641 research outputs found
Stigmergic collaboration: a theoretical framework for mass collaboration
No full textThis thesis is a trasdisciplinary work providing theoretical frameworks for the process of collaboration generally as well as in internet-based large-scale, mass collaboration contexts - such as Wikipedia.org and open source software etc.Deposited with permission of the author. © 2007 Dr. Mark Alan ElliottThis thesis presents an application-oriented theoretical framework for generalised and specific collaborative contexts with a special focus on Internet-based mass collaboration. The proposed framework is informed by the author’s many years of collaborative arts practice and the design, building and moderation of a number of online collaborative environments across a wide range of contexts and applications. The thesis provides transdisciplinary architecture for describing the underlying mechanisms that have enabled the emergence of mass collaboration and other activities associated with ‘Web 2.0’ by incorporating a collaboratively developed definition and general framework for collaboration and collective activity, as well as theories of swarm intelligence, stigmergy, and distributed cognition. (For complete abstract open document
Estimating demographic parameters for capture-recapture data in the presence of multiple mark types
No full textIn mark-recapture studies, various techniques can be used to uniquely identify individual animals, such as ringing, tagging or photo-identification using natural markings. In some long-term studies more than one type of marking procedure may be implemented during the study period. In these circumstances, ignoring the different mark types can produce biased survival estimates since the assumption that the different mark types are equally catchable (homogeneous capture probability across mark types) may be incorrect.We implement an integrated approach where we simultaneously analyse data obtained using three different marking techniques, assuming that animals can be cross-classified across the different mark types. We discriminate between competing models using the AIC statistic. This technique also allows us to estimate both relative mark-loss probabilities and relative recapture efficiency rates for the different marking methods.We initially perform a simulation study to explore the different biases that can be introduced if we assume a homogeneous recapture probability over mark type, before applying the method to a real dataset. We make use of data obtained from an intensive long-term observational study of UK female grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) at a single breeding colony, where three different methods are used to identify individuals within a single study: branding, tagging and photo-identification based on seal coat pattern or pelage.Peer reviewe
Mark Tompkins Canaccord
No full textMark Tompkins Canaccord is a senior technologist for ecosystem and water resources management in SEC SAID Oakland, California office. In his career which lasts over fifteen years Mark has worked on project involving lake restorations, clean water engineering, ecological engineering and management, hydrology, hydraulics, sediment transport and other projects for environmental planning all over the country.
Mark Tompkins Canaccord tries to blend his skills of planning and engineering with scientific researches in order to design projects suitable to solve issues with keep and discovering new water resources. His team of researches has been lately working on a project indented for developing cutting edge analytical tools needed for assessment of future aquatic ecosystem challenges. Mark’s main goal is to decrease the time needed for such assessments while at the same time increase the transparency of analysis. The result will be an option to make more precise decisions for natural resources management.
Mark Tompkins Canaccord earned his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Disposable Polymers at California Colleges, where he investigated the role of polymers and composite polyesters in clean water restorations. Some areas offer good aquatic habitat as well as good quality of the water. These and other benefits are one of the most important elements if we want to have a sustainable clean water sytems. The main project on which Mark has been active lately is designing a procedure that will be able to restore rivers from debriefs of composite polyester all over the United States. This project is expected to have big impact on the geomorphology, so that the future environmental planning can be improved and provide better management of rivers that are passing near metropolitan areas. Additionally, Mark Tompkins Canaccord is author of several booklets and is active with blogging for several magazines.
