188,954 research outputs found
Salman Rushdie Est Ouest (nouvelles), coll. «Feux croisés», 1997
No full textGanapathy-doré Geetha. Salman Rushdie Est Ouest (nouvelles), coll. «Feux croisés», 1997. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1207, Mai-juin 1997. Imaginaire colonial, figures de l'immigré. p. 136
Digital and remote models of mentoring
No full textGeetha Marcus - ORCID: 0000-0001-5610-5344
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5610-5344https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429356957/mentoring-teachers-scotland-jane-essex-sandra-eady-margaret-mccoll-kay-livingstonhttps://www.routledge.com/Mentoring-Teachers-in-Scotland-A-Practical-Guide/Eady-Essex-Livingston-McColl/p/book/9780367405991pubpu
Studies of Histidine, Phenylalanine Complexes of Oxovanadium(IV) Derived from Acetylacetone
No full textSchiff base complexes of oxovanadium(IV) with amino acids and acetylacetone were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, conductivity measurements, spectral and magnetic data. The complexes were found to be non-electrolytes and stoichiometry shown 1:1. The spectral and magnetic data were suggesting the square pyramidal geometr
Marginalisation and the voices of Gypsy/Traveller girls
No full textAmnesty
International has accused the media and Scotland’s 32 local authorities of
perpetuating discrimination agai
nst Gypsy/Travellers declaring,
“despite four inquiries by the
Scottish Equal Opportunities Committee over the last 12 years, little or no progress h
as been
made” (AIUK, 2013, p. 1).
The Scottish Government’s
(2010a)
Race Equality Statement
(2009)
acknowledges that Gypsy/Travellers are “a particularly discriminated against and
marginalised group”.
Despite an extensive catalogue of legislation, policies
, and
recommendations, our comprehension of Gypsy/Travellers is underdeveloped.
The ESRC
and the Scottish Government
2
have provided funding for a doctoral research project that
broadly aims to enhance an understanding of the experiences of Scottish Gypsy/T
ravellers.
Interpretations of the image and lives of Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland are riddled with
misperceptions, myths and assumptions based on stereotypical definitions of difference. The
propagation of these images continues to contribute to the orches
tration of interventionist
policies that seek to “civilise” people into assimilation with the majority settled population.
I
am in the third
year of my doctoral studies, in the process of analysing fieldwork data.
This
paper draws attention to preliminary
findings from in
-
depth interviews with Scottish
Gypsy/Traveller girls about their educational experiences,
recognising that
thei
r voices are
missing from the
literature.
In this paper, t
he girls’ accounts are highlighted and juxtaposed
alongside the genera
l problems encountered by Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland, and reveal a
complex narrative. Space, race, gender, culture and poverty appear to intersect where barriers
continue to exist. Equally, discrepancies in levels of empowerment, public participation,
me
dia representations and respect for ethnicity are experienced at these intersections
Event calculus to support temporal reasoning in a clinical domain
No full textThis work concerns temporal aspects of a knowledge based system which holds information on patients as they progress through their treatment in a vascular surgery department. Representing and using knowledge about temporal relationships so as to provide decision support to a historical knowledge base of patient data is investigated. Event Calculus, in first order classical logic augmented with negation by failure, provides an effective framework for reasoning about time. From Kowalski and Sergot's original Event Calculus we arrive at a simple and flexible framework which can be used as a temporal support in a medical knowledge based system. We show how Event Calculus can be used to describe a simple model of the clinical pathway in vascular surgery. Patient information in the medical record is formalised in a structural framework to suit the Event Calculus. Medical knowledge about investigation and treatment options is added to the model so that the resulting system can recommend the options which are appropriate at any particular time. It is shown how these recommendations provide decision support by recommending what should be done next, and when to re-evaluate measurements that become unreliable. It is argued that there are advantages to be gained by adopting a general temporal reasoning framework because it can be extended to support various medical and administrative tasks. The extensions available to the Event Calculus, further its suitability as a temporal reasoning framework in the medical domain. A prototype system, essentially a research workbench over a realistic domain, is built using Prolog to illustrate the temporal reasoning capabilities provided by the Event Calculus framework. Using case studies it is demonstrated how the prototype system fulfils the decision support abilities we aimed to achieve in the knowledge base.</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Carbon-efficient virtual machine placement based on dynamic voltage frequency scaling in geo-distributed cloud data centers
No full textThe tremendous growth of big data analysis and IoT (Internet of Things) has made cloud computing an integral part of society. The prominent problem associated with data centers is the growing energy consumption, which results in environmental pollution. Data centers can reduce their carbon emissions through efficient management of server power consumption for a given workload. Dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) can be applied to control the operating frequencies of the servers based on the workloads assigned to them, as this approach has a cubic increment relationship with power consumption. This research work proposes two DVFS-enabled host selection algorithms for virtual machine (VM) placement with a cluster selection strategy, namely the carbon and power-efficient optimal frequency (C-PEF) algorithm and the carbon-aware first-fit optimal frequency (C-FFF) algorithm. The main aims of the proposed algorithms are to balance the load among the servers and dynamically tune the cooling load based on the current workload. The cluster selection strategy is based on static and dynamic power usage effectiveness (PUE) values and the carbon footprint rate (CFR). The cluster selection is also extended to non-DVFS host selection policies, namely the carbon-and power-efficient (C-PE) algorithm, carbon-aware first-fit (C-FF) algorithm, and carbon-aware first-fit least-empty (C-FFLE) algorithm. The results show that C-FFF achieves 2% more power reduction than C-PEF and C-PE, and demonstrates itself as a power-efficient algorithm for CO2 reduction, retaining the same quality of service (QoS) as its counterparts with lower computational overheads
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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