22 research outputs found
Kate Saporta (Innovation and Ideas Series)
No full textIn response to COVID-19 and 2020 Victorian bushfires Swinburne's Social Startup Studio launched 'Studio Clinics' to support struggling Victorian social enterprises. Manager, Social Startup Studio at Swinburne’s Centre for Social Impact, Kate Saporta talks about the free program which offers practical strategic advice, including financial forecasting, business diagnosis and re-modelling, and operational support
Social enterprise startup: Lessons from The Swinburne Social Startup Studio (CSI Swinburne's Social Impact Summer Webinar Series - Week 1)
No full textRecently launched in August 2019, The Swinburne Social Startup Studio is an exciting initiative of CSI Swinburne, supported by Equity Trustees. The Studio aims to assist early-stage social enterprises through the essential steps of testing and developing their ventures, travelling the journey from idea to implementation. At the same time, The Studio uses an action research agenda to communicate its learnings and contribute to the social enterprise ecosystem. In this webinar, Libby Ward-Christie, Studio director, and Kate Saporta, Studio Manager, share their lessons from The Studio so far. Through a conversational interview, Libby and Kate discuss the key themes and learnings they have drawn from engaging with social enterprises, including the importance of building a clear foundation. Presented on Tuesday 19 November 2019
Forking Paths : randomness, combinatory and divination in the experimental novel of the 1960's : (I. Calvino, J. Cortázar, Ph. K. Dick, M. Saporta)
No full textComposition no 1 de Marc Saporta, Marelle de Julio Cortázar, Le Château des destins croisés d'Italo Calvino et Le Maître du Haut Château de Philip K. Dick. Écrits entre 1962 et 1973, ces quatre romans ont pour point commun l'usage qu'il font de la tradition divinatoire. Dans les trois premiers, la forme romanesque se délite en adoptant la forme des tarots. Quant au dernier roman cité, il fonde son écriture sur des consultations du Yi King, l'oracle de la tradition chinoise. Tant sur le plan politique que littéraire, le moment des années 1960 coïncidence avec une remise en cause radicale de l'autorité. Précédant la mort de l'auteur prophétisée par Barthes, des artistes s'emparent du hasard afin d'affranchir la création de tout arbitraire auctorial. Cette thèse envisage la manière dont les quatre romanciers du corpus exploitent les théories jungiennes (synchronicité, archétypes, etc.) afin de reconsidérer les rôles de l'auteur et du lecteur. En déconstruisant les formes de la linéarité romanesque, ces romans proposent une littérature expérimentale faisant fi des structures usuelles du genre. Entre poétique ludique et mysticisme, l'usage du hasard divinatoire transforme les œuvres en complexes hypertextuels. Mettant au cœur de leur poétique le sujet interprétant, ces romans donnent l'occasion d'interroger les modalités cognitives de l'interaction littéraire ; ce faisant, ils permettent d'appréhender de façon privilégiée les relations transmédiatiques entre littérature et écriture numérique.Marc Saporta's Composition no 1, Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch, Italo Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies, and Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle. Written between 1962 and 1973, these four novels have as common denominator their use of oracular traditions. In the first three literary works, the novel form is broken by becoming one with tarot cards. In the last novel mentioned, the Chinese oracle – the I Ching – is the source of the writing process. In both political and literary fields, the 1960's consist in a radical questioning of authority. Prior to Barthes' prophecy of the Death of the Author, artists make use of chance and randomness in order to liberate creation from the arbitrary power of the author. This thesis studies the way the four aforementioned writers try to reconsider the dynamics between reader and writer by using the Jungian theories (synchronicity, archetypes, etc.). By deconstructing the linearity of the novel form, the four books are representative of an experimental literature which shows disregard to genre conventions. Between ludic poetic and mysticism, the novels are made hypertextual by oracular randomness. Focusing on the interpreting reader, the novels investigate the modalities of literary interaction ; this way, they are key materials in understanding the transmedia relations between literature and digital literacy
Screening policies for health impact assessment : cluster analysis for easier decision making
No full text© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.Background:
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy may be judged as to its potential effects and its distribution on a population’s health. Screening policies to identify candidates for applying HIA is an essential first step, generally qualitative. Our aim is to show how to use exploratory multivariate statistical methods such as cluster analysis to screen through policies and pinpoint priorities for HIA quickly and reliably.
