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The White Rose of Memphis / W. C. Falkner. (1881). Title page.
No full textTitle page. W. C. Falkner. The White Rose of Memphis. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1881.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/ms_mystery/1196/thumbnail.jp
Puzzle-based learning: An introduction to critical thinking and problem solving
No full textZ. Michalewicz, N. J. G. Falkner, R. Sooriamurth
In Search of the Worlds of Compliance: Promises and Pitfalls of Quantitative Testing. IHS Political Science Series Paper No. 113, July 2007
No full textThe “worlds of compliance” typology as developed by Falkner/Treib/Hartlapp/Leiber (2005) builds on ideal-typical procedural modes of domestic adaptation to EU directives. Recently, the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) has published an interesting article discussing this concept. At closer inspection, the analysis presented by Dimiter Toshkov results in some support for, but also some criticism of, the worlds of compliance. His statistics-based approach gives us the opportunity to raise several issues of crucial importance for the entire scholarly community in the field of EU implementation research. Among these are the problem of choosing adequate indicators, of using reliable quantitative data, and of appropriately applying domestic politics approaches and veto player theory. These discussions are of general interest also for a very practical reason: similar methodological choices are rather common in current European integration research
Modeling scenarios for the performance prediction of distributed real-time embedded systems
No full textAutonomous defence systems are typically characterized by hard constraints on space, weight and power. These constraints have a strong impact on the non-functional properties and especially performance of the final system. System execution modelling tools permit early prediction of the performance of model driven systems; however they are intended for one shot analysis, not for repeatable, interactive use. In this paper we propose a Domain Specific Language for describing scenarios to repeatedly test a system execution model within a Synthetic Environment. We exemplify it by describing and executing a scenario involving an UAV and a CMS.Katrina Falkner, Vanea Chiprianov, Nickolas Falkner, Claudia Szabo, Gavin Pudd
Opposition through the Backdoor? The Case of National Non-Compliance with EU Directives. IHS Political Science Series: 2002, No. 83
No full textScholars of European Integration have recently shown increasing interest in the implementation phase of the EU policy cycle, particularly in the extent of, and the reasons for, national non-compliance with European rules. According to an intergovernmentalist perspective, implementation problems should only occur when member states failed to assert their interests in the European decision-making process. Focusing on 23 infringement procedures from the area of labour law, we show that such "opposition through the backdoor" does indeed occur occasionally. However, we demonstrate that opposition at the "rear end" of the EU policy process may also arise without prior opposition at the "front end". Our findings indicate that national non-compliance may also be due to administrative shortcomings, interpretation problems, and issue linkage
A theoretical study of the performance of resistojet nozzles
No full textThe theoretical development of four computer models of resistojet nozzle performance is reported. Five main energy loss processes are accounted for; these are (i) frozen chemical rate processes, (ii) finite rate vibrational relaxation, (iii) incomplete expansion, (iv) viscous flow and (v) radial flow.The nozzle flow is assumed to be composed of an inviscid core and a viscous boundary layer, where the boundary layer is represented by the patching together of similar solutions of the laminar boundary layer equations. General similar boundary layer equations have been developed which include the radial dependences accounting for transverse curvature. Four simplified classes of similar equations are identified, and extensive solutions have been obtained for the Falkner-Skan equation and a modified Falkner-Skan equation which includes the effects of transverse curvature, over the range of pressure gradient parameter, g, from 0. to 10. Vibrational relaxation is modelled by using an approximate sudden freezing criterion.Performance predictions are presented for H2, CH4, CO2 and NH3 for plenum temperatures extending from 300 to 3000°K and plenum pressures from 200 to 10 kNm-2. A wide variety of nozzle geometries is also considered. The results are compared with the predictions of the slender channel model of Rae and with experimental measurements
'Really, though secretly, a papist': G.K. Chesterton's and J. Meade Falkner's rewritings of the gothic
No full textThis article considers the rewriting of those Gothic conventions which are most symptomatic of Gothic anti-Catholicism in the works of Catholic-sympathizing authors, J. Meade Falkner, G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922, creates a priest committed to divine rationality and exposes contemporary Protestant "superstition". J. Meade's Moonfleet, inspired by Gothic revivalism - a movement in many respects
antithetical to the sentiments of the Gothic novel - rewrites the relations between father and son, past and present, individual and community
Is comprehension or application the more important skill for first-year computer science students?
No full textTime and performance data was collected on a class of 147 Computer Science 1B students, where students carried out a design and programming task based on one that had been seen in a previous examination. Given that students had previously worked through the task, we assessed their comprehension of that material in this assignment. We were then able to collect the performance data and correlate this with the examination marks for the student to determine if there was a relationship between performance in the examination and performance in this practical. We were also able to correlate the performance in this practical with the time taken to complete the practical, and with the student’s statement as to whether they remembered how they had solved it in their previous attempt. By doing this, we discovered that the students who remembered having solved it previously had a significantly higher mean examination mark than those students who claimed not to remember it. Unsurprisingly, students also performed better in this assignment if they had performed better in the examination. The mean time to complete the task was significantly less for those students who claimed to remember the task. In this task, the comprehension of the original material and the ability to recall it was of more importance than the ability to apply knowledge to an unseen problem.Nickolas J. G. Falkne
A model-driven engineering method for DRE defence systems performance analysis and prediction
No full textAutonomous, Distributed Real-Time Embedded (DRE) defence systems are typically characterized by hard constraints on space, weight, and power. These constraints have a strong impact on the nonfunctional properties of the final system, especially its performance. System execution modeling tools permit early prediction of the performance of model-driven systems; however, the focus to date has been on the practical aspects and creating tools that work in specific cases, rather than on the process and methodology applied. In this chapter, the authors present an integrated method to performance analysis and prediction of model-driven DRE defense systems. They present both the tools to support the process and a method to define these tools. The authors explore these tools and processes within an industry case study from a defense context.Katrina Falkner, Vanea Chiprianov, Nickolas Falkner, Claudia Szabo, Gavin Pudd
A fast, spectrally accurate solver for the Falkner--Skan equation
No full textWe present a new numerical technique, the Gegenbauer homotopy analysis method, which allows for the construction of iterative solutions to nonlinear differential equations. This technique is a numerical extension of the semi-analytic homotopy analysis method that exhibits spectral convergence while performing sparse matrix operations in Gegenbauer space. This technique is used to present solutions to the Falkner--Skan equation, a well known problem in boundary layer fluid dynamics. These solutions are compared to previously published works, and the convergence properties exhibited by this new technique are considered.
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