66 research outputs found
Ensuring Literacy through ’Didactic Arranging’ : The Witting method set in context
No full textThe proposed Grounded Theory has been derived from how experienced teachers and their pupils, in four different teaching contexts, have used ’The Witting method’ to maximize literacy development among their pupils. The theory has been grounded through repeated comparisons and analysis of the empirical data. The specific aim of the thesis is to conceptualize and generate a theory about what four teachers and their pupils (n=40, over the period of the research), in different contexts, and over a number of years, actually do when working with The Witting method. A wider goal is to apply the implications of the derived grounded theory to general and special education theory in helping to alleviate reading and writing difficulties and prevent pupils from failing. The results show that the teachers have systematically strived to ensure each pupil’s reading and writing development and they do this through what is labeled ‘didactic arranging’. They also show an ability to adapt to situations, materials and spaces without losing their long-term aims. They are in charge of three competencies: ’me’, ’you’, and ’we’ - expressing this competence in documentation, by reflection and always in close collaboration with pupils and their families. The observed use of The Witting method would seem to enable a diagnostic mode of teaching as it contains tools that allow a teacher to follow each pupil’s reading and writing development. Teachers, pupils and the didactic procedures are shown to be in constant interaction. It was also found to be important that teachers believe that every pupil can learn. These teachers’ collective motto could be summed up as follows: never stop giving support and never stop assessing progress
A literary biographical exploration of the transnational literary journeys of the Australian writer Amy Witting and a Lithuanian migrant Elena Jonaitis
No full textAn exploration of the transnational literary journeys of the Australian writer Amy Witting and a Lithuanian migrant Elena Jonaitis.
This paper explores the genesis and reflexivity of two inter-connected texts, one Elena’s Journey (1997), an autobiographical memoir of a Lithuanian migrant woman Elena Jonaitis and the other, Maria’s War (1998), a fictional novel written by the acclaimed Australian author Amy Witting. The latter text was first conceived from the oral recount of Elena Jonaitis’ experiences fleeing across Germany during World War Two. Witting, an Australian writer in a transnational setting, recognised the significance of Jonaitis’ story, even travelling to Germany to research material for a novel based on the migrant woman’s experiences. Witting subsequently decided that she was too much of ‘a born barnacle’ to write a novel underpinned by places and cultural discourses located outside Australia. Instead, Witting empowered Jonaitis, the other, a woman for whom English was a second language, to write her own story, one of ‘dispossession, endurance, love and survival.’ Soon after, Witting used the life writing of ‘the other’ to inform her own fiction, grounding her novel Maria’s War in Australia by creating the persona of an elderly migrant woman living in a retirement hostel in Sydney, who recounts her war-time experiences to a biographer. Witting commented that both books were ‘tracing the path followed by many Australian citizens and ancestors’
The disempowerment of women in the domestic sphere: the fiction of Amy Witting (1918 – 2001)
No full textThis article examines ways in which the fiction of the acclaimed Australian writer Amy Witting, dubbed Australia’s Chekov and whom Helen Garner acknowledged as her ‘literary mother,’ interrogates the disempowerment of women in the domestic sphere, asserting that the home is a contested space and conflicted place for women. Witting subverts the notion that a ‘woman’s place is in the home’ by demonstrating that many women are actually displaced and dispossessed in the inhibiting domestic spaces that are their ‘homes.’ In her fiction, women are isolated and excluded because of gender inequity in regard to women’s rights and duties in the domestic sphere. Women are also marginalised in regard to inadequate financial rewards for domestic productivity and are affected by circumstances underpinned by discourses of poverty, class conflict and domestic violence. Witting asserts that the disempowerment of women in the home often leads to women appropriating masculinist attitudes and behaviours of oppression towards other women less powerful than themselves. In this article, these concepts are explored with close reference to five of Witting’s novels and interviews conducted with the author
Der ungarische Lebensbezirk im literarischen Schaffen von Emil Witting : ausgehend von einer neueren Veröffentlichung
No full textThe writer Emil Witting (1880-1952), known by German readers through the descriptions of the forests and pastures of the Carpathian Mountains, author of extensive relations dedicated to the bear (Frate Nicolae) and to deer (Scrimerul), conceives a novel dedicated to a painter connected to the Szekler’s world. Imre Nagy (1893-1976) served as a model for the main character. From this unfinished writing, three fragments were published. These have recently been translated into Hungarian, printed in Miercurea Ciuc in an illustrated edition containing Imre Nagy’s paintings and graphic works
The Effect of fuel and poison management on nuclear power systems
No full textStatement of responsibility on title page reads: N.B. McLeod, M. Benedict, K. Uematsu, H.L. Witting, and K.S. Ram"September 15, 1961."Submitted by the first author as a Ph. D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1962"NYO-9715, TID 4500 Category, UC-80 Reactor Technology.""This work was done in part at the MIT Computation Center."Includes bibliographical references (p. 492-496)Report; June, 1959 - September, 1961Contract no. AT(30-1)-207
Multiobjective optimization for transistor sizing of CMOS logic standard cells using set-oriented numerical techniques
No full textBlesken M, Rückert U, Steenken D, Witting K, Dellnitz M. Multiobjective optimization for transistor sizing of CMOS logic standard cells using set-oriented numerical techniques. In: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ed. NORCHIP, 2009. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE; 2009: 1-4.The design of resource efficient integrated circuits (IC) requires solving a minimization problem of more than one objective given as measures of available resources. This multiobjective optimization problem (MOP) can be solved on the smallest unit, the standard cells, to improve the performance of the entire IC. The traditional way of sizing the transistors of a standard logic cell does not focus on the resources directly. In this work transistor sizing is approached via an MOP and solved by set-oriented numerical techniques. A comparison of the Pareto optimal designs to elements of a commercial standard cell library indicates that for some gates the performance can even be significantly improved