Methods:
A panel of 7 public health experts from Nova University in 2011 rated 76 policies proposed by a Technical Group planning the Portuguese hospital reform on a 10-point scale (1-Very low to 10-Very high) regarding Potential Impact, Ease of implementation and Implementation costs. Hierarchical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of similar policies and prioritize those more pertinent of being considered for HIA.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
St@tNet: an assessment and new developments
No full textBerlin 11-12 aout 2003St@tNet, the French interactive internet course on introductory statistics http://www.agro-montpellier.fr/cnam-lr/statnet/) is a complete, interactive, web-based, course on introductory statistics with six modules: data description, probability, random variables, sampling and estimation, tests, and elements of linear regression. St@tNet has been realised by a consortium of several French-speaking universities, with the support of the French Ministry of Education and of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie[SEPARATOR] its content is freely accessible. The course corresponds to a classical credit of 50 hours of teaching. St@tNet is composed of three main parts: · A course where each chapter is itself divided into four parts a presentation, a development, a summary, interactive exercises, a glossary, ... · Downloadable files : course notes, exercises, datasets · A set of tools including links, statistical tables, a glossary. Each chapter is accompanied by a short video introduction (about 2 minutes) presented by the teacher who was in charge of this part. At the CNAM, the course is offered since 1999 as an on-line distance teaching for continuous education. Registered students receive a CD (to avoid permanent Internet connection) with the full contents and an Internet password to have access to specific services : tutorship with a discussion forum in a virtual class-room, e-mail with a teacher for 25 students, access to previous exams subjects, etc. St@tNet is an independent platform and may be integrated in any learning system. Any French speaking university could thus include St@tNet as a distance teaching offer. In this communication, we will present the results of our experience in using St@tNet for distance teaching and self-learning. They have induced deep modifications in the production of new material for the course. Thanks to a joint cooperation with the first author, we are enlarging the scope of St@tNet with new chapters devoted to statistical modelling, including a complete course on multivariate linear regression theory, and also some chapters related to generalized modelling. Since these new chapters are intended for more mature students, already familiar with elementary probability and statistics, the need for a somewhat entertaining and amusing HTML interface is vanishing, and the new course documents will be produced in the Latex-PDF environment that provides all the necessary internal and hyperlink possibilities. And the pedagogy is even more active, and very much project oriented. Animations, (some will be shown in the presentation) now produced with Flash-MX, will enhance much of the teaching material
St@tNet: an assessment and new developments
No full textBerlin 11-12 aout 2003St@tNet, the French interactive internet course on introductory statistics http://www.agro-montpellier.fr/cnam-lr/statnet/) is a complete, interactive, web-based, course on introductory statistics with six modules: data description, probability, random variables, sampling and estimation, tests, and elements of linear regression. St@tNet has been realised by a consortium of several French-speaking universities, with the support of the French Ministry of Education and of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie[SEPARATOR] its content is freely accessible. The course corresponds to a classical credit of 50 hours of teaching. St@tNet is composed of three main parts: · A course where each chapter is itself divided into four parts a presentation, a development, a summary, interactive exercises, a glossary, ... · Downloadable files : course notes, exercises, datasets · A set of tools including links, statistical tables, a glossary. Each chapter is accompanied by a short video introduction (about 2 minutes) presented by the teacher who was in charge of this part. At the CNAM, the course is offered since 1999 as an on-line distance teaching for continuous education. Registered students receive a CD (to avoid permanent Internet connection) with the full contents and an Internet password to have access to specific services : tutorship with a discussion forum in a virtual class-room, e-mail with a teacher for 25 students, access to previous exams subjects, etc. St@tNet is an independent platform and may be integrated in any learning system. Any French speaking university could thus include St@tNet as a distance teaching offer. In this communication, we will present the results of our experience in using St@tNet for distance teaching and self-learning. They have induced deep modifications in the production of new material for the course. Thanks to a joint cooperation with the first author, we are enlarging the scope of St@tNet with new chapters devoted to statistical modelling, including a complete course on multivariate linear regression theory, and also some chapters related to generalized modelling. Since these new chapters are intended for more mature students, already familiar with elementary probability and statistics, the need for a somewhat entertaining and amusing HTML interface is vanishing, and the new course documents will be produced in the Latex-PDF environment that provides all the necessary internal and hyperlink possibilities. And the pedagogy is even more active, and very much project oriented. Animations, (some will be shown in the presentation) now produced with Flash-MX, will enhance much of the teaching material
Of good use or serious pleasure : Vitruvius Britannicus and early eighteenth century architectural discourse
No full textThe central thesis of this work is that Colen Campbell's
three volume Vitruvius Britannicus (1715-25) is not, as it has been frequently seen, a Palladian manifesto designed to change architectural practice in England (and in the process Campbell's own fortunes as an architect), but rather a publication celebrating architectural achievements, consumed by polite society.
The twentieth century view of Vitruvius Britannicus, stems from John Surnmerson's seminal work, Architecture in Britain 1530-1830. It posits Vitruvius Britannicus as a stylistic manifesto that served the particular interests of Colen Campbell and his associates as advocates of and builders in the Palladian style, and foregrounds the idea of the author. This view has been incorporated almost unquestioningly into subsequent interpretations not least
because it conforms to a powerful 'Whig' interpretation of history emphasising periodisation, style, revolution, development, and the search for origins. In contrast I argue that Vitruvius Britannicus met the demands of a market interested in architecture as a topic of polite
conversation. The subscription lists for Vitruvius Britannicus show that it was neither priced to be, nor received as, a builder's manual, nor was it a stylistic manifesto. Rather, it was a celebration of contemporary British architecture that gave pleasure and some instruction to polite society. Drawing on disciplines outside of art and architectural history, I consider
Vitruvius Britannicus as an object of consumption offering an alternative reading of the publication that highlights a number of important avenues for further research.
