103 research outputs found
Observations on the three first volumes of the History of English Poetry. In a familiar letter to the author:
No full text[2],49,[1]p. ; 4⁰.Anonymous. By Joseph Ritson.'The History of English Poetry' is by Thomas Warton.Reproduction of original from the British Library.English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT146579.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
Virtual Machine Based Debugging for occam-pi
No full textWhile we strive to create robust language constructs and design patterns which prevent the introduction of faults during software development, an inevitable element of human error still remains. We must therefore endeavor to ease and accelerate the process of diagnosing and fixing software faults, commonly known as 'debugging'. Current support for debugging occam-pi programs is fairly limited. At best the developer is presented with a reference to the last known code line executed before their program abnormally terminated. This assumes the program does in fact terminate, and does not instead live-lock. In cases where this support is not sufficient, developers must instrument their own tracing support, ``printf style''. An exercise which typically enlightens one as to the true meaning of concurrency... In this paper we explore previous work in the field of debugging occam programs and introduce a new method for run-time monitoring of occam-pi applications, based on the Transterpreter virtual machine interpreter. By adding a set of extensions to the Transterpreter, we give occam-pi processes the ability to interact with their execution environment. Use of a virtual machine allows us to expose program execution state which would otherwise require non-portable or specialised hardware support. Using a model which bears similarities to that applied when debugging embedded systems with a JTAG connection, we describe debugging occam-pi by mediating the execution of one execution process from another
Toward Process Architectures for Behavioural Robotics
No full textBuilding robot control programs which function as intended is a challenging task. Roboticists have developed architectures to provide principles, constraints and primitives which simplify the building of these correct, well structured systems. A number of established and prevalent behavioural architectures for robot control make use of explicit parallelism with message passing. Expressing these architectures in terms of a process-oriented programming language, such as occam-π, allows us to distil design rules, structures and primitives for use in the development of process architectures for robot control
Sculpture Tour 94 95 (Exhibition Catalogue)
No full textCurated by UT Department of Art sculpture professor, Dennis Peacock, the 94/95 Sculpture Tour featured twenty-four works.
Participating artists were: Robert D. Clemens, Horace L. Farlowe, William Harrington, Terry L. H. Slade, Shawn Phillip Morin, Margery Amdur, Joe Barrington, Steve Teeters, Steve Dolbin, Thomas F. Shepherd, Brian Rust, Glenn Dasher, William Sapp, Be Gardiner, Kate Ann Ritson, Jonathan Kirk, Rogelio Tijerina, Jerry L. Brown, Gregory M. Elliott, L. Benson Warren, Thomas Jay Bertaud, Linda Cunningham, Carolyn Braaksma, and Willie Ray Parish
Chapitre II. Robin des Bois et le moine
No full textIntroduction Si Une geste de Robin des Bois est la pièce maîtresse de notre corpus, il ne fait nul doute que son joyau n’est autre que Robin des Bois et le moine, titre attribué à ce récit par Joseph Ritson dans la réédition de son ouvrage en 1832. Dès ses premières publications modernes, il est apparu que ce poème était de loin le plus accompli, sur le plan artistique, de toutes les « ballades » de Robin des Bois, poussant certains chercheurs à se demander s’il pouvait véritablement être con..
Chapitre III. Robin des Bois et le potier
No full textIntroduction Robin des Bois et le potier, titre donné au récit par Joseph Ritson en 1795, est vraisemblablement le deuxième plus ancien texte de notre série de poèmes et ballades. Tout comme Robin des Bois et le moine, cette œuvre provient d’un seul et unique manuscrit, écrit d’une même main à une période comprise entre la fin du xve siècle et le début du xvie. Toutefois, une inscription se trouvant juste avant le début du texte nous permet d’établir avec un peu plus de précision la date exac..
