80 research outputs found
Marshall Fishwick, retired professor and founder of popular culture studies, dies at 82
No full textMarshall William Fishwick, teacher, author, and world traveler, died Monday, May 22 at his Blacksburg home. He was 82
Control of mergers: A necessary role for the European Commission
No full textDr Fishwick has worked on developments in policy towards mergers for several years, including studies for the European Commission's Directorate-General IV. In this article, he specifically considers recent changes in merger policy in France, in the UK, and from the viewpoint of the European Commission. Increasing control over mergers is a very apparent trend, another in the general move towards liberalisation and deregulation inherent in "1992". The author argues that European Community control should outrank national policies since the emphasis of "1992" is more on the international aspects of competition activity than on the national.
'Conventions are conventions.....’: Some thoughts about the techniques of direction and misdirection – with particular reference to genre features - in the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, and an assessment of their intentions and effects.
No full textThe thesis deals with the development of Nabokov's treatment of a number of the more common routes and courses which are traditionally supplied by the author to ease the passage of the reader through fiction. It attempts to show how these marked paths and familiar signposts - 'melodrama,' 'totalitarian novel,' 'biography,' 'erotic confession,' 'critical edition,' 'family chronicle, 'mystery story,' and 'autobiographical confession' - emerge in the books as equally misguiding and misguided. The satisfactory application of such labels is demonstrated as becoming progressively more difficult as the novels proceed, with a rising degree of sophistication, to incorporate distinctive combinations of genre features usually considered as mutually exclusive. Further inquiries into the manner of fictional orientation and location encouraged by this regular disappointment of apparently familiar leads and landmarks, however, is increasingly seen to disclose the underlying procedures and desires of the reader to place and confine narrative. The manner in which Nabokov's reader is repeatedly obliged to return to a non-metaphorical 'first base' by way of these false trails, which seemingly point towards an authoritative text, and there to re-examine his own imaginative input is also traced..... Dull work recounting all this bores me to death. But yearn as I may to reach the crucial point quickly, a few preliminary explanations seem necessary
The person-based approach to intervention development: application to digital health-related behavior change interventions
No full textThis paper describes an approach that we have evolved for developing successful digital interventions to help people manage their health or illness. We refer to this as the “person-based” approach to highlight the focus on understanding and accommodating the perspectives of the people who will use the intervention. While all intervention designers seek to elicit and incorporate the views of target users in a variety of ways, the person-based approach offers a distinctive and systematic means of addressing the user experience of intended behavior change techniques in particular and can enhance the use of theory-based and evidence-based approaches to intervention development. There are two key elements to the person-based approach. The first is a developmental process involving qualitative research with a wide range of people from the target user populations, carried out at every stage of intervention development, from planning to feasibility testing and implementation. This process goes beyond assessing acceptability, usability, and satisfaction, allowing the intervention designers to build a deep understanding of the psychosocial context of users and their views of the behavioral elements of the intervention. Insights from this process can be used to anticipate and interpret intervention usage and outcomes, and most importantly to modify the intervention to make it more persuasive, feasible, and relevant to users. The second element of the person-based approach is to identify “guiding principles” that can inspire and inform the intervention development by highlighting the distinctive ways that the intervention will address key context-specific behavioral issues. This paper describes how to implement the person-based approach, illustrating the process with examples of the insights gained from our experience of carrying out over a thousand interviews with users, while developing public health and illness management interventions that have proven effective in trials involving tens of thousands of users
Economic aspects of the UK housing and housing finance markets
No full textEleven publications, presented in two volumes, are contained in this
submission. In each case these have been written jointly with another
author. In all publications my contribution has been as an equal co-author at
all stages: from the original identification of research projects, the
development and application of research methodologies, through to the
empirical analyses, interpretation and writing up of results.Ph
An Exploration of Computational Design in the Arts
No full textThis Master of Fine Arts thesis paper, An Exploration of Computational Design in the Arts,
investigates how computational design tools are being integrated in modern artistic practice. The
artwork of the author, Travis Fowler, and adjacent contemporary artists will be investigated. The
method of evaluation utilizes a three-pronged approach: material, process, meaning. This form of
critique was developed in the 3D Studio at The University of Texas at Dallas and will be the
foundation for investigating each project described in this paper. Finally, this document
highlights the educational and professional journey of the author, his process of refining a
creative practice and select projects from his pursuit of a Master of Fine Arts degree
A sporting chance? Resegregation of coaching jobs in women's intercollegiate athletics