Chapter 1 positions the thesis within critiques of stylistic history. Chapter 2 briefly introduces
some historiographic issues, and then considers the contents and style of the publication, and
the nature of its subscribers. This highlights issues neglected in histories of Vilruvius Britannicus and challenges many of the commonly held conceptions of the publication. These conceptions are then examined in Chapter 3 in the light of evidence and issues raised in the
previous chapter. Chapter 4 considers other architectural and illustrated books and positions Campbell's work within wider publishing paradigms such as cartography and a literature of tourism. Chapter 5 outlines some of the intellectual ideas that influenced the way in which
publications such as Vitruvius Britannicus were understood. This is developed in Chapter 6 which considers the way in which Vitruvius Britannicus functioned within a contemporary
architectural discourse that codified the group identity of a polite elite
From page to screen : placing hypertext fiction in an historical and contemporary context of print and electronic literary experiments
No full textOnly recently has our perception of the computer, now a familiar and ubiquitous element of
everyday life, changed from seeing it as a mere tool to regarding it as a medium for creative
expression. Computer technologies such as multimedia and hypertext applications have
sparked an active critical debate not only about the future of the book format, ("the late age
of print" {Bolter} is only one term used to describe the shift away from traditional print
media to new forms of electronic communication) but also about the future of literature.
Hypertext Fiction is the most prominent of proposed electronic literary forms and strong
claims have been made about it: it will radically alter concepts of text, author and reader,
enable forms of non-linear writing closer to the associative working of the mind, and make
possible reader interaction with the text on a level impossible in printed text.
So far the debate that has attempted to put hypertext fiction into a historical perspective
has linked it to two developments. Firstly the developments in computer technology that
made hypertext not only possible but also widely accessible and secondly a tradition of
postmodern theory, where characteristics attributed to hypertext echo concepts of
fragmentation, multiplicity and instability that theorists like Barthes and Derrida have
formulated previously and that have led to the notion of hypertext as an "authentic, yet
functional postmodern form" {Roberts}
A third element that is not generally subject to critical evaluation is the practice of
(post)modern writing in which a number of authors consciously break with the linearity of
print conventions in favour for a more fragmented narrative and presentation as well as
actively inviting the reader's participation in what Barthes calls "writerly" text. There are two
reasons why these "proto-hypertexts" have been widely ignored or dismissed: Hypertext is
still widely define as exclusive to the electronic realm and is furthermore generally
perceived in oppositional pairs in contrast to print, i.e. non-linear vs. linear and interactive
vs. passive, which conceptually does not leave room for a study of an "evolution" out of
existing forms of writing practice.
By examining hypertext fiction in a context of print experiments (Cortazar, Borges, B.S.
Johnson, Andreas Okopenko, Raymond Queneau, Miroslav Pavic, Italo Calvino) and also in
a context of other forms of digital literary experimentation (collaborative projects and
computer-generated writing), this thesis aims to, on a diachronic level, reincorporate
hypertext fiction into an evolutionary (though radical) literary tradition and examines the
manner in which concepts which originated in this tradition have been taken over often
very literally and without much redefinition. On the a-historical, synchronic level, this study
explores some of the possible formats for literature in the new electronic textual media:
hypertext fiction, collaborative writing projects, computer-generated writing and the
different challenges these present to our understanding ofliterature.
After an introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and 3 discuss two of the keywords of
hypertext theory, its "grand narratives' (non-linearity and interactivity) and the
appropriation of the terminology to hypertext theory and to hypertext fiction. Chapter 4
and 5 will look at alternative, though related, approaches to electronic fiction: Chapter 4 will
examine aspects of collaborative writing in both a print and a digital environment while
computer-generated writing stands at the centre of Chapter 5
How do readers interact with hypertext fiction?: an empirical study of readers' reactions to interactive narratives.
No full textBanking Crises and Contagion: Empirical Evidence
No full textRecent events, such as the East Asian, Mexican, Scandinavian, and Argentinian crises, have sparked considerable interest in exploring how shocks experienced by one country can spread vis-à-vis real and nominal links to other countries' banking systems. Given the large costs associated with banking-system failures, both economists and policy-makers are interested in predicting the onset of banking crises and assessing the likelihood of contagion during crisis events. The author uses cross-country panel data to examine contagion across banking systems in developed and developing countries. Particular attention is paid to the construction of the cross-country sample: matching-method techniques are used to construct a suitable control-group sample analogue to the set of crisis countries to accurately quantify the probability of the occurrence of a banking crisis and the probability of banking-system contagion. The author finds that the sample choices of previous studies introduced bias into the estimates of the probability that a banking crisis would occur, owing to differences between the supports of the conditioning variables for the crisis and non-crisis country groups. Furthermore, the probability of a banking crisis increases when countries have macroeconomic characteristics similar to those that have recently experienced a crisis, regardless of the degree of actual economic linkages between the countries. This suggests that information contagion plays a larger role than previously suspected.International topics
