Marcuzzi 1972; Gamulin-Brida 1974; Amoureux 1976; Požar-Domac 1978; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Požar-Domac 1994; Vaccarella et al. 1998; Castelli et al. 2008. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sigalion squamatum Delle Chiaje, 1830.Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 114-115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24466
Diopatra Audouin & Milne-Edwards 1833
No full textGenus Diopatra Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833 Diopatra neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA. LITERATURE RECORDS: Crema et al. 2001; Aleffi et al. 2003; Castelli et al. 2008; La Porta et al. 2011.Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24466
Portsmouth University Prospectus
No full textThe design for the Portsmouth University prospectus by Tim Hutchinson and Jason Edwards is featured in the book, 'Graphic Originals'. The article describes the design process and photographic art direction of the project plus the final published output
Racial and ethnic differences over time in outcomes of infants born at less than 30 weeks' gestation
No full textObjectives: To examine changes in care practices over time by race and ethnicity and whether the decrease in hospital mortality and severe morbidities has benefited infants of minority over infants of white mothers.
Methods: Infants 22 to 29 weeks' gestation born between January 2006 and December 2017 at a Vermont Oxford Network center in the United States were studied. We examined mortality and morbidity rate differences and 95% confidence intervals for African American and Hispanic versus white infants by birth year. We tested temporal differences in mortality and morbidity rates between white and African American or Hispanic infants using a likelihood ratio test on nested binomial regression models.
Results: Disparities for certain care practices such as antenatal corticosteroids and for some in-hospital outcomes have narrowed over time for minority infants. Compared with white infants, African American infants had a faster decline for mortality, hypothermia, necrotizing enterocolitis, and late-onset sepsis, whereas Hispanic infants had a faster decline for mortality, respiratory distress syndrome, and pneumothorax. Other morbidities showed a constant rate difference between African American and Hispanic versus white infants over time. Despite the improvements, outcomes including hypothermia, mortality, necrotizing enterocolitis, late-onset sepsis, and severe intraventricular hemorrhage remained elevated by the end of the study period, especially among African American infants.
Conclusions: Racial and ethnic disparities in vital care practices and certain outcomes have decreased. That the quality deficit among minority infants occurred for several care practice measures and potentially modifiable outcomes suggests a critical role for quality improvement initiatives tailored for minority-serving hospitals
Theatre complet : edition critique / Theodore de Banville. Tome III. 1877-1893
No full textÉtablissement du texte, notices, variantes, notes et réception critique par Peter J. Edwards et Peter S. HamblyLa Perle; Hymnis; Riquet à la Houppe; Socrate et sa femme; Le Baiser; Ésopehttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15965770
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