No full text"Coaching women's sport is becoming resegregated from ""women's work"" to ""men's work."" This study examined how and why men are entering jobs in women's intercollegiate athletics to a greater extent than women. I compared two collegiate sport organizations: an athletic association and a division of campus recreation. I interviewed a stratified sample of professional staff (N = 32, N = 26) and mailed a survey questionnaire to the entire staff of each organization (N = 60, N = 30)."After Title IX, women's sport programs expanded in terms of number of jobs available, increased budgets and increased salaries for coaches. The representation of women in coaching positions decreased. Administrators argued that the increased demand for coaches exhausted the supply of qualified women. However, the study suggests that as men entered the labor queue for jobs in women's sport, deep-seated beliefs in sex differences influenced many administrators to place men at the top of this queue. Furthermore, the merging of men and women's programs and the division between revenue and non-revenue sport created many structural barriers for women in the athletic association. A competitive, business-like organizational culture exacerbated patriarchal notions stemming from the traditional dominance of men in sport.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:02:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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The Design of a Human Computer Interface for a Multimodeling Object Oriented Simulation Environment
No full textMOOSE (Multimodeling Object Oriented Simulation Environment) is an application framework under the development at University of Florida, which is used for modeling and simulation. MOOSE is based on Object Oriented Physical Modeling (OOPM), and consists of a Human Computer Interface (HCI), Translator, and Engine. A human model author builds the model of a physical system with the help of Graphical User Interface (GUI) and represents his/her model with a picture. The MOOSE GUI contains two types of modelers: conceptual and dynamic. The conceptual modeler supports a model author to define classes and relations among classes in a form of class hierarchy that represents the conceptual model. The dynamic modeler assists a model author to build dynamic models for each of the classes defined in the conceptual model. The dynamic model types supported are Functional Block Model, Finite State Model, Equation Model , System Dynamics Model, and Rule Based Model. We are currently performing research..
Insulin Regulates the Activity of the High-Affinity Choline Transporter CHT.
No full textStudies in humans and animal models show that neuronal insulin resistance increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and that insulin treatment may promote memory function. Cholinergic neurons play a critical role in cognitive and attentional processing and their dysfunction early in AD pathology may promote the progression of AD pathology. Synthesis and release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) is closely linked to the activity of the high-affinity choline transporter protein (CHT), but the impact of insulin receptor signaling and neuronal insulin resistance on these aspects of cholinergic function are unknown. In this study, we used differentiated SH-SY5Y cells stably-expressing CHT proteins to study the effect of insulin signaling on CHT activity and function. We find that choline uptake activity measured after acute addition of 20 nM insulin is significantly lower in cells that were grown for 24 h in media containing insulin compared to cells grown in the absence of insulin. This coincides with loss of ability to increase phospho-Protein Kinase B (PKB)/Akt levels in response to acute insulin stimulation in the chronic insulin-treated cells. Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) in cells significantly lowers phospho-PKB/Akt levels and decreases choline uptake activity. We show total internal reflection microscopy (TIRF) imaging of the dynamic movement of CHT proteins in live cells in response to depolarization and drug treatments. These data show that acute exposure of depolarized cells to insulin is coupled to transiently increased levels of CHT proteins at the cell surface, and that this is attenuated by chronic insulin exposure. Moreover, prolonged inhibition of PI3-kinase results in enhanced levels of CHT proteins at the cell surface by decreasing their rate of internalization
Simulation modelling is 50! Do we need a reality check?
No full textimulation modelling is a fascinating research field. The techniques and tools of simulation modelling have been used to research and investigate the behaviour of various systems in a wide range of areas such as commerce, computer networks, defence, health, manufacturing and transportation. Indeed, the study of the use of these techniques and tools, and the development of new forms of these, are a rich source of research in their own right. Simulation modelling is about to reach the 50th anniversary of the development of GSP (General Simulation Program), the first simulation modelling language (Tocher and Owen, 1960). There have been several historical accounts of simulation modelling research. To complement these, we have performed a review of the recent history of simulation modelling. This study targeted three leading journals dedicated to this field. These are the ACM Transactions of Modeling and Computer Simulation, Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International and Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (formerly Simulation Practice and Theory). The study covered the first 6 years of this century (2000–2005) and included 576 papers. The key observation of this work was the relative lack of 'real world' involvement in simulation modelling research and an even greater lack of evidence of 'real world' benefit, arguably very alarming outcomes for an applied field. To further investigate this observation two additional surveys were carried out, one to study if real world papers appeared in the more widely known OR/MS literature (837 papers in 12 journals) and one to study if such papers appeared in Manufacturing and Logistics, an application area closely associated with simulation modelling (1077 papers in 10 journals). The results of these surveys confirmed our observations. We ask if this is the natural evolution of a field that has existed for half a century or an indication of a worrying problem? This paper reports on our findings and discusses whether or not simulation modelling research urgently needs to face a 'reality check.
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