Numerische Verfahren zur Behandlung parametrischer Mehrzieloptimierungsprobleme und Anwendungen
No full textHeutzutage spielt die mathematische Optimierung in vielen Anwendungen eine wesentliche Rolle. Häufig ergibt sich der Wunsch, nicht nur ein einziges Ziel sondern mehrere Ziele gleichzeitig zu optimieren. So sollten beispielsweise bei der Fertigung eines Produktes nicht nur die Kosten minimiert werden, sondern gleichzeitig sollte auch ein qualitativ hochwertiges Produkt entstehen. Die Entwicklung von theoretischen und algorithmischen Grundlagen für die mathematische Beschreibung und Lösung solcher Probleme bietet die Mehrzieloptimierung. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden verschiedene Mehrzieloptimierungsprobleme aus dem ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Bereich untersucht. Motiviert durch das Beispiel der Arbeitspunktsteuerung eines Linearmotors liegt der Fokus dieser Arbeit auf der Studie parameterabhängiger Mehrzieloptimierungsprobleme. Es wird zum einen ein neuer Ansatz vorgestellt, der mittels Verwendung von Algorithmen zur numerischen Pfadverfolgung die Lösung zeitabhängiger Mehrzieloptimierungsprobleme erlaubt. Zum anderen ist die Bestimmung von Lösungen, die sich gegenüber Schwankungen eines externen Parameters möglichst wenig verändern, ein weiteres zentrales Thema dieser Arbeit. Für die numerische Approximation dieser sogenannten robusten Paretopunkte werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit zwei neuartige Ansätze prasentiert, die zum einen auf der Variationsrechnung und zum anderen auf numerischer Pfadverfolgung basieren. Abschließend werden geometrische Eigenschaften der Lösungsmenge nicht-konvexer, parametrischer Mehrzieloptimierungsprobleme untersucht und Zusammenhänge zur Verzweigungstheorie aufgezeigt.Nowadays, mathematical optimization plays an important role in many applications. Often not only one objective is desired to be optimized but several aims have to be considered at the same time. For example, in manufacturing not only costs should be minimized but at the same time the product should be of high quality. The development of theoretic and algorithmic principles for the mathematical description of these problems is the concern of multiobjective optimization. In the present thesis, different multiobjective optimization problems from mechanical engineering are studied. Motivated by the example of the operating point assignment of a linear drive, the focus of this thesis lies on the study of parametric multiobjective optimization problems. Firstly, a new approach is presented which allows to solve time-dependent multiobjective optimization problems by use of numerical path following algorithms. Subsequently, the computation of solutions which change as little as possible under variations of the external parameter is another central topic of this thesis. For the numerical approximation of these so-called robust Pareto points, in this work two new approaches are presented. The first approach is based on the classical calculus of variations while the second one makes use of numerical path following methods. Finally, geometrical properties of the solution set of non-convex, parametric multiobjective optimization problems are studied and connections to bifurcation theory are pointed out.Tag der Verteidigung: 22.02.2012Paderborn, Univ., Diss., 201
Att säkerställa skriftspråklighet genom medveten arrangering : Wittingmetodens tillämpning i några olika lärandemiljöer
No full textEnsuring Literacy through ’Didactic Arranging’ The proposed Grounded Theory has been derived from how experienced teachers and their pupils, in four different teaching contexts, have used ’The Witting method’ to maximize literacy development among their pupils. The theory has been grounded through repeated comparisons and analysis of the empirical data. The data has been gathered from studying how teachers in their practice use didactic innovation along with their own professional competence. The specific aim of the thesis is to conceptualize and generate a theory about what four teachers and their pupils (n=40, over the period of the research), in different contexts, and over a number of years, actually do when working with The Witting method. A wider goal is to apply the implications of the derived grounded theory to general and special education theory in helping to alleviate reading and writing difficulties and prevent pupils from failing. The results show that the teachers have systematically strived to ensure each pupil’s reading and writing development and they do this through what is labeled didactic arranging. The organizational framework where these teachers work means that they have to navigate between constrained spaces and liberated spaces. Their work is about discontinuity and continuity, about scheduling and teamwork, about collaboration and didactic isolation. They also show an ability to adapt to situations, materials and spaces without losing their long-term aims. They are in charge of three competencies: ’me’, ’you’, and ’we’ – expressing this competence in documentation, by reflection and always in close collaboration with pupils and their families. The observed use of The Witting method would seem to enable a diagnostic mode of teaching as it contains tools that allow a teacher to follow each pupil’s reading and writing development and signals where early extra support may be necessary. Teacher competency is judged as being more important than the method itself. Teachers, pupils and the didactic procedures are shown to be in constant interaction. It was also found to be important that teachers believe that every pupil can learn and be ready to match adequate support to pupils needs as early as possible but also later, if found necessary. These teachers’ collective motto could be summed up as follows: never stop giving support and never stop assessing progress. Keywords: Grounded Theory, the Witting Method, method, literacy, education, special education, reading research, reading instruction
09041 Working Group on MCDM for Robust Multiobjective Optimization (1st Round)
No full textThis group explored MCDM techniques for robust multiobjective optimization
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