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A Critical Analysis of Key Policy Documents to inform the Strategic Choices available to the Higher Education Art and Design Sector for the next five year
No full textThe Academy is changing: either through rehearsed debates on globalisation, marketisation, new public managerialism, and social mobility or through more recent challenges beset by fiscal, political, economic and social issues. In this context the role of the 21st Century University is under scrutiny, every aspect is being questioned, and whilst this is challenging it can also bring about a new freshness in thinking and ideas that might enable a different, but positive approach to Higher Education. Equally other aspects of social and economic life are being tested due to the current economic climate
[Portrait of Emma Bain and Her Husband]
No full textPhotograph of Emma Bain and her unidentified husband. Emma stands at right, wearing a wedding gown and a veil decorated with flowers, and her husband is seated at left, wearing a coat with a boutonniere over a vest
“A Good Editor is Such a Fantastic Learning Experience”: A Chat with Memoirist Jean Harper
No full textJean Harper is the author of, most recently, Still Life with Horses, a memoir (Howling Bird Press, 2017). Her other writings have appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, Florida Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Prose, and has been in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches writing at Indiana University East. More at www.jeanharper.org
Exploring 3D Human Pose Estimation and Forecasting from the Robot’s Perspective: The HARPER Dataset
No full textWe introduce HARPER, a novel dataset for 3D body pose estimation and forecasting in dyadic interactions between users and Spot, the quadruped robot manufactured by Boston Dynamics. The key-novelty of HARPER is its focus on the robot’s perspective, i.e., on the data captured by the robot’s sensors. This makes 3D body pose analysis challenging, as being
close to the ground results in only partial captures of humans. The scenario underlying HARPER includes 15 actions, of which 10 involve physical contact between the robot and users. The corpus contains recordings not only from Spot’s built-in stereo cameras but also from a 6-camera OptiTrack system, with all recordings synchronized. This setup leads to ground-truth skeletal representations with a precision of less than a millimeter. Additionally, the corpus includes reproducible
benchmarks for 3D Human Pose Estimation, Human Pose Forecasting, and Collision Prediction, all based on publicly available baseline approaches. This enables future HARPER users to rigorously compare their results with those provided in this work
Correction to: A comparison of isomaltulose versus maltodextrin ingestion during soccer-specific exercise
No full textThe article “A comparison of isomaltulose versus maltodextrin ingestion during soccer-specific exercise”, written by “Emma J. Stevenson, Anthony Watson, Stephan Theis, Anja Holz,·Liam D. Harper, Mark Russell”, was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume [117], issue [11], page.</jats:p
Migrant Labor Code Rules and regulations for Housing and Sanitation in Migrant Labor Camps part one
No full textThis text supplies standards to farmers regarding the living conditions of migrant laborers. Items included are requirements of housing (i.e. floors, size of, separate rooms for men and women) clean eating areas and utensils, and the fact that kitchens are to be located away from toilets. It states that people with communicable diseases should not cook for others, safe water should be supplied, and lists standards for bathrooms or privies
Harper, Historiography, and the Race/Gender Opposition in Feminism
No full textThe article discusses the historiography of feminist and abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. According to the author, the historical narrative of a split between white and black women activists in the U.S. during the 19th century has elided the theoretical contributions of Harper and other black women to feminism. It is suggested that rather than choosing between working for either racial or gender equality, Harper and other black women activists made significant contributions to both
Half-hours with the highwaymen : picturesque biographies and traditions of the "knights of the road"
No full textHalf-hours with the highwaymenby Charles G. Harper ... Illustrated by Paul Hardy and by the author, and from old electronics
EMMA 2-A MAGE-compliant system for the collaborative analysis and integration of microarray data
No full textDondrup M, Albaum S, Griebel T, et al. EMMA 2-A MAGE-compliant system for the collaborative analysis and integration of microarray data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2009;10(1): 50.Background: Understanding transcriptional regulation by genome-wide microarray studies can contribute to unravel complex relationships between genes. Attempts to standardize the annotation of microarray data include the Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME) recommendations, the MAGE-ML format for data interchange, and the use of controlled vocabularies or ontologies. The existing software systems for microarray data analysis implement the mentioned standards only partially and are often hard to use and extend. Integration of genomic annotation data and other sources of external knowledge using open standards is therefore a key requirement for future integrated analysis systems. Results: The EMMA 2 software has been designed to resolve shortcomings with respect to full MAGE-ML and ontology support and makes use of modern data integration techniques. We present a software system that features comprehensive data analysis functions for spotted arrays, and for the most common synthesized oligo arrays such as Agilent, Affymetrix and NimbleGen. The system is based on the full MAGE object model. Analysis functionality is based on R and Bioconductor packages and can make use of a compute cluster for distributed services. Conclusion: Our model-driven approach for automatically implementing a full MAGE object model provides high flexibility and compatibility. Data integration via SOAP-based web-services is advantageous in a distributed client-server environment as the collaborative analysis of microarray data is gaining more and more relevance in international research consortia. The adequacy of the EMMA 2 software design and implementation has been proven by its application in many distributed functional genomics projects. Its scalability makes the current architecture suited for extensions towards future transcriptomics methods based on high-throughput sequencing approaches which have much higher computational requirements than microarrays
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