Implementing screening and brief alcohol interventions in primary care : views from both sides of the consultation
No full textExcessive drinking is a global health problem which is responsible for a wide range of both chronic and acute illness, and which costs the UK National Health Service (NHS) £1.7 billion annually. Current health policy aims to reduce alcohol-related problems by promoting early identification of risk followed by brief intervention to facilitate positive changes in drinking level or patterns of consumption. However, practical and philosophical barriers concerning screening and brief alcohol intervention have so far impeded its uptake in routine primary care. This qualitative study aimed to simultaneously explore and compare health professionals’ and patients’ views on the acceptability and feasibility of screening and brief alcohol intervention in primary care. Focus groups were held with (a) four primary care teams, (b) two general practitioner (GP) and two nurse groups and (c) six patient groups in the north-east of England. A thematic framework approach was used to analyse audio-taped data via transcripts. Both health professionals and patients reported that raising and discussing alcohol-related risk was acceptable in primary care, when combined with other lifestyle issues or linked to relevant health conditions. Targeted rather than universal screening was the most acceptable method of identifying alcohol-related risk and would fit well with existing practice. However, there was uncertainty among health professionals about the effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions and some disagreement with patients concerning who was best placed to deliver them. Health professionals felt that nurses were best placed for such work whilst patients reported that they would initially raise the subject with GPs. There was broad acceptance of brief intervention approaches but a lack of support and specific incentives for this work impeded its delivery in routine practice
Beyond the Cost of Price Adjustment: Investments in Pricing Capital
No full textThe literature on costs of price adjustment has long argued that changing prices is a complex and costly process. In fact, some authors have suggested that we should think of firms’ price-setting activities as “producing” prices, similar to the way firms use production processes to produce goods and services. In this paper we explore one natural extension of this view, that besides observing costs of price adjustment, we should also expect to see firm-level investments in capital expenditures into these “pricing” production processes. We coin the term “pricing capital” for these investments, and suggest that they can improve the efficiency of the “pricing production” activities by both reducing the costs of adjusting prices, and improving the effectiveness of price adjustments in future periods. Using two types of data sources, we find compelling evidence of the existence as well as the importance of pricing capital in firms. The existence of firm-level “pricing capital” has the potential of fundamentally altering the way we think about pricing and price adjustment in many areas of economics. It suggests looking toward the “pricing capital” to decipher the likely degree and causes of price rigidity and its variation across price setters, markets, and industries. Moreover, “pricing capital” introduces a new, higher-level, pricing decision made by individual firms. Decisions to invest in pricing capital compete with traditional capital investment decisions that have long been studied in economics, such as capital investments in plant, equipment, and R&D. Furthermore, since pricing capital is a choice variable, it implies that costs of price adjustment often used in models of price rigidity are endogenous. As such, pricing capital offers new insights into the micro-foundations of the costs of price adjustment. The most provocative implication of the new theory of pricing, however, is that the allocative efficiency of the price system itself may be determined endogenously by individual price setters who choose whether and how much to invest in pricing capital.Cost of Price Adjustment, Menu Cost, Managerial and Customer Costs of Price Adjustment, Pricing Capital, Pricing Production Process (PPP), Price Rigidity, Sticky Prices, Rigid Prices, Microfoundations of the Costs of Price Adjustment, Allocative Efficiency, Price System, Endogenous Price Adjustment Cost
Polysemy in Advertising
No full textThe article reviews the conceptual foundations of advertising polysemy – the occurrence of different interpretations for the same advertising message. We discuss how disciplines as diverse as psychology, semiotics and literary theory have dealt with the issue of polysemy, and provide translations and integration among these multiple perspectives. From such review we draw recurrent themes to foster future research in the area and to show how seemingly opposed methodological and theoretical perspectives complement and extend each other. Implications for advertising research and practice are discussed.Advertising;Polysemy;Semiotics
Faith, feeling and gender in the writing of Hartley, Wollstonecraft and Blake
No full textThis thesis examines David Hartley’s Observations on Man (1749) and elucidates how Hartley’s mechanical approach to mind, his conception of emotion, and the religious status he awards the body were newly relevant after 1791. In this way it identifies a ‘Hartlean culture’ within the Romantic period and seeks to explore how such an intellectual climate influenced the radical writers William Blake (1757–1827) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797). Blake and Wollstonecraft were acquainted with the famous bookseller Joseph Johnson, who republished Observations on Man in various forms and versions between 1775 and 1801. They also had an association with Johnson’s circle; the Hartlean concepts found throughout their work evidence Hartley’s latent popularity within intellectual culture, as well as the writers’ engagement with contemporary philosophical ideas. I propose that the renewed curiosity in Hartley during the 1790s reveals a specific religious and revolutionary culture wherein non-conformist views about Christianity and new ideas about the body, emotion and women flourished. Such a cultural moment renders Hartley a particularly important figure for debate since he integrated progressive values about equality and faith alongside advancing understanding of anatomy and mind. Hartley identified how God and happiness could be found physically within each person. He did this by combining a complex theory of vibrations and theory of association, where the body and mind functioned mechanically through a person’s feelings of pleasure and pain. These feelings manifested as physical vibrations and eventually led every person to desire goodness until finally, they can become ‘Godlike’ themselves. Hartley’s amalgamation of Christian and new theoretical concepts appealed to Blake and Wollstonecraft, and was much unlike the approach of Joseph Priestley who abridged Observations in 1775 to promote a wholly ‘scientific’ text. In this way, we can see resonances between Hartley, Blake and Wollstonecraft, even if they existed in different cultural contexts. In rethinking Blake and Wollstonecraft through Hartley, I offer new insights into their feminism. In particular I attend to how Hartlean culture enabled these writers to re-imagine gender and emotion: Wollstonecraft reinstates the female experience back into Hartlean concepts in order to promote women’s emotional potential and what she understands as the special power of the female-female bond. Blake responds to both Wollstonecraft and Hartley with his elevation of the feminine, one that envisions new potential for both sexes, emotionally and spiritually. In both cases, the writers share a fascination for the image of the female saviour, and they use terminology and concepts found in Hartley’s work to communicate their views. In being attentive to the shared vocabulary and ideas of these three writers’ works, this thesis highlights the importance of David Hartley and Hartlean culture for the field of Romantic Studies. It also illuminates Observations on Man as a vital contribution to the intellectual context of the 1790s
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