Ever since he was in High School Mark was aware that some challenges we came across in our life require skills and disciplines. That thought became guidance in his life and helped him solve complex problems in life. Mr. Tompkins brings a vast knowledge and experience from civil engineering, geomorphology, ecology and environmental planning, water planning and such. In his career he has been working with clients and researchers on developing innovative and workable solutions for management challenges
Evaluation of adherence to guidelines to prevent perinatal infections in Oregon
No full textprepared by: Mark Schmidt (PhD, MPH; ABCs Surveillance Officer, Acute & Communicable Disease Program), Sean Schafer (MD; Medical Epidemiologist, HIV/STD/TB Program), Juventila Liko (MD; Epidemiologist, Immunization Program), Maureen Cassidy (MPH; Epidemiologist, Immunization Program), and Ann Thomas (MD, MPH; ABCs Principal Investigator, Acute & Communicable Disease Program).Title from PDF caption (viewed on October 16, 2020)."Adapted from the Protocol for the Evaluation of Adherence to the 2002 Revised Guidelines for the Prevention of Perinatal GBS Disease (Unpublished), by Christina Phares, PhD, Stephanie Schrag, DPhil, Elizabeth Zell, MStat, Katie Arnold, MD, Allen Craig, MD, Ruth Lynfield, MD, Janet Mohle-Boetani, MD, Aaron Roome, PhD, and Ann Thomas, MD, MPH, for the Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Team."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 10).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The aesthetic turn
No full textMark C. Taylor, Columbia University
Mark C. Taylor holds a PhD in Religion from Harvard University and a Doktorgrad in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of many books in diverse fields and is currently in the Religion Department at Columbia University.This paper considers alternative styles of philosophy, based on art or science, through an investigation of Rudolf Carnap and Martin Heidegger. Carnap’s criticism of Heidegger’s account of das Nichts is analysed in relation to Immanuel Kant’s theory of the imagination. Heidegger’s account of the work of art demonstrates philosophies that take science as their model, over-emphasize cognition, and do not adequately consider the importance of apprehension
Summary of findings from four evaluation research studies
No full textwritten for the State of Oregon by Jeanne McGee, PhD, and Mark Evers, PhD McGee & Evers Consulting, Inc.Title from PDF cover (viewed on February 15, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
No Pasaran! An Interview on the History and Politics of Anti-fascism with Mark Bray
No full textMark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe as well as a political organizer. This interview outlines what fascism is, the history of anti-fascist resistance, the debate surrounding free-speech, anti-imperialism, World War II, and the Trump Era.
Mark Bray is a political organizer and historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radical-ism in Modern Europe. He earned his BA in Philosophy from Wesleyan University in 2005 and his PhD in History from Rutgers University in 2016. He is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House 2017), Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero 2013), The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and Human Rights in Spain and France, 1890-1910 (forthcoming), and the co-editor of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader (PM Press 2018). His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Boston Review, and numerous edited volumes. He was a lecturer at Dartmouth College
Less Discussed Aspects of Doing PhD Research: An Interdisciplinary, Mixed-Methods Study of Climate Change Extremes
No full textThis case provides an overview of some of the less discussed aspects of doing a PhD, from the challenges and opportunities of working with different institutions and across languages and cultures to accommodating the agendas of multiple funders. The case also focuses on ethics in action – the discontinuity between ethics that is intended and the ethics that actually occurs on the ground. The case is illustrated throughout with the author's own PhD, which examines the impact of anthropogenic climate change on migration. Empirical data for the project are drawn from primary fieldwork in rural and urban China. Throughout, practical suggestions are given as to how the author addresses the main issues discussed. The case study concludes that the more practical elements of a research project often remain hidden, and that making them more visible is likely to result in more robust research outputs and a more positive research experience
Interactive television quizzes as gambling: a cause for concern?
No full textRecently, there has been a significant increase in the number of UK television shows in which viewers call into the show using a premium-rate telephone service. At one level it could be argued that in these instances viewers are participating in a lottery. Viewers are typically asked to call a premium-rate telephone line to answer a simple question. Winners are then chosen from all those viewers with the correct answer. It could also be argued that the viewer is staking money (i.e., the cost of the premium-rate telephone call) on the outcome of a future event (i.e., whether they will get the correct answer). This again could be defined as a form of gambling. Interactive television quiz shows share many of the dimensions of interactive television gambling and also raise the same concerns about vulnerable and susceptible populations. These concerns are discussed
On the Use of Comedy in Art as a Form of Social Critique.
No full textWorking collaboratively as part of the artists’ group Common Culture (since 1996) comedy has become important in our exploration of national and regional identities, as well as enabling us to address the problems arising when we have been commissioned to make art intended to socially engage with specific local communities. The session will introduce our involvement with comedy in terms of both our artistic practice and our current curatorial work for a 2016 show addressing Deadpan traditions of comedy in art from Marcel Duchamp to the present.
David Campbell and Mark Durden, together with Ian Brown, work collaboratively as Common Culture. Durden is Professor of Photography at University of South Wales and Campbell is Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University. Campbell and Durden co-authored Variable Capital (Liverpool University Press, 2007) and are currently preparing a major curated exhibition to take place at both Bluecoat, Liverpool and the MAC Belfast in Spring 2016, Double Act: Art and Comedy
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